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There are a lot of Unionists that support Glasgow Rangers and a lot of Republicans that support Glasgow Celtic. This has led to very different reactions when the teams try to honour Queen Elizabeth II who passed away recently.

Glasgow Rangers asked UEFA for permission to play God Save The Queen when they played against Napoli in the Champions League on September 14th, but UEFA turned down the request. However, a minute of silence was held in honour of the Queen and Rangers fans took the opportunity to sing God Save The Queen.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uXq7QObshU


On the other hand, Celtic fans sang "If You Hate The Royal Family Clap Your Hands", yesterday at St Mirren, when it was their turn to honour the Queen . There was supposed to be a minute's applause, but the visiting fans sang that song instead.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZRiL2_lrdQ

Celtic fans sing anti-monarchy song throughout minute's applause for the Queen

The club is already facing UEFA disciplinary proceedings after supporters held up a "F*** the Crown" banner during Wednesday's Champions League draw against Shakhtar Donetsk in Poland.

Sunday 18 September 2022 20:25, UK

Some Celtic football fans sang "if you hate the Royal Family clap your hands" throughout a minute's applause in memory of the Queen before their away match against St Mirren.

Supporters of the Glasgow-based club also held up a banner containing the same phrase at the stadium in Paisley.

The club is already facing UEFA disciplinary proceedings after supporters held up a "F*** the Crown" banner during Wednesday's Champions League draw against Shakhtar Donetsk in Poland.

Celtic's manager Ange Postecoglou said he preferred not to comment when he was asked about the chant after his side's 2 - 0 defeat.

He said: "I addressed all that in two press conferences, I'm not going to do it in three.


"I get why the interest is there, but I'm a manager at a football club, and I sit at press conferences wanting to talk about football.

"We addressed that matter, we did everything we needed to do, it's time we moved on."

He had previously expressed the club's wish that fans be "respectful" during any tributes.

There were also disruptions to tributes at some of Saturday's Premiership fixtures.

A minute's silence at Ibrox was disrupted by some Dundee United supporters.

Boos and derogatory chants could be heard coming from the corner of the stadium housing several hundred United supporters before Rangers played God Save the King.

In a brief statement, Dundee United later stated that they had "reached out to advise our supporters of the pre-match arrangements with the expectation that the minute silence would be observed".

There were similar reactions ahead of Hibernian's game with Aberdeen at Easter Road, where boos and chants were audible during a minute's applause.

The Scottish Football Association had postponed all matches the previous weekend following the Queen's death and gave clubs the option of choosing whether and how to pay respects when games resumed.

In a joint statement with the Scottish Professional Football League last Monday, the SFA said: "This week, as a mark of respect and in keeping with the period of national mourning, home clubs may wish to hold a period of silence and/or play the national anthem just ahead of kick-off, and players may wish to wear black armbands."

https://news.sky.com/story/celtic-fans-sing-anti-monarchy-song-throughout-minutes-applause-for-the-queen-12700993


Picture 1) The fans also held up a banner that contained the words of the song.

Picture 2) The Celtic players observed the minute of applause.

BanevsJoker:
The term SOUTH-EAST is a geographical expression, it is not an ethnic or tribal term.

South-East is a geopolitical zone not a geographical zone. There are many geo-political regions all over the world, like the Middle East, the Mid-West region of the United States. They don't necessarily have to be exact geographical regions. Other factors, such as culture and languages are taken into account.

The 6 geo-political zones were created by Dr Alex Ekwueme and he explained his reasons for creating them.

He said that ethnic groups in Nigeria were always complaining of domination and fear of domination was one of the causes of the collapse of the First Republic and so he wanted a system that would eliminate that problem. People always complain that the North was geographically bigger than the East and West and so he wanted a system that would equalise the regions.

Therefore, he broke the North into 3 geo-political zones and made the South also 3 geo-political zones.


1) He said that the minorities in the former Eastern Region often feared that they were being dominated by the Igbos, so he created a South-Eastern Zone that was made up of only the Igbos.

2) He said that the minorities in the Western Region feared that they were being dominated by the Yorubas and this led to the creation of the Mid-West Region. Therefore, he created a South-Western Zone that was made up mainly of Yorubas.

3) He grouped the former minorities of the Eastern and Western Regions into a South-South Zone, so that nobody can complain of domination.

4) The Sokoto Caliphate was composed of mainly the Hausa-Fulani ethnic group and so he created a North-West Zone to take care of them.

5) He said that there was the Kanem-Borno Empire that was made up mainly of Kanuris, so he created a North-East Zone to take care of them.

6) He said that the northern minorities had always feared that they would be dominated by the Hausa-Fulanis and so he created the Middle Belt or North-Central Zone to take care of them.

That was Dr Alex Ekwueme's reason for creating the 6 geo-political zones.

nolywe:
0-0 it ended

And Kwara United won 3-0 on aggregate.

More reactions.

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By the way, we are in the 78th minute of the match and the score is currently 0-0.

Kwara United are currently in Niger Republic for the second leg of their CAF Confederation Cup match against AS Douanes. They won the first leg 3-0.


Kwara United F.C. @KwaraUnitedFC

#CAFCC HAPPENING NOW AT NIGER!
AS Douanes hired herbalists poured blood on @KwaraUnitedFC players as they are about entering the field. The 2 herbalists, 1 with keg of blood & the other with goat performed the act when the players are coming down from the bus. NO single policeman

#CAFCC HAPPENING NOW AT NIGER!
AS Douanes hired herbalists poured blood on @KwaraUnitedFC players as they are about entering the field. The 2 herbalists, 1 with keg of blood & the other with goat performed the act when the players are coming down from the bus. NO single policeman pic.twitter.com/jMt8FiEBrz

— Kwara United F.C. (@KwaraUnitedFC) September 18, 2022

Watch the video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr2X4WCo6GQ