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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JNP
As DD posts never paranoid enough, those pesky Green Brigaiders, hope Peter & co live by their words
“we done make the rules, we just have to abide by them”
improper registrations
Apply the rules :-)
THE EXILED TIM on 23RD JULY 2017 7:32 PM
POR CIERTO
The poles or not to sound racist, sticks, are banned from entering the ground, the polis and stewards know this, so why did they let them in is what I would be asking.
HH
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That is precisely the point.
Where is Ronnie Hawthorn,Head of Safety Security and Operations.
Not a sight,or comment,from this guy who has presided over a disastrous preparation in Linfield, where he should have recommended a venue reversal at best, and an abandonment due to safety ,at worst.
Were he working for me he would be hauled over the coals,or dismissed, as this is his supposed area of expertise,yet he appears to dis-associate himself from any of this.
He is ex Police so why was he not in the standing area and the Linfield area prior to Kick off to ensure the passageways were not congested and the segregation took into account that any movement that would cause congestion was anticipated.
This is a PR and Safety and Security nightmare which could have been avoided in my view at the away game and better preparation at the Home game.
Sorry but if we are employing a highly paid expert step up or get rid.
Reckon the English wimmins team wid beat the huns
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 23RD JULY 2017 7:41 PM
Can you be more specific?
HH
Dallas.8.00. Thank you for asking.
My wife says I’ve to tell you health wise I’m mentally deranged :-)))
Physically it’s pretty much the same but that’s what’s expected.
Working 24 hours a week is helping.
How is that hypertension of yours?
TGM.7.58.
It’s so obviously a set up.
Hail Hail.
TGM 7.58pm
I think our PLC will be gutted by the conversation, friends & family that go to the games are more aligned to the GB than any Celtic board …..
Maybe if the Board were annoyed about the cheats than a semi final when Dermot thought “that’s it” maybe the board should realise we have hated being cheated for decades maybe Dermott thought the semi final was more important !
I would stand beside the GB before any of the upper class board members :-)
JNP
24hrs @ week ????
You nearly work more than Dallas :-)
Borgo 67 Re frank skinner and the arsenal cup final I always thought it was Eddie Kelly blessing himself when he came on as a sub?
71 cup final was it not?
NEGANON2 on 23RD JULY 2017 1:20 PM
Peter managed all that with one statement?
TCR
Would love Hooper back at Paradise Bada.
A phenomenal striker and magnificent worker too.
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Apart from when he basically downed tools in the latter half of his final season with us……
HH jamesgang
JMcCormack- you sound like you would rather BBC spend money on Strictly Come Dancing rather than The Open, enjoy
CALL_OF_JUAREZ on 23RD JULY 2017 8:02 PM
Youre not wrong there.
PHILBHOY on 23RD JULY 2017 5:41 PM
Have we signed a striker or a centre half yet?
Is it dependant on us getting by Rosenborg when European football is guaranteed ’til Christmas?
Or is the biscuit tin back under the table?
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Rodgers said a few weeks ago he was looking to bring one in who he’d been after for 6 months, the media ran with Musonda Jr when it was in fact Ntcham.
He added that would probably be all until the last week of the transfer window, because that is when clubs start finalising their squads and players who perhaps were hitherto unattainable, suddenly become available. We will know if we have CL or EL to offer players and the budget is adjusted accordingly. Caulker may be an exception and a risk worth taking, but he is unlikely to be anywhere near match fit. Things can change, but if the manager is content then so am I.
Assuming Dembele doesn’t go IMO the positions we will be looking at are RW, RB and CB.
Jamesgang -said it at the time mate, when the huns died , he chucked it for me,Ledley as well.
Or maybe Call The Midwife…
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/midwives-at-the-birth-of-a-myth/
Celtic By Numbers
Fascinating. Thanks pal.
HH jamesgang
Paul67 et al
Noticed that John James, in his latest blog, claims that Stuart Milne’s companies lost £25 million in their accounts to June 2016. Haven’t checked it but no reason to disbelieve it. Likewise cumulative debts of £326 million, which as JJ suggests is moving toward Murray territory if true. Which I think it is. Another Scottish success story you will no doubt have read elsewhere. For 40 years Aberdeen was one of the richest cities in Europe, and yet during that time the football club was unable either to redevelop Pittodrie or move to a new-build stadium. Pittodrie itself cannot expand due to the relatively recent construction of residential blocks around the stadium footprint. Surprised Milne would allow that to happen, but then again I do not know if he actually built the blocks in question. Wouldn’t surprise me though. Two masterplans have been developed since, one south of the City, and the other more recent one to the west. The latter depends on, one planning permission, and two the sale of Pittodrie itself no doubt to a housebuilder/ developer. Possibly Milne himself, in a last gasp Murray style gamble.
With other people’s money. And yet he, has the temerity to tell us to “move on”. Something masonic happening here.
SA
Two words getting battered: Parasites, and Cancer, in reference to Celtic supporters, on CQN.
Its not the first time either.
You hear that nonsense, jump all over it.
GFTB
I know people can make mistakes.
But imo, the abuse the GB are taking, is orchestrated by Huns, and some posters, go along with that.
Celtic supporting kids demonised by hun trolls.
Its sickening. So they flew a few banners, what is that in comparison to years and years of hun cheating?
Its all a production from the off.
Security couldnt check what was on the banners, really!
HH
JNP
Hope Dallas doesn’t mind me saying..
He lets go of his hypertension daily at my desk, he actually makes me look sane :-)
We live in good times, JNP hope am not posting out of turn but when young Dallas was going to the Shamrock Rovers gave his father was a bit worried then in the next sentence Dallas senior said he went to Dortmund younger than Dallas junior
That’s our team
CelticCSC
Bada
They were a squad with too many characterised by a proclivity towards non KT levels of devotion and application to the cause.
HH jamesgang
BURNLEY78:
Deleted totally unnecessary and uncalled for, make a point and respect others, otherwise keep your thoughts to yourself.
TET:
Deleted, two wrongs don’t make it right.
Gerryfaethebrig 8.08.
That’s the nail on the head.
PLC can’t wait to stick boot into Celtic supporters but when it’s Celtic as a club, our players or our fans being attacked then it’s silence.
I posted the other day, oh how we laugh at Sevco and statement o’clock but they defend their fans.
Hail Hail
MODERATOR 2
I agree and I apologise
16 ROADS – CELTIC ÜBER ALLES… on 23RD JULY 2017 3:57 PM
Best thing about thon UEFA mob is they are king gangsters.
Corrupt beyond belief and riddled with the Masonic.
Should be the usual £50 fine hopefully.
The scumbags.
HH.
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We irked them somewhat raising their fine and more donating to good Palestinian causes.
TGM
The Green Brigade are Celtic fans
Good enough for me :-)
The youngsters in my family that go to the games think they are great, but their parents are their influences not a flag or a pyro :-)
Celtic Mac
Aye, the cabal & Milne, are tied to the goat.
HH
Reports that the Crown Office will not be taking any action against the Ajax hooligans involved in the violent assault on Celtic fans in the Gallowgate prior to the Europa cup match in 2015. Instead they are asking their Dutch counterparts to pursue those involved. Quelle surprise. Hh
Jimmynotpaul, my wife thinks the same of me lol
Its pleasing reduced hours is a great help to you . I do more running about than ever on my day off
My blood presure / hyertension is still a bit high and will get higher with each qualifying game for the Champions.
If anyone is on Amlopine fot hypertension , it can cause really bad itching and I stopped using it as a result.
Another big season for us both on and off the park and would love to see a joint campaign by fans against the SFA & SPFL with regard to their cover up of the what was Rangers.
The Hippo was gutted they didn’t beat their local rivals the other week and wasn’t impressed with his team’s performance.
GFTB
Well said.
The GB are Celtic supporters.
Our kids, love Celtic, and back the time with everything.
And this is the thanks they get from the PLC, they all get tarred with the same brush.
A less than wise banner display, and all of a sudden we are in a deluge of hatred from all angles.
It gets worse by the day.
HH
Gerryfaethebrig.
Surely that’s pushing it, making you look sane :-)))
I went to Dortmund on Glasgow University bus in 1987.
Four of us didn’t make the return journey as we slept in. It was a long journey home by public transport Dortmund-Koln-Ostende-Dover-London-Glasgow. We found out when we got home that we should have just gone to Dusseldorf and flew home, it would have been just as cheap.
ForT.Ds record purposes, I would like to clarify,although I went on the Uni bus I never actually attended Uni. :-))
Hail Hail
So GB get ban due to offensive banners at celtic park, this is music to my ears so long as we stop giving tickets to supporters of sevco, Aberdeen and hearts to name but a few as they regularly offend me with overt hateful, offensive songs and banners or a religous nature at every visit, should be very pleasant this season at our place.
Or we will continue to invite such behaviour by giving out tickets. If celtic are gonna take hardline then that hardline should applyou to all visitors regardless of which colour they wear hh
The Exiled Tim, if you’re about –
A huge thank you to your link earlier this afternoon for coverage of The Open. Managed to get 5 hours of coverage and only had to refresh the link 3 times. A brilliant afternoon of golf accomapnied by 3 weeks backlog of ironing! Page bookmarked!
JNP
There are different kinda Uni types tho.
If you are a tory Uni type that’s Ok, but if you are a lefty Uni type that is a no no.
So those who crap on others are good and those who get crapped upon deserve it seems to be the thinking :-)
HH
STEPHBHOY
Its only Celtic fans that are offensive to the PLC.
Otherwise, like you say, the huns would be banned from Celtic Park for a kick-off, that is for sure.
So, you have to ask why not?
HH
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 23RD JULY 2017 8:17 PM
SA
Two words getting battered: Parasites, and Cancer, in reference to Celtic supporters, on CQN.
Its not the first time either.
You hear that nonsense, jump all over it.
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It will be yesterdays news by the time the bans up.
A few kids with a GIRUY banner directed at Hun scum was silly.
Celtic are bang on with the Pyro’s but that’s about the size of it.
The kids need to wisen up with the flares.
Does seem rather strange the irate nature of abuse directed at the GB given they’re detracting the Celtic support away from the Irish Rebs with all their pesky Celtic songs.
Dallas.
I know you are aware of this but a reminder they don’t call hypertension the silent killer for nothing.
I did think of The Hippo when I noticed they lost to Ayr. I have to say i had,a,bit of sympathy for him but none for their manager.
Hail Hail.
!!BADA BING
Where did you deduce that comment from?
At least get my name right ( it’s not a fancy wee blog name) if you want to engage.
Just think that golf is a pretty dull sport, now need to get your Farah slacks all bunched up.
Jobo
Glad you enjoyed it, yer man was good after nearly going to pieces.
Tis IMO the best site for streams.
HH