The exciting shock in last night’s big game saw Icelanders Valur record a 1-0 home win over Rosenborg in the first qualification round of the Champions League. Whoever wins this tie faces Celtic (caveat acknowledged) in the second round.
There is a long way to go for Valur, Wednesday’s game in Norway will be a major test, but even if Rosenborg emerge, it is encouraging to see them stretched, rather than comfortable winners. Let’s hope Valur have a famous day in Trondheim.
Sports Direct were back in court against Newco yesterday, with a judge confirming their case had merit and deserved High Court consideration. A judge would not agree to hear a civil dispute unless steps had been taken by the pursuer to settle the matter out of court.
This raises the obvious question: Why didn’t Sports Direct and Newco just get his sorted out before incurring significant legal costs, not to mention the embarrassment of yet another ‘favourable settlement’?
It is possible that the Newco’s day-to-day management do not have the levers in place to make decisions like this, and that those who are able to make such decisions exist in a fantasy land. But there is another possibility: one party might want to take this all the way.
Newco have already made it known that delivery of replica shirts will not happen until next month at the earliest. If Sports Direct are in in for the long haul, that could be very optimistic. Not that Newco have done or said anything to create ill feeling at Sports Direct.
It is clear Celtic want John McGinn but he will not be crucial to their plans next season. If the player is happy to wait, Celtic are too. They can offer him a pre-contract in five and a half months. Moreover, they can use the £2m they offered Hibs for McGinn to strengthen elsewhere. An option is being considered.
You would think Hibs would figure where this is heading and accept an offer, but Rod Petrie is still chairman, so don’t expect anything logical to happen. This one has a 1 January 2019 feel about it.
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beatbhoy
You are forgetting that Bob Kelly had been the manager before Jock took over, and had laid down the template for the success of the Lisbon Lions. Jock was also responsible for the chaos in Uruguay, so it was only fitting …..
“Arise Sir Bob”
A vibrant thriving Catholic community worshipped in Springfield Rd, from 1950 to 2004 when sadly Archbishop Conti decided that boundaries had fused and the Dalmarnock parish returned to the Sacred Heart in Bridgeton or St. Michaels at Parkhead cross.
Built as recently as 1950, compare with nearby St Alphonsus or Sacred Heart victorian sandstone Our Lady of Fatima in the heartland of a mixed religion community only just made it into the 2000’s a mere half century later.
The once flourishing newly built lady of modern design and the emerging working class of tenement or high rise dwellers of Dalmarnock closed its doors for the last time, with many a tale to tell. When the orange disorder pass now they bang the drum in a mini desert, where the local priest was abused in the street, more than once before the dwindling congregations, made way for affluence before effluence “ but maw they were flinging sh*te at me “
The athletes of the commonwealth and other surrounding state aid, did the house warming the newer inhabitants have left the Orange Order behind
but re generating the east end of Glasgow is a long term project re generating a trashy minority, will take longer.
A community may have disappeared? but the Catholic Church ‘doesn’t shrink to fit inferior streets’ ,St Alphonsus Sacred Heart and of course St Mary’s are well worthy of a visit, where good people in the majority of every religion pay no attention to creed what so ever, each day of the week including Sundays and vigil Saturdays.
Let Glasgow Flourish CSC
TommoCelt 6.40 From BBC Website
The Scottish champions, seeking a third successive appearance in the group stage, will be at home for the first leg of the second round of qualifying should they progress.
Hail Hail
P.S. Valur beat Rosenborg 1.0 last night, in first leg, so not guaranteed that it will be Rosenberg.
Bada Bing
Big Judith on HH
??
Celtic Mac
You see, that’s why I don’t get to decide these things!
WHitaboot the Celtic french connection attempted ram raid of the irn bru factory
Hushed up by a compliant smsm.
Where were they going.
Ma house?
Franny- she looked a treat. HH
Neil says McGinn not 100% fit….
If this shower of shoite feck up tonight I may have to back into hospital to repair my hernia. Come on ye Skoopski. ?
Go back ffs.
KYLE WALKER – Tottenham to Manchester City, £50m. …..
JOHN STONES – Everton to Manchester City, £47.5m…..
Gubbed Again CSC
Celtic happy to wait for McGinn, Sports Direct, Valiant Valur 85
BY PAUL67 ON 12TH JULY 2018 CQN BLOG & COMMENTS
The exciting shock in last night’s big game saw Icelanders Valur record a 1-0 home win over Rosenborg in the first qualification round of the Champions League. Whoever wins this tie faces Celtic (caveat acknowledged) in the second round.
There is a long way to go for Valur, Wednesday’s game in Norway will be a major test, but even if Rosenborg emerge, it is encouraging to see them stretched, rather than comfortable winners. Let’s hope Valur have a famous day in Trondheim.
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Sports Direct were back in court against Newco yesterday, with a judge confirming their case had merit and deserved High Court consideration. A judge would not agree to hear a civil dispute unless steps had been taken by the pursuer to settle the matter out of court.
This raises the obvious question: Why didn’t Sports Direct and Newco just get his sorted out before incurring significant legal costs, not to mention the embarrassment of yet another ‘favourable settlement’?
It is possible that the Newco’s day-to-day management do not have the levers in place to make decisions like this, and that those who are able to make such decisions exist in a fantasy land. But there is another possibility: one party might want to take this all the way.
Newco have already made it known that delivery of replica shirts will not happen until next month at the earliest. If Sports Direct are in in for the long haul, that could be very optimistic. Not that Newco have done or said anything to create ill feeling at Sports Direct.
It is clear Celtic want John McGinn but he will not be crucial to their plans next season. If the player is happy to wait, Celtic are too. They can offer him a pre-contract in five and a half months. Moreover, they can use the £2m they offered Hibs for McGinn to strengthen elsewhere. An option is being considered.
You would think Hibs would figure where this is heading and accept an offer, but Rod Petrie is still chairman, so don’t expect anything logical to happen. This one has a 1 January 2019 feel about it.
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beatbhoy
You are forgetting that Bob Kelly had been the manager before Jock took over, and had laid down the template for the success of the Lisbon Lions. Jock was also responsible for the chaos in Uruguay, so it was only fitting …..
“Arise Sir Bob”
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 12TH JULY 2018 6:57 PM
A vibrant thriving Catholic community worshipped in Springfield Rd, from 1950 to 2004 when sadly Archbishop Conti decided that boundaries had fused and the Dalmarnock parish returned to the Sacred Heart in Bridgeton or St. Michaels at Parkhead cross.
Built as recently as 1950, compare with nearby St Alphonsus or Sacred Heart victorian sandstone Our Lady of Fatima in the heartland of a mixed religion community only just made it into the 2000’s a mere half century later.
The once flourishing newly built lady of modern design and the emerging working class of tenement or high rise dwellers of Dalmarnock closed its doors for the last time, with many a tale to tell. When the orange disorder pass now they bang the drum in a mini desert, where the local priest was abused in the street, more than once before the dwindling congregations, made way for affluence before effluence “ but maw they were flinging sh*te at me “
The athletes of the commonwealth and other surrounding state aid, did the house warming the newer inhabitants have left the Orange Order behind
but re generating the east end of Glasgow is a long term project re generating a trashy minority, will take longer.
A community may have disappeared? but the Catholic Church ‘doesn’t shrink to fit inferior streets’ ,St Alphonsus Sacred Heart and of course St Mary’s are well worthy of a visit, where good people in the majority of every religion pay no attention to creed what so ever, each day of the week including Sundays and vigil Saturdays.
Let Glasgow Flourish CSC
JIMMYNOTPAUL
Celtic happy to wait for McGinn, Sports Direct, Valiant Valur 85
BY PAUL67 ON 12TH JULY 2018 CQN BLOG & COMMENTS
The exciting shock in last night’s big game saw Icelanders Valur record a 1-0 home win over Rosenborg in the first qualification round of the Champions League. Whoever wins this tie faces Celtic (caveat acknowledged) in the second round.
There is a long way to go for Valur, Wednesday’s game in Norway will be a major test, but even if Rosenborg emerge, it is encouraging to see them stretched, rather than comfortable winners. Let’s hope Valur have a famous day in Trondheim.
–– ADVERTISEMENT ––
Sports Direct were back in court against Newco yesterday, with a judge confirming their case had merit and deserved High Court consideration. A judge would not agree to hear a civil dispute unless steps had been taken by the pursuer to settle the matter out of court.
This raises the obvious question: Why didn’t Sports Direct and Newco just get his sorted out before incurring significant legal costs, not to mention the embarrassment of yet another ‘favourable settlement’?
It is possible that the Newco’s day-to-day management do not have the levers in place to make decisions like this, and that those who are able to make such decisions exist in a fantasy land. But there is another possibility: one party might want to take this all the way.
Newco have already made it known that delivery of replica shirts will not happen until next month at the earliest. If Sports Direct are in in for the long haul, that could be very optimistic. Not that Newco have done or said anything to create ill feeling at Sports Direct.
It is clear Celtic want John McGinn but he will not be crucial to their plans next season. If the player is happy to wait, Celtic are too. They can offer him a pre-contract in five and a half months. Moreover, they can use the £2m they offered Hibs for McGinn to strengthen elsewhere. An option is being considered.
You would think Hibs would figure where this is heading and accept an offer, but Rod Petrie is still chairman, so don’t expect anything logical to happen. This one has a 1 January 2019 feel about it.
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beatbhoy
You are forgetting that Bob Kelly had been the manager before Jock took over, and had laid down the template for the success of the Lisbon Lions. Jock was also responsible for the chaos in Uruguay, so it was only fitting …..
“Arise Sir Bob”
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 12TH JULY 2018 6:57 PM
A vibrant thriving Catholic community worshipped in Springfield Rd, from 1950 to 2004 when sadly Archbishop Conti decided that boundaries had fused and the Dalmarnock parish returned to the Sacred Heart in Bridgeton or St. Michaels at Parkhead cross.
Built as recently as 1950, compare with nearby St Alphonsus or Sacred Heart victorian sandstone Our Lady of Fatima in the heartland of a mixed religion community only just made it into the 2000’s a mere half century later.
The once flourishing newly built lady of modern design and the emerging working class of tenement or high rise dwellers of Dalmarnock closed its doors for the last time, with many a tale to tell. When the orange disorder pass now they bang the drum in a mini desert, where the local priest was abused in the street, more than once before the dwindling congregations, made way for affluence before effluence “ but maw they were flinging sh*te at me “
The athletes of the commonwealth and other surrounding state aid, did the house warming the newer inhabitants have left the Orange Order behind
but re generating the east end of Glasgow is a long term project re generating a trashy minority, will take longer.
A community may have disappeared? but the Catholic Church ‘doesn’t shrink to fit inferior streets’ ,St Alphonsus Sacred Heart and of course St Mary’s are well worthy of a visit, where good people in the majority of every religion pay no attention to creed what so ever, each day of the week including Sundays and vigil Saturdays.
Let Glasgow Flourish CSC
JIMMYNOTPAUL
Edinburgh Evening News
Celtic target John McGinn missing from Hibs team to face NSI Runavik
Read more at: https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/hibs/celtic-target-john-mcginn-missing-from-hibs-team-to-face-nsi-runavik-1-4768101
IIRC, there was a tranche of papers released into the public domain about 10 or 15 years ago regarding the official thinking behind Jock Stein’s knighthood snub.
They confirmed that he didn’t get Sirred because the mandarins in London said the debacle of the World Club Championship against Racing Club brought the British game into disrepute.
I’m sure the papers are on CelticWiki.
So, nothing to do with peeved Little Englanders reacting with spite against a Scottish club with a huge Irish connection then.
Phew. That’s a relief.
Jimmynotpaul
Thank you very much, I’m sure it’s Wednesday we play on ? Just got to be precise for train discount booking
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 12TH JULY 2018 6:57 PM
An excellent post, as usual.
Way back in the 60s, my late father often mused about the beginning of the decline in church attendance.
He reckoned that if the authorities posted notices on church doors, forbidding Mass attendance, there wouldn’t be churches big enough for everyone demanding entry.
Notwithstanding the abuses that were uncovered in recent years and, probably worse, the cover ups, the Christian message is still relevant and sorely missed in today’s ” rough spoken world”, as the “Banners of Darkness are slowly unfurled”.
Anyway, just a thought. I will now slip quietly back to my corner and marvel at the Revolution!
John McGinn
I’m not sure we need him.
What I am sure of is that the last thing we need to do is to be held to ransom by a nasty little man like Petrie.
£2 million is supposedly on the table which, IMO, is about what he’s worth at the moment.
If that’s been knocked back, fine, if he wants to play for us we can get him on a pre-contract in five months for nowt. Or not. Whatever.
But the last thing we need to be seen doing is losing a game of poker with an idiot.
Last offer = final offer.
Steven Caulker sent home from Dundee training camp….
Thomthetim
Yes, it was an excellent post by BSR, but was there any need for Tommocelt to re-post it 3 times on the one page??
Arise Sir Thommo, the cut and paste King:))
TET…thanks for putting up the Ronaldo link…very interesting. I like Guillem Balague, shame he doesn’t cover the SPFL…
Sorry guys Computer issue !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey ghuys, starting to rain here in Cheshire going out now to lie in the rain, to remind of the school bus run every time we went to ayr or troon and every year it rained but still loved it st augustines.com.
Aren’t Sevco reported to be interested in Steven Caulker? Maybe he’s headed back for talks.
Greeninbingleyinoslo
I think Busby was granted a knighthood immediately after Manure’s 1968 success in the birthday honours list in June.
Had the same been done with Jock, he’d have had his before the Racing débâcle took place.
They’d probably have stripped him of it though, as we know that no “surs” ever get away with anything that might be considered dishonourable.
Tommocelt
Many have done it, including me!
beatbhoy
That rings a big bell; I am sure there are references in the Civil Service papers to anger (in Scotland) over the fact that Matt got his gong for being second, while Mr Stein was ignored.
I’ll dig the papers out tomorrow.
That awkward moment when you post multiple posts of multiple posts… :-)
Scooby hit the bar…
Greeninbingleyinoslo
I’ll check in to see what you unearth!
FFin’ BBC Scotland:
“Good Morning Scotland’s Sport, ‘there will be no coverage of the Rangers Game due to an ongoing dispute’ This will be interesting as BBC Alba have had in the past interviews, and you could have a situation where Radio Five will have live broadcast, with Football Focus included. This makes their hate [Sevco] Campaign reflect so Childishly Stupid, it just shows them up for what they are, a Republican Bunch of Beed Ratlers.”
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“I feel sorry that the company has clearly employed the wrong individuals to fit in with the company values. Employing individually, narrow minded individuals has led to a bitter fall out ,and unfair and bias reporting for a company who spent years trying to build the opposite reputation.” [If you have any idea what this means, you should possibly seek treatment.]
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“The BBC down South back what is happening 100%”
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“Exactly. The whole Corporation is rotten to the core and should be disbanded.”
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“The Scottish BBC are nothing but racist sectarian bigots, they hate anything British, Protestant, and everything to do with [Sevco].”
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“We’ve not banned them. They’re just refusing to cover us and to hell with the thousand of license paying Rangers supporters this adversely affects, ‘f*** them they’re just huns anyway.’ ” [Admirable sentiments, Sammy.]
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“Your old immobile or infirm [Sevco] Supporter, in his house, with his radio on tonight.
Feel so sorry for them.
Some of them have been paying their TV and Radio licences for over 70 years yet they cannot listen to a commentary on their favourite Football Team’s first competitive game of the season.
They simply won’t have a clue why their national broadcaster does not broadcast [Sevco] games.
As they twiddle their radio dials scratching their heads, they will no doubt curse the fact their pension does not allow them the luxury of cable TV.
Throughout their lives they had always depended on the BBC to keep them updated on the most successful Club in the country.”
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“There is nobody interested in taking them to task for their sectarian broadcast policy.”
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“I am highly skeptical there any justice to be found in any part of the entire BBC
We are being forced to either ditch all tv or break the law & not buy a license or continue to pay the wages of scumbags like Cosgrove, Gordon, Gollum
It’s a truly dire & to my mind quite ominous situation and the fact it is something we are paying or being asked to pay for – the initial stages of ethnic cleansing”
I’m away to rattle my “Beeds”
They don’t know that BBC Pacific Quay has become a putrid and infested swamp where Rangers hating is de rigeur.
Time to tell us all what your discussions were about Mr King. These old supporters are missing out on something they love.
Blow it open Dave.
20 mins in and the huns realise they haven’t signed Stevie Gee the player.
JamesGang ~ WBC
Aye, scotland could well do with a couple of journos like Guillem, very good insight from the man.
HH
MONAGHAN1900
FF’FF’FFaffin’ hell:)))
STARRY PLOUGH on 12TH JULY 2018 8:14 PM
MONAGHAN1900
FF’FF’FFaffin’ hell:)))
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Modern medicine is not up to it, Starry!
Seen about 20 mins of the huns game, they arny much of an upgrade on last season imo, but I suspect it’s a ploy to lul us all into a false sense of security.
Monaghan1900…
“Your old immobile or infirm [Sevco] Supporter, in his house, with his radio on tonight.
Feel so sorry for them.
Some of them have been paying their TV and Radio licences for over 70 years…”
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So, some of these auld huns have been watching TV for over 70 years…what programmes were they watching?
Fat Charlie does what he does best…………