This Country Tolerates Anti-Celtic Hatred
We have a bizarre tolerance for hatred in this country.
Just the other day a former player outlined how Jimmy Calderwood so hated our club that he refused to wear green.
That story made one newspaper; the rest didn’t find it newsworthy although deep suspicion has always surrounded a certain match in which he was manager.
The near-total news blackout of that story yesterday was … disturbing.
In the same vein, I remember reading a Hugh Keevins piece where was full of praise for Ibrox’s own ambassador John Brown. He found humour in re-telling a story where he found himself sitting next to the former Ibrox player at a function one night and recalled Brown snarling at a waiter for bringing him a plate of green jelly.
Keevins found that amusing whereas someone else might have found it disturbing.
We tolerate more of this than we should.