Name one sectarian song our fans sing?

And so the status quo remains. We will have to agree to differ penguin, i feel I have taken this thread for a wander for long enough. Just to prove my "credentials" heres another quote from our manager.

“This has no place at Celtic Park or at any of our matches and it must be tackled. All this does is tarnish the great name of Celtic and embarrasses the club."

Cant think what he might be reffering to...

 

He still doesn't make it clear. He has left his words open to being twisted.

 

Do you really have to be spoonfed the exact words? It's obvious what he's referring to but you're being willfully ignorant and using it as an excuse to ignore what our club and manager is asking of you.

Poor show.

 

I'll tell you what, I'll stop singing these so-called "offensive" songs when I stop getting woken up at 9am for a few months every year with offensive material getting blasted through my window, how does that sound?

The day that the powers that be make it illegal to actually walk through the street playing this stuff to their cretinous followers is the day that I'll take any of this anti-sectarian talk seriously.

Untill that day comes, they can take their greetin', offended coupons and f*ck off.

 

Just a question mate. A lot of people post similar to your opinion of "I'm with the whole IRA thing, none of the songs are sectarian there's nothing wrong with them, its when the IRA chants come in to it". What do you mean by that mate? How can you be with it but against it?

 

If wanted all Irish freedom fighter songs stopped he would come right out and say. What is holding them back?

 

I mean that the songs the Celtic fans sing no one will have an issue with, the part that people will find offensive is when the IRA chants are used in the songs, if the songs were sang without the IRA chants then I doubt as many people would see it as being offensive.

 

My thoughts exactly
EDIT..."Pity some supporters find themselves needing to be spoon fed" - Knew I'd written that somewhere! Singing from the same hymn sheet and all that

 

Agreed mate.

 

I think it would be bowing down to people's ignorant and racist views if we did that. I can see what your saying though.

 

CAn't be arsded looking at all the posts but from what I can see is that not one single sectarian song has been named, just offensive political songs.
I'm in the opinion of time and place on what songs are sang, jstu pack out the IRA add ons and I'm pretty much happy.
I really do think that there should be more Celtic songs at games and not so many rebels, but that's jsut me.
THis whole debate has been going on all season and is very repetitive and tedious now. But to stick to the OP, no there are no sectarian songs sang by our support at games.

 

The question was name one sectarian song, and no IRA songs are sectarian.

 

i agree with you on that.

 

We don't have any sectarian songs!

 

I cringe when I hear IRA add ons in the middle of Celtic songs like Willie Maley.

And they gave us James McGrory and Paul McStay… and the IRA. Ermm, no they didn’t.

I also hate Roamin in the Gloamin and any song that mentions “sad Orange *” there are clear religious connotations here, or at least they can be perceived as such.

However, I won’t be brainwashed into thinking there is something wrong with Boys of the Old Brigade, or any ballad which commemorate those who fell in the name of Irish freedom.

What I do find offensive though, is Scottish people (both ignorant Celtic fans and typically ignorant Huns) trying to dictate aspects of my history.

If you know very little about Irish politics or history then don’t bother engaging with any such debate. Trying to categorise Irish rebel songs – via your own prejudiced ignorance – as sectarian, is actually where the offence is caused – to many Irish people.

Do not denigrate other people’s culture or history simply because you lack the intellect to think for yourself.

This erroneous stigma which is becoming attached to our traditional Irish lullabies is yet another manifestation of anti-Irish racism in Scotland. Only in Scotland would celebration of one’s history be deemed offensive or sectarian.

And please note, it is ONLY Irish culture which is being demonised.

Where is the condemnation about the songs which glorify tyrannical British colonialism?

It was the same with Boruc crossing himself. Where else in the world would a goalkeeper crossing himself be considered front page news? And even more despicably, be chastised for it.

If the Boys of the Old Brigade is offensive, then may I ask, to whom? Which sect of people?

The British? That’s odd, because just last week the head of the British state – acting on behalf of her subjects – laid a wreath and bowed her head in tribute to the Old Brigade.

I will never cease to express my Irish history, giving into the bigots and the ill-educated would be regressive not progressive.

 

I'm not comparing us to anyone. You're missing the point. You agree the reaction wouldn't be the same. Now ask yourself why considering the British military have killed more innocent civilians worldwide than the IRA ever have yet singing songs about the British military wouldn't provoke the same outrage that Republican songs do and they certainly wouldn't label them sectarian. Taking all this into account, one can only assume that most people in this country consider the Republican struggle, sectarian. That is worrying and should be opposed.

 

nail on head for me,great post mate.

 

^ says it all really,well put mate

 

Let me also point out that i have always been in favour of stopping IRA songs at the games but only because i don't think they are relevant not because of any sectarian issues. The fact they are being labelled sectarian is what prompts my stance now. If they want to ban these songs, they have to ban them for being political and that means politics will have to be seperate from football across the board, not just Irish politics. They wont want, or rather probably couldn't, impose that so it's easier to label them Sectarian. We shouldn't accept that.

 

Great post mate, sums it up for me.