I watched Hearts batter Pat Fenlon’s Hibs into submission at Easter Road last month. They are not a good team but they have elbows and commitment, often the key resources in a football game. With our interest in the League Cup and Europe curtailed, and the league title a sure thing, it is enormously important that we remain in the Scottish Cup into the New Year.
Attitude is the most important attribute for Celtic this weekend.
Things you don’t expect to do when you start blogging: I took four calls from journos yesterday asking if I knew a Celtic fan prepared to go on record as an IRA supporter! I don’t, for the record, not one, so no one else should bother checking. Lack of support for that organisation and, where support exists, an awareness that representing yourself as such, is not inconsequential, will explain the dearth. Just as it’s not inconsequential when you represent your club. I can’t see many inviting the consequences.
I also got a call yesterday and a faxed copy of a contemporary Celtic View (yes, a fax) from a fan who was beside Jock Stein when he went into the crowd at Annfield that day in 1972. It was all very cordial, of course, no one argued with Jock.
Jock was at the height of his powers. Five years from the European Cup win, two from his last final and four months since losing a European Cup semi-final on penalties, he had yet to lose a league as Celtic manager. His comment in the View, “The Wreckers are chanting about things that have nothing to do with football” was respected, Celtic fans went back to football matters. But this was 1972. News from Ireland was despairing. Rangers fans (and according to newspaper reports, Hearts fans) were chanting “UDA” without censure, Celtic fans eventually retorted.
This is all sooo last century, apart from the consequences, of course.
Sharp focus for Sunday…
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Parkheadcumsalford
Outburst as he was on TV last night and threats to not buy CQN paid publications etc if we publish. If it is such a matter of principle then boycott away.
kitalba
12:05 on 1 December, 2013
BIG-CUP-WINNERS:
Were they answered?
that is what the article will tell us eh ?
Supressing the answers to the questions we wanted to ask is bizarre.
Pat, is there any truth in the rumour you’re going to snake into Jabba’s job?
CANAMALAR
Well,why didn’t you say that in the first place,haha?!
Defo off to the pub now. Roll on the football.
MONTHEHOOOOOOOOOPS!!!!
BIG-CUP-WINNERS:
Tell us? What all 1000 of us. How nice. What about the rest of the world?
Peter Houston rumours true?
uly
Doing some informal scouting for Celtic
BMCUW,
I thought I did :o)
COME ON YOU BHOYS IN GREEN
Kitalba.
I think it’s why he aired his views, what he thought they would achieve, who ordered him to air his views and why he remains mute and deaf to other racist, sectarian chanting that is of utmost importance to celtic fans.
kitalba
He needs the right of reply. It’s that simple. He offered the opportunity, CQN accepted and WC and BRTH facilitated. Now for some unfashionable reason the interview is of no relevance etc.
As an observation I’d suggest several posters in the GB debate would align themselves more with Wee Ratty , than you or I .
Especially when we are embroiled in a smear campaign. I don’t know if you’re aware but celtic fc have
Been the target of a motion tabled at Westminster by Jim Sheridan.
When will this interview with Rat Nevin be published in full on CQN ?
Half time @ Catania .
Catania 1 ———AC Milan.1
Bottom of the table Catania the better side .Maybe Milan will find form in the second half. Good game..
In the Q for catering– beer, salami panino and espresso soon come .{, I hope}
Oh that’s okay then, let’s ask our parish priests to step down from the alter next Sunday and have the local blow-hard Orangeman take his place and explain to us why we’re all sectarian bigots.
He used a certain platform to castigate the Celtic Support bigoted, I don’t thin CQN is yet as global as the BBC. Let Pat Nevin use the BBC to explain himself, to the same audience he used to call you a bigot. I think that is fair, don’t you.
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
09:27 on
1 December, 2013
I stand by my comment about that little runt Nevin and my disappointment at cqn giving him a piece in the cqn magazine..
Good morming and goofbye..
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BT
You just ruined a perfectly good flounce ,there.
I suggest reading glasses or a diet for fat fingers.
hh :O)
moravcik:
I think Winning Captains already stated that it will be censored if needs be.
marrakesh express
09:41 on 1 December, 2013
I saw an old schoolmate of mine last week in the Scotia. He looked well drunk and I didnt bother saying hello. The poor guy is one of the Clutha fatalities.
RIP.
>>>>>>>
Would that be Sammy?
The Honest Mistake loves being first
12:25 on
1 December, 2013
He’s got three DUP’s supporting him, no surprise there…..
Have i missed the banner debate?
Balde to start today he’s the only forward we’ve got that looks like a forward.
“Kinda”
South Of Tunis
12:04 on
1 December, 2013
@ 30 minutes gone
Catania 1 -AC Milan 1.
Good game . Milan defence is poor.
Catania fans chanting ———-” Told what to do by a woman “
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Aren’t we all!!
HenpeckedCSC
Kitalba.
Why do you think he is being given a platform by cqn to insult celtic and celtic fans?
Canamalar.. all the parties involved in the war in the north (british army, loyalists and republicans) are guilty and have blood on their hands. Nobody in their right mind can argue otherwise. Some are more guilty than others and it will depend on your viewpoint as to where the majority of the blame lies.
Just won a bid for a signed celtic top from 2002-2003 season… ahh thems were the days
B-)
robcfc11
The aggressors are always at fault.
What’s going on here then…
http://t.co/OZyIXF0kSV
Jobo
BCW.. They are indeed but there are no innocent parties
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Can someone post a Pic of Pat Nevin.. I can’t picture him.. The guy I am thinking about Who played for Chelsea I’m sure his name was Spencer but not Pat..?
Summa
Benito to Judas… over here mate, 10 bucks for your thoughts!
Giovanni to Judas… over here mate, 15 bucks for your thoughts!
Lorenzo to Judas… over here mate, 20 bucks for your thoughts!
Bruno to Judas… over here mate, 25 bucks for your thoughts!
CQN to Judas…
VP.
Wasn’t a flounce as I was only going to mass..o))
The Honest Mistake loves being first:
Mate, I’d answer your question if I understood it, but with every respect, I don’t.
robcfc11
The invaded land and her people are entirely innocent. The persecuted and subjugated are entirely innocent.
blantyretim:
Did an Orangeman give the sermon?
Kit.
Not on my watch.
The Honest Mistake loves being first;
Winning Captains has already assured us he won’t be allowed to abuse us…. on here, at least.
Gents ( Especially Kitalba )
I said before that I would say nothing about the Nevin interview until it was published but let me explain something.
WE are forced to do our own journalism because there is every chance that there are things that are reported and indeed happen which are neither fully explained nor even looked at by the MSM.
If we accept the Charlotte fakes accounts, then the media has been dumbed down and manipulated for years.
I believe that to be true.
A request was made by us to Pat Nevin for an interview and he accepted.
Now you can like Nevin as a player, a person, a pundit or whatever, or you can dislike him as a player, a person, a pundit or whatever– the choice is yours.
However, before even approaching Pat Nevin for an interview certain information had come to our possession from other sources which suggested that an interview with Pat Nevin would be interesting.
Not only that… he was happy to agree as he had offered to go to various Celtic Supporters Clubs to do question and answer sessions but none had taken him up on that offer as at the time of interview.
What Pat nevin had to say confirmed the information we had received previously and more— further he was able to explain something about his own personal circumstances which I knew but had forgotten…. and then talked about stuff that is neither widely known and not necessarily for public print.
He also talked a fair bit about football and Celtic– his time at Chelsea, Everton and Tranmere– favourite players, games, racism, the act, Ireland and what have you.
He also answered the strictly come dancing question.
In short — he ducked nothing!
Now– I want the magazine to go and ask some folk some difficult questions– and that might mean getting interviews with some difficult and even unpopular people– even non Celtic people.
I have suggested that CQN magazine interview someone from the Green Brigade in the last few days.
In response I have been told that CQN is a closed shop, a forum for “Soup Takers” and “diet” tims and so on ……… in between there hs been some reasonable discussion with some folk on twitter but others take the view that this forum is for the prawn sandwich brigade and for board backers and sychophants.
Now, no one from the GB ( officially said any of this ) and others simply become abusive and suggest you are some kind of puppet for asking questions or expressing an opinion someone else finds diffucult.
Can I suggest that you wait and see what is in the Nevin interview and see what he says— and I in return will reveal what I think about what he said and his views.
It will only be my opinion mind— and that opinion is not worth more than any other— but we did ask some awkward questions– and to be honest got some awkward answers.
What I will say is that Pat Nevin has received lots of abuse from Celtic fans over the last year– some of it was very uncomfortable to listen to…… but listen to it we did, think about it we did, and report it we will.
By the way– if I have anything to do with it, Nevin will not be the most uncomfortable interview we conduct…….. not by a long way.
blantyretim:
Times, they are a changing though….