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Thread #114457 Message #2444965
Posted By: GUEST,Jack Union
19-Sep-08 - 09:34 AM
Thread Name: the Rangers 'Famine Song'
Subject: RE: the Rangers 'Famine Song'
to Aln Bill,
You hit the nail on the head regarding Lennon, I have never known a player from either side of the Old Firm be so reviled by fans the other Scottish teams - and it isn't because of his religion its because of his abrasive, menacing personality and his willingness to manipulate any situation for his own ends.
With regards to Jack Campin's claim about Rangers fans cheering an IRA bombing!!! Methinks the mists of time have clouded your friends memory. I attended my first Rangers match in 1974 and have known Rangers men all my life, and in all that time can say without fear of contradiction that no pub which counts Rangers diehards as its regulars would cheer an IRA bombing regardless of the target. I could be wrong, but was the bomb not timed to go off in the middle of the night so that all the Tory party delegates would be in their beds. Therefore even without todays 24hour news coverage it would still be early morning news headlines. It begs the question, What time was your mate drinking at? Also, at the time of the bombing Thatcher's few remaining supporters left in Scotland would most certainly have come from the Unionist Rangers support. I think you should put this down to your mate's fertile imagination.
I think we may now be digressing from the original subject of the thread. The facts are pretty much as above that its all a big wind-up and they went for it hook, line and sinker. Sadly, the truth is that Rangers and Celtic fans will continue to fire insults at each other long after we are all dead and gone. Nothing will change. Hail Hail's contribution awaaaaaaay up at the top of the page is right about Rangers needing Celtic - but not a smidgen more than Celtic need Rangers either. If you look at it properly, we feed off each other. Without Rangers and Celtic the Scottish league would be no better than that of either of the Irish leagues.
I look forward to contributing to the next non-event that has that paranoid mob in a lather and firing off e-mails and letters to bemused foreign diplomats.