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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Just found this. Awesome!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWLGjdc_XyY
Bliddy phone. Trying to text whilst driving a taxi, aint easy!!
Vmhan.
I go to all the home games.Looking forward to the Barcelona game,if your up for that,we could meet up for a drink,But I have to buy a drink.
I like your toff English accent,are you taking the hit and miss.
Awe_Naw…,
liable for debt accrued by an improperly licensed club
Weather warning
Hurricane Hector heading toward the Zombie nation
Batton down your brogues and bowlers , stash away your sashes
Awe_Naw…,
I never realised I was being crypTIC
Proudbhoy –
last year I met a lady who was making a documentary about Govan woman workers rights and the conversation led onto other social history aspects, we met common ground on James Maley.
Ive felt strongly for a longtime, that Celtic the boardroom, should recognise the outstanding people who led fantastic commited lifes , while all the time in their hearts supporting the Celtic.
I want celtic to have our own knights, and their statues in the triangle.
James Maley, Celtic Supporter of the Calton ,should be the 1st.
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http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Supporters+-+James+Maley
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Supporters – James Maley
Legends and Supporters | World War Two | The War Years
James Maley
Spanish Civil War veteran
Published: 18 April 2007 James Maley, labourer and political activist:
born Glasgow 19 February 1908; married 1949 Anne Watt (four sons, five daughters); died Glasgow 9 April 2007.
(From “The Independent” newspaper)
James Maley was captured during the Battle of Jarama in February 1937 when the Spanish Republic rebuffed a ferocious attempt to encircle Madrid which had been launched by General Francisco Franco’s rebel army.
As a volunteer in the International Brigades, Maley expected to be executed immediately. Indeed, Franco issued a proclamation soon afterwards saying that any foreigners captured under arms would be shot. The edict was not carried out in the case of the captured Britons thanks to a stiff note sent by HM Government which, despite its distaste for the International Brigaders, reminded Franco of his obligations under the Geneva Convention. In addition, Benito Mussolini put pressure on Franco to use the prisoners to negotiate exchanges for Italian soldiers being held by the Republicans.
Maley and the other prisoners were later paraded before newsreel cameras. Franco also decided to stage a show trial. A military court in Salamanca in May 1937 found the men guilty of “aiding a military rebellion” – they had, of course, been fighting on the side of a democratically elected government and against a Fascist-backed military uprising – and Maley was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment.
News of the capture had not reached Maley’s mother in Scotland, who feared the worst for her son’s fate. However, footage of the captive Britons was screened in cinemas around the country as part of a British Movietone News broadcast. By chance, she was among those who watched it and was so relieved to see that, contrary to expectations, her son was alive that she asked the projectionist in a cinema in Paisley to cut out two frames of the newsreel.
She kept the pictures as a memento until his return home soon after the trial as part of a prisoner exchange involving the British prisoners and a similar number of the Italian troops sent by Mussolini to assist Franco’s rebellion.
Maley, from the Calton district of Glasgow, was one of 500 volunteers from Scotland (out of a total of 2,300 from the British Isles) who enlisted with the International Brigades to defend the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. He arrived in Spain in December 1936, five months after the start of the war, and joined the newly formed British Battalion. The Battle of Jarama saw the battalion in action for the first time. It suffered horrendous losses as it resisted Franco’s attempt to cut the main road from Madrid to Valencia. Out of the 500 who advanced towards enemy positions on 12 February 1937 near Morata de Tajuña, 125 were killed and a similar number injured. Maley was one of the 30 members of the machine-gun company who were captured.
The British volunteers, who had received only basic training beforehand, faced Franco’s crack troops: the foreign legionnaires and Moors of the Army of Africa which Nazi German transport planes had ferried from Spanish Morocco to the mainland. Maley, who had served in the British Territorial Army in the early 1930s, later recalled the confusion of the battalion’s advance while Spanish Republican units were in retreat:
After 200 yards going forward, the retreat was coming back and going down past us and we were going through. There were soldiers running past us and we were going up. And there were soldiers of the British Battalion dropping as we were going up. Without firing a shot they were getting killed.
In fact Maley nearly avoided capture after his machine-gun company found themselves stranded in no-man’s land on what was named by the surviving volunteers as “Suicide Hill”. They hid among the olive groves for two days before finally being taken prisoner by the Fascists. They were initially mistaken for Russians. “Somebody shouted, ‘Inglés?’ ” Maley recalled. “If it hadn’t been for that we would have been shot one at a time.”
The story of Maley’s capture and the strange way that the family found out that he was still alive inspired a play written by two of his sons, John and Willy, entitled From the Calton to Catalonia. It was first performed in December 1990 in the Lithgow Theatre, Glasgow.
One of a family of six, Maley left school to help his mother, Anne Sherlock, a hawker, wheel her barrow around Glasgow. In 1929, following the death of his father, he emigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked briefly in a car factory, but returned to Scotland the next year, homesick and disillusioned by American attitudes to immigrants. In 1932, aged 24, he joined the Communist Party and became a familiar public speaker at Glasgow Green and Govan denouncing the rise of Fascism in Europe and the inequalities and social injustice which the economic slump had exacerbated in Britain.
After his repatriation from Spain, Maley gave in to his mother’s pleading for him not to return to the International Brigades and face certain death if he were recaptured. He continued to speak on public platforms, campaigning for an end to the British government’s non-intervention and its refusal to sell arms to the Spanish Republic until its eventual defeat in 1939.
In 1941 he enlisted with the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, then the Highland Light Infantry, serving in Burma and India. After the Second World War, he worked in Maryhill Barracks as a telephone operator until demob in 1947. He was then employed for the next 12 years laying tracks for British Railways and afterwards as a building labourer for Glasgow Corporation. Astonishingly for a father of nine, he remained politically active as a lifelong Communist, trade unionist and tenants’ association campaigner.
Maley was an avid fan of Glasgow Celtic and two 30ft-long banners were unfurled in his honour at Hampden Park on Saturday during the cup-tie against St Johnstone. Quoting the slogan used by the defenders of Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, “They shall not pass,” the banners said: “James Maley RIP. No Pasarán”.
petec – hehe! That was a wee tad cautious as in “are they listening and tracing me” type cautious!
Personally, i believe he has been responsible for the aforementioned targeting of the GB, whether that came from his masters I care not a jot but he has to be watched. Or under `House’ arrest if you prefer!
HH
Jonny the tim.
You keep your eyes on the road.hh
But who is going to take that case on and is more than a supporter ? Celtic ???? if the SFA do what they always do .. as they like ?
Think of how many court cases this would induce ? Easier to say huns went bankrupt happens every day. Precedent set daily.
You need to get that wishful thinking bug seen too btw ;-)
HH
Art of War
hehe
StePHen House. You do know now that follow follow will be going into meltdown. ;))
Christy gives Jinky a mention on that one.
St stivis
Cheers for that, good read and your spot on about celtic recognizing these people but dont think it will happen.
They struggle to recognize a group of fans who attend every game and suport the team to the end. GB
Hope u enjoyed the somg if u havent heard it before, i think james maley sadly passed away just before it was released.
OldTim 67 is off to bed.Thanks for all the help tonight.
Oldtim67
I’m taking a year out of the midweek games, I was tempted to take the 3 game package even although I couldnt make it, a young lad from Aus is over and my son keeps humming Celtic up, but I never bought the 3 march package as I couldn’t make the other 2 games, I would have gave home the Barca ticket.
The Bhoy is still in Glasgow and was at the Killie game…… Aussietims deserve better but I cannae help this young lad.
proudbhoy
00:35 on
2 November, 2012
St stivis
Cheers for that, good read and your spot on about celtic recognizing these people but dont think it will happen.
They struggle to recognize a group of fans who attend every game and suport the team to the end. GB
Hope u enjoyed the somg if u havent heard it before, i think james maley sadly passed away just before it was released.
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sometime though, the fans will decide who should be recognised in tributes around the stadium, keep it lit.
listen to the song at least twice a week, soon as i found it , it became a favorite.
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who else should be on the list of Celtic Supporters Lifetime Acheivement awards ?
Vmhan
00:39 on
2 November, 2012
no work tomorrow ? your up late.
Jeeezo my spelling is rough woof woof!
Jonny the tim.
Are you having a fireworks party or are our bhoys getting to old for that now.hh
Question Paul…
If players are found to be improperly registered ….
Could clubs knocked out of the champions league in those times file a suit for loss of earnings ?
petec – aye and it makes me weep………………….tears of joy!
oldtim67 or silversurfer (as you are in my heid).
Nite, nite don’t let the sevco bite tonite!
Work early doors….need to beat Ally at the Steakbake counter ra morra!
HH
off to bed.
viva la quinta brigada.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQbXO828Vio&feature=fvwrel
Awe_Naw….,
when the FTT is made public there will be a few clubs miffed at being cheated by Scotland, you think they will be placated by a slap on the wrist
More stuff coming out all the time, no sure it can be controlled anymore :oD))))
Now stop trying to destroy my jolly delerium
Sipsini.
You’re up late tonight. Early to bed, and give those hurting huns in your work, wanny they smug grins that we’re all wearing this weather.
Hail Hail.
St Stivs aye yir right bro
Night
HH
Been ordered to collect some pallets on the way home tonight. So, looks like Mon. night’s a go-er.
Hun on ssb says they are playing with one hand tied behind their back and its no fair!!
Emdae want to comment?
ulysses mcghee dropped this unreal movie clip that was sensational and I have used it to get my own Son motivated strongly to become even better at football. um dropped it after another disappointing result and performance from Neil’s Bhoys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rFx6OFooCs
It wasn’t until I had watched it a good few times, I am always in need of help and inspiration, until I realised the symbolism that was saying so much @ 0.33.
These mystery religions are trying to control our most powerful emotions and that is why we must always be as aloof to that whole idea as possible. Please rename the Celtic Triangle to the Celtic Place.
Canamalar
I think I am writing your new book ? ;-)
So football entities will sue the SFA for millions through CAS ?
HH
saint stivs
00:40 on
2 November, 2012
proudbhoy
00:35 on
2 November, 2012
St stivis
True we can do that in an Unofficial way. Why wait for others.
Regards the list..good question.
Glasgow must be full of ex youth coaches who spent years passing on fine talent to celtic boys clubs.
These guys are what makes the gamd beautiful,up every saturday morning and training young lads and guiding them through lifes many troubles.
Grassroots csc
Awe_Naw…,
I’m hoping they do yes :o) I cant see how uefa can stop it
what was my old book like :o)
Night all Night wee Oscar and Izzie x
Googybhoy
Have those folk ever Encountered what catholics have experienced in
Scotland .
They do not get why Catholics had to move away from Scotland.
The Tims that stayed had it a lot rougher than my darn south kids, fair play.
Please Scotland don’t be fooled by the SNP
Paul67
Where is my post TAL
Canamalar
My new book is about this tic blogger who accidentally consumes snail slime ;-)
HH
I was shooting the breeze this afternoon with a couple of Aberdeen fans as we looked out over the harbour. A hearse drove up market street and one said “how many huns do you think you could get in the back of that”?
The other one pondered and than answered “probably about twelve if you put them through a blender first”.
At was just about that point I had to go change my undercrackers.
Can’t make Barca game, Dad supposed to go.
He has new CH system being installed that day, I just hassled a 73 year
old to turn up and not waste my ticket.
Does that make me a bad son or mad supporter?
Awe_Naw…,
thats me off rabbit :oD))))