Football doesn’t allow you to pick and choose

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Europe?  A week ago I was all for it; there has been a lot of learning since.  We are not ready to make an impact on the latter stages of the Conference League or any other Uefa competition.  For me, the focus of this week is all about Easter Road on Sunday.  Football, however, does not allow you to pick and choose.

If Ange rested much of his first team against Bodo/Glimt tomorrow and suffered an even worse result than in the first leg, a new avenue of consequences would open up.  You cannot prepare property for an important game by losing a few days earlier.

Celtic must go out in the frozen north and give a professional performance, preparations for Easter Road will wait a few days.

 

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  1. ERNIE LYNCH

     

     

    Bill Hicks:

     

     

    They told me if you vote for the Democrats they’ll raise taxes. They say they won’t Bill but they will.

     

     

    That’s fine by me. I’ll happily pay those extra tax dollars as long as it means I don’t need to watch American bombs blowing up brown babies.

  2. Apologies to all for mentioning football on this blog.

     

     

    For me the inexperience of their goalkeeper against our in form big striker driven on by a different shaped midfield with Bitton in the defensive midfield role will make the difference. As will the inexperience of Bodo in knockout European ties plus their own sense of superiority .

  3. My apologies I just googled my question.

     

    Founded by 3 Basque students who were fans of A Bilbao.

     

    The club wanted to buy shirts in the blue and white of Bilbao and approached Blackburn Rovers to buy there shirt. However there was a supply problem and Southampton stepped in and offered the red and white stripes which they wear to this day.

     

    Wikipedia CSC

  4. Liverpool within 3 points of Man City, sane number of games played, and now with a better goal difference.

     

    Beating Leeds 3-0 at HT. Goal difference may yet improve.

  5. park the bus 442 on

    TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 23RD FEBRUARY 2022 8:06 PM

     

    PARK THE BUS 442

     

    Backtracking 🤣

     

    ••••••••••••••••••

     

    Yer chasing buses cause you vote for a party that tries to be sleekit and underhand with children.

     

    What does that make Celtic supporters look like who vote for a political party who can’t stop pushing the boundaries with children??

     

    And then these same Celtic supporters continued to financially back££££ a PLC board who bottled out of a sit down interview with the very shouty, louder, and louder, Ch4news Alex Thompson, stamping his feet outside the main door of Parkhead, demanding an interview with Lawwell, who refused to answer calls from Ch4 news guy, who had ScotNat mp James Dornan on the tv screen, twisting the knife into Celtic, making Celtic look dirty, dodgy, slippery, as though Celtic had something to hide, maybe they did/do?? how are we supposed to know if Lawwell hides from msm leech journo, Alex Thompson, and Lawwell was digging the hole deeper the longer he allowed Dornan, and Thompson, to occupy the moral high ground, wiping their feet on dirty Celtic, why hide from Ch4news woke interviewer, Thompson, if Celtic had nothing to hide??

     

    Dim Tims voting for pond life MSP’s and a thoroughly dodgy PLC board.

     

    How many dim Tims protested in the car park after Lawwell’s disastrous non performance??

     

    I’d guess, none.

     

    What do you think that did for the image, the brand, of Celtic fc, and its supporters??

     

     

    P.S. Twice 2 times, I’ve told you I didn’t see any racist words written by Kojo.

  6. LIONROARS67 on 23RD FEBRUARY 2022 8:40 PM

     

     

    Does that mean the person, and indeed the party, you voted for played no part in repealing the SNP’s Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012?

     

     

    And does that say it all really?

  7. What a waste of talent Pogba is! Superb physique and skill, but a selfish mercenary who owes no loyalty to any team and puts in the minimum effort.

  8. !!BADA BING!! on 23RD FEBRUARY 2022 8:51 PM

     

    Ashley has billed the huns for 11 million according to KDS and cm

     

     

     

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    Will they get a free mug when they pay?

  9. dearie me……..how thick can you be

     

     

    The person I voted for sadly did not get elected

     

     

    Ernie if you don’t have an elected member in the chamber

     

     

    The only MSP’s who voted for OBFA were SNP everybody else opposed the illiberal populist act

  10. How many konsecutive moniker changes in one shift……….

     

    and some Lonely Hearts engage the nugget……………..

     

     

    Lhads…….

  11. ERNIE LYNCH

     

     

    The Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 is obviously the most important issue of the 21st century as far as you are concerned, but other voters have more important issues to occupy their minds when it comes to deciding who to vote for.

     

     

    I didn’t agree with the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012, but I voted SNP for many other reasons, and spoke against the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 at branch meetings and at conference.

     

     

    I was delighted when the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 was repealed, as were quite a few party members.

  12. LIONROARS67 on 23RD FEBRUARY 2022 9:01 PM

     

     

    And presumably you knew when you voted that the only way to get the legislation repealed was to elect candidates who would vote for its repeal.

     

     

    Yet you voted for someone who had no chance of being elected (and who just happened to support the SNP on their core policy).

     

     

    So rather than play any part in the repeal of the legislation you in fact did the opposite.

     

     

    Not the smartest of moves you have to admit.

  13. IQV @ 8.35

     

     

    That can’t be a CL knockout game — two teams from outside the Magic Circle of the Big5 Leagues.

     

     

    Teams that we couldn’t even hope to emulate even though they are not in the Big5.

     

    Teams that are so far out of our league that we shouldn’t even bother.

     

     

    So at least one of the Last 8 in the CL must be from a Minor League.

     

    That can’t be true — somebody is pulling your chain / stream.

  14. TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 23RD FEBRUARY 2022 9:04 PM

     

    ERNIE LYNCH

     

     

     

     

     

     

    The Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 is obviously the most important issue of the 21st century

     

     

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    Well that was certainly the impression the SNP gave given the alacrity with which the legislation was introduced and their resolute efforts to retain in on the statute books.

     

     

    And the fact that no SNP politician or official has even now ever dared utter a word of criticism of it.

  15. TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 23RD FEBRUARY 2022 9:04 PM

     

     

    The Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 is obviously the most important issue of the 21st century as far as you are concerned

     

     

    It was so important for Ernie he decided it wasn’t worthy of any kind of personal or financial support as apparently, he lived too far away, but he did vote Labour making him the OBFA VIP supporter how could anyone question that level of commitment to the cause, the effort to make that cross on the ballot paper the mans a hero

  16. Ajax were in the CL semi-final 2 years ago and only missed reaching the final by about 40 seconds.

  17. LIONROARS67 on 23RD FEBRUARY 2022 9:16 PM

     

     

    Your virtue signalling did nothing to repeal the legislation.

     

     

    The one thing you could have done to help repeal the Act, you refused to do.

     

     

    That’s the reality.

  18. ERNIE LYNCH on 23RD FEBRUARY 2022 9:09

     

     

    I did attend the rallies, meetings and supported the cause

     

     

    Attended the victory celebration at Strathclyde student union bar

     

     

    Of course, it didnt match your all-in commitment of putting a cross against Labour on a ballot paper

     

     

    Laughable risible nonsense

  19. park the bus 442 on

    There wouldn’t have been a ScotGov summit after the shame game, if George Galloway, was Celtic’s chairman, instead of the blood dripping, warmonger, Freemason, John Reid, as Salmond would’ve been well aware that his fat blue and orange arse would’ve been served to him, by take no shit Galloway.

     

    GG wouldn’t have bullsh*tted about dossiers, GG would’ve called a Celtic specific media conference, and outlined clearly that…..

     

     

    “Celtic got Three 3 players booked

     

    Celtic supporters didn’t break seats then throw them onto the pitch

     

    Celtic supporters didn’t throw TV’s out of windows

     

    Celtic supporters didn’t beat their wives into a hospitals

     

    Celtic supporters didn’t embark upon stabbing sprees throughout Scotland

     

    Celtic supporters didn’t wreck various pubs around Scotland

     

    Celtic supporters saw a manager who will bow to ‘NO’ oppressor in NFL

     

    Celtic supporters will see an executive led by me, GG, who will robustly defend NFL to our last breath if necessary

     

    Celtic supporters will ‘NOT’ see their executives attending ‘ANY’ photo shoot summit called by ‘ANY’ crooked minister who can simply prove that they are ‘NOT’ crooked, by simply opening their books to our very thirsty legal team.

     

    We march with Lennon shoulder to shoulder!”

     

     

    GG would’ve robustly stood every word up, Salmond would’ve had to resign in shame, and Celtic supporters wouldn’t be dim, they would be sharp, switched on, tuned in, energized, and educated by the GG led executive.

     

    But instead of that we have dim, and dimmer, then sleekit to camouflage the dimness.

  20. But the CL is not for the likes of us …

     

    So said the master of knowing your place — PL and all his little helpers.

  21. Man U making 3 subs. Pogba withdrawn. Rangnick has seen enough of him. Shaw and Lindelof also off.

  22. ERNIE LYNCH

     

     

    I can’t believe a man of your age and intelligence is criticising a fellow Celtic supporter because he chose not to desert his preferred political party at an election in the name of a solitary issue.

     

     

    I was kinda joking when I said the act was the most important issue of the century in your mind. Clearly it really was.

     

     

    How sad is that?

  23. ERNIE LYNCH on 23RD FEBRUARY 2022 9:20 PM

     

     

    The OBHA was repealed due to Ernie voting for Labour so many owe deep gratitude to Ernie and that cross on the ballot paper that was the moment

     

     

    Was a Labour man elected in Ernie’s constituency ? Where does Ernie live ? Questions

     

     

    It would be embarrassing if all this grandstanding had no connection with reality

  24. LIONROARS67 on 23RD FEBRUARY 2022 9:21 PM

     

     

    And I’m sure you had a lovely time and felt very good about yourself.

     

     

    But the reality is that you refused to do the one thing that was required to repeal the legislation.

     

     

    And if you don’t mind me saying so, it was a mind numbingly stupid and self indulgent course of action.

  25. Evening all,

     

     

    Just logged in and had a quick readback, jeez, not many posts about Celtic.

     

    I’ll check back in tomorrow, hopefully there will be more Celtic related posts.

     

     

    Nite all.

     

     

    Brian

  26. Jeez. The level of political stuff on here tonight has my head spinning. My scrolling finger has a blister.

     

     

    Give it a rest. No one – NO ONE – changes views after reading a political post on a football blog, If you must, take it AFF LINE.

     

     

    Message Ends. Hail Hail (remember that?).