I haven’t checked my facts here, so I could be wrong, but I reckon the last time we scored seven goals (against St Mirren) we lost the very next game (against the same opposition). If we can deduce anything from this two point observation it is that teams rebounding from an embarrassing defeat are more dangerous than teams on the crest of a great result.
Celtic will have been flowing in training this week whereas Motherwell will have re-examined every aspect of their club, team and tactics after their cup exit to Albion Rovers. If we produce a similar performance and result to the one we achieved at Tynecastle last week it will be an outstanding achievement.
Would like to see Biton and Mulgrew play in similar central roles tonight.
Many thanks to those who bid on the charity auction for lunch at Cinc Sentis in Barcelona. Highest bid is currently £82, if you’re going out next week, treat yourself………
“The question though is why the near obsession for the club’s history?
I don’t think there is a need for me to repeat the already well-trodden road of our club’s history and culture. In my opinion, I feel that it centres on the roots of the club……. that the club was formed to serve a community but grew to be far much more than that. It’s not about a business, a result, customers or a tournament. We view it as people with the supporters at its heart, something that is being lost at most other large clubs.”
From Celtic History and the Web– page 162 of the 2014 CQN Annual, which you can order here:
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weeminger
13:01 on 6 December, 2013
True.
But we did have a minute’s silence at CP for the Barca game after the Madrid train bomb.
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sipsini
12:40 on
6 December, 2013
A few quick draw magraw’s on today.
They’re just imposters.
hey Dad
Are you getting me the CQN annual or am i getting you it?
From previous Thread
I liked Reggie Bosanquet — he apparently wasn’t drunk as often as people alleged— something I aspire too — and his father invented the Bosie which became the Googly in cricket– which is a game I never play!
As for Arthur Montford– I came across his rector’s speech online a while back and referred to it on here for some reason– can’t remember why now. He too is a good guy and unlike Reggie is still with us.
By the way that quote from Paul about the obsession with Celtic’s history– that comes from a great article in the current annual.
Speaking of which, if you have received yours over the last couple of days can you make a post to say that it has arrived and give us your feedback on presentation, content and so on.
Cheers
BRTH
South of Tunis:
Thanks posted late (post # 780!!) In last article.
Is there a job for you in our scouting dept?????
I walked through Nelson Mandela Place in Glasgow today and paused and said a short prayer to honour his life and achievements. The renaming of the old St George’s Place to Nelson Mandela Place was a stroke of genius by our City Council and he appreciated it for ever more.
When I started to learn a bit about politics in the late sixties, I could never fathom why the Conservatives excused South Africa Apartheid whilst Labour excused Soviet Communism. Both seemed oppressive regimes to me and I saw them both as extremist.
To this day, I have never liked either party.
BRTH explained about David Cameron’s involvement in the anti Mandela movement. Similarly, Jack Straw recently and very honestly explained on Radio 4 his involvement in CND until he was advised that the west should unilaterally disarm whilst in the Soviet Union they had “the Peoples Bomb” and they should keep it. He left the movement immediately as he saw that it was being used for an underlying agenda and not for its stated purpose.
During school prefect room debates (the best type of all), the question was ask – what would you want your obituary to be? My epitaph was and is to be “He was an extreme anti-extremist”.
Nelson Mandela succeeded like no other in bringing together two extreme positions. Think of the alternative – a black revolution seeking revenge. We would still be trying to cope with the consequences today.
Turning to a football context, the worst lines I hear at Celtic Park are “and we’ll fight you for 800 more” – certainly not the vision of Nelson Mandela.
If he could achieve what he did, maybe one day in our little Glasgow football world, we can achieve a position where we can co-exist with Rangers (in whatever format) as true sporting rivals but without the baggage.
Peace and Reconciliation be with you.
ernie lynch
13:03 on
6 December, 2013
And that’s fair enough, but it’s a different discussion.
Rory Bremner on Sky News talking about Nelson Mandela.
Or is it?!
HH!!
winning captains,
thanks for the prompt reply to my e-mail. Pity the German Power Company who owe me €420 don’t have the same philosophy.
ingnoredforthelasttwomonthscsc
ernie @13.03
The applause for Mandela can be viewed as a celebration of his life. Obviously, the Madrid bombing was very different.
JJ
garcia lorca
Thanks for your post about Nelson Mandela on the previous thread, an excellent read. Mandela is a true giant of an individual not only of our recent times but of all times.
AR
ole Ernesto- a minute’s silence interrupted by the Barcelona support, if I’m not mistaken.
The worst minute’s ‘silence’ I’ve ever observed at CP was the one after the Omagh bombing
Apart from the booing of Fergus Mccann it was the occasion which made me most ashamed of some of our support.
ALASDAIR MACLEAN
Personalised numberplates?
Why not wait four years and get a snazzy 67 plate with your initials as the prefix?
AM67 …
All you have to do is find out the area for your initials.
In your case it is Wiltshire. Happy to know Swindon comes in handy for once!
jamesgang
12:53 on 6 December, 2013
BMCW – oh he is. It’s be-decked in a hoops onesie. As is the great Mhan himself, ‘Mr Paul’.
As Agent Whyte approaches with his threat to re-buy a 12 month old football team for ……
…….£1 and secure world domination our hero presses the green button and Agent Whyte plunges into the pool of doom……
It’s a crackin’ flick mate. On Sky Movies some time soon. you’ll love it!
HH jamesgang
~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~
Need to wait for the cooncil tv version. Don’t have SKY.
Sounds a belter though!
Gents
Posting results of yesterdays’s survey – Are you looking forward to playing some kind of Newco in the SPL?
Yes
No
Looks like the Herald survey was not asking many of a Celtic persuasion their question then…
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
12:47 on
6 December, 2013
Instead of William Wallace use Nelson Mandela hear endeth todays lesson.
HH
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Two pictures of Mandella, One from 1960’s and one from 1990s. No one else needed..
Gents
Posting results of yesterdays’s survey – Are you looking forward to playing some kind of Newco in the SPL?
Yes 7 (2%)
No 331 (98%)
Looks like the Herald survey was not asking many of a Celtic persuasion their question then…
Slabhoy.
No
Hrvatski Jim
13:10 on 6 December, 2013
‘I could never fathom why the Conservatives excused South Africa Apartheid whilst Labour excused Soviet Communism. Both seemed oppressive regimes to me and I saw them both as extremist.
To this day, I have never liked either party.’
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I was never aware that ‘Labour excused Soviet Communism’.
I would suggest that Nelson Mandela was more favourably inclined to ‘Soviet Communism’ than the Labour Party were.
SLABHOY
Seven?
That’s sacrilege!
Put me down for a yes (takes one for the team)
Forgive me…..
Who are the 7 who voted yes?
We demand to know!
HH!!
ERNIE LYNCH
You must be younger or less widely-read than I thought.
Slabhoy, I posted this on the previous thread. Read towards the end.
I posted this on my Facebook page last night and was surprised at the positive response I got particularly from my US colleagues. Thought I’d share it with you as I don’t post here very often anymore but I’m pretty riled up about this one.
Totally disgusted with the Board of Directors at Glasgow Celtic Football Club. Following the recent AGM and their stance on the living wage, I thought that was bad enough but Friday night football in Scotland? That is only a US deal. You should be ashamed Celtic. The average punter that works Monday to Friday needs a night out with friends or family at the end of the week. Not sitting in a plastic seat freezing your rear end off to fill the coffers of the board or the TV networks. If Jock Stein was still alive, this wouldn’t be happening. “Football is for the fans because without them we have nothing ” the great man once said. If the Celtic board had any balls they would tell the SFA and the tv networks to stuff the contract. The £2million or so we get out of it isn’t worth the effort. Football is meant to be played at 3.00 pm on a Saturday afternoon. Put a decent team on the pitch, lower the prices and fill our stadium every other week. The money will perpetually multiply. Invest in a decent striker and a mid fielder who can play a forward pass and we can compete in the Champions League, where the big money is, every year. Finally, forget about the team formerly known as Rangers. We don’t want them, we don’t need them, football in general doesn’t need them. Peter Lawell, if you want to leave a legacy, stand up and be the man who told the SFA and corporate tv to GTH. Celtic Fans deserve better. From Scotland, Ireland and all over the world we travel to watch real football on a Saturday, not Friday nights. That is for high school boys in the USA.
Slabhoy
The Herald would call that an even split.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………FC not PLC
13:35 on 6 December, 2013
‘ERNIE LYNCH
You must be younger or less widely-read than I thought.’
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Can I go for option one?
I think it will be the usual tactics tonight by useless mullet and his kickers.
Someone posted the stats last season when they played newco fouls in the 1st half 4
When they played us fouls in the 1st half 34!!!!!!!!!.
So tonight I expect the usual, the mothers will be instructed by useless to break up the play constantly by either kicking us or bumping into us and lying down as if shot.
Having said that Joe Ledley at 4/1 to score anytime in 90mins looks a bet
A minutes applause or silence?
We should just do whatever our ‘hosts’ decides is appropriate. We will all have our preferences but unless we’re decision making this, I believe, is the most appropriate and respectful course of action
Nelson Mandela deserves both!
From Sir Bartin
A Story about Craig Whyte, Rangers, Charlotte, and the Last 2 Years – Guest Post by Goldstein http://t.co/F9ZI4cHP3l
Last tweet very important. Read it- because it’s the truth.
ERNIE
You can choose whichever option you like to explain that comment.
It does you little credit when you are trying to shoot down other arguments.
BMCUW,
Noticed anything CE ?? LTS is up for “future auction.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………FC not PLC
13:41 on 6 December, 2013
I assume you’re referring to my comment about the Labour Party’s attitude to ‘Soviet Communism’?
BMCUW
Cats?
Don’t you just love them?!
Aaaahhhh!!
HH!!
Hrvatski Jim
13:10 on
6 December, 2013
I’m no expert, but the SA thing was a vestige of Empire, and had a very important strategic position en-route to India (after it openend the Suez canal wasn’t 100% reliable), so whatever kept the empire torch burning there with some stability was the Tory position. Post WWII, they came up with this Commonwealth (a watered down empire). Still strategic for India until after independence there, but still significant trading partner and you mustn’t upset the common interestes of the old guard.
Labour have led a sheltered existence in this country, as while countries through Europe have had real revolutions, they had nothing but admiring glances and never had to get their hands dirty. Of course we are all tought that there was no socialist revolution in Britain in that period. There was in fact one, notable for a small number of socialists, communists and republicans taking over a city’s post office.
Politics is a murky business in my opinion. Need teh brassiest of brass necks, and teh shortest of memories to do that. Being a mild sociopath also helps.
HH
BMCUW
Ffs!
Forgot to post the link!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYiwxM_RVEI
HH!!
The ole rabbit hutch builders – they’ll give you a run for your bunny!
Ernie
You can go for option 1 as your eyesight should still be good enough to read up on what was going on at tat time and certainly how it came over to a young boy at that time.
ERNIE LYNCH
Yes.