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I love this as something a bit different. West Cork Brigade Upton Ambush 100 years ago last week

Here's the article on the Celtic Park flag issue for anyone that missed it https://thecelticstar.com/the-flag-that-flies-on-high/

I've written an article about the flag controversy at Celtic Park as a follow on to this. it'll be up on the Celtic Star in about an hour.

I love history like that. Thanks for sending that's class

They had played Catholics before that. Neil McCallum, who scored Celtic's first ever goal, was the first Catholic to play for Rangers. Doing so in a guest match. Soon enough nobody would have that opportunity until UEFA and the EU opposed their bigoted policy

That's true. There was a dislike of Celtic as an immigrant catholic team doing well and Rangers saw a financial opportunity to become the team to oppose them and become the total opposite. They got huge support by being that club , re-aligned their whole identity and became the team to challenge...

Yes it is true. Hibs voted against it as their chairman Harry Swan was a masonic fool working his way up the SFA. Rangers had the deciding vote and voted for Celtic to keep the flag flying. Not for any nice reasons, purely because Rangers was a club built on bigotry. They knew that if the...

That's in the article. The divis Street riots in 1964. The flags and emblems act a decade earlier effectively banned the tricolour. Then the 1964 general election saw the republican party put a tricolour in the window of their election office at divis Street on the lower falls. It was fine for 3...

My article didn't mention principles that club should be upholding, just that Bob Kelly took a principled stand in 1968. That was fact, not opinion. I'm not a financial expert and your posts suggest you know a lot more than I do, so happy admit that I'm wrong if it's not possible for us to push...

I'm not advocating any politics/views. The only personal view I have posted on this thread was that I think Celtic should speculate a little more to accumulate, within reason. I'm not a socialist or communist. I think people should be treated fairly and equally and I support a United Ireland...

I'm not personally suggesting that Celtic should refuse to play against Israeli teams, but just pointing out that the board aren't principled in the way that Bob Kelly was. Simply because Bob Kelly refused to play Ferencvaros to take a stand whereas we didn't again Hapoel. I don't disagree with...

I think that the Celtic support would have been against the imperialist actions of the Soviet Union. I don't think there would have been that much left wing thinking among the Celtic fans back in the 60s. There would have been a sense of standing up for oppressed, dislike of landlords and that...

I don't think the current board are principled about political aspects such as these in football. As the Be'er Shava example demonstrates. Similarly, they aren't fond of expressions in support of Irish Unity and other anti-imperialist causes. Their focus on this will be to do with the media...

I'd love to be able to say I had some deeper /hidden meaning, but I'd be lying. The quote was just from Robert Kelly, which I took to be literal and to just simply mean that money from competitions and football itself is not as important as the values of the club. And the principled football...

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