I remember attending Glasgow Cup games in the 80s, friendlies, in all but name. If you put a cup up for the winners, it doesn’t really change anything, the “Sydney Super Cup” will be no different. The winners celebrated, the losers never really cared.
A proposed game against Newco in Australia in November is not welcome by me or most Celtic fans I know. I doubt the players will enjoy traipsing across the globe, although Ange Postecoglou will look forward to playing in what is being billed as “Ange’s Aussie Homecoming” tour.
I know for a fact that money has been on the table for similar fixtures before, but Peter Lawwell always rejected the suggestion. He also acquired IP rights over the “Old Firm” phrase, which he was required to share with Newco, specifically to secure a veto over its commercial use, which Celtic has enforced since.
A buy it and kill it move, although others promote the “buy it” element but fail to acknowledge the “kill it” part, despite this issue being the subject of questions at more than one AGM. Before this, he cleansed the phrase from Celtic’s media and other outlets.
It made no difference to perceptions for those still fighting the last war – ironically. The new regime’s choice: hang as a sheep or as a lamb. Let’s hope it’s only paper talk and the game does not take place. Newco might find being filler in the Ange’s Aussie Homecoming tour an even harder sell.
It is easy to see Livingston in the distance, a side who induce shudders, having denied Celtic all but a solitary point from two games this season. Tonight’s opponents, however, are the team on form.
Since closing at Ibrox on Boxing Day, St Mirren have won three and drawn one of their four games on the road – title winning form. The only time they failed to win in four home games in the same period was a 10-man defeat to Hearts on Saturday.
If Celtic are anything but their very best, they will drop points tonight.
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St Stivs and Greenpinata, be lovely to see you on Friday. Proper gentlemen and boys of the old brigade.
About time a lot got of their high horse.We don’t call it the Old Firm,neither Celtic or the fans.The problem is,the rest of the fekin world does.Not something we are going to change.Sky,the biggest audience in the world pump out the name at every turn.I watch football here on an Indian station,Sony 10 .Known on there as Old Firm.Most of the world don’t know or care they died.If they did know10 years of brainwashing has seen to that.Even Hibs,Dons,etc,Scottish clubs who know they died,call them Old Firm.
That war is lost,as long as we never use it,that should be enough.If its not,do as I. said earlier never go to a match against them again,as it will be advertised all over the world as Old Firm.If you choose to go to that,and come on here shouting the odds about Oz,then it is hypocritical.Can’t have it both ways.
Will Celtic be fined if fans have a political banner?
Laxalt,
Why would you not be finished with Celtic when we play them in the League or Cup,labeled,”Old Firm game,or Old Firm Final.
Absolute nonsense.
TURKEYBHOY on 2ND MARCH 2022 6:06 PM
So if I use my season ticket to watch us play them in the league, I’ve no right to object to them taking part in a circus that solidifies that idea that we’re are two sides of the same coin?
TURKEYBHOY on 2ND MARCH 2022 6:12 PM
We’ve no choice but to play them in those competitions. We do have a choice about the game in Oz.
GORBALSTAM on 2ND MARCH 2022 6:16 PM
Well you’ve been funding it, knowing exactly what the board’s attitude is, so protesting now is maybe a bit late in the day.
It was always going to come to this.
But hey, faithful through and through.
TURKEYBHOY
What really pisses me off is when Celtic are on live TV and a pundit, commentator or even a manager comes out with stuff like, “You need to take your chances against the Old Firm.”
Does my head in.
ERNIE LYNCH on 2ND MARCH 2022 6:20 PM
I go to see Celtic Ernie. Even when the huns weren’t there.
I like infiltrating their pubs too. You are our Sigfried Sassoon , scouting their trenches and passing on some intellectual nuggets to the nuggets
Sorry, that was for BRRB
Teams up…
Celtic: Hart, Taylor, Starfelt, Carter-Vickers, Juranovic, McGregor, Hatate, O’Riley, Jota, Abada, Maeda.
Subs: Bain, Bitton, Ajeti, McCarthy, Rogic, Ideguchi, Forrest, Ralston, Dembele.
No surprises in the starting line up
Midfield of Hatate, calmac, o’riley. Maeda through the middle
No GG tonight. Probably expected.
But no Julien in sight???
What HAS happened to Christopher Jullien?
Ajeti will be like a new signing
Go to it Celtic do your best
For each other and us
HH
Welsh and Jullien make way so that we get a striker on the bench
No Welsh or scales either, so bitton at CD If any injury or sending off occurs….
I’ve been on here from the start.
I supported the advert re thems and resolution 12.
I think they should have been treated like every other club that went into administration (which to be fair they were and were deducted the points) and liquidation (which they were not much to Scottish footballs eternal shame.
However even I recognise that we would be nowhere near an automatic Champions League place for Scotland without their participation and relative success in Europa league.
This recognition does not mean that I think their acceptance into lowest professional league and same name same history shenanigans (more cheating) should have been allowed.
Eyes on that automatic CL place prize tonight.
Interesting that Ajeti is back. No mention of that at all
I watched 66.66% if his goals this season at CP so hopefully he nets one tonight if subbed on
live updates up
SAINT STIVS
“My auld great uncle used to tell me that things in USA , in Kearney, were quite chummy, the Scots club (ie the Rangers club) and the Irish American club (the CSC) both got on well, maybe even across the landing from each other in the same building, had some rivalry but in some ways were all Scots abroad working in the same industries, . To such an extent, some occasions when home he was hosted in the directors box at Ibrox for the original old-firm games by a pal from Paisley who emigrated at the same time as him.
On the other hand, my 2 cousins in Sydney, have told me of bizarre incidents of bigotry in the weirdest of places, one guy refusing to play pool because cousin had on a crucifix, and another time getting shouted as a fenian b from a passing car because he had the hoops on.”
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Saint, About 26-27 years ago, the respective fans of Celtic and the first iteration of the Hun from the Washington DC area shared a large restaurant bar in North Virginia that was one of the rare few bars that showed fitba. In these days, we were losing to them far more often than we beat them.
The venue was rectangular and very long. The Huns gathered at the rear, and we were at the front of the venue. After each game, we would stay for a late breakfast/early lunch and a pint. The Huns would leave to go to a pub in downtown DC. We knew most of the Huns, and truth be told, most were decent blokes who we either worked with or played in the same teams as us. A few were bigoted jerks, who would whisper fenian b———-s as they left, whereupon we would have to constrain certain of our members from violent action, which would have seen us barred sine die. The owner was Maltese, didn’t understand football, but knew that games like Brazil – Argentina and our contests could generate activity that would see him lose his licence and livelihood, so he stamped all over any tussles.
One weekend, after being gubbed, I think 3-0, one jerk gave us the whole Billy Boys song on the way out, while the others filed by quietly, saying something like “Good game, lads.” We looked at each other and someone said, “We need to find our own place.”
At first it was tough, and we were like vagabonds. At first, we found a place on Pennsylvania Avenue. One day, I was walking from the Metro wearing the Hoops and 4 Huns in Rangers strips passed in a car and yelled at me, Fenian B! Without thinking, I yelled back, “Hun C——s”, and fortunately for me, they were in heavy moving traffic, or I could have had a doing.
On the Aussie thing, I’m agin it, but it would soften the blow if we win the treble and we assiduously label it as the “Ange Triumphal Tour.” That would get their goat big time, but my fear is that again we are offering them a helpful financial hand,