Wee Oscar’s dad, Knoxy, asked me to relay this message to you……
“The BIG cycle to Belfast… WOW! What an absolutely incredible effort by so so many people all to raise money for our wee hero, and a great night was had by all on Saturday night up at Donegal Celtic. It is very very humbling and I really felt that my thanks conveyed to them all on Saturday night was just not enough. I know they didn’t do it for thanks or for a pat on the back but I really hope they know that both me and Leona are deeply deeply moved by what they have done.
Over the last 9 months we have thanked many hundreds of people for all sorts of different things they have done for Oscar and I’m sure after a while the thanking almost comes across a bit ‘rehearsed’ and maybe a bit insincere but we just want to make sure they all know how thankful we are to them and to the amazing people who have donated to such a whopping total!”
Fantastic work by all, very well done.
Celtic have conceded 16 goals in the 9 games since Efe Ambrose’ much debated return to the team which faced Juventus last month, a period which saw them eliminated from the Champions League and the League Cup, while losing to Motherwell and Ross County.
They conceded 16 goals in the previous 24 games, including two Champions League games against Barcelona, one against Benfica and one against Spartak Moscow. A problem which initially appeared to be limited to Efe, has clearly affected others, including Kelvin Wilson and even the goalkeeper looks less assured than before.
More than any other facet of football, defending is dependent on confidence and teamwork. If communication is poor, you make mistakes. If you expect teammates to make mistakes, you’ll make decisions accordingly. If your decisions reflect a lack of confidence, you’re on a slippery slope to losing goals. Bad defenders look good in good teams but good defenders look hopeless once order is disturbed.
Only just catching up with the antics on Gallowgate on Saturday. Not read about the destruction of property or occasions of assault, which I assume preceded the mass arrests. Surely? I’m not sure if Alex Salmond has renewed the high levels of police funding for football-related activity, which was initially due to expire at the end of this month, but for someone who is usually so politically savvy, he seems to have set off on a road without checking consequences of the legal questions.
A bit like his major project…..
Where we are today is a consequence of the First Minister’s initiatives in 2011, and is why Celtic fans, the Club, and many others, opposed the initiative at the time. It’s playing out pretty much as everyone with an interest in football expected. Mr Salmond’s Scotland is looking a bit like Mrs Thatcher’s Yorkshire, circa 1984.
You’re as well blaming the inclement weather as blaming the police or anyone in the game, the police, like the weather, do what they do. This is the work of the Other Charlotte Square Bogeyman.
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Dear Ernie Lynch, re your earlier criticism of p8ddy´s well argued points,
Simply saying “you´re a nat and that is that” is baffling. There are different kinds of nationalism, no two are alike. If we look at nearby Spain where the “nationalist question” manifests itself in some regions, we find that in Catalonia and the Basque country the aristocratic families support a “nationalist” approach. This is not the case in Galicia with its stronghold in Lugo amongst the traditional peasantry and small farmers in the local communities.
In an increasingly global world it actually makes sense for us to strenghten our cultures and traditions, and try to regenerate the democratic system in the process.
Were you serious Paul when you compared Thatcher with oor Alex?
Are you Frankie Boyle in disguise?
Full support to the Green Brigade !
Big Nan
I was dug up by someone on the blog for saying the same.
Paul McBride was no friend of the GB and didnt sem to have time for some characteristics of yer AVERAGE tim.
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14:54 on 18 March, 2013
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OK for clarification on Saturday there was a total of 13 arrested.
The large number of polis were there because a planned demo and anti demo by the SDL and its opponents petered out leaving large numbers of idle polis to be allocated elsewhere. Hence the chopper, polis horses etc. The GB wasnt the original focus for all the attention.
The polis is a disciplined organisation. By that I mean the ordinary polis there to take orders and instruction from senior polis. The ordinary polis dinae get to debate every order or instruction.If you think different try it with your own boss and see how you get on. I predict the jobcentre will be your next move.
BrotherAidanIwisnaelate
15:31 on 18 March, 2013
Away and take a f*%$ to yerself.
Well done to the bikers….fantastic effort by all, hope the saddle sores aren’t too raw!!
God bless Wee Oscar.
Hail Hail.
Patmadug. what an erudite comment lol….
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
14:47 on
18 March, 2013
PADDY 1405
Labour,upon achieving the power to do so in 1997,did more for the poor in society than any government since Attlee post-WWII and Asquith pre-WWI.
To deny that is fatuous……
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Aye……Right Enough..?
But The ‘Poor’ In Society Who Benefited..
From Liebour’s Benevolence…
Were The 7 Million Third-World Immigrants….
Feverishly Imported Into Britain By Liebour…
In An Act Of Betrayal To Our Long-Suffering Working Class….
In A Calculated Attempt..
To Forever Alter Our National Demographics…
And To Transform The Voting Patterns Of The Electorate….
To Ensure A Fascist Totalitarian Super-State….
For Evermore….
In Our Enchanted Sceptred Isles..
~~~~~~~~
By The Next Election….
They Will Have Achieved Their Treacherous Aims……
Farewell….Weep For Brave Britannia….
What A Parcel Of Rogues & Ernies…!
PAUL67
Just a wee comment about your article prior to hitting ma cot…..
Re Stevie Knox.
His comment about having to make so many thanks nowadays that it almost sounds insincere is humbling in itself.
BrotherAidanIwisnaelate
Thank you.
Now away back to your itunes sonny and leave debate for adults…
TSD
When you disagree with me,I know I am once again correct.
You are only ever “right” in a political sense,and even at that,you follow a discredited Thatcherite ethos.
BrotherAidanIwisnaelate
Enjoy your new position as spokesman for Strathclyde Police.
When you fa’ and break yer leg,don’t come running to us…….
Excuse me, is Spring coming soon?
BrotherAidanIwisnaelate
What debate ?
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
He could make a start by doing handstands…..
Politics and police….
Police – avoid any type of interaction and never trust them.
Politics – never vote Tory or SNP.
And finally….never buy The Daily Mail.
Easy Peasy – life is simple.
Bobbym as I said, just try to inform the uninformed. In no way agreeing with what happened and I love what the GB brings to Celtic park. From the guys I met who were there on Saturday, all were decent guys and not one likely to cause any bother. I have no issue with the GB .
However some of the stuff I have read over the weekend needs correcting. Such as, and I paraphrase, if I was a polis there I would have refused to do it…. aye, so you would.
Fin75
If you can find 5 good Labour policies from their time in govt…, and by good I don’t mean good for the 1% i mean good for the bottom 10%, good for reducing, not increasing inequality.
With the exception of the minimum wage, which in itself is being undercut by providing jobs for people with less money than yts schemes did in the 80s in absolute not relative terms, tell me a decent labour policy from their time in govt between 1997 and 2010.
BrotherAidanIwisnaelate
Fair enough with the point about doing what you are told,but there is plenty of anecdotal evidence of the police massing up well in advance,and well away from the SDL march-such as it ever was.
IMO,that is a red herring at best,an excuse for what happened later.
EDL marches in Luton don’t attract that level of attention.
dontpatmadug-thank you.
Regarding the police tactics on the GB,i attended a peaceful demonstration at Royal Exchange Square on the 5th May 1981 to protest at the situation in the H blocks ,just a few hours after Bobbys death.There was a police presence but nothing too heavy,anyway the police disappeared and left us to demonstrate which i at the time found a bit odd.some minutes after the police left about a hundred loyalists came round the corner heavily armed.THE POLICE WERE AGAINST US THEN AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
Sorry to keep on banging on about it but Efe is not a centre half nor a right back.
A midfielder perhaps?
Why break up the more solid looking partnership of Mulgrew and Wilson?
Paul67 et al
Kettling is nothing new, Warsaw, Seattle, Toronto, Oxford Circus May 1st 2001, the G20 protest in the City of London April 1st, 2009, (during which Ian Tomlinson was killed), Westminster Bridge December 2010, Public Sector demonstrations in London 2011 and at various protests throughout Great Britain in recent years. I suppose you could argue it has been used against football supporters from time immemorial. To the best of my knowledge though the tactics used at the Gallowgate in Glasgow on Saturday afternoon are in some ways unique to Scotland, but not to the wider UK. Kettling is not a SNP invention no matter how many on here see it that way. The Police action was not necessarily illegal, but neither was the protest by the Green Brigade against the Bill. Now, my understanding of the law covering marches and processions in Scotland is that it gives the local authority very little power of refusal, indeed if Senior Police Officers do not object, then the walk goes ahead. Not so much asking for permission, but more notifying the local Council of the intention to walk, march, protest or demonstrate. The George Square demonstration in support of the Union Flag on December 11, 2012, did not give 28 days notice, and neither did the Green Brigade. I contend that though the European Courts ruled that kettling was not necessarily a breach of Article 5 of the HRA (the Oxford Square kettle), the Green Brigade protest on Saturday may well be legal under Article 11 covering Freedom of Assembly and Association.
some bad ones…
1) above inflation increases in the tv licence
2) underspend in council housing
3) privatisation of council housing
4) privatisation of the nhs hospitals
5) 9.3 billion for london 2012, 6.9 billion above the estimated cost
6) primary and secondary school closures
7) dogmatic attempts to close local facilities e.g. govanhill pool
8) 7 wars in 6 years up to and including iraq making britain a target for terrorists
etc…
pggtips2
Labour…not increasing inequality? nae nae and thrice nae.
Every non worker that I know of has a big ass flat screen TV in their lving room just like the taxpayers……equality for all surely?
The best years of my Celtic supporting life were under MON which coincided with Labour being in power. The best years of my life (the last 12) have been predominantly under labour rule, I also became a father to 3 wonderful sons in that time….life has been good to me.
For me Labour being in power was a good thing – now the last 2 years? Trainwreck…and my bank balance will testify to that.
But I guess that is all Labours fault as well? Or perhaps Neil Francis Lennon?
pggtips2
Which government arranged for all the new primary and secondary schools to be built?
Was it they Tory poshboys?
BrotherAidanIwisnaelate
What you failed to mention was the fact that the police who were at a different illegal demonstration had previously delivered a letter to the organisation instructing them not to assemble. They assembled anyway and were dealt with peacefully. When they turned up at the GB march they had an entirely different attitude from how they dealt with the antifascists in St Enoch’s.
Were they all agitated because they weren’t allowed off the leash against the former and took it out on the latter? Why did they see fit to inform one group not to attend by letter and not the other? Curiouser and curiouser
Brotheraidan
Naive at best
And how did these non-workers get their flat screen tv’s by one of the very few growth industries provided by new-labour
shops that specialise in punters paying via credit
pawn shops if you will with their very generous 3000% apr/pa
Bobby M, heard that as well. Also heard that a lot of the polis were waiting in the South side which ties in with the SDL demo in the south side. Reserves would be held handy elsewhere in the event of something kicking off. As the numbers at the SDL demo and its opponents were minimal then someone must have thought the GB were the next option. Only guessing here.
Keep in mind guys that the same Strathclyde Polis have arrested Rangers fans, raided Ibrox in the last couple of years for evidence, locked up Lenny’s bombers etc.To say its all one-sided is ridiculous.
fin75
those schools are already falling down due to the crap design specifications and maintenance regimes. I passed by Williamwood secondary which conforms to these specifications and even from 100 yards away it looks like it will barely last another 10 years
Rebelbhoy how so? Shows us your facts….
One of the big pluses from Saturday was Mikael Lustig lasted a full 90 minutes. That doesn’t happen very often!!
Hope to see him play in all games between now and season end, whether it be at right back or centre half.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
15:58 on 18 March, 2013
According to brotheraiden the majority of the coppers were on duty at another demo and were never going to be deployed at the GB meet.
Only someone very naive would believe that.
And while it is true “ordinary polis ” have to do what they are told. Individual polis do have agendas ( http://www.techkings.org/latest-news/33666-policewoman-wears-no-surrender-badge-ibrox-game.html ) and when it comes to Celtic supporters they are not to be trusted.
B
And while of course