I'm so sorry that your experience at Celtic park was a bad one. Some Irish songs curse England and I can only assume that some goby young uneducated idiots haven't grasped the fact that these songs are cursing the English establishment and not the people. I can almost guarantee that there would have been some wee neds barred that night, as the camera presence nowadays , would mean these morons would have been identified. I was in hospital at the time, had I been there ,I would have been screaming at the dafties to shut the F up as I imagine quite a few people were. I know there are good and bad fans on both sides of the Glasgow divide ( I grew up with friends and it didn't matter to me who they supported), although most neutrals in the city agree that the philosophy of the sevco support is very right wing and divisive. I also apologize if I caused you any offence. cheers, and hope we are both smiling tomorrow
There is no Celtic version of The Fields of Athenry. It is an Irish folk song about the potato famine of 1845 in which over one million people died. The first time it was sung at a sporting event was when the Ireland fans started singing it in the 1990 world cup. The writer of the song Pete St John sang it on the pitch at Celtic Park in 1991,and it has been sang there ever since. Later in the nineties rangers fans started singing a song ( the guns of the uvf), which was crassly sung to the tune of The Fields of Athenry. Eufa fined rangers when this was sung at their games. 'Fans' caught singing this monstrosity at ibrox park are now given life bans. The rs sing a version called The fields of anfield road which I feel shows the self obsessed, narcissistic nature of your typical kopite thickoid. The song is is so pathetic, it is really just laughable. The Fields of Athenry was most certainly not sang at the 1985 cup winners cup final. There is no Everton version.
I agree this is not a thread for Celtic stuff. I answered a couple of posts, and will now leave it free for the old Everton photos. cheers
Well said.
Lazy typing by me saying Celtic version, I know they do the original. If you listen to the DVD of the Rapid Vienna final in 85, around the37, 38 min Mark you can hear it sung, you have to have the volume up loud. Everton done a fathers advice, not sure of the year but early enough to make me wonder if fathers advice is based on ours. Liverpool ripped off of a different Everton version for theirs.
No offence mate, I was ok up there myself a rather large copper had adopted me before the game,we were about to go into the jungle ;as one of the locals had said it was are end,that would have been fun,copper said its bandit country in there lads,come this way,and that was it everytime we moved he was there
There was a lad on kipper,used to collect all the Everton songs through the years, havnt heard anything from him for a while but wish he posted on here as there was some intresting ones.
when is the last time we won 6-1 in the two Derby games in a season as a young lad I was surprised to hear the score, My older brother came back made up Hammered them he said!
Joyous days can you imagine the bragging rights ?
when is the last time we won 6-1 in the two Derby games in a season as a young lad I was surprised to hear the score, My older brother came back made up Hammered them he said!
I think the reds went hiding for a week after the 4-0!
