I’m not going to laugh at results against Luxembourgers or Lithuanians – it’s not so long since Gibraltarians bloodied the nose of a team who went on to become invincible treble winners. Scottish clubs have a long history of pitching up in June and July wholly unprepared for European football.
These results only retain the ability to concern if they are not resolved by remarkably improved performances. Brendan Rodgers’ Celtic grew in stature last summer until they became a competitive Champions League team in the autumn. Others may do the same this season.
What will be clear long before the lottery of the European play-off rounds, is where the gaping chasm exists in Scottish football: are Celtic our only team competitive in Europe, or is there at least one other?
Neither you nor I care who competes in the Europa League, but failure there if Celtic progress to the Champions League will compound an already acute challenge for the Scottish also-rans.
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Episode 2 of ‘A Celtic State of Mind’ finds Paul John Dykes and Kevin Graham discussing a variety of topical subjects concerning Celtic Football Club, including:
* Callum McGregor: The Youth of Today;
* Death of the Cult Hero;
* Norwegian Wood – Ronnie Deila’s Exit Interview;
* Farewell to The Stone Roses;
* Hillsborough: The Truth.
Paul John Dykes also chats to SFA President, Alan McRae, to challenge him over recent comments made about Celtic’s domination of Scottish football.
Connect with A Celtic State of Mind @PaulDykes and @CQNMagazine or just listen using the link below…
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You want it to stop ?
Do something about it.
DESSYBHOY on 1ST JULY 2017 10:05 AM
Not dying in Lanarkshire, walks every week
All that walking keeps them healthy and saves the NHS money.
Let’s talk about GlasgowCeltic forget o/w
Come on you guys BMWP change subject
I see there is a consultation as to what the public would like to replace the OBaF act, the SNP will not remove this until there is a suitable replacement, this was not what was voted on in Parliament, why are the Government being allowed to stall this process by other MSP’s? Football like anything else in life is not secetarian, however peolpe make it so, and if the people supposed to up hold and prevent behaviours that is criminal do not carry out there jobs how is any law going to stop this behaviour.
The spreading of hate sectarian racist or any other criminal viewpoint by any means should be covered and prosecuted every time it happens.
Andy Golum,raconteur extraordinaire
https://mobile.twitter.com/gibbygibbo1/status/881024272340221953/video/1
Alas the clan don’t just keep their cultural crap to these shores .
I was looking through the vids on Celtic TV the other day and one showed clips from the Vagas convention
Then I remembered that the new club had theirs also ,just the week before ours .I had seen a few clips of the pool party on MSM sites and I thought ,not seen any from their beano .
So had a wee snoop on you tube and there were 3 vids .
clicked on the first one and low and behold it was
The protestant govan band walking drums and flutes in hand right through the hotel and casino belting out such melodies as build my gallows and no pope in rome with all the flotsam singing along side swear words and all .
Right on out to the front door were they finished their set with the billy boys .
God alone knows what the locals must have thought of it
MILD MANNERED PEDRO DELGADO
It means Church of Finnhein,or Winning.
Strangely,the local church is St Winning’s but the local school is St Winin’s.
Then they complained about our spelling!
Quonno
Looking more broadly at it,the real problem IMO is the political system is engineered to cater for the wealthiest 1% with little or no regard for the rest of us or the planet we inhibit.
DESSYBHOY on 1ST JULY 2017 10:05 AM
Not dying in Lanarkshire, walks every week
Yes,by the same cretins.
BABASONICOS71 on 1ST JULY 2017 11:28 AM
Sobering.
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON
:-)
Babasonicos71
Mr. T: “I Pity The Fool”…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pG0yq2ATWbc
There may well be a significant reduction in the numbers of those walking but there are still plenty who happily belt out their songs of hate wherever their favourite team plays throughout Scotland. There must still be a lot of support for them in the Establishment, otherwise why were the extant laws against sectarianism not used against them?
MACJAY…
Making a living from religious hatred,it’s tragic.
2017 by fook. :((
Wee story about their Kulchur.Working in Algeria a good few moons ago,on the edge of the Sahara,building Gendarmerie barracks.The company brought 14 plumbers over,all from NI,to do the plumbing.They arrived on the 1st July.50 degrees,the temperature.They came to me,during the week to ask for permission to have their Parade around the site on the 12th.I kid you not.I found out they had brought all their regalia with them.I said yep,go right ahead.Much to the amusement of the rest of the work force,they lined up,Bowler hats,but no banner.What they did have was the guy in front walking with a then,Ghetto blaster on his shoulders playing their Choons.they walked around the site,getting ridiculed from the sides ,3 times.The ridicule,went straight over their heads.They were dripping with sweat,and in deep distress when they finished.
Anyway to finish off their night they had a Sash Bash over in their rooms,which,I found out next morning,developed into a free for all rammy.They broke doors,windows,and a good bit more damage.
I photographed the damage,at 8 in the morning,took it to the company head guy,who promptly went over,sacked them all,and told them,whatever was left from their wages,after the damage deductions,would be sent on.Next morning they all trooped onto the bus for the 10 hour trip to Oran for their plane home.
They came to look me out,thanked me profusely,and apologised for any damage.Most were saying they had no jobs to go back to.
Best 12th of July I ever had.
DBHOY…
He’s laughable isn’t he.
The goalie,an anti-Irish anti-anti catholic bigot…from Oldham.
Face for radio the distorted idiot.
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 1ST JULY 2017 11:51 AM,
Thats what i was saying.Thats their core support.Other than the Hun scum,they have very little.
Anyway,what about todays game.Bollox to the vermin.
*anti-catholic…not anti anti obviously.
About ten years ago a 58 guy in my office proudly proclaimed that ‘I did a right good turn for one of your lot at the 1973 Orange walk’.
Now this was in front of another dozen men, mostly protestant but couple of Catholics including myself, and a Muslim.
He went on to explain that his old man was leading off the walk down Keppochhill Road when a young guy with a tricolour ran out in front of them. His dad caught the boy of about 17 and just as he was about to ‘sink the steel mace which he made in Weir’s through his head, I pulled him off and saved the boys life’.
A stoney silence fell over the whole office until I said… ‘so your da tried to murder someone is that what your saying?’… ‘Och he was out his nut with drink and the boy asked for it’. I didn’t have to say anything else. You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife.
Believe it or not I actually felt sorry for him.
Turkeybhoy
Very well handled by you, give them enough rope as they say, makes you wonder wonder what happens that is unreported.
BRTH
Good write up in the Irish Voice. Great photo of Oldtim and great Lisbon memories. Thanks
Cheers, bobs @11.36
A tale of two cities.
Thousands walk in London in anti austerity march.
Thousands walk in Glasgow in anti Catholic march.
Ah lads
have they not suffered enough
Dallas Dallas,
No bother thanks. I think that essay by Connolly really explains his thinking. It was written in 1913, the year of the Dublin Lockout, William Martin Murphy etc.
Turkeybhoy,
Any topic is a blessing after your posts about posting in the Birthday Suit etc :))
HH & Till Later
Delaneys Dunky on 1st July 2017 12:16 pm
BRTH
Good write up in the Irish Voice. Great photo of Oldtim and great Lisbon memories. Thanks
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If you look hard enough you are in the background and no one in my own family recognised me with BlantyreTim at all.
The print version has three very good photographs.
I have been really busy with graduations, court and other things this week but will try and find time to start sifting through the photographs to try and make a collection for a book.
BRTH
My daughter commented about me having a pint. Your piece confirms that their auld da wisnae havering about what happened in Lisboa 2017. Thanks J :)
Happy Canada Day to all the Tims in the colonies, I will see you all next year at the Convention in Bramale HH.
You wont see us on the TV, you wont read it in the news feed.
but the time it come, Change keeps beating like a Drum.
Cause The People have the Power, They keep Waking by the hour.
And the Youth them see so they’re breaking Free from your mental slavery.
Generations will Rize, Governments they will fall,
We’re the only ones who will carry us through it all,
If the words they are clear and the actions are strong,
Oh my People We can’t go wrong… so hold on.
Staring down their lie of democracy will you fight on your feet or live pon ur knees…?
This is not the way that life’s supposed to be I’m callin’, callin’ yeah.
These generations are making that change, they’ve learnt your system now they’re gonna rage, better take care and babylon you be aware, this a warnin’ warnin’ yeah.
Generations will Rize, Governments they will fall,
We’re the only ones who will carry us through it all,
If the words they are clear and the actions are strong,
Oh my People We can’t go wrong… so hold on.
It’s just a drop inna di ocean of revolution, every ripple felt by the younger generation.
Just Rize and take your stand where you belong cause it’s awakening, replacing them false religions.
Truth it spread like wild fyah in di streets, any thing less than equal rights get delete cause higher consciousness we seek, open up your heart and let that inner voice speak.
In the midst of these crazy times we’re gonna find our place, if we open up our hearts and let love lead the way.
To the world that we want to see, we nah have no place for dem capitalism and dem economy.
So open up your heart and let Love lead the way again.
Nattali Rize & Notis feat. Kabaka Pyramid
TONYDONNELLY67 on 1ST JULY 2017 12:43 PM
I’m not sure if they can access this in Canada, but it’s worth a watch if they can.
A programme about the Canadian equivalent of the Mayflower, The Hector, and its cargo of Scots economic migrants.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ww3gh
Re the Big Tax Case.
I am not one for predictions on any blog and am not too keen on those whose opinions constantly tell you what is about to happen based on whispers, innuendo and wild prediction, whilst always recognising that journalists often do have well placed sources who can present them with a scoop long before the story is in the public domain.
However, there is just a chance that, very briefly, you will find that the Supreme Court rule as follows:
1. That in the case of MIH and Rangers FC PLC, both parties made contractual arrangements with employees whereby they agreed to make standard taxable payments (salary) PLUS separately contracted employment (akin to salary) payments which were to be made to a third party namely specifically formed trusts under the ultimate control of the employees concerned.
2. That contrary to the arguments presented by the appellants, this second tranche of payments is not the same as emoluments which are not subject to tax. In other words, the secondary payments made to the specified trusts do not fall into the same category of benefits such as luncheon vouchers, bike loans, season ticket loans and other allowable non-taxable benefits. As a consequence, these payments will be treated as taxable with back taxes plus interest being due on the same.
3. Further, the court MAY rule, that in determining whether or not these particular payments are or were taxable, it is not absolutely necessary for the revenue to prove (whether or on the balance of probabilities or beyond a reasonable doubt) whether the trusts set up to receive the payments concerned were or were not a sham or a device to hide just who would be the final recipient of the payments concerned. Instead, the Court MAY state that the test that is to be met is whether or not the payments (any payments delivered in any way whatsoever or to anyone whatsoever) were payments made in furtherance of a contract of employment and as such should be liable for tax and NIC unless the payments fall into a category of payment or emolument which is exempt from such taxes.
4. The court MAY say in passing that it is clear in this particular case, that what was intended by the parties (both employer and employee) was that they should enter into a contract of employment whereby the employee was to benefit from (1) ordinary salaried and declared payments which attracted deductions for tax and NIC PLUS (2) secondary payments, which were contractual from the outset, but which would not attract deductions for tax and NIC solely because the method of payment (which did not rely solely on the employer’s judgement or discretion) used to transfer the money from employer to employee. The court MAY also add that such a situation was never the intention of Parliament when it introduced the notion of EBT’s which were designed to deal with a wholly different type of enrichment and benefit as between employers and employees.
5. The court MAY make reference to the clear testimony of Sir David Murray in which he made it clear that the whole purpose of this scheme was to enable the football club to employ employees who they could not otherwise afford if they were to be paid by standard or traditional taxable means, and that as such the very means of payment (designed to avoid taxes) played a significant part in determining which employees were to be employed, their rate of pay (overall), the length and terms of their contract of employment and their taxable rate of remuneration.
6. As such, the appeal to the supreme court on the grounds submitted must fail, the unanimous decision of the Court of Session will be upheld and the law clarified to the extent that EBT’s, such as they were allowed at the time, were designed to allow employers to gratuitously reward employees with a benefit based on performance during the course of their employment and at the discretion of the employer, but were not intended as a means of rewarding employees as a matter of contract which is negotiated and determined prior to that employee taking up his or her contract of employment in the first place.
Just a hunch and not based on any inside knowledge whatsoever!!
BRTH.
Well done on that piece in the Irish Voice and well done on all the work involved in making that momentous trip a reality for so many.
The best bits of CQN can sometimes be overlooked due to other petty distractions.
We should count our blessings.
HH.
BABASONICOS71 on 1ST JULY 2017 11:54 AM
MACJAY…
Making a living from religious hatred,it’s tragic.
2017 by fook. :((
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My predecessors used to accept all of that garbage . Sadly.
They were certain in the knowledge that they could do nothing to influence these mentalities and events.
We know that we can.
And we will.
The tide of history is on our side.
We know it.
And so do ” they .”
Hail Hail
Does anyone know if any pubs in glasgow are showing the Celtic game today
HH
BRTH
If I might ask , who decides if tax affairs , thats is evasion rather than avoidance become criminal rather than civil offences?
Dessy – the OB act like all other affronts to fairness, dignity and humanity – the Guardian act, free university tuition at the expense of £1.2 billion of funding for childrens’ formative education and 240k FE places, the Council Tax freeze which disproportionly benefits those who can afford to pay, the deliberate underfunding of NHS Scotland, the centralisation of the police with disastrous consequences and the unnecessary wasted millions on VAT, the year on year cuts to local goverment budgets which affects those most reliant on council services, the continued failings in farmers’ EU payments – only saved from a multi-million fine by being part of the UK…..as the speed with which the SNP circle the drain increases, they will bloody-mindedly stick to their guns, knowing full well that they are facing wipe-out and a return to their erstwhile place in Scottish politics with their 500k traditional hard-core flag-eaters – we will soon be rid of their one-issue, grievance-laden mantra and thank God, their utter incompetence.
Good afternoon from Orange walk free Suffolk. Is the match on Celtic TV or Premier sports or something?
If it’s Celtic TV brace yourself for my Gerry McCulloch rants later on…
:)