purpleronnie Posted 19 July 2011 Posted 19 July 2011 I always find it strange that the english football fans seem to be offended by sectarianism more than rangers and celtic fans.
Finnegan Posted 20 July 2011 Posted 20 July 2011 Chesterfield-Mansfield Newcastle-Sunderland Portsmouth-Southampton All have a political element to their history. That's not militant, fundamentalist politics though is it? Clutching pretty desperately at straws there, somewhat. Portsmouth and Southampton fans holding some resentment and bitterness over worker's rights from aeons ago is hardly the same as the Northern Ireland situation, is it?
The Doctor Posted 21 July 2011 Posted 21 July 2011 That's not militant, fundamentalist politics though is it? Clutching pretty desperately at straws there, somewhat. Portsmouth and Southampton fans holding some resentment and bitterness over worker's rights from aeons ago is hardly the same as the Northern Ireland situation, is it? If you want to talk about the religious bullshit, then according to this book: the manchester derby has some catholic v protestant links. However it also says that arsenal v tottenham was, in part, down to the free-masons.
iBleedLeicesterColours Posted 21 July 2011 Posted 21 July 2011 Rangers can sing what they want when they're opposing a team that 1. Sings songs supporting the IRA scum 2. Refuse to recognise Remembrance Sunday Bang on. Finnegan, If they didn't choose to do their job, who would? We'd be in a whole lotta shit.
Finnegan Posted 21 July 2011 Posted 21 July 2011 Yeah... And back in the real world, they're pretty standard football rivalries where as the Old Firm is a Northern Ireland fuelled hate bomb.
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