Auldtimer (or anybody here), have you actually managed to see the book?

Is it on sale at CFC's shops? If so I'll drop into one and have a flip-through at least.

I would be a *lot* more interested if it covered real football chants, though. Since the authors aren't even from Scotland I can't see how they could easily cover those, and the lack of response to my question suggests it doesn't.

Seems utterly pointless to go over Irish republican ballads again when we've got Georges Denis Zimmermann's "Songs of Irish Rebellion". I don't have any particular problem with the fossilized sectarian stuff like "Kevin Barry" - it's no worse than Jacobite songs - but the creativity of the terraces is surely more worth a folklorist's or football historian's time.