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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Eurochamps67
The SFA are having problems with the computer as the system has been corrupted
Rieperman & Mike in Toronto
Can’t see the SFA asking for any mark of ‘respect’
But if they chose to do anything I really hope for a minutes ‘silence’ so that we can hear our support give a prolonged rendition of ‘DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD’
I dont think it will make us look bad ( and I am not being facetious)
It would show that we are in step with the view held by the majority …outside of the home counties
The Onlooker
Was Light (england) & Dark (Scotland ) not the same beer?
We now call it Best …..or milk!!!
Paddy T
Gene’s
OCD – obsessive christina disorder
bsr
or gigantobumpophilia
C_F
I believe it has to do with the Original Gravity – sugar content. The less sugar in the grain, the ‘lighter’ the wort, and the lower strength the resulting beer.
Or summit like that.
I see Cammy Bell is joining The Rangers on 1 September.
Wonder if he will be allowed to sign on between his Killie contact ending and the date when their transfer ban is lifted?
Thatcher’s attack on teachers instigated work to rule. Work to rule all but killed schools football in some areas. This lead to lack of local talent and went hand in hand with the import of foreign duds and really damaged football in this country.
No2 Daughter who is studying Sociology at uni
Just phoned , She found herself Listening to Gerry Conlon interviews though some behaviour study.
She was upset at the behaviour of the powers
In the Name of the Father – final scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nugTqRhDIw0
sftb
Who’s got a big bum?
though = through
Light in scotland is a dark beer -in england it is mild which you could get in light or dark -i think
Any truth in the rumour that El Chuckolino paid for a ‘wet job’ on Maggie to deflect attention away from himself?
Bawsman
Sorry not to get back sooner.
I certainly remember a Tony Blair who openly thought that Maggie was the bees’ knees.
I remember a Tony Blair having the timing of his speech to a Labour gathering rescheduled to enable him to scuttle out of the SSEC to avoid a hundred thousand plus crowd demonstrating against the Iraq war. An Iraq war, the reasons for which he lied about and in which he was supported by former supposed lefties like John Reid.
I also remember Tony Blair doing deals in the desert with Ghaddafi, and cosying up to friends of the working class such as Rupert Murdoch.
I remember a twice resigning Peter Mandelsonn having no problem, regardless of how the achieved it, of people getting stinking rich.
I remember Gordon Brown of the light touch regulation vainly trying to sell himself to middle England by making himself more English than the English.
I remember a proliferation of pawn and pay day loan shops under Blair and Brown.
I have however great difficulty in recalling Blair or Brown rescinding any of Thatcher and Major’s anti union legislation.
I suppose the problem with memory is that it tends to be selective.
BSR
There was thinking they were trying to finalise the master plan where we lost all 5 games 4-0, while the mothers won all five 4-0.
Need Dullass, McCurdy, Dougie Dougie and Madden to officiate all our games.
1967 Cup home coming I was in main stand enclosure to right of tunnel, not far from my current seat. Oddly I always stood to the left of the tunnel until that night. Couldn’t get get my usual spot. Must have been busy eh?
EC67
Celtic Supporters Association have fired a warning shot at Stewart Gilmour and his Sevco/Green agenda.
Eurochamps67
15:02 on
9 April, 2013
Still no post split fixtures?
SEEN THIS EARLIER dont know what has been confirmed
jake the snake @celticservant 3m
Fixtures post split. Inverness (h), Motherwell (a), Dundee United (a), Ross County (a), St Johnstone (h). Via @RodneyFarmer
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Seriously, have the SPL fixtures been kettled today? Still no official announcement!
I take it SKY are trying desperately to work out a Sevco/Celtic weekend screening.
This always brings back poignant but happy memories…..
http://tinyurl.com/cc3e68x
Bit childish I know, but we’re all weans at heart!
Hail Hail
Estadio
Youths prepare for tournament action
By: Laura Brannan on 09 Apr, 2013 14:53
CELTIC´S Under-20 and Under-17 sides are both in action this afternoon, (Tuesday), and are currently preparing for their respective matches in prestigious international tournaments.
Stevie Frail and John Kennedy are with their U20s in United Arab Emirates for the Al Ain International tournament while Tommy McIntyre has taken his side to Russia for the Spartak Cup.
The U20s face Benfica in their final group game, knowing a point will be enough to see them progress into the semi-final and Frail explained why his young Hoops are looking forward to the clash.
“We know we can cause them problems,” he exclusively told the official website. “The boys have taken a lot of confidence from the Zagreb game, hopefully they´ll take that into tonight and beat a top-class side.
“Benfica are well organised and that will make it a difficult game. They´ve also had an extra day to recover because their opening game was on Saturday.
“We only need a point to progress to the next stage, but obviously we want to win the game. We´ll approach it the same way we went into the game on Sunday night, they´re dangerous but we know our own strengths.”
The coaches watched Benfica lose 2-1 to Dinamo Zagreb at the weekend and have worked hard to study their opposition ahead of this evening.
“Myself and John watched it,” he continued. “David Moss was with us too and he put a report in for us to deliver to the players. That was excellent from David because there was so much detail in it so that gave the players an insight into what they will face.
“Having watched them we know it will be a tough game but spirits are high after Sunday. It´s important we keep that there, but we also have to be professional about it too.
“It´s only one game, yes it´s important to start tournaments with a win, but we have to approach all games in the same manner.
“The boys have adapted well. The first couple of days were not as we expected, it was windy and cooled down a bit, but that helped in terms of training and the match.”
Meanwhile the U17s open their campaign with a tie against Spartak Moscow and are looking to get off to a similar good start.
McIntyre knows it will be a tough fixture but would ask for nothing less so the players are tested against some of Europe´s finest.
“We would expect them to be an excellent team,” he said analysing Spartak Moscow. “They will probably be older than us because we have 50/50 in terms of U16s and U17s with us.
“The younger boys have more than merited their place here, they are internationalists and it will be a good test for them, as will it be for our 17s.
“It will be a tough game but we´d rather have that so we are testing ourselves against the best in Europe. We expect Spartak to be disciplined, there will be times we will press high and times when we will have to sit off it.
“It´s important we try and take something from our opening games. Everyone will probably be cagey to start with but we´ll see how the game pans out.”
The U17 squad arrived in Moscow on Sunday afternoon and McIntyre has been pleased with how quickly they have found their feet.
“It´s a different culture but a few of the U16s who are with us are not that long away from Moscow,” he continued. “They were over here with Scotland recently, on international duty, so they know a bit about it.
“It´s cold but it´s not any colder than back in Scotland. The temperature should suit us because we´re used to it.
“We had a look at the pitch today and it´s excellent. It´s really big. It´s synthetic, but it´s of a high quality. We´re up at Spartak´s youth training academy so it´s a great venue and there´s a mini stadium around it. This is a great test and a great opportunity for us.”
Dinamo Zagreb v Celtic U20s kicks-off at 7pm, (4pm Celtic Park time).
Starting line-up: Fasan, Fisher, O´Connell, Findlay, Miller; Herron, Irvine, Lindsay, George; P Twardzik, Trialist
Subs: Trialist, McNally, Hoareau, McGregor, Kidd, Johnstone, Kirwan
Spartak Moscow v Celtic U17s kicks-off at 7pm, (4pm Celtic Park time).
Starting line-up: Hart; Eadie, Kelleher, Barrowman, Waters; McManus, Henderson, Thomson; Nesbitt, McMullan, McDonagh
A bit late to comment I know but I just read RIFC plc’s announcement to the stock exchange re winning a league. It appears to have been written by a 5 yr old rather than crafted by a market professional.
Britney Spiers 9th April
Let’s be clear about what Charles Green, the Rangers CEO, was trying to say in his ludicrous comments about having a “Paki friend” and having once played alongside a “darkie” striker.
Green was interviewed last weekend and, in highly unfortunate remarks, came over as some kind of cross between Alf Garnett and Bernard Manning. He actually sounded as if he had travelled in a time-machine straight from 1972.
Green confessed that he referred to Imran Ahmad, his business partner at Rangers, as “my Paki friend”. Warming to his theme, he also recalled that, when he was a footballer with Worksop Town, there had been another striker on the club’s books called “Darkie” Johnson.
It was bad enough, in today’s climate, hearing a leading executive of a major Scottish football club talking like this. But worse was the actual point that Green was trying to make.
He appeared to assert that he detests modern society’s political correctness and the way it prohibits such language. To Green, it’s all a bit of a shame that in today’s world you cannot go about referring to “Pakis” or “Darkies”.
“You have all these do-gooders and puritanical people saying you cannot say that anymore,” Green complained.
Yes, Charles, and damn right we do.
This stuff has proved to be one more embarrassment to Rangers in recent days. Even worse, when the campaign group Show Racism The Red Card publicly lamented Green’s remarks, he compounded his idiocy by bleating about their scolding of him.
I am actually prepared to give Green the benefit of the doubt over some of this. He doesn’t believe he is a racist. He doesn’t intend to be one. He says that he deplores any such prejudice. “Where I come from,” he added, “it made no difference if you were black, white, Protestant, Catholic…”
Green might not be a racist at all – the problem he has is that he sounds like one.
This kind of talk is the “casual racism” of many who, while claiming that “white or black makes no difference to me”, nonetheless enjoy the so-called banter of “darkie” and “Paki” etc. It is abysmal stuff.
If skin colour or ethnicity makes no difference to Charles Green, why refer to anyone as “a Paki” in the first place? It isn’t just embarrassing – not that Green can see that – but it undermines everything else he says about deploring bigotry.
Green’s comments have actually reminded me of an old Scottish football writer of years past who, when drink went down his throat, suddenly liked nothing better than to talk of “darkies” and “wogs”.
This was around the early 1990s, just at that point when decent society was learning to be more responsible in its use of language. I remember watching this well-known football figure mouthing off like this and thinking: “What a prick you sound.”
It has been a strange saga around Green, given the stupidity of what he said. Can you imagine the outcry – rightly – if either Ally McCoist or Neil Lennon had come out with this stuff? Any right-minded football club today would consider such language by a player or manager as a potential sacking offence.
Ironically, Lennon is currently up on an SFA disrepute charge for far less insidious language – caught by a TV microphone – towards Jim Goodwin of St Mirren.
There is much that Charles Green has done at Rangers that deserves admiration. He stepped into an Ibrox fire where others feared to tred. He pushed through a successful – though hardly spectacular – flotation of the club on the stock market.
Green also has likeable qualities: he is bullish and engaging, and his blunt talking is often entertaining, if sometimes slightly daft.
But he has also made a fool of himself with this racist claptrap. Even worse, he then looked almost oblivious at the need to apologise for it.
Charles Green has severely embarrassed Rangers with his worldview.
“It was the worst 6 months of my life…” said The Sun’s new Chief Football Writer James Traynor……………give it a couple of months.
It is a new system for post-split fixtures hence the delay.
The fixtures are being processed through the police computer and it will not only tell you who is playing who but also the names of those who will be allowed to spectate.
Eurochamps67
Ma bike is in the picture.
‘Sevco manager Sally McCoist insists he has not held discussions about the future of his coaching staff with chief executive Charles Green.
A newspaper report had suggested that Green wants further backroom changes after the departures of head scout Neil Murray and physiotherapist Pip Yeates.’
Why they laeving out the 3 first team players, reserve coach and stadium manager who have left also?
I thought it was a requirement of UEFA that a club must have a physio employed?
Can Queens Park request they be awarded a 3-0 win for last Sunday?
bsr
From the Britney article:-
“Green’s comments have actually reminded me of an old Scottish football writer of years past who, when drink went down his throat, suddenly liked nothing better than to talk of “darkies” and “wogs”.”
Care to speculate on who Spiers was working alongside in the early 90’s??
sftb
Kojo?
BSR
The one with the stabilisers on it?
EC67
HewasonlyfifteenatthetimeCSC
setting free the bears
I doubt it would have to be someone he worked beside. They all socialise together.
Could be anyone.
LB
Steak bake on SSN looked very uncomfortable answering questions about Durrant and McDowell
He really looks as though he is under a lot of pressure , he said he is fed up because nobody is congratulating his team on winning the third division.
he looks as though he could throw himself on a rusty spike.
ASonOfDan
I read somewhere that as long as a qualified “first Aider” was in stadium e.g.St J Ambulance they were covered.
Probablywrongcsc
Till later all
gigantobumpophilia – © setting free the bears
BSR -le velo du St Etienne?
Hourglass CSC
quonno
15:12 on
9 April, 2013
Obviously
Dead and Loving it
15:26 on
9 April, 2013
Steak bake on SSN looked very uncomfortable answering questions about Durrant and McDowell
He really looks as though he is under a lot of pressure , he said he is fed up because nobody is congratulating his team on winning the third division.
he looks as though he could throw himself on a rusty spike.
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GREEN rusty spike…………………..I know a song about that :-)