ninety-minute bigot

ninety-minute bigot
 n.— «Rangers chairman David Murray has coined the term ’90-minute bigots’ to describe those fans who sing offensive songs during a match and then return to a normal life, working and socialising with Catholics.» —“No surrender to UEFA bureaucrats” by Dolan Cummings Spiked (London, England) Apr. 25, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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