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Top 10 supports in the world
Posted on 3/2/14 at 10:03 am
Posted on 3/2/14 at 10:03 am
According to French magazine
Lolerpool:
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Top ten supports in world football:
1. Boca Juniors (Argentina)
2. Borussia Dortmund (Germany)
3. Glasgow Celtic (Scotland)
4. Raja Casablanca (Morocco)
5. Napoli (Italy)
6. Galatasaray (Turkey)
7. Athletic Bilbao (Spain)
8. Red Star Belgrade (Serbia)
9. Urawa Red Diamonds (Japan)
10. Saint-Etienne (France)
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Celtic are the only British club to be named in the top 10 of the greatest supports in world football, according to a respected French football magazine.
So Foot says only Boca Juniors of Argentina and Germany's Borussia Dortmund are ahead of the Glasgow club's fans, who are renowned throughout Europe for their passionate support, sense of fair play and respect for opposition clubs during their travels around Europe in the Champions League.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter described Celtic's supporters as "marvellous" after visiting Celtic Park to award them the FIFA fair play award for their friendly behaviour when over 80,000 visited Seville for the 2003 UEFA Cup final.
Celtic Park has received numerous compliments for its unique atmosphere from various superstars in world football with Andres Iniesta of Barcelona recently describing Celtic fans as the best in the world.
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The magazine highlights the excellent conduct of Celtic's traveling fans while describing Celtic Park as a stadium that the very best teams in the world fear playing in.
Lolerpool:
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So Foot has agreed with that assertion claiming You'll Never Walk Alone is sung better by Celtic than Liverpool
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Posted on 3/2/14 at 10:06 am to TN Bhoy
this list is a joke
top 10 supporters in the world yet Celtic is playing in a 2/3 full stadium in SPL games while cross town rangers has been packing home games even while in the lower leagues.
top 10 supporters in the world yet Celtic is playing in a 2/3 full stadium in SPL games while cross town rangers has been packing home games even while in the lower leagues.
Posted on 3/2/14 at 10:10 am to StraightCashHomey21
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top 10 supporters in the world yet Celtic is playing in a 2/3 full stadium in SPL games while cross town rangers has been packing home games even while in the lower leagues.
Posted on 3/2/14 at 10:35 am to TN Bhoy
4. Raja Casablanca (Morocco)
Not shocked by this one after the Club World Cup.
Not shocked by this one after the Club World Cup.
Posted on 3/2/14 at 1:30 pm to TN Bhoy
shite list
moving on
moving on
Posted on 3/2/14 at 1:44 pm to TN Bhoy
Kiev
Posted on 3/3/14 at 9:36 am to kilo
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shite list moving on
Posted on 3/3/14 at 10:23 am to kilo
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shite list
Why? Because no MLS or EPL clubs got on it?
Posted on 3/3/14 at 10:57 am to TN Bhoy
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Why? Because no MLS or EPL clubs got on it?
Yea, thats it.....
Posted on 3/3/14 at 11:02 am to TN Bhoy
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Top ten supports in world football: 1a. Boca Juniors (Argentina) 1b. LEEDS 2. Borussia Dortmund (Germany) 3. Glasgow Celtic (Scotland) 4. Raja Casablanca (Morocco) 5. Napoli (Italy) 6. Galatasaray (Turkey) 7. Athletic Bilbao (Spain) 8. Red Star Belgrade (Serbia) 9. Urawa Red Diamonds (Japan) 10. Saint-Etienne (France)
Posted on 3/3/14 at 11:16 am to kilo
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Yea, thats it.....
Give a reason then.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 11:24 am to TN Bhoy
10. Saint-Etienne (France)
6. Galatasaray (Turkey)
3. Glasgow Celtic (Scotland)
There are a couple of other questionables but that enough right there to laugh at the list.
French magazine, do i really need to go on?
6. Galatasaray (Turkey)
3. Glasgow Celtic (Scotland)
There are a couple of other questionables but that enough right there to laugh at the list.
French magazine, do i really need to go on?
Posted on 3/3/14 at 11:33 am to kilo
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There are a couple of other questionables but that enough right there to laugh at the list.
Having those three as your "questionables" points to your ignorance (probably caused by you being a new fan).
Only a couple supports in the world could do anything approaching this
And then there's this:
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"The best fans on the continent"
El Mundo Deportivo, Barcelona (2004)
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"Plus qu'un club, un peuple" ("More than a club, a people")
French Newspaper L'Equipe (Dec 2012)
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"Celtic enjoys a greater community spirit than any other club in the world."
Archie MacPherson, Legendary sports broadcaster & journalist
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"Celtic fans, you are great, you are marvellous"
Sepp Blatter (FIFA President, 2003)
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"We felt it right that when Fifa came to us for nominations for the world award we should nominate them (the Celtic fans). The whole of that week they were just magnificent, even after their side were defeated.”
Uefa spokesman Mike Lee (2003)
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"You should feel proud to have fans such as these in Glasgow who give their city and country a good name."
Alfredo Sanchez Monteseirin mayor of Seville (2003)
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"Best atmosphere I ever played in was at Celtic Park in the UEFA Cup for Liverpool."
Michael Owen (Twitter Feb 2013)
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"Football will survive because of teams like Celtic and its fans."
Age Hareide (Helsingborg manager, 2012)
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Ancelotti [AC Milan Manager]would certainly welcome back Celtic to the Champions League on a regular basis, if only for their supporters. The sight of 10,000 Celtic fans giving their team a standing ovation at the end prompted Ancelotti to reflect that Scottish football followers could teach their Italian counterparts a lesson in loving the game.
“This is what we need in Italy, this type of environment. This was the essence of sport. To hear the Celtic fans singing and chanting after the game was incredible.”
Ancelotti (AC Milan Manager 2007, Fri. March 9th London Times).
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William Gaillard (UEFA's director of communications and public affairs) speaking after the European Cup final between Liverpool and AC Milan in 2007, was asked about what is going to be done in the future when another British club gets into the final and there is the same problems of fan behaviour/troubles getting into the ground. His answer?
"......Well, Celtic fans a couple of years ago went to Seville in the Uefa Cup Final and took over 3 times the amount of fans there. There was not one bit of trouble as all the fans that had no tickets stayed in the square and had a big party. Every team should follow Celtic's fan behaviour and that mentality"
(William Gaillard, UEFA's director of communications and public affairs, 24/05/07 Sky Sports News)
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"The atmosphere generated by the fans in Celtic’s stadium for our visit was the most impressive I’ve ever witnessed. The grounds of Liverpool and Manchester United are good and the hostile feeling of playing against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu is also excellent, but the atmosphere against Celtic was the best."
Xavi (Barcelona) (Sep 2004)
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"Every professional footballer should seek to play at least one game at Celtic Park. I have never felt anything like it."
Paolo Maldini (AC Milan & Italy legend)
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"Celtic fans are some of the greatest supporters I know."
Clarence Seedorf (Oct 2007)
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"The Celtic fans are incredible. It is always great to play there."
Cristiano Ronaldo, (2008)
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"Anyone going to Celtic Park now is saying, 'You've got to beat that atmosphere, the energy they spend in their games'."
Alex Ferguson (Sep 08)
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"I fell a bit in love with Celtic, because the atmosphere was amazing and the crowd was magnificent, the way they behaved with the Porto fans."
Jose Mourinho (June 2003)
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"This is the most fantastic support in the world. I hope you win."
Franz Beckenbaur (on Celtic v Bayern Munich)
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"It is absolutely spectacular to see the fans like that "
Alberto Gilardino (Italian footballer)
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"The atmosphere inside Celtic Park is one of the best in Europe it's absolutely incredible"
Sven Goran Eriksson
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"The atmosphere here tonight was unbelievable and it's an honour to play in such an arena."
Oliver Khan (German national goalkeeper)
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"I have never experienced anything like it. This is a lesson for all football clubs about how to be proper football supporters, This is the best club in the world."
Michael Platini
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"The incredible thing was the people, for an opposition player it is quite incredible, i have not seen a better atmosphere from the grounds I have visited"
Steven Gerard
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"I speak for everyone when I describe the behaviour of the Celtic supporters as immaculate, with all the bother concerning racial insults and hooligan behaviour, these fans were a breath of fresh air"
Barcelona Police
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"In my experience, which embraces big matches at Old Trafford, Anfield, Ibrox, the San Siro & the Nou Camp, there's nowhere else remotely like Celtic Park in full flow."
Brian Viner, The Independent newspaper
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"When we played at Celtic Park for Bayern in the Champions League it was unbelievable and I think all our players said the same thing afterwards. The atmosphere was just totally unique. I've played in lots of big games and stadiums but I've never witnessed fans making that much noise in 90 minutes."
Owen Hargreaves
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"This place makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, there is nowhere like it in football, and I can see how the people love to play here and speak so highly of it."
Samuel Eto'o
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“The Celtic fans deserve to be in Europe. They have been amazing in both games we have played against them recently. We knew what they were going to be like in Glasgow but the way they were in Barcelona after they had just lost in the way they did was amazing. I have never seen anything like that before."
Messi (Dec 2012)
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"I have played many games for Spain/Barca but I've never heard fans like Celtic, they were amazing, not quiet for a single second!"
Andres Iniesta (Oct 2012)
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"The fantastic Celtic fans gave a real lesson in civility in sport. The chants and insults which blight too many games in Serie A are light years away from the spectacle of education and sportsmanship that the people in the Celtic away end offered... That horizontal striped white and green jersey is the uniform of a club worthy of the applause of the world."
Xavier Jacobelli www.calciomercato.com after Celtic's 2-0 defeat away to Juventus (link) (Feb 2013)
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"I’ve been fortunate to play in some great stadiums in Europe with Barcelona but none compare to Celtic. The atmosphere their fans create make it a very special European night of football."
Messi (Sep 2013)
This post was edited on 3/3/14 at 11:54 am
Posted on 3/3/14 at 11:50 am to TN Bhoy
And more:
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“Then when I got out on the pitch and the match began, I tried to communicate with my team player.But I heard nothing.The audience had such a mood.I did not hear what my team players said, if they called me or even the slightest, because it was such a beautiful and awesome atmosphere.It’s probably the best I have seen on the pitch.”
Zlatan Ibrahimovic recalls his experience of Celtic from the Ajax 1-0 Celtic match of 2001 (2013)
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"Atmosphere at Celtic Park is the best in Europe."
Gerard Piqué (Sep 2013)
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"I fulfilled a long-standing ambition on Tuesday night when I sat in the stands to watch Celtic play a European game at Parkhead.
"The experience against Ajax did not disappoint and it was one of the best atmospheres I have ever experienced.
"A lot used to be said about what Anfield was like on a European night but, as a player in those games, you don’t really hear the noise as you are concentrating so much.
"At times on Tuesday, it felt like the ground was shaking, not least when it seemed as if 60,000 fans had started doing ‘the Poznan’.
"It was difficult to watch the game, as I kept looking around to take in everything. "The noise was deafening. only a handful of clubs can come close to generating the same kind of noise and intensity that Celtic’s supporters produce when the floodlights are on and the stakes are at their highest."
Jamie Carragher (Oct 2013)
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“Celtic are an unbelievable club. The stadium on a match day has the best atmosphere in the world."
Ex-South African international & Champions League winner Benni McCarthy (2014)
This post was edited on 3/3/14 at 11:57 am
Posted on 3/3/14 at 11:53 am to TN Bhoy
Holy frick psycho
Posted on 3/3/14 at 11:54 am to droman225
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Holy frick psycho
I'm a psycho for pointing out how much people love our fans in response to an idiot who knows nothing outside of the MLS and EPL?
This post was edited on 3/3/14 at 11:57 am
Posted on 3/3/14 at 11:59 am to TN Bhoy
3-4 would have been sufficient. Not 34
Posted on 3/3/14 at 12:06 pm to TN Bhoy
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quote: So Foot has agreed with that assertion claiming You'll Never Walk Alone is sung better by Celtic than Liverpool
You frickers are so butt hurt that no one in the world even knows you sing this song. I think that alone proves who sings it better. Not that I even care. It very much so reeks of little brother syndrome.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 12:07 pm to BleedPurpleGold
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You frickers are so butt hurt that no one in the world even knows you sing this song.
So Foot seems to know.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 12:11 pm to TN Bhoy
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So Foot seems to know.
I just think it's a silly issue to always be so concerned about. Especially because the two clubs share such a close camaraderie.
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