Celtic Discussion

**Jam** · 26/05/2003, 2:34 PM

DJ, I don't think you should support them and I think if ye are gaunnae support a team it should be your own one. As we say:

"yer hame team is yer ain team"

But what can ye dae aboot it with tens of thousands fleein ower each week tae follow Celtic.....and Rangers (from the north)?

1 thing I have noticed is that at Celtic games some folk wear Ireland tops and at Ireland games some folk wear Celtic tops - what's all that about?

Also I think it's sad that when Celtic do pre-season friendlies in Ireland maist of the 'home fans' appear to be supporting Celtic.

**max power** · 26/05/2003, 2:39 PM

theygo on this mad republican rant about celtic being irish blah blah blah,

fact celtic are a scotish team and were never irish and never will be.

they say celtic are irish and that supporting celtic is like supporting the irish team you must do it, i wear my longofrd jersey to international matchs, they are an irish team after all nd it shows my support for the league.

if they want to go off glory hunting every second weekend away with them, i don't really care just don't tell me i should be going with them, i'm happy in flancare park, it means more to me that any other ground on the planet ever could

**noby** · 26/05/2003, 2:40 PM

Originally posted by the dj
no i hate celtic and the way there fans behave

you still don't seem to get it, dj. Celtic can't control what their irish supporters say to you, but you still say you hate the club.
What's wrong with being indifferent to the club, and hating these people that annoy you so much?
or better still, just be indifferent to both.

**max power** · 26/05/2003, 2:50 PM

i feel that way and it won't change, if someone says to me do you support celtic i say no and then they say you must be a rangers supporter then, well actually i don't give a ***** about either of them, in a way i am indifferent i just can't abide the attitude of a lot of them preaching that i SHOULD support celtic.

should i follow the boston celtics or olympicios (spelled wrong0 because they have a shamrock in their crest, i think no is the answer so why SHOULD i follow celtic.

i'va answered myself enough times on this subject and won't be doing so again unless it is approched from a new angle.

**noby** · 26/05/2003, 2:59 PM

I do see your point, but i would differenciate between not supporting celtic (or whoever) and hating them. Why waste your energy on them at all?

btw panathaniakos have the shamrock

**max power** · 26/05/2003, 3:04 PM

thanks i knew it was one of them, i hate them and enojy seeing the look on the fans face when they loose, i take pleasure in it, i know that is an awful thing to do but it goes some way to canceling out all the bull***** talking from them.

weird logic but my logic

**A face** · 26/05/2003, 10:07 PM

Originally posted by the dj
i hate them and enojy seeing the look on the fans face when they loose, i take pleasure in it, i know that is an awful thing to do but it goes some way to canceling out all the bull***** talking from them.

weird logic but my logic

I feel the very same very, my stomach turns when i have to pass pubs here and see all the shirts with the hoops. I hate every single one of them. If only they could leave and never come back.

**patsh** · 26/05/2003, 11:41 PM

Originally posted by the dj
fact celtic are a scotish team and were never irish and never will be.

Well thats actually wrong.
The club was set up by Irish emigrants, and featured mostly Irish people for a good while, and there has always been an Irish presence at the club. The whole point of founding the club was to serve as a focal point for the ex-pat Irish in Glasgow, of which there were/are quite a few, and not as a Catholic club, as is often believed.
I still can't see why you would hate a club, because of the behaviour of their Irish supporters.
By that logic you must hate Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal, Leeds etc etc

**A face** · 27/05/2003, 12:02 AM

Originally posted by oddboy
Well thats actually wrong.
The club was set up by Irish emigrants, and featured mostly Irish people for a good while, and there has always been an Irish presence at the club. The whole point of founding the club was to serve as a focal point for the ex-pat Irish in Glasgow, of which there were/are quite a few, and not as a Catholic club, as is often believed.

Oddboy ......... I think that is actually wrong ........ Sell-Thick were set up by St. Vincent dePaul from what i hear.

TRhe Irish club for the ex-pat was actually Hibs, and it was when Hibs were not doing well that the Irish players then moved to Sell-Thick to get more money.

Sell-Thick then capitalised on the Oirish thing to sell more shirts etc.

Is it true that Sell-Thick are actually telling cobblers to cash in on any fool willing to believe it.

**Scotsman** · 27/05/2003, 7:46 AM

This is a post to the guy who wanted to beat my brains out - Get a grip you bananna!!

If you read my post and the reason why I posted it you would have seen there was nothing derogative meant by it!!

I was merely pointing out it was Irish rebel tunes - People were slating Scotland for bigotry - In particular Celtic.

I was advising that Scotland and Ireland have a bigoted element.

If you don't like that fact - Then tough isn't it.

As for beating my brains out - I need to have some first!!