It remains a possibility that Atletico Madrid will lose today’s league decider against Barcelona and next week’s Champions League final against Real Madrid (vernacular: ‘do a Hearts), but I hope not. The fact that they have pushed the two most celebrated football clubs on the planet to the limit, across two tournaments, is already remarkable. Should they deliver on two fronts, it will be the most stunning achievement in European football in 47 years.
There was a healthy amount of bloodlust for the Uefa Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules to fine the life out of the likes of Manchester City and Paris St Germain, before banning them from Uefa competition. This was never the point.
What Uefa have done is bring Europe’s two most freely spending clubs into line. FFP will restrict City and PSG’s expenditure, transfer market activity and squad selection. This is a result.
It’s a pity we’re not at Celtic Park to lift the Scottish Cup today. *!*!
Enormous thanks to Tommy Gemmell and everyone who participated in the entertainment here yesterday. Tommy thoroughly enjoyed the banter and will be back on the blog below this article early this afternoon to catch up with the questions he didn’t have time for yesterday.
You can buy a signed copy of his new autobiography, which he can add a personalised message to, by ordering below:
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Breaking news.
Buckie to be sold in cans….allegedly.
HH jamesgang
Jude
Well done the young man, you both deserve your dram.
Wee story before Vespers
Had Josh’s Celtic scarf on today. First time since a hun chased me up Baltic st with an axe. Wdnt be here today only for ma mate grabbing me and hauling me on to the bus.
Unlucky for him the Kirkwood bus picked him up and the thru him off a hunner yards up the road!!
RWE
Glad you enjoyed your seafood.
Had an amazing seafood rissoto and magners dinner tonight. :)
BRTH
The above may on full examination of contract be wrong but it is a safer stance than making accusations that do not stand up based on partial reading of the contract.
It could become the kind of “state aid” equivalent that we deride.
BRTH:
Rolf Hochhuth wrote a play called, “The Deputy,” in Germany in 1963, many said it was just a satirical wind up, many others said it was simply evil.
It’s funny how people believe what they want to believe.
Ps
That was coming from the 6-3 Hibs game btw. Dont think they like us winning things!!
Sipsini
I am meeting Petec and Travellerbhoy up the toon this Friday. Be great if you joined us.
Can I Have Raspberry On That Champions League Ice Cream 23:29 on 18 May, 2014
rwe
23:23 on 18 May, 2014
Delaneys Dunky
Mrs Rwe had fish and chips. You can take the girl our of Bishopbriggs but not the Briggs out of the ghirl…
HH
She can’t be fae the Briggs if she had fish, you sure it wisnae a spam fritter. You could smell them cooking in the Milton every Sunday, whilst us ruffians were having steak pie.
MiltonNo1CSC
…………….
I had many dinners in her Mammy’s and sometimes I had no idea what I was eating.
She was formidable and I was hungry CSC
Jude. The final of two hat tricks. And obviously one scarf trick.
Evening all.
Heard the one about PETA wanting to build a ten foot chicken in memorial to chickens killed on the road?
Ahem, it isn’t a joke. Animal rights loonies are at it again. Stark raving eggs.
No offence to Weefra by the way.
Surely now that there are underpasses the chickens should go home rather than twittering on about memorials!
Craig, PETA are whackjobs of the highest order. They even outwhackjob Greenpeace.
RWE
What a player, Chick Corea is coming here if she is in his band I would pay to see her live for sure!
Night all. Night wee Oscar my hero. God bless x x
Hail hail
DD.
I could be up for that, just need to cover my da as he’s a bit down.
So it is world cup time soon.
I shall support:
Russia.
Greece.
Honduras.
Nigeria.
Germany.
England.
And Poland if they are there.
Oh, and Chile because they are attacking madmen.
In that order unless Poland are there. They would be near the top in that case.
C10
Yes. Was like a shawl btw
john o’ neil
No offence taken. We have just rescued 6 ex battery hens from the Edinburgh vet charity.. Thanx for your concern. Well appreciated. :-((
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Weefra
That is brilliant. How do the wee hens adapt to the change in their circumstances. Well, I am sure, and are they laying yet?
starry plough
Have yet to see her live…but Chicks the man (Can I say that on here :o)))
Check out the Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scotts dvd as she plays on the whole thing.
Best jazz settings are clubs CSC
Good on you Weefra. I wouldn’t wish for animals to suffer cruelty but that PETA are a weird bunch.
Forgot to say that they want to make the chicken look angry. How the cluck can a chicken look angry?
Night all.
Sus.
BBC2.
3rd may. 1979.
Thatcher in.
World changed.
Race relations in the UK, stop and search policy.
Good film.
RWE
23.23 and 23.30
So you went down the single fish, plenty of vinegar on the side, please route.
Good choice. Sounds delicious.
The programme on Rio is one of those that must make old J L Baird proud of his invention.
Aiden Bhoy
21:40 on
18 May, 2014
morrisey
Think you might be right remember seeing it on twitter.
In regard to us standing alone I just don’t see the benefit of us wanting to go back to the old firm. Without them we have a free shot at the champs lge every year, which far outweighs anything we could make from the OF brand.
Maybe our board see the end game and KNOW they do not need to feed the smouldering embers of what used to be R.F.C. and are sailing ahead regardless of what is happening.
The dire state of this new clubs finances means they may know that they will never need to tell it like it is yet perhaps there is going to be a time when Celtic FC NEED to get their cards on the table about this IF it EVER happens and say THE old firm was Celtic and Rangers.
Celtic still exist.
Rangers do not.
A new club called The Rangers was started and we may well play them.
The supporters that followed Rangers wanted to believe that their club still existed so they latched onto this new club called The Rangers which was formed in 2012 by some….erm…..opportunist’s who bought a dilapidated football stadium and hoped to make some money from a potential customer base.
The manager from Rangers was employed to front the new club although all their football players chose to be employed by different clubs.
A few EX Rangers players did join the new club because they were/are hopeless/past it(delete as appropriate but you wont need to cos they are hopeless)and were being offered much more than their abilities would have been valued at in normal circumstances but these guys were being offered ridiculous contracts to purchase their services purely as pawns in a game to fleece THAT customer base of their cash.
Tales of History being bought and also a company being allowed to trade with almost exactly the same name and corporate identity have been allowed to happen despite insolvency law stating that such things cannot take place.
The Scottish media are a joke and pander to “the peepul” despite actually then playing a pivotal role in withholding information so much information and “Exclusives” that WOULD have been front page news!
We do not get a free shot at the champions league and we have to go out and win the chance to qualify as we did before.
We still have to battle with the clubs in our league every single game and sometimes that means our players getting kicked off the park.
Winning the league at times came down to “title deciders” but they do not happen unless WE beat St. Johnstone, Motherwell, Aberdeen, etc. and we DO still play and NEED to be beat these teams every week, yet our achievement is diminished because they no longer exist?
Yet when WE were no more of a match to R.F.C. than thes clubs, when they managed to equal our 9 in a row ANY TITLE WAS GLORIFIED!
Sweeping statement time……so much is corrupt and there is only so much that Celtic F.C. CAN do but THAT O.F. thing CAN be put to bed at least in the eyes, minds and hearts of THE supporters and even the fans by Celtic telling it like it is.
As supporters and fans WE need to put this O.F/back/return thing to bed as well and IF WE cannot do it…..then it kinda makes any future attempts(not that there has been)by The Club irrelevant anyway?
Tell it like it is Celtic
Sorry if that was just a beer fuelled babble……not aff oot…..aff tae the cot.
Beauty sleep required.
Sipsini
The cheap n cheerful Crystal Palace. :)
Aahhhh….
Just as I remember it.
RWE
Was it as good as a Pittenweem fish supper?
Ignorant barstewards (pffft)
By the way Hamilton tit
“Youre a fanny”
Craigellachie10
00:15 on 19 May, 2014
The programme on Rio is one of those that must make old J L Baird proud of his invention.
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Spot on! It was enlightening.
Richie
It restores the faith a little after hearing that ant and dec won two TV Baftas.
The Bould Bhoys
You on to cause trouble?
That shite on Saturday morning was an utter disgrace.
An embarrassment.
A 70 year old man.
A Celtic LEGEND treated that way.
And yet some ,…not all…have the cheek to come back here like nothing happened.
Ive never seen anything like it.
An utter disgrace.
GuyFawkesaforeverhero & Delaneys Dunky
Mrs RWE had the fish & chips – cos she’s fae Auchinairn..I mean the Briggs.
Being a Castlemilk/East Kilbride bhoy I had the Chilean Sea Bass.
I did help her out with some of her meal though, just being supportive like.
BTW DD, I though it was the famous Anstruther Fish & Chip Shop. Been to that a few times, but the queue was always a drag.
GFAFH, Fish & Chips out of vinegar soaked paper is the only way.
HH