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Gordybhoy
Of course …
Will post nearer the time
Dan
We are now driving the bus …..to where ? Your guess is as good as mine :O)
HH
PFayr,
cheers its about time I put a face to some names on here,and I don’t want to turn up to
BMCUWPs big night oot not knowing anyone :-))
Channelislandcelt
I thought the bus got torched?
Haha
channelislandcelt
23:19 on
27 July, 2013
Dan
We are now driving the bus …..to where ? Your guess is as good as mine :O)
HH
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Lol, looks like it mate. Could be an interesting journey. Time to go, been a pleasure.
Dan
Parkheadcum…
During my long inglorious rugby career I noticed that with some youngsters who thought they’d made it ….I was very quick to disabuse them of that notion
Mind you …they weren’t getting £5k a week …
Sounds like the bhoy needs a good boot in the haw maws from an experienced player …..to keep him in line
time for baw-baws for this tim. hope we all dream tonight of scoring a cup final winner for celtic
greenyin
It has come to my attention that when the normal discourse of platitudes most prevailing on CQN does not spike into the acceptable creed of pensioner fascism of the Vatican condoned variety we are receiving complaints of extreme naughtiness.
So extreme that some bloggers/posters have even suggested that the Glasgow Celtic Bored are not receptive to any Celtic supporter vision that is not commensurate with turnover. Ah mean come oan. These unfaithful Celtic supporters are akin to the manky mob. The custodians of Glasgow Celtic are always to be considered honorable even when they urny. ok?
So pleez stoapit before ah fall victum tae the gerontion drivel so beloved by yeez all and I canny get ma brain to staop wurkii
Thumbsup
Still laffin.
CannywaittillthehunsarebackCSC
PFayr,
No idea.
When MediaHouse became involved with RFC it was obvious that things would get ugly. It’s the way they work. RFC were getting a pasting over their ingrained sectarianism. We all know there was no way of getting the Huns to change their ways so the smart thing to do was a massive dose of Whatabouttery. This is the result.
In terms of the BBC, I would really like to know who was briefed by Media House on “the definition of a pro-IRA song”. And whether that person was involved in producing Nevin and McLean. If so, I would imagine Producer Guidelines have been breached – potentially very serious for the person involved.
Nothing will happen unless Celtic kick up an almighty stink. And I just don’t see that happening…
ItaliaBhoy,
does a member of the general public,being a licence payer have the right to ask
questions of the BBC regarding these allegations
Night night n
Hail Hail
Just back from the game via a hostelry or two, or even three.
Thoughts
I posted this morning that NL would play his starting 11 in the first half – I hope I was wrong on that one.
As to today, very hard to judge a team on today’s disjointed performance.
I was a bit disappointed to hear a bit f negativity towards Balde, which , I thought very unfair.
I have now seen 90 minutes of Balde and I have a concern ; either he isn’t anticipating the passes of his team mates, or they don’t anticipate his runs.
I hope this resolves itself, because the worst thing is that neither anticipates his team mate, and we get a scenario where the striker decide ‘I ‘m not bursting my ass on lost causes’
I hope we beat Elfsborgs by 4 or 5 on Wed, but , bottom line is I would take a clean sheet at CP, and fancy our chances with a set piece goal in Sweden.
Italiabhoy
When anyone gets involved with the dark side deady bears … ugly is a given
Clashcitybhoy
23:35 on 27 July, 2013
Thats that European vision for you. 0-0 at CP with an away goal 2nd leg in case they score.
What’s the belle and Sebastian fan said niw
TBJ
We should wade in we got F. All to lose. :-))
gordybhoy64,
Yes, general public can ask, but BBC is largely protected from FOI requests so I suspect questions will be stonewalled.
If I were in charge of Celtic now I’d be requesting a meeting with Ken MacQuarrie (Head of BBC Scotland) Monday morning, asking him to establish the links between Media House and his producers across news and sport asap.
And I’d want a meeting with Stewart Regan Monday afternoon about what exactly he plans to do about Media House’s apparent campaign against Scotland’s biggest football club.
Sadly, I expect nothing will happen.
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For that special birthday, a present to a sevconian.
I’m sure Fergus has been asked a few times to do the honours on Flag Day but maybe he just says “no thanks”.
Also the club are well aware they are constantly being tracked by anti Celtic factions in the media and have been for years. It’s not a new story.
ItaliaBhoy
23:42 on 27 July, 2013
The campaign has been going on since 1888. And your point is?
So Internet Bampots days are over now that hunnery has learned how to outflank the pesky internet. Discuss?
Amongst yourselves. Then give yourself an “A”.
Italiabhoy
Thanks
I’d hunt those feckers til they squealed if I was in charge
italiabhoy
If I were in charge of Celtic now I’d be requesting a meeting with Ken MacQuarrie (Head of BBC Scotland) Monday morning, asking him to establish the links between Media House and his producers across news and sport asap.
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Interesting stance, but I suspect it is a bit like going to the headmaster to say your son has been bullying my son.
Of course, the really interesting bit is to totally bypass the headmaster,and ask real powerbrokers :-)
They did very well to hear BOTOB after blocking their ears for so many years as the hordes let rip…
NotparanoidenoughCSC
Astounded of forehead that the self-important attention-seekers in our midst get fed up lying about our fans and our club and decide to
erm
call me names….
Ya boo sucks.
I might have invited the person to whom I refer to the dayoooooot,but it will probably be an over-21 venue.
IQ,obviously….
Clashcitybhoy
Depends on whether you’re intimidated by the head or not ?
PF Ayr,
For clarity, I am not thinking football authorities, my thinking is anti competitive authorities …..these guys have real bite
Was at the game today…..just hame….
Quite enjoyed it…thought Zaluska, Darnell, Efe, Mouyuloko and some of the other young bhoys did well, borussia were far more competent and comfortable on the ball and were a joy to watch at times…
Balde tried hard but got little service, Watt too busy moaning at young guys and senior pros throughout the game, stokes poor, free kick part when he came on…
Spoke to some German fans after the game, they were happy with their performance and felt they were much quicker and fitter than us, they liked Efe…
Kikinthenakas
I was at the game today ,balde didn”t spark but its only a friendly,I rember being at easteroad a few years back watching a young henrick,a mistake with chick charnley on his first game the bhoy was as dud.
dode
00:07 on 28 July, 2013
I was at the game today ,balde didn”t spark but its only a friendly,I rember being at easteroad a few years back watching a young henrick,a mistake with chick charnley on his first game the bhoy was as dud.
* in his second game he scored an og
Back home after the game, nice meal with one of my sons, then Cinema ….. The Wolverine is a great film….and B. Munchengladbach are a great team …..good run-out for some of our youth and new Bhoys ……they will have learned something from the Germans, that’s for sure ….our best team would have beaten them …..hope everyone is fit, and raring to go, on Wednesday ….they will need to be …..excited already….night all….!!!!
Kikinthenakas,
I was a wee bit surprised by Fisher getting MoM , but in reflection , who else deserved it, apart from Lukasz ?
In the first half, I wasn’t sure if Fishers’s positioning was poor, or, if the Borrussia inside left , who kept pulling wide was offside? Personally, I thought a wee bit of both.
Either way Fisher looked good when the play was in front of him, or on the recovery tackle, but a wee bit suspect when it he ball was played between him and our CB to a wide position?
TT
His 3rd game he scored a diving header though and then never stopped!!
Will we ever see his like again ?
Let’s get one thing straight Balde will never be a Henrik…but good luck to him…
If Neil gets two signings in I think Tony Watt will find himself out on loan.
HH
English club could be Celtic’s Trojan horse to enter the Premier League
Obscure Carlisle team Gilford Park have been rebranded Celtic Nation in a long-term plan for the Glaswegian club to gain an English foothold
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The Observer, Sunday 28 July 2013
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Celtic fans show their support ahead of the Uefa Champions League group stage match between Celtic FC and SL Benfica on 19 September, 2012 at Celtic Park in Glasgow. Photograph: Eurofootball/Getty Images
A Trojan horse in green-and-white hoops is trundling its way unnoticed towards the heart of English football.
Carlisle-based Celtic Nation currently plays before crowds of around 50 people in division one of the Northern League, the eighth tier of English football. But the Observer can reveal that an audacious master plan is afoot which could in effect see an English version of the famous Scottish club, Celtic FC, participating in the Premier League.
For 16 years of its 18-year existence, Celtic Nation was known as Gilford Park, until a chance meeting between some of its supporters and a US-based Glaswegian millionaire on a lay-by in north-west England. Frank Lynch, a 73-year-old diehard supporter of the current Scottish champions, helped to shape the career of Billy Connolly when he ran Glasgow’s Apollo Theatre concert venue.
He was seeking a small and unknown English club to launch his dream when he stopped to help some supporters of Gilford Park whose bus had broken down. They persuaded Lynch to come and watch their local heroes and, within a year, the club’s name had been changed to Celtic Nation. They now play in the green-and-white hoops made famous by the Glasgow team and have adopted a new club crest which bears an uncanny resemblance to that of Celtic FC.
Already Celtic Nation have begun to build a squad of players designed to propel them through the feeder divisions of the English Football League. Last week they were able to outbid several senior Scottish clubs to sign Greenock Morton striker Colin McMenamin.
In an interview with the Daily Record yesterday, Lynch said: “There are 92 clubs in England, but none of them caters specifically for the Scottish and Irish communities in their midst. I want to establish a club that has a Celtic identity and would like to encourage people of Scottish and Irish heritage to come and watch us play. Celtic Nation have a ground with security of tenure and they’re going somewhere. My project is like climbing Everest – but we’ve got past the stage of establishing our base camp, and word of mouth will take us from the bottom of the game’s pyramid to somewhere higher.”
Although Celtic FC have no official connection with Celtic Nation, there has been intense speculation within the Carlisle online community that this may eventually become a vehicle for the Scottish champions to invade England.
One supporter commented on a fan site last week: “Is this really Celtic FC getting a foothold in English football? Glasgow-born owner, new team colours to match the famous hoops – think this could be worth watching as they develop.”
For a decade or so, it has been one of Celtic FC’s stated aims to secure entry to the English Football League system. They were the first British club to lift the European Cup and have a global supporter base rooted in the Scottish and Irish diasporas that is thought to number several million. Although it is generally accepted that they have long outgrown Scottish football, previous overtures to England about joining its league have been rebuffed. Uefa, European football’s governing body, also takes a dim view of cross-border league arrangements. Meanwhile, Celtic supporters have looked on with envy as what they consider to be boutique clubs such as Chelsea have developed pretensions of European grandeur.
The fate of their fierce city rivals, Glasgow Rangers, who went into financial liquidation last year and are currently trying to fight their way back to the top through Scotland’s lower divisions, has left Celtic marooned. They are participating in a league which is not fit for its primary purpose – of providing competition. They are also a cash-rich club which has already banked around £40m this year from player sales and participation in last season’s Champions League. Possessing such riches, though, is no fun if you can only spend it in the local supermarket.
Last night a source close to Lynch said: “All the significant people associated with this project are committed supporters of Celtic FC. We have all become deeply frustrated that Celtic will never develop its full potential in Scotland, where the game is dying. Celtic Nation will take the best attributes of Celtic FC and bring them into English football. Our location will be important for attracting support from Scots, Irish and English fans who have an affinity for Celtic.”
Clashcitybhoy
Been to a few of the under 20 games and Darnell and Jackson Irvine have been standouts….mibbee a wee bit biased, thought our right mid all day made it hard for him, likes a tackle, two centre halfs, Efe and Mouyoloko were great…as I said the monchengladbach fans thought Efe was top banana…
Happy there was no injuries and looking forward to Wednesday
Kikinthenakas
kikinthenakas, I asked earlier about Fisher and where we got him from. Any idea?
I enjoyed the game today too, although I was surprised to see such an inexperienced starting 11. The boy Fisher apart, they should have been introduced behind a more experienced team. A great day out in the sunshine of fun city:-)
Great tributes in the LL upper too, nice to see a massive flag for Johnny Doyle.
HH