It’s been a long time since we’ve had a home game; 4th August, against Aberdeen. Since then we’ve played five games on the road, three of which involved international travel, with two games in the Highlands.
Statistical analysis shows that form suffers when teams are forced to pile-up away fixtures. Training schedules are interrupted as travel eats into time which would otherwise be spent fine-tuning fitness or working on defensive/forward strategy. Instead Celtic have improved enormously from their Flag Day at the beginning of the month, despite, or perhaps, because, Neil Lennon has indulged in extensive use of a squad rotation policy.
No one at Celtic will be complacent ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League play-off, the ghost of Ross County in 2010 and Inverness in 2011 will see to that. One ‘Big Dan Moment’ is all it takes to turn a comfortable lead into a tight tie with a player deficit, but I suspect Neil Lennon will be more concerned with putting the brakes on his players, rather than motivating them. A calm and organised performance is required.
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Theweegreenman
The moon is important.
Lets leave it alone.
HH
More paranoid rantings from the binary world of The New Rangers Christ Graham http://t.co/zEZ2xAcN #scarey
This guy will be locked up soon with a white jacket on.
sipsini
22:49 on
27 August, 2012
Saltires.
Was at the game the young Scots were cheated and in cardinal follies that nite watching the Saudi youths? Celebrate.hh
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LOL
over 35 nite – grab a granny? ;-0
HH
69 green bucket collectors standing in a row…………………….
Have a wee watch and see if it inspires you to be no 70?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMplEzPEOUk
HH
CRC
weeoscar4life@gmail.com
Thegreenfaerie,
Welcome,as in my household,and in life in general,the ghals are taking over.Dont you know you should be at the kitchen sink.HH
Tom McLaughlin – Quite right. It must be terrible to be a Saudi.
With God’s help they will overcome the terrible wound of being disrespected in the Daily Record. (thumbsup)
To be fair to George Galloway he only said what rapists think. Frankie Boyle.
Still laughing
HH
You cannae take nuclear waste to the moon because of the danger of explosion, or crashing and burning on lift off!
Hail hail and goodnight
Estadio
Tom McLaughlin
23:04 on
27 August, 2012
Yes I remember the rampant racism and xenophobia against the Saudis when they “stole” the Youth World Cup from “our boys”, led chiefly by the Daily Record.
Sad to to see it being kept alive all these years later on CQN.
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Ach give yourself peace man – racism and xenephobia wtf!
there is no way those guys were under 16
comments here have nothing to do with their nationality or race
-get a life!
How about Chris Graham then? Can we not send him to the moon?
Make a change from him howling at it………
theweegreenman
23:11 on 27 August, 2012
How about Chris Graham then? Can we not send him to the moon?
Make a change from him howling at it………
No wonder their club is in the state it’s in with him and Mingwall in their ranks.
Off to Greenock CSC sportsman dinner this weekend, hoping Celtic Soul Brother will do the quiz
Really looking forward to it
HH
CRC
Chris Grahams a good shout and it would not be an entire waste of money but doesnt the wee green man live on the moon ?
HH
saltires en sevilla –
Prove it!
Aaaaaah Mingwell. The TFOD pin up.
You have got to feel sorry for his family:-)
Tom McLaughlin
23:14 on
27 August, 2012
saltires en sevilla –
Prove it!
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prove what ?
that my comments are not racist or xenophobic … as you claim?
or
that the fielded over-age players?
No I do not abide there.
Easterhouse did look similar to be fair same skyline and transport services. :-)
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo – but doesnt the wee green man live on the moon ?
My dear friend, you didn’t pay enough attention to 1980’s children’s TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl2ke-DL2XE (thumbsup)
Saltire.
35 wid be a young thing for me the noo:-)
Tom Mclaughlin,
can you point me towards the comments you find racist,
i have read the blog and nothing struck me as being racist
Watched EPL highlights show last night. When Villa went 0-2 behind early at home to Everton, the camera zoomed in on Paul Lambert. His demeanor reminded me of Gordon Strachan’s after the 5th Artmedia goal went in.
Terrible start for Paul. I hope Villa don’t destroy a promising managerial career.
Lads help me out here, are they called the rangers or do they have to wait until they’re officially liquidated ?
sipsini
23:18 on
27 August, 2012
Saltire.
35 wid be a young thing for me the noo:-)
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LOL
Careful mate the Pseudo Equality Act police are out and about tonight…;-)
HH
Philvis
Before my time ;-)
Great singing in that clip
HH
Damn you Philvis!
Me covers blown!!!!
Bugerra came on on Saturday. Wish he hadnt!!
gordybhoy64 –
I did not say comments on here were specifically racist, but they were perpetuating a racist stereotype.
I referred to the racist and xenophobic outbursts in the Daily Record at the time, when it was all about the cheating Arabs who could not be trusted.
I then said it was sad that the myth was being carried on after all this time on CQN.
fanadpatriot
My physics teacher told me the same thing, i was extremely bad at physics! But in my household it’s my hubby that does the cooking, he’s far better at it than me, so i keep telling him :) A man’s place must be in the toilet then because they seem to spend a considerable amount of time sitting on their throne!
HH
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo – For your sake, my friend in Celtic, I am sorry to hear that was before your time.
Our country in the 1980’s was a great place to grow up in. The great singing and superlative animation was just the tip of the iceberg.
As a young Philvis, I used to hurry back from school to watch “Trapdoor”, “He-Man”, “The Pink Windmill”, “Thundercats”, “T-Bag”, and other classic shows. (thumbsup)
theweegreenman – You knew this day would come sooner or later. (thumbsup)
Tom,
cheers for the reply,sorry if i have misread your post,
i thought you were suggesting that some of the posters
had made racist comments
Aye. I remember all the comments about the Saudis in the Record.
Mostly about their team all sporting 7 o’clock shadows and being much more physically mature than the Scots boys.
Sheer coincidence and nothing to do with them cheating at all at all. Was it?
My Dear Philvis…
So,the Wright Brothers were pioneers of powered flight…big deal..
So Leonardo Da Vinci invented the first viable glider…
And the prolific Chinese inventor made the first recorded attempt at flight with a glider when he launched it from the tallest tower in Tia-An in 1122…sad to say,he did not survive the landing..
Well catch up,Old Bean..
Dontcha know that the Arabs were responsible for every worthwhile invention and scientific discovery in the past thousand years…?
Some unknown chap from Cordoba..apparently pipped Leonardo and the heroic Chinese inventor to the podium…..
So , Auld Leonardo will just have to content himself with having invented a ‘tail’ for his glider….which came in very useful when he was dive-bombing the armoured-tank he invented the week before…
Tycho Brahe was just a know-nothing,come tae nothing Danish Capitalist…
True,we do have quite a useful ‘numerical system’…but where would we be if the brilliant and generous Hindus had not invented the ‘Zero’..to make the whole system work….
Yon Ben Kingsley…Tells mair fibs than RobertTressell and Wonkyradar…combined !
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Fact or Fiction?:1001 Muslim Inventions Comes To Washington……
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National Geographic Explorer’s Hall in
Washington D.C. has hosted some of
the most prestigious exhibits in
America. Previous exhibits have
included the Chinese terracotta
warriors, as well as the James Caird, the
lifeboat Sir Ernest Shackleton
miraculously sailed from Antarctica to
South Georgia Island in 1916. Currently
it is hosting a curious exhibit through
February 2013 entitled “1001
Inventions: Discover the Golden Age of
Muslim Civilization.” This high tech,
slickly produced exhibit explicitly seeks
to debunk the “myth” that the dark
ages were dark.
The exhibit purports to provide
examples of innovations from The Arab
Civilization, and some of the claims may
come as a surprise to those familiar
with the Wright Brothers or Yuri
Gagarin.
I recently visited “1001 Inventions”
which was housed on the same floor as
a fantastic Titanic exhibit. I purchased
entry to the museum at a ticket booth
staffed by Rebecca Head, a National
Geographic employee. Perhaps
assuming I was heading to see the
Titanic exhibit, Head pushed
attendance at 1001 Inventions – “There
is a really great exhibit on Arab
Inventions you should see.”
The exhibit begins with star power – a
short movie starring Academy Award-
winner Ben Kingsley. Kingsley plays a
librarian who faces a trio of young
uniformed (presumably British)
students seeking information about
“the dark ages.”
Kingsley’s character bristles at the
children’s characterization, critical of
those “filling your head with such
nonsense and ripping down the good of
former civilizations.”
But “everyone knows the Greeks and
Romans invented everything!” one
child replies.
Kingsley’s librarian doesn’t equivocate
– “some of the most important
discoveries” were made by “Muslim
civilizations.”
Harry Potter-style magic takes over,
and Kingsley is transformed with
beautiful flourish from an English
librarian into the exotic turban wearing
historical figure of Al-Jazari. The
children are enthralled, both on the
screen, and in the audience.
Al-Jazari informs the three children that
a grand civilization “that stretched from
Spain to China” was responsible “for
some of the most important
discoveries” in the world. These
include, according to Kingsley’s
transformed Al-Jazari, devices such as
the camera.
And herein lies the most fascinating
characteristic of the entire exhibit – the
slipperiness of its language. Indeed,
language throughout the exhibit, as we
shall see, becomes a way to trick
attendees. Cleverly chosen words
nudge readers toward unsupported
conclusions. Myth mingles with science.
Rumor becomes history.
Consider the “invention” of the camera.
Al-Jazari, portrayed masterfully and
magically on screen by Kingsley, says
“he” was responsible for explaining
“how our eyes work” and developed
camera obscura. Even if it is historically
accurate that Al-Jazari pioneered
camera obscura, the slithery language
of the screenplay generates an
inference that Al-Jazari is somehow
legitimately involved in the chain of
inventions culminating in my Nikon
35mm.
I was reminded of George Orwell’s
Politics and the English Language when
he wrote: “But if thought corrupts
language, language can also corrupt
thought.”
Kingsley’s Al-Jazari fulfills Orwell’s
warning in the film when he introduces
another Arab inventor, Abbas Ibn
Firnas, who “dared to dream man could
fly 1000 years before the Wright
Brothers.”
Outside the theater, Firnas is featured
in a flight exhibit. Firnas is “said to be
the first person who tried to fly. His first
attempt which has passed into legend
took place when he leapt from the
minaret of the Great Mosque in
Cordoba. Equipped with a glider with
wooden struts, he managed to fly and
landed more or less unharmed. [His]
next flight was more ambitious. From
the top of a nearby hill, he launched
himself and his flying machine,
apparently gliding for some distance
before falling, a problem blamed on the
lack of a tail.”
Notice all of the tricks of language. He
was the first “who tried to fly,” and
“passed into legend,” “more or less
unharmed,” the “flying
machine,” (implying moving parts),
and “apparently gliding for some
distance.” Naturally he also diagnosed
that that cause of his failure was the
want of a tail. The exhibit neglects to
inform us about whether he applied
this fix to his “machine.”
The exhibit also features an interactive
game for children where they can help
Firnas fly by flapping their arms.
This all might seem harmless, but
consider the argument I had with my 8-
year-old after leaving the exhibit. She
was convinced that the Wright Brothers
were not the first to fly, and instead it
was Firnas launched from the mosque
at Cordoba a millennium ago. This
would not be the only instance when
thought corrupted the language of the
exhibit, which in turn corrupted
thought, at least among the more
impressionable.
The short introductory film with
Kingsley playing Al-Jazari goes on to tell
the three on-screen students (and the
many children in the theatre) that the
1001 inventions include medical
devices, ideas or unspecified things
which somehow led to the compass
and GPS satellite navigation and the
very Industrial Revolution itself.
Al-Jazari hands the children a book
called “1001 Inventions: Muslim
Heritage in Our World” and urges them
plainly to “spread the word.”
I notice a lot of posters having problems using CQN on IE, and the popular resolution would appear to be “download google chrome”.
Does that mean CQN is no longer available in IE and that we have no choice but to use chrome?
Did anybody crack Kirk Broadfooot’s had an œuf?
Haventreadback CSC
thegreenfaerie
23:03 on
27 August, 2012
WELCOME…..!!
A team that needs creativity and ‘bums on seats’ if you believe Lawwell claims of poverty? Aye?
A team needing creativity and ‘bums on seats?’ during this fabricated ‘difficult financial time?’
This is a great read about a man who is free and can raise excitement,.
http://agreatadvertforthegame.com/2012/08/27/juan-roman-riquelme-last-of-the-famous-international-playmakers/
Also Del Piero, a man who can make the difference in CL games and put bums on the seats Lawwell emptied.
Get one of them signed.
thegreenfaerie
23:03 on
27 August, 2012
Welcome to CQN, wanna be a bucket collector? email weeoscar4life@gmail.com ;-)
HH
Tom McLaughlin
23:26 on
27 August, 2012
gordybhoy64 –
I did not say comments on here were specifically racist, but they were perpetuating a racist stereotype.
I referred to the racist and xenophobic outbursts in the Daily Record at the time, when it was all about the cheating Arabs who could not be trusted.
I then said it was sad that the myth was being carried on after all this time on CQN.
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You were suggesting/implying that some of us on here were being racist and xenophobic specifically about players Saudi Arabia…that anyone making comments tonight are guilty, by association, of holding similar views reported in the daily record a quarter of a century ago.
everyone who commented has referred to either being there or watching the game on tv
forming their own opinion/view on the likely age of the SA players
not one single comment was racist or xenophobic … the comments were light-hearted and intention was to have a few chuckles ..nothing sinister
you on the other hand are trying to be a pompous smart-ass
‘F’