As the Mexican stand-off between the Celtic board and the Green Brigade goes on, seats continue to empty at Celtic Park
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People may think that I’ve been focusing on the Celtic board quite a lot lately.
That’s because I am, and I feel that their behaviour needs to be highlighted.
It needs to be highlighted due to the damage they are now starting to cause at our club.
Reputational damage was already discussed in a recent article, and let’s face facts here, our European reputation lies in tatters.
It lies in tatters due to a signing policy that makes us impotent in this arena.
I’ve discussed that in detail in my last article, and also the waste of money and resources involved in that policy.
Today, I’m focusing on something different.
In his first stint at Celtic, Brendan Rodgers spoke about what he called the “Holy trinity”.
Here is what he had to say back in 2017:
The message is that this is the Celtic I know. The strength of Celtic is being together and what we have proven this year is the fusion between the players, the management and the supporters – when that is together Celtic is a powerful force.
We will have bumps along the way but if that holy trinity can stay together then we can achieve and give them the happiness. That is all we can do.
The fusion between the players, the management and the supporters – when that is together Celtic is a powerful force.
That fusion was there the night we played Atletico Madrid at Paradise.
Celtic produced the most scintillating first half of football that I have seen in many years.
Everything clicked.
The Holy Trinity was in full flow.
It was that powerful force that Brendan Rodgers spoke about.
That force is now under threat.
Yesterday, Celtic Ultras group Bhoys Celtic, released a statement in solidarity with the Green Brigade.
You can see it below:
They will not be in attendance at tomorrow’s game against Aberdeen.
They have called on the board to meet with the Green Brigade.
As usual, I’m pretty sure the board will ignore these requests, as they have done so up until now anyway.
The board will not communicate, except through tit for tat online statements.
They do not communicate.
They believe, we the fans, do not deserve any communication from them.
Michael Nicholson, as CEO, has rarely, if ever, communicated with the fans.
If the board has a strategy for this club, we are completely in the dark as to what that is.
But at the moment, they are headed into dangerous territory.
Their Mexican stand-off with Green Brigade has resulted another fan group deciding they will not attend games.
This results in further empty seats, thus further damaging the atmosphere at home games.
Which in turn damages and disrupts the Holy Trinity.
Whatever the differences are between the board and the Green Brigade, they are an integral part of the match day experience at Celtic Park.
The board has no issue with using the GB when it is to their advantage, and it helps to promote the club.
This whole affair reeks of Lawwell seeking revenge for the events of 2020 during the 10IAR season.
It seems that his personal vendettas are now spilling over, and damaging the atmosphere around the club.
The relationship between the fans and the board is strained enough as it is.
If this continues for much longer, it is only going to serve to piss fans off more and more.
This needs to be resolved before the game between ourselves and the Ibrox side in December.
If the atmosphere is compromised in that fixture, if the Holy Trinity, and that fusion that Brendan spoke of, is not in place, it will afford the Ibrox side an advantage they should not have.
We need Celtic Park in full voice for that match, nothing else will suffice.
That is the game where want to show Clement that he just a great pretender, like all those who have gone before him.
If we have empty seats at that game, it will be a complete and utter disgrace.
If Lawwell thinks his vendetta will work to his advantage in any way, he’ll need to think again if it drags on until then.
I’ll put it this way, if we lose that game, and there are still empty seats in the stands, hell hath no fury than the vendetta Lawwell and his cronies will face in the aftermath of such an event.
This Mexican stand-off only serves to tarnish our image as a club.
We are a club that has always had a fantastic reputation for our support.
The board are now jeopardising that.
They are supposed to be the highly paid professionals in all of this, instead the whole affair reeks of amateur hour.
It’s as amateurish as Lennon’s shower appointment, the Eddie Howe farce, and the trip to Dubai during the height of the pandemic.
Christmas has come early for the SMSM, they are loving this.
And you can rest assured that the Ibrox side are watching on gleefully at the whole affair.
But when is enough, enough with this board?
When will their behaviour ever be enough to force the change that is needed at the top of this club?
I get the feeling this one is going to rumble on and on.
Do you think the board will ever consider the honourable PLC act of falling on their sword for managing a shambles?
Think again.
Peter Lawwell will fiddle while Rome burns.
That’s just who he is.
Sorry cannot agree with your article,the green brigade are the offenders here and seem to think they are bigger than the club. Rules are rules and laws of the land are laws which should be adhered to. How many fines and penalties should the club expect before enough is enough
Their behaviour could no longer be tolerated, uts a simple fact. The ever increasing fines for behaviour in Europe was simply pathetic with pyro displays that have no place in a football stadium. Then the intolerable behaviour at a few away grounds, I.e. Motherwell, could no longer be accepted.
If the GB can’t obey the rules then they must make way for the 10000 long waiting list. It’s time for them to grow up and stop tarnishing the Celtic name
Very one sided in favour of the GB & the other I heard of group. The GB poked the lion and it’s no having it. People buy season tickets to watch Celtic play football, not to pledge undying loyalty to the GB. There was plenty of noise inside Celtic Park for over 120 years before the concept of the GB & it’ll continue long after they’re gone. I’m not saying the board are perfect or Beyond reproach, but this is a fight the GB will not win nor get the support they’re asking for from other supporters.
HAIL HAIL
KEEP THE FAITH🍀🍀
Rubbish. The GB raised a banner in support of a terrorist group mere hours after 1400 innocent men, women and children were murdered. That banner was not about the people of palestine – “Victory to the resistance”….who murdered babies, raped women, tortured, beheaded innocent civilians while screaming “Allahu Akbar”. Killed entire families. Kidnapped 200 ppl and held them hostage.
Flying the flag of a recognised terrorist group at the Athletico Madrid game? The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and its militant wing (Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades) are terrorist scum who want to wipe Israel off the map and have been involved in plane hijackings, assassinations, suicide bombings, and the likes of the November 2014 Jerusalem synagogue massacre in which four Jewish worshippers and a policeman were killed with axes, knives, and a gun.
Illegally using flares and pyrotechnics
Disturbances at away venues?
Breaking into celtic park and allowing their scummy mates in by opening fire escapes
Costing the club hundreds of thousands in fines by UEFA
Risking part closure of the stadium
Overcrowding an area within celtic park, with their mates coming from other parts of the stadium making it dangerous
Forcing their extremist nonsense on celtic and shaming the club
“But they do charity work” to deflect away from the fact they have cost the club more fines and censure from UEFA.
BUT BUT BUT….but NOTHING. Get these clowns away from celtic park and stick their whataboutery right up their self important ars*s, and you can do the same with this biased garbage
We have won 10 out of the last 11 league championships! who can we blame for that? Lawell? Nicholson? We have done very well over the last few years yet we have a bad result and the Gb and co want to blame somebody or any body! Get real and get behind the team and a board who have been highly succesful (see aforementioned first sentence)
We must stop this nonsense regarding the GB if they don’t like the board stopping them causing trouble and keep getting the club fined for misbehaviour we’ll go and form there own club and do what and say what they want. We are a football club that’s all I want to see and hear football nothing else.
Keep them banned unless they agree to stop hooligan behaviour. No section of support is greater than the whole support. Good on the board for standing up against these neds who have no place in paradise,,send them across the Clyde where they would fit in. For every one of them there are 10 waiting for a ticket. They shame Celtic.
The board would get more backing if they
tackled the corruption by the sfa and the
referees they employ
Eric what are the club supposed to do? One of the major issues that the GB have been banned for is the use of pyro, it’s illegal to use this stuff it’s the law of the land and they won’t accept that, no matter how many times they’re told. What if we got a partial or full stadium closure during a vital CL game, does that mitigate them getting away with UEFA’s rules and the law of the land? I’m not the board’s biggest fan but they can’t back down on this matter or they’re going to get walked all over by the support for eternity and for piffling things. The GB can’t or won’t see the they’re doing anything wrong that’s what narcissists do, they’re not bigger than the club, but to my way of thinking, that’s exactly what they think they are. That’s me only picked one thing to focus on and that one thing ‘pyro’ is illegal that should end the story right there, no more debate needed, they’re 100% in the wrong and if they can’t see that then nothing’s going to change or get better. There’s other alleged issues as well but this one I’ve highlighted is enough for me to side with the board.
I watch celtic ever week and if it wasn’t for the gb there is no atmosphere the rest of the fans are like fricking manikins only clap there bloody hands when we score and the odd come on celtic what the he’ll would the board do if we still had the jungle rangers are loving this
No one goes to Celtic Park to watch the Green Brigade. The tail is trying to wag the dog. Your article is biased and the vendatta mentioned is against Lawell and the board.
If the board collectively punishes any group of supporters for a for some of the groups misbehaviour then its quite disappointing.
The regular supporters who attend away games are having to endure police harassment at every ground. Even guys and women who are 70 plus.
Now if the young team retaliate one day. Does that mean all away fans should lose the right to away tickets or should the law abiding peacekeepers of our Scottish streets get banned instead?
Very tunnel vision supporting GB . They are neds with no respect for the club. We have not needed them since 1888 and definitely do not need them now. They are better suited across the Clyde where they belong. The MAJORITY of Celtic supporters are sick of them and not fooled by a tiny minority with big mouths making the most noise.
I would put 5,000 wooden mannequins and an electronic drum and the atmosphere would be exactly the as if they were there.
Green brigade are a law unto themselves I cannot just do whatever I want at the stadium you must have rules and you need someone to set them.Our job is support our team and be safe when we do
GB have cost the club thousands in fines because of their behaviour, their continued use of pyro will result in a partial stadium closure, it is the law of the land, pyros are illegal, they think they are Celtic, the board are in the right here.
I think yer article hits the nail on the head mate. Some people need to think again. Firstly, the “Agent Provocateur” actions of Israel have since been proven to be exactly that. No beheaded babies. No 1400 marched off. I can see the IDF standing watching that happen ? aye right. You cant get meds, water food into there, but ye can march off with 1400 people ? gimme peace Hasbaras. Israel are the terrorist now killing 1 child every 10 minutes ! Hamas ? don’t make me laugh. That joke outfit, created by Adolf Netanyahu to stop the peace process in 2014 with the Palestinian authority, couldn’t do anything close to what was claimed. Yep, they probably killed some people and killing people is never a solution to anything, but they are useless. As for the Celtic board, its a response to the Palestine holocaust no matter how they dress it up. Thats where a lot of their blood money is invested !
What a paranoia filled gobshite rant you have verbally diarrhoead into one comment.
Over 1400 innocent men women and children were massacred a d over 200 kidnapped and held hostage. Entire families were brutally tortured and killed. Babies were thrown into ovens and you ha e the audacity to come in here and talk this shit?
You are an utter scumbag. Fuck you and your smelly wee ned pals in the green brigade. We don’t need pondscum like you ruining the clubs name with your scotvec in geopolitical conflicts learned off some bam in the pub with a warped ideological belief
Here’s a link with footage for the “Disgruntled” Hasbara….oops they’re shooting their own people at the music festival. Quelle Surpris ! …a Brit propaganda tactic !
https://x.com/Partisangirl/status/1722527493780021654?s=20
What are you talking about in numbers missing game?All you are talking about is a few hundred self centered punters who don’t like getting asked to behave ,it’s the big bad boards fault!for feck sake grow up and SUPPORT the team.🍀
P.S you haven’t a clue, you don’t know me and you should give up yer Hasbara activity. You are so far off the mark. I don’t go near Celtic. What’s the going rate from the blood money for a hasbara, going on the internet to spread their lies and give the same cowardly bullying abuse from behind a keyboard as your paymasters ? Just like cowardly acts, such as shooting people from apache helicopters at a concert, which they now admit was an error. Has your handler not told you that the ship on all your lies sailed long ago and they had to own up to the them ?
Who are the green brigade to demand a meeting with the board, the board have bent over backwards giving them the standing area which was abused with over crowding then the pyro’s, which are against the law, but the green brigade being defiant that they can do what they like, so how can you have a meeting with people who have there heads up there own a__,
Away you go with you antisemitic bollocks pal.
Scum like you and your Green Brigade buddies have no place at a club like celtic. You want to support Islamic extremists and post your down the rabbit hole pish to disguise the fact you are a failed human being and incel.
Hit us with covid was a hoax next. Roll out the “I’ve clearly spent too much time on the internet” top 10, and really show us how much of an antisemitic incel you really are.
You support a group that attacked and killed 1400 people in a day and try and insinuate it didn’t even happen. What about the holocaust? Did that happen or was that “made up” too?
You are a scumbag. Plain and simple.
Hasbara
Whilst Lawwell is at Celtic there will always be divisions. He lied about the 5 way agreement, he told us that we can’t afford PL wages,which is fair enough, whilst taking 3m wages in a year. The man needs to go. We will never do anything about corruption whilst he is in charge.
And your source? The Middle East Monitor, which is widely known to support Islamic causes. MEMO is regarded as an outlet for the Muslim Brotherhood and its website strongly promotes pro-Hamas related content.
Here’s just one review of their credibility –
“Overall, we rate the Middle East Monitor Left Biased based on story selection that favors the left and Mixed for factual reporting due to the use of poor sources who are questionable at times.”
Would you look at that. And you have the gall to use the term “hasbara”, which is a term for propaganda?
Fuck off you Islamic terrorist supporting clown.
You sound like a disgruntled hun fan you’re certainly not a Celtic man
The same Disgruntled Celtic Fan from The Celtic Blog a week or so ago? More like Anger Management Problem Celtic Fan. Tell us again about the record profits Lawwell has generated – to hoard in the bank. Brother Walfrid must be so proud….not. The Green Brigade are morally superior to corporate parasites. It’s not a difficult concept to grasp.
Side show that the board are quite happy with. It takes away any heat they deserve.
Issue is dividing the support and the board don’t care as long as the money keeps rolling in.
Peter Lawwell wants them on our coat tail, it’s good for business.
Talk of not knowing our strategy is just nonsense. Since Lawwell has been involved at Celtic it is “Just enough” to stay ahead of them.
The last week has been a PR show following one of the poorest nights in Celtic’s European history.
Know your customer – “A 16 year old fan told me no GB will influence the atmosphere, I laughed and put him right. He then went onto say that 1967 has no relevance in his world.” He is not wrong! We need to become relevant in Europe now.
Hasbara. You sound so Brit, do I smell a hun? I won’t waste any more time on a foul mouthed, ignorant Orc ! Byeee !
Ahh DCF you sound just like Forrest of Celtic Blog (are you him?) and your profiling of me is in error just like his. You certainly have his limited tolerance for alternative views. The reality is that I’m almost certainly older than you and was there during the Celts for Change years. Did Fergus save the club so Lawwell could take more out of Celtic than anyone who ever lived? Since you are such a fan of the board, whose profits are actually generated by the support, are so magnificent that we should, in Hun fashion, tug our forelocks in admiration? Cash in the bank does not help on the pitch but can pay board bonuses. How admirable.
A real Celtic fan would never use your disgusting language. Say a prayer to
brother Walfred for forgivness
Best to ignore it stephen, he’s from the dark side. A tim wouldn’t post such ugly
words like the peeple do on F F, stay safe
DCF it’s not a business it’s a football club. That’s the rather obvious point you are missing. The logic of capitalism is not the prime driver for sporting entities. But yeah DCF you and your self righteousness know better than every one else. Given your love of the cult of the businessman how much you must miss David Murray. Jobs, Musk, Zuckerberg, Gates or Rodgers, Postecoglou, Stein, Kyogo who are your real heroes?
Misguided viewpoint. The Board have done nothing wrong. The GB are not welcome if they cannot follow common sense basic rules of behaviour. I cheer for Celtic and not for the GB
DCF your classist language rather gives you away – bam, ned, council, Buckie. Your contempt oozes from every post. What educational qualifications do you require to be allowed to comment on a website?
The Sick Bregade, so much scum, like a leech on Celtic, to bleed us dry, they profess support, while we stood by, but the board has stood, with most on-board, to send them back, to the life abroad, they love Hamas,,that murdering crowd, and really think, we can be turned around, so to you infiltratiors of our pure club, we say to you, go pack your stuff, you had your say, from ignorance , to our dismay, but we are bigger,,bigger by far, than your nasty racism ,,below the bar, when Abada scores, do you sing and shout, then crawl to your hotels,, a bunch of louts,,YOU HAVE NO SUPPORT, GO.
Dude your hyperbole is blowing your cover. I never mentioned Hamas. My complaints were about the Celtic board and their ideology. And yours. So you ignore questions you don’t like to rant about babies in ovens. Which I accept happened during the Holocaust. But ovens conveniently available in the Israeli controlled desert in 2023? Think it may be you rather than me who needs to keep off the Buckfast . Lawwell and Desmond have policies which are detremetal to our well being. That is true regardless of Hamas or the IDF.
To dickhead disgruntled fan for your information it’s proven fact that a lot of the jews killed that day were killed by the idf as testified by jewish survivors who witnessed it. An there’s never been any proof of beheaded babies Israeli propaganda.
The Green Brigade are a disease within the club, and you call them an integral part of the club. I for one strongly disagree. Any group that signs up to a specific political doctrine right there and then is going to be in conflict with the club ethos, Celtic, a club for all. Don’t you think it is a bit weird grown men and women signing up to a political doctrine put together by others. Maybe it’s not so weird if you have witnessed the hooligan behaviour of some of these clowns over the years. They are advised on what books to read etc. you couldn’t make it up. They have been a divisive force in the club since day one. We have a magnificent board at Celtic under the stewardship of Dermot Desmond. We have just delivered yet another domestic treble. Yes, and these guys had the foresight to sign Ange and others who have propelled our club forward. One thing that is out of their control is the financial disparity between us and other European clubs from the top leagues. Clubs we once went head to head with on more even financial terms. Athletico Madrid being a good example. Their keeper on €400k per week. Six players on €250k per week plus and their whole team on €125k plus per week. We have a few players on £40k per week., with the bill well under £20k. We are absolute paupers in CL financial terms. But that’s not our boards fault. Our financial model is sound and works for us. I see no other way of increasing our team’s performance. In fact any change to that strategy I believe we would rapidly decline. Too many of our fans are unrealistic and want to blame the board for all our woes. This sickness has been propagated by the Green Brigade and others. I would shudder at the thought of a dan takeover at Celtic, after witnessing these brain dead’s over recent years. After failing to win 10 in a row these clowns tried to dismantle the club. As I said before they bring absolutely nothing to our club but division.
More than 1 boil has been lanced over the past weeks, the puss will flow for a while. The medicine will work. Then will come the peace.
Hial hail the celts are here.. 👷 🔨
It’s clear the zionist didn’t like what they seen from the honest people who can see through them.
Ireland suffered exactly the same as the Palestinian in the past and the result is what all know 🙄.
That’s why the Irish people know that the people who caused their suffering in the past are exactly the same people in Palestinian.
Celtic was founded to support the poor and the needy and the oppression.
Now the seeds that the masters have planted in the Irish body is coming out .
Long live Celtic. Long live Palestinian free in their land.
Look lads, no cetic fan worth his salt would describe any resistance movement as terrorist scum! The crackpot known as disgruntled celtic fan is either a rabid hun or one of these deranged people like rod stewart who salute tories and british royalty while singing Grace (and not very well either) best to ignore this halfwit Bhoys from now on. Free palestine!
Two wrongs don’t make a right sadly what’s happening in the middle east is insane and tragic unfortunately on both sides there is psychopaths the GB or any other ned group should be stamped out but I’m an auld rangers fan and I’m genuinely saddened for everysingle Celtic fan who just wants to go to a game perhaps with grandkids to enjoy there team not experiencing neds trying to put their insane views on ordinary fans like it or not if this Carry’s on Celtic could potentially be banned from football and as a blue nose I’d be gutted because our whole thing as fans is to gub each other
DCF, while I promote free speech on my website, I will not permit it to be a forum to wax lyrical about an apartheid nation, nor will I allow it to be used to wage verbal attacks on fellow Celtic fans. Cease and desist this kind of behaviour or I will have no choice but to block you from the site indefinitely.
Hail Hail ! Admin. and your original article was sound to me, who co-incidentally unlike disgruntled orcs claim, does not hold weight with aspects of the G.B, particularly “orange style” walks through city streets not addressing todays issues in Ireland but continuing the past, which are more around socialists and republicans being held by
” internment by remand ” by the same imperialists who support the Israeli apartheid holocaust. Maybe he could learn some geo-politics from Dr. Norman Finklestein ! A wonderful man. P.S. for your information Orc, if your still trying to read this site, I am actually a paid up member for many years of another geo-political group, JVP (??? some homework for you) and contribute monthly to their work. Such an “anti-semite” …really ?
If we were playing the Huns today, does anyone believe that the Ultra groups would be on the boycott? The board has enabled the GB time and again. They should remain banned until they can behave.
As an aside, GB members have been mightily pissed, since their cunning plan to take over the front of the Jock Stein was shot down in flames.
Hail Hail.
Many of you going mental against the GB because they support the Palestinian resistance while at the same time you support an Apartheid terrorist state? Your claim is October 7th? What about the atrocities comitted by the Terrorist State on the 6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st, September, August, July…..2023, 2022, 2021, 2020…ad even now?
What about the support for Ukraine? Arsenal fans carry the Terrorist State flag every now on then, and no fines, no bans have ever been made.
You are no Celtic fans, you are just as intolerant as any EDL member can be.
Greetings from Cyprus. Green Brigade’s has our support here in Cyprus and in Greece. We have even raised banners to express our solidarity. We love football but we can not close our eyes in what is happening in our world today. We are fans but above all we are Humans.
Well done GB