Evening all,
I decided this year that I wasn’t going to touch the Poppy debate as, frankly, it’s boring and now tiresome. The arguments go round and round like the M25 and both sides begin to sound as welcome as being stuck in a car with Tam Cowan.
The news that the club donated £10,000 to this years appeal has, predictably, been meet with the usual hum.
Without going into it, I’m going to congratulate the club for using the Ultra’s new favourite Son, Charlie Mulgrew, to promote the donation.
It shows that at least someone thought about what point they were trying to prove, which for Celtic is a break through discovery in itself. I just found it amusing.
I’m gettin sick of this poppy pish .
100,000 Iraqi children have died since 1992 , when US/UK led coalition forces first invaded . If you’ve any morals , you won’t give a single penny to this charade .
Every penny donated , could , be used to help convalesce a child killer.
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I have followed Celtic for around 40 years and was a regular as a boy in the 70s and then in the 80s and 90s as an adult. I cannot remember this debate from then? Am I suffering from a three decade bout of amnesia? I don’t remember poppies on shirts back then or Celtic feeling they have to donate money to poppy charities. People should be left to do what they think is right. However, many of us had grandparents who could tell stories about the British Army and its actions in Ireland. And even more have an objection to much more recent British Foreign policy.
Unfortunately the poppy was hijacked by the them and brought into the football arena. Hopefully this gesture by Celtic will bring an end to involvement of our club.
As for tonight? Nerves are good aren`t they?
Jimi88, where did you get your figures from? What did they die of? Does it include Kurdish and Shia children who were Sarin gassed by Saddam? Even he didn’t claim 100,000 children had died. He reported civilian deaths in the region of 3500, a figure which was never verified. Iraq had invaded Iran a few years earlier and then invaded Kuwait and shortly thereafter, Saudi Arabia. It also fired Scud missiles into non-combatant Israel, Turkey and Qatar. Heroic stuff ehh!
You write as though you have some sort of moral superiority but at a guess I would reckon you’re a British born IRA sympathiser with a head full of stories from the good old homeland. You’ll have an inbred hostility to all things English and what you consider “establishment”, whilst taking any benefits which accrue from residence here.
John, I don’t know why you can’t remember poppies on shirts as I can. The decades you speak of were the ones the troubles occurred in and the lines were clearly drawn on both sides. No-one would have expected to see a Celtic player or supporter wearing a poppy as they were so clearly aligned with what were seen as the enemy.
Why there is a need to have memorials at football grounds I dont know, however as it is, Celtics board only need to say no thanks and leave it at that. The donation need not have been given and perhaps should be returned as I think it’s just a cheap P.R. exercise. Then again, if your a 19 year old ex squaddie with his legs blown off after being sent to war by Dr John Reid and his friends you ‘ll take support from any source.
By the way Iain, who is “them”?