George Galloway famously supports Celtic with roughly the same passion with which he supports the Palestinian people. A traditionalist in that sense, he has noted with some bemusement that many Scottish born Celtic supporters are in fact supporting Scotland tonight.
He sent these tweets on Wednesday but they have not been widely aired in the Irish media. They have, however, generated a furious response from many within the Scottish twittersphere.
Let's just say it's a rather different take on the Scottish-Irish thing to that of Gordon McQueen.
NO Celtic fan of Irish descent would EVER have supported Scotland over Ireland in the past. Now, it seems, all of them are. Changed days...
— George Galloway (@georgegalloway) November 11, 2014
Celtic fans welcome to support the country which colonised the land of their fathers then "welcomed" us as immigrants like a case of Ebola — George Galloway (@georgegalloway) November 12, 2014
Many of the responses have come from Scottish nationalists, sore at Galloway's intervention in the independence referendum. Curiously, Galloway, despite his long-standing support for the nationalist cause in Ireland, was passionately opposed to Scottish independence.
@georgegalloway Shut the fuck up. You campaigned to keep the state that starved your ancestors during the famine. Fucking idiot.
— Count Homer (@elitejcx) November 12, 2014
So George Galloway, proud Dundonian, is supporting Ireland on Friday. His descent into crackpottery and irrelevance continues. #attention
— Robert Thomson (@robertthomson55) November 11, 2014
As is often his practise, Galloway has retweeted much of the abuse that his come his way. He has also (disapprovingly) retweeted much of the abuse meted out to McGeady and McCarthy. He has also been retweeting furiously in appreciation of Liam Brady (a former Celtic manager in addition to everything else) including his winning goal against Brazil in Lansdowne Road in 1987.
