| As N.I. and Celtic’s Neil
Lennon decided this week that, on balance, he’d rather not be shot or blown up,
football’s senior service this side of the not-at- all irradiated Irish Sea united in
calling for an end to sectarianism. At separate press conferences,
senior club spokesangels for the Old Firm issued identical statements: "We at
Rangers/Celtic Football Club totally condemn sectarian bigotry and call on that other lot
to end it immediately."
The bold initiative came in the week when a lone nutter ‘phoned to say that
Neil Lennon would be killed if he captained Northern Ireland against Cyprus.
Loyalist paramilitary sources told the JT: "This
is a lone nutter, his insanity is not officially sanctioned by Loyalists and is therefore
wrong." |
Patrick O’Pious, long term
‘tic fan expressed disappointment that religious bigotry had again raised its ugly
head, "I think it's terrible at a time of increasing ecumenical activity within the
Christian Churches that the spectre of bigoted division be raised again. But there you go,
that’s they Orange bastards for you." Meanwhile, this
week’s by a mile, out of sight, no contest, winner of the JT’s "You
Couldn’t Fuckin’ Make It Up" award goes to Donald Finlay QC writing in
"The Guardian" who tells of having to resign his post at Rangers after
"being secretly filmed singing football songs…(the experience) made me acutely
aware that whatever you may mean or feel or think, you cannot ignore how other people may
interpret what you have done."*
Just how many ways exactly there are to interpret the sentiment embodied in the
line "up to our knees in Fenian blood" is not recorded. |
