Celtic Discussion

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Originally Posted by davros

Should say in their context,'followed'......sure if BC still existed,they'd be the biggest club in Ireland,at the expense of GC.......Look @ the reasons why they disbanded & Derry City play in the EL......Presume people are familiar with what happened!

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You were going on about why Irish people follow clubs with supposidly Irish links abroad.

You proceeded to give some examples besides Celtic of Glasgow. You mentioned Belfast Celtic (which isnt abroad), Hibs (in all my life ive never met a hibs supporter, never seen someone wearing a hibs jersey - supports my theory that those Irish people who "support" celtic are nothing but grayites.
Your last example was London Irish (which is a rugby club - no interest in rugby). I'ld burn that book you bought by your Prof. friend.

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Originally Posted by eoinh

You were going on about why Irish people follow clubs with supposidly Irish links abroad... I'ld burn that book you bought by your Prof. friend.

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Yet another fine example of the Irish Free State education system! :rolleyes: Clubs with 'supposidly' Irish links? Perhaps emigration was also 'supposidly' a figment of the imagination.

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Originally Posted by davros

Was talking outside the '26'......if you've never met a person who supports another sports club,other than Celtic,founded by the Irish Diaspora,I'll ask Bertie the next time I see him :rolleyes: ,to increase the budget for Cork Libraries as some of their more unenlightened citizens need further educating ! ;)

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So now youre saying cork people support belfast celtic. err, ive never met one.

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Originally Posted by davros

Lots of people in Corcaigh follow Celtic & er,plenty of people inside/outside Ireland follow other sporting clubs,on the basis of their links with the auld country!More enlightenment,beyond parochialism would :rolleyes: ,er,be good! ;)

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C'mon now Davros you didnt mention Belfast Celtic! Are we having a rethink. We're all wrong sometimes.

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Originally Posted by eoinh

So now youre saying cork people support belfast celtic. err, ive never met one.

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Head over to London for the Christmas party, shake my hand and you will have :D

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Originally Posted by davros

Should say in their context,'followed'......sure if BC still existed,they'd be the biggest club in Ireland,at the expense of GC.......Look @ the reasons why they disbanded & Derry City play in the EL......Presume people are familiar with what happened!

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Belfast Celtic still exist-just not playing football! One day though- re-build paradise, get the Bhoys back together and FECK scumfield!

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Originally Posted by davros

RAAA-Spect! :D

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:D
Still waiting for Adam to put up the BCFC avater-(may alternate it with me Cobh one!)

BCFC's old ground - sadly no longer exists

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Originally Posted by eoinh

BCFC's old ground - sadly no longer exists

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Aye but both the club and the memory live on-hence the ambition to re-build paradise and once again rule Irish football!

(alonmg with Cobh of course ;) )

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Originally Posted by The Sheliban

Just a couple of points, Robert.
Hibernians were also founded by the Irish, yet there is no mad scramble over here to support them.

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Apologies for throwing a spanner in the works, but Hibernian and Celtic are really two clubs in very different circumstances. For whatever reason - well, probably more likely due to the sectarianism that existed and still exists in the west of Scotland - the culture amid which Celtic was created has been preserved with far more in tact than that of Hibernian.

Of course, I'm not trying to pass Celtic as possessing a "true Irish culture" or whatever, such a claim would be ridiculous.

I am a Celtic fan though ;)