Supporting Celtic feels rather unenjoyable at the moment with all the disconnect between fans and the club, the shambles on the park and the fallouts internally. It’s a capitulation and crisis that leaves attending matches to feel like a chore at times, when it should be a hobby and something that is looked forward to week after week.
For many supporters it’s the transfer business, the football operations department being headed by a man who was sacked as manager of lower league teams in England, a manager who came from the MLS and has managed to lose the majority of his matches in what has recently been one of the least competitive leagues in Europe. It’s selling the best players and not replacing them with adequate quality, 20 years of European underperformance and embarrassment, and only seeking to be a point ahead of a shambolic competitor on the domestic scene. It’s basking in the glory of winning a one horse race for the last 13 years and conspiring to find ourselves in 3rd spot with tens of millions in the bank.
For me, the main concern is fan issues and the battle for the soul of Celtic.
The Celtic support is losing its identity and passion. I used to walk through the airport with sheer excitement at the prospect of being in one of the loudest stadiums in Europe on the big nights and derby days. It felt like you were part of something special, the songs of Ireland, the charitable collections, the politics, the sense that a community and a cause was really represented through the medium of football. 60,000 people would join in with the songs at times and the ground would shake beneath your feet at moments in standout fixtures. However, that once famous atmosphere has been hopeless for a few years now and if not for the Green Brigade taking the lead then the politics and culture that have been present in the club, and support, for over 130 years would be lost.
Banning the group on the basis of collective punishment for an alleged assault, which nobody has been arrested for (arrests were for breach of the peace and not assault) and claiming that a video shows proof of the incident when it in fact shows nothing is simply unfair. It removes the beating heart of Celtic.
The treatment of fans is the absolute worst thing happening at Celtic, in my opinion. Not only is any hope of rekindling the atmosphere gone at present, there is a real chance of being harassed and mistreated at games with there being a complete lack of will to defend the fans who pour money into the club. If it’s not lies about fans holding bladed weapons in the newspapers, then it’s hundreds of supporters being kettled and searched by police on London Road without receipts being issued when items are taken.
Green Brigade Update. pic.twitter.com/In8DfMBxdY
— North Curve Celtic (@NCCeltic) January 2, 2026
To call out such actions would be too much of an anti-establishment action I suppose. Instead, the responsibility for riposte, to represent Celtic and its supporters, and to ask challenging questions falls on the shoulders of the likes of fan media. Another cohort of the support, who dedicate enormous time to the club, and who have now been locked out of press conferences.
The treatment of supporters is fuelling an apathy that has crept into parts of the faithful for some time. It doesn’t feel like the Celtic that I grew up supporting and that I couldn’t wait to fly around Europe to see. A refresh is needed to bring back ‘the thunder’ and get back to being the unique club we have always been. Without that, results, managers, transfer windows, on field matters feel secondary to me. After all, the reason that the football means so much in the first place is because it is a manifestation of who we are, our story and what we represent – ‘more than a club’ to quote a marketing slogan.
I feel as if maybe the only way forward now is a complete boycott by the fans. I know this would be an impossible choice for some, but no fans then the only people to be at fault for this would be the board and it could force a total change.
Adidas and other major sponsors, as well as the league and other teams coming to Celtic could now not avoid the lack of professionalism by the current board.
The tell us they want to be first class in everything that they do, well as everyone can see they are first clas halfwitts, egotists and narcassists! From top 24 in Europe a year ago to mediocre in Scotland, they are a shambles, clueless and all about saving their own high paid jobs. They say they care about the club, well the evidence is so far from backing that up as I am from mars currently!
Maybe the board are keeping the millions to feed the starving children,like the club was set up to do.
the money spent on the duffers over the last couple seasons would have been a gift to therangers and hearts
If only some money had been held back by your old club, rather than doing tax evasion for many years and cheating your Queen, then they may have survived..ach well, too bad.. hahaha😂
Get back to yet hovel Hun bastard.
I am an old Celt older than the scribe of this missive and agree with every word. I love Celtic. Fuck this so called board. Answer only to an Irish dictator and absentee landlord. Bye the way I’m Irish and on the lash. Hail hail.
Rangers should get some benefits anyway for their unquestionable loyalty to the royalty.
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How ironic was it, that the club who had a photo of the old queen up in their changing room was killed off by the very person😃😂!!!
When people say,the king is dead,long live the king etc,do you understand it?
Big Jock gets it and he knows a hell of a lot more about footie than you ever will.
AAKA
The saying, ‘a fanny with shove in initials because they pine for attention due to mental illness’ has never been truer
DERMOT DESMOND AND HIS COHORTS ARE NOT LISTENING TO US THE LIFE BLOOD OF OUR CLUB ITS TIME FOR A TOTAL BOYCOT OF THE NEXT GAME UNTIL THERES CHANGE, DESMOND SHOULD BE MADE STAY TO SORT OUT HIS MESS AND TITSDALE AND HIS RECRUITMENT TEAM SHOULD BE SACKED ,AND NOT ALLOWED NEAR ANY NEW TRANSFER DEALS, THEY MAY HAVE THIS YEARS SEASON TICKET MONIES BUT THAT WONT LAST THE WAY THEY WASTE OUR MONEY HAIL HAIL
Why do you think you are the only one on this site who is giving me the attention?
Making up sayings now.
I wish I could be so clever.
‘..I wont talk about my club dying because the immaturity is reeking from me..boo hoo..’
How is the wee baby today?
You are getting very predictable and bhoring again.
Dont you feel sad for nancy bhoy?
The wee babies life revolves around commenting on a Celtic site, except about the death
of his old club
Tims 1 Rangers 3.
No-one that matters is listening to you still.
The only comment on here is another guy telling you to fuck off.
Apart from that, anyone reading your comments that you cant talk about your old club dying nearly 14 years on will regard you as someone mentally ill to get that obsessed that you cant bare to mention it.
You are still talking the same crap again.
Bhoring bhoy bhollocks.
I will continue saying it to you so people can piss themselves laughing at you for being so PTSD affected that you cant even mention how you feel all these years later about your old club dying.
The immaturity is reeking from you,so I will continue to highlight it.
I think people might have more relevant and less bhoring things to think about hopefully.
Why do you have this obsession?
If you had answered a simple question then I would never have mentioned it again and your reply would have been long forgotten.
However, you stating that you cannot even discuss it really fascinates me, as you are a case study on mental hang ups.
I imagine that you would much prefer to discuss a death in the family rather than the death of a football team that kicks a plastic ball about a grass park.
That, for me, is astonishing.
This shows how affected your mental state is.
Tell me this, did you spend months or years telling yourself that what happened didnt happen, like self hypnosis?
As I said previously, a shrink would love to study you.
I actually have a shrink in my close family circle and they agree with me,not you.
I talk about what I want to talk about,try and get over it.
AAKA.
So what does your shrink sat about you not being able not being able to talk about the death of your old club 14 years after the event?
It’s really sad.
Have you been wearing all black ever since?
The person you are talking about thinks I should talk about what I want to talk about.
they dont have ocfd,probably because they are not a tim.
As you think this about tims, then why are you on here?
How absolutely desperate are you?
I like to test out my theories sometimes,they are usually correct.
You are a poor soul, your club dies and life for you is trawling Celtic sites.
It seems that is your life.
Tragic.
You know very little about my life and thats the way I like it.
AAKA
What is evident is tragic
Thats one opinion which I dont pay much attention too,of course.
If I spent my life on hun sites I would head for the nearest bridge.
Honestly, you are more to be pitied.
Same old…same old…
Screamer..the sevco fan that prefers to spend his time on a celtic site while sevco are actually playing.
II meant to say. I apologise for the foul names ive called you in the past screamer.
Totally wrong
Are you serious?
Theres no need.
Very much so.
Dreadful behaviour.
Sorry
Im used to tims with potty mouths.