Ingerlund and the Bone Fire of the inanities

It seemed somehow apt that Ingerlund hit the reality wall in Russia on the 11th night.

Apparently, the football universe was calling time on a misplaced sense of entitlement.

Around the same time that Mr Southgate realised that it really was all over, across the northeast of this island Orange hatred of the Other reached ignition temperatures.

These Loyalists “bone fires” are themselves an outpouring of detestation masquerading as an expression of a bona fide ethnicity.

They are burning representations of what they hate.

That, I’m afraid is the extent and depth of their “kulchurr”.

As others within the wider unionist tradition in Northern Ireland start to see the many advantages of being in an all-island polity the so-called PUL (Protestant Unionist Loyalist) community remain cut adrift.

Beached on the wrong shore of history I have no idea how they will deal with the new realities in the post-Brexit UK.

The most pressing issue for the PUL community is a Northern Ireland with a nationalist majority within a few years.

In Fair Caledonia, many would have basked in the schadenfreude of the end of the English odyssey in Russia.

All sport can be an escape from the burdens of ordinary life, but as the fires ranged in Belfast there are questions for those in positions of authority in the city of my birth.

The Orange hate fest still seems to have official tolerance in nice new multi-cultural Scotland.

Despite an online petition with over 75,000 signatures the SNP controlled city council in Glasgow is turning a Nelsonian eye to the overt fascism on their streets.

It does lend weight to the concern that some feel about the position of the Catholic community in an independent Scotland.

Moreover, it will take more than soothing words from the First Minister about a “Scotland of many cultures” when this officially sanctioned hatred is allowed on the streets of Glasgow.

Of course, that enmity is often heard at Ibrox and the stadium that John Brown played for remains a venue for anti-Catholic sentiment and anti-Irish racism.

The match against Croatia was the end of the delusional journey for fans of Ingerlund who thought that the World Cup was “coming home”.

Their sense of entitlement and exceptionalism is redolent of the vibe at Ibrox and around the burning pallets on the 11th night in Rathcoole and Sandy Row.

In Russia Gareth Southgate’s lads finally came up against a cerebral football brain who plies his trade with Real Madrid.

Luka Modrić has had a heroically tragic life.

In 1991, when he was only six, the slightly built playmaker lost his grandfather, shot dead by Serbian thugs who wanted to “ethnically cleanse” their mountain village in Croatia.

When he was an aspiring player he was told by coaches that he was too small and didn’t have the correct personality to make it in the professional game.

Despite everything that life threw at him Luka Modrić had a love of football and that spurred him on.

As a writer, I am always fascinated by what motivates people to do what they do.

Sadly, what motivated those Chetniks to execute the grandfather of Luka Modrić is exactly the same Herrenvolk exceptionalism that authorises Orange “kulchurr”.

The people who erected those pyres across the Six Counties are the descendants of a very vicious period of ethnic cleansing on this island.

It is clear from their iconography and rants on social media that many in the self-defined PUL community would like Plantation 2.0.

It would appear that there are just too many Taigs in their “Pravince” for their liking.

That xenophobia can be seen in the 11th night “bone fires” when you look at the effigies that are burned.

In keeping with the despairing nihilism of that worldview, they do not seem to care where they build these grotesque funeral pyres on which they symbolically burn decency and tolerance.

The PUL belief system is what authorised the man who felt justified in spitting in Canon Tom White’s eye on the steps of St Alphonsus last Saturday.

Yet the SNP controlled city council seem unmoved by this.

Over to you Nicola.

28 thoughts on “Ingerlund and the Bone Fire of the inanities”

  1. Phil,
    Much as I admire and enjoy your informative posts in general I am sorry to say that in this instance I am rather disappointed . Our city ( and at times our Club) has been dominated by Labour politicians for decades and I don’t recall too many of them putting their heads above the parapets re Sectarian Marches. Criticism of politicians is usually welcome but unfair and unbalanced criticism is quite simply unfair and unbalanced. Keep up your good work Phil but return please fair and balanced standards.

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  2. As someone who shares the sentiment of the online poll, just what is Glasgow City Council supposed to do with it? What if the petition had demanded that there be no more Indy related marches? You don’t think that the unionists could garner 75,000 signatures for that? Sorry, but I don’t believe in banning things, even repugnant things like the OO walks. As history has taught that can lead to banning a lot of other things.
    GCC can only take into account activity related to the citizens of Glasgow, not the thoughts of people in Stirling, Dundee, Edinburgh etc. And anyway, an online poll is useless to begin with, other than raising awareness of an issue. That has been achieved but the real action needs to be taken by the citizens of Glasgow going to their Councilors and lodging their protests. Then the Councilors can take it to the Council and then maybe they can look to do something.

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  3. Like their outdated ideology it will all end up in smoke in the end.

    ?Sashes tae Ashes
    Drunks and Junkies
    Yer Club is deid
    Ya deluded Monkeys ?

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  4. Can’t be good for the environmental targets Britain has. I have never really understood all this nonsense and despise paying my taxes to cover the cost of policing these clowns.

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    • I dunno if you are old enough to recall but it is nothing like as bad as it used to be. I go back to the “Just Another Saturday” era of the 1960s and 70s. Raised in the Gorbals and the East End and saw some sights! 🙂 🙁

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  5. As an RC, Celtic supporting season ticket holder and SNP member, I feel disappointed that you seem to be blaming all of this Orange Order madness on the SNP and if it is something new. Labour controlled GCC for 70 years and allowed the O O to parade and cause havoc throughout this time. I and many others like me are not afraid of an independent Scotland under the SNP but if the history of the unionist Labour party ( which I presume you would support) is anything to go by, I would be afraid if Labour (unlikey) were to win an election in an In dependant Scotland. Your journalism on Sevco et al, is brilliant but your comments on the current SNP government seem to be very biased and full of inaccuracies.

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    • I am a member of the SNP but they can’t sit on the fence about equality they should take this chance to Unite people instead of been silent and let blow over you can’t have your cake and eat it

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  6. Interesting that ‘Engerlund’ are being investigated by Fifa with discriminatory singing of ‘no surrender’.
    Perhaps this will set a precedence that the sfa can’t ignore?

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  7. I see England has incurred the wrath of FIFA for possible discriminatory chanting of the No Surrender variety.
    Not content with being sent home by the Croatian underdogs the St George flag wavers are accusing the Turkish referee of anti English bias!
    The bigging up of England’s achievement is growing wings by the day.
    Getting out of a group with Tunisia and Panama in it was surely the least that could have been expected.
    A defeat in the Belgium reserves fixtures has been airbrushed from history.
    A penalty shoot out win against a very poor Columbia followed by victory against an equally poor Sweden took them to the semi final, then the wheels came off the bus.
    After the Group Stage all the big teams were in the other half of the draw. England and Southgate must have been licking their lips, then along came little Croatia.
    With Glasgow’s SNP Council dismissing the OO petition, currently north of 75,000 signatures, because some of those may not live within the Glasgow area, they are skating on very thin ice.
    It’s a poor excuse to stick their heads in the sands and ignore an issue they are all aware of but don’t have the balls to do anything about it.
    It’s not as if the parades bring an increase in revenue to City businesses. It’s the opposite as people steer clear of the city centre to avoid the disruption and the strong scent of bigotry that accompanies the marches.

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    • England punched above their weight. They also got a BREXIT exit from the WC of Football thanks to Zionism in World Football. Like the game and the way middling English players reached the semi final.

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  8. Phil. If you’re looking for Herrenvolk in the Balkans you don’t have to look far.

    Google Ustashe and Jasenovac.

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  9. Thanks Phil.

    This building fires nonsense is just so utterly depressing. I just don’t get why “humans” feel the need to behave like this. Why all the hate .. all the time? The attack on Canon White is beyond condemnation. What is it about the Roman Catholic faith that these people despise so much?

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  10. Driving home today I was forced to have a BBC radio station on as it was the only 1 with reception. After telling how the northern Irish police had warned of UVF targeting them, they neatly balanced this off by describing how many loyalists believe that the 12th of July marches are family oriented fun days of celebration. You can send your enforcement officers as your letters state, you will never get another penny out of me you corrupt state run disgrace to media

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  11. It’s probably also worth remembering that the Croatians, mostly catholic, were enthusiastic collaborators with the Nazis in WW2.
    But then Ireland had its catholic fascists too, the blue shirts of “General” O’ Duffy.
    At least “Engerlund”, as part of the UK, fought and defeated fascism.

    And getting back to football, and as an Ireland supporter. I have not heard any sense of entitlement but rather a sense of surprise and pleasure that a pretty limited England team got so far.

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    • That will be the Nazis that NEVER called themselves Nazis and were actually National Socialists not Fascists and who actually had the first NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE that the UK and many others countries copied after the war and is where Human and Animal Rights was also copied from etc. Mustn’t also forget the FACT that Hitler did the right thing re arresting the bankers including one of the Rothschild’s and jailing them and then doing what our governments should have been doing back then as they should also be doing now – he printed his own Debt and Interest FREE money and that was the reason that Germany was booming back then while the rest of the world was in the Elites DELIBERATELY created Depression – of course the Elites worried about the people in all of the other countries questioning their governments why they were not doing what Hitler/Germany was doing engineered WW2 against Germany by getting the Polish Government to eithnically cleansing and murdering the Germans living in the German areas handed over to Poland after WW1 forcing Hitler to go to their aid – Hitler knew what they were up to and even after he over ran Europe and pushed the British/French troops back to Dunkirk he offered peace and to go back to the pre-Versailles German border but Churchill refused because they could not let Hitler/Germany continue to be free from this Cestui Que Vie Trust SLAVE System that we all live under – Hitler made the mistake of thinking that it was just the Jewish Bankers such as the Rothschild’s that set up and run this SLAVE system when in FACT they are the Vatican’s Bankers and it is the Vatican’s Cestui Que Vie Trust SLAVE System – they ARE the CROWN with the Queen as their Lord Treasurer for Britain, France, Ireland, the Commonwealth and the US only thing is all of our corrupt controlled governments/political parties do not tell you any of this or the FACT that this corrupt system was Foreclosed (SHUT DOWN) in 2012/13 including the governments, courts, banks etc and all debt was written off because it was all just a FAKE slave system. Google Paisley Expressions and the Jesus, Hitler and Wizard of Oz exposing just some of this with Part 2 coming soon exposing the rest especially these Foreclosures.

      Just like we were conned into going to fight and bomb Iraq etc we have always been getting conned into fighting wars to take over and enslave other countries/people and WW2 was NO exception and everything about WW2 is just lies and propaganda to cover up for that just like all of the rest of them.

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    • Engerlund also had Mosley and his Black shirts.
      The SNP also flirted with the Nazis.
      France had Vichy.
      I do think that England were lucky. Easy group and beaten by Belgium and Croatia shows there correct level.

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    • Actually it was a very small proportion of fascist Croats (when compared to the 10000 fascists who “liberated the Ukrane” in 2014 and defend western democracy) who set up with the help of the Nazi’s a small independent enclave inside Croatia.
      The RC churches links with Croatia originate as the last stand against the Turkish Islamic empire which saved the church from being ransacked by Ottoman.
      A lot of history needs a bit more consideration than lazy generalisations fed by the British anti Catholic agenda.

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      • The Brits took York and Scottish Rites Freemasonry to their hearts and they worship Lucifer and the destruction of all religions.

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  12. Not been able to post any comments for months, will be interesting to see if I can now disqus anything with fellow hoops.

    I didn’t expect england to get out of their group. I don’t hate the english, I do have an issue with the hype in their media. On balance though, I think the unexpecred progress to the semi-final and the growing mysteria surrounding it made the eventual failure all the more satisfying.

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    • There are plenty of us Ingerlund natives who hate the xenophobia and feeling of self entitlement the football team generates. I was hoping they were knocked out at the group stage. Far from generating revenue many businesses have seen a fall in productivity as the eejits bunk off in the middle of a shift to watch their heroes. We have the worst media in the world and they are driving us over the cliff.

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      • I sympathise with your sports people and the (often) unrealistic weight of expectation that the media load on them. I live in England, have done for so long that younger members of family think of themselves as English. Practically everyone I know is English, most are wonderful human beings and we don’t have to look too hard to know knobs can be any nationality!

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  13. Le merde k.o. Now,1/10 Silly Bhoys in first ten minutes….DEFO

    THAT headline was pure class,laughing inside as well as out,the fun begins…..

    Shkupi first goal 9/1@ BET365….get onnit. HH?

    Thanks Phil,excellent work as per,Please keep it coming.???????????♻️✅?

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