Well, one positive thing you can say about it is that Athenry Mike got telt.

Who is/was Large John?

Do we know who wrote the song and where it first appeared? A fanzine, at a guess?

The comment on the St Pauli board "Can you imagine the reaction if this was sung to black or Asian fans?" misses the point entirely. There is a long tradition of hyperbolic insult between Celtic and Rangers fans - this stuff isn't taken all that seriously by most of the people dishing it out. There is no such tradition of toothless offensiveness in relations between whites and blacks or Asians. Instead, the really dangerous white racists like the BNP leadership are creepily polite (up to the point when they're actually kicking your head in). I know which I'd least like to be on the receiving end of.

Whereas the Irish state getting involved is giving a paranoia-and-martyrdom fix to the small minority of Rangers fans who really *do* mean it. It's exactly what they want.