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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In the last 48 hours on here I have learnt two extraordinary things:
1. The Cristero War. Never even heard of it. What a compelling slice of 20th century history.
2. That She Was Only A Grocer’s Daughter was one of the creators of Mr Whippy ice cream.
Both on here.
HH
Not the old Thatcher debate again!
Can we not discuss Parks buses to keep ole Timbhoy2 happy? :-)
I will stay out of the thatcher discussion i think, but as for Square Sliced Sausages it is a well known fact that Penders of Coatbridge and Munns of Gourock were the maestros of the art.
However for those of you whingein about the absence of Square sliced in their part of the world, Taurangabhoy once gave his recipe to Timsinohio.
In case I ever found myself back in the amazon, outback, bush, desert or Newton Mearns I kept a copy ……
This is it….so Ready Steady Cook…
Wee tip I use pork sausage meat much more like the real square I used to get in the pollock centre . I have used mince as well but not as good as using pre pulped sausage meat and just blending in the spices and breadcrumbs.
> 2lb ground meat ( beef or pork)
> 3 teaspoons salt
> 1 1/2 ” pepper
> 1 ” nutmeg
> 2 ” coriander
> 2 cups plain breadcrumbs
> 1/2 cup water (if needed to bind)
>
> Mix all dry ingredients first.
> Add meat a little at a time, mixing thoroughly.
> Add 1 cup breadcrumbs at a time & mix thoroughly.
> Add water only to bind. Shape into a long loaf.
> Cover with cling wrap and refrigerate until hard enough to slice
> Freeze flat.
(For those in South East of England, Nota Bene – should the alternative meats not be available, DO NOT substitute with chopped, minced or ground remnants of Thatcher. This is not nor has ever been fit for human consumption!)
Hail hail
Estadio
The older I get the more I think thatcher was a necessary evil. The unions were out if control, the economy was a basket case, and if she hadn’t done what she did then at some point in the 1980s someone else would have- or the country would have ground to a halt…
The Falklands? A perfectly legitimate response to genuine fascism. Incredible that some posters on the left still defend the junta.
She did spawn a nasty culture no doubt, and she loathed the NHS with a passion. By the time her successor Major had left office it was on the brink of collapse. Blair and Brown can genuinely be credited with saving it.
The Laddy McGeary
I did that as well, but has it now been updated with the re-scheduled Dundee United game. Mine hasn’t!
Hail hail
Estadio
Emb’dy heard from Patrick27?
The Laddy McGeary
Who did we get in the Champions League?!
HH
Steinreignedsupreme
14:48 on
15 August, 2012
AS I understand it the deposits of minerals are proven, huge deposits actaully. Accessing it is the trouble
I do not have a tin hat……..I sit in my lead lined bunker with an aliminium pokey hat upon my dome,living off freeze dried meat and hydroponically grown vegetables ferilized by…well,you can imagine….and drinking recycled vino I liberated from the chateau I pillaged on the way to my underground redoubt.
My friends are all imaginary and I rotate them on a meritocratic basis. One day,when the sun has turned green,and the sky a hazy shade of yellow, I will emerge from my isolation and sail a yacht around the deserted planet in my splendid isolation.
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There. Now I will have reassured the right-wingers among us that I truly am a pitiful nutter.
Job done.
Now…back to those pesky untouchable black things scuttling on my screen……
MadAsaHatter CSC
ItaliaBhoy
You are Italian and therefore quite at home with dictators and the old right fist salute.
British Government knew weeks in advance the plans of Argentina and refused to let the ambassador at the time to intervene and prevent blood shed.
She also had a rabid hatred for Scotland and dismantled our industries and introduced the poll tax here at the same time.
If you know your history right enough…
Embdae on the Home Ticket Scheme got Helsingborgs ticket yet ? From earlier,the money recouped from Hoiveld paid for FF.
ulysses mcghee
15:06 on
15 August, 2012
Is there a quick way to refresh the page on a mobile?
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On my HTC I press the menu button and the address bar appears at the top of the screen with a circle arrow, press to refresh.
Only problem is that it goes to top of page whereas before if I clicked in the date time stamp before refreshing it would auto magically go back to there.
ItaliaBhoy 15:12 on 15 August, 2012
“The Falklands? A perfectly legitimate response to genuine fascism. Incredible that some posters on the left still defend the junta.”
The invasion of the Falklands had nothing to do with any fight against fascism. Thatcher has never had a problem with fascists.
Asonofdan… What a poor, borderline racist comment.
all i’ll add to the thatcher debate…
i’ve had her in my annual dead pool for the last 15 or so years.
she’s like a bloomin’ cockroach.
sometimes i suspect she croaked it about 10 years ago but my mate stevie had it all hushed up so he can avoid paying me the readies.
i wonder if “granthamite” would see the old bag off like a terrestrial version of kryptonite?
She LOVED Scotland with a passion.
A country with an oil industry which needs a steel industry to support it.
Shuts Ravenscraig. 40000 out of work overnight. Bloody marvellous eh?
Did she not go on to work for tobacco companies in the far East?
Oops, just tried the click on time stamp and refresh and it DID jump to that point. Excellent.
kdc 15:18 on 15 August, 2012:
I’m sure they’ll get there in the end.
estadio15:12 on 15 August, 2012:
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Recipe saved to be implemented sooner rather than later!
Ta for that.
Steinreigbssupreme, I am not saying the war was an ideological crusade on thatchers part. For her, it was simple defence of Falkland islanders and of uk sovereignty.
It would have been a dereliction of duty in her part if she hadn’t responded.
The point about the junta is that it was a genuinely authoritarian regime with clear fascistic undertones. Invading another country was entirely within its modus operandi, and cannot IMHO be defended, especially by the anti- colonialist left.
ItaliaBhoy,
A bit like saying the Great Fire Of London was a good thing because it eliminated the Plague.
I suppose there is logic in there somewhere.
The Argentinian Junta was EVIL.
Margaret Thatcher’s government was EVIL.
There were no Good Guys in their conflict.
The Junta’s evil did not affect us here to any great degree.
Thatcher’s evil adversely affected every worker in Scotland.
3 spoons of salt !!!
see
jock tamson 14:42 on 15 August, 2012
I think the KKK would go into such a tail spin they would disappear up their own backsides if someone had the decency to inform them that Jesus was a Jew also :)
Hail Hail
Everyone’s Gone to The Movies!
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Kilbowie kelt I profoundly disagree and I suggest you really need to look a bit harder if you cannot see the difference between Thatchers government and that of Galtieri. We are incredibly lucky in this country never to have experienced life under a military dictatorship. Believe me, you will know the difference when you see it.
Dontbrattbakkinanger 14:06 on 15 August, 2012
THindimebhoy- St Joes, as in down in Shangri La, bro Walfrid’s grave?
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Thats the very one mate bro Walfrid grave got many a visit from us and was especially dear to me with Sligo connections
Celtic quietly conquering the USA by being linked with one of biggest Mexican teams, The Sports Academy in Philadelphia and this http://www.fcgreaterboston.com/index.html
To each his own, Italia.
…the eye of the beholder.
Good Luck.
You think you have problems with Margaret Hilda. I have nightmares of nightmares far into the future…………
The nightmare never dies
May 23rd 2027
Time : 8.00 am
Location : Noah Currant’s sleep-pod Somewhere in Coatbridge – the administrative capital of TISROC (The Independent Socialist Republic of Caledonia).
Noah drifted in a disturbing tide of unplanned dreams. Dreams that had Celtic playing once more in front of 60,000 at Celtic Park in the latter stages of the Champions league; disturbing because not only had that not happened since Noah was a Bhoy of 50 years of age, some 20 years previously, but more-so because a ball had not been kicked in anger at Celtic Park or any other stadium in Scotland since the great bloodletting of 2014 when Paradise had been closed, Celtic disbanded and professional football relegated to a pastime for ex-strictly come dancing aficionadas.
His electronic wake-up signal from the neural implant stirred him from stand-by mode to fully awake and he sat up ready for another day of exciting neural networking. He immediately sent a mental trigger back to the implant and listened and watched in his mind’s receptor to the morning welcome call from the cyber-station’s sponsor followed by the latest news.
Expectation had long been a well run dry and so he crossed his fingers, toes and legs in nothing more than fervent hope.
“Today would surely be the day. Forty eight years of praying to every possible god and spirit, spells cast, curses dealt and wax models melted in the fire….today would surely be the day.”
‘Thought for the day’ came on; fervent hope kicked him in the goolies once more as the terrifying nasal delivery he feared more than any other assaulted his synapses!
“Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is…….”
She was still alive!!
Wired to a life support system perhaps; a hundred and feckin two years old and still kicking; a decaying old pile of suppurating jelly; but still alive and still believing that she was universally loved.
Noah thought longingly of that cherished bottle of champers in the antique fridge. “It is probably going off” he thought “but it would never rank in the putrid stakes alongside her!! When will I get to drink it? When will I get to celebrate the demise of Margaret Hilda Thatcher. Science has a lot to feckin answer for!”
He thought of prompting a log in to the neural-net and seeing what was going on in CNN.
He decided not to. After all there had been nothing there ever since Celtic had folded on 25th May 2014. In fact that was why the site had been rebranded to C.N.N. – Celtic Nae News.
He shook his head at the folly of those years, his own part in Celtic’s downfall and decided to give it a miss.
He turned over took a couple of bites out of his edible egg and bacon flavoured pillow, sent a mental prompt for his neural implant to resume standby dream mode.
As he drifted off again, this time to his chosen retro-dream of Angelina Jolie to while away his leisure REM sleep, he smiled as he thought of the plan that would at least try to right those wrongs of so many years ago, a plan that would kick-off in only two days time.
And then he found himself being beckoned by the smile and allure of a sultry demanding Angelina……..
Hail hail
Estadio
Thindimebhoy- I was there between 67-74. Wee Rab was the heedie, then big Cyril.
St. Louis Lions Elite Youth Academy partnership. That would be Celtic again…
traditionalist88
We got a by to the final and we’ve all to go
Celtic FC Florida Youth Academy, formerly Gulf Coast United…
Dontbrattbakkinanger 15:45 on 15 August, 2012
Thindimebhoy- I was there between 67-74. Wee Rab was the heedie, then big Cyril.
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Well hello fellow St Joe bro !
I was ther for 3 years 1972-1975
Cyril ran the show and Skeba his nephew was a mate so was Jas Stepek
My first dorm was the with Bro Norman and then the mids with Bro Francis do you remember bro Fergie who took maths and hairy Neil who took English
Thsoe were the days
can someone clear up for me please???? season started last week …sevco 5088 still in administration waiting to be liquidated …..started season without a 10 point penalty ?????
are they making up the rules as they go to keep them afloat????
right… tin hat and kevlar kecks on, but…
since we all know we need a big, imposing, experienced, decent centre half, preferably cheap(ish)…
just wondered what folk would make of bougherra. aye, i remember THAT night well, and i’m no great fan of his, but…
he does have SPL, european and world cup experience. he is only 29. he’d cost, at a guess, about a million. he can distribute the ball. and it would seem after swelling his coffers in qatar he’s looking for a move back to britain. west ham are sniffing but haven’t moved.
i’m not offering an opinion, i dunno, but he ticks a lot of boxes, and i think if he hadn’t played for the deceaseds, i’d be fairly keen.
any thoughts, opinions, pins stuck in dollies?
Player Development Academy New Jersey. Oh! Celtic again…