They're soccer fans. It's what a significant minority of soccer fans are like. Including a significant minority of ours. Soccer's assumed its role as the opium of the people in our largely comfortable and largely depoliticised society by pandering to a semi-controlled current of... errrrm... one-eyed bigotry.
As I've said elsewhere & probably on here, I'd imagine he's used to it by now.
Last game we played at Love Street was an "anti-racist" weekend. Glesca Herald was full of pics of Rangers players in "Kick it Out", "Show Racism the Red Card" & other "anti-deescreemeenayshun" leisurewear. Shiels tried to have a go at some ned who took the pee out of his eye at full-time and had to be dragged down the tunnel. And we have the neck to say the Yanks don't do irony. That must've been nigh on 10 years ago, as I was still going up regularly then.
That Twitter thread is hilarious. You can see why Jerry Sadowitz sells out the King's Theatre in Glesca but has to perform in garrets and pub cellars at the Embra Festival.
Shocked & appalled and Tunbridge Wells spring to mind.