Another day another Uefa fine for crowd-related transgressions, the umpteenth in recent years. When we went to Seville we knew you could take tens of thousands of Celtic fans anywhere, secure in the knowledge they would make friends with police and locals alike. That reputation’s gone, the Fifa and Uefa awards, relics.
The world appears to have its share of Pussy Rebels. Someone who will tarnish another’s reputation (in this case Celtic) but not have sufficient courage in their convictions (in this case their right to break Uefa rules) that they will do so in their own name, accepting consequences accordingly.
The internet is full of them too, keyboard hard men who will carry a campaign to the ends of the earth, as long as it doesn’t leave a trace of identifying information. If their name gets out, they will run 100m in the opposite direction of their declared stance, faster than Usain Bolt at am Olympic final. Pussy Rebels, every one of them. Lots of people have crazy/offensive/just plain wrong views, but manage to put their names to them – nutcases, but Tiger Rebels.
If you have a view, or way you like to enjoy a game of football, stand up for it.
The incidents in Zagreb pale into insignificance compared to the mini-bus attack which left a child injured before the League Cup semi-final. That wasn’t a rule transgression, it was proper violence.
A few days after the incident I wrote I was concerned there had been no arrest. Despite the overwhelming outrage among Celtic fans and others, and the damage done to the victim, the reward money is still unclaimed. Do the proper thing, report the crime and claim your reward. We have a reputation worth putting your name to.
Not sure how things will go (on the field) tomorrow night. Celtic have an incredible record in the San Siro over 90 minutes, four draws and I think only a couple of defeats? A win would see us into the last 16, it’s a huge ask, but don’t bet against Ronny.
Farewell James Easdale, we’ve loved your work.
My thanks to Andy Coyle. Don’t know him from Adam, but he called me out of the blue, met outside Celtic Park, and put £100 in my hand for our Mary’s Meals appeal. God bless the Celtic support.
On the subject of which, you know you’re dealing with someone special when you learn Lisa Hague, Kris Commons partner, bought a ticket for CQN11 St Patrick’s Dinner. She’ll be helping out too, more on that later. After the dinner we have Packy Bonnar, Joe Miller, Tommy Coyne and the one-and-only Tom Boyd, with Archie Macpherson speaking about Jock Stein and Patricia Ferns on song.
Let me know if you still need a ticket, celticquicknews@gmail.com
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Another fine.
Cretins.
lennon’s passion
19:18
The Championship gets built up to be a tough league because of the promised riches of the Epl. Ask your mate how Derby, Bournemouth, Middlesbrough & co would fare in the Europa League, would they reach last 32 ?
Stuff the Championship, keeping winning in Scotland, keep trying to do well in Europe…
Hope all the Bhoys & Ghirls in Milan are having a great time and bring us back a victory or at least a 4-4 !
Havanalaugh.
Some fine points earlier.
Magnificentseven – I know, it’s great isn’t it !?!? They have just slotted in right away, no bother, no settling in period – both look born for Ronny’s Celtic style. Really great deal getting them both.
up_over_goal
You know what they say, “Better to live one day as a lion than be eaten by a sheep.”
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Don’t know why, but that just makes me chuckle :-)))
HH
BGFC
Coolmore,
Mr Kelly’s intervention in the late 60s as well as Jock Stein’s condemnation of IRA chants are examples of political issues concerning Celtic.
Gerryfaethebrig
Did Middlesboro not reach the final??
Dia dhaoibh, A Chairde,
Very busy the last few days so just catching up. The first time I witnessed sectarianism was in Belfast in the early ’80s. Initially, it was graffiti on the walls and it certainly wasn’t magic. Unionist areas were covered in anti-Catholic slogans while graffiti in nationalist areas was directed against the British state and its security forces. Murals reflected similar sentiments. The ghuys at the Belfast hootenanny will have seen some of this.
However, the naked sectarianism of the RUC and UDR was particularly shocking. Living in Dublin we were rarely exposed to such hatred. The most vilified group in Dublin were members of the travelling community. I’ve witnessed sectarian abuse directed at Celtic suporters in Glasgow but I can honestly say that I have never seen Celtic supporters giving huns grief over their religious affiliations. Earlier posters’ response from BT Sport shows just how much the msm bury their heads in the sandon this issue.
Rangers fans are few and far between in Dublin but I have one in my workplace. We get on and work well together but his friend is an odious west-brit. He refers to my Celtic Tour as the ‘pikey tour’, but not to my face.For years in front of other colleagues, he always highlighted incidents which cast Celtic in a bad light and never mentioned anything which would expose the huns bigotry. Defending Celtic was easy – Uefa/Fifa fair play awards etc but this guy persisted with his tirades. Eventually, I had enough and I asked him to substantiate his anti-Celtic claims. He couldn’t and he looked really silly amongst those of us who were constantly subjected to his prejudice.
I reminded him of the club he supported – the one from North London which has a weapon of mass terror on its crest. Now, don’t UEFA have policies about such symbols?
Roy Croppy: Loved your voice message to Hugh K earlier.
Coinnígí an creideamh (KTF)
The only flare I want to see tomorrow is Celtic wiping the flare with Inter Milan. I hope our boys play with a bit of flare too.
Kafflikskoolspelling book csc
The club are unfortunately rather hypocritical when it comes to politics. Too many links with the corrupt Labour Party.
havanalaugh
19:56 on
25 February, 2015
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
There is a FB Page. Dont know who’s behind it but its got the Celtic Badge on it.
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Saw that – read down to the shared banner / logo with the “anti-hun and anti-jew” strapline. If it is genuine, then it is really diametrically opposite from what you’d expect from your expectations of Celtic fans.
That being the case – and remember it is on the VB website – my bet is on it being one of the Sevco home-made, black-ops jobs – like the rotten fish plan.
HH
BGFC
“…what you’d expect from your expectations…” – whit???
I am sick fed up listening to the like of Keevins and Guidi constantly harping on about how many goals Celtic have lost in Europe and then deducing from that the worthiness and/or vale of the Celtic players and the club itself – let’s get it straight !!
The record books show that up and including the Inter Milan match, Celtic are credited with 23 goals – their opposition with 20 – these are the facts!!!!!!
I like to deal in facts.
We did not qualify for the CL, however we did qualify for the EL group stages.
We then qualified out of the group and are still very much in the ‘mix’ to go through to the last 16.
For a club plying their trade in one of the most impoverished leagues if measured in TV rights income – this is no mean feat.
Inter Milan are four points behind fifth placed Fiorentina in Serie A – they meet on Sunday, and a win for Inter could see them challenging for a CL place.
This is the same Fiorentina who held the multi-millions of Spurs to a 1-1 draw at White Hart Lane.
It is high time that those who make a living out of Scottish Football stopped carping, and denigrating all we do – of course when eventually the ‘Rangers’ come back into the top tier, it will be dubbed all ‘sunshine and light’ and a ‘new dawn’ for Scottish Football.
Big Georges Fan Club – Hail, Hail, Wee Oscar
I hope you are correct and this can be proved. It doesn’t make sense in so many ways, as you say it is the antithesis of everything we stand for. You only need to look at St Pauli or the AS Livorno/Celtic against fascism to see the contradiction. However I also do not share some supporters unquestioning faith in our support. We need to be Vigilant against those within and outwith who would tarnish our good reputation. HH
Starry,
Ha! That one crossed my mind but to be fair to lennons the question was about the current side and this must surely include boros current side, not the prem one ;)
HH
Ooooft Monaco one up
What a goal Monoco
30 yards!!!
Arsenal game is a bit grim.
No real atmosphere, hardly any chances and not much to talk about.
No wonder gambling is so popular, only reason have the people are watching.
Thank God i’m a Celtic fan! Never a dull moment with the bold Ronny D.
El Mad.
(oh a goal, what joy)
Alfie
You forgot the quotation marks for ‘come back’.
Otherwise, no argument!
Just waitin’ on “Jackanory Bhoy” to pop up
with an eye-catchin’…….contribution.
FingersOan’AtBuzzer CSC
starry plough
20:11 on 25 February, 2015
Gerryfaethebrig
the question was would we struggle in the championship, I only used Boro as an example of teams at the top of the championship at the present moment, going by that logic Leeds are in the championship but got to quarters/semis of the Champios League in the past, apologies if I worded it incorrectly but my post was not about Boro, especially not that Middlesborough team who back them were a wee bit better than this Boro team
big georges fan club – hail, hail, wee oscar
20:15 on 25 February, 2015
I would think the page is genuine, Celtics part of it would cover the huns (sevco) and the feyenoord part would cover the Jews ( Ajax).
Heard feyenoord songs being sung in pubs at away games many times this season seems the GB and feyenoord ultras enjoy each others company
Alfie Noakes
Earlier in season When Gordan Dalziell was harping on about Ronnie using
27 players someone asked how many sevco had used.
He replied 17….then when questioned he said he just made that up.
Sad me checked i think it was 24.
We had played at least 6 maybe 8 european games they had been postponing
games against East Fife because of 3 reserve players on international
call ups.
Big Mike
I got the same response from BT
I fired another rocket off to them re the abysmal response
Jc2,
I’m equally sad. When it was mentioned about our total I went and checked how many Lenny used when he took over and it wasn’t much less. 4 fewer I think.
Gerryfaethebrig
Misread the post, sorry Gerry my mistake..
As to the Championship I don’t see any reason we wouldn’t do well in it, same goes for the EPL:))
Bring on the Inter..
Evening folks,
If any of you have a spare 5 minutes then watch the highlights from the DU v ICT match last night. The referees performance was absolutely horrific. And that’s only from the highlights, God knows what he was doing for the rest of the match. Haven’t been on the blog today so not sure if anyone else has touched on this.
For some reason the BBC have the link under rugby union…
http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/31632118
Positively evil deflection for that Monaco goal.
Fired up Goonas for second half.
N-joy till the real stuff starts.
‘Mon The Mighty Hoops!
Geordie
At least you were researching Celtic games
I had to trawl through sevco match reports
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Geordie Munro
20:37 on
25 February, 2015
Jc2,
I’m equally sad. When it was mentioned about our total I went and checked how many Lenny used when he took over and it wasn’t much less. 4 fewer I think.
Thetimreaper
Ha! Ha!
Someone must’ve sent them Elbows’ Greatest Hits!
Seldom seen, Kid!
havanalaugh – “…I also do not share some supporters unquestioning faith in our support…”
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hun skelper – “…I would think the page is genuine…”
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Extremely disappointing though it would be – you may well be right. Was saying on here a couple of weeks ago – hard enough being responsible for bringing your own children up with decent values, without trying to project them on to people you have never met.
I just find it really hard to see how anyone brought up in and around the Celtic culture could associate themselves with this type of thing – very sad if true.
HH
BGFC
Got £5 on Monaco@ 11/2. Could cash out for £11.08. Going to wait and see, I hope I don’t regret it.
starry plough
20:37
I was just replying to an earlier post, I have no interest in the championship, I miss a hundred posts, usually in case somebody has replied to my rubbish, Inter is massive tomorrow, canny wait
Take care & Hail Hail
Totally agree re championship but I just want toInter is massive tomorrow,
Proofread
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Regards Celtic and politics, from way back
Michael Davitt
County Mayo-born Michael Davitt was an Irish nationalist, social campaigner and founder of the Irish National League.
A man of great integrity and much admired for his committed stance against poverty and the bully boy landlords of Ireland – and also Highland Scotland – Davitt was a figure much revered by the Irish in Glasgow.
It says much about the founding fathers of Celtic that when the club moved to its present home in 1892 Michael Davitt was asked to lay the first sod of turf. Davitt though was never known to have been a follower of football (association version). It was however an important point and was commemorated as below:
“On alien soil like yourself I am here;
I’ll take root and flourish, of that never fear;
And though I’ll be crossed sore and oft by the foes,
You’ll find me as hardy as Thistle or Rose.
If model is needed on your own pitch you’ll have it.”
Apparently it was reported that “He fancied that the green sod conveyed from dear old Donegal would prove so slippery that any Saxon rival who ran over it would fall a cropper!” A curious blessing for he new club.
Oooofr
Becomes proofread.
Nearly as funny as arse getting horsed
Arsenal 0 -2
EPL
Not fairing too well in the CL