You can set your watch by it. On Saturday, when discussing the reaction to Celtic’s goal against Hearts, I wrote, “Celtic will face the consequences of Thursday’s decision.” And how. They faced a litany of incorrectly flagged offsides at Tannadice yesterday. The appropriately named Calum Butcher’s studs-first assault on David Turnbull did not received the red card it clearly deserved. Referees have clearly been cowed by the coordinated reaction since Thursday evening.
Despite one over-eager pundit on Sky Sports, TV pictures of the goal on Thursday were inconclusive. Celtic were denied a good goal when they met Hearts earlier in the season in a game they would go on to lose. Clearly wrong decisions happen every week, commonly at some grounds.
However, the outrage over this particular incident tells you all you need to know about how Scotland works. The assistant referee who judged the goal good has had his religion and heritage explored online, the media have had a feeding frenzy and SFA Head of Referee Operations (HoRO), Crawford Allan, chose to depart from protocol to say that in his opinion, Celtic were advantaged.
Allan’s intervention in this incident is without precedent. He was not running the line, nor on the Review Panel, therefore he is not competent to comment on the incident. When asked, a passive response is all that he is entitled to give.
Instead, he ramped up the pressure on his officials when refereeing Celtic, permitting the officiating we witnessed at Tannadice yesterday. Perceived injustice rattling about a media echo chamber that drew in the SFA HoRO created a false impression that Celtic unfairly benefit from referee mistakes.
Crawford Allan’s job is not to re-referee Celtic games. His position gives him a responsibility to comment on specifics with propriety. I have no prior beef with him, he may otherwise be an excellent HoRO, but you knew, and I knew, there would be severe consequences for Celtic for some in the media deciding they ‘got away with one’. He should have known the result of stepping outside this remit to pour some petrol on the flames.
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*baseball bat type batons *
https://youtu.be/PF6mk2Sq4yY
R. I. P. John Miles
Red Tory….
What has yer wee pals done to prevent the bill ?. Actively… yawn….will await yer explanation….yawn.
Once a red tory….ye know the rest.
Gutlessreds.com
Hope there’s a lot of ‘Good Moaning’…….
Season ticket money banked means zero will be done about this. 👇
MON told you all that “The Slow Lane” would be taking over and you did Jack all about it.
You smeared MON, that’s what you do, you shoot down anyone delivering uncomfortable truths.
Now look at the state of the place!
And here you are all these years later, were the only way to pierce your domes is by a long run of a Rangers, mibbery laced, haul of trophies, even that might not be enough!
https://twitter.com/MattMcGlone9/status/1467860943594004491?s=20
Maybe a bland toothless statement or tweet and that’ll be it.
Season tickets and all seating have cut the goolies off of fans, and a board who’re well aware that the Celtic support pose no threat to them will not be arsed to deal with such issues, as the Butcher assault, which imho will get worse as we go on.
Remember they used to bullsh*t us about, ‘John Reid’s dossier’ where? When?
Last seasons pathetic performance from fans in the car park for 6 months, and then giving the board 100% backing at the end of the protests, was Celtic’s ‘shell suit Bob’ episode.
The board have the Celtic support’s number, and the support are clueless about how to reverse that FACt.
Supporters without balls to withdraw their financial backing of the board, are simply not the answer.
Anger is the dynamic that is missing from supporters.
More, Butcher tackles, game losing mibbery decisions, and a very rich, but very silent board, might fuel the much needed anger?
But after 10 years of evidence of collusion growing, and fans react by making the silent board richer, then anger might not be any good, if the support don’t have that balls to channel that anger properly, as we saw for 6 months last season, blowing the coveted 10 season, and 53k respond by making the board richer?
The board even played the 53k by telling them that Lawwell had left the building?
Can’t fans see that not a word of what Celtic says can be trusted?
When? When, do you learn from the lessons? When? Are the 53k incapable of learning?
If this was Sevco, and Sevco fans responding in this way, the 53k would rightly be wearing the t-shirts mocking Sevco.
But introspection seems to be a banned word, from the Celtic vocabulary?
But when its Celtic fans, in effect being the king clowns of clown world, then it wouldn’t be out of place to ask,
“Are these 53k a hindrance, or a help to Celtic?
Yeah the money’s good, but at what cost?
Financing the club 100% is a brilliant idea, if the folk you’re giving financial support to, aren’t taking you’re money in one hand, and thanking you by bringing in, Bernard Higgins, with you’re money, on the other hand?
Bernard Higgins is merely a symptom, of the consequences of Celtic supporters voting preferences.
Higgins was the SNP’s Cromwell for Celtic supporters.
To deny that is to merely dig the hole that you’ve already dug for yourselves, even deeper.
Bernard Ponsonby has been mentioned as a PR guy?
Bernard Ponsonby was a huge beast of the 100% of ScottishMSM who bottled out of interviewing, 35 years long former Labour Party MP, George Galloway, who was sacked for opposing the Iraq war, and refusing to be a, Blairite imperialist, George W Bush lapdog, snubbed by ScottishMSM in May’s Scottish elections, and Bernard Ponsonby, who I used to see a lot, in the Jock Stein stand, is sadly, part of the Scottish establishment swamp. A ScottishMSM propagandist, who dodged a career ending confrontation with George Galloway, on STV coverage of Scottish elections back in May this year.
Bernard Ponsonby didn’t have the courage to report that George Galloway was on the receiving end of 3 death threats, or that Douglas Ross had one death threat from the same ex serviceman who also threatened George Galloway 3 times, whilst trying to be elected to Scotland’s gerrymandered Parliament, Ponsonby is a bought and paid for swamp creature, who propagandizes the enrichment of said swamp.
Ponsonby, like 100% of his ScottishMSM propagandists, are 100% terrified of interviewing, George Galloway, because they all know they’ll be handed their propagandist arses in what would be a career ending confrontation with George Galloway.
A gerrymandered Parliament which is decorated in images, or silhouettes of ‘Cranes’ the house of the builders, builders like, stonemasons, building a rigged,…
Celtic hating
Socialist hating
Women hating
Children hating
Jesus hating
Immigrants hating
Catholic hating
Irish hating
The poor hating
The sick hating
Truth tellers hating
…a building that hates everybody who isn’t a mason, or an eastern star witch, or an alchemist worshipper, is not a house where Celtic supporters interests are represented, unless it was a one off from the Labour party, before Zir Starmer finished LP off, the LP inspired overturning of the SNP created OBAF act, a bill designed by the likes of, Christine Graham and her all seeing eye costumes that she constantly wears, and is positioned in the ‘Crane’ house very carefully with a big (((EYE))) resplendent on her jacket, the colours they are fine, eye, so that she’ll be in full glare of the longing lingering loving it cameras.
Celtic support vote for this crap in the ‘Crane’ house, a rigged, gerrymandered, masonic temple, full of Mason’s and eastern star witches.
Celtic support vote for this crap in the, PLC ‘Crane’ house, a rigged, and gerrymandered, masonic temple, full of masons, and fools, in a fools Paradise, were 30% of the shares = 100% of the power.
Celtic fans are the weakest link which ensures off the script levels of incalculable corruption!
Rangers owe £180+ million to HMRC, and hey presto, Scotland becomes the highest taxed country on the island?
Ah mean, just lol.
No wonder the ‘Crane’ builders fear JK Rowling, she’s the only one capable of making a film to describe all of this, courtesy of Celtic season ticket holder productions.
Nurse! Anybody!
Bonjour, bonjour, nous sommes les Garcons de Guillaume
Quelle age est votre gandmere?
Stx2 @ 6.09
What were the charges that were laid against the guy who was the subject of the video?
There would appear to be a lot of detail hiding below the surface.
The more we understand the greater will be our strength in pushing back against PS snider gangsterism.
On a related issue — whatever happened to the police investigation of the Ajax fans who attacked the pub in the Gallowgate? Anybody charged / taken to court over the attack and the assault?
Bonjour bonjour nous sommes les Billy Boys.
Non non!
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
‘No one likes us we don’t care’
C’est La vie CSC 👍
If Celtic appoint this Higgins dude, the Board are taking the piss.
knobs
MADMITCH
Several Dutch fans were charged and bailed to appear at a later date. Eventually all charges were dropped on the grounds that there was no realistic expectation of any of the accused returning to Glasgow to face the court.
So there it is. Commit a crime, face charges, receive bail then decide not to go to trial and . . . Och that’s ok we’ll let you off then.
BSR,
Awesome Sonics.
Beauties too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0q-RA6R4k
CELTIC
Good news that the visa exemption panel to continue.
Could have had dire consequences for scottish football were it otherwise
Missiles being thrown at opposing players, cringeworthy add ons, songs/chants being sung at away games. There’s a few reasons the Board will justify Higgins appointment.
If those poor Sevco supporters travel to Lyon and find they can’t get into the game , they can always participate in the festival of light instead by going into some of the local churches and lighting a candle .
It’s more than a nurse you need
Looking forward to hearing Ernie belting oot Roamin wi the Green Brigade next time I’m at Parkhead……
Offensive Behaviour @ The Fitba?
You better believe it!
Imagine the furore when the Sevco fans go into Lyon pubs and are told they can’t get lager or heavy as they only serve light.
The dark side anywhere near the festival light would defeat the purpose surely.
Petec
Joyeux noël baise les Zombies
Plus ca change CSC
ERNIE LYNCH on 6TH DECEMBER 2021 6:54 PM
SAINT STIVS on 6TH DECEMBER 2021 6:09 PM
Ernie,
you dont know how much I appreciate that feedback. It is wonderful to see my posts being recognised as so valuable to your goodself. You dont know how much I have craved somesort of acknowledgment from your eminenance.
I was looking for you on thursday, and sunday , to see your creative banner, you were probably busy leading the cortio, or maybe organising the song-book.
I remember all your famous leadership all through the FAC Kill The Bill Years, who else could lead that after your part in the Celts for Change movement, neither of them could do it without you, and I for one will never forget that.
I am nominating you for the Hypocrites Hyprite Award, televised later this year hoseted by BoJo and Charlie the Plumber and one of the minor royals, probably Andrew.
Made my year that post, my lip is trembling.
See you at the next day out or fund raiser, I know your always prominent in these things.
Thank you again for your leadership.
I will let the cultists know when we return to the compound.
Wait till you find out who the real glorious leader is.
Happy Saint Nicholas Day.
Keep it Lit.
Maybe take a wee look at what the alchemist’s did to the horses!!!! 👇
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FF7dfqCXsAAkUQ1?format=jpg&name=small
Exemptions to work permit rules for football players will continue indefinitely. Good news for our transfer targetting policy. On BBC sportsound now.
Met a hertz fan there, said hertz deserved something from our game. You had 30% of the ball and two shots, aye right😂
Oh and goal off side, he must have some TV set!!
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 6TH DECEMBER 2021 7:00 PM
ok berz, ok berz, we are no staying at saint priest i got it sordid, we are in ahotel along the road at
Saint-Saud-Lacoussière
Can you imagine the armies of Sauron descending on Lyon at the same time as a Catholic religious festival!?
The outcome would make Manchester seem like a Tupperware party by comparison .
am no stayin there, ffs whit is this ……………
its ok berz its ok, another place came up on following.com
its em ………..
Saint-Jory-de-Chalais
em, i think we should ban going, its a conspiricy, ah thought France was a seculis country,
fenian bassas
am no going ,
BSR,
Merry Christmas F the Huns.
Especially those in position of David Gower.
Saint-Paul-la-Roche
Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière
Sceau-Saint-Angel
Saint-Front-sur-Nizonne
SAINT STIVS
Brilliant
😂
TMcL @ 7.33
Thanks for the update.
My memory was that the local plod had passed the prosecution over to the A/dam plod.
And guess what it had all gone quiet and nothing was done to bring the case to court.
We managed to bring a guy back from Libya when it suits.
But we can’t manage a case dealing with Dutch yahoos when we still had the EU?
I fear that the low rent / hard of thinking / Govan fan boys in the plod were at it.
That is a scandal and that is the battle we should be fighting.
How have other Euro football related violent incidents been handled by other forces?
Who allowed the Dutch yahoos to be bailed?
From memory some severe beatings were handed out that night.
With the police tasked with managing the away fans disappearing at the right sorry wrong moment.
That is the fight with the authorities that we need to have.
SAINT STIVS on 6TH DECEMBER 2021 7:44 PM
You voted for this.
Live with it.
Ange has me Top Buzz ing about This Celtic Team.
ERNIE LYNCH
Were you at Tannadice on Sunday? Of course you weren’t. So why do you blame the Green Brigade for the sectarian chanting?
You blamed the GB for the sectarian chanting at the Hearts game as well.
I was at Tannadice and can tell you that the Fat Orange Bastard chants came from the entire Celtic support, by which I mean every section of the support, not every Celtic supporter.
Supporters around me were chanting it and I was in a different stand from the GB.
ERNIE LYNCH on 6TH DECEMBER 2021 8:04 PM
SAINT STIVS on 6TH DECEMBER 2021 7:44 PM
You voted for this.
Live with it.
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the phone lines are open for voting, i do think your in with a chance this year.
I didn’t realise Celtic FC conducted a vote among its supporters to employ Bernard Higgins. Sorry I missed that.