MICK LYNCH // This is ACSOM // A Celtic State of Mind // Standing up for the working class

[@eugeneritchie5403]

Great man and leader,went on prime time tv and challenged the narrative,never lost a debate,stood up to the establishment 👍✊️

[@TheHillhunter]

Spot on.👍 Lynch never lost a debate. Educated, factual and precise. Uses his knowledge and experience very well.

[@1CEW4]

Hibs man here, Connolly was indeed a Hibs fan he used to write home asking what our results were. He wasn't a ball boy but he was at the meeting the night Hibs were founded and used to attend our games. Éirinn Go Brách.

[@martinnolan7159]

Mick is a fantastic listen , I attended a lecture he gave in Belfast with my daughter in the summer, as part of Féile an Phobail , standing ovation , left a very positive impression with anyone I spoke with at the event

[@ravensborn4727]

I proudly served as part of The Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT) union and later union merger, and served at branch level at the City Chambers in Edinburgh, as father of the chapel for paper mill Smith Anderson, Leslie, Fife. Standing up for the working class and workers rights. Another great ASCOM with Mick Lynch, uniting the working class. H.H. 🍀

[@TheHillhunter]

Mick Lynch ... on uniting the working class, defo it will create a new and better future. On the miners strike in 84 no truer words... indeed that was planned de-industrialisation and we knew it then. And lost! Thatcherism is the biggest step back for the progressive gains of the working class and we have not recovered. Great show PJD. Magnificent stuff man!👏💚

[@joefitzpatrick337]

Really enjoyed that. Mick brought some pride back for the working class and really highlighted how working people can still have a voice and not just accept changes employers or government want to enforce. Well done ACSOM these type of podcasts are a great listen

[@riboid]

I know this is primarily a football podcast, but having politics discussions is a real positive. There are enough football podcasts about. Anyway, Mick is a great guest and has been a bright light in politics for the last few years. We need more working class people like him into politics.

[@pepelemoko2820]

I've just turned 64 and I remember my first footballing hero as a wee bhoy was Jinky. I've had a few people I admire greatly from different spheres of life but Mick burst onto my horizon and I thought I'd been through a worm hole to rosy spectacled days of yore. Similar to my (sorry man) but adoration of Brother Tommy, Mick prevents me biting my nails over the dark horizon of fascism inflicted on the malleable growing minority. Thanks John Paul for the inspiring, educational and gripping casts.

[@thetone1526]

Great viewing here. Mick is a real stand-up hero, a great voice for working class people. Well done Paul John and Tommy for the very good interaction too 👏👏

[@Voidoid77]

Good to hear Mick Lynch talk so much sense. Reminds me of many great trade unionists (like Jimmy Reid and Mick McGahey and many more, etc.), who always did their best to unite the working-class and tried 24/7 to improve the shameful standard of living that the poorest in our society have to try and survive from week to week. I remember , with great fondness & excitement, the Rock Against Racism & The Anti-Nazi League movements and all the brilliant gigs, marches, and the musicians speaking out against the BNP/NF/BM who were so vocal and had a large number of followers during the early 70's onwards.... which has, sadly, far too many parallels to the state of today's political climate and the rise of the Far-Right. All the Labour Party top people since the millenium, (and Blair just before the 2000's), have become idealogically less & less to the left and have effectively turned into a less callous version of the Tories and their 70's political policies. The seriously pertinent changes for those most in need in today's society in the recent budget have hit the working poor & the pensioners really hard. A 50% rise in bus-fares & the minimum wage age-limit increases restricted to workers over a certain age. It should have been for all ages of the low-paid. Many young people do not have the luxury of being able to stay w/ their parents @ home, so now they've got a 50% rise in travel costs to deal with alongside their scandalously under-paid job. All power to you, Mick & all union members all over the U.K. from a retired ex-shipyard worker. (And also a life-long Celtic supporter).

[@johnegan7363]

Cannot wait for this

[@KennethMcaulay]

Thanks

[@ACelticStateOfMind]

Thank you for supporting the channel Kenneth. We really appreciate it.

[@ianmcginlay9002]

another brilliant show.. enjoyed it so much we all have to stick together solidarity to you all

[@andymcaleer4163]

What you've got with Mick is truth, theses people don't care about the truth, this man is a total legend, so glad to have this man is about, God Bless Mick our working class Hero

[@tvmediathebiggestweaponuse1671]

How can you ask for God to bless Mick Lynch when he openly admitted he does not believe in God. When Godless people are in a position of influence then you will reap deception and corruption. Which is what you are literally seeing right across western society.

[@grahamstewart615]

No harm but Mick can't see passed the Labour Party. Nobody with any politics could think Labour are Left wing

[@michaelfern4079]

They’re a globalist project, same as Tories, Liberal Democrat’s, greens, snp, etc.

[@leadzeppbelly]

He doesn’t think they’re left wing

[@grahamstewart615]

@leadzeppbelly Twice I've heard Mick at meetings say vote Labour. Why bother?

[@jk12114]

Not sure what happened with live comments I joined the broadcast late . However I want to put on record , how much we my freinds and fam enjoy watching Mick put crooks and charlatans in their place ! Mick is one of the Bhoys and absolute legend💪 round our way 💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💛

[@martinmaximca3284]

What an education !!!, listening to Mick, Tommy and Paul, (and a nice wee mention of Jim Mcdade fae Clydebank😂)..cheers Bhoys Hail Hail

[@gaylesmith7512]

At first I was skeptical about this interview and I thought Mick Lynch isn't a Celtic supporter but I listened to the full show and fair play to him I really enjoyed learning about his take on life and I have lot of common ground with the man

[@riboid]

I am not sure where you skepticism comes from as Mick Lynch has been a shining light in politics in the last few years, Gayle?

[@gaylesmith7512]

@riboid It was purely from a football perspective and him not being a Celtic supporter. As for his politics I knew where he stood on most issues, but what I learned in the interview were the circumstances which if you like , shaped those beliefs and made him who he is.

[@riboid]

@@gaylesmith7512 Thanks.

[@ben5156]

I was a shipyard worker and listening to Jim Reid he commanded to be heard and was loved by the workers.

[@peepsibhoy]

bullshit,they ruled by arm fist!

[@ben5156]

@@peepsibhoy you know fuck all about shipyard worker I worked there for sixteen years until that bastard Thatcher closed our yards on the lower Clyde so until you know what your talking about try harder to find out more about how we felt about Jimmy Reid .

[@johnwallace2684]

Outstanding show, my favourite show so far

[@andymcaleer4163]

Can't believe this man is on our wonderful channel 🎉🎉🎉, your my kind of man

[@brianbeacham3841]

What a man is Mick Lynch.. absolute hero to the working class 💚

[@AuldScot1888]

I sung the man's praises right up till he backed Brexit. His ego prevents him from admitting what a clusterfu*k it has become.

[@gezobel]

Get real .. Lynch is a champagne socialist. Working Class? Don't make me laugh! 🤣

[@FraserFoster-u3f]

He trained as an electrician so understands the working man while taking no bull from the tories hell do for me.​ Just because he chooses the limelight to highlight his cause doesn't make him a champagne socialist !!.@gezobel

[@AuldScot1888]

@FraserFoster-u3f All good, except he championed Brexit. Idiot or bought and paid for?

[@FraserFoster-u3f]

@AuldScot1888 If he was my union rep I would be delighted.

[@darrenhughes1494]

Great stuff, what a coup getting Mick on the show. Lynch has been an inspiration in the last few years.

[@bossdawg1702]

GREAT MAN MICK LOVE LISTENIN TO HIM 🇮🇪

[@gerrytraynor5435]

Mick is a legend

[@shackbhoy]

What a superb show , great to see it . Mick Lynch , a true legend . 🖤🍀

[@Multijoe84]

I remember mick was all over the news about 2 years ago with the RMT unions and strikes etc. Hadn’t heard much of him since, nice to see him here in good form.

[@FinbarBryson-vy4so]

LOVE Mick Lynch!!! FANTASTIC Guest. Will Listen to This Tomorrow. His Deputy Dempsey...Is a Millwall and Celtic Fan. And YES There are a Fair Few of Those Around. :-)

[@jameslarkin8494]

Mick Lynch doesn't suffer fools gladly. This guy knows what he's talking about..Very very clever with the tongue. He has my back 100%..Tommy is having a whale of a time..

[@BarryBull-mv5no]

So your supporter of the guy ..is that what saying lol

[@arronblack67]

As a Unite Rep in my place of work, the battle Mick had a few years ago was brilliant. Good to see him on the show gents! 🍀🍀

[@mick21031963]

Brilliant show PJ

[@johnmcglinchey8628]

Mick Lynch fails to mention that the top league in England has moved away from the top league in Scotland is because sky pump millions into it - to compare both league's is just ridiculous

[@danielmcdaid2647]

Best podcast I've heard in a long time, great conversation. 🍀🇮🇪

[@ACHUNDOI]

Brilliant interview thanks ACSOM 👍

[@spike6643]

John Paul! My old man is in that tunnel photo!! I have his tunneling medals.❤

[@spike6643]

I mean Paul John...

[@lesliereid2835]

Excellent show, love mick especially the way he tore Chris phelp a new one!!

[@frankdevine1895]

It was a tiny minority of the Celtic support that racially abused walters, a tiny minority. And it was through the good offices of Tiocfaidh Ar La: For Celtic and Ireland fanzine, that did sterling work among the younger members of the Celtic support after that game, that removed that poisonous dispensation among the support. But it was a tiny minority that abused Mark Walters

[@leadzeppbelly]

True just as it’s a tiny minority who disrupt Remembrance

[@albertmccready478]

Absolutely. I was there that day .

[@Jimmy_Cooper]

It was substantial minority ,not a tiny minority . And the majority , never batted an eyelid . Not condoning or criticising , but let’s not try to rewrite history here . Unfortunately that was just the way of the world back then . Thankfully we’ve moved on since then

[@DrowningDogandMalatesta]

This is by far the most important podcast in scotland... well done!

[@ianmcginlay9002]

well done ACSOM Mick Lynch was great.

[@robertmccafferty5549]

Fantastic interview. If only Mick was prime minister. If only.

[@andymcaleer4163]

This man is a leader, wish you were the leader of this monstrous world mate

[@Twiceonasunday]

A grifter that’s never picked up the tools? The world will be a better place Wednesday morning with Trump landslide!

[@dannypettigrew6009]

Brilliant show, great to hear truth being spoken 👏. Looking forward for mick coming back with pat nevin, well done bhoys.

[@jimmyjohnstone6096]

Living Legend ! 👏👏👏

[@onceatim67]

Living Legend!! U don’t have a high bar do u?

[@chriskinnear1131]

@@onceatim67 How does it feel to be a fanny

[@onceatim67]

@@chriskinnear1131 I don’t know. Tell me

[@gary1470]

Don't understand what Mick is talking about calling the Glasgow Derby the 'undercard' to English games, it's always been an early kick-off on Sky.

[@johnmcglinchey8628]

Mick Lynch talks as if the English league has remained the same and the Scottish league has slipped back. Brentford would never be in the top league if it wasn't for the tv money, same with Bournemouth. Scottish football is financed by the gate money. The gate money in English football is petty cash - hope you bhoy pulled him on that after the podcast

[@19rocknrollcircus68]

Love Mick Lynch, been looking forward to this,he should be prime minister that mhan.

[@gaylesmith7512]

@19rocknrollcircus68 The British establishment would never allow it. I mean they could barely tolerate Jeremy Corbyn, and Mick Lynch has very similar beliefs to the man.

[@buddymills]

I'm with your Celtic state of mind. More strength to you. Thank you

[@a.b.mccartney1013]

I love Mick. But he supported Brexit that has made working class people in Britain a lot, lot poorer.

[@derrydoire1864]

He was right about Brexit , Europe have unelected bureaucrats , not very democratic is it

[@frankgreen1663]

Well he was half right...on the one hand they have as any government has....but it undoubtedly has affected the economy and made the country poorer !​@derrydoire1864

[@danxzon]

Can’t be right all the time

[@a.b.mccartney1013]

@@derrydoire1864 yes, voted to make the working class poorer. That's Brexit for you.

[@derrydoire1864]

@@a.b.mccartney1013Of course being in Europe all those years made us all filthy rich

[@JohnBrown-gn3xi]

Restores my faith in humanity when I listen to Mick. Cuts through the bs and tells it straight.

[@ronmac67]

Superb this 👍

[@alanmccormack1461]

Great listen !

[@junglelion1265]

What a interview 🍀🇮🇪

[@davidstokell-nv7jr]

Mick speaks so much sense as always HH

[@frankgreen1663]

They don't have him on question time a lot do they ?!!!.....wonder why 😅

[@darrenkerr3495]

Brilliant show week in week out. COYBIG.

[@jamesfranciscasey83]

Working Class Hero 🍀💚🇮🇪

[@josephconnelly4863]

Another great show. Great chat.

[@shoozyshoos7462]

Republican bands copy the Orange bands.. what a potty statement. Bit baffled with this guy, he even swapped fitbaw team. Only a minority of Celtic fans fly/vocalise of Palestine, most are there to support Celtic. 🍀

[@leadzeppbelly]

They kinda do though that music is fucking pish

[@WilliamHempenstall]

Churchill would been better paying more attention to British aristocracy and the secret back channel with the NDSAP than his racist obsession with Ireland

[@DuncanClark-p5o]

Clever, clever man

[@leannecampbell4551]

Are we ever going to have a socio-political guest of a Celtic-persuasion, from the non-bolshevik, libertarian, wokeism framework?? There surely has to be a balance as opposed to playing to the gallery every week.

[@ACelticStateOfMind]

Who should we ask on Leanne?

[@leannecampbell4551]

@@ACelticStateOfMind You’ll know more than me, PJ, but if it doesn’t exclusively need to be an in-person sit down, then along the lines of: Ilir Meta (sure Rudi could help sort this), Frankie Boyle, Dominic Diamond, Artur Boruc, Paolo Di Canio (Granty etc could help sort this), Grant Morrison, Jerry Sadowitz (😎)…off the top of my head.

[@laynervixxer]

And Jerry Sadowitz. Wow how edgy.

[@leannecampbell4551]

@@laynervixxer Satire is lost on some I see! 😅 Still, at least his social commentary tells it exactly how it is and would make for compelling, non-victim consciousness viewing! ☺️👍

[@jimmyjohnstone5878]

The Union leaders in the 1980s cocked it up. They were too interested in trying to fight a class war than in being pragmatic and helping the Labour party win elections. They made it easy for the Tories.

[@dontmesswithcrows]

Mick is also a big Cork City FC fan.

[@martinbradley5833]

Brilliant show and pretty sure Bobbie Gillispse Dad was top man in union maybe SOGAT I remember . Good people all

[@gaw67]

Like Mick Lynch 👏

[@jamesbarclay8430]

Interesting interview with Mick Lynch.

[@andrewmaccallum2367]

SOLIDARITY!! ✊

[@user-fs9qf3py9o]

Brilliant chat

[@davidstokell-nv7jr]

Joker goes to Stuttgart what a song

[@paulbehan575]

Joxer ❤

[@alexalexmcleanntlworldcom]

Joxter

[@andymcaleer4163]

The thing about this man is they think they can talk him out, thinking he's a daft man, don't think so mate, c'mon Tommy Bhoy

[@duke_hammersmith_iii]

Been waiting aw week for this. Magic!

[@18pablo88]

What a interview

[@stevo67-uu9rc]

I made it till the end. Mick Lynch is a decent guy. I don't agree with everything he stands for. And it's great that it's exactly what he pointed out. I met an elderly Irish woman back in the late 80's who, when hearing I was from Glasgow, asked if I supported that team called Celticrangers. Just sayin'....

[@jameshalpin5958]

Just like James Connelly working class hero. Just a slight correction to what Mick said about my wife,s cousin Jim McDaid who he mentioned was one of the founding members of RMT London Celtic supporters clubs. James was from Hardgate/Duntocher not Clydebank. lol🤣

[@andrewmaccallum2367]

Superb episode! ✊

[@LeftWinger9]

Good guest Mick, agree on Ireland, my grandad was from. Newry but sadly I never met him and I always said I'd follow Ireland because of him and have until this day. Brentford are a great club, I went to Australia v New Zealand there last October and the staff were magic, the new stadium is a lovely little place. Tommy should get Jeremy Corbyn on the show 👍🏻

[@stephenfitzpatrick4632]

A great man. Very knowledgeable. Watched the 3-3 moral defeat game in the Cock Tavern in April. Was as crowded as the old Jungle. Heaving. Speaking if the Jungle, k too was at that new year’s game when Walters was abused. Also in the Celtic `end. Worst I’ve ever seen from our fans.

[@weeciaran2967]

Fitba and politics ❤it🎉

[@jamesmcnally5838]

Kenny Dalglish once told me, if Stockport County paid the most wages, I’da won nothing. Amateurs don’t think like Professionals.

[@johnwight1]

I always thought Jimmy Reid was a Rangers man. Reid, sadly, went on to write for Murdoch's Sun newspaper, in whose pages he attacked Scargill during the Miners Strike of 84/85. McGahey was Scotland's finest trade union leader after James Connolly imo.

[@derrydoire1864]

He was always Celtic

[@gaylesmith7512]

No , he was always one of our own, but he represented everyone and he did it with passion and without prejudice

[@johncarroll772]

Jimmy Reid used to drink in Heraghtys bar , well known Celtic bar in Glasgows southside.

[@johnmcdonnellakacarljunglebhoy]

@@johncarroll772 I met Jimmy Reid when I was a wee. - My Da & uncle were members of the Trade Union club & we had Xmas dinner there for years. Jimmy was a Celtic fan but underplayed it as he wanted working class of all religions & persuasions to unite behind the cause

[@whitesoulman5774]

Rangers fan from Govan here, The wonderful Jimmy Reid went to St Gerard’s in Govan he was Celtic man but cared for everyone. As for him writing for the Sun… sadly that’s what working class people were reading at the time so he was getting his opinions over to the masses anyway, great interview by the way.

[@theoisaac9948]

👍 👍 💯

[@thecraftyguy6358]

You don't need a Uni degree to get a job Mick. It's easier now to be your own boss. The online world gives people this opportunity. Why be a slave to the system when you can be its master.

[@johnoneill8211]

Tommy could learn a lot in presentation if he adopted Micks vocabulary. Talking about "pish" and "knitting new arseholes." will not win any thinking person over.

[@jimmyjohnstone5878]

Agreed, but did he say 'knitting' ? I thought the phrase was 'ripping a new arsehole'.

[@RedTed67]

Gave Tommy Sheridan a showing up. What a true Trade Unionist should act like. Sheridan made a fool of himself more than usual.

[@billystones4346]

😅this show should be broadcast mainstream its an education

[@andymcaleer4163]

Wouldn't mind us all being together, it's all about something else, though

[@andymcaleer4163]

Been listening, mick is so so right, am done with bullshit

[@chrisallan2356]

Please talk sense. In all the rhetoric of analysing Scottish football v English football you fail to memtion the elephant in the room. Which is Sky Sports.

[@frankgreen1663]

Should be PM

[@colinchristie8642]

Shay Logan played for Brentford.

[@JohnAnderson-ss9vn]

i wish for once labour would reverse some tory policies that are unfairly biased towards workin class people

[@tvmediathebiggestweaponuse1671]

Starmer and Labour was just a baton change to carry on with the WEF agenda which is to drive more poverty, people owning nothing and being happy. The globalist corporate NGO's are so powerfully rich they have most of western politicians in their pocket. Bill Gates and Larry Fink the CEO of BlackRock was at downing street last week, now why would they be there. The recent budget tells you why. Pull the scales from your eyes, these people are the enemy of humanity. Wake up.

[@NeilYoung-q4k]

Labour and tories are two cheeks of the same arse

[@KinnelTY]

FFS painful. bloody listen ffs tommy. This is poor. I would look like Paxman up here ffs. Stop allowing mediocrity to dilute the product. PJD main man, guest every now n then. JP as much as possible. mick lynch is a man of the people. 11 mins in he makes a key point about the need for a working class, social conscious groups changing society. tommy ''we need leading sports folk''

[@FrankFaeley-wj9qk]

I need Tommy's email addy?

[@michaelmcfadden1622]

Gets better every week

[@georgeoneill6942]

Does Mike regret voting in favour of brexit. Have a lot of time for him, that matter aside.

[@bigc5630]

Im a celtic fan , a nationalist from Belfast, I will be honest, I think some of the things , Tommy Robinson did i.e exposing the grooming gangs, was a good thing! James Connoly also said something along the lines of, no foreigner should be able to take a job from an Irish man.

[@johnhughes3159]

The only grooming gangs he exposed were that unbelievable number of paedophiles in his own main supporters. You’re believing his nonsense. Everything he said was lies.

[@johnhughes3159]

Listen to the whole podcast mate. You may learn something about reactionary populism and how easy it is to manipulate folk with those views.

[@bigc5630]

@johnhughes3159 I littetally just said, I think it is a good thing to call out grooming gangs! The alternative is to not call out grooming gangs, is that where your at? I hope not!

[@johnhughes3159]

@ Robinson has 109 paedophiles in his leadership. Thats a fact. Did anything Robinson ‘called out’ lead to a conviction, or just racism? Try not to be so easily manipulated by those that appeal to your base racism and nativism.

[@1888palak]

You can't watch his documentary and say he's wrong. The fact they jailed him speaks for itself.

[@spike6643]

Mick is a legend but shouldn't preach on subjects he has very little knowledge on.. pipe bands for instance. Irish nationalists have played flutes for centuries.. but, hey ho..

[@jamesmcnally5838]

You can love football as a game, but to change who you Support, is akin to Mick changing his allegiance to the Tory Party. Defo not on.

[@blindasabat67]

I've always thought Mick was more old labour. Ah fighter of the working class and freedom of speech. Sadly, I feel the big two are just working for banks and private industries.

[@johncarroll772]

Dalglish nowadays would sign for Brentford. 😂😂😂😂😂 Arguably the greatest British ever.