Celtic v Airdrieonians, Live updates
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- CONFIRMED: BEATON IN CHARGE
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- TITLE FEVER: NAKAMURA AND THE FREEWAY TO SUCCESS
- TITLE FEVER: BURNS’ NIGHT AT TANNADICE
- ALEX’S ANGLE: HAND IN HAND WITH AN HONOURABLE MAN
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Mmmm…looks like Wiki needs up-dated
The club became defunct at the end of the Scottish Football League 2001–02 season, despite the team finishing as runners-up in the SFL First Division to Partick Thistle and therefore only narrowly missing out on promotion to the Scottish Premier League.
During their 124-year existence the “Diamonds”, as they were nicknamed, won the old Scottish Division Two three times, the Spring Cup once and the Scottish Challenge Cup on three occasions. The club also competed in four separate Scottish Cup finals; winning the competition in 1924.
Airdrieonians were the first club in the Scottish League to fold since 1967, when Third Lanark went bankrupt.
GDT
And BR commented on it saying it was an easy decision and he has to get this right.
GDT,
Is it….Scandalous ;-)) Seriously…after the Perth Summit…where am sure summit never progressed…that a linesman could b so poor…is this a case of…if yer no sure…jist don’t give it in favour of Celtic…would say am shocked…but am no
Im gonna say it,
I think Boyata overhit that pass to Bitton….
Observations from today’s match
* very mature performance by Ralston. Thoroughly deserved his m.o.t.m
* Scott Bain save was unbelievable / incredible. He deserves a run as our No.1
* those who think Scott Brown is finished. They need sectioned
* Timothy Weah at 18, looks like he is going to be something special. It will be fun to have him til June
* Oliver Burke isn’t a centre forward. I wouldn’t write the bhoy off though. There is explosiveness in there. With confidence the skill set can be unleashed. It’s bubbling under the surface at moment
* Big Nir Bitton. top bhoy. Good to see you back lad.
* And lastly, star of the show. Stole the spot light. Jack Hendry’s burd. Tremendous
Saturday night’s all right for Parkhead.
Coincidence or cynicism that Anthony Ralston picks up the man of the match when a new multi million pound RB is the talk of the steamie? Not sure what kind of line up Celtic fans were expecting with Ntcham, Tierney, Edouard, Griffiths, and Rogic all unavailable especially against Airdrie or are they really Clydebank by the rule book.
Straight win, decent crowd for a game Celtic decided to have televised, good day at the office for BR Rodgers whose new men especially Weah were always likely to steal the tie. Spare a thought for ‘scape goat’ Sinclair who was spotted on, but given off by the Jungle VAR not, contender of 2020. Oliver Burke looked eager to please and began to threaten when finding his feet in the second half with a Jamesesque,burst of pace and it was his half turn and shot that led to Sinclair’s mystery flag when he’d legitimately completed his hat trick.
Tim Weah looked sharp and well content in Paradise, as did Johnston who was the last hero, only weeks ago at home, and would have stolen the plaudits today, had he not been thrown to the Sevc at Ibrokes in the interlude. Scott Brown had a fine game as did the rest, who’ll get better and stronger in three successive long overdue home games, where Scott Bain the footballer is also now behind schedule for a league start?
Game recorded for later tonight and roll on the Saints.
M.O.M Scott Brown
*but since the Clubs/Companies were considered separate entities in the eyes of the games regulators, the SFA (Scottish Football Association), in controversion of their own rules, Airdrie and Third Lanark missed a golden opportunity to shed their debt and to reform, history intact without breaking the countries Phoenix Company regulations
Ffs *contravention
Just been thinking, The “postponement” of the Huns game yesterday and the subsequent replay date of Wednesday will mean that their league game, away against Killie will be postponed – cancelling our game in hand over them.
This makes our game against against St Mirren a must win to stay ahead in the “race”.
Could the reported reluctance by the Huns to play the game in Fife be a tactical move to add a little pressure on us?
Jiggerypokeryhunbassas.
TEUCHTER ÁR LÁ on 19TH JANUARY 2019 8:19 PM
Their Killie game and our St Mirren game is this Wed.
We play St Johnstone, our game in hand when they play Cowdenbeath.
Hail Hail
hi bhoys. a perfectly good goal chalked off, this is what we are up against, every ref and linesman is out to try and stop us winning ten in a row,but this is Scotland, surely this cant happen in a civilised Christian country.hh.
forgot the smiley thingy hh.
BP,
depends on what type of Christian yer talkin about…
better no b Benteke ;-))
That fishing is not for me .
VP…am gonna bite ;-))
Jimmynotpaul
Aye your right, I wish you’d told me that before I typed that nonsense ?
HH
Decent result today, should have been 5 or 6.
Heard that our transfer business was done after the first three but didn’t want to believe it. Think it’s looking more likely now.
On their heads be it if it doesn’t work out.
BP
Even Pastor Jack was a Christian……….. In his own way.
Open to all mate.
HH
TEUCHTER
They definitely didn’t want to play it. First thing The Kitman did when he got there was order a pitch inspection. Obeying Bell’s orders, the officials called the game off. The hun players never even left Glasgow.
Jack Glass was a pastor
BSR
A D.O.P.?
BSR
Is that rhyming slang?
BSR @8:40
Is that a innocuous comment or the start of a very un PC song I know?
Patience required with Ralston , not expectation.
The bhoy has equited himself very well in every appearance
this season, even at Poundland, where he showed controlled
aggression. An attribute missing from some of his teammates.
The dilemma is , do we pay approx £4 million for a foreign
replacement or give him time to develop.
Going forward, he looks the part and delivers a
good variation of crosses . Defensively I don’t think he’s
to bad , his recovery looks ok , has pace and willingness
to get back.
The £4 million quoted for a foreign fullback is now a bigger
gamble than anticipated. I personally think Brendan will stick
rather than twist, even if given funds .
Will the fans give the patience and time required ?
Greeninbingley
Something stinks mate, maybe a banana skin for their new superstar signings?
When I think of all the work that used to go into getting a game through a pitch inspection, as I’m sure a club of Cowdenbeaths size would do, Live TV etc. I feel the Huns are showing zero respect, as usual, for Scottish fitba’
He’ll mend the bassas.
HH
Fyre on Netflix is very good. It’s nothing to do with it but it’s a great insight into the effect of minty like fraudsters leaving creditors fupped!
TEUCHTER ÁR LÁ on 19TH JANUARY 2019 8:56 PM
Seemingly they are playing Helsinki tomorrow, as part of the Morelos deal.
Maybe they didn’t fancy 2 games in 48 hours or maybe they think a,few thousand extra will now attend to see Defoe’s debut.
Hail Hail
ANGELG……… @ 8.51
The dilemma is , do we pay approx £4 million for a foreign
replacement or give him time to develop.
Both?
Delighted for Anthony Ralston who is outpacing Mikael and Cristian, but he was playing in a game where he was the equivalent of an extra winger, not a RB verse Valencia, and wasn’t even faced with a direct attacker of any level.
I’ve haven’t seen it yet but BR was apparently terse when asked about the window, so you may well be right.
I’m beginning to be more cynical about beyond next summer regrading spend.
Prestonpansbhoys
I’m old enough to remember the original chant, John Greigs a pastor – I’m sure it went something like that?
Glendalys/Preston/Tuechter
Stop it
NITOL
HH
The ” offside ” goal today.
Surely enhances the cause for VAR introduction .
” cause ” read case
TAL- thanks
Greeninbingley
Must be the 2 games in quick succession, the Huns don’t seem to have a desperation for money lately. Killie would pocket the cash for the extra Hun attendees anyway.
HH
BSR,
Food for thawt on Ralston..like KT I was hoping he’d grab his chance…looks like he’s gonna be out for a time…did BR say anything about it… so we’re gonna need quality there now
someone mentioned pastor jack glass
It was on this Sunday past 9 years ago that the well known Scottish preacher Pastor Jack Glass died of a brain tumour. The disease itself had spread from his previous battle against lung cancer which had been the subject of a BBC documentary “The Devil and Jack Glass” in 2003.
Though well known, he was more infamous than famous amongst the Scottish public as he waged a personal war with his congregation against Popery, Ecumenism, Modernism and sin in general. I crossed his path some years after 1982 which was the peak of his public profile. In that year Pope John Paul II visited Jack’s home town of Glasgow and held a mass before hundreds of thousands at Bellahouston Park. Jack Glass’ protest machine went into overdrive as he mounted various protests and even ran in the 1982 Hillhead by-election against the likes of politician Roy Jenkins (or Judas Jenkins as he called him).
I had met some of his church members at Ibrox Stadium as I made my way to see my football team, Glasgow Rangers. Being a nominally “protestant team”, his men would hand out copies of their newsletter “The Scottish Protestant View” to passers by and engage them in conversation about not just the Papal Antichrist but Jesus Christ Himself. I still have some copies of that newsletter which was basically a photocopied assemblage of newspaper clippings on various apostate acts in Scotland alongside some typed up commentary from Jack Glass on them and his activities. The 1982 peak had not quite faded as invitations to debate at such auspicious places as Cambridge University were reviewed on its pages.
Uncompromising was certainly the word to describe him as I began to order cassette tapes of his sermons and use them in my formative Calvinist years. In that respect, I owe a debt of gratitude to Jack Glass for grounding me in the doctrines of Sovereign Grace and various other Biblical teachings.
Whether one wanted to be subject to his pastorate was another matter. I lived in England by then and so the question was irrelevant as I talked with other Christians about the man. It was fair to say that at best he got mixed reviews. One brother told how he and another went to his church in Polmadie and sat intently as Pastor Glass preached in his usual animated and confrontational manner. At one point, he asked which church had as many converted Roman Catholics as his congregation. Evidently, Jack was expecting a deafening silence from his devoted audience but my acquaintance piped up “We do!” which may have been true and one wondered how many other times in his life Jack Glass had been stumped for words.
As it turns out, he went on the offensive and quoted Galatians chapter 2 and verse 4:
And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage.
Unfortunately, this separatism which Jack Glass practised went to extremes too often and alienated a large number of Reformed Christians who could have been part of a larger movement. As it turned out, even that would have been a stretch when Jack embraced a Calvinistic form of Pentecostalism which labelled everything in the Charismatic Movement as “The Devil’s Pentecost” and (as one of his followers told me) he being the only man in Scotland who was baptised in the Holy Spirit.
So in one fell swoop, he managed to maintain his separatist stance by excluding Calvinists (“he speaks in tongues”) and Pentecostalists (they speak the Devil’s tongues). Sometimes I wondered if he was doing this to keep a hold on his movement, but I am merely speculating.
Though I visited his church a few times, it was this almost cult like separation from the rest of the Body of Christ that ultimately put me off. Those visits were not surprisingly a mixed bag for me. I once went to their weekly prayer meeting for revival on a Friday evening. It was actually a time of fervent prayer and something one could easily engage in as it was the natural desire of every christian that God would revive this nation once again. This was Jack Glass’ greatest desire, to see a 20th Century Reformation Movement sweep across Scotland but as far as I could tell it never amounted to more than three congregations.
Things were a bit different when I went along later on a Sunday. The preaching was good and even entertaining as Jack Glass went through some gurning sessions to satirise glum Christians who certainly did not demonstrate the verse “Christ in you, the hope of glory”.
At the end, the congregation held a “pastor appreciation” ceremony and presented him with what I recall was a new fridge. As I left, I commented on how much the members must love their pastor. Those words proved to rebound on me when I came back for more in the evening.
Evidently, my words had been reported back to Jack Glass and during his sermon he referred to my words as betraying a “Corinthian spirit”. Why a compliment was turned against me and what it meant still eludes me to this day and it all seemed designed to make sure I never returned. The matter was compounded when I was refused communion but on reflection this was no surprise considering the congregation’s seperatist stance.
A final incident at that meeting demonstrated the desire Jack Glass had to maintain doctrinal and ethical purity in his church. It transpired that one of the young men had got engaged to a non christian. In response to this, Jack Glass came down from his pulpit and walked around saying in a forceful manner that that man was to throw his engagement ring into the River Clyde and call the whole thing off. In some sense, I agreed with his stance on that matter though one wonders how it should have been communicated.
And so it was that I never returned to Zion Baptist Church and I continued my christian walk down south in England. I didn’t really hear much from him again until I saw that BBC documentary in which he loudly declared that the Devil had suffered a “tremendous defeat” when he went into remission. However, God had other plans and within months Jack Glass went the way of all flesh to the grave.
Looking back, Jack Glass seemed a man out of time and place who seemed better placed a century before in more Protestant times. But then again, he declared he was “God’s Prophet” in the sense that his commission was that of a Jeremiah:
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Perhaps in that sense, he was in the right place at the right time but like Jeremiah, few in an increasingly godless Scotland were prepared to listen to him.
For further information, Jack Glass’ church have set up a tribute site at this link.
Oops AngelGabriel…njoi yer nite bhoys n ghirls…;-))
H.H.