News that the Maribor game later this month is on the season book has setup a dramatic climax to what will be remembered for decades as a remarkable month in our history. We didn’t ask for this situation. As we drifted away from Murrayfield, our thoughts were only of Celtic’s abject display, but nine days and two Uefa Disciplinary hearings later, we’re through to the Champions League play-off round next week.
For Legia Warsaw, the pill is unbearably bitter. So much so, they had to appeal to Uefa, and on to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, despite scant cause. CAS who will eventually be asked to determine if Uefa’s rules were interpreted correctly. Which they were. The consequences for Legia are so abrupt their reactions are understandable.
Football affects us in ways which are not always beneficial. There was nothing Legia fans could do to remove their distress this past week, but reading comments, by fans of another Scottish club on this subject, has given a glimpse into the human condition.
The emotional investment by some Scottish football fans in Legia’s forlorn cause has evidently resulted in untold misery. Celtic fell into the Clyde and came out holding a winning Euromillions ticket. It was unplanned for, random and undeserved, but it happened and, right now, Celtic are the luckiest team in the world.
At a time when their phoenix club is falling apart before their eyes, our unearned good fortune has caused volumes of hilarious, angry, ranting. Efforts to explain it as a consequence of immoral plots (as well as running the Celtic, the SFA, the SPFL, Glasgow City Council and The Commonwealth, Peter Lawwell also manipulates Uefa’s Disciplinary Body) demonstrate classic evidence of our old friend, Cognitive Dissonance.
We were blind lucky, accept that, or continue to give the rest of the world new and innovative ways to enjoy their football. It’s not worth the dissonance.
It’s been an interesting week in the media. Neil McCann’s excitable misinterpretation of the rules on Wednesday was a highlight, but the paper which brought you ‘news’ that Celtic wanted Dan Pertrescu to be manager, who declined as he was warned the club have problems by Neil Lennon, subsequently got a second story when they ran a properly sourced article denying ‘reports’ Neil spoke to Pertrescu.
I’m also loving reading those who in the media were spinning anti-Celtic nonsense that Neil left because he wasn’t happy with the player budget, now suggesting he could take over Crystal Palace, after Tony Pulis left because he wasn’t happy with the player budget.
Nonsense like this is never random, it has a purpose………..
On a related subject, I’m gutted for Palace, their fans, and for Pulis. The economics of the entire English league structure doesn’t work. Well-run clubs with good managers will be weeded out and relegated, as crazy debt-junkies inflate the bubble a little longer. Scottish football may be poor, but there are only two of our 42 clubs in any sort of financial danger.
Flag Day tomorrow, get along early, give Fergus a warm welcome back, and bring some change for The Kano Foundation bucket collection on the way in. Remember to join Fergus, Jim Craig and others from the Celtic Graves Society for the Jimmy Quinn event at Kilsyth Cemetery.
Thank you to everyone who gave so generously to Mary’s Meals by entering our competition for tickets in the comfy seats tomorrow. I’m proud of every one of you. My thanks also to Magners for helping out. The competition is now closed, winners will be informed by email shortly, so check your inbox!
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Big chap
u know where to get me..
stayed in clubmac but spent most of time in a we Spanish tapas bar.
Falkirk going for it now, midfielder off and striker on, must admit they look a tidy passing team and should be a couple up already.
Falkirk. Fitter, faster, technically better. If they had a striker they’d be out of sight. Zombie penalty/fluke,will in it and the fat game show captain will be a tactical genius!!!
Think Gregg’s are doing the Sports science for the Deid Ones.
Emdae that directed abuse at Fergus that day should be ashamed!!
9/2
Do I wait or go for it?
….PFAyr, ah, but what value, Friday Night Comedy Hut returns!
Houston might have not been a bad shout.!!!
Ally must be given time..
It’s a journey.
And he’s only young of course
No microphones at the Sevco end.
Or are they not singing?
Doubt it.
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
As what?
A message from Fergus McCann
Googy, they were on earlier, not long ago, we hate Celtic fenian b…..ds
Clearly heard.
Auldheid 1805
You are so incredibly far off the mark with that statement. Trust me your opinion is very wrong in this instance.
The fact that HMRC and it’s predecessor entities are and were governed by Westminster did not stop favourable treatment towards the former RFC sometimes occurring in the past.
Do you not recall the leaked Charlotte Fakes letter where Jack Irvine allegedly claimed to have former senior HMRC employees on hand to make media statements in support of RFC ahead of and during the investigations of the tax cases?
Do you not think it possible that such people may have been motivated to get involved by dint of an emotional attachment to RFC and that such an emotional attachment may have been present during their career in HMRC and any consequent dealings they may have had directly or indirectly with RFC?
These people were acting in the shadows, outside of public scrutiny, and if we take the Irvine emails at face value were prepared to use their experience to try and discredit the hmrc case.
Salmond went on record publicly so he was not keeping anything from the public. He may just have been issuing a sound bite for all we know.
You published a link 2 days ago from someone who had submitted an FOI request to HMRC to ask what involvement the Scottish Government had made in the RFC tax cases. This FOI request was blocked by HMRC. I wonder if that person has made an FOI request to the Scottish Govt on this issue?
I assure you though you are very much mistaken if you think Whitehall control of Hmrc automatically precludes the possibility of bias towards or favours to RFC
Thanks to Fergus McCann I am a part-owner of Celtic.
I could never repay him properly for what that means to me.
Sevco playing tic Tac football through the air. Mesmeric 50 yds passes.
BT
Is for the Bairns? :-)
Odds at the start were 4s
HH
CRC
googybhoy ♥ celtic
21:17 on 15 August, 2014
No microphones at the Sevco end.
Or are they not singing?
Doubt it.
Shortbread giving it full tilt.
Manager
• blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
21:13 on 15 August, 2014
Big chap
u know where to get me..
stayed in clubmac but spent most of time in a we Spanish tapas bar.
Sorry for the double post……………….
We were in Port Soller……………………..
Absolutelyfantastic
Abbott of Clonmacnois 21.08
Where will it end?
How long before cause a referee to decide a goal is not so?
Retro refereeing at base.
Terrible decision to cite our player
HH
Flukey deflection
whatjammufooooooooks
Two Celtic fans talking in the Brazen Head (names changed to protect the innocent.)
Celtic Fan No 1 – What has Fergus McCann ever done for us anyway?
Celtic Fan No 2 – Well, he did do the whip round for the money to take to the bank so that we wouldn’t be put into administration, didn’t he?
No 1 – Well, apart from arranging and making sure that the bank debt was paid before the deadline, what else has he done for us.
No 2 – Well, he directed, organised and coordinated the complete rebuilding of the stadium, I’m sure.
No 1 – Well, apart from making sure we didn’t go into administration and rebuilding the stadium, what did Fergus ever do for us, I mean really.
No 2 – He set up and organized the whole share issue that paid for the stadium and still allowed us to put a great team on the park.
No 1 – OK, apart from saving us from administration, rebuilding the stadium and organizing the share issue to pay for it all, what did Fergus do for us?
No 2 – Well he fought for Celtic against those SFA eejits over the Jorge Cadete stuff, and showed them that we were not going take any more of that crap again.
No 1 – Ok well, apart from saving us from administration, rebuilding the stadium, organizing the share issues to pay for it all, and showing the SFA that we were not going to take crap anymore, what has Fergus really done for us?
No 2 – Well he reconfigured Celtic into a sound business model and made it so that fans could be financial shareholders and not just emotional stakeholders.
No 1 – OK, OK, OK apart from saving us from Administration, rebuilding the stadium, organizing the share issue to pay for it, showing the SFA that we would not be dealt any more crap, and making sure that fans could now be financial shareholders and have a say … what else has Fergus actually, really done for us.
No 2 – Well, he said he would stay for five years to get the club back on its feet and then he would leave.
No 1 – Fur Gawds sake what about it?
No 2 – Well he left after 5 years, didn’t he.
No 1 – Exactly, did a runner – what kinda Tim is he?
Welcome Fergus and have a great day tomorrow.
Thanks to you and all the others involved, including John Keane, in saving our club.
HH
Deflection and goal.
Abbot of Clonmacnois. Well get a striker signed up asap. H.H. :-)
Unbelievable, lucky deflection gets Sevco in front.
Falkirk have no one to blame but themselves, they should be out of sight.
Falkirk pay price for complete lack of cutting edge despite playing all the football. On a positive note, Ally fights on!
Moshni is lossing it!!
40/1 now
Scum oranje bustars
Old posters- what happened to Natssoolla( or last saloon)?
Like Ryecatcher, he usually got it tight on here….and rightly so.
Rye, you’ve been spouting your opinion on Fergus all week looking for someone to bite. What’s your agenda?
gary67,
You’re a bloody Jonah, a fluke goal…oh and now the zombies find a voice!
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
Hmmmm as they say…
Well hopefully that will protect ally for a bit. They really are terrible!!!!
The good news is The Fat Whisperer stays:-)
NegAnon2
21:10 on
15 August, 2014
Not often everybody in a transaction wins, this came real close.
On being a supporter owned club I’d hate to be on that Board. It would be like real life CQN :)
Lots of sectarian singing tonight. Are focus at the game? Mind you they will probably tell us that the atmosphere was marvellous!!!!!!!
Rangers till I die, has nobody told them yet?