I don’t like the run-up to home games against Kilmarnock, this was especially so when Gordon Strachan was manager. Someone would always ask Gordon the 1955 question, “Gordon, did you know….” If you don’t know the question, don’t go looking for it. It’s a fact that should ostensibly give you confidence but it only puts me into a nervous disposition. During Gordon’s time, every game felt like a must-win game. The carnage on here after a 2-2 home draw with Dundee United lives long in the memory, so the burden of a reversal at home to Kilmarnock would have been intolerable.
Celtic have an enormously impressive history which can inspire great things in the support but sometimes it’s evidently a burden to those having to go out and win the next game. Jock Stein’s famous, “The Celtic jersey doesn’t shrink to fit inferior players” quote was meant to inspire greatness and awe, but I’ve seen it used to damn contemporary players who were in no way inferior to some who played for Celtic in Jock’s latter years in charge.
Kilmarnock beat Rangers last time out and will feel as though they let two points slip away against us earlier in the season. Celtic should be sufficiently concerned to avoid premature Christmas cheer.
Best wishes to our friends at the Melbourne No. 1 CSC, who will be celebrating Christmas during tomorrow’s game.
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Stephen Black Kano 1000 says:
23 December, 2011 at 21:36
Alright mate, hows things?
All ready for santa (so are the weans) lol
HH
Vmhan, Kano 1000 – Supporting Lenny & the Green Brigada! says:
23 December, 2011 at 21:29
I have indeed met most including your good self on more than one occasion. Thank you for your wishes and I will certainly pass them onto M who is up at 7:30 so she’s in bed…she’s heading to the butcher’s early doors to get the Christmas dinner.
A recent addition to the list is Taggsybhoy who I hope to meet at the Golf Day next year.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Saltires
Can you pick us up in Cambuslang about 1sh.
Bundoran Bhoy – KANO 1000 says
I am good mate…. Been busy working hard. Thats me finished today until 9th Jan. But fly out to SA 7th Jan – 29th
All xmas shopping is now done thank god
Bundoran Bhoy – KANO 1000 says:
23 December, 2011 at 21:33
Talk is about 19:00 or perhaps a bit earlier, talk of O’Neill’s or The Admiral.
Stephen Black Kano 1000 says:
23 December, 2011 at 21:36
All set mate, everything in, including swally. Are you going next Thursday?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Stephen Black
Don’t mean to burst your bubble but…
Errrmm…
How do I put this?
Santa has a nice bag of coal for you!!!
MWD
Gordon64 says:
23 December, 2011 at 21:40
pmsl :-)
Lennybhoy…Supporting Neil Lennon and CFC until I die says:
Next Thursday????? I am indeed all set mate. Just got one or two things to wrap prior to my trip to paradise….
MWD…
A bag of coal…… jesus is that your gift to me ha ha
Ard Macha
Copied & Pasted it away. Look back occassionally because I still find it hard to believe.
MWD
I love Christmas very deeply, but cannot tolerate the commercialisation, violently thrust upon us by a retail industry that could not care less what name the feast has, what reason for it, what rhyme.
But this does not change Christmas.
Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff explained once that a rural congregation in Bavaria in the 1960s taught him the lesson: this child is born to show me that the foreigner is my neighbour, the stranger is my brother.
The best, though, is John Betjemen. I love this poem so much I’m sharing it with CQN, like a song, but earlier. This isn’t the whole thing, but is the BBC Scotland highlights.
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And is it true,
This most tremendous tale of all,
Seen in a stained-glass window’s hue,
A Baby in an ox’s stall ?
The Maker of the stars and sea
Become a Child on earth for me ?
And is it true ? For if it is,
No loving fingers tying strings
Around those tissued fripperies,
The sweet and silly Christmas things,
Bath salts and inexpensive scent
And hideous tie so kindly meant,
No love that in a family dwells,
No carolling in frosty air,
Nor all the steeple-shaking bells
Can with this single Truth compare –
That God was man in Palestine
And lives today in Bread and Wine.
[extract from Christmas by John Betjeman]
PoetsMatterCSC
Saltires
Good on ye pal.
Leaving at 3.30am on Chrimbo eve to watch the Celtic.
Absolutely superb.
knoxy
oscar will be in my prayers
Rancho,
Hugh is normally ok, he struggled for a long time to grasp that the online community had the gen on the Huns situation.
I guess that paper like the other usual suspects relies on the Shame’s pound so has to have a quota of fawning blue propaganda.
HH
Gordon64 says:
23 December, 2011 at 21:51
cheers mate- I promised a wee girl she would see the celts in paradise before 2011 was out
could have done without the early k.o tho’ :-)
Merry Christmas and HH
M
Ard Macha & Moonbeams
Merry Christmas.
Peace be with you.
Celtic_First
Great sentiments as usual.
Swanseabhoy
‘No Time for Love’ one of my favourites. Maybe when you move up we could meet for a Christy concert. After 20 years my mates have had enough!
Saltires en Sevilla
On the back of your bike ? :>)
Or was it someone else who was cycling to rennes ?
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saltires en sevilla says:
23 December, 2011 at 21:32
Fholks
Anyone needing a lift to CP tomorrow morning leaving N Hampshire from 03:30:
Willing to collect en route M40/6/74
arrive Glasgow c 10:00- 11:00 isshh
sorry can’t offer return trip
HH
M
Celtic_First says:
23 December, 2011 at 21:51
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Great post and poem, I agree with you its very commercialised now and its as if the meaning is lost.
V
Saltires
Merry Christmas to you.
Your commitment is an inspiration.
Celtic_First
As Old as time and as new as today..replace the washed up diver
with the newly envigourated Aluko..a Sally poor
replacement whose mimic moves the dolphin blonde
cheat has bought his own ticket on the inevitable Craig White train
crash the buffers of ultimate reality.
Feck him, Sally and the rankers…We live uncertain but True with Celtic.
HH
hamiltontim
That’d be a pleasure. I’ve seen Christy Moore in a dozen or more venues and nowhere holds a candle to Barrowland.
I was fortunate enough to see him there this year.
Christy Moore – Barrowland
SwanseaBhoy
Bawsman are ye still around ya cheeky B
V
Gordon64 says:
23 December, 2011 at 21:59,
Nollaig mhaith duit.
Árd Macha
Vmhan, Kano 1000 – Supporting Lenny & the Green Brigada! says:
U up for the game the mora?
jc2 says:
23 December, 2011 at 22:01
hehehe well remembered – yes bike was plan for rennes -but sadly no takers then ..nobody daft enough :-)
we’ll be in the jalopey tomorrow
HH
M
googybhoy –
thanks for the kind wishes earlier and the same to you and yours.
Jobo
hi me me maat
Any CqN Bhoys in the Manchester area, see you in O’Sheas.
Stephen Black Kano 1000 says:
23 December, 2011 at 22:07
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No mate although I’m really tempted to go, i’ll be up for a few days in between Christmas and New Year, are you going?
V
Stephen Black Kano 1000 says:
23 December, 2011 at 21:46
Aye, CRC has organised a swally, O’Neill’s and The Admiral been mentioned about 7ish.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
googybhoy-hh and a good Christmas to you and yours mate.
Vmhan
I will be there, was going to see were u wld be for an xmas beer… Have a good one mate and hopefully maybe see u during the break
Lennybhoy:
Will see how the funds are, i dont get paid till Friday, would be good to get a few beers b4 i go away.
Saltires en Sevilla
I just remember thinking SUPERB idea cycle to watch Celtic in Europe …..for someone else not in the same physical shape as myself.
ps 2 big ones 3 kids from EK picking up another big 1 in Rutherglen if you can fit us all on
if you are getting Gordon in Cambuslang we are not too far out the way :>)
pps hope the wee one enjoys herself.
saltires en sevilla says:
23 December, 2011 at 22:07
jc2 says:
23 December, 2011 at 22:01
hehehe well remembered – yes bike was plan for rennes -but sadly no takers then ..nobody daft enough :-)
we’ll be in the jalopey tomorrow
HH
M
Swanseabhoy
For the first time in many years I didn’t get to see him. Do you still have that copy of Spirit of Freedom and is it on CD?
I had it for years on tape but it seems to have vanished.
Ard macha
Cheers pal.
I was online when Knoxy 2000 posted his news.I dont think i could have posted what he did,in his situation.The strength and goodness people like him,his family and other bhoys take from CQN is remarkable and uplifting.We are Family.
Knoxy
My thoughts and prayers are with you,Oscar and your family.
I used to give blood on a regular basis until 3 years ago due to the medication i was on for back pain. Not on this medication anymore though have
not bothered my a**e going to donate since. I promise I will donate soon.
Ernie Lynch
Thanks for the link regards the above,no excuses now.HH
Stephen Black
Any tickets for Peterhead buddy?