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I agree Dave but a bad idea in my opinion and you are also correct Stanleymad why mention Rangers in the first place as we have no connection with this supposed fixture.

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the Lincoln example is a bad one, remember we got our coach bricked there 18 months ago after they won and with no bad blood between us. How many friendlies do Celtic play without bother?

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hi lads i was just browsing through some sites there and i came across this.... i nearly fell off my chair reading those two rangers fans so i had to register and tell you how it is, as a resident of manchester.

celtic have been invited down to play my team, man utd 5 or 6 times over the past few years. they travel in big numbers and some of them get pretty drunk but very rarely have i seen any trouble from them. once or twice, yes, when they were provoked. i would say fairly minor incidents. but they are good humoured and friendly as a whole.

rangers, on the other hand i have to say are absolute animals. i will never forget that day in manchester for the rest of my life. it was actually the worst day of my life. i had to walk through them because i work in the city. i don't have to describe what they did
because it is easy to look it up on youtube but as a large gathering which you have to be exposed to is scary. ****ing on the streets, verbally abusing passers-by who could be male or female, they don't differentiate.

you'll have no trouble with celtic fans unless you try to provoke them and they'll create a great atmosphere.

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Let me cast my mind back 32yrs when Celtic came to the Turf in the Anglo Scots Cup and the fear as a 15yr old still etched inside of me. Take a look at the pictures int the daily papers the day after the match when ths Celtic fans tore down the segregation fence in the Longside and used them as weapons against the police.

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If it's not on youtube it didn't happen, or they were provoked or it will have been the Burnley fans fault or it was only a small minority.

And if that fails Rangers fans are far worse. watch for the pattern developing.

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thing is corny was much more aggro from "All" clubs fans back then, thats fact.;)

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according to the press officer at the Turf, Burnley pre-season friendlies all sorted now and doesn't include Accrington

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Perhaps the emphasis is on quality opposition this pre season!!;)

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Celtic came to Blackburn when Souness was in charge for a European match a few years ago and that was a very bad day indeed. If they come to Stanley I certainly won't be there - they hark back to the bad old days of hooliganism.

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Souness was a Rangers man, that would have had some bearing on the situation.

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Aaah I see, so it was nothing to do with the scum that were frightening women and children, nothing to do with fighting kicking off all over the town? It was mostly because Souness used to play for Rangers. Believe me, they are a nuisance and will do a lot of damage. Sad I know but I won't be going to Accy if they are there.

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If anything, the fighting will have been largely due to Blackburn fans kicking off... Similarly I'm seeing the Lincoln example being thrown around- but many seem to ignore the fact more Lincoln fans than Celtic were arrested that day, and as someone who was there, were by far worse.

Celtic have never had a real organised casual element to their support, and by no means are we perfect, but to be specially awarded by both FIFA and UEFA for the behaviour of 80,000 travelling fans in Seville for the UEFA cup final, and not one arrest being made, says it all really. Any fan base if attacked will stand as one and this has happened in the past, but it is rare for Celtic fans to go out of their way to cause trouble.

Aside from that, I hope this friendly goes ahead, it would be a belter of a weekend. Hopefully see you all at the game.

EDIT: Just found this on an old programme website RE the Burnley match.

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I dont see why all the negativity about this 'proposed' fixture is all about. Coleman has chosen this fixture and he deserves to play against a big team for his long time in charge, so be it he's chosen celtic.

They may have a long term history or a recent history of trouble at games but this boils down to the size of their support, your obviously guna get your fair share of idiots on a certain day when they take thousands and thousands away from home. If coley had chosen anybody else the size of celtic, perhaps united, city, liverpool, everton and maybe even rangers, theres potential for trouble, but you can put that down to the size of the team, none of the teams above have perfect history either!

Let coley pick who he wants, he deserves it!

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Celtic do still have a casual element.... I saw them running from the ASC in January...... :)

But both the auld firm are as bad as each other, we should play the dandies instead

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Can remember way back, stopping in Paisley in a mini-coach, on way up to Ayr,when ally mcloud was ayr manager, 12 of us went in a pub all in our blue n white colours, approached the bar n was surrounded by about 2 dozen slavering celtic supporters, twas a celt pub n they thought we were Rangers fans,:eek: luckily they let us explain we were blackburn fans on our way up fer a pre-season friendly, the mood changed instantly, none of our lads paid fer a drink in the hour we spent in yon, so whilst knowing theres good n bad everywhere i have no complaints, spent a great hour wi those guys.:)