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image by Tomislav Šipek, 8 March 2019
I found a photograph of a Scottish flag with dark blue color and logo, but
this flag may be a team flag, not flag the of the SFA.
https://www.facebook.com/scotlandnationalteam/photos/a.485395839376/10157300232504377/?type=3&theater
Tomislav Šipek, 8 March 2019
Source: http://www.celticclothing.com/242.html
This flag with "the bhoys" is accurate and can be bought from club shops.
Stephen Farrell, 17 May 2006
Yet another flag is used by Celtic supporters: a white saltire on a green
background.
Thierry Gilabert, 8 May 2004
This image (located by Thierry Gilabert) is a photo of a flag bearing an IRA slogan, which now appears to be rarely seen. Celtic Football Club has no association with the IRA.
This flag bears the slogan of the IRA - our day will come. Although this
organisation is unfortunately linked with Celtic, this is not the flag of Celtic
Football Club. In fact that picture must have been taken a long time ago because
the club crest is now copyrighted and such flags cannot be found around Celtic
Park anymore.
Stephen Farrell, 17 May 2006
The New York Times today has a piece on the Rangers-Celtic rivalry in Glasgow
and its connection to Protestant-Catholic history. I found it interesting that
Celtic fans wave the flag of the Irish republic at
matches. many Celtic supporters, apparently, are descendants of 19th-century
Irish immigrants.
Al Kirsch, 24 April 2011
Many years ago (I think it was in 1961) at a football match where Celtic were
playing, I was surprised to see some fans waving an alternative version of the
Irish Tricolour. This left off the orange band and substituted a yellow one. I
speculate that this was done by fans who were unwilling to tolerate the
appearance of any Protestant symbol on their flag - even if it was that of the
Irish Republic itself. They would have known that yellow and white were the
colours of the Papacy and so substituted yellow. I have not seen any such flag
in recent years. I wonder how common it was 50 years ago?
Kenneth Fraser,
18 November 2011
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 4 May 2024
At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_City_Service we learn that
"The Capital City Service (CCS) is a Scottish football hooligan firm
associated with Hibernian F.C. (…) active from 1984". I was surprised to
know that hooligan firms exist and I wonder about their working ethics.
Anyway, they have a logo, and that logo includes a variant of the Union Jack, replacing blue with green and red with black:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CCS_Pin_Badge.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Capital_City_Service_(hooligan_group).jpg