if you’re still around, apologies I was away for my half time tea and toast there! Arsenal getting battered 0-2 at half time. I’ve now switched over to watch the Porto – Malaga game (currently 0-0). Just want to get an idea of our potential quarter final opponents. ;-)
ArranmoreBhoyLXV11 on
HH
One for the acrobat …. HH
O.G.Rafferty on
Lovely move from Celtic. Low Izzy cross held by keeper
the long wait is over on
Raspberry 20.48
Swap the Loving Cup for a miniature European Cup?
O.G.Rafferty on
Celtic carrying on where they left off
jtsTICks on
Good idea Jobo,
I knew you would be in my ‘this tie aint over’ camp :)
sTICks
borderlandbhoy on
Can I Have Raspberry On That Champions League Ice Cream
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tell them to take their own soap, no find any in that midden
hh
Burgas Hoops on
Hammer throwers are on now for the saints !!!!
O.G.Rafferty on
After some hacking Saints now have some possession
The least CelticTV could have done is post some sort of notice advising viewers that there are technical problems. Like you, I logged in just after kick-off and spent 10 minutes “fiddling with knobs” looking for pictures.
What is the Stars on
arsenal score from a corner that actually should have been a goal kick
'GG on
Saints score. Flag is up though.
The danger of a one goal lead.
Jobo Baldie on
…switching back to the Bayern game now to see how they cope with a “losing lead” ;-)
The linesman will be working in Poundland next week..
....PFayr on
Wits
Thanks ..thought I was going daft there …in the kitchen ..no sky plus …TV not keen on repeating the footage
O.G.Rafferty on
If we get a second we’ll get three or four
hotshot on
Commentator was just saying NL knows how tight 1-0 can be, anything might happen to wipe it out and St J have ball in net. Luckily offside.
The Narrowbhoat Tim on
Watching the Arsenal game and the Bayern goalie Manuel Neuer is wearing three fingers gloves, he looks like a Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtle, well he does play in the Cowabundesliga
What is the Stars on
PF
Yes clearly deflected off the back of an Arsenal attacked,bad decision
Arsenal’s hopes of getting eliminated in the next round are alive again.
borderlandbhoy on
townsend – “nearly the perfect delivery there by walclott”
that’ll be an ordinary delivery then
hh
....PFayr on
Sounds as if Lassad isn’t having one of his better games ..
'GG on
Spiers on Sport: what to do with the Green Brigade?
Spiers on Sport
Graham Spiers
Tuesday 19 February 2013
It is amazing how the Green Brigade, that noisy and sometimes militant band of Celtic supporters, can split opinion – even within the walls of Celtic Park itself.
The banner says it all
Speak to some people and they’ll tell you they like this boisterous mob with their booming, reverberating chants at Celtic Park.
Speak to others, and you’ll find contempt for the Green Brigade, a so-called pro-IRA bunch with nothing but hatred for Britain born of a tortured Anglo-Irish history.
The divided jury on the Green Brigade is perfectly summed up by Neil Lennon himself. Over the past two years the Celtic manager has been gushing in his praise of these Celtic supporters, while also casting criticism in their direction.
Lennon, to the Green Brigade’s disgust, took some Celtic supporters to task in May 2011 for a sudden upsurge in pro-IRA singing, though he didn’t specifically mention the content of the chants.
This is all germane once more given that, last Saturday, the Green Brigade boycotted Celtic’s match against Dundee United at Parkhead, citing “police harassment” of their members, as well as an alleged lack of support for them from within their own club.
In a statement the Green Brigade criticised Celtic CEO Peter Lawwell and Lennon for failing to aid them in their grievances.
In fact, the central thrust of the current controversy from Celtic’s point of view – an issue of safe standing and “lateral movement” inside Celtic Park– is duly ignored by everyone.
The fact is, whenever the Green Brigade are debated, the squabbling quickly alights on whether political chanting of any kind should be allowed inside a football ground.
Personally, I deplore songs about the IRA. Some Celtic fans sing pro-IRA songs, while some Rangers fans also refer to the IRA in chants. I’d happily bin the entire repertoire. It is embarrassing to hear this cack inside Scottish football stadiums.
In the case of the Green Brigade, the issue is complicatedly bound up in their view of Celtic’s Irish heritage. For some of their members – though not all – Celtic FC is a symbol of the historic struggle of the Irish.
You may well ask: what has this got to do with football? The answer, I would say, is nothing. Yet football supporters all over Europe – not least those of Rangers and Celtic – have cited political or religious antecedents as grounds for their chanting at football games.
At Celtic Park, in my experience, some reports of the Green Brigade’s “persistent pro-IRA chanting” are grossly exaggerated. For example, on two recent visits to Celtic’s ground I’ve heard not a whit in this direction.
Not so when Celtic travel on the road. On these occasions such slogans can often be heard. For some reason Tynecastle in Edinburgh is a tipping point for this type of Celtic fans’ chanting.
It has been a rule of thumb for years that “being on the road” brings out the zealots in the Celtic and Rangers supports. Rangers have seen vast improvements in terms of eradicating bigoted singing at Ibrox, but can still be embarrassed by fans’ chanting away from home.
Celtic FC have an obvious problem with the Green Brigade. It is this: the club wants to preserve its celebration of its Irish roots; Celtic also loves the Green Brigade for their impressive acoustics at Celtic Park. But the club also feels insecure and wrong-footed in that hazy area where Irish eulogy ends and anti-British sentiment begins.
On some occasions the Green Brigade were the unjust whipping boys for Celtic, such as during their anti-Poppy protest in November 2010.
I write this as a proud Poppy-wearer and someone who has a deep respect for its symbolism. But I ask you: what is the terrible crime in fans of Celtic or anyone else protesting against the Poppy?
These days there is an anti-Poppy sentiment right across British society. I profoundly disagree with it, but are we to ban it and lock ‘em all up?
Celtic’s response to the Green Brigade protest that day was absurd – the club reacted like the fans had been screaming poison and threatened to track down the villains and confiscate their season-tickets.
Having stated that I detest IRA chants, I also know that such slogans are a complication, in Glasgow as elsewhere.
If Uefa, in strict terms, wanted to outlaw this type of stuff from football, I’m not sure where they would start, let alone finish. Real Madrid and Barcelona, with their fans’ competing political and “separatist” agendas, could be a start.
Then Uefa could head to Italy via Glasgow, and then take in that hotbed that is the former Balkans while trying to strip away all this baggage.
The Green Brigade precisely represents football’s problem, where “the culture” of a club is both encouraged and resisted.
Jobo Baldie on
The Highbury boo-boys now all singing “We love you Arsenal”
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Few highlights from Alanmac.
http://youtu.be/7BWuLpIC2m0
jtsTICks –
if you’re still around, apologies I was away for my half time tea and toast there! Arsenal getting battered 0-2 at half time. I’ve now switched over to watch the Porto – Malaga game (currently 0-0). Just want to get an idea of our potential quarter final opponents. ;-)
HH
One for the acrobat …. HH
Lovely move from Celtic. Low Izzy cross held by keeper
Raspberry 20.48
Swap the Loving Cup for a miniature European Cup?
Celtic carrying on where they left off
Good idea Jobo,
I knew you would be in my ‘this tie aint over’ camp :)
sTICks
Can I Have Raspberry On That Champions League Ice Cream
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tell them to take their own soap, no find any in that midden
hh
Hammer throwers are on now for the saints !!!!
After some hacking Saints now have some possession
Time for industrial soccer from the diddy team..
St Johnstone fans booing the ball boys
Arsenal score
Goal Gunners
Arsenal pull 1 back
sTICks –
an earlyish goal leaves us just 1 goal short of requiring a goal to go into extra time.
As Craigy Broon once said (approximately) “There’s nothing more dangerous in any sport than a losing lead”
As Porto go 1 up…
sixtaeseven –
You are quite right.
The least CelticTV could have done is post some sort of notice advising viewers that there are technical problems. Like you, I logged in just after kick-off and spent 10 minutes “fiddling with knobs” looking for pictures.
arsenal score from a corner that actually should have been a goal kick
Saints score. Flag is up though.
The danger of a one goal lead.
…switching back to the Bayern game now to see how they cope with a “losing lead” ;-)
Saints fk
Dreadful goalkeeping from the Bayern keeper
Defensive and goalkeeping howler from Bayern …particularly the GK what on earth was he doing ?.
1-2
StJ goal chopped off …
St.J goal disallowed by linesman. Junior football for him next week :)
Keeper caught in Neuer mans land there
The linesman will be working in Poundland next week..
Wits
Thanks ..thought I was going daft there …in the kitchen ..no sky plus …TV not keen on repeating the footage
If we get a second we’ll get three or four
Commentator was just saying NL knows how tight 1-0 can be, anything might happen to wipe it out and St J have ball in net. Luckily offside.
Watching the Arsenal game and the Bayern goalie Manuel Neuer is wearing three fingers gloves, he looks like a Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtle, well he does play in the Cowabundesliga
PF
Yes clearly deflected off the back of an Arsenal attacked,bad decision
Arsenal’s hopes of getting eliminated in the next round are alive again.
townsend – “nearly the perfect delivery there by walclott”
that’ll be an ordinary delivery then
hh
Sounds as if Lassad isn’t having one of his better games ..
Spiers on Sport: what to do with the Green Brigade?
Spiers on Sport
Graham Spiers
Tuesday 19 February 2013
It is amazing how the Green Brigade, that noisy and sometimes militant band of Celtic supporters, can split opinion – even within the walls of Celtic Park itself.
The banner says it all
Speak to some people and they’ll tell you they like this boisterous mob with their booming, reverberating chants at Celtic Park.
Speak to others, and you’ll find contempt for the Green Brigade, a so-called pro-IRA bunch with nothing but hatred for Britain born of a tortured Anglo-Irish history.
The divided jury on the Green Brigade is perfectly summed up by Neil Lennon himself. Over the past two years the Celtic manager has been gushing in his praise of these Celtic supporters, while also casting criticism in their direction.
Lennon, to the Green Brigade’s disgust, took some Celtic supporters to task in May 2011 for a sudden upsurge in pro-IRA singing, though he didn’t specifically mention the content of the chants.
This is all germane once more given that, last Saturday, the Green Brigade boycotted Celtic’s match against Dundee United at Parkhead, citing “police harassment” of their members, as well as an alleged lack of support for them from within their own club.
In a statement the Green Brigade criticised Celtic CEO Peter Lawwell and Lennon for failing to aid them in their grievances.
In fact, the central thrust of the current controversy from Celtic’s point of view – an issue of safe standing and “lateral movement” inside Celtic Park– is duly ignored by everyone.
The fact is, whenever the Green Brigade are debated, the squabbling quickly alights on whether political chanting of any kind should be allowed inside a football ground.
Personally, I deplore songs about the IRA. Some Celtic fans sing pro-IRA songs, while some Rangers fans also refer to the IRA in chants. I’d happily bin the entire repertoire. It is embarrassing to hear this cack inside Scottish football stadiums.
In the case of the Green Brigade, the issue is complicatedly bound up in their view of Celtic’s Irish heritage. For some of their members – though not all – Celtic FC is a symbol of the historic struggle of the Irish.
You may well ask: what has this got to do with football? The answer, I would say, is nothing. Yet football supporters all over Europe – not least those of Rangers and Celtic – have cited political or religious antecedents as grounds for their chanting at football games.
At Celtic Park, in my experience, some reports of the Green Brigade’s “persistent pro-IRA chanting” are grossly exaggerated. For example, on two recent visits to Celtic’s ground I’ve heard not a whit in this direction.
Not so when Celtic travel on the road. On these occasions such slogans can often be heard. For some reason Tynecastle in Edinburgh is a tipping point for this type of Celtic fans’ chanting.
It has been a rule of thumb for years that “being on the road” brings out the zealots in the Celtic and Rangers supports. Rangers have seen vast improvements in terms of eradicating bigoted singing at Ibrox, but can still be embarrassed by fans’ chanting away from home.
Celtic FC have an obvious problem with the Green Brigade. It is this: the club wants to preserve its celebration of its Irish roots; Celtic also loves the Green Brigade for their impressive acoustics at Celtic Park. But the club also feels insecure and wrong-footed in that hazy area where Irish eulogy ends and anti-British sentiment begins.
On some occasions the Green Brigade were the unjust whipping boys for Celtic, such as during their anti-Poppy protest in November 2010.
I write this as a proud Poppy-wearer and someone who has a deep respect for its symbolism. But I ask you: what is the terrible crime in fans of Celtic or anyone else protesting against the Poppy?
These days there is an anti-Poppy sentiment right across British society. I profoundly disagree with it, but are we to ban it and lock ‘em all up?
Celtic’s response to the Green Brigade protest that day was absurd – the club reacted like the fans had been screaming poison and threatened to track down the villains and confiscate their season-tickets.
Having stated that I detest IRA chants, I also know that such slogans are a complication, in Glasgow as elsewhere.
If Uefa, in strict terms, wanted to outlaw this type of stuff from football, I’m not sure where they would start, let alone finish. Real Madrid and Barcelona, with their fans’ competing political and “separatist” agendas, could be a start.
Then Uefa could head to Italy via Glasgow, and then take in that hotbed that is the former Balkans while trying to strip away all this baggage.
The Green Brigade precisely represents football’s problem, where “the culture” of a club is both encouraged and resisted.
The Highbury boo-boys now all singing “We love you Arsenal”
makeyourmindupCSC
Far too fussy from Celtic
Game of two halves