_________ SWAT MAGAZINE ISSUE THIRTY SEVEN JANUARY __________ / \___________________________________________/ \ / HunSpotting \ / by MadThing \ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Choose bigotry Choose cretinism Choose knuckledragging Choose sub-fascism Choose tugging your forelock to royalty Choose imperialism in Ireland Choose nineteen attempts at winning the European Cup, and nineteen failures--a record Choose ten European exits in nine seasons Choose being up to your knees in fenian blood Choose Walter Smith Choose to be ugly Choose to get beat 7-1 by Celtic in a cup final--a record Choose to be the laughing stock of Europe Choose to waste 14M quid Choose a schizoid national identity Choose not to win the Coronation Cup Choose not to win the Empire Exhibition Trophy Choose not to win the European Cup Choose to be the second team to do nine-in-a-row after Celtic Choose virulent, bitter anti-Catholicism Choose funny handshakes, aprons, and rolled-up trouser legs Choose to look like an eejit in an Orange sash Choose wifebeating Choose a lingerie-wearing alcoholic sex pest as goalkeeper Choose to support a bunch of drunk drivers who smash up pubs and kebab shops Choose gerrymandering Choose Ion Feargisin Choose to be liked by nobody and pretend not to care Choose to be fleeced repeatedly by a rich steel magnate Choose hubris and a ludicrous master-race mentality Choose to have your arrogant boasts turned into an annual ritual of national humiliation Choose to follow, follow a bunch of hacking animals Choose cheating Choose your own referees and assistant referees--except in Europe Choose to have your arse licked by media sycophants Choose to beat a lambeg drum Choose Ian Paisley Choose jobbies in jacuzzis Choose the National Anthem Choose thuggery in sundry English cities Choose to believe that David Murray signs top-class European players Choose to lose to Berwick Rangers Choose to lose six goals home AND away in a European Cup semi-final Choose to disgrace your only Euro trophy by having the police beat the shit out of you Choose to go 25 years without winning the Scottish Cup Choose to lose the league by getting beat 4-2 by ten men Choose William of Orange Choose the Forces of Darkness Choose Beelzebub Choose a muttonchopped bigot as a director Choose to watch crap football and pretend it's good Choose self-deception and delusions of grandeur Choose ignorance of history Choose a decade of tactical ineptitude in Europe Choose to support a monument to intolerance Choose to feel good by swearing at the Pope Choose to take out your feelings of social inadequacy on Irish immigrants Choose not to sign Danny McGrain because you think he's a Catholic Choose to believe David Murray's PR stunts and then pretend they never happened Choose to think that Ronaldo might sign for you Choose the ex-Faeroes Islands coach Choose getting knocked out of three cups before October Choose to be a pathetic, attention-seeking, bigoted hun twat.