The uncomfortable truth about many Celtic fans

I'd struggle to disagree peas and gravy, Evil Heat * great read m8, and a great * listen aswell. Go on the scream.

 

Top post in complete agreement there.

 

the replies to it are not fast in coming

 

That's coz every * is on ticktalk ya thief

 

Think you're right Green Dave, when Celtic fans come out with statements like "I can never like him" or "I can never accept him" then the only reason behind it is bigotry. You'd have to be in about 40 to remember when Strachan played for another team against Celtic, yet i reckon the majority of the posters on here saying they don't like the man are younger than that.

I could accept the criticism during the first year, i myself was not convinced but after three successful years there are no adequate reasons left not to support him unless you don't like success for the club.

We like to sweep stuff under the carpet when Rangers fans are so good at diverting attention away from our own sectarian problems and because it isn't backed up by clear chanting of "* GTF" doesn't mean that there is an underlying current there.

 

Read my initial response.

 

I'm sorry EH but MON was treated like a saint by Celtic fans and his style of football? Long ball. Punt it up, Sutton/ Hartson head it down, Larsson tuck it away. For a high percentage of fans the most talented player in years to play for Celtic, Lubo, was left on the bench half the time.

Yet WGS, who tries to play football on the deck, who has three stylish footballers in his team (Maloney, McGeady and Naka), who has delivered more success than MON, who had about 7 wins in a row against Rangers and gets us out of the financial quagmire that MON got us into is slated.

If you don't want your team to play possession football then i guess i can't really argue with you though because we look at the asthetics of the game in completely different ways.

 

If you bothered to read the original post you will see GD wasn't talking about people like yourself. He's talking about the ones who hate him cos of 'His interviews, his hair colour, he played for Aberdeen and is not 'Celtic minded', I just cannae stand him' brigade.

 

evil heat,your outstanding post is like a horror movie where the stranger walks in to a pub full of locals ,the music stops,everyone freezes and nothing moves

and they all look at each other,

 

Superb counter-attack Evil Heat. Fluid. intelligent, classy and incisive. In fact. everything that Celtic arent under Strachans leadership.

 

I can't see where all this about playing rubbish football comes from either. When it has worked Strachans Celtic has played some of the best football I've seen since the days of the three Amigos.

I'm also sick of Martin O'Neills Celtic being brought into things as in defending Strachan sometimes it comes across as being critical of O'Neill but I'm not. The fact is peoples praise of O'Neill and criticism of Strachan goes so far and the conclusion I've come to is that it's due to media portrayal alone. Martin O'Neill in television interviews and at the sideline displayed pure passion for Celtic. His exasperation after that Juventus game goes down as one of the best post-match interviews ever.

Compare this to Strachans quiet but scathing responses. Basically sticking 2 fingers upto the media. The two media styles are polar opposites. This has nothing to do with football. Were Martin O'Neills side a good attacking side? Were they *. It was a case of thuggery at the back, lump the ball up to the target man and let Henrik do the rest.

It's clearly not about trophies as Strachan as done nearly everything he can, even exceeding O'Neills achievements. But it still won't appease, as the original poster has said, these knuckle-dragging bigots.

And I hate speaking like this because I * love Martin O'Neill but these comparisons have to be resorted to just to prove how similar in quality each manager is.

These critics of Strachan when faced with calm and reasoned arguments resort to either ignoring you or bare faced lying. You will see them disapear when the going is good, refusing to praise Strachan and then cropping back up at the most conveniant of times to let rip. Makes me sick.

 

I really don't get this, is GS a *? who knows or cares?

 

fantastic post greendave, there is nothing i could add to reinforce how much i agree with you mate

 

That is the whole point of this thread mate, and if you don't know then that is great but i'm pretty sure most do.

 

GD wasnt referring to you obviously but I think you remember MON's tactics with far too much nostalgia. It was direct/long ball stuff. I prefer GS's mixed style but just wish it was a little faster i.e. more counter attacking

 

O'Neill's football was silky stuff compared to Strachan's. Far more pleasing on the eye. When was this 7 in a row, by the way? I'm assuming that by 'about 7' you actually mean 3, and if that's an example of your aptitude for noticing what's going on around you then I'm not at all surprised you can't see the issues within the current setup.

 

( < I know those look sarcastic but they're not)

 

i thinkits unfair to say MON's team were nothing more than a punt it team. Its true he believed you should keep posesion in their danger area, so get it up the park and then play with the ball. It was rare to see a punt right to a striker and a direct goal.

 

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Get your mother to clean it up, don't get it on the keyboard. You've obviously ignored the reasoning mentioned in my post, so either you don't know what ignored means, or your guilty of it yourself. Which is it?

 

I never new that. do be honest don't care. wgs has give me some great memories along with mon love them both. remember lads we had * all great memories for ten years. do u think we have been spoiled?