Rangers fans warned over songs

GLASGOW RANGERS fans have been warned by their club that breaking into abusive and racist song about the Irish famine could lead to arrests.

The club’s chief executive, Martin Bain, in a statement on the club’s official website, has called on supporters to refrain from singing sectarian songs and warned that supporters who chant songs like “the famine song” could be arrested.

The song — with the chorus “the famine’s over, why don’t you go home?” — was loudly aired at last month’s Old Firm match at Celtic Park after which Irish diplomats lodged a formal complaint with the police.