31 Jul 2017 18:01:01
Without getting all political a wee topical comment. 100 years ago today 325,000 brave Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish men including many from what is now the Republic died in the hell that was the Battle of Passchendaele fighting against fascism. In Sunderland, 100 years later, England have a facist of their very own in Tommy Robinson. Tragic. If Passchendaele was why poppies were sold I'd wear one every day. But out of respect for the people of Derry and in protest against Tony Blairs war crimes I will continue to decline to participate. We either keep ALL politics out of football or we dont. As long as absailing paratroopers are acceptable at Ibrox there will always be a case for the Green Brigades banners at Parkhead. We all know what the help our heroes mullarkey is really all about.

1.) 31 Jul 2017
31 Jul 2017 18:27:39
Think you will have to read your history book again, they weren't fighting against fascism 100 years.

2.) 31 Jul 2017
31 Jul 2017 18:29:49
In fact pascendale was about as far away from fighting fascism as you could get.

3.) 31 Jul 2017
31 Jul 2017 18:41:55
Thoughts on keeping all politics out of football Aindoh. Are paratroopers at Ibrox acceptable or not?

4.) 31 Jul 2017
31 Jul 2017 19:03:18
No, I don't think they are a good idea, as for fighting fascism, I think you might have meant to talk about the second world war, I remember reading somewhere, years ago, that the place that had the highest proportion of men per size of population volunteering to join the British army to fight the Nazis was the free state, an even higher proportion than the north, I don't wear a poppy myself but have no problem with the people that choose to wear them,

5.) 31 Jul 2017
31 Jul 2017 19:26:28
The Great War and 2nd world war were very much intertwined. The Fascist Revolutionary Party was founded in 1915 and was a forerunner of Mussolinis later National Fascist Party. You're absolutely spot on there were more volunteers from the free state than from the north. Another myth quashed. I don't have a problem either when many people who choose to wear a poppy for the right reasons. The point I'm making is that it's become a legitimate cause for many (from Govan) who choose to wear the biggest one they can find and display them on their car bumpers for all the WRONG reasons! Either ALL politics is banned Aindoh or we're all allowed our own opinion. The Green Brigade included. ☘️.

6.) 31 Jul 2017
31 Jul 2017 20:15:30
Sure the British army were abseiling down the north stand this year. I don't agree with it, but we are a club open for all. If they want support club grand. Celtic park should not be a place for politics on all sides.

7.) 31 Jul 2017
31 Jul 2017 20:52:06
JFP1888 what I would say is that a poppy only represents the dead British soldiers in NI and Iraq if you want it to. The meaning of a poppy is entirely up to the owner. You decide why you want to (or don't want to) wear a poppy, it could be for all the fallen or one single person in particular. That's my interpretation anyway.

8.) 31 Jul 2017
31 Jul 2017 22:36:38
Instead of remembering events before any of us were born, I think we should take time to reflect on the British Army and loyalists murdered members of the Miami show and as they returned home from playing to a mixed crowd of dancers in Banbridge.
This is just one example of the hundreds of outrages that loyalists and British Army carried out.

9.) 01 Aug 2017
31 Jul 2017 23:14:38
Not one of these poor dead souls were ever fighting against fascism, they fought to gain baubles for families which still exist today and the advancement of zionism. May they rest in peace.

10.) 01 Aug 2017
01 Aug 2017 07:08:00
I remember being in school one morning, when someone came in going on about the three young Scots soldiers that had been lured from a disco in Belfast, and shot by the IRA, two young teenage brothers and a twenty something, I always thought that that was bound to make the ordinary squaddie more trigger nervous, although maybe that was the intention, that was in 1971,a year before bloody Sunday, and a few years before the Miami atrocity,

11.) 03 Aug 2017
03 Aug 2017 09:40:39
WW1 soldiers were promised the war would end all wars. Clearly a lie.

Ww1 and 2 soldiers fought to preserve freedom or so they though

Since then their countries have been just as colonial as before ww1

The poppy has been used in modern day as a propaganda tool to promote patriotic views on military aggression.

This in itself is an insult to what they soldiers thought they were fighting for.