Shameful display

[minestrone]

The poppy is meant to remember all victims of conflict so I think it is highly appropriate that Argentinian victims are also remembered when a special poppy strip was give to a Falklands veteran. I see no issue with Argentinian colours being shown at a poppy giving event.

[Cliphead]

99% of the bigotry i have seen in scotland has been by celtic supporters.
the breaking of a minutes silence by these people is hardly surprising

they are it seems only ever allowed to wear celtic regalia, no other clothes are allowed apparently

Very poor troll

[mrdonuts]

your vile rhetoric is plain for everyone to see

[shaunbhoy]

your vile rhetoric is plain for everyone to see

Must try harder.
See if you can find a grown-up to assist.

HTH

[Churchill]

The poppy is meant to remember all victims of conflict so I think it is highly appropriate that Argentinian victims are also remembered when a special poppy strip was give to a Falklands veteran. I see no issue with Argentinian colours being shown at a poppy giving event.

WHS

[Incognito]

A game strewn with "honest mistakes" from the Ref.

http://vimeo.com/9865326

I closed that half way through. For gods sake, football's a contact sport. Those tackles (got up to papacs) weren't malicious. Bougherra was maybe guilty of consistent fouling, but they weren't malicious and McDonald had made a rod for his back in giving Boogy the yellow after 5 minutes. No penalty for kamara, he dived. Brown was a deliberate attempt at a headbutt, only mistake was Lafferty never got a yellow.

What are you talking about you trumpet?
Only one of the two Old Firm teams has EVER pursued a policy of failing to sign players of a certain religious persuasion. This policy was carried out for well over a century and only began to fade out in the late 1980s. Any idea which team it was? I'll give you a clue...........it wisnae Celtic!!

Rangers signed their first known Catholic player (Pat Lafferty) before Celtic even existed. As Celtic was founded for the benefit of young Catholic kids, they were attracted to this new club and so Catholics in a Rangers jersey became increasingly rare. We had the odd one here and there throughout the next few decades, nowadays we have loads, and MoJo certainly was not the first. One may ask why Jock Stein, Celtic's greatest ever manager, first British manager to win the European cup, etc, etc, etc, was not afforded a place on the Celtic board, instead being offered a job as pools manager! Might it have something to do with Celtic not having a non-RC Director on the board until 1996? I'm saying nothing.

The Celtic Football Club was founded for and by catholics, and although it has never been exclusively catholic, it remains a catholic club. It recognises Ireland as the country of its spiritual origins, and although today it has lost all formal contacts with Irish politics, in its early days it was closely associated with the fight for Irish Home Rule. Today the club remains proud of its Irish origins.
It is well known that one of the reasons brother Walfrid, a Marist brother, sought the formation of a catholic football team was to help feed and clothe the poor of the parishes where he worked. But as well as concern for the suffering poor, brother Walfrid was also prompted by a fear that protestant soup kitchens might tempt young catholics into apostasy. Moreover he was equally worried about the dangers of young catholics meeting protestants in their place of employment or leisure, particularly during the years after leaving school which he considered the most dangerous as far as "religious duties" were concerned. A catholic football club then, could serve the dual purpose of easing the pain in starving stomachs at the same as it kept young catholics together in their leisure time, free from the temptations of protestants and protestantism. The aims off his helpers may have been more prosaic, but when the circular announcing the formation of a catholic club in the East End of Glasgow was circulated in January 1888, its religious foundations were stressed

The above is an excerpt from "The Old Firm" by Bill Murray.

Celtic may have fielded several non-Catholic players over the years, and this is frequently used as a defence against sectarian accusations, however this seems to have been inconsistent with the wishes of their founder, a man the Celtic support has now chosen to honour with a statue.

One non-Catholic player, Celtic legend, Tommy Gemmell, explained in his book, Lion Heart, that a bad game could provoke angry words from team-mates:

What do you expect of an Orange bastard? They would say it directly to you, and they were not having a joke or a laugh

Or:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...y-1141426.html

Celtic's managing director, Fergus McCann, yesterday firmly rejected accusations that his club are intent on driving out traditionally "Celtic- minded" people.

McCann was responding to recent criticism from the former manager, Tommy Burns, and the former assistant general manager, David Hay, alleging that the new regime is eroding the club's traditional recruitment policies

We can all pull paranoid horror stories about the other side off the net. The sign of intelligence is laughing at the stories. Not allowing yourself to grasp it and use it as an excuse to hate 'them'

As for the minutes' silence, I have it on good authority that the first yell was "F**K the Pope!". Strange behaviour for any Celtic fan wouldn't you say?

I was there, didn't hear that, did hear shouting from both sides though.

The poppy is meant to remember all victims of conflict so I think it is highly appropriate that Argentinian victims are also remembered when a special poppy strip was give to a Falklands veteran. I see no issue with Argentinian colours being shown at a poppy giving event.

http://www.poppy.org.uk/remembrance/...eld-of-poppies

Since 1921, the nation has come together to remember the sacrifices that hundreds of thousands of British and Commonwealth Service men and women made not just during the Great War, but World War II and all subsequent wars and conflicts including Iraq and Afghanistan.

You can defend him all you like. You are quite clearly of his level.

[minestrone]

FFS, it's a game of football, you have started about 5 threads recently on this, I have about 10 PMs from you and I don't think I have ever replied. Considering this is a contractor forum I would be seeing a doctor if I were you over this obsessive behaviour.

[shaunbhoy]

I closed that half way through.

Out of sheer embarrassment I expect.

For gods sake, football's a contact sport.

You think so? That seems at odds with the stance you took when our centre forward headed the ball past your goalie in january. At that point you dredged up all sorts of convoluted theories explaining why contact is illegal. Can't seem to make your mind up can you incog?

Those tackles (got up to papacs) weren't malicious. Bougherra was maybe guilty of consistent fouling, but they weren't malicious and McDonald had made a rod for his back in giving Boogy the yellow after 5 minutes.

Well I suspect if you go on another of your tedious trawls you will find that yellow cards can and should be awarded for persistent fouling. It does not specify that said fouls need to be malicious, they simply need to be illegal. The ref awarded free-kicks so presumably he thought them illegal. Why no second yellow? Had he done this then Bagheera would not have been on the park to take the shot that led to your winner.

No penalty for kamara, he dived. Brown was a deliberate attempt at a headbutt, only mistake was Lafferty never got a yellow.

Wasn't after a pen for Kamara but "dived"? Are you serious. or had you switched off by then? Don't care what colour card Brown got, but it should have been the same colour as Lafferty should have got.

Celtic may have fielded several non-Catholic players over the years, and this is frequently used as a defence against sectarian accusations,

Get a grip. "Several"?
Amongst them was a certain Daniel McGrain. A lad who was a Rangers supporter but was snubbed by his boyhood heroes as they assumed (wrongly) from his name that he must be of a religious persuasion that was inappropriate. Doh!!

I was there, didn't hear that, did hear shouting from both sides though.

Not really the impression you tried to convey when you started this thread though was it? You were quite content to lump all the blame in one direction only.
Let's face it Incog, you are in denial, and as such hardly worth dealing with. Keep living in your bitter little bubble if you like.

[Jeebo72]

No need for all these long threads. All referees are masons, fact, and that's the reason rangers win leagues. The onther 40% of times when rangers don't win, it's because c*ltic are so good that even though masons referee 100% of all games, c*ltic can still still triumph. as sasnumbuts will prob tell you, c*ltic are threfore 30000000% better than all team in the SPL when they win the league.

[minestrone]

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