The news – unfortunately and predictably – led to a big froth from people with Union flags on their Twitter profiles.
“Isn’t that very welcoming to English fans and possibly illegal?” One social media user wrote, apparently in unison.
“What’s next?” another steamed. “Gaelic programs? Gaelic group discussion? Gaelic names on shirts? Come to your senses!
“This is a football club in the north of Glasgow. Not the Outer Hebrides! [sic] Next they will put Gaelic on police cars and ambulances! Oh wait…!”
Others claimed the move was “just part of the brainwashing by the SNP”…
A Twitter user with the name “United under the Union” fumed: “What’s the point of this nonsense, because all the police signs, ambulance and fire signs and many other things in Scotland are in Gaelic, it shows how out the SNP is out of touch with reality’.
Paid for by us, the taxpayers. All sympathy for your club has evaporated. I will never see another game at Firhill.
— Ironside 🏴🁧🏢🁳🇬🇧 (@Ironside1873) August 6, 2022
Another wrote: “All sympathy for your club has evaporated. I will never see another game at Firhill.”
Looks like a big loss for Partick Thistle.
Other prominent union Twitter trolls are also exempt from the news.
“Partick Thistle have added some Gaelic markings for the first time in their history, to retain the Scottish Nationalist markings [sic] happy,” wrote one such anonymous rager.
“Maybe some elves next, to satisfy #RingsOfPower fans?” they added, no doubt hoping for some extra traction by using a popular but unrelated hashtag.
“What about Klingon? Just as logical after all,” wrote another anonymous but prominent union troll on Twitter.
It’s almost like they don’t want to put their names to their nonsense.
