Hibs fan and RAF veteran hits out at trolls making IRA comments after online Remembrance Day tribute

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A FOOTBALL supporter and RAF veteran claims to have been targeted by trolls making comments about the IRA after posting a Remembrance Day tribute picture on social media.

The Hibs fan, who wishes to remain anonymous, designed the moving image featuring his club’s Easter Road stadium, a field of poppies and the silhouettes of two British soldiers and aircraft.

A HIbs fan claims to have been a victim of online trolls.
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A HIbs fan claims to have been a victim of online trolls.
The picture also depicts a Hibs player on his knees with the words ‘Lest We Forget’ emblazoned on the back of his green and white strip.

The RAF veteran then posted the mocked up image on to his Facebook and Twitter accounts in a touching gesture ahead of Remembrance Day next month.

But the supporter was left shocked when the image was hijacked by trolls posting derogatory comments about British servicemen who have served their country.

He claimed there were also various comments mentioning Irish Republicanism and terror group the IRA posted below the image.

The original image left by the Hibs fan online.
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The original image left by the Hibs fan online.
The man said he was forced to pull the image from his Twitter account and has also had to block scores of people who were posting the comments.

He has also had to turn his Twitter account to private to stop more disrespectful comments being posted.

The fan said: “[They were] basically taking the p*ss out of the whole topic.

“I had little choice but remove it just in order to stop their ‘FUN’. Morons doesn’t even get close to covering it.”

Hundreds of football fans from various Scottish clubs have now taken to social media to slam the “idiots” who posted the callous comments.

Hibs fan David Corcoran said: “This is a disgrace mate. I wouldn’t give them the satisfaction of pulling it. This shouldn’t be about politics - its about showing your respect.”

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Hearts supporter James Wood posted: “What is going on in the world when a football fan can’t show his respect for the people who served our country?

“These guys are just idiots and don’t deserve your attention. Great image by the way.”

Aberdeen follower Stuart Dobson added: “The poppy should be seen as a symbol of peace. It is used by all of us to remember veterans who fought on all sides.

“These clowns don’t know the first thing about respect or what the poppy actually means.”

And David Brown posted: “Love your remembrance image - well thought out and a lovely tribute that should be applauded and not sniggered at.



“Petty immature people should mind their own business and leave others to remember as they wish.

“Unfortunately in life we do have the bottom tier of human beings that have no regard for others.”

The Hibs fan who designed the Remembrance Day image thanked the scores of footie supporters who have backed his touching message and the image has racked up around 500 likes since it was put online.

“Petty immature people should mind their own business and leave others to remember as they wish.

“Unfortunately in life we do have the bottom tier of human beings that have no regard for others.”

The Hibs fan who designed the Remembrance Day image thanked the scores of footie supporters who have backed his touching message and the image has racked up around 500 likes since it was put online.
 
It has been this way for well over several decades, we all know who they are, and what team from the east end of our city, it is like this every year at this time, they are brain dead c--ts, all of them, most of them won't have jobs or have never had one in their life, and still we will pay for them to swan about our country as if they own the place.
 
It really is a shame we have idiots that will post comments in support of a terrorist group in this country. Well done to the guy for firstly putting the image together in support but also for calling out the support of the IRA from people on a Scottish football club's forum.

Anyone showing support of the IRA in this country should be hauled over the coals by the Police. It should be treated as a hate crime. In fact, it's already illegal to show support for terrorists is it not?
 
Bonnyloyal said:
A FOOTBALL supporter and RAF veteran claims to have been targeted by trolls making comments about the IRA after posting a Remembrance Day tribute picture on social media.

The Hibs fan, who wishes to remain anonymous, designed the moving image featuring his club’s Easter Road stadium, a field of poppies and the silhouettes of two British soldiers and aircraft.

A HIbs fan claims to have been a victim of online trolls.
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A HIbs fan claims to have been a victim of online trolls.
The picture also depicts a Hibs player on his knees with the words ‘Lest We Forget’ emblazoned on the back of his green and white strip.

The RAF veteran then posted the mocked up image on to his Facebook and Twitter accounts in a touching gesture ahead of Remembrance Day next month.

But the supporter was left shocked when the image was hijacked by trolls posting derogatory comments about British servicemen who have served their country.

He claimed there were also various comments mentioning Irish Republicanism and terror group the IRA posted below the image.

The original image left by the Hibs fan online.
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The original image left by the Hibs fan online.
The man said he was forced to pull the image from his Twitter account and has also had to block scores of people who were posting the comments.

He has also had to turn his Twitter account to private to stop more disrespectful comments being posted.

The fan said: “[They were] basically taking the p*ss out of the whole topic.

“I had little choice but remove it just in order to stop their ‘FUN’. Morons doesn’t even get close to covering it.”

Hundreds of football fans from various Scottish clubs have now taken to social media to slam the “idiots” who posted the callous comments.

Hibs fan David Corcoran said: “This is a disgrace mate. I wouldn’t give them the satisfaction of pulling it. This shouldn’t be about politics - its about showing your respect.”

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Hearts supporter James Wood posted: “What is going on in the world when a football fan can’t show his respect for the people who served our country?

“These guys are just idiots and don’t deserve your attention. Great image by the way.”

Aberdeen follower Stuart Dobson added: “The poppy should be seen as a symbol of peace. It is used by all of us to remember veterans who fought on all sides.

“These clowns don’t know the first thing about respect or what the poppy actually means.”

And David Brown posted: “Love your remembrance image - well thought out and a lovely tribute that should be applauded and not sniggered at.



“Petty immature people should mind their own business and leave others to remember as they wish.

“Unfortunately in life we do have the bottom tier of human beings that have no regard for others.”

The Hibs fan who designed the Remembrance Day image thanked the scores of footie supporters who have backed his touching message and the image has racked up around 500 likes since it was put online.

“Petty immature people should mind their own business and leave others to remember as they wish.

“Unfortunately in life we do have the bottom tier of human beings that have no regard for others.”

The Hibs fan who designed the Remembrance Day image thanked the scores of footie supporters who have backed his touching message and the image has racked up around 500 likes since it was put online.
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That’s brilliant image, well done and fair play to the guy.

The sickener is that no one will do anything about this scum. Promotion of terrorism!! FFS
 
mdingwall said:
The vast and overwhelming majority won’t be Hibs fans.
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HIBERNIAN FOOTBALL CLUB IN THE GREAT WAR


At the outbreak of war with Germany in August 1914 there was resentment in some quarters that unlike cricket and rugby who had immediately cancelled their sporting programme, professional football continued almost as normal.
The German's themselves were also somewhat bemused. A Frankfurt daily newspaper reported at the time that: 'The young Britons prefer to exercise their leg limbs on the football ground rather than expose themselves to any sort of risk in the service of their country.'
At that time Britain alone of the major powers did not have a policy of compulsory conscription, relying instead on its pre war army, the territorial's and the duty minded, but by the first Christmas of the war over a million new recruits had already joined up.
As the casualty figures increased on the Western front however, there was growing anger that the game was still taking place.
Many were of the opinion that this was hindering the recruitment of new recruits, and it was not unusual for fit and healthy young men, footballers or not, from being approached in the street by young women and handed a white feather as a sign of cowardice.
It has been suggested that it was this animosity that football was still going ahead while young men were dying in France that led to many of the players of Heart of Midlothian and Queens Park volunteering their services in the armed forces almost en bloc.
Most of the Hearts players joined the 16th Royal Scots, what would become known as the McCrae's Battalion, a force raised predominately in the west of the city.
The actions of the Tynecastle players was highly commendable, particularly the ultimate and tragic sacrifice made by several of the side. Not so well documented however, is the part played by Hibernian during the conflict.
Within days many Hibs supporters had joined the McCrae's Battalion including the future Easter Road chairman Harry Swan. Unfortunately Swan would later be discharged on medical grounds. Hibs player Sandy Grosert had also enlisted in the battalion.
A territorial regiment, the 7th Royal Scots had already been raised in Leith, and keen to play its part, at the outbreak of hostilities Hibs immediately made both Easter Road and the ground at Piershill available to the military authorities for the training of new recruits.
In common with most, if not all the other Scottish clubs, particularly Hearts, Aberdeen, Falkirk, Raith Rovers and Queens Park, during the four years of the horrendous conflict, many Hibs players would see service in uniform, several enlisting before compulsory conscription was introduced in 1916.
At the beginning of the war the Easter Road side comprised of only a very small squad of players, but within weeks at least seven were either in the armed forces or in a war related occupation.

Another, centre forward James Hendren, a prolific goalscorer who had been signed from Cowdenbeath in 1911, had registered as a driver in the Army Transport Corps, but as his wife had just given birth he was allowed to delay his enlistment. Sadly, within a few months Hendren would die of natural causes in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
Hibs players David Stevenson, James Williamson and Robert Reid had played only a few games at the start of the 1914-15 season before they too decided to join up, as did the Chicago born outside right Robert Wilson, who had played in the previous seasons Scottish Cup Final. Sadly, Wilson was killed in November 1918, just a few weeks before the end of the war.
Another, John Aitken, a pre war signing from Perth Violet would play several games for the club during the 1914-15 season before enlisting in the Gordon Highlanders. He was killed at Ypres on 13 July 1917 and is buried at Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery in Belgium.
Sergeant Patrick 'Paddy' Hagan, a popular player with Hibs during the early years of the century, was killed at the battle of the Somme in July 1916 while serving with the 11th Battalion Royal Scots. Aged almost 37 Hagan, who resided in Nicolson Street in the city, had also seen service in the Boer War.
Like so many thousands of others, he has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial in France. Another, Robert Rollo who joined the club from Clydebank Juniors and played during the 1907-08 season is believed to have been killed on 30 April 1917.
Leith born Sandy Grosert, a pre war signing from Leith Amateurs and a registered Hibs player throughout the entire campaign had enlisted in the McCrae's Battalion just weeks after the start but had transferred to the Machine Gun Corps in 1915.
Second Lieutenant Grosert, another who played in the Scottish Cup Final against Celtic in 1914, would be awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry in the face of the enemy at the battles for Rouex and Greenland Hill in 1918.
Although severely gassed and wounded, Grosert would return to Easter Road after the war, ending his playing career with Dunfermline in 1924 after a short period at Aberdeen.
The former St Bernard's player John Sharp, who had played for the club at the turn of the decade, would also win the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry. Commissioned from the ranks after enlisting in the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders at the outbreak of war, T/Lt. Sharp's citation in the Edinburgh Gazette on September 18th 1918 reads: 'for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty throughout the week's operations, especially in rallying and organising his men during withdrawals under heavy fire.
On one occasion he led a bombing party back to a trench occupied by the enemy, keeping them back until his company had reorganised in a new position. Another time he pushed forward with a Lewis gun section to meet an attack which was beaten off. Until wounded he inspired all his men by his example.
Sec Lt. George Rae, of the Royal Warwick's, who had been a registered Hibs player from the turn of the decade until enlisting just weeks before the outbreak of war, would later be awarded the Italian silver medal of honour.
Robert 'Bobby' Atherton was another former Easter Road player to make the supreme sacrifice. Atherton, capped by Wales in 1899 and 1903, had captained the great Hibs side that won the Scottish Cup in 1902 and the League Championship the following season.
While serving as a steward aboard the Leith registered 'Britannia' he was lost in the North Sea in October 1917, when his ship went down with all hands after either hitting a mine or sunk by submarine action. He is commemorated on the Merchant Seamen's memorial in London.
As at most football grounds collections to aid war related charities had been a regular feature before games at Easter Road, as were the frequent appeals for new recruits both inside and outside the ground.
Along with neighbours Hearts, Hibs would also take part in several games to raise funds for war related charities such as the Belgian War Relief Fund, and the Army and Navy Benevolent Fund.
In November 1918 the war to end all wars finally came to an end, leaving hundreds of thousands of Britain's dead scattered over battlefields throughout the world.
On 21st September 1921, a combined Hibernian/Hearts XI faced a Rangers/Celtic select at Tynecastle to raise funds for the construction of a memorial to the Hearts players at Haymarket. Later, at the unveiling in 1922, a wreath was laid by the Easter Road club, all the players and staff present at the ceremony. Today, each Armistice Sunday, a representative from Hibernian still lays a wreath at the Memorial.

In 2004 and 2014, a group of Hearts supporters were instrumental in raising a memorial to the dead of the 16th Battalion of the Royal Scots at Contalmaison on the Somme.
The French village was the target for the Edinburgh and Lothian's regiment on the first day of the battle in July 1916, a target sadly, that was not reached on the day, hundreds dying in the attempt.
The cairn pays tribute to the players and supporters of Heart of Midlothian who fell at the Somme and also others from Hibernian, Falkirk and Raith Rovers. At a ceremony held on the anniversary of the first day of the battle each year, a wreath is laid at the memorial by a representative of Hibernian Football Club.
As a species, the human race is often tribal, many of us taking great pride in supporting our own particular side, but perhaps what matters most when facing the enemy, is not what particular football team takes your fancy, but whether or not the man beside





 
Absolutely brilliant image, guy should put it back up and not give in to the idiots who want to set the narrative in this country. If you don’t agree with us or fit in to our agenda you will get dogs abuse seems to be their mantra.
 
Bowery Boy said:
Amazing they managed to avoid using the word Celtic in that article but managed Hibs, Hearts and Aberdeen.
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Funny that. I noticed it myself. It’s almost as if the person typing up the story didn’t want the scum to be mentioned.

It’s really tiresome, this pathetic love in these rats have with a proscribed terrorist organisation, a state funded politically motivated killing machine, hell bent on causing harm to the very country that protects them to this very day.

I would say to these scum, if you want to go and support a “cause”, or if you feel oppressed in this country, the least oppressed in the world, or if you feel like you have to go and support republicanism and terrorsim, then you are free to leave. This union isn’t oppressed, it’s free and allows you freedom, it allows you the freedom to speak, to think and to do whatever you feel you want to do in life, so if you aren’t happy there are many transport links to get you from here to your motherland.

it’s not about famines or historical battles, this is about a hatred for a country that has raised you, supported you and allowed you to grow as a person. Go, go and be free from “oppression”, go and be free to fight your battle with whatever enemy you think you might have, go and live elsewhere because there are many like me who don’t think you are welcome in this union.

You disrespect the very people who allowed you freedom, and if it wasn’t for these people you would still be saying your “hail, hail” but it would be to a leader, which the country you do desperately support and want to have such freedoms Happily backed in a war, happily supported nazism. So go, don’t sully us and depress us with your rubbish beliefs that your oppressed and your a victim. Just go and don’t return.

Sorry for the ranting post, these people really, really irritate the life out of me these keyboard warriors. They embarrass this country no end.
 
I know a number of RC Celtic supporters who served in HM Armed Forces and at least one did the full 22 years in the Marines. Indeed, the last time I was speaking to this particular guy, he was telling me that he had just returned from Manchester where he had been attending the funeral of one of his comrades who was KIA in Iraq/Afghanistan. I would love to know exactly what these guys think when they see such vile comments from there fellow Celtic supporters.
 
I doubt that they’ll be that many terrorist zealots amongst the Hibs support.
We know who they are, we know what they are and we know why their name was omitted from the article.

It’s articles like these that amazingly the likes of Spiers and the sycophantic Jim White always seems to miss when on their moral crusades.
 
As Ex RAF myself that’s a wonderful image and well done that Hibs supporter. I imagine most of the abuse has come from IRA Athletic Wing FC supporters but have noted a growing Green Brigade wannabe trend within the Hibs youth. Was never that way in my youth, as they hated the mentally challengeds.

Not particularly social media savvy but does anyone know the name of the Hibs fan? I might know him and if it’s who I think then these scumbags would not want to spend time in his company, as he was fond of training periods in the Hereford/Welsh hills.
 
Abu Dhabi Loyal said:
I know a number of RC Celtic supporters who served in HM Armed Forces and at least one did the full 22 years in the Marines. Indeed, the last time I was speaking to this particular guy, he was telling me that he had just returned from Manchester where he had been attending the funeral of one of his comrades who was KIA in Iraq/Afghanistan. I would love to know exactly what these guys think when they see such vile comments from there fellow Celtic supporters.
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I know one who was raised a protestant and was in the army. Seems an ok bloke but supports the scum no matter what he hears when he is at the piggery.
 
Paulski54 said:
Scum is as scum does.
This country is choc full of terrorist sympathising cunts and wannabe faux Irish and republicans.
Just have a bit of fucking respect for the people who allowed you to have the freedom to make such cunty comments in the first place you scum bastards.
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100% bang on the money mate - they are utter filth.
 
mdingwall said:
The vast and overwhelming majority won’t be Hibs fans.
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There will be no club allegiances ever mentioned. They will be simply football fans which on these occasions means supporters of a club built on bigotry, whose supporters glorify terrorists and who collected money outside their ground for the IRA. The only club not to respect the minutes silence to commemorate those who gave their lives so we can live ours in freedom. The only club not to have a poppy on their shirt as they fear the wrath of their own fans.
 
The irony of these plastics is, their own families. Many of the mockers will be quite uneducated in history and only throw about mockery because their pals do and they need to feel part of the crew. Many of them will have lost great relatives who lie in foreign soil, who fought for their very existence and this is how they treat their own. Only a sub human form of life would do that. They no respect for decency in any form.
What a sad existence
"Lest we forget"
 
'The supporter was left shocked when the image was highjacked by trolls'

Is that right ?
Sounds like ' the supporter ' doesn't attend Easter Road very often
 
Hibs fans I know are nothing like the social media gobshites. As a previous poster said funny celtic wasn't mentioned so guessing it was them lot. The same gobshites who have never been to Ireland and their great grandads dogs cousin was irish.
 
devilman said:
It really is a shame we have idiots that will post comments in support of a terrorist group in this country. Well done to the guy for firstly putting the image together in support but also for calling out the support of the IRA from people on a Scottish football club's forum.

Anyone showing support of the IRA in this country should be hauled over the coals by the Police. It should be treated as a hate crime. In fact, it's already illegal to show support for terrorists is it not?
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It certainly does not seem to be in Scotland.
 
That`s an outstanding image.

I met a couple on holiday a few years back and saw he was wearing a Help for Heroes wristband. Got chatting after assuming he was a 'good guy'. They were both ST holders at Hibs and were very respectful to Rememberance day, as it fell when we were there.
 
Abu Dhabi Loyal said:
I know a number of RC Celtic supporters who served in HM Armed Forces and at least one did the full 22 years in the Marines. Indeed, the last time I was speaking to this particular guy, he was telling me that he had just returned from Manchester where he had been attending the funeral of one of his comrades who was KIA in Iraq/Afghanistan. I would love to know exactly what these guys think when they see such vile comments from there fellow Celtic supporters.
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When the club they support allows the IRA nonsense every game they play in without comment I struggle to see how any forces/ex forces could go and support them.:confused:
 
Robocop1960 said:
When the club they support allows the IRA nonsense every game they play in without comment I struggle to see how any forces/ex forces could go and support them.:confused:
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I asked this a year or 2 to an older guy in his 70s who was in the army. He said "hes been going 60 years and born basically on the door step of their ground growing up and he won't let a bunch of pricks ruin it".

Nice chap to be fair especially if you want horse racing tips
 
Many will know of the story of Cpl Mark Wright of the Parachute Regiment who was posthumously awarded the George Cross in 2006. The incident was portrayed in the film Kajaki. Mark's father and many of his fellow Freemason friends founded the Mark Wright Foundation visiting Lodges all over Scotland raising £thousands for military charities. The loose group was formalised a few years ago into Lodge Kajaki. Many of the lads involved, all ex service men are Hibs fans. Firstly they will be appalled, and secondly though mature in age, I'm sure they would relish 5 minutes in the company of these morons.
 
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