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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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  1. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    DD

     

     

    Wee man can drive you home if you are smashed:)

     

    You need to watch him with huns though, he is ruthless, ‘Here you ya rocket, …sausages’:)

     

    Need to muzzle him sometimes, he impersonates magpies and seagulls, when they fly in, he pounces:)

     

     

     

    ReynardCSC

     

    Grrrrr:)

  3. Sionnach Abu on

    DELANEYS DUNKY on 25TH JULY 2017 1:06 AM

     

    SA

     

    You realise that my Tory pal Macjay would love you to be Liam Fox and posting here. :))

     

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    Could go along with that? Drug addict parents, always been a people pleaser ;-)

     

    HH

  7. beatbhoy on

    SA

     

     

    Secret Affair. . . .coulda beena contender. Dunno what happened to them, so much new music, so many new bands at that time.

  8. Sionnach Abu on

    THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 25TH JULY 2017 1:04 AM

     

     

    I’m already at the water trying to drink as much as I can before you get here and pull me away :-)

     

    Try explaining things to me like I’m 4 years of age, as you’ve already gathered I’m no academic.

     

    HH

  9. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    SA

     

     

    A certain poster has refused to respond to me.

     

    Maybe that on the spot psychological assessment i provided wasn’t welcomed:)

     

    I learned about that from a book i found on that back of that cart:)

     

    Freud, Jung, he could have named his poison, i could have used either method.

     

    I believe my analysis pointed to some type of ‘Authoritarian Personality’, driven by prejudice.

     

    Superiority also was a telling factor, Delusions of Grandeur:)

     

     

    HH

  16. Sionnach Abu on

    THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 25TH JULY 2017 1:24 AM

     

     

    I get that all the time, but I mostly deserve their keyboard noses illuminated.

     

    I try to put it another way, and if all else fails, attack from another angle ;-)

     

    HH

  20. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    SA

     

     

    Spare a talent for an old ex-leper sir:)

     

    Half a talent?

     

    Come on big nose, lets haggle.

     

     

    HH

  22. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    DD

     

     

    Wee Tally hun is too busy fighting seagulls in a Hitchcock homage:)

     

    I heard him try to chase the wee man away, i looked through the window, he was shouting at wee Raynard to move. Wee man blanked him totally, never budged an inch:)

     

    I was llf.

     

     

    HH

  23. Sionnach Abu on

    THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 25TH JULY 2017 1:36 AM

     

     

    See what I mean. There was me thinking last night’s analogy had gone unnoticed on account of me being ignored at the best of times :-)

     

    HH

  26. Delaneys Dunky on

    TGM

     

     

    He is the only Italian in Glasgow I have ever met who is a hun supporter. Think he is a one man psychological thesis to work on.

     

    Wee Reynard will have sussed out his mental illness by now. ;)

  27. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    SA

     

     

    One of my fav movies, know it by heart like you do.

     

    Its genius.

     

     

     

    HH

  29. Sionnach Abu on

    DELANEYS DUNKY on 25TH JULY 2017 1:29 AM

     

    SA

     

    You cannae kid a kidder, but you know that. :)

     

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    Fewer things said in truth, mo chara. Nothing wrong putting a bit of effort into it though, is there? :-)

     

    HH

  30. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    DD

     

     

    Strangely enough, just the other week, he was cryptically hinting, that he wasnt really a hun, but got brought up on the dark side.

     

    Always asking me about Celtic.

     

    But his wife is bitter, so he plays that up because she will batter him if he doesnt:)

     

    So, draw your conclusions.

     

     

    HH

  34. beatbhoy on

    MiT

     

     

    Oh, nothin’ much. Just another, move along, Timmy, nothing to see here, and certainly no hunger pangs for anything that might be deemed justice, typa day.

     

     

    Yours mockingly,

     

     

    The SPFHell.

  35. Delaneys Dunky on

    TGM

     

     

    Ahh. Brainwashed by the forces of evil, wi the backbone of a jellyfish. Got it mate.

     

    HH

  37. Sionnach Abu on

    THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 25TH JULY 2017 1:48 AM

     

     

    Took a doin getting caught by my Da watching that. He even took the video to the Priest to show me how disgusted he was lol

     

    Demoted as head alter bhoy for two weeks but Fr O couldnt keep a straight face when he realised it wasnt a porno. Told me to look repentant as I left the Confessional whilst muttering something about the communion wine not being stolen again or I would be for it :-)

     

    HH Justice

  38. beatbhoy on

    MIT

     

     

    Gotta turn in, but if you’re genuinely just in, worth a read back from about lunchtime on. And some late-night themed choons to boot. It’ll take you a while, though.

  41. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    SA

     

     

    Hilarious film.

     

    Worth a slap from your old man:)

     

     

     

    HH

  42. Delaneys Dunky on

    MIT

     

     

    Belle and Sebastian were touring with Radiohead. Played before them at TRNSMT. Got Glasgow Green dancing. Great set by a feelgood Glasgow band. Enjoy.

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