A Remembrance Sunday minute's silence was scrapped after just nine seconds when Celtic football fans chanted pro-IRA songs through it yesterday.
A Remembrance Sunday minute's silence was scrapped after nine seconds when Celtic football fans chanted pro-IRA songs through it.
Then the show of respect was cancelled when fans of the Scottish Premiership champions booed and sang pro-IRA songs.Celtic supporters loudly booed during a minute's silence on Remembrance SundaySuspected Green Brigade members also waved Irish and Palestinian flags at the away end in an act of defiance against the minute's silence for the dead.'From Balfour to Starmer. The crimes of the empire live on.
Posting on social media on Sunday, Kilmarnock wrote: 'Paying respect. A period of silence observed impeccably by the Kilmarnock supporters.' Celtic's Green Brigade group - which was formed in 2006 - has waved IRA sympathising flags and often made barbs at football authorities. The group also held aloft incendiary messages and banners declaring their support for Palestine after the terror attack in Israel in October last year.
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