Our guest correspondent Lee Hutchison has a complaint about how SOME Celtic fans behave on Twitter. DISCLAIMER: The views on here are Lee’s alone and not the blog’s.#CelticFansAreIdiots by Lee Hutchison
Back in the day, i thought when opposition fans were wrong when they were so critical of our fan base. Of course I thought there was a few idiots belting IRA songs at a game or some bad apples. Then I discovered twitter, and then I discovered I would hate our fans more than any fan outside of Celtic.
Celtic on twitter reminds me of the glorious state of North Korea when it comes to fawning over a glorious leader and not accepting any sort of negativity.
Certain writers/bloggers leech of Celtic for self publicity on the Internet, playing the gallery and have an army of adoring fans. People like that are everything that’s wrong with a certain group on twitter who like to dub themselves, ‘Internet bampots’ as a badge of honour. These people claim to be celtic fans but post nonstop about bloody rangers our greatest rivals. Do a simple twitter search for ‘Internet bampot’ and every tweet is about rangers. I have no idea how celtic fans, especially adults can spend so much time talking about rangers share issues, rangers debt and rangers board changes. Anyone that dares call them Rangers and not Sevco, The Rangers or Rangers 2012 will feel their wrath. Remember, these are grown adults on the Internet! Remember when adults used the Internet for looking up interesting things? Now it’s for researching Rangers share issues. I miss the old days!
Even more so, it reminds me that a lot of grown adults have never grown up from how you support a football team as a young boy. When you were a young kid, every player was the best on the planet if you loved your team and that club was better than any other. Grown adults cheering millionaire footballs and not accepting any criticism that may come upon those precious flowers.
A case in point is the greek enigma Samaras. A few years ago, Samaras was going through a long period of poor form following missing a penalty that would have clinched the title for celtic essentially at Ibrox. This is the truth and a lot of fans turned on him and would boo him as a substitute. I can understand why this happened, I don’t boo but that’s only because I think it’s silly to sit in a seat and think I’m at a Christmas pantomime. However Samaras turned it round and was the hero in Europe this season. Yet we have fans who think these sorts of performances are a huge “get it right up you” to those who doubted him years ago as if he was putting in world class performances then and not going through the motions. Fans are re-writing history and using the performance of a player now to bash fans from two years ago. Yes, Samaras has been good this season in Europe but all but like most of our squad, not turned up in the league this season. When I saw a fan I know through a local CSC get bashed by a radical fan for pointing that out when he won the ‘player of the year’ award as she knew absolutely nothing about football. Some football fans just simply haven’t grown up and learned to debate the merits of players and a team and not dealing in absolutes like ‘samaras is amazing, rangers bad’ sort of reasoning.
I could go on about other things I hate about celtic on twitter I hate but it is too sunny a day for me to be writing on and on! So here’s a small list! Everyone loves list.
1. Neil Lennon on twitter: What a stupid idea that was, tweeting about PERSONAL referees and then saying it wasn’t him who tweeted it. The tweets he sends to those who have some criticism of him and tweeting Rangers fans. As Rangers fans put it so well, ‘more training, less tweeting’.
2. Tweeting WAGS!: Joe Ledley scores a goal and fans will race to tweet his wife to let her know, “OMG! Joe just scored!”. Why the hell are you tweeting someone’s wife to tell her this. Will someone ever tweet my girlfriend when I score in a 5 aside game next please!
3. Celtic fans looking to be offended on the Internet: Nothing new there is it? Fans looking to get people sacked or reported to their bosses for tweeting stuff they don’t like, even a fellow fan of the same club. What a sick modern trend this is! Pathetic.
4. “Lets get #SuperMulgrew trending guys.” Oh sod off with trending topics, leave it for One Direction and Justin Beiber fans you clearly have the same mental level as.
5. Making sure of everyone on twitter knows the Green Brigade can do no wrong and it’s all the police, SNP and Peter Lawwell’s fault everytime. At all times People must make sure that folk on twitter know the green brigade are bigger and better fans than you.
6. #CelticFamily #CelticNorwichFamily #CelticBarcaFamily etc, people that use these hashtags should hang their heads in shame. You are not children trying to make friends at primary school.
Ironically enough, you can follow the author on Twitter here – @Leeh_nostromo
Shut the fuck up. ALL Celtic fans can support their club anyway they want too. The only time you should have issue is when it’s too derogatory. We are a free minded free thinking club. With ALL that pertains. HH
Thank you for the measured, calm and not at all hysterical remark on the blog. We are glad you enjoyed reading it.
Regards,
The Celtic Blog
Yes your quite right thank you. God bless us all.
I have to laugh at the comment ‘shut the fuck up. ALL Celtic fans can support their club anyway they want to’.
You don’t see the irony there?
surely the irony was implicit
#winkysmiley guy 😛
If it is, then it was nicely played! 😉
Yes we do. The point is do you understand the word. Supporter.
People that thick think irony is something their wife or girl friend (if they have one )does.
Social networking sites being used to network people socially. Shocking. How DARE these people exercise their right to free speech?
Don’t like it? Don’t log on or follow them on Twitter…#nothingtoseehere
Thanks for your feedback, appreciate it! 🙂
Never said people can’t do these things, I just said I find them rather annoying, confusing and daft. I don’t follow people that do those things but through retweets and other such things, I get a view into these things.
Thanks for your views! Though, please next time, inform me where I tell people they can’t have FREE SPEECH, that be handy. 😉
i’ve a funny feeling that thats not a celtic fan i think hes hurting from the chuckle FIASCO
YOUR A JOKE IF YOU REALLY ARE A CELTIC FAN
How many people (famous or not) have said that we are the best fans in the world????????? away on ya big jinny ann
sounds like whatabouterry to me
Brilliant! Thanks! Yes, I’m a rangers fan, can’t believe you caught me out,
When people praise our support, it’s for the atmosphere at games, not how sections of our support behave on twitter. Please notice the difference 😉
No offence mate you sound like your on twitter far to much looking for things to be annoyed at then you make a blog to moan about it, If you have to much time on your hands take up golf or go for a walk and stop slagging Celtic supporters nothing annoys me more than a so called Celtic supporter taking shite about other Celtic supporters.#Celticfamily HH
I suggest you medicate…..often.
If you don’t like it don’t go on those sites. Do you think that the internet should cater for your every whim and whatever it is you don’t like or agree with should be brought down immediately. A whiff of the North Korea that you mention in your ranting above about that. Who are you anyway? are you just some lone individual that trolls the internet looking for Internet Bampots, follows Neil Lennon and Joe Ledley’s wife? It obvious you do as you wouldn’t have this information to hand if you didn’t.
Have you not got anything better to do with your life than being angry? If you don’t like it, unfollow these people on Twitter that irritates you so much. I suggest you get off Twitter and the Internet as a whole before you do yourself or someone else harm.
I’m away to check my Twitter account, just to make sure you aren’t in my circle of friends. I’m guessing that you don’t have many to begin with, well, you will have one less if you are listed on mine.
Angry, angry Hutchinson. Get a life.
I have a very strict policy on how and what I follow. However, that doesn’t mean I am not aware of what’s going on through retweets and general knowledge.
I’m gutted that I may lose you as a follower, that would mean I only have two followers left 🙁 OH NO
Thankfully i also have a policy when it comes to Twitter and i strictly adhere by it. I don’t follow cretins on Twitter that lead an sad and lonesome existence and can only find the negative in everything. That, i’m afraid rules you out of the club!
Happy trolling.
Outstanding. HH
one of the things I really hate is as soon as a team scores against us it’s “get Lennon out!” “this is not on” “disgraceful” “same old celtic” etc etc etc… we have no God given right to win every game in the SPL 5-0 and being disgusted every time someone scores against us devalues the competition the competition and therefore any of our achievements. I feel some fans have to grow up and realise sometimes we will lose. if every “big” team won every game they were supposed to we’d never have beaten Barca. we as celtic fans are lucky that we experience more wins than most. sometimes I feel some of our fans take the wins we do get for granted and make too much of a big deal on the losses.
Thanks for your feedback Mark, appreciated.
I do have a busy social life for activies, so thanks for your concern. Also you state, you hate nothing more than so called fans slagging fans, correct? What makes you doubt I’m a fan, should I confirm to some sort of code?
Your acting like a hun don’t think you are one just acting like one, we have enough people in this country willing to have a pop at us without clowns like yourself having a go. HH
that was a waste of my time reading that, just sounded like some f*d wi a chip on their shoulder to me…every football fan in the world is the same for their team. End of!!!
HH 1NL YNWA
Yes, most of this daft behaviour can be placed on the door of football fans of all clubs sadly!
Couldn’t agree more with this article.. It’s cringeworthy watching people act (i hope it’s acting..) like kids on Twitter “ooh, ooh, retweet me Lenny! PLEEEEEAAAAASSSSE!”
The thing about the #CelticNorwichFamily stuff is embarrassing for different reasons. Football aint a place for bigamy guys. One man, one team.
One final point.. Did you call them Rangers? You’re obviously ‘hundercover’, back to Follow Follow ya bam! 😉
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, that Norwich phase was a low point.
Erse!
Cheers xxx
BLUENOSE
Are you? Thanks for letting me know. 🙂
Really don’t see the point of this article moaning about bloggers and using a blog to do it.
Very zombieish in its concept…
Certain types of bloggers, like Phil for example. That’s why it says CERTAIN, not ALL.
The only thing that Tweets in ma hoose…is ma Budgie ( he’s called Henke BTW)….
Can ah suggest if Tweeting annoys you all that much….
Buy a feckin’ BUDGIE….:0)….
Simples.
Correct if something as shit as twitter annoys you just don’t go on it HH
Haha give henke a biscuit , from all the bhoys HH
This guy is the Mary Whitehouse of the Internet.
And yet, here you still are. Complaining about him.
Does that bother you Edward?
Nope.
Why did you bother commenting then? If something doesn’t bother me i tend to scroll on and keep it buttoned. I suggest you do the same, especially when the the retort was not addressed to you.
You’ll get further in life Edward if you keep you nose out of other peoples business. There is a name for people like yourself, Busybodies. Do you spend most of the day twitching your net curtains watching who’s walking up and down the street?
Get a hobby.
Internet Bampots are fantastic dor Celtic, they have taken the fight to the corrupt and inept, bias media and football authorities. If it wasn’t for them, Deadco would be in the SPL laughing in our faces and stealing silverware with the help of dodgy referees. I am delighted that the Internet Bampots have made a stand form the Club, if it wasn’t for our Bampots, we would still be listening to the pathetic Media labelling us paranoid.
All thanks to them was it?
I wouldn’t say all thanks to them, but it certainly wouldn’t have happened without them.
Oh dear guest blogger…. You really must stop living in the past. This is how people discuss football and many other things nowadays in 2013. I can guarantee you that there were the exact same kinds of conversations back in the past where you are living, it just so happens they were in the pub, the office, at home etc, however with social media now we all get to see EVERYBODYS point of view, not just your own family, circle of friends, drinking buddies etc. Also, life is different now, we, shop differently, socialise differently, support our team differently. Its called evolution! You should get on this bus, before you are left floundering in 1980 wondering why nobody understands what your saying in your old 20th century language.Hail Hail!
Sort it out u mugs llol
Lee,
I have quite enjoyed reading the comments (including your responses) along with your article. Some of the responses were quite humorous. (Did you mentioned our occasional collective humour bypass?)
There is quite a bit of truth to what you say. Football fans tend to be like an electorate. The majority go with what is cool whilst some go against the tide and get the cold shoulder for their troubles. Its a pack mentality.Human nature.
But you know we all have to love each other and get on, Mineshafters, happy clappers, pro board, anti board, isnt that what life is all about?
And when all is said and done, at the end of the day at least we’re not HUNS!
(Hat doffed to Monty python)
I feel the same way about web pages like CQN.
Agree
There is always one bitter bugger. Can you not just be bloody happy to be a Tim without having to try and dredge up a bad news story? There are enough clowns in this country willing to bad mouth us without one of our own sticking the knife in. HH