For your info Jack Campin - Large John in the song is Big Jock Stein, a man who knew, among other things, all about the bigotry doled out to Protestant employees of Celtic Football Club.

Jock Stein was probably Celtics greatest manager, they won multiple Cups, League Championships and the European Cup during his reign. Upon his retiral and after his not insignificant contribution he should have been given a seat on the board and looked after by the club for the rest of his days. However, being a Protestant and given the fact that Celtic had never had a Protestant on their board, he was shamefully treated by the club and, to all intents and purposes, given a job looking after the club lottery!

However badly Jock Stein was ultimately treated by the club he was revered by the support, who would regale anyone, who had the misfortune to be their audience, with misty-eyed tales of how there was absolutely nothing happened within miles of Celtic Park that Big Jock didn't know about. Apparently he always knew which slop-houses Jimmy Johnstone and Bertie Auld etc were lying unconcious in due to his information network. He knew exactly what all his players were up to at any given time, he knew what the board of directors were planning to do long before he was told. For decades, Celtic supporters would bore everyone to tears telling them how much Big Jock knew. Unfortunately the one thing that Big Jock appears to have known absolutely nothing about was the systematic child abuse by a peadophile ring of Celtic Football Club employees against an indeterminate number of children who played for Celtic Boys Club over a period of God knows how many years. It is, without a doubt, the biggest scandal ever to befall Scottish Football, ever! And Big Jock didn't know! What made it worse was that it was simply brushed over by a compliant Scottish media. Compare the front-page banner headlines about an obscure song that nobody could make out the words to by all accounts, and the media whitewash of the defiling of innocent children where the reporting was relegated to a few paragraphs on the inside pages. To the normal people out there I ask you which is worse? Pseudo-offensive song or child abuse?

Quite frankly, I am fed up with over-sensitive Celtic supporters whose moral indignation doesn't stretch far enough to condemn their own kind who "celebrate" The Ibrox Disaster where 66 innocent people, including women and children went to watch a game of football and never came home. Who also celebrate atrocities like the Enniskillen Poppy Day Massacre and the Omagh Bombing and who cannot wait "until there are no Protestants left." Don't bother trying to tell me that it's only a minority who have this view either. Anyone who bothers to scratch at the surface of this mob will find a deep-rooted hatred for Britain, Unionism, Protestantism and Rangers Football Club. Not necessarily in that order.

As long as football rivalries exist there will be offensive songs. It doesn't matter whether it's Rangers-Celtic, Man Utd-Liverpool or Cowdenbeath-East Fife the song is sung with the primary intention of winding up your rivals. However for some muppet to go as far as to complain to foreign state about a song being sung at a football match says an awful lot more about himself than it does about the people who were singing it.

For all the intellectual historians above who have tried to dissect the pysche behind The Famine Song - don't! Here it is in a nutshell. Most Rangers fans (but not all admittedly)that I know have absolutely no problem with anyone, regardless of colour, creed or religion, with the exception of terrorists and their sympathisers who come to our shores for succour and refuge then attempt to bomb and blast us into their way of thinking. Whether they be Irish Terrorists or Al Qaeda, as far as I am concerned they can go home, they are not welcome! For that I make no apology.