That’s weird…. should they have whitened his face or something?
Billy Joan
most racist thing in Ireland is that we think shouting monkey chants at a black man is hilarious
ReproBertie
Who’s this “we” you speak of?
Billy Joan
a song with the phrase ‘ooh aah paul mcgrath’ topped the charts, did it not?
Neilo
Yeah, and the song the chant lifts from is Oops Upside Your Head by The Gap Band which was also a chart-topper. The Gap Band were a popular African-American beat combo from the 1970s and 1980s. I presume anyone buying that single was just as racist as the McGrath fans as the title contains an ‘Oo’. Come on, now.
Billy Joan
if you can’t see that ‘ooh aah paul mcgrath’ is racist, you’re basically proving my point
meadowlark
I think you might be looking into this a bit much. The meaning which you affix to what you read/see/hear is has nothing to do with how others interpret it, and all to do with you.
pedeyw
I had never considered ooh ahh as monkey sounds. Interesting.
I must be very innocent. That’s the first time I ever heard it suggested that the OOH AAH chant was because of Paul’s skin tone. I thought it was because it rhymes with McGrath. But then I haven’t been to any Premier League soccerball games. Was OOH AAH CANTONA racist too?
rotide
Billy, shouldn’t you be doing something infitisimally more useful like printing out preferred pronoun stickers rather then pretending that chant was in any way racist?
Billy Joan
shouldn’t you be doing something more useful than promulgating race hate?
rotide
Let us know when your ready for the bright crayons billy
You haven’t been to a game in the like of say Croatia then…. if you think the Irish are bad (I don’t), you should go to a game in one of the old eastern block countries – Hajduk Split v Fulham was an eye opener for me a few years back
Neilo
I was at the FAI cup final in 1988: Derry V Dundalk. Any fan of the Town that dared to utter monkey chants or racial epithets at the Derry player of Afro-Brazilian origin got a good going over from the rest of the supporters. Leave this canard to one side, please, Billy Joan :)
Drebbin
Quand les canards suivent un chalutier, c’est qu’elles pensent qu’on va leur jeter des sardines.
scottser
it actually looks more like chris hughton than paul mcgrath. sure it’s not from euro 88?
Spaghetti Hoop
Defo sure.
The woman who knitted these created a whole new squad for USA ’94, though still with Paul of course. I was across the water at the time and a lot of Villa fans snapped up the Paul McG ones as England did not qualify that year and most supported Ireland. I wish I still had the one of the ‘gaffer Staunton and Andy Townsend with the blonde highlights – amazing they were.
That’s a loop stitch not a Hoop stitch :)
Put him on the tree Hoop! :)
I just see a black man being lynched.
Funny how the mind works, isn’t it. I didn’t see that at all until you mentioned it.
That headline is great.
Totes.
Did you check to see if that is racist or not before posting.
The only thing that’s racist here is your comment.
If by racist you mean ‘not in any way racist’ then yes, your right!
That’s weird…. should they have whitened his face or something?
most racist thing in Ireland is that we think shouting monkey chants at a black man is hilarious
Who’s this “we” you speak of?
a song with the phrase ‘ooh aah paul mcgrath’ topped the charts, did it not?
Yeah, and the song the chant lifts from is Oops Upside Your Head by The Gap Band which was also a chart-topper. The Gap Band were a popular African-American beat combo from the 1970s and 1980s. I presume anyone buying that single was just as racist as the McGrath fans as the title contains an ‘Oo’. Come on, now.
if you can’t see that ‘ooh aah paul mcgrath’ is racist, you’re basically proving my point
I think you might be looking into this a bit much. The meaning which you affix to what you read/see/hear is has nothing to do with how others interpret it, and all to do with you.
I had never considered ooh ahh as monkey sounds. Interesting.
You’re an idiot Billy Joan
no, you’re an idiot
No, you are times infinity :0P
I must be very innocent. That’s the first time I ever heard it suggested that the OOH AAH chant was because of Paul’s skin tone. I thought it was because it rhymes with McGrath. But then I haven’t been to any Premier League soccerball games. Was OOH AAH CANTONA racist too?
Billy, shouldn’t you be doing something infitisimally more useful like printing out preferred pronoun stickers rather then pretending that chant was in any way racist?
shouldn’t you be doing something more useful than promulgating race hate?
Let us know when your ready for the bright crayons billy
Still have em all going, eh?
Cantona isn’t black, though.
You haven’t been to a game in the like of say Croatia then…. if you think the Irish are bad (I don’t), you should go to a game in one of the old eastern block countries – Hajduk Split v Fulham was an eye opener for me a few years back
I was at the FAI cup final in 1988: Derry V Dundalk. Any fan of the Town that dared to utter monkey chants or racial epithets at the Derry player of Afro-Brazilian origin got a good going over from the rest of the supporters. Leave this canard to one side, please, Billy Joan :)
Quand les canards suivent un chalutier, c’est qu’elles pensent qu’on va leur jeter des sardines.
it actually looks more like chris hughton than paul mcgrath. sure it’s not from euro 88?
Defo sure.
The woman who knitted these created a whole new squad for USA ’94, though still with Paul of course. I was across the water at the time and a lot of Villa fans snapped up the Paul McG ones as England did not qualify that year and most supported Ireland. I wish I still had the one of the ‘gaffer Staunton and Andy Townsend with the blonde highlights – amazing they were.
Dont mind him, he’s ‘armless