Generally I find the amount of people who go on about the 'PC brigade' far outweigh the amount of people making daft decisions like this. Its worth pointing out that these are very isolated instances and nothing to do with any law. It worries me that some people are so ignorant about the real issues surrounding race that they think this is how to counteract them though

Back to the moronic chant.

Personally I would rather our fans sing / chant/support our team than spend half the game singing a derisory chant about the state of the other teams home.

I would agree totally but I presume that would make me a "moaning woman", like the one behind Pie Eyed. If only all other parents had been concerned enough to provide such excellent guidance for their children - to encourage a change from 'hole' to 'b*mhole' would have made all the difference.

How do you know that, Kat?

Ah.
Well, I personally can't see the problem with being correct (politically or otherwise), especially if it merely means adjusting your behaviour in order to limit the risk of offending others. Is that really so bad? The two instances you single out are fascinating, admittedly.
The "Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep" song actually had its roots in a simple attempt to teach nursery level children about the different colours of the rainbow and in fact it still included (and began with) the traditional "Baa Baa Black Sheep" lyrics. Unfortunately a tabloid paper picked up on the story, got it slightly wrong (deliberately or otherwise) and made a huge song and dance about it. Before long there was an outbreak of nursery schools following this lead, presumably because the managers mistakenly thought that there was actually some sort of legislation in place that insisted the words couldn't be used. They probably felt a bit jumpy due to some of the other misleading headlines they'd seen in the Sun. Had the very media that claim to hate this sort of thing not whipped up such a frenzy about it, then the phenomenon might not have actually occurred (or at least certainly not to the same degree).

As for the toy farm, of course there are a number of countries who would not deem it acceptable to promote a childrens' farmyard toy that included a pig. For the manufacturer who wishes to sell their toy in those countries this means they can either split their production into two separate batches - piggy/no piggy, which presumably wouldn't be too difficult but probably a bit of a faff. Or they could remove the pig from all the sets.
After all, one might reason, people in Britain are surely not going to take offence at the absence of pig, are they? Its not like British people are so backward that they would actually work themselves up into a frenzy over the fact that pigs are removed from toy farms, surely!
Lets face it, the absence of pig is not something that can injure or upset anybody on religious, cultural or moral grounds. Besides, they might actually sell a few more sets in the UK to Muslim or Jewish customers.
What could possibly go wrong?

We could argue the pros and cons of such issues until we are all blue in the face, but lets not move too far from the real problem.
People were chanting swear words at a sporting event that markets itself as a "family sport". This upsets some people. Time to stop the chant and perhaps for those who were chanting to issue an apology.
I can't see any realistic argument against this.

Regards.

The Baa Baa white/rainbow sheep is total madness

I have to say that Feka looks worse than ever in terms of his fitness and game time. Such a waste of what could be a world class Prop. If he couldnt hack under the McGuire (fitness) regime I seriously doubt any coach could get him to the required standard.

I'm sure I read somewhere that Salford didn't intend to let him "lapse into the same physical state that he showed at Wigan".

Well ... epic fail so far.

Although he looks like Cheryl Cole compared to Paul Potts at Warrington.

You would think that somebody would have a word and say "Listen your general fitness is woeful shape up or ship out"

they knew what they were getting when they signed him, which makes it even more baffling that they actually went for him.

As I said before he is wasting what could potentially be a great career. Salford should send him to the Royal Marines on a strict fitness regime and get him in some sort of decent condition!