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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. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    BMCUW @ 04:06

     

     

    You just put a big smile on my face.

     

     

    And love the Silencers’ tune. That DSOTM came on is no co-incidence imo….:))

     

     

    David Gilmour live at Gdansk for the Solidarity Concert:

     

     

    Interesting that somone who made enough money from music while relatively anonymous also does concert’s like this while his son his arrested in London during what was meant to be a peaceful protest….

     

     

    blackops&olympicshennanigans RRRRRRRRSC. :(

     

     

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

  2. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    BMCUW @ 04:15

     

     

    If they really want to tackle it, a limit on the strength. But its easier to sell the idea through parliamentary law if its based on money.

     

     

    And worth bearing in mind, there’s no way the SNP would be passing this law if it genuinely hurt the big booze companies financially.

     

     

    Basically, they think we are all thick as mince. But their mistake is basing that on our love of alcohol :))

     

     

    I think the younger generations are much quicker to wisen up to this than mine’s ever was, and the previous (back until 1930s say).

     

     

    The young are wisening up which is fecking up the plans of the ole NWO.

     

     

    Interesting times indeed :)))

     

     

    But they ole NWO are successfully creating an underclass (think hun propanda for example) to ensure the wise kids are always going to be counter-acted by malicious badness.

     

     

    But I think it will come to a head within the next 20 years, and the good kids are on course to sort the mess out that we’ve left them with.

  3. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    FORTUNE’S FAVOUR MIBBES

     

     

    You may have missed this wee belter from BRT&H earlier.

     

     

    While it is well up to his usual standards,the video at the end makes me misty-eyed for my youth.

     

     

    As for David Gilmour,I have the LIVE IN GDANSK CD-excellent stuff. The 25 minutesworth of ECHOES may be a tad self-indulgent,but it is top-quality.

     

     

    Also,I believe he donated the value of his London home to homeless charities a few years back-gonna google that.

  9. Vmhan on

    GyEmerald

     

     

    04:55 on 1 December, 2012

     

    ~~~~~~~~

     

    thank you GE

     

    my wife, wee Derryghirl said it would hit me in regard to my fathers passing.

     

     

    it has

     

     

    I did say to my CQN friends that I would be howling at the moon, let the people howle csc

  10. Summa of Sammi.... on

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    Vinny..

     

     

    I have Never walked in Your shoes.. But l do believe Your Dad is in a Better Place and watching over You..

     

     

    When I Struggle I think what would My Grandad (Who I’m called after)..Want me to do..

     

     

    All the Best Buddi..

     

     

    001

  11. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    For any young fholks reading (and by that I mean anyone between the ages of 1 and 39)…some of us were brought up under the illusion that fascism was part of distant history.

     

     

    Putting aside the fact that Britain has the worst human rights record in recorded history, this song from a Glasgow preacher and teacher, is worth a listen.

     

     

    In the early 20th Century, Glasgow was what they call the 2nd City of the Empire. If you know your history, not actually something to be proud of.

     

     

    But the people of Glasgow, including the Irish diaspora, and people from all over, worked together to create a reputation of diligent hard workers.

     

     

    Then came the notion that all these folk working together were in fact, “the people”. They began to realise that they had the power to demand equality, and fairer rules in the workplace, so that money didn’t always take precedence over human life.

     

     

    The government, realising this threat to the 2nd city of the empire, encouraged through funding Harland & Wolfe to bring their bigotry BACK to Scotland from whence it came. To divide and conquer. H&W took over Rangers, the Billy Boys ie Billy Fullerton and his gang attacked demos and protests by the people, often violently, and eventually religion became the accepted “motive” for this attack on democracy, while Rangers fans built a history that would see them celebrating such anti-Scottish behaviour in song STILL in the 21st Century, with songs such as “the Billy Boys”, a tribute to Billy Fullerton, whose son and grandson I met in court while the youngest was under trial for being a ned. Songs about being up to their knees in fenian blood.

     

     

    The socialist movement of Glasgow in the early 20th century was successfully ripped apart, while the wealth from the empire was sent south, and the divide and conquer tactic worked a treat as usual but with, again, as usual, the ever-lasting after affects.

     

     

     

    Its easy to say it was all in the past.

     

     

    But our anger is justified, because it is STILL going on. So we have at least 2-3 generations of recovery to expect, FROM THE DAY AN EFFORT IS MADE TO RECTIFY IT.

     

     

    One Scotland, Many Cultures.

  13. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    Re David Gilmour donating the proceeds of his house sale…..

     

     

     

    Gilmour has been associated with various charity organisations. In May 2003, Gilmour sold his house in Little Venice to the ninth Earl Spencer and donated the proceeds worth £3.6 million to Crisis to help fund a housing project for the homeless. He has been named a vice president of the organization.[40] Other charities to which Gilmour has lent support include Oxfam, the European Union Mental Health and Illness Association, Greenpeace, Amnesty International,[15] The Lung Foundation, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy,[15] Teenage Cancer Trust, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).[41] He also donated £25,000 to the Save the Rhino foundation in exchange for Douglas Adams’s name suggestion for the album that became The Division Bell

  15. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    VMHAN

     

     

    Your memories of your father will remain L-O-N-G after the pain of his passing.

     

     

    Take strength from the pain,it will enhance your memories even further.

     

     

    Take care,mate.

  16. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    FFM 0503

     

     

    A return,not only to the blog,but to form!

     

     

    Excellent piece,excellent song.

  18. fleagle1888 on

    CQN Saturday Naps Competition

     

     

    Lads, for those who are in the CQN Saturday Naps competition, please go back and post your selection at the end of the previous article :

     

     

    “Huge decision ahead for Neil Lennon”

     

     

    Alternatively, if you cannot access the previous article for any reason, then you can send me an email message with your selection to : fleagle29 at gmail.com

     

     

    All the best, fleagle

  19. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    BMCUW,

     

     

    Sorry, lost track of posts cos I went into rant mode just there :((

     

     

    I’m a massive DG fan – the Gdank stuff is excellent. He’s a good fella imo.

     

     

    He’s no bad on the auld geetar as well :)))

  20. Vmhan on

    GyEmerald

     

     

    04:55 on 1 December, 2012

     

     

    Vmhan

     

    Sorry if any previous post have come across as daft or insincere but sorry for your loss

     

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    No my amigo

     

     

    you are cool, its just that ……….. im greiving

  21. Vmhan on

    my dads top song times 3

     

     

    town that i loved

     

     

    danny bhoy …. the derry air

     

     

    and my add on is

     

     

    championees

     

     

    V

  22. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    BMCUW @ 05:06,

     

     

    On a personal level, he also made me pick up a guitar.

     

     

    On a sad personal level, he is my hero :)))

     

     

    But I’ve been vindicated in my adoration for him.

     

     

    He’s not your typical rock star – he disnae like the establishment, and can express that in powerful visuals and electric musical displays.

     

     

    No a bad fella to have on our side.

     

     

    DOH!!! DG just been put on the FF banned list.

  23. Vmhan on

    BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS

     

     

    05:09 on 1 December, 2012

     

     

    ********

     

    Thanks mi amiigo

     

     

    what do you do?

     

     

    I’m …….

  26. Vmhan on

    Fortunes Favour Mibbes

     

     

    05:25 on 1 December, 2012

     

     

    Vmhan,

     

     

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    One love my friend, I cant sleep, its a funny old game is llife.

     

     

    V

  35. Vmhan on

    Im gonnae howl for a bit:

     

     

    anybody that knows me will ken that im a wee bit different,

     

     

    I want to help my father on his way, so crack on dad.

  36. Tallybhoy on

    Morning all!

     

     

    All this talk of Mantovani is making my old dad nostalgic! He’s got some of his old vinyl albums stashed away somewhere – he’s away to find them!

     

     

    To all those going to the game today – enjoy! Wrap up well – I hear it’s baltic!

     

     

    HH!!

  37. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    TALLYBHOY

     

     

    Tell him he can play them nearer Christmas,much nearer.

  38. ....PFayr on

    Still cold outside..

     

    Rained last night then froze

     

    Some carry on walking the dogs this morning

     

     

    Slip sliding away

  42. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    TALLYBHOY

     

     

    I was meaning he could play Mantovani as much as he liked-while you were in Scotland….

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