Yesterday we told you about the false narrative that Celtic supporters broke the Minute’s Silence at Monday’s Glasgow Derby at Ibrox. You can now, thanks to this video, listen for yourself and hear the awful sectarian remark from theRangers support that broke the silence for the 66 victims of the Ibrox disaster.
The latest Ibrox club restricted the purpose of the silence to the victims of the Ibrox Disaster and did not mention the death of the previous Pope, Pele or former Celtic striker Frank McGarvey, yet this video backs up our reliable eye witness account that the Silence was NOT broken by the Celtic support but by the home support shouting their hateful three words about The Pope.
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Listen for yourselves…
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Andrew Smith, writing in The Scotsman had this to say about Ibrox calling it an “anti-Catholic and anti-respect cesspit,” and he had much more to add although he might be regretting buy the dark arts Ibrox propaganda that invariably follows this fixture these days that blamed the Celtic support for breaking the silence. Smith wrote: “The fact that a small section of Celtic’s 750 supporters – it seemed in the region of a couple of dozen – could not remain silent for the minute’s silence to the 66 victims of the 1971 Ibrox disaster was reprehensible.”
No what is reprehensible, Andrew is the supporters who instigated this by their “**** The Pope” shout, maybe with the intention to get a reaction from the Celtic support.
“Common decency frighteningly lacking among the despicable disruptors,” Smith notes in concluding his point and he is of course correct but his target was wrong, probably understandably.
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When Smith does turn his attention to the Rangers support he certainly doesn’t miss them.
“This came about 20 minutes after thousands of Rangers supporters, from all four corners, gave vent to the No Pope of Rome chant. Surely not unconnected with the death of Pope emeritus Benedict XVI this week. The anti-Catholic songbook was out in force from the Rangers legions throughout the afternoon. This included the Follow Follow melody with its doctored lyrics regarding the Pope and the Vatican and The Billy Boys,” Smith wrote.
“It remains mystifying we appear to have become so inured to such widescale expressions of religious bigotry in a supposed modern, pluralistic society. It is always worth picking apart the lines in No Pope of Rome and considering the reaction that would be provoked, rightly, were anti-Semitism or anti-Islamic sentiment instead being expressed in full public view by so many. So instead of ‘no chapels to sadden my eye … no priests’, the demand for erasure was ‘no synagogues … no rabbis’ or ‘no mosques … no imams’,” Smith added.
