Recent fan behavior is a topical subject at the moment. We had Rangers supporting singing anti Irish songs and Bohs fans singing about Mandrious girlfriend in the last week and there was a lot of comment on it. 

I personally enjoy loud hostile grounds either as a home or away fan. I see some lines that shouldn't be crossed. Chants about the likes of Hillsborough or Munich are pretty grim and I don't understand why anyone would sing about such a topic.

In all honesty, most of the anti Catholic/ Irish stuff such as the Billy Boys or The Famine song doesnt bother me but I'm coming from the position of a Dublin fella who hasnt really encountered discrimination at all. I could sit in the away end in Ibrox and that wouldn't rile me in any way. Maybe someone from Glasgow or Derry might disagree though. Anything relating to the Troubles would be  absolutely crossing the line however.  

I heard Ian Wright defending Roy Keane after someone in the crowd called him an "Irish C**t". Again, I wouldnt give a sh1t about that. You could call me that all day and I wouldn't flinch. I wouldnt even disagree 

However, the abuse that Wright himself has had to endure was horrific and unacceptable. 

Is all personal abuse off limits now for you? That means no more calling the linesman a fat fook. Or the big nosed right full a beaky bollox. There was a lot of people in Lansdowne singing about Eriksens wife when we played Denmark. Was that out of order? 

That said I did enjoy Rovers fans moral crusade rather than talk about their own poor showing again. 

Thats a bit too sanitized for my liking. I don't know if you were at the home game against Israel under Kerr when Dudu was acting the bollox? Would you honestly not give him a bit of stick in that instance?

I bet anything the same people trivialising centuries old, institutionalised anti-Irish racism are the same people who were frothing at the mouth when fellow Irish fans were abusing say Shota Arveladze or Peter Lovenkrands because of what club they played for when Georgia and Denmark rolled into town.

Funny how that works.

Also the same people who when Australian politicians and morning show hosts casually make discriminatory remarks about Irish people, or when Australian businesses make "No Irish Need Apply" signs, generalise and say "Ah well it's our own fault for acting the maggot out there".

Can you imagine that logic being used if you substitute an Irish person with a black person?

The New York Times literally had a headline calling those college students who died after falling off a shoddily constructed balcony in Berkeley "drunks".

Which goes to show how entrenched these kind of views are.

I defo wasnt frothing at the mouth when the Rangers lads were getting stick. I did laugh as the crowd were initially booing the wrong Danish player. Part of the craic is when a player becomes the pantomime villain, and some of them embrace it. 

 

no but i remember that game and i was shouting at the tv  i prob just not the type to shout and roar at a player. shouting get up or something like that i wouldn't see an issue but insulting a player or cursing at him i would see as a bit needless. i'm no holy joe either!!

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