“Not many know what goes on behind the scenes”, Shane Duffy’s words on Instagram as he said his goodbyes to Celtic yesterday. Arriving a year ago as a 28-year-old international with years of English Premiership experience, he looked like the ideal addition to the Celtic squad.
Whatever ailed Shane to prompt Brighton to move him on, a year in Glasgow, much of it in isolation away from family and his kids, did nothing to help. His parting sentiment alludes to some of his challenges has endured off the park.
If footballers would only be machines, nothing like this would happen. Competitions would resolve in a manner the aborted European Super League would approve. Shane was physically fit and desperate to be a winner at Celtic but still came off the rails. You can bookmark him for a reflective piece when his career is over, I expect he will tell a familiar tale of the toll life’s pressures took.
Yip, still no news. No, not a good sign.
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mad ich
Darnley funding capital sourced over time pre 1974
pre Denis Healey monetarism 1976
pre Thatcher 1979 when the roll out of feral capitalism continued..
An interesting choice tho.
Darnley,
The financing in 1974 would be in place before then as it opened then.
when it was redeveloped it was only on a private/public partnership basis.the public would get a few houses but the for sale would go on rest.look at the council scheme that was South Nitshill (southie) its now a persimmon scheme with its ‘cityview’
flats.a lot of social exclusion going on.
publicly owned land areas that built the massive schemes now all been developed on privately, look around ye.
hh
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JHB
A Scotland demographic report shows that 60% of the 600k Catholic/Irish/Celtic electorate vote SNP, i.e. c350k. This is why the SNP are in power in Scotland and have so many MPs at Westminster.
The reason for voting SNP is a disingenuous one – if they thought the “Flat Earth’ party could spite the Rangers, they would vote for it.
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You basically said that 60% of the Catholic/Irish/Celtic support are stupid and deeply sectarian. Sweeping stereotype or what?
jhb
The only fiscal you should be concerned about it is the Procurator Fiscal
An unalloyed sectarian bigot
If I ever did see one
Real Numbers – 2011 census.
Number
(Thousands) Percentage
All people 5,295 100.0
No religion 1,941 36.7
Cof Scotland 1,718 32.4
R. Catholic 841 15.9
Not stated 368 7.0
Still engaging jhb 🤷🏽♂️
SQUIRE DANAHER on 9TH MAY 2021 7:58 PM
I could never watch WWE wrestling I would require a frontal lobotomy first, although it appears we have unionist trolls on the blog who appear to have had that particular operation
It appears to me you are not giving recognition to the emotional attachment to Celtic which so many supporters including me have to Celtic FC, Tommy Burns epitomised this connection when he said “When you pull on that jersey you’re not just playing for a football club, you’re playing for a people and a cause” it’s their club, it’s their community like me they may have gone to Celtic Park with father and grandfather thereby embedding supporting Celtic deep within the soul, I don’t judge any of my fellow tims in regards to whatever their decision on going or not going to Celtic park, I personally don’t believe in demanding a boycott of Celtic park and would never tell someone they should not attend Celtic park, that’s far too personal
SD @ 8.15
The Hartlepool hospital issue along with many similar situations is a challenge to just about any political party.
The Hartlepool hospital is too small for the range and depth of services that it once provided / provides at the moment but under threat of relocation every couple of years.
Hospital departments have gotten bigger for a number of reasons.
Numbers bring skills / experience / support / expertise.
This is lacking in smaller departments and the output figures all too often confirms this.
Consequently the current trend is to concentrate services in bigger hospitals.
That means that a local icon like the Hartlepool hospital will suffer — a population of 100K is too small to support a workable general hospital.
This happens when money is flowing into the NHS — 2005’ish when there was talk of downgrading some of Hartlepool’s services.
It happens when money is tight / the NHS is on the point of local collapse — 2014’ish when the plans were re-visited.
Anyone who proposes change in this environment amongst a community that once hanged a monkey for looking “too French” is going to be up against it especially in the medical field where allegiances go the grave — see Dundee for a local example.
Disappointed that Labour did not investigate radical options — hub and outstation arrangements / local low risk wards / better local services.
If you have the best paid doctors in Europe there are never going to be enough of them and the current trend is larger teams and centralisation so that you don’t have local worthies lording it over a single ward with no accountability.
Failing that we could always copy the Europeans — they must have lessons they could teach us.
LIONROARS67 on 9TH MAY 2021 8:44 PM
It appears to me you are not giving recognition to the emotional attachment to Celtic which so many supporters including me have to Celtic FC
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Absolutely not.
I deliberately stated that I was well aware that people will not follow any attempted calls to boycott. At no time did I advocate a boycott.
What I did say was I had reached my own tipping point.
To use your words “ the emotional attachment to Celtic which so many supporters including me have to Celtic FC” is what’s kept me renewing for at least the past 4-5 years.
JHB
That takes the biscuit for the most bizarre political analysis, still I had a good laugh , keep it up
I will be renewing 2seats up in LL416 for definite.
I think 🤷🏽♂️
ernie lynch
`And the Greens know which side of their (organic, wholegrain sourdough) bread is buttered (ersatz vegan butter substitute, obviously), .`
:-)))))
FWIW, I know ernie is not everyone`s favourite poster but I do enjoy his acerbic wit,depth of information and precise expression. He seldom makes a point without trying to back it up.
Cheerio for now.
Dancing at The Locarno in Glasgow in 1964.
Photo: TSPL
https://twitter.com/YourWullie/status/1390378844792795137/photo/1
How the world changes / has changed in 40 years — Lesson 1
The Black North / NI / 6 counties / Caffrey’s FC — delete as appropriate — go the WC.
Not sure who is who regarding background / religious affiliation / social + economic status — but they seem to be a very mixed bunch.
Now there seems to be fewer RC players in the NI team because quite a few of them now seem to head for international football where their parent’s generation would have been happy enough to play for NI.
Not the full picture but instructive.
NL gets bullets in the post in the 21st century.
AR — from memory got some stick — but not on this scale.
Locally you had the situation 15 years ago when Glasgow born players were heading over to Ireland for international football — 26 or 6 counties — and goading others to do the same.
TFOD player being the loudest.
It has always happened just a case that it was not something to shout about.
LIONROARS67 on 9TH MAY 2021 6:43 PM
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SCULLYBHOY on 9TH MAY 2021 7:26 PM
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Re The Locarno
I first went there on a Saturday nights in the mid 1960s as well as the Barrowland. And most of the men wore suits.
MADMITCH on 9TH MAY 2021 7:35 PM
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Is the deleted cult expanding or is it the same naughty bhoys😵
MADMITCH on 9TH MAY 2021 7:44 PM
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I think you had to pass by doormen who would decide if you could get in.
SCULLYBHOY on 9TH MAY 2021 9:14 PM
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Guys with an agenda posting on here are definitely winning
TIMMY7_NOTED on 9TH MAY 2021 9:17 PM
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Big Jimmy probably knows more about trying to get in to the dancin’
MADMITCH on 9TH MAY 2021 9:18 PM
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MADMITCH on 9TH MAY 2021 9:53 PM
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Documenrary about Hurricane Higgins on bbc2.
JHB on 9TH MAY 2021 8:05 PM
STEPHBHOY67 on 9TH MAY 2021 3:52 PM
Being a celtic supporter is one thing I am, it does not follow that all my views are shaped by my team, religious beliefs, family or ethnicity. Wanting independence does not make me a supporter of SNP policy but it does shape my political position right now. It also does not make me small minded or anti english to have lost faith in the system, ffs much of the north of england feel exactly the same, does that make them anti english? Difference is we as a sovereign nation can change it.
My view about labour has changed from many years watching them in and out of power. Labour done nothing for the working man despite being in power for over a decade. The rich got richer and the wealth gap increased, they pushed private investment in public sector and listened to big business, the wealth tax loophole remained while they chased single mums for working up the side to feed their kids.
I know how the tories work and I know how labour work, social justice is far from high on the agenda once they hold the big seat. Get me a party that places equity, balance and fairness at the top of their agenda and I will happily follow. Until then I will vote in a way that reflect how I think this can best be achieved and in a scottish co text it wont be happening as part of the uk.
HH
I would hope that the only agenda for posters would seeking the best for Celtic but clearly this weekend politics and self aggrandising have superseded football as the main focus
who is this new poster moderator 2 Deleted!!!!😐
https://mobile.twitter.com/Redpeter99/status/1390934645412401155
This guy is routinely good for a laugh on top with a serious point as the foundation.
Moderators everywhere what’s going on.
I see the KKK members are organising another party at George square, surely the council and police are not allowing this after the last time and for winning 1 league wtf.
D :)
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`RON BACARDI on 9TH MAY 2021 9:42 PM
I think you had to pass by doormen who would decide if you could get in.`
We used to go into the Sarry Heid, drink x number of pints of cider very quickly then get past the doormen before the alcohol had kicked in ! It was almost a case of sober at the bottom of the stairs and drunk at the top! Incidentally, as we all looked pretty much the same then (!), I could be one of about two or three of the guys in St Stivs` photo !!
Unfortunately, there are a great many posts which I either scan quickly or ignore completely. As soon as I see that a post has been deleted, I want to see it !!