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  1. O.G.Rafferty on

    Tricoloured Ribbon

     

    I know that he was easily confused with Mr Reet Petite at the time

  2. Hrvatski Jim on

    BigChipsUK – There are only two SPL teams in Glasgow… Celtic and Partick Thistle

     

     

    That has 9 words. That is an article in the Sun, not a headline.

  3. Terrorist Attack On Buddhism’s Holiest Site This Morning Leaves Two Monks And Two Pilgrims Injured….

     

     

    As Nine Serial Explosions Target The Mahabodhi Temple Complex In India…

     

     

    The Ancient Bodhi Tree,Under Which The Buddha Received His Divine Revelation,Is Reportedly Undamaged…

     

     

     

    However,”The Footsteps Of The Buddha” Are Reported To Have Sustained Some Damage”.

     

     

     

    Local Police Wish To Interview Tommy Robinson,So That They Can Eliminate Him From Their Ongoing Enquiries…..

     

     

     

    http://m.timesofindia.com/india/serial-blasts-rock-mahabodhi-temple-in-bodh-gaya-terror-attack-centre-says/articleshow/20952763.cms

  4. BBC Scotland news tonight.

     

     

    48 arrests yesterday, 24 in Glasgow with another 24 in Coatbridge.

     

     

    Focus task force must have been out, NOT

     

     

    Hail Hail

  5. o.g.rafferty

     

     

    Did A Higgins not make some veiled threat towards Dennis Taylor many years ago?

     

     

    Ayrshire is Green fans White… and warm today

     

     

    HH

  6. o.g.rafferty

     

     

    23:17 on 7 July, 2013MickTT, 23:14As awalkacrosstherooftops said at 23:09

     

     

    Gees lol that wasn’t there when I posted… ta

     

     

    HH

  7. tricoloured ribbon

     

     

    23:21 on 7 July, 2013

     

     

    If it was Tims , Focus must have been out in force then -:)

     

     

    Hail Hail

  8. Welll done Andy Murray.

     

     

    According to the reporter on stv… you stole a title.

     

     

    Not im my eyes.

     

     

    You, have gave credence to your surname that has been baster****

     

    .by the corrupt..

  9. Dan Martin, nephew of Stephen Roche born in Birmingham but opted to represent Ireland in cycling won todays stage of Tour De France and is 8th overall. You are the man Dan, well done.

  10. Mr Comfy Collective….

     

     

    Yet Another One Of Our Gallant Soldiers Falls Victim To A Cowardly Group Assault..

     

     

    On His Own Street….

     

     

    Just Hours After Returning From A Tour Of Duty….

     

     

    On The 8th Anniversary Of The 7/7 Atrocities….

     

     

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    Soldier brutally attacked in street

     

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    A Barnsley soldier was attacked in the street, knocked unconscious and then repeatedly stamped and kicked in the face and head – just hours after getting home.

     

     

     

     

    Servicemen and women, civic leaders and members of the public gathered at the war memorial outside the town hall on Monday as Barnsley raised the flag to mark a week of special events.

     

     

    Saturday 6th July 2013

     

     

     

     

     

    A Barnsley soldier was attacked in the street, knocked unconscious and then repeatedly stamped and kicked in the face and head – just hours after getting home.

     

     

     

     

     

    The savage, brutal and unprovoked attack on the 28-year-old in a terraced street in the town centre has left witnesses shaken and horrified.

     

     

     

     

     

    One has told the victim’s mother: “They were like a pack of dogs, all gathered around his unconscious body to kick and stamp on him.”

     

     

     

     

     

    The corporal, who has served two tours of duty in Afghanistan and one in Iraq,  was left with concussion, a broken nose, black eyes and cuts and bruises all over his face, head and neck with some shoulder and pelvic injuries.

     

     

     

     

     

    Because he was jumped on from behind, he has no idea how many people assaulted him at around midnight on Saturday – or why.

     

     

     

     

     

    Ironically, earlier that day, members of the public had applauded soldiers who paraded outside the town hall as part of Armed Forces Day celebrations.

     

     

     

     

     

    The soldier, who has served 10 years in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, had got back to Barnsley that day after a 30-hour journey home from the Falkland islands.

     

     

     

     

     

    After spending time with his family he met friends in town for a drink and got a taxi  home at around midnight. He was attacked outside the family home.

     

     

     

     

     

    Terrified neighbours who saw him unconscious and being punched and kicked in the middle of the road called 999- one said: “I was frightened for his life”.

     

     

     

     

     

    His distraught mum, who does not want to be named, said: “How can it be that in the morning Barnsley is honouring our forces and telling them we are proud of what they do and then hours later a soldier is treated in this way?”.

  11. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    The Boy Jinky 22:39 on 7 July, 2013

     

     

    16 roads

     

     

    Ever seen the bhoy at celtic park.. does the keepy uppy… dressed as santa end of last year. Amazing skills… wonder why he doesnt get a game for us ;)

     

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    TBJ, that bhoy is called Graham Lightbody, he grew up about 5 yards from me. He was a great wee player and you could never get the ball off him for obvious reasons. His young lad is also in on the act if you check him out on u tube. I think Graham has the world record for keepie uppie. Something like 17 million and twelve or thereabouts.

     

     

    I don’t remember him or his family being tims, I also don’t remember them being huns. They were excellent folk to have a kickabout with.

     

     

     

    my record at keepie uppie is seven, after that I got bored and blootered it through a windae.

     

     

     

    HH Bro.

  12. In 1986, when asked to take a drugs test during the UK Championship, Higgins headbutted the official who made the request, which earned him a £12,000 fine and five-tournament ban as well as a court appearance, where he was handed a £250 fine for assault and criminal damage. Money worries were escalating as Higgins’s gambling continued unchecked, and he was banned for an entire season after punching another official in the stomach in 1990 after losing a second-round match in the World Championship around the time he threatened to have his Northern Irish Catholic rival Dennis Taylor killed, saying: “I come from Shankill and you come from Coalisland, and the next time you are in Northern Ireland I will have you shot.”

     

     

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/jul/25/alex-higgins-obituary-snooker-champion

  13. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Cowiebhoy, 24 in Glasgow, 24 in Coatbridge, that’s a nice balance.

     

     

    What were they arrested for, being ugly sectarian bastards?

  14. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    awalkacrosstherooftops, was there not an incident with Higgins where he relieved himself in a pot plant or someone’s coffee cup or something similar?

  15. a ceiler gonof rust

     

     

    23:33 on 7 July, 2013

     

     

    Heard they were upset not getting an invite to my daughters party yesterday, they wanted to see the bar, kept them in the shadow of big Jock

     

     

    Hope your wee jaunt for golf is going well bud

     

     

    Hail hail

  16. The Boy Jinky on

    Acgr

     

     

    The point I was making was that all that skill that Graham guy had… he couldn’t crack it as a pro… alex higgins had skill and talent and fell short on commitment.

     

    The graham guys great entertainment. . I too would boot the ball through a windae… while aiming at the door

     

     

    Cowiebhoy

     

     

    Focus…. no irish swearing allowed on cqn mate ;),

  17. Tricoloured Ribbon, Was he not from Sandy Row. I thought Sandy Row was part of the Shankill however my knowledge of Belfast geography is suspect, so if you say he is not from the Shankill then I believe you.

  18. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Hamiltontim 21:10 on 7 July, 2013

     

     

    16 Roads

     

     

    Sorry but have never seen Wilson as anything other than a fat guy who was good at a pub game

     

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    Aye, but he was a good darts players as well.

     

     

    Darts could really only be classed as a sport if your target was in camo and moving rapidly through the bush. If you don’t break sweat its not a sport.

     

     

    Now, golf is in the same boat but I was sweating like a janitor in a girls school when I played today in TET country. So golf is definitely in whereas darts is oot.

     

     

    There ye go.

  19. No counting the Hoops (obviously) that was the best sporting achievement I have ever witnessed.

     

     

    Fantastic Andy, and what good grace shown by Novak…a true gent.

  20. A ceiler..you are right he did relieve himself in a plant pot at a tourney..

     

     

    Tricoloured..Just lifted that quote..I know he was from Sandy Row..

     

     

    And Btw Higgins denied ever saying that in his book..he claims he said “If I had a gun in my hands,I’d blow your brains out”

  21. 16 roads - Neil Lennon walks on water. on

    Higgins was born and rared in Sandy Row.They are all brought up that way.

     

     

    A product of their environment.

     

     

    He did threaten to have Taylor shot dead,an idle

     

    threat.

     

     

    Jocky Wilson was a hun,but he was a class act for to be a hun.

     

     

    Alex Higgins always stated that

  22. SSN

     

     

    Shameless.

     

     

    Shockingly

     

     

    Shameless.

     

     

    Costs a firtune…………………..GIRFUY.

  23. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    corkcelt,

     

    Sandy Row is marginally south of the city centre.The Shankill is in West Belfast parallel to the Falls and literally only a few minutes walk away.The two roads are very close to each other as they enter the city centre.

  24. 16 roads - Neil Lennon walks on water. on

    Nicholas English.

     

     

    Now there was a legendary sportsman if ever there was one.

     

     

    Never earned a penny from it.

  25. ………of course, that’s a fortune………………….

     

    a FIRTUNE is horrendously ruinous……………………

     

     

    ………….reseved only for der Hun……………………………………

     

     

    HH.

  26. Higgins,to quote my late and much-loved father,was both a cornerboy and a guttersnipe.There was no grace in the man.I remember being in the Donegal Celtic club early 80s when he was demanding people buy him a drink.He frequented McLean’s bookies on the Lisburn road just a couple of years ago.He was barred for being obnoxious to the manageress and staff.Used to walk in and take the Sporting Life paper home with him.He was living rent-free in a luxury apartment next door.As for being highly intelligent–I doubt that very much.He was at least a bigot.

  27. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Cowiebhoy, I’m having a great time although its two defeats out of two as young acgr is quite simply a better golfer than his auld faithir (plus the wee bassa wont give me the shots I’m due on the sclaffbaw handicap deal).

     

     

    I’m playing with TET and his son in law next Saturday. We’re booked in for some Ballantines drams tournament at my gaff, so I’ll not be driving the buggy……………………hic!!

     

     

    Me and the bold TET will be modelling CQN golf attire for the event. Although where he got the CQN speedo’s I’ve no idea? I’ll be wearing my Aberdour shirt.

  28. Well done Andy Murray. I was wrong in thinking you did not have the mental strength to see it thru.

     

    There will be many more grand slams to come.

     

    You did Scotland proud.