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Look at me, but not at my face

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I don’t get the flares thing. It’s not a part of my going-to-see-Celtic tradition. But if it was my thing, I’d have the courage of my convictions, I wouldn’t hide the fact.

There are consequences of bringing flares to football games, always has been. By not having the courage to openly ignite them, those consequences are not personalised to the individuals who regard this as an integral part of what they do at a football game, they are visited upon everyone in the vicinity, as well as the club.

The problem with flares at Celtic games is those who bring them hide the fact – as they clearly know there are consequences, and presumably aren’t too interested in taking responsibility for them. ‘Keen on flares, not keen enough to stand up for them’, is why the issue persists.

I get the attraction to bright, shiny, things, but this isn’t a campaign to bring the vote to disenfranchised people against a force who will execute the offender on sight. It’s about bringing a flare to a football game. If it’s so important, do it openly. If you think Health and Safety are simply wrong, find the evidence and use it in court. Have the courage to change something.  I know lots of Celtic fans who have had the courage to put their name to something they believed in, in recent years.  It’s seldom easy, but it has been done.

But in the years of this debate no one has ever pointed to evidence that igniting flares in a football ground is a clever thing to do. It’s just a ‘look at me’ exercise, ‘But don’t look at my face’, of course.

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Episode 5 of ‘A Celtic State of Mind’ finds Paul John Dykes and Kevin Graham discussing a variety of topical subjects concerning Celtic Football Club, including:

* What now for the Green Brigade?
* Dedryck Boyata – Are reinforcements on route?
* Virgil van Dijk – The windfall cometh;
* Emilio Izaguirre – Moving on.

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  2. Delaneys Dunky on

    TGM

     

     

    Every scheme has a Jolly Boy John character.

     

    I grew up wi ‘The Business’, great guy who knew everything about everybody but nothing about anything. :))

     

    For real

  5. Delaneys Dunky on

    TGM

     

     

    Mental mate :)

     

    Was in Knightswood last week.

     

    Clocked a crazy I went to school with.

     

    Awrite Dunky he says, am in a bad way. Need a another spell inside to get my heid the gether. Bar L rehab??? Naw.

  7. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    DD

     

     

    Life in the city bud.

     

    Wild and wooly:)

     

    Thousands flew over the cuckoo’s nest:)

     

    Byres Rd, still bump into these dudes.

     

    One wee dude i was close to, grew up with, is so far gone that he no longer recognises me.

     

    Another dude i knew very well, i was standing on Byres rd chatting to him, all of a sudden, he points to the sky and says, ‘are you controlling that seagull’

     

    Wild.

     

     

    HH

  9. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    DD

     

     

    Land of dreams, see you on the other side:)

     

     

    Mon the wee foxes, bite them:)

     

     

    HH

  10. Delaneys Dunky on

    TGM

     

     

    There by the grace of God, I came back to reality fae every trip. Some didnae.

     

    Syd Barrett RIP

  11. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Wednesdays nights game .3-0 Celtic.

     

    Watched them v Dundalk .T hey are about the calibre of Hearts.

     

    UTLR.

  13. Delaneys Dunky on

    TCR

     

     

    My bhoy said 3-0 tonight too. Only two predictions I have heard so far. Great minds, will be happy if you are both correct. :)

  14. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Some magnificent moonhowlers .When ye see the oul 16 on that means BIG business.

     

    Feckin Ballymurphy legend.

     

    With a fight for justice for his locals.

     

    Justice in Doire.?

     

    Justice in the Murph?

     

    The fight goes on.

     

     

    Justice for Celtic?

     

    Maybe? With the fight of the Celtic support?

     

    Victory to the Res 12 bhoys and the Green Brigade.

     

    UTLR ,

  16. Delaneys Dunky on

    TCR

     

     

    Hope I get the chance to buy you a drink in Clydebank very soon.

     

    UTLR

  25. Dbhoy on

    If the comment on here stating the board know all the names of the GB are true and I don’t have reason to doubt it.

     

    It makes the banning of 900 fans by the board look like an overreaction at best and a calculated move to further alienate the GB at worst.

     

     

    Bottom line is it’s a very broad stroke punishment that’s not warranted considering there are only 80-90 odd members of the GB.

  29. Delaneys Dunky on

    TCR

     

     

    See you roonaboot 20 September comrade.

     

    Hope the new and ‘infrequent’ posters who have crucified The Green Brigade on here since Wednesday, disappear never to be seen again. Majority huns.

  30. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Green Brigade yer doomed

     

    Yer barred

     

    We’ll steal money off the back of you though..

     

    Tifo displays and money we can milk -ours.

     

    Huns stealing millions and trophies-who gives a feck

     

    Scòtt Sinclair abused racially..who cares.

     

    Linfield ?Oh we are scared.

     

    Get to feck

  35. Delaneys Dunky on

    DBhoy

     

     

    The GB has 80 odd members. 2 of them waved scary, offensive flags. 900 supporters get punished. I canny work out the arithmetic.

  36. Dbhoy on

    DD

     

    Me either mate, something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

     

    No offence to any Danish tims ;)

     

     

    HH

  37. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    BURNLEY78 1153

     

     

    We don’t have popular opinion on our side,that is plain. You are correct to point out the downsides if Celtic take this on.

     

     

    There are,though,ups and downs if we do. To be honest,I could go into detail which has already been done to death by others,and I don’t think anyone can be arsed to read it.

     

     

    Quite simply,we held fire to rely on due process. Aye,it took a while,but the outcome was inevitable,and correct.

     

     

    Now? Well,the board have that fire that they held,and they have to use it. This is not a time for diplomacy or deal-making. This is the time that every non-hun has been waiting for,to clean out the stables.

     

     

    It’s their moment. Shit or bust. Go for it or GTF.

     

     

    I’ll be honest,if I was PL and someone said the above to my face,I’d have a long hard think. Then go for it and if nothing else it would make me question why I was asked.

  38. aburntoutcase on

    Evening/morning all.

     

    Was Danny McGrain as good a left-back as he was a right-back? mind them aul` days when we used to argue aboot fitba? I mind them days. The insults were far less personal. Haaarumph!

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