Had a great time at the Celtic Supporters Association Rally last night. It was a great celebration of all that is good about our club, with thousands of pounds raised for the John Hartson Foundation. Neil Lennon spoke warmly of John, about his courage and ability. As well as recognising the great achievements of this season, CSA Player of the Year, Kris Commons, could not hide his disappointment that we are not going for a treble next week. Hibs will have their hands full with him at Hampden next week.
I’ve never heard a footballer talk as John Hartson did. He was clearly emotional as he took the microphone from the manager but soon go into his flow. He told us about the three hours spent in the car before telling his family the diagnosis of his illness. His achievements as a footballer are remarkable and John is very proud of them. His absence through injury in Seville clearly hurt. Did it pass a crucial advantage to Porto? John thinks so.
His own failings were put out there with the disarming confidence that only someone who has climbed a few personal mountains can do. The ‘hangers-on’, who filled his days a few years ago, had their cards marked.
Reamonn Gormley’s parents, Jim and Ann, were also guests of the Association. Jim asked me to pass on a thank you from him and Ann to all Celtic fans for what they have done for them and the Thai Tims in the last two years. Their world will never be the same again but the support they have received from the Celtic Family has overwhelmed them. Your community has done very well, but there is nothing new in that.
With supporters like we have our club is in good hands. Well done to all who carry out the thankless tasks running busses, organising fundraisers and keeping the moral compass pointing in the right direction.
Have you ordered your Willie Wallace autobiography yet? Signed copies available if you do so now……
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Mountain_Bhoy is Neil Lennon, PFayr
Thanks for the info.
Mountain_Bhoy is Neil Lennon, when you say ‘brutally steep’ do you mean I am gonna be in tears ? Remember you are advising a relative novice…..
JC 2
Re Aberdeen,
I also have one there.
Was in South House in first year.
It was good & he enjoyed it, although it is a bit out from city centre.
One bit of advice I would give is to book your place ASAP, as, my son a mate who booked in late, and ended up taking what was available & sharing with a group of foreign students, who had no interest in the usual student activities, and the boy was miserable.
My son also goes on the Grampian Emerald bus, which seems to be well run.
estadio nacional
20:27 on 18 May, 2013
Have you ever worked in an environment that is rancid with thems…. I have all my life.
No offence, but if it wasn’t for site’s like cqn amongst others thems would still be on the top drawer.HH
….pfayr
20:18 on 18 May, 2013
Taranis
Ben Lomond is a blast
Also The Cobbler with associated Munro Ben Narnian (so) …excellent walk and hard work if you climb up the front of The Cobbler …
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I’ll never forget the day a yokel took me up the Cobbler….
When they get round to auctioning off all the artefacts of Ipox what will you bid for? I will bid for the Loving Cup.
GORDON64
They have till next Sunday or it will be taken out of their hands,IMO.
However,time will tell.
I doubt any country in the world bar ours has such a spineless FREE press…..
EN 20.27
It seems to me you’re fundamentally wrong here.
The interest expressed on this blog and other like-minded sites is not, per se, interest in the artificially induced child of RFC(iL).
Rather, it is a legitimate invested interest in how our Scottish Football Association and Scottish MSM have disgraced themselves, deliberately and repeatedly, to us (fans and supporters of every other club in Scotland) and the world of football beyond our shores solely in order to maintain a hate-filled delusion.
We’re all well beyond the point of turning our heads as we cross the street to walk on by such a local embarassment as RFC(iL) and its honourless descendants have allowed themselves to become.
(No disrespect intended to an undisputed Celtic supporter)
change of form (and if a company goes bust and a new one takes over that is a change of form) and as such has had three years membership of a national association. That is where the 3 years comes from.
Chapter 2 Article 12 is the relevant section.
There is further provision for a national association to make a well founded (thats the words in the rules) case for an exception to be made but no such case was made thus as matters stand The Rangers ARE exiled from UEFA competition for 3 years because UEFA do not view them as the same football club.
The fact they are unlikely ( unless they win the Scottish) to be in a position to be considered for three years as they climb back up the leagues means Art12 will not not be invoked but it is there clear as day.
You can point it out. What you cannot point out is the rule that says unaudited accounts or unpaid tax results in a three year exile.
So if the tedious debate surfaces again ask SSB what rule applies. They should know because I e mailed Jim Delahunt who DOES try to curb BFDJs ignorance and asked him to point out Article 12 to the pundits who have peddled the line that UEFA asked the SFA if they were the same club. They may have and the SFA may have said yes but UEFA should have pointed out Article 12 is UEFAs position and that UEFA grant an exception NOT the SFA.
Im not sure the peddling of the myth is to deliberately mislead but whatever the motive or reason SSB are not presenting the truth.
pfayr
20:49 on 18 May, 2013
Corkcelt
Stephen Hunt …why ??
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The rhyming slang?
EN
I agree with you to a point, but we have to consider, we have to remember just how much information is now in the public domain, how did It get there?
Will the MSM do anything about it?
I don’t know
But in my opinion we become complicit in this gab Shite if we don’t try and continue to try to do summat about it.
Internet Bampots have made ground HH
Sipsini
EN is in a foreign land… very few zombies I guess.. no smsm to suffer.. ( no crispy rolls or square sausage either)
He does not have to suffer the muck now… but he detests them in whatever form they are found
Get your money on Armenia.
Bonnie Tyler
Saw her live in Stuttgart.
A magic if somewhat confused night.
‘crushed nuts?’ ‘naw, layringitis!’
21:10 on 18 May, 2013
I’ll never forget the day a yokel took me up the Cobbler…
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Ooh err missus, that sounds painful!
Gordon64.
After tonight she should maybe have stayed in Stuttgart.
A couple of guys on Alex Thomson’s twitter page, accusing MSM of moral cowardice. Alex responds ” You should learn about the law”. The obvious implication is that the MSM feel they would be liable to be hit with legal action, should they highlight Charlottes revelations.
pogmathonyahun aka laird of the smiles
21:20 on 18 May, 2013
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Don’t get me started on Arthur’s Seat!
Pogmathonyahun
Was up in my hometown last Saturday and went to 1630 mass at St J O FrDespart sends his regards to Tam The Bam Fae Glesca
Crushed Nuts
Thanks. Well if it was 70 years ago this week and the war in Europe ended 103 weeks later even a gullible fool such as I had worked out that however clever a dumb bomb the Bouncing Bomb was it didn’t do much to hasten the end of the war
But it’s not the worst film I’ve ever seen even if the music always dreadful even before it was commandeered by idiots supporting various sporting teams I dislike
Slainte
Jimbo
PS Bought an Ornette Coleman album today. Ol’ Ornette has never quite been a taste I’ve acquired but I did recognise after 2.53 of the third track that it had stuck and wasn’t just weird music.
Zimm
A great day was had by all in the beautiful city of
Stuttgart.
Recall being in the Stuttgart supporters club
with VP before the game.
Went into the stadium to see Bonnie Tyler singing
on the pitch.
sipsini 21.07
for me just the sheer joy of sipping a stella (did this tonight ssb on phone cqn & ff laptop) and feeling every ounce of pain of hun panellist and caller alike…… i have not laughed so much in ages.
Tbj.
Got you. I was just trying to say… that any info to shut their hun mouths is more than helpful.
For some reason thems is is growing a pair of late?
I prefare thems in the guttter.
Hello Bhoys and Ghirls…..
I’ve got a ghirl and Charlotte is her name :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sogYgHlNnqo
Of course it’s cowardice, the press should be smart enough to imply without getting themselves into bother, Pure cowardice or not wanting to upset people
Sipsini
Not in my place they ain’t. .. your in zombieland :(
Tiny Tim
PF Ayr
Agree but although I think these people should be ridiculed I think their daft wee division club should be ignored.
Why give this daft wee division 3 (Three) club the time?
EN
GORDON64
The size of you fellas,I bet she saw you before you saw her…
Gordon64
Tinttim
Can I have raspberry.
I think the dynamics have changed considerably since the SFA gave the nod to participate in Europe in 2010 and 2011 and in the SFL in 2012.
Thanks to the bampots the world and their weans know the rules and when they are being dodged. Thus if a club is not dealt with properly everyone knows where responsibility for granting permission to play lies and everyone knows the risks the SFA are taking, particularly now, if they again give permission and The Rangers fail.
They could fail on two counts.1. Having a ground to play in because of ownership issues. 2 Running out of cash before the season ends because their cost base is way above their income.
Everybody knows the risks especially The Rangers supporters who would be the ones shafted AGAIN if the SFA did not address both concerns before the five permission to play.
This opens the SFA up to claims for compensation and whilst they will want to keep The Rangers alive they will not want to do so at risk to themselves.
If I were Regan I would offer The Rangers Hampden as a ground for next season until ownership is confirmed and football knows Ibrox will still be around and The Rangers can use it. I would also insist on cost cutting with propsals of what would be done by start of the season to satisfy the SFA that the money would not run out before season end.
The offer of Hampden would take The Rangers away from the grip of the spivs and produce a platform fromwhich they could recover over time by sticking to the agreed financial proposals.
I would not see this as the SFA helping The Rangers although it undoubtably would. I would see it as a move to restore some sense of normality to Scottish football especially if it were accompanied by an admission by the SFA of all the errors they have made in support of a failed club working to a failed model and a committment accompanied by a plan to change both the culture at the SFA and the relationship with the leagues.
In short the SFA cannot run the risk to themselves of not acting to restore stability and trust to our game because the game is crying out for it, particularly the blue game players.
I Nuts
Sorry if my last message was a touch rude. My cd as mentioned had just stuck!
Slainte
Jimbo
Hi guys, back on. Haven’t read back. Whits happenin? Russia for me so far.
Weefra HH
jimbo67
21:29 on 18 May, 2013
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Two things:
Apologies if you felt I was being a goodwin, I had read Barnes-Wallis book and it really pissed him off because he believed it would have shortened the war.
I have never heard of Ornette Coleman before your post, spotified it, love it!
EN
Because if we don’t no one else will,
It’ll be brushed under the carpet.
Say something were paranoid
Say nothing were complicit
Fan the flames
Eurovision
Greece 12 points.
‘Alcohol is free’
BMCUWP,
Is Gordon a big chap,
maybe I shouldn’t have slagged off Bonnie. .:((
Gordon64, Greece gets my vote!
malorbhoy
21:27 on 18 May, 2013
Pogmathonyahun
Was up in my hometown last Saturday and went to 1630 mass at St J O FrDespart sends his regards to Tam The Bam Fae Glesca
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Ahh rumbled!! The bold Fr Matthew I haven’t seen him for a couple of years. Yes one of my better known aliases, also known in Glesca by another but we won’t go there ;-))
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
Fair points, today agreeI heard at least two callers a radio show claim ‘lack of main stream media investigation got rfc in this mess’ you would think it was an rfc fan who would have that concern. Wasn’t.
EN
Tbj
As I said before it’s rancid in there.