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Thread #114457 Message #2443974
Posted By: GUEST,Aln Bill
18-Sep-08 - 09:24 AM
Thread Name: the Rangers 'Famine Song'
Subject: RE: the Rangers 'Famine Song'
Of course, complaints about Rangers songs areb't a new thing --- several years ago a certain Rangers legal man sang a song at a private function and was chased from football office for it.
That song has since been verified in a Scottish court of law as "not sectarian".
Last year Celtic fans were successful in getting another Rangers fans' song banned, on the basis that it referred to an unpleasant Glasgow gang ... from over fifty years ago.
Shame that their own "gang-related" songs have never been targeted in a similar manner.
Indeed, Rangers fans are in the unusual situation of being banned from singing ANY words to a certain tune, and yet ... hearing other clubs' fans across Scotland and England singing what they want to that tune.
How's that for selective musical censorship ??!!
And ... we now hear that the Spanish consulate in Scotland has been in touch with Scottish authorities to complain about a recent piece of craic from Celtic fans -- their death threats to the Spanish Catholic Rangers player.
Still, that CAN'T be a s offensive as asking a simple question, can it ????