2011-09-01
| Date | 01 September 2011 |
| Author | Cowan Ervine,Laura Macgregor,Nicole Questiaux,Kay Goodall,Robin M White,David Carey Miller,Fiona E Raitt,Ryan T Whelan |
| DOI | 10.3366/elr.2011.0060 |
| Pages | 423-461 |
| Published date | 01 September 2011 |
It will not help that football chanting has its own unique and subtle symbols and does not depend exclusively on crude abuse. The courts do not often find themselves bamboozled by racist thugs wandering through Pollokshields singing a menacing chant worded, say, “I love being Scottish”. But in football, laudatory songs – “up the IRA” – are common and must in principle be distinguished from express prejudice – “up yours, you Fenian bastards”.
The underlying problem for the law, however, is that Scottish sectarianism is not a unitary phenomenon. Unlike Northern Ireland, Scotland has pockets of football rivalry where supporters sing and yell sectarian insults, knowing that these are damaging and are banned, but barely grasping the cultural differences from which these...
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