Sectarian Celtic fans ruin minute’s silence on Remembrance Sunday
Disgraceful show by some Celtic fans at Falkirk on Sunday. A small section of the club’s more sectarian support chanted Republican songs outside the Falkirk Stadium, DURING a minute’s silence for Remembrance Sunday. Looks like Bill Hicks was right about the whole ‘virus with shoes’ thing.
Sky Sports have since admitted that they muted the sound to avoid causing offence to viewers. A Sky source said:
“Our sound technicians at all the games we cover have the ability to mute any chants or songs which could cause offence. That was clearly the case here – although the silence was observed by the vast majority of all the fans inside the ground.”
But this is what you should have heard:
Unbelievably crass behaviour. These f**kbrains have no place in football. I should add, the majority of Celtic fans did observe the silence.
How are the people outside meant to know the min silence has started? The song is no way sectarian also.
Sectarian? Distasteful, maybe? But sectarian? Piffle!
Rather than get involved in the argument that “hector” alludes to. As a Celtic supporter I was extremely annoyed at the antics of these so called fans. I was annoyed that they desecrated the memory of brave men, further, in a week when Rangers once more proved to the world their inability to act responsibly, this was the last thing that was needed. It was obvious that this opportunity would be hijacked by others to pursue their own agenda. Even the loud mouthed Republican weans called “The Green Brigade” agreed not to attend. However the minutes silence was breached by a group of morons singing outside about the events in another country. Don’t tell me they didn’t know the time of the event, this was orchestrated to have an effect. Complete twats, they are obviously too thick to realise that enemies of Celtic will use this as an opportunity to use the old argument for Celtic& Rangers that one is as bad as the other. Aye! Manchester, Barcelona (twice) Bucharest and countless others…but now we have allegedly plumbed to their depths. Despite my contempt for these idiots, I for one am not buying that we are “the other side of the same coin!
You need a dictionary – look up the definition of sectarian.
to you it’s just a word you’ve heard people criticise celtic and rangers fans with but you’ve shown you have no idea what it really means.
you’re a clown
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1. of or pertaining to sectaries or sects.
2. narrowly confined or devoted to a particular sect.
3. narrowly confined or limited in interest, purpose, scope, etc.
I’d say 3. covers it.
No, this was sectarian and make no mistake. I cannot hide my contempt for the small minded idiots who chose to break a noble silence. The poster above is right, they’re not even clever enough to shut up and score some points (no pun on the match that followed).
The cowards didn’t even do it in the Stadium, they hid outside and out of shot.
Vocabulary you are fucking stupid
People hav a right to protest when & wherever they want, iz this not what your SO-CALLED brave men died for in ther wars !!!
Another example of uneducated divisive drivel that makes Scotland a bad place to live
so know you are handing out lessons in civility??? i thought any part of a just society was an individuals right to protest?
by the dictionary explanation posted above, you could pretty much bracket every football fan as sectarian. i think the person who wrote this article uses the word as the popular alternative to “bigoted”, which the song being sung most certainly was not. the song being sung was about an irishman, aidan macanespie, who was shot unarmed by the british army.
i, and most other celtic fans, in no way condone their behaviour. however, i do fully support their sentiments.
firstly, we are being asked to observe a minutes silence for not only ww1 & 2 heroes, but for all british army “heroes” since. that includes the ones who have terrorised and murdered in the 6 occupied counties in the north of ireland, a place where many of our support come from or whose families descend from, and many of whom have been affected by the actions of these “heroes”. would anyone in this country feel entirely comfortable observing a minutes silence in germany for the nazi soldiers who lost their lives in ww1 & 2 or in afghanistan for the taliban dead? amounts to the same thing.
and secondly, we are continually being told by our board to leave our politics at the turnstile when we go to the game, only to be told we must observe a silence for people who died in political conflicts. hypocrisy anyone?
as i said, i in no way condone these guys for interrupting the silence. there were better ways to have a protest such as not entering the stadium until the silence had finished, as many celtic fans chose to on the day, or a banner display. but we do have a right to protest and to brand it sectarian or bigoted is just plain ignorance.
OUTSIDE my a r s e . The singing was from inside the ground, why did SKY not show the Celtic end?
Celtic fans…….SCUM from Birth to Death
i submitted a comment which appeared here then when i come back later it’s disappeared. maybe it was too balanced an argument to fit in with the agenda of the article. brit cover ups again
That just showed how uneducated and thick a large part of the celtic support are.
Check your history you morons!!Plenty Irish repuclicans fought and died in WW1,beside the Brittish.
If you want so much to be Irish…..GO HOME!!
http://www.oleole.com/blogs/thelordofthewing/posts/poppy-poppycock
My reply to Ollie and the others.
Some comedy gold, from both sides, in this.
i think its time everyone realised the war is over and the mindless morons on each side of the fence in glasgow never knew what it was like to be involved…
If they do feel they must get involved then look for a house and a job??
in northern ireland and see if they really would be welcomed in stirring it all up?????
seamus
Rangers bigots like Mick(12)continue to insist that Celtic fans inside the ground disrupted the silence. You weren’t there Mick. How would you know?
The fact is that ALL of the thousands of Celtic fans, INSIDE the ground, respected the silence. Because of the silence inside, the noise from outside, (ie from people still queuing at the turnstiles)was clearly audible. It may surprise most of you that the only disruption inside the ground came from one FALKIRK fan who shouted: “F*** off back home!” This is when Peter Lawell is seen to shake his head.
The only sectarian comment recorded inside the ground during the silence was a Falkirk fan shouting at the predomintaly Irish support of Celtic – who observed the silence impeccably inside the ground – to go home.
(For Sectarian, read also “racist”).
and the only one breaking the silence in the stadium was a Falkirk fan shouting “F*** off back home” – but maybe racism is not headline grabbing enough for you. It does go unreported by the media week in week out?
It seems that the same Celtic fans who are so easily offended, the same ones who dare to employ the word “racism” to justify their twisted agendas when there are REAL victims of racism living in fear in this country…these same fans, these poor, wee, sensitive souls are seemingly oblivious to the offence they caused the good people of this country and beyond with their vile behaviour. The Falkirk fans have no history with these reptiles, yet they roundly booed the idiots responsible for the chanting. Does that not tell the brainless bigots anything? This isn’t about Rangers fans revelling in their misconduct, it’s about decent people who find the idea of sharing the same oxygen as these animals abhorrent.
What part of Aiden McAnespie is sectarian or bigoted? The UK government have since apologised to his family for what happened.
I agree that some people need to have a long hard look at themselves, but to spin it as something else detracts from the argument being put forward. Just a shame people can’t debate these things without trying to twist it to suit an agenda. If they could, we could probably solve a lot of the issues a lot quicker.
No Celtic fans inside the ground disrupted the minute’s silence. Some outside did and this was pre-planned, that is their right. The song in question is in no way sectarian, but is political. Political protest without violence is perfectly legal. Singing “Why don’t you go home”, “Can you hear the gypsies sing” etc etc, throwing seats at stewards, attacking policemen in Manchester etc etc; these are aagianst the law of the land. While most Celtic fans have no problem with remembering the British who died during the various conflicts (justified and unjustified) some do have a problem. It would be better if they protested in a way that did not give oxygen to the significant number in this country with an anti-Irish, anti-Catholic agenda, such as some of the narrow minded, uneducated people on here, butr again they have broken no laws, other than showing a lack of respect, decency and intelligence.
“butr again they have broken no laws, other than showing a lack of respect, decency and intelligence”
This is exactly the point most are making. That they’re idiots and they lack respect, decency and intelligence. Bravo, well done. People droning on about the legality of it, or whether the song they were singing can be considered sectarian or not are completely missing the point. It’s not about whether it was illegal or even sectarian…and it’s certainly not about how this misdemeanour stacks up against those of rival fans, it’s about a basic lack of civility; the same civility that these idiots demand from everyone else. That there are still people defending the actions of this band of trolls is astonishing.
Incidentally, for all the people asking how Aidan McAnespie could possibly offend…have you conveniently forgotten the references to Gibraltar?
CWC
You are twisting things to suit your agenda. The reference to racism here was only in answer to those wrongly accusing Celtic fans of being sectarian. But obviously you think it’s ok to tell Irish to “F*** off back home” That’s not “real” racism eh?
Having said that, this debate is about the observance of the minute’s silence. Although it doesn’t suit your agenda of attacking the reputation of Celtic fans, the fact is that all of the thousands of Celtic fans in the stadium behaved impeccably. We are not defending the behaviour of the small number (around 40?) outside the ground. Yes THEY did show “a basic lack of civility”, but this must be put into perspective.A few (including drunken idiots) sang a protest song OUTSIDE the ground. Nobody was violent, nobody got hurt and nobody got arrested.
Despite this, many on here have tried to portray Celtic fans as pariahs. Unpalatable as it may be for some, the evidence shows that we have a record of good behaviour and are welcomed all over Europe. Don’t be surprised that we defend ourselves from attacks based on ignorance and prejudice.
Nice attempt at deflection from the boy james there. A few points:
1) Who’s telling the Irish to “F*** off back home”? No-one as far as I can see. I’d certainly suggest that the British Celtic fans who appear to be so fond of Ireland and who so detest the United Kingdom would be much happier individuals if they were to up and leave for their “spiritual home”. I don’t think even the most twisted mind could interpret that as racism.
2) I keep hearing that they were outside the ground, as if this was a valid excuse for the appalling behaviour of these miscreants. It isn’t. Good on those who can put aside their misguided feelings for a second and act decently. Shame on those who are compelled by low intelligence to shout, scream and sing during a memorial.
You can defend the behaviour of these rodents until you’re blue in the face, but the fact will remain that they are scum, pure and simple.
P.S. I’d be interested to hear what you think my agenda is, beyond illuminating the gloom of closed-minded indecency with the burning flame of intelligence.
cwc
Your agenda is clear in your first paragraph. Did those thousands of Celtic fans, inside the stadium, observing the silence, indicate that they detested the UK? You clearly show YOUR twisted mind’s view of Celtic fans based on your own prejudice. How crass it is that you should mistake your prejudice for intelligence.
Although you’ll try and twist it that way “until you’re blue in the face”, I did not defend those outside the ground. They probably are of “low intelligence”. All supports have such people. some sing outside a stadium during a minutes silence, others wreck cities and attack police.
james, jim, jimmy…big jim
I think we might well be on the same page here. I’m not for a moment suggesting they’re ALL like that. But you know the ones I mean…the types who congregated outside the Falkirk stadium, the “tiocfaidh arla” brigade, the bad eggs…the ones who are au fait with all things Republican but ignorant of the affairs of their own country. These are the ones I’m talking about.
Ok, I can agree with you on that. There are a small minority who embarrass the club, but despite their noise they really were marginalised on Sunday. Remember that many forecast there would be large scale disruption because Celtic have no control over their away fans.
Celtic are not an establishment team. We have a disparate support which includes intelligent Republicans, Socialists, Catholics, Protestants, Scots, Irish, English etc. It is sometimes difficult to hold this together, particularly on events involving the army. However, we should show respect on solemn occasions. The point is that we DID on Sunday, apart from a few idiots of low intelligence, whom you are entitled to criticise
whoever g is your moronic. how hard is it to stand in silence for a minute, without singing about a bunch or murdering inbred irish. your scottish mate grow up.
In response to G who quite clearly supports secterianism and the bigoted nature of many celtic fans…WHY have celtic play in the SCOTTISH league, or the ENGLISH (which they want to) if they cant respect the nation. They CLAIM to be a SCOTTISH team, funnily enough…part of GREAT Britain but dont support the troops that died to defend our nation, as well as their potatoe barren portion of Ireland. The soldiers the silence is for fought against totalitarianism, facism, brainwashed children and the likes and you lot cant even respect that? Please do take it home, in hindsight…I wouldnt have let any boat dock on our fair isles if this is how they treat it.
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Is it not totalitarian to tell everyone to do as we do or get out?
main man,
I don’t think you’re in any position to lecture anybody about bigotry and sectarianism. With phrases like “potatoe barren portion of Ireland”, I think we can see where you are coming from.
Also, the British education system has obviously failed you.Try using the spell-check.
cfcj, you’re another one whose illiterate moronic posts (note the difference between “your” and “you’re” “mate”)shows what a low life you are.
Neither of you are capable of making any sort of point without displaying your anti Celtic/Irish/Catholic agenda.
Free Speech!
Fact of the matter, i’ve heard rankers signing “Up to our knees in fenian blood” on sky sports :) where was this sky technician to mute this? hm?
If you dont fly the union jack, your an outsider. They might aswell join the BNP and be done with it.