Make what you wish of Strathclyde Police reporting Celtic fans for “illicit chanting” to a Uefa match observer in October, the bottom line is that Uefa have fined Celtic €15,000 (around £12,700), established a benchmark for future action and more importantly sullied the club’s reputation.
Job done by those who wanted this confrontation to happen.
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Henr1k
Tell your hun pals that at least when they got done for sectarianism they knew what they had done,btw I’d still like to know why you think Scott Brown has only had one good game for Celtic?
oglach UFB: 13 December, 2011 at 11:57
“Glasgow Hibernian Est Tues 13 Dec 2011 (Formally known as Glasgow Celtic)”
We are still Celtic and always will be. Board members come and go – Celtic remain.
tell uefa to go take a flyin dangleberry to themselves.
re the celitc board…today you took away another part of the clubs soul
its quickly becoming no my club anymore under this board of hun appeasers
Well said, JF @12:00
Sums it up neatly.
I wonder what the club’s founding fathers would make of it all … ?
Just where is this going to end?
FF
Divide and conquer Bhoys , theres a pattern emerging.
Shoulder to Shoulder
Hail Hail
I have been posting on here for many a year and have never knocked the board or the team (NEVER)….I am now at a total loss with this board…Pls God take care of our own…..
BMCUW,
that was not an attack, you know an attack when you see one :o)
that is a rather good description of him and his ilk, their middle class boorish bigotry is a hard fact, for some reason they believe only working class people can be bigots.
They believe that the passion of the Celtic support can work in a sanitised environment, this is the begining of the end. The huns are laying traps all over the place and this idiot board just keep leading the club into them. The huns are dying and they are taking us with them.
I could never unite under the banner of appeasement, sorry pal, who could you trust to watch your back ??
Aw Naw – FB mesage to you mate.
So was Phil right about our board then? If so, then I think he is due an apology from some posters!
Why should we continue to be surprised by the actions our OF board?
Not illicit, just complicit in the criminalisation of the Celtic support?!
I’m pretty sure most fans want an end to any songs relating to the PIRA, but helping a politicised Police force criminalise sections of the support is not the way to deal with the issue.
Add this to the ridiculously poor financial performance over the last three years, the idea of an OF game in the States, the joint commercial ventures, etc. – you really could be forgiven in thinking that a HUN was steering our club….!
T4
Ohits @ 12:06
Yep.
Steinreignedsupreme says:
13 December, 2011 at 12:02
Glasgow Hibernian Est Tues 13 Dec 2011 (Formally known as Glasgow Celtic)
We are still Celtic and always will be. Board members come and go – Celtic remain.
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I pray so however this board, more than previous Juntas, seem hell bent on sanitising Celtic of anything remotely Irish that is apart from a cursory mention that we were founded by some Irish who left poor old Ireland and found a welcoming home in Scotland.
Serge says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:57
The word “Tink” comes from a worker of Tin, a gypsy traveller, get yourself educated out of yer racism.
oglach UFB,
Enjoy your new team. Celtic will always be my team, one open to all, not just the Irish, which was our founder’s greatest gift to us.
thomthethim says:
13 December, 2011 at 12:01
greenjedi says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:36
I have been in Duffy’s, or the Glue Pot, as it was once nicknamed; but it was never my local.
I followed my father in law into Sharkey’s, when I first came to this land and stayed there, more or less.
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Been going in both since I was wee, Sharkeys after Mass and Duffys because they had a Pool table (one without enough room around it though) and Seamus was a close friend of my Dad. Next time your in Sharkeys the Charlie Tully portrait was given to Michael & Joe by my Dad, even though it was actually mine and he only mentioned it after he gave them it.
Shame on the Celtic PLC.
Looks like Phil was 100% correct.
My Celtic is being destroyed slowly from within.
PLC Cowards 1 and all.
MWD sick of the Green Huns running our club.
All of Celtic are under attack from the MSM, SNP & the Police and that includes the board too. The board were in a lose-lose situation and I believe took the decision which would cause least damage. We have just got ourselves back into the title race and have already strengthened (Lustig) and are looking to strengthen further with Diawara. Time for unity as we have many battles ahead – the huns are going under and their future is in our hands. The boards BIGGEST decision ever will be upon us soon and they MUST banish them to division 3 obscurity.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:50
I think we’ve gathered you’re in the anti board brigade, and you’ve done a lot of predicting lately.
Unfortunately it seems you retain the inability to understand posts, other than your own.
Phil does deserve an apology.
Important point.
This Celtic Board have let the support down in a way that is unforgiveable.
Just how far have they gone in Operation Save the Hun????
here we go criticise Peter Lawwell = comment from celtic40me
Reluctant as I am to engage with you, as I see little point in having a debate with someone who already has a pre-determined position, the reason for my views on Lawwell, and the PLC board he represents, is the ambiguity in which they are dealing with this issue.
Let me first say that I am no supporter of an uncensored songbook at Celtic Park. Having sat with a close friend, who had sat up all night awaiting a phonecall, as she received the news confirming her young cousin had been killed in the Omagh bombing I am uncomfortable with certain parts of the songbook. Not that I should need to but it’s worth pointing out that this was a Celtic supporting friend, whose brother is a Sinn Fein councillor and who is from a family of republicans.
I commented that Lawwell is spineless, I stand by that comment. If there was a specific comment or add-on that led to the UEFA charge he has to come out and state it, then perhaps the support would not be so enraged or upset. People need to know what is acceptable and unacceptable.
We cannot embrace our Irish heritage and the Green Brigade for commercial purposes, but condemn them on the other hand. To do so is hypocritical. If the club do not consider the Wolfetones songbook to be appropriate , then why allow them to record on the pitch ? Or is it only some of the songbook we are happy with.
The board need to show some clarity on this.
Peter Lawwell has today confirmed what many of us have thought for some time. The man is spineless. Anyone who had any doubt that this board will choose to keep the Huns alive, in whatever format, I trust you have no more doubts.
The club are happy to play “Let the People Sing” and the “Fields of Athenry” over the tannoy, these songs are viewed by our enemies as the same as any other pro-Irish song. The Wolfetones have recorded on the pitch at Celtic Park. No-one has yet said what songs are offensive and what aren’t ?
Shall we have to remove the statue of Brother Walfrid next, as religion has no place in football ?
Parkheadcumsalford @ 12:11
Why on earth would you make such an attack on him?
Did he say anything that justifies your attack on him as if he’s a bigot??!?
just a thought……………………….
for celtic/the board/PL to accept the fine and charge he must know what it was for and for which particular song that was sung at the game, surely he should be explaining his decision to the support….
makes sense tae me.
Just read the board’s statement regarding the UEFA Fine.
I will see this season out and then they can ram their season ticket, up their sterilised, corporate erse!!
HH
Given Lawwell & Co have accepted their slap on the wrists, can we assume they now know what chants were ‘illicit’?
What chance they will let the supporters know?
That’s it ,I’m giving up.
The club has been hit with a 15.000 Euro fine,we have lost
a bit of pride ,bugger it I’m walking away.
The huns will lap this up ,just when their mingin empire is
crumbling , some of our fans want to walk away and weaken us.
There will be no wars in the future,hit one side with a small fine,
and they will simply surrender .
Parkheadcumsalford says:
13 December, 2011 at 12:11
This is not an attack on the Irish, it is not an attack on Catholics, and more so than it is an attack on our culture… it is a capitulation by a Celtic Board in contempt of principle. The question that needs asking is why? Why did Celtic roll over? Why did Celtic allow every Celtic supporter the world over to be smeared? All they had to do was ask the Support UNEQUIVOCALLY and the Support would have seen the club right.
Meltdown.
kikinthenakas:
They accepted the fine in OUR name….
Sorry if already been asked,not scrolled back yet.
“We would like to thank our supporters for their magnificent conduct since the match against Rennes. We are proud of the fantastic and positive reputation we have established across Europe over many years, and the Club and our fans will be doing all we can to ensure that this is protected.” PL
How can you protect our reputation and ask us to stop the chants when,
a) you’re not appealing the bloody fine?
b) we don’t know exactly what it’s for?
Can ANYONE on here tell me how this protects us?
brimmer
Ohits,
job done,
stand shoulder to shoulder with who ??
The board – that shower have already spent the last 3 years stabbing the support in the back.
Green huns – telling you your opinion is invalid, because they agree with the board ?
As I said, jobs done, the board are now well on the way to killing all passion, looks like all inclusive is no longer the case, pitty, Neil Lennon had to watch over our demise as well as the hun eh.
It is my opinion that Celtic PLC have colluded/orchestrated this whole shebang.
This belief may be unfounded but…
I will support my club for the rest of this season but will not go back thereafter until this mob of Green Huns have gone.
MWD
kitalba
but for what?…..there’s the nub!
ASonOfDan says:
13 December, 2011 at 12:17
They’ll have plenty room up there for their poppies an awe
HH
The shameful conduct of the Celtic board did not start today it started when they refused to speak out against the traducing of our reputation by McLean and Nevin and before that the silent acquiescence to the statements of Campbell Corrigan and Kenny MacAskill after the CIS Cup Final.
Up to the CIS Cup Final I had thought that Peter Lawwell was a switched on Celtic fan who deserved what he got paid.
We laughed at Martin Bain but at least he had a go at sticking up for his lot. He defended the indefensible, Lawwell supplied the ammunition for those who would see the tumbleweed on Section 111.
When they come to CP on the 28th and indulge in their usual rascist/sectarian bile, don’t bother complaining, nothing will be done, “ones as bad as the other”, the view now officially endorsed by the celtic board
Parkheadcumsalford says:
13 December, 2011 at 12:11
oglach UFB,
Enjoy your new team. Celtic will always be my team, one open to all, not just the Irish, which was our founder’s greatest gift to us.
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You miss the point entirely do i really have to explain the connection between Celtic FC and Ireland? Give up on that you will have another Hibs or Dundee Utd (Formally known as Dundee Hibernian). Yes Celtic is an institution open to all not just supporters with your mind set.
kitalba says:
13 December, 2011 at 12:18
Parkheadcumsalford says:
13 December, 2011 at 12:11
This is not an attack on the Irish, it is not an attack on Catholics, and more so than it is an attack on our culture… it is a capitulation by a Celtic Board in contempt of principle. The question that needs asking is why? Why did Celtic roll over? Why did Celtic allow every Celtic supporter the world over to be smeared? All they had to do was ask the Support UNEQUIVOCALLY and the Support would have seen the club right.
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I agree with you 100%. I would also add though until we know what we supposidly did wrong the Board have no chance of winning over the fans
Job done by those who wanted illicit chanting confrontation
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Make what you wish of Strathclyde Police reporting Celtic fans for “illicit chanting” to a Uefa match observer in October, the bottom line is that Uefa have fined Celtic €15,000 (around £12,700), established a benchmark for future action and more importantly sullied the club’s reputation.
Job done by those who wanted this confrontation to happen.
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Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:26
Lawwell is scum
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Che says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:27
BSR
without clarification on what the “charges” actually were, what would Lawell reasonably expect?
rightly or wrongly by accepting the charge and ultimately the fine he has in the eyes of many been seen as being complicit in our criminalisation
this will make the poppy debate fade into the background
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iki says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:27
I have not uttered one word against the board.
In the light of the consideration and the statement from the board, i will do so now.
One word ……. shameful.
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Ten Men Won The League says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:27
So we are not appealing against a fine for “illicit chanting” yet the support still don’t know what chants were deemed unnacceptable thereby leaving us at the mercy of Eddie Smith and his band of anti Catholic brethren
The Celtic board should be utterly ashamed of themselves.
Each and every one of them is a coward of the highest order
Once we win this league, the removal of this band of cowards should be the supports priority
Utterly disgusted with them
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Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:27
Sack the board
boycott
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ernie lynch says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:28
thomthethim says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:24
‘Your family credentials are unimpeachable.’
So are Eddie Smith’s.
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johann murdoch says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:29
bournesouprecipe says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:06
SFA specs :)) think they have all been fitted with SFA xray lenses more like.
Disappointed that we are not appealing the charge and fine..so Eddie Smith and co can now report trumped up charges direct to EUFA [avoiding usual protocol channels] and we take it on the chin?….beyond poor.
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ernie lynch says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:30
When exactly did the board recive a copy of the UEFA judgement?
How long did they take to decide not to appeal?
Will they let the fans see the judgement?
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Árd Macha says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:31
The Club’s stance looks like confirming Phil’s opinions on the matter.
For me as Celtic supporter I really am going to find this difficult to deal with.
Ther lack of transparency is a big part of this difficulty.
Árd Macha
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Mort (Kano 1000) says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:31
bournesouprecipe at 11:25
Yeah, I asked him about it last night on twitter and he said it was mainly his opinion but seems on the money. His article also mentioned that UEFA confirmed to him that Celtic knew what was in the report.
Now is the time for them to share it with us.
I have already asked the Strathclyde Police for information on what chants are not allowed so we can refrain from singing them. I will also write to Peter Lawwell asking him for the same information.
Mort
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The Honest Mista Kano says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:31
How is not appealing a fine in the interests of the Celtic shreholders?
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bournesouprecipe says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:34
Che
Sadly, many Celtic fans saw this coming from the moment Celtic accepted the charge, and didn’t tell the fans precisely what it was
(If Celtic knew)
Even more sadly the anti Board Brigade have been given a whole new arsenal of ammunition.
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kitalba says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:34
Ernie from earlier… thanks.
I was on my way to bed just then and now that news has really got me gutted. Celtic are playing a game with their own fans, the heart and soul of our club, it is a shameful game. They don’t have the guts to tell those who keep them comfortably employed what they are doing to damage the clubs reputation. Long after you are dead and gone Peter, there will be Celtic Supporters, it is not your club, it is a social movement for good, and it is not we that tarnish our good name, it is you who refuse to give direction who are most culpable. You stand accused with all the others in office of incompetence.
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Ten Men Won The League says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:35
Judging by the texts i’ve already received, Lawwell & Co are in for a bumpy ride on Sunday
Sack The Board
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celtic40me says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:36
This isn’t the huns, the board, the Scottish media, the police the sfa or the snp. Uefa have no institutional bias against Celtic and they have fined us for our fans behavior, instead of blaming everyone else it’s about time we looked at ourselves and dealt with the problem. Time to grow up about this, it’s just wrong that a small number of our fans can have such an affect on the reputation of our club that I’m so proud of. Time for us to do something about it instead of waiting for this to happen again
This has been coming for a while but we’ve blundered on with our fingers crossed. Time we all took responsibility for our own actions
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greenjedi says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:36
thomthethim says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:24
greenjedi says:
13 December, 2011 at 10:40
Was your great uncle Ned Sharkey?
If so, I remember him well. He was in the Flying Column and was very highly respected .
I once made the unforgivable mistake of sitting on his bar stool in Sharkey’s. Only once though!!
Your family credentials are unimpeachable.
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2 sets of my Grandparents are Sharkeys from that Parish, but I’m no relation to Ned that I know of. I know you go to Sharkeys in Annagry, did you go to Duffys when my cousin Maureen owned it with the much missed Connie?
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MikeyBhoy says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:36
I’m Neil Lennon (tamrabam) says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:21
have on the issue of racism against coloured folks
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Coloured folks? Are you being ironic?
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I’m Neil Lennon (tamrabam) says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:37
Eddie Smith
Now we all know that Rangers were reported last year for singing banned songs
I seem to recall that the fellow who pointed out this out to uefa was a celtic man
The huns of course attacked the finger pointer as the real cause of the problem
I can clearly see and understand the finger pointers motivation to upset the huns
This time the shoe is on the other foot
It is ourselves who are being accused. This time the finger pointer is Eddie Smith
Was he acting on his authority as an independent Policeman / Referee
Or was he acting as an outraged Rangers fan (fair enough)
However If he was acting in his capacity as a big neutral Polis/ referee, then I expect to hear more from him
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celtic40me says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:37
Tmwtl
And the people who sang the songs?
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gallagher says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:37
The snp, strathclyde police, the sfa,spl,uefa and now the cusTOADYins of CFC all agree we can’t sing what they can’t mention…….
“Let the people sing” my erse
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hunza rugli says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:38
Still absolutely stunned.
What is to be lost by appealing??? They may increase the fine? So what.
Celtic plc – you do not speak for me.
Abominable decision.
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cardiffbhoy says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:38
Peter Lawwell has today confirmed what many of us have thought for some time. The man is spineless. Anyone who had any doubt that this board will choose to keep the Huns alive, in whatever format, I trust you have no more doubts.
The club are happy to play “Let the People Sing” and the “Fields of Athenry” over the tannoy, these songs are viewed by our enemies as the same as any other pro-Irish song. The Wolfetones have recorded on the pitch at Celtic Park. No-one has yet said what songs are offensive and what aren’t ?
Shall we have to remove the statue of Brother Walfrid next, as religion has no place in football ?
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oglach UFB says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:38
All those who questioned Phils blog yesterday – you were wrong it looks as if the fine suits the boards agenda. What next?
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Carrigan says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:39
There you have it Bhoys, this must be the biggest stitch up in the history of CFC and the morons on the board are part of it-
Disgusted and fear for the future of our club-
The plc must respond to the fans right now and tell us what the illicit chants are.
Really p— of about this.
KTF
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CultsBhoy hates being 2nd says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:39
BSR
I’m ant Board (specifically PL). But it think he has this one right..it’s the pragmatic response to a rubbish situation. Conversely many previously pro Board folk will have difficulty with the decision… I wonder that this may divide fans along different lines than you suggest?
Having stated the above.. I’m always suspicious of PL’s motives and do not think one decision alters my over all view of him..
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ernie lynch says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:40
celtic40me says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:36
Do you actually know specifically what we have been fined for?
Do you think such behaviour is in and of itself wrong?
Or do just think we should stop the behaviour because UEFA says we should?
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Seville67 says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:40
What is more important ?
Supporting Celtic , defending the right to sing whatever we want , petty challenges on what is and is not illicit, finding out why Eddie Smith did what he did ?
Work it out guys it’s not hard.
I have no interest in what the huns do or do not – they are beneath me.
I love Celtic and never again want us on any charge for the behaviour of our support.
Time to grow up and move on. A victory in Italia awaits.
Seville67
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pheersy says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:40
Just read the back page of the SUN …. andy devlin writes “The SFA wont be hammering celtic captain scott Brown after he sparked a mass brawl against hearts ”
Speechless !
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ernie lynch says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:41
oglach UFB says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:38
‘All those who questioned Phils blog yesterday – you were wrong it looks as if the fine suits the boards agenda. What next?’
We all know exactly what’s next.
A deal to save the huns.
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I’m Neil Lennon (tamrabam) says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:41
gallagher says at 11.37
nicely put ma mhan
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Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:41
Yep.
The Celtic Board must go.
Now.
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Poordeadking says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:41
celtic40me says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:36
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Is that you, Peter Lawwell?
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hen1rik says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:41
Lads I got a picture from Huns saying the real Scotlands shame with us being charged.
Lawell is guilty he said it in the last AGM we will get these chants to STOP.
Let’s see how strong the Celtic support take the fight to this weak board.
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greenjedi says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:42
The Honest Mista Kano says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:31
How is not appealing a fine in the interests of the Celtic shreholders?
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Probably because they think they’d loose the appeal and it could cost more money. But unless somebody actually comes out and says what the “illicit” songs where, we’ll never know.
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Green Oak Tree says:
13 December, 2011 at 11:43
Celtic….Never a bad word against you….
You are now complicit in myself and my daughters being criminalised ….I will not renew their season tickets…I FEAR FOR MY FAMILIES FUTURE>>>
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People like yourself are much more reasonable than people like me,if you don’t mind me saying so.
The fact that you are on board is an indictment of the board,pardon the pun,but we need to take this all the way.
Peter Lawell has decided that the club will not defend itself,so it’s up to us to remind him who are his employers,it is us,and we no longer trust him to be our mouthpiece.
He has made a huge misjudgement,IMO. Hell mend him.
All we need now is an unequivocal statement from the GB that they will never again make any reference to any terrorist organisation in their songs and we can all move on.
The spotlight will then shine exclusively on RFC who will be unable to indulge in their usual defence of “whatabouttery”.
OOPS!