Being there

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I’m sure many of you will remember the home game against Dundee in April 2001. We needed a win to be able to secure the title the following week, at home, against St Mirren. After the game Martin O’Neill sounded irritated at the anxiety in the crowd, oblivious to the fact that the loss of a late goal would have denied many of us the opportunity to be there when the title was won.

If you’ve been there for the highs (Aberdeen) and lows (Kilmarnock) of the league season you’ve earned a ticket to the party. Let’s hope the SPL deliver a home game next, as reported.

Apologies for the extended downtime yesterday. Plans are afoot for five new servers to load-balance CQN (which sounds a lot right now but we’ve had similar thoughts before).

Let the record show that the death of Margaret Thatcher brought CQN down longer than when Rangers did the decent thing. Was hearing the news a ‘JFK moment’? I was in the wee room at the time, a treat for all the senses, so I’m not sure how my memory will handle the situation…. mostly audio.
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  1. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    Seriously, though….UEFA need to review this …..it’s far too important for both teams …… 4 offside ffs at that last goal……..what a shambles

  2. The Comfortable Collective on

    Charles Green was obviously talking about the long standing arrangement beteeen the huns and (Hugh) Dallas’ cowboys.

     

     

    (Cowboys: slang term for crooks, charlatans and cheats. Used most often in the building trade and Scottish refereeing).

  3. The Boy Jinky on

    Philcool

     

     

    Might be better if they keep the presentation until the last home game against st johnstone anyhoo

     

     

    But how about.. we just bring the spl trophy out for a wee walk after the ict game… its in our trophy room ;),

  4. Celtic_First on

    Aye, but where’s that David Prowse. I want to know if Charles Green showed the guy the email and if he issued his apology.

  5. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    What an indictment on Scottish referreeing …..really and truly……… How many times have we experienced this…..they’ve been getting decisions purposely wrong for so long, it’s part of their culture….they can’t decifer what is a right or wrong decision …….seriously

  6. 67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors

     

     

    Aye but did they miss anyone getting called a f*nny In German or Spanish? That’s the main thing!

  7. The Comfortable Collective on

    The sfa have just hit NFL with another charge after the slagging of scottish referees performance by spanish commentators on spanish radio tonight.

  8. 4….,yes, 4 players offside and not 1, not 1, Scottish mib spots it , any of it. Malaga out.

     

    Job done.

     

    Our footballing set-up is not just a domestic disgrace, but an international one.

     

    I wish I was a gambler. Dortmund were guaranteed to progress.

     

    Sickening and embarasssing.

  9. angelgabriel

     

     

    I took BD at evens when they were 1 down, and I was delighted the Thompshun was giving them everything, was having a right good moan and bitch to masel, and return from the jax, yadancer was the self same reaction >}

  10. Celtic_First

     

    21:55 on

     

    9 April, 2013

     

     

    STV are silent on any e-mails. I have seen no public apology from the interviewee either! Someone is fibbing? Surely it wouldn’t be Challs?

  11. Steinreignedsupreme on

    Stringer Bell 21:51 on 9 April, 2013

     

    steinreignedsupreme 21:48 on9 April, 2013

     

    ….PFayr 21:06 on 9 April, 2013

     

     

    ——–

     

     

    You might want to reflect a little on the name you call Graham. It doesn’t become you or this site, IMO.

     

     

    What ‘candy bar for Mongo’? As in Blazing Saddles? Seriously???

  12. The Boy Jinky on

    Celtic first

     

    It wont shock you to know that at the bottom of the interview on the stv site ..they reveal that chuckles never showed the reporter the e mail

  13. If tinfoil nut Chris Graham is negative tonight towards Green then there’s something going on behind the scenes with wanting Green out.

  14. Stringer Bell on

    steinreignedsupreme

     

     

    22:03 on

     

    9 April, 2013

     

    Stringer Bell 21:51 on 9 April, 2013

     

    steinreignedsupreme 21:48 on9 April, 2013

     

    ….PFayr 21:06 on 9 April, 2013

     

     

    ——–

     

     

    You might want to reflect a little on the name you call Graham. It doesn’t become you or this site, IMO.

     

     

    What ‘candy bar for Mongo’? As in Blazing Saddles? Seriously???

     

     

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    Never seen blazing saddles. The name Mongo means something else to me when I hear it. I’m sure you can figure out where I’m coming from without me spelling it out?

     

     

    If I have got this wrong – and it seems I have- please accept my apologies and let me retract my previous comment.

     

     

    I should say I am very happy to be wrong.

  15. Is the term ‘Mongo’ not a reference to the brute in ‘Blazing Saddles’ rather than calling someone the totally unacceptable ‘Mongol’?

  16. Brian McNally

     

    @McNallyMirror

     

    Scottish fans have had to put up with that sort of reffing ineptitude for years. Neil Lennon one of the few to go public on it.

  17. Just received from Kate on the North American Tims Lhist………………

     

     

    The Dying Priest

     

     

    In a London Nursing home an old priest lay dying.

     

     

    For years he had faithfully served the people of the nation’s capital.

     

    He motioned for his nurse to come near.

     

    “Yes, Father?” said the nurse.

     

    “I would really like to see David Cameron and Nick Clegg before I die”,

     

    whispered the priest.

     

    “I’ll see what I can do, Father”, replied the nurse

     

     

    The nurse sent the request to No 10 and waited for a response.

     

    Soon the word arrived; David and Nick would be delighted to visit the

     

    priest.

     

     

    As they went to the hospital, David commented to Nick,

     

    “I don’t know why the old priest wants to see us, but it certainly will

     

    help our images”.

     

     

    Nick agreed that it was the right thing to do at this time.

     

    When they arrived at the priest’s room, the priest took Davids hand in his

     

    right hand and the Nicks hand in his left.

     

     

    There was silence and a look of serenity on the old priest’s face.

     

     

    The old priest slowly said:

     

     

    “I have always tried to pattern my life after our Lord and Saviour, Jesus

     

    Christ.”

     

     

    “Amen”, said David

     

    “Amen”, said Nick

     

     

    The old priest continued,

     

     

    “Jesus died between two lying thieving b*****ds; and I would like to do the

     

    same….”

     

     

    Hail hail

     

     

    Estadio

  18. BIG-CUP-WINNERS on

    Stringer Bell

     

     

    No, I meant Mongo is a character, not to be confused with the abhorrent term. Google “Mongo” you’ll see what I mean……

  19. Regarding the msm turning on green my take is that they have learned from last time that they do have to have some credibility to work even in journalism.

     

     

    They know the score – writing is on the wall and they are disassociating themselves from the next regime to destroy a football club in govan.

     

     

    They may have realised that no matter what happens newco rfc Will never be a power in football. i wouldn’t worry about some genius plan to resurrect them. At best they might allow for the return of the blue knights, a return of assets to bdo so they can get their hands on the stadium.

     

     

    But i would pay more heed to Jacksons pleadings yesterday about plod. There is fear that its going legal.

     

     

    It’s all good……

  20. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    the spirit of arthur lee

     

     

    21:50 on 9 April, 2013

     

     

    They’ve experimented with no offside rule in Dortmund.

     

     

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

     

     

    hahahahahaha….BRILLIANT..

     

     

    Some of our CQN Stats experts should share examples of Scottish refs’ decisions over the years with the Malaga Official site …… And with UEFA, to ask the why, on this evidence, they were given such animportant game …..it really is shameful…

     

     

    WE FEEL YOUR PAIN MALAGA…….ESPECIALLY OVER THE 3 IN A ROW SEASONS

  21. Sorry to talk of Celtic for a moment but, if it is true that Victor is signing a new deal and if Tom Rogic becomes as good as I think he very quickly will, we have some of the ingredients in place to be a REALLY good side.

     

    We`ll probably never have eleven players that we all rate highly but we will have these genuinely class players:

     

    Forster;

     

    Lustig;

     

    Rogic;

     

    Wanyama.

     

    Supported by: Izaguirre,Brown,Forrest,Commons,Ledley,Hooper,Samaras,Efe and Matthews.

     

    I know I`ll have missed some but those players I have mentioned give me confidence that we are more than capable of CL 16 and beyond over the next few years.

     

    Hail! Hail!

  22. TBJ

     

     

    Aye, I canny imagine sally being that brave, but you never know, he has a history of sneeky wee punches.

     

     

    Oh how I am enjoying their pain >}}}

  23. Jungle Jim

     

     

    If Vic is to sign an extended deal, I reckon there will be a fair size sell on clause in it, a la Stan and Aiden.

     

     

    All good imo either way.

  24. ArranmoreBhoyLXV11 on

    HH

     

     

    I Agree with -the operation MSM Discredit Green.

     

     

    The hands of Minty methinks..

     

     

    Even STV were booting him.

     

     

    Thought I was dreaming.

  25. Steinreignedsupreme on

    Stringer Bell 22:06 on 9 April, 2013

     

     

    You did get it wrong. But don’t get stressed out about it. I didn’t take it personally.

     

     

    He reminds me of the character Mongo – and he is nothing more than a figure of fun, who refused to criticise the Whyte Knight and claimed Mark Daly’s documentary was nothing more than the work of a bitter Celtic fan.

     

     

    At the weekend he refused to criticise Charlatan, and I’m confident he will still be backing him tonight. Mongo is too stupid to turn down his media appearances – where he is completely out of his depth, and provides so much unintentional laughter for us.

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