Ten years ago this morning we were celebrating what appeared to be the importance of a Momo Sylla goal two minutes from time to give Celtic a 3-1 first leg lead against FC Basel in the Champions League play-off round.
The previous season Celtic defeated a formidable sounding Ajax team at the same stage so when they were drawn against the Swiss team confidence was high. Two weeks later our record of poor results away from home in Europe’s top competition was further cemented as Basel gained an away goal advantage.
That failure worked out well for Martin O’Neill’s team who dropped to the Uefa Cup and progressed all the way to the Seville final but Neil Lennon will be aware that Helsingborgs carry no less a reputational threat to Celtic than Basel did a decade ago. Basel were not a better team than Celtic but a slow start to both games, and a missed penalty, cost us entry to the Champions League. We will need to be better prepared next week.
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Mighty Tim
Sounds a bit better than my first day back at the chalk face!
Ask her if she’s got any tickets for the Comm Games for gymnastics for me :-)
Aptly enough, I”m in Basel tonight watching the highlights of the Belgium v Holland friendly. Finished 4-2 Belgium. These guys will be no pushovers in the WC qualifiers.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
22:28 on
15 August, 2012
macjay
were they done for treason
Good point.
I didn`t suggest they were criminals,however.
Simply that they were devious in their intentions and deceived the people they claimed to represent.
Bloke109. Not sure of rumour but he was a colossus tonight.
ItaliaBhoy
Dunno what you mean – all Greek to me mate.
SFTB – fine post. Hat doffed in your direction!
macjay,
you advocated the suns version that they were in the paye :o) of the kremlin to undermine the british state, thats treason like
HELP PLEASE
My computer had been playing up a bit there so I tried to use my phone, an htc.
It’s saying that I need to be logged in to post a comment but it won’t allow me to log on when I click on it. I also can only see one comment at the top of the current page (16).
Any ideas?
sftb,
a wis gonnae say that, but decided no :o)
HT
Are ticks on sale for common-stolen-wealth games?
I’m looking for ticks for velodrome when they come up.
MWD
Off tae ma pit tae watch end of FRA V URU
night all
Play nice :-)
HT
How did yae manage to post if your not logged in?
MWD
Remember the 10
eh – go to your bed and sleep?
MWD
A good bhoy may be able to help with tickets.
I’m posting from the other laptop, smart erse :-)
Night God bless.
SPL players Levein could have picked instead of Ian Black:
Aberdeen – Gavin Rae, Stephen Hughes
Celtic – Kris Commons, Scott brown, James Forrest
Dundee United – Gary MacKay-Steven, John Rankin
Hearts – David Templeton
Kilmarnock – Gary Harkins, Liam Kelly
St Johnstone – Murray Davidson
St Mirren – Paul McGowan
Yet Levein pandered to the criticism he got over Wallace.
Both Fox and Mulgrew done well when they came on tonight and Bardsley plays there too.
Wallace and Black are 3rd Division nobodies playing for a nothing club who will paly against part-time players (no disrespect) unlike all of the players mentioned above.
That is before you get to the plethora of English – based midfielders who are better than him and who can actually play football.
This was an absolute nonsense having him in the squad and the boos reflected this.
HT MWD tickets not on sale. I will let you know in advance when they are and will do what I can.
HH
ItaliaBhoy,
why did Thatcher send in a negotiations team,which reached a settlement
with the hunger strikers,then when they try to implement the proposals she refuses
to agree to them
macjay
Could i direct you to a pamphlet from the Bevin Society titled “The Vindication of Jack Jones” by Manus O’Riordan (2010). It does a pretty good job of debunking these facile suggestions in greater detail than I would want to go into on here.
Remember the security forces in Britain in the 60s and 70s were prepared to consider a coup against a returned Labour Government. They have a long history of libeling Union Leaders and other they feel are threatening their interests.
Their interests then were to defend their class not the British people. Whilst they wasted time and creative energy in levelling false charges against Union and Labour Party leaders (they thought Harold Wilson was a Soviet spy too) they turned a blind eye to Oxbridge toffs like Blunt who really were spying for the Reds.
I wouldnae trust the old style MI5 and MI6 with the messages.
ht-try clicking on the bubble showing number of posts.
Bada
Cheers got it logged in but time stamp function still not working. I’m just a grumpy, moany oul git!! :-)
From “European history.about.com”
The South Atlantic Falkland Islands
have been in the news on several occasions in recent decades, after disputes between Britain and Argentina over sovereignty – essentially, who owns the islands – has turned heated, and on occasion violent.
Location
The ‘Falkland Islands’ are a group of around two hundred small islands with two larger ones; the latter pair are named East and West Falkland. They are located about three hundred miles northeast of South America.
Origins of European Settlement
Like much to do with the Falklands, the origins of European settlement begin with a controversy involving the English. England’s John Davis was probably the first European to see the islands, in 1592, when his ship was blown to them in a storm, but his report was not widely published in England due to politics. Claims that Magellan discovered the islands earlier have been convincingly rejected. A further Englishman, Richard Hawkins, claimed to have found the islands in 1594. The first incontrovertible sighting was by Holland’s Sebald de Weerdt in 1600. It took a further ninety years before the first known European landings, when another Englishman, John Strong, arrived in 1690, naming the ‘sound’ between the larger islands after a fellow Britain, Viscount Falkland. The name has since spread to the whole collection of islands.
Over the next fifty years people used the. island for fresh water and scurvy negating plants; French sailors started to call them islands Malouines, which eventually evolved into Malvinas. England planned to explore the islands in 1749, but suspended their expedition, not because they ceded to Spanish claims to the islands as later suggested by Spain, but in order to temporarily avoid a dispute and secure more favourable trade agreements. In the end, European settlers arrived on January 31st 1764, when Frenchmen Louis-Antoine de Bougainville started a colony on East Falkland of ex French-Canadians.
British settlers landed on West Falkland on January 12 1765, unaware that France had already settled a different location. Spain purchased the French settlement in 1766 (formally accepted in 1767), and in the first recorded skirmish on the islands Spain forced the British off West Falkland in 1770. This situation lasted for a year, when control of the British settlement was handed back to Britain after both the threat of outright war between the two nations and a large discussion about who had sovereignty of the islands. Thanks to vague language, the deciding agreement allowed both to claim it. However, the British settlement was withdrawn in 1774 for purely economic reasons, and the East Falkland settlement lasted until 1811. Crucially, although Britain withdrew their citizens, they did not withdraw their claim of sovereignty.
South America enters the Frame
With no European colonies on the Falklands, just sealers who found the islands useful, the newly independent government in Buenos Aires claimed its own sovereignty over the islands, as heirs of the Spanish empire from which they had just become independent. A businessman called Vernet formed a private settlement in 1826 on the second attempt, having gained permission from both the Buenos Aires government and a British official. When Buenos Aires appointed a governor in 1829 Britain complained that they had no right. In 1831 a US ship, acting to avenge the arrest of US seal hunters in the area, who claimed a right to the islands as heirs of Britain, destroyed the settlement.
Thus, when Britain, worried about South America and US sealers, renewed their interest in 1833 and reactivated their dormant claim, there were only a few remaining settlers. Some left without violence, others decided to stay under the new government. The British renewed settlement, installing a civilian governor. By 1885 the settlement, based around the capital of Port Stanley, was nearing two thousand people with the main economic venture being sheep farming. However, little was invested into the island’s potential strategic importance or economic growth.
Twentieth Century Disputes
The Buenos Aires government, now Argentina, maintained that the islands were theirs, and in 1964 the issue was taken to the newly formed United Nations. An official UN committee debated the sovereignty of the islands as part of their handling of decolonization issues. Argentina’s arguments involved the islands’ location (close to Argentina), the Papal Bulls and related Treaties which gave European claims to that region to Spain, from whom Argentina had succeeded, and the need to end the European colonialism they felt the island represented. Britain stressed that they had been in possession of a self sufficient, continuous settlement on the islands since 1833, that the islanders identified themselves as British, and that under UN efforts to promote self determination the islands should stay British. The result was the UN passing a resolution asking Britain and Argentina to discuss an equitable answer.
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At the time when the Falklands were settled in 1833,the entity which was to become Argentina had not even claimed the region around Tierra Del Fuego.
They were too busy massacring and eradicating the native peoples of Patagonia….
When the Royal Navy ended the slave trade to Argentina..the blacks comprised 1:3 of the population…similar to Brazil.
Canamalar and sftb
In his memoirs Hugh Scanlon, Communist boss of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers in the 1970s, admitted union Reds were out to bring the UK to its knees. Jack Jones, who led the TGWU, was on the payroll of the Kremlin’s sinister KGB.
Lads,I have to leave fairly soon and can`t give the time to answering which your points deserve.
sftb. Look at what Scanlon says above.
I made no criticism of Michael Foot.Honest ,decent man who bravely stood up to Charchill during the war over “D” notices.
“Anyway, we inherited Thatcherism and Reaganism because of those mistakes.” Completely agree.That`s the point. Learn from those mistakes.
Thatcher instigated the Falklands war?
How? By inducing fascist Galtieri to invade?By selling aircraft carriers?
Thatcher introduced democracy to Argentina.The current president is left of centre.
Michael Foot and the Labour party supported the decision to send a task force.Was Michael Foot simply “duped?” :-)
Aff tae work.
Lenny.Onward and upward.( copyright Petec)
Good Night Bhoys God Bless. I cannot do anymore work tonight.
God Bless wee Oscar always in my prayers.
HH
setting free the bears
Two great posts. On the first one, am I not mistaken in believing that when Goridievsky was sprung from Moscow, after being recalled by the KGB one of his “debriefers” was CIA Agent Aldrich Ames, later exposed as a double agent himself. Any idea that Gordievsky was somehow a victory for the West is a delusion. Ames had personally briefed Gordievsky before he fled to London on various issues so he knew he was a double agent. Ames himself was jailed in 1994 as a double agent.
tsd,
why are you bringing us back to the same old same old drivel, we moved on from the history of settlement. We had also been informed that, the war was contrived by suckering argentina, into thinking britain no longer had any interest in an outpost that was a drain on national resources.
nothing you have offered contradicts that, so what exactly your point
oh and tha war was a distraction from the domestic misery imposed on the british people, by a fascist state, ref: the six counties.
Thatcher ideologically and financially supported fascism, against the will of the majority of the british people.
Aye Darren,
lets get behind the thug Black
The ex hun comveyor belt on Shortbread again,Steven Thomson gettin a gig now
I was in Belfast the day Martin Hurson died. Respectfully, I can only say I got a glimpse of the horror of that time. In my opinion any Celtic supporter who is a supporter of Torys, the corporations that they are apologists for, wars, or Thatcher is a seriously misguided individual.
Bada bing,
my eyesight must be bad,i thought it was Darren Jackson ;-)))
Lhads, if you can’t talk of Football and what to discuss that other sport politics.
Take a lesson and learn what politics is, who runs it, and who will benefit from it.
I’ve told you before, you just don’t listen. What have Maggie T. Jack Jones, Hugh Scanlon got in common?
They were members of masonic lodges. OK OK maggie was an Eastern Star, so tell me the difference?
Get Beyond Politics
http://www.henrymakow.com/clarity.html
Clarity
August 15, 2012
I’ve said this before. When dealing with cognitive dissonance,
the simple truth has to be stated and restated.
by Henry Makow Ph.D.
Humanity has been colonized by a satanic cult, the Illuminati. Mankind is satanically possessed.
Society wears the shackles of “political correctness,” a Communist Party concept. We are under constant psychological attack from an unseen enemy.
Certainly, this is not the picture offered by the mass media. The Illuminati use the mass media to deceive and degrade us.
The Illuminati are the Cabalist Jewish central bankers and their Masonic confederates who control business cartels, governments, intelligence agencies, churches, think tanks.. virtually everything of importance.
They are enslaving the human race in a Satanic dispensation using debt. Look at the Olympics occult symbolism if you doubt this. (More here.)
The Illuminati are synonymous with Communism, (the bankers use the State as surrogate to own everything.)
In the West, Communist objectives are carried out under the rubric of “Liberalism.”
In the Protocols of Zion, the Cabalist bankers say they must undermine “all collective identity except our own.” The four legs of human identity are religion, race, nation and family.
They undermine family by sabotaging gender roles and the institution of marriage.
They introduce “sexual liberation,” “feminism,” “gay rights” and “gay marriage” to destroy heterosexual norms and institutions.
Who can deny they have done this? Who can deny they are the real “haters?”
They spin it as “progress,” “social change,” “freedom from inhibition,” “self development.” They make it seem spontaneous when in fact it is contrived social engineering.
Who would attack the love between husband and wife by teaching women that marriage is “oppressive”? Satanists.
Who would teach women to see children as burdens? Satanists.
Who would deny that a woman needs the support of a husband to raise children? Satanists.
(Forty per cent of children are born to single mothers in the USA today.)
Who would deny that a child needs to be raised by a loving mother? Satanists.
Who would deny a child the regular presence of a father? Satanists.
Who would redefine the institution of marriage, sacred to 98% of the population, to accommodate less than.5% ? Satanists.
Anyone who denies the existence of God and a natural and moral order has taken the first step to becoming a Satanist. Atheism is on the rise in the US.
DEFYING GOD
The Satanist (i.e. Illuminati) goal is to turn the natural and moral order on its head. Their goal is to thumb their nose at the Creator using every form of unnatural and depraved behavior.
Thus, they attack everything that is wholesome and natural, pure and good.
They practice and promote sickness, war, dysfunction and deviance for their own sake.
They promote promiscuity, pedophilia, pornography, and eventually bestiality.
Just as a true Christian might practise his religion by doing good, they worship Satan by doing what is depraved.
change.jpgWar. Only a Satanist could start one.
They call it “changing the world.” They are “change agents.”
But is the world getting better?
No, because “changing the world” actually means change along satanic lines. That, to them, is the meaning of “progress.”
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Related- Makow – Liberal Jews, Sex & the New Satanic Order
gordybhoy 64- Can see the likeness mate,but the ex hun just shades it :>
Bada Bing,
i should have known,when do the beeb give an ex Celtic
player a gig
RE RODES …….
anybody who thinks big pete is going to spend more than 2/3 million on any player and maybe even 3 million is 1 million too much is potty.
the way things are he will be happy to dominate scotland for the next decade and gain champions lge on avg every 2nd year and we would not need to spend any kind of dosh to hold that position .
we might not like it but that is the way it is infact the slow sale of the current team is how it will go with nobody to cheat us here we could lose 4/5 players for good money and the board will allow it to happen more of a chance will be taken on young talent at 1/1.5 mill as there is no risk
macjay
When you pick up on this later you can respond.
I can find nothing on Hugh (Baron) Scanlon saying what you infer. Maybe you can source a quote or website for me to judge.
BTW, he was a Communist until the Korean War.
What I learned from those mistakes was that Jack Jones was right and had his ear to the ground because he lived amongst and spoke with the people he represented. Jim Callaghan used to have that skill but lost it. Maggie never had it.
Nice try on the Falklands “instigation” rhetoric. Steinreignedsupreme @12.48 today outlined how the Labour governments had dealt with the Junta adventurism before Maggie went to sleep on the job.
On Malvinas, Michael Foot was simply wrong. A lot of the country was caught up in war fever. We wished that war on ourselves. There was such little commitment to diplomatic solutions that every Political Leader felt they needed to play to the war consumed galleries.
Maggie was skewered by Diana Gould who was the only one brave enough to question her on TV. Oul Maggie was sweating like Neil McCann being asked about EBTs.
Argentina has had Secret ballots and universal male suffrage since 1912. Females got the vote under Peron’s dictatorship when they still had elections so democracy was not introduced to Argentina by Thatcher. She showed more interest in helping Pinochet’s Chile avoid elections so that motivation won’t wash.
Smoke and Mirrors thats a terrible thing to say about huns supporting thatcher, a lot of them people lost there jobs ,through her goverments policys ,shame on you
Hmm. Interesting this one.
USA insurgents become terrorists to fight for the freedom of their country against hostile invaders – as the oil reserves are mostly capped in the States by Bush and his buddies until foreign reserves are used up, I assume it was the quarter pounders that drove North Korea to invade.
Cannae work out if this is work of a genius or pandering to morosity…..Nah, I can :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoqlBHSePw0