It is the indiscriminate nature of life that can shock us the most. Liam Miller, 36, is critically ill with that most feared of diseases, which has taken so many in our families, and our own CQN community. Legend has it that Sir Alex Ferguson came to Celtic Park to watch 17-year-old Vincent Kompany, but was blown away by Miller, who got on the end of an incredible move to score, as Celtic humbled Anderlecht in the Champions League.
This may or may not be true, I suspect Ferguson knew about Miller before travelling north, but the player’s potential was irresistible, either way. He was the brightest graduate of the Celtic youth system since Paul McStay – delivering on the same level Kieran Tierney is now.
Ferguson offered a contract five time more lucrative than Celtic and Liam was off to Manchester, as Celtic fans bemoaned the apparent futility of a development system that took years between producing players of quality, only for them to leave after delivering for a few months.
For Liam, that was the high water mark, he never against reached those levels. Let’s hope he wins his fight against a disease which takes young and old, often as a consequence of a genetic lottery. Decades of fundraising and education (including by many on here) have made a real impact on survival rates, but much still needs to be done. And for goodness sake, don’t sacrifice your life for the tobacco industry.
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SOUTHOFTUNIS
Shouldn’t need you have posted that track two hours earlier,at one o’clock?
ShowingmyageCSC
saw some discussions about smoking …. my dad smoked all his life, and, in spite of his denials, he tried to stop, but it was too hard … and it is what killed him at a far too young 70.
when I was about 5, and wanted to be just like my dad (every little boy does at some point), he ‘gave in’ and let me have a puff of his cigarette after a football game (I still remember it !) …. threw up all over the pitch (and I mean ALL OVER)… and I haven’t touched a cigarette in the 46 years since….
… he knew what he was doing.. I believe that he knew how tough ti was to quit, so he wanted to make sure that I would never start … the old guy was no fool..
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 13TH NOVEMBER 2017 2:46 PM
ONEMALLOY
Oh,beat me to that by a country mile! Was busy in the garage,my only lame attempt at an excuse.
Btw,your point is well valid. Why are Regan et al ignoring it? It’s not like it’s gonna go away
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Being aware that C.A.S. have made such a ruling leaves an avenue open as the whole Res12 agenda goes forward hopefully.
HH
Thoughts and prayers with Liam and his family. Keep fighting it Bhoy.
Happy birthday to the CQN’ers celebrating today.
Finally, thatnks to all who made Saturdays Hootenanny such an enjoyable event. Absolutely no chance of remembering the blog names of all i met, let alone their real names, so thank you to you all, with a special mention to BMCUW for organising.
Would have posted sooner but getting over a traumatic event on Sunday morning in our hotel.
Going through the usual smuxh and detritis which invariably appears in your pocket after a day ain the pub, i was enraged to find an old one pound coin in amongst the 17 new ones. Obviously, some unscrupulous and dishonourable barperson had slipped it to me in my change.
You can barely imagine, as a lifelong Aberdonian, the level of my distraughtedness. My only consolation is that i have convinced myself that this pound coin is the exact coin used by Craig Whyte to buy The huns from David Murray.
Not for sale at any price…….a genuine future family heirloom.
:-)))
Pancreatic cancer normally gets diagnosed after its well established as the symptoms normally don’t show, weight loss, abdominal pain, jaundice, until its too late to treat it, so the survival rates are very low.
If indeed Liam Miller has pancreatic cancer he will need all the luck in the world.
YNWA Liam
MiT
Re. How tough it is to quit.
I tried to quit many, many times and, obviously, failed ion all occasions except the last one. Each time I tried, I normally lasted between a week and a month but my extremes were from as little as two hours to as long as one year. On all occasions, I retained a strong urge to smoke and always returned to the habit.
As far as I know, there was nothing different about my final cessation but from the second, literally, I stopped until now, I have not even remotely fancied a cigarette and find it difficult to imagine I ever enjoyed one.
JJ
Visiting my Dad earlier. I brought him a framed copy of the 7-1 team. Delighted he was. Identifies Bobby Collins and Willie Fernie: great players, says he. Then he spies Charlie Tully and starts laughing. “Now there was an entertainer”, says he. Bobby Evans and Bertie Peacock get the “great players” accolade.
I have only the vaguest memory of Charles Patrick but he has his own place in the hearts of those privileged to have seen him grace the Hoops.
Bateen bhoy….
I’m sure that’s the same pound coin you tried to pass on to me in Munich as a Euro ;))))
Sipsini,
Even now, with Brexit looming, one pound is worth more than one euro.
Have you ever known an Aberdonian to give money away :-)
The clock is ticking and it’s getting louder
http://etims.net/?p=12184
South of Tunis
Got to thank you for that fine Gene Clark choon you posted last week. Excellent stuff, very Byrdsesque.
Hot Smoked, HH
Bada Bing
I checked the news from Ukraine. The result of my investigation is that the sourse for the information about Artem Dovbyk is Ukrainian journalist Anatoly Shinkarenko. Shinkarenko in it’s programme “Dnepr football” on “9- Channel” siad that Dovbyk may change the club sonn because he got an offer from Celtic and Augsburg. That journalist is the only sourse. I read the coments and can say that the news might be true and might be false too. He will be free agent soon but the club who will want him will have to pay EUR 200 000 that is equivalent to Dnipro Accademy and provisions to the agent.
Mark Daly is a Sevco lickspittle and has sold his soul. That is all
Bada Bing
According to the sources in Poland, Wisla Krakow did not decide to sign the player in August this year.
MrZ- thanks for the info, i hope you are well HH
” John, you’re immortal now ”
Bill Shankly
ZBYSZEK on 13TH NOVEMBER 2017 4:54 PM
Bada Bing
According to the sources in Poland, Wisla Krakow did not decide to sign the player in August this year.
He doesn,t look too good on youtube. Clumsy and awkward.
I remember it like yesterday when Liam Miller broke into the team. The team was in need of fresh blood after Seville and he was just the ticket. A superb player who just seemed to get better and better as the games went on, i remember the Anderlecht game like it was yesterday. I have a vivid memory of him scoring the goal. I was gutted when it was announced he was leaving. I actually remember watching his Man Utd debut at Chelsea in what was Mourinho’s first league game. Ferguson played him on the right, he was like a fish out of water. My thoughts are with him and his family at this awful time.
Who would win in a fight between the Glenbuck Cherrypickers and the Southside Strollers?
Shanks CSC
Parkheadcumsalford
My brother told me the story of Charlie Tully deliberately dropping his wage packet on the dressing room floor which he`d altered to show he was earning much more than everyone else.You can imagine the uproar it caused.
Liam Miller scores v Anderlecht
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 13TH NOVEMBER 2017 5:03 PM
” John, you’re immortal now ”
Bill Shankly
I watched the programme about Bill Shankly on BBC 2 last night. Many similarities between Shankly and Jock Stein, in terms of background and football philosophy, although Jock’s achievements were arguably greater than those of Shankly. Of course, I’m slightly biased !-))
Glendalys
It was a good show highly recommended
The only english based manager to make the trip to Lisbon when asked why he was the only one;
“Because they hadn’t seen the Celtic. And I had of course. ”
Shanks CSC
Hi Bhoys
No apology for repost
A very HOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY TO
PARK ROAD 67
Use your bus pass wisely.
Plus a wee song for you
The Police – Born In The 50’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOB5TmfQxZ8
KEEP THE FAITH
Just back from a couple of weeks in Tenerife.
Left Donegal with a head/chest cold, but by the time we got to the Canaries, it had progressed to bronchial pneumonia.
Doctor decided to treat me with an aggressive course of antibiotics, rather than admit me to hospital.
This meant a bum injection, each day for five days, plus three days oral.
Of course, this resulted in me having eight days of unused beer vouchers!
All ended well, thank God.
A funny side to it all was that, unbeknown to me, after each injection, a small plaster was stuck onto my backside, so, that after the five jags, I had five little stickers on my rear end.
I kept asking myself the age old question, “Whose is the arse sporting the five stars?”
thomthethim
Glad you’re on the mend your bahookie must have been like a pin cushion ☺️
BATEENBHOY
Someone dropped that in the pub on Saturday. It hit you on the head when you bent down to pick it up!
Only kidding,of course. You did a fine job of exposing the stereotype for the lie that it is.
Thanks for “The Fleg”,btw. It’s next official outing is planned for Wimbledon on Dec 30. Though a wee refresher in Swindon for the Anderlecht match-got a week off,yeehah!-might be in order.
Hardly anyone in Swindon has seen this fabled icon!
HH
Stein, Shankly, Busby…..
Genuine working class heroes
THIRDS63 on 13TH NOVEMBER 2017 6:22 PM
Stein, Shankly, Busby…..
Genuine working class heroes
I think if any of these great men were alive today , they would barely recognise what football has become.
Moussa scores first half hat trick for France U21s, 3-1 up away to Slovenia at half time. Oli on the bench.
GARY67
Moussa is going into overdrive because of his injury-hit start to the season. IMO,of course.
Worth a punt for first goal every time he plays from now on,I reckon. And I’m gonna take my own advice too!
Oh my!
https://twitter.com/FinnBauer10/status/930142165921157120
Dembele’s now scored 8 goals in 7 games for France U21’s.
Great to see Moussa making up for lost time. Il est magnifique, as the commentator was saying.
The Mousse back to full fitness is a huge lift…
Feeling sorry for Michael Stewart on Sportsound, trying to have a reasoned debate with Boyd and Young who have hardly a brain cell between them
Chick Hun is an absolute bellend…
Mousa Dembele hat trick
https://streamable.com/ld41t
https://streamable.com/w2c9f
https://streamable.com/fr162
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