Derbies against struggling mid-table teams

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Another home Glasgow derby against a team struggling in mid-table and another lead conceded. This is why consecutively winning so many games is historically difficult, not just in the Scottish league.

The randomness of Ade Azeez scoring at Celtic Park is what keeps football from going stale. Fortunately, that randomness didn’t extend to scoring a winner, so the potential of an unbeaten treble remains alive.

There were plusses. Eboue Kouassi made his first start, and Tom Rogic returned from a lengthy absence to replace Eboue shortly after the hour. Jack Aitchison, our youngest ever goal scorer, got the last 15 minutes, a valuable exposure to the heady heights of first team football.

I doubt Brendan Rodgers will be even slightly upset by the dropped points to the extent that he would be less keen to rest players for Kilmarnock on Saturday. Even though Kilmarnock are clearly world-beaters after securing a point against the greatest coach to finish in fifth place in Qatar.

In the next couple of weeks we’ll be shipping, In the Heat of Lisbon, with what is an absolute cracker of a T-shirt (below). If you don’t know what it is, I’m not going to tell you, but I think it’s just brilliant…..
lisbonteeoffercouchYou can buy the two of them here, £19.67 the pair.  Can’t wait.

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  1. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    MARGARET MCGILL on 7TH APRIL 2017 4:20 AM

     

    MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 7TH APRIL 2017 4:18 AM

     

     

     

    The west just allied with ISIS in Syria

     

     

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    The West ?

     

    Germany ?

     

    Gibraltar ?

     

     

    US president Trump just made the slaughter of further innocents less likely.

     

    God willing it works.

     

     

    Obama , the toom tabard of his day , and his mythical red line.

  2. Sipsini

     

    I don’t believe it will escalate further.

     

    Do you have any alternative responses to the chemical bombing?

  3. Margaret McGill on

    MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 7TH APRIL 2017 4:29 AM

     

     

    There’s 17 million people starving to death in East Africa right now. A large ratio are children. Maybe we can send them 60 tomahawks

  4. Premature posting

     

    CELTICROLLERCOASTER SUPPORTING @WALKWITHSHAY on 6TH APRIL 2017 11:18 PM

     

    Good Evening fholks

     

     

     

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    HH

     

     

     

    CRC

  5. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    MARGARET MCGILL on 7TH APRIL 2017 4:33 AM

     

    MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 7TH APRIL 2017 4:29 AM

     

     

     

    There’s 17 million people starving to death in East Africa right now. A large ratio are children. Maybe we can send them 60 tomahawks

     

     

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    Guns or butter.

  6. Margaret McGill on

    I don’t know who Sanger is

     

    Don’t care

     

    Just telling you how planned parenthood originated and is funded

  7. MARGARET MCGILL

     

    The west just allied with ISIS in Syria

     

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    Nothing new there Mags , supply arms to them to help fight Assad in 2011 and Turkey buying oil from Isis controlled oil renfinerys in 2015

     

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    https://www.google.com.au/amp/observer.com/2016/02/deal-with-the-devil-turkey-props-up-isis-by-buying-its-stolen-oil/amp/

     

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    Which is pretty well exactly what happened two years later. The report isn’t a policy document. It’s heavily redacted and there are ambiguities in the language. But the implications are clear enough. A year into the Syrian rebellion, the US and its allies weren’t only supporting and arming an opposition they knew to be dominated by extreme sectarian groups; they were prepared to countenance the creation of some sort of “Islamic state” – despite the “grave danger” to Iraq’s unity – as a Sunni buffer to weaken Syria.

     

     

    https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq

  8. Margaret McGill on

    MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 7TH APRIL 2017 4:35 AM

     

     

    You get 2nd prize for spouting the most shite ever

  9. My new grandson has just been put down in bed, and maybe it’s about time I was too.

     

    Put down I mean.

     

    Good night and God bless,

  10. GG…

     

     

    No personal slant on you, reckon everyman and his dog knew Trump would move on someone, he obviously had his target predetermined.

     

    What the the big picture is for conjecture.

     

    Let’s see how it pans out .

  11. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    MARGARET MCGILL on 7TH APRIL 2017 4:39 AM

     

    MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 7TH APRIL 2017 4:35 AM

     

     

     

    You get 2nd prize for spouting the most shite ever

     

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    How I love the intellectual approach.

     

     

    Educates us all.

  12. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    Gotta hand it to Trump. I didn’t take him for a student of history.

     

     

    Quite a fireworks display to commemorate the centennial of US entry to WWI.

  13. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 7TH APRIL 2017 5:09 AM

     

     

     

    Come on , Bobby.

     

     

    Issues before ideology.

  14. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Unless , Bobby , you were referencing this.

     

     

     

    DULCE ET DECORUM EST(1)

     

     

    Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,

     

    Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,

     

    Till on the haunting flares(2) we turned our backs

     

    And towards our distant rest(3) began to trudge.

     

    Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots

     

    But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;

     

    Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots(4)

     

    Of tired, outstripped(5) Five-Nines(6) that dropped behind.

     

    Gas!(7) Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,

     

    Fitting the clumsy helmets(8) just in time;

     

    But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,

     

    And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime(9) . . .

     

    Dim, through the misty panes(10) and thick green light,

     

    As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

     

    In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,

     

    He plunges at me, guttering,(11) choking, drowning.

     

    If in some smothering dreams you too could pace

     

    Behind the wagon that we flung him in,

     

    And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,

     

    His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;

     

    If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood

     

    Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,

     

    Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud(12)

     

    Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,

     

    My friend, you would not tell with such high zest(13)

     

    To children ardent(14) for some desperate glory,

     

    The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est

     

    Pro patria mori.(15)

     

     

    Wilfred Owen

     

    Thought to have been written between 8 October 1917 and March, 1918

  15. I’ve lost track ( our my brains that I used to have ?)

     

     

    Is this the Easter weekend , as am I right in thinking that Easter is next week ?

     

    HH

  16. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    MACJAY

     

     

    Dunno how you can read anything into my post other than flippancy. I much prefer it to ideology,idiocy,megalomania or anything else that might have induced Trump to launch.

     

     

    He’s just about to sit down for talks with the leader of China,and launches an attack on Syria. Xi could certainly be forgiven for thinking it was a veiled hint that North Korea will be next if China doesn’t do something.

     

     

    Fair enough,the “Gonnae no dae that,joooost gonnae no” approach wasn’t exactly successful,but wasn’t Trump the guy who was supposed to be keeping the West out of wars,unlike,say,Hilary Clinton?

     

     

    Me,I’ll stick to flippancy for the next four years where that certified lunatic is concerned. And keep my fingers crossed that,as Mags said,the nuclear codes have more than 140 characters.

  17. USA Sources say that the strike on Syria air base was a ” PURE WAN AFF” !

     

    Obviously that is how a GLESGA YANKEE would describe it ?

     

     

    Being born and bred in Glasgow ( Glesga), everyone that I knew from the luxury suburbs of Glasgow ( Easterhouse), would always say, ” I’m going DOON the TOON”.

     

    HH

  18. BMCUP 6.27AM,

     

    Cheers mate.

     

    I didn’t have anyone else to ask, unless I go to a pub and ask a complete stranger….and I didn’t want any complete stranger thinking that I was feckin drunk ? Can’t have that ?

     

    HH

  19. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    BIGJIMMY

     

     

    Nae bother,bud. By the way,pubs are exactly the right place for stupid questions.

     

     

    It’s the law!

  20. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 7TH APRIL 2017 6:26 AM

     

     

    Fair enough , Bobby.

     

     

    I`ll wait and see about this latest action.

     

     

    Trump has certainly laid down a marker.

     

    I`m not unhappy about that.

     

     

    Moscow and Beijing have had a free run for the last eight years, during which period of time the world has become a much more dangerous place.

  21. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    MACJAY

     

     

    Hardly,I never once mentioned Assad. But fair play on getting up to speed on flippancy(!)

  22. Good morning CQN from another cool, dry and sun dappled East Devon.

     

     

    Hail! Hail!

  23. serious note,

     

    I watched a tv programme yesterday called ” Who do you think you are” ? on BBC 2 , I think.

     

    I wouldn’t normally watch this prog, but

     

    It was Brendan O’Carroll ( Mrs Brown) who was the subject.

     

    A very harrowing tale of how his Grandfather ( Peter) was murdered.

     

    Peter O’Carroll was shot in the left temple, in his hardware shop. As the programme went on Brendan was aided by some Irish Historians in the making of this prog, and when Peter’s body was discovered, there was a note “Pinned” to his body. the note said, ” A traitor to ireland…signed The IRA”.

     

    On further investigation, it appears that this was a “Tactic” used by the Brits , in order to accuse Peter ( and possibly others) of being a spy for the Brits” ?

     

    Apparently, whenever the IRA did come across “Traitors” , any note left on a body would usually say, ” Tried, Convicted and executed by The IRA” ?

     

    When Brendan and the Historians delved deeper, they uncovered the reality. Apparently, many people blamed the “Black and Tans” for Peter’s murder, however after more investigation it turns out that the Brit’s had other ” Auxillairy Units” in Dublin, and one of those units was mainly for Brit Officers from the first World War.

     

    One such Officer was called Jocelyn Lee Hardy, an Orangeman, with an wooden leg. This guy was known to be a “Loner”, who was not afraid to act alone in Republican areas.

     

    On joining his “Unit”, he came with a fearsome reputation.

     

    The truth of Peter’s murder emerged, as the Brit’s demanded that Peter have two of his sons hand themselves over to The “Castle” ?. It was claimed by the Brits that these two boys were “Active within The IRA” ?

     

    Peter of course refused to hand over his sons.

     

    The last face that Peter ever saw was that of Hardy !

     

    Soon after, Michael Collins had instructed some of the boys to ” Get Busy” !

     

    When business was indeed concluded, 14 Brit brits lay dead, in their lodgings……..sadly the murdering Jocelyn Lee Hardy was not among them.

     

    Apparently, Hardy had been on the IRA hitlist for some time before he shot and murdered an innocent, unarmed man…Peter O’Carroll.

     

    The ploy that The Brit’s had adopted with the “False Note” on Peter’s body, was later proved to nothing more than a typical underhand tactic, as Peter O’Carroll was given a full Nationalist funeral, with thousands in attendance.

     

    What became of the murdering scum Hardy ? He was later to write and have books published, perhaps it’s a story to look into further ?

     

    RIP Peter O’Carroll.

     

     

    KTF.

  24. foghorn leghorn on

    Nae wunner thae Tomahawk missiles are $2million bucks a pop.

     

     

    If yur goin tae buy them fae Cruise then they’re gonnae cost a fortune

     

     

    Primark dae their ain version for £6.99.

     

     

    Tho they’re made fae auld washin up liquid boatles and some cardboard fae recycled Frosties boaxes

  25. I meant to add that when The IRA executed those 14 Brit Officers, it became known as “Bloody Sunday”.

     

    I missed the start of the programme, but this was obviously in the 1920’s.

     

    HH

  26. Good morning friends and a Big Happy FRiday from a pretty bright looking, dry, broken clouded and calm East Kilbride. Tomorrow, the goals will flow again.

  27. A punter has cashed in a Grand National winning bet – almost half a century after the race.

     

     

    Bob Holmes couldn’t believe his eyes when he found an unclaimed 43-year-old betting slip among his late father-in-law’s paperwork. Joe Robertson placed the win-only bet on the 1974 Grand National and backed one of the greatest racehorses in history. It read: “£1 win. Red Rum. Live 3.15.”

     

     

     

    A shop code confirmed the bet was placed at odds of 11-1.

     

     

    Bob, 76, and wife Nancy, 75, are now celebrating after bookies William Hill agreed to pay out – at an inflation adjusted rate.

     

     

    The story goes on that William Hill have paid out the bet ( £120 due to 43 years inflation ), and given the elderly couple another £130 to bet on the race tomorrow ?

     

     

    On a personnel note…….Never mind a 43 year old winning bet…………my horses run as if they are 43 YEAR OLD !

     

    The two things that have ruined my life…………………………” FAST WOMEN…………….and SLOW HORSES !

     

    KTF.

  28. AULDHEID…Calling AULDHEID,

     

     

    Could you email me asap ?

     

     

    VFR800 has my email address I believe. Thanks

     

    I need some advice about a very urgent legal matter.

     

    HH

  29. Taken from the Daily Rectum today,

     

     

    Scott Brown has tipped Kieran Tierney to be the next Celtic captain.

     

     

    Tierney, 19, has attracted attention this season after a string of impressive performances under Brendan Rodgers.

     

     

     

    The defender, who starred for Scotland in the World Cup qualifier against Slovenia last month, has been linked with a move South, with Manchester United reported to be keeping tabs on him.

     

     

    Now, I have posted on here for some time that KT has the makings of being The Celtic Capitano whenever Broony retires……………..and NONE of you lot on here agreed with me……It is obvious that Scott Brown must read CQN, and has decided that what I have been saying makes perfect sense…..so there !….nanananananana !

     

    HH

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