Being responsible is not always easy, especially when it comes to running a football club, where playing to the gallery offers vastly better short-term returns, and no doubt a rush of endorphins.
If your fans are engaged in an activity which regularly brings them to the attention of the courts, and your club into disrepute, it doesn’t matter what you think of the apparent offense. You may chant an offending song in the shower every morning month, but your only public comment on the matter can be to chastise and urge fans to desist.
Clubs in Scotland voted against what is known as strict liability. This means they are not held responsible for transgressions by their fans – and who wants to be held responsible for the actions of others who protected from personal liability by hiding in a crowd.
Part of the deal on not having strict liability is that clubs must demonstrate that they take all steps necessary to dissuade and educate their fans from carrying out criminal or regulatory offenses. It’s simply not possible for club to tell fans their illegal actions were justified, as this would place the club itself in the firing line.
The nonsense following the Scottish Cup final is all background noise as far as we are concerned, but be aware the contagion will spread beyond those you could consider highly dysfunctional operators.
Solving Kids Cancer in memory of Oscar Knox
Our own Bundoran Bhoy will run the Edinburgh Marathon on Sunday on behalf of Solving Kids Cancer. He has put in an enormous amount of work ahead of the event, for a cause which you are only too familiar with.
26 miles is a long way to run. You can give him some encouragement on his Just Giving page.
Good luck, Tommy.
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GERRYFAETHEBRIG on 29TH MAY 2016 3:46 PM
The advice is not for me.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
WC’s posts self destruct with a wee puff of smoke after a few seconds (mission impossible style)-))
THELURKINTIM on 28TH MAY 2016 10:35 PM
TOSB,
Hell, there was a guy (Tontine Tim?) who claimed to be in his 80th decade…..Methuselahs….is apt…..;-))
*awe FFS getting pedantic. Ok I’m a Sexagenarian who’s 17 months shy of being a Septuagenarian.
Nye Bevans
If you are lurking am waiting on Germany btts & win for a quid Yankee & fiver accie Gothenburg 3-1, Hammarby 2-1 & Kalmar 2-1 all have stoated, getting offered £140 cash out for £5 accie but no cash out in this household
TONTINETIM
I didnae read that as pedantic,bud. Just as a wee humourous dig.
And if it were true,you would indeed be nearly as old as Methuselah!
He lived for nearly a millennium yet missed The Great Flood by a week. Ruined his autobiography apparently.
Btw,yer recollections of days of yore are pyoor dead brilliant.
HH.
GFTB
FFS,you’ll have most of that already to come back,even if the last one lets you down.
Hammer the bassas,time you upscaled to a mansion!
HH and guid luck,guid Tim.
Fan-a-tic
Totally agree re Pepe. Maybe if they had done something about Marcello after the Wolfsburg it might have helped. Although probably not!
Chuffed for the u17s, Well Done Bhoys, Tight Title race.
Hail Hail.
KLV
KLV
Every title should be celebrated,so I second that.
Nice wee hat-trick posted earlier.
GERRYFAETHEBRIG…….everything’s crossed for you
pal, as Booby say’s hammer them.
Bobby
Not the best prices 11/4, 13/5 & 15/8, the old Germans are the worst price at 7/4 but at least getting a wee run for ma dough
Cheers for the good wishes
Cheers Nye, enjoy our betting chat so just giving you the heads up, probably jinxed it but the thrill is what it’s all about, the Mrs said “are you cashing out” I said no chance as I don’t see the winnings anyway
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
BGFC come from Plains?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
GFTB
About £750 which is a damned fine return. Pays for a round on a hoot!
LENNYBHOY
Apparently so. And knows my big bud anaw.
Small world,innit?
When a supporter, of any colour or religion, puts on a Celtic scarf he becomes a Fenian ba**ard in the eyes of the evil.
I fail to see who is being excluded?
Anyway, I thought we didn’t care what the animals say…..
HH
Bobby
The fiver accie, I had the cheek to do 2 x £2.50 lines in case I was tempted to cash out I could let the other one roll ….. Stuff it in for a penny in for a pound
Might put a fiver on 0-0 after the build up am giving it, by the way I found the Hoot quite a cheap day, maybe I was letting Clogher Celt buy all the rounds
Hornets Nest?
I thought it was WASPs we were noising up.
The Louden Tavern
GERRYFAETHEBRIG…….1-0 Germany.
Nye
Watching it on BT2, canny see Slovakia scoring, the Germans looking good
best Celtic fan tweet during the CL final
“If you’re going to run at Juan Fran. Isco be sure you wear some flowers in your hair”
zinadine zidane
@CSA CSC
Brendan Rodgers fenian army :)
petec on 29th May 2016 1:31 am
ElDiegoBhoy, the Very Best Wishes to you and what you are going through.
*I’ve got a wee contract position for the summer, youth soccer (as they call it over here) has just started and I’m back coaching and still volunteering with the KoC so not on as much as during the winter months.
So just echoing what petec said Jim, all the best and wee prayers are being said for you and your lassies.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 29TH MAY 2016 4:44 PM
My Sister married a Plains Bhoy, she has lived there (Whiterigg) for 20 plus years…go s by the name of…will you March with….to an …battlefield…they are 52/54 respectively, let you ponder if my Sister is the younger but I am 53 going on 54 and I am the eld st Sibling…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Nye
Whooft 1-1
I see some are still discussing the Fenian Army song!
Green Brigade were in Santa Ponta all weekend celebrating their 10th anniversary and have come up with another wee chant for BR…..to the tune of a old hymn.
Clip is on CelticMinded…canna copy and paste as on my phone.
Brendan Rodgers song
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1877924679101179&id=100006509957199
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Yeah Mate, Long may it continue. :)
KLV
Gary67
Brilliant, hope they are at my hotel at the end of July, you canny beat the ole Santa Ponsa
GARY67
Off-season for the Green Brigade. They need to up their game!
Tontine Tim,
Yet right…..taken out of context is does look like an archeological hole…..but did you no see the wee smiley thingy ;-))
Well done the 17s…..winning is a cardinal habit ;-))
M…no probs….no too early mind….the clear blue sky ‘n sunshine persuaded me to get some beers…..just to knock the sleeplessness out of me u understand ;-))
FTSFA
cardinalhabitsCSC
H.H.
Just to keep everybody happy…..and be open to misinterpretation…..
Brendan Rodgers Greenian Army ;-))
FTSFA
H.H.
Fantastic GBR
HH
Warburton goes missing last week. WC 1.53 goes missing this week. Dark forces are at work.
GFTB @4.50pm
I’ll save that comment:)
Maybe the Hoot was so cheap because you left early and it was still light outside. That was in October, I think.
‘Brendan Rodgers fully inclusive, non confrontational, secular, politically correct, apologise in advance Army’ CSC
Till later
*Yet = Yer
FTSFA
pedantsrusCSC
H.H.
Celtic under 13’s just won a tournament in Belgium today beating Dortmund in the final. The future is looking good a young Cowie bhoy in their team as well.