James Forrest

5 days ago | thecelticblog.com | James Forrest

This has been a landmark weekend for the takeover narrative. It has been a landmark weekend because, for the first time since all this takeover talk began, the Ibrox club has levelled with its own fans about the challenges they’re going to face over the next couple of years—and well into the future. Newspapers have reported on this as though it’s some kind of bombshell. It is not a bombshell.

6 days ago | thecelticblog.com | James Forrest

James Forrest | 20:21 10/05/25 I have weird memories from my younger days. I retain a lot of knowledge that I must have picked up at some point, but I couldn’t, for the life of me, tell you where or when or how I ever came to possess it. A couple of years ago, I was looking for an analogy to sum up some of the scattershot behaviour across the city — and a weird one came to mind.

6 days ago | thecelticblog.com | James Forrest

Earlier in the week, as everyone now knows, Scottish football was treated to a highly amusing spectacle: that of Dave King climbing on top of a soapbox with no other purpose than to try to make himself look and sound good. There was one moment where he nodded vaguely in the direction of Paul Murray, but even this was wholly self-serving. The rest was filled with the usual King bombast. It may be one of the most arrogant interventions I’ve seen in quite some time. He criticised his rivals.

6 days ago | thecelticblog.com | James Forrest

Earlier this week, our wonderful new contributor Paulina did an excellent piece on the shocking behaviour of the Ibrox fans. From her place in a foreign land, she looked across to this little island and wondered why nothing has been done about it. She looked back into the recent history of the fixture, found some of the incidents, and to say she’s appalled — and a bit baffled — would be putting it mildly. I find it’s often instructive to get the views of someone outside the bubble, looking in.

1 week ago | thecelticblog.com | James Forrest

James Forrest | 20:00 09/05/25 I know I promised a couple of pieces on King today, but I simply haven’t gotten around to them because so much else is making the news. There’s so much news today that I didn’t even manage to cover it all. So that spills over into early tomorrow. But just as I thought I was finished for the day… this came along.