"Offensive chanting"

Most likely West Brits.

Do you really think that I give a flying duck of what I have been accused of?

 

the ira songs are mostly sung by the younger support 15 to late 20s we've all done it ,the problem is now these political songs are used to tarr us with the same brush ie if you ask rangers fans why they hate us and why they spout bigotry and sectarianism against us they will say ,its cauz we are a bunch of ira loving * .
so to the point how do the authorities stop rangers fans doing this ,they do it by stopping us chanting republican songs as we are easier to work with and will do our best to keep the clubs good name intact like we always have ,its something we all are proud of .
its putting a different slant on how to look at it ,it may not be right but its a thought,imo its time to kick this now ,its embarrassing to most fans who support our team ,if you want to sing these songs do it in the pub or in your house ,support our team with celtic songs ,its not hard to do ,keep politics out the stadium .

 

I cringe everytime i hear ooo ah up the ra, why cant it be up the celts like its supposed to be.

Might get more people joining in with what is a great song spoiled by an add on which has no place at celtic park.

 

To my knowledge (I'd be happy to proved wrong however) up the ra is the original version?

 

I was talking about the people in this thread moaning and groaning to cut out the IRA and rebel songs. And no I can't ask? Wow trying to tell me not to ask certain questions and stop singing rebel song... Whatever happened to freedom of speech

 

I've never sung pro-IRA songs in public. Ever. And I'm nearly 30.

Quite lucky to have a group of mates, also Tims, who don't really bother with it either.

Are we the minority?

 

I feel we do need to avoid the IRA chants, it's fine singing about republicanism but we while always be seen as the "bad ones" while we still sing this.

 

Politics has no place in football so lets ban all political songs.


Lets cut all ties with any football club that has highly political fans (Barcalona, St Pauli) as well.


While we're at it lets stop all this "more than a club" pish. I don't want to be more than a club, I just want to watch a team play football.


All the charity work needs to stop as well. I mean we wouldn't want to offend anyone who didn't agree with what we were doing. What the * does any of that have to do with football.

 

Nail on the head.

 

as an outsider from Wales looking in, i personally think the politics and history is what makes Celtic and Barcelona so appealing and literally more than mere clubs.

 

I sincerely hope that was sarcasm?

 

Exactly, this is what makes us great

 

Lenny himself came out and asked for it to stop after the Hearts game at the end of the season.

But even then there were people on here saying "ah but he didn't say IRA chants specifically so I'll keep doing it" even though that's clearly what he meant.

It just gets to the point where the club has asked for it to stop, the manager also, and a decent sized section of the support don't want any part of it, why persist?

Are you there to support Celtic or the IRA?

 

whether people like it or not celtic is invariably linked with ireland, and due to the circumstances which drove many irish people to glasgow and the formation of the club, has meant that celtic and irish republicanism have enjoyed a relationship since the beginnings of the club. this is celtic's politics, people don't have to like it, but they should respect why it is the case.

football like everything else is a political entity, people support certian clubs because of where their from and what their background, social and political attitudes say about them, either conciously or subconciously. politics is related to football and clubs, try telling fans of st pauli, barcelona, athletic bilboa, livorno, roma, lazio, derry city, cliftonville, marsielle etc that politics has nothing to do with football.

people should not be ashamed of their clubs history or politics, just because the media try their hardest to paint a picture that celtic fans are 'just as bad as' rangers fans. the irish rebel songs sung by the celtic support are not sectarian, and are not offensive, the queen laid a wreath in dublin only a number of months at the rememberance garden of these same individuals which celtic commerate. celtic have never been punished for singing song in the past from the sfa, uefa, fifa or any other authority, and there has been nothing to suggest that they will in the future.

 

this is not attempt to sound like 'we're more of a celtic fan than you' but i would like to know how many people that are against the sining of rebel songs regularly attend celtic games, particularly away games. although every celtic fans opinion matters, it would seem, going on how vocal the away support is, that the democratic majority of celtic are in favour of singing these songs. once again i realise the opinions of people who who can't or don't attend games regularly are just as important, but i find strange the vast majority of attend games, particularly away games support and sing these songs.

 

Supporting the act of terror should have no place in football stop the songs now should be football related songs only.

 

A valid point and one which I have been thinking of for a while........

Should those who do not attend games have any say in what those who do attend the games sing?

 

I just find it funny to be honest as a short why people have all of a sudden came into light saying how they hate the support singing IRA songs even though the support have done it for the vast time Celtic have been there. I was brought up at Celtic Park listening to more or less the whole support singing these songs now all of a sudden because the media ask us to stop everyone is piling up saying the chants are unacceptable and embarrassing? I feel in a way this is a dig towards the Celtic support for many years who more or less as a whole sung these songs. I think the only reason people are wanting to stop these chants are because the papers are portraying Celtic as bad for it an these supporters are trying to be the best behaved an better than anyone supporters.

Why? Have we not won awards for our support WHILST singing these songs?

Ammanvalleyjack said it himself from an outside view Celtics politics are what make them who they are. Why change all of a sudden and become a team like Hibs who are Irish but the support have near enough no respect for there Irish immigrant roots?

Why change because of what others think of the club? Don't care what the animals say!

 

In the season where Mr. Mowbray was in charge, and Celtic Park was like a ghost town, the GB (who were the majority of the minority making any noise at CP) were singing songs of Irish history.....they were praised for being mostly the only voice at our games.....their vocality was good enough then eh?