Sam Leitch Loyal Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/singing-the-hokey-cokey-could-land-1002751 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindau Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 Dear God, its official, the world has gone totally mad!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpool Jags Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 Totally and utterly ridiculous - no other way to describe it. This is a classic example of an OF-led agenda where tit-for-tat is the order of the day: one shower gloats about the Irish famine, and the other retorts with paper cut-outs of bowler hats as worn, apparently, by HMRC officials; but deep within all this is a simmering hatred for each other based along sectarian lines. The real losers, as usual, are non-sectarian minded individuals from mainstream football clubs who couldn't give a hoot whether somebody's a prod or a catholic; that's why, for example, we have the perverse situation of anti-sectarian police stalking grounds like our own, looking for instances of sectarian chanting regardless of how tenuous. Our national footballing community is, in effect, a mini police state. And it's all come about as a direct result of the OF getting away with over a century of obscene bigotry, and the authorities turning the other cheek. Yet, despite overtures by the Scottish Government to the 'man in the street', bitter anti-catholic chanting is still heard at virtually all Rangers games, and Parkhead is hardly a bastion of religious neutrality. This insanity has to give way to something far more tolerable with a genuine effort to clean up vile prejudice where it actually occurs in earnest: at OF games and the surrounding areas on match days. Using covert cameras to nick somebody at a Thistle game for singing Hello Hello or jailing a pensioner for doing the hokey cokey at a birthday party in a rest home will do the square root of feck all towards stamping out bigotry and sectarianism in Scotland; making a serious effort to arrest vile bigots in and around OF games, however, might just get the ball rolling. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muscat Jag Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 Jesus wept, I sometimes wonder if there's any point in ever returning to Scotland. There are ********* everywhere, but surely nowhere else gives them this much credence. Also disturbed to find myself agreeing with a Rangers fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 That "story" is actually very funny! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muscat Jag Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 Maybe that's what it's all about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Arch Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 That story's four years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlgarveJag Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 oh the irony then, the way jags fan use the tune to salute their manager and celebrate his escape from religious intolerance. It's great to share the moral high ground with the Firhill Faithful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Leitch Loyal Posted October 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 That story's four years old. I ken, but in the light of current singing and discussions herein.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Bunny Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 The whole "hocus-pocus" thing is a bit of a myth - it certainly can't be substantiated. They'd really show themselves up if they stopped us singing that when the genuine bigot-fest can be heard every weekend at certain 3rd division grounds (to which only a show of doing anything about is made). SFA don't you have a policy about this or is a certain team in blue given an exemption? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKennan Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 That story's four years old. Just about time for it to resurface in the old Soaraway, then? Reading this again, I'm suddenly reminded of the Abigail Williams and the girls of the village in The Crucible. They scream and everyone comes a-running. It's a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodstock Jag Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 "Used to be a Tim, but he's all right now!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUMBERNAULD JAG Posted October 31, 2012 Report Share Posted October 31, 2012 My mate was telling me about a Rangers fan who was given a 3 month custodial sentence for sing a song at the football(do know what he was singing)the same judge gave a peodophile 200 hrs community work for having 1400 images of child pornography on his computer, think Lindau could have something there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted October 31, 2012 Report Share Posted October 31, 2012 Is this why we dropped "Hocus pocus", by Focus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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