Liam Scales has discussed the special feeling that there is for an Irish player at Celtic.
Some of the biggest names ever to play for Ireland have been linked with moving to Celtic throughout their career but it rarely happens.
Roy and Robbie Keane both had brief spells in the last 20 years but their visits were fleeting compared to the roots that Scales appears to be putting in place.
Most Irish players find themselves crossing the water in their teens but Scales took a different root, playing for Shamrock Rovers until a low key move to Celtic just before his 23rd birthday.
After a handful of appearances in his debut season a loan move to Aberdeen looked like the parting of the ways but in an unscripted development he has started 15 Celtic games on the bounce with that run opening the door to international football.
Reflecting on just where he is at this moment, Scales told the Irish Independent:
Playing for Celtic is massive. For me and my family, they are all so proud and I am proud of myself. Being Irish, there is a connection there, a big fan base in Ireland. For me to be sort of representing the Irish at Celtic, it’s great. I’m trying to enjoy every minute of it because who knows how long it will last.
With a fast developing partnership alongside Cameron Carter-Vickers there looks to be lots for Scales to achieve in the weeks and months ahead.
Good that he appreciates his Irish connection !
All, or most, of the Celtic Coaching Staff were wearing Poppies on Sunday. That indicates to me that it was a Board directive to do so and that it was not to be put to personal preference!
That is alarming because if we just toe the line for the rhetorical legions and do what they tell us we must do, then we lose the faculty of our right to think for ourselves on matters such as this!
That would be a freedom lost and a blow against Democracy! It would play into the hands of those who would control us with their
“Alien Laws And Foreign Cause”!
We really need to stand guard against this – for our own sakes and also for the sakes of those who agree with us, but perhaps have no voice with which to express their views and beliefs, as we are privileged to have.
We, I, don’t want poppies to be worn on our Celtic shirts but that is what those oppose our freedoms will wish to do.
By not wearing a poppy, we are saying to those who would oppress us,
No more Bloody Sundays On The Streets Of Ireland!
No More Ballymurphy Massacres On The Streets Of Ireland!
No More Rounding Up All The Young Men And Placing Them In British Concentration Camps For Being Irish!
You have a choice to stand with the oppressed. You have a democratic and moral duty to do so.
Lest We Forget!!
Great comment. I agree, “No blood-stained poppies on our Hoops”
Personally I’d advocate us wearing the Peace Poppy as it’s a perfect fit. What I mean is it would give our many detractors in Scotland, and England, nothing to attack us with at this ever-lengthening poppy period.
It’s kinda hard to ‘have a go’ at us whilst we’re proudly showing our allegiance to PEACE, not WAR.
For “The Glorious Dead”, FFS, a slaughter of innocents and ignorant who were ultimately fighting for the Conservation of Capitalism.
They have a Famine Memorial emblem on the back of the Home shirt this season. Wouldn’t be so difficult to step it up onto the front of the shirt instead of any kind of poppy!