There will be no mention of ‘Drama Queens’ from me, but those who were uncontrollably distressed by ‘defeats’ in meaningless friendlies will no doubt be delighted to lean a Celtic team largely staffed by undergraduates got the better of Brentford yesterday. The rest of us remain unmoved, although I was pleased Amido Balde received some encouragement.
As many of you will know, the LostBhoys have been broadcasting podcasts covering Celtic’s history in recent months. It has been an incredibly professional, informative and entertaining look at our club through the years. This weekend they broadcast a decade I helped them cover, 1950-1960.
It encapsulated a seminal period for Celtic. When the SFA ruled the club would face suspension if they continued to fly the Irish flag, we could have gone out of business, or forever been robbed of our heritage. The decade saw many of the great names in our history at Celtic Park: McGrory, Tully, Stein, Fallon, McNeill, Chalmers, Auld, Gribben and Hogan, as well as the ever-influential, Sir Robert Kelly, but to those at the time it looked like we were heading nowhere. Celtic lost more games in the 50s than in any other decade, but as we know, it’s darkest before the dawn….
There are great contributions from Charlie Gallacher and John Fallon, and Terry Dick, son of Glen Daly, who recorded The Celtic Son, told us how the song came into being (it was basically the work of Charlie Tully).
You can download this episode here but catch them all, you’ll be glad you did.
Two days until football returns to Celtic Park; can’t wait.
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floridaghirl
woods got caught there are a few well known golfers who did not and a few who did.
in todays world you cant sneeze but someone will have it on camera.
not saying what he did was right but in my opinion if he is not in the mix in the last couple of rounds it tends to be boring.
today was the exception.
mickybhoy
a pint in the kerrydale is only £3.20 you would pay more in some of the establishments in the city centre
Mickbhoy 1888
You nouveau- riche arriviste you!
Jimbo
The Keevins article as produced on the first page here is truly awful, and, combined with the inflammatory online piece in the Sun, is a clear signal that for the MSM the game remains the same:
Rangers = good
Celtic = in crisis
Lennon = thug
Ally = Cheeky Chappy
Walter = dignity personified (even when he’s threatening you)
Given everything that’s happened to the Huns, and the complete a*** the MSM made of covering their demise, you’d think a bit more scepticism, and bit more distance, would be in order.
But not Hugh. Right back in there, bigging up the wealthy RFC (“if they were poor why would they be spending all this money?” Erm….). And lavishing Walter (“Ah cannae dae this joab”) Smith with praise, even whilst acknowledging his bullying tactics and the faintly sinister air that has defined his unremarkable career.
Honestly, hell mend them all. They truly deserve on another. The odious Jack Irvine was right when he called them “morons”.
Drama Queen – by The Lumineers (so hipster it stinks):o)
http://youtu.be/b07gcIuKUYk
Coach position available at Ibrox- Head Coach available – how will they advertise their latest vacancy ?
Italiabhoy
I was enraged …briefly ( I’ve that kind of temper) …then I considered that today’s reporting is just as it has always been
The media are once again being complicit in the Hun demise ….they’re skint …it’s all a charade
Celtic chumps erect,
Thanks for the input, now scurry back to KDS little boy. Ah the old sexual innuendo from an old queer i bet u have sucked on plenty
Seen this on RM
they are not happy with poster does not suit their agenda :))
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Buses destroyed in depot fire / Greenock Telegraph / News / Greenock
5 Jun 2009 … COACH firm bosses have been left devastated by a garage blaze that destroyed three coaches worth around £50000., Byline: Lorraine Tinney, …
http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/…/388201-buses-destroyed-in-depot-fire/
Fire at bus yard / Greenock Telegraph / News / Greenock
28 Feb 2012 … A BLAZE broke out late last night at a bus depot in Greenock – damaging a garage and two vehicles., Byline: Paul John Coulter, Category: …
http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/…/424497-fire-at-bus-yard/
Port bus crash victim is ‘getting better’ / Greenock Telegraph / News…
6 Jul 2013 … THE condition of a Port man left fighting for his life after a horrificbus … Port Glasgow fire station watch commander Chris Bjonness said at the …
http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/…/463356-port-bus-crash-victim-is-getting- better/
Blaze-hit bus firm lays off six / Greenock Telegraph / News / Greenock
22 Jun 2011 … Wilson’s Coaches owner Robert Wilson said the weekend fire, which destroyed eight buses and caused £240,000 in damage at his …
http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/…/414495-blazehit-bus-firm-lays-off-six/
Bus firm pull-out comes under fire / Greenock Telegraph / News …
26 Jan 2005 … PROVOST Ciano Rebecchi today slammed transport bosses for changing abus route without visiting the area. Slaemuir Coaches applied to …
http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/articles/1/5538?mode=print
Massive blaze at bus depot / Greenock Telegraph / News / Greenock
20 Jun 2011 … A DELIBERATELY-started fire has destroyed eight buses and caused £240000 worth of damage at Greenock bus depot., Byline: Brian Hossack …
http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/…/414438-massive-blaze-at-bus-depot/
Owner’s agony at £100k bus blaze / Greenock Telegraph / News …
20 Feb 2012 … A third bus was also slightly damaged during the blaze, which was discovered around 2am. Police and two appliances from Gourock firestation …
http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/…/424042-owners-agony-at-pound100k-bus- blaze/
Bus depot blaze causes £100,000 damage / Greenock Telegraph …
19 Feb 2012 … A third bus was also slightly damaged during the blaze, which was discovered around 2am. Police and two appliances from Gourock Fire …
http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/…/424027-bus-depot-blaze-causes- pound100000-damage/
What’s with the rude chat and innuendo
Not becoming of this site ..poor show
Just read that succulent article from Keevins. Bad enough he wrote that kind of guff, but he even admitted that it was because Walter had bent his ear!
By the way, I’d be a wee bit worried if Ian Bankier was on tour with the team and out on the training ground telling Lenny what to do!
timhorton
they may all be doing it – in Woods case it was the extent of the cheating, the sense of injustice in being caught , the failure to apologise with any sincerity, and a propensity to put the blame on someone or something other than yourself ie an addiction in his case, that makes me liken him to the shower in govan
Ha ha ha,
Is that the best you’ve got, very impressive,
I bet yer pals awe think yer a great laugh.
Now what exactly is your objection ?
The Huddle @ 19:30
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-23391324
And
Empty stands are endemic at all sporting events now. No matter what figures you read in the papers on a Monday
Nasty is Neil Lennon @19:35
Welcome to join me in the investors lounge anytime where I can assure you the price of a pint is a lot dearer than £3.20 and your buying
Vogue punter @ 19:32
Unfortunate not to have recieved a private education but I do wish with hindsight that I had sent my son private. It may surprise you however that some of the chaps on here attended. St Aloysius which I believe is private
Ps not attending a private school didn’t stop a European cup goal scorer becoming the club champion of a north Glasgow golf club on a couple of occasions
Just read Keevins article,hand me the sick bag,I little rat of a person.
Congratulations to Monaghan,you know what to do now.
“He is one of the latest midfield engines to roll off the Murray Park forecourt.” ….. The MSM really ARE still in denial….when I read this (about Lewis McLeod) today, I thought, oh dear…
jimbo67
19:42 on 21 July, 2013
Aye ah must be mate forked out £210 for 3 home champions league games last season and over £900 for the 3 away games
Hence £6.80 an hour for the golf tremendous value
saw a celtic 2013-2014 season add on youtube aswell as minclip games – hope it brings the bucks in
Mickbhoy 1888
Must admit I used to enjoy my trips to the gowff – the Saturday at Muirfield in 2002 when I got totally soaked being the exception. I know Muirfield is a bastion of much that I detest but it’s a great course( and my nephew won a competition there a few years ago)
Jimbo
scullybhoy
Thinking of changing my moniker..”nottheburntoutbus” perhaps
Last time I tried golf couldn’t hit the blooming ball, ended up digging a hole all around it and I can’t even claim I was drinking!!! I was just rubbish lol
I had been told that Bargeddie Golf Club (sorry, Drumpellier) allowed a local priest to have a membership. It seems that it was as a result of them being worried about losing their bevy license as they refused membership to Catholics.
The committee said that doing that meant that they could point to Catholic member without the possibility of the club taken over by Catholics as “priests don’t have children”.
The person who told me this story was a parishioner of the said priest.
Sandyhills golf club was also challenged in this way by a guy who went on to be Lord Provost of Glasgow. He got a knock back, and being local, Knew about the orange flags on every green, picture of Betty Windsor on the Clubhouse wall and their discrimination. He was due to become licensing conveyor in Glasgow and told them that next time he would block their license. In the 80s, they found themselves so short of cash due to falling membership in the recession that they had to accept the green pound.
to save you hitting Keevins DR web site this is the dross he wrote:
CALL me an old cynic if you like but I think Walter Smith and Ally McCoist are at it.
The chairman tells us he’s nowhere near astute enough to hold down that lofty position at Ibrox.
The manager says Rangers aren’t ready to play with the big boys, such as you-know-who across the city from them.
So what was that opulent training ground in the German countryside all about then?
Take one charter flight, the cost of hiring premises the cream of German and English football use to train on and, with other expenses, it comes to the annual budget for some of the clubs Rangers face in the Second Division.
And they left behind a £14million complex of their own on the outskirts of Glasgow to train abroad for a week.
Not bad for a club who have a declared need of money.
You don’t do all that in order to beat Brechin City on the opening day of the league campaign, do you? Is this not Rangers tooling up for an assault on one of the cup competitions so they can take great delight, and deservedly so, for being the lower league club who gave a red face to the beaten finalist from what will soon be called the Scottish Premiership?
And wouldn’t their fans revel in that moment. It would keep them warm for the next two years until Rangers are back in the top division.
Now Ally can relax and focus his full attention on the team because he’s not required to hold the club together
whenever some fresh irritation arises off the park.
And how much of that has he had to do, and to the detriment of the team, over the last 18 months?
When news broke that Charles Green, Rangers’ former owner, might have colluded with disgraced Craig Whyte to buy the club the manager delivered one of his legendary one liners on the subject of personal happiness.
“I’m not exactly outside on a unicycle wearing a big red nose,” he said, meaning his funny bone might as well have been surgically removed at that point.
He can get the clown’s outfit on for amusement now if he likes as Walter’s the firewall between the team and any matters that are none of the manager’s concern.
He’s shouldering the responsibility that once weighed down on McCoist and he’s better at it than he lets on.
Smith says he’s not the club’s conscience but he’s the face of Rangers and the glue that holds them together.
He arrived in Germany on Tuesday with chief executive Craig Mather and was clearly able to mix with the players and the management with equal ease.
He also managed to deliver yours truly a little light touch chastisement in the midst of his busy schedule.
There was a difference of opinion arising from the interpretation of something I’d written about Rangers last week and the chairman took me aside for a quiet word.
Nothing so vulgar as a row, simply the subtly-put expression of the club’s standpoint accompanied by that cold-eyed stare that reporters used to get when Walter was running the team and had been caused upset.
An ear bashing but without any visible scarring that would show up in court, if you know what I mean.
And no concessions for the over 60s, not when the one advancing the club’s point of view was a year older than me.
No harm done. Happens every day in this line of work. Nothing to see here. There were sporting handshakes all round at the end of our conversation and Walter went off to be statesman-like with his
genial hosts from FC Gutersloh.
He says he’s not suited to the boardroom because he doesn’t have a proper handle on generating the level of finance Rangers need to challenge Celtic one day.
The gap between them at the bank is massive and growing in Celtic’s favour every year – but everything stems from the team on the park.
Ally can get on with attending to that side of the business.
The “auld yin”, as he calls him, can give Rangers an element of stability while they sort themselves out behind the scenes.
Somehow I think Walter will be the chairman for longer than he’s letting on and it’ll be no bad thing for the club.
I look forward to the next tug on my jacket for a brief word.
Jimbo @20:09
Muirfield and a few other Scottish golf clubs aren’t the only bastions of exclusivity in the golfing world There are a few clubs in the Emerald Isle which are a lot harder to get a tee time on and one that immediately springs to mind is Old Head golf links just south of Kinsale in Co Cork
mickbhoy1888
The bhoys on here who attended private school do not come across as pseudo snobs,
like yourself .
Tulliallan has brainwashed you against the common mhan.
Look forward to seeing you in your cab ,how the feck does your top hat fit in?
keevins…..ha, busted flush.
His finest humiliation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KroVyuSBiU
Uppity Tims joining gowf and bowling clubs all over Scotland!
It will never catch on.
HH!!
Mickbhoy 1888
Don’t think there is anywhere , where golf is popular at any rate, where there arent clubs which aren’t the preserves of the great and the good ( blazered division) .
Jimbo
It will come as no surprise to the Creditors of ‘yon’ died club,
that they may have more money than ‘peepil’ realise!
Their accounting system is ‘ one-way’, ie. Income!.
‘Wass outgoings’,?
H.H.
VP @ 20:20
Bravo old chap
Terribly looking forward to having your patronage in my Hackney Carriage one day and listening to you pseudo republican socialist views on life
Tootle pip need to run along to my private health club now
I did tell you about the tragic bus. If my name was Nostrademus it would still be over most if your baldy heads.
I see Mickeybhoy and Shug are up to the same thing. At least Shug gets something for his fawning fellatio.
Well done Canamalar. You can set yourself up in the mirror business in a few years from now. Not that you will get must custom from CQN.
I agree with Paul67s take on Pre season frendlies and look forward to the fair pricing CQN campaign for disinterested footballers and football. It can only enhance Celtic as a football club and PLs negotiating reputation.
Whats more important ?
I am totally disgusted by the absence of hope on CQN that we cant sell Fraser Forster before the summers over.
Lord have Mercy
Christ Have mercy
MON the hoops and the baldy we uneducated arses who support Celtic and .are in fact parasites.
They need educated on a non spiritual basis …. Even when addled ;-)
Moan the balance sheet
Lets be having you ?
HH
Please can people not post extracts of the DR on my favourite Celtic website – it is an insult to our intelligence.
jimbo67
20:26 on 21 July, 2013
Blazers aren’t the only the preserve of Golf clubs, despite spending countless tens of thousands following Celtic throughout the years I have yet to wheedle my way into sitting with the high and mighty at Celtic Park. But I do get a nice letter before the start of every season now and thousands of e-mails offering me to buy this or that at a discount
Off to a place called Santa Ponsa in Majorca on Tuesday does anyone know if there is a chance I may be able to catch any Celtic games in any of the local bars over the coming fortnight
spiney loach
20:35 on
21 July, 2013
Or just leave numerious links on our web site to the DR to enhance hits and their revenue…………
Mickbhoy 1888
Such , as Ned Kelly said, is life.
Jimbo
Gowf … a game for tubes ;)
Masty- you originally from the cross then- I knew Davie Jackson from along there- he broke my arm at school- all harmless fun