https://thecelticstar.com/celtic-hib...-david-potter/
interesting. The guy can’t even get our year of formation correct mind you.
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Thread: Celtic supporter on Hibs
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20-11-2020 05:37 PM #1
Celtic supporter on Hibs
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20-11-2020 05:38 PM #2
Lesser greens, I'm amazed they managed to remember to spell Celtc with an I.
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"I did not need any persuasion to play for such a great club, the Hibs result is still one of the first I look for"
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20-11-2020 05:53 PM #3
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What a load of pish. No wonder we hate those ********s.
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20-11-2020 06:00 PM #5
We are ‘defined by an obsession with Hearts’. That won’t go down well
Its actually quite well written and researched, but then goes off and becomes about his opinions. Harry Swan a dictator? I think he needs some evidence there.
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20-11-2020 06:07 PM #6
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What a lot of bollocks.
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20-11-2020 06:12 PM #7
Seems like its written by a typical weegie with a chip on his shoulder towards the capital.
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20-11-2020 06:19 PM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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20-11-2020 06:27 PM #10
It's good to see the 'we were first to wear the green' song annoys them. The attempt to dismiss it just proves that.
Truth be told I probably am jealous of Celtic's success, as I am that of Rangers, Liverpool or Real Madrid. Their sense of insecurity and annoyance that they are irrevocably unoriginal outweighs that tenfold though.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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20-11-2020 06:27 PM #11
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I met David potter once. He’s a retired teacher who lives in Kirkcaldy. Obviously written for the Celtic gallery, but he’s a decent and civilised bloke.
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20-11-2020 06:40 PM #12This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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20-11-2020 06:48 PM #13
That essay is embarrassingly bad, even by condescending and glory hunting Celtic fans already low standards.
An earlier poster says this guy is a retired teacher? Christ almighty
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20-11-2020 06:49 PM #14
I thought our first teams contained Catholic Highlanders who also lived in the Cowgate.Did one of our first Presidents not come from Morar which is certainly not in Ireland
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20-11-2020 06:49 PM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Maybe all those titles and cup wins would have become boring after a while though. Hibs have won 4 trophies in my 50 years of going to matches, and I can name the dates, teams, scorers from every one of them.
I’m being serious when I say this, but the only Celtic triumph that perhaps comes close in terms of sheer emotion to 21.5.16 is the European Cup. In fact, that is probably when Glasgow saw it’s last football based mass street gathering related to football.
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20-11-2020 06:53 PM #16
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People will obviously dismiss lots of it because it isnt flattering to us, but some of it does ring true.
Lots of the rest of it is pish, but lets face it when it comes to football supporters, there are lots of different versions of the truth, and pish is often used to describe truths we just dont like about our club.
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20-11-2020 07:05 PM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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20-11-2020 07:09 PM #18
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Read this stuff 100 times. Patronising crap. Least he admits we were the first to wear the green and also have the best songs. And James Connolly loved Hibernian. Not Celtic.
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20-11-2020 07:38 PM #20
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That was nothing but a piece of crap. Typical Celtic drivel.
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20-11-2020 07:49 PM #21
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Hibs have been consistently and frustratingly plundered for players and managers by celtic.
What could / would have Jock Stein achieved had he stayed at Hibs?
Celtic werent really to blame for Hibs problems in 1890, although they certainly contributed, and were a major factor.
Hibs have suffered in cup finals more at the hands of Celtic than any other team.
Hibs should have won the Coronation Cup, and its one that really wrankles with me actually.
The 1914 and 23 finals were very much 'irish' affairs, with a sense of camaraderie between the clubs and fans, not to mention that the two managers were brothers (alec and willie maley).
I would say he is wrong on the year of Hibs founding (obviously), wrong on his geography of Edinburgh being where Hibs support comes from and his point about James Connolly is just stupid and without foundation completely.
Harry swann may well have been a dictator, i dont know - but as the discussion on here showed a few weeks back, he was not an uncontroversial character, and as was shown by the same discussion, there were Hibs fans who didnt like him. That obviously doesnt diminish his enormous achievements at Hibs, but i can understand why Celtic fans were/are annoyed or at least puzzled by his behaviour towards their flying of the Tricolour at Parkhead.
I also think he misrepresents the inspiration that Hibs gave to their Glasgow brethren in setting Celtic up.
So like i say, plenty rings true, some is pish - imo.Last edited by James Stephen; 20-11-2020 at 07:53 PM.
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20-11-2020 08:17 PM #22This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I agree with everything you say other than Swan and the flag thing. Swan was in charge on the day the vote was passed to ratify a decision made by the Referees Committee, which they had arrived at via a request from the Glasgow Magistrates. Swan was only overseeing a meeting rubber stamping a decision outwith his hands. Remember the decision also covered Rangers flying the Union Flag at Ibrox as well.
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20-11-2020 08:27 PM #23
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But yeah, i accept youre right and he is wrong on that one. Convenient for Glasgow press to have an Edinburgh bogeyman to blame.
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20-11-2020 08:31 PM #24This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
....just to add - the whole thing was kicked off as Celtic fans had a few pitch invasions in the previous months. During an OF game at Parkhead with the old Rangers winning 0-4 their fans invaded the park with a linesman being assaulted and attacked by more than one of the invaders.
The fact that that aspect is rarely spoken about, whereas Swan is regularly portrayed as "leading a campaign to stop Celtic flying the tricolour" speaks volumes about the character of some of their fans.
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20-11-2020 09:07 PM #25This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
on the geography of Hibs support, I know it’s lazy but is there not an element of truth in it. I’ve always felt the north and east of the city is Hibs territory
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20-11-2020 09:12 PM #26
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And of course, Hibs support for the first 50 - 75 years of the clubs existence was very concetrated in the old town and southside, and in Leith (basically where the irish immigrants had settled in the 19th century).
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21-11-2020 11:30 AM #30
Condescending weegie guff. “Hibs supporters came out in their masses from the grim Leith tenements”... a bit rich considering the state of a lot of Celtic fans.
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