The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[bannside]

No. But he should have been wearing a Saffron jersey with 14 on the back.

[general_lee]

Look we all know what the British are like with their poppy. I 100% admire anyone that takes a stance against it as the farcical nature of poppy culture manages to outdo itself every year. There's a good account on Twitter called @giantpoppywatch which encapsulates this brilliantly.

Regards BBC, ITV etc. I'm sure they could do without the ensuing complaints if x y or z wasn't wearing one on the 6 o'clock news. I'd hazard a guess x y and z know this too so it suits all parties to a certain extent.

[Franko]

I don't know the answer, would there not be people or pundits that have retired from it all and come out and mention, even in passing, that they were 'pressured' into wearing it as someone said that it would further your career or at least keep you in a well paid job..

We are doing a lot of assuming over people wearing the poppy, It would take a brave person to test this theory in fairness, brave as in someone willing to see if not wearing it will mean loss of work...

Was Niblock wearing one or Sidebotton at the weekend?

Honestly don't know.  I see what you are saying regarding nobody putting their head above the parapet.  I'd love to ask Niblock exactly what the score is.

[Applesisapples]

Lennon with his poppy on display today.

Oh f**k me

I have an issue with a man from the nationalist community contributing to the Lee Clegg beer fund. Obviously you don't.

I honestly couldn't give a f**k who does or doesn't wear a poppy to be quite honest with you.he's not the first Celtic manager to wear one, he's not the first Celtic manager from the "nationalist" community to wear one. He's not the first Celtic manager from the north to wear one!

I don't think Celtic managers should be wearing a poppy. It's insulting to a huge proportion of the fanbase who have made this clear in the past.

Get a life. There a big Scottish Military tradition and many support Celtic. If Celtic have decided that the management team should wear a poppy to reflect this on one day what is the problem.

[tyroneman]

Whatever the rights and wrongs of Lennon wearing a poppy, it's doing a great job as a dead cat on table and taking attention away from matters on the pitch

[Angelo]

Lennon with his poppy on display today.

Oh f**k me

I have an issue with a man from the nationalist community contributing to the Lee Clegg beer fund. Obviously you don't.

I honestly couldn't give a f**k who does or doesn't wear a poppy to be quite honest with you.he's not the first Celtic manager to wear one, he's not the first Celtic manager from the "nationalist" community to wear one. He's not the first Celtic manager from the north to wear one!

I don't think Celtic managers should be wearing a poppy. It's insulting to a huge proportion of the fanbase who have made this clear in the past.

Get a life. There a big Scottish Military tradition and many support Celtic. If Celtic have decided that the management team should wear a poppy to reflect this on one day what is the problem.

The problem is what the poppy stands for and who it supports. There is a massive moral issue with supporting the causes of the likes of Lee Clegg and Solider F. Large sections of the Celtic fanbase have made this well known to the board on many occasions.

It's Lennon's choice to wear it but I must say I find it disappointing as a northern nationalist and I think he should have shown more respect than to wear it on matchday. I doubt this was an instruction of the club, I would say it was a choice by Lennon which is disappointing.

[LCohen]

Angelo are you barred form the coronavirus threads?

[MoChara]

I doubt anyone would put pressure on anyone to wear a poppy, if it was the case we'd have plenty stories about it, other than the ones made up here by boarders saying he'll have pressured into wearing that'

Keane Lennon and O'Connell don't seem the type to bow to pressure.

Did O'Gara regret his attitude to the queen? Or did I read that wrong?

I genuinely don't get this. They weren't pressured into wearing it?
What actually happened was they went down to their local Spar and bought one and have been wearing it daily for the last 2 weeks?

No I reckon it was handed to them and they decided to wear it, they could have decided not too. That's their decision. I don't find it that difficult to understand.

Surely by now after all these years there would be some sort of 'poppy pressure' story coming out!

I don't think the head of the BBC are standing over presenters and forcefully pinning the poppy to their lapels. But I  Think it highly unlikely that many presenters buy their own poppy in the local shop . Therefore Its easy to assume that there is an unwritten policy of handing presenters poppies with the expectation that they wear one, presumably for presentation purposes. Many of these presenters/pundits probably think "anything for a quiet life" and thereby comply. The likes of McClean  then stands out for his principled stance. It's perhaps a microcosm of British/Irish history. Try to assimilate the Irish to British ways, many will comply, and those that don't are painted as unreasonable agitators. I respect British culture , but don't respect those that give it an elevated status .

"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. ... They refuse to be English"

[Angelo]

Angelo are you barred form the coronavirus threads?

I've said what I needed to say and grown tired of the juvenile responses.

[JimStynes]

Angelo are you barred form the coronavirus threads?

He's been run out of town

[tyroneStatto]

See Griff has had to delete his twitter. there's no doubt that he would have liked that tweet about Kyle Lafferty only for football reasons but the huns have jumped all over it.

[Angelo]

See Griff has had to delete his twitter. there's no doubt that he would have liked that tweet about Kyle Lafferty only for football reasons but the huns have jumped all over it.

What's this?

[tyroneStatto]

See Griff has had to delete his twitter. there's no doubt that he would have liked that tweet about Kyle Lafferty only for football reasons but the huns have jumped all over it.

What's this?

someone tweeted a picture of Kyle Lafferty crying in a NI jersey after last nights loss to Slovakia which LG subsequently liked. Lafferty's sister died last week and certain people are trying to say LG liking the tweet was about the sister dying.

[general_lee]

Pretty innocuous especially considering the wider context on twitter (NI & Scotland official twitter accounts have history winding each other up - light hearted). Of course the perennially offended saw it differently 

[LCohen]

Angelo are you barred form the coronavirus threads?

I've said what I needed to say and grown tired of the juvenile responses.

Got caught bluffing and telling lies more like. I guess most the guys on here know you have zero credibility