Speaking to Sky Sports on Sunday, Martin O’Neill denied he had any legacy at Celtic to worry about, too modest by far. When he walked around Hampden after the 2005 Scottish Cup Final we knew the most impactful manager since Jock Stein, whom O’Neill referenced on Sunday, was leaving us to an uncertain future.
That parting was bitter sweet. A week earlier a calamitous performance at Motherwell saw the league title slip away in the dying minutes of the game. A squad which lost Henrik Larsson a year earlier looked more than a tad unfit. Celtic’s squad was too old, cost millions more than our income could pay for and needed an overhaul.
It is incomprehensible that Martin has enhanced his considerable Celtic legacy since returning as manager in October. A league challenge which was dented by defeats to Dundee and Hearts is back on track, as are our Europa League progression chances. Players who were regarded as bit parts have delivered, and in Callum Osmand we even got a glimpse of an exciting young talent. It is as though we were being driven around in a Honda Civic, and upgraded to a Ferrari.
Football fans want the fairytale ending. This didn’t happen for Martin in 2005, his victory lap at Hampden was mostly with head bowed, still shaken from the previous week. There will be a heightened appetite among the crowd for the win tomorrow night to allow the great man to say his farewells in appropriate style. No matter how much you or I want the win, Martin will want it more.
203 Comments- Pages:
- «
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- »
that was another excellent martin presser.
he is the master at that game
We’re now firmly in the habit of releasing statements reporting accusations as fact.
“Two members of the Green Brigade, who regularly represent the group at safety/operational meetings with the Club’s staff, approached the Club’s Head of Safety & Security Operations prior to the Club’s AGM and directly threatened him and sought to intimidate him.”
——————————————————————
Section 38 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 addresses threatening or abusive behavior that is likely to cause fear or alarm to a reasonable person.
I totally agree that such criminal behaviour should be dealt with according, and cannot be defended, imo.
Disappointing to read “whataboutery” posts in relation to this. I’d hope all law-abiding, reasonable posters would condemn such criminal behaviour. To fail to condemn could be viewed as condoning…
HH
It’s possible members of the GB could take a case to challenge these suspensions.
That would be quite the achievement, a football club getting sued by a former manager and fans.
What’s the chances of a few doors getting kicked in at 6 in the morning, what a coincidence that would be…..
B2B- Thanks for reply, but disagree, a Club has a Duty of Care to all inside a stadium, we know the cowards on the Board, will always say nothing to defend our supporters, both home and abroad. The making representations stuff doesn’t wash, and achieves nothing.
—————————————————————
Your use of “we”” is a bit presumptuous, imo. You certainly do not speak for all Celtic fans in accusing our board of always saying nothing to defend our supporters.
Did our club not refuse tickets at Ibrox when the safety of our own supporters was repeatedly threatened?
Maybe you missed that?
HH
‘Incoming Celtic boss Wilfried Nancy will finally arrive in Glasgow tonight as he gets set to take over the reins at Parkhead.
Record Sport understands Nancy will touch down in Scotland on Tuesday evening as he prepares to be unveiled as Brendan Rodgers’ permanent successor. And the Frenchman could be in the stands for Wednesday night’s clash at home to Dundee – before making his dugout bow in Sunday’s top-of-the-table clash with Hearts.
Nancy, 48, and Hoops chiefs have been finalising paperwork after the appointment was delayed by red tape. However, Nancy is now expected to be officially announced as the club’s new manager in the next 48 hours, ending the club’s five-week search for a new manager.”
Gerry- that was a compliance issue,netting not installed in time
Chairbhoy….for all my opinion is worth, I would say there is zero chance that Brendan is speaking to lawyers or considering legal action.
I have a number of reasons to believe that’s what he’d do.
I also think JKs situation was/is completely different from Brendan’s.
Like everyone else, I haven’t a Scrooby but I’m almost certain on both fronts.
Phillips Clement suing Sevco is totally different and probably true.
NOT what he’d do
Scooby not Scrooby
Havin a mare here
serious question.
are there any modern examples of fan collectives forcing regime change at a club ?
Bada @ 8:07
Gerry- that was a compliance issue,netting not installed in time
—————————————————————-
A textbook whitaboutery response (imo).
1) Do you agree that the lack of netting may be a cause of concern regarding the safety and welfare of our supporters?
2) Do you agree that Celtic refusing tickets in such circumstances could be construed as the club saying something to defend our supporters?
Yes or no answers are acceptable.
HH
Gerry, you are obviously 100% correct
An Dún on 2nd December 2025 6:58 pm
Desmond’s statement had the look of a teen affronted at being dumped and determined to get their story in first.
…….
How will we every know from a club run by Tory liars and a supporter base full of cliques who’d throw they’re grannies into a krankie care home and then they’d lie they’re glib erchies aff about they’re complicity in the heart-breaking outcome?
Bring back the piss flowing Jungle ASAP!
What a time to be alive!
HH
oot.
Burnley,
Same shit all the time from you regards the Kairat results.You know,yes we should have gone through,and would have if Maeda does not miss a sitter near the end.
Their results in the Comp.
Beaten 4-1 in Portugal to Sporting
Beaten 5-0 to Real Madrid,
Drew 0-0 with Parks,who are doing very well.
Beaten 2-1 by INTER,in Milan
Beaten 3-2 by Copenhagen away.
Would you think the Team BR would have been forced to play,would have done any better?.
How about:
Lou Macari bought Wayne Biggins just as Fergus McCann “remotely” had a word with certain Celtic “legend” players, BONNER, BOYD, GRANT, McSTAY, NICHOLAS, to down tools and get Lou the sack, and he’ll replace him with your old pal and yeez can be a happy clique again?????????
Biggins in vs 5 Players lying down on the pitch.
Who could make that work?
Well they got rid of Lou and made themselves AND wee sleekit McCann look like a bunch of erchies for the next 3 years gifting the Huns 9 in a row, which for me, Lou would have stopped a Hun 9 in a row.
Just look at how wee sleekit McCann treated the manager who replaced Lou.
And the next one!
WIM JANSEN RIP.
Eye!
5 Titles to Rangers from wee hero McCann.
What a Legend. lol
HH
oot.
Pafos.
The rags saying Nancy arrives tonight
Watching Trump force his Admin.and Pet Poodles in the Justice Dept.to try and punish people he has a grudge against,I am wondering just what that reminds me off ,a lot closer to home.
🤔🤔
Bada,
Oh well,that should give him plenty of time to set up for the weekend.
The Criminality of the last 5 years CONFIRMED.
You REALLY need to see this!
A retired ex-Police constable saw that something was not adding up when the Government rolled out the C19 scam in 2020.
So he started digging and used his contacts, resources, etc, to help the concerned citizens around about him in his daily life.
What he found was SHOCKING!
A Government ENFORCED Cover up of mass murder of British/Irish/European/American/etc Citizens.
Well done good Cop.
Fist port of call was in Scotland and:
_____
• A UK-wide blanket instruction existed to block the recording and investigation of vaccine-related criminal allegations, confirmed by Police Scotland’s Speirs Directive and corroborated by NPCC internal communications.
https://x.com/EthicalApproach/status/1995375254152073237#m
If you knew that something was utterly wrong over the past 5 years, but could not quite put the bits of the jigsaw together, the ex-Police Constable’s findings will make you jump oot the windae.
But pass it on before you do.
What a fkn disaster!
HH
oot.
Bada,
Shurely shum mishtake.Celtic Board would have let the fans know,before The Record.
SHURELY !!!!!!!
I think you are elucidating something i have long suspected.
They call it a rivalry. They sell it as a war. They package up the hatred and dish it out every other week like a product. And we buy it.
We always buy it.
But step back and look at the mechanics of the thing. It’s not a war. A war has a winner and a loser. This is something else. This is a controlled burn. Celtic Park isn’t just a stadium; it’s the control room. And the dial they’re most careful with is the one labelled “Rangers’ Viability.”
Turn it up too high, invest real wealth, build a side that could truly compete in Europe, not just this wee, rain-lashed league—and you risk it. You kill the competition. You turn a two-horse race into a one horse procession. And what happens then? The TV cameras get bored. The Sky money dries up. The sponsor’s cheque gets smaller. The whole grisly, gold-tinged spectacle starts to look like what it is: a big fish in a small pond.
So the board, our board, plays a longer game.
It’s not about winning decisively; it’s about winning sustainably.
Sustainably for whom? For the ecosystem. For The Old Firm.
We’ll sell a key player just when we look unstoppable. We’ll “consolidate” rather than conquer. We’ll point to the balance sheet as a trophy. We’ll hobble our own potential with a “prudent” signing policy, all while waving a Champions League participation medal as proof of ambition. It’s a magic trick. The ambition is to stay exactly where we are: on top, but never out of sight.
And who does that serve? It serves the men in the soft leather chairs who don’t feel the cold of the terracing. It serves Dermot Desmond.
He’s taken around: £8 million from the club in 20 years.
To you and me, that’s a transformational sum.
That’s the kind of money that could buy the spine of a team, that could fund a proper academy, that could be the difference between a plucky defeat and a historic win in Europe. To him? It’s pocket lint. It’s a rounding error on his global portfolio. But that’s not the point.
The point is the principle. The club is not a passion; it’s an asset. A remarkably reliable one. It’s a cash cow that requires just enough feed to keep it healthy and producing, but not so much that it gets ideas above its station. The money must flow – from the fans’ pockets, through the TV deals, and out into the dividends and the share values that keep the large shareholders content. The rivalry, our passion, our tribal identity, is simply the engine that drives that pump.
Rangers aren’t our rivals; they’re our necessary counterweight. Their survival is as crucial to the Celtic PLC business model as our own. Letting them die is bad for business. Beating them 5-0 every week is bad for business. The sweet spot is a tight title race, with the plucky rangers tailing off in Februaryl, that keeps everyone hooked and paying.
So we don’t have a football club anymore. We have a utility. A privately-owned utility that generates sentimental nostalgia and reliable revenue in equal measure. We are the fuel for the Dead Circuit, powering a closed loop where the real victory isn’t lifted on a Saturday, but tallied on a spreadsheet on Monday morning.
The tragedy isn’t that rangers are kept afloat. The tragedy is that Celtic are held back to do it. And the only people who win are the ones who never have to sing in the rain.
Brother Wilfried……
Al jazeera
Hillsborough disaster
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/2/report-finds-widespread-police-failings-over-uks-hillsborough-disaster
HH
Maolmuire O Muirgheasa on 2nd December 2025 9:01 pm
Best post I’ve read on here for many a year
Saint Stivs on 2nd December 2025 8:14 pm
serious question.
are there any modern examples of fan collectives forcing regime change at a club ?
==========
The whole spat between our club and the GB section made me think of Western Sydney Wanderers’ persistent run-ins with their RBB (Red and Black Bloc). As animated as the Bloc were, the club banned them for a while but there’s now an uneasy truce. However, WSW the club haven’t changed their regime but were in regular firefighting mode against the naughty antics of the RBB.
==========
Maolmuire O Muirgheasa on 2nd December 2025 9:01 pm – very good summary.
MAOLMUIRE O MUIRGHEASA on 2ND DECEMBER 2025 9:01 PM
—————————
top top Blogging 👏👏👏👏
I think stock exchange needs to be informed once all work permits are sorted.
Turkey
Yes we would have beaten Pafos at home if we had a decent manager who had identified / aligned with his recruitment team and motivated the squad properly.
We may also have sneaked a point elsewhere eg at a poor Lisbon side. They did get a tough draw to be fair.
Nostradamus has appeared.
When ‘rage bait’ was chosen as the ‘word’ of year by the Oxford folks the reaction for most of the rest of us was ..Aw Naw there’s two o’ em.
There was a few other close contenders though, Collins picked “vibe-coding”, which is pretty lame, and the Cambridge went for “parasocial” when “paralytic” might have worked better with those who take this kind of stuff seriously.
But there was one, which has its’ roots in Liverpool which attempts to convey just how bad things have got, and can get, primarily football related, as in Slot’s bad run of results but it could catch on in places like er Glasgow….
“How bad is it?” …….”Brendan Bad”
“How bad are things @ Celtic Pete?” asked Dermot…”Bad Dermot……Brendan Bad”
“Leave it to me…..”
I’d expect the club to report the 2 GB spoke-persons to the police , cancel their season tickets , and lifetime ban them from the ground. GB can’t see the handwriting on the wall , there will be a reversal of policy and the standing section will be returned to seating.
There is perhaps only a short interval for peace to break out , but it will require GB to apologise , taking down inflammatory social media content , 2 spokesmen will need to be collateral damage but once everything is settled they will be allowed back on season ticket waiting list.
Suspect the GB are using the ‘unrest’ to play Billy big baws but it’s going to backfire on them.
HH
Robertson again for the 5th time in the league this season v hearts on Sunday
Think Aitken on var too, he’s the knob who reviewed Hibs ” penalty “
Yes,find peoplle guilty before proven guilty.The CQN Diplock Court in full voice tonight.Well done.
MOM,
😇😇😇,brilliant,but wasted on here.Too many Board butt kissers on here.Don’t let them wear you down though.
I wonder if the banned GB tickets could be resold to fans on waiting list ?