I may have told you this before, apologies if I’m repeating myself. Around 20 years ago, in a TV studio minutes after a Rangers victory, a former captain, Terry Butcher (what ever happened to him?), told the audience, “David Murray will not stop until he’s won two European Cups and 10 in a row.”
Use of the personal term “he”, not the club name, struck me. Murray was personally invested in this matter. Such a burning desire did not make David Murray a bad person, he owned the dominant club in Glasgow, but the team he was dominating had all that glorious history. If the boot was on the other foot, you’d want the same. I would.
Perhaps if Jock Stein had stayed at Hibs, Celtic would have stayed in mediocrity, David Murray would have had a more affordable dream and the liquidation of his club would not have been necessary.
You know it’s true…….
On Tuesday’s STV report that Hearts manager, John McGlynn, said:
“How many fans would think they could win the league if Celtic weren’t in it at this stage? All [clubs’] fans would.
“That would cause great excitement and I think it would bring fans back to the game, at the lower clubs.
“If you look at the rest of us outside Rangers and Celtic, we’d all fill our stadiums if we thought we’d realistically have a chance of winning the league.”
There are screeds written and spoken about our game but the McGlynn Plan is the most productive comment I’ve read all year. Well done to STV for the report, hopefully they will put the same questions to others in the league. This is the most important question for Scottish football right now.
It’s time for these clubs to throw off their downtrodden ways and genuinely compete for the Scottish title.
Still looking for a ticket for Celtic v Barcelona? Equally keen to acquire a Wee Oscar wristband? A CQN’er has very generously offered his ticket for next week to raise funds for the Wee Oscar Campaign. You can bid for the ticket/wristband package on ebay.
Tell everyone who asks you for a ticket to bid on the auction.
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BT….. Many happy returns.
Zombies……. Rot in hell and burn as well.
Sorry eurochamps67
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2226377/The-Saturdays-embrace-naughty-wear-matching-skimpy-outfits-Maroon-5-Halloween-party.html
B-0
Damo Lennon
:))
Aye, or like C Ogilvie being put in charge of Scottish football. >:((
Re sacking Ally – I think maybe they realise that the job at the moment would be seen as a poisoned chalice by any decent candidates. In fact I think even Walter Smith would think twice about becoming the ‘mentor’ because of the damage it might do his reputation.
Just noticed from my emails that Thomas Cook have confirmed the overnight stay for Lisbon. Yeehaaaaaaaaaaa
Awe Naw.
Read back,thinking I might have been on the sauce when I last read your post and missed it.
I was told in the past that celtic faulted on an overdraught payment which was minuscule and bos were ruthless.
Keep up the good work its most educational for bhoys like me that have the memory of a goldfish.hh
Bhoylo83
That’s more like it.
Who are they? Are they one of those pop combo thingies?
“My intention was to come in to the club, get the funding in place, make sure Rangers’ future was secured and then leave.
“That was my job but now I’m staying until I hear that Champions League anthem blaring out once again across Ibrox. ” Charles Green
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What age is this guy? Does this promise involve some sort of Vanilla Sky Cryogenic deal?
sorry
bhoys
family
thanks for the good wishes…
I think perhaps Chunkles, who is a prime confabulist, when talking of his deal with The Dallas Cowboys was perhaps referring to Hugh and his miscreant acolytes in the refereeing wild west environment he likes to think he operates within.
They’re all Texans in their mental minds anyway.
eurochamps67
wat age are ye?!!
They are indeed one of them pop combo thingies to be honest i cudnt name u one of their songs…
sure who cares
B-)
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
20:02 on 1 November, 2012
Ogilvie was born for the role, and that’s the saddest part of it.
So the Big tax case moves into November.
Perhaps going to a bumper Christmas pressie now
HH
CRC
Damo Lennon:
You are spot on re-FPLG, chuck needs him for the share issue, once that’s done, he’ll be done.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
BT 100%, that was because yur older n wiser :>)
Had a laugh there with wee Derryghirl, we’re changing over to BT for phone and Timternet and she said to me, “so did ye email or phone BT?” my reply was Naw I text him last night!
Confused dot com TAL
celticrollercoaster loves Wee Oscar, our Celtic Warrior 20:15:
Stephen Black get a hold of you?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Rangers are liquidated they cease to exist in their original form
Whats left is a zombie like replica
Just wanted to say that
Hail Hail
allsoulsday.csc
Just read that Hector is demanding that JP Morgan pay up their EBT swindle!
But aye, he’ll cut a deal with Sevco.
LOL.
Lets just say I watched birthday boy’s dad live and remember standing on beer cans.
garcia lorca/AweNawe
I would be happy just to get an answer to one question, the one about the SPL investigation into sectarian singing at Ibrox in February. I have tried to get an answer from the SPL time after time, but of course got no reply.
Vmhan 20:15:
Bet Derryghirl gave you some sound advice about not giving up your day job…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
79caps
Are we no still waiting for the outcome of the sectarian singing at the San Siro ???
If chuck gets rid of Coisty after the share issue goes erm hits up, can we employ him as a clown for match days, I think he’s been playing well in that particular role for many a year.
The Huns are chuffin zombies CSC
Damo lennon.
Lol
Happy Birthday to BlantyreTim….even though I’ve never actually met him (assuming he’s a him) and I could not find Blantyre without a map.
HH!
Picked this up from an earlier post…..found it quite appropriate
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I’m not really one for poetry but I’m reminded today of a poem my English class studied in high school.
It’s called Ozymandias and remains to this day one of the few poems I can quote from fairly accurately, although I never did learn the whole thing by heart.
It’s quite short, so here it is:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
I’m sure there are many different analyses of the poem, but most agree it speaks of the impermanence of worldly power; the inevitability of the decline and fall of empires, no matter how mighty they appear.
What struck a chord with me was the idea advanced by our English teacher that nothing can last forever if it is not based on love.
On holiday in England a few years ago, my wife insisted we visit Lincoln Cathedral, or to give it its full name, The Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln.
She’s a Dan Brown fan (God help us) and wanted to see the Chapter House, where scenes were filmed for The Da Vinci Code.
I like to think of myself as an amateur historian, so was happy enough to go along.
I was reminded of Ozymandias that day too, as a few hundred yards from the Cathedral stands Lincoln Castle, built on the orders of William the Conqueror, beginning in 1068.
These twin citadels of temporal and spiritual power have stood together for almost 1,000 years, but the castle is now no more than an empty shell, it’s main tower now half of its original height and most of the internal buildings inside the walls 18th-19th century additions.
The Cathedral on the other hand, while not as tall as when it was the tallest building in the world in its heyday, is still used for its original purpose, and while a lot of work is required to ensure it stands for another 1,000 years, there is a sense of urgency and commitment to those efforts.
It reminded me of that high school English class on Ozymandias because the castle was built to cow an Anglo-Danish population hostile to their new Norman rulers, whilst the cathedral was built on love.
What reminded me of Ozymandias yesterday was the liquidation of the former Rangers Football Club.
Lest anyone has already forgotten, Rangers FC was the behemoth of Scottish soccer.
Those four boys who had a dream could never have imagined just how successful the club they founded would become. The club that Struth built dominated the game for almost 40 years until the arrival at Celtic of Jock Stein.
It took Rangers 20 years to recover their previous dominance, but under Souness, Murray and Smith the club briefly again became the pre-eminent club in Scotland until the plans put in place by Fergus McCann came to fruition.
In a very real sense, the achievements of Stein’s Celtic sowed the seeds of Rangers’ destruction. Even when Murray was in his pomp, the shadow of oblivion was, unnoticed at the time, hanging over the club.
The deluded like to tell us that Rangers lives on under Charles Green.
They claim that the club was not liquidated, only the, “holding company.”
Utter nonsense of course.
From November 1988, Rangers’ “holding company” was MIH. Before that, its “holding company” was The Lawrence Group, owned by then majority shareholder Lawrence Marlborough.
After Murray sold Rangers for a shiny pound coin in May 2011, the “holding company” was The Rangers FC Group, owned by Craig Whyte.
Charles Green did not buy Rangers from Craig Whyte. He bought Ibrox Stadium, Murray Park and the Albion car park.
Of course he claims to have bought, “the history,” too, but that’s just ridiculous, and even he knows it.
Yesterday, Rangers Football Club had its life support machine turned off.
It’s not dead yet, but under the palliative care of BDO, its shuffling off of its mortal coil will be eased along until the inevitable moment when it will breathe its last.
Rangers Football Club was founded by those four boys in 1872.
In 1899, it ceased to be a club in all but name when it became a company limited by shares.
Bill Struth, Allan Morton, Willie Thornton, Scot Symon, Jim Baxter, Brian Laudrup, Paul Gascoigne – none of these ever played for or were employed by Charles Green’s Rangers.
Whenever Rangers fans tell you, as they inevitably will, of their 54 league titles and over 100 “major trophies,” just think about Ozymandias’ inscription – “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.”
Remember that nothing beside now does remain.
For The Rangers Football Club, round the colossal wreck of Ibrox Stadium, the lone and level sands really do stretch far away.
The club built on bigotry, triumphalism and supremacy is gone.
Like Lincoln Castle and Cathedral, Ibrox Stadium and Celtic Park remain together in Glasgow. You can see them both from the same spot on the Kingston Bridge.
Like Lincoln Cathedral, Celtic is not what it once was. In the not too distant past, Celtic was a colossus bestriding Europe, the finest team on the continent.
It has seen better days, but the club remains, the same company playing out of the same stadium on the same site since 1892.
Ibrox is fast becoming an empty shell. Like Europe in the aftermath of the fall of the Roman Empire in the west, the physical remains but the institution is gone and Visigoths sit in the imperial palace.
Why then has Rangers collapsed into liquidation while Celtic continues to thrive?
Many and varied complex analyses will be promulgated by the historians of the future, but while dodgy tax schemes, corruption and hubris will have their place, I think the answer is much more simple.
Celtic was formed by Irish immigrants to provide for the poor of Glasgow’s east end. It was founded by Catholic clergy and laymen for the purest of Catholic motives – charity.
Celtic, like my high school English teacher might have said, is built on love.
Rangers was not.
arty
I’m usually out at night playing or coaching so use SSB rewind to hear the greeting Huns later at night – I go to itunes podcast version usually as it is easier to scroll past points about clubs I’m not interested in…
Aww naw
Do you mind matey if i post a few of them ?’s on twitter.
A few boys tweet @scottishfa so it would be good to see if we would get a reply
BT
happy birthday auld fella!
The Exiled Tim @ 20.21
Was there an investigation into that? Probably not. But in February this year, after appalling sectarian singing at Ibrox, which was so bad it was even mentioned in the MSM, an official investigation was launched. The SFA, typically, abrogated their responsibility and passed it on to the SPL. Since then … nothing.
Sparkleghirl.
Ye your prob right.
Alls well that ends well ;-))
Bhoys what’s you’re referee predictions for the semi lol.
1/2 Collum
Evs McLean
Estadio Nacional
Messi we can handle…
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Gonnae no say that till Thursday.
Hen1rik
Its as much hours as it is mine. Feel Free
Btw the SFA answers onof these questions it ceases to exist in its present form
HH
Jeezo, the night of BlantyreTim’s 60th and still folk are talking about the various versions of that rangers/sevco monb.
Have a bit of respect for the older mombers of CQN.
Well played BT in your 60th old yin
Onof=one of
Hours=yours
HH
Evening folks.
Happy Birthday BT.
Dan