Am I missing something here?

I wholeheartedly agree that the rivalry between Rangers and Celtic supporters often oversteps the boundaries of good taste. Are we to seriously believe though that the singing of a semi-offensive song is to be the catalyst for people being driven from their homes?

John MacKenzie is correct when he says there is a redneck element on both sides, however the vast majority of Rangers and Celtic fans indulge in a bit of 90 minute bigotry and go back to work on Monday and work happily alongside their colleagues from the other side and indulge in a bit of football banter. The thugs who administer a good kicking because you support the wrong team are not exclusively Rangers or Celtic supporters. People like that live and breathe in every town and city in the UK. English hooligans used to favour asking an unfortunate pedestrian what the time was. If he responded in a non-local accent then the next few minutes would be pretty miserable for him. Tribalism like this is not exclusive to the Old Firm. If you get the chance watch "The Real Football Factories" series presented by Danny Dyer from the crap "Hooligan" film, The Football Factory. The second series covered football hooligan activity worldwide. Some of the Firms in South America and particularly the Former Yugoslavian Republics make Rangers-Celtic look like a Sunday School trip.

I must confess I was unaware of the full lyrics until yesterday, but whilst it may not be full of sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, I don't consider them to be any more offensive than many other songs and chants sung at football grounds everywhere by fans of all teams. All it really says is that there is no longer a reason for you to subject yourselves to living in Britain, which you clearly hate, so feel free to return "home". As stated by other contributors the chorus was sung to wind-up Scottish Celtic supporters, who live a lie and who are as Irish as Robert the Bruce, on a day when their team took a severe beating from their greatest rivals. To attempt to twist the facts and draw parallels with BNP and KKK and ethnic cleansing of people from their homes and countries is typical of mindset of these permanently-offended clowns.

Yesterday I mentioned the guy who complained to the Irish Consul about the song, but truth is now that I am pleased he opened up the can of worms. It has backfired spectacularly and he has now exposed to a wider audience the cretins within his compatriots who have, for far too long now, been able to sing their songs of murder, hate and alleged martyrdom of dead terrorists, but who have been shielded by sympathetic journalists who take great pleasure in highlighting Rangers' less savoury elements at every opportunity.