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What happened in Sunderland was a handful of neds trying to act hard. A rampage is what Genghis Khan liked to do with 4 thousand warriors. Hyperbolic bullshit.

fair weather fans in Tyrone lol

were not made of sugar in co antrim. its the midges we have to content with is the bother!

Glenravel has to be worst for it! Went to watch my nephew play a game there a few weeks ago, ate alive I was!

It's the big trees, plenty of shelter.

Tommy Robinsons not too happy with you lot...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=INRJp4OfECA&feature=youtu.be

WGAF what that bigoted, racist twat thinks.

Slaughtered ex-EPL team 5-0 today with a second string. Wow! We would walk the EPL......... convoluted reasoning-r-us.

[There was no one on the bench, in the squad or hiding in a wee room at Lennoxtown.]

Holy eff! We don't have a another first team striker, that is why Rogic was played there. There was no one on the bench, in the squad or hiding in a wee room at Lennoxtown. Sinclair might be the least bad choice as the front man but he still isnt great there.

I don'the agree with this. Jack Aitchison should have been there. He is very young at only 17 but has already played 3 times for the first team and has scored. I wouldn't expect him to be playing 90 minutes but sometimes it's worth giving a young player a chance. Plenty have played at that age before. Having the option to bring him off the bench to shake things up and allow him that experience should have been an option.

We had a striker at Lennoxtown, he should have been on the  bench at Parkhead

Aitchinson has played a total of 36 minutes first team football. We may as well have chucked Benyu up there! Aitchinson is good but no where near ready for an important CL game especially if you had watched him play for development and youth sides. He isn't a stand out.

Why are Antrim not good enough in both football and hurling? Does anyone actually know? Massive population but they've been shite in both codes for years and years. Is it the county board? Schools? Clubs? Gaelic games culture? or is it everything?

Fish Suppers and Ulster Scots genes

Haha! You might have finally cracked it there lad!

What % of the population of Antrim are actually GAA members compared to Tipp or Galway or Kilkenny? The number of hurling clubs isnt that great for a start. People seem to forget 50% plus of the population there are not interested in gaelic sports!

Who played up front for Celtic?

Rogic though for last half hour I think Hayes was going quite central as Rogic dropped back.

I think Rodgers needs to take responsibility for not having more than two strikers at the club.

Difficult one when normally play one up top.  Hard keeping the boys he has happy plus Sinclair excellent when playing through the middle last season - not sure why he was not deployed there last night with Hayes on the left.

True enough but surely there should be a young striker pushing for a place.

Ifs and maybes. We don't have anyone ready to step up as striker. Rogic was next best option. It didn't work. Options for next week are a fit Griffiths (preferred), try Rogic again with a tweak to how the system is then played or another.

I think he knew Rosenborg would sit in so thought that the false 9 with interchanging would pull the defence around - did not work out.  I think next week if no fit striker might see Sinclair back through the middle with Hayes on the left and Forrest on the right with Rogic playing in the 10 position.

I have no issue with him playing  false 9 or any system but if he generally plays a front man then in his preferred formation, then I think it's reasonable to have at least a third choice for that position. Maybe there was someone on the bench for that role?

Holy eff! We don't have a another first team striker, that is why Rogic was played there. There was no one on the bench, in the squad or hiding in a wee room at Lennoxtown. Sinclair might be the least bad choice as the front man but he still isnt great there.

Who played up front for Celtic?

Rogic though for last half hour I think Hayes was going quite central as Rogic dropped back.

I think Rodgers needs to take responsibility for not having more than two strikers at the club.

Difficult one when normally play one up top.  Hard keeping the boys he has happy plus Sinclair excellent when playing through the middle last season - not sure why he was not deployed there last night with Hayes on the left.

True enough but surely there should be a young striker pushing for a place.

Ifs and maybes. We don't have anyone ready to step up as striker. Rogic was next best option. It didn't work. Options for next week are a fit Griffiths (preferred), try Rogic again with a tweak to how the system is then played or another.

Linfield fans will have the last laugh at Griffiths if Celtic fail to qualify and were left without a recognised striker over 2 legs v Rosenberg!

Griffiths was injured!

Griffith's is carrying a knock but even if he was fit he was suspended for one game for the scarf incident at Windsor Pk, he should be back for next week. If he's not we're in serious trouble, sh!t we're in serious trouble anyway

Suspended or not, he wouldn't have played last night and is an injury doubt for second leg.

Linfield fans will have the last laugh at Griffiths if Celtic fail to qualify and were left without a recognised striker over 2 legs v Rosenberg!

Griffiths was injured!

Le Tiss is a dick  alright.
Seems he has his knickers in a twist that a player would rather be at Liverpool than Southampton.
The I turned down Liverpool jibe is too obvious for it to be funny imo. It's a bit childish and not really an intelligent put  down.
Le Tisser was a wasted talent and I reckon it annoys him now he looks back on his career that he didn't play for a bigger club.

LeTissier may be a dick, wouldn't know. To suggest he was a wasted talent is nonsense. He could have and obviously had chances, to play for a 'bigger' club. Not sure how that is a bad thing. He just seemed 'content' where he was. 

FFS. BR will not quit over this. That site is the Glasgow equivalent of the Sunday World.

CELTIC FC is to close the 'Green Brigade' section of the stadium for the next two matches after serious incidents of unsafe behaviour at the last two competitive matches at Celtic Park.
The Club is writing to the 900 season-ticket holders affected to explain the Club's position and next steps.
The decision, which has been taken amid serious safety concerns and after discussion with the police, follows events at the matches against Hearts in May and Linfield on Wednesday night.
The safe standing area of the stadium had been working very well until the final game of last season against Hearts, when large numbers of flares were smuggled into and set off under banners within the Green Brigade section. It was an incredibly irresponsible and co-ordinated action which could have had tragic consequences.
The Club understands that consideration was given to halting this crucial game because of the thick smoke, which was blowing across the stadium and into other sections of the support and posed a serious safety risk to all those in the stadium. The fire alarm was activated, resulting in the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service responding to the stadium.
The Safety Advisory Group of Glasgow City Council, which licenses Celtic Park and comprises representatives from the Council, police, fire and rescue, the ambulance service and other statutory authorities, had an emergency meeting after that game and communicated their serious concerns to the Club, which presented a risk to the renewal of the safety certificate necessary for the operation of the stadium and the capacity of the safe standing area.
The Club has been working with the Safety Advisory Group towards a solution for this season, but the events at the match on Wednesday night, where there were further serious safety issues within the Green Brigade section, require the Club to take immediate action to comply with its responsibilities under the applicable legislation.
Safety of all supporters at Celtic Park is of paramount importance to the Club. The safe operation of the safe standing area at Celtic Park requires effective communication and engagement with the supporters in that area. Unfortunately, due to the events at the Hearts and Linfield matches, the Club is not satisfied that the Green Brigade section can be operated safely at this time.
The Club will continue to investigate the events at the matches in question and to address the issues that arose. The Club will seek to engage with the supporters in the Green Brigade section to re-establish the necessary communication and engagement to permit supporters to be readmitted to the section and for it to be operated safely, in consultation with the Safety Advisory Group. If that cannot be achieved, then the Club will require to examine other options.
Club Chief Executive Peter Lawwell said: "The behaviour of fans in the Green Brigade section of the ground at the matches against Hearts and Linfield was a serious safety risk, which has left us with no choice but to take decisive action to ensure safety within the stadium.
"There is no room for debate. The safety authorities and the football authorities make the rules. They also enforce the rules. If the rules are broken, Celtic will be punished again and again. There is no hiding place from these realities. Anyone who has Celtic's interests at heart must surely recognise them and behave accordingly.
"Every club which visits here says the atmosphere is incredible and that is something that we have worked very hard to support and encourage. We cannot understand why supporters who are capable of contributing so much that is positive to the club can be so reckless in doing it damage. In addition to the serious safety concerns, we face further UEFA disciplinary action.
"This is not a decision we have taken lightly, but the behaviour of fans in this section is posing a direct risk to the safe operation of the stadium and is also seriously tarnishing the club's hard-won reputation.
"Dialogue, engagement and communication with the Green Brigade have evidently failed at this time, given the behaviour experienced at these matches, and we are therefore left with no choice but to take action to ensure safety at the stadium.
"We hope that the action we are taking prompts recognition by those fans of the damage being done to the Club and that we can resume meaningful engagement with them which would ensure a safe environment within that part of Celtic Park."
Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers said: "It's really disappointing that we are talking about stadium safety and paramilitary banners rather than our progress into the next round of Europe.
"The fans have a responsibility to behave in the stadium and I would urge everyone involved to see the damage this is causing to the club. Hopefully this is a wake-up call.
"The players thrive on the cauldron that the fans create at Celtic Park but there are clearly boundaries that you can't step over. Everyone knows that pyrotechnics, unacceptable banners and ignoring stewards who are enforcing basic stadium safety measures are simply not on. I really hope that the fans take this on board. It would be a real shame if they forced the club to take more permanent action to ensure safety and protect the Club's standing in European football, which is what we should all be aiming to promote."

Apart from mentioning the flares, that statement isn't very helpful. It talks about the "behaviour" at the Linfield match but not what this constituted. What did those in the standing section do wrong?

Just curious when you say the broad black brimmer of the IRA can't be seen as sectarian? If you speak to any Protestant I'm fairly sure they would see that as sectarian and why should football supporters be singing songs about the IRA?!

Also if you think the picture of the 'volunteer' is ambiguous because the GB made it that way you're patently wrong. It looks like a paramilitary soldier and in that case why is it at a football match?!

Who the f**k cares what somebody or other THINKS is sectarian. The BBB is not sectarian.

That banner with the Volunteer is pathetic to be honest just a cheap effort at riling "the other side". What the f**k does Brendan Rodgers or a Football match have to do with the IRA.

I often agree with the expressions of a political opinion at Celtic Park, but only so far as there's a point and a cause behind it.

The banner with Rodgers was witty in the context. I think the Green Brigade shot themselves in the foot with the one of the Volunteer though. I don't disagree with them expressing a political opinion and I dispute that a drawing of a Volunteer is sectarian, Republicanism has never been anti-Protestant in the way Loyalism has been and is overtly anti-Catholic. A banner like that is only ever going to end in tears with the sanitised organisation of UEFA (actually horrendously corrupt but likes to think of itself as sanitised). They may, may, have gotten away with the Rodgers one without the Volunteer.

Now in terms of the singing, The Broad Black Brimmer is not a sectarian song. It's political but nowhere does it refer to Protestantism/Orangeism and putting it into the same bracket as "up to our necks in Fenian blood" is horsesh1t. Again with the sanitary towel that is UEFA it's likely to end up causing Celtic problems but personally I don't think it should; UEFA would want to look into it's own dark cupboards before it starts giving off about anyone else anyway but that's not how it works with them unfortunately.

Now if anyone engaged in overtly anti-sectarian singing, as some have stated, like "no Orange b*******" then Celtic should make an example of those people, find them and ban them for life. As a Republican, I find it abhorrent that there are those who hijack Republicanism for their own racist means. True Republicanism is not sectarian in nature and in fact the founder of modern Irish Republicanism, as well as many other of the greatest Irish Republicans, were Protestants themselves.

The Rodgers banner is grand as far as I'm concerned a bit tongue in cheek, its the fact they thought to put a Vol along side it that irks me, not that I deem it sectarian which on its own merit, it isn't, but disagree for the motives of using it to wind people up. Republicanism by its very nature cannot be Sectarian otherwise it is not Republicanism.

Broadly agree. However, if posters here are going by hearsay and were not actually at the match make sure you get your facts right as to what was sung or not sung. If whole stadium was singing add ons, fair enough but I've heard plenty who were at the match saying they heard no such thing. The banners were okay in my book and f**k off with calling certain songs sectarian when they clearly are not