An article on STV this week brought an old memory to mind. Days before Rangers’ goalkeeper, Chris Woods, was set to break a Scottish shut-out record across all competitions he gave a media interview when he said, “I just hope when we do lose a goal it is not an important one”.
Woods duly broke the record in a Scottish Cup tie against Hamilton Accies but that game, 27 years ago last week, is not remembered for the achievements of Chris Woods, it’s remembered for the fact that Accies left back, Adrian Sproat, found himself in nosebleed territory as he thrashed the only goal of the game into the net. Records count for nothing when you’re knocked out of the cup.
Fraser Forster has demonstrated remarkable concentration in recent games, when he has been called upon to make incredible saves after long periods of inactivity, but there are only so many times he’ll be able to pull off ‘save of the season’ acrobatics. We need to protect him and close down space well away from the Celtic goal.
These records may matter little if they are recalled through an embarrassing defeat but, just consider how often and fondly we refer to the 25 league game winning run in season 2003-04. History is always worth making.
Many thanks for everyone who for getting your seats confirmed for our CQteN St Patrick’s Day Dinner at the Kerrydale Suite on 14 March. As we stand there are a few non-confirmed but from tomorrow we’ll be able to allocate seats to the waiting list. Will let you know if we have space available soon.
The dinner is to raise funds to build a kitchen for Mary’s Meals at the Kholoni Primary School in Mchinji, Malawi, which has 1200 students and no catering facilities. Children often are faced with the choice of working to eat of going to school. With a kitchen in place this dependency will flip, those who go to school and get an education, will also get a meal – often their only reliable meal of the day.
Marys’ Meals perform minor miracles, feeding each child in Malawi for £7 per annum, while employing locals to work in the kitchens (which will be used as a classroom outside of meal times). It will be a remarkable legacy to mark the first 10 years we’ve had out of CQN.
Two new badges will launch at the CQteN dinner to record the decade and raise funds for the Malawi kitchen. The designs have now been approved (see here) and they are about to go into production. If you would like to register interest, email Celticrollercoaster on cqnbadges@gmail.com
If you would like to read the new CQN Magazine, GO HERE to read properly, and for FREE, the graphic below is just a taster.
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….PFayr supports WeeOscar
20:48 on
6 February, 2014
Prestonpans
To be fair to RS that’s exactly what hey stated …two games each
McCoist is a disgrace, I didn’t think it possible , but he’s getting worse
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Yep – I listened to Radio Scotland tonight and all of the commentators picked up on that.
Going back to what an earlier poster noted – why do you think he was asked that question? It was nothing to do with McCoist and seemed completely staged to me. I’m guessing it’s been fed to the journo who asked it. I reckon that journalists are being paid to ask certain questions at press conferences in an attempt to manage the news agenda.
Why else employ spin artists?
Just in from work to hear that George Galloway & David Starkey both on question time – could get feisty -away to read back.
TET looking for advice on a nice wee red to wash down black/white pudding!!! I’m a Rioja Man. hail Hail Hebcelt
hebcelt
22:07 on 6 February, 2014
‘TET looking for advice on a nice wee red to wash down black/white pudding!!! I’m a Rioja Man. hail Hail Hebcelt’
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This might be more appropriate than a Rioja.
http://www.drinksupermarket.com/hungarovin-vintners-bull-s-blood-szekszardi-hungarian-red-wine-75cl.html?gclid=CNPKsKfCuLwCFafKtAodLhwAHA
Paddybhoy1888, let’s hope the Rovers players are £500 up after the weekend!
I was up in Aberdeen the other day, they are confident.
BeaniesandbadgesCSC
I get it now……..
Fergus McCann=Saviour,Only Show in Town,Philanthropist=Great Man
Tommy Burns=Moneywaster,Naive Tactician,Team of Galacticos Badly Coached=Failure
John Keane=Who?
Ffs……aff oot
Ryecatcher
… one from wiki for you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeper_agent
hebcelt
Try Toro Loco Tempranillo from Aldi, lovely red wine n goes nice with black pudding IMO
HH
NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar 22:07 on 6 February, 2014
I listened to the press conference earlier on the telly, and most of the alleged journalists were having a laugh and lapping it all up.
Sleekit’s a hero to most of them right enough, and it saves them asking any difficult questions, like what’s happening with that 50% pay-cut?
The camera cut away before they started queuing for his autograph.
hebcelt
I posted earlier about the black and white, luverly, many thanks.
Coto de Imaz, quality, the 2005 is really, really good.
http://www.vinissimus.co.uk/en/vinos/tinto/detalle_vino.html?id_vino=cimaz08&gclid=CK-qqtfCuLwCFQgOwwodek8A2Q&adws=1
El Coto, the older the better.
http://www.vinissimus.co.uk/en/vinos/tinto/detalle_vino.html?id_vino=cotoc09&adws=1&gclid=CJ_BlfzCuLwCFdHLtAodQgkAtA
I will seek out a few others for you later.
HH
Tommy Burns was a great Celtic man and a darling of the Scottish media but unfortunately he wasn’t a great manager.
He confused me on a number of occasions with his signings.
Firstly Phil O’Donnell £1.75m a huge transfer fee but Celtic had the best midfield in Scotland with McStay and Collins, in 1994 we needed strengthening in defence and attack.
We also had Pat McGinlay not the greatest but a goalscoring midfielder he was sold before the cup final against Raith Rovers in order to bring in Tosh Mckinlay who was cup tied. Why this done before the cup final I’ll never know but it was a fatal blow IMO.
My lowest point came not against Raith but against Falkirk in 1997 when we couldn’t beat the lower league side in a semi final over two matches for the right to play Killie in the final.
Forget goram and the cheats (who it must be said had major help from MEN in black during Tommy’s time) had Tommy’s Celtic taken care of Raith & Falkirk he would have been manager for longer than three seasons.
Overall Tommy improved Celtic between 1994 and 1997 but it wasn’t enough.
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
This man got a good deal through reading the Daily Mail!
http://www.newstatesman.com/media-mole/2014/02/daily-mail-annoyed-bob-crow-booking-holiday-through-daily-mail
Steinreignedsupreme
22:16 on
6 February, 2014
NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar 22:07 on 6 February, 2014
I listened to the press conference earlier on the telly, and most of the alleged journalists were having a laugh and lapping it all up.
Sleekit’s a hero to most of them right enough, and it saves them asking any difficult questions, like what’s happening with that 50% pay-cut?
The camera cut away before they started queuing for his autograph.
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You’re right mate – and that explains why none of them ever ask a difficult question. I had to laugh at his comment last week about “having to have words” with Michael Stewart if he keeps criticising Sevco! As another CQNer pointed out earlier tonight, he’s not used to anything approximating a level playing field.
Johnniem….
Do you always make it personal and abuse individuals who don’t agree with the views in your wee bubble?
There is a word for people who don’t have the ability to counter an argument but target the individual who puts forward the argument.
The word has more than one syllable so I won’t confuse your (obvious)brilliant mind with it.
Goodnight.
Elite Sport, and even the SPFL manages to sneak into that rather inflated category, exists in a Capitalist world.
You can act like the Man U fans who formed FC United in order to have a “purer” form of football but, if enough people support you, you will be successful and work your way through the divisions where you have to face the dilemma and choice of “purity” or “bigger boys playground”.
FC United are now in the Northern Premier League, the 7th tier of English football. What should they do with the ideals that they were founded with?
The “soul” of Celtic was sold very quickly when John Glass sidelined Brother Walfrid. The desire of our community to punch our weight in a professional sport seems to have quickly over-ridden the desire to be a break-even soup kitchen.
Yes, moving to a PLC leaves us at a lot of mercies. However, how much security was there in the family ownership, whose bumbling amateurism left us at the tender mercies of the BoS who showed us more vindictiveness than business support?
Fergus is not a Legend but he was a necessary “evil”. He was our tight-fisted Capitalist bassa. He kept us alive and for that we thank him. He charged us a hefty fee for his time in providing succour and we had to endure their success and taunts. He could have deviated from his plan and loosened the purse strings. We might have stopped 9iar, possibly.
We also might have tried to match David Murray’s mad spending, like Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko tried to match Ronnie Raygun’s Star Wars spend, and we could have gone bust before we got healthy enough to beat their inflated squads.
I do not hero worship Owners, Chairmen or CEOs but I can appreciate the qualities of some of them.
Fergus, like Brian Quinn, deserves his day in the sun, for the service he did us. You don’t have to be gushing with personal chants but, if you don’t like him for any reason, just cheer for Celtic instead.
Re McCoist
Simply more diversionary tactics
stir ra peepil up ….take their minds of the important stuff like …£800k salary while the new ship is sinking faster than the old one
The obsequious MSM continue to aid in the Hun demise
hebcelt
22:07 on
6 February, 2014
TET looking for advice on a nice wee red to wash down black/white pudding!!! I’m a Rioja Man. hail Hail Hebcelt
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Red wine goes very well with black pudding. I think it’s something to do with the spiciness of the food complimenting the drink. Black pudding is very popular in some parts of Spain – the wee “morcillas” are delish but not a patch on your own brand!
Anyone having a pop at Fergus, look at this:
http://imageshack.com/a/img809/7255/fkqy.jpg
No words required.
ryecatcher
20:15 on 6 February, 2014
A lot of people on here spouting the old chestnut that Fergus McCann was a great man because he did exactly what he said he would.So that makes him great,does it?
What a lazy,lazy statement regurgitated so many times now it is beyond boredom.
Ffs….,
Margaret Thatcher said she would crush the Trade Unions and she did.
Adolf Hitler said he would exterminate millions of Jews and he did.
Ronseal Man said his product would creosote your fence and it did.
Getting the picture now?
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I think your analogy above, particularly about Hitler, is in very poor taste.
Fergus McCann risked his fortune to save Celtic. He was prepared to put in £7.6 millions but then found out he needed to put in £9.3 millions. There was no guarantee of success. He could have lost the shirt off his back. He was backed by our tremendous support and fully deserved to be. However, it was a tremendous risk. My wife and I had to make a great sacrifice. Fans had to send their cheques in before 24th January. We did not get paid to the end of the month. We had the expense of Christmas and our electricity and gas bills had to be paid. We ignored everything to pay our £620 to help Fergus’s vision. It was the best decision we ever made. Thousands of fans made the same sacrifice because Fergus gave us belief. He built the stadium and he stopped 10 in a row. He is a truly great Celt and deserves every plaudit that he is given from the Celtic support.
SFTB
Well put. I don’t always agree with you but I think you’ve got it right there.
Away to read the Mag which I am now able to view thanks to the good offices of BMCUWP
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
SFTB……
Brilliant post sir……absolutely brilliant.
The Hammer just connected bang in the middle of a 6 inch piece of metal.
Auldheid
14:37 on
6 February, 2014
If you were running the Celtic Trust with this particular mindset,I might find myself being able to support.
You recommend inclusion,moderation,persuasion,accommodation.
Not confrontational ,non inclusive ,divisive wedge politics.
Go for it.
I hope Tony Donnelly read your contribution.
Brogan
For the support that endured the 1988 (Aug onwards) – 1997 years they all deserved to wallow in the G.o.D.
Great times to be a Celtic fan anyone that says different don’t live in the real world.
Making a living in European football as we done in the ’60’s and 70’s and enjoying the Champions League nights in the ’00 is what it is all about.
If it’s not we may as well all go to watch the Rovers or Nation.
God Bless the Holy City of CROY and there finest son Fergus McCann, you were a pawn among others like Big Jock,that eventually brought down the Establishment Club and all the cohurts attached to them, including members of Goverment, MSM etc. As I have said before I will die a Happy Hoopy Man no matter whatever becomes of THEMS, and when I sit there in PARADISE I cant thank Wee Fergus enough.When I look back when I was doing the breaststroke facing the wee waw at the front of the Jungle, looken across at the Main Stand at the elite, Kelly’s & White’s etc closed shop of shareholders, now I can hand down mine ( Shares ) to my grandsons.
Awerabest PJ
What the zombies think of “sleekit” is all that matters to him.
It comes before everything & everyone he does not care a jot that his words could lead to disorder or endanger the safety of individuals .
To me he has been a ego driven dangerous big mouth all through this charade.
Good night all
Theoriginalsadiesbhoy
Well said sir
Anyone tell me how much cash good honest Celtic men like the Whites Kelly’s Grants and Farrell’s invested in the club from the profits of their outside business interests
Celtic must have had one of the biggest directors boxes in European football to accommodate all the freeloaders who hung onto the coat tails of these family dynasties
If the said families weren’t so busy looking after their own self interests and cronies in the years of plenty we may have progressed a lot further than we did
Ryecatcher
you getting the Bluenose treatment again, huh?
One sure fire way of proving otherwise, beat them at the Celtic quiz on here at 9pm tomorrow.
shameless Plug CSC
ryecatcher
you missed a comma between “argument” and “but” ….
There is a word for people who don’t have the ability to counter an argument but target the individual who puts forward the argument.
natknow – supporting wee oscar
22:07 on 6 February, 2014
Was thinking same myself mate. Entirely stage managed by Irvine’s puppets. Simple arithmetic not only lost on The Rangers but obviously the journos in attendance.
big-cup-winners
22:34 on 6 February, 2014
Ryecatcher
you getting the Bluenose treatment again, huh?
One sure fire way of proving otherwise, beat them at the Celtic quiz on here at 9pm tomorrow.
shameless Plug CSC
BCW
Can’t you make it 9-15, need to get the weans fae the cubs?
LovethequizbutalwaysmissthestartCSC
Wings Over Scotland
Coming to you live from 2019
Posted on February 06, 2014 by Rev. Stuart Campbell
Peter Arnott in The Global Dispatches, 29 January 2014:
“We have been tempted to believe in Scotland that our tactical pattern of voting one way in a Westminster elections and another in Holyrood elections would continue to shelter us from the worst neo-liberal excesses of Westminster – our parliament after all came into existence as a retroactive shelter from what was inflicted on us (and everyone else in non-Tory Britain) the last time the Conservatives were in power.
We are still behaving as if this is the case even while history is whisking that carpet from underneath our feet.”
And that, readers, is why it matters that I live in England.
SNP MSP Joan McAlpine made a very similar point to Arnott’s in the Daily Record on Monday, in a rather more specific context. In a week in which the Scottish Parliament enjoyed a rare moment of unity by agreeing to essentially pay Westminster a £50m ransom to release those held hostage by the coalition’s bedroom tax – money sacrificed from elsewhere in the Scottish budget – she noted:
“There is only so long you can keep patching the holes Westminster is shooting into the welfare state. Eventually the bucket will leak.”
Those quotes are relevant to our location because in an ongoing display of apparently unwitting irony, a section of vocal Unionists (both Labour and Tory) on social media frequently likes to deride the fact that this site campaigns for Scottish independence while its editor – hello! – currently lives outside Scotland.
(We’ll leave aside that such jeering borders on an ugly ethnic nationalism of exactly the sort they claim to decry, we’ll also turn a blind eye to the constant interference in the debate by English MPs and government ministers, and lastly we’ll gloss over the fact that the No campaign is openly recruiting and bussing in hordes of campaigners from England to “lovebomb” Scots with pleas for unity.)
Because the pertinence of my location to Arnott and McAlpine’s comments isn’t that it’s geographically outside Scotland, but that it’s five years into Scotland’s future.
The Scottish Parliament, as McAlpine notes, is essentially a firefighting operation. It has almost no control over the economy of Scotland, because the economy of Scotland is the economy of the UK, and as such is controlled by Westminster. When cuts are made in London, Holyrood has no levers with which to try to replace the missing money – all it can do is frantically jiggle stuff around, cut a few corners and try to make a few efficiency savings to delay the inevitable.
But there’s a limit to how thinly you can spread money before it simply won’t cover everything any more. The Scottish Government’s actions can buy some time, but with no money of its own that’s all it can buy. Sooner or later, as successive Westminster budgets turn the screw, what happens in England will come to Scotland.
And what’s happening in England? Bath, where I live, is one of the UK’s richest pockets. Because people have money house prices are mindboggling (the average is just shy of £300,000, almost exactly twice as high as Scotland and nearly 40% above even the Scottish hotspots of Edinburgh and Aberdeen), and unemployment is low (around 2.7% in the city and just 1.8% in the unitary-authority area), which means a relatively small benefits bill because more people are working and paying taxes.
Yet even here cuts are savage, with children, the elderly and the poor bearing the brunt in an area dominated by the Lib Dems and Conservatives. All manner of social services, from libraries to public toilets, are either being abolished, having their budgets slashed or having fees imposed on them. The city has already lost almost 90% of its post offices, with just one left to serve 80,000 people. Retail is struggling.
This is Scotland’s future, seen in advance. The inevitable end of the Barnett Formula after a No vote will turn the steady erosion that Holyrood has struggled to keep under control into a catastrophic tidal wave, overwhelming any defences the Scottish Parliament can put up no matter how diligently it strives to build a wall of sandbags. Because at the end of the day, even the most ingeniously-designed sandbag is no use when you haven’t got any sand – that is, money – to put in it.
By and large, Scottish voters are as ignorant of what goes on in England as their counterparts down here are of events north of the border. But readers, take it from your correspondent on the scene – what’s happening here is what’s coming to you if you don’t vote Yes, and you’re not going to like it one bit.
Fergus McCann deserves the undying respect of every Celtic supporter, He saved our club. I have hoped for a long, long time that he be given the honour of unfurling the flag, especially as a large proportion of our support booed him. It still sickens me.
McCoist and Nevin: let them rot in their ain midden. In McCoist’s case, could any of our legal eagles enlighten me as to whether he can be taken to court for his repeated implications of people out to do his deid team down?
NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar 22:23 on 6 February, 2014
I heard the Michael Stewart stuff on the radio a couple of weeks back.
Stewart is obviously not intimidated by Sleekit in any way, and he made it clear in his comments that he was never going to be either.
Sleekit simply can’t handle any criticism at all. He is accustomed to laughing hyenas kissing his fat arse, and takes the huff when someone exposes his obvious shortcomings.
I thought it was groovy when Stewart said of Sevco: “You can tell the players are not coached by the way they play.”
BRTH
Dear oh Dear! Just as well we were not relying on somebody like you back in 1993-94. As in the same year, the Bank of Scotland began funding Rangers FC (as was), whilst attempting to put Celtic FC (as still is) into liquidation. Maybe you focus your efforts on continuing paying lip service to the likes of Pat Nevin. Who’s next? Mo Johnston?
Cracking little verse from a brilliant band.
Joe Strummer probably wrote it when he heard some Orcs were gonna buy shares in an IPO in the future……
A lotta people wont get not a supper tonight
A lotta people sitting down, by the light, ah!
A lotta people won’t get no a supper tonight
A lotta people a won’t get no a justice tonight
Remember, a kick it over
No one will guide you through Armagideon time
Read more: The Clash – Armagideon Time Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Can I have Raspberries:
Ok 9:15 it is.
Mccoists sneaky dog whistle routine is exactly what we expect from him. Nae class.
Doncaster’s statement about the reason for awarding CP with the final tie was the real story.
Was he saying that if sevco didn’t have a game, then the final would have been played at ibrox? Therefore giving the third tier club three out of four glamour ties. Why not just say the game is at CP, that’s 2 games each. End of.
Either Doncaster is feart of offending the klan, or C.O. Is writing his script for him.