IT is the boast and the cry which has rung down through the ages inside Ibrox and throughout Scottish football, but which seems sadly neglected by Rangers fans these days.
And it is one which I know was a particular favourite of that most rugged, raw and in-touch-with-supporters of all Rangers managers, big Jock Wallace.
So today I ask, whatever happened to....We Are The People?
Have Rangers supporters forgotten how to boast about their team’s superiority over all others? I simply can’t believe that. Or do they fear it may give offence to the most easily offended folk in world?
After all, those folk have a history of complaining about just about everything Rangers supporters let rip with. Including that proud boast of...We Are the People!
But surely Rangers supporters are not afraid of offending the oh so easily offended? Surely they are proud enough of Rangers, what they have been, what they are and what they are sure to become, to bellow boldly...We Are The People!
And to do it even if – or perhaps, actually because – it gives such offence to the easily offended.
In recent years We Are the People often seems to have given way to Simply The Best. But now, more than ever before, there is surely a need inside every Rangers supporter to re-assert their feeling of Rangers’ superiority in that most traditional of ways. Which is to simply let rip with the age old Ibrox war cry of....
We Are The People!
And there’s no section of the Ibrox crowd better equipped to lead off the rest than the all singing, always noisy and highly entertaining Union Bears.
In recent weeks I remarked that their repertoire of songs and chants, while loud and proud and containing some stunning new stuff, in particular Four Men Had A Dream, did them proud, but that they should not forget the old favourites and I was heartened to hear them go through a number of those old favourites at the very next game, which just so happened to be Rangers’ 140th birthday party.
Now I hope they respond again and when Annan play at Ibrox on Tuesday night, those loud and proud Union Bears lead the fans in a rousing loud and proud chant of....
WE ARE THE PEOPLE!
...... AND.....
THE news that former Rangers chairman and still a great champion of the Ibrox cause, Alastair Johnston, has invested in shares as the new regime gets set to launch the Ibrox club on the Stock Exchange, is a big boost for the Rangers Supporters Trust.
Indeed, the fact that AJ is keen to show his support for grassroots Rangers fans who cannot afford the £500 needed for an individual investment and is ploughing his own cash in via the Rangers Supporters Trust scheme, is another nail in the coffin of those who have acted in such a strange fashion for Rangers supporters, by trying to damage this avenue for buying into Rangers.
For AJ’s move is a stunning endorsement of the hard working men and women on the Rangers Trust and comes at a time when they have, for some strange and inexplicable reason, actually had much of their good work on behalf of Rangers undermined by attacks from other Rangers supporters, hard though it is to imagine that such folk exist.
I can also bring news today to all the many readers of LeggoLand scattered throughout the world.
Rangers fans in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam and all over Europe, who check in here on a regular basis, will be pleased to learn there is nothing to stop them buying into the dream of the resurgent Rangers and becoming shareholders.
Fans who are based abroad and who want to invest directly into Rangers need only open an account in Britain. They can also invest by contacting Simply Stockbroking.
There is still time for Rangers supporters, wherever they are, to invest directly the minimum of £500 to become shareholders, or for fans at home or abroad to follow the lead of former chairman Alastair Johnston and True Blue and make an investment via the FSA approved and regulated Rangers Supporters Trust.
Those who do buy, or who support those who are buying in – as opposed to those who have actively worked against this scheme to raise money for Rangers – will have earned the right to join the Union Bears in their cry of....
WE ARE THE PEOPLE!
as the man said 'Dear God'
Do you think the penny would ever drop that the 'feeling of Rangers Superiority' is one of the key elements in their demise and a major reason that they are widely despised.