Celtic v Motherwell 14/03/2026

[MJC]

3 hours ago, livivoice said:

A look at your posts over some time re the uglies clearly shows an attempt to minimise the awfulness of RFC. 

Walk like a duck comes to mind!!

Yesterday's aftermath is a case in point in that you blame Celtic supporters when even the dogs in the street can see the Rangers fans where in attack mode . Celtic fans although they shouldn't have invaded the park were largely celebratory. And of course I don't recall Celtic supporters attacking Rangers players!!!

I suggest you fully brief yourself on RFC as even the most basic analysis shows that it remains a cornerstone of bigotry in the 21st century. For example this is seen by them continuing to play in orange strips when this colour is nowhere to be found in their official colours. RFC clearly knows its support base .

And aside from their ' values' we can't forget their liquidation resulting from their evidenced cheating of  HMRC and indeed other clubs ( including us) from points, trophies and European places. Any other club would have been put out of existence.

Yup, Celtic and many of its supporters are distasteful but they are manifestly not as disagreeable as the blue lot no matter how much you might want to disagree.

Finally, when posting in the future you might want to remember the great journalist Ian Archer's description of RFC and its support " As the permanent embarrassment and the occasional disgrace".

Never a truer word.

Absolute nonsense. At no point have I ever tried to “minimise the awfulness of RFC”. I simply believe they are less awful than Celtic. You obviously see things differently but that’s my view. I don’t like Rangers and I find a lot of their fans to have a weird backward looking mindset but Celtic’s worst is is worse than Rangers worst in my experience.

What happened yesterday would not have happened had Celtic fans not invaded the park at the conclusion of the penalty shootout. And let’s be clear, they did not simply “spill onto the park to celebrate” as is now being spun by them and their cheerleaders. They were goading and taunting the Rangers fans as is clearly shown in the many photos and videos from yesterday. In such a highly charged atmosphere there was always going to be a reaction and indeed you would have seen similar had that happened at an Edinburgh derby, a Dundee derby or even a Lanarkshire derby and don’t try and tell me otherwise.

Attitudes like yours of “Ach it was only big, bad dirty bigoted Rangers, they’re fair game for abuse and goading” is part of the reason why Celtic get away with so much in this country and why they have in the past and will again do similar at Fir Park as they did yesterday. They never get the criticism and condemnation their behaviour merits because people can’t separate being criticial of them with being pro-Rangers.

You don’t have to like Rangers, indeed you can think they are the worst evil scum out there if that’s how you see them. But what happened yesterday was caused by Celtic fans and there is no two ways about it.

[naudywell]

Anyone trying to differentiate between Celtic and Rangers,  really is the very definition of two bald men fighting over a comb/splitting hairs etc, 

[Spit_It_Out]

1 minute ago, stv said:

And whats wrong with a fully grown man wearing a mask at the weekend ,it might be quite liberating.

Aye maybe for around the hoose lol

[MJC]

To get this back on track, I’d love to be wrong but I just don’t see us getting anything on Saturday. We are not clinical enough to punish them and while we dominated them at Fir Park in December, O’Neill has been largely able to instill a winning mentality in them. 
 
And of course we will be without Welsh which will be a big loss.

[naudywell]

Hard to argue with any of that, I’d happily take a draw

[MJC]

13 minutes ago, naudywell said:

Hard to argue with any of that, I’d happily take a draw

I reckon we’ll need to score at least twice to take anything from this one.

[grizzlyg]

Time we moved on but i am actually cutting MJC some slack,   think lot of points are valid.  I despise both teams though as always its the clowns that get the attention,  I have plenty of mates that support old firm and are totally genuine and reasonable. 

We move on to league business 

[weeyin]

I'm in general agreement about the masked thuggery, but I'm OK with this guy:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c0rj2kq978qo

“A masked fan unplugged a video assistant referee (VAR) monitor in a German second division match on Sunday as the referee went to the pitchside screen to check a penalty award“

[bobbybingo]

Oxborough recalled following a training injury to Connelly.

[0Neils40yarder]

On 3/8/2026 at 5:25 PM, texanwellfan said:

Ok somehow I missed the majority of Celtic masked fans but I’d still apportion punishment not based on number of fans on the field but how far they went from their end. 
wither way we’ll have to wait and see if the SFA do SFA or actually take some action. 

Weirdly, I've got to agree with MJC here...if the green fannies don't go on the park (at the home of their most bitterest rivals) then the blue fannies don't reciprocate.

As soon as the penalty was taken I knew fannies of that Club would be on the park

[texanwellfan]

8 minutes ago, 0Neils40yarder said:

Weirdly, I've got to agree with MJC here...if the green fannies don't go on the park (at the home of their most bitterest rivals) then the blue fannies don't reciprocate.

As soon as the penalty was taken I knew fannies of that Club would be on the park

Might be the case. But we each have our own opinion on that. More important is that both clubs get punishment that helps to deter these people from doing this again. I’m not holding my breath on that. I’d make them play the first two OF games of next season behind closed doors.  This mainly punishes the fans but is also a loss of revenue for both clubs. Then moving forward any time it happens the punishment gets increased by 1 game. Maybe overly simplistic but that’s just off the top of my head. SFA and the clubs need to have a think about it and work out how to stop this. That applies to all clubs. 

[steelman1991]

33 minutes ago, texanwellfan said:

I’d make them play the first two OF games of next season behind closed doors.  This mainly punishes the fans but is also a loss of revenue for both clubs.

They'll already have got their money in season ticket sales, so no penalty to either club.