The Cynic Weekly – Update From The Green Brigade
The Cynic | A Celtic FC Podcast
Christopher Gallagher
4.9 • 678 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Gall has a candid one-on-one with Martin from The Green Brigade, unpacking the ongoing ban and why negotiations appear to be breaking down.
The episode explores disputed club demands and the wider impact on fans. It also raises serious questions about the future of organised fan culture at Celtic Park.
Topics covered:
- Current status of the Green Brigade ban
- Celtic’s demands and points of contention
- Breakdown in negotiations and lack of “good faith” engagement
- Role of the Safety Advisory Group (SAG)
- Tensions with Police Scotland and matchday policing issues
- Impact on affected supporters
- Atmosphere and fan culture at Celtic Park
- Potential implications for season ticket renewals
- Concerns over wider targeting of organised supporter groups
- The role of the Celtic fan collective and future supporter representation
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Cynic Weekly. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm your host, Christopher Galaher. |
| 0:28.0 | And this week we have a different format to our usual panel talking about Celtic. |
| 0:33.7 | It will just be myself with a guest. |
| 0:35.8 | And we're going to talk about some interesting subjects |
| 0:38.2 | I'm delighted to say I'm joined by Martin from the Green Brigade hello Martin how are you sir |
| 0:42.1 | Mike this I'm all good mate how are you not too bad uh good to have you back uh Martin's been on a |
| 0:47.3 | number of times you can go back and listen to some a previous podcast we had um and yeah we're |
| 0:52.7 | just look we just want to kind of get an update on everything, |
| 0:56.2 | yeah, Green Brigade and the ban and everything. |
| 0:58.3 | So, kind of opening question is, what is the current update regarding the Green Brigade |
| 1:02.9 | returning to Celtic Park? |
| 1:04.4 | I'll try and give as broad an overview as I can, Chris. |
| 1:07.0 | But before I go much further, I'd probably rather just acknowledge right from the off that I know for many Celtic supporters that this is kind of boring, it's tedious, it does feel kind of never-ending. |
| 1:18.6 | There's another negative story among many, many negative stories within the club and the supporter base at the minute. |
| 1:26.6 | So I do, we appreciate that, but also, you know, if people are struggling with it, |
| 1:32.3 | then you can imagine what our members and other people who are band are sort of feeling about it all. |
| 1:37.3 | For us, it is also, as much as we understand it, that can be quite tedious, |
| 1:42.3 | it is also really important that we do get our side out there. |
| 1:46.9 | Really appreciate the Cynic for offering as a platform and the opportunity to do that. |
| 1:51.6 | You guys have always been very supportive and really appreciate that. |
| 1:55.6 | It does also mean we can kind of move away from sort of statement after statement, |
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