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Why do some Celtic fans boo Remembrance Sunday?

Celtic fans pictured at Hampden Park at last season’s Scottish Cup final against Rangers - (Getty Images)

Remembrance Sunday commemorations were aborted at Kilmarnock this weekend as a portion of Celtic fans booed and sang pro-IRA songs.

Away supporters booed as Kilmarnock captain Kyle Vassell laid a wreath in the centre circle. They then drowned out an attempted minute’s silence with a song about the death of Aidan McAnespie, who was killed by a British soldier at an army checkpoint in Northern Ireland in 1988.

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