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Emenike, Ashley and only Montrose

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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!

Unlike the CQN Annual, the perfect Christmas present, available here and not found in any Sports Direct store.

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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  1. JimmyQuinnsBits on

    An Ulsterman I am proud to be

     

    From the Antrim Glens I come.

     

    Though I earn my living by the sea

     

    I have followed fife and drum.

     

    I have heard the martial tramp of men

     

    I’ve seen them fight and die.

     

    It’s well I do remember when

     

    I followed Henry Joy.

     

     

    I pulled my boat up from the sea

     

    I hid my sails away,

     

    I hung my nets on a greenwood tree

     

    And scanned the moonlit bay.

     

    The boys were out, and the Redcoats too,

     

    I kissed my wife goodbye;

     

    And in the shade of the greenwood glade

     

    I followed Henry Joy.

     

     

    It was for Ireland’s cause we fought;

     

    In Ireland’s cause we bled,

     

    Though our hearts beat true, our pikes were few

     

    And five to one lay dead,

     

    And many a lassie mourned her lad,

     

    And mother mourned her boy;

     

    For youth was strong in that gallant throng

     

    That followed Henry Joy.

     

     

    In Belfast town, they built a tree

     

    And the Redcoats mustered there

     

    I saw him come to the beat of a drum

     

    Down to the barrack’s square

     

    He kissed his sister, went aloft

     

    He bade his last goodbye

     

    And as he died, I turned and cried

     

    They have murdered Henry Joy!

  2. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    FFM, you are an official member of Bobby and the howlers………………Awooooooooo.

     

     

    I’m playin bass, ya bass.

     

     

     

    As per my earlier post, I’m not there tomorrow but I wish the wee red licgties good luck when we pump them oota the cup. I’m sending them a twenty for their efforts.

  5. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    ACGR,

     

     

    I owe BMCUW and Petec many thanks. Fine fholks.

     

     

    As for you playing bass, you should try turning it around :)

     

     

    Will the Celtic support (minus the GB) settle for, “Ye can stick yer flamin smokies up yer…”? There’s a blank canvas there for you to accompany on the bass…and wall-mounted, singing bass of circa 2001 fame :))

  7. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Lost frog by William Worthless:

     

     

     

    i was walking through the woods just the other day

     

    then i heard a noise not so far away

     

    so i took a look to see what it could be

     

    it was coming fom a hole at the bottom of a tree

     

    then i looked inside there i saw a frog

     

    just inside the tree sat upon a log

     

    the poor frog was crying with tears upon his face

     

    he was very lost and lost his froggy place

     

    then i picked him up and took him to his home

     

    now the frog was happy and never again did roam.

     

     

     

    Not great but better than the efforts of worhless williams on FF and hun media.

     

     

    WW should be the official CQN poet laureate

  10. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    FFM, smokies are a national treasure. Lets not be too hasty in inserting them in places that make them unfit for human consumption.

     

     

    We still have the hun game v Montrose to look forward to? Still trying to get a ticket for that one……………………without much sucess.

  14. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    DJBEE @ 20:18

     

     

    Always enjoy your posts, and ditto that one.

     

     

    But…

     

     

    “And now they want to increase the price we pay for our Australian, Chilean, Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, Cypriot, Argentinian wine? ”

     

     

    Not true. The only wine they are going to increase the price of, with minimum alcohol pricing, is Asda Smartprice wine. And Asda Smartprice ider. And Asda Smartprice vodka.

     

     

    I’m going to feel the effects of this more than you and yer fancy Cypriot wine.

     

     

    (Unless you drink it out of an Asda Smartprice bottle as well). :))

  15. JimmyQuinnsBits on

    No More Songs

     

    Joe Heaney

     

     

    I will sing no more songs: the pride of my country I sang

     

    Through forty long years of good rhyme, without any avail;

     

    And no one cared even as much as the half of a hang

     

    For the song or the singer, so here is an end to the tale.

     

     

    If a person should think I complain and have not got the cause,

     

    Let him bring his eyes here and take a good look at my hand,

     

    Let him say if a goose-quill has calloused this poor pair of paws

     

    Or the spade that I grip on and dig with out there in the land?

     

     

    When the great ones were safe and renowned and were rooted and tough,

     

    Though my mind went to them and took joy in the fortune of those,

     

    And pride in their pride and their fame, they gave little enough,

     

    Not as much as two boots for my feet, or an old suit of clothes.

     

     

    I ask a Craftsman that fashioned the fly and the bird,

     

    Of the Champion whose passion will lift me from death in a time,

     

    Of the Spirit that melts icy hearts with the wind of a word,

     

    That my people be worthy, and get, better singing than mine.

     

     

    I had hoped to live decent, when Ireland was quit of her care,

     

    As a bailiff or steward perhaps in a house of degree,

     

    But my end of the tale is, old brogues and old britches to wear,

     

    So I’ll sing no more songs for the men that care nothing for me.

  16. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    It seems inevitable that we’ll meet the huns on our way to cup glory this season. How much would we beat them by and should we still laugh while we’re doing it?

     

     

    I’ll say six, four if collum is the MIB maybe less if one of his more hunnish bro’s wears the black.

     

     

    A spanking for the fat useless apprentice boy with or without a stakebake.

  18. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    ACGR @ 02:47

     

     

    If you go to that game, I dare you to wear a Craig Whyte t-shirt with a crucifix-wearing Davros on the back, the Borg, Darth Vadar, and Beelzebub himself, signifying the religious conversion of the most evil beings in the universe and their conversion to the good side, before the huns have even contemplated it, as they, as per usual, left behind in the dark ages.

     

     

    In the interests of health and safety, I stress that was said in jest. If you go, wear blank colours such as blue, grey or blue, don’t look anyone in the eye, denounce all persecuted minorities and sing about the benefits Scotland made from the triangular slave trade, pay homage to the Anunaki representative, Qeen Lizzie, keep your eyes on your feet, and sing whatever they threateningly force you to sing (but keep a wee vid cam going somewhere to make the whole experience worthwhile when you send it to Alex Thomson)

  21. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    FFM, if I do get a ticket, I’ll take your advice sparingly. The hun will wreck this beautiful little town like they do on their travels to every foriegn land.

     

     

    I’ll be mannining the barricades with the rest of the AGPL that day.

  22. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    JimmyQuinnsBits @ 03:12

     

     

    “So I’ll sing no more songs for the men that care nothing for me”

     

     

    There’s more than likely a lot more depth to it than I’m seeing, just how I first read it, and maybe approaching it too personally, sorry. But I echo the words while living in Scotia, the country I was born and am descended from. This is the gift the SNP have brought upon 21st Century Scotland….intensified division, ie regression.

     

     

    Beautiful words, even if I’m ruining them with my own thoughts on them :)

  23. JimmyQuinnsBits on

    FFM,

     

     

    I need to go to bed

     

     

    Apologies if this is grannies an eggs…

     

     

    Joe Heaney’s poem is about exploitation of the ordinary man, regardless of nation.

     

     

    On nation though, the ordinary man sucked on the sour remnants of stolen hopes through the free state, then the republic, and I’ll make no apologies for sayin so. The needs of the ordinary man were subverted for the political whores next power fix.

     

     

    The same in this country, only a mug would take a lick of their poison

  27. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    FFM, the next time you wonder where your money is going consider this

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnuYh0Lhs_s

     

     

     

    Mrs acgr and princess acgr are in NYC right now running up a tab on my score of biblical proportions. FFS (loss of control).

     

     

     

    Nice toon thouh……………………………………….mammy mammy help me………….HAW!!

  29. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    FFM, we shall stand firm.They shall ot pass. The AGPL will ensure they will not leave their mark on our little towns.

     

     

    Gandalf will be with us too.

     

     

     

    OMG.!!!

  30. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    ACGR,

     

     

    I really like that ! Wouldn’t give the original the time of day too :))

     

     

    Very good music, the way it should be done. Yer man on slide guitar did an excellent job of accompaniement.

  34. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    FFM, I feel like a conemned man, The hoarde will be with us soon and the efforts of the AGPL will be over run.

     

     

    Still, we shall stand fast against hun invaders. FFS there is no one else……………………….

  36. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    Morning,all.

     

     

    Just caught up wi the blog,and decided to post this as a wee tribute to the hardy souls of the nightshift.

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqrIjxG4API

     

     

    And with impeccable timing,onto the ipod came

     

     

    DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

     

     

    Nae kiddin’!

     

     

    BTW,excellent news that FORTUNE’S FAVOUR MIBBES has resurfaced-just in time for a right good sesh tomorrow night,assuming I can remain semi-sentient for long enough.

  40. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    FORTUNE’S FAVOUR MIBBES

     

     

    I pointed out the anomalies of the pricing fix at the time.

     

     

    Off the top of my head,a standard can of lager would cost 80p,,superstrengths double that.

     

     

    A bottle of red wine about about £3.20,and vodka about £12.

     

     

    Meanwhile a 2l bottle of White Lightning (cider which has never seen an apple,but has about 8% albv) would be about £3.50.

     

     

    No,I think this has been badly thought out. Looks to me that the people hit worst by this will be sensible standard strength drinkers.

     

     

    Why not increase the tax on drinks more than 50% above standard?

     

     

    For me,that is where the “problem” drinkers are.

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