Shamrock Rovers have condemned a video which seems to point out followers celebrating the demise of the Queen throughout a Europa Convention League fixture.
The footage emerged on social media and seemed to be from the League of Eire membership’s Thursday evening fixture in opposition to Swedish facet Djurgarden at Tallaght Stadium.
A bit of the stadium have been filmed singing a derogatory music to the tune of ‘Give it Up’ by KC & the Sunshine Band.
It was posted to Twitter on Thursday evening and has to this point been considered over 5.4 million instances on the social media platform.
In a press release, Shamrock Rovers stated that they had been “made conscious of chants by a bunch of people finally evening’s recreation”.
“Such extremely insensitive and callous chanting is just not acceptable at our membership and is in opposition to the values that Shamrock Rovers F.C. stands for.
“Our floor laws issued on match tickets and on signage at entry strictly prohibits such exercise.
“That is additionally introduced over the PA system earlier than all of our video games in Tallaght Stadium: ‘Shamrock Rovers Soccer Membership welcomes all supporters to its grounds and condemns any type of bigotry and discrimination in soccer.
“‘Shamrock Rovers Soccer Membership doesn't condone hostile abuse of particular person gamers, spectators, or officers based mostly on ethnic or cultural background, nationality, or non secular affiliation.
“These discovered to be concerned in any such behaviour will face ejection from the bottom and shall be reported to the Gardai.’”
It comes after a minute’s silence earlier than the second half of Hearts’ conflict with İstanbul Başakşehir needed to be lower brief after supporters appeared to jeer and shout obscenities.