You detect a notion in some circles that Newco might beat Celtic in the Scottish Cup semi-final next week, if only Scott Brown was removed from the equation. This belief is based on two football games, the corresponding fixture last season, when Newco prevailed on penalty kicks, and the more recent league draw at Celtic Park. On both occasions Celtic played well within themselves.
By any measure, we could lose on Sunday. Ross County (8th in the table) took a point on Sunday, while Partick Thistle and Newco have both drawn at Celtic Park in the last five weeks. Football regularly provides random results, and Celtic are due one. You will also share concerns we all have about refereeing decisions denying us the treble, as happened on Scottish Cup semi-final day two years ago.
But is a referee fails to award Celtic a penalty when an opponent punches the ball off the line, refuses to red card the player, then awards our opponents a penalty, and sends a Celtic player off, our chances of delivering the treble will likely perish again. None of this will have anything to do with Scott Brown.
We faced this lot in September without our talisman, Leigh Griffiths, who was injured. This created space for Moussa Dembele to score a hat-trick. What Moussa proved that day is that games are not determined by those who miss out, but by the attitude of those who take to the field.
Consider, for a moment, the attitude among the Celtic support, players and management since Sunday. There’s a sense of grievance there, a pulling together in the face of a clear injustice. It’s almost impossible to conjure up such a scenario when you’ve passed 40 games undefeated in the season, but here we are.
Let’s bring it onto the Hampden pitch.
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These sad chancers have won hee haw, yet they think it an achievement if they can prevent our treble.
I fecking hate the wretches.
I want to see the circus of horrors bulldozed.
They are doing my head right in…..sneaky, snidey cowards and bigots….braindead morons.
They are like spoilt weans, who will never grow up.
Rotten to the core.
Aaaaaaarghhh:)
HH
Best I could do lads :))
“By hook or by crook” is an English phrase meaning “by any means necessary”, suggesting that any means possible should be taken to accomplishing the goal. The phrase is very old, first recorded in the Middle English text Controversial Tracts by John Wyclif in 1380.[1]
The origin of the phrase is obscure, with multiple different explanations and no evidence to support any particular one over the others.[2] For example, a commonly repeated suggestion is that it comes from Hook Head in Wexford, Ireland and the nearby village of Crooke, in Waterford, Ireland. Another is that it comes from the customs regulating which firewood local people could take from common land; they were allowed to take any branches that they could reach with a billhook or a shepherd’s crook (used to hook sheep).[3]
Another theory is that the expression dates from the days of the first Norman invasions of Ireland, when rudimentary sailing boats left from Bristol or Pembroke bound for Ireland. The first Norman king of Ireland was Richard III. Back in his day, depending on the weather, the voyage to Ireland could be extremely hazardous and many ships didn’t make it. For the Normans, the two most extreme points on the Irish southern coast with harbours where they could possibly dock were Hook Head in Wexford to the east, and Crookhaven in Cork to the west. If you failed to make land between Hook and Crook, you were going off towards the wild Atlantic and the treacherous west coast, where the seas were huge, the ports few, and the native Irish not too friendly to the hapless Normans. Therefore, the Normans vowed to land in Ireland “by hook or by crook” and deploy any means necessary to do so, because to miss the stretch between Hook Head and Crookhaven meant the voyage was a total failure.[4]
TD67
Sounds right to me.
Although what McKKKleish said used to be referred to as a ‘Freudian Slip’:)
We know what he means:)
Crooked=Bent,Corrupt,Dishonest
HH
” Bayern were robbed by a Ref and 2 assistant Refs who might as well have been wearing Real shirts.. Apologists will put it down to incompetence but will be unable to explain why such incompetence completely favoured Real Madrid .”
Sicilian Radio -19 / 4 / 2017 .
I hate hearing McLeish talking.
Lazy mumbling fool.
Like a man trying to speak after coming out of a comatose period with a dry mouth.
Pay Hector, clown.
Subtle wee signal to the brotherhood of refs from McKKKleish.
Stop Celtic whatever the cost.
They are despicable cheats.
Only one way to deal with it.
Thrash them:)
Cmon
Grrrrrr
HH
By hook or by crook relates to the historic right to collect firewood from common land, or something like that.
Ernie Lynch
LAB-LIB-GREEN Pact
Whats the odds?
HH
Tontine:
Thanks for reply. So long ago eh.The .Celtic View had a picture of the fans outside CP.If memory is correct around the time of Dundee game stirling albion beating Celtic one nil.
ERNIE LYNCH on 19TH APRIL 2017 10:21 AM
By hook or by crook relates to the historic right to collect firewood from common land, or something like that.
What about Posh land?.Or even middle class land?.
JIMMYNOTPAUP
now that I think of it just of the top of my head the amount of EBT receivers in the media now:
McLeish
McCann
Rea
Fergushun + ez daft bro.
Thomshun
Souness
McCoist
Boyd
Probably lots more, that’s just of the top of my head, amazing, and probably another x Hun waiting in the wings to step into nut sack McCanns wee cushy number too.
JIMMYNOTPAUL…MY appals.for the spelling mistake in your name.
Strange the SNP abstaining today, looks rather like a we are the people move to me,IMO. Still wanting sovereignty and the butchers apron? A free Scotland and an English Queen, how’s that gonny work?
TD67,
It’s interesting about the Anglo Norman Conquest of Ireland you mention and the extent (or not) it was legitimised by the only English Pope, Adrian IV in 1155.
Adrian ‘allegedly’ issued a “Bull,” or “Laudabiliter,” that authorized English King Henry II, who had petitioned him for it, the right to invade Ireland “for the correction of morals and the introduction of virtues, for the advancement of the Christian religion.”
The document is a matter of some dispute but it’s authority was relied upon by the English until Henry the VIII and the Reformation. The ‘correction of the morals’ would have related to post Viking Ireland, where many of the monasteries had been sacked etc. Post Saint Patrick, the Book of Kells and and all of that…
Whether the authority was granted by the Vatican or not the English cited Papal authority for the occupation until they ‘turned their coats’ and the occupation of Ireland took a much more sinister and brutal nature….IMO.
Aff oot.
http://thewildgeese.irish/profiles/blogs/the-pope-who-gave-ireland-to-the-english
God help both employed and unemployed if ay gets a big working majority.
No workers rights, no human rights, no health and safety no nuthin except for the seriously rich.
And of course I forgot about the staunch SNP leader who got her inspiration from none other than Margaret Thatcher herself, that one should go down very well in the mining towns all over Scotland eh?
“By hook or by crook ”
Part of the opening lines for every episode of- The Prisoner ..
TD67
The SNP have been talking to the Irish and Welsh.
They all want to ditch the English and the apron.
Sinn Fein recently telling the Tories to stick their border where the sun dont shine.
Scottish referendum on Independence….Irish referendum for united Ireland…coincidence,..i think not.
Things are changing radically, Westminster is finished.
Scotland, Ireland, Wales…a possible Celtic connection?
HH
Tony,your rants about nicola sturgeon are a bit off.You being a real Labour man should be turning your vitriol on Theresa May,and the N Korean leader lookalike doing her dirty work in Scotland.If you think the Tories were bad before,if this current mob get a big majority,and then a hard Brexit,the country will then be at their mercy.
Already they are talking about putting the pension age up to 70.They have already taken money from the most needy in society,while their own snouts are deep in the trough.The CPS are considering charges against around 17 of them at the moment for blatant theft.
Think about your targets ,dear Bhoy,think about your targets.
Turkeybhoy
Well said.
This is a Tory assault to take us back to the 19th century.
They are evil.
HH
This idea in the media to compare us unfavourably with previous teams will fire up Broonie and the boys who hopefully, are still smoldering following the events in Dingwall…
Cheap, snidey comments, uttered by ex-huns and others who really should know better will backfire spectacularly as we finally crush this wounded clone and leave its hoardes to ponder their fetid future in the hands of Peter Cashmachine and Dave Naecashmachine…to buy or not to buy a season ticket to watch 7 in-a-row? That is one of the many questions they will/should be asking themselves….then again, there are others who will say, “Doh! How come ma knuckles ur awe bruised? What day is it?”…
Well, my foolish friend, let me tell you…its Wednesday Morning…https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TxwiNgPq_5M
This headcase May is a maniac, willing to pull any stunt to enforce her evangelical prejudice on the poorest and weakest in society.
She wants the poor to pay for the crimes of the rich.
A revolting piece of trash, supposedly a Christian.
A Christian who hates poor and disabled people, a sad excuse for a human being, a warped bigot.
HH
https://m.facebook.com/CelticFC/photos/a.181897418516838.37580.133829389990308/1540558252650741/?type=3&source=48&refid=28&_ft_=qid.6410653159520348634%3Amf_story_key.-5907624575039223491%3Atop_level_post_id.1540558252650741&__tn__=E
Make June the end of may
A government of millionaires up to their necks in corruption, tax dodging, electoral fraud, and a multitude of illegal policies.
A DWP, quite happy to kill people to save money.
A Treasury willing to help their ‘friends’ in the city at the expense of the poorest and weakest.
If they get an mandate…..the poor will die in droves.
And they have no opposition.
I worry for my kids under these Tory wretches.
They are evil personified.
HH
TGMSSTB
I hate it when you sit on the fence!
Philbhoy
Lol:)
HH
TD67.
No worries about the name, I’ve been called much worse :-)))
Add Billy Dodds to the EBT media gig.
Nothing like trying to protect their own.
Anyway soon they will to take on as much work as they can get, to enable them to pay back Hector.
Hail Hail.
TGM
Possible, but I did not notice any Welsh or Irish leader saying Thatcer was they’r inspiration?
TURKEYBHOY
THE WEE SNP leaders first words yesterday was Labour are done up here, she’s a wee cow, so I turn my guns on her, the SNP are done up here in my opinion.
As for Theresa May she’s a midden too England and the Huns up here will vote for her, the SNP need the majority taken away from them, a vote for them is a vote for the tories imo.
People voted the SNP in great turn outs at the poles, and they do what? They abstain ffs, wits that awe Aboot? And the offensive behaviour act? And police Scotland? Giving cops shooters? Get rid of catholic schools? Don’t get me started ffs, just another group with an anyone but Celtic agenda, no big parliament meeting after the Huns V Hibs game eh? WUT happened there, wouldent have been because Neil Lennon wasent involved, yi think? A could go on awe night, I’m just nailing my colours firmly on Labour that’s all, the rest do what you want, just expressing my opinion HH
Evangelical, punative workhouse mentality of May.
Heavily influenced by Unionist bigotry, a throwback to the 19th century.
Corrupt privilege and class hatred, the poor as scapegoats of the criminal rich…..Dickens would have instantly recognised the likes of Jacob Rees Mogg.
This country is a sewer of depravity, a vast prison cell for those unfortunate to be the ‘Losers’ in the capitalist game.
A government of millionaires who hate the poor.
I curse the feckers….one day, things will change.
HH
JIMMYNOTPAUL
I was thinking Dodds but a couldent remember the Wee ankers name.
TD67
Im no Nat…but i dont think wee Nicola has any love for the Tories….seems rather fond of Sinn Fein and Plaid Cymru though.
Make of that what you will.
Just a thought.
Celtic Federation?
Who knows.
HH
SCANIEL 10.34,
So sorry to hear of the problems that your good lady is experiencing, and IF there is any way that I can assist you and your lady wife, please let me know, and I’ll have Paul67 pass on my contact details ?
My trouble began not 3 years ago, but over 8 years ago ( Jan 2009) when I was dismissed from my full time job for ” Alleged Non Disclosure of a Medical Condition” .
For the next 14 months I gathered viable evidence against my former employer, and duly won my unfair dismissal claim, within 10 minutes on the very first morning at my Employment Tribunal in Glasgow ( the case was set for 3 days).
Sadly for me, on that day I was not aware that my so called Glasgow solicitor was a serial liar, thief and fraudster, which I didn’t find out about until over 2 months later. Hence my official complaints against him thereafter.
Three years later, the Law Society of Scotland allowed this “solicitor” off the hook with only a “Censure” ? That is why I have continued to fight “The Corrupt Establishment” at every turn.
i long for the day that all of this is behind me, so that I can move on ( although never forgetting on how I have been treated by ALL concerned) ?
Having said that, IF the day comes when I have no-one left to fight, I’ll probably die of boredom ?
Only joking of course.
My most sincere best wishes to you and your family. Thanks for your earlier post.
KTF.
tonydonnelly67 on 19th April 2017 11:45 am
Stop embarrassing yourself man, stick to the Uni bashing and the footy.
new article posted.
Clocher Celt. My cousin Cathal has done a good deal of research into ‘Laudabiliter’ and his conclusion is that the bull was fabricated much later to suit the English claim to Lordship over Ireland. It appears that the document does not follow the normal method used by the Church to state such matters.
Use of the term Vatican always confuses me because I thought the popes lived elsewhere in Roman at the time spoken about here.