Welcome to Have your say
We have added this section to allow you to voice your opinions and ideas about bigotry in Scottish football. You can submit topics as well as comments.
We're mainly looking for the positive stories / ideas of how to tackle bigotry at every level but we won’t shy away from tackling difficult topics.
When it is anti-Irish racism.
The abuse that Neil Lennon received at almost every ground while he played in the SPL was racist abuse (something UEFA took on board).
Call it for what it is Scotland.
It is acceptable to be, say an Italain Catholic in Scotland.
What is unacceptable,a nd attarcts routine approbrium is being a member of the Irish diaspora.
I know I made a wise move ten years ago when I brought my young family from Glasgow back home to Donegal.
Here it is not a crime to be Irish.
90 Minute BIGOTS
[Zander from Falkirk on 6th December, 2007]
Every time there is an old firm game I watch people in the pub turn from Falkirk fans into 90 minute bigots. Both for Hoops and Gers I may add.Its utterly ludicrous. This is not only going on in Falkirk but in nearly every town on some level.These people shout sectarian slogans and taunt each other for the period of the game and after then amazingly revert back to themselves again what is the score with these people. Just home from the Falkirk Rangers game and if the TV audience could hear the sash and the cry was no surrender being chanted why is it that the security and/or the police could not. Answers on a postcard.
Let's face it, until the clubs actually start throwing people out for displaying offensive slogans or flags or singing songs, they'd rather have them in the stadium, paying their money.
I complained at the blatantly sectarian displaying of the Red Hand of Ulster by Rangers fans at an away SPL match this year, and the response from both the club and the police was that it's not a sectarian symbol. GET A GRIP! Why else would a Rangers fan bring this flag? What does it have to do with football?
The police and clubs will always use whatever get-out clause they can.
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