GUEST BLOG: A RANT ABOUT CELTIC FANS ON TWITTER

71 thoughts on “GUEST BLOG: A RANT ABOUT CELTIC FANS ON TWITTER”

1. 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

   1. 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

      1. Yes your quite right thank you. God bless us all.

   2. 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?

      1. surely the irony was implicit
         #winkysmiley guy 😛

         1. If it is, then it was nicely played! 😉

      2. Yes we do. The point is do you understand the word. Supporter.

      3. People that thick think irony is something their wife or girl friend (if they have one )does.

2. 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

3. 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. 😉

4. 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

   1. Brilliant! Thanks! Yes, I’m a rangers fan, can’t believe you caught me out,

   2. 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 😉

5. 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

6. 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.

   1. 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

      1. 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.

         1. Outstanding. HH

7. 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.

8. 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?

   1. 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

9. 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

   1. Yes, most of this daft behaviour can be placed on the door of football fans of all clubs sadly!

10. 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! 😉

    1. Thanks for the feedback! Yes, that Norwich phase was a low point.

11. Erse!

    1. Cheers xxx

       1. BLUENOSE

          1. Are you? Thanks for letting me know. 🙂

12. Really don’t see the point of this article moaning about bloggers and using a blog to do it.

    Very zombieish in its concept…

    1. Certain types of bloggers, like Phil for example. That’s why it says CERTAIN, not ALL.

13. 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.

    1. Correct if something as shit as twitter annoys you just don’t go on it HH

    2. Haha give henke a biscuit , from all the bhoys HH

14. This guy is the Mary Whitehouse of the Internet.

    1. And yet, here you still are. Complaining about him.

       1. Does that bother you Edward?

          1. Nope.

          2. 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.

15. 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.

    1. All thanks to them was it?

       1. I wouldn’t say all thanks to them, but it certainly wouldn’t have happened without them.

16. 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!

17. Sort it out u mugs llol

18. 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)

19. I feel the same way about web pages like CQN.

    1. Agree

20. 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

21. 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…

22. People who use Twitter are attention seeking twats. What the f*ck did you expect?

23. 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.

    1. Okay…..

    2. 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.

24. 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)…

25. I completely agree jockybhoy has answered this provocative nonsense once and for all. HH

26. 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.

    1. Thanks! It’s what prompted the writing of this rant.

27. 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.

28. 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

29. 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

    1. I suggest you read some history books son.

       1. What have the IRA got to do with celtic? Nothing! Oddly Jock Stein agreed….

          1. Who rattled your cage Huchinson? If Jock Stein told you to stick yer hand in the fire, would you?

30. 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

    1. 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.

    2. It’s all about knowing your history isn’t it Cormac.

       1. 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

          1. I’m not here to educated the uneducated. Use Google.

          2. 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

          3. 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.

31. Got board with it after a few paragraphs! Sounds like another attention seeker.

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