There’s always a bit of trepidation before Celtic play a meaningless game, like they will do in Turkey tomorrow, the propensity to pick up injuries feels higher, although this is possibly not borne out by statistics.
Before Sunday the team look like they needed a break but no injuries, please.
It’s been a long time since I’ve heard allegations that some or other council are controlled by, and for the benefit of, an ethnic or religious minority. This is an old-time prejudice, up there along with allegations of criminality or the personal hygiene habits of the minority. But like Corporation buses, they come in groups.
Anyone can report Celtic for whatever they like, and believe me, many do. Which is a great pity, as there are real targets worthy of attention elsewhere….. For years, while others were buying football bling, Celtic were acquiring land, all appropriately, as is their borrowing. More importantly, they have been able to establish all of this without question. Confirmed.
Just because one club was an omni-shambles doesn’t mean any others are. Enjoy the laugh.
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Chris Graham On Craig Whyte:
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Whyte’s performance with the press has, on the whole, been refreshing if a touch naive
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It is almost unprecedented that a chairman of Rangers should have to answer such detailed questions and I am impressed that Whyte has now stepped up several times to do so.
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The more mud they sling the more it sticks and if there are real issues with Whyte they are being obscured by what now appears to be a vendetta.
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Ally McCoist called for unity on Friday. Those who are mistrustful of Whyte should remember that there are people working in Ibrox who know a lot more about Whyte, his motives and his methods than the press do. Does anyone doubt that McCoist or Gordon Smith have the best interests of the club at heart? Do they really think if Whyte was trying to pull off some sort of swindle then they would stand by and watch it happen?
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(On Ticketus deal) The type of facilities that Whyte is using are more and more common in business these days with invoice discounting and factoring being used as a replacement for bank lending which is now so difficult to secure.
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The fans need to back the new owner and understand that what he is doing may not be popular but it is necessary.
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It’s clear that Mark Daly, the Celtic supporting (do we see a theme here?) journalist, was more interested in smears than facts.
On administration:
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It’s worth noting that this is a step that Craig Whyte had to take against the backdrop of HMRC possibly winning the tax case. If he hadn’t, and they had won, then there is the very real prospect that they would have sought to liquidate the club. That would be the real worst case scenario.
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Can the Scottish Government afford to have Rangers enter administration with the possible economic implications that would cause?
weet weet weet(GBWO)
21:10 on 8 January, 2014
Just been told
The game tomorrow is on premier sports, virgin 551
just checked listings and it’s definitely there
Thanks Cowieboy, was also with AOL, finally got fed up with mates telling me I was paying to much and being ripped off.
BT have said they will deal with my old provider regarding transfering line and canceling direct debits etc
Hugh Bonkle, be at peace, I am a life long Celt and will always be. An independent Scotland will be secular,this is correct and will benefit us . There is no creator. Darwin and evolution states the best and fittest will survive. R.F.C dead, C.F.C. Flourishing. See what I mean.
All the mad SNP supporters berating the CQN populace again
Same pish different day …geez a break
The loudest don’t even stay in Scotland
jude2005
Petition signed
Good post Billy Bhoy 05, hope you don’t mind if I copy it to Facebook.
Another point and I know this is a (special) football blog but I hope my vote for Scottish Independence delivered democratically and peacefully could effectively “break the back” of the UK military machine and force unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain.
pfayr.. that’s a wee bit unfair mate.. if you believe in your own country then it makes you a nationalist.. doesn’t mean you are mad.
11 more months of this and only a friendly game to distract us.
Justafan
Why are you proud??
….PFayr-;],where’s Ernie when you need him :}
Is the EC investigating the Hinshelwood Drive land deal? Did this constitute “state aid” and has the Scottish Govt released a statement yet?
You know what they say about people in glass houses….
whatabouterycsc.
Robcfc
I just get the feeling I am being played by people whose primary interest is politics not football.
How would you feel if this blog got invaded by people spreading propaganda for any other party? Those that have an honest commitment to Scottish nationalism and express this in passing are fine, as are those that defend their party from those attacking it, but tracts of official party policy does seem to be a bit OTT.
Robcfc
Mad as in Glesga mad …somewhat excitable and vociferous in their comment and support
Not suffering from any form of mental illness
Macjay
I sincerely hope I’m being thick here but your post read to me that you’re equating Britain’s imperialism with Irish emigration?!
Surely not?!
Celtic PLC Statement:
First they came for the Republicans,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Republican.
Then they came for the Green Brigade,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t in the Green Brigade.
Then they came for the young and care-free,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t young and care-free.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
You’ve learned the hard way at last Pedro. Appeasement never works.
Snake Plissken
I’ll offer brevity, fear of an Orange state forming in Scotland. This place will see an influx of err voters when Ireland is united.
You’ll be aware many have started to relocate ?
6-0. Looking forward to their next CL game. They may get through, even against the champs.
big-cup-winners
As far as I know mate
HH
SFTB…. This blog is a grand old place for healthy debate and shows how diverse we are as a support. I love that and long may it continue but it is much less about Celtic these days and seems most topics get covered. Thsts how i see it anyway.
pfayr… no worries mate, my big book of insults is closed back over :)
PS – you are voting for scotland or you are voting for britain… its no snp v tory here.
how did that speech go again
blood of my blood ………………..
Jude…
Think I described why in my post
I lived in England for three years and my religion was never once remarked upon.
The rest of my life I have lived in Scotland and it has been a defining characteristic for most of the people who have met me.
England/Wales have long since come to terms with Catholicism. Scotland/NI have never managed this.
I dread being a Catholic in an independent Scotland.
A vote for independence is not a vote for the disgraced SNP.
Vote the Tories out, get Scotland independent, then vote the SNP to an irrelevance.
The Hun don’t want independence, the fleg waivers don’t want independence and the orange disorder don’t want independence for Scotland.
That alone must tell you something.
Get independence then get shot of the snp. Simples.
* !!bada bing!! @ 21:29 on 8 January, 2014
….PFayr-;],where’s Ernie when you need him :}
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probably home in engerland
Yogiy
Please do so
PF Ayr
As opposed to the anti-independence brigade who are all sane, reasoned and never sound like they’re slabbering at the mouth with their regurgitated list of Salmond quotes?
All folk like me do is try and provide the alternative view. We can do without hyperbolic nonsense which suggests all Catholics will experience hell on earth in an independent Scotland. It’s classic divide and conquer rubbish.
Why would folk like me who don’t have the vote feel so strongly about this? We still have ties and family in Scotland and we want the best for the place we left behind because we saw no future in the place under the current system.
We’re not mad my friend. We say it because we care and frankly we get sick of reading hyperbolic nonsense and regurgitated quotations from the Cyber Unionists on CQN.
Too many people take a situation and extrapolate the consequences to it’s absolute worst case scenario and it is rather easy to do. It is much harder to convince people of the positive and that is sad.
Off topic if you haven’t seen it watch the Chilean film NO. It has some relevance here regarding that referendum and some parallels can be drawn between those who support the status quo and those who want change. Status Quo use Fear as their weapon. Rising above it is hard but not impossible.
Anyway.
As you point out I don’t stay in Scotland and in actual fact today I picked up my new 10 year pass to live in Slovakia which gives me the right to apply for permanent residence and also citizenship of this fine wee country.
If Scotland votes no I’ll be getting both but I’ll be back for three things –
Family reunions
Christmas
Any inevitable deaths in the family.
I’ll never live in a Scotland that is happy being a dumping ground for every bad idea cooked in London and force fed to people in the land of my birth when I know it can be so much more.
Take ownership of Scotland and make it the better place to live with Independence. If you vote no then never complain ever again about government policy – whether you like it or not, you voted to keep the system you’ll be stuck with.
justafan
Whers ur post.
Snake
I’m happy for you
As for mad …see above re my definition
Jude…
Er…the one u replied to. :-)
A wee update on Sean Trust Race Night to be held at the CSA on 28th February:
Seans Trust Race Night update…..all of the races have now been sponsored and they have now all got names.
1. CELTIC QUICK NEWS PREMIER WINNERS RACE 2014.
2. THE WILLOW DERBY (SPONSOR,Anne Mulhern).
3. JOLLY BHOYS STEEPLECHASE (SPONSOR, Paul Rooney)
4. DALMARNOCK CHAMPION HURDLE (SPONSOR, Yvonne Küçük
5. DAVE KELLY SWEEPSTAKE (SPONSOR Dave Kelly)
6. CRAIGTON STAKES(SPONSOR, Alistair Watson)
7. CITY BUILDING GRAND NATIONAL (SPONSOR, Ronald Regan)
8. WELLSHOT DAIRY HURDLES (SPONSOR, SANDRA PHILLIPS)
9. SHETTLESTON WARD 19 DERBY (SPONSOR, MARTIN NEILL).
4 races are completely sold out of horses and 2 races are sold out of jockeys, they are going fast (except the ones that I put money on, boom, boom) so please let me know if you want to buy any at a cost of £2 each still got tickets for sale also.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
italiabhoy
when i move to engerland 40 years ago the refreshing thing was that no-one asked what school did you attend – nor did they care
bazzabhoy
21:42 on 8 January, 2014
‘The Hun don’t want independence, the fleg waivers don’t want independence and the orange disorder don’t want independence for Scotland.
That alone must tell you something.’
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It tells you that their politics are incoherent.
Is that news to you?
bazzabhoy
Simples ? What replaces the SNP ?
gene’s a bhoy’s name
21:49 on 8 January, 2014
Correct
30 yrs down South and never heard religion .
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
Except of course if they thought they could turn Scotland into an Orange Nirvana where every day was the 12th of July they’d all be voting for it right now.
It isn’t as simple as that.
Snake,
The Yes campaign is increasingly negative these days, focusing on essentially an anti-Tory agenda and scaremongering about cuts to Barnett formula if Scotland votes no. Poll after poll puts them behind, and any “positivity” in their early campaign has vanished as a result.
Apart from the worrying cultural implications for Catholics and other minorities, my biggest worry is that Yes clearly don’t have an economic policy worthy of the name. Salmond et al can’t even tell us what currency we’ll be using!!! (which you might consider a rather important element for an independent nation…)
Added to that are the massive porkies Salmond and Sturgeon have told over EU membership, and the clear message from Baroso, Van Rompuy, and Rajoy that Scotland will not simply be allowed to waltz back into the EU on current generous terms…
The whole thing is a mess. The Yes campaign’s economic case doesn’t bear even thirty seconds of scrutiny.
The sooner it’s all over with and we can get back to proper politics, the better.
BCW.. whoever the free people of a free scotland vote for….