Hearts fans; Hearts v Celtic

[Green Tribe]

Just back to Scotland after a week at home. Just seeing on the Scottish news headlines about the Hearts supporters booing the minutes silence for the Pope, the disrespectful feckers! If the Queen died, i wouldn't dream of booing a minute's silence for her, even though i can't stand the Royal waste of space.

[OwlsFan]

Much ado about nothing. Hearts are predominantly supported by those who don't have the train fare to Glasgow. What would you expect ?

These minute silences at football matches are usually unnecessary and should be abolished. We don't have minute silences at work so why on the football pitch ?

If the Queen died (head of the Church of England), how well do you think a minute's silence would go at Celtic Park ?

[Plastic Paddy]

Just back to Scotland after a week at home. Just seeing on the Scottish news headlines about the Hearts supporters booing the minutes silence for the Pope, the disrespectful feckers! If the Queen died, i wouldn't dream of booing a minute's silence for her, even though i can't stand the Royal waste of space.

Did you honestly expect anything else from them? Your average Hertz fan is just a hun without the bus fare, after all...

PP

[Green Tribe]

suppose they are! but i would say a minute's silence for the queen at parkhead would not be as bad, depends if it was an old firm or not, cos then u tend to get more thick bigots. just watched it on the news, the ref had to blow the whistle at 20secs as it was obvious they were going to continue..

not good for the club though, said on news it had made the papers in new york and other far flung places

[sylvo]

Much ado about nothing. Hearts are predominantly supported by those who don't have the train fare to Glasgow. What would you expect ?

These minute silences at football matches are usually unnecessary and should be abolished. We don't have minute silences at work so why on the football pitch ?

If the Queen died (head of the Church of England), how well do you think a minute's silence would go at Celtic Park ?

Was at the game when there was a minute's silence for the Queen's Mother three years ago, and apart from a few eejit's giving the press more flack to chuck at us, 99 per cent of fans showed respect for it.

[sylvo]

Did you honestly expect anything else from them? Your average Hertz fan is just a hun without the bus fare, after all...

PP

Not that I look at the daily ******, but I seen a copy of it today and they even managed to find a way to blame Celtic fans for reacting to it by singing a few chants at Hearts fans afterwards.

How that paper has changed.

[Green Tribe]

Not that I look at the daily ******, but I seen a copy of it today and they even managed to find a way to blame Celtic fans for reacting to it by singing a few chants at Hearts fans afterwards.

How that paper has changed.

ar$ieholes! i remember watching that game, when there was a min silence for the queen mum, i was pleasantly surprised at the reaction, fair play, they didn't stoop as low as the rangers/hearts/england followers who boo at the drop of a hat.

[Junior]

Not that I look at the daily ******, but I seen a copy of it today and they even managed to find a way to blame Celtic fans for reacting to it by singing a few chants at Hearts fans afterwards.

How that paper has changed.

I was at Hampden yesterday, it was all too predictable.

Everyone knew the Hearts fans were going to disrupt the minutes silence, though I was a bit surprised that it was 80-90% of them, booing, singing, whistling etc.......

Personally I wouldn't have bothered with it, I know there are those that would suggest this is bowing down to the bigots, however I feel that those who truly wanted to pay respects to the pope would have done so already & don't need a minutes silence at a game of football to do so.

I knew however that Celtic fans couldn't escape the wrath of the tabloid journalists and no sooner was I back in the car listening to Jim Traynor on the radio and I quote " Celtic can no longer claim the moral high ground after their foul mouthed bigoted response" He was of course referring to Celtic Fans singing The Soldiers Song, including the line 'God Bless the Pope'

So no matter what Panorama says, Bigotry in Scotland is not only a West of Scotland issue, is it?

[liam88]

"He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead"

God Bless the Pope!

[Green Tribe]

I only encountered bigotry when i came to Scotland from Northern Ireland!

chicago tribune and a few new york papers got wind of it.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports...ck=1&cset=true

[sylvo]

I was at Hampden yesterday, it was all too predictable.

Everyone knew the Hearts fans were going to disrupt the minutes silence, though I was a bit surprised that it was 80-90% of them, booing, singing, whistling etc.......

Personally I wouldn't have bothered with it, I know there are those that would suggest this is bowing down to the bigots, however I feel that those who truly wanted to pay respects to the pope would have done so already & don't need a minutes silence at a game of football to do so.

I knew however that Celtic fans couldn't escape the wrath of the tabloid journalists and no sooner was I back in the car listening to Jim Traynor on the radio and I quote " Celtic can no longer claim the moral high ground after their foul mouthed bigoted response" He was of course referring to Celtic Fans singing The Soldiers Song, including the line 'God Bless the Pope'

So no matter what Panorama says, Bigotry in Scotland is not only a West of Scotland issue, is it?

That was the bloke that was banging on in the paper yesterday. That's right he normally does a phone in show after game's, when he starts off its almost like the Mark Walters carry on here. As for Hearts have to admit not surprised with the response, this is proberly the first time i've seen them get blamed by the media for some of their bigoted actions.

[razor]

We don't have minute silences at work so why on the football pitch ?

Where I work we did, minutes silence at 9am last Friday morning.

[sadloserkid]

let's not forget that the minute's silence was also interrupted (albeit to a lesser degree) in the other semi despite both Hibs and Dundee United being perceived as having Catholic links (again, on a lesser scale than Celtics).

[eirebhoy]

Much ado about nothing. Hearts are predominantly supported by those who don't have the train fare to Glasgow. What would you expect ?

These minute silences at football matches are usually unnecessary and should be abolished. We don't have minute silences at work so why on the football pitch ?

If the Queen died (head of the Church of England), how well do you think a minute's silence would go at Celtic Park ?

Much ado about nothing my arse. If this was the other way around it would be on the front page of every paper in Scotland.

Their was a minutes silence at CP for Diana and the Queen's mother btw.


However, former vice chairman of the Federation of Hearts Supporters’ Club, Robin Beith, said the SFA had to take at least some responsibility for what happened.

"This type of situation does lend itself to people acting in an antisocial manner.

"The Pope is unrelated to football and the SFA should have known better than to have a minute’s silence - I think they were ill advised," he said.

"Are the 20,000 other [Celtic] fans who were singing the Republic of Ireland’s national anthem going to be arrested too?"

[Green Tribe]

let's not forget that the minute's silence was also interrupted (albeit to a lesser degree) in the other semi despite both Hibs and Dundee United being perceived as having Catholic links (again, on a lesser scale than Celtics).

yes , i just got back on sat night, so i had not seen this on tv, but it is a joke too! if it was vice versa with the queen etc, it would be on front pages

[boysingreen]

"Are the 20,000 other [Celtic] fans who were singing the Republic of Ireland’s national anthem going to be arrested too?" [/b]

When did singing Amhrain Na Bhfiain become a criminal offense

[Hibs4Ever]

When did singing Amhrain Na Bhfiain become a criminal offense

When did booing become a criminal offence

[sylvo]

When did booing become a criminal offence

Can be taken as breach of the peace, or incitement to hatred, when done during a minute's silence, and that being a minute's silence for anyone.

[Hibs4Ever]

Can be taken as breach of the peace, or incitement to hatred, when done during a minute's silence, and that being a minute's silence for anyone.

Sorry Sylvo. But booing is NOT a crimanal offence no matter what way you put it. I don't in any way agree with what the Jambos done. But observing a minutes silence is NOT a law, its a choice

[OwlsFan]

Much ado about nothing my arse. If this was the other way around it would be on the front page of every paper in Scotland.There was a minutes silence at CP for Diana and the Queen's mother btw.:

As I say, much ado about nothing. It wouldn't bother me if someone booed when Diana, the Pope, the Queen Mother or Uncle Tom Cobley and all died. There are dick heads all over the world who would boo even if it was their own parents' funeral.

Shock! Horror! Hearts fans disrespect the minute's silence. It's like expressing surprise that a junkie broke into a cocaine factory. It was almost the most predictable thing in the world, next to Linfield or Rangers' fans booing.