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14 Feb 2018, 08:01 PM
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Houston on Radio Scotland saying he never heard any racist abuse from Hearts fans in his time at the club. Head in the sand as always. Maybe he has never heard it because he doesn't consider it racist?
It's only banter.
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15 Feb 2018, 07:05 AM
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Police Scotland said “We have made it clear racist and homophobic behaviour is completely unacceptable in Scotland.” ...Unless it involves rangers fans.
NOTORIOUS Zenit fans face hammering if club’s notorious ‘Ultras’ sing racist or homophobic chants during Europa League clash with Celtic Club bosses will be told their fans must keep a lid on any offensive chants and behaviour while in Scotland
Spoiler: click to toggle By Rebecca Gray ZENIT club chiefs will be warned their fans face being hammered if they spread their race hate at Celtic Park tomorrow, we can reveal. Police Scotland top brass will meet with the controversial outfit’s security officials tonight over fears the notorious fans would cause carnage at Europa League clash with the Hoops. Tough-talking Superintendent Alan Murray insisted his officers won’t tolerate any racist or homophobic chants from the club’s notorious ‘Ultras’. The warning comes weeks after Zenit thugs ran riot in Spain ahead of their game with Real Sociedad and were also carpeted by Uefa chiefs over a racist banner. Supt will tell club bosses their fans must keep a lid on any offensive chants and behaviour while in Scotland. He said: “We are aware that fans from certain areas have, on occasion, taken part in racist and homophobic chants. “If that happens, it will be challenged robustly. “The club has been told that is not acceptable in the ground or on the streets of Glasgow. “We have made it clear racist and homophobic behaviour is completely unacceptable in Scotland.” He is also expected to brief club security officials on “expectations of players’ behaviour” in a bid to ensure no one does anything to “upset crowd dynamic”. Supt Murray added: “Thousands of supporters will be attending this really important match. “We have planned extensively with the safety of the public being our priority. “There will be a noticeable increase in the number of officers in and around Glasgow. “Anyone who is intent in causing disorder or indulging in antisocial behaviour or hate crime can expect to be arrested by police.” In November, Uefa ordered the club to partially close its Krestovsky Stadium and fined it 10,000 Euros after a racist banner was flown at a game against Macedonian outfit Varga Skopje. The club was fined £26,500 by Uefa for “acts of damages; setting off of fireworks; throwing of objects and lack of order inside the stadium” against Sociedad in Spain. Zenit thugs have also been spotted wearing Ku Klux Klan type white hoods and making sick Nazi salutes. In 2012, a supporters’ group caused outrage when it released a manifesto calling on the club’s owners not to sign any black or gay players. Around 600 Hoops fans are expected to travel to Russia next week for the return leg. A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: ““We are aware that fans from certain areas have, on occasion, taken part in racist and homophobic chants.” https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/2231776/zenit-celtic-europa-league-ultras-racist-homphobic-russian/
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15 Feb 2018, 07:53 AM
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Houston on Radio Scotland saying he never heard any racist abuse from Hearts fans in his time at the club. Head in the sand as always. By which you mean, "up his arse"
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15 Feb 2018, 08:30 AM
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Houston on Radio Scotland saying he never heard any racist abuse from Hearts fans in his time at the club. Head in the sand as always.
By which you mean, "up his arse" 
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15 Feb 2018, 09:57 AM
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Houston on Radio Scotland saying he never heard any racist abuse from Hearts fans in his time at the club. Head in the sand as always.
Maybe he has never heard it because he doesn't consider it racist? It's only banter. And Chick Young gets the bananas at Mark Walters in there too, but somehow ignores the far more recent monkey chants at Scott Sinclair.
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15 Feb 2018, 11:14 AM
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Houston on Radio Scotland saying he never heard any racist abuse from Hearts fans in his time at the club. Head in the sand as always.
By which you mean, "up his arse"  He got a wee bit touchy when a text was read out re NL as well
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15 Feb 2018, 11:16 AM
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And that's the way we like it...
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Houston on Radio Scotland saying he never heard any racist abuse from Hearts fans in his time at the club. Head in the sand as always. Who he?
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15 Feb 2018, 11:27 AM
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Houston on Radio Scotland saying he never heard any racist abuse from Hearts fans in his time at the club. Head in the sand as always.
Maybe he has never heard it because he doesn't consider it racist? It's only banter.
And Chick Young gets the bananas at Mark Walters in there too, but somehow ignores the far more recent monkey chants at Scott Sinclair. That’s what irks me, TS. Absolutely shocking how quickly that was forgotten!
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15 Feb 2018, 11:34 AM
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It's still amazing to me that Hearts never got a stand closed for physically assaulting an opposition manager.
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15 Feb 2018, 12:10 PM
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Houston on Radio Scotland saying he never heard any racist abuse from Hearts fans in his time at the club. Head in the sand as always.
Who he? Eff knows but he has a problem.
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15 Feb 2018, 12:18 PM
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And that's the way we like it...
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Houston on Radio Scotland saying he never heard any racist abuse from Hearts fans in his time at the club. Head in the sand as always.
Who he?
Eff knows but he has a problem. Touche'! :-)
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15 Feb 2018, 01:16 PM
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Its too big for the float Father.
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It's still amazing to me that Hearts never got a stand closed for physically assaulting an opposition manager. Never found guilty in a court of law
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15 Feb 2018, 01:39 PM
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- Gothamcelt
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- 14 Feb 2018, 07:38 PM
Houston on Radio Scotland saying he never heard any racist abuse from Hearts fans in his time at the club. Head in the sand as always.
Maybe he has never heard it because he doesn't consider it racist? It's only banter.
And Chick Young gets the bananas at Mark Walters in there too, but somehow ignores the far more recent monkey chants at Scott Sinclair. and Bobo Balde and Edu by their own supporters
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15 Feb 2018, 01:48 PM
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It's still amazing to me that Hearts never got a stand closed for physically assaulting an opposition manager.
Never found guilty in a court of law He was found guilty on one charge, Not Proven on another.
The Crown Office arsed that one up, not the jury.
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15 Feb 2018, 01:58 PM
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Ah but I was so much older then,I'm younger than that now
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- 14 Feb 2018, 07:38 PM
Houston on Radio Scotland saying he never heard any racist abuse from Hearts fans in his time at the club. Head in the sand as always.
Maybe he has never heard it because he doesn't consider it racist? It's only banter. The player himself said he never heard anything. It was his relatives in the crowd.
Edit: I quite believe his relatives btw.
Edited by IainG, 15 Feb 2018, 02:02 PM.
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15 Feb 2018, 02:25 PM
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Houston on Radio Scotland saying he never heard any racist abuse from Hearts fans in his time at the club. Head in the sand as always.
Maybe he has never heard it because he doesn't consider it racist? It's only banter. Peter Houston is one boring arse hole. Leveins big buddy as well so what a surprise he never heard anything. He’s also a liar.
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16 Feb 2018, 10:35 AM
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Bill Leckie has a good piece on the game last night, until he has a wee dig at the GB. Possibly couldn't help himself but then again I'm sure he will report what he hears when rangers play at the weekend.
LOUD AND PROUD Celtic’s win against Zenit St Petersburg was one of the finest European nights at Parkhead says Bill Leckie The margins between them going over to Russia 1-0 up or 4-0 up were as thin as the sole on a modern-day boot
Spoiler: click to toggle By Bill Leckie THEY buzzed and they swarmed around the box, they whizzed and they fizzed balls across the face of goal. They pressed and they passed from first to last, all energy and creativity and possibilities. And as the stands responded, as the atmosphere crackled and the thunder rolled and the 67th minute light show glittered, suddenly this tie didn’t feel like a consolation prize after all. It might not have had the trappings of a Champions League showpiece, less hype and no theme tune to make a million hairs stand up on 60,000 necks, but this was a night when Parkhead was at its European finest, its loudest, its proudest. Only question is now, will it get another like it this season? Well, at least they’ve given themselves a right good chance. And boy, did they earn that chance. In all honesty, the margins between them going over to Russia 1-0 up or 4-0 up were as thin as the sole on a modern-day boot. Callum McGregor, Olivier Ntcham, James Forrest, Moussa Dembele – the chances so nearly opened up wide for them, the bounce so nearly fell their way time and again. Maybe if that bounce had been a good one just once early on, they might have had two or three before half an hour had gone by; it was that sort of performance, one that was always on the very cusp of turning promise into profit. All the while, there stood Roberto Mancini in his puffer jacket and with is puffed-out cheeks, pacing the track, waving his arms all Italian-like, muttering to himself in the realisation of just how thin a line his troops were treading. He knew Zenit were playing like exactly what they were, a team without a competitive game since before Christmas. Not sharp enough, not properly tuned in to each other. They were as faceless and passive for most of this 90 minutes as their coach was animated. And as they got themselves through it as unscathed as possible, how Mancini must have yearned for a McGregor in his ranks. Everything good Celtic did came through him, sitting in the hole behind lone frontman Dembele. They constantly fed passes into him on the half-turn, his brain already making the next move before the ball arrived, always a step ahead of anyone else on the park. So it was fitting that when, finally, the goal came that lifted the roof off the place, he was the man who got it. Or rather, who absolutely buried it. Yes, he had time and he had space when Charley Musonda hung the ball up from out on the left. But how often do you see guys with that time and space banjo one into the crowd? How often does their touch and their temperament let them down and the chance is lost? Not this boy, not a prayer. As it bounced up high, he was on those twinkle toes of his, taking it on his chest and thrashing it into the roof of the net. Andrei Lunev might as well not have been in the nets. It was a moment McGregor thoroughly deserved and that Celtic as a team were more than due. Question is, will it be enough to guarantee at least one more European home night this season? You wondered if this one would have the same vibe as the Champions League, because so often at so many stadiums you could put the same two clubs on either sides of the white line in the two continental competitions two nights in an row and the feeling would be totally different. Last night, the stands were certainly slowish to fill up, the pre-match not as charged as it had been against PSG and Bayern and so many before. But once the teams emerged, it rocked. As You’ll Never Walk Alone subsided and kick off loomed, the wedge of sky-blue-scarfed Zenit supporters to the right of the main stand had to yell with all their might to even make a dent in the din at kick-off and might as well have been shouting in a wind tunnel. Above the opposite corner flag, the Green Brigade arrived to find thousands of coloured flags over their seat-backs, then unfurled a giant, Soviet-style banner with the club name in Cyrillic-style writing – well, with the “e” backwards, at least – and city landmarks picked out in black against green and gold. Impressive, that. A feeling that instantly evaporated as they folded it back up for kick-off and broke into a chant of Oo Ah Up The ‘Ra. What a strange bunch the Parkhead club’s hardcore are; so often inventive and super-positive yet in the next breath coming out with chants that make you wish they were kept in a soundproofed cage. Still, that’s for their club to eventually deal with. But not this morning, you’d think, not after a result like this. Brendan Rodgers got everything he could have asked for from his players last night and then some. They, in turn, got all the backing they could have dreamed of from the punters. Together, they can be heady combination, a match for anyone. If Celtic can finish this job without them and with the Russian hordes baying for their heads, it might just be the best result Rodgers has racked up yet. https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/2237888/celtic-zenit-europe-parkhead-bill-leckie/
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16 Feb 2018, 10:37 AM
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Bill Leckie has a good piece on the game last night, until he has a wee dig at the GB. Possibly couldn't help himself but then again I'm sure he will report what he hears when rangers play at the weekend. LOUD AND PROUD Celtic’s win against Zenit St Petersburg was one of the finest European nights at Parkhead says Bill LeckieThe margins between them going over to Russia 1-0 up or 4-0 up were as thin as the sole on a modern-day boot Spoiler: click to toggle By Bill Leckie THEY buzzed and they swarmed around the box, they whizzed and they fizzed balls across the face of goal. They pressed and they passed from first to last, all energy and creativity and possibilities. And as the stands responded, as the atmosphere crackled and the thunder rolled and the 67th minute light show glittered, suddenly this tie didn’t feel like a consolation prize after all. It might not have had the trappings of a Champions League showpiece, less hype and no theme tune to make a million hairs stand up on 60,000 necks, but this was a night when Parkhead was at its European finest, its loudest, its proudest. Only question is now, will it get another like it this season? Well, at least they’ve given themselves a right good chance. And boy, did they earn that chance. In all honesty, the margins between them going over to Russia 1-0 up or 4-0 up were as thin as the sole on a modern-day boot. Callum McGregor, Olivier Ntcham, James Forrest, Moussa Dembele – the chances so nearly opened up wide for them, the bounce so nearly fell their way time and again. Maybe if that bounce had been a good one just once early on, they might have had two or three before half an hour had gone by; it was that sort of performance, one that was always on the very cusp of turning promise into profit. All the while, there stood Roberto Mancini in his puffer jacket and with is puffed-out cheeks, pacing the track, waving his arms all Italian-like, muttering to himself in the realisation of just how thin a line his troops were treading. He knew Zenit were playing like exactly what they were, a team without a competitive game since before Christmas. Not sharp enough, not properly tuned in to each other. They were as faceless and passive for most of this 90 minutes as their coach was animated. And as they got themselves through it as unscathed as possible, how Mancini must have yearned for a McGregor in his ranks. Everything good Celtic did came through him, sitting in the hole behind lone frontman Dembele. They constantly fed passes into him on the half-turn, his brain already making the next move before the ball arrived, always a step ahead of anyone else on the park. So it was fitting that when, finally, the goal came that lifted the roof off the place, he was the man who got it. Or rather, who absolutely buried it. Yes, he had time and he had space when Charley Musonda hung the ball up from out on the left. But how often do you see guys with that time and space banjo one into the crowd? How often does their touch and their temperament let them down and the chance is lost? Not this boy, not a prayer. As it bounced up high, he was on those twinkle toes of his, taking it on his chest and thrashing it into the roof of the net. Andrei Lunev might as well not have been in the nets. It was a moment McGregor thoroughly deserved and that Celtic as a team were more than due. Question is, will it be enough to guarantee at least one more European home night this season? You wondered if this one would have the same vibe as the Champions League, because so often at so many stadiums you could put the same two clubs on either sides of the white line in the two continental competitions two nights in an row and the feeling would be totally different. Last night, the stands were certainly slowish to fill up, the pre-match not as charged as it had been against PSG and Bayern and so many before. But once the teams emerged, it rocked. As You’ll Never Walk Alone subsided and kick off loomed, the wedge of sky-blue-scarfed Zenit supporters to the right of the main stand had to yell with all their might to even make a dent in the din at kick-off and might as well have been shouting in a wind tunnel. Above the opposite corner flag, the Green Brigade arrived to find thousands of coloured flags over their seat-backs, then unfurled a giant, Soviet-style banner with the club name in Cyrillic-style writing – well, with the “e” backwards, at least – and city landmarks picked out in black against green and gold. Impressive, that. A feeling that instantly evaporated as they folded it back up for kick-off and broke into a chant of Oo Ah Up The ‘Ra. What a strange bunch the Parkhead club’s hardcore are; so often inventive and super-positive yet in the next breath coming out with chants that make you wish they were kept in a soundproofed cage. Still, that’s for their club to eventually deal with. But not this morning, you’d think, not after a result like this. Brendan Rodgers got everything he could have asked for from his players last night and then some. They, in turn, got all the backing they could have dreamed of from the punters. Together, they can be heady combination, a match for anyone. If Celtic can finish this job without them and with the Russian hordes baying for their heads, it might just be the best result Rodgers has racked up yet. https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/2237888/celtic-zenit-europe-parkhead-bill-leckie/
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THEY buzzed and they swarmed around the box, they whizzed and they fizzed balls across the face of goal. They pressed and they passed from first to last, all energy and creativity and possibilities.
This man is paid to write.
I'm sure Bill's ears will be as alert the next time the hun hordes are around singing about fenian blood.
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16 Feb 2018, 10:56 AM
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There must have been a competition in the Radio Scotland newsroom this morning to figure out the absolute minimum they could say on the 8.25 report about Celtic's victory last night. Left plenty more time for a complete arse like Alex Rae to tell us all about the Cat in the Hat.
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16 Feb 2018, 11:14 AM
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THEY buzzed and they swarmed around the box, they whizzed and they fizzed balls across the face of goal. They pressed and they passed from first to last, all energy and creativity and possibilities.  This man is paid to write. I'm sure Bill's ears will be as alert the next time the hun hordes are around singing about fenian blood. Nothing wrong with that IMO, mhate. It's redtop journalism. He's not writing for The Observer.
He had a go at the zombies for their singing a month or two back. Probably was under pressure to balance the scales.
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