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<\/p>\nScott Bain must be cursing his luck.<\/p>\n
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He finally gets a chance to stake his claim for the number one jersey and next up for Celtic are Paris St Germain, a side who give their reserve players to Celtic to develop them.<\/p>\n
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You’ll not need reminding that a recent European clash between the two ended in a 12-1 aggregate score for the French side, which can be blamed on a number of factors, but effectively the reason is that they are a far better side than the hoops, and showed no mercy on those occasions.<\/p>\n
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Bain wasn’t in goal for those ties, and so anything less than five is a triumph.<\/p>\n
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In their last outing, PSG won 9-0 at Le Havre, and have rattled in…oh, it’s probably best we don’t talk about that.<\/p>\n
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Not exactly the type of friendly you’d pick to build up confidence ahead of a new season, so one wonders if there is another motive.<\/p>\n
Another way of putting it is which of their goalkeepers are we after ?<\/p>\n
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Could we be seeing Innocent on the back of a Celtic shirt ?<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile. on the other side of the city, players and ex players have been waking up and realising just what it means to play for “rangers “….<\/p>\n
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Demotivation is the key word here, and there can be little more demotivating than finding out that your supporters don;t like you because of the colour of your skin….<\/p>\n
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Conor Goldson, the Ibrox defender-I checked, he does play for them, for those of you who wouldn’t recognise the name, tweeted a picture of himself taking the knee in support of the Black Lives Matter campaign, invoking fury from the less than tolerant supremists in the Ibrox support.<\/p>\n
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Then he had another go… after the replies shocked him….<\/p>\n
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The problem is, although one would hope it’s a minority, they are dealing with a section of society that has been allowed to get away with racism for decades, athough latterly it was rebranded as “sectarianism ” to avoid facing the issue, and now it’s come back to haunt them.<\/p>\n
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The hordes have tried to play the “All Lives Matter ” card, in an attempt to play down their reaction, which is kind of like punching a man collecting money for the digs home because all animals matter.<\/p>\n
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Of course all lives matter, that sort of goes without saying, and you have to worry about the mentality of thise who feel the need to make a point of it.<\/p>\n
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The issue is that over in the USA, and to an extent in Britain, the colour of your skin could be something that gets you killed, for something as menial as walking on the cracks in the pavement.<\/p>\n
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To a lesser degree, a much lesser degree, Celtic supporters of a catholic background have seen racism in Scotland, from the “What school did you go ? ” to question on job applications, right through to the pointlessness of even applying to certain firms and instituions.<\/p>\n
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Jame MacLean, the much abused Stoke City player, has recently commented on how maybe we still have a long way to go when it comes to equality…. but also into the eradication of certain types of racism that have perhaps become acceptable… when he recently spoke to Jim White at Talksport.<\/p>\n
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“I\u2019m seeing all this support for McGoldrick, Zaha, and Sterling and that and rightly so,”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n “I don\u2019t want to take away from the attention and the support they\u2019re getting because it\u2019s bang on, it\u2019s absolutely correct and so they should.<\/em><\/p>\n “The point I was trying to make was: it leaves a sour taste in my mouth because I\u2019m seeing all this support and I\u2019m thinking, I\u2019ve been abused for the last nine years, where\u2019s my support been? Where\u2019s my level of attention?<\/em><\/p>\n “And when I say attention, I\u2019m not looking for attention, in my mind discrimination is discrimination, but it almost seems that one holds a higher precedence over another, and that\u2019s what irritates me.<\/em><\/p>\n “I\u2019m not asking for sympathy or looking for attention, I\u2019m just asking for equality, that\u2019s it really.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yeah, I know, Jim White…who leapt to his defence and said that he could never support a club that traded on anti Irish racism…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The wider context is simple.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Black players..and others…will not want to play at Ibrox, and they will think twice about facing abuse if they visit their as opponents.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n That impacts the club financially as sponsors and advertisers will withdraw their support, and might even explain some , if not all, of their current finanical plight.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When thats expanded to Scottish football as a whole, we may even see the explanation for the lack of interest in investment of any kind from anyone except bookmaking firms.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The media have tolerated this nonsense for years, claiming it’s banter, and yet for thise on the end of it it’s anything but that.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Will it take the exit of Steven Gerrard to make the authorities finally act ?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Or sadly, are we to see our not only our game tainted not only by the abhorrent and ingrained racism across the city, and I mean that because racism is racism, the colour doesn’t matter, but the image worldwide of what should be a bold new country sweeping away the chains of colonialism to take its rightful place on the world stage ?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n a section of the Ibrox support, perhaps even the silent majority , are demanding the club responds, but they have been strangely-or not so strangely-reluctant to do so.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This could be the beginning of the end for what they call their culture and traditions, and not a moment too fucking soon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scott Bain must be cursing his luck. He finally gets a chance to stake his claim for the number one jersey and next up…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/etims.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1734681337-thght1515_equality.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2J7If-481","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15875,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15873\/revisions\/15875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}