Celtic Diary Saturday October 3: Gast Flabbered Again

Sometimes, all we can do is look on in amazement with our ghasts well and truly flabbered.

Not only are the national broadcasters not showing this, which in itself is a disgrace, those who cancelled their subscriptions when Premier chose to drop Thursdays Sarajevo game, after they had sold their subscriptions on the back of covering the Celtic qualifiers, must now take them up again if they want to see the game.

If we keep letting them, they’ll keep taking the piss.

This season, fans have not been able to attend games, and that doesn’t look like it’s going to be changing any time soon, In fact, there’s more chance of the whole lot being shut down again before that happens,

Having taken fans money for season books, new strips and other merchandise, the very least the club could do is register their distaste.

Then again, there’s a virtual season book package to sell, with Celtic having landed quite an exciting Europa League group, with Milan, Sparta Prague and Lille contesting the two qualification spaces.

Milan at home is the first game, on the 22nd of this month.

Games that would have filled the ground and been at the front of tv producers plans. Although they should be on BT Sport, and that means there will probably be streams,

The quality may not be great, but when a consumer base is treated with disdain they will find other ways to get the product. sometimes settling for poorer quality at a reduced rate….

The SFA have clearly gone for the money on offer from Premier sports rather than consideration for a support that right now is paying an awful lot of money for nothing, paying it out of loyalty to clubs which may well have folded if they hadn’t.

Whats interesting, and somewhat worrying , is that no one at Hampden from either organisation is making any sort of plans for the inevitable, which is that supporters are  not going to see a game until some time in the spring.

Thats if there are any games to see….

But, while they are still being played, we should enjoy them.

And whilst the Sarajevo game will only be remembered for the result, it means that European football until Christmas is guaranteed for the tenth successive season, and that should ease some of the pressure on manager Neil Lennon, who has only lost one game since the restart, but it turned out to be pretty costly.

Celtic were top seeds before yesterdays draw, but it doesn’t seem to have helped, although it is worth remembering that if those sides were any good, they wouldn’t be in the Europa League either.

Then again, what does that say about us…?

We had an off night ?

I’m hoping so, especially given that the two subsequent games were both away from home and the performances away from Celtic Park in Europe have been much better than those at home of late.

Scotlands other European survivors, “rangers “, also made the cut, and some in the media couldn’t hide their delight….

Celtic’s qualification, their tenth in a row , remember, didn’t quite match the excitement….

Surprising, really , given that Alison Conroy, the new head of Clyde sport, seems to be a bit of a Neil Lennon fan…

Could we be on the brink of a clear out at Clyde ?

Could we see proper, reasoned argument among adults who know how to structure a debate, and who allow discussion on all relevant topics ?

With the competition over at EBT Scotland equally piss poor, there is a market for real debate, real discussion and even a vehicle for fans to bring about change in our game.

I’ve got my own ideas, and will be pitching the station with my format, under the working title, “The huns are deid now fuck off ”

The gimmick would be to get well known hollywood celebrities to record what would become the shows catchphrase and when a caller talks shite, as most of them do, or a pundit goes into denial about what really happened in 2012, on goes the tape and out comes

” the huns are deid now fuck off ”

I think it’s a winner

The Resolution 12 issue is back on the agenda, with a group of shareholders beginning to put pressure on the club to tell the world why they didn’t support the original resolution, and why they would rather see it all go away.

It’s not about defeating the board in a vote, as we know that cant be done, but it is about forcing them to come clean over what will be remembered as an episode in the clubs history that is tainted with lies, and also with the strong hint of collusion over ignoring the breaking of the rules …and law…by a club that paid the ultimate price.

We need to know our hands are clean, and if not, why not ?

If they have nothing to hide, why don’t the board say so, and tell us why they won’t pursue the allegations of corruption at the SFA via an independent body ?

They may own the bricks and mortar of the club, but we are the soul, and as we have seen on the other side of the city, when the bricks and mortar are gone, the soul survives.

A dark rancid soul, but a soul nevertheless.

Which reminds me…I can tell you exactly where i was thirty six years ago today….

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Main stand, grey jacket.

Football, or to be precise, our football club, is the one constant in our lives.

From the cradle to the grave, it remains the same, and those of us who try to take it away from us must be prepared for a battle, a battle that will not end until we say it ends, and that will be when those in charge of the club can once more be trusted with looking after it.

On Thursday, we had this….

Today…