Premiership clubs surely hoped details of their unanimous vote on Friday to agree the time was right to call a halt to season 2019-20 and to declare Celtic champions remained private until the SPFL took the final step. Sloppy minute taking and (credit where due) sound reporting by the Daily Record brought the story to light today.
Credit also to the other 11 Premiership clubs, each of whom put their name to the call to declare Celtic champions. With so much acrimony around, it is important to know so many were on our side on this historically important matter. I’m sure we will all say “But your club voted to instruct the SPFL to make Celtic champions” at some point in the coming months.
Uefa require each national association to inform them of their plans for completing this season by 25 May, so the SPFL have little over a week to consult with public health advisors and inform the SFA of their plans. I know we are not all working Monday-to-Friday, but a decision tomorrow would allow many the weekend for a rare celebration. After this, the club can sit out the rest of the crisis and prepare for their Scottish Cup semi-final against Aberdeen and the chance to complete a fourth consecutive treble.
Nine-in-a-row and four trebles on the bounce. Still cannot believe where we are.
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Come on ! Someone must know the answer !
MWD @ 9.13pm
Nicely done
JJ
Ol’ DBBIA would reckon there’s a manatee in there somewhere.
HS-emanate
Bognorbhoy.
I have Java script disabled and have had for over a year. The simple workaround for any You tub clips (or indeed any other links put up) is to RIGHT click the link, and choose “open link in new tab”. That way, CQN remains on the first tab and you can look at the link on the other one. Simples!
Howevvvvaaaahhhhh – the 2 links you posted on page 4 don’t work! And I did check that it wasn’t my fault by revisiting some You Tube links that are on pages 2 and 3 – the ‘right click, new tab’ worked fine for those….
Back to workin’ and lurkin’……
Big Jimmy at 8:47
I’m totally with you on that. Wee Jimmy was wonderfully mesmerising, Big Billy truly inspirational, all other Lions incredibly gifted and amazing. There was, however, only one Mister Celtic- Bobby Murdoch, the greatest of all. His anniversary always gets to me.
P.S. I thought your hero might have been a rumbustious, big centre forward like Big Chris or Big Bad John fashioned in your own likeness and propensity for sticking the ball in the onion bag brushing aside all opponents who might dare to get in your way….THE CHUMPS! :))
TBB & FB
Thanks.
I did think of manatee but I didn`t see the clue as an anagram.Still don`t !
Back to front?
BIG JIMMY-thanks buddy👍
58 days and counting.Thats some going.keep your spirits up bud.That walk to the pub will wait 🍺👍
TBB
Are you still of the view that another five or so returns of Covid- 19 are likely?
I tend to trust your offerings more than those of the Establishment .
Bognorbhoy at 9:16
If you use DuckDuckGo, no need to turn JavaScript off. (What Jobo said is also true….as always!)
O the posts on Celtic favourites.
As a young chap, Paddy Crerand was my idol.
John Hughes was the most entertaing ( remember his white sannies game? ).
Billy McNeil the most imperial;
Jimmy Johnstone the most amazing.
I didn`t see much of our team from 1966 -2007 so cannot really comment on the likes of Henryk , McStay Dalglish as Celtic players
Although `O` works OK, that was intended as an ` On`.
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Ignore the last link: https://www.celticdayone.com/celtic-day-48-378Celtic Day One
Off topic, looking for a new gas boiler, probably interest free deal,thanks for any advice…
Hot Smoked. A Manatee is a sea cow.. so if you put the back letter to the front you will get emanate, which gives you the issue part.
Diabolical clue.
LMS Walk with Shay Legacy Round 1
Team’s up for Ibrox
4321 is the new 1234, so a back four’s the sensible option. No own goals, slippy slips or eye-popping calamities recently tells me McCluskey, Doncaster, McLennan and McKenzie hold onto the jerseys for now.
Celtic Star, CQN and CelticBlog to form an impregnable wall from where we launch killer quote specialists, Chris Sutton and Gordon Strachan, in support of Scotland’s No. 1 footballer, Oddsonne Edouard.
Score prediction: Sevco 1 Celtic 2 Hatem step-overs 3
MoM: Fraser Forster
Here we go to 9IAR. Still 3 to go.
Welcome back VFR , the man formerly known as 🏍. 👍🏻😄
Only ever saw Crerand play for Man U and Scotland,class. But John Yogi Hughes was awesome every time I saw him and I couldn’t understand how he could not always be in the 1st eleven. When Yogi and Jimmy were both on form it was a sight to behold. But Bobby Lennox forced his way into the starting 11 and the rest is history.
Imo, Bobby Murdoch is the most important player of my lifetime. As Jock Stein said, when Bobby plays, Celtic play. Charlie Gallagher could pass and strike a ball as well, Paddy Crerand could pass and tackle as well, but Bobby had the lot.
An SNP MP and his neighbour have been charged by police after an alleged disturbance over a Celtic football flag.
Steven Bonnar, MP for Coatbridge and Bellshill, is said to have hung the team’s flag in the window of his home in Lanarkshire on 16 April.
However when confronted by a neighbour in an exchange which took place a month into the coronavirus lockdown, the two are alleged to have got into an argument.
While initially no charges were made, officer have since returned to the case following further investigation.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Following further inquiries, Police Scotland can confirm two men aged 38 and 51 have been charged in connection with a disturbance at an address in Columbia Court, Uddingston, on Thursday 16 April, 2020.
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“A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.”
Mr Bonnar and the SNP have been approached for comment following the charges.
Cheers jobo/ Scaniel .
Great update F (🏍) and lovely tribute to Helen.
Bada, I was amazed to get a new free boiler and underfloor lagging free of charge. Its through energy trust Scotland, It’s not means tested in any way, I live in South Lanarkshire my house is 16 years old and they have both made an incredible difference.
Bada, Furthermore they wanted to give me extra loft insulation free of course but were not allowed to because the house is one and a half stories.
Bada Bing!
Worcester boilers are the most reliable
Are Worcester Boilers in the Hun “Dignity League”?
G-D – very helpful mate,thanks, will phone them now HH
ROBINBHOY
I agree. I have had a Worcester combi boiler for five years now and thoroughly recommend them.
JJ
There is no predicting this one, I’m afraid. One of the key pieces of information remains to be determined – the rate of mild or asymptomatic infection. There is also a completely unknown aspect of natural resistance – folk from whom the virus simply bounces off.
If that rate of infection to date is low then there is a long way to go. The higher it is, the quicker it’ll be over.
The true rate of infection should be determined in early course by widespread antibody testing, something the UK have been undertaking in the so-called Pillar 4 of testing.
To date, around 70,000 blood antibody tests have been completed, and they’re now testing about 20,000 samples per day. These tests aren’t particularly sensitive so can’t be used for individual testing, but at a population level should provide some meaningful data.
Additionally, UK will shorty roll out the new Roche antibody test which is highly sensitive and specific and will permit individual testing. Between the two, we will very soon have a large database of results that should give confidence on the true rate of infection at the national level.
In the meantime there are two contrasting reports. Early results from antibody testing in Spain show between 2% and 14% of the population have previously been infected (depending on the extent of the local outbreak), with an average of 5%. A smaller case study in the town of Gangelt in Germany reported 20% community infection rate.
The German study – https://www.ukbonn.de/C12582D3002FD21D/vwLookupDownloads/Streeck_et_al_Infection_fatality_rate_of_SARS_CoV_2_infection2.pdf/%24FILE/Streeck_et_al_Infection_fatality_rate_of_SARS_CoV_2_infection2.pdf – is interesting because it shows an Infection Fatality rate of 0.26%.
Other studies using statistical methods rather than testing show equally varied results. We simply don’t know yet, which is why there is such alarm (WHO and many others) at the cack-handed release of lockdown in England.
If the German study infection fatality rate can be translated to the UK, you’re looking at around 18 million people infected thus far, about half required for ‘herd immunity’. If the Spanish data is more representative, we’re still deep in the poo.
Hopefully we’ll find the answer in the testing results, rather than from a new wave of infections in the summer.
As I said at the start, there’s no predicting it. There’s too much yet unknown to draw any tentative conclusions. I’d be cautious rather than optimistic though.
Pog 11.04
I saw the footage of the MP and neighbour. Pretty neddy but handbags. embarrassing that the MP blamed the sunlight for putting up flag while decorating
Hot Smoked – Ah, Paddy Crerand. My first hero and supposedly my uncle through marriage though only met him once. He did help me and my older brother get shown round Celtic Park on my first visit there, January 1961. Was heartbroken when he left for Man U….. but then along came Mister Celtic.
Bamboo-
Big Yogi another diamond. I had a friend who stopped going to the games when Yogi left such was his love for the big man.
Bada
They are closed at moment due to pandemic but will take your details and arrange a home visit to assess your current boiler efficiency etc
Their funding hasn’t been affected by covid
SCANIEL on 15TH MAY 2020 10:10 AM
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Cheers mate, as I was so lucky to watch Bobby Murdoch and the Lions and The Quality Street Gang for many years and then to meet Bobby in later life and having several drinks with him and to be in his company was simply awesome.
I could be somewhat robust and pacey when playing centre forward…likewise pacy and tricky on the wing in the good old days when I could run all day.
P.S…I was faster than Forrest Gump !
LOL
HH
ST STIVS at 8.43
Thanks for that incredible picture of the Celtic V Aberdeen
Final in 1937.
My father was among the record crowd and you can see
his smiling face 2 rows back – 254 from the left!
Hail! Hail!
FAIRHILL BHOY…
I will no doubt walk TO the Pub when they open….But I do hope to CRAWL back…always a sign of a good night !
LOL
Yes the 58 days self isolation has been and continues to be quite lonely at times, but as I said at the start of this Lock Down, with me having no family etc to speak of, I was used to living alone etc.
HH
Stay safe.
Celtic will mark National Famine Commemoration Day by committing to wear the Celtic Cross logo on their shirts when football action resumes.
The Hoops would normally recognise the moment in a game around the time of the day itself but with the COVID-19 pandemic ensuring football is totally shut down, they have moved confirm the gesture at a future date.
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In the Pic it looks like a Celtic Cross in Green and the wording on the edging is in black.
I dont know how to post a Pic…sorry.
HH
Stay safe.
Posted at 12:0612:06
The day a police dog saved Torquay….
#bbcfootball or text 81111 (UK only)
There can be few stranger stories than this one. Right?
SMS Message: Last day of the season!! 9 May 1987: Police Dog bite saves Torquay United from league football relegation! We were 2-0 down at half-time – David Platt scored one of them for Crewe! Recovered to 2-2. Seconds to go… The police handler was watching the crowd but the dog saw Torquay defender Jim McNichol running towards it and probably thought I was attacking his handler, and he went straight for the player!! Ouch!! player down for about five minutes and it was in the time added on for the injury that Paul Dobson scored the goal, 3-2 win that meant Lincoln got football league status relegated instead of TUFC!!! from Andy Finch, Torquay
Last day of the season!! 9 May 1987: Police Dog bite saves Torquay United from league football relegation! We were 2-0 down at half-time – David Platt scored one of them for Crewe! Recovered to 2-2. Seconds to go… The police handler was watching the crowd but the dog saw Torquay defender Jim McNichol running towards it and probably thought I was attacking his handler, and he went straight for the player!! Ouch!! player down for about five minutes and it was in the time added on for the injury that Paul Dobson scored the goal, 3-2 win that meant Lincoln got football league status relegated instead of TUFC!!!
Andy Finch, Torquay
Remember BROONIE’S goal against KILLIE.We thought that was drama.