Fans Against Criminalisation (FAC) are closer than ever to achieving their goal of having the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act repealed. While the majority in the Scottish Parliament are on their side, the Scottish Government have gone deaf to the voice of the Scottish people in the hope they can successfully distract attention from the issue.
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NEW CQN PODCAST OUT NOW FEATURING TOMMY SHERIDAN
A Celtic State of Mind presents its 30th instalment of insightful discussion around the culture of Celtic Football Club, the city of Glasgow, and fans of the reigning treble-winning Scottish champions.
Kevin Graham is joined by Scotty Alcroft to interview Scottish pro-independence politician, Tommy Sheridan, at The Penalty Spot in Glasgow.
The interview took place as part of A Celtic State of Mind’s first live event – Five-a-sides at The Penalty Spot – and, as such, there is some background noise (including mobile interference – apologies) from the audience.
The other voice you may hear throughout this episode is that of former Celtic striker, Frank McGarvey, who is a friend of Tommy’s, and who was also interviewed separately that day for a future show.
You are sure to enjoy Tommy’s eclectic input, as he discusses everything from Catalan independence to Coolio, with a constant undercurrent of that thing called Celtic.
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Oh dear, Barcelona SC win 3-1 and take top spot in the Florida Cup. One final game to be played in the tournament that could relegate, yes relegate, sevco to third spot.
DENA29 – Grand ole news, keep it lit pal.
God bless all your close yins, they’ll be over the
other side of the moon about this. Just, grand.
HH
“””””””””””””””””‘
FAIRHILL BHOY – Prayers said for your sister.
Surgeon’s are way, way, way undervalued, imho.
Ye git the odd wan, or two…..but they’re awe in ma ward ;
Oh, and, yes Ped is my brother in law, he’s one of the best, I keep telling him that his sister, who is also one of the best, is way out of my league, maybe opposites do attract ? Thanks for askin.
HH
Anywye,………just know that,….the Rainjurs are coming tae git us.
Will Cellic be caught sleeping by Brendan’s unshakable
new nemesis, the mighty Murty ?
Hmmmmmm…….?
Time fur a list, eh ?
Dear, dear.
Lists are fur wagon circlers…..
nae wagons in the Jungle that ah stood in.
Lists ?
Petitions ?
Whit’ll be next……
subscription tae the ‘People’s Friend’ ?
Oor Willie n The Brook’s is, way better ;
Anywye,…….HH
……..oot.
Or, better wi,
Oor Willie n The Broon’s
even. HH
……….Oot.
http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/half-term-report-1-no-hard-brexit-despite-performances/
Half term report looks at European performances.
Whiteout EK.
Jobo
Wet powdery snow down in G72
Trains working ok so far, pity as I need to carry my laptop back to work
West Brom are offering £12m for Fulham’s Scotland midfielder Tom Cairney, 26.
From BBC gossip page
Who is he? Madness !
BLANTYRETIM
Cairney was born and raised in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, to a Scottish father, who worked as a miner and then as a taxi driver.[2] He also revealed that his father would take him to Scotland and watch Celtic as a youngster.[2] When he was about 15 or 16, he worked Barclays Bank for work experience, in which describe this as the “worst two weeks of [his] life!” and had to work 9–5 in a bank and wear suit and tie for two weeks.[3]
Cheers BMCUW
Never heard of him and can’t remember him getting any caps, he must not have fitted WGS DNA type :-)
Word of The Day
slovenly /ˈslʌvənlɪ/
adjective
1. frequently or habitually unclean or untidy
2. negligent and careless; slipshod: slovenly manners
3. characteristic of a sloven; slipshod
4. untidy or unclean in appearance or habits.
adverb
5. in a negligent or slovenly manner
Derived Forms
slovenliness, noun
Word Origin and History for slovenly
adj.
1510s, “low, base, lewd,” later “untidy, dirty” (1560s), from sloven + -ly(1). Related: Slovenliness ; also in this sense was slovenry (1540s), which OED reports in common use early 17c.
KTF
Gordybhoy64 @ 10.38
I am underwhelmed too. Not that I am surprised as the previous two windows were not exactly overwheming either. Obviously still a fortnight to go but as things stand the failure to strengthen the defence for the rest of our European campaign looks as big a mistake as not strengthening it last summer was. Marvin C may well be a good player but he cannot play against Zenit- a free scoring team. How many goals was it we let in in the last 7 European games?
I do not like to moan and I am well aware that things are better than they were 2 years ago – far less 25 years ago – but I still think they could be a bit better.
Jimbo67
Been unwell over the last 3 or 4 weeks but pretty much back to (ab)normality today.
The wait for football to recommence is almost over so I am looking forward to Saturday! Also looking forward to how Brendan Rodgers changes the team with the transfer window over the next 15 days!
KTF
!!BADA BING!! on 15TH JANUARY 2018 9:52 PM
The plan at the end of last season was to bring the pitch up to a decent standard for this season with the plan to put in a completely new “hybrid” pitch at the end of this season. That is, as far as I am aware, still the plan. If I hear of any changes, I will let you know.
KTF
BMCUW
Did your pal manage to get an adjournment?
BLANTYRETIM
Dunno,I expect to see him later. Stands little chance under this regime,tbh.
BMCUW
CSE/141/2014
Whether a tribunal should adjourn to allow a claimant with mental health problems to get a representative..
Google that comm decision
BLANTYRETIM
Googled as advised,and all information on home page is via RIGHTSNET. I’m not eligible for that.
I’ll phone my union and ask for advice,their heid honcho at Swindon office is a bolshie big sod,who strangely gets on well with me.
I’ll ask my mate too which union he was last a member of;they might help under the circumstances.
From a Crystal Palace blog, sums up Sky Sports and their fake news agenda (Moussa content)
Late last week we saw Sky Sports employees discussing Diafra Sakho’s proposed move from West Ham to Crystal Palace, only for it to mysteriously “break down” and now it seems they’re at it again with Celtic striker Moussa Dembele.
The 21-year-old has been linked with all manner of moves to Premier League clubs over the last six months or so with none of the rumours coming to fruition and yesterday, we were treated to the sight of Sky Sports employee Bryan Swanson quoting his colleague Kaveh Solhekol to say that “no bid his been made”.
Given the fact that Palace have just one fit striker on their books in the shape of Christian Benteke, it stands to reason that they would be interested in a front man as prolific as Moussa Dembele in the current transfer window but without a concrete offer having been put on the table, it is the definition of a fake story coming from inside the Sky Sports dream factory.
Swanson and Solhekol have a monstrous 536,000 followers between them on Twitter, meaning that their words travel far and wide within minutes of being spat out into the ether and in this case, it’s difficult to see how the line they’ve come up with is news-based in the slightest. There won’t be a club outside the top six of the Premier League who aren’t “interested” in signing Dembele, with the ambiguity of the word itself giving Sky Sports free reign to do as they please when it comes to giving “insider” information throughout the January transfer window.
I’ve said it on many occasions before but their employers’ continuing business relationship with SkyBet makes the whole thing feel extremely murky, particularly when you consider that they’re currently one of just two bookmakers offering odds on the man in question joining the Eagles from north of the border this January.
We may end up making a move for Dembele over the next couple of weeks but there are a bevy of other clubs who fall into the same bracket. One thing I am 99% sure of, is that Sky Sports themselves aren’t ahead of the game when it comes to our intentions.
BMCUW
I’ll download it and email it to you
Kris Boyd ripping into the huns for their transfer policy of unsettling players then bidding peanuts.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/kris-boyd-rips-rangers-unsettling-11855856
BLANTYRETIM
Fantastic,mate. Thanks. I’ll read it through and print it out tonight.
Absolute star!
Done
The usual complaints re Transfer window. Every year, since CQN began, we have asked Celtic to bring in better players, more of them, earlier in the transfer window and to do so with large sums of money donated to other clubs who have those players currently.
And every year we see the same pattern. The players who do arrive or leave, do so, in the majority of cases, late in the transfer window. And it is rarely declared good enough or big enough or timely enough because we are not sourcing top drawer names like, er Freddie Lljunberg, Thomas Gravesen or a, frankly past-it, Roy Keane. On occasions when we have sourced a genuine top drawer player, like Robbie Keane, it has not brought the predicted outcome that “speculate to accumulate” seeks to guarantee.
Players who have gone on to have productive careers at Celtic have been dismissed as “not an improvement on what we have” (Brown, Armstrong, Lustig), projects (Wanyama,Tom Rogic, Simunovic, Ajer), players bought to sell jerseys (Ki, Nakamura) or loanees whom we polish for the benefit of other clubs (Boruc, Forster, and, hopefully, Roberts).
Now, of course we have many players in each of those categories who did NOT enhance us as a team but, just as with Youth player development, there will be many more failures than successes when you try and squeeze a 50 man squad into a 14 player “game-time” side. And that equation will remain true year-by-year.
Now, who would have predicted 18 months ago that James Forrest would be a mainstay but Liam Henderson would be going? That Callum McGregor would be a regular but the gifted Gary Makay-Stevens would be gone? And who knew that Ajer would be such a success after a reasonable, but not outstanding time at Killie? And who knows if Ryan Christie will manage the jump in quality to burst into the Celtic match day reckoning after a very good loan period at Aberdeen?
My point is that they are all “projects”, no matter what transfer fee level they have commanded in coming to us or how stellar they were before they arrived. They still have to do it with Celtic.
Big names like Lljunberg, Gravesen and Roy Keane contributed relatively little to Celtic despite the excitement their names generated on arrival (Robbie Keane and Bellamy delivered but their team mates failed) whilst relatively unheralded signings like Moravcik, Wanyama and Forster have delivered in spades.
I hark back to a debate with Donegal Danny during the early to middle WGS period where he confidently asserted that Rangers did and have always done their transfer business better than us. His details suggested they bought more players for bigger transfer fees and much earlier in the window than “biscuit tin” Celtic did. I will let history judge the accuracy of that assertion but I am confident that Donegal Danny’s frustration was born out of a worry that the good work done by MON in getting us back to the 2nd tier of the European elite was being undone by a Board which has traditionally been seen as cheapskate and unambitious (sometimes in our history, with justification- ask Davie Hay), rather than us being at the mercy of global financial forces which have placed us as a large club in a small distorted market whereby clubs with smaller fanbases and smaller ambitions, such as Southampton, Stoke and Swansea can outbid us and outpay us.
And that is why, some of Celtic’s signings this transfer window will arrive late- because they are waiting to see whether a Swansea, Southampton or Stoke will come in for them, to their financial advantage as players, or whether, in some cases, they will have to settle, for less money, at Celtic.
Jimbo67 & Gordybhoy 64
As you are both underwhelmed, can I assume you have players in mind who would make a difference to Celtic`s success?
A problem I have with `strengthening` the team is why and how.
We have no need to strengthen for Scottish success and we don`t have the cash for European success.
I think our main aim as a Club is to qualify for CL Group stages.I am not sure if we can afford the kind of players who MIGHT make this objective appreciably more likely.
On another matter.
I like Stuart Armstrong`s contribution but I don`t feel we will miss him too much. I would assume it just means Ntcham will play in all the games where Stuart is not available. No bad thing IMO.
JJ
SFTB
You might have to wait some time for a response arguing against the general sentiment of your post. Some do not like fact based opinion .
JJ
G67-‘Sky sources…’ they are the kings of fake news
VFR- Ta for reply, last i heard pitch was being done in 3 stages, will be ready for next season.HH
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX
That’s all well and very good but have we signed Charlie Masonda yet:)))))
And what happened to the Finbogasson money!
Bah Humbug:))
Mon the Windae!
Good to see good news on the blog.
Delighted for Dena and her family. YNWA.
Also glad to hear DD is fine.
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On other news have the MSM morons linked half our team with Stoke yet????.
P.S. Good luck to Paul, hope he keeps them up and the ball on the deck.
H.H
Fairhill Bhoy
A wee prayer said for you and yours..
YNWA
Celtic’s transfer business will always predominately be at the end of the transfer windows. The majority of players (and their agents) we are interested in, whether they be from abroad, the English academy system or the English leagues, will all wait to see what’s available in the EPL during any given transfer window. Signings like Compper are the exception, targeted and brought in early with no apparent interest from down South, and signings like Morgan, Scottish and looking to step up domestically, are more the norm.
I’d expect another quiet week then all hell will break loose once the bottom half of the EPL move into full panic mode.
whatever happened to DONEGAL DANNY
Celtic really must open the Biscuit Tin and spend two £15 million centre-backs, £20 million on a creative midfielder and £25 million on a striker to replace the obviously departing Dembele and Griffiths.We must do this before we play Brechin otherwise we will be out of the Cup.
Cheerio for now.
JJ
EveryoeisentitledtotheiropinionCSC
Saint Stivs
Not another list being suggested?
JJ
15 degrees at 10 56 — bit cloudy -way down south .
Espresso and a cornetto break — boring my ass chopping up a dead Carob tree -but – I’ll like the heat it’ll provide .
Quick look at the Transfer window hype in the Italian press . The Jozo Simunovic to Lazio stuff has died -there are no updates since last week . There is however this .quote from a big cheese Lazio Suit .
” Stefan De Vrij is still our player . He has a contract with us until the end of this season. We know that there are 3 Clubs interested in him — we might do business if it suits us . We have prepared for him leaving -we have a list of potential replacements . Our supporters should know that our list is not necessarily the same as the one the media have invented “.
Skive extended by searching for ,eventually finding and playing this 45 — HANK MOBLEY !-
https://youtu.be/VS1Kjjn_npo
Same ole Celtic always signing
Same ole Celtic always signing
BMCUWP and BLANTYRE TIM,
I dunno if this helps
?
Around 2014 I was forced to attend a ESA Panel to try and obtain Employment Support Allowance. My so called “Representative” let me down at very short notice, and therefore I was facing representing myself in front of this Panel of a Doctor and a Lawyer.
The 1st question they asked was ” where is your rep/advisor”, and I explained that he had let me down, and couldn’t attend after all. The Panel offered me the chance to POSTPONE the assessment to a later date ? This Panel were fully aware that I was putting forward arguments about my Physical and Mental health.
I stupidly said “no thanks, I’m here now lets get on with it”.
I didn’t get ESA, they failed me at that time.
However as BT knows things are rather different for me know.
HH