Frankie 8,552 Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 ...Well it is if you're a Daily Mail journalist called Michael Walker! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1217555/The-death-Tommy-Burns-offered-chance-change-fixture-defined-hatred-s-SAME-OLD-FIRM.html?ITO=1490 A disgracefully one-sided and ill-informed article dressed up as a generic piece about sectarianism yet only talks about the issue from an anti-Rangers position. No mention that Bobby Sands was a convicted IRA terrorist, no mention of offensive songs from other supports, only Catholics are killed after Old Firm games and suddenly drums sound like, erm, flutes...! The sad passing of Tommy Burns shouldn't be used by journalists to score cheap points about a subject that is hardly going to be solved through the premature deaths of key figures. Shame on you Michael Walker - even when we are hammered 4-1 at home, you still can't help yourself! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_Ally 0 Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Cant suffer to read although drivel. Looking at the headline though, why does the fixture need to change? It's already changing for the worse by becoming a bit "soft". :devil: 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggordy 0 Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Just the press trying to stoke things up before this weekend. Setting the foundations for next weeks' tales of "terror" after an Old Firm game. I've said it many times, the sectarian "issue" would have disappeared long ago if it wasn't for these people constantly trying to stir things up in order to sell newspapers and air-time. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_Ally 0 Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Thought this for years now Gordy. The actual scale of the problem is in no way related to the enormous amount of time, money and column inches devoted to it by politicians and journalists. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norris Cole 0 Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 As Gordy says, I don't think sectarianism was much of a problem in the west of Scotland until McConnell launched his Epic Fail "anti-sectarianism" campaign (surely the most ironically-titled of all government initiatives). As for the article in the Daily Mail, a paper known for its lop-sided Celtic coverage, a predictable anti-Rangers hatchet job. The article begins with the death of Celtic fan Kevin McDaid after Rangers won the league on 24 May. Then halfway through the article, there's a blase reference to the fact that McDaid's death was in fact one of three that day. Do we hear which club the two other unfortunate souls were supporters of? Does anyone want to guess? "Sevilla scored four at that end but did not receive the sectarian abuse some might have anticipated." The above is quite simply a shocking sentence. The whole point of journalism is to report facts. "Might have anticipated"? Why include that? Speculative mud-slinging at best. Anyone would think this guy had an agenda Ditto "an Orange flute band feel to the drumming". It's trouble-making like this that has helped ramp up sectarian tensions to a level not seen in this country for over 20 years. Prick. And surprise surprise the Sash is yet again inferred to be sectarian when everybody knows it's nothing of the sort, and the sympathetic description of convicted terrorist Bobby Sands is sickening. Wonder if Walker's colleague Littlejohn read this article? Apparently "there is real concern about the club�s foundations". Seeing as Walker doesn't explain this, we are again, as with most of the article, left to speculate. That is quite simply one of the most one-sided articles I have ever seen, the guy must have done his journalism training in Zimbabwe. Woefully irresponsible - and in the current climate, dangerous - journalism from this bheast and shame on his editor for publishing it. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norris Cole 0 Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Thought this for years now Gordy. The actual scale of the problem is in no way related to the enormous amount of time, money and column inches devoted to it by politicians and journalists. It suits mopes like Celtic Football Club and the Scottish Labour party for their to be a "sectarianism" problem. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maineflyer 0 Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Just another reminder of what a fukked up little shitehole this country has become. It's like continually having to wade knee-deep in sewage; you can get by but the stench is offensive and the risk of infection is always there unless you take precautions. And you know you'll never really feel clean again. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calscot 0 Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Plenty of fans around the world are attacked, maimed and killed by rival fans. What makes it have to be sectarian in Scotland? Perhaps if Catholics stopped supporting a team just because of their religion (ie sectarian reasons) then any death of a Celtic fan would have the normal 82% chance in Scotland of being non-Catholic and so no sectarian offence to answer. Animosity towards the OO is actually sectarianism itself. Animosity to totally imagined references to the OO is a pretty sick mind. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norris Cole 0 Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 I've just e-mailed this mutant. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gisabeer 409 Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Cant suffer to read although drivel. Looking at the headline though, why does the fixture need to change? It's already changing for the worse by becoming a bit "soft". :devil: ive still to see a fight at any old firm game. Its not the ones who go to games who cause the trouble. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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