‘We deserve better’ is one of those phrases which sounds reasonable at first pass but does not stand up to scrutiny.
Fans deserve honesty, good governance and a safe environment to watch football, but do you think any team’s fans deserve on-field success? No. And if there is one club out there where this mantra holds true, they don’t train at Murray Park.
Football success is not a right, conferred by the aggregate number of season tickets bought, divisions played in, or successful campaigns to unseat investors completed. You buy a ticket to be entertained and watch your football team. This act does not come with an implicit understanding of what the outcome of any individual match will be, or an entire season’s undertakings.
It is narcissistic nonsense to think you deserve football success.
‘We deserve to watch our team win, lose and draw.’ This isn’t likely to replace ‘A club like no other’ on your season ticket, but it is the ultimate truism in football and we should all hear it occasionally.
‘We deserve frankness, in times of success and failure.’
‘We deserve to know there is no way to bridge the ‘gap’.’
‘We deserve to be told the old ways are gone forever and there is nothing anyone can do about it.’
‘We deserve to know if we put the club in the hands of a charlatan.’
‘We deserve to know that many of us will never see the league title go to Ibrox in our lifetime.’
You will never see these phrases on a bedspread at the gates to Murray Park, but the day will come when they are acknowledged truths.
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That can’t be all, bhoys, surely?
As a socialist I have some sympathy with the bedspread ‘rebels’. They are leaderless and deliberately so. The unionist working classes in Ireland and Scotland have been used, sold up the garden path and abandoned. Their public representatives and spokespeople are all Mable and unwilling to lead them out of their cup-de-sac. History will show that the game was up for them in 1997 both politically and for their favourite fitba club.
As a Celtic fan it’s funny to watch but it is genuinely tempered for me by watching them continue further in to the abyss of intolerance and bigotry as they search in vain for a way to their imagined glorious past. A past which gave them a few shillings more in the workplace than the sub strata of society below them at the time – a sub strata which as a result had to look to education and social cohesion as a way to progress themselves.
The penny will drop for most of them eventually but until it does the slide to fascism is inevitable for many. Something similar happened with the white English working class when the industrial bases were decimated, unions destroyed, the Labour Party abandoning them to cosy up with more affluent voters. I suppose this applied in Scotland too and accounts also for what we are seeing there in some groups. Like itvor not we need to be reaching out and trying to lift them out of their more, or at least leaving the gate open for them.
As for their team and club though, well, that’s just a handy metaphor for their real world demise. And it’s as funny as f……
Mable?? I mean unable!!
More? I mean mire!
ROBERTTRESSELL
While I agree with your sentiment, if we were to reach out a hand to them they would probably shit in it.
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFUL
I’m amazed at the apparent lack of objective/critical thinking from their support.
The hero worship of King after his well documented tax fraud in SA is but one example.
They can’t all be that daft, can they?
It’s this kind of delusion on a much larger scale :)))
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wGdhc9k07Ms
HH
“Divisions played in” – Very subtle, very funny. Well played Paul67
RT
The time is right for a United Rangers of Glasgow FC, breakaway team. They could groundshare with Benburb or Saint Anthonys.
Looking more like liquidation for Sevco by the day. Demolish the Edmiston Drive masonic temple!
I keep getting visions of zombie households being like an episode of South Park today…
“O My God They killed Kenny ”
Bless their wee cotton socks…..
H.H
TTT
Just said to ole EuroChamps67 Broony could have broken a neck.
‘We deserve frankness, in times of success and failure.’
This is the line that screamed out at me.
I am all for accountability and transparency … but if they are to mean anything, those priinciples have to applied fairly and consistently, and not just with the zombies and/or the SFA, but also with our own club…. even if they lead to answers that we might not like…
So, when will Celtic disclose what role it played in the 5WA, LNS (the decision not to appeal), etc.,?
Callum ‘escaped goat’ – ‘The Invisible Man’ MacGregor will end the season as the only Celtic to have scored in every competition we’ve played in.
Celtic predictive Celt
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
That’s the beauty of being invisible. Opponents just see a ball rolling apparently unaided into their net, while they stand transfixed.
Glendalys
I’ll set them up……………………….you can hit them away all day long
ItsInTheNetAgain CSC
Robert Tressell
Your post re the state of the Fleg People is very true.
A friend of mine got to know Billy Hutchinson in the aftermath of the peace process ( long story but he was involved in community activism with deprived communities in Dublins inner city and ended up going to Belfast as part of a cross border initiative to coordinate with loyalist working class communities in Belfast)
Anyway leaving aside my own views on these odious creatures ( Hutchinson included) I remember a story he said that Hutchinson told him which just about sums up the delusion of these forgotten souls.
One day while on the Shankill Road Hutchinson was asked to settle an argument between 2 old men standing at a street corner.It went something like this
1st Old Boy to Billy “Youre an intelligent mon,tell him will ye”
2nd Old Boy to Billy ” He says we own Australia and I dont beleive him”
So there ye go…no bread no butter no tea no sugar but “they own australia”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIKrGg15eds
Albert Kidd
If struggling for transport to the game to Paradise next Sunday, you can get a train from Balloch to Dalmarnock. About 10.35 from Balloch. I will be getting on that train at Dalmuir at 10.55. Many West Dunbartonshire Tims will be on board.
HH
A wee choon to cheer you up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f78r50t9BQU
KINGLuBO
The insistence that Murty merely got ‘the tactics wrong’ remains the rock they’re prepared to perish on.
Strange given the same SMSM squarely backed Graeme Murty before the k.o. including the live broadcasts where Kris Boyd on SKY especially, said he had to do something to stiffen the midfield, assuming he meant with fan(ny) Halliday.
It’ll be a cold day in hell when the bigot realises that Celtic have better players and no amount of Sevco on a level playing field will ever trouble Celtic in a one off, let alone in a sequence of 10.
Meanwhile SMSM move on to backing The Steel Men for one month, till a day in May.
Looking for three tickets for the final CSC
I wonder if Tom Millar found his Motherwell scarf yet:)))
MIKE IN TORONTO
Didn’t Celtic say it was a matter (LNS) for the Scottish Football authorities to revisited the decision in light of the Supreme Court ruling.
Not sure what we would have been appealing in the LNS decision when we clearly stated it was a matter for the SFA and Law courts.??
Genuine question as you’re a lawyer:))
HH
Delaneys Dunky @ 2.40pm
Thanks for the info!
I have managed to get in contact with a great lad, Tommy, from the Balloch Brigada CSC who has sorted me with a space on their bus and has even offered to pick me up from the hotel I will be staying at!
If I have a few too many shandies the night before and sleep in then I will be on that 10.35 train!
Hail Hail
Another for the Schadenfreude connoisseurs…
Warning – heavy on the old swearing again…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGcbyZEevXI&edufilter=NULL
Btw, he mentions the L word. Does he get it? Who knows, he might think it means something else…
THESAINT on 17TH APRIL 2018 12:50 PM
AlbertKidd Try contacting Fentons bar Alexandria. Balloch Brigada CSC meet there.
*had tae look that place up, its not actually in Alexandria but Jamestown beside St Kessogs Primary, an area in which I grew up.
I once asked about this club and was advised that after they leave on a Saturday they don’t normally get back hame until the Monday, and that’s home games lol, a wild club I’m led tae believe.
There’s also the Renton CSC which used tae leave fae the Dillichip Hotel which is in Bonhill, might be someone o here that can be of better assistance. I often travelled on it as a bhoy and later on when hame would go on it, very very good club, not that the Brigada isnae.
Albert Kidd
Enjoy Loch Lomond and good luck.
West Dunbartonshire is Green and White.
DAVIDOPOULOS on 17TH APRIL 2018 3:00 PM
Another for the Schadenfreude
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‘King Kenny’
???
ALBERTKIDDCSC on 17TH APRIL 2018 2:59 PM
Delaneys Dunky @ 2.40pm
Thanks for the info! I have managed to get in contact with a great lad, Tommy, from the Balloch Brigada CSC who has sorted me with a space on their bus and has even offered to pick me up from the hotel I will be staying at!
*Excellent, I have no idea who Tommy is but tell him that you “talk” tae an oul geriatric who originally comes fae lower Haldane on CQN.
Delaneys Dunk
Thank you and Hail Hail !
Tontine Tim @ 3.08pm
Haha, I will do!
david17
“Lee Wallace ruined his career for Rangers [sic]”
I was wheezing at that…
DAVIDOPOULOS
I was howling at this choob yesterday:))
Ho Ho Ho CSC
SP
” Not sure what we would have been appealing in the LNS decision when we clearly stated it was a matter for the SFA and Law courts.?? ”
No LNS appeal process especially given LNS found Rainjurz incredibly guilty, Celtic instead backed the call for a judicial review AFAIK
Another for the Schadenfreude connoisseurs…
Warning – heavy on the old swearing again…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGcbyZEevXI&edufilter=NULL
Btw, he mentions the L word. Does he get it? Who knows, he might think it means something else…
He he an odd combination of good insight and breathtaking delusion, are all Sevcoites like this or just the ‘intelligent’ ones?!
starry plough
It really is quite something. It’s amazing just how quickly they have gone from being “back” to “everything at the club needs overhauled”.
Stunning really…
McPhail Bhoy
I know what you mean, some of it is actually spot on then he loses it lol
Davido
The more bigoted hun’s children will be Glasgow Warriors supporters.
The less bigoted children will be Celtic supporters.
Dream of Espanyolification!
Your children will be our referees
Delaneys Dunky
They will look back at 2012 and lament the missed opportunity to build something “good” out of the rubble of Rangers…
DD
P.S. I think St Mirren might find it’s attendances swelled a little next season…