Originally Posted by afc1903mad
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I was wondering how long this would take to surface.
Of course the intent of the singing was not sectarian. That's the last thing on anyone's minds, but Timothy were called out for it recently against Boyd and since its the exact same terminology we used for Gerrard its very easy to accuse us of the same thing here.
The weegie press will f'uckin love it lets face it.
The minutes silence was observed impeccably, which will really have grinded the hun & weegia gears as they would have just been dying for us to make a noise during that to give them a stick to beat us with.
We didn't oblige, so this is the next best thing unfortunately.
Happily, it does seem that sectarian singing is finally getting the treatment it deserves & will be clamped down on and condemned in future, so regardless of the intent on Tuesday, we need to be careful in the terminology used to avoid us being tarred with the same brush as those west coast knuckle draggers.
Plenty teams like Kille sing the "Hello, Hello" song without the sectarian wording & undertones - so its easy enough to substitute Orange for Scouser / Sevco whatever.
Just need to steer clear of the orange / fenian stuff. Easy enough to do and I've no problem with that as we as a club have no sectarian element in the support and need to ensure we don't give any ammo to our detractors to try and insinuate otherwise.
