ian1964 10,761 Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 FOOTBALL boss Dick Campbell has scored a spectacular own-goal - after he LIED about belting out a controversial Loyalist anthem in a boozy sing-song with Rangers fans. The Forfar Athletic manager led scores of boozed-up Ibrox diehards in singing Derry's Walls in a packed pub in Seville, Spain, on Tuesday. As supporters roared in delight, he offered to sing The Sash - then instead, conducted chants about the defeat of "rebel scum". Full story: http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/scottish/scottish_news/636029/Dick-Campbell-is-caught-on-film-leading-Rangers-fans-in-Loyalist-anthem.html 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calscot 0 Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 In what way are Derry's Walls or the Sash sectarian? The story sounds like incitement to me as well as libellous. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calscot 0 Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Just read it and watched the video, it's twisted journalism at it's worst and a complete hatchet job on Dick and Rangers fans. He didn't even sing the sash or know the words and the worst thing in the video was the f*** the pope line which is pretty poor and pathetic by so called Rangers fans. I didn't see Dick join in on that. However, I did find the fans general behaviour pretty embarrassing and cringe-worthy - they couldn't even shut up to let the guy speak and their whole attitude seemed a bit rank. I wouldn't want to spend any time in their company and can't see why they don't seem to be able to sing a single actual Rangers song. While, technically they didn't do much wrong apart from the stupid f.t.p that is extremely inflamatory in a mostly Catholic country, you can see why they don't exactly make us popular abroad and have journalists queuing up to have a go at us. If that's what it's like to be among the Rangers support these days then I'm glad I'm forced into being an armchair fan. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maineflyer 0 Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 I don't usually pay a lot of attention to this end of the Rangers spectrum but exactly why shouldn't someone say f.t.p. if that reflects their opinion of the catholic church which, let's face it, has little ebnough to comment it and an abundance of reasons to despise it. Is it the "f" part that offends, or the "p" part? If it's the former then I'm slightly surprised, since the same expletive is used without any such comment in a hundred other ways by the same people. If it's the "p" part of the phrase then I simply don't accept that the head of the catholic church, God's bloke on earth, is above contempt or beyond criticism, especially while he refuses to take any action to address the rempant paedophilia amongst his shepherds. Anyway, expressing views on the catholic hierarchy is hardly justification for condemning songs that themselves have no sectarian content whatsoever. We all know that this is simply because it affords the writer another opportunity to fabricate a case against those Rangers and their bad protestants. Perhaps if these cheap-rate journaists spend more time revealing the sordid empire building of the global catholic mafia, they would not only find more substantial wrong-doing but would be able to do the world a favour in the process. If there is a more insidious, manipulative, power-driven, destructive organisation on this planet that the catholic church then it has yet to announce itself. Of course, these journalists themselves are products of the catholic mind-schools, the Scottish madrassas that leave them little scope for either personal opinion or honest appraisal. Sing up Dick, I'd rather have you with all your flaws than a thousand arse-weary ex-choirboys with laptops. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totti 0 Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Anyone with half a brain in modern society can see religions such as catholism for what they are. The *** nonsense is not good for the club though. I really cringe. If we're involved in any more controversy UEFA are going to hammer us soon or later and fans chanting songs they're told not to sing does us no good. At the same time though, it annoys me that its us that are targeted. Aberdeen fans are IMO the worst in Scottish football and seem to get no abuse for it. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggordy 0 Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Anyone with half a brain in modern society can see religions such as catholism for what they are. The *** nonsense is not good for the club though. I really cringe. If we're involved in any more controversy UEFA are going to hammer us soon or later and fans chanting songs they're told not to sing does us no good. At the same time though, it annoys me that its us that are targeted. Aberdeen fans are IMO the worst in Scottish football and seem to get no abuse for it. The Aberdeen "ultas" were at Rugby Park recently and I didn't hear any abuse. Mind you, there were only 9 of them !!! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maineflyer 0 Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Anyone with half a brain in modern society can see religions such as catholism for what they are. The *** nonsense is not good for the club though. I really cringe. If we're involved in any more controversy UEFA are going to hammer us soon or later and fans chanting songs they're told not to sing does us no good. At the same time though, it annoys me that its us that are targeted. Aberdeen fans are IMO the worst in Scottish football and seem to get no abuse for it. Come on, there's no gain in sitting on fences. I generally don't use such language and never was one to use the f.t.p. add on - but why the cringe? If someone else wishes to use words that I don't care to then why should my first reaction be to condemn? Who the hell are UEFA to condemn in turn - who put them in charge of social morals or made a footballing organisation the arbiter of human behaviour? I certainly didn't. Do UEFA pass laws that govern you or me? I don't think so. That fact is that society has become so cowed that our first reaction to any 10p tyrant is to leap into line and look around for those who haven't done so. We're farmed like sheep and generally behave accordingly. Conformance is the new religion and fear is the same old weapon. Personally, I'm all for the Dick Campbell's of this world. From all I've seen of the man he's honest and he's real, I'd rather have that than all those corrupt self-servers in Geneva. Like you say, these people have no interest in the worst excesses of football fans. They're only interested in the dazzling white, marketing dream of the Champions League - so interested in fact that they turn blind eyes to any refereeing "mistakes" that ensure the results match their marketing agenda. Sing up Dick. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totti 0 Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 There's many forms of organised religion I disagree with but I wouldn't promote singing about any specific person associated with them. Preaching religious intolerance is actually a crime in this country, whether it's right or wrong. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maineflyer 0 Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 There's many forms of organised religion I disagree with but I wouldn't promote singing about any specific person associated with them. Preaching religious intolerance is actually a crime in this country, whether it's right or wrong. Well don't you promote it then and your world will be cushtie..... but why introduce religious intolerance into the topic? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totti 0 Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Yes, bringing up religious intolerance in a topic about religious intolerance is an awfully strange thing to do... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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