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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BMCUW –
Be my guest :~)
History is written by the victors. I wouldn’t believe a word that any Tory minister or Chilean ‘intelligence’ officer trys to spin us to justify the actions of that lot in the 80’s.
And as far as this being a Celtic blog….is it not possible that events outside of Celtic Park affect what goes on inside it?
No one lives in a bubble any more and I will not deny that my political beliefs affect my perceptions….and that includes my perspective on Celtic. I’m in alignment with the thinking of The Green Brigade and if anyone doesn’t like that,then so be it.
It won’t stop me from telling it like it is…..for good or bad. Lived my whole life like that,and at times it’s rubbed some up the wrong way. But there ye go.
As Popeye says,” I yam what I yam.”
PeoplePleasingIsJustDownrightStupid CSC
jimtim00:50 on 16 August, 2012
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 . .
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The way they’re behaving you’d think they were just begging for someone to flip the switch. They’re acting suicidally…..and all to keep the giant orange ball in the air. And if Ogilvie moves into Uefa and Longmuir gets to wield more power,either in the spl or the sfa,then the game in Scotland might as well get itself sponsored by Orangina.
HH!
I don’t bless them
Farewell to this land’s cheerless marshes
Hemmed in like a boar between archers
Her very Lowness with a head in a sling
I’m truly sorry – but it sounds like a wonderful thing
And so, I checked all the registered historical facts
And I was shocked into shame to discover
How I’m the 18th pale descendant
Of some old queen or other
Oh, has the world changed, or have I changed ?
I swear to God
I swear : I never even knew what drugs were
Oh …
So, I broke into the palace
With a sponge and a rusty spanner
She said : “Eh, I know you, and you cannot sing”
I said : “That’s nothing – you should hear me play piano”
We can go for a walk where it’s quiet and dry
And talk about precious things
But when you’re tied to your Mother’s apron
No-one talks about castration
We can go for a walk where it’s quiet and dry
And talk about precious things
Like love and law and poverty
Oh, these are the things that kill me
We can go for a walk where it’s quiet and dry
And talk about precious things
But the rain that flattens my hair …
Oh, these are the things that kill me
All their lies about make-up and long hair, are still there
Past the Pub who saps your body
And the church who’ll snatch your money
The Queen is dead, boys
And it’s so lonely on a limb
Past the Pub that wrecks your body
And the church – all they want is your money
The Queen is dead, boys
And it’s so lonely on a limb
Life is very long, when you’re lonely
Life is very long, when you’re lonely
Life is very long, when you’re lonely
Life is very long, when you’re lonely
miki67 –
I enjoy the fact that CQN includes a fair amount of social and political debate, and like you, my political beliefs affect my perceptions. I also like to think that Celtic is open to all political persuasions, but reading extreme right-wing views from Celtic supporters on CQN or elsewhere does not sit comfortably with me, which I readily admit is down to my own personal bias.
C’est la vie.
tom mclaughlin
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I can handle reasoned debate, impassioned debate, furious debate. But what really gets me going is the direct knowledge and experience of the far and not-so-far right and how they,given the opportunity and the right circumstances, will deliberately hospitalise someone in order to prove their ‘political’ credentials.
I am not referring to anything that ever happened to me, but what I witnessed as a political activist in the 80’s right here in the UKplc.
The right like to dress up their rhetoric in tones of reason,but they’re really all witch burners at heart and as greedy as they come. And most of them couldn’t tell you where the terms ‘right’ and ‘left’,in the political sense,come from.
If,in this life,this world,the only person that matters is oneself and your only duty is to enrich yourself and pass on your spare largesse to those you deem ‘deserving’ then, in a spiritual sense, you are bereft. And so you leave yourself open to the kind of thought that makes cruelty in the name of acquiring capital,okay.
However, saying all that just annoys some people.
So,yeah….c’est la vie, c’est la guerre.
HH!
GCT
Me too. It has been quite astonishing to read some of the polemic statements from some Celtic supporters on CQN this last week or so. Beggars belief in this day and age. I keep having to pinch myself if I am missing something. I never ever thought that Celtic supporters would ever have to JUSTIFY their distaste for Torys.
Surely Catholics/Christians have been,and still are,the most persecuted of all the peoples on this earth?
There is no getting away from that fact,no matter what way you look at it.
Margaret –
I still smile when I remember a trip to Tynecastel as a wee bhoy in the mid-sixties.
My father very rarely swore in front of me and my brothers, even at the fitba.
At this particular game, some Hearts fans were throwing pies and sundry other mince at us.
My father was outraged.
He stood up to the Jambos and shouted, “Yer nothing but a shower a . . . a . . . a . . .”
He’s gonnae swear, I told myself. Ma da’s gonnae swear.
Eventually he completed his plaintiff cry – ” . . . bliddy tories!”
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Tom McLaughlin
03:33 on 16 August, 2012
I heard about your father. He was legend in our parts!
Aaaaah,lads.
Celtic Football Club.
All inclusive,unless ,of course, you`re a Tory.
I will always admire Fidel Castro and John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Che Guevara and Maggie Thatcher? – Hitler and Stalin? – Lowlifes of the highest order.
There is no black or white with me,i don’t see it as a contradiction in terms.
And another thing – democracy just means the majority rules,that doesn’t mean it’s right.
No fascist,no Communist – working class only,always the ones that get pashed on,that do the fighting and the dying.
No Communists can claim the working class,they done even worse damage to us than Capitalism even did,only Communists are more hypocritical.
yeah thats right you reached unthank on the 3rd day of the 10th month of the 1956th solar year of the Nazarene calendar…but the question remains ..what day were you delivered in human form?
Margaret McGill – I am here,and you are there.
Still agitating and dictating Margaret McGill.
Hitler will never be dead whilst you are alive.
Think about it.
Sixteen roads to Golgotha
03:48 on 16 August, 2012
Did you get a “D” in English? and an A in gaelscoileanna ?
watching Carla’s Song. Ken Loach gets this country better than its inhabitants.
Sixteen roads to Golgotha
Just for you…….
Hail hail
The Celts are here
What the hell do we care now…. foritza…
We seek the Celts
We Hail the Celts
We seek the Celts
we Hail the Celts
We Seek the Celts
We Hail the Celts
We Seek the Celts
We hail the Celts
Seek
Hail
Seek Hail
Seek Hail
Seek Hail
Seek Hail
Seek Heil
Seek Heil
Zieg Hiel
Zieg Hiel
Hand oot in red hand of ulster like fashion
Come on.
Join in.
You are the best of them all Margaret McGill,nobody does the sweeping generalisations and stereotypes quite like you do.
Everything is beautiful,you are never in the wrong.It’s your way or no way – your agenda is the only agenda.
Nah
Tom McLaughlin
Ernie Lynch
Rascar capac
Vic Ajax
Canamalar
FFM
have made me change my mind
convince me
You are cracking me up here McGill.
Say want you want on CQN,it doesn’t matter.
All that you are is a hypocrite,hypocrite numero uno in fact.
Sixteen roads to Golgotha
04:19 on 16 August, 2012
Even though you’re cheating i still love you so
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDEdFxUZ01s
PMSL
Terrible,terrible song that is.
First time ive ever heard it,and it will def be the last.
Too many cowards McGill – like Che Guevara.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBYUOOEHbJw&feature=related
yeah what a wanker
Margaret McGill – I don’t care if he was Irish or not – he was a bad apple McGill – he placed innocent people against the wall and executed them.
That’s fair enough,that was his path of choice,but then when it was his turn,and the shoe was on the other foot – he cried like a baby,pleaded for his life,and offered to inform on his own comrades.
Fair is fair.
As i have already stated before – Castro is a person i admire,and i also wiill – but not that Che thing,he was a coward.
Sixteen roads to Golgotha
04:47 on 16 August, 2012
here
Right up your street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cws24hsFh_M&feature=fvwrel
Margaret McGill – No reason whatsoever.
Typical.
I used to wear a Che t-shirt when i was a kid.
I loved that Christy Moore song,and a still do to be honest with ya.
But then ya start to read,and question things.
Franco = bad,Commies = good.
Che = good,poor victims = bad.
Propaganda.
And this is in the West,the land of capitalism ffs!!
Good morning tims
CQN night crawlers the sun will soon be up away to bed
Just popped in again.
Seems it’s blinkin’ Valentine’s Day already.
Jee-zoh,that was a long shift-think I need ma cot…….
And then we had a genuine hero – JFK – this man said that enough is enough,took a stand,and faced them down…even the bold Castro shat his trunks and took twenty steps back ffs.
Yet instead of lauding the great JFK – they only went and murdered him!! – Why murder the man whom faced down the most evil of evils – Communism?
Communism eh? That most dodgy of all ideologies,if ever there was one – the ideology that claims to be be the saviour of the working class – yet ultimately seeks to enslave the working class.Capitalism does the same,but capitalism does what it says on the tin.
Communism really needs to be questioned,and why is it always Catholics/Christians that are the first targets?
Who started this Communism caper? What is their agenda?
All that you have to do is look at these champagne socialists,the corrupt unions,the union men that turn into the worst bossmen.
AnimalFarmCSC.
SIXTEEN ROADS
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with Communism.
On paper,it is Utopian and idealistic.
However,it is never operated that way. Possibly because of the violence generally required to install it as a form of government.
Once the genie of violence is out of the bottle,it is doomed to failure.
Sorry to read some comments on here regarding the hunger strike of 81.
10 young men lay down there lives to try and change a filthy system , it didn’t work and I’m sure after first few died the rest knew their fate. They didn’t budge because they wanted better for there comrades.
There’s an inner thing in ever man
Do you know this thing my friend
BMCW
Just not enough love in the world
Sixteen roads to Golgotha –
You’re Francis Gay aren’t you?
Go on, admit it :~)
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS – I know mate,it looks good on paper – but it doesn’t work in practise – maybe that is because of human nature,the greed thing.
But there is no denying this – Communism has been a blight on humanity,a terrible evil,particularly for the peasants,Christians and working class folk.
Also – it is supposed to be anti-religion – but how come the people that were responsible for it,were deeply religious,and were of a certain religious persuasion?
16 roads:
Capitalism is the dominant economic system. It would have us believe that our best hope is to put our faith in competition, base our economic organisation on dog-eat-dog greed. The result is astonishing disparities of wealth in the west and perpetual grinding poverty and intermittent famine in the world’s poorest continent. This is a shameful failure in human terms and an indictment of any who claim it to be the best we can hope for.
The biggest failing in the corruption and the oppressive, brittle civil society experienced in communist states lies in the succour that has offered to capitalism and it’s TINA champions…
Tom McLaughlin – never heard of Francis Gay,but i shall google it in a wee minute just to make sure i am not that person.
I have a lot of respect for the poor aboriginal people,now there’s a story of exploitation if ever there was one.
Facebook has served its purpose. CIA know enough. Encouraged by its gift, they are actively working on its successor. 3D social networking. Good luck all. Especially the rational.
West Wales Celt – I am not defending capitalism either mate,it is all exploitation,i do realise that.
I have already stated that the working class are the ones whom ultimately suffer,and the poor that get bleed dry.
The lesser of two evils as far as i am concerned,that’s all.