So how many of us checked the fixture schedule a month or so back and thought, “We can win the league on the St Patrick’s Day weekend”? Then came Motherwell and Ross County, now we will do well to win the league on the same date as Gordon Strachan’s team did in 2006. This seems to exercise Neil Lennon more than me. I’ll take the win anytime, although where it’s won is far more important.
Having said that, anything other than a victory tomorrow would be a sign of something gone wrong. Aberdeen have been wretched in recent months and the Celtic players have benefited from a rare free midweek, allowing rest and preparation. They will also have more than sufficient feedback on last week’s capitulation to ensure muscles are itching to go.
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Scotland.A police state.Get use to it guys Salmond’s Scotland.
What I propose is concrete action.
Not whingeing about the failure of our enemies to come to our aid or about the inaction of those who are paid to represent the interests of others.
I’m pretty sure it’s not (all) taxpayers money paying for all these police.
It will be Celtic fans money as they are buying tickets and Celtic are being billed for matchday policing?
McTall
Fair play to you coming on here and offering an opinion. Always good to hear both sides. I agree, looks ridiculously OTT to me. Was anyone else in the same crowd as me at Chelsea a few summers ago when we were kettled outside Fulham Broadway? Made my blood boil.
St.John.Doyle @14:01 the cosy arrangement and politicisation of the Lord Advocate’ s role was put in place by New Labour.
This is a debate about what is happening to the Green Brigade. Using it as an opportunity to snipe at your pet hates lowers the tone and contributes nothing.
I’ve no wish to offend you.
GOOGY if I knew you wre going to Glasgow I’d a postponed my trip and gone ” hacking” over north Manc way lol
Enjoy the game amigo
Hail hail and spare a thought for the cyclists in this bloody weather
I expect a good few of us already knew Minty treated Scottish football as part of his business and not an entity independent from his business .
His control of the media planting his people in the SFA and now teeing up coaches for SPL jobs only proves he set the agenda here
All those favours he could call basically meant he ruled Scottish football
We are looking at corruption on a massive scale my fellow Celts and don’t give up the good fight until we bring the whole rotten lot of them to book
there’s a new team on the telly now – playing against elgin, they’re holding out quite well – nil all- concerned about the cardiovascular health of the manager though
This won’t end well. This intimidation will escalate.
There will be physical insult and this will not end well.
My hopes go out to the Green Brigade. Please keep yourselves safe.
Not just today but in the coming weeks.
Hail Hail
T
Paul67 et al
“Kettling” is a technique used by the Nazis against Jews in Warsaw. It was attempted by the Metropolitan Police in Trafalgar Square in 1990, to intimidate those protesting against the Poll Tax. It failed on that occasion. It is similar to the tactic used by Thatcher against the miners in 1984-5. It has been used regularly by both Tory and Labour governments against, in no particular order, students protesting against fees, public sector Trade Unions, and protesters against arms exhibitions in London. It has also been judged legal by the European court of Human Rights, in March 2012, ruling against demonstrators kettled for over six hours in Oxford Circus, May 1, 2001. That ruling however was over Article 5, the Right to Liberty, but not Article 11, the Freedom of Assembly and Association, and it appears that that is what being restricted today in Glasgow.
naibalance on for everton
Keep the focus on the culprits. Equating the police behaviour today to our future as a nation is lazy.
And predictable.
I would have thought that something so blatant was open to legal challenge – are there any Tim friendly briefs out there willing to take this up?
Celtic First, the term I believe is kettling where they block off side roads and funnel groups together for easier control but it is a public order technique used for large scale group disturbances not a small group who have shown no signs of violence, I’ve never seen a group herd that closely together with a ring around them that close, but i’ve been gone for 10 years so some things may have changed but trust me when I tell you this the large majority of the cops there will be as mortified that they’re being forced to do this as we are. NOt all of them are part of the zombie herd.
The picture from the Gallowgate show police looking for reaction ,an absolute
disgrace.Hope none of the young ones fall for it……..saying that they don’t have to do much
to get lifted this weather.
RE Calderwood and the ’03 title
I had the privilege of representing a client a few years back who is very well known and comes from the six counties ( big PF knows the chap).
We had a long chat about lots of things prior to his case calling. On learning my Celtic sympathies he told me a story about that game, which he had direct from the mouth Jimmy Nichol, then Calderwood’s no 2.
Nichol was quite open about the laying down to the horribles. He told my man that the management had allowed the players to have their end of season night out with as much drink as they could handle on the Thursday before the game and , forebye, that Dunfermline had laid on a Spanish break for the team with the plane leaving direct from Glasgow Airport immediately after the game.
Shameless.
Of course, big Sutty was public enemy number 1 with the poodles for having the temerity to call it as he saw it (and fined by the blazers!) and then Dunfy Chairman Yorkston hero material for having been so unjustly villified.
Plus ca change, but it’s interesting Tango feels free to air the sordid details now. I wonder if something’s afoot.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)
I think football is on death row in this country given today’s events and those ridiculous decisions made by the football authorities and ‘learned gentlemen’ over the last year or so.
On another point, why is it always Elgin or Annan? Are there only 3 teams in the third division?
Finally, I see dead team is live on TV for the umpteenth time while the champions are not.
Depressed.
Celtic Mac kettling is legal and necessary under certain circumstances. But not every circumstance. It has to be justified in every case.
As fa as I am aware the GB have never threatened the general public nor threatened to do so. It may be the police have knowledge to the contrary. In which case it should be made public.
The GB must make us aware if they know of any conceivable reason, from a police point of view, that could be used to justify this treatment.
Celtic should be asking the police why a section of their fans are seen as such a danger to public safety and property. They must be a huge threat to the public due to the level of policing surrounding their ‘march’ today. Yet I cannot recall them being involved in acts of violence or intimidation.
Now thats what I call snowflakes!!!
Cheers Gincher, I just get bothered when some on here go on like the polis are some massive team of Zombies in uniform, when clearly there are thoosands of good Tims in the job too, it not an easy job and i’ve already seen some tweets from folk at the gallowgate saying the polis they’re speaking too think it’s massive overkill too. This is the management particularly House just being his usual dick self. I’ve been out of it for 10 year in Scotland and everyone I still know in the job says he’s an utter bufoon.
Just been told my bhoy’s been arrested for resisting arrest in the said Kettling techique, how very Kafkaesque.
Stonewaller at Elgin elbows nets!!
gallagher
What age is he??
McTall
It may well be the first time kettling has been used in Glasgow, possibly even Scotland. Not quite surrounding George Square with the Army, but a step back in that direction.
St Patrick festival in Coatbridge not off to a great start weather wise!! :o(
gallagher
sorry to hear that. It looks like they are achieving what they set out to do today. This wasn’t about stopping a corteo, once again it’s harassment and provocation and getting a reaction when they have the power on the day to do something about it. No doubt a police assault will be thrown in for good measure. I despair.
Incredible admission from Calderwood, not anything we have never suspected but for him to actually put his foot in it is incredible. Chris Sutton was right. and despite Minty’s nefarious influence we STILL managed to win more than they did!
As for the police treatment of the GB, an utter disgrace. What possible justification can they have for kettling peaceful fans on their way to a football match? All I see is a police force intent on causing trouble
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CELTIC (4-4-2) Forster; Lustig, Ambrose, Wilson, Izaguirre; Kayal, Mulgrew, Ledley, Commons; Hooper, Stokes
Subs: Zaluska, Lassad, Rogne, Rogic, Atajic, McGeouch, Samaras
Ntassoola
I do not think kettling is legal, the ECHR did, or rather it did not breach the complainants right to liberty. Kettling always involves intimidation and violence, usually with police shields but also as at Westminster Bridge in December 2012, (the day of the vote to increase tuition fees to £9000) the use of batons. Does anyone know if the Glasgow Police took details from the Green Brigade as they released them?
hurting vile scum – a police state would be good – an orange sectarian unchallenged hating scum authority not so good
Absolute disgraceful treatment of Green Brigade, I despair for the
direction this country is taking.
Hoping for a comfortable victory today. Stokesy and Hoops for
a goal fest,
Hail Hail
Not long back after picking Mrs Tally up from the airport, and just catching up with what has been going on in Glasgow between the GB and the Strathclyde Stasi.
Utterly shameful!
If the club do not come out and make a statement about this then I despair.
HH!!
The club don’t care about the GB. So long as the suits in the corporate seats are happy.
Samaras is Zeus