The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[updown9194]

Ach Billy would say that. But in all seriousness, if this has occurred (and I doubt if it has in recent times, not intentionally anyway) it has not stopped Celtic winning 42 titles, when they have had teams and managers of sufficient quality to do so.

That's absolute bullshit. You who peddle lies about the IFA can't recongise that the SFA have been proven to be anti-Celtic in the past? Look up Jim Farry and then tell me what's right. If Celtic and Rangers had two equal teams with similar players then Rangers would always run away with the league title. This year the majority of games Celtic drew or lost were the result of bad refereeing decisions. I know this because I've followed every game.

[Lamh Dhearg Alba]

Billy McNeil said it so it must be true . In all seriousness is nobody going to answer the question of why this supposed biased referee did not give Rangers a penalty when Hinkel fouled Edu in the box? Without doubt a bigger error than the sending off of Brown who was foolish in the extreme to charge into the lamentable Lafferty. Or indeed why he disallowed a Rangers goal? Had he seriously been biased it would have been easy enough for him not to see the ball hit Miller's arm in the build up to that. There have been some absolutely cracking bad calls in Celtic's favour which never seem to come up in this thread. I know a section of the Celtic support love to wallow in victimhood but these claims are no longer credible. Your problems are closer to home lads, 10 points behind a garbage H*ns team and that Celtic performance on Sunday for a team that had to win was pathetic. Blaming everybody else wont get you anywhere.

[T Fearon]

I agree. I'm not saying that there has never been bias against Celtic, and of course the SFA and most of the other teams are blue orientated, but this cannot be used as an excuse. After all the Huns were forced to play an incredible number of games in a short space of time in the league run in which coincided with the UEFA Final in 2008, at Celtic's insistence.

Now good looking for scapegoats I'm afraid

[rossie mad]

I dont think the bias is a reasonable argument.
Like already mentioned the ref on sunday could have had made sure the game was over by 70th minute if he was bias.
I think we are still suffering from the incompetency from our previous manager in terms of the squad he left and its defensive frailities.

On the match last sunday itself i was dissappointed with our attack and especially fortune.
I beleieve we are alot better than that going forward and i think rangers over pysical approach dint suit us.

We need leaders and not the two muppets that we sent down south (caldwell and mcmanus).

Hopefully the cup will enable us to win a trophy and a old firm win in april will lift the spirits.

[lynchbhoy]

I dont think the bias is a reasonable argument.
Like already mentioned the ref on sunday could have had made sure the game was over by 70th minute if he was bias.
I think we are still suffering from the incompetency from our previous manager in terms of the squad he left and its defensive frailities.

On the match last sunday itself i was dissappointed with our attack and especially fortune.
I beleieve we are alot better than that going forward and i think rangers over pysical approach dint suit us.
We need leaders and not the two muppets that we sent down south (caldwell and mcmanus).

Hopefully the cup will enable us to win a trophy and a old firm win in april will lift the spirits.

this season is poor and mowbray has done poorly - I think everyone agrees with that.
Same as last season, it was poor.
but the point here is that despite people being even more blinkered than the celtic bias some of us have , the referees have cost Celtic the three derby games v rangers this season.
That wouldnt have much of a bearing on the poor Celtic overall perf this season - the bit in bold I highlighted is the problem.
the game was won and lost as the ref permitted this to go on. You are spot on, it suited rangers. It is not always about the obvious decisions - penalties not being awarded, or offsided being called/not called. refs can have as big an impact by how they let the game go ahead, and the less physical Celtic team would never win when the over physical , dirty/persistent fouling is allowed to carry on unchecked.

[rossie mad]

I dont think the bias is a reasonable argument.
Like already mentioned the ref on sunday could have had made sure the game was over by 70th minute if he was bias.
I think we are still suffering from the incompetency from our previous manager in terms of the squad he left and its defensive frailities.

On the match last sunday itself i was dissappointed with our attack and especially fortune.
I beleieve we are alot better than that going forward and i think rangers over pysical approach dint suit us.
We need leaders and not the two muppets that we sent down south (caldwell and mcmanus).

Hopefully the cup will enable us to win a trophy and a old firm win in april will lift the spirits.

this season is poor and mowbray has done poorly - I think everyone agrees with that.
Same as last season, it was poor.
but the point here is that despite people being even more blinkered than the celtic bias some of us have , the referees have cost Celtic the three derby games v rangers this season.
That wouldnt have much of a bearing on the poor Celtic overall perf this season - the bit in bold I highlighted is the problem.
the game was won and lost as the ref permitted this to go on. You are spot on, it suited rangers. It is not always about the obvious decisions - penalties not being awarded, or offsided being called/not called. refs can have as big an impact by how they let the game go ahead, and the less physical Celtic team would never win when the over physical , dirty/persistent fouling is allowed to carry on unchecked.

Yeah that is a big problem.
If celtic were that bit more aggresive it would help.

It suits rangers to play like that as they wouldnt be blessed alot with technique.
A bit like tyrone and armagh over the last ten years in gaelic.
They adopted an over physical/persistant fouling approach and its paid dividends and most refs dont pick up on the constant fouling.
Doesnt mean the refs a re biased though.

[updown9194]

http://www.vimeo.com/9865326

All I have to say on the matter. Kenny Miller's tackle looks worse everytime you see it.

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

http://www.vimeo.com/9865326

All I have to say on the matter. Kenny Miller's tackle looks worse everytime you see it.

Jesus that makes me more angry everytiime i watch it.

[rossie mad]

ive just been bumped up to senior member

Class

[T Fearon]

I'm expecting an upgrade to superhero member any day now!

[Rav67]

http://www.vimeo.com/9865326

All I have to say on the matter. Kenny Miller's tackle looks worse everytime you see it.

Jesus that makes me more angry everytiime i watch it.

That was a definite red when you look at it again.  Could have snapped O'Dea's leg in 2.

[lynchbhoy]

hold on there lads, you are just imagining it - sure the ref would never have missed a bad tackle like that (let alone persistent tackles) - so its just the camera angle and you Celtic lads are all paranoid !

[tyroneStatto]

http://www.vimeo.com/9865326

All I have to say on the matter. Kenny Miller's tackle looks worse everytime you see it.

those highlights when you see them again are shocking but there was also a bad tackle on fat boyd when he took one to the ghoulies.

[T Fearon]

Lads, persisting with the paranoia only masks the real problems. Mistakes are made by referees in every game and they don't have the benefit of time or YouTube. As I said before, if there was widespread conspiracy against Celtic we wou;dn't have won 42 Scottish League titles. Focus on the disarray of the current Celtic team and examine the root cause of that.

[Lamh Dhearg Alba]

Now picking out individual incidents to prove the bias . Somebody post the penalty that wasnt given. Or that tackle on Boyd mentioned above. Really these claims totally lack credibility. Ive seen some incredible decisions go against my team over the years, an incident when an opposition player punched the ball in the box yet his team was given a penalty. They won 3-2 and we were relegated a point behind them a few weeks later. A derby game we lost 4-2 when we had 3 goals disallowed. There was no bias however, just inept officials. Id certainly loved to have some of the dodgy calls Celtic have had in their favour, the kind of calls you invariably get when there are 59,000 people calling for them.
So Ill have to agree to disagree with those poor hard done by Celtic fans who feel the world is out to get them.