I’m a bit confused at the chat this morning of reintroducing the sale of alcohol at football games. Alcohol is available for sale at games at Celtic Park, you just need to have a ticket for an expensive enough seat. If you’re in the cheap seats, you get to queue to pay for some cola. Is people’s ability to pay an indication of their likelihood to behave in a dangerous or criminal way with some alcohol in their blood?
This implication has always troubled me.
Alcohol, wherever it is sold, inevitably leads to over-indulgence and potentially dangerous behaviour, and requires strong stewarding, whether that is at a night club, or in the No. 7 restaurant. Scotland’s licenced premises have changed beyond recognition in recent decades. They are increasingly well-lit, family friendly and safe places to be. They now sell better beer too, but our nation’s problem with alcohol remains acute.
Society needs to be educated on how to use alcohol responsibly; good venues are part of the solution.
While we are on the subject of facilities at Celtic Park……. I go months without buying food or drink in the North Stand, Upper, for good reason. Last week (pestered by one of the boys), I left for the kiosk with 40 minutes on the clock, didn’t get served until the second half started, only to be told there were no hotdogs or pies left.
You know me, I’m not one to get angry at Celtic, but the sheer frustration pushed me over the top, and I didn’t have a drink! If you’re charging circa £4 for something that’s costing less than £1, make sure stock is sufficient. Have two people serving each side of the kiosk, not two on one side, with a single person making hardly a dent on the queue at the other.
Needed to get that off my chest.
The ‘news’ this morning that Rangers International are trying to sack commercial director, Imran Ahmad, is more curious for being news than in itself. Is it even possible for this news to be anything other than a leak from a director against another director? These newspaper people don’t do irony, they just take careful notes and go write up their story.
This whole episode is beginning to feel a bit like sitting out the back when the neighbours don’t realise their bedroom window is open. You can hear the noises and you looked up and caught a glance at something horrific looking. It’s something you’ll laugh about later with your friends but these people really need to acquire some dignity.
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BT –
Pretty sure you can download a Mass App for your phone? So no excuses. ;-)
Jinks
Think that is for more deserving soles than me. Mrs BT was at 9.30 and mini at Larkhall last night.
Home delivery of the sacrament?
There’s got to be a good franchise in there.
Dominus?
Kayal33
There are games I’d like to see him in and others I wouldn’t have him within a million miles of.
I’m usually out of kilter with Celtic fans – I’d have had Sammi as POTY for last season. Now that many want him voted POTY, I’d give my vote to Hooper. How quickly people forget the early/middle part of the season.
Most of our players tend to underperform against Motherwell away – Paddy is an exception.
Jobo
Ill have a look. Hope its not a long homily or ill miss the ko.
kayal33
11:19 on 28 April, 2013
up_over_goal
11:13 on
28 April, 2013
Please add me to the McCourt fan Club…… !!!!!!!!
Bt , nope don’t have sky , used to have someone elses sky go but he changed his password !!!! :(
Radio shortbread for me !!!
blantyretim
http://www.universalis.com
Cheers squire
Host Express, can I help you?
Good morning CQN
Not going today, hate fir park.
BT
Hope you are pain free. :))
Weefra HH
lionroars67 10:25 on 28 April, 2013
I couldn’t get past the opening paragraph of English’s piece on Paul Murray.
Not so long ago I would have stuck with it for a laugh, but the lies are becoming tiresome now. English simply has no professional pride.
Describing someone who was a member of the board that sent Rangers hurtling towards liquidation as “a guy you could hang your hat on to do what is right for the club” really is piss-poor churnalism.
English should be embarrassed by that – but he probably thinks that is good work.
Having had the opportunity to watch a player over 4 seasons , I have never up until now been undecided about him after such a long period.
I am undecided about him.
He has been brilliant .
He has been ineffective.
He had been over eulogised.
He has been over criticised .
I do not believe that he has been given a long enough extended run in the team for me to judge him.
Managers need to win games.
Neil Lennon has had to win matches .
This season the need to be as consistent in the league has reduced.
Yet Lenny has not trusted Paddy.
I will put my trust in Lenny,but I would have loved to have seen more if Paddy this season.
TT
up_over_goal
11:27 on
28 April, 2013
Paddy has done well at Fir Park, he won us the game the day we went there 15 points behind a former club.
And yes, many have under performed there.
However one of our better performances there was the 2-0 win earlier in the season when Forrest played very well in a front three with Hooper & Commons (his general play not his finishing which was awful). All I was thinking was similar set up only use Watt & McGeouch for Hooper & Watt, and Kayal & Rogic either side of Wanyama instead of Brown & Mulgrew. See what they can do, see how it compares to one of our better performances.
Right off out to wee boys game .
car packed with waterproofs and brollie , love this summerfootie
Enjoy the big bhoys game
so – with all the swearing in Scottish football in recent times – the only person found guilty is lenny once again – why am I even surprised
Kayal33
11:36 on
28 April, 2013
*Hooper & Commons (not Watt)*
Blantyretim;:
Very gracious of you but the taking of the Holy Sacrament yo those unable to go to Mass is available to all. I have taken it to young and old, to those who are infirm and those who simply cannot get out for seemingly lesser reasons.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
HH
Friends in the media. Is Minty still hovering. SB renewal time?
Talk about clinging to life… Desperate,cheating,despicable organisation from Govan. Aided by many in Scottish society..
Looking forward to the match today.. Spent fri night in the company of great Celtic men- all of us reliving our trip to Lisbon..
These are the ties that bind.
Mon the hoops…
BT Just back from Mass said one for you, Miki67, oldtim67, wee Oscar and all our brave souls who went on the juice yesterday hope they all got home safe.
KTF
HH
corkcelt
11:02 on 28 April, 2013
‘The Imran Ahmad story as per the darkside blogs is that he was posting from a Club IP and that is how he was rumbled. However the username he was posting under was set up in Oct/Nov 2011 which precedes Greens arrival ????’
There’s three possibilities here
1. Ahmad wasn’t the poster.
2. Ahmad was the poster and there was a plan in place since October 2011 that would involve Ahmad being at Ipox and wanting to post on a hun site.
3. The hun office have a number of log ins on hun (and possibly other) forums to enable them to monitor and influence discussion and Ahmad made use of one of these.
I think number 3 is the most likely.
celtic_first
10:26 on 28 April, 2013
Joe passed away late January 2012, I grew up in Glenacre Rd and know the family well. I’m in Sydney for now but still get updated on all the news on the auld yins. Lots of great people came from the area.
Celtic Football Club @celticfc 11s
#Celtic: Forster; Lustig, Rogne, Mulgrew, Izaguirre; Kayal, Wanyama, Rogic, Samaras; Watt, Hooper (LB)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc 3s
#Celtic subs: Zaluska, Gershon, Stokes, McCourt, Keatings, Atajic, McGeouch (LB)
MIGHTY TIM
The power of prayer and good wishes has worked wonders so far.
Wi a bit of help from the Icon in TBM’s back garden….
All those you mentioned are high on the list,mate.
Squire Danaher,
6 months at Dundee United under Jackie would be great for McGeough….provided they rate him and would play him. In his particular case you may be right. He may not have a long term future at Celtic as, like you, I’m not sure what his best position is.
In addition, there are a whole bunch of players from this years u-20’s that would benefit from going on loan next season…..both Twardziks (does anyone know what happened Fillip??), Atatic, Irvine, Herron, George and Chalmers. First team football has to improve them quicker than playing for the development squad!!
Kayal33
You said it yourself. Forrest was mediocre that day – his balls into the box were wofeul. Hooper and Commons won the game for us. Brown had a great game also.
We were 4-3-3 that day, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see that repeated, although it would probably rule out McCourt, who’d do better in CM or behind the strikers.
niallo83
11:48 on
28 April, 2013
Perhaps Dylan, and a couple of the others you mention, on a season long loan with Jackie at DU could be used as a sweetener when signing Russell &/or Mackay Steven ;-)
“It doesn’t pass the smell test.”
Not going to get bored with that phrase for a long time.
Forster; Lustig, Rogne, Mulgrew, Izaguirre; Kayal, Wanyama, Rogic, Samaras; Watt, Hooper
Subs: Zaluska, Gershon, Stokes, McCourt, Keatings, Atajic, McGeouch
ernie lynch
11:42 on 28 April, 2013
corkcelt
11:02 on 28 April, 2013
The email addresss used to set up the account on Sevcmedia was .ringers.co.uk
Kayal 33,
Agree!!
BT,
Hope the recovery is going as well as possible………..
You mentioned your daughter at Larkhall……Loved going to St., Mary’s……We really miss the parish and the people………..
Take Care
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
jist in fae the jiggin’
Paddy, is an Enigma.
so is… Sammi..
Baith o’ theseguys kin be Brilliant..and Baith of these Guys kin be.. Abysmal?
And that kinda Form, fae a Celtic Player.. Maks me very Upset.
Yep..
Oh! They kin mak ye wanna gie them a Kick in the Beafter…No doot aboot ,that.
Aloata folk oan here seem No tae be as frustrated by the Hoat and Cold vacillations o’ these two guys,as Ah Am, though.
Ah guess these folk are much Higher Threshold of Tolerance,than Ah hiv..
Ah say.. Bully fur Them..
Me?
Ah demand Perfection. ALWAYS.
Of Course.. Ah seldom get it.
Players. are Human Beans,efter all.. despite whit Folk said aboot.. Henrik.
So ,It wid seem ,then, that Ah wull nevah hiv Ma Perfecional?? Demands Met.
Bottom Line..
Ah wid … Dump baith of these Enigmas…
Wan thing Ah canny Understaun Is an Enigmatical Fitba Player.
Is it jist Me?
Ah say.. Tae Hell wi them…
Kojo
Still…L aughin’
Off to ton che’s, wee yins christening, keep the Green flag flying.
HH
Morning all
Just a quick note to say how good it was to meet up yesterday. Special thanks to BMCUWP, 16 Roads to Golgotha, CRC, FFM, Petec, Minx1888, ACGR and anybody else who put up with my increasingly slurred Lillian. At least I quit when I was still, just about, ahead.
H x 2
Jimbo
Made it to the livung room.. result o))
Just heard Gary McAllister talking about Celtic. He mad a comment that ‘people down south’ judge Celtic on the Champions League – he’s probably right but it irked me.
This has been a theme for the entirety of my life and I have never understood why Scottish people or followers of scottish football ever cared what people ‘down south’ thought of them.
Do teams in Denmark care what the people in England think of their game? Do the French or the Dutch? The Spanish? I guess not. DO the Spanish worry about how their latin cousins in Italy rate their game or vice versa? The English and Germans don’t harp on about how they rate each others clubs in each others countries.
The whole thing displays a great insecurity in the mindset of those who worry about what English football people think about the Scottish game.
Sunday lunchtime bugbear expelled……..
.
CorkCelt..
Thank You sir..I will reply..When you are back on..KTF
Summa