I’m older than Virgil van Dijk and I’ve seen more football scenarios than he has, so in this respect it is forgivable for him to be talking about Celtic going through the entire league programme undefeated, but Virgil was in the Celtic team who lost at home to Morton less than two months ago, so he really should know the only place to do your talking is on the football field.
Celtic have a rather important game on Tuesday, which the manager will quite rightly be preparing for, making tomorrow’s game against Aberdeen an open race. If Virgil’s (reported) mind-set is shared by many in the dressing room the 7/1 odds against Aberdeen look generous.
Better all-round if we knock any ‘undefeated all season’ talk on the head. It’s fine fare for fans but not for players.
Feeling gutted for the five Celtic fans who failed to get justice in Amsterdam yesterday. The rest of us can busy ourselves campaigning on their behalf but verdict will be a blow to the five and their families.
Have you heard the ‘Tommy Burns – single’, in aid of the Tommy Burns Skin Cancer Trust? Available on iTunes, 99p. Wire in.
I hope you’ve enjoyed the current edition of CQN Magazine, not that I want to divert you away, but… The Football Pink magazine is well worth a read. We don’t get to read about Hugo Meisl and the Winderteam enough. Hugo’s in the current issue, along with an excellent article on The history of Irish centre backs, the player loan system, and an article on Gunter Netzer, the midfield general who brought West German football into the modern era.
Columba Club, Blantyre, tonight, 8pm, me, Phil, Paul, Lourdes Fund, Q&A, general revelry. Tickets on the door.
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BT, no. But I’m laughing myself daft at the very thought of you doing that:-))
I hope you “grilled” the saw blade to maximise pudin returns.
The Arrows .
They had their own series on ITV in the mid 70s.. It was dire,they were dire. No surprise that punk happened shortly after. .
Off oot to buy a John Dory .
scottishleaf
I was on the M8 going to the neutral cup semi and the Emerald whizzed passed us and my old man was hanging out the space where the window was with a can and a tricolour.
Crazy times
I only hope Alex gets the turnout he deserves on Monday. A top Celtic man.
LB
Bt,
I bought Stornaway black pudding as advertised in the butchers shop window earlier today in the arcade at the chateau … What’s the chances it’s the real McCoy :-)
SofTunis- many years ago I was told never to trust anyone if they said they didn’t like the ole Steeleye Span.
Thanks to the guys who posted updates on Court proceedings yesterday. I found it more nerve racking than following the Match day live updates.
My understanding of outcome is that it came down to Van Plod’s word against the defendants. The Judge favouring the evidence of the men in uniform or in this case not in uniform. What I do find of interest and not sure it has been mentioned before is the one acquittal. What was then reason for this? Was the evidence against all defendants not the same i.e. Van Plod? There was mention on the twitter feed of discrepancy on what a defendant was wearing and also timeline on phone call? So did the Judge not accept the Police evidence in this case i.e. the Police were not telling the truth. So accept Plod’s version of events in 5 cases but not 1!
As regards the Compensation awards nice way to supplement your income. Easy for me to say but I would tell them where to shove it!
Annual purchased today from Calton Books. Looks good. Will add £2 to my intended donation tomorrow.
NegAnon2
Just below Paul’s post you will see the link to buy the Annual.
Glad you’re getting one – you should write for the magazine and we can use in the Annual next year. Everyone on the Board reads it you know!!!!!!
You can also buy tomorrow at Celtic Superstore. Copies are also in Waterstones – two Glasgow stores and East Kilbride. WH Smith have copies for newsagents in Glasgow area (needlle in haystack though). You can buy at Timland or Carlton Books – in Gallowgate (both have offers buy this year’s Annual and get last year’s free – I gave these tow small businesses the old stock from my garage!) and you can order on Amazon where you need to pay your own P&P ie cheaper ordering on CQN where the P&P is free and £2 goes to the Dam Appeal.
sipsini spelt StorAway no chance!!! Who made and I,ll tell you,should be printed on it. Hail Hail Hebcelt
John Dory
Perhaps the ugliest fish in the world. Like a Davie Dodds rendered teratoma.
Mind you, damned good tasting fish. Grilled fast, caper butter. Ole Whitedoghunch would approve.
SOUTH OF TUNIS
Agreed,but no-one got the cyber pint yet.
Probably through lack of interest……
PS-that’s me giving you lot the benefit of the doubt for not knowing the answer!
Kitalba what was that post all about? Humour? Surreal? genuinely puzzled. Hail Hail Hebcelt
UEFAs fine system is interesting:
£20000 fine to Ajax for displaying an offending banner
£16000 fine to Ajax for causing damage and throwing chairs into crowd.
So it seems that its more important to protect UEFA’s image on the TV cameras than it is to protect fans (inc. children) from serious injury.
P.s. Were green and white and throw a can…..6 weeks imprisonment. #justice
sipsini:
As my God is my judge…
Janefield St. Riot kicked off because there was about five or six kids (about ten years of age) sitting on the cemetery wall and throwing pebbles (PEBBLES) at the mounted police.
hebcelt :
Cheese on toast.
CIRENBHOY
Excellent comparison.
Add in the compensation and legal fees and I think we know who came out best,even apart from the prison terms.
Folks ,
In light of the recent decision in Amsterdam.
The Kano Foundation has been offered a pair of investor lounge tickets for Saturday’s game against Aberdeen . We are offering them for a raffle to anyone wanting to enter.
ALL funds raised will be donated to the Amsterdam Fund.
The cost is £1 per entry , you can enter as many times as you want . Raffle is open until 11pm tonight and winner will be notified by 11:30pm tonight .
In order to keep the funds separate , please submit your raffle fee , through paypal to sannabhoy@thekanofoundation.com .
You must be able to get to Celtic Park by 1.00pm on Saturday 23/11/13.
Please include contact details on your entry (mobile or email).
You can enter as many times as you want.
You must agree to abide by Celtic FC’s conditions for entry to Investor Lounge , i.e. smart casual with no sportswear , trainers or football tops.
Thank you for your Support
The Kano Foundation
LB
Brilliant – I definitely know who your Dad is then!
On the way back a certain person (not your Dad) got up to bizarre antics while standing at the window!
If I remember correctly it was on the Emerald that I first head “hey baby let the free birds fly” when singing the fields. I could be wrong but I’m sure it was the Emerald that popularised this.
I’m certain there will be a good turnout, I know a few guys from the JCS will be paying their respects as well.
TBB- a bit zeiformiphobic.
‘The John Dory usually gets its food by stalking it then extending its jaw forward in a tube like structure which provides suction to suck the fish in with some water. The water then flows out through the gills and the pre-maxilla bone, the only tooth bearing bone in this fish is used to grind it up. The John Dory eats a variety of fish, especially schooling fish, such as sardines. Occasionally they eat squid and cuttlefish.
Their predators are sharks, like the dusky shark, and large bony fish, and humans’
-lifted from Wiki.
hebcelt,
The spelling was my mistake…my daughter is just about to scoff a roll and sbp….said it tastes a bit appley and my minds her of the the black pudding at her cousins wedding in the hub in Edinburgh in the summer…ie tastes posh :)
Not even the ole dusky shark would attempt to eat Davie Dodds.
Sannabhoy:
I don’t mean to be rude, but does the Kano Foundation keep contact with Kano. The reason I ask is because I know he is lonely.
scottishleaf
On the subject of the fields I’m sure you are right that the LE had an influence on that. My old man was on the bus the day we were banned from Ibrox. I went to the reserve match and he went to Bairds bar with the majority of the bus.
When the club went to Ekeren I was told that the Emerald Bhoys were in a boozer and my dad cycled into the bar and round and back out again. He is daft as a brush at times.
LB
Sipsini, it is the real McCoy! (well MacLeod actually), that’s the stuff we take to Portugal every year!
Enjoy! (you could always send a wee food parcel over)!!
HH
Kitalba brown or white Hail Hail Hebcelt
kitalba, my mate has been about, that day really affected him. I’d never saw him so angry as when we met up later on the night.
The ole dusky shark wouldn’t even look at Billy Dodds…
jonny the tim supporting wee oscar,
I’ll trade for some of your good lady’s soup ;)
I was halfway along Janefield Street in 1985 when the first charge by the mounted police took place. I have had no personal run-ins with the police, either before or since, but that is hopefully the most ill-judged, irresponsible and bloomin’ dangerous act of crowd control I will ever have the misfortune to be caught in the middle of. By comparison, the kettling of the GB was kid gloves stuff.
The first charge beggared belief, as there seemed to be absolutely no reason for it, but when they turned round at the end of the Street and charged back into the crowd in the opposite direction the level of panic and fear among the supporters quickly turned to anger. I clearly remember a couple of (probably innocent) PCs taking a severe kicking after the event.
KITALBA
I recently contacted Ramie when he was on to get KANO’s mail addy.
Poor sod now has to read my unadulterated garbage too.
Beforehand,I had no way of knowing how to contact him,and as you imply,his only contact with us is when we contact him.
But Ramie supplied the details,and I bore Kano as often as I think is appropriate.
The Foundation in his name is a beautiful idea,and a worthy cause. I hope it brings some cheer to his life that kids can have a day out that they otherwise could not.
It is just so difficult to accept that a day out for Kano himself is even more difficult to achieve.
No such thing as a nice illness,but KANO’s is surely amongst the worst for many reasons.
Or even ladies soup… Don’t think your bhoy makes soup :)
kitalba
15:27 on
22 November, 2013
That is just exactly what you mean to be.
now is this braw? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25057460
“oh will he stay or will he go ”
only been costing us wages ….he,s a thorn in the side ,to some on here though…
braw
Kitalba – mailed you earlier – would love to meet Kano.
I think I am understanding your rather cryptic post but it might just be my paranoia!
Winning captains – annual purchased. I had previously offered to write for it but I had a problem committing the time – I hate being unreliable like that but the job sometimes demands it. I would like to do so though – especially if DD reads it :). I had asked if you could respond to my request for Antipodean Red’s e-mail address – but if he doesnt want to go ahead its no harm to anyone – I just need to know so I can buy my own ticket?
LB
Love the story about your Dad and Ekeren, I was on the Bathgate bus then and the Ekeren home game was my first Celtic game.
Think it was either during the 92/93 season that I first went on the LE but it may have been 93/94. Checking with my brother as the early – mid ’90’s is a blur!
hebcelt:
Oh! now I see your point. Okay.
It is now night-time in Brisbane, the sun is not shining but the rain is not raining and I can’t make my mind up whether to bake my cheese on toast or whether to grill my cheese on toast or whether to have crisps instead and watch a right good opera or maybe the cricket highlights or any of those other mundane…. boring…. send me to sleep…. topics, that crop up every so often, like every feckin day, so what is your point… am I not allowed to be as boring as our ubiquitous borers or so I have to swing my posts by you for approval before posting?
Confused as to what your point is, am I not allowed to post what I want to post?
Or do my posts require your seal of approval before they are published here.
I somehow think, the pretenders my post was aimed at will understand.
My team for Celtic V Real Madrid, first game of the season 2012:
Auld: Auld: Auld: Auld:
Auld: Auld: Auld: Auld:
Auld: Auld:
Just my opinion like, just saying like, and not a straw man in sight.
Uly- ole dusky shark clearly tryin’ out for a gig at the Petting Zoo.
bjmac
Are you the bloke off the telly?
Olivia saw you first and started shouting I’ve been to Celtic Park with him!
I quickly explained I was there too!
Wee one also got her name on The Roll of Honour in the wonderful CQN Annual.
Hope you and you are well and that business is good, no, make that great!
You deserve it!
yours