The OFFICIAL Rangers Thread

[Westy]

Originally Posted by crazydiamond85

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...st/7617518.stm

I wonder if anything will come of this

Well an investgation by Strathclyde Police if you even bothered to read it.

Bye now.

[crazydiamond85]

i meant after the investigation
im sure you much like myself would like to have these bigots out of football, so that actual rangers fans (like yourself) can enjoy a game of football without all this pish

[Westy]

Aye but its not as easy as that.

They'll be a conclusion to the investigation and the punishment they deem to be suitable will be put to anybody who sings the song in future. Probably a sectarian charge.

[metallideth]

Love how the Rangers spokesman doesn't actually come outright and condemn the song. I'm also hoping beyond hope that it was Chris that wrote to the Consul.

[crazydiamond85]

some supportesr groups are supporting the song the radio said this morning
they say it's no racist or sectarian
lol

[Zippy]

Graham Spiers report on it...

Rangers have again been left with no option but to ask their supporters to stop singing an offensive song after fresh political pressure was brought to bear on the club yesterday.

A section of Ibrox fans has recently taken to singing a particular chant about the Irish-Catholic community in Scotland. The song was given fresh volume and expression at last month’s Old Firm match at Celtic Park.

Yesterday Rangers admitted that they have been working behind the scenes in conjunction with Strathclyde Police to try to have the song – unofficially known as “The Famine Song” – stamped out. The club even warned that supporters could be arrested if caught indulging in the chant. The song refers to the Irish famine of the 1840s which killed an estimated one million people and triggered mass migration to Scotland, and includes the line: “The famine’s over . . . why don’t you go home?”

A Rangers official said yesterday: “In the days following the recent Old Firm match the club was made aware that a substantial number of complaints had been made regarding the singing of a song known as ‘The Famine Song’ at this match.

“Rangers Football Club approached Strathclyde Police for guidance on this matter, with a view to issuing a joint statement indicating that persons singing this song in future may face the possibility of arrest.

“Strathclyde Police were not able to commit to this until they had carried out further investigation. It is, however, the club’s view that the interests of our supporters and the club will be best served by supporters refraining from singing ‘The Famine Song’ ”.

The official added that the club had a long-established policy of discouraging the singing of songs which others found offensive.

Irish diplomats have raised concerns with the Scottish Government after complaints were made about Rangers in recent weeks. The Scottish Government confirmed that it had been advised by Ireland’s Consul General about concerns being raised by the conduct of supporters.

Yesterday’s move was the latest of numerous recent cases which have caused Rangers embarrassment, when the club has been forced to ask its supporters to refrain from bigoted or offensive chanting.

In 2006, after considerable pressure and embarrassment in the media, Rangers were forced to urge supporters to stop singing “The Billy Boys”, which was infamous for its bigoted sentiments. At the time, Uefa intervened and fined and warned Rangers over the conduct of their fans.

Sir David Murray, the Rangers chairman, has recently commented on the image of his club and a section of its supporters. Murray is known to want to sell his 90 per cent controlling interest in the club and openly rued Rangers fans’ rioting in Manchester which marred the Uefa Cup final in May.

The Scottish Government yesterday made no comment on the matter, but insisted that several campaigns against bigotry were starting to work.

An official said: “The Scottish Government is totally committed to combating sectarianism and bigotry, which is why we have expanded on the work of the previous administration and are doing more.”

The amazing RST statement...

TRUST CALLS FOR COMMON SENSE OVER RACISM SLURS Print E-mail
Monday, 15 September 2008

The Trust is deeply disappointed that the club has failed to repulse a mischievous and politically-inspired campaign of vilification with regard to the “Famine’s Over” chant


The club has failed to recognise that this campaign is orchestrated by extremist apologists for sectarian murder and is intended to smear both the support and club as racist.

The “Famine’s Over” chant is quite clearly a typical football chant mocking the myths rival fans perpetuate about themselves and should be treated as such.

The Trust condemns in the strongest possible terms the lies being perpetrated and the stupidity of public figures in dignifying them by their responses.

The Trust has a long and noble record of fighting racism and sectarianism in all it’s forms and therefore speaks from a position of credibility and strength in rejecting these slurs.

We further condemn all those whose bitter and twisted agenda seeks to wrongly portray Scotland as a hotbed of bigotry, contrary to all evidence, in order to damage both the country in general and Rangers in particular for their own narrow sectarian ends.

By dignifying such ludicrous complaints the club has opened the floodgates to similar insincere campaigns in the future.

[Watty]

Originally Posted by Zippy

The amazing RST statement...

Given the full version of their ditty it makes it even more amazing. Fucking idiots.

I often wonder where they would have been
If we hadn't have taken them in
Fed them and washed them
Thousands in Glasgow alone from Ireland
they came brought us nothing but trouble and shame
Well the famine is over
Why don't you go home?

Now Athenry Mike was a thief
And Large John he was fully briefed
And that wee traitor from Castlemilk
Turned his back on his own
They've all their Papists in Rome
They have U2 and Bono
Well the famine is over
Why don't you go home?

Now they raped and fondled their kids
That's what those perverts from the darkside did
And they swept it under the carpet and Large John he hid
Their evils seeds have been sown cause they're not of our own
Well the famine is over
Why don't you go home?

Now Timmy don't take it from me
Cause if you know your history
You've persecuted thousands of people
In Ireland alone
You turned on the lights
Fuelled U boats by night
That's how you repay us
It's time to go home.

[metallideth]

Wonder if they'll be rolling out "the shipyards are closed, why don't you go home?" for 'Ulster Day'.

[crazydiamond85]

i doubt even westy will try and say that the trust are right this time

[Westy]

I didnt even know the Trust had came out with that. Embarrassing. I bet its something to do with that prick David Edgar. He really is a fucking clown.

Two members of the trust resigned a few days ago too.

[crazydiamond85]

aye did they no say, rangers have betrayed the fans?
the clowns are who give rangers a bad name, the quicker rangers distance themselves from them the better

[metallideth]

For all those who thought they saw more bigotry on the horizon, better put your sunglasses on lest your vision be deflected by another well-timed Murray moonbeam:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...rs/7619229.stm

[Zippy]

Originally Posted by metallideth

For all those who thought they saw more bigotry on the horizon, better put your sunglasses on lest your vision be deflected by another well-timed Murray moonbeam:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...rs/7619229.stm

A celebration of debt increasing by £5m?

[Warlord]

Anyone see the sectarianism done to Gorams bar?

[Westy]

Aye I seen the pictures. The new one in Blantyre aye. CFC's and some IRA's and that.