Congratulations to Celtic, who last night became the first Scottish team to win a European tie since, Celtic, last season. While I am sure we would all have preferred to face Dundalk in the next Champions League qualifying round, a trip to Norway to face Rosenborg will be welcome by the club.
Rosenborg are not the same force we faced 16 years ago, and even that team was a shadow of the team who tested Real Madrid a few seasons earlier. The Norwegians succumbed to the inevitable forces of economic plunder, as clubs from richer leagues picked off their talent at increasingly earlier ages.
We should have more than enough in the tank for this one.
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DD
Where were the GB last Friday night?
Were they in Windsor Park in loyalist east Belfast with their drums and banners?
Or were they safely ensconced in their secret wee bunker dreaming up last nights great wee whiz?
Those involved in the Republican Movement, men and women have my deepest admiration and respect. Their courage and dedication to their cause should not be reduced to a schoolboy prank and plastic flag. The overwhelming majority of them have also tried to move on and leave the Troubles in the past, while paying their respects to fallen comrades at the appropriate time and place. A football stadium is not the time nor the place for such displays.
The arrogance of these misguided eejits is staggering, if they think that somehow they are the true conscience of CFC.
HH
WDH
I missed the Ekeren trip. Poor student.
Think my mate Dallas Dallas fae this parish made the journey.
EMERALDA – maybe we could get a wee tye up wi the monks,the grif catching bottles of said refreshment,before taking a corner:-))
Shocking in Mostar last night for the Dons fans.
Not a part of the world you want to be in when it kicks off.
Was trouble when Celtic last played there, not with the Celtic fans, but between the locals and the Partizan Belgrade supporters.
TET
Awe ok sorry, looked to me that you where, my mistake.
Celtic board have behaved like total gobshites these past lot of weeks.
Far too quick to condemn our supporters over minor misdemeanours and constantly pandering to our detractors.
Incredulous, nonsensical statement.
None of the allegations about the banners would stand up in a court of law, yet they hastily release a statement basically stating the GB are guilty of the zombie accusations.
Somebody wearing a hat and a pair of sunglasses is a paramilitary all of sudden?
Could be anyone on holiday ffs.
All road signs are now connected to the Ra?
Brendan Rodgers undefeated army? Definitely Republican propaganda sure.
Wtf?
Prove it.
Sorry prove reads like provo.
Idiotic clowns represent the club.
HH.
Last night’s banner of the beret wearing chap was just wrong – looks like we will have to leave it to the Dons fans for highlighting stripping titles.
D D
Nope haven’t a clue, but hopefully they’r days are numbered.
You know, it’s possible for the green brigade, UEFA and the media all to be in the wrong at the same time .
Croppy
The Green Brigade are a pacifist Ultra group.
Ballot box rather than bullet is their mantra.
They have never been involved in a fist fight.
I admire their stance in this divided city.
Gene on 20th July 2017 6:51 pm
Or you could try and organise a banner highlighting the cheating issue, instead of waiting for some other group of Celtic supporters to carry out your wishes. I have no doubt the GB will produce banners which address the cheating, I do have doubts though about the PLC allowing it.
DD
I would have been also but work lot of part time, will get photos on my flickr and point someone towards them
dinner time
bye
Do people not get this?
CROPPYBHOY on 20TH JULY 2017 6:47 PM
DD
Where were the GB last Friday night?
Were they in Windsor Park in loyalist east Belfast with their drums and banners?
Or were they safely ensconced in their secret wee bunker dreaming up last nights great wee whiz?
Those involved in the Republican Movement, men and women have my deepest admiration and respect. Their courage and dedication to their cause should not be reduced to a schoolboy prank and plastic flag. The overwhelming majority of them have also tried to move on and leave the Troubles in the past, while paying their respects to fallen comrades at the appropriate time and place. A football stadium is not the time nor the place for such displays.
The arrogance of these misguided eejits is staggering, if they think that somehow they are the true conscience of CFC.
HH
Evening
Still hacked off after last night. Disagree with much that has been said here and personally am fed up with ‘this kind of thing’. Last night was an obnoxious evening although it was the singing that grated with me. Personal opinion.
Strange though to read its all down to the uni crowd. Most of the Green Brigade look to me to be about 12. I was never at Uni myself though I did see Blondie, Magazine and the Jam play in a variety of student unions when I was sugned by cleverer pals.
Jimbo67
I see the Pensioners Brigade are still up in arms. Rather faulty memories some of them have when it comes to singing songs. But they have nothing whatsoever to say about the SFA/HUNs cheating Celtic. Silent about that, but they dont like banners, oh no. But cheating is fine, they will go along with that.
Talk about two-faced.
Anything else you want to call Celtic supporters?
HH
You complain about a banner, yet condone and take part in a rigged league.
I will have no lecturing from people who cant call out cheating, but are bothered by banners.
CROPPYBHOY-I thought Celtic refused tickets last wk,dam them GB
That’s 30 minutes I won’t get back .. SJHC
poor rosenborg, don’t stand a chance against million dollar and billion dollar backed clubs – haven’t done anything wrong.
Gorbalstam
I am wearing my strip the titles T shirt – but it’s doing no good here in engerland.
Out with friends tonight (yes I have a couple) – night all
I think EUFA have created a dangerous precedent by deeming Leigh Griffiths scarf tying to be provocative.. What next? Players blessing themselves? Daring to look at opposition fans while celebrating a goal?
A ban? Seriously?????
Delaney’s, i never traveled on the Uni bus to Ekeren but did go with a number of ex Uni bus members.
We travelled on the sleeper down to Euston, met the former uni bus members there (they then lived and worked in London. We got the train from Victoria to Dover , then the ferry to Ostende and onward to Brussels .
It was my favourite trip abroad to see the Bhoys . When we got to Antwerp on the day of the game , I bumped into Gal . He told me the Royal Antwerp fans had been out causing some bother with Celtic supporters the night before.
Train and Hotel booked from Wales for next Wednesday, The Fullarton Hotel Tollcross road ? any reviews
Mmmmm.
Now let me see.
Nothing to say about blatant cheating by the SFA/HUNS, but offended by a banner.
Aye, right you are
Before I go – Prediction of flares by our fans in Rosenborg (you heard it here first).
Definitely got to go
TD67
80 members I was told by one Green Brigade member last night fae Dalmarnock train home to Clydebank. Thoosands of GB hingers oan though.
You are correct, the majority of Official GB are University educated and are in jobs that Catholics were excluded from when we were young. Political thinkers and movers. The future is bright.
Whilst the huns in Glasgow were drinking, us Tims were thinking.
The reason I call the board spineless is for a few reasons.
They have accepted the charges from last night with a whimper, a half wit hun could contest them and get the club off with them.
I noticed mention of the Brendan banner earlier, maybes the GB shouldn’t have used him in this way, but the club have used the same banner on their publications before, albeit they had Paddy McCourt instead of Brendan.
Pot and Kettle me thinks.
http://i.imgur.com/Rd0EKpG.jpg
200 zombies email UEFA, complaining about ambiguous banner.
That’s up to UEFA to invistigate, then to prove if the allegation is true – they could well decide that it was illicit, but they won’t be able to prove it, because it’s impossible.
They don’t need to now though, the club has already done that for them.
Too many touts.
Gone.
FOLLOWING Wednesday night’s European tie at Celtic Park against Linfield, Celtic Football Club have issued the following statement.
Any support for a paramilitary or proscribed terrorist organisation has no place at Celtic Park. The Club has been consistent in condemning such conduct on the very few occasions in the past when it has occurred at Celtic Park. It is unfortunate that such a small minority of the crowd at Celtic Park last night behaved in such a way.
We know that the Celtic support will join us in condemning such behaviour. Events last night have resulted in charges from UEFA in relation to the paramilitary banners and unsafe behaviour in a section of the Celtic support. The Club has commenced an inquiry and will take appropriate action.
=============================================
Spineless.
Gutless.
Subservient.
Apologist.
Pish.
Who wrote that for you, Peter? Club 1872?
The burden of proof lay with those feckless feckwits at UEFA – prompted by the bitter goat-pumpers from this country who had emailed in their complaints.
Celtic FC – brimming with collaborators.
In one statement, your answer to the official Celtic appetite for title stripping and any measure of justice.
A statement guaranteed one thing- for some to rise a few degrees in the craft.
Traitors to the Celtic cause one and all.
But its ok to make money off the GB, isnt it.
TGM- no going to tell you again,my dad walks up to 416,then gets up and dances in the face of that scum last night,he mite have grey hair,but that’s it:-))77years of age bye the way
DD
So the GB took the club’s advice not to travel to Belfast but won’t take their advice over getting the club in to trouble with UEFA?
That smacks to me as being hypocritical at best and cowardly at worst!
To now suggest that the Provo banner wasn’t really about the Provos is as bad. A sign of maturity is being able to own up to your mistakes. The Provisionals never hid behind anyone and claimed responsibility for things that went wrong. The GB really do need to learn the history if they want to be taken seriously.
HH
The Green Man
Going by your posts earlier today, you don’t much hold to the ole “As well be hung for a sheep as a (succulent) lamb” maxim, do you??
http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/unpacking-armstrong-and-avoiding-cognitive-dissonance/
Let’s not pretend we won’t miss Stu if he goes.
HH
Fairhill Bhoy
Your superstar of a father is what i call a Celtic supporter:)
77 yrs old and in about it. Love that.
Legend.
HH
Beatbhoy
Anybody that calls Celtic supporters parasites.
I will certainly have something to say to them.
HH
Hopefully the Plc’s enthusiasm for plain talking in statements continues in the forthcoming weeks. I’m not holding my breath however.
The banana skin of Linfield has been successfully negotiated. The Plc possibly feared a trap in the Belfast feature and didn’t take tickets.That decision left quite a few folk here feeling like second class citizens and that Celtic Plc, puts the CL financial bonanza before the Irish support?
Linfield asked for 1,500 tickets to Celtic Park. And duly drank their way over and belted out their redundant party songs. No doubt the owners of the Louden Tavern(s) were at the Night Safes last night depositing plenty of Northern Irish sterling as a “Result” too!!
Glasgow’s Policemen and women earned a few bob too and helped out their brethren by hiring a few mini-buses. No doubt there was a large UEFA presence at the game too.
The GB did what Ultras do and held up banners, which played into the hands of the Level Skivers. One in particular of BR was unwise. It was just too big a temptation for the GB to resist whatever their motivations.
The UEFA have now charged Celtic and in the world of UEFA a charge is a conviction. All we are waiting for now is the penalty. The Level Skivers can put the boot in (not that they were going to run any #Strip The Titles stories any way). The right wingers on here will no doubt be hoping a hefty punishment and lifetime bans for the delinquents with the banners.
Thankfully as far as I am aware the game passed by peacefully?
It’s pretty telling that in many ways the Six Counties appears to be moving on and possibly some of the posts from supporters in that area reflects that (on the assumption that the posts are genuine). That’s good.
Quite possibly the money which sustains Scottish football will be less forthcoming from the 32 counties if the powers that be continue to allow cheating and biased administration of the game for the sake of the handy earner that the (deceased) ‘Old Firm’ provides.
The Sevco Board, SFA, SPFL are outdated, inefficient outfits that are not fit for purpose. Lets hope that Celtic Plc can help save Scottish football by ensuring that a review happens and change occurs.
Having spent the last few days in Scotland and having met a few Sevco supporters, I’m convinced that they are unwell. Sick with denial, hatred, bigotry and lies. Their world has caved in. The ‘world’s must successful football club’ died and has also been exposed by the courts as a liar and a thief. It’s Directors are/were charlatans and fraudulent.
Ireland is changing lads, fewer people identify with the past. Many have built bridges and don’t look back.
July the 12th comes and goes here on the Boyne and it’s just another day. I didn’t meet one person last Wednesday who noticed that it was the ’12th.’
Having said that it’s great to celebrate Irish culture at Celtic Park and some folk would be better off watching cyclists riding round and round the Chris Hoy Velodrome than going to Celtic Park and then endlessly criticising the support.
HH and Duty Calls
SANDMAN,read that twice,really have to say,what’s going on here,our plc can’t wait to piss on us