Which, of course, these days involves pizza, vodka and a lapdancer.
With the inevitable walking away of Second Rangers director Chris Graham after his artwork failed to impress any right thinking person, the Sun tried to balance the publicity by bringing forward their sunday headline about the Celtic captains night out.
Big news in Scotland. It even made the English version;
The big difference was the shock horror angle of the Scots paper, whilst the English story was more of a tut tut and a smile. Theres a whole thesis to be written on editorial agendas right there.
Hang on, isn’t Brown a teetotaller ? The thing is, alcohol can affect non users in many different ways.
It appears to make one’s hair grow at an astonishing rate;
The Sun picture was apparently taken in February, which in fairness gives Brown plenty of time to recover for Sundays game. But lets not allow the facts to impinge on a good story. Especially one that the MSM can get their teeth into.
The BBC even had a reporter outside Celtic Park with a copy of the paper asking fans what they thought;
What was in the story ? Does anyone actually care ?
Scott Brown used the word “banter ” ?
Lap dancers, vodka, pizza, falling asleep on the pavement, maybe. Using the word “banter ” in conversation ?
CELTIC star Scott Brown blows Hoops gaffer Ronny Deila’s healthy eating regime — as he sits slumped on the pavement scoffing greasy pizza and chips after a strip club bender.
The Hoops skipper got the munchies at the end of a night on the tiles that saw him guzzling vodkas and stumbling around lapdancing bars in Edinburgh with his pals.
Deila has banned fries and fizzy pop from Celtic’s training ground to get his squad in top shape to tackle Europe’s elite.
So, presumably , Browns antics will get him into bother. John Hartson, who sold his soul to the sun in a far worse crime, commented:
last night former Parkhead striker John Hartson, 39, claimed Deila — who has introduced tough fitness rules and banned junk food and fizzy pop — will have been “raging” at the antics of the sozzled midfield ace on Wednesday night.
The SunSport columnist also reckons Scotland boss Gordon Strachan won’t have been impressed by our snaps of the star slumped on a pavement scoffing takeaway pizza and chips.
Hartson said: “I’m not condoning what Scott did. He has a responsibility as captain of Celtic and Scotland to portray a better image than those pictures showed.
“Ronny Deila will have been raging first thing yesterday — Gordon Strachan won’t be too chuffed.”
Brown is due to lead the Celts out at Hampden in the showpiece against Dundee United. And he’s expected to feature in Strachan’s squad on Monday for upcoming matches against Northern Ireland and Gibraltar.
John Hartson ? Commenting on diet ? Roy Keane, in the second part of his biography,says he saw the chunky Welshman eating crisps and guzzling fizzy drinks on the team bus, and said to himself ” Welcome to hell ”
Is the story true ? I couldn’t give a toss. As long as Brown performs on the pitch, like every man and woman who earns a crust, he’s entitled to let off steam any way he wants. And if you consider this extract;
But just three minutes later he stumbled back into the bar and was helped out the door by a bouncer — who told him to “get some food and sober up”.
An angry dancer emerged seconds later and complained to Brown’s pal: “He fell asleep during the dance. I don’t care if I got my £20 off him.”
then you know its a work of fiction. No lap dancer on this earth wouldn’t care if she got paid. So either the picture of Brown slumped in the street is after the bouncers gave him a kicking, or its an old snap dug up to make a point.
I wonder which it could be.
One pleasing aspect of the whole affair is Celtics decision not to talk about it, as the BBC explained;
Celtic are making no comment over a newspaper report that appears to show captain Scott Brown apparently drunk in Edinburgh days before a cup final
Good. Maybe the PR man is finally getting to grips with his job. If not his emails. Still no reply, by the way.
So, when theres a bad story about Celtic in the papers, its either because theres a big game coming up, or the other lot across the river have spectacularly fecked up.
Oh, they have.
Chris Graham has become the latest person to walk away from the club where people don’t walk away, turning the line of people who exited the place recently technically into a conga.
He apologised for being a homophobic bigot, from his safehouse somewhere in Alaska.
If theres anyone left on it, that is. We hear that Mark Dingwall, another fan who dreams of a seat on the board, fancies his chances of getting a call…
but to be honest, theres a lot of competition;
Anyway, in the spirit of Graham, we tried to find a picture of the man being taken forcibly from behind by Ibrox mascot Broxi Bear, which would illustrate how he’s been treated by the club, but we couldn’t.
And its a horrific image anyway.
Graham may feel a little bewildered at being asked to leave a club with a history of bigotry and intolerance for being bigoted and intolerant, but perhaps theres a wind of change blowing through the old stadium.
And perhaps there isn’t.
Charlie Saiz, a regular contributor to the site, offered his services as a demolition expert, but is yet to get a call. Events seem to have dictated that he might be waiting a while.
Rangers fan who offered to raise army of free
workers to spruce up Ibrox embroiled in racism row
Where do they find these people ?
One post on Glaswegian Woods’ Facebook, from October last year, warned: “Civil War is coming. Everyone I know has had enough of Muslims and ethnic cleansing is fast becoming the only solution.”
The Record continued…
On January 12 this year, a post read: “The whole Islamic ideology is based around repression of women, rape, paedophilia, and sex slaves. Islam MUST be outlawed and those involved in crimes against women exterminated.”
Last October another post read: “Jail the paedophile Muzzie scum who treat females like bits of meat.”
Another post directed to terror group ISIL read: “Welcome to Facebook, supporters of ISIL and worldwide terrorism. Get your money out and give it to your Local Mullah. Or better still buy a gun and start exterminating sand monkeys. “
The ranting posts contrasted starkly with the caring, sharing Woods who offered to renovate Ibrox for free.
Personally spearheading the recruitment drive, he said: “I’m looking to collate a list of volunteers willing to give up a few hours or days to help with essential work at Ibrox and Murray Park.
After the posts began to be Tweeted, Woods deleted his Facebook profile and claimed on Twitter that someone had used photoshop to falsify posts on his timeline.
He later came back online with a fresh Facebook profile, with no blemish of anti-Muslim comments.
The Record contacted Woods via Twitter to ask for contact us for clarification, he Tweeted: “Yes and I am an astronaut with NASA.”
He later phoned the Record to deny that the offensive Facebook postings were his own.
Woods, who claims to answer phones for a Rangers fans’ group, said they were made on a previous Facebook account he had used, which was subsequently hacked by an unknown person.
He said: “I have Muslim friends and workmates. I don’t know who hacked my account.”
Police Scotland said they were unaware of any official complaints about Woods.
Rangers haven’t commented.
No, they haven’t. Theres a white chap from South Africa in charge over there. I wonder what his views on racism are.
The bit in bolds good. You almost never hear of a racist saying he has friends and workmates from a different background.
So, the huns are being huns, and a young man is behaving like a young man.
Thank the lord for the gift of the free press. At least they missed this story, or they would have no doubt claimed that it happened last week as well.
Celts trade slaves and gold for Etruscan-Greek ceramics and amber Digital Journal 17:42 Fri, 13 Mar 2015
The big game is tomorrow, so we’ll preview it properly in the morn, Meanwhile lets just hope that none of the players passes an off licence on their way home from training.
A lot of people over the years have given a lot to Celtic. Some have more or less worked in some capacity for thirty, forty, even fifty years or more.
Happy Birthday-I know it was yesterday-to one who stands amongst them;
You feel he doesn’t get the recognition he deserves for his commitment sometimes, but thats because he doesn’t look for it.
Many have been called legends. Very few have actually deserved the label. John Clark is one of them.
Donetsk was the place in the picture yesterday, today we ask who and where ?
This picture was posted on the Kerrydale Street forum, in the old Celtic images thread by “Glasgow road” . Theres over 1700 pages of pictures on that thread, and if you want to lose yourself for an hour or two, theres no better place.
Except maybe a lap dancing club with a pizza parlour next door.
The press,sfa,referees all have an agenda against our club the sooner we move on to a different league the better,maybe then we will get a fair go.
Still no reply Ralph… 😉
The press are so brazen about their loyalties now nothing really shocks me or causes me to stress out about it any more.
I think most of that is down to the fact in day’s gone by you had no way of responding to it?
Thankfully nowadays we things like Twitter and Facebook where we can have our say.. (which I do with great regularity).
If you read something and think hey ho this is shite.
Tell them so and throw in a few facts to to back up your claims.
Just like Celtic Research did.
What they say or do has absolutely nothing to do with the running of our Club.
Fuck them all.
Looking forward to Sunday hopefully the BHoys put in a performance
worthy of a Cup Final and finally silence the doubters reference our side.
If we keep it calm and play our Football to the standards previously set then I see a convincing win on the cards.
United are good on their game Celtic are excellent on ours and without Ciftci ,Armstrong and Mackay-Steven they are weaker as a side.
3-0 Celtic
Yer right Charlie, twitter especially has been brilliant at exposing these so called journalists for what they are, mainly Huns with keyboards. Amazes me they get paid for the shite they write, the bloggers do a much better job
HH
Speaking of shite, any surprise that Clarkson had to insult the Irishman he punched first? It’s called racial abuse and assault. Seems the BBC assaults when it suits them or else doesn’t punish the criminal(Saville)Since assault is a crime and crime often results in custodial sentences perhaps Jeremy Cuntson would like to prove his manhood at HM’s pleasure? He might want to try out some of his racial and ethnic insults on a less adoring audience. Prime Minister Cameron, so keen to assault the working class or disabled on benefits, sees no harm in assaulting co-workers in the workplace!
Perhaps a petition should circulate saying that talentless wealthy people who call people slopes and spics don’t get to punch people without punishment, whilst slurring their victim’s nationality. That petition might gather millions of signatures.
The Herald is the only newspaper worth reading in Scotland
Meanwhile, we will win tomorrow because we are better at football. We will win 3-1 and Commons, Johansen and Griffiths will score.
Natural justice— the best kind. I expect the refereeing to be impartial and top quality!
Clarkson in my opinion is a great hairy A…e! and should have been sacked ages ago if it was not for the Tory mafia surrounding him at the BBC and Westminster. Get back to basics with Top Gear make it about Cars and not Presenters.
Is the photo of our Captain out dated or even real?. Don,t think so. Lawell, where are our lawyers?. Hh
Why spend shareholders money on lawyers?
Simply make it plain that they are not welcome at Celtic Park.
Is the picture Lou Macari Davie Hay and Pat McCluskey on a tour to Rothesay one particularly hot summer in the late 60’s?
Spot on Gerry that’s the “Gay Queen” in the foreground just rounding the Tea Room at Craigmore.
Could it be Lou Macari David Hay and Paul Wilson in the Bahamas.
Hope Matthews, Bitton and Commons are all fit to play in Cup Final Sunday. Maybe Wakaso will get a few minutes? Looking forward to game. HH.
Regardless of media agendas, scott brown is the stand out massive weak link in our team and has been since he arrived.He is in the robbie savage class of player, ingratiate yourself to the fans by running around and kicking people to make up for lack of anything else. Such players are seen as selfless and setting an example but it’s the complete opposite. He is embarrassing to watch and sets a terrible example. The game against dundee utd going for the treble and he goes in for what could have been a red card tackle 8 mins in for no reason is just one of a multitude of examples of how idiotic he is. Apart from that he is just shit as a player, can’t pass, no brain, doesn’t score, yet he’s our captain. He is awful and gets 10/10 every week by many. He’s a clueless, selfish player who puts his own need to kick people before the needs of the team. Can’t wait until he’s gone and I’m sure under Ronny eventually he will be but probably too disruptive to do so in Ronnys first season.
Finbogasson might be looking for a team to rescue his career not doing so well hardly gets a game and has only scored 3-4 times for Real Sociedad. Value dropping now sitting at £4.25m .I am sure we could pick him up for £2m . What about an approach pre CL Qualifiers. There is a real striker in there.
Is the picture taken from Broonies phone when he nipped into the wrong strip club?