"We muted sound of Celtic fans' chanting during minute's silence" admit Sky

[Frankie 8,182]

From Daily Record

 

SKY TV muted the sound of chanting during the minute's silence for Remembrance Day at the Falkirk v Celtic match yesterday.

 

Tv company bosses admitted sound levels were brought to a minimum to cover up the sound of chants from outside the ground.

 

Outside the stadium, at the corner between the two stands where Celtic fans were watching the game, around 40 people sang republican songs during the tribute to the fallen.

 

Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell was seen shaking his head at one point during the minute's silence.

 

The crowd disruption was audible on radio coverage and was later also revealed on additional footage posted on video-sharing website YouTube.

 

A Sky insider said: "Our sound technicians at all the games we cover have the ability to mute any chants or songs which could cause offence.

 

"That was clearly the case here - although the silence was observed by the vast majority of all the fans inside the ground."

 

The home side had rejected the idea of holding a minute's applause instead of a silence.

 

The demonstrators outside the ground were massively outnumbered by around 300 Celtic fans who were still queueing to get into the match at kick-off time.

 

Some of the genuine latecomers protested to newsmen that they were not part of any demonstration, and urged the youngsters to be quiet.

 

Last year, a small minority of Celtic fans linked to the "Green Brigade" protested over the club's decision to incorporate a poppy on their kit for the match against Motherwell.

 

At the next home match against Kilmarnock, some fans known to have links to this group were ejected by club stewards - although Celtic said the action was not a direct reaction to the poppy protest.

 

Police insiders, however, said the protest and the ejections of the fans were linked.

[andrew_2010 0]

when they do something wrong, its a minority - that are not true celtic fans... they do their best to defuse the situation and ignore it. Rangers? 200 people out of 200,000 are involved in scenes in manchester, and its 'all rangers fans'. and especially after the game in romania and all the slanderous abuse all rangers fans have been receiving seems baffling. although I do think our fans involved with causing unnecessary trouble should be critised...

[craig 5,199]

Also worthy of note about this reporting is their need to legitimise the Celtic support as a whole. eg why mention that they were "massively outnumbered by others trying to get into the game" ? It is irrelevant.

 

Also, how do they know that those chanting were "youngsters" - the use of that very word makes it appear that those chanting were young and not mature enough yet to respect the silence.

 

We see so many instances in the above report of how they are trying to "sweep sweep" it as being silly kids or neds. A "this isnt the real Celtic support" if you will.

 

And at not one point do we see any mention of how this was complete and total disrespect to the war dead. makes no difference whether they were youngsters or not. Makes no difference if there were only 40 of them. It was disrespectful. How many chairs were thrown on Wednesday night ? A couple. So why not mention numbers then but feel the need to mention numbers in this instance ?

 

Biased reporting once more.

[andy steel 0]

I hope the phone ins tonight 'mute' this issue as well. It's not fit for point scoring between football fans. Everyone in the UK can see and hear what those fans were like, and decide what to think of them. There's no need to take it any further from our point of view.

[Super_Ally 0]

I understand the need to mute it and ignore it at the time as respect of the war dead is more important. To continue to ignore it after the event is ridiculous imo and typical of this country's agenda.

[Wija 0]

A work colleague was at the game (Bairns fan) and he has stated on my FB account (JonC and Fraser can verify what he says

 

"They were under the stand out of sight, it was never a minority"... words to that effect as I am at wok with mo FB.

 

I am however happy that at last someone (RBL) has come forward and openly stated there disgust!

[Wija 0]

Scottish Footballer awarded VC

 

Ironic?

[andy steel 0]

Well, they didn't inore it on Real Radio, but I still think it sounded undignified.

 

The presenter was dreadful, but I congratulate Alan Rough on berating the police for not arresting these wallahs.

[Zappa 0]

Reporting Scotland report from last night -

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD06ux3Y57o]YouTube- Reporting Scotland - 09/11/09 - minutes silence disruption at Falkirk.[/ame]