It is nonsense to talk about Hampden Hoodoos, Celtic’s five defeats there since Neil Lennon became manager have been a result of poor performances, not superstition (fighting the urge to mention two last minute penalty decisions). Celtic were unquestionably the stronger team on four of those five occasions, arguably all five, but they have been tactically out-thought at the national stadium time after time.
We are vastly stronger than Dundee United but once the whistle goes tomorrow, unless we can match them for hunger, arrest the defensive lapses which have blighted us all season, and find the key to breakdown what will be a tight defence, there is no reason to believe the outcome will be any different than when we faced a weaker St Mirren.
Shortly before that St Mirren defeat I said we were not playing consistently to win the treble we were short odds for. Consistency hasn’t improved much since, which is why you are hearing talk coming out of Lennoxtown about this being the biggest game of the season.
It’s double time….
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Millwall fans doing a Sevco?
eldiegobhoy
18:55 on 13 April, 2013
Guys this isn’t worth discussing.
Cheating is what they do. Let them get on with their charade.
Isn’t worth discussing ?
So we just let them do what they want and everything will be ok !!!!
Not me , I will challenge their cheating at every opportunity .
I would like to start a list, a list of where the SFA has come out with a decision in Celtic’s favour where the decision has been a close one, e.g. red card appeal, I will start it off with…. erm.. just give me a wee minute.
Millwall fans fighting with each other.
I think Woods will seek to incur a slow play penalty so as to allow the PGA to be seen to be fair.
They can have 10 independent inquiries, it matters not a jot. Green v Whyte will be ugly no matter what the inquiry says. The inquiry is an irrelevance.
While over at Ibrox , Chuck will continue the cost cutting. Sally will discover the 10m investment in players did not have a specific time schedule and the real kip is player costs at 30% of turnover. Even this month alone the Ibrox club lost 1m more than planned with 500k bonus each to Chuck and Sally.
I am quite happy for Chuck to continue to run the Ibrox. Hopefully he can keep it afloat in choppy waters for as long as possible, before it hits the rocks again.
Yep, Chuck and Sally is great for us and with our hero back on the scene it’s time for some Montrachet.
strange how the SFA can start an investigation into swearing by NFL with in hours of the “offence” , here we are 4 days after Whyte`s revelations and the silence from Hampden is deafening.
Millwall fans disgrace themselves.
An independent investigation !
A desperate attempt to avoid the real investigation
that is coming soon.
Reports that AIM will stop them trading next week.
Why are the SFA not instigating an immediate inquiry
into their financial ‘dooings’ ?
Millwalll fans claiming it is Rangers fans in Millwall shirts.
Down with that sort of thing!
A quote straight from Father Ted.
Thatcher suggested ‘Cromwell solution’ for Northern Ireland
A year after Brighton bombing, PM saw mass shift of Catholics from Ulster to Irish Republic as a way to end the Troubles
Special report: Northern Ireland
Nicholas Watt, political correspondent
The Guardian, Saturday 16 June 2001 02.04 BST
Margaret Thatcher horrified her advisers when she recommended that the government should revive the memory of Oliver Cromwell – dubbed the butcher of Ireland – and encourage tens of thousands of Catholics to leave Ulster for the south.
A year after she was nearly killed in the IRA’s 1984 Brighton bomb, the then prime minister expressed dismay at Catholic opposition to British rule when they could follow the example of ancestors who were evicted from Ulster at the barrel of a Cromwellian gun in the 17th century.
Lady Thatcher’s extraordinary solution to the Troubles has been disclosed by her advisers at the time of the negotiations on the 1985 Anglo-Irish agreement.
Sir David Goodall, then a diplomat who was one of the most senior British officials negotiating with the Irish government, told a BBC four-part documentary, Endgame in Ireland, that Lady Thatcher made the “outrageous” proposal during a late night conversation at Chequers.
“She said, if the northern [Catholic] population want to be in the south, well why don’t they move over there? After all, there was a big movement of population in Ireland, wasn’t there?
“Nobody could think what it was. So finally I said, are you talking about Cromwell, prime minister? She said, that’s right, Cromwell.”
Her interest in him is likely to turn her into an even greater hate figure among nationalists, who have never forgiven her for mishandling the 1981 republican hunger strikes. Catholics were slaughtered in their tens of thousands in the 1640s and 1650s by Cromwell’s forces. Virtually all Catholic landowners were hounded out of Ulster.
Lady Thatcher’s “outrageous” plan did not stop at reviving the memory of Cromwell.
Sir Charles Powell, then her private secretary, told the programme that she also called for Northern Ireland’s border with the republic to be redrawn.
“She thought that if we had a straight line border, not one with all those kinks and wiggles in it, it would be easier to defend,” he said.
The zigzag border is notoriously difficult to patrol. But Lord Armstrong of Ilminster, then cabinet secretary, told Lady Thatcher of the folly of her idea.
“It wasn’t as simple as that because the nationalist communities were not all in one place, not all in Fermanagh and Tyrone and South Armagh and so on,” he told the programme.
“There were many in Belfast, and the idea of partition in Belfast or moving large numbers of population didn’t seem to be very attractive.”
However, she would not abandon her idea and called for a “security zone” on both sides of the border to help the British army and the RUC to chase IRA terrorists who used to slip over the border after attacks in the north. This was rejected out of hand by the Irish government.
The border remained intact, and Lady Thatcher signed the Anglo-Irish agreement in November 1985, giving Dublin a consultative role in Northern Ireland in return for greater cross-border cooperation on security.
Her view of Ireland may have been tainted because her political ally Airey Neave was killed by a car bomb planted by the Irish National Liberation Army two months before her 1979 election victory. In 1990 Ian Gow, her parliamentary aide, was killed by an IRA car bomb.
jmccormick
Do you think our board are challenging these decisions ?
BBC@SEVCO A team from the Kinning Park area of Glasgow have announced that they will have an independent inquiry into “Whats my name again” as many who know them have actually no idea what they are called.
googybhoy ♥ Celtic
great to see him doing well. I think it is no coincidence a run of games free from injury has occurred miles from the treatment he got from the SPL defenders who were allowed to launch him into the air at will. All under the protection he got from the MIB`s.
FTSFA…
DR………………………….Mark Hateley says that an independent inquiry will be like signing a new player
Fourgreenfields
I agree with what you say but after LNS’ verdict and the complete lack of willing of the SFA to show any real willingness to confront the whole story makes me totally cynical that anything will be done that changes , or more preferably , finishes them
I hope I am wrong.
H x 2
Jimbo
starry plough
19:06 on
13 April, 2013
FTSFA…
With you all the way with that .
Time, time again, it is said
we will hear, we will see
see it all in His wisdom hear
His truth will abound the land
this truth will abound the land
this state of independence shall be
this state of independence shall be
this state of independence shall be
this state of independence shall be
this state of independence shall be…
FourGreenFields
in a word no. If they had been doing we would hear all about it, “Celts twist the knife “etc… would be the story.
I do hope they are compiling and collating everything and getting Mr McBrides replacement well briefed.
Helmut Schoen
Obviously the Sevco directors are still taking advice from that porn magnet ! Five hour meeting and they decide to investigate themselves oooooffffttttt !
jimbo67
I know mate but the time must come when clubs force them to address this charade .
HH
FourGreenFields
Me to pal but all we can do is question it all
Those who are in power at the SFA will never want to bring them down remember the spectre of “social unrest” was mentioned by Regan if their survival was threatened. In a way the politicians here like the bankers thought they were too big to go bust. I don’t believe for a minute Regan let slip “social unrest” on his own I believe he was prompted its far too big a statement for a mere SFA boss
It’s like this now if it was not for Craigy boy everything would be going relatively swimmingly for them
We have to be thankful for the Google Eyed 1 he has the info to sink them but it will happen of their own doing not the SFA’s if they can avoid it
The SFA will only nail them when they have no choice and can say in public they had no choice without any plans B to Z left in the hat. So let’s hope Craigy Boy and the ra deeds evidence are given 24hr protection
Regan and Doncaster say it would have been Armageddon without Woods.
jmccormick
I hope so to mate , I can’t take much more of this shoite .
HH
Thindimebhoy 19:12
I don’t believe for a minute Regan let slip “social unrest” on his own I believe he was prompted its far too big a statement for a mere SFA boss
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Spot on mate – I have said this before. He has obviously been primed by someone in higher authority that there HAD to be some form of “Rangers” playing football. Hence no openings for Spartans, Cove Rangers, etc to apply to claim the vacant place in the league.
I also fear BDO have been told the same (re the dubious sale of Ibrox).
The Boy Jinky
18:59 on 13 April, 2013
It wont stop our hero going to the press with more revelations
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I agree with you. Craigy will play this like a poker player – this week’s revelations are his opening gambit. Much more to come before he goes all in!
As soon as sevco (or their independent commission) make a statement – he will up the stakes again with another uncomfortable snippet of evidence.
This might not be the sevco end game but this phase will be Craigy’s – he needs payback; either financial or retribution to avoid or muddy the criminal investigation.
Fourgreenfields
You would have thought so. But after last year I have a gut feeling that there is less desire to stand up to them this time.
No offence to you sir, just a bit cheesed off with things recently
Jimbo
FourGreenFields
it drives me mental…I have cut back on the bevvy this year, so I will not allow the smell of this cover up to spoli my wee drop of Carmenere tonight . So I am off before I get more bitter and twisted, it`s not good for me.
Test
Irish America prevented Thatcher’s tyranny in Ireland from being much worse.Her reign,thankfully coincided with the most powerful Irish lobby in America’s history,since JFK anyway.Tip O’Neill and three others,maybe Ted Kennedy as well? I think they were know as the Four Horsemen? They brought an enormous ammount of pressure upon her,despite her friendship with Regan.She wanted a Cromwellian solution,no doubt about it.One for the historians.
I really want to talk about Celtic and the Cup semi tomorrow but I reckon I’m in a small minority. If ye want to talk about Sevco, I’ll stick to my mantra, it is and always will be about the money. As long as they are losing money we have nothing to worry about. Let them have their enquiry, let Chuck bluster, insult and rabble rouse and most importantly let him survive. Our only worry is if a consortium of real dedicated Huns with financial clout get their hands on Ibrox, then a team playing out of there could start to compete.
thindimebhoy
Your right mate but I’m struggling big style with the apparent lack of fight .
I know we challenge it all the time on here but surely other clubs supporters can’t be happy with this situation .
For example , why are Dunfermline not challenging the Scottish Cup ban compared to the slap on the wrist Sevco got.
HH
sipsini
18:37 on
13 April, 2013
The huns don’t wash their dirty linen in public…why now?
Whyte has threatened to open a bigger can of worms than even we could believe.
It’s about the protection of sdm now…the scarlet pimpernel of late.
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Exactly what I said a few days ago when sally openly criticised Green at a press conference…..
Something is afoot
HH
Does anyone think that today’s poor turnout at Hampden is a reflection of how other club’s fans view the SFA and their competitions??
Anyone know how many turned up at Ibrokes today?
I was talking to a sevconian this morning who didn’t bother going to the game because of all the Green/Whyte stuff. He told me that out of 48 booked on his bus only 10 went to their game.