Hanging Effigies and Sectarian Banners

[Blue Moon 1,113]

I don't want to be arsey but I don't get what you mean by "apartheid" schools? My son goes to a "catholic" school and he is from a mixed faith/fathless family (Atheist and Catholic). He has class mates that have Pakistani, Chinese, Nigerian, Malaysian and Sikh heritage so it's a pretty mixed bag. And with regards to these schools being run by the Catholic church, that's nonsense to be honest. That might have been the case many moons ago but the only people that are running the school and in turn shaping my son's education are a bunch of hard working teachers

 

They cream off the best of kids who apply from the non denominational schools.

[JFK-1 1,671]

He is suspended!

 

How many matches?

[JFK-1 1,671]

They cream off the best of kids who apply from the non denominational schools.

 

Which may be a factor in how some of them report better than average performance.

[ian1964 10,410]

How many matches?

 

Not sure mate!,one,two match suspension?

Edited September 14, 2016 by ian1964

[ian1964 10,410]

SFA chief Regan calls on Scottish football to unite and stamp out Old Firm "misbehaviour"

 

STEWART Regan, the SFA chief executive, has condemned the trouble that flared in he stands during the first Old Firm match of the season at Celtic Park on Saturday.

 

Regan, speaking from the UEFA congress in Athens where Aleksander Ceferin of Slovenia was elected president, called on “the whole of Scottish football” to act.

 

Effigies of Rangers fans were hung from the stands during a Ladbrokes Premiership game which was broadcast live by Sky Sports and which also coincided with World Suicide Prevention Day.

 

Rangers supporters group Club 1872 has written to the club board calling for them to ban Celtic supporters from attending Ibrox for the next Old Firm match on New Year’s Eve.

 

Rangers directors responded by describing the scenes as a “sickening and shameful display of outright sectarian hatred”.

 

Rangers supporters also trashed a toilet and sang The Billy Boys during a game which Celtic won 5-1 to move further ahead at the top of the Premiership table.

 

Peter Lawwell, the Celtic chief executive, stressed the Scottish champions operate to “the highest possible standards” and would deal with the incidents “in a professional and private manner”.

 

But Regan believes it is the responsibility of the national game as a whole to take action to prevents its reputation being tarnished again in the future.

 

Speaking to Sky Sports, he said: “Areas of misbehaviour, unacceptable conduct, call it what you will, in my opinion, have got no place in the game.

 

“I have seen the pictures on TV and in the newspapers, of effigies being hung up in the stands, and also evidence of banners being displayed and toilets being trashed.

 

“This has got no place in modern football, it is not acceptable, and it is something I hope the whole of Scottish football will take seriously and try to do something about it.”

 

Regan welcomed the appointment of Ceferin as Michel Platini's successor. “He visited us in Glasgow a few weeks ago and talked us through his manifesto," he said. "He was keen to unite all 55 associations behind a common vision and we believe he was the best candidate to unite UEFA.

 

“This is a guy who is not only president of the Slovenian FA but is a very successful lawyer and businessman running his own company back home in his native Slovenia.

 

“He has obviously impressed people on his travels. He has got a very comprehensive manifesto and plan and is keen to make an impact."

 

Meanwhile, Davie Weir, the Rangers assistant manager, has escaped SFA punishment for his outburst in the Old Firm game on Saturday.

 

Weir was facing a touchline ban after being sent to the stands by referee Willie Collum during the second half of the Premiership match.

 

The former centre half felt that Celtic right back Mikael Lustig should have been booked for a challenge on Rangers winger Barrie McKay.

 

He mistakenly believed the Swede had been yellow carded by Collum earlier in the match and would have been ordered off.

 

The incident occurred just after Philippe Senderos, the Swiss centre half who was making his debut for the Ibrox club, had been red carded for a deliberate hand ball.

 

Tony McGlennan, the SFA compliance officer, could have issued Weir with a notice of complaint and a potential touchline ban for his conduct in a game which Rangers lost heavily.

 

However, he has instead let the Scot off with a warning and has written to the 46-year-old informing him of his decision.

 

Weir will be free to take up his position alongside Mark Warburton in the Rangers dugout on Saturday in the Premiership game against Ross County on Saturday.

 

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/14743177.SFA_chief_Regan_calls_on_Scottish_football_to_unite_and_stamp_out_Old_Firm__quot_misbehaviour_quot_/

[cooponthewing 1,139]

While they continue to peddle this pro portioning the blame guff, the club should, imo, not communicate or cooperate with the SFA/SPFL and have only minimal comms with police. This will not get better no matter what they say. We all know this goes far deeper than football and it's a social sectarian issue with Protestants/Rangers supporters being marginalised. They are all in collusion with Liewell and politicians.

They will cover this up until something snaps and then they will blame us anyway. I have no wish to be civil or cordial with or about them any longer.

[alexl 0]

These half - truths seem worse and much, much, more sinister tbh. Sickening.

[barca72 440]

Regan!! Did he do anything with Motherwell, has he done anything with Hibs in the SCF, should we expect him as a leader to do anything about C1888c's responsibility as a host club?

A company will be as successful as the ambitions and direction of its leadership. This man is running our game into the ground.

I think we could quite easily describe this waste of skin as a 'Toom Tabard'. He has to be the first to go, to allow us to break free from the cabal!

[ian1964 10,410]

Time to clamp down on the Green Brigade before Celtic's reputation is further damaged

 

Davie Hay

 

I am a great believer that before you start indulging in they did this or did that, that you make sure your own house is in order first.

 

So, on that front someone talk me through the process of buying blow-up dolls to take to a football match. What goes through your mind when you decide to hang effigies at a football game?

 

What do you think about when you are standing blowing up an inflatable doll? And where do you do it? And how do you smuggle it up to your seat? But, more pertinently, why?

 

It is a mindset that borders on sickness. It lacks any kind of decency and I am going to say that the vast majority of Celtic are disgusted by it. I know any fellow supporters that I have spoken to feel exactly the same.

 

I also think that there are a helluva lot of supporters who are fed up of watching a renegade wing of fans purport to speak for everyone who wears a green and white scarf. They don’t.

 

I have spoken before about the Green Brigade and the colour and noise they have brought to Celtic Park. That is all well and good but leave the political elements for elsewhere. They do not speak for everyone and they are not representative of a large – and significant – number of Celtic supporters.

 

I think that it is time for the club to deal with some of their antics more severely than they have done.

 

The banner towards the end of Saturday’s game against Rangers which read ‘know your place, Hun Scum’ was utterly unnecessary and I just don’t think there is a place or a need for it. Watching your team win 5-1 against Rangers is cause for celebration without having to cross a line. I am of the firm belief that they do not speak for the majority but rather a minority – but a minority who, if they are allowed to continue unchecked will do their utmost to besmirch the reputation of the club and a club support who have been warmly received all over the world for generations.

 

Celtic supporters are not like this, not in my extensive experience. And while we can talk about what they bring with the singing and the noise – Celtic fans and Celtic Park has been known and celebrated for decades for their support and the way they back their team. That reputation was there long before the Green Brigade were.

 

The truth is that those hellbent on using the club as a vehicle for political expressions are acting inappropriately – and in a manner that doesn’t speak for the vast majority of fans.

 

I saw Peter Lawwell saying that the club will not indulge in tit for tat comments about who done what, which I think is right. But I also think he will be quite right in hammering those who responsible for some of the distasteful elements we saw from the Celtic side of things.

 

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/14744345.Time_to_clamp_down_on_the_Green_Brigade_before_Celtic__39_s_reputation_is_further_damaged/

[aweebluesoandso 290]

Ban their fans who indulge in IRAoke, terrorist glorification, sectarian banners and flags of hate. Then Parkhead would be empty, because it's the vast majority of their supporters that celebrate this type of bigotry.