The Bouncy or The Bouncy Bouncy is a sports celebration which involves jumping up and down on the spot while chanting the word "bouncy" or "Let's all do the bouncy" over and over again. It is mainly done by fans of Scottish

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club Rangers,

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and the

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. The Bouncy was first performed in 1984 as a terrace song at Rangers' home ground

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. In 1990, the then Rangers head of security, Alistair Hood jokingly suggested that Ibrox Stadium should have seatbelts installed to stop fans doing The Bouncy. The action was brought to the attention of a wider audience when Rangers fans were seen doing it in the

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in the

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against Zenit St Petersburg. In recent times, the bouncy has become commonplace with fans of

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Safety concerns

Doing the Bouncy is not normally considered dangerous; however, in 2007, Rangers fans were warned not to do the Bouncy on the

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by the

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owing to fears that doing it on-board might derail trains. The Strathclyde Partnership for Transport said that it might close the

Ibrox subway station Ibrox subway station is a station serving the Ibrox area of Glasgow, Scotland. The station was known as Copland Road until 1977. The station's surface buildings were replaced during the Subway's modernisation programme, with the main entrance s ...

on match days if fans did not stop doing The Bouncy on the trains.

Controversy

In 2007, journalist Gerry McNee asserted, in a ''

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'' article, that The Bouncy referred to the murder of Robert Hamill in

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in 1997. The allegation precipitated complaints, mainly from the

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which called McNee's story "a disgraceful slur" and called for him to publicly apologise. The Rangers Supporters Trust also called for McNee and the ''News of the World'' to be banned from going to press conferences at Ibrox if the paper did not print an apology.

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Safety concerns

Controversy

See also

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