We’ve been told since the summer not only that this season’s Championship would be more competitive than the Premiership (last week we covered the fact that it’s the least competitive league in Britain), but that the gap between the top of the Championship and the top of the Premiership would be narrow.
Hearts are probably a better team than we’ve seen in our two cup meetings with them this season, but they have proven to be hopelessly ill-prepared to face a European-calibre team. Hamilton, Motherwell, Aberdeen, Inverness and Dundee have all given Celtic vastly more difficult challenges.
Robbie Neilson is doing well and his team will step-up to the Premiership challenge next year but they are not playing week-in-week-out at the pace necessary to tackle Celtic face on, as they did yesterday.
Following on from Saturday’s article, I heard today that Celtic’s relationship with Ujpest Doza, which saw Willie McStay leave his coaching role at Celtic to become Ujpest manager, was ended after complaints to Uefa about what was no more than unofficial links between the clubs. Uefa informed the clubs that only one would be entitled to compete in European competition if their planned extended cooperation took place.
In the event a complaint was made to Uefa, clear blue water would be required between clubs Mike Ashley has an interest in.
Many thanks to the many authors, publishers and bampots in the Celtic community who are now involved with the CQNBookstore, which now had 29 books and DVDs available.
As well as the CQN books, like the CQN Annual, Caesar & the Assassin, Seville, All the Best by Tommy Gemmell and Heart of Lion by Willie Wallace, there’s Cartuja’s Internet Bampots, Paul Dyke’s The Quality St Gang, John Hughes irrepressible autobiography, two books by Ian McCallum on how the Glasgow Irish founded a football club, and on those who went to the Great War, signed copies of Archie Macpherson’s definitive Jock Stein biography, the Sean Fallon and Chris Sutton biographies, an absolute treasure chest of Celtic DVDs and beanie hats for Mary’s Meals!
We’re hoping to add more in due course. Fill your boots.
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i think killie are the 3rd premier club to lose in govan this season. Surely that is proof they are ready for the top division
tongueincheekCSC
praecepta (12:33) said: “IGC… The Prague astronomical clock, or Prague orloj, is a medieval astronomical clock located in Wenceslas Square. The clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest one still working. Make sure you get a good viewing spot just before Noon – worth seeing!”
Indeed, you can actually have a tour INSIDE the clock tower, with a chance to see the inner workings that make the various characters appear in and disappear from the portals around the front of the clock, as can be seen here…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/26022506@N08/2903559502/in/set-72157607197260914
he full photoset includes lots more pics of the clock and other sites around Prague:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/26022506@N08/sets/72157607197260914/
The token Tim.12.49.
No, they will just change the rules to suit them.
Cellino .
Found guilty of tax evasion . VAT stuff relating to the purchase of a super duper yacht in the States and then importing it to Sardinia. Lots of issues relating to the stadium he constructed for Cagliari ,too.
keith jackshun actually said this in th dr this morning….
“If Somers and his gang have any sense of common decency then they ought to have felt thoroughly ashamed of themselves for allowing such a vast disconnect to occur on their watch.”………… If it wasn’t such a pathetic statement, it would be absolutely hilarious ………. How dim IS this GUY…..!!??
IGC
Off to Prague with Mrs IGC on Thursday.
Anyone with knowledge of a bar which should be showing the Motherwell game (SS1)?
Also, any dos and don’ts I should know about?
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Dont bounce any Czechs ;)
lilys
Snake Plissken
You’re correct – Old Town Square. Got confused more than once wandering through all the narrow streets, archways, the market and dungeon-like bars and shops.
Wenceslas Square was the rendezvous point if anyone got lost (drunk or sober)!
I watched the first half of the Killie Billy game and thought Kilmarnock were ok until Rangers pumped high balls at them and flew into a few tackles. Killie looked feart.
The current team lying second in Scotland’s 2 division are a shoe in to qualify via the play off place.
Tallybhoy,
for once the UFH didnt have anything to do with that entry on Murderwell’s wiki page.
For some weird reason they do actually call themselves that.
Strange breed that they are.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
prestonpans bhoys
12:44 on 1 December, 2014
Weeminger
Aye, it was all over the media …..no? Oh, wonder why?
the token Tim
Never knew that – thought it was a wind-up!
Astounded of forehead so a um!
Suits them ‘tho.
HH!!
Prestonpans bhoy,
we were 2nd largest attendance last week. feyenoord’s 50k+ was top.
as per last weeks discussion on this, we generally are at the top or close to the top of the EL attanedances. I think in the whole of the group stages so far only 7 games had a higher attendance than ours last thursday, with our own game v Zagreb being one of those 7.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Mullet and co 2
Yeah, weird one. It’ll all come out in the wash unless South of Tunis has the inside track.
mullet and Co 2 from previous thread-
You`re right, Man City have struggled to sell out their CL games. Plenty of empty seats there on European nights.
Strangely given they can`t sell out for games v the likes of Bayern Munich, they are actually expanding their stadium and have a waiting list for season tickets. You have to shell out £100 to get on the waiting list.
http://tickets.mcfc.co.uk/waitinglist.aspx
Massimo Cellino.
Dodgy character.
In his 20 odd years as owner of Cagliari he went through almost 40 head coaches.
Still low by Italian standards however.
HH!!
Gomis is a professional footballer. He gets paid every day to play football.
One of the minimal mental requirements of the job is that you have a rudimentary grasp of the rules. One of those rules absolutely forbids flying into tackles with both feet leaving the ground, at risk of immediate dismissal.
Gomis is paid to know this. It is part of his working life.
Gomis is an idiot.
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Guidetti didn’t dive, he lost balance, slipped a bit, hit the deck, did not claim a penalty.
Gollum gave the penalty – Gollum AND his linesman, who was only 10 yards behind Guidetti with a perfect view of the incident.
Question is now – will Gollum prove sleekit enough to hide behind his mistake and claim to the compliance officer he was duped (© Minty Moonbeams) by Guidetti?
If he does, in the words of Mr.DeNiro, ‘F’ck’m’, the little rat bestid’.
Thanks guys
South of Tunis – Avoid the right wing skinhead nut jobs
I just got back from Hamburg yesterday and the skinhead nut jobs where the good guys (St Pauli Skinheads)
Sandman, I had wondered if Guidetti would “do a Di Canio”, and casually kick the spot kick straight to McGregor in goal.
Perhaps if it had already been 4-0 he might have done…
HILARIOUS….
https://twitter.com/celtic/status/539390091206991873
Genes a Bhoys Name,
Aye very good ;-)
newradbhoy,
fair point!
Tallybhoy,
It does indeed.
;-)
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
I clicked on the link to kitalba’s post, given on the last thread, relating to the background of the new Nomads WH Ireland amd Craig Whyte’s fakeover. I found this sentence jumping out:-
“Brown’s Devonshire Capital still holds those 300,000 shares in KSC Broking”
KSC hmm!
Does the acronym stand for Knights of …..?
If the excellent CQN Bookstore does not fulfill all your Christmas present purchasing needs, could I humbly suggest my daughter’s new website
http://www.dosomethingdelicious.com/
She has been involved in promoting food producers in SW Scotland for a few years and with a couple of work colleagues decided to set upon their own.
Sorry Paul, I will make a wee donation to Mary’s Meals for this blatant advertising.
bournesouprecipe @ 12:45
I see the Sevco game is after the window has slammed shut. Must be to allow them to spend Super Salarys’ war chest.
Also means that anyone moving on in January could not take part e.g. VvD et al?
A wee repost
SonsOfErin
12:17 on 1 December, 2014
Would you believe the name of W H Ireland has appeared in this story before? Of course you would.
Check out Kitalba’s post from a news story way back in 2012 –
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/?p=9322
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon ….The angels are with Wee Oscar in Heaven.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
12:58 on
1 December, 2014
keith jackshun actually said this in th dr this morning….
“If Somers and his gang have any sense of common decency then they ought to have felt thoroughly ashamed of themselves for allowing such a vast disconnect to occur on their watch.”………… If it wasn’t such a pathetic statement, it would be absolutely hilarious ………. How dim IS this GUY…..!!??
Yep.Overheard at Ibrox.”Have you read what that Darren Jackson is saying about us”
“Never mind that clown,get another hold all,and stuff that one with the £50 notes.”
“Common decency,my @rse”.
Yogiy, don’t blame me,I voted Yes.
poor show
Clock tour Prague.
Well worth a visit.
You can buy things on tick, which is very handy.
HH
Ladies,
I believe the windy cannot shut on a weekend so it will now shut on Monday 2nd Feb.
So we can’t have a connection with another club, but the hun it seems can do what they like.
How in your face is this, yet the sfa do sfa.
Ally McCoist has revealed Ibrox chief Derek Llambias has offered him the pick of Newcastle United’s talented kids as he puts his faith behind the Rangers gaffer.
McCoist insists he’s been given a vote of confidence by Mike Ashley’s right-hand man despite Gers struggling show in the Championship.
He has had positive talks with Llambias and says loan moves for the Toon’s young stars is a possibility.
McCoist said: “I’ve spoken to Derek a few times and he’s positive and keen to help.
“He’s still very hopeful that we can get promoted. He just said to continue doing my job, go and look at players and then we’ll have discussions.
“I’ve been for a look at some of Newcastle’s young players already.
“I cover as many games as I can. We’re looking all over the place.
“We haven’t discussed budgets yet, things like ‘You have X amount to spend’ or ‘You need to get rid of him’.
“That will be further down the line.”
Today’s favourite goal is is from the W file:
Victor Wanyama’s second goal in a 5-0 win over St Mirren.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcC43bcDurY
Man, I miss big Victor…
Geordie Munro
An extra day of disappointment? ;)
ennisbhoy @ 13 08
I have no inside track. All I know in relation to the man was gained from the Italian media.Public domain stuff.Maybe the relevant people in Leeds were as lazy as the relevant peepul in Glasgow were in respect of Googling Craig Whyte .
The owner of a second tier Scottish team and a mid table English team will be told his two clubs won’t be able to play in Europe at the same time.
Seems a bit like my wife telling me she won’t allow to have affairs with Beyoncé and Scarlett Johanson at the same time.
Just got samsung galaxy s5 after having iphone for couple of years.
How do I copy and past from here if im looking to answer someone ?
Thanks
Don`t Chelsea have an affiliation with Vitesse Arnhem? I`m sure that Vitesse are Russian owned (reputedly a front for Abramovich) and that lots of players have been traded between the two clubs over the last few years.
And not a peep from UEFA as far as I know…
http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/525673/Chelsea-Besiktas-Vitesse-Arnhem
Sky Sports on for the draw away draw for us, wonder who thems will get at home!
Proudbhoy,
Hold yer finger on the text and then select the bit you want.
I haven’t got that exact fone but press copy or copy to clip board or the page on top of another page symbol to copy.
Then hold finger down in space where you want it to go and paste.
Clearasmud csc
Hope we don’t draw Sevco in the cup as humping them 2 weeks in a row would just too sweet … and obviously trigger armageddon, civil unrest etc etc….
Anyone at home (Spartans?) would let our new signings (?) see Celtic Park at its best with hopefully a large vocal crowd as we push for the treble HH