Keano not the player he once was !? (score)

Thanx 4 The Fish · 23-10-2003 3:12pm

So by your reckoning,

It is wrong for Rangers fans to boo Irish players.

It is not wrong for Irish fans too boo Rangers players.

Doesn't make all that much sense to me.

BKtje · 23-10-2003 3:27pm

yer has me a bit confused as well.

smemon · 23-10-2003 5:44pm

oh lighten up people, its only a few boohs. its not as if keane was effected by it or o'shea either. they expected it like everyone else did.

you didnt seriously think the 2 irish lads wouldnt be booed AT IBROX??? as eire boy says, most of the sectarianism is gone, its just rivalry. if u destroy booing and grudges in soccer, u destroy the game and atmosphere.

i understand clubs want a friendly vibe for families etc but that destroys football. theres not too many families and young kids at rangers or celtic and to me, thats what makes the atmosphere so great.

Thanx 4 The Fish · 23-10-2003 8:31pm

Yeah, it's the sectarian bigots at matches that make the atmosphere. Have you ever been at a Merseyside Derby ? Only derby in English football where the fans are allowed to sit with each other. There is no sectarianism, there is no booing a player because he is Irish, Black, Protestant, German, White Catholic, they just enjoy the football. The friendliness at that game does not affect the passion shown by either team...

How do you expect young people to enjoy football to the full if you can't bring them to a game, I know that I will want to take my son to see matches and I expect, no demand that some standard of civility is maintained between rival fans.

jesus_thats_gre · 23-10-2003 8:50pm

I am somewhat confused as to what you mean too. The rivalry between Celtic and Rangers has grown out of sectarianism and its because of this, these is such an intense rivalry. The majority of people who support both clubs for their football, but there is still large number of supporters on both sides who support these clubs still on religion.

It is because of this I could never really enjoy Celtic as a club as alot of it makes me sick. Both clubs are used to symbalise your allegences in Norther Ireland still for example. To take the Lansdowne road example, the majority of people are booing players and a bit of light hearted craic, but the people who instigate such booing are doing it for less innocent reasons. The same would have been the case last night in Ibrox. The majority of people who would have booed Keane and O'Shea would have done so innocently enough, but there were those who essentially done it for sectarian reasons. I myself am from Dundalk and have experienced this crap on so many occassions, hun this, black bastard this. Its totally ridiculous to suggest that its related to football in anyway, football is just the reason these people use to justify the fact that they are little more than biggots.

It sickens me to be honest.

cournioni · 23-10-2003 9:20pm

Originally posted by PORNAPSTER
The Irish fans booing Rangers and ex-Rangers can be deemed as mildly racist I agree. But Rangers fans booing Irish players can be deemed as intentionally racist.

The Rangers fans were booing them because of where they were FROM. The Irish (Celtic) fans that were booing the Rangers players at Landsdowne because they are a rival club. There is no excuse for the Rangers fans.

Where exactly did I say it was right for Irish fans to boo Rangers players here?

Keano not the player he once was !? (score)

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