Everyone concerned with Celtic wants to see the animosity between the club and its fans brought to an end. That is in keeping with the comments of Celtic Chairman Brian Wilson, who called for unity, earlier this week. However, as we wrote yesterday unity is more than a word. It is actions and dialogue that are needed to mend things.
The Green Brigade remain banned, fan media are still shut out from press conferences, and the club have pursued a transfer which is at odds with the majority of supporters in terms of political matters.
On the former, the Green Brigade defied their ban today and attended the fixture. They came armed with a banner, which read: ‘So much for unity, Brian’
SO MUCH FOR “UNITY” BRIAN pic.twitter.com/qZX2GDniQZ
— Celtic Curio (@Celticcurio) January 10, 2026
On the latter, the words of former Chairman Robert Kelly, spoken after taking a stand against imperialist aggression decades ago, still ring true: “I wish I had a pound for every time it has been said or written that politics and sport do not mix – or should not mix. But with the emergence of sport, especially football, as an important aid to enhancing a country’s prestige in the world it is much harder to keep politics and sport apart. Celtic will hold their heads high for what they did. If UEFA had ruled against us, we would almost certainly have competed under the strongest type of protest. We might well in the circumstances have withdrawn from the competition. There are things for Celtic more important than money.”
What Celtic did was refuse to compete against Ferencvaros in the European Cup. Instead, the club sent the following telegram to UEFA: It read: In view of the illegal and treacherous invasion of Czechoslovakia by Russian, Polish and Hungarian forces and in support of the Czech nation, we, the Celtic Football Club, do not think that any Western European Football Club should be forced to fulfil any football commitment in any of these countries.
Today, a fan banner was placed outside of Celtic Park and it read: ‘Don’t send our money in apartheid Israel’.
“Don’t spend our money in Apartheid Israel”
A banner displayed outside Celtic Park protesting the club’s reported signing of Jocelin Ta Bi, a winger from Israeli side Maccabi Netanya.
via @lajeeceltic https://t.co/Eu23TP0oHC pic.twitter.com/q2NmCJWVP7
— Leyla Hamed (@leylahamed) January 10, 2026
This action was taking place because the club have agreed a €2m deal for a winger from Maccabi Netanya. Netanya is owned by Aliya Capital Partners, which invested $30m in Israeli drone firm XTEND, a supplier to the Israeli military. More than 425 Palestinians have been killed in air strikes since the US brokered peace deal began on 10 October 2025!
Finally, the Bhoys aimed their ire in banner form at Michael Nicholson. The group urged him to own his failures and resign.
Green Bridgade & Bhoys Banner:
“Nicholson – own your failures, resign.” pic.twitter.com/H8mlP2qU1X
— Stacey Devlin (@StaceyDevlinx) January 10, 2026
just give it a rest. This is a football club not a political platform. All these banners are just tedious and embarrassing now – where do people find the time ? No jobs to go to – or maybe it was the school holidays ?
How about the 1,200 Jews slaughtered, raped, beheaded and more, by Palestinians in Oct 7th 2023, no word from you in that, I see.
All you people do is glorify terrorists, Muslim terrorists, Irish terrorists, doesn’t seem to matter that they all want to wreak havoc in this country.
Stick to writing your little football stories, isn’t that the purpose of this web site?
Feel free to block me from your paranoia, please.
Obviously you’ve never heard of the Hannibal directive? Responsible for more deaths than anything else that Day! Also, no beheaded babies, that was lies, zero evidence of rape of any kind, again lies, but do continue with your deniism and ziofreakery