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.”
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Team sheet latest ………….Wee Jamesie
ALASDAIR MACLEAN
I don’t check the site since someone had it away with my dream plate.
G1 RUY
Swine…
Hrvatski Jim
13:48 on 6 December, 2013
‘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.’
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I’d be genuinely interested to know what actions of the Labour Party led you as a young boy to believe that they ‘excused Soviet Communism’.
ernie lynch
13:51 on
6 December, 2013
Hrvatski Jim
13:48 on 6 December, 2013
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I’d be genuinely interested to know what actions of the Labour Party led you as a young boy to believe that they ‘excused Soviet Communism’.
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Don’t they still sing “The Internationale” at their conferences?
antipodean red
13:24 on 6 December, 2013
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
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garcia lorca, can you post again as I can’t find this post that everyone is lauding?
H.H.
Sevco have just released a statement to LSE through D Sommers
This bit caught my eye:))
“The mystery to me is why people should now be considering that members of these boards, which presided over the problems we face today, should be considered for re-election. Although I have learned one lesson, which is that if you shout long enough and loud enough in the media, you may be able to reinvent yourself”.
ERNIE LYNCH
Apart from the visits behind the iron curtain and the lionisation of prominent Soviet figures by senior party figures,the “friendship” committees,etc,what exactly were the sanctions imposed by The Labour Party in 1956 or 1968 against naked aggression by the Soviets?
Or in 1980 in Afghanistan?
Or anywhere else for that matter? The Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Labour Party was no Soviet puppet,but it’s sympathies lay towards its politics.
To suggest otherwise is total garbage. And unworthy of you.
quickdraw
13:05 on 6 December, 2013
sipsini
12:40 on
6 December, 2013
A few quick draw magraw’s on today.
They’re just imposters.
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Apologies :)
BIG NAN
With the sad passing of Nelson Mandela it is only natural for those of us, now of a certain age, to reflect upon our experiences in arguing against apartheid.
I was brought up in the Gorbals in the 1950/1960s with a father particularly outspoken about the world’s injustices. His visit to Derry with Clyde Football Club in the summer of the late 1930s had reinforced his observations learned on the streets of Bridgeton where he attended Sacred Heart school. When the B Specials came into public view during the civil rights protests of the 1960s I was already well aware of who they were and what they were about.
Sharpeville in May 1960 created my first real awakening of the evils of apartheid however many people , I recall, seemed confused about the issue. Imperialist and colonial sentiment ran deep within the UK population – and yes that included many Celtic fans. Despite their experiences of discrimination which we all knew to be the case this sentiment did not entirely spread naturally to black Africans. Let’s be kind and just leave it at confusion. Imperial ideology ran deep. The debate seemed to be an agreement that repression and killing was reprehensible but the key question was about the ability of black native Africans to manage their own affairs ( without, of course, the intelligent god gifted skills of white people ).
In the mid and late 1960s Civil Rights movements in the USA and Ireland had caught the imagination and living in Glasgow inevitably there was heated debate. Looking back I feel that something had happened ( perhaps it was the JFK election and killing ) because virtually everyone I knew from a ‘ Celtic’ background supported Civil Rights. We sang ‘ we shall overcome ‘ with great gusto. We knew what Rangers Football Club represented and perhaps it was just my own political awakening but things had changed- changed utterly.
When I bought my first home on the south side of Glasgow my neighbours were nice respectable god – fearing people who had relatives living in Rhodesia. They tried explaining to me how I was misguided and ill informed. Blacks were inherently lazy and they would steal goods from their relations rather than work hard. I recognised these signals because it was oft said of the immigrant Irish Catholic population from which I had sprung in Glasgow. Eventually in the early 1970s these relations arrived back home ( they headed off to Ibrox to see their beloved team ) and I have the distinctive memory of a rather heated exchange with them. We white western liberals had no idea what these hard working folk had to endure was their line.
I was now working as the token Tim in a Glasgow city centre white collar occupation. They were all Rangers men. One day the conversation got round to a house sale in Newton Mearns and the proposed purchaser was , I believe, an Indian who was a surgeon at Glasgow’s Victoria Infirmary. The general idea was that the property would not be sold to him however if he was the highest bidder then there would be a general collection to make up the shortfall from impacted neighbours. It sounded all so southern states. It is true and it did happen. They believed that a medical coloured man buying a house in the Mearns would be the thin edge and house prices would fall.
These were fast moving times, more people like me were being employed and old ideas challenged.I recall a good Celtic man working in the Glasgow Stock Exchange being outraged at the plan to change St George’s Place to Nelson Mandela Place. The South African Consulate was there so it was a well aimed blast at the Apartheid regime.That sparked lots of debate but in that white middle class conservative office Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. Had to be Maggie Thatcher had decreed it so.
I had moved to London but on my return to Glasgow I was now a relatively important senior person.
Nelson Mandela came to Glasgow in 1993 and our company received an invite to be at the lunch. My then CEO was a member of the Conservative Party and they had boycotted this lunch so he followed their instructions and simply did not turn up. He confided in me that afternoon that he had considered asking me to attend in his place but decided against it.
I am back in London- a City of many peoples, races and tongues. However the ideological fight to have people accepted for what they are rather than stereotypes has a long way to go.
Nelson Mandela is a historical and towering giant. He was a beacon of light and an exemplar to many. I just wish on that rainy, windy Glasgow day that I had had the opportunity to shake his hand.
Nelson Mandela RIP.
SORRY
Above should be credited to
GARCIA LORCA
from earlier this morning.
kitalba
12:02 on 6 December, 2013
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Keep spreading the good name sands
Each year im noticing alot more non political people on my fbook putting pics and quotes up of bobby around his anniversary .. Great to see.
I could read his writings from prison diary over and over. Truely talented individual who we lost far to early.
A rebel i came and im still the same
B.sands
BMCUWP- I ‘m not sure what sanctions the Labour Party could have imposed on the Soviets in 1980, as the Tories were in power, under the brilliant, visionary leadership of M.H.Thatcher.
It appears the hypocrisy of the footballing establishment is about to be brought into sharp focus, albeit in a way none of us would have wanted.
The hypocrisy was already blindingly obvious when the condemnation started coming through about the Bobby Sands banner. If the banner was of William Wallace only would there have been the same outcry?
Hope the Green Brigade have been practicing ‘The Legend’.
RIP Nelson Mandela.
HH
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………FC not PLC
Whereabouts are you in London?
Everytime you go away you take a piece of meat with you.
Paul Young on radio there.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………FC not PLC
…..So you’re not in London….Garcia Lorca is
TimsinOhio, good to see your Nom de Blog back on here.
Especially when you have such a good point, football on a Saturday afternoon and the living wage, c’mon Celtic, make it happen.
I think the living wage will come now, the support and shareholders have voiced their opinion and I think the Board will reconsider their stance, we have to keep the pressure on them for that to be so.
Unfortunately football on a Saturday will remain a rarity, TV money talks loudly.
He never knew my name
Now here is an interesting thing.
The article below comes from the Chicago Tribune and is written by the former Husband of US Secretary of State Madeline Albright who is a well respected political journalist.
In it he claims, via a source, that it was the CIA who tipped of the South African authorities as to the whereabouts of Nelson Mandela, and that this directly lead to his arrest, charge, trail and thereafter his being sentenced to life in prison.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-06-10/news/9002170271_1_anti-apartheid-activities-gerard-ludi-cia-spokesman-mark-mansfield
bournesouprecipe
14:12 on 6 December, 2013
I phoned up the butcher’s last week when the car was in the garage and asked
“Do you deliver?”
“No”, said the butcher but I do a great steak and kindey pie”
Sorry, I admit that was offal
DBBIA,
Who could forget that song, or “wherever I lay my hat, that’s where I lay my hat”?
Still think Toast! was his best
greenmaestro
Neither am I an expert but the most important part of the message of Nelson Mandela has left us is that reconciliation of opposites can happen if people look forward rather than back.
Our knowledge of closer to home Ireland shows that it was only when the communities took a leap of faith into the future that peace had a chance. History is useful for learning from its mistakes and celebrating its best bits, but not for living in as too many people associated with football in Glasgow seem to wish to do.
Ultimately, the more control (political, religious, social, economic etc.) a person/group wants over another person/group, the more I distrust them.
As it says in Desiderata (max Erhmann 1927):
“As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons”
Nelson Mandela did not surrender and he managed to get onto good terms with most people in the world.
(References to not surrendering are not form the oft used Glasgow source – believe me)
DBBIA
I know who was power then,and also in 1956.
There were no resolutions passed at Conference condemning their actions.
Cadizzy
The steaks are too high?
CADIZZY
Swindon,mate.
Nearest I get to London is a dayoooooot and some exercise running for the last train!
Abraham , Martin, John
Sleazy SFA supermo says he selects a Sevconian to do the Scottish cup draw without any hint of heavy confliction.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………FC not PLC
14:04 on 6 December, 2013
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Afghanistan
Cuba
What action did the UK take in response to any of these events (three of which occurred under Tory governments)?
Did the Tories ‘excuse Soviet Communism’?
Doc says Vive La Resolution
Try to pop in once in a while to see what’s being discussed. I know I’m late to the dance with my rant but I feel for the supporters who get to travel to Paradise. While I’m happy to watch in the comfort of Chez Adam via Celtic TV our BOD should grow a pair and look after the people who put them in the role to serve our great club. Off my soap box now. The Nelson Mandela tributes are more important today. Can’t imagine how big we would be if he had run our club.
BSR- this series of Boardwalk Empire a wee bit flat ,compared to previous for me.
If ole John ( the duke ) Wayne was still alive he’d be driving an Audi Partner.
I see ole DBBIA is gettin’ the blame for bringing Paul Young into the conversation.
It wasn’t him! He’s more of a Quinton Young fan.
ERNIE
Resolutions at conference were precisely nil.
Bada
I’ve finished it – stick with it cos it goes into meltdown
Awesome CSC
CADIZZY
More than Jock Wallace was,then.
He sacked him!
Latest statement fron Sevco re the battle for control of all that is Sevco, is a right kick in the here haws for the requesitioners, especially Murray.
Sevco the gift that just keeps giving:-)
BMCUWP- the brothers stopped eating Baluga caviar on their pieces.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………FC not PLC
14:19 on 6 December, 2013
CADIZZY
“Swindon,mate.
Nearest I get to London is a dayoooooot and some exercise running for the last train!”!
Well, you see…that’s what I thought until you tried to pass off Garcia Lorca’s post as your own 0-;)