“Operation Tango”: How Rangers fans fooled Celtic supporters on the final day of the season
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Rangers fans will no doubt have been enjoying this clip for a couple of days now, but for everyone else it’s time to learn about “Operation Tango.”
Midway through the first half on the final day of the SPL season, a massive roar bellowed out from the Celtic fans as news spread like wildfire around Parkhead that Dundee United had equalised against Rangers. Obviously such rumours were later discovered to be pure fabrications, nevertheless for several seconds the whole of Celtic Park seemed convinced the rumours were true.
According to the Rangers’ forums, “Operation Tango,” as it is now known as, was the result of a mass texting by a group of Rangers supporters to their Celtic supporting friends, spreading the lies that conned the Celts into believe their team was in the box seat in the title race.
“Operation Tango” can be seen here.
29 Responses to ““Operation Tango”: How Rangers fans fooled Celtic supporters on the final day of the season”
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May 26th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
BULLSHIT! No way this lot of uneducated pieces of scum could come up with such an elaborate hoax.
May 26th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
GERARD - shown your own lack of education by that statement!
Rangers - Champions 2009
(without the need of a fictional Japanese tour to help!)
May 26th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
What about the one the Celtic fans done. If Rangers fans bought a pair of sock on the Dundee U website before the game. They would have been guaranteed a ticket for Sundays game. Nice little earner for the Arabs.:)
May 26th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Ah, that’s nice Gerard. Such kind comments. Believe it or not, there are many thoroughly decent, upstanding and resonably intelligent people who support Rangers. I’m even willing to wager that a fair number of decent people support Celtic also. Have a nice day.
May 26th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Looks like Gerard still hasn’t quite gotten over Sunday. Poor little diddums.
The Helicopter is not changing direction.
May 26th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
This started on Rangers fans website http://www.followfollow.com the week before the last games, Timmy fell for it hook line and sinker!!!!
Neil Lennon jumped out of the dugout to celebrate as well. Bwwwwhhhaaaaaa!!!!
May 26th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
im not really bothered either way, but gerard, elaborate? elaborate? oh come on!
also, i heard about that one too paul. funny as fcuk. i think 101gg should investigate it, and bring it to light as, if it did work, god THAT is genius.
details are basically rumours spread that there were tickets available for rangers v dundee utd. they were however in the dundee Utd end. rangers fans, obviously about to win the league, didnt care. so they were told that if they bought a pair of socks of dundee utd website as a dundee fan, they would be listed on the supporters group or some other similar database. then, a couple of hours later, when there is a shift change, ring back up and ask for tickets for the game. as you are listed on the database, you get priority.
as you can imagine, it doesnt work and APPARENTLY hundreds, maybe thousands, of rangers fans ended up with dundee united socks, for nothing. the clever bit is that database apparently actually exists, but you dont get onto it with one purchase of socks loll.
May 26th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
That was class, Operation Tango was a total success.
Will there be an Operation Tango PTII?
Wait and see Timmy, enjoy the Europa league losers, oh and the co-op cup.
Bwwwwaaaaaaahhhhhhaaaaaaaaaa.
May 26th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
haha Gerard that is classic mate!!!
So many things wrong with your comment there that it would embarrass a 1st year English class!
Also Paul’s comment: what about the one the Celtic fans done…if they bought a pair of sock…
God bless the hoops fans, they keep us amused all year round!
WATP
May 26th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
OPERATION TANGO = Racially Fulled Bile Spewwed From The Mouths Of Every ‘fan’ Inside Ibrox Every 2nd Saturday!!
OPERATION TANGO = This Is Nothing New
OPERATION TANGO = Performed by Chimpanzee’s And OrangaTANGS
HANG YER HEADS IN SHAME - SCOTLANDS SHAME
May 26th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Why don’t they discuss what the Rangers fans done in Coleraine? 20 scumbags kicked a man to death!!!!
Scum of the Earth and vermon! You can be so proud.
May 26th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Celtic fans have no grace in either victory or defeat.
Rangers fans have a giggle.
Celtic fans spew hatred.
Enjoy the summer.
May 26th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
To Pete - Operation Tango - You all fell for it. Enough said. Have a nice day.
May 26th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Smell ye - Please do not start on the one upmanship, by bringing someones death into it. We are talking about a wind up at a game of football here, and yet you feel the only way to respond is to bring this up. It either shows your limited ability to have a reasoned debate or it just shows your lack of respect for human life. I would suggest that it is you is the scum of the earth.
May 26th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Regarding the whole Dundee United socks thing. From what I believe, the story is untrue. I got an email from my boss at work about the story saying it was an Aberdeen fan who posted the original thread.
As hilarious as the story is, I’m afraid to say that I reckon it’s untrue.
I was at the Aberdeen-Hibs game, and I was fooled by Operation Tango as well. Good show.
May 26th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Geraldo, there’s no denying Operation Tango worked.
Quite funny. Get a sense of humour, soor puss.
May 26th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
typical mouthing off about someone getting kicked to death of course it shouldnt happen but bet ure the same low life that goes singing about murdering scum ira to you dimwit p.s the famines over
May 27th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Q.
What do you call a bunch of old firm fans arguing on the internet?
A.
Retards.
I wish you could both lose.
May 27th, 2009 at 2:21 am
pete you bastards were fukin stupid enough tae faw fur it fuds
and you fukin taigs hiv turned these comments into pure hatred fur the simple reason that you canny fukin take it
GLASGOW CELTIC PEADOPHILES OH OH OoOoO OH OH
SAY HAHA SAMARAS SAY HAHA SAMARAS
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
52 AND COUNTING
May 27th, 2009 at 4:33 am
As a Rangers fan I’m fully aware of the stereotypical view that is taken of us as boorish, unintelligent, racist, violent thugs of limited intellect. While this is surely true of quite a lot of my fellow Rangers fans it is equally true of every other football club; at least in Scotland.
What bothers me is the fact that it is impossible for one to enjoy winning the league or even a bit of banter without someone brining reference to the worst element of our support. Sure Rangers fans can be thugs and murderers, but so can Celtic fans.
May 27th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
The guy who posted this video obviously hasn’t had much experience of Old Firm fans, otherwise he wouldn’t have allowed comments in the first place. Guaranteed to happen, every time…
May 27th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
The Dundee Utd socks wind up was a belter of a story. Unfortunately Dundee Utd came out and said it wasn’t true. I am a Rangers fan, but I would have found this funny if it was true. Operation Tango is legendary though, and on a completely different level from the socks wind up. Well done A1bertz
May 29th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
You have to laugh at the fans of Glasgow Celtic - the
only football club in the world who were formed for
sectarian purposes. Brother Walfrid knew what he was doing alright, and big Jock definitely knew.
Every week their fans sing songs glorifying the child murderers of the IRA and they also defend those who turned a blind eye to paedophelia within their own club.
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:26 pm
There would appear to be a lot of disturbed Celtic fans around.
Maybe it the realisation that they didnt leave Ireland because of the famine but it was really because of the revelations the other week.
Imagine singing songs about a place like that?
June 7th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Sellik fans - please keep going on like this. Your unbridled pain just makes our pleasure even more pleasant!
We laugh in your direction.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Great stuff from the Rangers support.
Us Gooners will take note of this. Would love to get something like this over Spurs.
June 8th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Timmy is obviously hurting, and 10/10 for the story of the DU socks (sadly, it is just a story).
A nice wee prank played and all Celtic fans on here have to drag Ireland into it. No wonder you claim you’re never accepted in Scottish society - it’s because you don’t want to be and would rather be overseas in Ireland.
Go then. Ireland is actually a lovely country, north and south, but I don’t think they’d take most of you back. Shame.
http://www.poferries.com/
June 10th, 2009 at 3:37 am
Operation tango was brilliant end of. :L
And to the idiot that mentioned the incident in Coleraine this is a football debate. No need to bring that incident up. It was disgusting and it only brings down real Rangers supporters. But to say all Rangers fans are ” scum of the earth and vermon” just shows that you havn’t the menatl cappacity to say anything constructive or that your just a fake Celtic supporter with no sense of humour.
It was Rangers fans who stabbed him so all Rangers fans stabbed him.
It was Rangers fans from Northern Ireland who stabbed him. So by your logic everybody in Northern Ireland stabbed him.
No doubting they were all white men so I take it was the white race who stabbed him.
Please you moron it is Celtic fans like you who are quick to call us Orange bastards and Hun cunts and all this crap that really annoy me. The same fans who couldn’t name you half the Celtic squad who go to the matches just to glorify terrorists. And the same to so called Rangers fans who do the exact same thing.
So smell ye come back when you have somthing to say on football matters or even anything half constructive you low life.
Finished my rant
P.s WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!! SIMPLY THE BEST !!! 52
June 21st, 2009 at 3:46 am
Operation TANGO,
Perhaps the greatest “get it up ye” to an opposing side EVER.
If you don’t believe it Watch the video, probably on You Tube.
Celtic fans making a total Roger Hunt of themselves!