As recently as December, Sky Sports contributor and very, very, lapsed Celtic fan, Neil McCann, accused John Guidetti of cheating while simultaneously acknowledging that the player didn’t claim for the penalty McCann thought he didn’t deserve. The mental contortions required to allow McCann to accuse a Celtic player of cheating, while not cheating, was worthy of awe.
Yesterday the same open sore was evident. Craig Gordon fouled Jackson Irvine 23 yards off his line, to the side of the field. Virgil van Dijk was back inside the six yard line with other Celtic players storming back.
McCann waxed lyrical that the Celtic goalkeeper should have been ordered off, claiming “The new rules are simple. Is the Ross County player being denied a goal scoring opportunity?”
He’s half right, the Rules of the Game are clear, they note three sending off offenses for fouls:
Serious foul play
Violent conduct
Denying an obvious goal scoring opportunity
Referee guidance on the third offense is crystal clear; denying a possible goal scoring opportunity is not a sending off offense. Referees are only allowed to show the red card when an obvious opportunity has been denied.
Jackson Irvine could get an early shot off with his left foot (he’s right footed) but it would need to be a spectacular effort from a tight angle. The potential chance was never an obvious goal scoring opportunity. The yellow card decision was correct. These are the Rules of the Game and the guidance referees are given.
The only thing you need to know about yesterday is that if you have a career in the football media, and before you cite the Rules of the Game, you’d better read them. Otherwise you might appear to be a bitter clown who falsifies the rules to suit an agenda.
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The Celtic Football Club is a broad church, open to all, and all-inclusive.
Communists and all, despite the fact that said have attempted to infiltrate and undermine the football club, using nefarious and underhand tactics.
The antithesis of what this great football club is about.
I cannot claim to speak for Brother Walfrid, nor can I speculate as to what his opinions would be, in relation to perhaps is the greatest of all evils – if however I was a betting man, my money would say that he would frown upon it.
EachToTheirOwnCSC – RespectTheEthosAllthesame.
HH.
Now having a lot of problems with the site. Scrolling up and down is at a snails pace. Often I am left with a white screen. Even typing at a moderate speed is too much to keep up. This little sentence has taken 5 mins. Don’t think your server is up to the job.
As a wee Cilla aside, took my boy to Anfield few years ago, half time they played Cilla over the tannoy signing Mucky Kid, a song my dad used to sing to me, managed to hide the tears, but a great day out at another proper football ground….
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Still can’t access site normally thru phone. The sites worked well as separate entities….each had their own purpose. To impose the mix is plain wrong.
Paul, I reckon you should have canvassed the bloggers to see if they wanted the mix and not just imposed it.
Me. As phone doesn’t work will ignore CQN . When I’m at home I’ll log in thru tablet when I can be bothered. Sad and avoidable.
Out.
16 roads,
Kieran Tierney had a very assured performance on Saturday, he looked confident when he was on the ball. He wasn’t really tested defensively, will he get that chance to be tested against tougher opponents? I hope he does.
I hadn’t heard that Jungle track that Owen played before, maybe slightly different eras.
I loved the MC Conrad and LTJ Bukem, Bukem was born in 67. ;))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A69yiwHE8bM – Cool Junglism, and World Class MC’ing – unfortunately not a crystal clear as his Radio 1 masterpieces.
Brilliant nonetheless. If a person is driven to do as well as he can, that should be rewarded.
Art of War on 3rd August 2015 12:44 am
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Still can’t access site normally thru phone. The sites worked well as separate entities….each had their own purpose. To impose the mix is plain wrong.
Paul, I reckon you should have canvassed the bloggers to see if they wanted the mix and not just imposed it.
Me. As phone doesn’t work will ignore CQN . When I’m at home I’ll log in thru tablet when I can be bothered. Sad and avoidable.
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TBH – It is Paul67’s show, and he deserves to be able to do what he so chooses with his own Creation – IMHO of course.
I’m sure a lot of the issues will be sorted over the coming weeks.
ARTOFWAR
I reckon we will see in,say,a couple of weeks whether or not the new format is a success.
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Just compare the number of posts to those on the old days one. Probably too early to say just yet.
Petec/Bobby, absolutely it’s Paul67’s site. But if I access site 95% thru phone and can no longer do this then stands to reason that I will not be part of site unless I’m at home on tablket.
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I used to work in IT and fully understand change implementation. If you offer less of an experience though you will get less traffic/customers.
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Art of war,
I haven’t a clue what I’ m doing on here at times.
Posts freezing,having to log in maybe two or three times.
Chill buddy.It’s only a blog pal.
Paul and the rest of the lads involved in it deserve praise not criticism for giving us a chance to air our views about the great Celtic and everything else we wish to discuss.
Hail Hail buddy.
Tri- yep I respect all they do mate. However, if I can’t log on on the device I’ve been using for a year then how am I meant to be part of the site? It won’t let me!
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Just frustration mate.
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Bedtime.
Tricoloured Ribbon,
If you hear of any mair of those donkeys, you be sure to let me know. ;))
Hope, springs Eternal. *, hopefully a 2nd * when we have the team built in Scotland, again.
KT looked good with the ball, that augurs well.
ARTOFWAR
I wasn’t criticising your point,mate. If anything,I was probably agreeing with it.
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I think the footfall has shrunk,but whether it will return remains to be seen.
Art of War,
Just give it a little bit of time, I’m sure the lads are working hard to FIX it. Are you a CQN Junkie? ;))
Maybe you are Right….. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzIAiyxS-nk
Third attempt at posting this.
Euro classic on BT.
Feyonoord v Newcastle.
Bellamy, what a player.
Site is terrible now for me.
Enjoyed The Guard. Two fabulous lines:
‘This is like the Birmingham Six’
‘I’ll slip into something less comfortable’
Voices from another age. Dan Curtin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR4oCfifSf4
If you can’t log on, how can you comment? If you comment you must be able to log on.
There are however clearly issues. On my view the site isn’t yet fully mobile phone friendly. With the small devices you need to minimise superfluous content. For example, you need to be able to jump to the end of the comments and not end up below them reading uninteresting adverts or other stuff, only to find you need to page up.
I’m also an old fuddy duddy who liked the old cqn. I’m not yet attracted to the rest of the cqn stable. I realise that the big CQN is the way the product is going. I guess it is likely that for every reader/lurker/contributor that is lost, more than one is gained.
The Silicon Dawn husnae been good, IMO, well it would be if, the Belief in the Lord was STRONG.
Vladimir Putin, and he’s not a good guy by any stretch of the imagination, is defending Biblical Christianity.
Go figure that wan out. :))
Gematria warned about Computer, I’m delighted my Dad still doesn’t know how to turn wan on.
;))
Kevinlasvegas,
The olde moonhowler crew isnae aboot the noo, Delighted you commented. It sort of authenticated things with the new site layout.
What Planet are you on incidentally? ;)))
Clowns falsifying the rules
I guess there’s no chance now that EBT McCann will be offered an after dinner speech at an upcoming CQN soirée.
Should be we surprised that he interprets the rules to suit his agenda?
After all he saw his employers do it for years.
I wonder if he still knows the words to the Sash.
‘GG on 3rd August 2015 1:42 am
Clowns falsifying the rules
I guess there’s no chance now that EBT McCann will be offered an after dinner speech at an upcoming CQN soirée.
Should be we surprised that he interprets the rules to suit his agenda?
After all he saw his employers do it for years.
I wonder if he still knows the words to the Sash.
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I’m worried about McCann, he takes Money to hate on Celtic, when Celtic done nothing wrong.
If he needs to talk to anyone, I’m more than willing to go out for a drink with him.
I hate he is so lonely.
Petec
I’m sure you would be able to put him right, get answers on the repay,ent of his loan, with the taxes paid of course, and find out why he is such an obnoxious oxygen thief.
All before you wellie him.
PETEC on 3RD AUGUST 2015 12:47 AM
16 roads,
Kieran Tierney had a very assured performance on Saturday, he looked confident when he was on the ball. He wasn’t really tested defensively, will he get that chance to be tested against tougher opponents? I hope he does.
I hadn’t heard that Jungle track that Owen played before, maybe slightly different eras.
I loved the MC Conrad and LTJ Bukem, Bukem was born in 67. ;))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A69yiwHE8bM – Cool Junglism, and World Class MC’ing – unfortunately not a crystal clear as his Radio 1 masterpieces.
Brilliant nonetheless. If a person is driven to do as well as he can, that should be rewarded.
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Aye.
Business is business.
The Communists are the ultimate entrepreneurs – parasites that whom have the same agenda as the Tory party.
I pay my union dues, each and every single week of the year – even though I know in my heart that they are the most corrupt shower of self-serving shower of tripe on this planet.
I am the clown /fool.
No doubt about it .
KTF.
‘GG,
He is hated by Everyone now, GG.
FFS, work it out.
Reports are reaching Glasgow from Azerbaijan, via The East India Company’s telegraph, that 40 degree weather has ruined the pitch ahead of Wednesday’s tie.
Qarabag officials say that Celtic will be unable to train on the pitch but can go and watch the grass die on it.
As we used to say after a Boy’s Guild defeat “Protest.”
GG,
I have no way of organising a day out with NMcC.
I’ll be a friend to a guy who is hated by Everyone, every day of the week.
16 Roads,
Unite – hehe, laughable.
Coulrophobia
The irrational fear of clowns.
Not a word you see on CQN, or anywhere for that matter, every day of the week.
Does McCann have an Napoleon complex, Josephine?
It is just Simplified by Mathematics.
Mos Def.
DestinyLabs.CsC
That Oprah fake got the Scoop of Lance Armstrong.
If only you knew, eh Auldheid?
A Theosophist, a Gnostic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzzuQX3JUg8
It ain’t hard to work out those that Push the Self agenda.
It’s dark and demented, LIE, without explaining.
Colossians 3:8 – But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz_fNDUoJHg
I went oot for a drink with FFM and weeeeeeee, ended up at the Clutha.
My Big Sister, Corinne, she bought me A tea shirt.
It had a rainbow on it.
Sick of the FFM and BMCUWP act.
New Age Religion. Creepy.
Bobby, insisted we go to the Gay DAY oot, he even SAID, I woooood be happy to be holding WOOD. Prick.
That moment, when BOBBY waxed lyrical about that poofter, well, I Won’t ever let Him forget.
Who needs information?
BOBBY – LOOKED m3 in the eye, and lived.
Conservative Christianity is all I believe in now, Not nonsense.
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PETEC
You really should get a breathalyser fitted to your phone,laptop,etc.
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That’s twice now you have made that statement on here,a statement which you know to be false as you phoned me to apologise for it a few months back.
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Allow me to refresh your memory.
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Your original plan was to drive down to Swindon,and we would then have a dayooooot in Bath. You changed your mind two days beforehand and booked a train to Bristol.
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The location was your choice,the date was your choice. I had no knowledge of a parade until a few days afterwards when you mentioned it. But even had I known beforehand,it would have made no difference to me. I’m not homophobic.
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From your post,I assume you are in agreement with the religious fanatic who stabbed six people at a Gay Pride march in Israel,killing one of them? Or with IS throwing gay men off buildings?
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That’s some religious fanaticism you guys have,not sure my God would approve.
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In addition,I notice you also chose to bad mouth FFM. Is that the same FFM who has never done you a bit of harm? The same one who goes a long way out of his way to ensure your well-being?
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The same one who took you back to Dumbarton because he was insure you would be ok on your own,then got a taxi to Airdrie?
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Ironic that you extend the hand of friendship to someone like McCann,as a good Christian should. Then attack those who have offered it to you.
Pete and Bobby
Pax vobiscum
Et cum spiritu tuo.
O.K.
:-)