Back in the 80s, when Billy McNeill was in charge, you could relay in Celtic responding after a defeat by giving the next poor team to face them a pasting. They played with urgency from the start, which they often only deployed in the closing minutes of games when they were chasing a winner.
Football then got a whole lot more methodical, especially since Martin O’Neill arrived and instilled a discipline unseen in my time watching Celtic. Under O’Neill and Gordon Strachan, Celtic would open the next game on-plan, without giving the impression they had something to prove. It might be different tonight. Neil Lennon has made it clear that the 11 who take the field against St Johnstone have something to prove to him, as well as to the support. I’m expecting a big result.
Blogging on the go today so not really got time to deal with Our Pal Charlie but I’ll catch up tomorrow.
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You will be lucky to find any pallets in this part of the world, a 12 euro deposit on every one.
Olive kernals are crushed to extract the oil, Almond shells burn good.
The Battered Bunnet @16 21.
Olive kernels ——-
Yes – tried ” bricks ” made from compressed olive kernels . Good heat -terrible stink and no shortage of pungent smoke .
Didn’t float my boat.
Anyone know if the game is being streamed anywhere legal tonight
South of Tunis
Pellett stoves very popular here – everyone seems to be getting one.
TET
Will stick with the wood-burning stoves – wood in plentiful supply.
HH!!
timmy7_noted
16:19 on 30 October, 2012
Tontime Tim,on occasion I’m in or near Ironbridge for work,is that where your moniker comes from?
*naw it comes from a part of the Renton that the locals call the Valley where the World champion Renton team (inc James Kelly and Neilly MacCallum) played.
BMCUW
Pallets —
Expensive things .
Many of them belong to the men of honor .
2 reasons I avoid them .
Continuing with the Celtic name dropping theme if I may ……I once spent 4 hours drinking pint for pint with Butch Harmon in a Carnoustie pub after the second round of the 1999 Open. Whats it got to do with Celtic I hear you ask ? Well once I got him on the Guinness each new pint brought a chinking of the glasses and a Hail hail from him as I regaled him with the joys of being a Celtic fan. He left suitably impressed by all thibgs Celtic
Favourite Uncle
Indeed we must because I did go to St.Martha`s. Indeed, I was the School Captain so famous in my own dinner-time. My surname is Barr. Yours?
Bishopmill Road is opposite where the school (All Saints?) is now but it was just a field in my time there.
CelbridgeCelt
Thanks for that and I agree that, on occasions, we need a little light on the site as a break from the despondency that can accrue when we dwell too much on the Govanites and their treatment by the MSM.
JJ
TALLYBHOY
You’d be astounded at the number of young Celtic fans in Kilwinning,late 60s/early 70s.
Not half as astounded as a few of them when I reminded them of the fact about 25 years later as Stubbs’ header sailed into the net and they got a bit lippy.
That wee fact told in public soon shut them up!
(Actually,wrecked their reps in the town,but heyho…..)
I once saw Martin Hayes do his impression of being a Celtic striker. Does that count?
good afternoon cqn
Auldheid Eddie and john Mcgrory lived next door to the older John Divers and young John Divers in whitecrook when we were younger,seen them often.
OG
Now you’re stretching credibility
During his Talksport love-in yesterday, Mr Green made reference to his initial investors receiving a return on their investment from the IPO; an obvious settlement of a loan provided previously to disinterested financiers but not such an obvious settlement to engaged, commited fellow travellers on the road back to Champions’ League glory.
Also, how soon after BDO are in place can Mr Green expect to receive a demand for the administrative trading shortfall of c£4 million his consortium has pledged to clear?
How would any Scottish football club find the resources to settle such a demand, mid-season in the current economic climate? Is life not supposed to be fair?
Does anyone else other than myself wonder how many signatories to the famous 5-way agreement signed during the summer, there exist?
It wouldn’t surprise me to discover that Mr Green signed on behalf of RFC(iA) and Sevco 5088 such are his gruff Yorkshire talents?
CANAMALAR 1624
I doubt this is the most exteme of fans’ sites,but that doesn’t mean we turn a blind eye to wrongdoing-far from it.
I was delighted at the response-virtually unanimous-in support of the GREEN BRIGADE.
A wee round of applause for all concerned,IMO.
Modren faux Protestant culture is rubbish.
SOUTH OF TUNIS
Gotavan?
Gotapallet.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS,Sicily,yep,stick to the pellets,bud.
BMCUW
Glory hunters during the amazing late 60s early 70s!
The Celtic fans who came from Kilwinning – the ones I went to school with – were REAL supporters!
Faithful through and through!!
Bampots mind you – but they were our bampots!
HH!!
HH!!
O G Rafferty .
Martin Hayes ——-
His brief time was marked with the rumor that he was signed by mistake . The rumor was that Celtic had actually wanted to buy Michael Thomas ..
Those who peddled the rumor always backed it up with” the fact” that Arsenal had already agreed to sell Hayes to Swindon for washers when up popped Celtic .
I never believed it !
SOUTH OF TUNIS
I lived in London at the time-Swindon now,coincidentally.
Story I was told-Brentford,£80,000.
BMCUW
Bobby Russell gave away the raffle prizes at my locals recent charity event.
I had left by that time but heard he went down well.
The Black Dahlia : yes, I have read it. If my memory’s right,James Ellroy based the story on his own mother’s murder.
He’s always struck me as quite an odd character, but a tremendous writer, if you like his style.
Not a bad film of the book, either.
EuroChamps67
Just head straight in to CP and I’ll catch you at the gazebo, don’t know where I’m sitting yet.
JUNGLEJIM.you are michael hughes cousin.i know you very well .i was michaels pal .i remember playing with your team st marthas out in KIRKIE we got thumped.last time i saw you was playing football in fields behind wallacewel road .i saw ANNE HUGHES a few years ago at my cousins funeral.i lived off northgate road.DANNY.
Hi All,
I’ve just read the Speirs piece that JackGlasgow posted earlier.
Maybe I am just biased but one phrase in the whole piece LEAPT out at me.
“Fast forward to 2011, by which time we’d had the disturbances in Manchester involving Rangers fans”
Disturbances? They wrecked a city (again).
A disturbance is when two neighbours argue noisily over the fence about loud music
For context I’ve provided some other uses of the word “disturbance” to inappropriately describe significant events
The Disturbance of Hastings, 1066
The Peterloo Disturbance (what is it with Manchester?)
The Hiroshima Disturbance
The L.A. disturbances after Rodney King’s beating
Hail Hail
Ole Gazebo not closed the night?
The Green Brigade should be left to get on with it. The police are simply being wasteful of overstretched resources in a bid to garner favourable headlines with the protestant establishment and it’s backfiring spectacularly. They need to creep away, and stay away.
MIKI67
Indded,though he later wrote a book about his own dealings with that.
Boy,it is as rough as you would expect it to be.
Strangely,not seen the film,not a screen fan,tbh,but I did mean to catch that one.
Favourite Uncle
Anne Hughes was at my niece`s party two weeks ago (as was I).What is your surname?
South Of Tunis, 16:45
I had trouble believing he was a footballer
THE EXILED TIM 16:17 on
Be careful if its pine… friend of mine had an oversized pine tree cut in his back garden … he decided to make use of it in his home. He didn’t realise that the tar emitted from the wood was building up in his chimney … until the fire brigade knocked on his door to tell him that his chimney was on fire …
The Onlooker
WHITEDOGHUNCH
Met him in the late 80s in Ayr or Prestwick,likeable fella.
We didnae talk much about football-Celtic Centenary Season,why bother annoying decent company?
Thanks FAVOURITE UNCLE , appreciate it.
T
THE ONLOOKER 1702
Surprised it wasn’t stripping the paint from their tenders……
tobago street
What eas yours? Did it come in after the Deadline?
JJ
eas = was
James Ellroy is a mad character. I would think his life is one of those hit or miss affairs, and he got lucky, survived and has made a fortune from his incisive understanding of reality.
Get me…..gone all pseudo..
: > )
JJ
I played on the school team with Tommy at St. Marys.
The Onlooker
I have no idea what it is, they make pencils among other things from it, defo not pine.
I wouldn’t need to worry anyways, I don’t have a conventional chimeny so to speak, more like a hole in the hill with a home made stack on the top.
Thanks for your concern, appreciated.