Message To Fans of English Teams

Henrik7

Basically I think that all Irish people should support Celtic as they are a great club with a strong Irish identity. In northern ireland thats the case. They have held onto their Irishness and haven't started supporting teams in a country that used to send its troops over to shoot civilians and intern innocent people.

Go to parkhead and be with your own people. Don't worship England and everything English. When you support Celtic you are following a team that you have a claim to, a team that plays in Scotland but is Irish to core. Was started by the Irish for the Irish and has turf from Donegal planted in it whenever there is a new stadium.

In wednesdays Champions league qualifier, the club had a 10ft Tricolour waved on the track behind the goal. In Seville there were more tricolours than Porto fans. Why choose Spurs over a team like this? Have you no patriotism?

There is a huge amount of bigotry in scotland and people with Irish roots have had to put up with so much for many many years. We have stayed proud of our Irish parents and grandparents and proudly sung in defiance against the bigots.

We have united as Celtic fans and have held the tricolour high when there was so much adversity against the Irish in Britain. Personally I have endured years of 'fenian bastard' and 'mickey tim'.

We thought that we had the support of Ireland behind us, but it appears that that is not the case. It appears that the vast majority couldn't give a toss, which is a real shame. They would rather pander to the cash rich English Premiership who are doing what the English have always done - building an empire than robs from the rest of the British Isles.

Ok, we dont play in a fancy league or sign world famous players. We still fill a 62000 stadium each week and took more suporters to a european final than Manchester and Liverpool combined. But we are an Irish club that every one of you has a claim to, and I think that its a real shame that so many dont seem to appreciate that.

I'm not saying you shouldn't support your local team. I think everyone should do that. I just think that if you want to follow a bigger European side you should look to the green, white and gold of Celtic and not the Union Jack of a premiership side.

Dirk Gently

I nominate the thunderdome

L1011

I support a club founded by Irish Catholics who wanted a sport they could play in a cricket-mad county, founded in the back room of a bar called O'Neills. They're English, mind; and yet still the only professional football team in their county.

Also, if you want to support Irishness in football, you could always, you know, support an actual Irish team, maybe? Or is that too horrific a suggestion for the glory hunters who think football needs to be played by 60k+ a week players to be "good"?

Celticfire

Bye bye henrick............. ciao

Doffaldinho

Well I have been a Celtic supporter all my life, they are a great team. Plenty of people in Ireland like them. This one time I was at the Ibrox and it was Rangers against Celtic, Celtic won and afterwards I got in one little fight and my mom got scared and said your moving with your aunty and uncle in Bel-Air, I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror! If anything I could say that this cab was rare but I thought nah, Forget it! Yo home to Bel-Air! I pulled up to a house about 7 or 8 and I yelled to the cabbie yo holmes smell ya later! Looked at my kingdom I was finally there, To sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air!

biko

wow 3 thread with the same info and all have responses

Doffaldinho

biko wrote:

wow 3 thread with the same info and all have responses

Yeah but we gots some Bel-Air up in hya!

Pherekydes

Henrik7 wrote:

...you should look to the green, white and gold of Celtic and not the Union Jack of a premiership side.

No gold in the Irish flag. Must have an association with some other country.

Wibbs

Oh the hated engerlish. Woe is us. Bet down we were for X amount of years. An beal bocht or whatever. Let it go. Give it a rest FFS. Sod that, give the rest of us that have grown up and moved on a rest. Smacks of woeful immature insecurity. Arguing over the rights and wrongs of supporting one club over another in a British league in a sport with English origins for the sake of some daft idea of "Irishness" is like two bald fúckers arguing over a comb. Having a chip on both shoulders does not a well balanced chappie(or chappess) make.

Terry

Wibbs wrote:

Oh the hated engerlish. Woe is us. Bet down we were for X amount of years. An beal bocht or whatever. Let it go. Give it a rest FFS. Sod that, give the rest of us that have grown up and moved on a rest. Smacks of woeful immature insecurity. Arguing over the rights and wrongs of supporting one club over another in a British league in a sport with English origins for the sake of some daft idea of "Irishness" is like two bald fúckers arguing over a comb. Having a chip on both shoulders does not a well balanced chappie(or chappess) make.

That just smacks of being pissed off about supporting an English team who probably aren't doing too well this season.

Rossibaby

why would he support an english team.if he is irish,and lieks football,we have footy teams here.and its a lot better craic at irish games than sitting on your hands in old trafford twice a year..''fans''

Tom Dunne

I like Scottish shortbread. Am I a bad person?

Terry

No. You're a bad person because you're from the far end and you once pointed out the truth to me. Although the latter doesn't really make you a bad person, just well, umm, Yeah, you were right.

Tom Dunne

Terry wrote:

No. You're a bad person because you're from the far

That's the far side to you Hillers.

Terry wrote:

Yeah, you were right.

Again.

Terry

Tom Dunne wrote:

That's the far side to you Hillers.

Nope. Far end. Always has been (well, since <insert name> stabbed <insert name> one night in the leg in Avondale).

Steyr

Henrik7 wrote:

Basically I think that all Irish people should support Celtic as they are a great club with a strong Irish identity.

If you knew your Soccer and "Irish" identity and all that you would consider Hibs well before Celtic.....................

Mossy Monk

Thanks for your message. I will have a good think about it.

A Primal Nut

Hmm, Arsenal have had lots of great Irish players down the years. None now, but their head of youth devolopment is Irish. Is that enough Irish history? Where do you draw the line? All English clubs have some Irish connection. Even Rangers do.

If a team plays in a foreign league then its all the same to me - no difference between Scotland and England, Celtic or Rangers. i do like Celtic because of their Irish background, but I don't consider it a question of my patriotism whether I do or not.

I don't support anyone in Irish league because Cavan don't have a team.

the_syco

Henrik7 wrote:

Basically I think that all Irish people should support Celtic as they are a great club with a strong Irish identity.

They aren't Irish. True, they're not english, but they're still foreign, so you can get the f**k off your high horse.

You are giving out to other twats for supporting foreign teams, but think that your one is special?

Go support your counties GAA team. Or STFU and GTFO.

Binomate

Michael Collins himself played for Celtic.

Collie D

Binomate wrote:

Michael Collins himself played for Celtic.

Back on topic. Football is all about opinions. I will support whoever the **** I like.

Mrs. MacGyver

Hibs have a stronger connection to Ireland than celtic. A club may have been founded by irish ex-pats 100-130 yrs ago but there is no resonances of that today due to the fact that each team, english, scottish.irish contains some international players. They bring fierce skill and variety to the game. Some people can take so much pride in their identity that it can border on the sectarian if it is left get out of hand. football is a beautiful game that bridges cultures. i support Hearts in the SPL since i was a child (due to the fact that my mother lived in Edunburgh and they used to play some decent football - and for no other reasons!) I also support arsenal (which has mostly an international squad).

Wishbone Ash

Henrik7 wrote:

.... a great club with a strong Irish identity....

....with mainly skangers in my experience!

I thought soccer threads were not permitted in After Hours?

Pal

I had a season book at Celtic for many years.
Never understood the hypocrisy of fans turning up at Paradise with GAA shirts on.

Wishbone Ash

Pal wrote:

Never understood the hypocrisy of fans turning up at Paradise with GAA shirts on.

....or at GAA matches with Celtic shirts!

OctavarIan

Try as I might to formulate a reply to the OP, I just can't take it seriously. Has to be a pisstake.

stovelid

Glasgow is in Great Britiain?

Wossack

down with this sort of thing

Gone West

http://bifsniff.com/wp-content/files/2007/02/mail.jpg

lol beaten to it!

layke

I not going to even pretend I know anyhting about football OP, but imo the vas vast vast majority of Celtic supports are skangers. Not once have I met anyone who supports that wasn't a scobe with a filthy ronnie.

In fact it's only useful so you can dress your girlfriend up in it so she looks like a hawt skanger of filthy bedroom antics.

The Hill Billy

If the OP was a true patriot he wouldn't even consider supporting a "foreign game", shurely?


I like cornish pasties too.

Fozzy

Mrs. MacGyver wrote:

i support Hearts in the SPL since i was a child

And I thought that I was the only one!

The only reason that more Irish people support Celtic than actual real-life Irish teams is because Celtic are more successful than any Irish teams

Celtic67

layke wrote:

I not going to even pretend I know anyhting about football OP, but imo the vas vast vast majority of Celtic supports are skangers. Not once have I met anyone who supports that wasn't a scobe with a filthy ronnie.

In fact it's only useful so you can dress your girlfriend up in it so she looks like a hawt skanger of filthy bedroom antics.

I see plenty of Skangers wearing Celtic shirts, this does not make them Celtic supporters just kids trying to find an identity for themselves.
I am a lifelong Celtic fan and am certainly no Skanger.

Well done though for your well thought out contribution.

layke

This is After Hours. If you want a super serial resonse take it to the Soccer forum. you have a low post count so i'll assume your new and don't know your way around yet. Here, in AH I would gather your thread will have about 2 pages before it decends into chaos and way to many tired 'YOREMA' jokes.

Fratton Fred

Celtic are just the Ying to the Rangers Yang. Nothing more.

Anyway, I'm not Irish so why should I suport them:rolleyes:

MooseJam

Everton FC ftw !

Rob_l

Celtic67 wrote:

I see plenty of Skangers wearing Celtic shirts, this does not make them Celtic supporters just kids trying to find an identity for themselves.
I am a lifelong Celtic fan and am certainly no Skanger.

Well done though for your well thought out contribution.

I concur

I seen a skanger wear a suit does that mean all people in suits are skangers?

Rob_l

Fratton Fred wrote:

Celtic are just the Ying to the Rangers Yang. Nothing more.

Anyway, I'm not Irish so why should I suport them:rolleyes:

you have nothing to add to the thread so why would you reply!


I like this questions without answers game:D

grahamo

Steyr wrote:

If you knew your Soccer and "Irish" identity and all that you would consider Hibs well before Celtic.....................

Well said! A lot of the people who wear Celtic jerseys (These are not to be confused with the bona fide Celtic fans who know a bit about the game) wouldn't be able to name a couple of squad members. I'm not a Celtic fan but have travelled to see them play. More than can be said for your average 'Celtic Jersey wearer'. (Again not to be confused with Celtic fan).
As for irish connections, The likes of Man. Utd., Arsenal etc. have had many Irish players in their squads down the years.

Rob_l

The Taoiseach of this fine nation of Ireland himself Mr Bertie Ahern is a Man United fan and if the Chief of Chiefs supports them thats the best possible Irish connection I have heard in this thread.


So ergo Man united are the official Team of ireland

Zebra3

Fratton Fred wrote:

Celtic are just the Ying to the Rangers Yang. Nothing more.

Anyway, I'm not Irish so why should I suport them:rolleyes:

I'm Irish, no reason for me to support them either.

Mrs. MacGyver

Fozzy wrote:

And I thought that I was the only one!

The only reason that more Irish people support Celtic than actual real-life Irish teams is because Celtic are more successful than any Irish teams

Yay Fozzy - i though i was the only one too!
I agree with the comment on Celtic. If i had a choice over league of Ireland or the premiership i know what i'd choose!

Mrs. MacGyver

Isn't Sunderland the team to be following now with the Irish connections and everything?

smemon

why isn't this in the soccer forum?

tolosenc

Henrik7 wrote:

I think that all Irish people should support Celtic

What about those of us who couldn't give two fucks about football? Eh?

And what about the Eircom League? Or the GAA?