Teams around the world we have a connection with.

sherbrook_loyal said:
Why?

Fans of both clubs have an affection for the other club and both hate the scum with a passion – what's wrong with that?

It's one club, it's not like we're the scum who think they have a special relationship with multiple teams.
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Don’t get it, if someone could explain the connection I’d maybe understand it.

Sone of our fans are as desperate as some of mentally challengeds to have weird friendships with clubs, Chelsea another
 
Groningen loyal Holland came on our bus for game couple of seasons ago we all sang tulips from Amsterdam for them they thought we were daft.
 
sherbrook_loyal said:
Why?

Fans of both clubs have an affection for the other club and both hate the scum with a passion – what's wrong with that?

It's one club, it's not like we're the scum who think they have a special relationship with multiple teams.
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I'd get behind a Albertz link more than the St Puali them Hamburg us scenario
 
Harrogate Bluenose said:
The only connections is with fans who have a similar outlook to us rather than the clubs itself.

Most Linfield fans and Hamburg fans prefer us to them by vast majority. Apart from that I fail to see any other as near 100% behind us.
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Fan wise, Glentoran, Crusaders, in fact I'd say the supporters of most Irish League clubs, with a couple of obvious exceptions, would, at the very least, have a soft spot for Rangers.

Can't abide Linfield myself but then that's because I'm firmly in the red, green and black camp. :)
 
LetsGo said:
Surprised nobody has mentioned Chelsea yet. Pure blue brothers an aw that.
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There was a generation of Chelsea fans thought that way in my experience mate but nowadays it’s all corporate, younger and EPL is the only league on the planet (despite regularly getting gubbed by the Spaniards and Jerry)
 
The amount of Rangers flags you see with another clubs badge on it too is embarrassing

Off the top of my head I’ve seen West Ham, Southend, Chelsea, Notts Forrest, Hamburg, Linfield

Don’t understand the fascination of having another clubs badge on a Rangers flag
 
OohAhHuistra said:
Don’t get it, if someone could explain the connection I’d maybe understand it.

Sone of our fans are as desperate as some of mentally challengeds to have weird friendships with clubs, Chelsea another
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There was a brilliant post on how it came about on here recently.
I'll see if I can find it...
 
I was in Munich one time, the hotel manager we were staying in was a big Bayern Munich fan, and had a great respect for Rangers and our great tussles over the years. There was much Bayern regalia in the bar and a Rangers pennant. He also said an interesting thing, that Bayern are detested in their own country, similar to Rangers.

Whether that respect is also held by other Bayern fans, I’m not sure.
 
There’s a Bolivian club called ‘Always Ready’ ... backed them a few times on Bet365 if I’ve won money that day
 
Rathcoole_bluenose said:
I remember my ma buying me an orange and grey Rangers top when I was younger and it had a Chinese badge on the other side. Can't quite remember what that link was. Anyone?
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We had a link with northern spirit, an Australian team aswell. I had their top but this is going back years when I was still in high school

I hate this blues brothers pish of Chelsea and linfield. In dislike both teams
 
Sandy76 said:
I know they are the Royalists of Barcelona but didn't think we had any links to them.
I prefer to keep it simple and just favour Real Madrid.
A team who love their monarch and country.
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The same royalists who had a plan to invade scotland, return it back to rome and then invade england with a papist army and return the whole island to the clutches of rome.

No thankyou.
 
fotze2 said:
Club Social de Deportes Rangers is a Chilean football club based in the city of Talca. The club was founded November 2, 1902 and plays in the second level of the Chilean football system. Their home games are played at the Fiscal stadium, which has a capacity of 16,000 seats.
The name Rangers was chosen by a Scotsman, Juan Greenstret, who was one of the founding fathers of the Club on behalf of Mrs. Amalia Neale de Silva, the first benefactress of the club.
The origin of the chosen team colours, red and black, are unknown, though one of the possibilities was that some of the first players were also members of the Second Company of Firemen of Talca, whose shield was red and black. Another possible reason is the use of red and black in the socks of Rangers of Scotland (formed 1872) to represent the district colours of their local burgh of Govan. Fans of the Scottish club returned to using red and black scarves in 2012 to help raise funds for the club.
In 1952 was accepted into the Segunda División, and won the runners-up spot after finishing second in the league tournament final, getting the promotion to Primera División.
Rangers qualified for the Copa Libertadores in 1970, being its only participation in a CONMEBOLinternational tournament.
Throughout their first century of existence, honours have been few and far between, with no Championship successes.
Rangers was relegated in 2009 after being assessed a three-point penalty for using too many non-Chilean players in a November 8 match. The club filed a lawsuit in a Chilean court, leading to a threat from FIFA to throw the Chilean national team out of the 2010 World Cup if the case continued.[1] Under pressure from creditors, Rangers dropped the lawsuit on November 27, shortly after FIFA's demand. The case delayed the start of the league's playoffs.[2]
In 2010, the club was auctioned and purchased by a business group called "Piduco SADP".[3]
On November 27, 2011, Rangers was promoted to Primera División after beating Everton de Viña del Mar in the final match. Manager Dalcio Giovagnoliwas fired in 2013, and replaced by Fernando Gamboa, who was considered mainly responsible of the team's relegation in 2014. Gamboa was fired too, but current manager Jorge Garcés wasn't able to avoid the side's relegation after two and a half years in the first division of Chilean football to the second division, the Primera B after finishing in the last place of both the Clausura and the accumulated table. The club's new owners confirmed Garcés will remain as the club's manager for the 2014–15 season, with the goal of gaining promotion to the first division. In October 2014, in a ceremony at the Talca Country Club, the marquess Luis Silva de Balboa transferred the trademark Rangers to the club. The trademark was his property until such time, and by a legal agreement, the transfer contains restrictions as to the limitation for the club to move out of the City of Talca of its ownership in hands other than people from Talca.

Contrast with the following:

Santiago

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Was going to mention this one.

There’s the obvious, Orange County, and Bengaluru who we have commercial or development partnerships.

Then there’s Hong Kong Rangers currently known as Biu Chun Rangers, founded by a Rangers fan who gave them Asia’s first pro footballers.

I think it was also Wuhan Zall in China (I know!) that we had a development deal with before 2012.

Also the fan connections - Linfield, Chelsea, Hamburg, Espanyol.
 
the lettering on the Flamengo club badge C.R.F is almost a carbon copy of the R.F.C on ours, anyone know if there's a link between us?

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sherbrook_loyal said:
There was a brilliant post on how it came about on here recently.
I'll see if I can find it...
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This ?

BLUES BROTHERS The History
  1. As far back as I can remember I was bumping into Rangers fans who were down south supporting Chelsea, definitely in the 60s, but growing in the 70s. There were even some out in Athens in 1971 at the Cup Winners Cup Final and I met up with some of them again at the Rangers game in Barcelona the next year. Some trace the association of the 2 clubs back to the origins of the club and it first manager, who, with his Rangers background, got some old Rangers shirts as the clubs first kit. Others trace it to the same colours and similar badges. Others to some of the Chelsea players who had strong Rangers connections, examples being Charlie Cooke, who was an out and out Bear and, later, Jon Spencer who would "never eat greens on a match day"! Whilst there are some pure football reasons there is no doubt that there are other background factors
  2. In the sixties it became fashionable at English games to chant Rangers or Celtic during the half time interval on the terraces. Sounds crass, but true! At Chelsea this was heavily steered towards Rangers even then. I think it was to do with the disproportionate amount of serving and ex servicemen (and their patriotic leanings) who frequented Chelsea. Remembering also that the old nickname was the 'Pensioners' referring to the proximity of the Old Servicemans home near the ground. They still receive a number of complimentary tickets even today and they can be seen in attendance resplendent in their red regalia.
  3. The seventies saw a dramatic shift towards the Rangers allegiance. This was definitely due to the IRA bombing campaign in London and North Surrey, from where Chelsea drew the bulk of its support. The Guildford bombing and its fatalities in particular signalled an outcry against the IRA and anything associated with it. Many of us knew of someone injured or killed that night, myself included, with a friend whose only crime was to be in the TA and having a drink with some Army mates. Celtic fans were seen as sympathetic to the republican cause and the IRA. Overnight any Celtic chants disappeared.
  4. There is however no doubt that the Chelsea fanbase 'bias' towards anything Loyalist come 'Unionist' was also to do with right wing links which grew and which became more evident and visible in the later 70's with the growth of the NF, with Chelsea being a known recruiting ground. Nothing to be proud of, but a fact and factor nonetheless.
  5. The late 70s and 80s were described as the dark days of Chelsea FC when the hooligan element dominated the headlines. At least 2 of the Chelsea 'firms' at the time had their 'leadership' drawn from ex-servicemen, whom had served in Ulster. This strengthened the anti IRA, anti Celtic feelings even further. Many of the ex-servicemen had formed personal relationships with Ulster Loyalists and also Rangers supporters serving in various parts of the world at the time. Before it became fashionable (and when it still had dangers), there were groups of Chelsea fans who visited Belfast for the 12th July march. Chubby H also arranged a protest march to Westminster (Chelsea Fans Say NO) at the time of the Northern Ireland vote. Some 300 marched including some Rangers and Linfield fans.
  6. Meanwhile these 'friendships' between Chelsea and Rangers ex-servicemen developed into them (and ever expanding groups of mates) attending Chelsea and Rangers games together, sometimes for 'positive' reasons (have a beer, a sing song and a laugh) and sometimes, admittedly, for 'less positive' reasons (i.e. 'assists' such as a trip to visit the Aberdeen Casuals in the late 80s). Again, nothing to be proud of there, but a fact nonetheless and a factor in the 'bonding' that was taking place between many Chelsea fans and their Rangers counterparts at the time.
  7. With the ban on English clubs playing in Europe in the 80's, many more Chelsea fans started travelling with Rangers in Europe, some admittedly for the wrong reasons but the majority for the camaraderie that was now growing between the fan groups. The fanbase at the Jolly Malster pub, just off the Fulham Road would arrange trips to Europe and sometimes to Rangers home games. The pub became a meeting place for Chelsea and Rangers fans, and until the recent pub upgrade it still did. There were 50 or 60 Rangers fans there when Chelsea played Celtic in a pre-season "friendly" in August 2006. (Thats another story by the way!)
  8. A number of milestones stick out in my memory. Firstly the 2 friendlies in the early 1980s. The first at Stamford Bridge in aid of the Bradford Disaster, when it was party time in the Fulham Road before and after and when the Shed end cheered every Rangers goal and the Rangers fans the Chelsea goals! The second at Ibrox in what I think was the following year, (and the floodlights failed for a period!) and when it was almost impossible to buy a drink in the pubs due to the generosity of the Rangers fans.
  9. There is no doubt that the Bradford Disaster game was a major stepping stone in what became known as the Blues Brothers concept and the attendance in greater numbers at each others games. Chelsea/Rangers hats and scarves became commonplace at Stamford Bridge and the Blues Brothers fanzine was born. At this time the Linfield connection joined into the Blues Brothers fraternity as reflected in the fanzine. The Rangers & Linfield connection was already there but the Chelsea Linfield one definitely grew from the Chelsea servicemen out there and the attendance at the 12th July marches. The fanzine completed the circle
  10. Another set of milestones in my memory were the sheer number of Rangers supporters that attended many northern based league games in the 1980s and early 1990s, before all ticket matches and lower away fan ticket allocations made it more difficult. A game at Liverpool in particular, (1985 I think, but may be wrong) when an estimated 2000 Rangers fans travelled to Anfield for a Saturday morning kick off. After the local police worked it out, we shared the visitors terracing together for a memorable morning of singing and chanting together. Having kept us all back in the ground for an hour afterwards, the roads were cleared and some of us shared a few beers together in the pubs on the route back to the Rangers buses. Another would be at Everton when large numbers of Rangers turned up. But for many years there were hundreds of Rangers at Chelsea games when the Gers were not playing themselves that day. And still are! Sunderland, Blackburn, Everton (league cup) etc etc in the past few years.
  11. There is still a stand outside Chelseas ground now (near the Methodist Church!) that sells many joint Chelsea/Rangers and Chelsea/Rangers/Linfield merchandise and a whole range of Blues Brothers metal badges are on sale in several pubs. These were seen in abundance in Barcelona a few seasons back when loads of Chelsea and Rangers fans met up in Barcelona on the day before the respective Euro matches in Spain. The massive 'Blues Brothers' Chelsea, Rangers and Linfield flag was hoisted in the centre of the main road in Barcelona! A great time was had by all before heading off to our respective matches (and defeats!)
  12. The heyday of the Blues Brothers may be over and never again may we see the attendance in such large numbers at each others games, but the memories are something for many of us to treasure. It is easy to understand why younger supporters cannot understand the relationship (and why should they?) and why some, and particularly younger Rangers supporters, will hold animosity towards Chelsea given their external funding and overpaid players. And times are changing at the Bridge too. The new influx of prawn sandwich supporters know nothing of our fanbase history and few of the Blues Brothers connection. They are feasting purely on match results, but are poorer for it in my opinion. For those of us who lived through those great years we are richer for it and the bond is there forever.
 
Orangeandblue said:
This ?

BLUES BROTHERS The History
  1. As far back as I can remember I was bumping into Rangers fans who were down south supporting Chelsea, definitely in the 60s, but growing in the 70s. There were even some out in Athens in 1971 at the Cup Winners Cup Final and I met up with some of them again at the Rangers game in Barcelona the next year. Some trace the association of the 2 clubs back to the origins of the club and it first manager, who, with his Rangers background, got some old Rangers shirts as the clubs first kit. Others trace it to the same colours and similar badges. Others to some of the Chelsea players who had strong Rangers connections, examples being Charlie Cooke, who was an out and out Bear and, later, Jon Spencer who would "never eat greens on a match day"! Whilst there are some pure football reasons there is no doubt that there are other background factors
  2. In the sixties it became fashionable at English games to chant Rangers or Celtic during the half time interval on the terraces. Sounds crass, but true! At Chelsea this was heavily steered towards Rangers even then. I think it was to do with the disproportionate amount of serving and ex servicemen (and their patriotic leanings) who frequented Chelsea. Remembering also that the old nickname was the 'Pensioners' referring to the proximity of the Old Servicemans home near the ground. They still receive a number of complimentary tickets even today and they can be seen in attendance resplendent in their red regalia.
  3. The seventies saw a dramatic shift towards the Rangers allegiance. This was definitely due to the IRA bombing campaign in London and North Surrey, from where Chelsea drew the bulk of its support. The Guildford bombing and its fatalities in particular signalled an outcry against the IRA and anything associated with it. Many of us knew of someone injured or killed that night, myself included, with a friend whose only crime was to be in the TA and having a drink with some Army mates. Celtic fans were seen as sympathetic to the republican cause and the IRA. Overnight any Celtic chants disappeared.
  4. There is however no doubt that the Chelsea fanbase 'bias' towards anything Loyalist come 'Unionist' was also to do with right wing links which grew and which became more evident and visible in the later 70's with the growth of the NF, with Chelsea being a known recruiting ground. Nothing to be proud of, but a fact and factor nonetheless.
  5. The late 70s and 80s were described as the dark days of Chelsea FC when the hooligan element dominated the headlines. At least 2 of the Chelsea 'firms' at the time had their 'leadership' drawn from ex-servicemen, whom had served in Ulster. This strengthened the anti IRA, anti Celtic feelings even further. Many of the ex-servicemen had formed personal relationships with Ulster Loyalists and also Rangers supporters serving in various parts of the world at the time. Before it became fashionable (and when it still had dangers), there were groups of Chelsea fans who visited Belfast for the 12th July march. Chubby H also arranged a protest march to Westminster (Chelsea Fans Say NO) at the time of the Northern Ireland vote. Some 300 marched including some Rangers and Linfield fans.
  6. Meanwhile these 'friendships' between Chelsea and Rangers ex-servicemen developed into them (and ever expanding groups of mates) attending Chelsea and Rangers games together, sometimes for 'positive' reasons (have a beer, a sing song and a laugh) and sometimes, admittedly, for 'less positive' reasons (i.e. 'assists' such as a trip to visit the Aberdeen Casuals in the late 80s). Again, nothing to be proud of there, but a fact nonetheless and a factor in the 'bonding' that was taking place between many Chelsea fans and their Rangers counterparts at the time.
  7. With the ban on English clubs playing in Europe in the 80's, many more Chelsea fans started travelling with Rangers in Europe, some admittedly for the wrong reasons but the majority for the camaraderie that was now growing between the fan groups. The fanbase at the Jolly Malster pub, just off the Fulham Road would arrange trips to Europe and sometimes to Rangers home games. The pub became a meeting place for Chelsea and Rangers fans, and until the recent pub upgrade it still did. There were 50 or 60 Rangers fans there when Chelsea played Celtic in a pre-season "friendly" in August 2006. (Thats another story by the way!)
  8. A number of milestones stick out in my memory. Firstly the 2 friendlies in the early 1980s. The first at Stamford Bridge in aid of the Bradford Disaster, when it was party time in the Fulham Road before and after and when the Shed end cheered every Rangers goal and the Rangers fans the Chelsea goals! The second at Ibrox in what I think was the following year, (and the floodlights failed for a period!) and when it was almost impossible to buy a drink in the pubs due to the generosity of the Rangers fans.
  9. There is no doubt that the Bradford Disaster game was a major stepping stone in what became known as the Blues Brothers concept and the attendance in greater numbers at each others games. Chelsea/Rangers hats and scarves became commonplace at Stamford Bridge and the Blues Brothers fanzine was born. At this time the Linfield connection joined into the Blues Brothers fraternity as reflected in the fanzine. The Rangers & Linfield connection was already there but the Chelsea Linfield one definitely grew from the Chelsea servicemen out there and the attendance at the 12th July marches. The fanzine completed the circle
  10. Another set of milestones in my memory were the sheer number of Rangers supporters that attended many northern based league games in the 1980s and early 1990s, before all ticket matches and lower away fan ticket allocations made it more difficult. A game at Liverpool in particular, (1985 I think, but may be wrong) when an estimated 2000 Rangers fans travelled to Anfield for a Saturday morning kick off. After the local police worked it out, we shared the visitors terracing together for a memorable morning of singing and chanting together. Having kept us all back in the ground for an hour afterwards, the roads were cleared and some of us shared a few beers together in the pubs on the route back to the Rangers buses. Another would be at Everton when large numbers of Rangers turned up. But for many years there were hundreds of Rangers at Chelsea games when the Gers were not playing themselves that day. And still are! Sunderland, Blackburn, Everton (league cup) etc etc in the past few years.
  11. There is still a stand outside Chelseas ground now (near the Methodist Church!) that sells many joint Chelsea/Rangers and Chelsea/Rangers/Linfield merchandise and a whole range of Blues Brothers metal badges are on sale in several pubs. These were seen in abundance in Barcelona a few seasons back when loads of Chelsea and Rangers fans met up in Barcelona on the day before the respective Euro matches in Spain. The massive 'Blues Brothers' Chelsea, Rangers and Linfield flag was hoisted in the centre of the main road in Barcelona! A great time was had by all before heading off to our respective matches (and defeats!)
  12. The heyday of the Blues Brothers may be over and never again may we see the attendance in such large numbers at each others games, but the memories are something for many of us to treasure. It is easy to understand why younger supporters cannot understand the relationship (and why should they?) and why some, and particularly younger Rangers supporters, will hold animosity towards Chelsea given their external funding and overpaid players. And times are changing at the Bridge too. The new influx of prawn sandwich supporters know nothing of our fanbase history and few of the Blues Brothers connection. They are feasting purely on match results, but are poorer for it in my opinion. For those of us who lived through those great years we are richer for it and the bond is there forever.
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Don’t think so, mate.
Was more of an article, perhaps.
 
Clocked HK Rangers new strip the other day on Subside Sports. I'm a little jealous they have what I'd call the proper Rangers badge on it without the stars.

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Harrogate Bluenose said:
Take it you have never been to a Hamburger Stadtderby
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To be fair a lot who go on about it have never been Hamburg or go once every 5 years etc.. Granted there are plenty who do make an effort to go regular. It’s like many things now on these friendship fronts, all to put on Facebook etc or stickers. The ones you see when out and about around Germany or just on Facebook just make me laugh now.
 
Remo-town said:
The same royalists who had a plan to invade scotland, return it back to rome and then invade england with a papist army and return the whole island to the clutches of rome.

No thankyou.
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Just questioning the links and offering an alternative.
Only interested in Rangers personally.
 
OohAhHuistra said:
Don’t get it, if someone could explain the connection I’d maybe understand it.

Sone of our fans are as desperate as some of mentally challengeds to have weird friendships with clubs, Chelsea another
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Having been to Hamburg their is definitely some affection from then to us - I recall and still have a picture of a rangers flag on the roof of a Hamburg supporters bar - I also remember being told by the barmaid as a rangers supporter we were very welcome there.

As for why - well my basic understanding is that rangers and Hamburg are both the predominant team in a majorly Protestant working class city who have noisy, cringeworthy, communist wannabe neighbours who get above their station now and again but will ultimately always be in the shadow of their big brothers. (That being said the reaperbahn where St Pauli is maybe the best night out in the entire world)
 
This is the thread I was thinking of:

Hamburg v St Pauli Derby - Friday 30/10/20 Kick-off 5:30pm

Tomorrow will mark the first Hamburg derby this season, HSV have won all of their matches this season (5 so far) whereas St Pauli have only won one. Massive game for Hamburg as they look to keep up the momentum with the hope of automatic promotion this season after three consecutive seasons in...
www.followfollow.com www.followfollow.com

Give that OP a read, @OohAhHuistra
 
Wazza said:
To be fair a lot who go on about it have never been Hamburg or go once every 5 years etc.. Granted there are plenty who do make an effort to go regular. It’s like many things now on these friendship fronts, all to put on Facebook etc or stickers. The ones you see when out and about around Germany or just on Facebook just make me laugh now.
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St Pauli have an annual festival. Where they invite republican bands over. FACT
 
sherbrook_loyal said:
This is the thread I was thinking of:

Hamburg v St Pauli Derby - Friday 30/10/20 Kick-off 5:30pm

Tomorrow will mark the first Hamburg derby this season, HSV have won all of their matches this season (5 so far) whereas St Pauli have only won one. Massive game for Hamburg as they look to keep up the momentum with the hope of automatic promotion this season after three consecutive seasons in...
www.followfollow.com www.followfollow.com

Give that OP a read, @OohAhHuistra
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Will give that a read mate, cheers
 
Sandy76 said:
I know they are the Royalists of Barcelona but didn't think we had any links to them.
I prefer to keep it simple and just favour Real Madrid.
A team who love their monarch and country.
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I was at Ibrox a couple of years ago and was surrounded by about 20 Espanol Supporters who had travelled to support the Teddy Bears
 
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