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JVR on 17TH MARCH 2024 4:57 PM
Adi Dassler at 3.12pm.
My godson is the drummer in the Bottle Rockets and heโs a huge Celtic supporter.
My wife and I have voted have voted for the Bottle Rockets.
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Good to see you on these pages JVR,was conversing elsewhere and you came to mind.
It was the Glasgow Uni csc dinner last week and the convo veered round to the our away win in Ajax and our friend the late Delaneys Dunky being there.
Seen last week the Hearts 4-3 comeback goals(again:-))some game.
Hope lifes good with you and yours
Hail Hail
one of the great cup games btw….wanted the ‘pool to win
i think if liverpools usual goalkeeper Alison had been in goals she would have saved that
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On a personal note I dont have an english team, Celtic and no one else,but there is doom and gloom in three particular Liverpool/Linfield/rangers/loyalist dens in shankill, and east Belfast. Kinda way pleased. ๐
AdiโฆโฆThe Bottle Rockets get our vote๐๐ค๐
Bada
Ok cheers
Do not want any team or club that “Sir” Jim (Tax Dodger”) Ratcliffe is involved in succeed at any level.
Liverpool had the game won twice, and through a complete lack of concentration threw it away both times.
Should never have taken Andy Robertson off with fifteen minutes to go in normal time, lost focus in that area from then on in.
Celtic Mac
Sorry, what did jim ratcliffe do
Its not a call out
Am just in the dark
Defo not unusual lol
Celtic mac…..
Just googled
clunks
No friend of OldTimTown
Celtic Mac
Who is?
We are few in number
In the early part of its history, Manchester United had a reputation as a Catholic club.
Many of the railway workers who formed the club as Newton Heath were Irish Catholics
In fact, when the club was looking for a new name in 1902, Manchester Celtic was even mooted before the name Manchester United was settled on.
Louis Rocca, who was a massive figure in the early years of Newton Heath/Manchester United, was also an Irish immigrant and a devout Catholic.
He even used a network of Catholic priests to scout for the club.
Then of course in 1945, Matt Busby, himself a devout Catholic, became Manchester United manager.
Ireland is overwhelmingly Catholic, so it was natural for many to support Manchester United.
Of course now very few, if any, supporters choose their club based on religion, but back in the late 1800s and early 1900s it was an important factor.
Busby was a devout Catholic, it was said that he had attended Mass every single day at St. Johnโs in Chorlton-cum-Hardy. The priest there was an Irish man named Fr. Sewell, who had a seat reserved for him by Matt Busby in Old Trafford for each game. Busby would also encourage players to attend Mass as often as they could.
In 1972, Pope Paul VI made him a Knight of Order of Saint Gregory the Great. This honour is given in recognition of those, โgentlemen of proven loyalty to the Holy See who, by reason of their nobility of birth and the renown of their deeds or the degree of their munificence, are deemed worthy to be honored by a public expression of esteem on the part of the Holy Seeโ.
What do Old Trafford, Tannadice & Pittodrie all have in common?
A Catholic Hierarchy
In 1945 came a masterstroke by Rocca. Something that would cement Unitedโs position as a Catholic club at the time, and change the trajectory it was headed on.
He persuaded another devout Catholic, a certain Matt Busby, to become manager of the club.
By the 1950s, the backbone of Manchester United was Catholic.
Alongside Rocca and Busby, Unitedโs assistant manager Jimmy Murphy went to Mass daily.
In fact, when United signed Catholic players, like Billy Whelan or Johnny Carey, their parents were assured they would still go to Mass every Sunday.
Whilst Unitedโs hierarchy was predominantly Catholic, the club wasnโt exclusively so.
They would sign both Catholic and Protestant players. The most famous of all being George Best.
When Busby stepped down as manager in 1969, the Catholic link gradually began to die out.
And in 1986 a manager came along who would usurp even Busbyโs achievements.
A manager born into a Protestant family, who grew up playing for and supporting the most overtly Protestant club in the UK โ Glasgow Rangers.
Alex Ferguson.
So the SPFL had the choice of delaying a kick-off for 90 minutes or several weeks and they chose the latter.
Had a look at the rule book (sad, I know).
The date and time of the rearranged hun match v Dundee will be determined by the SPFL Board.
Here is the Board: https://spfl.co.uk/news/spfl-board-elected-for-season-202324
I reckon the date will be set for whenever the huns feel it will advantage them most e.g. if they want to give game time to players coming back from injury theyโll have it before they play us; if they want rest it will be played after.
I’d love to know when International Mens Day is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kinglubo
A manager born into a Protestant family, who grew up playing for and supporting the most overtly Protestant club in the UK
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his mother was a catholic , was she not ?
I watched the Man U v Liverpool game as a sports fan. To be entertained.
I didnโt have a horse in the race and I really didnโt give a toss who won.
Nor did I give a toss about the origins, history and ethnicity of either club.
Why canโt people just watch sport for what it is?
Kinglubo
We tried for Steak and Blowjob Day (sometimes Steak & BJ Day or Steak and Knobber Day) is a satirical unofficial holiday created as a male response to Valentine’s Day and celebrated a month later, on March 14.
Lost a bit of steam….
THE BLOGGER FORMERLY KNOWN AS GM
Thats just life mate
We invent emotional ties to generate interest
Man Utd were my team in the 90’s (remember man u being the team we supported darn sarf)
Now with VVD and Robertson and Liverpool, am much more inclined to support them
And have done for a bit
Its tribalism at its finest…..
McChuills in Toon is an interesting place tonight.
so they have the st paddys day signs ootside
and inside is also decked out in the full regalia.
but i dont think they have told the DJ.
hes flitting between a Ska nite in the Brixton Academy and a rave in an Ibiza niteclub
thats obviously why folk can still get in the gaff unlike every other boozer in toon!
Its why we hate every team Mourinho has taken charge of, porto and athletico (since 74)
And a number of teams and fans I didnt mention
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 17TH MARCH 2024 7:04 PM
No apologist for that mob by any means but decision on the kick off time etc is more likely to have been determined by Sky/Tnt or whichever broadcaster had the rights.
Making it 3pm would have clashed with the Man U / Liverpool and so would have been a non starter.
THE BLOGGER FORMERLY KNOWN AS GM on 17TH MARCH 2024 7:14 PM
I watched the Man U v Liverpool game as a sports fan. To be entertained.
I didnโt have a horse in the race and I really didnโt give a toss who won.
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you cant enjoy live sport unless you pick a side, back a person, pick a colour or a number, and invest a reason to capture your emotions.
i cant watch f1, its boring,
but for every football match watched i will favour one team for an invented reason of my own.
watching as a neutrel, that is just so swiss.
Sir Alex Ferguson on Joe McBride;
oe McBride
Scotland footballer; would-be member of Celtic’s Lisbon Lions squad, joint top scorer with Alex Ferguson in Scottish League, 1965-66, died 11 July, aged 74
Joe was my first hero. I idolised him as a boy. He lived on the next close to me in Govan. I remember going to watch him play for St Gerards secondary school at Ibrox in a Scottish Cup final, and he was taking a corner kick. I was at the corner flag with my mates and he was taking it with his right foot โ his left foot was marginally better, and I shouted: ‘Joe!’ And he turned round and he looked at me. I said: ‘You’re using your right foot!’ I don’t know why I did it! And he looked at me as if I had horns in my head and my mates are like: ‘What the fuck are you doing?’ And he hooked the ball in.
I used to play with him as a kid in kickabouts, we loved it. He was always a goalscorer. We used to play in what was called the pen, at the local works, every Sunday. You would have to queue up for a game, it was about 20-a-side, and he was a goalscorer then too. He would score about 20 goals on a Sunday.
He was a natural goalscorer, two-footed, quick off the mark, and a really good finisher. He was the first of our group who went into professional football. He was a terrific guy.
As we grew up he went to Kilmarnock and then he was a traveller, to Wolves and Luton Town. Even then moving around was normal. In England it was full of Scottish players.
It wasn’t until Joe came back and played with Partick Thistle that the contact was there again between us because I was with St Johnstone by that time. I remember the 1965-66 season, when I was at Dunfermline and he was at Celtic [when Ferguson and McBride ended as joint-top scorers on 31 league goals]. When you’re top of the goalscoring chart you want to finish first. I actually got 45 goals that season in 51 games in total.
His great season was the next, 1966, when he scored something like 38 goals but then got his serious knee injury just before Christmas. Unfortunately he missed out on the European Cup final because of that. Celtic signed Willie Wallace as a replacement because they knew Joe would be out for a long time.
The thing I always remember was meeting him in February or March 1967, when I knew he was out injured, and I think I said to him: ‘You probably would have scored about 50 goals without the injury.’
He had an absolutely fantastic career. His scoring record is a great legacy [226 goals in 383 league games, third highest postwar], but that’s what he was: he was always a goalscorer. He was my first hero, my brother and I both idolised him.
It was a shock when he passed away. I kept in touch with young Joe [McBride’s son, also a footballer]. It was sad because he was a really genuine guy, a really nice man
Sir Alex Ferguson, Manchester United’s manager was talking exclusively to Jamie Jackson
Log
Re Alex Ferฤuson:
His late wife was RC don’t know about his mother’s religious affiliation.The board at Ibrox quizzed fergie about his wife’s religion,but seemed ok when told the marriage was not RC church sanctioned.
On a football matter fergie was dropped from the fifers team in the 1965 Scottish cup final,due to poor form in previous games.
SAINT STIVS on 17TH MARCH 2024 7:11 PM
A manager born into a Protestant family, who grew up playing for and supporting the most overtly Protestant club in the UK
his mother was a catholic , was she not ?
*as was his wife, in fact his Renton born grandfather was one tae but married a daughter of the manse from Dumbarton and brought his weans up in the protestant faith, they only moved when the grandfather was injured during WWI and convalesced in Bellahouston, so to be close to him the granny moved to Govan.
His mother claimed that when she married his da he couldnae care what any weans they would have but it was she that insisted prods as they would have a better life in Glasgow at that time, seemingly his wife felt the same, both were buried out of the Catholic church.
Oh, and one of Sir Furious heroโs is Michael Collins, also and his da and uncle were involved with a Govan Celtic CSC as was his brother Martin.
Iโd rather see a tax dodgers team win than see a team win whoโs ego fueled manager like Klopp became Dr Klopp during the โplandemicโ and told everybody to go and get vaxxinated and like every other depopulation driven โfakeโ Doctor…Dr Klopp failed to or dodged telling his patients as to exactly what was being vaxxinated into the patients!!!! ๐๏ธ ๐๏ธ ๐ฃ๏ธ ๐ฅ๏ธ
Pseudo ego driven Doctors need to be issued with a death toll notice of all of the innocents who have fallen for these evil โfakeโ Doctorโs deadly lies and bs. ๐๏ธ
This ainโt no laughing matter…a young journalist from BBC Scotland died last week RIP.
This young journo either wasnโt given the โRemember weโre only actingโ script from his BBC colleagues and actually fell for this c19 depopulation grift himself…believing that what was written on the autocue was true…maybe he was black balled from the actual truth because he was Irish and probably a Tim? ๐๏ธ
Or maybe he is a symptom of these snowflake factories called Universities were you donโt get taught the most basic and crucial skill set that comes from โstreet wisdomโ were you can be taught that you shouldnโt even trust your own shadow…the same education that Mr Stein and his Lisbon Lionโs prospered from.
Why do you think evil Thatcher wanted rid of communities and a cohesive society as a whole?
โThereโs no such thing as society.โ said Thatcher.
Thatcher wanted little cliques bitching with each other about stupid Woke stuff…and it looks like Thatcher has won this oot ae the park….getting rid of Fitba terraces was the first Thatcher domino to fall…..and look at it noo…empty heads bitching with each other over bs stuff c19 etc etc. ๐๏ธ
Wee odious and evil and horrible Nicky Krankie was a devout student of Thatcher…just lol ๐๏ธ
Krankie has carved out a whopping [ ยฃ500,000 PER YEAR ] personal pension for herself after the sterling effort and dedication to the depopulation program….which is still ongoing! ๐๏ธ
Thatcher wanted society crushed so that there would be no more working class giants like Mr Stein and almost every player who emerged from the Jock Stein University of life.
God bless the dugโ s fae the streetโs.
God help that young BBC Journalistโs parentโs. RIP. ๐๏ธ
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St Sivs โyou cant enjoy live sport unless you pick a side, back a person, pick a colour or a number, and invest a reason to capture your emotionsโ.
With due respect thatโs a ridiculous statement.
I donโt care much for tennis but remember a match between Federar and Nadal in a Wimbledon final as an epic moment in sport. I canโt remember who won.
NFL, NBA, F1, golf, English football, any football other than Celtic. I donโt really care.
If/when I tune in I do so because itโs caught my attention and I take it for what it is.
THE BLOGGER FORMERLY KNOWN AS GM
Its always been that
If am watching 2 people or 2 teams compete against each other whether its professionals in football, rugby tennis or tiddleywinks
Even going as far as watching 2 kids playing kerby
My previous thoughts/relationships on the people above always point me to who I want to win
If I am not emotionally invested, even by a tiny bit?
Then I will turn it over, walk away and find something better to do.
The match you mentioned between Federar and Nadal, who did you want to win and why
And did you watch the whole thing as a neutral, or if you started as a neutral I can guarantee that after an hour of watching them you had a bias towards one or the other to win
Its human nature
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Some mental scenes in Turkey tonight.
https://twitter.com/TheSecretScout_/status/1769466945072496834?s=19
HH
Sorry must be on wrong blog , thought this was the CQN blog โฆโฆ