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Does this offend you?

  • 11-02-2008 11:02PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭


    On saturday during the Rangers V Falkirk game a Dublin based Rangers supporters club The Dublin Loyal RSC unveiled a banner which was inspired by a newspaper report which had the headline "Behind Enemy Lines". Obviously in reference to Celtic being known as the "Irish" club in Glasgow.

    This slogan was the only statement on the banner along with a scotland flag and the name of the supporters club.
    The banner in question was taken by police at half time as it was classed as "offensive" by the match controller, and since then Kenny Scott the head of security at Ibrox has banned the item from the stadium.

    My question to you is, as Irish people be you Celtic fans or not, do you find this as humorous...or offensive?:confused:

    Does the slogan offend you? 48 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    4% 2 votes
    Not the feckin old firm again...
    95% 46 votes


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    Kinda stupid banner but nope doesnt offend me.

    But i dont attend football matches were relgious bigotry was an issue, could offend falkirk fans?



    kdjac


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Offensive? Nah.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Obviously tongue-in-cheek imo.

    If anyone is offended by it, they are an idiot who doesn't get jokes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ziggy


    This post has been deleted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    ziggy wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Burn him hes a witch!!!!

    http://file003b.bebo.com/large/2006/05/16/10/7510162a832348622b540493229l.jpg

    is this offensive? :D


    kdjac


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    ziggy wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Im an Irish Catholic Ziggy....we dont all look at it that way, and for me the banner was in good humour, the fact that one of the members of the Dublin Loyal is a polish catholic may tell you that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    KdjaCL wrote: »
    troll :D:D:D

    That is hilarious tbh.

    Fair play to whoever made it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    DesF wrote: »
    troll :D:D:D

    That is hilarious tbh.

    Fair play to whoever made it.

    it is very funny actually....but seemingly humour isnt allowed within the confines of Ibrox or Parkhead anymore


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    I think its funny and I am a nationalist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Eirebear wrote: »
    but seemingly humour isnt allowed within the confines of Ibrox or Parkhead anymore

    Except for most of the rest of the SPL's defending, ba dum tish!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    MrJoeSoap wrote: »
    Except for most of the SPL defending, ba dum tish!

    Bwah.......bwahhhhh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    MrJoeSoap wrote: »
    Except for most of the rest of the SPL's defending, ba dum tish!

    :D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,714 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    Who really cares?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Ibrox security.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,589 ✭✭✭✭Necronomicon


    KdjaCL wrote: »

    *ignores location*

    <_< >_>

    I laughed :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,968 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    I think its funny and I am a nationalist.

    +1

    It's witty and very clever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    No... and dont care.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,056 ✭✭✭applehunter


    KdjaCL wrote: »

    I must admit i laughed when I saw it that day at the Cross. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    LuckyLloyd wrote: »
    Who really cares?

    I do...thats why i asked:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭gucci


    i dont find it offensive, as im sure no one else in scotland would find an irish flag being un-veiled at a soccer match in ireland with the similar thing written on it.......
    btw the cork banner is great!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Rangers fans cried about Boruc, they are well capable of crying about an Irish flag.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    This is the same country where a goalkeeper got into trouble for blessing himself. It doesn't surprise me at all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    Some pundit on STV (Gerry McNee) described The Fields of Athenry and the Irish National Anthem as sectarian "Irish Tosh" a few months ago.

    Actually, here it is:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RZrS3p8X0Y

    Anything and everything is offensive and sectarian in Scotland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,454 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    eirebhoy wrote: »

    Anything and everything is offensive and sectarian in Scotland.

    That is because most of the media haven't got a feckin clue what they are talking about.

    As for the banner at Ibrox, it was not offensive.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,820 ✭✭✭grames_bond


    i think security taking a funny banner off fans is rediculous! like in the world cup 2002 when FAI officials took the pro keane/anti McCarthy flag! it was funny-end of....u all remember it?:

    ireland kit: €90
    trip to the world cup: €1000
    the look on micks face when roy called him a w*nker: PRICELESS!!

    :D:D:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 34,404 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    I'm offended, and so's my wife.

    Seriously though, no.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    All national flags are banned at the Emirates, or at least they were last season anyway due to a complaint about someone who had a Turkish Cypriot flag, so the club banned all flags :rolleyes:


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 10,886 Mod ✭✭✭✭PauloMN


    I find everything about Rangers offensive Eirebear, especially the smell off yiz. :D :eek:

    Who was offended, and why?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,606 ✭✭✭✭Mitch Connor


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    All national flags are banned at the Emirates, or at least they were last season anyway due to a complaint about someone who had a Turkish Cypriot flag, so the club banned all flags :rolleyes:

    from memory, the reason for th einitial complaint was a valid one. Arsenal had to act on it, really. I can understand why all flags are banned, banning one flag would be seen as racist.


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