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GUEST,Aln Bill the Rangers 'Famine Song' (141* d) RE: the Rangers 'Famine Song' 26 Sep 08


If she's English then she's British.

The Scottish flag is represented in the Union Flag (see all that blue in there? That's ALL Scottish), so ... singing God save The Queen (whilst not my own personal choice due to my own politics) and waving a Union Flag is perfectly OK for any British person to do.
If they want.

Any objective viewers looking in on this ??
I realise that you must be a bit disgusted with some of the nonsense on here, but by now it must be quite clear to you that the reasoned arguments and factual basis is all coming from one side only.

Rangers fans have been branded as "bigots" and "sectarian" for singing a four line chant (and for having a four verse song foisted on them by two individuals).

Are the four lines actually bigoted ?
"The Famine's over, Why Don't You Go Home?"
Sung by one set of football fans at another set, both sets having ancestors who suffered in the Famine.

It is clearly directed at "plastic Paddies" -- defined as people who pine for Ireland, but have either never set foot on its shores, or who would run a mile if offered the opportunity to live there.

It's a bit of a stretch calling it bigoted.

Compare and contrast that with some of the other vile filth directed from Rangers' opponents: ethnic cleansing ditties, songs hoping for a Rangers player to be shot, and the oddly "not bigoted" "Go Home Ya Huns", etc.

It would appear that whilst every other football club in the world is allowed to have some lattitude in the humour used, Rangers FC are to be a special case where the fans cannot even make a mildly sarcastic suggestion.

As an objective observer, don't you find it strange how Rangers fans are treated in such a strict manner, but that other club are not ??

There have been plenty of genuine examples of previous form that the other club's fans have demonstrated, but it would appear that even bringing some of them to light again is in itself "bigoted".

Football (and most other sporting) chants will occasionally be marred by vile lyrics, and it is the duty of the requisite authorities to clamp down on them.

Just a shame that this is ALL so one-sided.


btw, yet another lie up there about Rangers supposedly having their players sited at Stirling Castle during the Second World War.
I can give you a comprehensive listing of the players and where they were, including three of them in the Royal Navy.
How many times have certain posters got to be caught out lying !!!




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