The official armed forces celebration day in Britain falls outside the football season. Glasgow Rangers football club, with the full approval of the military, decided to stage its own separate event.
Uniformed soldiers, seamen and air force personnel were filmed dancing, clapping and singing along with the crowd in sectarian songs and chants celebrating the death of the IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. Such behaviour is supposed to be banned from all Scottish football grounds under a new law passed by the Scottish parliament. STV and the Daily Record - make no reference to the soldiers' antics.
Rangers and the British military are pandering to the lowest element of jingoistic sectarianism.
Uniformed soldiers, seamen and air force personnel were filmed dancing, clapping and singing along with the crowd in sectarian songs and chants celebrating the death of the IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. Such behaviour is supposed to be banned from all Scottish football grounds under a new law passed by the Scottish parliament. STV and the Daily Record - make no reference to the soldiers' antics.
Rangers and the British military are pandering to the lowest element of jingoistic sectarianism.
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