anyone catch

[Ironside]

lol at Celtic fan calling other clubs peripheral you support Celtic for gods sake! Hardly a top European team!

Really?

yes really

to be a top european team you need to win atleast 2 european tropheys

only 1 scottish team has done that

ABERDEEN

[Colchester Kev]

a mental home is an institution.

[bobby1]

Team         
1 Celtic       
2 Rangers

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3 Motherwell

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4 Dundee Utd
5 Hibernian
6 Aberdeen
7 Inverness CT
8 Falkirk
9 Hearts
10 Kilmarnock
11 St Mirren

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12 Gretna

Thats the way the SPL looks just now, now lets just take a sample of how things have gone in the Naughties - see where we are all at.

2000/01 - SPL Winners Celtic, Scottish Cup Winners Celtic, League Cup Winners Celtic
2001/02 - SPL Winners Celtic, Scottish Cup Winners Rangers, League Cup Winners Rangers
2002/03 - SPL Winners Rangers, Scottish Cup Winners Rangers, League Cup Winners Rangers
2003/04 - SPL Winners Celtic, Scottish Cup Winners Celtic, League Cup Winners Livingston
2004/05 - SPL Winners Rangers, Scottish Cup Winners Celtic, League Cup Winners Rangers
2005/06 - SPL Winners Celtic, Scottish Cup Winners Hearts, League Cup Winners Celtic
2006/07 - SPL Winners Celtic, Scottish Cup Winners Celtic, League Cup Winners Hibs

So out of the 21 possible trophies since 2000/01 Celtic have won 11, Rangers have won 7, Hearts, Hibs and Livingston have all won 1 a piece, but strangely none of them have reached the top of the SPL. 
 

Your definitely not mistaken, though both Celtic and Rangers struggled at the weekend.  Celtic have been struggling since we where knocked out the last 16 of the Champions League last year by AC Milan, but hey we're still top of the SPL - infact we will probably still win the league but why let that get in the way of a score draw eh.  I mean when was the last time Aberdeen actually won anything?  Yet all the sheep molesting folk up North got helluva wet in their panties after they managed to get to the last 32 of the UEFA cup.  Stunning achievement. 

I really shouldn't rise to the bait, but nothing irritates me more than fans of peripheral clubs getting smug when they manage an annual upset.



   

wow, this kind of post explains why both Rangers and Celtic fans are incapable of talking about football without resorting to digs and bile, Celtic are a peripheral football club in the football world, do you understand that Aberdeen celebrating a good result against Rangers or Hibs celebrating a good result against Celtic is just as important to them as you celebrating reaching the next Champions league round?

Lets be honest, any club that celebrates reaching round 2 of the Champions League isnt really a Champions league standard club are they, and thats not a dig at Scottish teams, its the same Europe wide.

Yeah Celtic are a peripheral club!  Some of you guys talk some ammount of bollocks about football.  Celtic is an institution not just a football club.  BarringMan United there is no team in the "Biggest League in the World" that has the support Celtic has.

of dear, mate the biggest amount of bollocks talked anywhere on the entire net is by Celtic or Rangers fans that have some deluded belief that they are big football clubs in the grand scheme, you have a league that has 2 competing teams and you seem to have the idea that finiahing 1st or 2nd in that league make you a big team. If fan size meant anything Leeds Utd and Sheff Weds would be 'great' teams too

[GlasgowBandit]

lol at Celtic fan calling other clubs peripheral you support Celtic for gods sake! Hardly a top European team!

Really?

yes really

to be a top european team you need to win atleast 2 european tropheys

only 1 scottish team has done that

ABERDEEN

Yes but never the big one eh?

[Royal Flush]

lol at Celtic fan calling other clubs peripheral you support Celtic for gods sake! Hardly a top European team!

Really?

Yes really, of the last 16 Celtic are probably the 16th best, maybe 15th/14th

[GlasgowBandit]

lol at Celtic fan calling other clubs peripheral you support Celtic for gods sake! Hardly a top European team!

Really?

Yes really, of the last 16 Celtic are probably the 16th best, maybe 15th/14th

I don't dispute that we are probably one of the weaker sides in the last 16 of the UCL, however that doesnt make us a peripheral club the stature of Celtic Football Club is massive their are possibly 4 teams in the World who have a bigger fan base and recognisable brand name that is akin to Celtic. 

Given though that the winner of the gets roughly 1/8 of the prize money the bottom clubs in the EPL get its a miracle that that we are where we are.  its not like we attract the best names to the SPL is it?  But the Celtic brand still grows when you look at the number of jerseys the clubs sells world wide, the number of supporters clubs and organisations we have throughout the world UK, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Canada, America, Austrialia, Japan the club itself is massive.  Our exporsue at times isn't the best given that not all games from SPL are shown in the same number of countries as the SPL.

[Ironside]

more to the point did anyone see the massive results for rangers and celtic this weekend getting points against aberdeen and hibs

[bobby1]

I don't dispute that we are probably one of the weaker sides in the last 16 of the UCL, however that doesnt make us a peripheral club the stature of Celtic Football Club is massive their are possibly 4 teams in the World who have a bigger fan base and recognisable brand name that is akin to Celtic.  


You don't really believe that do you?

What you are saying is that in Italy, England, Spain, Germany and South America there are only 4 clubs that are bigger clubs than celtic?

[Royal Flush]

I don't dispute that we are probably one of the weaker sides in the last 16 of the UCL, however that doesnt make us a peripheral club the stature of Celtic Football Club is massive their are possibly 4 teams in the World who have a bigger fan base and recognisable brand name that is akin to Celtic. 


You don't really believe that do you?

What you are saying is that in Italy, England, Spain, Germany and South America there are only 4 clubs that are bigger clubs than celtic?

You gotta love the Old Firm fans!

Maybe they are in the biggest 4 brands/fanbase in Scotland, not outside i am afraid.

Not to mention they are a very weak team in the football sense compared to the other european clubs

[TightEnd]

I don't dispute that we are probably one of the weaker sides in the last 16 of the UCL, however that doesnt make us a peripheral club the stature of Celtic Football Club is massive their are possibly 4 teams in the World who have a bigger fan base and recognisable brand name that is akin to Celtic. 


You don't really believe that do you?

What you are saying is that in Italy, England, Spain, Germany and South America there are only 4 clubs that are bigger clubs than celtic?

I can only think of 3

Real Madrid
Barcelona
Man U

...........

nothing in Italy, Germany, Brazil, Argentina or any other English team comes close

 


I do find the "peripheral team" comment entirely objectionable I must say, oh I did earlier!

[GlasgowBandit]

I don't dispute that we are probably one of the weaker sides in the last 16 of the UCL, however that doesnt make us a peripheral club the stature of Celtic Football Club is massive their are possibly 4 teams in the World who have a bigger fan base and recognisable brand name that is akin to Celtic. 


You don't really believe that do you?

What you are saying is that in Italy, England, Spain, Germany and South America there are only 4 clubs that are bigger clubs than celtic?

I can only think of 3

Real Madrid
Barcelona
Man U

...........

nothing in Italy, Germany, Brazil, Argentina or any other English team comes close

 


I do find the "peripheral team" comment entirely objectionable I must say, oh I did earlier!

Go on then Give me another English team?

Arsenal? Liverpool? They dont even come close. 

[Royal Flush]

Yeah AC, Inter, Juve all supporter less.....

[TightEnd]

you are kidding me?

Newcastle, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea all there in terms combinations of support, facilities and especially money

Celtic is in a peripheral non-competitive domestic league compared to them

That said, I hope as a British football fan that Celtic do well against Barca

[gatso]

their are possibly 4 teams in the World who have a bigger fan base and recognisable brand name that is akin to Celtic. 

where do you get this from? I've travelled to many, many countries around the world and am struggling to recall any instance of seeing a celtic shirt on anyone other than a Scot.

[Ironside]

facilities and money they are streets ahead of the old firm but not in worldwide support