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Has anyone complained about Sammy simulating killing protestants with his bow and arrows yet?

 

If anything happens it will be a fine ... under £30K!

 

Rangers and Celtic fans grasssing on each other is the saddest thing ever. Embarrassing beyond belief

 

I'm enjoying your new position on here as The Voice Of Reason.

 

Do you think people were genuinely offended for being told to "go home"?

 

What IRA ballads were they singing?

 

You do realise it was not to be taken literally. It was a wind up. The famine wasn't just about catholic people ya know.

The original was "Why don't you come home" sang by the Belfast lad who coined it, but because most of the supporters were Scottish it was changed to "why don't you go home"

 

Medro caught out being racist again

"honest guv, it was a wind up"

 

To be entirely fair Mick, in the same vein as saying it isn't cool to sing for an entire race or ethnicity to go home (and i fully agree with that) many people would say it isnl't really cool to sing about an organisation responsible for killing civillians.

There is a philospohical debate to be had about a) whether it was terrorism etc and b) whether the RA being sung about is the same as the one that was around in the 70s 80s and 90s (i know many will be chomping at the bit to do just that) but most people listening to it won't necessarily pick up on the subtlety and I suspect some that sing it these days don't either.

Trev's spot on thoough - it's just tit for tat for the sake of it and I can see why many on both sides would see it as a tad embarrassing.

 

We now have a special police unit set up to arrest, detain,fail to convict and give holiday makers a lift back to Glasgow, just for singing Irishy.

If it was b*witched I'd understand

 

But what has any of this got to do with football?

Celtic fans singing songs about the IRA. Rangers inviting soldiers to their ground.

It's time to let this **** go.

 

I'm with you.

 

I don't think anyone needed the joke explained to them, it was simply people going out of their way to be offended. Your lot could have came back with a witty response but due to the nature of the Old Firm it got outlawed.

 

For the record I don't think people singing that kind of stuff are necessarily sectarian bigots but their songs are going to cause offence - in exactly the same way as people singing about the army would offend people whose lives were made something of a misery by their very presence and I don't really agree with that either so i do get the double standards bit.

Call me naive but i would personally prefer if none of it was sung in football grounds.