Edinburgh, what a good starting point. A castle, a 3d loch ness experience and a military tattoo. . . Oh sorry I forgot to mention they have a couple of football teams as well.
There has been a few touchy subjects to come out of the capitol up late but lets get to the point, lets say safely that my kids are never going on holiday through the Edinburgh based Thomsons travel agents ever, for Thomson the ongoing story must be a pain in the hearts. So what about them?
Heart of Midlothian – defined: A trifling, intrepid, somewhat venomous bunch of bash street kids. See also: We think we are better than we are. Also see: Drizzle and Titanic libido.
Over the years they have breathed in, expanded, puffed their chests out and tried to become a bigger pain than our foes across the Clyde over in ‘Scheme’sville are.
We have nonchalantly endeavoured to look in their direction from time to time as they hung in our shadow occasionally, but they have never had the continuity, style or backbone to monument a serious SPL title challenge.
The jam-tarts are not our footballing equals, therefore they are nothing more than another team we will go head to head with in fixtures in the forth coming season.
Pondering Hearts potential transfer targets it would not surprise me if they make approaches to a Mr Woods and a Mr Giggs just to bolster their prospective intentional new brand drive to change the team name to Heart of the Mid-section.
Nevermind trivial and especially groinal ongoings in Tynecastle. The focus of my ramble leads to the excess of facts that was released earlier today. According to BBC Football (full article – http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13940373.stm) : –
“Hearts will not be punished for the assault by a supporter on Celtic manager Neil Lennon at the end of last season at Tynecastle.”
This I find bemusing as from what I gather this is the “Special treatment” again other teams get when anything happens to Celtic. (See Gers players grabbing the referee for example Bougherra etc and Ally McCoists enticing of Neil Lennon). The BBC further stated: –
“An SPL report concluded that Hearts’ stewarding and police arrangements were consistent with safety requirements.”
A complete joke is all I can say to this. Look at the clip of the pitch invader and Lennons attacker: –
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As you can see from the clip the Stewards and possibly on site Police should never have let that lunatic anywhere Lenny. Imagine the blood on their hands if that pitch invading, mongoloid had a weapon with him.
A man could have been killed because of their (Stewards and Polices) lethargic, pathetic and un-standardized work-rate.
Now this is the funny part. To tackle the issue Hearts are carrying ahead with this beautiful move, as we have heard, but for those of you that have not: –
“Celtic’s ticket allocation will be reduced by around 400 for the next match at Tynecastle on 1 October to create two “clear” zones in the Roseburn Stand.”
Thats right, they pretty much may have said “Ummm its Celtics fault, they brought it on themselves”. They cowardly reduce our fan capacity to make space for a ‘clear’ zone. What will these clear zones consist of barbed wire, sand and a series of landmines? Because the current “safety” measures put in place could be broken down by a toddler waving a plastic spoon.
Why dont they just open up and be honest and say “We messed up, its our fault and standards where obviously not met”. I know the article on the BBC site states that the stewarding and policing was consistent with safety requirements, but how consistent?
As consistent as putting the ice cream on a fan heater for a few hours and expecting it to be still stone cold frozen when you go back to it? The H of M F.C. friends at the SPL HQ have pulled off a corker to get away scott free without a fine for this one.
If I remember correctly in the 2007 champions league when one of our over indulgent Celtic fans decided to celebrate exaggeratedly by jumping a barrier at Celtic Park onto the pitch (Which I do not agree with, it was a stupid thing to do) and approach AC Milan goalkeeper at the time, Dida, to celebrate in his face. (Just after when Scott McDonald slotted the ball in….. insert mini-celebration if you wish before reading on or perhaps recollect on the goal and pause for thought…….ok enough of that)
In the wake of such a scene we got punished by the appropriate governing bodies. This led to a £25,000 fine for Celtic. Now you can argue the severity of the incident or scenario was different or that this was possibly seen potentially ona global scale and therefore influenced the seriousness of the situation.
No matter what happened an outcome was made and the offending club associated with the pitch invading fan was punished.
This purely just shows that the countries (Scotland) footballing governing bodies have no backbone to tackle such issues effectively. Those in positions in power in Scottish football need to have yet again another long hard look at themselves and look at what could have happened that tainted evening at Tynecastle.
can you see the nazi salute on the right aswell?
Indeed I can. The salute appears on the far right (Mind the pun) of the image just above the chap texting on his phone sporting a black jacket and a very questionable maroon shirt.
Reduce the capacity ourselves ..Bhoycott, stay away . Celtic supporters should be in talks with our club telling them that we will not be treated this way ever again. We should not be waiting until the start of the new season we should be sorting out now what we as the Celtic family are going to do take sure we are not treated second class , our manager is not attacked and our beloved club is allowed an even playing field . I have said before CFC can televise all the away games at Celtic Park and charge a fee to watch the games a lot better than us giving moneys to those who degrade and attack us .
Hearts deal with the selling of away tickets when we go their as they refused to pay Celtic a handling fee.
Lennon has stated that he doesn’t want a bhoycott.
If Lenny has stated he does not want a bhoycott that suggests he wants us to go to swinecastle in force.
He wants us all to get the thunder echoeing around the place – “Lets go effin mental” etc etc.
Outsing the un-couthed and smash the jam-tarts at their own hovel sounds nice to me to be honest.
i think as Celtic suporters we can occasionally overreact a wee bit to certain things. However, in this case, I cant help wondering what would have happened if Sir Walter had been attacked ?
See him and Mixu a few seasons back. Mixu was hounded out the country….
Paranoid android has a point, in the present climate what would have happened?
A life sentence for the attacker?
Seriously I reckon they would come down exceptionally hard on anybody who would have attacked Walty.
thats obvious, Sir Walts dignity would have shone through and the attacker would have stopped in his tracks and kissed Sir Walts dignified arse cheeks, the would be attacker would then have been signed up for the BBC, STV and assorted Rags as his punditry skills would have then been beyond doubt. I presume this is how Chick Young has done so well, he did once have a go at he who has no surname a few years back.
what this decision has done is alert the scumbag fans to the fact that if they really want to attack Neil Lennon then they can do so at any football ground they like without fear or recriminations to their club. Its now open season on the Celtic manager.
the spl and the sfa are a joke and proved once more they are a septic bigoted organisation.
its time to put our power as fans to use, lets bhoycott swinecastle
“what this decision has done is alert the scumbag fans to the fact that if they really want to attack Neil Lennon then they can do so at any football ground they like without fear or recriminations to their club. Its now open season on the Celtic manager.”
To some extent I agree with the above statement. The attacker has been dealt with I believe (correct me if im wrong) but Hearts have not been punished for their laxidasical security and policing safety measures.
So I can see your point.
I keep hearing the AC Milan/Dida incident being brought up but what about Celtic being fined for the coin-throwing incident involving Hugh Dallas in the Rangers game. I mean, this involved some unidentified numpty who never even left his seat. How do you police that? Who meted out the punishment in this instance and can anyone remember the amount we were fined?
we were fined £45,000 by the SPL.
Bhoycott The Bigots
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Bhoycott bigots yes but back our Bhoys?
I say YES. Why should they suffer without us to roar them on at swinecastle?
Great article.
You hit the targets with the regularity of a Peruvian Pigmy firing poison arrows at it’s dinner. Wooooooofffftttttt, thud, another rat for dinner.
Rats, Hearts and the SPL. How nice of the Grange Hill Prefect to state that it would be wrong to punish the peodo-apologists. No, it wouldn’t be wrong. It would be right to punish the club for a failure to address the fact that they have right carrots in their support. Are they scared of the Hearts owner who is just a teflon heided eastern European smash robot that has been rebooted using old submarine parts, some acid and brake fluid from a Lada.
His reaction to the incident. Reduce our tickets. I reduced my ticket allocation to his pink bus shelter to zero many moons ago.
Have the SPL actually done any fit and proper test to see if that chunt is a human being nevermind fit to run a football club or cross the road?
The SPL are a toothless tiger. No, a sloth. It’s like being attacked with a butter knife when Doncaster and his croonies get a file out on you. If Hearts complied with the regulations then maybe the regulations are pants?
Tune in cop out and be thankful you don’t face any punishment over our manager being attacked. You know, some of our support sung some nasty songs and stuff and caused a bit of bother after watching our manager being attacked.
Truth is. Fucking fine us because of this. Show some conjones. Then we can say Hearts allocated the tickets and sold them.
The SPL say it’s ok to attack opposing managers. On their head be it.
The owner of hearts reminds me of Nicholas Cage in that film Lord of War.
On the sugar topped surface you think hes a cutthroat business-ie typical entrepeneur money man run of the mill football club owner but below the surface you just get the instinctive smell of an armory or tank for sale somewhere.
Maybe thats why the SPL gave leniancy to them, scared of a masked man dressed in a fully black body sock creeping into their bedrooms at night gently whispering to them with an eastern europen accent “Yhu doo naht vant tu fupp wizz uzz”. Leaving them wrapped in duct tape as a warning for punishment of a first offence for disgracing the “eastern promise” that is Heart of Midlothian FC.
It would not surprise me that the jam tarts owner could give the go ahead on such a thing.
If any fan was determined to run onto the treackside or pitch it would be virtually impossible to stop him, unless of course you want to see the game through barbed wire and fencing.
I doubt if Hearts lawyer was any less talented than Celtics when they showed the SFAs rules and regs for what they are. That is, ill-conceived and founded on the premise that “we make the rules, so there”.
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