I'm sure there will be a few people who weren't alive at the time who can't wait jump on the offended bus about this but many many more who will want to participate in a positive way.
True for both the WWI memorial and the Commonwealth games.
This is not new - there was a noisy minority on the wrong side in WW2.
I do hope it goes well for both without anyone wrecking them by political exploitation. I'm fascinated by the discussions going on about the Great War (here on PB included) - centenaries do have their uses.
What a fascinating little cutting you dug out, but, if I may, your (presumed) interpretation instantly feels wrong. Celtic were (and still are) a football team with strong Irish roots, which in that place and time strongly implies that its supporters espoused Labour rather than Unionist* politics, never mind those of Sir Oswald Mosley (I know they had Blueshirts in the Free State, but even so ...). So that instantly suggests an ironic parody of the Nuremberg rallies rather than anything political. A little checking does indeed show that Mr Delaney was a player of some repute, and in this case he scored the only two goals in the Scotland-Germany 2-0 match on 14 October 1936, a few days before the event reported in the cutting. Which gives the cutting a radically divergent meaning.
[*'Unionist' in the Scottish sense - ie what the Tory party in Scotland used to be called before its 1955 merger with the London Conservatives]
Carnyx, Interpretation was indeed wrong but deliberately so as you would have gathered if you had been around long enough , enough to say TGOHF does not kick with the left foot.
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Interpretation was indeed wrong but deliberately so as you would have gathered if you had been around long enough , enough to say TGOHF does not kick with the left foot.