itzdrk Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 1 minute ago, HighlandWarrior said: I presume that you weren't at the Republic of Ireland game? Or the Costa Rica game? Surely the most bizarre booing of a national anthem ever. Both of these were heard in the North Stand But, IMHO, disrupting a minutes silence for the late Craig Brown & the victims of the earthquakes in North Africa (by numbers of both supports) is far, far worse than booing a national anthem I was at the ROI game but not Costa Rica. Never heard any booing of the ROI anthem and I was in my "seat" in the north stand at the time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighlandWarrior Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 3 minutes ago, itzdrk said: I was at the ROI game but not Costa Rica. Never heard any booing of the ROI anthem and I was in my "seat" in the north stand at the time. Just because the booing wasn't at the levels of the England game doesn't mean that it didn't happen. There will always be pockets and/or individuals who will boo a national anthem. One guy tried to start the booing of the Georgia anthem but he was very quickly told to shut up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 13 minutes ago, HighlandWarrior said: Just because the booing wasn't at the levels of the England game doesn't mean that it didn't happen. There will always be pockets and/or individuals who will boo a national anthem. One guy tried to start the booing of the Georgia anthem but he was very quickly told to shut up. So your complaint is that in a crowd of 52,000 drunk people there was poor behaviour rather than its an issue with our fanbase. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 GSTK doubling as the English and British anthem means, for me, it deserves to get booed. If you're Scottish, how can it be right that at one event this is the national anthem of the opposing team, and at another event it is yours? It isn't disrespectful to boo GSTK - it's disrespectful for it to be used as the de facto British anthem for things like the Olympics. It really does say that England are first among equals in this union. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighlandWarrior Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 5 minutes ago, invergowrie arab said: So your complaint is that in a crowd of 52,000 drunk people there was poor behaviour rather than its an issue with our fanbase. No not at all - I was replying to a poster who stated "Think we've only booed Israel and England that I'm aware of." & mentioned the pockets/individuals booing the Republic of Ireland, Costa Rica & Georgia anthems as an example of what I've heard 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 Nothing new here - I hate Jimmy Hill, he's a poof, he's a poo-oof! -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggy McJagface Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 17 minutes ago, HighlandWarrior said: No not at all - I was replying to a poster who stated "Think we've only booed Israel and England that I'm aware of." & mentioned the pockets/individuals booing the Republic of Ireland, Costa Rica & Georgia anthems as an example of what I've heard Surely a smattering of individuals that are promptly told to be quiet isn’t comparable the widespread booing throughout the anthems of England/Israel? I wouldn’t boo any European anthem apart from those two and I suspect a large portion of Scotland fans are the same going by what can be observed from recent years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeartsOfficialMoaner Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 If the fans boo all the national anthems they might stop playing them and we can get on with the football. It's not meant to be a karaoke. -3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighlandWarrior Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 17 minutes ago, Jaggy McJagface said: Surely a smattering of individuals that are promptly told to be quiet isn’t comparable the widespread booing throughout the anthems of England/Israel? I wouldn’t boo any European anthem apart from those two and I suspect a large portion of Scotland fans are the same going by what can be observed from recent years. No it's not, you are completely correct. But unfortunately, out of the three anthems I mentioned in my example, only the booing of the Georgia anthem was told to stop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyg83 Posted September 15, 2023 Author Share Posted September 15, 2023 I said at the outset of the thread that booing GSTK was understandable. I can't stand it as an anthem and all that it means. I don't really think we should be booing anyone else's anthem though. Why did Ryan Jack get booed? Anyone thinking "Lizzie in a box" is acceptable needs to give they're head a wobble though imo. I cannae stand the royals but surely there are levels of basic decency? Makes us look so bad. -12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2426255 Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 (edited) I think the right to boo should be preserved regardless of the occasion. I don't tend to boo personally, but I don't have any issue with people who do and I just see it under freedom of expression/freedom of speech. It's part of the random element of going out in public that you might see or hear things that upset you. I see the whole discussion under that kind of heading. It offends me when somone says "thank you so much" as if thank you wasn't enough, but I don't campaign to get that banned, I just avoid the areas where people use that expression Edited September 15, 2023 by 2426255 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 Booing GSTQ/GSTK is nothing new- they were doing it in the 1970s and also in the 1980s when the SNP had about 2 seats. Indeed I believe the Tory rugger buggers even used to boo it at Murrayfield. Still, must touch the forelock and not upset our betters and masters, eh? Apparently Harry Maguire was "jeered". Maybe the away fans did that, we weren't jeering, we were just taking the piss out of him (and all the time in my case thinking the bugger would be on about 50 Scotland caps if he'd been Scottish so it's ironic really) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 57 minutes ago, andyg83 said: . I cannae stand the royals but surely there are levels of basic decency? There are. And hereditary monarchies fall below that standard. No problem with the song. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambomo Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 1 hour ago, andyg83 said: I said at the outset of the thread that booing GSTK was understandable. I can't stand it as an anthem and all that it means. I don't really think we should be booing anyone else's anthem though. Why did Ryan Jack get booed? Anyone thinking "Lizzie in a box" is acceptable needs to give they're head a wobble though imo. I cannae stand the royals but surely there are levels of basic decency? Makes us look so bad. I didn’t hear Ryan Jack get booed at all on Tuesday. I have heard it once before, so I’m not saying it’s never happened, but if he got booed on Tuesday it must have been localised to one stand as it wasn’t audible in the North Stand. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 Lizzies in a box and so is Jimmy hill I would go and search the faux outrage threads about the booing of Fos but Im pretty there won't be any 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 2 hours ago, andyg83 said: I said at the outset of the thread that booing GSTK was understandable. I can't stand it as an anthem and all that it means. I don't really think we should be booing anyone else's anthem though. Why did Ryan Jack get booed? Anyone thinking "Lizzie in a box" is acceptable needs to give they're head a wobble though imo. I cannae stand the royals but surely there are levels of basic decency? Makes us look so bad. She is in a box though. And it’s their. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 Come on boys, she was someone's mother. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 A pedophiles mother, and now she's deid in a box, good riddance! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewanandmoreagain Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 5 hours ago, invergowrie arab said: So your complaint is that in a crowd of 52,000 drunk people there was poor behaviour rather than its an issue with our fanbase. Why were they all drunk ? -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewanandmoreagain Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 1 hour ago, tamthebam said: Booing GSTQ/GSTK is nothing new- they were doing it in the 1970s and also in the 1980s when the SNP had about 2 seats. Indeed I believe the Tory rugger buggers even used to boo it at Murrayfield. Still, must touch the forelock and not upset our betters and masters, eh? Apparently Harry Maguire was "jeered". Maybe the away fans did that, we weren't jeering, we were just taking the piss out of him (and all the time in my case thinking the bugger would be on about 50 Scotland caps if he'd been Scottish so it's ironic really) Apparently Southgate was complaining about the English fans booing Maguire , not us 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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