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Thread #114457   Message #2446099
Posted By: Jack Campin
20-Sep-08 - 04:08 PM
Thread Name: the Rangers 'Famine Song'
Subject: RE: the Rangers 'Famine Song'
> With regards to Jack Campin's claim about Rangers fans cheering an IRA bombing!!!
> Methinks the mists of time have clouded your friends memory.

He told me about it the week it happened. It's not the sort of thing you forget. (Rangers fans did not, in my experience, often extend their adulation of the Queen to include Thatcher. It doesn't seem the Queen did, either).

BTW there was an earlier instance of a cross-divide player getting grief for it, Mo Johnson. As I remember it, his *father* got intimidated for it, with his house being vandalized. But whether he was a Catholic playing for Rangers or a Protestant playing for Celtic I forget, nor does the answer matter to me. In any case, this kind of sectarianism is ridiculously small potatoes compared with Zionist treatment of Palestinians, American slavery or the genocide of the Roma. Get real.

It would be handy of somebody could suggest some good websites to look for current Glasgow football songs - in particular sites that reflect what actually does get sung rather than what somebody with delusions of poetic adequacy wants their side to sing.