‘The magic of the Cup’ was perhaps missing as Celtic eased Brechin City out of the competition on Saturday but the occasion provided Brendan Rodgers with the perfect opportunity to exercise limbs in competitive action for the first time in three weeks.
Four games now stand between Celtic and a second consecutive treble, at least one of which will be at home (to Partick Thistle), with two at neutral Hampden, should we get there. Celtic have won six on the bounce at Hampden since Tom Rogic’s penalty missed the target in the Scottish Cup semi-final of 2016. Whatever mental block we had at the place before Brendan arrived, it is well and truly sorted now.
More about Thistle tomorrow. They may be second bottom of the league but there are reasons to believe tomorrow’s game at Firhill will not be straightforward.
It occurs to me that you and I have talked about making history so often in recently. These truly are incredible times.
I see Chris McCart has been busy with plans for a ‘colts’ team to enter the bottom tier of Scottish football. Not sure how this would workout but I just hope the hoards of conservatives (small c) in our game don’t block an innovative change without just cause.
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SNP good,anyone who dares to call out a non-SNP or even criticise such a post-bad.
The much missed BARCA MOLE and I discussed this often.
It’s like the Nuremberg rallies.
Mhairi Black…pretty?
It truly is in the eye of the beholder.
The decision to sack WGS looks better and better
Mhari Black…pretty, I must need new glasses or mushroom season is late this year:))
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 22ND JANUARY 2018 1:25 PM
M6BHOY
I don’t get this. You won’t go to see your team because they lied down to the Masonic anti-Irish establishment in Scotland.
Yet you defend Black’s comments?
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I didn’t defend it – I called the phrase daft if you read my post correctly but I have also heard Irish born/heritage friends use the term “Plastic Paddies” when describing other Irish people or Irish themed pubs, etc. Yes she would be better advised to choose her words more carefully but I am not going to jump on the offended bus over this.
Incidentally, I’ve never claimed the “team lied down to Masonic anti-Irish establishment in Scotland”. I do however, believe the plc board should do a lot more to challenge the hun cheating and the SFA cover up. Team or PLC board??? Seems Mhairi Black’s not the only one who should be careful with their choice or words.
Point of order.
Mhairi black isn’t working class.
She’s from a thorougly middle class background.
I’m not sure why she tries to hide the fact or pretends to be something she isn’t.
The irony is too obvious to need stating.
She’s a young, pretty raw, working class women.
Fixed that for you ;-)
ERNIE LYNCH on 22ND JANUARY 2018 1:47 PM
I bow to your superior knowledge of all thing’s MB but I understand she went to Lourdes Secondary School as did quite a few of my solidly working class cousins. She does support Partick Thistle so that’s probably the clincher.
M6BHOY
Explain to me again why you don’t go to watch your team,please
Amateur hour again at the Strong Rangers Association. Took three months to speak to a guy who was never going to take the job. Meanwhile Paul Lambert, who was available all this time gets a job somewhere else.
Now we will end up with serial failure gies-a-job McLeish.
I’m sure that wasn’t the plan all along…..
I heard a radio interview with Mhari Black where she said she comes from a catholic family of which many support Celtic. Labourites dont like her because she’s SNP and a strong personality and a good speaker.
Her politics seen very like old labour socialism with a bit of independence thrown in. Haven’t seen her comments but I will guarantee they weren’t sectarian in anyway. More likely her targets will be those support a free Ireland but dont want the same for Scotland.
Remember when Billy Connolly claimed to be a Jags supporter in is cartoon strip. Well we didnt buy that either.
Regan is on the ropes, never been a better time to deliver a knock out.
ERNIE LYNCH @1.47
” Point of Order ”
What measures do you use when deciding re what an individual’s social class is ? . I could then use the information to ascertain my social class
M6BHOY on 22ND JANUARY 2018 1:18 PM
NATKNOW on 22ND JANUARY 2018 12:50 PM
Why should she have to explain? She’s a young pretty raw working class women who says what she feels and the occasional daft phrase spills out – so what and we’ve all been there, haven’t we? I may not agree with everything that trips out of her mouth but at least she not another identikit politician. For what it’s worth, I remember when Irish themed pubs were opening at the rate of knots in the late nineties, they were often referred to as Plastic Paddy pubs mainly by people I knew who were either Irish born or by heritage. Quite frankly, there are bigger things happening in the world of politics to get your knickers twisted over ffs.
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“Why should she have to explain?”
She should have to explain because she’s an MP (OK – part-time MP) on £75k a year who seems to be using the platform she has to attack other people’s cultural identity in a country that has a clear problem (current as well as historical) with racism against people with an Irish background.
“She’s a young pretty raw working class women who says what she feels and the occasional daft phrase spills”.
Is she? We’re told frequently how smart and well-educated she is. First class degree in Politics isn’t it? Personally I don’t care which version we’re to believe – young hothead or educated motormouth. That doesn’t allow her to attack other cultures. Unless you’re saying that the young and uncouth can say what they want without response?
“..so what and we’ve all been there, haven’t we?”
No. We all haven’t. I certainly wasn’t taught to be so utterly disrespectful to people of different ethnic backgrounds. Has she forgotten the party line? One Scotland Many Cultures….unless you’re Irish, of course?
If she was talking about 2nd or 3rd generation Afro-Caribbeans, Pakistanis and called them “plastic Rastas” or “plastic Pakistanis” – do you think for a second she’d get away with that? Of course not – because everyone would see right through it and recognise it for what it is – racism, bigotry.
Think again.
She’s happy to stand up for people who identify as lesbians, transgender etc. but she does not want to extend parity of esteem to those with an Irish background. Like all bigots, she doesn’t recognise she’s is a bigot. Someone in her party should be calling her out. But they won’t want to draw any attention to it.
There are bigger things happening in the world but this is the kind of remark we only used to expect from Britain First, BNP, etc. so well-worthy of comment in a country where sectarianism and Irish racism are still openly accepted. Her remarks only reinforce that acceptance.
BTW – I wear very well-pressed boxers that are never twisted.
Point of order!
Not all Patricks are Irish. And vice versa.
S O T
Sui Generis would be my guess.
NATKNOW on 22ND JANUARY 2018 2:10 PM
You iron your underwear. Nuff said ffs.
I hope the joined up dots at Aberdeen don’t add up to Christie replacing Mc.Lean at Pittodrie.
Reading back I’m agreeing with the arguments criticising Black’s comment.
At a disadvantage though as I don’t know the context in which she used the expression.
Can anyone enlighten me?
ERNIE LYNCH @ 2 15
Gratias tibi ago .
I did Latin courtesy of getting an A in the Qualie exam .
Little Boxes CSC -way Down South .
BAMBOO
I’ll guarantee that they were totally sectarian.
If someone called you a plastic Irishman in the pub,how would you react?
This may help to ascertain your social class
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxpZkKKbDgA
T3- Dylan McGeouch linked as Sheep replacement for McLean
2 Irishmen were eating sandwiches in the pub,
so the landlord comes over an says, ‘you cant eat your own sandwiches in here!’
So they swapped sandwiches.
FrankCarsonCSC
Well, I’m not sure what constitutes middle class in this day and age…
In fact the old tags for me are very much out of date except the the gentrified Upper Classes and The Multi-millionaire Professional middle classes.
Since Margret Thatcher’s election in ’79, there has been a dedicated and deliberate attempt to destroy Britian’s working class…
My Uncle (a professional and a civil servant) used to tease me and my cousin with a rhyme, in our uncompromising socialist days…
~ The working class can kiss my @$$ I’ve got my foreman’s job at last… ~
How true he was…
We all should work like dogs go into debt to maintain this “aspirational” life style…
People who aspire are good, right?
I’ve met many middle-class people, I’ve heard Mhairi Black speak, she’s never middle class or maybe she’s a very good actor…
IMO Of course:))
Hail Hail
McLean was a disgrace to the shirt the last time Aberdeen played the huns.
McLeish, should never be offered the Scotland job,The S F A should show a bit of ambition,appoint Jim McIntyre,and John Hughes,to manage Scotland, forget about ex Sevco players,there are plenty of them spouting nonsense on the media,and they don’t make a good job of that either,
I wonder what those who still cling to the existence of a class system in the UK think with regard to the now “global” system of industry and manfacturing.
The working class of the UK are kids in places like Bangladesh and China for example.
The “struggle” left the UK a long time ago.
We are in unchartered territory and clinging to expressions like “working” and “middle” class is, to put it politely, out of date.
I’ve also wondered why the middle class didn’t work…..
NATKNOW 210
I know we are arguing the same point of view,and I’m doing my best in my usual sclerotic way when I get thoroughly annoyed,but see why you said?
Wish I’d said that.
(I was gonna,but you beat me to it!!!)
Hey maybe they’ll offer the job to our Brendan!
Logs back out again
Half Man –
https://youtu.be/fvn4CeaJp_s
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/spinning
As I have often thought that the Fixtures list does not favour us after European games, I had a look at who we have on the Sunday after we will have played Zenit on Thursday 22nd. The answer? Aberdeen at Pittodrie !
JJ
Alisdair- will be interesting to see if McLean plays on Wednesday.
Celtic Graves – Joseph Shaughnessy
http://www.celticfc.net/news/13859
In the sixties and seventies, we all thought that SNP stood for Stein next Pope
KINGLuBO