The Centenary Season was memorable for many reasons, not least the brand of skilful, attacking, football we played. The title was destined for Celtic Park after a win at Ibrox, but Hearts at Tynecastle would be our first opportunity to officially become champions.
Two tickets were secured, but for the Hearts end, so title celebrations were planned without colours. We were in the ground early – the enclosure in front of the stand. As the place filled up there was the occasional Hearts scarf, but the majority were also without football colours. By kick off it was clear there were more Celtic than Hearts fans in the section. Both sets of supporters were free to express their feelings without any trouble.
The game was forgettable. Celtic, who had run teams ragged all season, were unable to craft a goal and left pointless. It was disappointing, but a week later, 63,000 (over) packed Celtic Park in the sunshine as the league was won in a more appropriate environment.
My preference would always be to win a title before our own season ticket holders at Celtic Park, but if we can’t do that, Tynecastle comes pretty close as an ideal alternate venue. Hearts fans sang “We’re only here for the party” when we lost the title seven years ago.
Let’s remind them who the champions are tomorrow, as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Albert Kidd title in 1986. Albert Kidd, a Celtic fan, was a Dundee player at the time. On the last day of the season he was on the bench against Hearts, who needed a point to win the title. They were 32 games unbeaten. Albert hadn’t scored a single goal all season.
He was introduced with 15 minutes remaining. Five minutes later he opened the scoring at a corner kick. He then scored the goal which inspired Diego Maradona to run through the England team and score at the World Cup a few months later. Diego’s goal was brilliant, but Albert’s was far more astonishing. It was utterly astonishing.
We did something to Hearts that season. They never recovered and never will. That 15-minute cameo from Albert, with Celtic’s five goal mauling of St Mirren, finished them.
The Celtic Foundation’s ‘Heroes of ’86 – 30 years on’ dinner takes place on Sunday. Albert Kidd is guest of honour, as are Celts from that team (not all of them!), including our captain, Paul McStay. I hear the Kidd family will be very well represented on the night. It should be something special.
Enjoy your weekend, especially if you’re going to Tynecastle, or the Foundation dinner. These moments are precious.
30 years later, I’m still astonished.
Charlie Gallagher, What a Player
Charlie Gallagher was at Celtic Park for over 10 years. Encompassing the 1960’s, his career was an eventful one, touching the depths of despair and the ultimate triumph. Slightly-built, he seemed to lack the necessary robustness. But appearances can be very deceptive. Behind the easy-going exterior lurked a tremendous football brain, with the ability to spray passed which fast-running forwards would relish.
Charlie starred in one of Celtic’s best performances in years as MTK Budapest were beaten 3-0 in the European Cup-Winners’ Cup semi-final at Celtic Park. When Jock Stein arrived in March 1965, Gallagher was given a settled role at inside-right. His play was quiet but effective and good enough for him to retain a place for the Scottish Cup final. Eight minutes remained when Charlie trotted over to take a corner kick on the left. It was like one of those Spot the Ball competitions in the newspapers where the entrant must place the ball in the exactly the right spot. In this case, the target was the moving one of Billy McNeil’s head… And Gallagher’s accuracy was to signal the return of the glory days to Celtic Park.
The next two seasons were to see Charlie in the role of valuable pool member, covering for injuries or being used as a surprise weapon. In the first league game of 1965-66 season at Tannadice, Charlie hit the bar in the first two minutes and rumour has it that the bar is shaking yet. And, of course, it was the action replay from him and McNeill which gave Celtic their narrow victory over Vojvodina Novi Sad in the European Cup quarter-final in 1967.
One day at Muirton Park, where Celtic won 6-1, there was a brilliant Freudian slip by an old-timer standing near me in the enclosure. One particulate long pass was greeted with a clap and a cry of “Well done, Patsy”, an understandable confusion with Charlie’s namesake of more than 40 years earlier.
CHARLIE GALLAGHER? WHAT A PLAYER! by David Potter is published today by CQN. You can order your SIGNED copy HERE.
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Albert Kidd a Celtic fan? I don’t care. He’ll always be a hero in my book.
To quote a flag hanging from the top tier of the Celtic end at Ibrox the following Friday night: ” God bless Albert Kidd.”
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http://www.lawandreligionuk.com/2015/01/03/end-of-year-quiz-2014-the-answers/
Law & Religion UK
Issues of Law and Religion in the United Kingdom – with occasional forays further afield
End of Year Quiz – 2014:
(The Answers Posted on 3 January
2015 by David Pocklington)
Here, at last, are the answers to the End of Year Quiz for 2014 which appeared in our post of 23 December.
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Q1. Who in January left a voicemail message when the nuns didn’t answer the phone; and what were they doing?
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Answer :
Rorate Caeli reported that on December 31, Pope Francis telephoned the community of the Carmelite nuns of Lucena (Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain), a once powerful and numerous community now reduced to only five nuns, three of whom hail from Argentina.
Since no one answered the phone when he called, at 11:45 am, he recorded a message in the answering device:
“What are the nuns doing that they can’t answer [the phone]? I am Pope Francis, I wish to greet you in this end of the year, I will see if I can call you later. May God bless you!” (Listen to it here in Spanish)
He called them back at 7:15 pm and was able to talk to them
According to the Daily Mail, “Sister Adriana, the prioress of the convent near the southern town of Cordoba, told COPE radio station she and the four other nuns were not listening for the phone because they were busy at midday prayers.”
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Q2. What have the following in common: peaceful protesters, noisy children in the street, street preachers, canvassers, carol singers, trick-or-treaters, church bell ringers, clay pigeon shooters and nudists; the choir of Bath Abbey; and Japanese Knotweed?
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Potentially, they all fall within the ambit of theAnti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.the first group of 9 was identified by Lord Dear during the House of Lords debate, [HL 8 Jan 2014 : Col. 1515].
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Potential practical applications of the Act include: a consideration by Bath Council to use these powers against buskers whose amplified music was disrupting Evensong at the Abbey; and the Home Office guidance relating to their application to Japanese Knotweed.
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Q3. Is a “nodding ogee”:
a) the vicar’s ‘yes’ man on the PCC;
b) a double-curved, pointed arch that also points forward at the top;
c) a stall at the Church Christmas Fair?
[b) See Pevsner’s Architectural Glossary, a snip at £2.99…..Ed ]
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Q4. What is the Density of Popes within Vatican City?
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The small size (i.e. 0.44sq km) means the country has two Popes per square kilometre, (and also two Popes Emeritus per sq km).
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Q5. Which of these bodies has official status within the Houses of Parliament: Parliamentary Inquiry in to Foodbanks and Food Poverty(the CofE’s Press Release); Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards(of which the Archbishop of Canterbury is a member)
; and Lord Falconer’s Commission on
Assisted Dying?
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None of them! Sub-editors please take note.
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6. Which web site promises “Marriage provides more and better sex: Sex within marriage has an enduring and unifying quality”?
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The Church of England’s “Your Church Wedding”site.
Q7. Place in order of severity, “ stooshie”; “ rammie” [alt. “ram-sammy”]; and “ stramash” , and how was Scottish Composer, James MacMillan involved”?
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The Scotsman reported“There’s a musical stramash going on within the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland. In popular parlance it has been described as a battle between the “post-Vatican II hippies. . . . those on message with the Scottish church’s National Music Advisory Board, (in particular its chairman and Glasgow Archdiocese director of music, Monsignor Gerry Fitzpatrick, himself a composer/publisher), and the outsiders (among them leading composer James MacMillan, who is director of music at the Dominican-run St Columba’s Church in Glasgow, and heads up Musica Sacra Scotland, an initiative aimed at reviving chant-based worship in the Scottish Catholic Church).”
The OED defines there as: stooshie,“row or fracas”; rammie“A quarrel or brawl”; stramash, “an uproar; a row”
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Q8. Link the following “firsts” of 2014:
Jeremy Pemberton and Laurence Cunnington; Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson; Jan Tipper and Barb Burden; Tony and Barrie Drewitt-Barlow: and Douglas Pretsell and Peter Gloster: and Mary Portas and Melanie Rickey.
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Answer :
They all married or converted their civil partnerships as different provisions of the Marriage (Same sex couples) 2013, and the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) 2014 came into force.
To these should now be added the first couples to take advantage of the Scottish Act on Hogmanay:
Joe Schofield and Malcolm Brown tied the knot at a humanist ceremony at the Trades Hall in Glasgow, while Susan and Gerrie Douglas-Scott married in private in the city.
Q9. By which other name are these organizations known:
I]The Society of Hinge and Bracket;
ii] Jezebel’s Trumpet;
iii] The Bitter Pill;
iv] Fishwrap?
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Answer :
i] The Society of SS Wilfrid and Hilda, here;
ii] The Church Times – When he was Principal of Cuddeston, Robert Runcie was alleged to have said “you can read it, but it’s a sin to enjoy it“;
iii] The Tablet; and iv] National Catholic Reporter, (a.k.a. National Schismatic Reporter).
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HALF-WAY THROUGH…!
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THEGLASGOWCELTICWAY on 29TH APRIL 2016 10:07 PM
Albert Kidd a Celtic fan? I don’t care. He’ll always be a hero in my book.
To quote a flag hanging from the top tier of the Celtic end at Ibrox the following Friday night: ” God bless Albert Kidd.”
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Aye it was beautiful .hh :O)
Love – You Set The Scene (live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pRxXHn64DM
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Q10. Is the phrase “Do you know the bishop of Norwich?” :
i] A reference to the Rt Rev Henry Bathurst, (+Norvic1805 to 1837) to encourage one’s fellow diners to pass the port; or..
ii] an Anglican priest’s query as to whether one is on the (non-existent) “blacklist” of the Rt Rev Graham James for marrying their same-sex partner?
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Answer :
i] Rt Rev Henry Bathurst, (+Norvic1805 to 1837) or although some authorities suggest the Rt Rev John Sheepshanks, (+Norvic1893 to 1910); we addressed the issue of “Clergy blacklists, blue files and the Archbishops’ List” here.
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Q11. Which diocese ceased its 700 year episcopal oversight over the Channel Islands following a dispute over Deanery funds?
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Coutances, in 1569.
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Q12. When did the Pollen count reach 343, and how were the King of Norway and the Church Commissioners involved?
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In August 2014. Savile Row and Cork Street – part of the Pollen Estate..
Were bought from the Church Commissioners for £343M, and are now part-owned by Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, here.
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Q13. Link the following: a Bishop’s Farewell; Stinking Bishop; Smoking Bishop; and how is the latter translated to a Smoking Archbishop?
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Bishop’s Farewell is “a strong premium beer of structured quality, dominated by elaborate fruity hop notes, with a grainy background and dry finish, 4.6% A.B.V. by Oakham ales; Stinking Bishop is “Full fat pasteurised cows’ milk soft cheese made with vegetarian rennet.
The rind is washed in perry which gives it its characteristic flavour, brown/pink rind and pungent smell”; Smoking Bishopis “a type of mulled wine, punch or wassail.
It was especially popular in Victorian England at Christmas time and appears in Dickens’A Christmas Carol; a Smoking Archbishop is the variant which is made with claret.
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Q14. Who said “Vatican II did destroy music and turned everything happy-clappy. It’s a frustration – you go to a Catholic church and nobody really sings the hymn, they mumble because they’ve got some lousy little electronic organ and somebody who can’t play it …”?
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Answer :
Harry Christophers, founder and conductor of The Sixteen: Abigail Frymann,The Tabet Blog, “Byrd or Bernadette Farrell?” 9 January 2013.
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Q15. Who was upbraided by his staff for “walking on the water”?
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The Daily Mail reported,“Visiting the Foreign Office while William Hague was in charge, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, said he’d walked over from Lambeth Palace.
‘So you walked across the river?’ mused Hague.
Welby: ‘I usually do, but my staff say it’s showing off.’
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Q16. What did Pope Francis say to the Curia in his end-of-Advent address:
I]“Hai tutto fatto molto bene”;
ii]c’è anche la malattia dell’”alzheimer spirituale“; or..
iii] “curare i vostri rapporti con gli altri“?
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Answer :
ii] “C’è anche la malattia dell’”alzheimer spirituale”
[“There is also the disease of ‘spiritual alzheimers’”].
One of the 15 “ailments” of the Vatican Curia listed by Pope Francis during his annual Christmas greetings.
Paraphrased by Fr. Zas, “Merry Christmas, you vain, hypocritical, funeral faces!”
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Q17. Who admitted that he was not “omniscient and omnipotent” but was praised for his compendious knowledge?
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Answer(s)
i) The Great Donald Trump
ii)The Second Church Estates Commissioner, Sir Tony Baldry, HC Hansard 30 Oct 2014, Vol 587 (53) Column 395, made the admission, and was praised by the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Rt Hon John Bercow.
(BOTH Answers Acceptable ! )
Q18. Whose actions were described as being “really, really stupid”, and by whom?
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Those of the Priest in Charge and PCC of Emmanuel Church, Leckhampton;
A comment by Diocesan Chancellor, June Rodgers in the judgement Re : Emmanuel Church, Leckhampton [2014] Gloucester Cons Ct
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Q19. What links the former Bishop of Oxford; Wallace and Grommit; and the “Two Fat Ladies”?
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As part of the events to mark his retirement riding, the Bishop of Oxford was photographed in a motorcycle sidecar as part of “A Grand Day Out”.
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20. What animal links Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Thomas William Hicks?
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A Bull ! Pope Francis shares his birthday with Tommy Steel (Thomas William Hicks), both born 17 December 1936. Whereas Tommy Steele was known inter alia for the song “Little White Bull”, the UK No. 6 (Decca 1959), whereas Pope Francis . . . .
Cite this article as: David Pocklington, “End of Year Quiz – 2014: the Answers” in Law & Religion UK, 3 January 2015,
NOW PUT DOWN YOUR PENCILS !
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Sipsini
18 cans for a tenner in Morrisons in Stirling. Will take a bit of that action, help the club out anyway I can.
JAMES1955
Nice
TSOAL
Looking forward to May 21. Only one major event in Glasgow that day.
The Bhoyos at the Hydro!
See ye there wi flowers in yer hair.
Peace and Love
Re the sev keeper and the orange in his strip.
In the 82/83 season, the hun ball boys wore orange ( or was it tangerine) tracksuits with a blue trim. I got a good close up look at them as I was in the front row of the Celtic End at the new year game in that season.
Let’s hope the players have an improved attitude after last week.
We need some good cheer so we can talk football again on the blog.
Think we will win the league against Hearts, but would feel more confident if Albert Kidd was playing.
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FINAL SCORES :
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Timbhoy2……… 21 Points :Bravo !
KevJ……………….20 Points : No Cigar !
Petec……………..12 Points : Illuminati!?
BlantyreTim…….10 Points : Fair-ish..
Ernie Carmody…..4 Points : Well Done!
SFTB……………….2 Points : Cheating?
BMCUW…………….N/A: Missed Exam & Train
DBBIA……………….1 Point : Promising!
Hamiltontim……….1 Point : ” Broken Pencil”….? Aye,Right Enough…..!
Uncle Mo……………0 Point : Nowhere !
CONGRATS Timboy2, Ar La !
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Bt
Should I drop by the pv for the match tomorrow:)
Bigchips
Not to bad a team there!
If only………………….
The Spirit of Arthur Lee on 29th April 2016 10:10 pm
JAMES1955
Nice
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Cant find the Jools Holland version.
TGCW…
I was there at Ibrox on the Friday after Albert’s double.
Thinking we embarrassed ourselves in a Glasgow Cup Final against a Jock Wallace 11(Sounness first came to Greyskull that night?)
Fat Sally put us to the sword (as he did many vulnerable females) and the game was a bogey for Scottish fitba.
The night Scottish football died………….
Rudi
Come on tell us where and when John Hartson spoke at the CSC dinner in the Midlands?
I offered to check and speak to Hartson, even happy to pass on your details to him if you like so you can confront him yourself.
Aye imagine Kiddin on you’re a Celtic supporter eh? Who would believe it!
RUDICANTFAIL
Embarrassed my arse ya arse,,,,still on a high from Saturday,it was the Glesca cup ffs!
Rudis a total failure.
Stop your messing around (ah-ah-ah)
Better think of your future (ah-ah-ah)
Time you straighten right out (ah-ah-ah)
Creating problems in town (ah-ah-ah)
Love – Alone again or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E8pKdZzZQU
Dallas
They cannot steal a colour and claim it. Ask Ard Macha about his countie’s colours. I had a lovely orange Valencia shirt I bought many years ago in Spain. Confused the VD uneducated punters no end. :)
Beatles track.
Revolution.
The Beatles – Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLGzRXY5Bw
Winning Captains…
Maybe ask Mr. Hartson about a Cricket Club in Aldridge?
Never mentionred Henke…….Played to his audience mentioning Denis Bergkamp….
Was very disparaging about the goals he scored in Scotland…..Pub League he called it.
He probably didn’t realise there was a Celtic fan in the audience….
I think he was playing to what he perceived his audience to be.
ASK HIM FFS
Where’s Croppie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISjg71jSnLg
Talk Talk ..It’s my life.
AT
John Winston Lennon track.
Working Class Hero.
SIPSINI 405
I withdrew from my Union when it joined forces with AEEU to create UNITE. AEEU included EEPTU.
I still remember Hammond and his EEPTU nearly splitting the TUC,and I wanted nothing to do with them.
Joined the GMB instead. Always handy to have a union around,just in case.
The Beatles – Revolution 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsRyQ8JdbTs
VP
Talk Talk were a big part of my life. You just triggered a beautiful memory wi that track.
Gracias amigo. ;)
JAMES1955
Thanks. Now I know what I’m going to do for the next 40 mins or so…
ForeverchangesCSC
Working Class Hero-John Lennon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKwXwU5iWs
Lots of Lennon/Beatles stuff doing the rounds tonight.
Rudi, this ones just for you, “I began to lose controooooooohllll!!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOzqg1Z8rTU
John Lennon
Jealous Guy
Dunky here’s another…listening to album today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOgzJ8A2QLw
Life’s what you make it.
DR RAMESH
Enjoy
james1955 on 29th April 2016 10:37 pm
Working Class Hero-John Lennon
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Didnt realise sweary word on this. Yellow Card ?
Shoorly no :-0
Delaney’s, uneducated and VD secondary school go hand in hand.
When Gruether Furth were in the Bundsliga about three years ago, they had an orange away strip , with one white hoop above one green hoop, on the top. It looked great. There home top was the hoops.
It would really noise up a lot of people or is that peepul , if we had an away strip like the above.
Another nice one from 83…China Crisis …Wishful Thinking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldQpRMegYc0
clunks on 29th April 2016 10:39 pm
Lots of Lennon/Beatles stuff doing the rounds tonight.
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Being nice to W.C. ……….hoping it loosens his tongue ;-)