Celtic yesterday “declined to participate” in the strange Media Conference set-up that’s now in place at Ibrox. Apparently the Livingston manager David Martindale recently found himself in a situation where he was being asked questions by two members of theRangers fan media, from the Heart on Hand Podcast and the Follow Follow forum with each apparently having paid the Ibrox club £25,000 for the privilege.
A Celtic source told us about the bizarre nature of the post match briefings on Sunday after Celtic suffered a disappointing 1-0 defeat, despite having the best of things for most of the match. Apparently the wider media are involved for a short period before being asked to vacate the room, tails between their legs, so that the paying Rangers Media Partners are thereafter granted special privileges that apparently justify the huge fees paid.
These privileges however did not extend to speaking to The Celtic captain Callum McGregor or Ange Postecoglou the Celtic manager who had participated in that moving interview with Sky Sports shown before kick-off when he explained how much his partners had sacrificed emigrating from Greece to Australia – where they couldn’t speak the language – so that the next generation of Postecoglou’s could have a better life.
How tragically ironic it was that the #Celtic manager should speak so eloquently, and movingly, about his immigrant parents just as thousands of ‘football fans’ in Glasgow sang about their hatred of Catholics and people of Irish descent in Scotland. https://t.co/M0IohhnjwG
— Keith Sinclair (@KeithSinclair5) August 29, 2021
Ange gets what it is like to be part of an immigrant community and ironically just as that moving video interview was being shown on Sky Sports, a march against Irish immigrants staying in Scotland by a group of black shirted Rangers racists was taking place in the city centre heading towards Ibrox, with an apparent escort from Police Scotland.
Celtic declined emphatically to get involved in these post match shenanigans and any thoughts of access to the press facilitates at Celtic Park on 2 January for the paying privileged partners has also been ruled out by Celtic, despite the suggestion.
To, whoever graffitied this outside our school today, you did nothing more than provide a few social subjects classes with a lesson starter…
You see, we don’t tolerate sectarian abuse and death threats! Nor will we ever turn a blind eye to hatred and prejudice… pic.twitter.com/TPOOpTQKhi
— Paul Hamilton (@_PaulHamilton) August 30, 2021
We have been informed that BBC Scotland do not want to speak to our Chair as they have decided to talk to Show Racism the Red Card and a reporter. The Irish community have been attacked but lets talk about this without them in the room.
— Call It Out (@Call_It_Out_) August 30, 2021
Their bulletins all day have referred to this as “a sectarian song about the famine” with no mention whatsoever of anti-Irish racism. And this evening they had planned to have someone from Call It Out on their Drive-time programme on Radio Scotland only to change their minds and opt instead for the guy from Show Racism the Red Card who likes to blame both sides, or goes completely silent like the time Scotty Sinclair was racially abused at Ibrox. Soro has today also been the subject of a racist attack by one of their fans making the same gesture in a photograph on social media, that was made inside Ibrox directed at Sinclair a few years ago. Maybe Show Racism the Red Card will pick up on that tomorrow.?
Black shirted Rangers fans marching thru the city streets singing “the famine’s over, why don’t you go home?” 5 weeks after the unveiling of the memorial to the Great Hunger is sinister & planned. Racist, xenophobic bigots pretending it’s football banter. @Call_It_Out_ @deejaypb
— John Kelly (@JohnKellyEdin) August 29, 2021
Remove the football game from the equation.
They hide behind the game.
Its about time we called it what it actually is!
This isnt Celtic Vs The rangers. This is backwards, neanderthal thinking.
This is Racism.
This is Scotland 2021— Danny-Abada Furuhashi (@DKato79) August 30, 2021
Following yesterday’s events I have again submitted a question to the Scottish Government asking what action it plans to take to prevent anti-Irish racism being perpetrated on Scotland’s streets. It’s all very well everyone tweeting their outrage, what is being done to stop it. pic.twitter.com/PqoSeACRgV
— Pauline McNeill MSP (@pauline4glasgow) August 30, 2021
Shut that bigot club down see in 2012 the corrupt sfa.spfl should have never let that new club start in the bottom tiers but we all know about mason corrupt sfa.spfl who are scared of mr parks shower of scumbags at hampden.
What they also need to understand is that the reformation did not eradicate catholics. Scotland pre-reformation was a catholic country and post-reformation these same people existed. The catholics who came from Ireland are just other catholics who joined our country for many reasons including genocide. If you go back further you will see that every person in Scotland was at one time a migrant community, even the inbred redneck huns who today run around the city spewing racist bile. They themselves were not originally from here. But the truth for them is a fickle mistress. The problem stems from the Imperialist divide-and-rule model imposed following the ‘parcel of rogues in a nation’ – to which Burns refers – which, through the Act of Union, gave a certain community the ‘illusion’ they were of the state, when in fact they were no more than inbred minions of an overlord who – later – would abandon them, leaving them to carry on the unfortunate chalice of ignorance and misrepresentation. They are one chromosome from sprouting fish gills and walking backwards in to the sea.
Red Scotland, out. Hoora.
That comment is the best I can recall from any Celtic blog; ever.