(For context, when asked who he'd like to see win the title, Sarwar said 'since I'm a Glasgow boy, I always want one of the Glasgow teams to win it'.)
I know some people will say it's stupid to allow a comment about football to sway you regarding politics, but I don't really see it as being about football. It's what that comment reveals about the man (or complete absence of a man) who made it.
I do not care which team a politician supports. I'm a Rangers fan and if Sarwar had said Celtic, no problem whatsoever. I also wouldn't care if he said I'm not really into football so I don't care.
But trying to sit on the fence when it comes to the Old Firm is just such a pathetic, soulless, inhuman thing to do that suggests someone with no backbone or principles, and I don't want someone like that in charge of anything. It also shows how wildly out of touch he must be with the regular people of Glasgow and even Scotland to think that would be a good answer, to imagine he'd cleverly got out of things by hedging his bets. (As I saw someone else say it's not just a case even in Edinburgh people know you don't play both sides with the Old Firm, they know it in Buenos Aires.)
(Also, by the way, I'm not some diehard Labour supporter who's turned his back on the party over this. I was kind of humming and hawing over one of my votes and this was just a kind of final push in the direction of not voting for this guy.)
Edit: Given that today is the day we go to the polls, it's slightly scary how many people think this post is about football (it's 'about football' to the same extent that Sunak claiming he'd had a deprived childhood because he wasn't allowed Sky was 'about TV'). And what's even scarier is how many of those people believe they're super intelligent when the reality is they can't even properly understand a relatively short Reddit post.