Sky Sports journo blasts Celtic figure over ‘mock outrage’ at Rangers tweet
Sky Sports journalist Andrew Dickson has hit out at Celtic Trust spokesperson Jeanette Findlay after she accused Rangers of playing a racist tune in a video on their Twitter account.
On Friday, the Gers published a video clip of their new 150th-anniversary shirt, which featured the song Four Lads Had a Dream, which is an ode to their founders.
Findlay said the Premiership leaders are “publicly pandering to the racists” by “including the tune of a known racist song in this clip”.
Dickson, who is a freelance journalist and works for Sky Sports, took aim at Findlay’s tweet via his personal Twitter account, saying: “You can’t stop people from choosing to be offended but you can certainly highlight how ridiculous their mock outrage is.
“I’m all for calling out sectarianism and there’s still work to be done on that front but trying to make an issue out of this is laughable and embarrassing.”
Why is it offensive?
Four Lads Had a Dream isn’t an offensive song. There’s literally nothing about the words that can cause offence.
However, the song has previously been sung with different lyrics to accompany the tune.
The Famine Song has been deemed as anti-Irish racism and a number of Rangers fans were arrested earlier this season for singing it in the streets of Glasgow [Scotsman].
That song is offensive and should never be sung by anyone and the club will not have any association with it.
However, playing the original version to the same tune should not be an issue at all and we really don’t see why the club has been hammered for this.
Dickson’s tweet is bang on. There are serious issues within Scottish football and within society in general.
Let’s not get outraged by things that really aren’t offensive because it’s counter-productive.
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