AMIDST CELTIC TITLE PARTY, THE USUAL SLANDER FROM THE DAILY RECORD
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- May 18
- 4 min read
Celtic fans descended on the Trongate yesterday, despite condescending lectures about not doing so from Glasgow City Council and then, sadly, the club themselves.
I’ve spent most of today looking over drone footage of the event, and watching numerous vlogs from people who were there.
Celtic Title Party Largely Peaceful Despite Provocation From Numerous Agitators
Now granted these are Celtic fans filming, so there is an inherent bias in such footage. However, if there was any trouble, I don’t think such amateurs filming a celebration on their phones would have the skill to edit it out completely.
So, despite the fact I wasn’t there, I’m going to go ahead and make the assumption, based on what I have seen, that the vast majority of revelers who took part in yesterday’s Celtic Title Party at The Trongate were peaceful, if a bit boisterous, and in many cases, probably a bit drunk.
Why is it then that the only two stories I can find on the Daily Record website today are both overwhelmingly anti-Celtic and, at best, being very selective in their use of facts?
First of there was the pre-match trouble which everyone knew was going to happen thanks to the Orange Order’s insistence upon, and the total lack of opposition from Glasgow City Council or the police to, hosting an Orange Walk in the very same part of Glasgow on the same day.
A reminder, the Orange Order insisted that the event could not be moved as it was a timed event to marked VE Day.
That’ll be the same VE Day that everyone with a functioning brainstem celebrated on May 8th, the actual anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.
Anyway, the Daily Record chose to run the following headline:
Now, I’ll ask, as I usually do, forgetting what team we all support for a second, when you read that headline, who do you think is the aggressor?
The clear implication is that is was Celtic fans who provoked the trouble.
However, video evidence clearly shows that it was the usual “hangers-on” on the sidelines of the actual orange march, whom, fired up on their usual toxic cocktail of hate, cheap wine and cheeseburgers, decided to start throwing bottles at the Celtic support.
The Record even confirms this within the depths of the very same report.
Buried about halfway down the article is the truth of the matter:
The report states: “A number of cans and bottles were seen flying through the air after being lobbed in the direction of the Celtic fans.”
However, it doesn’t actually name those who threw said bottles, so I will. These are loyalist thugs, whom when presented with the “war cry” of an orange walk and a easy target of nearby Celtic fans, have only violence on their minds.
They are the same thuggish, hate-fuelled louts who disgraced Rangers with the very same antics at Ibrox a couple of weeks ago.
Scotland’s Shame indeed.
Yet the Record again cowers before their fascism. In refusing to call a spade a spade, they instead took the easy way out of a “both sides” angle to the story, with a headline that clearly implies it was “those uppity Fenians” who started it.
We all know that’s a lie and it’s one that needs to be continually called out.
Now let’s move on to the party itself. Now, video drone footage clearly shows thousands, perhaps more than 10,000 Celtic fans in the area. Does the Record talk about them?
No, instead they featured a small group of less than a dozen who scaled a building to erect a flag. I’m amazed The Mercat Cross Building is still standing actually, considering that Glasgow City Council claimed it needed 75,000 pounds worth of repairs after last year.
Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think it casts anything like that to erect a small barrier saying “fragile” around a small building. That was the only noticeable change I saw in the building’s condition compared to last year.
Then there’s the matter of the “Celtic fans brawl” the Record chose to feature in its second piece on the Trongate celebrations.
Remember, this was an event with no prior coordination or cooperation from authorities to get it running smoothly.
This brawl, how many of the thousands of people in attendance partook in this outrageous act of violence and thuggery?
Erm, well, about 3 or 4 according to the Record’s own video footage.
You’ll see far worse at the average rock concert, or dare I say it, the average Orange Walk.
But such truths, such realities don’t fit the Record’s agenda. They went there looking for negative stories about our support, and they knew that if they waited long enough, a tiny minority of drunken halfwits would give them what they wanted.
That’s not journalism, that’s manufactured grievance peddling. Something that, in the absence of any news-gathering skills, the Record has come to excel at.
Now I am not condoning the actions of these idiots, quite the opposite in fact. I just want some semblance of balance and intellectual honesty in the media coverage.
Why is it that when football fans do this its headline news, yet if some random drunks do the very same on a night out tonight nothing will be said, anywhere?
It’s pure classism. That’s all it is.
It’s time these rags were banned from Celtic Park for good.
