Reb, i mean irish politics and celtic being mentioned in the same breath. What has it got to do with our FOOTBALL CLUB?
Him and samaras don't work as a partnership. Both of them do there work outside the box which is useless. Samaras needs to play with a penalty box striker.
. Irish politics in inextricably linked to the club since its inception. You can't tell the story of Celtic without it. I just don't underatand why it was mentioned on this thread. Did something happen yesterday?
On one of those pre season pumpings they looked like a pair for the first time ever..... We got gubbed, so perhaps it is for the best if they don't pair up well.
Sorry Reb, dont think we will agree here. Irish politics has brought nothing but division in scotland. I'm sure this is not what brother Walfrid had in mind and has f#ck all to do with our club imo.
Interesting ! So Brother Walfrid ......what was his politics because I always thought he was a man of god .
And British politics has brought nothing but division in Ireland. Divisions that led to the poorer classes starving to death or emigrating to have a chance at living. Glasgow was one of the places the Irish diaspora fled to in great numbers, starting a football club. It is the root of what we are as a club. Some folk place great prominence on that, others don't and that is fine by me. I have no problem with that. I still don't know why it was raised in this thread.
I have yet to see any evidence of this. By this I take it you think that men of God are incapable of adopting political positions and that Brother Walfrid was solely responsible for the formation of the club. This is rhetorical. Don't bother answering.
We all know, of course, that politics and religion never mix and this has been the case all over the world, throughout history.
I don't know if he's a fanny or not. So the story goes, he was demoted to train with the kids and he worked his balls of and brought them on a heap.
Reb, i do know my clubs history and couldny be prouder of it I just dont want my club to be mentioned in the same breath as the IRA, can you understand that? And still cant fathom what modern day irish politics has to do with Celtic.
I think it's far too early to make a definitive judgement on Anthony Stokes. It's not that long ago that folk were down on Georgios Samaras and Scott Brown who are three years older than Stokes. He has shown some very clever movement and touches at times and of course at others, his touch has let him down badly but I believe, as someone else said, that he needs a run of games to prove whether or not he can establish himself. Keep the faith ...
Did I say men of God were incapable of adopting political positions ? Nope I didn't . I asked what was Brother Walfrids politics . You seem to know because you said Irish politics were ingrained in Celtic since it's inception . Yet going by your reply to my question and the ****e you spouted on your reply to a previous question you don't seem to have much of a clue about Irish imagration to Scotland/Glasgow. The team you support wasn't founded on the principle of Irish nationalism . It was founded on the belief that the poor , whoever they maybe need hope . Shame on you for not knowing that . You seem to think that the people who fled Ireland to avoid the famine were all of a Catholic/Republican background.. Sillybhoy
I didn't intend the pist to be a history lesson on the club, rather joining the dots as to what that history means to some people. Of course I understand why people don't want to hear about Irish Republicans. I also understsnd why people want to laud that cause. But again, I don't know what happened to trigger it getting mentioned in this thread. Modern day Irish politics is shaped by partition, shaped by immigration. Celtic is the team of the Irish diaspora. Mick mentioned the other week in rather dosparaging terms that the diaspora becomes rather attached to misty eyed notions of Republicanism. I wouldn't necessarily use those terms, in fact I said that distance can give perspective. Regardless, the point is that the diaspora are often drawn to these things. When the club of the diaspora is married to the politics of the diaspora, then this is what you get. That is the prism through which some people see their club. Some don't.
