Leggoland - NEW CELTIC BACKING FOR GREEN BRIGADE-Exclusive

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Tuesday, 29 November 2011

NEW CELTIC BACKING FOR GREEN BRIGADE-Exclusive

 

PETER LAWWELL and Joe O’Rourke have joined forces to sing the praises of the Green Brigade.

 

The Celtic chief executive decided to make his first public statement about the Green Brigade for weeks, after staying silent during the recent news that UEFA and the SPL were investigating Celtic due to allegations by Parkhead match commander, superintendent Eddie Smith of IRA songs and chants from the Green Brigade.

 

Throughout this period there was not a word of condemnation from Lawwell, the man who speaks with the official voice of Celtic.

 

But he chose to speak out in the wake of Celtic’s win over St Mirren at Parkhead on Saturday and lavish praise on what he described as the Green Brigade’s support for the team

 

Of course there was no mention of their support for the IRA’s ethnic cleansing campaign, celebrated in the Boys of the Old Brigade.

 

Once again I draw attention to Lawwell’s only previous statement this season about the IRA element in the Celtic support, notably the Green Brigade, when he called for them to stop singing songs in praise of the PROVISIONAL IRA. The ethnic cleansing of the old IRA pre dates the Provos. Does Lawwell think that’s all right?

 

It is difficult to know just exactly what was important about the statement from Peter Lawwell which was posted on the official Celtic web site and whether he had to consult owner Dermot Desmond before his words appeared on the web.

 

One thing we do know is that the senior police officer whose dedication to duty has put Celtic in the UEFA and SPL docks, superintendent Eddie Smith, was not the match commander at the St Mirren game.

 

That absence came just a couple of days after the Official Celtic Supporters Association – that’s the one headed by Joe O’Rourke - had a feisty meeting with assistant chief constable Campbell Corrigan, at which O’Rourke and his cronies spewed bile on superintendent Smith.

 

Some people may grow suspicious that Dublin trained Corrigan is losing his bottle. Surely not?

 

But it is a fact that the time scale shows a meeting between O’Rourke and Corrigan, at which there were complaints about Smith, which is immediately followed by Smith’s absence from his usual role as matchday commander at Parkhead.

 

We know Smith was not there because none other than Joe O’Rourke has told us on the Official web site of the Official Celtic Supporters’ Association, of which he is the senior official.

 

You can’t get more official than that.

 

O’Rourke also took the chance to spell out his thanks to the Green Brigade for helping create a great atmosphere inside Parkhead during the game against St Mirren, echoing his master’s voice twenty four hours after Lawwell’s statement appeared on the Celtic Official site, making Lawwell’s verdict even more official.

 

As for Smith’s absence? O’Rourke, possibly making mischief, or perhaps even gloating over a victory over the police, pondered that may have been due to shift patterns, which is no doubt how Corrigan may chose to explain it.

 

However, if that is the case then Corrigan should have been aware of the appearance of a victory that would hand Celtic fans, coming hard on the heels of the meeting he had with them, and so ensured Smith was in his normal matchday commander position inside Parkhead last Saturday.

 

As for Lawwell? Surely his statement had nothing to do with what appeared here last week when I urged Celtic supporters to examine the agents representing the players who have been signed during the management eras Gordon Strachan, Tony Mowbray and Neil Lennon and compare them with the agents of players wanted by various managers, but who did not sign for Celtic?

 

Of course it didn’t. Did it?

 

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Edited December 1, 2011 by Zappa

[Stimpy 0]

Celtic disgust me more each passing day.

[GovanAllan 0]

Nothing surprises me with the Bheasts anymore SB.

 

What's Leggo on about with the last paragraph about agents have I missed something?

[Guest Dutchy]

Us Rangers fans were slagged off when we moaned about being picked on, mostly in phone-ins, by being told that it's still not right the songs we sing. That's true, and it's also a corruption of what was being said.

 

What the Gers fans point was that if we have to change, so should all others, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all and I'm wondering when all these phone-in hosts will be slagging off, not only the septic support's songs, but their complete and utter refusal to comply with any law and natural commone sense.

[aweebluesoandso 290]

Them refusing to except that their songs will be deemed sectarian under the new laws, will only bring them further shame and gives us a big stick to beat them unmercilessly with. This is where the club should be using any contacts we have in the propaganda war. There was me thinking they had some shrewed cookies in their PR department as well.