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. Â 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
I know the headline says it’s a rant, but I think you are massively missing the point on a lot of these issues Lee.
> “internet bampots” was a phrase used by the mainstream media (MSM) to try and deflect from the true stories about Rangers financial troubles – a story the MSM weren’t carrying, in fact they insisted all was well at Ibrox. The “internet bampots” were about Rangers financial issues, they include Jambos, Arabs, Jags, etc etc, not just Celtic fans – and they won the day. THAT’S why it’s a badge of honour. Look up “what they are saying is 99% crap” too… badges of honour well won are the bes badges of honour.
> “Celtic fans looking to be offended on the Internet: Nothing new there is it?”. Don’t tell we – we are paranoid too? Are we “always cheated and never defeated”?
> Trending, #CelticFamily etc – that’s how social media works – you know that right? Celtic launched their social media presence well after many of our peers and are playing a bit of catch-up on scoial media – the way to do that is by getting exposure and trending. Why does it matter? It matters because the club can sell tickets, merchandise, it can get entries to competitions and raise the interaction with the maximum number of Celtic fans around the world, increasing the celtic family if you will.
Personally I hate social media marketing but you are an idiot if you think it’s going to to anything but grow exponentially. #getusedtoit
Finally – I don’t “do” twitter – the idea that a twitter account makes anyone’s opinion valid is misplaced vanity. If anything twitter is vapid, not valid. You choose to go on it, you can’t be surprised by what you get…
People who use Twitter are attention seeking twats. What the f*ck did you expect?
Rangers FC(1872-2012)for well over 100 yeara cheated my football club,they where the establishment team,the Scottish refereeing establishment tiny warton et all,where in those days very prominently biased and masonic.Its not myth its fact,Rangers FC benefitted enormously from the help,money from these establishments,Celtic did it the hard way with obsticle after obsticle put in the clubs way,so is it surprising that our fans celebrate with euphoria at their demise ?,all those cup finals where they where helped,all those games where they where allowed to win by penalties given V not given to us ? Go look up the stats when Rangers won the 1975 title to stop OUR 10 in a row,the amount of dodgy decisions that year where unbelievable.So when Rangers got there just deserts and perished, I danced on their grave and I will never let those bastards who followed then ever forget that the club they follow now are NOT Rangers and will NEVER be Rangers.
Okay…..
Very well put. Lots of great things have happened before, during and after the death of Rangers and the emergence of The Tribute Act took their position as the Establishment Gimp, one of the most satisfying was the revelations put in the public domain by Internet Bampots, with solid proof to back them up, that exposed rife and abundant corruption and collusion within the game. Shiels came out with his ‘paranoid fc’ comment, probably forgetting which year he was in, and was laughed at. 2 years ago he would have been held high and praised by the MSM for ‘telling it how it is’, thankfully, and with immense satisfaction, those days are over.
Jockybhoy…
So articulate…so accurate…so much like how I would have written it…
Well done…
Oh and BTW…..He’ll never be able to respond to that….:0)…
I completely agree jockybhoy has answered this provocative nonsense once and for all. HH
Whether you agree with Lee or not; his point about the insanity of people getting reported to employers is justified. All too often, people get shouted down, – or threatened, in some cases – for mild criticisms of Neil Lennon or the Green Brigade, for example.
It’s all very well saying support your fellow fans, but when some of them behave like children or irrational nutters, people should not be afraid of calling them out.
Thanks! It’s what prompted the writing of this rant.
I agree Lee some fans need ro get a grip. I am bored to death with the whole Rangers saga,and would much rather just talk about Celtic.
Good read and I agree with most your points, you lambast certain Celtic fans for never always going on about Rangers on Twitter, yet for you doing this your called a hun (probably by the same people that are obsessed with rangers), it doesn’t make sense does it
Also the certain people seem to think the Green Brigade are untouchable, but if they really are all about supporting Celtic why do some of their members sing about the IRA (a group that has nothing to do with football or The Celtic Football Club), if you want to support Celtic then sing about Celtic and leave politics and shit like that at the door
I suggest you read some history books son.
What have the IRA got to do with celtic? Nothing! Oddly Jock Stein agreed….
Who rattled your cage Huchinson? If Jock Stein told you to stick yer hand in the fire, would you?
what have they got to do with football or Celtic, please enlighten me, just because fans sing about them or support them it doesn’t mean they have anything to do with the club
As i iterated earlier – read a few history books about the formation of Celtic. Educated yourself son before you make outlandish comments that make you look like an uneducated fool.
It’s all about knowing your history isn’t it Cormac.
go on and tell me what the connection is, and the only people who look like uneducated fools are the people who chant ooo ah up the ra and sing other political songs at Celtic matches, if you go to a Celtic match to support the team why not support them by singing about them and not other shit
I’m not here to educated the uneducated. Use Google.
There is no link between Celtic and the IRA, apart from some fans, the only link between Celtic and Irish republicanism was Michael davitt and that pre dates the formation of the IRA so once again I ask you what has the IRA and also people like Bobby sands and sean south got to do with Celtic fc, why do you keep shying away from answering my question, you try to palm me off to search engines, if my so called uneducated view annoys you so much why don’t you educate me
I spend my whole week lecturing students. I most certainly am not going to do it on my free time on some blog. If you are that interested, do the research yourself. It’s what all good scholars do.
Got board with it after a few paragraphs! Sounds like another attention seeker.