Fine-tuning Tommy Burns methods

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Almost exactly 10 years after Celtic fans alleged Porto’s adherence to the rules was less than faithful, when they won the Uefa Cup after extra time, their creative genius, Deco, failed a drugs test a substance used to mask performance-enhancing substances were found in his blood.

Is anyone surprised?

Congratulations to the Celtic under-20 team on securing league and cup double, the fourth consecutive season Celtic youths have recorded this achievement.  John Kennedy and Stevie Frail’s operation is years ahead of what was previously known as their domestic competition.

Celtic have been fine-tuning youth development since Tommy Burns returned from Amsterdam all those years ago with new strategies, some of which are still being used.  The cream graduate as Champions League players, but Celtic are pretty much running elite-level youth development in Scotland, a fact made clear when you look at the enormous number of Celtic training academy graduates earning a living across the rest of the league.

It used to be the case that Celtic wasted young talent.  Perceived wisdom was “Go to Aberdeen or Dundee United, they’ll turn you into a player”.  The opposite is now true.
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  1. The Comfortable Collective

     

     

     

     

    Why Don’t You follow Sir Paul’s Advice.. and

     

     

    Stop..

     

     

    Using this Forum as a Platform fur..

     

     

    Making Mean,Insinuating.and Completely.. Untrue.. Remarks,concerning a fellow

     

     

    Poster..in this case.. Kojo.??

     

     

     

    Kojo

     

     

    Still..Laughin’

  2. Jings..! Crivvens..! Charlie Drake’s Wayward Boomerang….

     

     

    The Things Ye Learn Fae KitalbaTV….!

     

     

    Ah Didnae Ken That It Wiz The’ Tuskegee Squadron’,

     

     

    Flyin’ The Finest Fighter Aircraft Of The Era….

     

     

    Designed By Those Fiendishly Clever Folk….

     

     

    That Blasted The Luftwaffe Oot O’ The Sky…

     

     

    Beatin’ Hitler… Single-Haunded…

     

     

     

    [Only In The “Hollywood Version WWII’, TSD !……Ed ]

     

     

     

     

    Well That’s A Relief ,Ed..!

     

     

    Cripes..! There’s Probably Cave-Dwellers In Iberia….

     

     

    That Think It Was Harvey Keitel An’ Jon Bon Jovi….An’ The US Navy…..

     

     

    Who Captured The Enigma Codebooks Fae Yon Nazi Submarine..

     

     

    Beatin’ Hitler….Single-haunded….

     

     

    Red Tails…And Tall Tales…!

     

     

    The Truth Behind The Myth….

     

     

    Of The ‘Tuskegee Fliers’…

     

     

    http:// takimag.com/article/red_tails_and_tall_tales/print#axzz2SAMQKXRA.

  3. mickbhoy1888 on

    Regarding the closing of sections of the stadium for run of the mill SPL games and league cup and scottish cup games

     

    Fact season ticket sales are decreasing

     

    Wether it has been voted on and cast in stone is a matter of opinion however I certainly believe that the idea has been mooted and discussed at board level . It would certainly be prudent in these austere economic times to trim costs by restricting access to certain parts of the stadium therefore saving on staffing policing and security costs. Savings will also be made in the ordering of food which is never purchased and at the end of the day is thrown away and power costs

  4. Lurking a lot. Some posters adopt silly language to hide the emptiness of their minds and their problems with bile.

  5. mickbhoy1888 on

    Got to go Andrew Neil Christine Hamilton and Nigel Farage on the This Week show

  6. !!bada bing!!

     

     

    23:30 on 2 May, 2013

     

     

    Probably, the thing is winning captains will know were the posts come from.

     

    Kojo and his multiples sometimes keeps things ticking over when it’s quiet.

     

    He can sometimes go over the top with his posts and gets people angry…as has been said before… it’s easy to scroll by.

     

    HH

  7. Sipsini

     

     

    Pal..

     

     

    Ah wid Luv tae dae as ye ask..

     

     

     

    But.. Ah wullnae.

     

     

    Surely, Ah am entitled tae Behave and Act in whatever manner as I wish?

     

     

    Ah am make no demands oan any ither Fellow…oan here or elsewhere.

     

     

    then..

     

     

    Why should Ah be subjected tae demands fae ithers?

     

     

    If you have bin reading Ma Postings…ye must notice that Ah

     

     

    Seldom if ever, Make any demands from any of Ma Fellow Posters..

     

     

    Fur.. Each person is entitled tae Have a Private Opinion, oan any and all subjects

     

     

    And Should that ..Private Opinion..

     

     

    Be at Odds with My own..

     

     

    Ah would Never Dream of Castigating or Disparaging the Character of Whoever had

     

    the Audacity tae hiv an Opinion which was. diametrically opposed, tae the wan which Ah happened tae hold..oan the same Subject..

     

     

    Yet..

     

     

    Day after Day. .I am subjected tae Disparaging remarks,

     

     

    Beecause.. My Private Opinion. oan soiten Subjects..

     

     

    is a ODDS with the Majority of Posters oan here..

     

     

    Man.. This is Fine Kettle of Fish.. so it is.

     

     

     

    Kojo

     

     

    Still..aughin’

  8. TwoMacaroons on

    Kojo, I’m relatively new around here but from what I can gather you have been posting here a long time. Did you always Gerry this level of animosity? If not when dud it start? What caused it? And have you been around longer than TSD?

  9. Red Tails….And Tall Tails….

     

     

     

    by Paul Kersey

     

     

    January 2012 (From Taki’s Magazine )

     

     

    One would be hard-pressed to name a

     

    city in America without a Holocaust

     

    memorial, though it’s difficult to

     

    understand why this entirely European

     

    tragedy must be constantly mentioned

     

    in the United States.

     

     

    One would be equally hard-pressed to

     

    name a city in America without a street

     

    named after the Tuskegee Airmen, or

     

    an airport, Air Force base, or military

     

    installation deprived of a huge exhibit

     

    honoring the Red Tails.

     

     

    At the National Air and Space Museum

     

    outside Washington, DC, the Spirit of

     

    Tuskegee—this holiest of planes—

     

    overshadows the other exhibits not for

     

    being the plane that broke the sound

     

    barrier, but for being the vehicle that

     

    propelled black people to break the

     

    infinitely more important color barrier.

     

    “That the glorification of the black

     

    pilots is almost entirely based on lies—

     

    it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that

     

    1986’s Iron Eagle is based on more

     

    truth—doesn’t matter.”

     

     

    Schoolchildren across America watch

     

    HBO’s 1995 The Tuskegee Airmen

     

    movie as the source material for this

     

    courageous story of black people

     

    proving they could fly planes just as

     

    well as whitey. (Never mind that less

     

    than two percent of pilots in the US

     

    military today are black and that

     

    major commercial airlines show

     

    similarly low quotients of black pilots.)

     

    Does it matter that the 1995 movie is

     

    largely a Hollywood production based

     

    on now-discredited lies such as the

     

    “never losing a bomber” myth? Not

     

    really. Only a Tuskegee Airmen Denier

     

    —basically the equivalent of a Nazi

     

    sympathizer—would dare question the

     

    legitimacy of the “Red Tails” story.

     

    America has racially progressed to such

     

    a point that the mere thought of

     

    questioning the official Tuskegee

     

    Airmen story would be on par with a

     

    European asking if “six million Jews”

     

    really died in the concentration camps.

     

     

    Today, George Lucas has decided to

     

    one-up Tyler Perry’s determination to

     

    be the lone filmmaker who makes

     

    movies targeted primarily to black

     

    people by releasing Red Tails. The film

     

    purports to tell the true story of those

     

    black fighter pilots who trained at

     

    Morton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama,

     

    ultimately defeating the twin evils of

     

    Jim Crow and Nazi Germany in the

     

    process.

     

     

    Much of the glory surrounding the

     

    Tuskegee Airmen’s success was

     

    situated around the superlative, almost

     

    unbelievable tale that not one of the

     

    bombers they escorted was ever lost.

     

    For 62 years this story went

     

    unchallenged, largely because of the

     

    reverence and esteem that had been

     

    built up toward these black aviators

     

    who were so pivotal in the integration

     

    of not only the armed forces, but

     

    America as a whole.

     

    It wasn’t until a dreaded Tuskegee

     

    Airmen Denier by the name of Dr.

     

    Daniel Haulman came along in 2007

     

    and actually researched this story—

     

    started by black journalist Roi Ottley

     

    and quickly picked up by black

     

    newspaper The Chicago Defender in

     

    1945—that the truth came to the

     

    surface.

     

     

    Why not one of the members of the

     

    white bomber crew whose plane was

     

    shot down during escort by the 332d

     

    fighter group (the Red Tails) ever

     

    stepped forward and told the truth

     

    about the “never having a lost a

     

    bomber” myth is a testament to this

     

    fable’s relatively recent proliferation.

     

    Though you couldn’t be thrown in jail

     

    for such an impolite inquiry to the

     

    veracity of the claims around the Red

     

    Tails as in Europe, Dr. Haulman did

     

    find intense pressure from

     

    entrenched academics

     

    , and the Tuskegee Airmen

     

    themselves, for daring to expose the

     

    truth behind the myth.

     

     

    How dare Dr. Haulman question the

     

    legitimacy of the Tuskegee Airmen

     

    story and position himself as a Denier?

     

    Doesn’t he know the great victory over

     

    racism at home and fascism abroad

     

    these brave Nubian fighter pilots

     

    achieved?

     

     

    No matter, for the National Park Service

     

    website entry on The Tuskegee Airmen

     

    National Historic Site still proudly lists

     

    this unfortunate falsehood:

     

    Awarded a Distinguished Unit

     

    Citation for the mission, the

     

    Tuskegee Airmen did not lose a

     

    single bomber despite the superior

     

    German planes.

     

     

    Haulman says they actually lost 25

     

    bombers in 1944 and 1945 to those

     

    German planes, flown by young

     

    Luftwaffe pilots barely into puberty. But

     

    that doesn’t jibe with the narrative of

     

    being superior pilots—both with their

     

    aeronautical dexterity and moral

     

    compass—to inferior white pilots.

     

    More than 1,200 white Army Air Force

     

    pilots were considered “aces” in World

     

    War II (meaning they had five or more

     

    confirmed kills); not one Tuskegee

     

    Airman earned the honor of being an

     

    “ace” unless you consider Detroit, a

     

    city that Mayor Coleman Young—yes,

     

    he was a Tuskegee Airman—helped

     

    destroy to be an “honorary” kill.

     

    After all, 2012 Detroit looks like it was

     

    leveled by a couple thousand sorties.

     

    Not to be quieted by accusations of

     

    Tuskegee Airmen Denialism, Haulman

     

    would author the small tract Nine

     

    Myths About the Tuskegee Airmen

     

    that pretty much shoots down all the

     

    lies sold as truth to keep the Red Tails

     

    story flying.

     

     

    That the glorification of the black pilots

     

    is almost entirely based on lies—it

     

    wouldn’t be a stretch to say that

     

    1986’s Iron Eagle is based on more

     

    truth—doesn’t matter. Only a Tuskegee

     

    Airmen Denier would think such

     

    unthinkable thoughts !!

     

     

    ~~~~~~~~

     

     

    NotKitalbaTVCSC….

  10. Sipsini

     

     

    Pal..

     

     

    Ah nevah get Angry at anybuddy oan here.

     

     

    How Could Ah?

     

     

    Oh.. Ah get Frustrated.. Sure.. But . Ah canny get Angry..

     

     

    So.. It Amazes me, tae read whit ye jist wrote.. that Ah kin Make Some folk Angry at whit Ah happen tae write.

     

     

    Howevahhh..

     

     

    Let me say this,pal..

     

     

    Naebuddy wull tak yer advice and Scrolll oan By.. whit Kojo happens tae Write oan here..

     

     

    Whit Ye are Aking, when ye gie that advice..

     

     

    Is

     

     

    Jist

     

     

    HUMANLY.. IMPOSSIBLE!

     

     

    Everybuddy,oan here..

     

     

    Luvs tae read..

     

     

    Every woid Ah wrote..

     

     

    In Fact..

     

     

    They tak notes.. and Cast it up.. in Ma face..

     

     

    things that Ah wrote..

     

     

     

    Four, Five.. and Even .. Six.. Years Ago!

     

     

    So ye see,pal..

     

     

    Naebuddy

     

     

    EVER .. SCROLLS OAN BY.. the Latest Kojo Submission.

     

     

    ye kin bet ye Sweet Patootie.. They Dinna!

     

     

    Kojo is the guy..that Maist folk oan Her

     

     

    Luv tae Hate..

     

     

    Jist read some of the Scathing and Insulting Stuff that Is Thrown at me.. almost

     

     

    Daily..oan Here..

     

     

    Nice Chatting..

     

     

    Kojo

     

     

    Still.. Laughin

  11. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    Just spent a thoroughly excellent evening in the company of

     

     

    ANGELGABRIEL

     

    MICKTT-I now know what the tt stands for,doh!

     

    TROONTIM

     

     

    As is so often the case,we meet as strangers and part with plans made for the next time.

     

     

    My hat is once again doffed to our host,PAUL67

  12. kikinthenakas on

    Bhoys

     

     

    Many thanks for the kind birthday wishes…..my day was brilliant, many wouldn’t believe it……but me n mrs k ended up in town at a wee Greek restaurant, which was the bomb…followed by a few beers in the horseshoe…then a wee champagne bar for the mrs, cos am no a selfish bugger…followed by the train hame tae ma local for another few…

     

     

    Ma pals are great…..ma mrs brilliant….but am no bad as well…..lovin life….

     

     

    Kikinthenakas

  13. The Holocaust was not a European tragedy. It was a human tragedy. Only misguided individuals fail to recognise that.

     

    Goodnight bampots.

  14. Two Macaroons

     

     

    Nice of Ye tae Mak that enquire,pal..

     

     

    Well..

     

     

    Ah hiv bin Oan the Forum frum.. Almost the Beginning..

     

     

    Sir Paul and Ah go way, way, back..

     

     

    Sir Paul, is a real Stand Up Guy,by the Way..

     

     

    He is Ma Kinda Guy.

     

     

    Sure, ,Ah hiv always hid a few Critics oan here..

     

     

    That Goes with the Territory , because of Ma … Unique writing..

     

     

    Some folk, jis don’t dig it..

     

     

    That disnae Faze me,one Bit..

     

     

    Ah am Me.. and they ur They.. and Nane o’ the twixt shall Agree..

     

     

    But,Lately… Those Few Critics hiv turned intae an ARMY.

     

     

    Why that be the case..

     

     

    Ye wull hiv tae ask .. Dear Abby.. fur Ah sure dinna Know.

     

     

    Ah hiv not Chinged ..

     

     

    So .. why the sudden Urge

     

     

    By ..sometimes it seems tae me..

     

     

    The Whole Bloody Blog.. Want tae Pile oan.. and Rip Poor Kojo tae Pieces..

     

     

    Ah hiv No Idea..

     

     

    When Ah read some of the Nonesense which I Am accused of doing and Being..

     

     

    Ah . . Jist canny Believe that

     

     

    Mature… Grown Up Guy..and gals.. who Are allowed tae Stey up after Nine… even if it is in thur Jammies…

     

     

    Kin Write such wild and wooly and Insults.directed at

     

     

    Me..

     

     

    Simply because…Ma Opinion oan a Soiten Matter… Differs frae Thur Ain.

     

     

    Anyway..

     

     

    Pal.. As ye continue tae read whit Ah write. ye wull be able tae Form an Opinion of

     

    yer ain aboot me..

     

     

    Try no tae be Influence by the rubbish that the Kojo Haters. spew in thur submissions,concerning wit they Think of Li’l old me..

     

     

     

    Ah know it wull hard fur you , no tae be influenced by them

     

     

    But,,

     

     

    Ah ask ye tae be fair..and dae yer best.. in order tae form

     

     

    Yer ain Opinion of Li’l Ole Me..

     

     

    Kojo

     

     

    Still..Laughiin’

  15. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    KOJO

     

     

    You recently had a number of your more vitriolic and poisonous posts deleted,and were advised to

     

     

    “Stick to the fitba'”

     

     

    Not for you,eh?

     

     

    Then you wind people up,and we lose great men like SFTB because he falls on his sword after stooping to your level.

     

     

    Did I go crying to teacher after this? Course not.

     

     

    Is it any less than SFTB self-censored for?

     

     

    No,not really.

     

     

    This is you,compare it to what SFTB said

     

     

    “kojo

     

     

    17:16 on 30 April, 2013

     

    LeftClickTic

     

     

    Well..

     

     

    Ah kin only go wi with whit

     

     

    Bobby Murdoch.. writes.. Oan Here.

     

     

    Ah hivnae hid the benefit of Meeting Him.. Face tae Face..

     

     

    And..if Ah did.

     

     

    Ye kin bet yer Sweet Petunia..

     

     

    that Bobby Murdoch… widnae hae the Intestinal Fortitude.. that he displays

     

    oan here.. as an Anonymous Entity.. casting Aspersions… left and right..

     

     

    When He is No.

     

     

    well..

     

     

    Facing a Man ..like .. Kojo.. face tae face..

     

     

    Kojo

     

     

    Still…Laughin’”

     

     

    Ring a bell,ya two-faced stirrer?

  16. Two Macaroons

     

     

    And.. Anither Thing..

     

     

    The Singing Detective, is Not Me.

     

     

    Ah dinnae know how long he has bin a Member of this July Forum.

     

     

    He is very well versed oan whit Ah hiv s aid in the Past.. so obviously, he has

     

    bin a Member ,for a Long,Long time.

     

     

    Noo ye know.

     

     

    Kojo

     

     

    Still.. Laughin

  17. angelgabriel on

    BMCUWP.

     

    Ditto. Faces to names is always good.

     

    Interesting that many names of good Ayrshire tims were known

     

    to all of us .TBC. to be continued.HH.

     

     

    Kickinthenakas.

     

    Glad your loving life,nae rehersals.

     

    Many happy returns.HH

  18. TwoMacaroons on

    Kojo I pretty much follow my own path, and what you write is your own affair as you say it’s only YOUR opinion, no one has to agree. What does surprise me is why fellow celts attack one an other with such venom. We’re all on the same side after all. HH

  19. Two Macaroons

     

     

    Read that Latest Posting fae..

     

    Bobby Murdoch.. etc..

     

     

    Ye Hiv?

     

     

    Good..

     

     

    Noo ye wull get the idea of whit Ah hiv tae pit up wi.

     

     

    Look..

     

     

    Ah hiv Nothing Whitsoever tae dae wi.

     

     

    Setting free the Bears.. Shuffling aff this Sainted Forum ,in High Dudgeon..

     

     

     

    Ask .. Setting free the Bears, when he comes Back..

     

     

    and..

     

     

    Ye Kin bet ye sweet Patootie that Setting Free the Bears.. wul be Back!

     

     

    He is jist being MeloDramatic.. He’ ll Be Back..

     

    awright..

     

     

     

    Anyway..

     

     

    Nice Chatting Pal.

     

     

    Kojo

     

     

    Still Laughin’

  20. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    TIMBHOY2

     

     

    Huns back in the top tier?

     

     

    All for it,me

     

     

    First time they beat us,that oily heap of something,Salmond,will declare a double Bank Holiday.

     

     

    I wouldnae want it to happen too often,mind,but mibbes once in a blue,ooooer,moon around October.

     

     

    Just to get blootered and celebrate our ten point lead

     

     

    You can attend the wake.

  21. Two Macaroons

     

     

    Ye hiv a Golden Mantra Pal..

     

     

    ” Treat ithers as ye wid wish Ithers wid Treat You.”

     

     

    Keep oan Following it..and ye wull Be a Blessing tae This

     

    Sainted Site.

     

     

     

    Pal..

     

     

    Ah do Very Little .. “ATTACKING”

     

     

    Ye wull notice that, pal.. as the time Passes..

     

     

    Maist of the Attacking oan here..is Fully DIRECTED at Poor Old Me..

     

     

    No Much ..if any, at all.. Attacks, every emanate fae Kojo’s quill.

     

     

    Kojo

     

    Still..Laughin.

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