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  2. ernie lynch on

    THE EXILED TIM on 8TH APRIL 2017 11:11 PM

     

     

    I would suggest that describing posters as trolls is derogatory.

  5. Art of War on

    Ok, bored with wifes film choice so now bitchin in the kitchen :-)

     

     

    Who am i question.

     

     

    First to get it right -nae googling- wins a cyber bottle of pomaigne.

     

     

    Clue 1- Born of Italian parents in 1917

  7. Park Road 67 on

    Great day at Paradise today , weather superb , result superb & company at CQN Corner even better !!

  9. Gerryfaethebrig on

    Ernie 10.53pm

     

     

    Not sure if Europe is the test, am delighted with Brendan, and would love a wee go at Europe, Ekeren with a young Brian O’Neill and Mikey Mikey Galloway is as far as my euro adventure got, if Brendan dared to get us to a wee Europa league final……….we can dare to dream

     

     

    For the record…..I think Brendan is a far better manager that Martin, never taking anything away from Martin………… (although I still think he should have stayed :-)

  11. Gerryfaethebrig on

    AoW

     

     

    Paulo Maldini the dad….

     

     

    He is Italian so must be in with a shout……

     

     

    The GFS gap is closing……even with 5 of a start and your chance of jokering the champions has gone…….. Happy days

  12. Art of War on

    Alright nae takers at Clue 1 – ah can tell you’re all gripped though.

     

     

    Clue 2 – He got his big break playing Sergeant ‘Fatso’ Judson in ‘From here to Eternity’

  13. TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on

    Ernie

     

     

    I hope you’re not accusing me of being a member of the Brain’s Trust. I have a good number of mates who can, I assure you, provide you with signed affidavits assuring you that the opposite is the case.

  16. ernie lynch on

    GERRYFAETHEBRIG on 8TH APRIL 2017 11:30 PM

     

     

    I mean a good run in Europe, not winning a trophy. That would be nice but is unrealistic. But domestic domination, given the woeful state of Scottish football, isn’t much of an achievement.

     

     

    And I hope BR and the board are of the same opinion.

     

     

    So, potentially Celtic are in a great place.

  21. petec on

    gf Tommy B,

     

     

    This side is Very Good.

     

     

    The Juventus game had me giving up. Aidan is bringing me Harald.

     

     

    I dinnae have tunes to emphasise the olde Comment.

     

     

     

    as soon as I jibbertinho Jabber the wee guys Rudi VaTA, HE SHUTS IT DOWN.

     

     

     

    I dinnae blame him.

  22. Art of War on

    Clue 3- He won an Academy Award for Best Actor, ahead of Frank Sinatra, James Dean, Spencer Tracy and James Cagney in 1955.

  27. Moonbeamswd on

    From the Scotsman 2014 (obituary)

     

     

     

    Born: 4 June, 1924, in Lucca, Italy. Died: 10 April, 2014, in Edinburgh, aged 89

     

     

    ROLANDO Ugolini was six months old when he and his mother arrived in Bathgate, West Lothian, at Christmas 1924 to join the rest of the family, who had immigrated from Italy and opened a fish and chip shop in nearby Armadale. That baby would become as Scottish as it gets, spending four years as a goalie at Celtic FC. But he became best-known south of the Border for his ten years in goal for Middlesbrough during their 1940s and 50s heyday at the old Ayresome Park. To Boro fans, the man they knew variously as Ugo, Roland, Lando or The Cat, was a legend, one of their greatest-ever and most-popular players.

     

     

    After nearly a decade and 335 games for Middlesbrough, mostly in the English top flight (the old First Division) playing behind Wilf Mannion, England captain George Hardwick and later the young Brian Clough, he went on to a three-year spell at Wrexham (83 appearances) before returning to Scotland for Dundee United for two years and 43 games. Pushing 40, he had a one-match finale for Berwick Rangers in 1963 before hanging up his boots. He went on to a successful career in the betting industry, owning three betting shops.

     

     

    Rolando Archimedes Giovanni Ugolini was born in the town of Lucca, near Pisa in Tuscany, to Giacondo Ugolini, from Chifenti in Lucca province and his wife Rosa. Giacondo and Rosa had already settled in the Armadale area with their son Romeo, but Rosa went back to Lucca to give birth and returned to Scotland with Rolando as soon as he had been christened.

     

     

    After the First World War, in which Ugolini’s father had fought in the Italian army, his parents emigrated to Scotland on the advice of an old army comrade, who had moved to Edinburgh. The opened the popular Ugolini’s Fish & Chip shop at 12 East Main Street, Armadale. Many voted it the best chip shop in Scotland.

     

     

    Ugolini went to St Anthony’s school in Armadale, leaving at 14 to work in the chippie. “I had already been gutting and filleting fish since I was 13,” he recalled.

     

     

    He was 15 when the Second World War broke out. But with Italy lining up alongside Hitler, it was a difficult time for Italian-Scots. Ugolini’s father was interned on the Isle of Man for a year as “an enemy alien”. Ugolini and his mother were “relocated” to a camp in Cambuslang, Glasgow, where, too young to fight, he was ordered to do “war service” at home. Among his service was delivering coal and helping built flats at Pilton, Edinburgh. At the same time, his brother Romeo served in the British Army, initially in the Black Watch. One brother fighting the enemy, the other considered the potential enemy. Ugolini laughed it off in later years and was always grateful to the people of Scotland for treating him as one of them. His daughter-in-law, Dr Wendy Ugolini, of the University of Edinburgh, wrote a book about those days, entitled: Experiencing the War as the ‘Enemy Other’: Italian Scottish Experience in World War II.

     

     

    Ugolini was signed up by Armadale Thistle (“The Dale”), who had dropped from senior to junior status a few years earlier. He helped them win a major junior championship in his first year. That attracted the attention of Scottish First Division scouts and he was chased by Rangers, Hearts, Airdrie, Motherwell and Falkirk. His trial at Tynecastle went well, but the club didn’t get back to him quickly and one day young Rolando came home from a junior match to see his father, “beaming all over his face”. talking to a stranger.

     

     

    “Now, son, don’t excited,” his father said. “Do you know who this gentleman is?” It was Jimmy McStay, the manager of Celtic. Ugolini recalled: “I signed for the club of my dreams. I was chuffed to bits.”

     

     

    However, although the post-war Celtic team was relatively weak, goalie Willie Miller, a regular Scottish international, was not. While widely respected for his acrobatics on the field and sense of humour off it, Ugolini played only five first team games in almost four years at Celtic Park, usually while Miller was injured or playing for Scotland.

     

     

    He reluctantly asked the new manager, Jimmy McGrory, for a transfer. He turned down Chelsea and Middlesbrough snapped him up for £7,000 – a major fee in 1948. “The fact that Middlesbrough was nearer to Scotland played a big role,” he later said. Ugolini won the hearts of the Middlesbrough fans with his athleticism, acrobatics and showmanship.

     

     

    Ugolini often recalled that the best players he guarded goal against were the Blackpool and England legend (Sir) Stanley Matthews and the Welsh “Gentle Giant” John Charles, one of the first British players to make his mark in Italy, with Juventus. “He used to sing,” Ugolini recalled, “and he was as good a singer as he was footballer, so it was great fun. Those were the days.”

     

     

    In retirement, Ugolini spent much of his time playing golf, mainly at his old club at Dalmahoy (now the Marriott Golf & Country Club), where he played until his 80s and was often official starter on the first tee. There in Dalmahoy, or among older Celtic supporters in Glasgow, perhaps most of all in Middlesbrough, and back in his native town of Lucca, he was widely respected as a gentleman, within or without the game he loved – football.

     

     

    Rolando Ugolini is survived by his wife of 25 years Irene and sons Rolando and Paul from his first marriage to Esther (née Gofton), whom he married in 1957 and who died in 2010. A third son, Dino, from the same marriage, predeceased him.

     

     

    MWD

  29. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Big Fraser had a great game in Southampton’s win at the Hawthorn’s today.

     

     

    It was just on match of the day.

     

     

    I always like to see our former players do well , especially in the English premiership , as it reflects well on us.

  30. Gerryfaethebrig on

    Ernie 11.38pm

     

     

    I am of an opinion we all have a different Celtic, some of my best Celtic days were when we were rubbish, my Celtic doesn’t have to win, my Celtic doesn’t mean you need to have a season book to comment on Celtic…. For my opinion Brendan is special, in the way he works…..by the way the players we idolise are the same who might not be have gave enough before, for me and my version of Celtic we are in a great place………who knows what tomorrow might bring but I know one fact I will still be a Celtic fan…….maybe not the best Celtic fan, I fact I might still not have a season book (not ticket) but am happy with my love for my club…….. Again some of my best days were when my team never won …… Late 80’s & most of the 90s were not the best trophy wise, but they sure made you appreciate the good times

  31. Art of War on

    We have a winner!

     

     

    Well done Fieldofdreams!!!!!

     

     

    Clue 4 was gonna be Dirty Dozen in ’67

     

     

    Clue 5 was he played Dominic Santini in a popular 80’s TV series

     

     

    But yes it was Ernest Borgnine.

     

     

    Didn’t know he was the voice of a character in Spongebob Squarepants from 1999 till his death in 2012.

     

     

    Some man and some man yersel FOD!!

  32. Moonbeamswd on

    I first came across the Ugillini name when I was doing a bit of research into a player who played a couple of games with us during our first 6 in a row. A gentleman with the same and unusual surname as me.

     

     

    No not Ugillini. :-@)))

     

     

    MWD

  33. Delaneys Dunky on

    Dallas

     

     

    Fraser, Virgil, Victor, Aidan and Jackson are five ex Celts who are the best players in their English teams just now. Stefan and Beram well rated at Fulham and Brighton too.

  35. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Ugolini

     

     

    Must have been early `50s.

     

    Having been repeatedly rummelled up by the hun centre forward earlier in the game , Ugolini left his line to punch out a cross ball and ” inadvertantly ” contacted the chin of the barnstorming hun centre forward .

     

    The prostrate figure of said hun caused much amusement for the enlightened amongst the support.

     

    He was carried off.

     

     

    God Bless my old Uncle Alex who used to regale me with that tale and other tales of yore and basically created

     

    my much loved addiction.

  36. fieldofdrams on

    Ernest Borgnine – if ever you get the chance to see ‘Marty’, invest an hour and a half of your life and do it. I promise anyone who does will see something of himself, a movie for the underdog if ever there was one.

     

     

    “You don’t like her, my mother don’t like her, she’s a dog and I’m a fat, ugly man! Well all I know is, I had a good time last night, I’m gonna have a good time tonight, and if we have enough good times together I’m gonna get down on my knees and I’m gonna BEG that girl to marry me! If we make a party on New Years Eve, well I gotta date for that party! You don’t like her? Too bad!”

     

     

    I love that scene. I greet like a bairn every time!

  38. Delaneys Dunky on

    Macjay

     

     

    Who was the hun that was sine died fae fitba for punching his opponent?

     

    Remember my dad telling me the story.

     

    Bobby ??

  41. Gerryfaethebrig on

    The Donald 12.09am

     

     

    Surely the best Ernie was the fastest milkman in the west

     

     

    Hope your enjoying Our Brendan…… Four to go for 10 @ row

  42. fieldofdrams on

    DD

     

     

    Willie Woodburn, for a head butt in a game vs Stirling Albion I think. SFA banned him Sine Die after a very short hearing (no Ogilvie or Bryson in those days!) but rescinded the ban a few years later, by which time Woodburn’s career was over.

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