A club formed by the Irish immigrant population sends best wishes to Scotland and Ireland. Read all about it! It’s as though our heritage still has the power to shock. How timely the outrage came hours before Celtic launched their “We are Celtic – and we say No To Racism” initiative. This morning Scott Brown reminded us, “Celtic has been a club open to all people since its formation in 1888”. Stick to task, Celtic.
Congratulations to our former boss, Martin O’Neill, in getting the Irish to at least the knock-out round. Commiserations to our other former boss, Gordon Strachan. Gordon will be feeling sore right now but he should lick his wounds and stick to task. He got the better of Ireland on their head-to-head and came within a whisker of also getting the better of Poland. The loss in Georgia was typical Scotland – you cannot change everything in two years, while Ireland taking four points from six off Germany is inexplicable.
Gordon is by far the best man to take Scotland the World Cup 2018 qualifiers; get on with it.
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If the FIFA/UEFA shakers and movers proves they were paid via EBT then surely the get out of jail precedent has already been set.
Did Brian Quinn know/suspect that the champion of FFP was on the take ?
I bet he did. All that lucrative work in the middle-east a place where he would rarely trust anyone in the past.
Mmhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh……………….
HH
beatbhoy-VG
Bada
Episode three had some of the finest acting I’ve seen in any British drama. Difficult themes, superbly handled.
HebCelt
belated best anniversary wishes.33 years.Respect.
HH
Neganon2
My previous post was a cheap shot.
Apologies,
Tony
beatbhoy-All 3 series’ were brilliant.HH
NegAnon2 on 9th October 2015 3:55 pm
Grin and bear the prices and enjoy every minute.
Oops! Klopp starts the mind games early by saying he is just an ordinary guy, “Maybe I’m the normal one!” to a laughing room of journos.
Meanwhile, in West London, smoke begins to exit another manager’s ears.
His revenge will be terrible!
NegAnon2
a few eateries worthy of dining at with your beautiful wife
http://www.oliverglowig.com/en/
http://www.ristoranteilpagliaccio.com/
http://www.aromarestaurant.it/en/
some consultancy on these from our man down South in Italy
Bada Bing
Agree with that.
So has Cole signed or is it a winde up ? H.H.
An Tearmann and others many thanks – appreciated. Hail Hail Hebcelt
Good Afternoon.
A group of us are going to “sleep out” at Celtic Park in the open air on the night of 14th November to try and raise some money for, and highlight the problems of, those who are homeless in and around Glasgow.
The event is organised through the Celtic Charity Foundation and other partner sharities such as The Simon Centre and The Invisibles will benefit.
If you are interested in joining us – we are looking for around 120 volunteers
– then please join up here.
http://charity.celticfc.net/news/351
It will probably be cold, wet, miserable ( have I sold it to you yet? ) and uncomfortable – but even with those who have agreed to do it already there will be some rare craic!
Of course we will only be homeless for one night and by choice.
Many others don’t have that luxury and are homeless for one reason or another for prolonged periods or even on a permanent basis.
If you want to help me help them even in just a little way then you can make a donation on my donation page here:
https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/jamesmcginley1?
The money raised will be donated by the Celtic Charity Foundation to provide food, blankets, shelter, clothing, medicines and whatever else is needed to as many homeless as possible.
Rerettably the number of homeless people in our community is on the rise and Government isn’t listening or doing enough.
Thanks for reading and many thanks for the donations received thus far.
You know who you are.
Best wishes to all those attending the hootenanny tomorrow.
Hail Hail
BRTH
Beatbhoy,
They meet each other the same time ish as we play the sheep.
Should be an interesting day.
institutional racism.i disagree with you Neganon.
tips
When in Rome…eh eh dae wit they dae :-)
enjoy your break with your better half,(the weans party is all over facebook (joke:-)
come back suitably crabbit, and refreshed you never know you might get selected for jury duty at thon big criminal trials comin up.
have a good time
HH
NegAnon, So much to see in Rome it will be hard to fit it all in a weekend. I suppose I’d kinda divide it in 3.
A. Vatican. A must see for me. B. Ancient Rome Colloseum etc. and C. See as much of general City as you can Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps etc.
If it was me I’d jump on the Hop on Hop off bus for a day take in general City & maybe spend a bit of time around Trevi Fountain/Spanish Steps and 2nd day spend morning in Ancient Rome area and afternoon in Vatican. On the other hand you could just go to the pub and get blethered well maybe not.
South Of Tunis on 9th October 2015 12:41 pm
John James .
Obsessed me can’t see the name John James without thinking about this great choon .
Rudy Mills -John Jones ( Move and Groove ) .
A gem of a Derrick Harriott choon from 68 .Used to blast it out from my wee first term at Uni room ——made all the more enjoyable by the knowledge that it bugged the shit out of the King Crimson fan next door
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My 8 year old daughter’s favourite tune right now is Monkey Ska.
Can’t get her into Lee Perry’s latest LP. Too many minor chords for her is my guess. However, I am off to see the great man at the end of this month at the 100 Club in Oxford Street. He’s 80 so my expectations aren’t too high – but you never know…
Satta Massagana…
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 9TH OCTOBER 2015 3:57 PM
Where to start with Neil McCann?
Well…………..personally, I would start with the head. Being empty, it should crush fairly easily under a steamroller.
Then the neck, being brass, that will have to go in a furnace.
An industrial mincer should take care of the rest………..
Corkcelt,
Don’t recommend the Colosseum ffs.
He’ll burn oot the servers of Rome quick news when he finds out what used to go on there.
:)
HH
Meant to add a -:)) just in case I offend anyone from the creep preservation society.
It’s Friday
It’s 3 minutes past 5 to 5
I’d like to thank the grandmother of Cyrus Sylvester Frederick Christie and James McCarthy’s Grandad as well for our epic victory last night.
Enjoy the get together tomorrow everybody.
Us huns, trolls and negaholics will have an alternative bash at a goth bar. Competitions include pinning a balance sheet on a donkey (one of our failed striker projects).
on the MO’N v. GS debate … I would say that it isn’t necessarily that one is a better manager than the other … even though the age gap is not great, they seemed to me to be different generations of footballer… and that was reflected in their coaching …
Both did well in certain areas …. MON had seville, while GS had a better record in CL’s …
In terms of enjoyable football, I much preferred M’ON’s Celtic to GS’s teams … (at least until the last mO’n season … it still hurts!)…. but MON had the KoK, plus sutton, thomson…. etc…. whereas GS still had some good players, but as a whole, not on the level of Martin’s team.
For me, the difference is that MO’N is an older school british style manager …. whose coaching style is suitable to the british style players he had at Celtic and has at Ireland …. he took what he had, and he worked within accepted parameters and did it quite welll …. but he was never a truly forward thinker…
GS, for his faults (and some of the sideways football his teams played at times was awful to watch), was a more progressive European style manager…. and tried to change and improve the style of football… but his players didn’t always have the talent to match his desired style of play, so he made do with what he has, and was relatively successful doing it.
I will admit that I always had a soft spot for Martin, in part because I thought he ‘got’ us … but GS did a lot of good for Celtic, and has shown himself to be a much better manger than some said at the time (and I include myself in that … as I was sometimes hard on him during his last few seasons at Celtic).
Neganon,
Enjoy Rome it is a magical city woth Hoistory like no other around each corner with brilliant stories.
In the middle ages, Cardinal Altieri suggested that the Colosseum be used for the purposes of bull fighting!
Amazingly, the people of Rome vetoed the proposal because it was deemed to violent and gory!
On another occasion, the Pope proposed that the former stadium be used as a sort of factory where prostitutes and woman of ill repute could sow and knit in a sort of communal enterprise!
If you do go to the ampitheatre, it is sometimes hard to remember that it really was a Cathedral of death and that over the years it is estimated that some 700,000 people met their end in there.
Anyway, when you go there is so much to see — a slightly hidden gem is the Galleria Sciarra just round the corner from the Trevi Fountain and just beyond that is the Antica Birreria Pironi which does exactly what it says on the tin so to speak.
If you are a coffee fan, there are plenty of supposedly famous coffee bars around the Pantheon all of which claim to serve the best coffee in Rome. Cafe Saint Eustachio, Tazza D’Oro, Cafe Doria and L’Antico Caffè della Pigna are all in with a shout.
Good guide book, flat shoes and possibly a brolly at this time of year would be a good shout.
Enjoy!
BRTH
Geordie Munro
Was going to be that anyway, but, as McInness usually likes to latch on to some nonsense from the SMSM to have a dig at us, and Mourinho will try to test Klopp’s geniality, the Friday pre-match pressers might be good!
Still, the real stuff will be decided on the pitch ( he said insightfully).
Good Afternoon.
It’s not very often I stray south of the border but this Jurgen Klopp to Liverpool pantomime started to get on my nerves. So here are some thoughts on the EPL ‘bubble’…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/klopp-the-world-i-want-to-get-off/
Have a brilliant weekend!
Neganon2
The treatment of Neil Lennon by ALL of the press in Scotland proved that anti Irish/Catholic prejudice is still endemic (but not controlling) in Scottish society. Current reporting on Ronnie and Celtic reflects this.
I bottled it and dragged my family around the world to Oz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8iSLb5j6us
S
Mike in Toronto
“. . . GS has shown himself to be a much better manger than some said at the time. . ”
No crib about that from me!
Roma. It’s a few years since I’ve been there, so any recommendations would be out of date. However, I am always entertained by the recommendations of the American Catholic Church in Rome, http://www.santasusanna.org/visitorInfo/whereDine.html e.g. ” Run by and Order of Belgian nuns. French food appears to be the specialty, but at 10 PM each evening the sisters hold evening prayer right in the middle of the restaurant and incorporate all of the guest”.
Throw away the disproportionate EPL Sky income and the war’s all gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r69s6Yx7r7w
S
beatbhoy on 9th October 2015 5:19 pm
There’s no room at the Inn for poor managers!
Mike n Toronto
Advocaat played a European-style, yet Martin was more forward thinking than he was. . .
36 points in the space of one season more forward, to be exact.
In
Neganon 2
Couple of pals (separately) visited Rome in the past month & were raving about the Baths of Trajan beneath which lies Nero’s Palace which is currently being excavated – amazing things they are finding there.
One also told me that the gardens of Castel Gandolfo are now for the first time open to visitors, at the express wish of His Holiness, and are jaw-dropping.
At a fundraising
> > dinner for a school that serves children with learning
> > disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a
> > speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended.
> > After extolling the school and its dedicated staff,
> > he offered a question:’When not
> > interfered with by outside influences, everything nature
> > does is done with perfection. Yet my
> > son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He
> > cannot understand things as other children do. Where
> > is the natural order of things in my son?’ The
> > audience was stilled by the query.The father
> > continued. ‘I believe that when a child like Shay, who
> > was mentally and physically disabled comes into the world,
> > an opportunity to realize true human nature presents
> > itself, and it comes in the way other
> > people treat that
> > child.’ Then he
> > told the following story:Shay and I had
> > walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing
> > baseball. Shay asked, ‘Do you think they’ll let me
> > play?’ I knew that most of the boys would not want
> > someone like Shay on their team, but as a father I also
> > understood that if my son were allowed to play, it would
> > give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some
> > confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his
> > handicaps.I approached one
> > of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if
> > Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and
> > said, ‘We’re losing by six runs and the game is in
> > the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and
> > we’ll try to put him in to bat in the ninth
> > inning.’ Shay struggle
> > over to the team’s bench and, with a broad smile, put on
> > a team shirt. I watched with a small tear in my eye and
> > warmth in my heart. The boys saw my joy at my son being
> > accepted.In the bottom of
> > the eighth inning, Shay’s team scored a few runs but was
> > still behind by three. In the
> > top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in
> > the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was
> > obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field,
> > grinning from ear to ear as I waved to him from the
> > stands. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay’s
> > team scored again. Now, with two outs and the bases
> > loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was
> > scheduled to be next at bat. At this juncture, do they
> > let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the
> > game? Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone
> > knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay
> > didn’t even know how to hold the bat properly, much less
> > connect with the ball. However, as Shay stepped up to
> > the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was
> > putting winning aside for this moment in Shay’s life,
> > moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could
> > at least make contact. The first pitch came and Shay
> > swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a
> > few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards
> > Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and
> > hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher. The
> > game would now be over. The pitcher picked up the soft
> > grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first
> > baseman. Shay would have been out and that would have
> > been the end of the game. Instead, the pitcher threw
> > the ball right over the first baseman’s head, out of
> > reach of all team mates. Everyone from the stands and
> > both teams started yelling, ‘Shay, run to first!
> > Run to first!’ Never in his life had Shay ever run
> > that far, but he made it to first base. He scampered
> > down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled. Everyone
> > yelled, ‘Run to second, run to second!’
> > Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second,
> > gleaming and struggling to make it to the base. By the
> > time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had
> > the ball, the smallest guy on their team who now had his
> > first chance to be the hero for his team. He could
> > have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but
> > he understood the pitcher’s intentions so he, too,
> > intentionally threw the ball high and far over the
> > third-baseman’s head. Shay ran toward third base
> > deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases
> > toward home. All were screaming, ‘Shay, Shay,
> > Shay, all the Way Shay’ Shay reached third base because
> > the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in the
> > direction of third base, and shouted, ‘Run to
> > third! Shay ran to third! As Shay rounded third,
> > the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their
> > feet screaming, ‘Shay, run home! Run home!’
> > Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as
> > the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his
> > team. ‘That day’, said the father softly with
> > tears now rolling down his face, ‘the boys from both
> > teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into
> > this world’.Shay didn’t
> > make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never
> > forgotten being the hero and making me so happy and then
> > coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her
> > little hero of the day!
Glendalystonsils
But you can’t keep sacking them.
You need stableity.