A Letter from America.... Blogger's note: I wrote this letter on Sunday, put it down before going to sleep, and picked it up again yesterday morning. After making a few changes, I printed it out
thecelticstar.com
A brilliant piece of writing from Larry,too good to be dependent on getting as far as Doncaster.
Is there anything we can do to get this out there to every supporter of Scottish football and maybe even further,as Larry said it is about time that the world of football should know about the corruption in our game and who the sole benefactor of the corrupt system is..
HH
Thank you, green sprig!
I'd like to expand on something I wrote in my letter about my other interactions with football fans here.
First, I have one group of friends who are as passionate about football as me, but they are essentially divided up in two camps: Bundesliga and EPL. And then there's me, touting Celtic and the SPFL as my main interest. I seem to get the "here's a cookie, now go outside and play" response any time I bring up Celtic or the SPFL, all the while having to deal with Liverpool fans insisting on bringing up Slippy G in any conversation about Scottish football -- the Reds fans do it all the time for some unexplained reason (it's the damnedest thing), and my usual response is to remind them that he fell on his face and gave Chelsea the FA cup. Also, for those of you keeping score at home, Slippy was a bust at the LA Galaxy in the MLS, and football fans in LA still talk about how they were robbed for signing Gerrard at a huge fee.
Second, in the wider community here, I try to engage with anyone who is wearing a hat/jersey/trainer/whatever of any football team that I see in public, whether I am out and about or at work in the Public Works Department for the City of Santa Cruz, where I am a parking garage clerk. In conversations with these folks, of all ages, I usually bring up Celtic and generally speaking, people have a favourable response to the club. However, while folks tend to know of Celtic, they know little about the situation, but those who do know essentially sympathetically ask me, "So, do you follow any other league?"
This is kind of tragic, and the fallback is to explain the concept of "faithful through and through" to them.
Also, to those who keep asking me, "Why did you write a letter that Doncaster's never going to read?" That actually wasn't the point of writing the letter/blog post -- getting the message out to the wider world via the blogosphere was. So I'm OK if the mailed letter itself doesn't get past the secretary -- or the secretary of the secretary -- of the CEO in his office at Hampden. If you have a point to make and you feel it important enough to put it down, you do it. It's that simple. As Gandhi said, “If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.”
Sorry Larry, but these Celtic have been on the receiving end of many horrendous refereeing decisions for decades.
Thanks to everyone for setting me straight here. All this means is that the Bhoys of the Lisbon Lions era, and following since, have all been more remarkable than I previously gave them credit for.
Is it true porteus red card was overturned???
Other than the fact that Porteous doesn't get a day off on the next match, it's pretty irrelevant. Even if it is, the damage -- namely a Hun victory -- is done and can't be reversed.