Celtic Banter Archive April 03 2020

03 Apr 2020 22:06:11
With the Sandaza spoof hitting the airwaves today was wondering what is your favourite 3 highlights of the banter years mine's are no 1 Lustig beach ball on head 2/ Andy Haliday serenaded at CP 3/ gazebo for the AGM.

04 Apr 2020 00:38:26
The old trackie tops with previous players initials showing through 🤣 Pedro in the bush in Luxembourg 🤣The baw getting stuck in the hedge at Brechin 🤣 Taking 2 attempts to get out of the 2nd tier🤣The multiple pumpings we gave them🤣 Could go on and on 🤣.

04 Apr 2020 02:01:06
ice baths in wheelie bins 😂😂.

04 Apr 2020 04:26:56
Pedro in a bush.

04 Apr 2020 04:27:44
Charles Greens Xmas video 🌲🎅😂
Marching to Hampden only to find it was shut 🆘 😠 😤😡
Pedro's tenure in charge 🚙🐕🔔🔚.

04 Apr 2020 08:36:36
Charlie greeting to white from his hospital bed. creepy . fat Sally ripping them off with the huge salary. the thug brown making an arse of himself outside the stadium he used to play for 🤣🤣.

04 Apr 2020 13:45:14
Joey Barton.

04 Apr 2020 14:37:20
Oui oui joey. Ee is how do u say in francais? Merde.

03 Apr 2020 16:19:13
In a couple of weeks time it will be 4 years since Celtic last lost a domestic cup game. So the BBC are tonight showing a Celtic defeat to Dundee Utd in the 1981 Scottish cup semi final to remind fans in Scotland what it actually looks like for Celtic to lose a cup game.
Incidentally Celtic have met Dundee Utd 11 different years in the Scottish cup since that defeat in 1981 and Celtic have triumphed every single time. Six of those games have also been at Hampden,3 Semi finals and 3 Finals and Celtic won the lot.
Dundee Utd won their first Scottish cup in 1994 when they defeated Rangers who were going for a double treble but bottled it at the last hurdle.
Including that superb day for Dundee Utd they have beaten both Rangers / Sevco combined 6 times in a row in Scottish cup ties since 1994.Maybe that’s one of the reasons they hate Dundee Utd as much.

03 Apr 2020 17:59:25
Buzz they hate everyone not just Utd, its their hatred that defines them.

03 Apr 2020 18:08:27
@Buzz Bomb it gets better, the dear old "unbiased" BBC have scoured their archives and on Sunday's Sportcene are showing the old club actually WINNING a cup final against us, probably be in black and white.

03 Apr 2020 14:10:34
Does anyone think that with the way this virus is progressing, and that when football clubs will be getting deeper into the financial mire, that transfer fees will be slashed?

We're reading £30m for Eddie as an example. Maybe if this virus wasn't here we would get about that but can't see it happening, unless he signs a new contract with a release clause in it and leaves in the next year or so.

03 Apr 2020 15:14:41
So your saying Sevco won't get £30m for el coo🤔.

03 Apr 2020 16:24:41
They won't get £30m for el coo and the rest of the herd put together.

03 Apr 2020 16:29:16
They will be lucky to get a real fredo for their cheap aldi knock off version.

03 Apr 2020 12:19:11
I don't see why footballers should be exempt from this wages cut if everyone else has too most at bigger clubs in Scotland and especially in England where some players get enough to pay 15 nurses for a year in a weeks wages at the end of the day football is a hobby and a privilege to play in big games with all the fans in stadium never mind crazy wages in a week people don't get working 20 long hard years I think especially English Premiership should take a percentage of the players wages to help NHS and realise how good they have life.

{Ed007's Note - Football isn't a hobby if it's your job, and what about all those TV presenters and actors that are getting millions a year in wages? What about people in government - whose job it is to actually fund the NHS yet they have continually cut budgets and even applauded winning votes in Parliament to halt NHS pay rises etc - like Jacob Rees-Mogg who has a personal wealth of over £150 million?
Peter Lawwell is the highest earning employee at Celtic, why should players on less money than him take a pay cut on a legally binding contract, players will already be out of pocket as it is with no football there's no bonuses and their image rights money will also take a hit.
Why should players take a hit to fund the NHS instead of taking a hit to help the homeless, help starving or abused kids or even the sick/disabled & unemployed?}

03 Apr 2020 12:54:08
Everyone else is taking hit why shouldn't they I include lawell and everyone else at other clubs on big wages do you think cause there on big wages makes them exempt like everyone else in Britain who is off on lower wages.

{Ed007's Note - It's nothing to do with any exemption it's about what is written in legally binding contracts. My questions are why now, why the NHS that the government has destroyed and why should football players bail out the government of their own mess?
By the way, you do know that if you earn over £150k a year in Scotland you pay 46% (45% in England) in income tax alone - aren't they giving enough to the government as it is?}

03 Apr 2020 13:51:20
This is exactly what the tory government want. Distract the public from their failings with look at they big bad footballers and the public fall for it everytime. When are people going to wise up.

{Ed007's Note - And yet the Tories and the morons that voted for them have the brass neck to post videos of them standing at their doors applauding the NHS and other key workers.
If I had my way the hospitals should be asking folk who they voted for and if you voted Tory then you go to the bottom of the queue for ANY treatment, how many of them would be proud to admit they voted Tory then?}

03 Apr 2020 14:02:56
Ive never got my head round the tax thing. So if someone earns £125k they take home more than someone on £150k. Surely u would say to your employer to pay u £149k instead.

{Ed007's Note - In Scotland the higher rate of 41% is paid on taxable income over the Personal Allowance from £30,931 to £150,000. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland the higher rate of 40% is paid on taxable income over from £37,501 to £150,000.
In Scotland the higher rate of 41% is paid on taxable income over the Personal Allowance from £30,931 to £150,000.
The difference in Scottish tax on £150k and £149k works out at about £8k p.a. Steph, they probably don't mind paying that as it lets them brag/moan about being in the top bracket}

03 Apr 2020 15:35:08
Still have a ceiling on natiall inside think this is wrongj.

03 Apr 2020 15:38:15
I'll never need to worry about it, I'll just get on with trying to claim universal credit.

{Ed007's Note - Good luck with everything mate.}

03 Apr 2020 19:01:31
Dunno about bragging about being in the top bracket Ed. Remember that lunatic on Question Time who claimed he was on £80k a year but wasn't even in the top 50% 😂.

{Ed007's Note - 😁

03 Apr 2020 20:37:00
Cheers ed. They certainly don't make it easy. Been paying tax for 20 odd years, its easy to pay that but I've never had to sign on (thank God) so don't know how the system works and its not easy. I'll get there tho.

{Ed007's Note - Och I can tell you how the system works, firstly they'll be all nicey nicey as they divvy up endless forms to fill in - forms that ask questions you'd be embarrassed to answer to your doctor - then when the forms are all done they'll tell you what you're entitled to and just as you're thinking that you'll guddle through and get by they'll flip you over one fell swoop and f**k you straight up the a$$ as they lovingly whisper into your ear what you still have to pay out which is ALWAYS more than they're giving you.}

04 Apr 2020 04:20:42
Take a bow Ed. Some great words there.

04 Apr 2020 04:25:49
Keep paying all the players top whack whilst the club is not bringing in any income, result the club, any club, will go bankrupt, or cancell all the players contracts and let the players take the club's through the legal process, a long lengthy overloaded legal process, or come to some agreement with the players to take a reduction on wages, and this isn't taking a hit for the NHS, it's taking a hit to save our club and every other club in Scottish football, and I voted labour in the last election, but it wasn't because of that Corbyn.

03 Apr 2020 08:29:57
Something a bit different. If you think Eddie is as good as Henrik, why? And if not why not? I think he still isn't as good in the air, doesn't work as hard and still doesn't score enough inside the 6 yard box goals (which might mean starting to post the figures Larsson did) .

03 Apr 2020 09:14:02
Not in the same league. The reasons Feyeonord, Celtic, Barcelona and Man Utd which are also the reasons he’s the greatest ever Celt. It’s all about open onions.

03 Apr 2020 09:24:18
I agree with all your answers to your question. Edouard shows great composure in front of goal which is up there with Henrik. Edouard’s temperament and unselfishness is also up there with Larsson.
I feel more confident that Edouard will score a penalty than I was when Henrik took his penalty kicks and I feel Eddy is also slightly better with free kicks.

03 Apr 2020 11:04:49
I can't say I seen much of Larsson when he was 22. Larsson is my all time favourite player and I doubt Edouard will eclipse that. He's obviously not the player Larsson was and I agree with everything you say Markie but Edouard is at the start of his career and still has massive capacity to improve.

03 Apr 2020 12:34:34
As much as I like eddy, Larsson was different class. I'd also swap eddy for Dembele but like others have said it's great to have him and with him being so young who knows what he could go on to.

03 Apr 2020 16:37:24
Eddy over dembele for me. A better all round player and less injury prone.

03 Apr 2020 17:43:37
When Henrik left us he went on to play with E’to, Ronaldinho, Xavi, Iniesta and a young Messi. I never once thought he looked out of place among them. I’m glad he got to lift the big cup. I will also be glad if or when Eddy leaves that he does the same thing.

02 Apr 2020 23:24:51
I'm not sure what Celtic's position regarding pay cuts, furlongs and such due to the current crisis.

However, let's face it if Celtic first team player's had to take a 50% pay cut or what ever it would not affect their life style in anyway.

For me, although I'm utterly bored out of my nut I'm saving a fortune by being stuck in all day.

Okay, I know footballer's have higher outgoings than us mere mortals but surely for a few months they don't need to buy there wag girlfriend's expensive jewellery and cars. That's right most of these place's are currently closed.

Any cut the first team agree to could be passed through the club from the tea lady to the kit guy.

03 Apr 2020 20:31:00
I don’t know why Celtic fans seem so interested in players taking a cut in wages .
I don’t think it is any of our business what cut players take . We don’t know, nor we have no need to know the wages of our individual players, so knowing whether they took a cut doesn’t mean much . If whole squad is given a cut, those on smaller wages may suffer most . WAGs may resent it and could start trouble in camp.