http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/5288184.stm Its now illegal to make a sign of the cross apparantly total and utter dispair
I agree it's getting silly now. I know the Celtic Rangers match is basically Catholics V Protestants but surely crossing yourself is something either set of players could do - both sets are Christians and believe in the Holy Trinity. It's the same in schools - requests that girls don't wear cross and chains because it upsets none Christians although the teachers say it's not that it's to stop jewwllery being "borrowed" when you have to take it off to do PE.
perhaps you need to look at the wider picture and ask yourelf if the player in question does the same at every match and at every ground when he scores a goal at. if the answere is yes then Rangers do not have an arguement.However if he does'nt i suggest the catholic B.A.S.T.A.R.D. should be burned at the stake.
perhaps you need to look at the wider picture and ask yourelf if the player in question does the same at every match and at every ground when he scores a goal at. if the answere is yes then Rangers do not have an arguement.However if he does'nt i suggest the catholic B.A.S.T.A.R.D. should be burned at the stake.
Most of the Rangers squad are Catholic anyway - you watch any match and those players always cross themselves when they come on the pitch. Do the Rangers fans complain about that?
Apparently he turned round to the Rangers fans and did it deliberately to wind them up. A bit like a Wednesday player kissing his badge in front of the Ponty or Gary Neville doing it at Anfield but worse. it shouldnt be like that but it is. I seem to remember a similar thing happeming to gazza when he mimed playing a flute after scoring. like the protestant marching bands in northern ireland.
Don't be so rash! It was a Celtic v Rangers match and he was charged with an action likely to cause a breach of the peace, which in that game it possible could. Wasn't saying that the action itself is illegal it was saying that in that context it could cause a breach of the peace. Same goes for Gazza and his flute playing. Also "the Crown Office said the decision was based on the player's behaviour, rather than a single act. In addition to crossing himself, the player was alleged to have made gestures to the crowd " Agree that they should let it go but your comment to say that making the sign of the cross is now illegal is the sort of slant that the Daily Express would put on it.
mate, in the potboiler of religious bigotry up there such actions can spark riots..ask Gazza he simulated the flute playing of an Orangeman marcher in his days there it caused absolute bedlam...its a sad state of affairs but its also common sense, the guy should have known how it would have incensed the opposite fans.