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Earlier this morning a friend of mine who is over in Vegas sent me a clip of some prominent Celtic fans performing at an event over there. One of them is Martin Compston, who lives over there. The clip lasted about 20 minutes.
Imagine my surprise to see an extremely abridged version of this, or a very similar one, on The Daily Record’s website tonight, trying to turn it into some sort of moment of shame for everyone involved.
The clip is pretty clear; There was a bit of Republican chanting on one of the songs.
But that’s not national news, any more than Alfredo Morelos and his wife, who go on a boat trip, were news on the same page just last week. It’s a twitch of the curtain.
It’s a message of virtue from a newspaper without a shred of credibility with our fans.
Featured online comments are pretty much par for the course for Twitter; People who preach their own morality, many of whom have probably been guilty of far worse in the process of representing their own culture.
I honestly don’t care at all.
If you want to find things to attack, then Twitter is your go-to place.
The easily offended multiply on this platform.
So that we understand each other.
None of those on stage joined in the singing.
They happened to be on stage when it started and if they should stop what they were doing and demand it stop then I look forward to seeing the same fury in the press if Ibrox fans do next time join in their disgusting racist anti-Irish chants.
Under these circumstances, is it the responsibility of their players and managers to leave the pitch in disgust or go into the stands and tell them to stop? And will those players be judged and barracked and subjected to that scrutiny if they don’t?
The song in question was Beautiful Sunday and I find the IRA add-ons utter moronic and those that do might as well scream like sheep.
I can’t express enough how idiotic I think this is (gosh it’s not even Sunday yet) and I’ve said it time and time again on this page and elsewhere and I don’t think I need to continue here.
But frankly, if the hacks get upset about something like that, then not much else can happen in the world.
It’s not an attack on IRA chants, it’s an attack on Celtic fans.
It’s an attack on celebrities who just happen to support our club.
For these reasons, the newspaper should be embarrassed, but those of The Record are more than ashamed.
That doesn’t make a mountain out of a molehill; that’s much ado about nothing.
Those on Twitter who share it to condemn it must get a life.
Compston recently responded and I thought he summed it up absolutely beautifully.
If the media expected him to be in Grovel mode, he was happy to disappoint them, and neither should he have to grovel or defend himself as he had done absolutely nothing wrong.
“I’m not particularly pleased to wake up eight hours before me with a story before I’ve had the right to respond. Let me be very clear, I clearly did not sing any sectarian songs. I’ve worked in Belfast too long to see damage done to think this stuff is a joke,” he said.
“If people want to change the lyrics of a song being sung at Celtic Park, Weddings, Still Game, wherever that’s their business, I’m not the lyric police. If it was an IRA song and I was tapping on stage I would get the story, but I’m pretty sure Daniel Boone had nothing more in mind when he wrote the song than Beautiful Sundays and he did I sang.”
And we all say that.
I always expect the Permanently Offended Of Larkhall to lose their shit over the smallest little thing, but our press should be more damn responsible than that.
In light of last night’s disgraceful SPFL announcement, it’s worth taking a look back at the AZ of Scottish football scandals… read our full article by clicking this link. It’s amazing how many of these involved Ibrox.
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