We waited three long years to get there but I suspect I’m not the only one who will be relived we’re not plunging straight into another Champions League game. Most Celtic fans shrugged the Camp Nou defeat off, but I hear the players have taken it all a bit personal. They want to respond appropriately in that tournament, however, there is the small matter of a trip to Inverness to deal with first.
Wheels come of the Celtic barrow at Inverness. Repeatedly. On paper, the Highlanders have endured an awful start to the season, but if you drill down you’ll see that their five league games have seen them play Aberdeen and Hearts away, and lose a local derby to Ross County. Form will improve when they face lesser-resourced teams.
Statistically, you are more likely to drop points away from home after an away European tie than at any other time. Ronny Deila defied these odds during his tenure, let’s hope Brendan manages to channel the frustration in the dressing room into a performance and result against Inverness.
While Celtic and Hearts have opened up a gap at the top of the table, the rest of the league went through a concertina last weekend. Any team from 10th placed Kilmarnock and up could go third over the weekend. Does that make it the most competitive in Europe? You could make a case, the champions aside.
Joint-fourth Ross County will go third if they win at Ibrox, while Aberdeen, Dundee and St Johnstone will all fancy their chances of being third if County can only take a point.
I was pretty keen on Joey Barton heading to Ibrox this season and his actions over the last 24 hours show why. No idea what happened on Tuesday, but he issued an apology of sorts on Twitter last night, before deleting it, and then went on live radio this morning saying, “I don’t think I’ve done anything to apologise for”.
You know best, Joey. Don’t take any crap from a manager with five games of top-flight football on his CV, or team-mates who don’t deserve to be on the same field as you. Apologise for telling it as it is? I don’t think so.
Mark my words, we’ll have him doing the halftime draw soon enough.
The Kano Foundation
Sannabhoy asked me to share this from The Kano Foundation, who will support their 5000th child at the Kilmarnock game later this month.
5000 kids! I’ve no idea the extent of the social impact The Kano Foundation is having, but it’s awe inspiring. It grew from the CQN community, when our pal Martin Kane, who is no longer with us, took seriously ill.
After we Brought Martin Home, the guys involved realised they would be able to harness this force for good going forward, and the Foundation was born – out of your efforts.
Here’s what Sannabhoy had to say:
“The Kano Foundation is holding our annual bucket collection at Celtic Park before the Killie game on the 24th of September. This game also marks the 5000th child that we will take through the turnstiles to see Celtic.
“We are really keen/ desperate to have as many people help us with the bucket collection as possible as every penny raised goes towards allowing more children to get to see Celtic.
“If you can spare an hour or so please get in touch with us as we would be absolutely delighted to have as many people as possible rattling buckets. Please drop a note to Sannabhoy at Sannabhoy@thekanofoundation.com or go online to our website The Kano Foundation.
“Every single volunteer is worth about £50-100 to us so the more we have, the more we can raise and the more kids we can take to Celtic Park. We are now up to 102 child tickets at each game meaning we can now take almost 2000 kids each season.
Thanks and Hail Hail.”
You’ll speak to a hundred Celtic fans, have a great day and the weather’s going to be warm and sunny, I promise, so go sign up.
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Ive took a couple of coffee t scores for the Celts today, and Scott Silky Sinky for a magic hat trick ? If ICT play a high line at the back, Sinky could be in there ?
Here’s hoping.
HH
Smiley thing ….nice wan TD67…
Braw
Coffee ? = correct.
I will need to hire a new secretary/PA, as this one will have to go as her grammar and spelling is becoming worse and worser
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Jimmy Johnstone’s family reveal his struggle after being let go by Celtic
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/jimmy-johnstones-family-reveal-struggle-8856250#ICID=ios_DailyRecordNewsApp_AppShare_Click_Other
Summa
Hail hail on a Sunday morn
A cup of tea n’a couple o Lorne
If I could put my 2p worth in
Last night coatbrig Gerry and the huddle were talkin about “Rangers” same team and all that just before 10
We’ll never kill the Huns, just as if it had happened to us we would fight on
They will always be the enemy
But the team they supported died
The enemy have a new club secco
I love Celtic as much as any Celt
But my weekend is enhanced even if we have won.. If their team has lost
What ever they call themselves
Big Jimmy.
Thanks for the note earlier. That’s what I get for scrolling quickly through last nights posts.
Sorry to hear about your health issues, best wishes to you.
J.McCormick.
I hope everything goes well for you tomorrow, exciting times.
Hail Hail.
Veltins pilsner is on the menu….a nice joint roasting away…
And a good sized bet on the Celtic to win both halves….1.9 !!! That was a bonus
Easydoshcsc
Braw
How about we don’t post links to the daily ranger and the like.
You’re adding to their revenue every time you access these links.
Surely it would be better to cut and paste the article instead.
Make sense?
NEUSTADT-BRAW
OINK !! OINK!!!
http://f.tqn.com/y/easteuropeanfood/1/W/w/7/-/-/pigroast14.jpg
MILD MANNERED PEDRO DELGADO on 18TH SEPTEMBER 2016 11:21 AM
You are dead right, they will never be gone. Whilst you, me, HMRC and other third parties know they are a newco, they will never recognise themselves, nor will the establishment that they are a newco. Not whilst they are allowed to play in the same strips and the same stadium.
We would be the same, God forbid but if the same scenario had happened to us, we too would claim to be the same Club. That said the establishment would make clear we were a newco; there lies the problem, I’m sure you can draw your own conclusion why that would be.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
G’day fholks.
JNP…
Good to see you posting,hope all’s well as can be with you mhate.
Your spirit shines through in your posts.Top mhan.
And if EDBs looking in…all the best to you too.
= = = = = = = = =
I think Armstrong will start today.That’s the only prediction on team matters i’ll make.
Fancy a 4-1 win.
C’mon Celtic!
Is today’s game on TV?
DOC on 18TH SEPTEMBER 2016 12:02 PM
BT
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
DOC on 18TH SEPTEMBER 2016 12:02 PM
Programme starts 14:15, 15:00 K.O.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Oink oink …
Hi J …..mines is a wee wan !!!!
Smiley thing…
Braw
Mild Mannered Pedro Delgado, same flies different shite sums it up quite well.
Apologies for the language, but sometimes accuracy counts for more than politeness.
LennyBhoy, ta, which channel?
BT Sports
That “not lazy journalism” thingy at the top of the page really doesn’t apply to me:-)
ExslaemuirBhoy, thanks also.
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IMATIM on 18TH SEPTEMBER 2016 11:43 AM
How about we don’t post links to the daily ranger and the like.
You’re adding to their revenue every time you access these links.
Surely it would be better to cut and paste the article instead.
Make sense?
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Sorry Mate.. I was trying to spread word about the Upcoming Jinky Documentary and in doing so bring the Bastard of a Disease that is Motor Nueron Disease back into the Public Eye..
But You go ahead and make it About Rangers..
It’s only a daft newspaper mate.. That in this case is Honouring one of our Own..
Summa of ImaBigotCSC
DOC on 18TH SEPTEMBER 2016 12:06 PM
Lol, see my first post to you “BT”, you still sleeping…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
1 nil dundee
SUMMA OF SAMMI…. on 18TH SEPTEMBER 2016 12:11 PM
When is the documentary to be aired?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
My bhoy just found “what’s your Celtic name on Twitter
Each day of the month is given a Celtic greats first name
Each month a Celtic greats second name
Mine is Anthony mc stay
My wife is didier dalglish
My youngest is shunske stein
Our Dan is John burns( he’s not happy with that unglamourous moniker
League table will be very pleasing on the eye tonight
1-1 at dens
Mild Mannered Pedro 11.21am
Much the same with me, any entity those same flies (fans) follow I like to see suffer misfortune, even with the establishment not cutting the head off much like Medussa another one would appear
JMcCormick hope you had a great holiday and all the best in the new job, those holidays don’t pay themselves :-)
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LENNYBHOY on 18TH SEPTEMBER 2016 12:14 PM
SUMMA OF SAMMI…. on 18TH SEPTEMBER 2016 12:11 PM
When is the documentary to be aired?
Keep the Faith!
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The Family have a Private Screening tomorrow night then it will be Screened on Alba on the 30th of September ..
I’ve seen some Stills of it.. Looks like the Girl that did it has really captured the early days when Jimmy first went to Celtic..
and Highlighting MND gives it a more that just Football touch..
Cheers
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Jimmy Johnstone’s family reveal his struggle after being let go by Jock Stein at Celtic
06:00, 18 SEP 2016
BY LYNN MCPHERSON
THE football icon was left heartbroken after being let go, and spent his later years battling alcoholism.
THE daughter of football icon Jimmy Johnstone has spoken for the first time about how he was left heartbroken when he was let go by Celtic.
The Hoops legend’s status saw him voted the club’s greatest ever player by fans and his statue has pride of place outside Celtic Park.
But his daughters Eileen Johnstone and Marie McCallum told how he never recovered after manager Jock Stein decided he could leave the club in 1975.
Marie revealed the departure from Celtic led her dad, who battled alcoholism towards the end of his career, “down dark roads”.
She said: “When my dad left Celtic I think part of him left himself.
Jimmy Johnstone in action for Celtic
“The only team he wanted to play for was Celtic, even though he did go here and there and everywhere.
“I felt the heart was gone then. It wasn’t the same as it was. Could anything ever be the same as that? I think it broke him a bit and he went down dark roads and it was sad.”
His son James said it was “torture” when his dad was on the bottle, adding that the family would even resort to locking him in the house in a desperate bid to stop him going out drinking.
James said: “Even now when I think back, I’m breathing in because you were like that.
“It destroyed you, because it would go on for maybe two, three weeks.
“Then he’d come off it for a couple of months and then he’d be itching to go for it again.
“You used to lock the doors. He’d be climbing in and out the windows to get away. It was soul destroying.”
After leaving Celtic Park, Jinky, capped 23 times for Scotland, played for San Jose Earthquakes in America, Sheffield United,Dundee, Shelbourne and Elgin City before retiring from football.
At his lowest point he took his medals to friend Willie Haughey to sell.
But Haughey refused and drew up a plan to help Jimmy get his life back on track.
Jinky’s look-a-like grandson Jack, 16, stars as his grandad in flashback sequences of documentary Jimmy
Johnstone, some of which show the fledgling stages of his romance with wife Agnes, the women he described as the love of his life.
It also tells of how he was plucked from the second team at Celtic by then manager Jock Stein.
The pair formed a special bond and commentator Archie MacPherson said: “He loved him like a son. He was probably the only player that in the dressing room he would regard almost as family.”
The film also lays bare the full extent of his determination to overcome motor neurone disease (MND) after he was diagnosed in 2001 – and the lengths he was prepared to go to to find a cure.
Jimmy had a resolve that was “bordering on insanity”, according to Haughey.
He said: “His determination he showed on the pitch, if you multiply that by 10, that’s how determined he was to find a cure for MND.
“It was bordering on insanity. He came to my place one day, ‘We’re going to Africa, there’s a guy there got this snake milk he can inject into me’. I’m like, ‘No, no we’re not doing that Jimmy’. He was full of false hope.”
Jinky first realised something was wrong when he became unable to lift a kettle.
He turned to Celtic’s then team doctor Roddy MacDonald, who arranged for him to see a specialist.
In the wake of his diagnosis, Jimmy courageously started campaigning for controversial stem cell research.
After being diagnosed, his family say it brought them closer together than they had ever been. They had the house specially adapted so Jimmy could be cared for at home by Agnes.
James said: “Loved the times we had in that wee room next door.
“I know it’s sad to say but in his last years, the best years for us you know, we got closer.”
Jimmy Johnstone, will be transmitted on September 30 at 9.30pm on BBC Alba.
SUMMA OF SAMMI…. on 18TH SEPTEMBER 2016 12:35 PM
Cheers mate…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Afternoon doc Lenny and Gerry and all fellow tims
And just before I go to Finnish cutting yesterday too wet grass
Can anyone tell me which part of east coast Scotland I would be in if I said
Space ghetto in an American accent and it came out as spice girl
Dundee win this is best scenario for anyone taking pleasure for the angst and anguish of the huns.
Their new club drop to fifth.
Next week they play Dons, who can also jump above them, if Dundee don’t horse them today (Sevco go to 6th)
If Motherwell and Ross County win Sevco go to 8th
If Kilmarnock beat Celts ( yes, I know…) Sevco go to 9th
3rd bottom (at least) as the banner proudly proclaimed…
Anyone imagine any Celt not enjoying that situation, situation and having something to say..?!
Wee Jimmy’s story gets me every time….catch a tear…
Braw.
But smiling through the tears thinking of the man he was…
Braw
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Sleekit, horrible , hurtin’ hacks”…….
What is the word on the street about Grifiths starting today? Is it likely?
Stringer Bell
Last Saturday BR said Leigh was out for up to 7 days, not heard anything else about today
Stringerbell…..think he is still out with a hamstring problem…..
Glad it wisnae his groin !!!
Smiley thing
Braw