17 Jan 2026 15:40:18
Ed,
I’m seeing more and more posts on this football site focusing or referring to religion or political persuasion.
Surely it doesn’t matter who votes for what party or what religion you are?
Also on about working class, as if it’s only working class that can support Celtic. I’m not even sure working class is a title now. It went back 50- 150 years ago. When we had working class, middle class and ruling class or aristocracy.
Not wanting to go down a rabbit hole but have Celtic ever had a working class board? No they were all business men even virtually all our founding fathers.
And if we get rid of any on this board it will be similar types that take there place. : that’s the way business works… and always has done.
Joe,
BW is not a soup taker. No need to mention his religion but he was not a soup taker. A reference from 19th and early 20th century referencing people who changed religion in Scotland and other parts of uk.
Let’s stick to football and how we sort the mess we are in.
I don’t care if the people that turn our club around are unionist and not “working class” as they may very well be in that label…. But bring them on.
{Ed007's Note - I never seen anyone's religion getting mentioned but I think we are quite right to question the morals of the people running the Club 100% - would you be happy for Celtic to be used in sportswashing for some Saudi regime?
And I think you'll find there is plenty of businessmen out there who have stuck to their working class roots and ideals.}
17 Jan 2026 16:33:44
Ed,
Thanks.
Just the “soup taker” earlier today.
You do keep a good site.
I was offered a good job is Saudi … tax free . Didn’t take it. So Not a friend of the Saudis.
{Ed007's Note - ??
17 Jan 2026 17:43:18
Anyone who mentions Celtic and unionism in the same statement is worth the watching, and why shouldn't we mention that our club and support are predominantly from an Irish Catholic persuasion, we were formed to help Irish Catholic immigrants in 3 parishes of the east end of Glasgow, so of course being from Irish origin and Catholic will always be synonymous with our club.
17 Jan 2026 19:23:37
Too many Tory capatalists on our board.
17 Jan 2026 19:31:14
What a foolish statement…
You clearly don’t know or probly don’t know your history.
I am catholic and was born raised in one of the parishes you refer to… St Mary’s.
You are wholly uniformed individual.
I will leave it there…. for your sake.
17 Jan 2026 19:45:22
Let me clarify my point.
I’m not using the term “soup taker” in any religious sense, nor do I care about Brian Wilson’s personal beliefs or background. I use it to mean someone who abandons their stated political principles for career advancement.
Brian Wilson began his career as a left-wing activist and radical journalist, co-founding the West Highland Free Press and aligning himself with socialist and community-based politics. He even had an early association with Scottish nationalism. However, once in Parliament and particularly under the Blair government, he shifted decisively to the right of centre.
As an MP and minister, he voted for the Iraq War, the introduction of tuition fees, i'd cards, foundation hospitals, and repeated overseas military interventions, all policies fundamentally at odds with the values he once claimed to represent. In later years, through his journalism, he has also become a vocal unionist and a consistent critic of Scottish independence, further distancing himself from his earlier political stance.
People can change their views, but Wilson has never honestly accounted for this shift. Instead, he presents himself as if those early values still apply, whether through symbolic gestures or selective associations. In my view, that represents a political sell-out: abandoning left-wing and independence-leaning principles in exchange for status and influence within the Blairite establishment.
17 Jan 2026 20:04:54
Wee Joe,
Come on… you said he was a soup taker. that means a certain thing. I was born in Bridgeton. ( Plenty of Tim’s from there) .
In my view the nationalist mob in power have ben a disaster for Scotland the past 10 Years.
Buy I’m here to talk about Celtic . This is a football forum.
You can be unionist or nationalist… in a Scottish perspective. Who cares?
As a keen historian the unionst Labour Party did a lot for the disandfranchised catholics in the early 20th Century.
{Ed007's Note - Meanings change over the years:
"Today, the phrase "they took the soup" is used more broadly to criticize anyone who abandons their traditional beliefs, community, or orthodoxy for perceived benefits, notes Maynooth University."
Tom English is one of many people on social media accused of being a "soup taker" for towing the BBC line. You're nitpicking (and that's not a dig at your follicle hygiene) over words here.}
17 Jan 2026 20:35:16
Ed,
Maynooth university quite . ?. I grow up in the 1970’s… in bridgeton. We didn’t do that uni.
Wee Joe. I respect and accept your intentions on this matter.
I grew up in a tenament surrounded by poverty and deprivation. 7 of us in a l Bedroom flat . Surrounded by Rangers fans…. Al of them btw working class .
I am used to bigotry. So hate it when people accuse me of being anything other than open…
Litterkenny. If you knew me you wouldn’t make idiotic comments about worth the watching. ….
I’m well pisser off with you.
I just hate it! Especially when.
{Ed007's Note - It's the definition that AI served me up, take it up with them instead of being pedantic on here. I couldn't care if you got found in a bin or where you grew up and the "If you knew me you wouldn’t make idiotic comments about worth the watching. …. " sounds like a threat to me so I'd suggest you should watch your own behaviour on here with that kind of patter.
Oh and this,
"I am used to bigotry. So hate it when people accuse me of being anything other than open…"
No wonder you're used to it growing up in Brigton ?????
17 Jan 2026 20:36:53
Celtic65 — I’ve already explained what I meant when I used the term. If you choose not to accept that explanation, that’s your prerogative. But before I leave this, let me ask: does being from Bridgeton give you mind-reading abilities that allow you to know what someone intended when they wrote something? That’s a rhetorical question, by the way.
As for political parties, I have no party allegiance. However, I have a particular dislike of the Tories for what they did to Scotland, and of New Labour for the Iraq War, a war that Brian Wilson voted for.
So the question stands: did he genuinely believe Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, or was he prepared to see the Iraqi people subjected to death and destruction in order to advance his political career? My money is on the later as the former was unbelievable to me and I am just a poor uneducated ned from a housing scheme, so I am sure he saw through the BS, being an educated man.
18 Jan 2026 12:20:40
You sound a bit confused 65, and I couldn't care less if my factual statement pissed you off, too many board apologist's trying to defend the undefendable.