I suppose we should start by heading the warning from Sevconian under-performer, Ian Black, who suggested that the Third Division is harder than the SPL. By this logic, Second Division Arbroath will terrify the life out of the Celtic defence ahead of their Scottish Cup tie tomorrow, they did, after all, put three goals past Inverurie Locos in the Third Round tie, and again in the replay.
Only Montrose
Having previously experienced the delights of Brechin, Forfar and the Dundee clubs, after tomorrow, the only Tayside club I will not have seen will be Montrose. These opportunities don’t come around often enough!
In all seriousness, Second and Third Division football is not difficult, it is essentially Keep Fit on the cheap. Celtic must deal with the sincere endeavour of their opponents while giving an opportunity for several fringe players to grace Celtic Park.
With our midfield already stretched by injury and suspension ahead of the Spartak game, Neil Lennon will want to guard this area of the team in particular. Spartak play their last game before heading to Glasgow tonight, at home to Zenit, who sit five points about them after 17 games. This is a huge game for Spartak and interim manager Valery Karpin, who will either succeed as interim, and be made permanent boss, or to fail and to also lose his general manager position.
Unusually for the Champions League, they have five days to recover before facing Celtic, a game Karpin is keen to win. Celtic will technically only have four days rest but the bulk of players likely to play in midweek will surely be rested tomorrow.
Spartak will be without striker Welliton, who travelled to Germany for an operation this week. Emmanuel Emenike, who scored twice against Celtic last month, is likely to lead the line. Emenike is a penalty box striker who is more than capable of exploiting gaps in the Celtic box. Karpin may instead opt to play target-man Artyom Dzuba as a sole striker. Dzuba is not a prodigious goal-scorer but he is able to hold play up and bring others into the game.
I loved media suggestions today that Sports Direct have a fight on their hands from other firms if they want their brand used to rename Ibrox. You have to admire the intellectual endeavour that goes into news coverage in this country. Sports Direct area THE key business partner for The Rangers. The only issue open to question is how much skin they are in the game for and what they get in return. Remember this when you’re buying sports kit for Christmas!
Lower league clubs will all surely be quaking in their boots at the news The Rangers will not only bring in well over £20m in a share issue, but could also earn countless riches from stadium naming rights. The leaked IPO PowerPoint presentation suggested the Offer for Subscription would commence on Monday. I am sure it is on-plan.
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Andrew67/canamalar
Sorry but got an early start so bed calls. Will address your points next time I’m on lads.
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As Someone who was Under Survielance for nearly 10 years I doubt Very Very much that The Green Brigade are Under Survielance..
But I can Say it makes You Very Very Paranoid.. Especially when you are Told it is Going on and can See them Follow you Etc..
You do have Rights to Fight back tho..which I did..
Summa of NotSoSecretSurvielanceCSC
TET
Ditto, off to sleep. I hate to finish on a positive note (in case there are any mineshafters lurking), but I agree with your general ‘paranoia’.
As my old Timmy boss used to say, ‘Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you’re wrong’!
Goodnight to all fellow Tims!
I’m having a long lie tomorrow. I was going to drive down for the game but young acgr has decided he disnay want to go. Aye ah know………………
So it’s square sausage, BP, tattie scone, F.E. and a bit of streaky bacon for Ceiler.
I’ll watch the game on CTV and look forward to Wednesday. I’ll also send a twenty to Arbroath, they deserve a decent turn out or at the very least some of my dosh. I hope JJ is there.
P.S. JJ gimme a bell.
A67,
when you read their website forum its not hard to be convinced they are a shower of stupid wee boys, trick being no may of the commenters are actually GB.
Would like them to come out and deny it officially and state theydo not support the use of pyro.
Problem is even if they do, they will unlikely be believed even by tims
Neil Canamalar, keep the GB poll going. I do admire your work.
Hail Hail Brother.
Good night to all in Tim Land
Not long back from a night in a very wet Glasgow with a couple of timmy mates – how much fun it is too discuss all things Celtic with yer pals. Must be something our ex-pats miss so much.
Absolutely not crowing, BTW!
Bed calls – will read all tomorrow (i.e. this morning!)
The Green Brigade Website FFS?
It’s open to all. Their site is not a closed shop. So what you read on there is not necissarily the view of the GB.
When they ask, we shall answer their call.
Neil Lennon is da man, ginger or not……………………………………..:-))
Andrew 67 @ 01.28
Was @ Norwich in May, thought the pub we were in was in for some bother when a gang of EDL type casuals fronted up.
Turns out it was the Celtic Soccer Crew (Soccer wtf!!!)
Looks can be deceptive
Gyemerald.
Celtic have been fortunate over the decades in not attracting soccer hooligans.
Indeed our support has made it clear we don’t go in for that nonsense.
I just have a wee unsubstantiated fear that Gang wars may be popping up in the background.
My friends witnessed a fight in Inverness between Tims and they thought it was one toon against another,with local tribalism overpowering the love of the Cetic family.
As I say ,these are just personal concerns.
I have no knowledge of any recent Glasgow gang warfare.
A67
A CEILER GONOF RUST 0132
Whit,nae well-fired rolls wi that?
Another thing I miss about Scotland is decent rolls in the morning.
Or any time….
A Ceiler…,
991 votes
95% yes
5% no
surprised the no vote was so low with the amout of dissent I read, but there you go.
tomorrow will be quiet again I’d imagine
Canamalar, I was in Section J on Wed night, the section that both the smoke bomb and the flare were set-off. It was also the section where a large number of the GB banners were.
I agree that if the GB came out and stated they will no longer do pyro at games then that would really help the situation. It is difficult to argue against the type of police presence I witnessed 2nd half on Wed night, when these rules continue to be broken, irrespective if it GB or not.
The challenge I see if it continues in the current vein, is the reduction in support of the GB from the general support – that would be more than sad and should be addressed before it happens. I heard quite a few dissenting voices on Wed.
If the GB do the right things, their undoubted victimisation can be properly highlighted, the current situation allows obsfuscation & deflection due to the GB breaking some rules.
Keep our side of the street clean, this will highlight their rubbish.
hh
bjmac
GyEmerald “looks can be deceptive”
Aint that the truth. My mrs is a hun but she’s had cranio facial recontructive surgery and she now looks like rod hull’s emu. But, I wouldnt change her for the world…….honest I wouldnt.
Ach, I cannie sleep
so I’m goin to murder ye with poems… well, its your fault, somehow
The Whispers of the old ones, they never disappear
They hush and shush, a silent leaving wind you never hear
The memory uncaught, a breath as soft as dew
A scent, a trembling hair
a thought you never knew
The source of all your instincts
The song inside your soul
The tenacity of tenderness
The drive towards your goal
Remember this my little one
When you fear to walk alone
That all of us are by your side
Our flesh, our blood, our bone
bjmac,
agreed, they need to make it easy and from my chat that is what they are trying to do, but they cant control hangers on.
Bobby M, I have to face up to the reality that a well fired roll is not something I’ll see this side of the next milenium:-((
Square sausage though, I can order via the intecyberspace thingee. yum yummmmm!!
JQB
That is beautiful!
hh
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
Make sure she doesn’t ask you to sort the tv aerial out then!
bjmac,
gracias
Courage (Anne Sexton)
It is in the small things we see it.
The child’s first step,
as awesome as an earthquake.
The first time you rode a bike,
wallowing up the sidewalk.
The first spanking when your heart
went on a journey all alone.
When they called you crybaby
or poor or fatty or crazy
and made you into an alien,
you drank their acid
and concealed it.
Later,
if you faced the death of bombs and bullets
you did not do it with a banner,
you did it with only a hat to
cover your heart.
You did not fondle the weakness inside you
though it was there.
Your courage was a small coal
that you kept swallowing.
If your buddy saved you
and died himself in so doing,
then his courage was not courage,
it was love; love as simple as shaving soap.
Later,
if you have endured a great despair,
then you did it alone,
getting a transfusion from the fire,
picking the scabs off your heart,
then wringing it out like a sock.
Next, my kinsman, you powdered your sorrow,
you gave it a back rub
and then you covered it with a blanket
and after it had slept a while
it woke to the wings of the roses
and was transformed.
Later,
when you face old age and its natural conclusion
your courage will still be shown in the little ways,
each spring will be a sword you’ll sharpen,
those you love will live in a fever of love,
and you’ll bargain with the calendar
and at the last moment
when death opens the back door
you’ll put on your carpet slippers
and stride out.
I Agree they can’t, a statement of intent on pyro would go a long way, especially if it is clearly stated that these events are damaging the GB and its members.
That’ll be the longest agreed chain we’ve ever had – we got by 1 ;-))
hh
Sorry that was for Canamalar
Night night Timland.
Weefra HH
My favorite poet at the moment is William Worthless. No not Worthless Williams.
The huns should seek this guy out and make him the official useles ibrox poet to match their useless fat apprentice manager.
His work is really really poor so it’s a great bond.
e.g.
sleepy mole by William Worthless.
there was a little mole a lovely chap was he
he lived in a hole beneath a great big tree
he like digging tunnels he would dig all day
.
VMhan sent me a Link to a Sevco Xmas Parody..
For me During ‘That’ time.. You know the ‘One Foot in the Grave’ time.. Admin-Liquid.. Every Day was a “I Don’t Believe it” Day..
Was it Wullie No Name..
We are Ranjurs Glasgow Ranjurs and we Don’t do Walking away..
Believe he played at iPox one day before a Game..
Classic..
Summa
Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. This is not good.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-great-rush-government-to-give-green-light-to-mass-exploration-for-shale-gas-8372543.html
night night n
hail hail
Did you think that lovely money
would get you all the fun
Did you think it would protect you
when the pound was on the run
When all the rest were bitten hard
were you sure you’d be alright
basking by your stone-framed fire
In the cold hard night
Did you think that it was yours to take
to claw and clutch and store
and that the fools who couldn’t win
should never ask for more
In the survival of the fittest
was your arrogance so great
that it blinded you to circumstance
and unrelenting fate
Do you see what you did
when you sent the jobs offshore
Do you see what you did
for your rotten easy score
Build walls around your lovely house
put barbed wire on the top
you better build them good and high
to make the people stop
.
Nite Nite Wee Fra..
Ghod bless Finland and All who live in Her..
Summa
Parental discretion advised
Tell them how it is Chuck D
(unsanitised Olympic version)
Public Enemy – He Got Game ( Full Official Music Video + Lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2iujF4tJtw
Summa
Ditto to that. Will speak tomorrow. :))))
Weefra HH
bjmac 01.57 that was so well put I think you should have put a cherry on top.
My young brother was at the game and was also close to the flare. Nobody cared but the polis, and the stewards moved into the Celic suppot and left the mini hun fans to spew their usual shite.
Thank god we gave them a damn good roasting. Four nothing I think it finished….
HAW!!!
Oww Owwwwwwwwww!!! (transl = “howl”)
ACGR, apols for last week if what I said was aimed at you. I like you posts, so trust me when I say whatever abuse I aimed at you was not personal. (I can’t remember). Drunken blindedness and I apologies to you and P67 and moderator(s) for having to deal with my stupid posts :((
Re the situation at Gorgie Rd with flares and “in-fighting” – is there anyone who would rule out the possibility of Black Ops based on history and the contemporary behaviour of the powers that be?
It might be a bit difficult for some of us to believe, but that would be foolish imo.
le mo bhean chéile
Life took me in her perfect hand and led me to the stream
invited me to drink from it and join her in a dream
We gazed upon a mountain, a tower of gold and stone
she left me with a smile and a loved one’s bones
I lit a weakened candle and prayed to God on high
and watched the tender smoke be born, and stretch, and feel, and die
The prayers, so fat upon my lips, were starved before they fell
so I turned towards the witches, and their ruthless spell
Hope gave me the poison, and I drank it to the full
and a short deficient blanket, to cover up my soul
Faith, she sang the best of songs, in a long and empty hall
but you, your own cares on your back, you never left at all
FFM, forget it pal. Good to have you back, I missed you.
Ya bassa……………………………….:-))
ACGR,
Thanks amigo. I’ve been suitably moritified since :)
What did you just call me?
Ow Owwwwwwww.
I’m gettin singing drunk now…
There was an old woman from Wexford
In Wexford town did dwell
She loved her husband dearly
But another man twice as well….
Frack me! Don’t let them do it. Read up on ths practice. The Yanks can testify to the horror of it. I mean, do you want flaming sewage comin’ outta yer taps?
Hilarious in a currant’s gaff, but not for me ‘n’ you.
Without being all entitled etc.,….we should gub Arbroath.
Ross County v ICT should be a good ‘un.
Hibees v Hertz….ditto.
All good curtain raisers for the big yin…..The Bhoys v Spartak Moskva.
And who said fitba’ in Scotland was moribund?
Look at that ⬆….crackin’!