I see Celtic’s name was dragged by the media into what some low-life vandals did outside Ibrox this week – and a few years ago, for good measure. There are low-life vandals out there, and we don’t have a way to filter them out of the Celtic support, so I‘d not dispute any of the tangential links, but vandalism like this happens all too often without media coverage.
When stories suddenly appear to be so well framed in the newspapers, you have to wonder why? Or who is behind them?
There’s a big play underway for what, in this context, should be called Supremacy in Scotland. Celtic have it right now and no one else is strong enough to eclipse them. The best way to achieve this is to destabilise the club. It’s worked, but only to an extent.
I read Paul Larkin on Hail Hail Media this morning who raises some interesting questions on what’s going on and what we should do about it, “as a collective, cannot be beaten”. It’s hard to argue with.
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LOOKS A LOT LIKE CHE GUEVARA on 5TH MAY 2016 12:48 PM
One step at a time. Let’s establish the facts first.
Any decision would then have to take into account what is in Celtic and the games interest where one is interdependent on the other.
I’d love there to be some negotiating on that issue if it were to transpire.
Support your local anarchist/surrealist candidate today.
Fishbones/Chopsticks.
Propaganda by the deed….but with flans:)
Give your local political enemies a reception they wont forget in a hurry…i suggest jam and whipped cream:)
Demand satisfaction with your flans at hand.
Now is the time.
Lets flan our way to revolution.
I will be going out shortly, to assist in a mass flan attack on a UKOP candidate who shall remain nameless, suffice to say, that the bhoys and ghirls didnt like his tweed coat, and they way he wore it:)
Grrrrr:)
HH
I hope the cfc bored do act to address the points raised by embramike. They’re pretty much identical to my own though far better expressed.
the board’s supposed increased in res12 possibly reflects the number of such letters they’ve received.
Auldheid
Agree 100% that we need the equivalent of a great no10 and a finisher in our media and Comms dept. And a ruthless sweeper/hatchet man wouldn’t go amiss either!
Instead we get anodyne, listless and passive.
HH jamesgang
Seriously though….if im lucky today, and get elected.
There will be big changes.
As soon as im in office, a fleet of bulldozers will be sent in the early hours to demolish the circus of horrors at ipox. Once its demolished….a placard will be put up which reads:
‘By order of the Green Man on behalf of the anarchist/surrealist brigade of the anarchist secret fenian army. GIRUY, whit are ye gonny dae aboot it’
Now thats democracy in action:)
HH
Celtic P.R. guru required – what’s Malcolm Tucker doing these days?
auldheid
Back in the day Celtic FC decided it was time to publish its’ own weekly paper. I know you will remember it, and I know I do because I was the bhoy who had to deliver it. The reason being to give the club a voice, not least to our new manager the great Jock Stein who if my memory serves me well wrote in the very first edition. But that was then.
I make no apologies for repeating, ad nauseum, the old story about the two main publications back in the old USSR; Izvestia and Pravda, the news and the truth.
Except of course there was no news in Izvestia and no truth in Pravda.
And there is neither in today’s Celtic View!
NATKNOW
I never noticed that, double checked and is correct, if not interesting!
Rallying call to all the malcontents.
Let’s do all in our power to re establish the old order. We all prefer to be the downtrodden underdog don’t we ? Moaning and whinging is what we are all good at. It’s the celtic way after all.
Dance the media tune and finish this short term pre eminence as quick as we can.
The Celtic bandwagon must be stopped.
Last month it was the manager.
This month it is resolution 12.
Next month it will be that we have picked the wrong manager.
Good news is simply swept under the carpet as not relevant. Eg
The best sponsorship deals ever ( I can remember when we couldn’t get anyone to sponsor us ) .
Financially solvent for 10 years and more despite the macro dynamics impacting on small leagues and being in an adversely effected small TV market.
Just had clearance for much sought after standing area, the first in Scotland.
5 League wins in a row for only the 4th time in scottish football history.
But no. Far better we find every way to destabilise our club when we might have a whisper of a challenge. Let’s have anarchy and an unsustainable strategy before any possibility of dominance over our aligned and ‘together’ but financially less robust new rivals.
How they must be lapping up the crap on here !
See, its difficult when you had no decent cultural understanding.
Maybe i should have read Burns and Shakespeare before i watched Bugsy Malone:)
HH
Paul67…
An interesting article. And another for the ‘sycophantic, head in the sand’ pile sadly. Firstly – your suggestion we should unify… Behind what precisely? The main inference I can gather from the article is that a significant proportion of Celtic fans asking questions are in fact malcontents standing against the club and interests. If I’m wrong, I’ll happily apologise – although as is the norm I fully expect you to ignore the difficult questions and bludgeon on with the ‘nothing to see here, reply to the anointed’ approach.
Now, stepping out from the reality distortion field you’re trying to shelter Peter Lawwell and Dermot Desmond under, can we expect a ‘big picture’ post or are Level 5 currently the biggest issue we have?
See…. Aside from the Res bear number the board are pulling, there are a number of bigger issues at Celtic that make Level 5 seem insignificant.
Let’s move away from the ‘fitba for a second and examine our ‘more than club’ ethos –
What is your opinion in Celtic employing now both alcohol AND gambling firms on our strip? Bearing in mind the links with alcoholism and poverty, and alcoholism and problem gambling. Issues which famous Celtic players and managers have both suffered from seriously and which have had a devastating effect on our society? Do you think it appropriate that Celtic would have this duo as sponsors? Or is it enough that the Green Brigade organise food bank collections for people’s whose lives are irreversibly damaged by booze and betting?
Ian Bankier’s comments about Celtic fans? And his ongoing position on the board?
‘Lord’ Livingston? Is it acceptable to have someone with his record board? And bear in mind Celtic are ‘more than a club’ and our social charter.
It’s sad that I’ve yet you see you censure some of the utter abuse posters take on here day in day out, and have yet to offer any comment on The Donald/Kojo’s previous for racism and current fondness for oblique and not so oblique abuse of time served posters. Of course, it’s ‘only jokin’, unless you’re on the receiving end.
More than a club? Only in the sense we’re now nothing more than a corporate vehicle. A vehicle backed vociferously by you. You’re a wolf in sheets clothing. You’ve weaponised the once magnificent CQN for the ends of Lawwell and the venture capitalists.
No gods, no masters, anarchy is order.
/p
Can anyone in a simple sentence tell me what the best realistic outcome we can expect from any progress on the Res 12 issue ?
Serious question, how will we get benefit from the outcome if celtic or anyone did get traction on this ?
Realistically !
And how petty and small will it look to the wider watching football world ….. If anyone really gives a toss ?
Burnley78
Five Golden Rings.
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree:)
Cheer Up
HH
Celtic Mac-I think Celtic could do so much more through their own media. Celtic TV could be funded on a Sky channel through subscription or an extra tenner on a Season Ticket,online radio station etc. I used to watch Liverpool TV when it was free view,every 2nd advert was for golf trips to Ireland,a wee bit of imagination required IMO HH
Burnley78…
The best sponsorship deals ever ( I can remember when we couldn’t get anyone to sponsor us ) .
Best ever? Have you ever looked around you at the damage alcohol and betting have caused in Scotland? Have you ever thought that maybe no amount of money is worth the pain and suffering that Celtic’s promotion of these to the vulnerable and to children will cause? Best ever? I’ll pass on the 30 pieces of silver.
If a seat at the top table is only reserved for those who take the shilling of these scum? No thanks. I’d rather the shirt was bereft of a sponsor than having these leeches on it.
/p
Surely the way to deal with the gutter press is simple. The cover price goes nowhere near covering the cost of wages, production, distribution etc. They depend on advertising revenue the amount of which depends on circulation figures. The more these drop the more likely publication ceases just like tomorrow’s edition of the “New Day”
The only ones that I feel sorry for are the ordinary workers not the harlot “journalists”.
If you must read the racing tips use the bokies copy.
Don’t phone into biased radio programmes. Instead complain to Bauer Radio PLC about the bias including the “goat from Ballymote”
If Celtic supporters are not prepared to take the necessary action then squealing on a blog ain’t going to do it IMHO. HH
P8DDY
I tried all that, pointed out the increase in domestic violence at that bigot pound semi recently.
A total waste of time.
The reality is, that the PLC will be raking in bonuses, while Celtic supporters are being stitched up in the Royal Infirmary.
Shame on them.
HH
AULDHEID on 5TH MAY 2016 1:44 PM
‘they would face censure’
From whom?
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‘On the same club issue they simply have no locus’
So which club can currently claim to be, at least in domestic terms, the most successful in Scotland, ie to have the most honours?
Does such an accolade have an economic value, does it increase the amount of goodwill attaching to a club, does it help generate advertising and sponsorship, does it help attract and retain fans?
Do the Celtic board not have an obligation to the shareholders to establish and protect something that rightly belongs to the Club?
And would that obligation not give them a locus, a right and a title to pursue the SFA, the SPFL or whoever, to establish the truth?
Hi Paul67,
The answer to your first competition should be easy for me – I was born that day, in the Belvedere, no less!
BURNLEY78 on 5TH MAY 2016 3:05 PM
Can anyone in a simple sentence tell me what the best realistic outcome we can expect from any progress on the Res 12 issue ?
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A moral victory on a point of principle on a matter which, it would be argued (and accepted by the Celtic Board no doubt) was all in the past.
By which time the same club myth would have been allowed to become established fact.
How is it Celtic’s fault if we are drawn to play THEM?
It would be nice if some rich supporter were to provide money for eg Mary’s Meals to adorn our shirts. No sponsorship means less money to spend on the team – and then there would be those demanding that we spend big for better quality. I have qualms about advertising drink and gambling but no one is forced to do such things. It would be desirable to have unadorned Celtic strips but even Barcelona submitted to market pressures.
P8DDY I can understand your frustration with things but would suggest that you review your attack on our genial host. Is he not equally entitled to express his views on his blog without accusations of misdeeds?? HH
P8DDY on 5TH MAY 2016 3:09 PM
Which do you think would be the most popular choice if you gave all of the support the following choice:
1) an ethical sponsor or charity on the shirt;
2) £5M more in the transfer budget.
The point of course, is that most fans just don’t really care. The majority don’t care about Res 12 or LNS. The majority don’t really care that much about PL and DD. The majority are quite happy to see TRFC in the SPL.
Social media creates a bubble where you read, agree with and follow people of a similar mind and ppl end up believing their issues are far more common and supported than they really are.
An unscientific survey of 5 supporters in my office (with various amounts of online engagement) revealed that only two had even the slightest idea what Res 12 was, and one of them wasn’t really bothered about it.
Another day the same shyte on here. Res12, Magners, Dafabet, Manager, Playing Squad, Pedro’s Bonus complain complain complain. Who needs Level 5.
Celtic Supporters aye right.
Burnley 78
How about the satisfaction of knowing that folk who are tempted to cheat you will be deterred by the possibility of being found out?
How about the satisfaction of knowing the folk who are supposed to protect you from such behaviour know their job and responsibilities and meet them because they are accountable if they don’t?
How about feeling that what you are coughing up to watch is real sport governed by rules observed by all?
How about the STs not lost as a result?
There’s more but ask BRTH.
Yes unfortunately there are idiots at all clubs. One person I know was so disgusted by these pictures that he posted them on Facebook. He was quick to describe those responsible as “Vermin” which, personally I wouldn’t disagree with ,although,lacking a decent upbringing is probably closer to the mark. When I pointed out to him that he’d continuously tried points scoring be calling Celtic”Bheasts” and making paedophile remarks everytime a discussion about his clubs history was taking place he became very defensive. I asked him if he was supporting the victims by his statements or trying to keep their story in the public eye? or was he using their pain for his enjoyment? After telling him he’d more in common with the vandals than he realised I was deleted from his friends list. Good riddance I say.
I’v said it before and I’ll say it again, the SMSM, and level5, just love, James Forrest, Phil Mac, the CT, and all the negative Celtic (so called) supporters, I’v been saying it for months, and thems over in the west end of the city being ran by a cabal and they’r supporters backing the club to the hilt, and trusting they’r board, says it all, the malcontents just can’t help it, does James Forrest think he can just write any thing he likes about CFC, and some won’t agree with him? You need to get out more James, maybe even go to a Celtic game, a low blow? Well? You started it.
Sandman. If I am a level 5 plant then it shows remarkable foresight for the, to plant someone on a blog long before level 5 was even thought about.
Auldheid. What recommendation would you make right now to those considering renewing or not renewing their season books?
Weeminger
The reason few know about Res12 and why it matters is that is the way Celtic wanted it handled.
Ask that question of 100 people in a room after its explained what took place and why it matters and I’d be surprised if the ” not caring” was above 25.
As an experiment BRTH showed a few folk ONE letter and 100% went wtf!
Res12 need never have become the issue it has and that is most certainly not down to those who raised it.
TD67
And where do you get all your information then?
You want to talk about a cabal…well there is none bigger than the one at CP, ran by DD and PL.
You just sound like a stooge.
You dont understand Celtic supporters.
Ive said it before…if you are the best mouthpiece the PLC have got…then they have really lost the plot.
What exposes you….is your attitude to Res 12.
You slated it from all angles, and gave grief to all the Res 12 bhoys…..for months.
Now you are sneakily trying to position yourself as some kind of Res 12 guru.
See right through you.
owen on 5th May 2016 1:17 am
As for Sydneytim you are an ass of the highest order, a few years back you bandied accusations of criminality by Peter Lawell about now you accuse the guy who founded this site of corruption. Simple manners are beyond you never mind intelligent debate.
*awe c’mon Owen he did stand out in the rain at tannadice while all his mates took shelter and he has hundreds of mates around the world that have seen every player we are linked with and all happen to be duds. He should change his nom de plume tae Mary Mary How Contrary. My heart goes out tae “macjay1 for Neil Lennon” as he probably has tae sit with him watching games, must feel like stickin his heid in the oven.
BTW, ST might be a great guy but he’s not a Celtic supporter he’s a Celtic detractor, he’s not like most of us on here delighted with a victory but is on “delighted” when we lose.
Auldheid. What recommendation would you make right now to those considering renewing or not renewing their season books?
With no great disrespect but why would I be waiting on what Auldheid would be recommending? On whether or not to renew my season ticket? Someone make him a leader? Did I miss something? Like all of us I’m sure the man has his opinion and that like the rest of us he is entitled to, but as for recommending I doubt if he has a position to make any, then again, as I said maybe I missed the meeting?
P8ddy
It is alcohol abuse which causes the damage not alcohol.
I enjoy a glass of wine or a Gin or a Whisky most nights and have never had any domestic incidents such as you suggest.
Magners on a shirt does not make any one drink more often. It may make
Folk drink magnets instead of Bulmers or some other brand.
If magners have a marketing budget it will be spent whether on celtic or whatever.
AULDHEID on 5TH MAY 2016 3:38 PM
I’m not disagreeing with that at all.
My main point was that most people aren’t active online, and they don’t really give as much thought to the issues that are daily trotted out as bones of contention, as many that are active online would hope.
!!bada bing!!
Likewise Celtic TV on Setanta a while back. I agree we could do a whole lot more with the vehicles we already have, but despite relevant experience on board we do not seem to have exploited an area where we appear to have some expertise. BRTH has covered this extensively. But think about my main point, we were the first club, in Britain at least to publish our own weekly paper, and we could read first hand the thoughts of our manager, or whoever. The Celtic View? Where can I find that?
TONTINE TIM
Bit of a statement that.
Show me where ST has ever said he is’ delighted’ if Celtic lose.
Name me one poster who has expressed that view.
HH
The green man
Where I get my information stays with me, you keep bumping your gums all you want, moi on the other hand have been told what’s going on, and it stays with me, your in for a shock, let’s leave it at that.
P8DDY on 5TH MAY 2016 3:09 PM
Burnley78…
And I will second that.
Burnley, Stop talking sense, it doesn’t go down well here.