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.
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Tallybhoy
You missed out they’re.
LB
CQN Awards – Laziest CQNer.
Whoever posted “can’t be bothered reading the Pat Nevin interview – can someone post what he said”.
kitalba
10:47 on
7 February, 2014
Fair point. I was just suggesting that it’s unlikely to important in the grand scheme of things.
Two chemists go into a restaurant.
The first one says “I think I’ll have an H2O.”
The second one says “I think I’ll have an H2O too” — and he died.
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon
11:22 on 7 February, 2014
I prefer the one about the three logicians.
tallybhoy 11.16
I am reminded about the French Assistante who was working for a year in a Lanarkshire secondary school as they used to. She came into the staff room looking confused and asked what was the meaning of the phrase, “there, there, there.”
One of the teachers told her it was a phrase used to denote sympathy to someone in distress. He asked the Assistante what had happened.
“I asked a pupil where the jotters were and he said, ‘ there thur thair.’
;-)
TBB- is that not pedagogues?
ernie,
This one?
Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks “Does everyone want beer”. The first and second logicians each say “I don’t know”, and then the third answers “Yes”.
kitalba
10:50 on 7 February, 2014
My boss is Peter Principle:
I don’t own any right under 24 inches either, but I’m just wondering what is buried under Ibrox.
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Prob. That guy that was last seen on a rowing boat with Bill Struth.
livibhoy
I was coming to that.
They’re, you’re, your, its, it’s…
The list is endless.
:-))
HH!!
Ryecatcher
If it’s any consolation you are in good company. Think I’ve been called a ” Hun” twice.
DBBIA
D&G residents announced as the most romantic folk in the ole UK.
Comes as absolutely no surprise to me.
leftclick We are all Neil Lennon
10:00 on
7 February, 2014
If there is a top table :)) at CQTEN Andrew from Belfast should be at it.
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leftclick,quite right…I’m willing to give up my seat for Andrew.hh :o)
Gordon J – I don’t get that (at least I’m honest enough to admit it).
Tallybhoy
Your not wrong their pal!
LB
Doctor whatfor
Bravo!
HH!!
tonydonnelly67:
William (Lord Lucan) Wilton.
Top of the morning to you all from a bright sunny Fife where God’s in his heaven and Celtic top the league.
As promised second and final part of Nevin’s evidence to the Justice 2 Committee. In this part he tells of hoe a prescient Pat saw the shame game spat coming, how he just loves Old Firm games wants the OB to cure sectarianism as HE did at Motherwell? JINGS and he even has time to cure the sick with just the touch of a hand! (made the last bit up) Here:-
Nevin evidence to Justice Committee for the OB Bill, Official transcript Columns 197 & 198
Pat Nevin: You have to consider some way of affecting the fans. It comes down to the clubs to some degree. They need to make statements on websites and programmes and in the media. They should not deflect the problem and say, “They’re worse than us” or, “Oh, look at that lot over there.” If they have a problem, they should accept that they have a problem, even if it is a small one. I do not want to sound holier than thou. When I was chief executive at Motherwell, we had a problem there. Someone asked earlier how you can arrest all those people. I work in the television industry now and, trust me, the cameras can pick up problems very quickly. It is not just TV cameras—the closed-circuit television cameras that the police use can do it as well. We had a problem: much like the Hearts fans that were mentioned earlier, some supporters placed themselves down beside the away supporters. We targeted them—we got some spotters in there and we got rid of them. We banned them for life and ensured that they did not come back. The clubs have probably done that, but on top of that you have to make it clear that you will not tolerate racism, sectarianism or sexism in your club. You have to put it on a mission statement in your programmes—not somewhere in the back— and make it clear that this is something that you will fight against. It would help if it was clear that the clubs believed that and wanted to push it through. That will have a cultural effect on the fans. However, if the fans hear excuses, wriggling or spinning, others will join them and have that argument with them. I know that, as usual, I will get abuse on the websites for saying that, but I think that that approach would help the clubs. You will find that a better family atmosphere develops and that people are not driven away, as I was in the past. We will have a healthier environment in which our sport can be played. Remember, chaps, that it is a sport.
Nevin evidence to Justice Comm Column 200
Pat Nevin: James Kelly suggested that, to use footballing parlance, it seemed to kick off after the little McCoist-Lennon kerfuffle. Some of us feel that it was happening before that. Two months before that incident, I went to Radio 5 Live, for which I make documentaries, to say that I felt something different was happening up here, that I felt a change, and that things were getting uglier. It was very hard to explain, but I wanted to make a documentary to look into the causes of that. We never got it together in time before the current situation kicked off, but the station came to me and said, “That’s amazing.” I said that people on the ground felt the change coming. All this is therefore not just a knee-jerk reaction to what happened on that night. I felt it coming before then and, in my defence, I took it to Radio 5 Live and said that it should look into the issue from both sides to see the reasons for it. There is a wide field in the media and we are all individuals within it. We do not have one set voice and can only say what we believe. Although I feel slightly embarrassed by the word, I am seen as a pundit. A pundit is someone who gives their opinion on something and it can be no more than that. I hope that what I have said can be seen for what it is—it is about making our society better.
Nevin evidence to Justice Comm Columns 207 & 208
Pat Nevin: There is a slight dichotomy. I think that we have been misrepresented. Recently, I had to cover four games in the space of a week: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona, Liverpool v Manchester United and Celtic v Rangers. I enjoyed the Celtic and Rangers game the best. It was an astonishing and wonderful atmosphere, apart from a small part. To say that we are Guardian readers who want football cleaned up is a complete and total misrepresentation. I do not want that to happen. My background is exactly the opposite of that.
[ENDS With Convener gaining committee approval for her to pay witnesses expenses]
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Bloke goes into a Scottish opticians and says to the guy behind the counter that he thinks he needs glasses as he has trouble seeing things far away.
Guy takes him outside and says what’s that up in the sky there? The bloke says the sun.
The guy says, how far do you want to see?
LB
Phyllis Dietrichson,
The logic is that the first only knows if he wants a beer and not if the other two do. If he doesn’t want one then he can confidently say that everyone doesn’t want one. But if he does he can only say don’t know. Similarly for the second. So now the third knows that the first two both want a beer, and he knows that he wants one himself, so he can say yes.
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon
11:25 on 7 February, 2014
That’s the one.
Maybe more a riddle than a joke though.
Pedagogues, as I understand it, adhere to or promote a specific pedagogy or pedagogical discipline.
Pedants on the other hand used to teach this sort of stuff, although the noun is considered obsolete, probably on account of glottophagy.
Three friends from the local congregation were asked, “When you’re in your casket, and friends and congregation members are mourning over you, what would you like them to say?”
Pat said, “I would like them to say I was a wonderful husband, a fine spiritual leader, and a great family man.”
Brian commented, “I would like them to say I was a wonderful teacher and servant of God who made a huge difference in people’s lives..”
Paul said, “I’d like them to say, ‘Look, he’s moving!’
Mr JohnnyClash- in the words of ole John Paul Young ‘Love is in the Air’.
http://www.thecoplandroad.org/2013/06/rangers-exposed.html
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
TD:
If you look very closely, you’ll see the Bold Bill had the perfect alibi….
href=”http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a238/locolopez/saturdaynightatthemovies.gif”>Bill Struth’s Alibi
kitalba
11:31 on 7 February, 2014
tonydonnelly67:
William (Lord Lucan) Wilton.
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That’s the very chappy.
Morning all. Beautiful day down here. Reminds me of Fuerteventura, if a lot cooler.
Was pondering on the vagueness about the identity of the BBC person who informed Nevin of the non-existent sectarian singing. Wasn’t he identified at the time as a Hearts supporter? Surely Nevin should have complained to the BBC high heid yins of being set up, if that really were the case. Nevin is well known in England, much better known than the producer. Can’t really buy it. Nevin is a Glaswegian. He knows the score.
Doesn’t justify, of course, any personal abuse he has received. We are better than that, surely.
I’ll try it this way instead…
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a238/locolopez/saturdaynightatthemovies.gif
The Black Badge looks not dissimilar to the one worn by ole Judge Dredd.
You shouldn’t have explained it Gordon, you should have let the lazy ***** work it out for themselves. Didn’t get it straight away took me maybe 20/30 seconds but its a good one, I’ll use it myself some time. Have a good few of them but ‘twould take too long to ask them on a thread. I’d outdo Kojo at his most pedantic.
LiviBhoy – God bless wee Oscar
Unbelieveable…….you would think an optician would know,not to look directly at the Sun.
doc is neil lennon
11:33 on 7 February, 2014
You have mail.
PS: How much are?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Hahahahaha , if he only knew ;) stupid aul bassa.
One of the greatest managers in the history of football, Struth is buried in Craigton Cemetery, near to the club he had fashioned in his own incomparable image.
His most famous quote goes like this: “I have been lucky – lucky in those who were around me from the boardroom to the dressing-room. In time of stress, their unstinted support, unbroken devotion to our club and calmness in adversity eased the task of making Rangers FC the premier club in this country.
“To be a Ranger is to sense the sacred trust of upholding all that such a name means in this shrine of football. They must be true in their conception of what the Ibrox tradition seeks from them. No true Ranger has ever failed in the tradition set him.
“Our very success, gained you will agree by skill, will draw more people than ever to see it. And that will benefit many more clubs than Rangers. Let the others come after us. We welcome the chase. It is healthy for us. We will never hide from it. Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity.
“No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. That has been the philosophy of the Rangers since the days of the gallant pioneers.”
Rangers renamed the famous Main Stand at Ibrox The Bill Struth Main Stand in 2005 and unveiled a bust of the great man which sits on the first landing of the marble staircase.
Just in to say…..
So, Fergus is coming back for the flag unfurling.
Fergus, I bought into your restructuring of the club that I love and, at that point(1994), I had been actively following home and, away almost every week fo the previous – 24 years.
I thought that the driven agenda by the ‘rebels’ through, mainly Celtic leaning fholk in the then, SMSM.
Fholk like – Gerry McNee, Paul Cooney, Hugh Keevins and Davie Provan – actively won the, hearts and minds of the mainstream Celtic support of that time, with their almost at times, round the clock coverage to convince, not just the Celtic fans but, Scottish football and, society that, there was a ‘real’ danger that – The Celtic Football and Athletic Club – could go over the cliff !!!
I mention the men above cos, at that time(1990-94), the ‘rest’ of the SMSM were on their prayer-mats roon aboot SDM’s table feeding off the scraps. None of the fholk mentioned above were, welcome to SDM’s media briefings ?
Anyway, through the ghuys above and, Brian Dempsey, Celts For Change…I thought that, my Celtic dreams were about to be realized. What with, the plans for the stadium posted out to all the investors and the associated literature, accompanying the brochure…I was totally sold on the, what seemed to be the path to the Celtic / Timdom version of – The Land Of Milk And Honey. It was a brilliant Celtic-rush !!!
Fergus told all the fans on one of the many occasions that he addressed them that – “Celtic fans will no longer be on the, outside of ‘their’ club – looking in.”
Well, what happened there then ?
Not in any way being picky but, I think there should be some sort of – balance – when covering Fergus McCann’s term of office at CP.
There are plenty resident – re-writers of history who would have you believe that, we(Celtic fans) lived the dream when Fergus was in charge.
If, one of the questioners from CQN magazine could, manage to get a hold of Fergus to do a questionaire then, that would be a marvellous coupe for the blog – absolutely.
But, would it be Happy-clapping questions or, Mineshafter questions ? Hmmmm.
Maybe the following could be asked ?
1. Can you sleep peacefully at night, knowing that you did everything to help the late TB(RIP), stop the hammer throwing huns from equalling Mr Steins coveted 9 in a row record ?
2. Why, after watching the Celtic fans wait for 9 years to finally get a manager to take the League title back to CP, did you not put the interests of the paying customers – as you called them – first when you, ousted Wim and Murdo and, retained the ‘hated’ by the fans – CEO Jock Brown ?
3. Wim wanted to bring back – Pierre Van Hooiidonk and, John Collins who had just played in the CL SF for Monaco – did you allow you previous relationships with these players to get in the way of, the best interests of the paying customer ?
4. When you got rid of Jim Farry(and, well done for that ), why did you leave his hench-men in office, knowing full well that they’d be back for revenge ?
5. Do you understand why fans like me, booed you when you last, unfurled the League flag ?
6. Do you think CP would be an untouchable stadium, in terms of atmosphere if – there was a modern version of the Jungle ?
If anybody can be bothered responding, I’ll answer the morra.
Hail Hail – Off oot.
Logic?
It’s all the fault of the ancient Greeks.
They started it all.
HH!!
I watched the recent Dunfermline v The Rangers league game at East End park Dubfermline have a very youthfull team and on that night in my opinion they were completely dominated by the Orcs. I dont think Dunfermline have much of a chance tonight based on the evidence from that match I think the 12men of The Rangers will go through to the next round quite safely.H.H.