SILENCE OVER IRISH SING-SONG SUGGESTS A LACK OF EQUALITY

AS Kilmarnock’s Kyle Lafferty serves a ten-game ban for making sectarian remarks to some plonker in a nightclub, the wait goes on for Ireland’s women to face punishment for chanting about the IRA in the

Hampden dressing rooms.

Sure, the sentence handed down to Lafferty came from the SFA and the last we heard about Ireland’s celebrations after knocking Scotland out of the World Cup play-offs, it was UEFA taking charge of launching an investigation.

However, the entire football ‘family’ are supposed to be united against this kind of thing. Aren’t they? Or does the equal treatment demanded by the women’s game only apply to certain things that suit?