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.
Paul Larkin’s latest book, Albert, Dougie and Win, is available to purchase from Lulu. The three-in-one book covers the days and events surrounding Celtic’s 1986 league win in From Albert, with Love, the SFA’s 2010 challenges in Dougie, Dougie, and the men who stopped 10 in Wim’s Tims. Fascinating stories written by one of the very best Celtic authors.
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FFS Is this Thatcher thing still going on?? It only started cos Chaplin posted mistakenly last night that she was deid! If it happens when sevco go into administration things could be a bit manic here methinks <:O
From The Telegraph:-
Desert Arabs Attempt To Block Vatican Plans for .catholic web addresses.
Saudi Arabia has attempted
to block a Vatican bid to create new web addresses ending in .catholic, arguing that it “cannot demonstrate that it possesses a monopoly over the term ‘Catholic’”.
The objection is one of more than 160 sent by the Saudis to ICANN, the body in charge of web addresses, over its plan to allow hundreds of new “top-level domains” to supplement .com, .co.uk and other existing suffixes.
“Many other Christians use the term ‘Catholic’ to refer more broadly to the whole Christian Church regardless of denominational affiliation,” the Saudi Communication and Information Technology Commission said in its complaint.
“Other Christian communions lay claim to the term “Catholic” such as the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Church.”
“Therefore, we respectfully request that ICANN not award this.”
The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communication, which already controls .va, paid the $185,000 fee to bid to create .catholic earlier this year, saying it was “a recognition of how important the digital space is for the church”.
The Saudi government, under the control of the royal family, added that it objected to any group being put in charge of web addresses based on religious terms. It complained about bids to create top-level domains for .islam, .halal and .ummah on similar grounds.
The Kingdom also made moral complaints about an array of planned new suffixes.
It said .baby, which three bidders including the baby powder maker Johnson & Johnson have applied to create, could be used to host and promote pornography.
“Pornography undermines gender equality and threatens public morals by objectifying and exploiting women,” the Saudi government said.
“The values expressed in pornography clash with the family concept and they undermine the traditional values that promote marriage, family, and children.”
It objected to .gay because it “will be offensive” to societies where homosexuality is “contrary to their culture, morality or religion”, to .tattoo as tattooing is prohibited in Islam and Judaism and to .bar on grounds that because of its association with alcohol the term “promotes activities that can be detrimental to public order and morals”.
A similar plan to create a .pub top-level domain aimed primarily at British landlords also raised Saudi hackles. Sir Richard Branson will have to fight objections from the Gulf power if he is to create .virgin, too.
The Saudis also objected to gambling-related applications in moral terms.
The barrage of complaints has highlighted the difficulties ICANN faces in pressing through its reforms of the web’s addressing system, the most radical in its history. There are currently only 364 top-level domains, most referring to countries, but the United States-based quango is now considering applications to create almost 2,000 more.
Observers fear that the process will be bogged down with complaints from trademark holders seeking to protect their brands online, but ICANN must also balance cultural sensitivities. The organisation is already battling criticism that it is dominated by Western interests, and especially those of the United States.
The first of the new top-level domains are nevertheless due to go live next year.
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So,what exactly have the Wonderful Wahabbis contributed to the Big Wide World ?
Well..That would be Fundamentalist Islam….and Al Qeda…and..(That’s it…Ed)
I find their concern for the feelings of the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches so very touching…
Still,the cost of application fees and legal challenges will deprive the Catholic Church of funds that could have been used to feed the starving children on the Missions in Africa…..
But there ye go…..
Like CQN newstyle
tsd,
more distractions, what about slavery and the corruption of the koran
Jewish Masonic Muslims ate my Virgin Mary Statue
The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie
23:50 on 15 August, 2012
Yup. I remember Biafra. The missions, the vatican, the charities, the UN and all the governments in the world definitely put an end to suffering, deprivation and corruption these last 50 years in Nigeria. Thats fer sure!
setting free the bears
00:08 on 16 August, 2012
Jewish Masonic Muslims ate my Virgin Mary Statue
Me tae. ..and ma Easter Eggs..heathens!
Canamalar….
I agree…You are a surprisingly knowledgeable chap…..
So tell us about the Arab Slave Trade in Africa and Central Asia….
And the 2M Europeans who were kidnapped and enslaved by the Arabs of the Barbary Coast in the Eighteenth Century…
Don’t waste your breath telling me about the koran…….
Thought we were a football blog? Apparently not, this is a political blog. Each to their own. Enjoy ( is that communist/fascist/naturist ?? …. )
Nytol.
dettolandtheblackash
22:06 on
15 August, 2012
I might have a spare ticket for Helinsgborg away game next week-let me know if anyone is interested
First time poster, long time lurker…yes I’m a Hun..gets that out of the way! Know a few on here & more can vouch for me, from twitter. I’ll take the ticket, if it’s still going spare? If you could let me know, thanks.
estorilbhoy
00:14 on 16 August, 2012
A Celtic supporters blog. Like you I cant wait till Wed Aug 29th and the 2nd home game against Helsingborgs!
Hope we don’t sign a free scoring Saudi forward or some among us might spontaneously combust.
I hear we are interested in Isaac Square Compass Mohammed for the troubled CB spot
Paul
00:17 on 16 August, 2012
Are you a hun? Its perfunctory. Sorry.
Did Maggie instigate the Falklands conflict? No. But the great political animal that she was grasped the opportunity. Britain was never planning to project power overseas, Invincible was already scheduled to be mothballed. It was a huge get out of jail card for Maggie.
Thatcher has undoubtedly harmed our ability to trade our way out of the recession. She killed our manufacturing, we have fewer goods to export as a result. If domestic demand is stagnant how can we grow without exports?
My great aunt Nellie was a kind, gentle woman who never spoke bad of anyone. But when in her nineties she developed shingles she said “I wouldn’t wish this on anyone… well except Thatcher.” An evil woman was Thatcher. Anyone who thinks there’s no such thing as society doesn’t get humanity. The type of people who allow Nazism to prosper.
I’m sorry she is ill but only because I believe in society.
PS Maloney was far and away the most intelligent player on the pitch tonight.
Tories No CSC
Thanks margaret…a question all newbies should be asked..
Thankfully not..is the reply!
tsd,
yep a regime supported and armed by the usa\uk, now where were we, oh aye, singing the praises of the capitalists who enabled your favoured regime.
My Dear SFTB…
Humour me…..Provide me with your list of educational conservative blogs….
By the way,did you hear that The Dandy is on the verge going out of business..?
Don’t tell Canamalar….he’s still to get over HP Sauce changing their ingredients and relocating to the Czech Republic…
tsd is that it, really the best you’ve got to offer, feeble, then again, its on par with the rest of your claptrap
SFTB.@23:37
“…Diana Gould skewered Maggie over the Belgrano…”
Did you not read the article on the Belgrano from the Indepedent May 2012 that I posted on here today? The secret intelligence info derived from the Chileans which cast a whole new light on the mission of the Belgrano..and its manoeuvres at sea…officially classified info until Dec 2012..
Cultural Marxists Abhor The Inconvenient Truth..
Ask your pal Antifa…. ;-)
tsd,
has any corroberatong proof been released under the FOI, or is it still classified
Rangers will not die until the life support machine that is the SFA is switched off.. They and they alone are keeping this stinking club alive . and you can take that to the bank . But whats worse is they are getting away with it . .
jimtim.
Canamalar….
I am not here to entertain you…..
That’s why you were provided with the shiny Unicycle and all those Brightly Coloured Skittles…..
So get busy…..or you won’t be getting any more bananas….
Nite….
The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie
00:46 on 16 August, 2012
Whats your point? That the Argentinian superpower that bought its flagship the 1941 American heavy cruiser The USS Phoenix built to resist Kamikaze zeroes was a threat to the UK HMS Conqueror nuclear submarine carryng Nuclear Trident ICBMs for the doomsday destruction of the Soviet Union but was the only British sub in the Atlantic that had WW2 torpedoes in its armory that month that year to go and sink the Belgrano. Is that what you are claiming?
the same chileans who forced labour\may day revellers into a football stadium and commited genocide, whilst the british\thatcher was arming them.
quality allies, the only difference between argentina and chile was chile was buying our arms and argentina were buying french arms.
were british fascists better than french fascists
TSD
I read your fiction about the Chilean Secret Service. They may have been willing to offer re-fuelling options but accidentally locating the Belgrano’s movements and notifying British Intelligence will stretch my credulity. The stuff you have been researching has left you with more elastic credulity muscles obviously.
Could I suggest Roger L. Simon’s Blog and the Pajamas Media stuff in general, or Little Green Footballs. They are pretty polarised unfortunately with few opposing centrist or left leaning counter opinions and 90% of their contributors are below average in reasoning but they have a solid core of fairly robust rhetoricians.
Like you, they are also currently obsessed by Islamists. Methinks, they are pining for the good ol days of Communism. They loves a bogeyman.
Anyways, I no longer joust with them there so you’ll be free from my ribbing.
If you do bring any posts back from there, make it the good stuff, if you can recognise it.
Good night now and don’t fret about them bad Mohammedans. We have many more Nuclear weapons than they have.
Glad you have dropped the Antifa stuff- humour is not your strong suit
tsd,
its getting the same, I know you cant help it, but you are one of the best stupids on here, I cant help being entertained
Is there anyone out there going to take me on?
Come on!
Embdy.
mags
minimum wage
Maggie McGill…
Didn’t know you were an accomplished Naval tactician.Wow! Hidden depths and all…
Submarines carried two types of torpedo
The modern wire-guided,which the captain was worried might malfunction..as they had never been used in action….and the old torpedoes which were technically inferior..but were considered to be more reliable in the situation that arose….
Most of the Argie casualties can be blamed on the cowardly retreat of the two accompanying destroyers….
You wouldn’t expect a submarine to surface and put itself at risk of aerial attack…
Canamalar….the article contained the previously secret info in a book by the former conservative minister ?Lord Baker
The actual relevant Cabinet Papers are not released until Dec 2012…under the 30 year rule…
Really Nite..
tsd,
so a cabinet minister released classified secrets, is that no treason, think I’ll wait to see if the informaion is released under FOI before I believe any war criminal
Did noone tell the KKK that Jesus’ death was planned before he was ‘born’, in fact it was the reason for his birth …… Wonder what bible they read…….. and the hatred of the Jews was just an example of hateful people looking for someone (or religion) to hate …. Night all
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
01:10 on 16 August, 2012
Neil. As always. you intrigue me. What do you mean?
“The actual relevant Cabinet Papers are not released until Dec 2012…under the 30 year rule…”
Now, if that no a “we’ve no been found guilty for the EBTs yet”, I dont know what is. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha stop me its sore ha ha hah
I’ll take you on, but can only afford minimum wage :o)
anyroadup,
bawbaws for me
night night n
hail hail
I loved the comment from the Australian commentator during the Scotland game.
As Ian Black was brought on near the end, he said, “There has been a lot of controversy in Scotland about Black’s inclusion in the squad, and no wonder. In his 150 games for Hearts, he did not get anywhere near a Scotland cap. Now that he finds himself playing in the 4th tier of the Scottish leagues, all of a sudden he is deemed international class. Very strange, or perhaps not.”
There I was earlier bemoaning the lack of passion,debate,and outright bickering being displayed by the current night-shift,and I log in for a mo tonight….
AND I’VE MISSED IT!
What’s worse,have to go back to work now.
So nae fa’in’ oot,yer telt!
TOM McLAUGHLIN 0140
Brilliant.
I’ll try to remember to repost that in the morning-if that’s ok?
Right-offski…….