Paul McBride has warned Celtic supporters that singing songs about huns will no longer be acceptable. New legislation going through the Scottish Parliament is geared at clamping down on offensive behaviour with a number of issues about to be highlighted and outlawed. McBride shot to fame in footballing circles when he took on the SFA as he defended Neil Lennon forcing outgoing President George Peat into a humiliating climbdown as an independent inquiry chaired by Lord Carloway described Peat’s role as ‘contrary to the principles of fair play’. Not long afterwards he found himself a target for extremists as he was sent a ‘viable device’ in the post at the same time as Neil Lennon. The new legislation won’t provide a list of banned songs and chants but McBride is in no doubt that any references to huns will no longer be tolerated. Speaking to the latest Celtic Underground podcast he explained: “All the talk in parliament about what is a reasonable person or what is offensive behaviour is all puff and smoke- we all know what is offensive. “I think that using the expression hun is now offensive. I don’t think that we’ll be seeing at Parkhead next season signs saying ‘No Huns in Europe’ or ‘Huns get out of here’. We have to accept that if we are going to have one side behaving in a certain way we have to make sure that our own side, the Celtic family, don’t act in an unacceptable way. “That’s not taking the fun out of the game, you’ll never take swearing out of football, you’ll probably get abuse and all the rest of it but we can’t have people throwing bananas on the pitch, we can’t have people abusing black players, we can’t have people being called h**s, we can’t have people being called orange b’s. “Those days have to go in the same way that we want the Rangers family not to sing The Famine Song, we don’t want them to sing ‘upto our knees in fenian blood’. “We have to look at our own side as well, we can still enjoy ourselves at Parkhead without singing about the IRA, without singing about huns go home and without singing about orange b’s - I don’t think any of that behaviour is acceptable and it has to apply across the board or we’ll never get rid of it.'' McBride’s views are bound to spark plenty of controversy with the QC very clear in his views that any songs relating to the IRA must end despite the British Queen’s decision to lay a wreath at Dublin’s Garden of Remembrance during a visit to Ireland. He added: “99% of people at Parkhead will have nothing to fear, I don’t think that there is a particular problem at Parkhead in any event. I’m not happy with some parts of the crowd, a very small part, singing songs about the IRA. “We’ve got the Green Brigade, who I think are very entertaining, I think that they add something to Parkhead- sometimes the games are so dire they are the only thing entertaining as the bounce up and down and sing songs! “I’m not happy about them singing about the IRA. Why are they singing about the IRA in the context of a football game? This culture has got to change, we can go along to games, yes we can shout abuse at the other side, yes we can have fun but there is a line over which we should not be crossing. I think that we all know where that line is.” Finally. Will all you lads on here who use the h word please stop it now.
No I'm sure a lot of people share your views, but there are a few on here that don't and take great joy using that h word.
Yep, just like there are many who like using taig and tarrier. The difference is we put up with it. It's called NOT 606 for a reason. No one minds using words like hun, fenian etc. because this site was set up to get away from places like 606 and ****s like you wailing about people using words like hun and fenian! If you don't ****ing like being called a hun **** off to JA606 with the rest of your whimpering 606 friends.
I can see what McBride is getting at, specifically with the IRA songs. However, is his point in relation to using the word H**s about singing it at games, as opposed to use on the internet? If people start getting grief for using it on here - of which i am more than happy to exchange banter by being called a tim/taig/tarrier - then it's pretty f***ed up.
This site wasn't setup for people to lob sectarian insults at each other was it? http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/25/football-bigotry-scotland-five-years-jail The new powers will make bigoted conduct and singing an indictable offence, increasing the maximum sentence from six months to five years, while using social networking sites or online forums to make bigoted threats or remarks will also become an indictable offence.
Get to **** you wee prick. No one wants your mopey ****e on here. <------ http://ja606.co.uk/articles/browseByTag/Rangers
Listen, there is no need to lose the bap. You don't have to use the H word. Like McBride has said, it is offensive and needs to be cut out. If you continue to use it I'm sure you will be landed in hot water with the authorities. They have already said about tackling down on internet bigots. Use your head and keep it sensible.
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“That’s not taking the fun out of the game, you’ll never take swearing out of football, you’ll probably get abuse and all the rest of it but we can’t have people throwing bananas on the pitch, we can’t have people abusing black players, we can’t have people being called huns, we can’t have people being called orange bastard’s." McBride's words falling on deaf ears.
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Very mature. Your club's unofficial spokesman says it needs to be cut out and you want to have it continue. "I don’t think any of that behaviour is acceptable and it has to apply across the board or we’ll never get rid of it.''
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Do you seriously think that everytime the word 'h*n' or 't**g' or whatever is written online that the person who wrote it will be prosecuted? Are their enough hours in the day, days in the week, weeks in the year, to even enforce that...? It's a WORD ffs. It is NEVER going to be eradicated, and that's not because people like Stereo may use it on a website such as this. It is INGRAINED in to the OF football culture, along with many disparaging words. You're also taking his comment out of context: He is clearly speaking about singing songs at games, no? That's the entire premise of the statement i thought. I also find it pretty ludicrous for you to attempt to police Celtic fans on the Celtic forum when your own fellow Bears on your own forum waffle tosh about 'darkies', 'taigs', 'tarriers' etc et al.
