I looked into the world of Scottish football betting yesterday. Betting on Celtic to win the Scottish Premiership is less rewarding than putting your money in an interest bearing account, which, I suspect, is an approximation of what bookmakers will do with any such bets. In short, our league is not so much a sport as a secure investment.
Betting gets really interesting if you meander onto what is referred to as the Without Celtic market, or who will win the league if Celtic are taken out of the equation. Favourites are Aberdeen, closely followed by Motherwell and then Dundee United and Hibs (hmm….).
Can you imagine what a league title like this would do for these clubs? Aberdeen, Motherwell and United actually vying to become champions?
Some hold a notion that Celtic are the great benefactors of Scottish football, which is dependent on you and me for the occasional home game and TV money. This is rubbish. Celtic inhibits Scottish football more than we can imagine. We are a competitive poison making it impossible for historically significant football teams to thrive.
Keeping a clean sheet away from home is an achievement for any team. Doing so twice, in Europe, and winning both games, is outstanding for St Johnstone. Well done. I can only imagine their absence from the top of the Without Celtic betting chart is a result of bookmakers anticipating their run to the Europa League final in Turin will hinder their league challenge.
I have to express my sheer delight at yesterday’s pronouncement by the chief executive of Rangers International FC PLC, Craig Mather. We can be confident of this guy’s credentials and that he is worthy of following in the footsteps of Charles Green, Tommy Cooper and other comedic greats.
Mather issued a statement on the club’s web site noting punishments handed out to Hearts and Dunfermline for entering administration were different from the punishment handed out to Rangers International’s predecessor club (the player registrations and current penalties Newco Rangers were allowed to inherit) – for a completely different series of offences.
Those penalties were imposed for a variety of misdemeanours, including failure to declare the club appointed a director who had been struck off, failure to comply with stock market rules and multiple counts of bringing the game into disrepute. The SFA disciplinary panel responsible for the penalties found that “only match fixing in its various forms might be a more serious breach”.
Would you not feel a wee bit embarrassed by this? Mr Mather asks for clarification but I suggest we don’t trouble him by directing him to the aforementioned SFA panel’s ruling. Better that he operates in the version of reality he is most comfortable with, and that he keeps his followers away from looking into the real issues……..
To that effect, our thanks to all the media outlets who unquestioningly reported the Mather comments without hint of irony, apart from those pesky online types at STV, who had the temerity to address the question. Cease and desist immediately.
Flag Day tomorrow, another historic moment in Celtic history. Get in early, or late afternoon, as it happens. Hoping to see some of our new guys make their claim for a start in Sweden.
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FFM
Only the good stuff is ever lent-nobody wants the garbage. Tenet of life.
Ah bollocksh, no one everr tuksh me shee rioushly.
Hmm. Too headstrong am I.
Seanie does Dirty Harry:
“I know what yer thinkin. Did I fire shicks shots or only 5. Well, to tell you the truff, in all thish eggshitement, I’ve kind a losht count myshelf.
But sheeing as thish ish a 44 magnum, the mosht powerful handgun in de wurrld. Yoo’ve gut to ashk yershelf one queshtion.
Doo ah feel lucky?
Well do yah, punk?”
BMCUW,
Aye :)) Next penant at Lent – stop asking for lent items back.
Thankfully, God speaks languages other than English and Weejie :)))
Did you get to catch highlights of Wednesday? Ole Gorgios was pretty special… :)) He retains the beard when he’s planning on playing most of his killer football on the ground, and shaves it when it’s going to be high ball stuff directed at his napper.
Am amazed at how much his facial hair is in tune with not just Lenny’s tactics, the support, the ground of play, the behaviour of the opposition – the fact that his facial hair can deal with the pressure of all that without the need for any gel or Bryl Cream says it all for me. Every follicle of the big fella is Celtic :))))
….Sammy’s beard should be given a place on the teamsheet, to play up front as his striking partner.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
02:48 on 3 August, 2013
We urnae going to the game later, unfortunately, I was thinking of getting tickets but well I couldn’t moonhowl without my 2 favourite allies.
FFM
Maybe that shampoo does more than just his head and shoulders…..
Naw didnae even see the goal. Not seen a bit of Celtic-apart from the odd clip on here-apart from Brentford.
But that will change in fourteen hours.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
03:09 on 3 August, 2013
I treated Stella very well, a shame others didn’t, and that is why she gets a Bad Name.
It is all wrong…. like the Masonic Black and White.
PETEC
Shoulder to shoulder,spot on!
Looks like this entire page will be an easy scroll-by for the hungover in the morning,haha!
petec @ 03:06
Apols for missing this. I was off on one and BMCUW was encouraging me ! Not a good idea as you know :))
I’m translating some of that code as: “FFM, yer a fat bassa, and you need to listen to this, a tenuous link between JS Back and John Williamses…” :))))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV8i-pSVMaQ
BMCUW,
Aye. There was a time I used to feel guilty about that…..but you don’t post so much during the night these days :))))
Petec,
Stella’s great company, as long as she doesn’t get heated.
She provided me with great company during the Seville season.
Always there, always agreed with me, never complained, always chilled out.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
03:13 on 3 August, 2013
Ah bollocksh, no one everr tuksh me shee rioushly.
Hmm. Too headstrong am I.
Seanie does Dirty Harry:
“I know what yer thinkin. Did I fire shicks shots or only 5. Well, to tell you the truff, in all thish eggshitement, I’ve kind a losht count myshelf.
But sheeing as thish ish a 44 magnum, the mosht powerful handgun in de wurrld. Yoo’ve gut to ashk yershelf one queshtion.
Doo ah feel lucky?
Well do yah, punk?”
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Isn’t the Desert Eagle .50 ;)
CQN CounterStrike Global Offensive recruitment is STILL open, All ages welcome, even old fogies like Moi who have retired from online gaming or i.e. been retired for being so bad…. :)
Despite us being short of players for the 5v5 game scenarios….. there is no panic.
BMCUW,
Pantene Pro V amigo.
That’s all. Follicle vitamins = 1st class Sammy performances.
I told Lenny that in a round about way when ten of us were p’d and crowding him.. I knew he heard me, just knew it.
I should be Sammy’s hair stylist.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
03:27 on 3 August, 2013
Looks like this entire page will be an easy scroll-by for the hungover in the morning,haha!
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Possibly, I will certainly quicken it with this link…. This is actually sensational, for so many different people……
VFTB 151: Hacking the (DNA) Ladder
The 21st of Dec 2012 was important, without a doubt. :)
Pedro,
Can we only do this via computer games??
“CounterStrike Global Offensive”
:))
Especially after we organised a 2-man pro-humanity revolution the other week…..computer games will only be a distraction ! :)
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Reference the Long Good Friday, an old classic.
For anyone that liked it, strongly recommend “London Boulevard”. That will be a recognised classic in 30 years as well.
Strange story this one,but well worth a read.
And what a way for a bloke to do charitable deeds!
Moonhowlers shutting down in
10….jabba jabba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=-0MtnvD5n_0&feature=endscreen
9…jabba jabba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PoE7Q1F_Do
8…jabba jabba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngXcPHxjeZs
7….jabba jabba
….Boom.
Enough of that torture eh. :))))
PETEC. 0345
My broadband is too sketchy to watch that-I’ll save that for when I’m at work.
Nearly three months with limited access is doing my nut in.
Aussie Tims –
Elfsborg v Celtic is live on Setanta at 3:40am Thursday.
TOM McLAUGHLIN
I missed your parting comment yesterday.
Don’t blame ya!
I’ve caused platoons of psychologists to begin seeing each other professionally.
As regular readers will attest….
Of course,the good thing about a sketchy broadband and poor keyboard skills-it makes the night go quicker.
A four-post,quickfire joust of wit and erudity can kill an hour,easy…..
BMCUW –
:-)
No problem mate.
TOM McLAUGHLIN
Hope not,when you see something written down and it says something different to what you meant,it’s kinda toe-curling.
Enjoy the match,bud.
Haunted
I’m not haunted my Glass is REALLY full!!
Are others Haunted? and being communicated with in their DREAMStates?
I know nothing.
Only 2246400 jabbas until Scunnered Protection Fools League kick off for the Tic.
Equates to 1499 Greek Beard follicles to the power of two.
Sammy will score with his napper this evening, but this will result in double the number of 15 yr old supporters being arrested for opening their mouths at Celtic Park, a 4% busier courtroom on Monday, and a waste of a further 14% of daily crime expenditure for the tax payer. Figures courtesy of Chico Green.
PETEC
“HAUNTED”,is it?
This is the title track to a stunning album-check the iPod,Pete.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=plpp&v=ZKIrodcN4yo
FFM
Not quite-that would be 5999 short of 2250000.
Lazy journalism.
I’m shocked….
Tom McLaughlin
03:51 on
3 August, 2013
Just caught the news.
Stoatin`,stoatin`,stoatin.
Courtesy Radio Clyde and Jimmy Gordon `73
STONE ROSES meet THE SAW DOCTORS…..
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0uNLw3pXlVM&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0uNLw3pXlVM
BMCUW,
FFS, fussy bassa.
It was a test anyway. You shouldn’t have given it away >:(((
Your next test is:
If you multiply the number of Sammy’s beard follicles by 3, and then add each digit of that total together, and then again, and again, until you reach the single digit of 9. What would be your end total? Nae calculators !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpQ7PyjlL98
I’m glad that I said to Aidan that his real FATHER is the God that Created everything.