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It’s the battle of the Lennons at Celtic Park tomorrow with Danny enjoying the best run of form in his managerial career.  St Mirren are on 20 points, joint with St Johnstone, who they beat in Perth last month, and have already taken a point from Ibrox this season.  They are a technically sound team who will be more difficult to create chances against than Dunfermline were on Wednesday.  They can also play a bit.

Team formation will be enormously important for Neil Lennon.  This is the type of fixture he would previously select a 4-4-2, with two wingers, giving width to the game, but leaving a central two outnumbered by opponents who inevitably pack the middle of the field.  If Celtic persist with this strategy they’ll need to tighten up in the middle.

There is an interesting subplot to this weekend’s games.  Earlier this month there was a daunting 12 points between Celtic and Rangers.  A win for Celtic tomorrow would see that gap shrink to 4 points, with Rangers playing their game in hand away to Kilmarnock at lunchtime on Sunday.  As well as playing for three points tomorrow, Celtic have the opportunity to put pressure on Rangers.

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  2. tarrant on

    Billy Bragg! Not heard that in donkeys. Hda the albium on “cassette” so long fallen by the wayside.

     

     

    Got into BB through Kirsty’s version of A New England, which my 9 and 3 y/o girls can now sing to me, although the elder one doesn’t understand why the singer is looking for a new girlfriend.

     

     

    “I saw two shooting stars last night,

     

    I wished on them but they were only satellites,

     

    It’s wrong to wish on space hardware,

     

    I wish, I wish you cared”

  8. tarrant on

    That great Waterboys link put me in mind of Irish music in the 80s, and the interest I developed in “Celtic “music, rooted in mysticism and Gaelic legend, the hidden fifth province … Clannad, Astral Weeks, Troy by Sinead … and then this film came out and surprisingly but perfectly used some of the music I’d been listening to…

     

     

    Exile

     

    On Your Shore

     

     

    The enduring cultural tragedy of the last 10 years in Ireland will prove to be the dislocation of her people from her history as she tried to be a modern rich country, and once again see her sons and daughters scattering across the world so they can work and live.

  11. Vmhan♣ who Supports Neil Lennon on

    I may return but on my way ooot this tiimy ternet ….. Hooooops Timternet….. ach ye ken whit a mean?

     

     

    Anyway eff you rankers we’re gonnae win the league!

     

     

    I’m missing my two sons in Australia, theyre my best pals……. happy birthday to Jonny bhoy in Perth Aus….. HH

     

     

    V

  12. MadraRua on

    I live 35 mins from the west coast of Clare. A short journey allows me to stand on Spanish Point beach facing the Atlantic ocean. As the winds blows into my face I can imagine the coffin ships heading into the west, the half starved, terrified people, who had never been more then 15 miles from their homes before, facing into the unknown.

     

    Two hundred years before that, ships from the Spanish Armada were wrecked on the reef that lies offshore, the Gaelic people hoping they were here to free them.

     

    A mile inland, lies the town of Miltown Malbay, it’s main street burned to the ground during the war of Independabce by the Black and Tans.

     

    North of that lies the Burren, where Cromwell declared “there is not a tree to hang a man , no water to drown him nor land to bury him.”

     

    Five miles from my house is the ring fort of Mooghaun, the second largest in Europe. Dates back 2000 years.

     

    A few hundred yards from my house is the landing place of Norsemen who came up the Shannon estuary.

     

    Down the road in a lonely grave yard is the grave of a Welsh Fusiller who’s body was found under a bridge at Bunratty in the 1970’s.

     

    He was an out rider on a motorbike ahead of an English unit coming to raid an IRA meeting in 1920. Shot, his body was dumped over the bridge as the Republicans made their escape across the Shannon.

     

    What has this to do with a football team in Glasgow?

     

    I’m not sure.

     

    I’m not in favour of rebel songs at our games, but I know those who sing them are part of this history.

     

    I’d ask them not to do this, but I won’t condemn them.

  14. Friday Frank on

    Sydney Tim

     

    Take it easy and have a great summer. A pint has been credited to your account : )

     

    Frank (bigbrothercsc)

  16. MadraRua on

    Vmhan♣ who Supports Neil Lennon says:

     

    26 November, 2011 at 02:16

     

     

    I have drank the divils buttermilk, but in good form my friend.

  27. Margaret McGill on

    Well racism in the UK is not new. Lets not call it racism as that is inaccurate. Lets call it culturalism. Take for example the old prejudices within the constituent countries of the British Isles.

     

     

    The Scots hate the English because of their rigid class consciousness.

     

    The English actually admire the Scots for their lack of it.

     

    The Irish admire the English because that’s who the Irish deep down want to be.

     

    Culturalism you see.

     

    The Scots admire the Irish really because most of them believe we’re all Celts deep down except Huns who are an allele short in the DNA in the first place. Could be culturalism there too. I personally doubt it.

     

    The English hate the Irish because deep down they think they are arse kissers.

     

    The Irish hate the Scots because we remind them of who they really are.

     

     

    DNA you know ye canny change it!

     

     

     

    Remember Spot the difference

     

     

    South Lanarkshire

     

     

    South Ireland

  29. MadraRua on

    No harm to you

     

     

    Margaret McGill says:

     

    26 November, 2011 at 02:38

     

     

    But you must have had more gargle then I have.

  34. BelfastCityCelt on

    Margaret McGill says:

     

     

    26 November, 2011 at 02:38

     

     

    The Irish admire the English because that’s who the Irish deep down want to be.

     

     

    ——————————————————————————————-

     

     

    That is quite possibly one of the most offensive statements that i have ever heard/read in my entire life.

     

     

    If you ever happen to be in the company of an Irish person,i would strongly advise you not to repeat such tripe.

     

     

    Seriously.

  35. tarrant on

    The Scots hate the English because of their rigid class consciousness.

     

    The English actually admire the Scots for their lack of it.

     

    The Irish admire the English because that’s who the Irish deep down want to be.

     

     

    Sounds great, or soundbites.

     

     

    What are you actually talking about? What are you actually saying? There is a cycle of stereotypical misunderstanding? Or…

     

     

    “The Scots have no class consciousness”? Glasgow/Edinburgh? St Andrews?

     

     

    “The Irish want to be English”? There’s reams of literature and research about the culture of the colonised, but it does not distil to aspiration or mimicry. Make more than a pithy aphorism – Oscar Wilde you are not.

  37. Margaret McGill on

    tarrant says:

     

    26 November, 2011 at 03:10

     

     

    No he WAS Irish. The Irish loved the English language so much they dominated it.

  38. tarrant on

    MadraRua,

     

     

    I learned about Victor Jara through my favourite U2 song (they take some abuse, and most of it is personal and/or unjustified…as a Dub growing up in the 80s they switched me onto a lot of things and the US-sponsored brutality in Latin America was one of them)

     

     

    http://youtu.be/H2kWgm-0xmM

     

     

    Have you read/encountered Paolo Freire?

  41. BelfastCityCelt on

    Well the Irish didn’t really have much choice in that matter,did they?

     

     

    Here is what the words of Patrick Kavanagh and the voice of Luke Kelly did with the said “language”:

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuafmLvoJow

     

     

    James Joyce disliked the English language so much that he re-invented it,and made it his own.

  42. Margaret McGill on

    tarrant says:

     

    26 November, 2011 at 03:17

     

     

    what quote?

     

     

    I dont need quotes. I just made it up 10 minutes ago to flush out knobs.

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