Celtic fans warned to behave themselves in Madrid:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14905023.stm

 

And in the middle of the article, a reminder of the trouble we faced out there.

6 minutes ago, tup1 said:

Celtic get KB'd for fans in the ground this weekend. Good. I've no idea why it was only them applying, it should be all the teams in the league given the go ahead, or none of them.

There was also a hygiene issue identified by the club with their filthy supporters long before Covid hit.

Agree, not sure why it was only them that were trying to do this 

Was it because their stadium has the largest capacity and therefore in theory the greatest opportunity for social distancing ?

Is it really that simple, or is there a decent conspiracy theory I'm missing ?

23 hours ago, BigAl said:

Ok strictly speaking no longer relates to the Victims, but fucked if I was starting a new thread about this horrible specimen.

Without doubt one of my most disliked individuals to have played for Racist FC in the last ten years or so.

Don't bother clicking on the link.

The jist is that he is training with the youngsters at Gent, was voted in the League's team of duffers last season, banned from appearing in the squad photo for this season and has had all reference to him deleted from the club website

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/mikael-lustig-suffers-pariah-status-22574540

 

Fuck me that was quick.

The cunt has got a move back to Sweden.

4 minutes ago, BigAl said:

Agree, not sure why it was only them that were trying to do this 

Was it because their stadium has the largest capacity and therefore in theory the greatest opportunity for social distancing ?

Is it really that simple, or is there a decent conspiracy theory I'm missing ?

Don't think there was a conspiracy, just the Tims looking out for the Tims and the league looking the other way as usual. It's just deemed an acceptable thing, just like it was acceptable to fix the date of their first game against the team for which they would receive the biggest gate receipt.

1 minute ago, RicoS321 said:

Don't think there was a conspiracy, just the Tims looking out for the Tims and the league looking the other way as usual. It's just deemed an acceptable thing, just like it was acceptable to fix the date of their first game against the team for which they would receive the biggest gate receipt.

Yep Rico, pretty much agree with your every word there.

Lawwell & Co being Lawwell & Co

7 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Don't think there was a conspiracy, just the Tims looking out for the Tims and the league looking the other way as usual. It's just deemed an acceptable thing, just like it was acceptable to fix the date of their first game against the team for which they would receive the biggest gate receipt.

I think the SPFL, previously the SPL, was an artificial construct set up with the specific aim of furthering the interests of two teams only.

These two teams cannot lose within this system. One of them even went bankrupt but here we are back in the same shambles again. The bankruptcy did not interrupt the corruption at all.

All sorts of rule changes were made when the huns were in the championship, to help them only. We also had TV companies covering 3rd division football at one point ffs.

The tail wags the dog in Scottish football.

Celtic losing, great stuff.

4 hours ago, tup1 said:

I think the SPFL, previously the SPL, was an artificial construct set up with the specific aim of furthering the interests of two teams only.

These two teams cannot lose within this system. One of them even went bankrupt but here we are back in the same shambles again. The bankruptcy did not interrupt the corruption at all.

All sorts of rule changes were made when the huns were in the championship, to help them only. We also had TV companies covering 3rd division football at one point ffs.

The tail wags the dog in Scottish football.

Thing is when the Tribute Act were out of the top flight the clubs tried to vote through changes one club voted with Celtic to keep the status quo. Aberdeen are complicit in this state of affairs.

I’m not sure I buy that, sounds like the kind of victim blaming you see in the Glasgow press.

This corruption started in the 90’s so well before whatever happened with votes in 2012.

Tic go 2-1 down with 15mins to go. 

Starting to believe my initial thought of Sevco having an advantage over them when it comes to the empty stadiums. Tic seem to play alot better with their mob backing them whereas the current sevco team seem to bottle it alot more when in front of their horde.

Nae like The Tic to be so unsporting

Not convinced by their new keeper either.

Hajrá Fradi

2 minutes ago, donsdaft said:

Hajrá Fradi

Got absolutely no idea what that says DD but reckon it would probably be to my liking

Oh dear Lenny

Tic OOT (or rather relegated to the Europa League 3rd Qualifying round)

Nice one 

6 minutes ago, donsdaft said:

Hajrá Fradi

Nothing special 

Just Ferencvaros equivalent of C’mon the Dons

 

Lots of Tims turning on Lennon tonight. Remember debates on here in the past about how much of a ‘winner’ he is. 

Only really a winner in domestic football whilst a player/manager of the team with the biggest budget? Or could he do it elsewhere?
 

From memory he won fuck all at hibs.......

Just read some shite on bbc news about Celtic going out again to inferior opposition.

Micky Mouse countries like Hungary and Romania.

It’s never going to sink in that Scottish football is no better than the quality in central Europe.

 

Hajrá Fradi (Zoltan Varga’s club)

Edited August 26, 20205 yr by donsdaft

8 minutes ago, CtS said:

Lots of Tims turning on Lennon tonight. Remember debates on here in the past about how much of a ‘winner’ he is. 

Only really a winner in domestic football whilst a player/manager of the team with the biggest budget? Or could he do it elsewhere?
 

From memory he won fuck all at hibs.......

More successful at Hibs than he was at Bolton
Finished 18th in his first season and the following season he left in March with them bottom of the league (22.8% win ratio). Bolton were eventually relegated

Edited August 26, 20205 yr by tom_widdows

4 minutes ago, tom_widdows said:

More successful at Hibs than he was at Bolton
Finished 18th in his first season and the following season he left in March with them bottom of the league (22.8% win ratio). Bolton were eventually relegated

#winner

Celtic have signed midfielder David Turnbull from Motherwell for a fee of around £3m - 14 months since a previous move for the 21-year-old collapsed.

He has signed a four-year contract with the Scottish champions.

Turnbull's move to the Glasgow club was halted in June 2019 after a medical indicated he required surgery on a knee injury.

He played only twice last season on his return from injury but has featured in Well's five games this term.

Turnbull has made 41 appearances overall since coming through the Fir Park youth system, scoring 16 goals, including one against Livingston this season.

 

Not really sure that this dramatically weakens Motherwell as they seemed to manage just fine last season without him.

Similarly not overly convinced that this actually strengthens Victim FC either.

You’d think they should have bought him before they got knocked out of Europe.

The true face of Celtic FC

A separate legal entity, good lord.

 

2 hours ago, tup1 said:

The true face of Celtic FC

A separate legal entity, good lord.

 

I read that this morning, fucking horrendous. I don't believe that there was some overarching Tim conspiracy that provided a haven for predators, but there was clearly an attitude at the time that they could brush it all under the carpet, which led to others being victims. A Savileseque tragedy like. In many ways, the reaction to it all is as humiliating as the act. The extent to which a private company will go to protect its profits - because that is what this is now about - is obscene. It'd be interesting to see how many players went through the Celtic boys club system in those days and how integrated with the club it was. It was allowed to use their name, their strips, their facilities etc etc, but was retained as a separate entity for whatever reason. Does that mean that the boys club was recompensed every time they brought a player through and that they were part of a competing marketplace whereby they supplied players to all clubs - to the highest bidder? Or are Celtic free to credit themselves for every single player that came through the system, apart from those that were abused?

If it were the dons in this situation, I'd hand back my season ticket and be on here arguing that everyone should do similar. I'd expect a big campaign from supporters to force the club to do the right thing. Are Celtic fans doing this at scale? Why not? Two cheeks indeed. Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe I'd be in the minority of dons' fans. The partisan relationship supporters have for their clubs is irrational at best, so perhaps most would justify it by taking the club's line or arguing that it was a long time ago.