The famine is over ... Why don't you go home ?

[Hugo Sanchez]

I've heard this chant before at a city away game. So i youtubed it and it was a Rangers song. I have gone on wikipedia and Rangers forum to try and work out the meaning behind this chant. I'm just intrested if theirs any Rangers or Celtic fans on this forum if they know what it means. I know it something to do with Rangers not liking the Irish and i know Celtic were formed by a Irish preist and have a huge Irish fan base. Why do the Jocks hate the Irish so much anyway ? I mean alot of Irish people move to Liverpool and Manchester but you don't have let say Liverpool being the Irish club and Everton being the British club.

[Unit]

I imagine to it's all to do with potatoes.

And the paddys and the jocks only hate each other when it suits them, religion, politics etc. They throw a proper strop. As for the chant, it comes from when the first chippy opened in Tipperary.

[poopbutt]

err because of religion mate.protestants (rangers) versus catholics (celtic)

and yes it's referring to the potato famine

[Fosse Boy]

You'e heard it at City away games? Good to know we've still got some absolute maulers in our fanbase who think we follow Rangers and not Leicester...

[RedHux]

A number of Irish left for pastures new during the famine. The famine now being over the Rangers fans are asking why, now the humble spud is in abundance once more, don't the Irish go back.

It's just the usual appropriating of historical events to have a go at a specific community, albeit with great big whoppingly clumsy big brush strokes.

[Alexikokopops]

The Great Famine

[BlueSi13]

Rangers simply sing it to tell the huge irish community in Glasgow, Scotland and the UK to go home now the famine is over....

But it is also in response to the mass Irish tricolour waving Celtic fans whose loyalty is to Ireland and not the UK despite 95% of them being born and bred Scottish and British....

I don't like either of the clubs and what they stand for but when i hear the vicious anti-English and British bile from the septics, especially when remembrance day comes around, and when they've come down to play us in the past, i do wonder why most of the Celtic support don't just piss off too Ireland if thats where they love.

PS my mother is Irish and im a Catholic

[FoxyPV]

fook it

[SystonFox]

i heard YNWA sung by an old boy and his son at Bolton away in the league cup about 4 or 5 years back, strange.