Running late today…….
The Celtic Supporters Association are in their seventh decade so have seen it all before, albeit the matters the felt necessary to comment on today are uncommon in modern times. After their AGM yesterday they issued the following statement:
“We do not condone in any circumstances the letting off of smoke devices of any kind, the dangers to the health of our supporters should at all times be paramount in everybody’s thoughts. We have quite a number of members who are of the senior variety, and the dangers to anyone with respiratory problems are greatly increased by coming into contact with smoke.
We also do not condone the use of pyrotechnics of any kind; again the dangers to our own supporter’s health should be paramount at all times.
Finally, the deliberate damaging of property within any stadium is not acceptable, and leaves a stain on the great reputation of the Celtic Support. The seats that were broken at Fir Park was blatant vandalism; nothing else.”
I share Association president Joe O’Rourke’s hope that this is a watershed moment for the support, but most of us know at least one person who thrives on chaos and notoriety. We need as many strong voices to step forward as possible, someone with experience of putting genies back in bottles would be handy too.
Many thanks to those who participated in our Cinc Senti’s auction, which closed yesterday, raising £102 for charity. More on where the money will be going later in the week……..
“Yes those were the days, when you didn’t reach for your laptop, phone or tablet or whatever to see what you had missed in terms of things Celtic. Those days when, unless you were from east Kilbride, you had no idea what the eather was like there— and to be honest, you had absolutely no interest in finding out!….. Back to the days when you had never heard of Kojo and his way of speaking or writing, when no one had ever Brattbakkedinanager, would recognise a cash strapped scrofulous hillbilly outside Beverley Hills, and the only Battered Bunnet you knew of belonged to your Grandad.”
From ” To Everyone on Celtic Quick News– This is about what you have all done” — Page 6 of the 2014 CQN Annual
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Big Cup Winners
Olive branch offered, you have rejected.
Fair enough
Incidentally, i called you a ‘student’ you called me a ‘cad’
Calm down
larssonse7en 22:44
P67/ BT/ CRC have my mobile number – Oldtim already there (Aiden has number) – the rest of us arrive tomorrow (lunch-time – to early evening).
We will be in and about the city (depending on when everyone surfaces) on Wednesday morning. :-)
If you sit back and pay a little attention they will show themselves up on here with their sleekitness and personal attacks.
They cant keep up the front of respectability for long a h*n is a h*n is a h*n and their hatred will show through eventually.
Do not allow yourself to be scunnered by their tactics.
Think back to those that have come on and tried to discredit and disrupt this place then ask yourself where are they now.
Mourning their deid team elsewhere and the present ones will follow follow them.
Yeez died in 2012 get used to it h*n how sad must your lifes be to come on here just think you could be on your own sites talking about days ooooot in Forfar & Stenny now jog on chop chop :))
larssonse7en
You have mail
HH
Good night all
Hail Hail
Tontine Tim,
I was at the semi final at Ibrox.The purer than pure Celtic fans with the “Wonderful reputation”did indeed invade the park,and hurl bottles.Last night I was taken to task by Justafan for mentioning episodes like this.I have witnessed volleys of bottles at Celtic Park.I saw the Liverpool incident.15 years ago I witnessed on many occasions gangs of “Celtic casuals”have running battles in Merchant CityNo GB then.But hey,who cares.They hold up the occasional banner,they sing the “Roll Of Honor”,they,well,nothing else really.
The Celtic support has been invaded by,tree hugging,pc,lentil eating,sandal wearing,hand wringing,,apologists.Got that off my chest.
Coneybhoy
Enlightenment offered you chose ignorance and scratched at an itch.
Incidentally I seldom forget a slight. Your memory is equally sharp ?
Larson..I don’t know you however I can tell..you are a good mhan. I can feel your pain through the pen. It took a lot of balls to write that. We often get involved on here without really understanding what others are feeling or going through…I wish you all the best as you search for the right path.
Gordon Waddell allowed his hate feast against the GB on STV, no surprise there then.
WeeFra
We’re grand mate. I’m currently having to calm her down as we listen to Waddell spout inaccuracies and downright lies :-)
Calling all Babbity Bowster drinkers
I will be in with my dad before the Hibs game to celebrate his 75th. I reckon moving to Ayrshire at 34 has had an effect(diluting the Govan and Maryhill effect) on his health.(Castlemilk was a great 3 years for me)
I intend to announce this at the bar to embarass him, so if you are in , please give him a round of applause.
Hail hail
BCW – Coneybhoy
Will you pair make up? Or will I need to watch the iPlayer when I get back from Barca (via the Cave and the Seville pilgrimage) next week?
:-)
Sleep well Timland
Take care and god bless.
HH
KTF
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Coneybhoy
23:03 on
9 December, 2013
Calling all Babbity Bowster drinkers
Better watch out , the Big Cup might get away from the protection of his keyboard and confront you….then again Internet hardmen barely leave their bedroom !!!
Brian Wilson’s company Scottish Coal and their successors had huge open-cast workings in Fife which they exploited for many years before going bust and leaving the taxpayers of Fife with a £60 million clean up bill.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/fife/fife-s-landscape-forever-scarred-by-mining-1.98546
It could have been worse because at the time they went belly-up they were in talks with the council about draining a local Loch, a beauty spot which they said they would reinstate. As they had failed to keep their promises on other sites I objected to this in the following terms:
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/opinion/readers-letters/does-anyone-believe-loch-fitty-promise-1.69581
Yes our board know all about vandalism, industrial vandalism that has left Fife like a lunar landscape in places.
HT & Minx88
No change there with Waddell then? As Cilla would say……. Surprise Surprise. :)) No offence to our younger viewers. Hehe
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Smoke and Mirrors
Like i said before, no sides. Please calm down as i asked BCW to do.
Hail hail
smokey
You ignored my pot and kettle ideation earlier…….
and mirrors
Still trying to sow rancour.
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
My blood pressure goes through the roof when I’m home and i hear those balloons on the radio and the telly, I don’t see it changing any time soon..
That’s a mighty big gravy train in Scotland and with the pickings so thin these days it’s all hands to the engine room to preserve it..
Beware the media smoke and mirrors..
Right off to bed the conclusion from Waddell is that the GB are evil, no balanced journo from STV.
Night night……….
prestonpans bhoys
What time was waddell on?
Coneybhoy
23:13 on
9 December, 2013
Smoke and Mirrors
Like i said before, no sides. Please calm down as i asked BCW to do.
Hail hail
Okcokay away for a cup of warm milk and a Gypsy Cream….I will wake tomorrow still a proud Celtic Supporter
Praecepta
Apparently not.
I tried, i was even complimentary.
You say potayto, i say potato
I remember the whole debate but can’t cut and edit like he did and will again.
Watch this space….
Anyone would think there is bad stuff brewing at Sevco and that certain parties want to deflect attention away from it.
Remember, Jack. This is a world in which nothing can be hidden. The only way to go about things is to have nothing to hide.
Remember in Local Hero, when the analyst goes to more and more extreme lengths to keep his regular, expensive gig going with Burt Lancaster’s character, such as climbing onto the roof of the building and posting up an insult letter by letter? That’s you, that is, Jack.
Night Night Timland.
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Coneybhoy
Remind me, please.
Spiers on Sport: The end of the Green Brigade at CelticSpiers on Sport
Graham Spiers.Monday 9 December 2013 The Green Brigade have finally been moved towards extinction by Celtic FC. And notably few among the club’s wider, vast fanbase have come forth to express any sorrow.
The Green Brigade have finally been moved towards extinction by Celtic FC. And notably few among the club’s wider, vast fanbase have come forth to express any sorrow.
The tipping-point was the disgusting and yobbish behaviour by certain Celtic fans at Fir Park last Friday night. To see the way seats were kicked-in in that stadium, and the grisly photographic evidence afterwards, was one of the greatest humiliations heaped on Celtic in years.
Doubts remain as to whether they were specific Green Brigade members, but the miscreants were within their space, behind their banners, and to all intents were a part of a noisy Green Brigade presence.
Peter Lawwell, the Celtic CEO, is now thoroughly exasperated. He has forthwith banned 128 Celtic supporters from matches and is now dispersing Section 111, the corner of Celtic Park where the Green Brigade have stood since 2006.
This has been a complex saga from the start. Not everything about the Green Brigade has been bad for Celtic. Indeed, some of their antics up in the stands has been impressive and to be admired.
Their booming “Come On You Bhoys In Green”, which reverberates around the stadium like a tribal African chant, being picked up by fellow supporters in all corners of the ground, was something to behold.
More than once in the past Neil Lennon, the Celtic manager, has marvelled at brilliant acoustics of the Green Brigade’s singing.
But there was more than this to their repertoire. In particular, the Irish political struggle, which has deposited much of its baggage in the west of Scotland in recent decades, appeared to be an essential of the Green Brigade handbook.
For many Green Brigade members it often seemed that, just as mandatory as actually supporting Celtic, was adhering to a devotion for Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger-striker. The Green Brigade’s political chanting in favour of Irish Republicanism was nowhere near as frequent as some made out but, when it did rise up, it was enough to exasperate a majority of Celtic supporters.
In this context Celtic as a club, let alone the Scottish Parliament, has never quite been able to square the circle. Celtic’s Irish roots deserve to be cherished, as do the roots of any family or football club.
In Celtic’s case, these roots stem from Ireland, and a pitiful saga of over 140 years ago. And it is a saga that has witnessed pain and dispute in almost every decade since then.
In short, these are incendiary roots to cherish, roots which are fraught with danger and bound to divide and offend. In this context there are two distinct narratives (in fact more than two) – one offered in Britain and one offered in Ireland – and both aspire to be “the truth” about the Irish struggle.
With a group like the Green Brigade, Celtic FC has become mired in this. Theirs is a dangerous history and here in 2013 it has proved impossible to keep it inoffensive. The Green Brigade have seen to it.
The vast majority of Celtic fans take a distinctly different tack. There is no rampant Irish political expression among them. They cannot be bothered, frankly, with Bobby Sands.
The reason for this is pretty simple: the Celtic support is a variegated leaf, comprised of obvious Irish/Catholic roots, but also with a healthy Protestant element among it, as well as other ethnic groups.
By its sheer variety, the wider Celtic fanbase has a more watery view of the relevance of Ireland, as witnessed by a less than sympathetic ear extended towards the Green Brigade’s plight of the past 24 hours.
In short, the Green Brigade’s booming anthems have been much-admired; had they contained themselves to these they would have remained much-loved around Parkhead. But their political polemic – centred often on Sands and the IRA – has left most fellow-Celtic fans cold.
Celtic are now going through something similar to the trials of Rangers and their supporters’ troubles of recent years.
The Ibrox club wrestled for decades with a problem of bigoted singing among its supporters, resulting in various pleas from the Ibrox hierarchy over many years for it to cease.
In 2006, when Uefa censured Rangers over such singing, it left a stigma on the club which Rangers toiled to shake off. The truth is, many Celtic fans revelled in this public embarrassment of their great rivals.
Now Celtic are receiving a dose of it, and have been publicly embarrassed. In disbanding the Green Brigade, the club hopes to finally be rid of unwanted attention.
As Rangers have already shown, though, it might take years and years in the cleansing.
Celtic_First
Can’t be long now before the first annual gathering of the Sevconians, should be quite a tasty affair I hear!
How was your walk CF I was away when you were away did you post about it?
A conundrum:
Right – exit stage left – off to bed.
KTF!
turkeybhoy
22:16 on 9 December, 2013
Disgraceful decision by Celtic.Bowing to hysterical pressure from the likes of Keevins in an orchestrated attempt by Irvine and his lackeys in the MSM to discredit our club.
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Sadly, it is Celtic supporters who are disgracing the Club. This is the most disillusioned I have felt in my 47 years of being a Celtic fan. I always believed that you could take us anywhere and we won’t let you down. Oh **** it!
The thing is, though, Jack. CQNers are just ordinary people who try to do their best to support their families and support their club. We’re not anyone’s enemies. We are just people that got fed up with the dog’s breakfast you helped create in Scottish media and started engaging with online media instead.
And look at what’s left of your industry now. And look at the antics you are reduced to yourself.
I kind of feel sorry for you. I mean, I know you get the big, fat kick-back from the board du jour at the Brox, but there are serious things serious journalists could be writing about and here you are throwing change at internet trolls to pick on posters on CQN to sow some discord. It’s poor stuff, Jack.
The stuffed monkey suit that is Graham ” gutless” Spiers now talks for Celtic supporters, telling us what we believe and how we feel, I’ve heard it all now…
Celtic_First
How are you my friend?
Are you in Scotland over the Christmas period? Would be smashing to catch up with you over a coffee.
SwanseaBhoy
Celtic_First
And I’m off tomorrow so will be delighted to be “picked on” for a wee while yet…….
Celtic first, Celtic last and Celtic over all.
starry plough forza oscar
23:26
I haven’t really had a chance to say much on CQN, but it was life-affirmingly magic in every way. I am still trying to come to terms with how much it affected me. I am going to give some talks to senior pupils in a high school and at the Catholic Society at a university near where I live. That’s good, because it’s forcing me to crystallise some thoughts, so I will share, when I think the time is right.
Hope you’re doing all right.
SwanseaBhoy rooting for Fearless Wee Oscar Knox
23:31
I hope so. More New Year than Christmas. John67 waltzed into the club for the Hearts game and we were talking about you. I think we all miss the days of the M6 to Celtic Park, but life moves on. Stay in touch.