So not paying attention to results etc makes me blind and deaf to the media, freinds etc etc???
Actually as a fan I expected you to accept what many other celtic and rangers fans accept and that is both are as bad as eachother.
I don't, I live miles away and I still know what soem of them think and say.
My son has been quite a few times, some of my friends are there most weeks and I have relations including young children who travel about once a month with a very much family orientated club in Ballymena.
Sure you know I haven't been.
I have several die hard celtic friends, a far out relation of mine played for celtic and a few of these freinds left their clubs because of the extreme sectarianism within the club amongst supporters. Take that along with what I hear them sing and chant here and the fact I saw with my own eyes when a shop keeper had to lock her shop with terrified kids screaming inside because celtic fans went on the rampage because rangers beat them a few years ago.
You have to be joking, there are plenty of utube videos showing both sets of fans singing and chanting sectarian shite.
Celtic stewards must have very few people left in the ground if thats the case unless of course the stewards are deaf.
Ah yes and look what celtic fans get insulted at. What was that rangers player called who was racially abused by celtic fans, remember the bananas??
Why not, no club/town/city/country wants any supporters that will cause trouble, but they do welcome the true supporters.
Your assumptions are unbelievable, see my post above and the same thing goes for celtic fans, arsenal fans, utd fans, city fans etc etc.
So switching sides makes him a tool and it makes it ok for him to be spat at.
Now this post here has me in hysterics laughing, maybe I do need to dry my eyes, dry my eyes because of laughter. Here's some more info for you;
HOOPS VIDEO HOTEL OWNER IS IRA CRONY
From: Sunday Mirror (London, England)
Date: January 8,
2006 Byline: By GILL SMITH & THOMAS SMITH
THE hotel where Celtic stars were caught up in a sectarian sing-song is owned by a known IRA sympathiser, the Sunday Mirror can reveal.
Hoops duo John Hartson and Stephen Pearson were filmed with fans who shouted out "IRA" and "Sinn Fein" at a booze-fuelled bash in Donegal. The footage, shot on a mobile phone, was taken at the Clanree Hotel in Letterkenny, which is owned by known IRA sympathiser Hughie McGee.
He also owns a bar in Letterkenny which boasts photos of hunger striker Bobby Sands on the wall - and where three alleged IRA men caught in Colombia, South America, are due to make a guest appearance.
FERGUS BLASTS CELTIC 'BIGOTS'
From: The Mirror (London, England)
Date: January 28, 1998
Author: West, Lee
CELTIC chief Fergus McCann last night launched an astonishing attack on "Catholic bigots" undermining his anti-sectarian campaign.
Tommy Burns and Davie Hay - both ex-Parkhead bosses - have criticised the Bhoys against Bigotry drive.
Burns accused Celtic of confusing tradition with bigotry and Hay - recently axed as assistant General Manager - accused the club of ditching "Celtic-minded" people.
But McCann hit back yesterday as the club issued a campaign progress report.
He said: "These are really veiled comments by people I would call Catholic bigots.
"As far as I am concerned, a person who is determined to do the best they possibly can on behalf of Celtic Football Club is Celtic-minded.
"That's what we look for when we employ somebody and all 325 employees are 100 percent Celtic minded - no matter what their background is."
Asked if his "Catholic bigots" comments were directed at Hay and Burns McCann - flanked by Cardinal Thomas Winning and Church of Scotland Moderator Sandy McDonald - said: "I'm making a general comment.
From: The Mirror (London, England)
Date: July 6, 1999
A DRUNKEN Celtic fan frightened a flight crew so much they couldn't go on their next flight.
Paul Walsh, 35, from Dublin, became abusive towards Aer Lingus staff as he travelled to a Celtic-Dundee game in April.
Yesterday he was found guilty of breach of the peace at Paisley Sheriff Court. Sentence was deferred.
From: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date: October 22, 2003
Byline: By JOHN McEACHRAN
SIX Celtic fans were hauled off a Eurostar train after swearing in front of nuns.
The loud-mouthed gang, who were openly smoking cannabis, found police waiting for them at Lille in northern France.
They were taken off the train and warned about their behaviour before being allowed to continue their journey.
The driver of the express train to Brussels had alerted the police to the trouble.
Last night, other Hoops fans said the yobs had ignored their pleas to behave themselves.
Passenger Jamie McCarron said: ``It was a total disgrace. ``These guys were completely out of order. ``They were swearing away at the top of their voices and didn't seem to care there were nuns and children around them.''
Last night, it was unclear whether the group were English or Scots-based Celtic supporters.
A spokesman for Eurostar said: ``We haven't had a report of this incident yet. It could take a day or two.
From: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date: March 23, 2008
Byline: By BILLY PATERSON
A CELTIC fan convicted of drug smuggling while travelling to a European game has escaped seven years in a French jail after beating an extradition bid.
Stephen Welsh, 48, claimed he had no idea a friend was carrying a huge amount of LSD when they were stopped on their way to Switzerland.
The dad-of-two was initially cleared of smuggling and returned to Scotland - but French prosecutors appealed and two years later he was found guilty and sentenced to seven years.
But it took another 13 years before France launched an extradition bid and a European arrest warrant was issued for Welsh.
A Scots court has now ruled he will not have to return to serve the sentence.
Sheriff Charles Stoddart said: "The extradition is barred by the passage of time."
We tracked down Welsh at his farm near Denny, Stirlingshire, last week.
Welsh was stopped by French customs in Calais in 1991 with passengers John Bonner and William McNicoll, who had 10,000 doses of LSD strapped to his stomach.
From: The Mirror (London, England)
Date: November 30, 2000
CELTIC have appealed to supporters to help identify the fan who threw a bottle onto the pitch during Sunday's Old Firm defeat at Ibrox.
From: The Mirror (London, England)
Date: May 4, 1999
Author: Harris, Harry; McGUINNESS, MARK
THE shocking violence surrounding Glasgow's Old Firm derby took a terrifying twist yesterday when the home of referee Hugh Dallas came under attack.
Dallas, who suffered a gashed head after he was pelted with coins during Celtic's 3-0 defeat by Rangers, was forced to hide in the £200,000 house with his terrified family as thugs smashed two windows and screamed abuse.
It is the latest example of a terrible decline in the manner in which referees are now being treated and many now fear for the future of officials in British football.
However, defiant World Cup referee Dallas said he would not let the yobs ruin his career, and insisted he will take charge of the potentially explosive Rangers v Celtic Scottish Cup Final later this month.
The disgraceful situation was made worse when former Celtic hero Paolo Di Canio appeared to condone Celtic fans' frightening reprisals.
From The Sunday Times
October 7, 2007
Caught in time
Rodger Baillie
When Gordon Strachan, caught by the Sky TV cameras, finished his 20-yard dash along the rain-soaked Celtic Park track to celebrate his side’s last-minute winner in their 2-1 triumph against Champions League holders AC Milan last week, he must have shuddered at the scene that followed. A fan ran on to the pitch and confronted the visitors’ Brazilian goal-keeper, Dida, to mar the victory party.
It would have been understandable if the Celtic manager permitted himself a flash-back to the day he too was attacked on the same pitch – and with considerably more force than Dida. It happened on November 8, 1980, as Aberdeen, under Alex Ferguson, travelled to Glasgow to tweak the nose of one half of the Old Firm in their own backyard, something Fergie relished, whether it be at Parkhead or Ibrox.
But it was not the 2-0 victory for Aberdeen that made the headlines. It was the unprovoked attack on Strachan by Celtic fan John Poderis. Journalist Jack Webster, author of Aberdeen’s official histories, recalls the scene: “It happened on the left-hand side of the pitch as you look from the main stand. Gordon was operating on the Aberdeen right wing beside the old Jungle, which was really a corrugated roof on an enclosure, where the most die-hard Celtic fans congregated.
“The supporter raced out of the Jungle, with the law in pursuit, but they couldn’t catch him, and, in Glasgow parlance, Gordon got a right doing. Nothing could justify that attack, although I suppose in a perverse way it was a tribute to his ability as a footballer, because the Old Firm fans couldn’t stand watching him take their teams apart.”
Celtic condemn Stillie threat
Sunday Herald, The, Jul 6, 2003
by Alan Campbell
CELTIC and Dunfermline took much-needed steps yesterday to diffuse the acrimony which has resulted in a sickening death threat to Pars goalkeeper Derek Stillie. The Glasgow club issued a statement urging the authorities to catch and severely punish the author of the letter, while Dunfermline chairman John Yorkston accepted Celtic's public condemnation.
Stillie, who is married with a four-year-old son and baby daughter, received the missive when he reported back to East End Park for pre-season training on Monday. According to the goalkeeper, all four members of the family were mentioned in the letter, which was prompted by the poisonous aftermath of Celtic losing the Premierleague title on the last day of the season.
A Celtic spokesman said: "This sort of mindless behaviour will be condemned by any right-minded football fan, no matter their club allegiance.
From: The Mirror (London, England)
Date: December 2, 2002
Byline: JAMES TAIT
RANGERS star Fernando Ricksen has hit out at bigots who have made his stepson's life hell.
The footballer said that 12-year-old Wim was plagued by abusive calls from twisted Celtic fans.
And he claimed wife Graciela had also been threatened.
The 26-year-old Dutchman said he expected hassle.
But he added: "What I don't like is when things happen to my son. He picks up the phone before he goes to school in the morning and hears someone swearing at him.
"That I can't understand. If you do it to me, I will swear back at you. If you have a problem with me, come and say it to my face. If I have a problem with you, I will go right up to you and tell you but my son is only 12 years old."
Ricksen also blasted sectarianism in Scottish football.
He said: "I grew up in a multi-cultural country. As long as you leave the other party alone, this is no problem.
"Here you are either Protestant or Catholic.
From: The People (London, England)
Date: May 18, 2008
Byline: By Steve GOODMAN
NACHO NOVO has thanked his Rangers team-mate Carlos Cuellar for helping him cope with sectarian death threats.
Celtic fans have targeted Spanish striker Novo with a song urging the IRA to shoot him, and a minority have even left hate-filled messages on his phone.
From: The People (London, England)
Date: March 13, 2005
Byline: David Leggat
Jack McConnell really wants to highlight Scotland's Shame he should be turning his attention, and that of the nation, to what's happened to Maurice Johnston.
However, don't rush out and put your shirt on the First Minister risking a backlash from a sizeable portion of his constituency by speaking out.
Even though it is a disgrace Johnston has felt forced to cancel plans for a return home to play in this month's Auld Old Firm charity game, following outrageous comments which appeared on Celtic fans' websites.
A black day for Scots football
The Scotsman
Published Date: 30 December 2007
By ANDREW SMITH
Bananas greeted Mark Walters on his Rangers debut at Parkhead 20 years ago
MEMORIES do not always marry with the moments they capture. When it comes to Mark Walters and his Rangers debut in the Old Firm derby exactly 20 years ago this Wednesday, that may be deliberate.
From:Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date:October 2, 2001
Byline: ALEX DOWDALLS and RON MOORE EXCLUSIVE
THE moron who used the World Trade Centre tragedy to taunt Rangers' Claudio Reyna is named and shamed today by the Daily Record.
David "No Neck" Munro's stepdad said he should be jailed for mimicking an aeroplane in front of the American star at Sunday's Old Firm game.
Mum Ann was close to tears as she branded the Celtic "fan" a disgrace.
Reyna said: "You wouldn't think something as sick as that would come into someone's mind."
From: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date: March 2, 2001
A CELTIC fan who murdered a Rangers-supporting father-of-six after his club's 6-2 Old Firm victory was jailed for life yesterday.
Police traced Gary Rodgers after he left a hat - emblazoned with the words "Fighting Tims" - in victim James Hardie's house.
DNA testing of dandruff on the hat led to the Celtic season ticket holder being identified as the killer.
From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Date: December 9, 2002
Byline: IAN STARRETT
CELTIC football fans went on a riotous rampage in Londonderry city centre on Saturday afternoon.
Christmas shoppers screamed as they fled in terror as the disgruntled supporters went on a four-hour orgy of violence, launching an attack on police officers guarding the Apprentice Boys of Derry Lundy Day parade.
A woman and two small children narrowly escaped injury as a 150-strong mob started attacking police, firstly outside the Foyleside Centre and later in rioting at Shipquay Street, Butcher Street, Castle Street and Magazine Gate.
Former mayor Pat Ramsey, SDLP, condemned the disgraceful scenes and said: "It is inexcusable, especially in the Christmas season, that the city of Derry's name should be tarnished in such a manner.''
From: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date: April 18, 1999
Author: King, Iain
GED BRANNAN stood stock still amid the eerie minute's silence at Celtic Park yesterday and thought of the mate who died in the hell of Hillsborough.
He wanted a dignified moment to honour a friend the Motherwell midfielder had once kicked a ball around with before he had the life squeezed out of him at the Leppings Lane End.
This was the grim tenth anniversary of that awful April afternoon when 96 Liverpool fans perished in a sickening crush on the terraces before the FA Cup semi-final clash with Nottingham Forest.
It was an emotional moment for Brannan and he stood head bowed until a Celtic fan hollered: "Who ate all the pies, ya fat *******" at former Rangers keeper Andy Goram.
That provoked a furious response from ill-advised Well fans then an Irish voice from the Hoops' section bellowed "IRA" and "Free the Prisoners".
The name Graham Wright will mean NOTHING to them. It is etched forever on the mind of Brannan.
And he fumed: "I thought it was absolutely shocking, a bloody disgrace. For God's sake 96 people died and they want to shout through the silence.CELTIC FANS' CHIEF RAISED CASH FOR FAMILIES OF IRA
Sunday Mirror, Nov 25, 2007
by SIMON HOUSTON
THE head of a Celtic fans' group who sparked fury by defending the singing of IRA songs campaigned for the release of jailed terrorists and raised funds for their families. (and we all know what the ira did and we all know celtic fans love to chant and sing about the ira, yet you complain about rangers fans being offended
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From: Sunday Mail (Glasgow,Scotland)
Date: August 23, 1998
Author: King, Iain
Parkhead erupted in fury yesterday after a few sick fans shouted IRA slogans during a minute's silence for the 28 victims of the Omagh bombing.
A 60,000 crowd for the clash with Dundee United was hushed in respect of the dead when a scream of "up the ra" proclaiming support for the terrorists pierced the air from the new Jock Stein stand.
Real Celtic fans around the venom-filled yob who had insulted his club reacted angrily.
But still there were other calls to mar that minute with fans howling "What about the British murderers?" and the Gaelic cry which means "Our day will come."
From: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date: September 24, 2007
A GANG of racist knife thugs attacked two Asian youths on Saturday night.
The neds set upon the 17-year-olds in Trongate, Glasgow, about 10.30pm.
They stabbed one lad in the back and tried to slash the other one's head.
The first victim was kept in hospital, where his condition was described as "stable" yesterday.
Police said the attack by four boys aged 16 to 18 - three wearing Celtic gear - was racially motivated.Evening Times - 31/07/08
Celtic thug, 19, jailed for four years in Spain
A teenage Celtic fan today started a four-year prison sentence in Spain for hitting two men with pint glasses the night before his club played Barca last year.
The 19-year-old, named only as John, was also ordered to pay £1,145 damages to both men.
The accused was only referred to as John on the judge's orders following a request from his parents to the Foreign Office.
He was convicted of hitting a Barca fan and the owner of a bar at Sabadell, on the edge of the Catalan capital, ahead of their March 5 Champions League tie.
The court was told by the prosecution the fan, "without motive or provocation of the least kind", smashed a glass on the head of a rival supporter.
He then used another glass to hit the bar owner.by Gordon Waddell, Sunday Mail 31/3/08
Are Celtic's chickens coming home to roost at long last?
For too long their self-aggrandising 'Greatest Fans In The World' tag has obscured the incessant IRA love-in among sizeable chunks of their away support.
Maybe, like Rangers, some UEFA involvement and the treat of some serious action will get them to pay more than lip service to a problem they looked like trying to fix then conveniently forgot about.
Chief executive Peter Lawwell can posture all he likes for the benefit of the supporters.
But having looked at some of the footage concerned, if that's his definition of a minority, then the majority must be hell of a size.It appears their "Seville Calculator" works in both directions when it suits the powers-that-be at Celtic.
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/7318430.stmUefa is examining videos appearing to show Celtic supporters involved in sectarian chanting in Barcelona.
A Uefa spokesman confirmed the footage included singing outside and inside the Nou Camp for the Champions League last-16 match on 4 March.
"We have received some footage showing Celtic supporters singing some alleged anti-Queen and pro-IRA songs - sectarian songs," he said.
AND you were saying Jim??
No I am saying celtic fans wrecked Dublin.
Why so many celtic fans wearing their colours then?
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If they were wearing rangers tops then it would be pretty obvious they were reangers fans.
Bollocks, celtic fans just showed their true sectarian hatred and bigotry by wrecking Dublin, unless you think all those wearing celtic tops were Hearts fans or something.
Try clearing the confusion for yourself, my points are 100% factual, yet you are trying to say different.
Sep 1 2007 by Gareth Deighan, Evening Chronicle
James Adkin prosecuting said the fans were “becoming more and more boisterous” and one of them somersaulted off the stage.
He said one of the men was ejected by a doorman. When the doorman returned he was confronted by a group of angry supporters, one of whom was holding a bottle. The doorman was set upon and assaulted.
In 2003 a measly 7'000 of their fans arrived in Blackburn for a match in the UEFA cup. Although so little of "The Greatest Fans in World" had made the short journey, hundreds of their fans clashed with police as they attempted to charge turnstiles without care for the women and children in close proximity resulting in forty two being detailed by Lancashire police.
Eighty Celtic fans were arrested in Glasgow City Centre on the evening of their UEFA Cup Final in 2003 .
Here's a few videos for ya.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9JKxk63fcw&eurloops thats 1984 ;D
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU0XRidWNU4&feature=relatedwww.youtube.com/watch?v=wM_ax89ge-w&feature=relatedwww.youtube.com/watch?v=RNji8re46zY&feature=relatedwww.youtube.com/watch?v=YgBriE9kWvU&eurlwww.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/football-arrests-0203?view=BinaryLook at last page, 12 I think. Can you see any rangers fans?? ;D ;D
What utter rubbish.
Oh and on Barcelona, is this how Barcelona television views celtic fans??
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO87YC3H270&eurl 
Last time I was at City of Manchester stadium was City v Wigan, next time I go is City v Omonia. 
