‘What’s The Goalie Daen Tam?’ Sparks All Or Nothing Retort For Glasgow Derby Tickets…
The hypocrisy over precious tickets for Celtic Park for the upcoming Glasgow Derby is almost nauseating. It demonstrates a complete lack of self-awareness from the Ibrox board, and fans, and displays their inane sense of entitlement and desire (demand?) to have their own rules in Scottish football, as if it isn’t happening already.
Seriously!
When Odsonne Edouard cut in from the wing and curled a superb ball into the far corner of theRangers’ Wes Foderingham’s net back in March 2018, it starkly underlined a transformative period of total dominance for Celtic under Brendan Rodgers, achieving a stunning 3-2 comeback victory, and with only 10 men.
Of course, Josh Windass had elevated Ibrox to euphoria before Tom Rogic silenced the hordes with a stunning driven equaliser. Daniel Candeias drove them wild once again after some shoddy Celtic defending, but then came a moment of both joy and mirth as a Scott Brown slide rule pass found Moussa Dembele, and the gleeful meme, ‘What’s the goalie daen, Tam?’ was forever etched into Celtic folklore.
Edouard’s stunner snatched the points for the Hoops, and the ‘Free Broomloan’ went ballistic as ’10 men won the gemme!’ This will always be remembered as the day theRangers imploded and lost the ethical plot. Perhaps forever.
In distress, Stevie G was brought in to stop the 10, and with the backing of South African-based known criminal, , the Broomloan was taken from 7,000 Celtic supporters, and was no longer free.
The boys in blue could stomach it no more, and the sight of Leigh Griffiths tying his emerald green-hooped scarf to the goalposts to the vexation of a certain staunch steward among others, together with Broony cavorting in front of the dancing celebrants with sunglasses and a cigar became a thing of disquiet, and the big boy took his ba’ back and went off in a huff.
Well, that huff has continued unabated for five pitiful years now and has relegated this historic Derby from ‘The greatest Derby in world football,’ to just another game in the eyes of many. Celtic fans were allocated a spiteful 700 tickets thereafter, and, naturally, we reciprocated, contributing to the blunting of the ‘edge’ in this fixture.
Some thought this as a plus of course since it meant that Celtic supporters would not have to be subjected to vile songs and chants from a larger Ibrox support who follow-followed their team in a largely historic manner which they felt entitled this violent and Irish-Catholic-hating, ‘Billy Boys’ to be wading, ‘up to their knees…’ without authoritative reproach, and utilising child abuse as a weapon in sport, again unsanctioned by the myopic illumine in suits, and completely ignoring the hypocrisy of their own ‘clubs’ position on the very same sordid subject. “Nothing to do with us, we’re a new club, go see the old club’s liquidator'” is of course the correct legal position as all that is true. But the truth is only used when it suits.
Since the inception of the away crowd limitations at Ibrox, there have been a number of disturbing incidents, mainly concerning the safety and wellbeing of Celtic fans who were shoehorned into a small corner of the ground. This cattle structure allowed theRangers fans carte blanche to abuse the away support at will since they were surrounded on all sides by blood-baying urine bottle lobbers, lighter-chuckers and other such niceties.
Indeed, the police had to intervene pre-match recently as they discovered a cache of weapons hidden within the confines of the Union Bears’ den, clearly intended to maim, or worse, unsuspecting Celts unlucky enough to attend the festival of hate.
Joe Hart had his goalmouth smattered with broken glass ‘up the Copeland’ recently, and the Celtic physio was smashed over the head with a bottle whilst on duty at the match causing him to receive stitches which left him with lifelong scars. Seven Celtic supporters were treated for head injuries after being struck by bottles in recent trips to Ibrox with even theRangers Board accepting that their away end as it currently stands is unsafe while promising to erect netting above and around to essentially keep the animals out.
This incidentally was a story broken exclusively on The Celtic Star although the next day one of the red tops claimed it as an exclusive and even yesterday there was fan media content claiming the story as theirs.
Ticket Allocation Chat?
Remember the problem started with shitebag Rangers Fans, their Board and their Media…
Gary Ralston. Daily Record Rangers Podcast. August 2017. Vocalising the Rangers fans crying to cut allocation after being scudded:pic.twitter.com/OzIUn4s68y
— 🍔 Gastro Celtic 🍀 (@Gastro_Celtic) December 19, 2023
So, what to do? Well, having surveyed the evidence and analysed the prospects of getting out of ‘Dodge’ alive or intact in the near future, the Celtic board took it upon themselves to, not only refuse the paltry amount of tickets allocated to their victims, sorry, fans, but to ban any, and all of theRangers supporters, you know, the ones who once totally demolished the toilets in the away end of Celtic Park, in the interest of safety.
Now, here’s the rub, and it does bring a muffled chuckle. The Ibrox board are up in arms about the prospect of playing the forthcoming New Year Derby without their ‘happy and glorious’ fans in situ to back them as they make a previously unlikely tilt at the Title. Of course, Celtic are in a pretty poor way at the moment and this fixture COULD prove pivotal in relation to the destination of the Flag, and they know that.
However, the endgame in terms of baubles and boasting rights should never determine the right of a football supporter to attend a match in fear of his/her life, or personal safety. The Celtic board have banned the Green Brigade in light of this previously, and to some derision among some of the support, but this time they have the unequivocal backing of all and sundry in green and white.
There have been murders, stabbings and vicious beating before, during and after this fixture for over 100 years, and it is high time the men who matter take the reins and, not only disrupt this neanderthal process, but totally nail it on the head.
That’s why I stand with Celtic on this matter, and everyone with a vested interest in the ‘beautiful game’ will too. In 2023, there are bigger fish to fry as I highlighted in other blogs regarding the advancement of the game, and the world in general. I personally hate the sterile nature of some aspects of the game in today’s age, but in the matter of life, death and safety, there can only be one option.
In conclusion, theRangers have a damned cheek complaining about a matter which they instigated initially, and their self-indulgence is stomach churning. If they are not prepared to grow a pair and bring this fixture back to its full glory in terms of supporter engagement and numbers, they should be denied any indulgences whatsoever. They may believe in their hubris that they are ‘the people’, but I ask, what kind of people?
Either free the Broomloan or Keep Them Out!
Eddie Murray
Old School Fitba' 🍀 pic.twitter.com/9mt0vThxbz
— Celtic Curio (@Celticcurio) December 19, 2023
Great piece and I agree with you 100%. I for one definitely don’t want these peepul in our stadium and I mean that on a permanent basis. This will also give us that advantage we need at the moment as we’re not firing on all cylinders so if the fans in the stadium give it their all then there’s a good chance that more than one of their players will mess his shorts the way Barisic did in February last year.
We have proved we can go to Greyskull and win with none of our fans in attendance so I’d rather take our chances doing that twice a season than let them into Paradise.
HH
Great report, and the hard hitting truth which the Huns know nothing about. So long as they cut our allocation at Ibrokes they deserve nothing from us. Keep the scum and shame of Scotland in their own ibrokes midden. Celtic have not been at their best the last couple of games, but just as fishermen cast their lines, Celtic WILL draw the Huns in , and beat them convincingly at PARADISE. Yes the Hun will probably get their usual penalty kick, courtesy of a Hun ref, but Celtic will WIN . And as for their manager shouting about Lunstrum the THUG, being kicked off the park???? Well we’ll well. He is the biggest thug in Scottish football. I have only sympathy for him, but it is a pity it is not his neck that broke. THUG, THUG THUG. You got what you deserve THUG!!!