Celtic Fans Ruin Remembrance Sunday With Sectarian Chants, Sky Presses Mute
OVER on Pies, news that some Glasgow Celtic fans disgraced themselves and their club 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 says:
“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.
Sectarian or not? A reader writes - and he wants all mention of the word “sectarian removed from the post”:
First of all there were no sectarian attitudes within the protest. The song which was sang suring the protest was centred around a young man named Aiden McAnespie.
Aiden McAnespie was a Celtic fan and Gaelic Football players who was shot dead by the British Army in County Tyrone, Ireland in 1988. He had previously been threatened freuquently by members of HM Forces before being shot in February 1988 as he walked to a local Gaelic Football club. How can the singing of such a song be described as sectarian, exactly who is it sectarian against ? I work as an Equality consultant and throughout the different laws applicable in England,Wales, Scotland and the North of Ireland, such a protest could not be construed as sectarian vis a vis intra-Christian division or [sic]
With that, can I ask that all references to ’sectarian’ are removed, save of course there is other evidence which points to sectarian attitudes being in evidence. Such erroneous comments exacerbates challenging attitudes of intolerance and whilst I cannot understand the protestors need to vocally protest in such a manner, it is completely incorrect to label it as sectarian.
Celtic fans sing in honour of a man killed by the British during a Remembrance Sunday silence at football a match. Sectarian? Or just fans doing the right thing? And why would such innocent behaviour cause offence?
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November 10th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Strange, not a whimper from any do gooding PC mob
November 10th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
It was an expression of anti-British sentiment and was therefore sectarian - much more than ” lack of respect “
November 10th, 2009 at 11:11 am
I don’t think the issue is so much about sectarianism as about the total lack of respect for all the war-dead and their families and the general thuggish behaviour of a group of ignorant football fans.
round em all up and send them to Afghanistan maybe? then perhaps they’ll understand what Remembrance Sunday is all about. It’s not any particular war, race or religion, its respect for the dead and damaged across the ages of war.
November 10th, 2009 at 8:51 am
The divide in Northern Ireland is Sectarian - so it is Sectarian.
No one knows what to do about though…. so denial and ducking for cover seems like a good plan.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
These scum consistently ignore any silent remembrances at football matches with their bile resulting instead of having a minute of applause. The Celtic
management tried to impose this for Remembrance Sunday even though it is
patently wrong. Falkirk would have none of it. The inevitable happened and to
use the excuse of the death of one of their “martyrs” to disturb the silence
is ludicrous. Yet another embarassment for Scotland and don’t expect John
Reid or any other Celtic spokesman to apologise.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
How can a song which remembers the killing of a completely unarmed innocent civilian, be construed as being”sectarian”? This year the British government apologised to the McAnespie family for the killing of their son by a British soldier,whilst he was walking to a football match.There is absolutely nothing sectarian about the song that was being sung.The word “sectarian” should be removed immediately.