He's clearly just wishing the Hearts player well for such a Stirling effort today and good luck for the future.
Scottish Football 2025-26 | boooooo
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My personal view, my opinion, is that this is the most corrupt league in Europe. Glasgow must win.
Again, my personal opinion. Don't give a toss about any responses.
Again, my personal opinion. Don't give a toss about any responses.
Let’s be fair, if you have hundreds of Celtic fans running towards you shouting, waving arms and hands in your face, after losing the title in the last 10mins of the season, I’m surprised he didn’t knock one out.
Seems the usual nonsense in the off the pitch celebrations as well.
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Decisive action being taken to disperse those gathered in Trongate, Glasgow
We are responding to disorder in the Trongate area of Glasgow.
Officers went into the crowd to assist with a medical emergency and were faced with significant levels of hostility, with bottles and other missiles thrown at them.
Decisive action is now being taken to disperse those gathered.
For safety reasons, all members of the public are being asked to leave the area.
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Decisive action being taken to disperse those gathered in Trongate, Glasgow
We are responding to disorder in the Trongate area of Glasgow.
Officers went into the crowd to assist with a medical emergency and were faced with significant levels of hostility, with bottles and other missiles thrown at them.
Decisive action is now being taken to disperse those gathered.
For safety reasons, all members of the public are being asked to leave the area.
Ach, this happens every year. Celtic or Rangers fans use football as an excuse to be cnuts and smash stuff up, fight one another, base their entire identity around whatever colour their wallpaper, carpets, towels and pants are - which coincidentally are either all green or blue.
Well done to Celtic. I look forward to them completely embarrassing Scottish football in Europe like always and no lessons being learned this season so everyone can go on meandering around in mediocrity.
Hearts played at their normal level today, like every club usually has to do against the Top 2 in Scotland.
Would they?
But why would he masturbate in public like that?
In fairness, this season and in recent years, Celtic have had vastly reduced numbers. Higher as a percentage of Tynecastle, but it's a much smaller stadium.
Corruption may be a bit far but the league structure basically lives for fixtures agaisnt the two Glasgow giants. I have a friend who's involved with Annan Athletic and he says as much even down to League two. In some aspects it feels more like it's run as a business rather than anything genuinely competitive.
As a Hibs fan, I’m absolutely delighted from a city rivalry respective that Hearts threw it away with less than 10 mins to go just like what they did in 1986 but taking my Hibs tinted spectacles off, Hearts should have won this league title before today’s game.
Motherwell games during the split were the turning points for both clubs. Hearts denied a stonewall penalty and Celtic being awarded one in the last minute that no non OF side would ever get.
Same time, it’s the same shit every season. Could say we have the worst match officials than any other country on the planet but that’s something everyone would say about theirs. There’s a reason why we have for 10 years and counting now, no match officials being selected for major tournaments. 170 officials were selected for this summers expanded World Cup and not one single Scottish official made the list as either a referee or VAR official. Unsurprising but the SFA are blind to it and seem to think there is some form of agenda going on when the actual truth of the matter is the inconsistency of these match officials year in, year out.
Motherwell games during the split were the turning points for both clubs. Hearts denied a stonewall penalty and Celtic being awarded one in the last minute that no non OF side would ever get.
Same time, it’s the same shit every season. Could say we have the worst match officials than any other country on the planet but that’s something everyone would say about theirs. There’s a reason why we have for 10 years and counting now, no match officials being selected for major tournaments. 170 officials were selected for this summers expanded World Cup and not one single Scottish official made the list as either a referee or VAR official. Unsurprising but the SFA are blind to it and seem to think there is some form of agenda going on when the actual truth of the matter is the inconsistency of these match officials year in, year out.
SPL is a rigged corrupt league.
I see the conspiracy theorists insisting all the refs are corrupt and do everything they can to ensure Celtic win everything, are just conveniently ignoring the fact the ref disallowed a perfectly good, legitimate goal by Celtic before VAR intervened. Strange that someone going all out to make sure Celtic won would do that
Kinda like the Chelsea fans who bleat on and on about the Champs League semi against Barca all seem to have completely forgotten Abidal being sent off for Anelka tripping over his own feet.
Kinda like the Chelsea fans who bleat on and on about the Champs League semi against Barca all seem to have completely forgotten Abidal being sent off for Anelka tripping over his own feet.
A challenge.
Delighted we won the league. Disgraceful fans entered pitch. More disgraceful if Hearts players were attacked.
Hearts are here to stay. It could easily become a 3 horse race with regularity, going forward. Celtic need to improve significantly next season.
Hearts are here to stay. It could easily become a 3 horse race with regularity, going forward. Celtic need to improve significantly next season.
In your opinion.
I’m not a Celtic fan but fair play to them. Hearts seem like a great side; I do feel for them- was a crazy and hectic contest. Poor ref! Also the pitch invasion and stories of players and Hearts officials attacked are a bad reflection.
I mean it’s worth actually opening it and looking at the image that follows that one, seems as though no one did that haha. The Celtic lads will probably tell us he was just tickling Shankland for a bit of banter though.
Why didn’t you just send that image? I don’t have X
There’s a video showing a fan running towards shankland to film him, phone in hand, and shankland very aggressively shoves him away and comes close to catching him with his elbow. Looks like he just defending himself though, can’t blame him, actually fair play to him for being that brave
If it’s the same incident with the guy and his kid, just seen a video of the full exchange, the guy does the “wanker” sign in shanklands face and shankland grabs his arm and pushes him. At no point did the Celtic fan touch shanklands face
I'm confused with how the Scottish football league system work. Didn't Heart finish top of the league? Why is there some kind of playoff. Sounds like the Norwegian league system.
- They play 38 matches.
- After match day 33 the league gets split into top and bottom 6.
- Top and bottom 6 then play the final 5 games against each other to determine champions and relegation.
I fail to see why yesterday's game shouldn't be replayed behind closed doors, or Celtic docked 3 points. The club and their toxic fans need to be taught a lesson. What we saw was an utter disgrace that dragged the game into disrepute. Player safety must always come first, and it’s up to the home side to guarantee it. Additionally, you can't just have fans deciding when football matches should end. Allowing this to slide sets a terrible precedent—the authorities must act, whether that means a replay in an empty stadium or a strict points deduction.
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The best referee Scottish football ever had in modern football history was Hugh Dallas. An absolutely fantastic referee and the Scottish game desperately needs someone of his quality (in truth, British football needs someone of his quality)
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Their turnover is £24m vs your turnover of £150m. ‘Here to stay’ probably means coming a distant second or third with a ‘title race’ fizzling out by March let’s be honest, without the Nancy debacle you’d have still won the league at a canter this year and very rarely have I seen you play well this season (in-laws are Celtic supporters so I’ve watched a lot of games). I hope you’re right though as nobody wants to see the same team winning the league every year, irrespective of league/club.
They didn’t seeing as it was a penalty.
Judging by a Hearts supporters reply further back they are not, they’re losing half their starting 11. I personally believe it was a once off. Celtic had a manager for a month that wouldn’t look out of place in my local football club and still won the league.
You’re having a total eclipse of the heart there pal
The (Scottish) FA is corrupt
So weird. Grown men.
Those images of the Hearts players arriving back at Tynecastle in tears are tough to see.
Why, were you crying as well?
What a time to be alive.
Corrupt FA & SFA handing the titles to arse and Celtic.
Meanwhile, the 2x corruption clubs in the FA Cup Final.
Sad demise of the cup
On the credit side: Reds on the way up, Pep leaving Ciddy? Aand Liverpool…
Corrupt FA & SFA handing the titles to arse and Celtic.
Meanwhile, the 2x corruption clubs in the FA Cup Final.
Sad demise of the cup
On the credit side: Reds on the way up, Pep leaving Ciddy? Aand Liverpool…
Crazy system. It’s stacked in favour of the Glasgow 2. Imagine if by random, hearts had to play the bottom club instead of Celtic?
The man himself would have been more than happy to lose that mantle and yet it appears to matter to you, which I find a little odd. Sir Alex is the last United manager to win the Premier League and I'm sure you'd love that to change.
I find your response quite odd. It just highlights what an imperious achievement it was by Sir Alex to break the Old Firm back then when no one has done it since. I don't follow Scottish football so it doesn't matter a whole lot to me, but I find it neat that no one else has managed to do what he did.
I dont get you. When the league is split into 2, the top 6 is called the Championship Group, the bottom 6 the Relegation group, and the remaining 5 games you play are against team within your group.
The main contention with the split is the Home & Away games. Before the split, you play 33 games as has been mentioned, so you play each team in the main league 3 times, which means there will be an uneven number of home / away games.
For the 4th game after the split, they try and even this up or, before the split, Rangers have played Celtic twice at home and once away, they will play the away after the split.
However, there are some cases that can't happen, like this season Rangers have played Falkirk 3 times away this season and once at home. This leads to a case quite often where some teams play 20 home games and 18 away games across the season (Falkirk), and some teams vice versa (Livingston).
I can’t obviously see why the format of the league per se makes it stacked in favour of the Old Firm. Each of the top 6 teams has to play the other 5 in the top 6 so there’s no real advantage.
There is scope for issues in terms of who plays who home and away (although generally that isn’t a big problem) but I don’t think anyone has suggested that the way the fixtures were set was in any way biased against Hearts.
Obviously highly unlikely it makes any difference, but the rules are clear that game abandonments due to pitch invasions should be sanctioned. Standard practice is replay or forfeiture. Particularly when the same thing happened on Wednesday night. And especially when it's the club's third major pitch invasion in a matter of weeks. Clearly the club's weak comments indulging the invasion after the first incident at Ibrox have helped to create an invincible attitude amongst the invading fans. The lack of official response to Wednesday's invasion, probably swept aside by the furore over the penalty award, has further enabled a zero-consequences attitude.
It's unlikely in both games that Motherwell and Hearts find an equaliser. But twice there's been a minute or so to play and it's the Celtic fans who've decided to end the game and then the referee having to react and take a safety-based decision to blow his whistle before time is up. Yesterday there was no safe way the game could be restarted so it must go down as an abandonment despite the attempt to cover tracks that took place last night.
It's a basic principle that pitch invasions during the game that force the game to finish are punished with a severe sanction. There was literally the same example last week in the 97th minute in Czech football that saw the game abandoned, the club fined, awarded a 3-0 defeat, and are to play 4 games behind closed doors. The Scottish FA's judicial panel protocol sets out that the punishment is a fine up to £1m and the game must be replayed due to pitch invasions forcing the abandonment.
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