I’ve not touched the Anthony Stokes story on purpose. It’s one of those stories you could be writing for a week, if you started. Anthony enjoyed a successful period for Celtic but the writing has been on the wall since the latter part of Neil Lennon’s era.
He’s still only 27, with around half his career ahead of him, but it won’t be at Celtic. I hope he gets a club who can make the most of his talent.
Despite the riches brought by a new TV deal solidarity contract, many English Football League clubs are still under severe financial pressure, including Neil’s current charges, Bolton Wanderers. Bolton owe the vast majority of their circa £200m debt to owner Eddie Davies, so there’s a good chance that will be written off, but administration remains likely.
Bolton chairman, Phil Gartside, who I hear is now seriously ill, saw this coming years ago, when he proposed an EPL 2-type league reorganisation, while lobbying for the inclusion of Celtic and Rangers. The plan was kyboshed by his then fellow Premier League acquaintances. It would have been transformational for Celtic, and literally a life saver for Rangers.
That Bolton debt figure is pretty eye-watering but the returns from non-league club Forest Green Rovers caught the eye. Net debts reached £5.4m after season 2013-14, thanks to a £2.9m loss. In non-league football. There’s only one Scottish club with that kind of debt. Although I suppose they are also playing off-piste in the Championship. Pay your way or go to the wall. Long term that rule applies.
The football industry in England and Wales will survive for a while yet, despite the broken financial model. It won’t be until the TV rights value drops due to reliable and easy to access pirate feeds that the bubble will burst. And it will burst. The underlying fragility in the football business is that your expenditure is either fixed or often contracted on a multi-year basis, while income is vulnerable to sharp shocks. It’s not a healthy business to be running at a deficit in.
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FRANNYB67
Know all the area well, cousins all over the place, had a great night in the shawls club in Oct, a 21st, a good chance to catch up with family.
A good chance we know or know people who know us!.
GB
Gerryfaethebrig
Did the parents have a bakers , if it’s the same one’s, they were our neighbours?.
GB
Kelvinbhoy, many condolences.
so for the nighshift,
the evening times NOW YOU KNOW section explained the CELTIC 3 – 1 1967 with what picture ?
I will pick up the answers in the morning/
The picture in question has the backdrop of an immensely packed jungle with the flags of Ireland , Netherlands and Lebanon on the roof
Saint Stivs on 4th December 2015 1:19 am
The best hun game I ever attended.
The most satisfying victory of all.
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 4TH DECEMBER 2015 1:25 AM
Saint Stivs on 4th December 2015 1:19 am
The best hun game I ever attended.
The most satisfying victory of all.
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morning,
so what picture capture could be the most illustrative of your memory of that game.
Now You Know
I was at that game at CP.
Right in front of us, John Clark pulled down Henderson when he was clean through on Ronnie.
Kai Johansen scored from the penalty rebound after the ball hit the bar.
It was of course ruled out.
And the rest is history.
As was our want in those days we were parked behind the Rangers End.
When we eventually left after the crowds melted away, the ones in blue much earlier than the bhoys in green, there was still widespread disquiet among the struggling stragglers.
My brother in law said loudly to no one in particular but everyone in earshot,
“What did you expect? You were playing the European Champions.”
A few startled faces looked round but when they saw five of us, the other four brawny and fit, they scuttled off. I would have been their first pick.
Saint Stivs and `GG
6mins 45 secs in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiCeGkchN8A
We were down and out with 15 to go.
One goal down and a penalty to the hun . We`re at the Celtic end looking down on Johansen as he takes the kick.
Immediately from our free kick.straight up the field,corner to us.
Goal.
So,from definite defeat to draw in the space of two minutes.
The you tube takes it from our corner.
Happihillocck
Dundee
1978
She grabbed my head
Pushed down
I gagged
Drink you fecker
I tried
To no avail
He finished
Slapped me
And slapped her
Um no paying
Bedlam
He’l do it again
Grabbed
Forced
Again
Didn’t work
I need in
Proper
He said
She turned me
Go on then
After
He was chatting
Nah he said
I’ll get him the England tap
For his birthday
What age Said she
5
Hail Hail
celtic 2 airdrie 2 1969
WILLIE COLLOW
WILLIE COLLOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahVkNqIsqYA
fallon saves again
1964 v slovan bratislava
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ElO3YA9c8g
Stivs
Great stuff.
glasgow 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MnISYJ9yHw
Saint stivs
Hope that’s spelled right cos my eyesight is going
I’m no really thAt old
But um
Blin
Saint Stivs.
Bless me father for I have sinned.
I Googled.
My memory has it as an evening midweek kick off but the pic is day lit.
Confused baffled and bewildered.
So I watched the video and it was an evening game.
I guess the pic was from the first half
Archie McPherson
“A goal by Murdoch.”
“What a goal.”
“What a goal by Murdoch.”
A shot feom the edge of the box which flew into the goalie’s, Ritchie, Billy not Lionel, top right corner.
Liz was finished
Next please
No movement
We thought she was dead
Hoped
Back home
Right as rain
Welcome back
The above happened
Ambulance called
Hospital check in
Stomach pumped
Pregnancy test
Returned home
In Dundee I the 70’s
I and my surviving siblings know this happened.
And we also know that there were hundreds of other instances
There you go
I’ve changed child rape
For
Instances
Instances that have been covered up
Files lost
Even the files I saw in 1988 never mentioned any abuse
Abuse was happening since birth dates
From family
And care providers
It’s a fecked up world
hail hail
Saint Stivs on 4th December 2015 2:16 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYlL8wtG5pQ
2.50 in.
Moi.
Saint Stivs/ MACJAY
Do you think that scum mob would have got away with last Thursdays antics back in the day ? Don’t know if I was more gutted with the result than finding out the liberties they managed to take.
HH
I’ll yellow card myself
Paul I love this place
But
Lying
Bastads
Tae
TRAVELLERBHOY
Tonydonnely’s getting exactly the reaction he’s looking for on here, let him sit in the Brazen and talk about his secret meetings with the board and all that crap but dont expect to meet him at an away game soon. Getting fed up with the the Tony Donnelly show on here,
HH
Moonhowling from yester year !!!!!
Yeshua is the King of Kings and he sacrificed himself to take away All of our Sins.
I disagreed with Kojo a few Times publically, privately loads, but I loved his Brutal Honesty.
You can’t ever beat those Irish, as they are Superb. Dena.
Teentyfirstofmay1979
I’m a traveller man
Nothing worse than your own turning against you
Lifestyle no problem
sleekit
Well
I’ve had 3 bros
The worst thiing in all my life
Is my family turning against me
It never happened
We are all Celtic
Hail Hail
TWENTYFIRSTOFMAY1979 on 4TH DECEMBER 2015 3:05 AM
Saint Stivs/ MACJAY
Do you think that scum mob would have got away with last Thursdays antics back in the day ? Don’t know if I was more gutted with the result than finding out the liberties they managed to take.
HH
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Sorry,mate.Been out.
You referring to the hun game and the roof falling in ?
Literally as well as figuratively.
:-)
Mate,I haven`t lived in Scotland for 30 years,so my opinion on current events has to be assessed around that fact.
Back in the day,the hun and it`s fellow travellers had much more power and influence.
In the `50s George Graham attempted to shut us down over the “Eire flag” issue.
I get the impression that now they require to jump thro` a few hoops to achieve their aims.
They need subtlety .
Fergus McCann may well have been the catalyst for letting them know that were not going to sit at the back of the bus any more.
And our previous chairman,John Reid.
It’s not often I say goodnight on cqn
Well already said
The killer booze has caught me
And he won’t let go
Before I go
Just need to reiterate the point
Sleek it monkeys in the background or decent moralisti Celtic men at the front
Well
No contest
The Celtic
Won 7-1
Hail Hsil
MACJAY
No mate, was referring to the crap that happened after the ajax game. the clip you posted from 71 reminded me of past days, they’d never have got away with it then. had their arses kicked back to Amsterdam, and govan
HH
Honesty will not bring wealth in Material things, at this late stage.
Stop buying the latest…. or even warn yer kids……
Ephesians 6 …Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
2 “Honor thy father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise:
3 “that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.”
4 And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
5 Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ,
twentyfirstofmay1979 on 4th December 2015 4:35 am
:-)
There was a post on here which suggested that retribution had been sought and achieved.
The impression I get is that many Tims now have moved on from “street fighting.”
A higher demographic,if that doesn`t sound too snooty.
The hun,however is still mired.
That pleases me.:-)
TRAVELLERBHOY
Keep travelling mate, as far away from this insular wee country of ours as possible, you’ll always find the real Celtic family wherever you go
HH
petec on 4th December 2015 4:43 am
The recent tragedy in San Bernardino…………
U.S.A. correspondent suggesting that there had been a ” holiday” celebration which morphed into a celebration with a large Christian influence.
Christmas,but you can`t say that.
MACJAY
Doesn’t sound snooty at all, Iv’e moved on myself. Just annoyed me the thought of them running amok in the Gallowgate, Hallowed Turf
HH
I got 5 on it
TWENTYFIRSTOFMAY1979 on 4TH DECEMBER 2015 4:53 AM
MACJAY
Doesn’t sound snooty at all, Iv’e moved on myself. Just annoyed me the thought of them running amok in the Gallowgate, Hallowed Turf
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Love it.
I was lucky enough to attend B.M.C.U.W.`s hootenanny in Machuills ,High St. in October.
Where is BOBBY Murdoch and his curled up winklepickers?
His absence is unacceptable.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 4th December 2015 4:51 am
petec on 4th December 2015 4:43 am
The recent tragedy in San Bernardino…………
U.S.A. correspondent suggesting that there had been a ” holiday” celebration which morphed into a celebration with a large Christian influence.
Christmas,but you can`t say that.
…………………………………………………..
Stay away from MSM news jibberjabber m8ty.
The next US presidente will be even worse than Bramstokers, nae shadow of a doubt…. End Times.
Erdogan got cocky thinking he would be invincible, with NATO backing him.
That Armenian Genocide………………
Vladimir Putin is acting like a responsible World Leader, to me he is being led in to a Trap. Vladimir isnae a Christian when he ………………………………………………………… What do I really know?
To me, Vlad is fighting this Obvious, Anti Christian, New World Order. And I genuinely think he isn’t in the Club.
I know nothing but I do Know that I love this
MACJAY
Love Machuills, used to take my son there before the game until he ditched me for the GB. Has BMCUW chucked it ? Quite a few seem to have. Any news of Tricolouredribbon ? Not heard how he’s doing
HH
TWENTYFIRSTOFMAY1979 on 4TH DECEMBER 2015 5:11 AM
Or Summa of Sammi ?
PETEC on 4TH DECEMBER 2015 5:11 AM
Celtic.
100% on the same page.
Vlad?
The recreation of the Soviet empire is his aim and he`s doing well.
Crimea. Now Russian.
NEXT?
Nothing whatsoever altruistic in his manoeuvres.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 4th December 2015 5:35 am
PETEC on 4TH DECEMBER 2015 5:11 AM
Celtic.
100% on the same page.
Vlad?
The recreation of the Soviet empire is his aim and he`s doing well.
Crimea. Now Russian.
NEXT?
Nothing whatsoever altruistic in his manoeuvres.
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The Times have moved on.
The Leader of Russia is playing defensively, he has always done so – No Wonder he is popular when he is attacked.
I’m a conspiracy nutter for being the non conformist that I am. I hope people can forgive me.