http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport...ong-to-kill-off-bigotry-at-rangers.2013023893 And Our Graham's latest offering. Good man.
Itâs certainly quite an interesting article, Jiffy. This was maybe a bit weird, though: â¦..the Green Brigade boycotted Celticâs match against Dundee United at Parkhead, citingâ¦â¦.an alleged lack of support for them from within their own club. Itâs a curious notion, replete with a rather galling and whiney self-importance, that the club should support the fans. I thought it was meant to be the other way round? Thatâs how Iâve always seen it, anyway.
Agree with these points: Those who don't want to wear the poppy, as is their right, make plenty of noise about it though...
Yes Psycho, it reads like that. I understand the problem is the belief that the club hinder them as opposed to the notion of offering support. Cases get thrown out of court but the PLC are sending representatives to aid the prosecution case. I think the red ulras suffered similarly.
It's just one big thread of the 2 biggest problems facing Celtic and Rangers: We've got some overzealous fans; you've got those rabid apes from the film Congo.
Personally, I have little-to-no interest in the GB. I can't understand how collectively having a name and doing displays off your own back equates to the club having a duty to help you, offer money towards future displays, and defend those that persistently break rules within the stadium from being pulled up by the police. Don't get me wrong, the singing, the displays etc et al are all wonderful and they should be commended, but once it gets almost political and they start releasing statements against the club, they can jog on
The Green Brigade, which is what this thread is about, has nothing to do with Rangers. And getting into whose fans are the worserererer is pointless.
Did they? What happened to them? I remember being half aware that they had had a problem with setting up their displays a wee while back and that some people were making the mistake of associating âultrasâ with âcasualsâ â a different breed of fan altogether, in this context â but I hadnât followed the story to any conclusion. Is this the thing you're talking about or is it something else? If they feel that they "suffered", though, specifically as a result of having their displays forbidden, then perhaps they momentarily lost a more general sense of perspective? It might be more accurate to say that they simply didn't get their way, in this instance, which is a different thing to suffering altogether. I have spoken. And so shall it be.
That all seems fair enough - in as much as I tend to agree with all of it (which doesn't necessarily equate with fairness, true, but you get my point.) I do feel that there should be room for fans to protest against their club, though. That just seems reasonable, even if the end result may bore flummoxed onlookers to the point of distraction. Healthy disagreements are probably a good thing, whereas tantrums and posturing are probably not.
I understand they got a lot of attention from the cops. I say that with no degree of confidence but I understand that is what led to their demise. I know they are back on the scene now. I appreciate the divide in terms of those who feel extra attention is warranted and those who don't. I think the club should take care of its customers. The GB are customers, same as everyone else. They feel they should be protected from the cops. Conviction rates would tend to support this.
The major problem the G B has is the over zealous policing outside Celtic Park and within. It is claimed by a member of the assemble that individual clubs decide the numbers and the use of Police within the stadium. If that is right then Celtic are certainly playing with fire. Old codgers like myself will either hail them as a necessary evil, or write or speak badly about them, recalling numerous accounts of maltreatment of people under control. However teenagers and young people in their twenties will either keep their head down and hope to be ignored or else in others The sight of police uniform bring the worse out of them. Good tempered bantering and Teasing and goading, young men at police and vice versae. One pushing the other side. This inevitable leads to violence. That is what will happen at Celtic Park unless something happens soon.
