Political songs, bigoted songs, loyalist songs. Call them what you may, it doesn't matter what you call them.. All I know is they are not Rangers songs. I am not about to spout some drivel to you that I have never sung these songs in the past. I have, I don't know whether it is the times they are a changing or I grew up? I am not in any way trying to change the identity of our club, what we are will and should never change. But we are now at a stage when at a Rangers game, the few songs which are sung, are not Rangers songs. So in that respect, we have lost a part of our identity, the Rangers part! I often think about the players when they celebrate winning a trophy, what songs they sing in the dressing room!! Players should be able to sing the songs the fans sing, I don't think there are many approptiate songs for them to sing, because we have forgotten more Rangers songs than we sing. The youngsters attending our games nowadays have to be re-educated in the traditional Gers songs, all they know are Billy boys, Follow Follow, Build my gallows and a few others.

I went to my 1st Rangers game, so young, that I cannot recall who they played. It was probably around 1968 when I was 4years old. I have grown up with all of these songs. Singing them from so young an age that I never even stopped to think of what 'up to our knees in fenian blood' meant, 'up to our knees in fenian blood' I ask you now to read and digest that line and will leave you with that thought.

Still although there was the 'Non Rangers' songs sung in those days, there were loads of Rangers songs sung. Compared to today, there are very few Rangers songs sung, and even those which are, are poisoned by changes in lyrics.

The 'Club' song Follow Follow... there is no line Dundee, Hamilton. Hamilton was added because it is the nearest thing to vatican! And even now the club have it wrong in the version they play at the stadium. I refer to Aberdeen and back again. The line is Follow Follow we will follow Rangers. And then there is the line.. 'Up the falls Derry's walls we will follow on'. I often think there are some who sit and analyse Rangers songs lyrics and think of ways of to poison them.

It is up to us to get these songs back to the correct versions. I am not telling you what you should be singing at Ibrox, if you wish to sing 'non Rangers' songs, then go ahead. I just hope you start being a minority. Our friends across the city, no longer sing 'rebel' songs at Celtic Park. And if they do, it is not as much as in years gone by. Why? Because they are told if they do so, they will thrown out and have their season tickets removed. Now I for one applaud Celtic for at least taking a stance. They have recognised that these songs do not belong in a football ground. (They still need to go one stage further and get rid of those songs at away games.) But I would much rather have it that we did not sing 'political' songs because we felt it inapproptiate, rather than because we are told not to. I would love to think a part of the reason there is not so much singing at Ibrox is because, Bears no longer want to sing these non Rangers songs.