I was slightly miffed at Neil Lennon’s TV comments on Efe Ambrose yesterday, “He can’t cross”, but on reflection, better Neil points out the player’s flaws to the nation than gives him a ringing endorsement. I’d a similar sentiment after Emilio Izaguirre’s dangerous looking forward step against France, which was never in danger of making contact with an opponent, when an ever-unhelpful commentator assured us Izzie, “has that in his locker”. Anyone who has watched him for four years will know he doesn’t.
Based purely on what’s been offered up on UK TV, neither player will be attracting an offer, which is good.
Both Honduras and Nigeria have a difficult task ahead if they are to remain in the tournament beyond the group stage. Fraser Forster’s England also have it all to do. It’s been great for the three of them to get to the World Cup but the sooner they’re home, uninjured, the better.
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S S
Where was it??
Cults
Pity he wiznae world class when he played for us!!
Bada – I just lost the will to live with that one :)
( there again I’m sure I put forward wee stuart Mcall:(
ACGR
After 45mins – £20 oot the windae!
Couple of miles before harthill heading west,
Big billy walking the team out, magnificent.
Sftb- are they clams? :)
SFTB
Capello’s main aim will be not to lose the first game, which might be inhibiting their better players.
Saint stivs – love it – big enough to register too high and oot the way for the hordes to challenge it hh
johann-touche’ HH
Praecepta, you shouldnt be betting on these sons of putin. Thats six and a quarter pints of guinness down the swannee, ffs. If you,d backed the glorious sons of SK you could have been up a pint of snake blood, two monkey fingers and a barbecued cat. Tut tut tut.
Mon the Mr Ki and his fellows:-)
S S
This time next month wd be brill.
saint stivs
23:52 on 17 June, 2014
Couple of miles before harthill heading west,
Big billy walking the team out, magnificent.
That sounds like the picture on a gift card I bought from the Celtic Shop recently, would be a great pic to have on the Season Card
ACGR
Think its dasvidanya to my bet – bad day at the office.
However only 5% of the kitty thanks to the efficient Germans yesterday!
:-)
Jings..! Crivvens..! Slap Ed Milliband..!
Did That Insufferable Leftie PipSqueak,Owen Jones….
Attend The Same Dreary,Breezeblock Polytechnic….
As (Our) Own Curmudgeon SFTB..?
This Shouty Muppet-Boy Spins Precisely The Same Lies…
About Senator Joe McCarthy…
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Do They Have A Special Module In Their Course…
“How To Subvert British Society From Within”…
Specially Devoted To Spreading Disinformation To The Masses..?
We Should Be Told….
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Owen Jones and the Historical Ignorance Surrounding ‘McCarthyism’
by Sarkis Zeronian
17 Jun 2014, 3:34 AM PDT
The Guardian published a little something from Owen Jones on Sunday evening on the back of all of this talk about ‘British values’. His article entitled, “Sorry, David Cameron, but your British history is not mine” discusses the differences between British aristocratic history, and that of the working classes.
I have a degree of sympathy with his argument. I agree with Daniel Hannan MEP that “British values” are summed up by the inscription on the Magna Carta Memorial: freedom under law. I fear that if you start trying to list them further (as Dan does, coming up with parliamentary supremacy, free contract, the rule of law, private property, regular elections, uncensored newspapers, liberty of association, habeas corpus, religious pluralism, jury trials and individual autonomy) you also open up the opportunity for opponents of those things to redefine them from time to time. In all likelihood that redefinition will not be something we welcome.
However, where I do part with Jones is where he just gets historic fact flatly wrong. He wrote (emphasis added):
“Where the government’s agenda becomes dangerous is if one side claims its values are those of the nation as a whole. This is an age-old strategy of authoritarian regimes and movements, used to exclude, ostracise or suppress dissidents. The instrument of McCarthyism to persecute the US left, after all, was the House Committee on Un-American Activities.”
The error Jones makes is highlighted in great detail by Ann Coulter in her 2003 book “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism.”
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was just that: a House committee, and was not formed by Senator McCarthy, but in fact was the creation of liberal Democrats such as New York Congressman Samuel Dickstein in 1938 (nearly a decade before McCarthy was first sent to Washington) in order to defend America from enemies overseas and German spies and saboteurs at home.
The HUAC investigation into alleged communist propaganda and influence in the Hollywood motion picture industry took place in 1947. Again, Senator McCarthy had no involvement.
McCarthy’s involvement with anti-Communist activity really began with a speech he made in February 1950 when he first publicly declared he had a list of known Communists working for the State Department (an allegation shown to have factual foundation by the declassification of the Venona Project cables in the 1990s), and the first recorded use of the term ‘McCarthyism’ was in a political cartoon published by The Washington Post in March of that year.
To blame a Republican Senator for a House Committee set up by a Democrat Representative nine years before that Senator took office, which was made famous for anti-Communist investigations in which the Senator took no part, takes a special level of historic ignorance.
And this is often the mark of Owen Jones. Start off by saying something entirely reasonable to get the readers’ heads nodding – then by the end of an article he’s taken you on a fantasy trip you never signed up for. The sad thing is most Guardian readers probably wouldn’t even have noticed, and their heads will still be nodding along, 48 hours after publication.
*ttp://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/06/17/owen-jones-on-mcarthyism
Viva SydneyTim..!
Up The HOOPS….!
John Collins..! Hmmmmm..????
Nae shaving foam for that free kick?
BB, do they use shaving foam for the Brazilians?
Hi Ghuys
S. Korea are to be investigated for fielding an undeage player…
Far To Yeung
H H
Phil
a ceiler gonof rust
00:19 on 18 June, 2014
BB, do they use shaving foam for the Brazilians?
One for the Moonhowlers to discuss…..:))
Oh aye.
Night all beepers cant take much more of this.
Talking of Hoooooowwwwwlers!
He’s been trying to throw one in all night :o)
Salt mine beckons for the goalie
Russian goalie does an Alan Rough.
Has been playing as if he’s on Valium.
Hong King!
‘Am away to my bed!
Meester putin your boys are taking a hell of a beating.
One more, mon the Ki, dae it.
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Putin will Not like His Players handling Balls that might have Shaving Foam on them..
Summa of PussyRiotCSC
TOSB
How’s yer challenge going?
Did the result the other night make it easier?
Ki is a fine player but he needs to be bolder with his own team mates.
Take control of free kicks etc he has the talent…get the attitude.
1-1
Stramash the proper description of that one.
:-(
Bah humbug
beatbhoy
00:28 on 18 June, 2014
TOSB
How’s yer challenge going?
Did the result the other night make it easier?
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I’m still supporting England but the xenophobia from their commentators is doing my head in. The way they started slagging the Brazilian TV directors for using the technology even when the ball had hit the back of the net and the way the commentator nearly self combusted at the incident during the France game when Benzema hit the post and the goalie threw the ball into the net. He then mentions the incident in 1966 and has a dig at the German company who developed and installed the goal line technology system as if it was in some way faulty. He showed himself up as being not very bright.
I thought England had a great first half but when the Italians shut down Sterling, they took control and deservedly won the game. I’ll keep supporting them though :-))
Well I was half right.
Can’t believe those two dodgy keepers were not tested more
Them ruskies are lucky bassa,s except for their keeper. He,s for the gulags.
Good to see NFL looking happy and relaxed in the punditery, not a thing wee saw often when the huns support were trying to murder him.
Offski to drink some cheap spanish plonk and prepare for the visit of paddybhoy for some sclaffbaw at the crack of dawn, or thereabouts.
Hail Hail Celtic men and wumminp
TOSB
The commentators and pundits will ratch it up a notch for the Uruguay match, as they know defeat means the end. Can you imagine if Luis boy takes a tumble in the box and wins a penalty with nobody near him? Or if Cavani scores and they notice a tug on Rooney’s shirt by a Uruguayan 10 minutes previously, which, had it been given, would have meant Cavani not scoring, and England going on to almost certain victory!
Good night all.
Should be a fun 90 minutes anyway!
Swap those last two sentences round!
TOSB
The commentators and pundits will ratch it up a notch for the Uruguay match, as they know defeat means the end. Can you imagine if Luis boy takes a tumble in the box and wins a penalty with nobody near him? Or if Cavani scores and they notice a tug on Rooney’s shirt by a Uruguayan 10 minutes previously, which, had it been given, would have meant Cavani not scoring, and England going on to almost certain victory!
Should be a fun 90 minutes anyway!
Good night all.
There. I’ll sleep better now. . . . . . . .