The death of Celtic legend Tommy Burns was a tragedy, but enough is enough

As usual morons write about stuff they no nothing about .As a Liverpool fan i can assure Celtic are amongst the most feeling fans in the world they helped us with our grief after Hillsborough all credit to them PS well done on winning the SPL Celtic from your friends on Merseyside

What a thoroughly atrocious article totally indicicative of the very thing i hope its author is trying to condemn. Yes this media orchestrated society which we all participate is disgusting, but please if you are trying to make a valid point do not use the death of beautiful person as the catalyst to make your point. It merely serves to anger those who care and causes your message to get lost. Rest in Peace Tommy I hope the Bhoys have done you proud

Fine man as he was I am sure that Tommy would indeed have been a bit embarrassed by the extent of the mourning. That said however, people must be allowed to grieve in any way and to any extent they see fit. Maybe the writer of this article was trying to make a serious point about something, What it emerged as however was a throroughly nasty little piece of juvenile writing devoid of any sensitivity or understanding and even worse, it was done behind the cloak of anonymity.

Who wrote that article is talking pure rubbish.He has not got a clue

This is a terrible article. Poorly written, and poorly researched. Since this is the first game since Tommy's death, exactly what vitriol are you talking about? Did you hear something tonight that escaped the rest of us? You then try to tie in Tommy's death with the Daily Record attempting to defend the carry on in Manchester. You are obviously so ill informed that you don't realise that very few Celtic fans even bother with the Daily Record. You also will find no Celtic (nor I suspect a few Rangers fans) trying defend what occured last week. This diatribe is nothing more than the moronic rambling to try and create mischief. You want to criticise Celtic and Rangers when they get together to honour a truly decent man. In your eyes they just can't win. Sportingo seem to be relying on more and more sensationalist articles as time goes by. You have really gone down in my humble estimation as a website.

Are you sent on here to rise people, or are you a callous heartless barsteward? Minutes before Celtic win the league, you choose to post this sh*t? Get a life, mate, pondslime.

First of all , I think the general tone of your article is atrocious and is very poorly written. It offends the memory of Tommy Burns. Why should the Celtic family and others not pay their respects to this fine man. Sportingo have once again gone down into the gutter, for publishing such bile.I also think a little more research is needed, before this kind of crap is put onto this "excuse for a web site". Shame on you

very poor taste

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I'm pretty new to this site, can somone tell me if the author of these articles ever respond to our comments as I for one am still very annoyed at this particular article

Poorly written - well I can concede that is a matter of taste. Heartless - do I question what a decent guy or a great guy he was? No. Poorly researched? As this an opinion piece I don't really follow that point. Although some research of your own would have shown you that I posted a tribute to Tommy Burns on my blog at the time of his death. My point was, and remains, that the sustained and public mourning was over the top - as it would be for any footballer, rock star, politician or princess. It struck me then, and it strikes me now, that this outpouring of grief was in some way justified by building it up as a landmark moment in the battle to end the bigotry displayed by sizeable and vocal minorities of both sides of the Old Firm. Not only is this unlikely it does not do justice to the staff, players and fans of Rangers and Celtic who wanted to pay an honest tribute to Tommy Burns. More than that it turns what should be a private moment of grief into a public circus. And, as my reference to the Daily Record illustrates, it means the impact of the mourning is lessened to those of us not in the eye of Celtic-Rangers-Glasgow maelstrom by making the sentiments displayed seem hypocritical.

Unsurprising that the Celtic fans have jumped on this article. There appears to be a cultural fascism in the East End of Glasgow that will not countenance any percieved slights against the institution of Celtic. Thus the writer is variously a moron, crap, a barsteward or pond slime. In fact he says what a lot of people outside the Old Firm have been saying and raises real and serious points about the tributes, heartfelt though many of them are, being worth very little in the long term. The change since Tommy's death is shown by the fact that the comments display the same blinkered view and personal attacks that everyone else on this site receives when they have the temerity to talk about the Old Firm. Dignified?!?

It's a shame the people criticising this article don't seem to even remotely understand the point. The author has raised a topic that has been addressed before, but by referencing it with Tommy Burn's death and the hypocrisy that runs through Scottish football it's raised some very valid points. The outpouring of grief following Tommy's death, or any well-liked public figure's death, while well-meant is increasingly hollow. Sadly most people responding here seem to take criticism of an overly sentimental reaction to death as belittling that persons legacy - far from it, the writer is trying to preserve some dignity around death. The popularity of a minutes applause is a perfect example of this. The entire point of a minutes silence isn't a public display of grief, it's supposed to encourage reflection on the person who has passed away. A minute's applause says "This was a good person". A minute's silence allows you to ask yourself "why was this a good person?"

As usual morons write about stuff they no nothing about .As a Liverpool fan i can assure Celtic are amongst the most feeling fans in the world they helped us with our grief after Hillsborough all credit to them PS well done on winning the SPL Celtic from your friends on Merseyside

septic fans are all the same, the world would be a better place without them. that wee guy from liverpool, rubbish, talking rubbish, sounds like a septic fan trying the bum up the "best fans in the world" it does seem though that peter liewell, or someone at septic park is addicted to the internet and cant help themselves but to reply or comment on any story about septic fc on any website.EVERY time there is something negative on them someone is there to lend a helping hand, deny the story or rubbish it. Mr Burns was a good football man, but we all have to move on, too many times people use grieving as an excuse for whatever, the public circus was a disgrace to the Burns family.Whatever happened to dignity? PS (off the topic) Can the old firm help us get Romanov out?