Can you imagine how a formal complaint about the comment ‘Rory Bremner can pretend to be Tony Blair’ would be composed?
‘Dear SFA, a rude man’s joke hurt our feelings. Tell him straight, no more jokes!’
I clicked onto the NEW club’s site to confirm their reaction. As well as complaining about a joke [it wouldn’t hurt if it wasn’t true], they complain about the Daily Record, “the paper is riddled from top to bottom with an anti-Rangers bias”, just to prove they also have a sense of humour.
They also attempted to put a stake in the ground by affirming that Pinsent Masons, now representing Scotland’s champions and sole Champions League participants, did not report to the police that Craig Whyte has any connection to the club/company.
No one has ever suggested that Pinsent Masons made such a report. This is a bit like insisting that Ally McCoist will not manage the Champions League winners this season. Pinsent Masons were far too busy taking instructions from their top client’s chief executive, in his non-comedic role.
What a laugh!
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PJB
I have never changed.
I’m still the same handsome deluded charmer I’ve always been.
I hope the kids are well.
west csc,
Tell us about your finest Celtic moment, these usually get people’s interest.
AR
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“Partick Thistle can Impersonate a Glasgow Rival..”
Lennon missing Old Firm clashes
Neil Lennon yesterday admitted that he has missed the drama of the Old Firm matches over the past 18 months, writes Alison McConnell.
The Celtic manager, speaking on Sky Sports, acknowledged the excitement the clash generates and said he was looking forward to going toe-to-toe with the Ibrox side again, although the teams could only meet this season if they are paired in the William Hill Scottish Cup.
There has not been an Old Firm match since Rangers’ liquidation in the summer of 2012 and subsequent resumption in the fourth tier of the Scottish game, but Lennon is well versed in such encounters as both player and manager and appreciates the unique nature of the occasion.
“You look for their result after your game or, if they’ve had an earlier kick-off, then you know what you’ve got to do,” he said. “The to-ing and fro-ing with Rangers is always exciting. You also miss the competitiveness and, of course, you miss the games, because it’s one of the greatest derbies in the world. There is always drama and energy in those games, and they will happen again in another couple of seasons and the excitement will start building again.”
Lennon knows just how much rides on the outcome of the derby games. “You think the whole world is going to collapse on you when you lose an Old Firm game,” he said. “There is just that intensity and that expectation and the build-up, and the fall-out afterwards lasts days and weeks.
“When you play, you are part of a team but, when you are a manager, you are baring your soul: that is your team out there. When you lose, all eyes are on you and you get debates in the pubs, on the internet. I don’t get too involved in the praise and I try not to get too involved in the criticism, because it is a weakness. But it does hurt.
“After the game, all you feel if you win is relief but, two games later, you are preparing for the next one. Earlier in my career, it really ate away at me for two or three days and got under my skin, but now I’m a bit more experienced I’ve got better. You always want the perfect, but it’s impossible.”
Lennon believes the Ibrox side will find it difficult to get up to speed initially, given the widening gap between the two sides. On and off the pitch Celtic are in rude health, largely thanks to the UEFA Champions League. It has given Celtic an imperious position and Lennon expects that it will take a long time for Rangers to get back to being the force they once were, even when they find themselves in the top flight again. “I don’t think Rangers will be as strong initially as they were, as they will have to build up slowly and stabilise themselves, because it has been a tumultuous time for them,” he said.
Summa
I am more of an avid reader of this blogisphere…and I really appreciate the hard work and effort many of the members on here show with their blogs, opinions, charity work and stories…however, I do dislike the instant hun call..
That being said I have nothing but disdain for the following paragraph..
paul 67 and what is the stars
what is happenning to yere blog
frees peech is being strangled by sectarian[catholic church hardliners, knight of columbanus] poison which ye suppossedly are against
There is way more good comes from this site than bad. There is nothing wrong with being a hardliner or a Knight for that matter.
There is nothing wrong with being a hardliner or a Knight for that matter.
Even a BLUE Knight?
GG / Jack / Victor / Handsome charmer
Thanks, the kids are healthy and sound asleep. Me on the other hand, due to their mother being in Canada since Wednesday, has endured the “school run” which is just 300 feet btw… I not only have a new understanding of the tactical battle the mrs plans and wins each morning, I understand her sniggers as she left on Wednesday afternoon….
Roll on Monday afternoon….
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West CSC..PJBhoyNYC..GG..AntipodeanRed..
PJBhoy..I Agree with everything you said..and West CSC is correct in some of what he said..
l don’t believe l have ever slagged off this Blog..while knowing it has changed and some of the Earlier posters stating this..
However..a couple of weeks Ago l believe it was Antipodean Red posted a long and very well written post on his trip to Seville and it was completely Ignored by the Blog..
think it was followed by 4 Pages of CQN/Facebook..
l think l might just have Slagged off the Blog..;-)
Don’t get me Wrong..I Love ‘Grilled Cheese’ but l know how to Roast it..;-)
Summa
Ps..BT..Oldtim You have mail..
PJB
Hopefully the morning will be dry.
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone
http://youtu.be/94bdMSCdw20
‘gg
04:55 on 18 November, 2013
There is nothing wrong with being a hardliner or a Knight for that matter.
Even a BLUE Knight?
Whatever floats your boat…
Denver beat KC 27 17 so it’s time to wish you all a safe night / day.
GG
Indeed. You are correct. Was that a subtle dig at the Triangle footprint btw… ;0)
Anyway… Goodnight. Last few days I have related to this…
http://search.yahoo.com/mobile/s?rewrite=72&.tsrc=apple&first=1&p=youtube+coronatio+st+hilda+ogden&pintl=en&pcarrier=AT%26T&pmcc=310&pmnc=410&fr=onesearch
Summa
CQN Facebook ….
:0)))))
FFS…..
Let me explain the Hilda Ogden search….. Ach you would never believe me….. I meant this GG
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uFQfylQ2Jgg&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DuFQfylQ2Jgg
G’Night Y’all
Summa –
Depends what you mean by ‘ignoring’ a comment.
A lot of people might have read the post and enjoyed it, but had nothing to offer by way of a reply.
I sometimes feel that on occasion, CQN reads like a chat room, with a group of people carrying on a private conversation. All very boring for other readers and I just scroll on by once I realise what is happening.
Summa,
I thought I would put something together about Seville on a quiet night on the blog, not too many responses as you say but I did get a nod from BRTH and BMCUW, high praise indeed. It takes a bit of time to be able to break through the CQN glass ceiling but it’s still a great source of learning, especially for those of us who are far away from the action.
Still glad I’m not on Facebook!
AR
west csc good on you for posting, thats what it is all about. Don’t be offended if everyone who posts after you doesn’t respond directly. If others do the same as me they go on and off the blog and mainly read the last page or two. Easy to miss some good stuff or not to respond. You are entitled to yer views. I happen to agree that a liveable wage is something our club could do but others might disagree and have their own good reasons. Been here for a while now and some good posters have come and gone and come back again. Good to see Donegal Danny blogging again though in the most difficult of times as we are doing well. Some want to play the huns or their successor club again other couldn’t be happier to never see them again. Wide church. not sure why you want to complain about being called a hun and then go on to slag the Catholic Church and KOSC. Anyway West CSC keep posting you will surely find as many with your own views as against. Hail Hail
Antipodean repost it mate. Ma tea must have been oot at the time. Seville was a blast.
taurangabhoy,
Hope you enjoy, would love to experience something similar in Europe just once more.
As it’s quiet tonight, I thought I would tell of my trip to Seville back in 2003. It was April 24th and that date stuck because in the morning it would be Anzac Day in Oz and I would go to the dawn service after the game. I drove the 70 minute trip to Fibber McGee’s in Leederville in Perth, the local CSC had the game on a big screen internet feed, the bar was closed!
Tensions were high and were mounting until Henrik scored, cue pandemonium as 30-40 sober tims went nuts. I left the pub in a daze, drove round close to the Park and wondered how I was going to get this past the wife. My brother had got 6 final tickets as soon as Uefa had released them on line, now I had to get that flight back and make it to a game that I never thought I would see in my lifetime.
The dawn service was one of thanksgiving for me and I headed home to start the arrangements for the trip. I left Perth on the Sunday afternoon and picked up a flight in Singapore that was going to London. It had come in from Melbourne and there were a fair few tims on board.
The next morning I arrived in London and we headed to Reading to meet up with my brothers and friends who had the 6 precious briefs. It was party time except when we had to get up in the morning, it weas sore heid time and the shower wasn’t working. A limo turned up at 8am and we were soon on our way to Heathrow and on the champagne early. The airport was already a sea of green and white and we were on our way to Seville via Madrid. In Madrid airport I saw a guy with a kilt, celtic strip and full indian chief’s head dress, a group of local children on a school visit to the airport were completely bewildered by this site, maybe I had had to much already!
After some time we were on our flight to Seville, I remember the steward saying just after take-off that if anyone wanted a drink just to press the button, you couldn’t see the front for hands going up as about 80% on the plane were going to the match. The trolley was quickly emptied and the singing started, God only knows what the pilot was thinking.
We arrived in Seville about 7 on the Tuesday night, that night was probably the highlight of the entire trip. Thousands of Celtic fans in the airport, the hotels, the streets, the pubs, just everywhere. We found a small bar near the cathedral and the owner had to go for re-supply three times as the bhoys drank him dry. His Christmas had come very early! The next day we partied again and headed out to the stadium in that heat, the game passed so quickly and as hard as Henrik tried, it was not to be. We walked back to the hotel, it seemed to take forever, soon we were at the airport for the trip home, the airport was like a war zone with bodies lying prone wherever you looked. Flights were delayed and cancelled, people were on the wrong planes, absolute chaos. We got back to London and got the train back up to Glasgow in time for the league showdown at Kilmarnock. I guy from Ireland that I met in Seville offered me his ticket for Rugby Park but I decided that I would join the whole family in Chandlers and watch the game on tv. We were up and we were down until finally and once again, it wasn’t to be. The supporters bus arrived back from Rugby Park and I thought it would be a real downer of a night but instead and in typical Celtic fashion, the whole pub went into party mode and I had another of those great Celtic nights, celebrating as only we can and with a lot of friends that I had not seen in a few years.
O but to live through that again but with a couple of more favourable outcomes, together with a wee dose of the man who I refer very simply to, Henrik Larsson, “Truly The king Of Kings”
AR
I did enjoy AR, great stuff. In fact your trip was a mirror of mine in many ways. Had to leave Mrs Tauranga in the Canary Islands for which he hasn’t fully forgiven me. I remind her what it could have been like if we won. The Kilted Celt with the Headdress saw him a number of times pure character. Will never forget that day and night and I didn’t connect up to the rest of my bus to pick up my brief so watched the game on a TV in Seville. My brother was 100 m from me all day long and we didn’t catch up either, an amazing sea of green and white , singing and drinking. Henrick truly was king that day, pity the Porto conned the ref into sending off big Bobo. Thanks for sharing again. Maybe we will be lucky again someyear. Hail Hail. Mrs T wants to go for a walk. She might need to talk Tic.
Antipodean frae whitecrook
away ye go, yer a big part timer- jetting around the world for high profile matches like Rod Stewart or somthing :-)
seriously though , as one of the guys who got off the supporters bus from Killie that night, that was a bigger downer than the seville result itself!
I guess i didnt expect to win in seville, and the defeat at killie handed the horribles a treble in a season when they couldnt lace our boots.
plus it also meant the end of a weeks holiday and back to Dubai the next day again
WRT west csc – you are not the first guy to have been tagged as a hun, (i still bear grudges myself) and i have been outside so many cliques that i may start a clique of my own, with just me in it! but my advice is stick to your guns, post your opinions, and in the long run you will take plenty from the blog
posters come and go and some excellent posters have stopped posting, im sure new posters take their place though.
if we all had the same opinion there would be no need for a blog we would just buy the celtic view -right?
tamrabam,
I got to suffer the ICT game at Celtic Park last November so it’s not all glamour in the jet-setting highlife of a part-timer!
AR
Tamrabam –
I know it felt like a defeat, but we actually won 5-0 at Rugby Park that day.
Summa of Sammi….
Had a look for that mail that you posted to moi and bt. can’t find my mail, did you send it by sattelite
I’m not that keen on Sattelite mail as mines usually end up in Hamilton New Zealand.
Tell me what kind of Mail you sent me,and to what addie..
Do any of my fellow old-time Celtic supporters remember how, in the early 60s, Celtic used to run a public trial at Celtic Park before the start of each season?
My dad took me to a couple of these events.
It took the form of the first team playing in the hoops against a second string wearing the white shirt with emerald green sleeves and collar and green shamrock on the left breast.
It was cash at the turnstiles although I and many others were “lifted-over” for free. The crowds would have been no more that 10,000 but it gave us a chance to see the new players and the youngers boys and also to see the team play after a long close season. The close seasons were indeed long in those days, or so it seemed.
There were no pre-season games against English and foreign opposition in those days and this was our introduction to the new season.
These games were definitely labelled as “Trials” and were intended to allow the manager to get a better idea of who deserved a place in the starting eleven when the season kicked-off in earnest.
Looking back, I am sure it was nothing more than a money-making exercise.
Someone tell me I didn’t imagine these games.
Summa of Samma.
Over the last ten years I’ve sent in posts that never get an answer,it can be dis-heartening at times, especially if you’ve spent a bit of time writing it, If you read a post from anyone just acknowledge the post in a wee reply,
It does give you a bit of heart when you are sent a reply, instead of thinking you have wasted your time writing long posts and you get zilch replies, doesn’t do your confidence any favour’s if your ignored.
West csc
CQN was brilliant in the early days when everyone posting was anonymous and on an equal footing, but it was inevitable over time as bloggers met up and got to know one another that they would eventually have the run of the place and effectively turn it in to a Celtic chat room. More and more these days you can see clearly on here that is what has happened, at one time they were referred to as an elite clique but there is too many of them now for that still to be the case, it is a Celtic chat room now for mates and personally I just accept it as that.
Just in to say…..
Re: Mo Johnston
Mo was one of my Jungle heroes when he wore the hoops.
To have him and Murdo leave at the same time was a blow for me.
When Murdo left – the battle – in the midfield was lost. imo
In the immediate season after these two players left the club
as Gerry McNee recalled at a time later – “Celtic winning the centenary
double was down to devine intervention.”
If that wasn’t the case then how were the next 9 years to be explained ?
Mo came back to Celtic and his beloved hoops in May 1989 and as HT
described previously on this thread – Mo Johnston returning to Celtic boosted
Timdom inexplicably and by contrast – rattled severly the cages of Hundom. imo
When Mo was paraded – a younger KJ was being ‘slagged’ by fholk around me as
I was a doppleganger for Mo and as a result – when we won the Joe Miller SCF directly
as a result of the lift that Mo gave us – I(wearing the hoops) was chased out of the petrol station in Burnbank by 3 huns one of which pulled a knife from his shoulder area , as my GF sat in our car terrified. Anyway – If anyone was shafted during this time in our history then I think it was Mo himself who was used by the then Celtic ‘bored’ led by chairman Jack McGinn
who used Mo to stop the huns winning the treble. I knew Mo’s missus from school and heard stuff at the time about Mo being gutted that his dream move back to the Cellic had been less than ‘amicable’ to say the least. As a result of the then ‘bored’ using Mo – agent McMurdo hatched a plan to get back at the ‘bored’ and it was ‘us’ the fans who paid for it for the next 9 years. imo
Some years later – 1995 – before the O## Firm 3-3 draw at ibrokes in TB(RIP) 1st season – Mo was interviewed by Jim White and clips were shown of Mo scoring for both sides in these games, when JW asked Mo – “What was yer favourite club that you ever played for Mo ?”
Mo replied – “Signing for Celtic was the best part of my life as they were my dream team so, yeah , Celtic will always be my favourite team.”
the camera went back to JW in the studio who was left looking rather ashen faced. imo
On conclusion – the ‘shafting’ of Super Mo by the old ‘bored’ signalled the beginning of the end for them, imo.
P.S. I don’t do religion anymore but, if I did…Father Matthew Despard would be getting ALL the backing in the world from me in his on going fued with the Catholic Church.
Say NO to cliques and bullies – CSC
Hail Hail – Off oot.
Tom McLaughlin 07:16 on 18 November, 2013…….
No you didn’t imagine said games but my recollection of the format is slightly different in that I thought it was first team against the reserves with a sprinkling of trialists. I ‘m also sure that sometimes the game would be three periods of thirty minutes……. First time I saw the likes of Paddy Turner, Hugh Maxwell, and a few others were at those games. Used to look forward to it as at that time I only ever got to go to night-time reserve games when my Da would take me there and he would go on to the nightshift in Pitt Street after arranging for one of myy uncles to take me back home.
CaltonTongues#TeamOscar
00:20 on
18 November, 2013
oldtim67
00:14 on
18 November, 2013
Kikinthenakas..
Your lucky .I’ve got to sleep with a mask on, I’m thinking of changing my blogging name to Zorro.
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And, another wee bit of pee as they say on here -:))))
Calton Tongues, Not this time,,I do have to wear a mask every night. I’ll wear it down the Gallowgate sometime.to prove it.
Tom McLaughlin 07:16 on 18 November, 2013…….
No you didn’t imagine said games but my recollection of the format is slightly different in that I thought it was first team against the reserves with a sprinkling of trialists. I ‘m also sure that sometimes the game would be three periods of thirty minutes……. First time I saw the likes of Paddy Turner, Hugh Maxwell, and a few others were at those games. Used to look forward to it, as at that time I only ever got to go to night-time reserve games when my Da would take me there and he would go on to the night-shift in Pitt Street after arranging for one of my uncles to take me back home.
Think the ‘trials’ ran from 59-64 or thereabouts. Cheers.
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
Top of the morning to you all from a still-darkish, dry, light breez Fife.
From the
ryecatcher
00:23 on 18 November, 2013
Big Nan…..just curious….Did you suspect he was in the craft before you met him?………Good question ryecatcher
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Vespacide
00:51 on 18 November, 2013
Big Nan.
I think he should have at the very least made everyone aware of his affiliations at the start of proceedings.
Hail Hail.
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My thinking also as even if some did search the Member’s Interests and knew of his membership many members of the public watching the proceedings would not know of his vested interest in the subject matter which should IMHO have been declared on the record at the beginning of the meeting at the very least.
Should he not have recused himself after declaring, given that the topic under consideration was one in which he quite clearly had a vested interest?
Gremlins………… Or my less than adequate typing skills………
How do I delete an unfinished post that has been posted so to speak??????
TBM
Just read Hugh Keevins online and his attack on Scott Brown.
The comments were interesting, especially this one which made me laugh.
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Mr Keevins, —- so basically if you’re not Joe Jordan you don’t deserve to be honoured even if you meet the criteria?
No disrespect to big Joe but Mr Keevins you’re a —- ( i’m pausing , thinking of a suitable insult, ) ahh, got it. You’re a journalist.
The VERY best International managers are selected to manage teams that have a chance of winning world cups, if you aren’t good enough to do that, then you manage a team that qualifies but don’t really expect to win.
If you are a manager of one of those teams then congratulations, if you’re not good enough for that, then you might get to manage a Country that struggles to qualify ( thats US now unfortunately).
If you’re a manager of one of those Countries you pick the best you have available —- Scott Brown has been picked by football men like; Walter Smith, Alex McLeish, George Burley, Craig Levine, Billy Stark and Gordon Strachan etc.
If you’re not good enough to be a manager like those ( not all I would regard as “good” but they were appointed ) then you have to settle for being simply a fan of your National team.
If you don’t know enough about football to even be a supporter then you have to be a journalist, if you’re not even good enough to be a journalist then you have to be a ” hack “.
IF however you’re not even good enough to be a ” hack ” then you have to sign your articles off as ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hugh Keevins.
Kevjungle
In a nutshell, you love attention, .
Tom McLaughlin
Yes I was at those games to. They are vivid in my memory as my Dad took me to these games, he usually worked on a Saturday afternoon, and they were generally mid week affairs. The “Bing Crosby” strip is what the reserve team wore and I remember seeing a player on the reserve team whose jersey was about 5 times the size of him, but what a player, Jimmy Johnstone! por cierto.
TheBarcaMole –
Thanks for that, although I am sure I did say it was the first team against a second string.
Por Cierto –
I remember seeing Jinky at one of those trials. I thought he was about 12.
Why did they call it the Bing Crosby strip? I have never heard of that one.
Tom McLaughlin
Seemingly when Celtic went to Tour the USA they met Bing on the ship and he presented them with the strip. Might be a bit of folklore, but that’s what I read about it :) por cierto
http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/topic/8459444/94/
Tom
No idea why they called it the Bing Crosby strip, but in trying to find out why, I came across a picture of it in amongst these other wonderful photo’s from KS.
TWISTS N TURNS
Is that Steve Coogan in the front row?