Rangers supporters in Ireland thread

Hadn't planned on bringing the hoops to Poland, I am now!

I think all of this singing of old rebel songs and recent IRA songs is very complicated I must say.  Easiest thing is just join in to what you want to join in with and if someone else wants to sing a song you don't like, leave em be.  No need to be abusing people for singing rebel songs and no need for people to abuse people for not singing either. 

Its not that hard to have a lassiz faire attitude to it really.  If you like the songs and you know the words sing them. If you dont like them and you don't feel they represent you, dont sing them. 

gspain wrote: Green Devil wrote: @ gspain i pulled you up on a few things yesterday but you failed to reply because you had no answer , which is fair enough. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1381623/Rangers-fined-fans-banned-away-game-sectarian-singing.html  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangers_F.C.#Examples_of_sectarianism You really must read these articles , your case for defending Rangers actions really gets shown up if it wasn't already.  Irish people sticking up for a club who was anti-Irish and anti-Catholic for years and years , i really don't get it  Remind me where I said Rangers didn't have a sectarian element or indeed a hooligan element.  I'm not defending Rangers.  I just think a certain Celtic element try to twist the debate to make it an anti Irish thing as Rangers can't really throw it back and say Celtic are anti British.  My concern is that an element of Celtic supporters seem to think it is OK to show up at our games wearing their Celtic gear and singing IRA songs.  Apart from being offensive they also have the potential to drag the name of our fans through the mud.    We have fans who support Rangers/Man Utd/ Leeds/ Liverpool/etc etc but they seem to be able to leave club allegiances aside  in support of the national team.,

Sorry but who do you think you are to tell people what they can and can't wear to a football game?

Edited by Jbyrne - 19 Apr 2012 at 5:44pm

Jbyrne wrote: reabhloid wrote:  better to get rid of the national anthem and the tri colour then at matches.. both are RA publican..?   actually the Irish flag represents peace (white) between nationalists (green) and unionists (orange)

Who are you to tell me what I can and cant sing?

I dont support Celtic. I dont support the IRA. I sing rebel songs because they are quality tunes. I go to matches to support the team. Its this kind of stereotypical sh!te that really is pathetic.

gspain wrote: Kerrzy wrote: Jbyrne wrote: reabhloid wrote:  better to get rid of the national anthem and the tri colour then at matches.. both are RA publican..?   actually the Irish flag represents peace (white) between nationalists (green) and unionists (orange) Who are you to tell me what I can and cant sing? I dont support Celtic. I dont support the IRA. I sing rebel songs because they are quality tunes. I go to matches to support the team. Its this kind of stereotypical sh!te that really is pathetic. UEFA decide what can and can't be sung in games played under their jurisdiction.  Celtic have already been fined by them for IRA chanting.  IRA songs have nothing to do with supporting the team.

I have never sung them in the stadium. I have sung them in bars and pubs in foreign countriesas I have the right to, as I have in pubs in Dublin and often do at house sessions. Saying that, if any one was started Id happily sing along. As I said on the YNWA thread I could care less what is sung, nursery rhymes if it adds a bit of atmosphere. Sure in Andorra were we not singing Be Not Afraid.. Just Cant Get Enough has nothing to do with supporting the team either if your logic is being used.

Anyone that sees it as sectarian is living in the past imo. If people have a problem with a song, its not my problem. Those who reognise immediately these songs as sectarian are the ones with the problem. I certainly dont match the 2.

Baldrick wrote: Lads is an IRA song the same as a Republican song. Are all Republican songs the same.  Which sons were banned by UEFA that got Celtic into trouble.

I dont know. I dont and most of my age I know dont associate the songs with either. People on this thread are living in the past.

On a side note, Celtic Symphony creates some atmosphere amongst the Celtic fans. Very easy to change the chorus from "OOH AHH UP THE RA" to "OOH AHH UP TRAPPA". Might upset a few people still living amidst the years of the conflict

Blue Man wrote: ScotsIrish wrote: Hadn't planned on bringing the hoops to Poland, I am now! <div id="isChromeWebToolbarDiv" style="display:none"> Why?? This is the European Championships son, not Celtic away to Clydebank in the Scottish Cup. Celtic jerseys for Celtic matches, Ireland jerseys for Ireland matches. Back on topic, Peter McMahon was the lad whose Dad wouldn't let him sign for Rangers. My cousin also had a trial at Rangers as well <div id="isChromeWebToolbarDiv" style="display:none">

and no american jeans or chinese shoes at ireland matches either

and no irish rugby tops at ireland matches either... rugby has nothing got to do with soccer