The Daily Record. You have to hand it to them. Jesus, they must be short of work to do in that office with Xmas coming.
Somebody has decided to find out which club has the most fan songs and chants, and they took great delight in writing how Sevco fans top the charts … a whole 30 clear of Celtic’s supporters. How wonderful it must be for their supporters to read that.
But the writing of it leaves a lot to be desired. Here’s what I want to know; did all the disgusting, illegal, bigoted, shameful, sectarian chants get counted?
Cause if not they must have won this one by triple digits.
Because every song they sing seems to be focussed on someone they hate.
Our own heroes Billy McNeil and Jay Beatty are the subjects of a particularly noxious one.
They also sing about Jock Stein.
They sing about Bobby Sands more than The Green Brigade does.
All these songs, and not one you’d sing in a public place outside of a football ground, for fear of someone cracking you in the jaw or arresting you.
What pleasure the writer must have taken in toting them all up.
Articles like that, do they serve any function at all?
Rather than condemning their supporters for the endless rivers of bile that pour out of the stands The Record now wants to promote their version of the league table, where of course Sevco are top and which of course will encourage even more anti Pope, anti Irish, anti Catholic singing.
Words don’t often fail me, but they sort of do here.
What constitutes a “chant”? In their case it’s ‘We hate Celtic feenyin basturds” and other such appalling ditties. Some of those songs are deemed racist. I wonder if the Scott Sinclair ones were included. Certainly there would have been more than a few about child abuse.
The Record hasn’t bothered with the bottom of the barrel here. They’ve gone straight to the sewer and tapped it. My Christmas holiday has been cut short after only a few hours, but the Scottish media never loses its ability to appal me.