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<\/p>\nEfe Ambrose has got himself in a spot of bother. The defender is in court charged with driving ”\u00a0\u201cwithout care and attention or without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road\u201d on the Clydeside Expressway last December.. However, his defence is that he didn’t know the rules of the road.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt happened when I drove in Scotland for the very first time. I was not aware of the traffic rules at that time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe incident has not affected me as a professional footballer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have commenced my driving lessons and have passed the first test. I am in the final stages and will receive my UK licence very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Apart from the very serious matter of someone coming from abroad who is not qualified to drive in Scotland, and may have passed a test in their own country which is not quite as stringent as the Scottish one, ( for example, in Egypt all you have to do is drive forward in a straight line , and then reverse back \u00a0) the thought of Ambrose meandering over the road heading in whichever direction he feels like kind of reminds me of the way he plays football.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere on the site you can listen to the podcast, and one of the subjects discussed is the feeling that Celtic as a club are moving away from the humble supporter, and forgetting their roots. However, yesterday, the team paid a visit to Yorkhill hospital and made an awful lot of kids happy.<\/p>\n
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Captain Scott Brown said;<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great opportunity for us to meet some very deserving children and send our best wishes to the staff who make such a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
Twitter was full of praise for the players last night;<\/p>\n
Alice Grugen thanked Joe Ledley for playing FIFA with Kyle ;<\/p>\n
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The midfielder replied;<\/p>\n
\u201c@weealice<\/a>: @joe16led<\/a> thanks for playing fifa way kyle at yorkhill today pic.twitter.com\/aBjs768KCb<\/a>\u201d my pleasure<\/p>\n If you have a look at the Etims twitter line you can see a lot more, and they will put a smile on your face.<\/p>\n Peter Lawwell said afterwards;<\/p>\n \u201cWe are delighted to have such a close relationship with Yorkhill Hospital, an institution which for so many years has done so much good in the city in looking after children in need.<\/p>\n \u201cLike Yorkhill, Celtic plays and important role in the community and we carry out more work than we ever have in this area.<\/p>\n \u201cThrough our Foundation we aim to help those in need by tackling poverty, promoting equality and working to improve the health of people in the wider community. ( honest, he said that and never even flinched )<\/p>\n \u201cYorkhill Hospital deserves our assistance and we are delighted to continue to offer our support. This Christmas, we again send everyone connected to the hospital, our best wishes\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Perhaps this is the start of Celtic PLC turning back into Celtic FC again. Heres hoping.<\/p>\n Going back in time to another old Celtic tradition, the brake club, theres a chance to get your hands on a little piece of history for yourself.<\/p>\n If the banner looks familiar its because you would have seen it in Bairds Bar in the Gallowgate , where it used to be on view in the bar. Well, you’d have had to wait until the smoking ban came in, but it was there before.Absolutely everyone who sees it for the first time stops and stares at what is probably the biggest and oldest piece of Celtic memorabilia still in existence.<\/p>\n The Record gives a little bit of background info;<\/p>\n ” The St Mary’s League Brake banner dates to 1892 and is said to be one of the rarest pieces of Celtic memorabilia.<\/p>\n It is believed to be the first of its kind and was carried by supporters travelling from St Mary’s Church in the Calton area of Glasgow to games.<\/p>\n In the early days of the club, supporters groups were known as brake clubs due to the large horse-drawn wagons they travelled in.<\/p>\n The wagons could hold 25 people and would travel to matches from areas across Glasgow as well as from Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire, according to historians.<\/p>\n The centre of the banner has a picture of Tom Maley who played for Celtic for three years from the club’s formation in 1888. ”<\/p>\n Horse drawn wagons to games-and we moan when the heating on the bus doesn’t work!<\/p>\n The banner represents another part of the unique history of the club, the following of Celtic over and over.<\/p>\n Its expected to reach \u00a315,000 , and surely someone at the club has noticed its available, and should offer enough to ensure it is given a home in any Celtic museum that may be planned.<\/p>\n Whilst one part of our history should be cherished, another part, which should be erased has reared his ugly and somewhat empty head.<\/p>\n From the Scotsman ;<\/p>\n ( Lets face it. If they could, he wouldn’t be in it. )<\/p>\n “Some of the club\u2019s fans are flying the wrong flags, displaying a lack of understanding of their club\u2019s true traditions, writes Michael Kelly ”\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n To be fair, he probably said that about this one as well.<\/p>\n Anyway, the man who nearly killed our club-or at least played a very big part in driving it towards the graveyard, continued;<\/p>\n <\/p>\n PETER Lawwell\u2019s determination to stop the harm being done to Celtic every week by the Green Brigade deserves the support of anyone who understands the history of the club.<\/p>\n ( Which rules both him and Lawwell out )<\/p>\n That knowledgeable group excludes the Green Brigade who have created a false history in which Celtic, since its inception, is portrayed as an institution committed to and supportive of Irish nationalism \u2013 a tradition which they see as their responsibility to carry on.<\/p>\n That basic dichotomy between the facts and their version of them is clear from the discussion that took place between the club and this particular section of customers last week. Because of the Celtic support\u2019s previous misdemeanours, the club was warned by Uefa that special attention would be paid to the behaviour of the crowd during last week\u2019s match against Milan.<\/p>\n Celtic conveyed this message to the Green Brigade to be given the assurance that all banners would be \u201c100 per cent relevant to Celtic\u201d. The offensive banner was a rather clever juxtaposition of images of William Wallace and Bobby Sands to challenge the SNP\u2019s Offensive Behaviour Act, which has seen Celtic supporters arrested for singing the praises of Irish freedom fighters.<\/p>\n To the Green Brigade, with their distorted view of Celtic\u2019s history, that would appear to be \u201c100 per cent\u201d relevant. Those of us who know what Celtic is really about can vehemently contradict that view.<\/p>\n Apart from what written history exists, I can offer strong anecdotal evidence. My father was the son of James Kelly who was the first player Celtic signed, the captain who later went on to become chairman and a major shareholder. My mother\u2019s uncle was Michael Dunbar who also played in that first team and who was also one of the few who held early shares. Never throughout my childhood and subsequently did I hear anyone in the family express personal support for the IRA \u2013 either for its goals and certainly not for its methods. Never were the politics of Ireland listed as events on which Celtic should take a position. I was told that Celtic was founded as a Scottish club and that the men involved were Scots. As players, they were capped for Scotland.<\/p>\n The antecedents were never forgotten, of which the flying of the Irish tricolour at the Park was a symbol<\/p>\n But what emerged as the philosophy of Celtic, a club in a city that was riven with prejudice, was not a position on Ireland. Rather, based on experiences there and on the discrimination that surrounded the founding fathers and their families, it was a commitment to human and civil rights. Celtic championed the underdog and was faithful to its country. Thus James Kelly lost two sons in the First World War fighting in the Highland Light Infantry and Desmond White, a later chairman, permanently lost the use of his right arm while serving with the RAF in the Second world war<\/p>\n Celtic used its influence to have Russian clubs barred from European competitions after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Basque and Palestinian flags are seen at Celtic Park as opposed to Spanish and Israeli ones. Support for Mandela and the ANC was strong. Billy Graham preached at Celtic Park. This demonstrates that Celtic has a political conscience. To distort that into a stand on Irish nationalism is an unjustified attempt to convert it to a platform it never was. The Green Brigade may wish it otherwise. They are wrong.<\/p>\n They are not the only ones who are endangering the club. While the reaction of the Dutch police does seem to have been excessive, Celtic fans must share the responsibility of the trouble in Amsterdam. Thousands travelled without tickets. For what? A bevy. It\u2019s a recipe for trouble that has brewed again and again. Responsible people do not put themselves in a position to be chased by police. As well as seeking justice, the club should take a hard line.<\/p>\n A harder one still should be taken with the Green Brigade. Apart from the fundamentally false premise on which it justifies its disruptive action, there is the negative effect it has on the football. At the game on Tuesday last we were bombarded by incessant singing and chanting, none of which was related to activity on the field or the score at any particular time. It was simply a background noise which detracted from the atmosphere a supportive crowd can produce. These guys were singing for their own sake, to draw attention to themselves. The singing did not rise to a crescendo when Celtic were attacking, nor did it diminish when a move failed. The fact that the Green Brigade organise huddles during the game which demand the supporters turn their backs on the pitch says it all about how much interest they are showing in the football. I doubt if they spend more than ten minutes actually watching the game. No wonder Neil Lennon has had enough of them. He\u2019s well rid of fans like them. They hold him in high regard for all the wrong reasons. They perceive him to be persecuted for his nationality and religion. They view his occasional petty behaviour as a justified resistance to authority rather than incidents which themselves embarrass the club. They do him no favours encouraging him.<\/p>\n The Celtic board are running the club as well as it could be, given the parlous state of Scottish football. Showing profits in the current climate shows exceptional commercial skill. On the field, Lennon has produced results well above what could have been expected from severely limited budgets. So Lawwell, who is credited with how well things are running, is in a position of strength to remove this alien and unhelpful element from the support. In any action he decides to take he can call upon the genuine Celtic fans, who are mainly looking for success on the field and not a united Ireland, to back him up in the certain knowledge that he is not betraying the club\u2019s history. He is strengthening its traditions which demand that Celtic continue to pursue sporting excellence as a non-partisan, non-sectarian organisation fully aware of its social obligations. ”<\/p>\n Congratulations to Kelly. Its not very often you come across an article is \u00a0completely wrong about everything in it, but he’s managed it. The sound you heard was the collective jaw of the Celtic support dropping to the floor whilst reading the article. History written by the loser ?<\/p>\n Quite why anyone thought his opinion would matter is a mystery in itself, but this rambling old fool has managed to ensure that if the GB had little support before, they will be positively revered after this.<\/p>\n To mention the likes of Desmond White and even allude that White had something to do with the stand on Communist aggression, or refusing to take down the tricolour is offensive in the least, and a massive sign of disrespect to those, such as Stein , Fallon and anyone else who was treated badly by the former chairman shows exactly where Kelly should be in Celtics history.<\/p>\n I’ve reprinted it here as a reminder to those of us old enough to remember, and for those of us too young to truly appreciate how bad this man and his colleagues \u00a0were for the club. They nearly killed us. And still think they have a valid opinion.<\/p>\n Which is simply indicative of the arrogance \u00a0they had at the time when Celtic was hurtling towards oblivion under their stewardship.<\/p>\n I don’t know what business Kelly is in these days, but I wouldn’t buy any shares in it.<\/p>\n Willie Pettigrew was the man in the picture, who almost ended up at Celtic. Jock Stein was interested in him, but the deal never happened .<\/p>\n We did get one or two strikers \u00a0from Motherwell, though. Who is this one, and what will he be remembered for ?<\/p>\n In other news, Nigella Lawson , a great \u00a0cook, fabulously wealthy, very attractive, has admitted taking cocaine. See if she was an alcoholic with a box at Celtic Park, I’d have found my perfect woman.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Efe Ambrose has got himself in a spot of bother. 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<\/p>\nMichael Kelly: Green Brigade can\u2019t rewrite history<\/h1>\n
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