Celtic fans return to Lanarkshire on Saturday, just a few miles away from New Douglas Park, where Hamilton Accies and Celtic fans were both harassed while cooperating together to protest against the Offensive Behaviour’ Act.
The policing at Hamilton two weeks ago was politically motivated. It used recent legislation, ostensibly designed to protect society from sectarianism, to prohibit peaceful political protest. The concerted forces of the Scottish Government and Police Scotland has ensured that your freedom to stage peaceful political protest is been enormously curtailed in recent years – banners bearing the message “Accies against the Act” were confiscated.
If you were subject to any of the well documented police action at Hamilton, and intend travelling to Motherwell on Saturday, do not be surprised if you are singled out.
Fir Park Motherwell is a considerably more combustible venue than New Douglas Park. It has been the scene of vandalism, general hooliganism and a pitch invasion to taunt opposition fans in recent times. Police appear reluctant to get involved with fans for these activities at Motherwell. As a football fan, it is your political views you have to watch out for.
Before planning your trip to Motherwell it’s worth revisiting this comment by Brogan Rogan’ last week.
Also take a look at the Citizens Advice notice on police powers in Scotland. If police search you, even if no offence has been committed, they can seize whatever they want. Some pretty innocuous political dissent has been proscribed. I’m appalled – and so are some officers I know.
Living on the streets in winter in Scotland has to be one of the most challenging aspects of humanity. Next month, you can share what this means, by sleeping trackside at Celtic Park with dozens of others for the Foundation, as part of hte 2015 Christmas Appeal. The Celtic Foundation provide nourishment and shelter to the many of the city’s homeless each winter.
This is social outreach at its hardest. There is nothing easy about sleeping rough in Scotland. You can find out more here. Join in and aim to raise £125. Well done to the dozens already signed up.
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Gavinsbhoys,
Let it go.
He no longer plays for us, Hey, and neither does Kenny Dal FFS.
West end of east end
Anywhere but up here in a rigged game based on their Orwellian Big Lie, enabling a relaunching of the ‘Old Firm’.
Beyond stomachable.
BGX
Charlie nick an ersehole bit like yirself.
BGX,
He cannae, cos he selt me his Charlie Nic Posters….
Kenny Dal FFS
Voguepunter….did i strike a nerve with your Maybe somewhat pitiful adoration of explayers.Celtic is the Support mate…
…Explayers and Exmanagers are in the MAIN.
.INCIDENTAL…..just Saying Like…
Joe Hansen should have had a foul there…fell awkwardly too.
GEORDIE MUNRO on 13TH OCTOBER 2015 8:49 PM
Joe Hansen conducting to ol in huddle team
Ha, I noticed that. He’s playing like Broony as well, showing up pretty well.
Glend…
Think i just retrieved the abymsil spelling !!!! :)
bgx
Naw yir ok ………Larsson ,McStay or McGrain ….do not say a bad word about any of them.
If Celtic were to join another league, be it English, British, Atlantic, European or World, the club would still be based in Glasgow and play its home matches at Celtic Park as it always has done.
It would not suddenly up sticks and move to London, Dublin or Boston!
Glasgow is, and always will be, green n white!
HH!!
Voguepunter I Wouldnt…..
MANY others I Would…..
Italy 1-1 Norway
Norway now drop from top to 3rd, sore one
Evening Timland from a warm hun free mountain valley.
Was wondering about Scott Allen, is he still injured, if he is, what is his injury, can’t remember ?
Seems like ages ago we signed him and only a glimmer.
Italy 2-1 Norway
Just watching Johannsen v Italy…Guy has Just Lost Form….Aint a Celtic thing, Aint a Norwegian Thin, aint a been tapped up Thing….Its HIM…
Van Persie own goal was one of the best. Oh dear.
WC that day will always haunt us it was the unforgivable the only player to get pass marks was petrov I remember being in the main stand screaming at the team to get the finger out in the 2 nd half. I also remember Dallas refusing to send of the well player as last man when he brought down Bellamy oh how I despise that Dallas a professional cheating B.
Celtic champs elect
Forgivable if you take into account that they had spent yet another season up against a financially-doped shower of cheats, and very nearly still beat them to the title.
And knowing what we know now, they did.
This is a public thank-you to the bloke who stopped and gave me a lift to Stevie Shanaghan’s committal at Linn Crematorium this afternoon.
I thought I had a handle on the trip, three trains and a 29 minute walk from Muirend train station but Google maps didn’t enlighten me on the terrain I had to cover. I would’ve been late without your assistance.
Didn’t get your name and we were separated among the hundreds gathered. You’re a gent.
Beatbhoy……Serious question….
Do you Think The Celtic players who lost the league to as you say the financially Doped Huns Feel cheated.
..Just asking….
Th
Calton
I have let it go it’s only football but why have a sly dig once he has left, did you celebrate hl goal for Barcelona, think not, point being he’s not with us then I don’t support him and I’m against him or them if he’s not in the hoops
Hh
Right saddled up !!!
Killie announce away fans to pay same as home fans !!!
Good I hear you say !!
Na apparently were excluded We have to pay the same inflated price as usual time to give that hole a pass out !! Blooming disgraceful once more treated with disdain and disrespect.
TIME FOR A BHOYCOTT me thinks !!!
The manure superstars looking quit ordinary out there tonight and as for WD40, oh dear. Well done the Czechs, Johnny Madden, Dr. Jo and Lubo would be proud of you.
BGX
Objection! Calls for speculation.
The point is, with a simple application of the rules, those players would have entered the field of play on light-grey Sunday as already-crowned champions.
Beatbhoy…laughing…..
Any way..On and On…
31st of Oct we WILL be Top of the league.
NO DOUBT.
Tallybhoy
Italia through. Can only improve. Congratulations.
BGX
Agree, will be a happy halloween when we fleece the dandy dons.
Jeez Oh,
Kenny Dal FFS
BHOYS3
We certainly did have a good contest that season regarding goals.Is that the season Sparky took up Basketball again?.
Get a pint with you in Quins soon.Tell the guys I was asking for them.HH.
Rock Hill, South Carolina. Oct 13, 2015
A 2 year old boy riding in the back of his great aunt’s car found a .357 magnum gun in the pouch behind the driver’s seat. He reached in, took it out and pulled the trigger.
The bullet went through the seat and into the woman’s back. She stopped at a house and they called the ambulance etc.
The car was a Chevrolet Camaro and the woman is not only a great aunt to the little by but a grandmother herself. She is 40 years of age.
Charges of child neglect etc are being considered by the police, but NOT any charges for having a loaded .357 magnum in the seatback of your car.
http://www.wbtv.com/story/30239803/toddler-finds-gun-in-car-shoots-grandmother-in-back
Only in Amurka.
A whole nation desensitized to gun violence and to gun usage.
I was in the Dominican Republic on black Sunday – was texting home all afternoon then the new mobile phone went into the sea .
Ruined my year as well as my holiday so can’t understand why a player raised on celtic would see Scotland finishing 4th in a group they were never going to qualify from as a bigger blow
BGX on 13TH OCTOBER 2015 9:42 PM
Beatbhoy……Serious question….
Do you Think The Celtic players who lost the league to as you say the financially Doped Huns Feel cheated.
Great question, and you know what I bet they don’t. They probably look back at the fact they were a squad of players who believed they were better than any other in the league. Despite that they didn’t get over the line that time.
As fans we go over the dodgy decisions the now known financial doping and might feel bitter. The players professional mindset will say that they let themselves down at the final hurdle. They may have raged against ref decisions in the dressing room after the game but by the time they were on the beach it would be forgotten by almost all.
Just my opinion.
RWE
Them ole yankee doodles are a bit bonkers no doubt.
Obsessed with the right to bear arms.
What about the right to bare bottoms !!!!
WITS
Bare bottoms premises (operating under the euphemism of “Gentleman’s club”) on the same street as four churches ..
Only in Amurka
I don’t need to make any of this up. Truth is stranger than fiction
Simple rule guys, don’t type anything you wouldn’t say to someones face, this place is getting bad.
G’night.
The piano tuner had a hearing aid and he showed up with his mother. Iain Anderson mystery song. Title please??
Dont think much abt black Sunday but I do abt Lisbon!! They will never take that away from me!!!! H H