25th October 2026; Easter Road Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland; Scottish Premiership Football, Hibernian versus Celtic; Celtic fans banner The reputation of Celtic FC is non negotiable
Celtic fans aren’t impressed by the latest initiative to cash in on the Lisbon Lions.
For £299 you can get an overpriced watch which includes a FREE strap!
It sums up the contempt that the club has for fans when they push a free strap as a selling point.
Next up it will be trainers with free laces or Adidas kit with three free stripes.
The discord between club and supporters is highlighted by the non-stop sales pitch as the Lisbon Lions are brutally exploited.
If the club genuinely wanted to honour their greatest side there is a number of things that they could do.
Like making a significant donation and promoting the campaigns to provide statues to Jim Craig and John Clark.
Or putting a competent team on the park to do justice. Celtic are currently 32nd in UEFA secondary competition, 60 years on from winning the main event. The only trophy that big clubs count.
@CelticFC Emotional 1967 mention ??
Cheap tat highly priced ??
Fans fleeced again ??— DESMOND_OUT (@StenFluffman) November 12, 2026
Two years ago Celtic would have sold a decent number of those watches.
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Today, seriously who is going to buy that other than as a gift from someone with more money than sense.
Two years ago Celtic had seven Champions League points from four matches. Today they have three points from four Europa League matches.
Towards the end of this month Celtic return to Portugal in the Europa League. Interest in that trip is minimal.
In May, on the actual anniversary of the win over Inter Milan, Celtic Park will belong to Oasis.
It is believed that the Celtic Foundation are planning a corporate Golf Day in Lisbon.
An event as in touch with the origins of the club as Tony Hamilton singing the praises of his £1.5m a year bosses from the pulpit of St Mary’s in the Calton.
The phrase Not Another Penny more echoes through many of the replies from fans.
After a year of refusing to buy club items many fans are now used to it. Whatever is launched by-passes many supporters, sticking a Lisbon Lions badge on doesn’t change anything.
Shamelessly the club attempts to exploit the fans at every turn while barely appearing interested in putting a credible team on the park.
The big Christmas sales push will soon be under way, the reaction on social media is almost assured.
@CelticFC If you click on the link it will keep re-targeting you costing them more in ad money than they are going to make on sales.
Love my club but fuck these guys.— Pzo (@pzomac)
@CelticFC Lisbon 60th Anniversary is so important that fans cannot go the stadium to join in the celebrations because erm Oasis is playing.
Mugs
— Margaret (@scripture36)
@CelticFC Does anyone at boardroom level even know what time it is?
— Telecasterbas (@Telecasterbas)
@CelticFC Pocket watch with a free strap to enable dual functionality. Ahead of its time.
— DoireBhoy (@RJKH51)
@CelticFC £300? Free strap? Just get yourselves to fuck out of our club,you money grabbing charlatan cunts. https://t.co/hxSUeGsZQe
— Paul69????????????????????? (@paulmul90824168)
@CelticFC A couple of years ago my wife would be ordering this before Christmas for me. Ive told her and my family not to spend a penny on Celtic gear . No more hard earned money given to people who have no ambition for the club.
— Paul 88ton (@ayton_paul)
@CelticFC A free strap. What next, trainers with free laces?
— John Savage (@johnsavage1960)
Yetanother example of the tone deaf morons running our club not knowing when they maybe shouldn’t try and gouge the fans again. A free strap? A wristwatch wouldn’t be much use without one would it? But then Celtic aren’t much use as a club right now, and could do with being wound up a bit to get going properly. I’d be very interested to see if it does indeed have a “Swiss Movement” inside it. If it does, at that price, the rest of the watch will be shiny plated base metal crap.. I see a lot of souvenir fitba watches in my line of work and most of them are cheap tat that have cost some poor bugger a fortune simply because of a club crest.