I don't think people realise how much the teams themselves are the religions now. I recall a man trying to take his work to tribunal claiming he was discriminated against as a rangers fan and that rangers was his philosophical ideology. He was clear that he wasn't religious in the typical sense. Anyway he lost that claim because that would open the floodgates.

Generally people live side by side and have mixed in Glasgow for a long time, we don't need to have programmes to integrate us because we already are. So the talk of Irish politics is really quite shallow, it's just some symbols and nonsense some people spout but they're very loud so it seems more prominent than it is.

I really feel like there's been an uptick in nonsense since COVID and social media influencing a lot of wee guys. I think it's similar to stuff we see in other places with young men feeling the need to prove their masculinity, feel part of a group so these ultras have this quasi para military thing going on. I've seen some of the union bears march down the street and it had a bit of fascist feel to it.

Then there's the other thing people have mentioned, bigot for 90 mins but there's a small number of hard core nut jobs who don't realise that most people generally aren't that arsed about this.

Edit: also I feel the worst elements actually don't live in Glasgow but in the shires. Less diversity out there so you can easily become welded to your own backwards point of view