The good news keeps coming today. A solid 0-2 win away to Inverness, the gap at the top of the league narrowing by two points, and issue 4 of CQN Magazine is now out! Out cover feature in this issue is an interview with Lisbon Lion, Willie Wallace. Willie lives in Australia but keeps in touch with events at Celtic through the internet.
Bobby Petta also speaks to us, recounting some of the great times he experienced as a Celtic player, as well as providing an introspective on the disappointing John Barnes season.
We cover some recent topical subjects, including policing of Scottish football, the perennial poppy and the financial crisis that has engulfed our game. Checkout the speech from 1941 by President Roosevelt on four essential human freedoms. At 60 pages it’s our biggest issue yet and stuffed full of great articles. Get stuck in…
Read CQN Magazine for free online here. Subscriptions to the online copy are discretionary but you can contribute here. Old School-hard copies will be available from Magcloud shortly.
734 Comments- Pages:
- «
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- ...
- 19
- »
Am quietly confident we’ll beat them in December (thought that can sometimes be a bad omen!). But the factors are there. With the whole of the establishment launching their attacks on us, and as these will undoubtedly increase in intensity in the run up to that game, it will bring out the best in us as it always does.
Moisty’s been gleefully cruising with no little help from those very same factors, but under pressure, I don’t think he’ll be able to rise to the challenge. He’s never had to face up to real challenges in the past, unlike our own Lenny.
The difference in depth of character will be a real factor in the way this league goes.
Suarez on ss4 at the minute.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:
19 November, 2011 at 18:18
Thomthethim,
New issue of CQN magazine out. It’s four the best.
You don’t get many of those in a pun, dae ye?
This league has always been going to the last day of the season. I am yet to see anything to change my mind
Myboysnowatim – I share your positive slant ! PS “Hunspeak” ??
Overall it was a decent performance today
with 2 good goals on a difficult pitch.
looks like Robbie Savage just had the best seat in the house.
Best thing about today was the result, we were appalling until we scored the goal then relaxed and knocked the ball around and made Caley chase a bit.
Pretty comfortable at the back for a change as big Victor just looks the part in a Hoops jersey, though i prefer him in midfield.
Stokes, Hooper in patches and Forrest were probably our best performers
Who scouted El Kaddouri, he is just not good enough to be in the starting 11 and how he lasted so long before being hooked is a mystery. Will be astounded if he is still here in January.
You have to laugh at poor big Tel having a good old moan about the sending off, maybe big Sammy should whack him on the face with the back of his hand and see if he still feels the same. To me there was little difference to that incident from the one where one of the sheep was sent off against the huns at pittodrie when he “flattened” Goian.
Onwards and upward Lenny bhoy, win all the games going into the Huns game and lets see where we are at.
Mad Mitch
We are still very much in the “who will blink first race?”
Rangers’ great recent run means that it is no great loss for them to have dropped 2 points today. They will feel that they can get back on the road at Killie and they may be right.
Which is why I feel that, good weekend though it has been, the pressure is still on Celtic. Even, if we win our two home games in November to formally close the gap, we will just move on to a December period where our SPL games are a bit tougher than theirs, on paper. Until we meet them on the 28th.
We have just won 3 games in a row for the first time since July. Our first 3 SPL games were won but a friendly defeat broke up that run. If we win on Wednesday we will equal that run of 3 SPL wins and we can beat it against St. Mirren on Saturday. If we continue on a run of small wins, we will build up a chain into a longer spell just as Rangers have had.
Are we ready to break with the Celtic stereotype and become a team capable of winning on the heavier, slippier rutted winter pitches?
It’s gonna be fun finding out.
Paul67
That 12 point gap this morning could be just 4 points when rangers kick off next weekend.
Come on Celtic, lets see what that mob are made of!
HH
Neil Lennon No1
We will be champions
Hail hail
thomthethim,
Puns have been hijacked by the Murdoch empire anyway – forever tainted.
Irony is the humour of the future.
Gordon64
It’s important to appreciate the many factors which can influence results for better of for worse. The circumstances today were difficult, and we got a good result, and the joy of some nice passing football after the change of tactics by Lenny.
Can’t help comparing that to the tactical “nous” of Moisty and his up n under rugby approach genius. It used to work when he had an efficient cheat up front, but now he’s left with Laughatme it’s not so successful. To play for them requires a bit more sleekitness as opposed to moronic buffoonery from their fainting goats.
Hopefully things are now beginning to turn our way. We need to stay strong and to stay together and not let the enemy divide us.
We really need to focus on the job in hand and win this league. It is very much doable. Sally is not a very good manager and if they lose Jelavic for any period they will struggle.
While we are not playing brilliantly, I think we have returned to the winning mentality of last season and that will do for now, the style is the icing on the cake and therefore can wait.
Árd Macha
Did i miss something or did we not win
away in Inverness.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:
19 November, 2011 at 18:18
Thomthethim,
New issue of CQN magazine out. It’s four the best.
Rancho,
Like me, you don’t buy into the unusual notion that Jabba is a closet Tim as someone (jestfully?) suggested. If he is, then it’s one of the most impressive undercover assignments in recorded history that Odysseus (or Ulysses as you might prefer) would have been envious of. And the disguise is certainly comparable in size to one gigantic Trojan horse :)
share
—————————————///////////————————————–
jabba certainly does a fantastic impression of a horse’s arse!
celt for life @ 19:13
Think you’re a bit too quick to write off El Kad. He’s had very very little game time since he came. He showed some promise when he first played imo, but came into a very nervy defence at the time of his first couple of games.
The quality of the celeb Rangers fans reaches a new high
http://twitter.com/?photo_id=1#!/AndyLittle29/status/137956971230932994/photo/1
Be right at home among the Fascist Fascist brigade
from twitter
Fraizer Campbell to #Celtic in Jan on loan, if a deal can be agreed around wages. #spl #football
RoscoePCo,
Regarding Hun barren transfer acquisitions, the Orcs coming back from injury were lauded as new signings. A consistent Hun compliant, Meeja positive slant.
Well, we’ve got a hell of a lot of players coming back.
davythelotion @ 19:21
:) It would explain the reluctance of people to argue with him in a studio – the smell coming from his gub must be nauseous. It is safe to say that he delivers a lot more manure than any Trojan horse possibly could.
Aye. Jim Davidson has always been the epitomy of the executive seat hun. He does a good impression of a horrible wee racist bigot.
Lisb\o/nbhoy
Who is Fraizer Campbell ?
Árd Macha says:
19 November, 2011 at 19:20
Hopefully things are now beginning to turn our way. We need to stay strong and to stay together and not let the enemy divide us.
I agree win the next few and we are back on their tails. Jelavic will be sway in Jan. The second half of the season can be ours. League Cup and Scottish Cup.
Myboysnowatim – gotcha ! You could argue that Wilson, Izaguirre and Brown would all be in NLs 1st choice team, and that’s before we consider Bangura. I believe we will win this league, I really do.
Juarez………………………….
booked for Zaragoth……………..A
who are loosing 1.0 to Barca
Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:
19 November, 2011 at 19:23
celt for life @ 19:13
Think you’re a bit too quick to write off El Kad. He’s had very very little game time since he came. He showed some promise when he first played imo, but came into a very nervy defence at the time of his first couple of games
*******************************************************************************************
I just can’t see how he will do enough now to convince he is worth a longer deal, he is so weak at tackling its frightening. I will be surprised if he plays again unless the injury crisis gets even worse. Sometimes these things don’t work out and IMHO this is one of them.
Fortunes
Sally’s armour is as paper thin the lightweight and shoddy journalhun pieces
paraded in daily exclusives his team as supermen and bog tissue lies and made
up preposterous bias against Lenny.
It’s a one way street for hun propagandists to parley illogical drivel as a device
to devorce the average intelligence into two groups: those who wish only that he
(Lenny) was sacked as a poor manager….and those who wish he were dead as a
person of Irish Catholic lineage.
Jabba and his gimps are the devision managers.
HH
The Exiled tim
http://www.imscouting.com/players/fraizer-campbell/
Willie Wallace….what a player. Fitted in (almost) perfectly when the one and only Joe McBride was injured. To think I was privileged to see 2 such Celtic greats in the one season.
Bobby said it best:
The Rhythm Of Time
There’s an inner thing in every man,
Do you know this thing my friend?
It has withstood the blows of a million years,
And will do so to the end.
It was born when time did not exist,
And it grew up out of life,
It cut down evil’s strangling vines,
Like a slashing searing knife.
It lit fires when fires were not,
And burnt the mind of man,
Tempering leadened hearts to steel,
From the time that time began.
It wept by the waters of Babylon,
And when all men were a loss,
It screeched in writhing agony,
And it hung bleeding from the Cross.
It died in Rome by lion and sword,
And in defiant cruel array,
When the deathly word was ‘Spartacus’
Along the Appian Way.
It marched with Wat the Tyler’s poor,
And frightened lord and king,
And it was emblazoned in their deathly stare,
As e’er a living thing.
It smiled in holy innocence,
Before conquistadors of old,
So meek and tame and unaware,
Of the deathly power of gold.
It burst forth through pitiful Paris streets,
And stormed the old Bastille,
And marched upon the serpent’s head,
And crushed it ‘neath its heel.
It died in blood on Buffalo Plains,
And starved by moons of rain,
Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee,
But it will come to rise again.
It screamed aloud by Kerry lakes,
As it was knelt upon the ground,
And it died in great defiance,
As they coldly shot it down.
It is found in every light of hope,
It knows no bounds nor space
It has risen in red and black and white,
It is there in every race.
It lies in the hearts of heroes dead,
It screams in tyrants’ eyes,
It has reached the peak of mountains high,
It comes searing ‘cross the skies.
It lights the dark of this prison cell,
It thunders forth its might,
It is ‘the undauntable thought’, my friend,
That thought that says ‘I’m right!’
Árd Macha
speaking of Jim (disgrace) Davidson, was talking to a lassie who works with him in the Pavillion atm. he is on to his sixth wife!?
notthebus
Thanks, wouldn’t be my choice, but what do I know, in Lenny I trust, in saying that he could well run riot in the spl.
Árd Macha @ 19:20
Good post – agree with that wholeheartedly.
Rebel Songs played over PA at Ibrox today. Well spotted Phil
On a phone…hence Spelling !
Honest.
He sure does.
They won’t break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.
The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show.
It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
Had to listen to the Celtic game on radio shortbread today. Travelling by car
When O’reilly sent the guy off I have never heard such bile foaming from the mouths of Dodds, Rob McLean and Traynor at half time. Dodds stating that this ref gets too many high profile games,keeps making quick rash decisions, Mclean wanted the rules changed, Traynor saying it was never a red card and having a go at the ref.Traynor not happy with Celtic performance after the game
Sorry to remind these buffoons that last season when our Lennie was critical of some refs, he was hounded by the media, you guys, which led to a strike.Lennie was demonised by these clowns.
I then listed to Butcher having a go at full time re the ref. Will he be hauled before the beaks
Hope Neil Lennon had a wee chuckle on the way home tonight. I know I did
Great result today
Assume Norris & O’Reilly will not be seen for some time in spl
For those interested, here is the level of debate on FF this evening.Stunning stuff
________________________________________________
Would there be any sectarianism in Scotland if Celtic didn’t exist?
As per the title.
Celtic drove a huge wedge of division between communities in Glasgow and ultimately the rest of the country by founding a club to separate their own from the rest of society. I know that others followed suit but they soon grew out of the menatlity, whereas Celtic continued and became more politically militant, jumping eventually on the bandwagon of world terrorism and anti-British hatred.
Rangers were formed for the love of the game, but being almost a fairy-tale club with their measure of success and the principal rivals to Celtic from a footballing perspective, we attracted a lot of support from indigenous Scottish pople and people who came to work here from Ulster (the proximity to shipyards in Govan also helped).
However, if Celtic had not continued with their separate identity for so long, effectively never integrating and maintaining their sectarian agenda, fuelled by the refusal of their church to relinquish control of their educational establishments as the Church of Scotland did, would there be any appreciable sectarianism or such a deep divide in Scottish culture? I think not.
If you remove Rangers from the equation, there will still be a sectarianism issue, but if you took out Celtic, I think in one generation (e.g. 40 years) the problem of sectarianism, if it indeed as big a problem as has been stated, would drastically reduce. Likewise, if you returned the sectarian schools to the state (secular) system the problem would also reduce. if you did both, I think within a much shorter period we would have a much more integrated society.
If we ever have independence, and I sincerely hope not, then I think these moves would be essential to maintain a stable Scottish society. certainly the schools issue first for the sake of future generations, but taking out Celtic would also be a substantial improvement for scottish society. They have simply become far too militaristic and poisonous in their attitudes and I don’t know if that is the sinister Neil Lennon or Green Brigade impact, or whether they were going in that direction anyway.
_____________________________________________________________________