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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It’s back!
CQN fantasy league :- fantasy.premierleague.com
To all those who played last year, its a simple 5 minute job to re-register and set up your team, most of you will have probably forgotten your passwords so just type in your email and a recovery password will be sent to you.
New players just register normally, will take no longer than ten minutes.
This year I’ve gone for the classic league, literally most points wins over the course of the season compared to last years head to head system, where you played different people every week and three points for win, one for draw etc.
To join the league the code is :- 721106-181775
Enjoy :)
Dontbrattbakkinanger
11:29 on
15 August, 2012
Cri de couer from ole Cadizzy-
‘Hi, can you post a request on CQN for me please?
In Torrevieja. Any good bar for games?
Found one for League games but they don’t have premier sports’.
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If all else fails tell him to get a taxi or a bus into La Zenia.There is a powerful wee Irish bar there called Paddy’s Point.
They will have the Celtic game on.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
JOCK TAMSON
Eh,what about his wife?
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i felt sorry for mrs mols, constantly getting mistaken for mrs hedman in the queus at lidl’s.
by the way, re: mikey mols…
i got my ticket from a very, very irreputable source the day of the match when scotland were playing norway in bordeaux at france98.
imagine my shock to see printed on the ticket that my £200 (face value 350FF, or £35) ticket had been issued to…
a “Mr Michael Mols”
i guess in the pre-EBT era things were tough down govan way.
philvis,
always enjoy your rhetoric but some of your stereotypes need a refresh:)
Last pair of dungarees I saw was when Shawshank Redemption was repeated on the telly.
Philvis,
It was not so much a question of the Argentine fascists ‘spoiling for a war’, but of them being lured into one by the withdrawal of the supply ship to the Malvinas, which was a deliberate ploy to encourage the Generals to misread the Wicked Witch’s intentions with regard to the islands.
She truly was one evil & conniving human being.
TootingTim – Last pair of dungarees I saw was when Shawshank Redemption was repeated on the telly.
Trust me, they still exist.
Did you see any of those Occupy/UK Uncut youngsters?
It was radical roleplay to be sure, a pantomime reenactment of 1968, but the dungarees live on. (thumbsup)
theweegreenman
I could swear that during the cardigans tenure Durrant’s ears got bigger!
Make of that what you will!
HH!!
thecat
14:09 on
15 August, 2012
I don’t think so, going to have the bite the bullet and call the ticket office
philvisreturns …. 14:22 on 15 August, 2012
How naive are you ……. Politicians have only 2 priorities ….power and money ……the rest of us just get on with surviving one political mess after the other …..they’re all as bad as each other ……. Suffer the little children and the expendible soldiers ….l have grown to despise politicians and bankers ……
New Labour = Tory Lite
or
IcantBelieveTheyreNotTory
Blair….failed ‘rock star’ with a giant ego and a messiah complex.
Now traipsing round the world with Cruella DeVille (have you seen his missus?) praying he doesn’t get nicked somewhere for war crimes.
The trouble with politicians is the people who want to be politicians.
16RTG- thanks, will pass it on.
theweegreenman
14:29 on 15 August, 2012
From what I hear, “Walter,” preferred to just knock seven bells out of the young guys.
philvisreturns
14:22 on 15 August, 2012
RobertTressell – Philvis – Blair was every bit as bad as thatcher and in terms of the human suffering caused he was probably worse. He never deviated from Thatcherism.
At the end of Mrs Thatcher’s time in office, people were richer and freer than they had been on average at the start of it.
At the end of Blair’s time in office, people were more indebted and more burdened by government regulations and a plethora of new laws than they had been on average at the start of it.
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Do you see any connection between, for example, the ‘Right to Buy’ and increased personal debt? Thatcher began the process, Major, Blair, Brown and now Cameron remained on the path she laid out.
Quite how you think people were ‘freer’ or better off is beyond me. She began the process which has led to the most unequal distribution of wealth in the UK since the 1930’s (it’s no coincidence that there was also a ‘recession’ at that time too – but they were honest enough to call it a ‘depression’)
The rich got richer, those who bought their houses got an ‘asset’ but it created a culture of debt that spiralled out of control as you well know. The deregulation of the financial industry and the stripping back of the strong bargaining powers among workers, the complete decimation of democracy in the area that we spend most of our lives in and which affects us most directly – the workplace – all of these things she started and the outworkings of this we see now. And it was quite deliberate.
Capital needs places to flow. Privatisation, which has cost the UK massively, was the most obvious way to open up channels for it to flow to. Strong Unions were a block to the accumulation of capital so thatcher, taking the lead from her US allies, decided on a twin pronged attack on organised labour in order to clear the way for a deregulated financial ‘industry’ to start redistributing wealth upwards. This approach in the UK was firstly to tackle the Unions head on – the miners, the print workers etc and secondly to simply dismantle the industries where the workers were best organised and workplaces were the most democratic – steel, shipbuilding, coal mining etc. Remove the workplaces, remove the organised workers and demoralise them.
Following this she set about legislating against workplace democracy and the ability of workers to control their own lives – how is this freedom?
We are agreed on the Labour Party!
philvisreturns 14:22 on 15 August, 2012
No hindsight involved. While you were being taken by the hand to school some of us were living with the repercussions of Thatcher’s policies.
While it’s amusing that you think we were all better off and had more freedom under her Government, reality was somewhat different – media blackouts, restricted movement and shoot-to-kill policies are just three examples.
At the end of the day you come from Coatbridge and you are kidding no one.
Tamlaghtduff Bhoy
13:51 on
15 August, 2012
I’ll be in euro disney the night we play Helsingborgs at home. Anyone know a pub close by that’ll be showing the game?
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sorry mate-I’ve been there
you’re Daffy Ducked :(
HH
Aaaah Tony Blair. Did he not become Catholic after his tenure?
Confession is good for the soul…….
Ah jeez, the rains on, have to rush out the back and get my dungarees off the line….
noooooooo, my thai dye is running. Ach well no one will notice…………………..
The way the world is going,and no,I’m not a doom monger,in the coming centuries we will probably have to return to being self-reliant agrarian communities with some energy efficient hi-tech to aid us.
This is no bad thing. Even cities can organise on a sustainable level.
The future isn’t black and blue.
It’s green. Otherwise we flounder as a species.
sorry for hogging the blog but talk of the KKK reminded me of this…
about 10 years ago, there was a louis theroux thing, when louis met the nazis (or something). so he’s interviewing this particularly noxious klan member and he asks him…
“so why do you hate jews?”
parrot fashion reply comes “we hate the jew because the jew murdered jesus christ our lord!”
so this set me thinking, and i confess biblical study was never a forte of mine, but…
the jews didn’t murder jesus. jesus was a jew. the romans murdered jesus. surely rather being anti-semitic, the KKK should be italiaphobes?
i’ve often wondered whether anyone, anywhere has ever thought to bring up this seemingly relevant point.
i suspect that the course of modern american history could have developed very differently.
theweegreenman
14:41 on 15 August, 2012
Aaaah Tony Blair. Did he not become Catholic after his tenure?
Confession is good for the soul…….
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A bit like Sevco and the Followfollowers of the Oldco – it has to be a good confession with a proper examination of conscience for it to count!!
No repentance – no forgiveness!
TootingTim
14:33 on
15 August, 2012
philvis,
always enjoy your rhetoric but some of your stereotypes need a refresh:)
Last pair of dungarees I saw was when Shawshank Redemption was repeated on the telly.
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Dexy’s bbc4 TOTP last Sunday ;-)
twas just like a Walton’s thanksgiving
HH
miki67
14:42 on 15 August, 2012
The way the world is going,and no,I’m not a doom monger,in the coming centuries we will probably have to return to being self-reliant agrarian communities with some energy efficient hi-tech to aid us.
This is no bad thing. Even cities can organise on a sustainable level.
The future isn’t black and blue.
It’s green. Otherwise we flounder as a species.
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Hope you’ve the tin hat on Miki. Some of our resident right wingers still think the vast majority of the worlds climate scientists are in cahoots with some kind of marxist plot to destroy big business!!!!
Wait till you see!!!
Dontbrattbakkinanger
13:37 on
15 August, 2012
Cheers – with a bit of luck there’ll be a bar manager who knows the worth of showing the mighty Hoops !
The bould b`hoys 14:25 on 15 August, 2012
“I was once told the war for the Malvinas was more to do with the minerals off shore rather than the land itself..?”
There has been rumours of oil in the area – still undiscovered though.
Dontbrattbakkinanger 14:26 on 15 August, 2012
“Margaret Thatcher had her faults but the military junta in Argentina was an obnoxious and cruel regime; they should never have been awarded the WC in 78 on human rights grounds, but that’s another story.”
I agree they should not have been awarded the World Cup and they were a totally obnoxious regime.
Thatcher’s invasion was not based on any ideology though. She has no problem with fascists.
wonkyradar
13:05 on
15 August, 2012
If Christ had stayed dead he would be spinning in his grave at the corruption of his message.
BTW have you read anything on the Suffis and the development of the Ennegram?
Made a decent start in the fantasy league, got 64 in now so there will be good competition. Anyone else who wants to join is very welcome, doesn’t matter if your new it’s very simple to do!
I posted a cou
sixtaeseven: Supporting the Finest Team in Scotland
tres bon! :)
Bloody iphone
From The Independent 3/4/2012.
Sinking The Belgrano:The Pinochet Connection.
It was the moment that came to define the Falklands conflict.
immediately claiming more than 300 lives and setting in chain events which would lead to the invasion of the disputed islands by British troops. Now, as services are held to mark the 30th anniversary of the start of the war, a member of Margaret Thatcher’s War Cabinet has revealed details of how intelligence received from the Chilean regime of fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet led to the decision to sink the Argentine warship General Belgrano.
The sinking of the former US warship was controversial because at the time it was outside a British 200-mile Total Exclusion Zone around the Falklands and was steaming away from the UK Task Force. The cruiser went down with the loss of 323 lives – more than half of the total Argentine losses in the war.
In an exclusive interview for a forthcoming book on the history of Britain, Real Britannia, Lord Parkinson discloses that the War Cabinet took the decision after receiving secret intercepts from Chilean intelligence services revealing the orders from the Argentine junta to the warship’s captain, Hector Bonzo.
Lord Parkinson, one of Lady Thatcher’s closest allies, said: “They [Chile] had intercepted the Argentinian command’s instructions… We had been discussing what we would do if we found it [the Belgrano] because we knew the Belgrano was out to sink a carrier. The fact that it was going one way or the other, it was manoeuvring to avoid a torpedo.”
The Independent has learned from defence sources that the Chilean information also showed the staff of Admiral Jorge Anaya, the head of the Argentine Navy, had been directing orders to the Belgrano and a destroyer, the Hipólito Bouchard, to continue engaging in combat while taking all measures necessary to avoid coming under attack. This was interpreted by the British high command as signifying that movement towards her home port by the two ships may well have been acts of subterfuge.
The sinking took place 14 hours after the President of Peru, Fernando Belaúnde, proposed a peace plan which included regional states playing a role. After the sinking, Argentina rejected the plan but the UK indicated its acceptance on 5 May. It is not well known that the British continued to offer ceasefire terms until 1 June.
The War Cabinet took the decision to sink the Belgrano on 2 May 1982, after being briefed at a meeting at Chequers with Mrs Thatcher and Sir Terence Lewin, Admiral of the Fleet. Lewin told the Cabinet that Commander Chris Wreford-Brown, the captain of British nuclear submarine Conqueror, had the Belgrano in his sights and was seeking permission to attack. The ship was part of a small battle group, flanked by two Argentinian destroyers.
The War Cabinet authorised Lewin to proceed. The order was sent through Northwood, the Navy’s command centre in west London, to the Conqueror. Wreford-Brown fired two non-guided torpedoes, which blew off the ship’s bow.
Lord Parkinson said: “We discussed the Belgrano ad nauseam and what it was up to. Then up comes the Captain and says the Belgrano is going into shallower water and I can’t follow it. Something as big as a nuclear submarine in shallow water was easy to hit. You couldn’t allow that risk.”
Pictures taken by survivors of the warship listing to port, before sinking, with orange rafts floating nearby, became one of the lasting images of the war, prompting the Sun headline: “Gotcha!”
Protests about the action were led by Tam Dalyell, the former Labour MP, who claimed the sinking had been ordered for political reasons by Lady Thatcher to destroy the last hopes of a peace plan being pursued in Peru by Perez de Cuellar, the Peruvian Secretary General of the UN, and Al Haig, the US Secretary of State.
Lord Parkinson denied this. “It was nothing to do with that. It was unanimous that if we had let the Belgrano go and it had sunk a carrier, we would all have been finished. We would all have had to stand down, if we had presided over the death of hundreds of British sailors and had the chance to avert it.
“What we didn’t realise [was] the Argentinian destroyers took off immediately and they didn’t search for survivors. They thought they would all get sunk… When we finally got the satellite pictures, we had pictures showing all the Argentine fleet in port.”
Lord Parkinson also dispelled one of the myths of the war, that Britain relied heavily on surveillance from US satellites. The system was so slow that the US only supplied the photographs of the Argentine navy back in port the day after the conflict ended.
His disclosure that Britain received vital intelligence reports directly from Chile explains why Lady Thatcher supported General Pinochet when he was arrested in Britain for alleged war crimes, when he later came for treatment in a private London clinic. She said at the time that Britain owed a debt of gratitude to the Chilean leader for helping it win the war.
It became known later that General Pinochet had permitted a secret SAS surveillance team to use a long-range radar facility in Chile to monitor movements by the Argentine air force from its Comodoro Rivadavia air base – but until now, it was not known that Lady Thatcher was also supplied by the Pinochet regime with more vital raw intercept data revealing the orders to the Argentine commanders in action around the Falklands.
Thatcher Big Bang Reagan Voodoo Economics Black Friday Nineties Recession
2008 – 2012.
What next? Capitalism doesn’t collapse in 4 years…..it’s rotting and crumbling. We are only at the start of it.
Of the 100% of cuts announced by the ConDemNation ‘coalition’ and passed into law,only 15% have been implemented so far,yet we are even deeper in debt than 2 years ago.
Where does anyone think this is all heading?
And all that the talking heads on the squalk box can do is speculate while lining their pockets.
No one knows any more. It truly is an omnishambles on an epic scale.
But hey ho,on we go.
I posted a couple of days ago concerning the fact that according to scientists helium gas, non-renewable, will be exhausted. Took millions of years to appear and gone within 100.
And what will Ian Durrant do for a voice then eh?? :-)
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon
09:58 on
15 August, 2012
The new CQN is very white. There’s an awful lot of unused screen space,
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Paul67 is filling in said space with posts from Patrick27.
Pat we get the picture give us a brekk.
Just managed to get all of this seasons celtic fixtures on my outlook calendar from the fishal website.
Well played celtic
My final say on Durrant.
Like him or loathe him – personally I wasn’t that fond, mainly on account of his deep set eyes and deeply furrowed brow – but before his injury he was an excellent ‘box to box’ midfield player. After his injury he was a far less effective player than before. Denial of this is plain daft.
I don’t know whether the effectiveness of cruciate ligament surgery has improved between then and now, but he certainly didn’t make a full recovery.
I tought the money outstanding was for £65,981 from the Scottish Cup game and therefore under the remit of the SFA. looks like STV in their desperation to defend Sevco have made an erse of it.
STV has obtained the wording of a letter believed to have been sent by the Scottish Premier League to Rangers on May 18, 2012.
In the correspondence, the SPL agrees to meet a debt owed by Rangers to Dundee United, totaling just over £31,000, taken from competition money due to the Ibrox club for finishing second in the league in the 2011/12 season.
The letter, from SPL secretary Iain Blair, read: “The Board of the Scottish Premier League Ltd considered the application by Dundee United that the outstanding sum due by Rangers to Dundee United of £31,031.20 be offset against the next sums due to Rangers by SPL Ltd, with the offset sum being paid to Dundee United.
“The board decided to accede the application to Dundee United and accordingly the sum will be withheld from the next sum payable by the SPL Ltd to Rangers, and the sum will be paid by the SPL Ltd to Dundee United.”
I tought I taw a putty cat… :0)