Original sentence: For most of its history it has enjoyed a fierce rivalry with crosstown opponents Celtic, which draws much of its support from Glasgow's Catholic community.The club is nicknamed The Gers by friend and foe alike, although the fans are known as "Bluenoses" and "Bears".The present side is multinational and multiracial
Edited sentence: Although it always tended to be seen as a Protestant club, it did not have a rigid ban on Catholic players until the First World War.Despite this rivalry Both teams are believed to harbour ambitions to play with leading English clubs in a lucrative "superleague", rather than the less lucrative and less prestigious Scottish Premier League.During the 1970s they began denying that they had a ban on Catholic players, but this was widely regarded as a barefaced lie.For most of its history it has enjoyed a fierce rivalry with crosstown opponents Celtic, which in contrast draws much of its support from Glasgow's Catholic community.Identified with the city's Protestant community, for many years the club caused a good deal of controversy for not playing Catholic players.Much later it came to light that they played two Catholics by mistake in the 1950s.Players who married Catholics were squeezed out, and Danny McGrain (a leading Celtic and Scotland player) was not signed by Rangers because he had what sounded like a Catholic name, even though he was actually a Protestant who had supported Rangers as a boy.The club is nicknamed The Gers by friend and foe alike, although the fans are known as "Bluenoses", "Bears" or "Huns", the latter being the most derogatory.The present side is multinational and multiracial, and religion is no longer such a big issue with the club, although many 'die-hard' fans still continue the singing of anti-Catholic and/or anti-Irish Loyalist songs, seeing this as part of Rangers' culture.Their manager Graeme Souness broke with this tradition by signing a prominent Scottish Roman Catholic (and former Celtic) player Maurice "Mo" Johnston in 1989.This caused a shock in Scotland akin to the Kennedy assassination, years later some people could remember what they were doing when they heard the news