The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[lynchbhoy]

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oh cry me a river ..

fecks sake. for all yer squirming and hot air its like the OO - they are just 'hiding it better' these days !
like the oo - taking the anti- Catholic stuff off their web site in the past 24-36 months (when it was openly displayed for years) - the stateletsoccer.co.uk site is just policing it properly .
dont tell me that these goons have all changed overnight.
If you insist that this has, then you are a bigger fool than you look on here !

I see. When, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, you are challenged to back up your (frankly bigoted) allegation that nothing has changed amongst the NI support etc, the best you can come up with is "They're only hiding it better these days blah, blah, blah".

This despite the fact that someone who is bitter enough to send bullets to a footballer etc, is hardly going to give a stuff about his image, is he?

And you claim that I am the "fool" here....

the only way this will improve somewhat and get rid of all these bullet senders/death threat merchants (see I know enough about their prev antics in order to comment !!) is to merge these two sihte soccer teams and follow the rugby model - then only the odd gabsihte will be down and boo the national anthem in Croke park/ Lansdowne rd.
but it will dilute the sectarian breeding current statelet soccer setup !

Right.

So the type of lowlife who is so outraged at seeing a "fenian" [sic] playing for NI that he will send them bullets in the post etc, is suddenly going to cease such behaviour in the event of the NI team being subsumed into an all-Ireland team, playing its games in Dublin, to the sound of the Soldiers Song and whilst a Tricolour flies over the grandstand.

Aye, that'll likely work.

You can't have have much regard for your credibility as a poster, have you?

Or is it that you really lack the basic intelligence to understand the implications of the drivel you post?

Either way...

LOL - as they say...what a crap post !! - talk about trying to defend the indefensible !!!

so the statelet soccer website was never a source of such vitriol previously !!??
people must have imagined it all - just like these bullets and death threats must be made up too ...
a bit like the 'country' status of that statelet soccer team !! 

meanwhile Celtic players/management like McGinn and Lennon must feel like its groundhog day all over again...

[lynchbhoy]

see rangers are at home to Celtic in the scots cup 5th round draw.
I was actually hoping for this draw. it matters not where its held. if Celtic are any good of have any designs on being good, they should want to have a go at rangers and thus unsettle them for the rest of the season.
Somehow I think walter smith and his better tactical ability will win out against lennon despite rangers being penniless.

[illdecide]

I dunno, i think Celtic can kick on from last weeks game against Rangers. They now have the belief and the stronger squad to do so and it will be worse for Rangers if they have to sell Kenny Miller, that would be the nail in their coffin (i believe).

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Re Bullets

Funny you only seem to hear from EG and Myles na Gob when OWC are getting a bad press!

The scum who did this are below vermin, but fair dues to EG he has condemned them.

Sadly the fact is that these animals will consider themselves loyalists, unionists, british and more than likely OWC, EG I feel you will have a hard job getting rid off these idiots. I do wish you well, and will accept that the iFA have done a fair job so fr, but there is a major section still to be lanced.

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Celtic manager Neil Lennon gets six-match touchline ban 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/9358188.stm

I think this is shocking, two match ban maybe, though I thought not, but on appeal to turn it into a six match ban!!!! SFA don't even tell you WHY!!!!


Below is a piece from another forum which I think sums it up well.

How do we measure levels of aggression? What did Lennon do that made him excessively aggressive. I dont recall seeing him raise a hand, attempt to punch anyone. He had a right good shout, passions were high, but at no point did he look as if he was about to lose control and smash someone over the head.

Maybe someone else watching it would think he was about to, but thats my point. Its not something that is clearly measurable. How do you define what merits a 2 game ban and what merits a 6 game ban.

As for the original decision. He was angry because once again we had been cheated on the field. Whether by accident by a referee who just wasn't good enough or intentionally by a referee with an agenda we will never know. The red card was debatable and could have went either way. The penalty was a stonewaller. Put the two together and the circumstances previously and you can see why lennon over-reacted.

The problem with scottish football is there is no common sense. just look at the restructuring debate. Lennon deserved to be sent off. He deserved his 2 match ban. Celtic should have accepted that but thought in the light of the decisions and the previous that they would appeal. Instead of showing common sense and confirming the original 2 match ban the appeals panel trebled it to "make a statement". Typical of everything that is wrong in scottish football.

[Main Street]

It's hard to credit just how much Lennon is hated by football folk in Scotland. He is the focus for so much bigotry and vitriol by the mentally challenged.
His form has followed him, in England he even had the brazen audacity to give a head butt to Shearer's foot.

[Clown]

The other person who got similar abuse to Lennon, from every other set of fans in Scotland was McGeady
it really is a country steeped in sectarianism

McGeady made reference to it when he left the club saying these fans hated everything he stood for as an irish catholic playing for Celtic, and he wasn't just talking about Rangers fans, think he said Motherwell and places like that were just as bad

[Main Street]

see rangers are at home to Celtic in the scots cup 5th round draw.
I was actually hoping for this draw. it matters not where its held. if Celtic are any good of have any designs on being good, they should want to have a go at rangers and thus unsettle them for the rest of the season.
Somehow I think walter smith and his better tactical ability will win out against lennon despite rangers being penniless.

Walter is a shrewd act and in the heat of a title run in, undoubtably would have a more calm knowledgeable influence on his team than Lennon.
But Lennon is on a steep learning curve.
BBC reports that Celtic are making serious attempts to sign a Norwegian striker, Huseklepp. If it happens, the pendulum will move a few crucial degrees to Celtic. He is a ready made proven talent and won't need much time to get going.

[Archie Mitchell]

Celtic getting well and truely fucked by the referee tonight!

Hamilton goal offside, harsh sending off for Forrest, then McGinn gets booked for diving when it should have been a penalty.

[sammymaguire]

Celtic peno

[Archie Mitchell]

Never a sending off either. Ref has had a complete shocker.

[sammymaguire]

Time for a winner now!

[lynchbhoy]

ref had a stinker. wasnt his fault for the first goal - that was the linesmans bad shout - still it was dreadful defending from set piece as per usual. didnt see the forrest sending off.
then after being harsh enough on Celtic most of the game he gave a soft enough penalty and two sendings off to try and gift Celtic the match.
Celtic couldnt pass water and after I had praised them earlier, mccourt and especially mcginn were tripe.
mccourt needs to learn its a team game. if not he will never make it. Izzaguire likewise.
draw a fair enough result imo.

[Archie Mitchell]

Was a combo of ref being shite and Celtic being shite as well. Lucky to get a draw. Lennon's post match interview should be good.

[GalwayBayBoy]

That Hamilton goal was comically bad officiating. Hamilton player was standing 2 yards offside as the free was taken and then actually tried to play the ball as well. How the linesman who was standing right in line didn't see that is bananas.