GUEST BLOG: A RANT ABOUT CELTIC FANS ON TWITTER
#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