Confess your unpopular Celtic-related opinions

Sinclair while being a talented footballer lacks heart.

 

Shoosh.

 

Maybe the wizard of oz will give him one.

 

He's a had a fairly tough season on and off the park by all accounts. From what I read his missus went through a particularly * pregnancy and that's bound to have impacted on him. Hopefully this season we'll see him back to his season one self. If not Helen and the children will have to go.

 

The board do a good job and Peter Lawwell is a great CEO.

 

andy halliday at the filth is a great example.not.

 

I hate the fact we don’t wear poppies or remember our hero’s who fought so we could still have our club, there were not only ex players who fought in both first and second world wars but hundreds of thousands of fans like my great uncle in the First World War and my uncles who fought in WW11 my father who fought in Korea, and yet we still don’t see that,

My great uncle fought in the inneskilin rifles in WW1 and died 3 days after it finished, from pneumonia. His family my Motherside were steeped in the cause and his brother and cousins are on the role of honour, but still he thought the WW1 and the Germans needed to be fought same in ww2 when my uncles went to fight the Germans because they though it was the right thing and yet they were more Irish than an Irish thing and would have died for the cause but still they thought Hitler was worse and went fought and died defending us and we don’t were poppies because why the brits the huns it represents the crown, what bollocks even if we wore green poppies it will still say we remember our own people

 

If you want to wear a poppy, wear one, but no one else is obliged to do so; that is one of the blessings of living in a free society.

 

Agreed. Always been close to my heart as well, and feel the club should represent those who passed - especially given the fact that numerous Celtic players lost their lives during the wars.

I get people can choose to wear or not wear one, but I feel as a club you should be representing things like rememberance, much the same as they campaign with "Say No to Racism".

 

How many folk that fought in ww2 are still alive do you reckon ?

The comparison to 'say no to racism' is hardly relevant is it ?

The club donates to Poppy Scotland every year. The club does it's bit.

 

It's about more than money - and it's a campaign that represents more than a holding up a sign before a match, or wearing a red flower on a shirt. Hardly there to just remember those who were lost in the Great War's as well.

Are you saying because most who fought in the world wars have died, that we shouldn't need to pay tribute to them anymore?

 

No, I'm saying that when the people that fought in ww1 & ww2 pass, it starts to represent and fund guys that have fought in Ireland, Iraq, Afghanistan etc.

So you think we should honour these guys ?

 

I tend to have more faith in people to believe that we should absolutely honour those men and women who fought there. I tend to think those who served didn't do so out of a complete * to kill innocent people and pillage a foreign land - as some may believe they did.

Obviously Celtic's strong Irish roots bring in a fair bit of controversy when talking about this type of thing, but I'm talking about remembering those who served to fight the good fight and defend those who can't defend themselves. Wearing a poppy should not be viewed as an endorsement of anything other than that.

 

A conversation for a different thread perhaps. Might be naive and coming from a North American perspective, so no point in having constant back and forth's on it.

 

Well it does.

 

Wearing a poppy should be a personal choice not imposed on any individual, club or organisation. Those that can't understand why honouring all British war dead may not be something that someone wants to do is a difficult perspective to understand.

Of course there have been good things the British Army have done; but there's also a litany of unspeakable things they have also done.

If you want to wear a poppy because it means something to you, do so. Just as I wear an Easter Lily as it means something to me.

Would I dare tell the club they must put it on their strip because of my views? Never.

 

That's the thing though people do choose to remember 'their own people'. You choose to remember yours in November others can choose to remember theirs at Easter.

 

Except that it actively raises funds for thr likes of those army members who gunned down unarmed civillians in Derry, and that’s hustbine incident. The fact we donate to it makes me sick.

I fully agree we should honour our players who were in the two world wars but the Poppy isn’t about that, it’s about raising money for those who have been involved in more recent conflicts.

And Britain has a terrible record there.

 

Canny beat a good poppy debate.

 

So you’d be quite happy with funding going to the likes of David Holden for all these years, who just got done for ‘manslaughter’ of Aidan McAnespie, who we actively sing a song of remembrance to all most every week in the stands?

The club gives money to the people who outright * murdered the likes of Aidan above. It gives me the boak.