‘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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A Celtic State of Mind presents its 31st instalment of insightful discussion around the culture of Celtic Football Club, the city of Glasgow, and fans of the reigning treble-winning Scottish champions.
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king lubo, from earlier, probably a bit older than you but growing up in scotland, was always told snp meant strictlly no papes.hh.
Surely we need to win the next 12 games to win the league ?
Never forget those 80’s run in collapses.
It would have been some stretch of the imagination for Mr Stein to be a pope, given he was a Protestant.
m6bhoy on 22nd January 2018 2:26 pm
Now if you find the term “Plastic Irishmen” offensive (as you have every right to) just how offensive is it to use a golf club to penetrate a women’s vagina?
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That depends entirely on the woman.
If she’s an avid reader of the godawful ’50 Shades Of Grey’ series, then it’s probably a request…
As for Mhairi Black – the bit of rough in question – I’ll look forward to her ‘plastic-Muslims’ address in her next critique.
Wonder if McLeish’s pet Rottweiler will be on Sevcosound tonight?
SOUTH OF TUNIS on 22ND JANUARY 2018 2:06 PM
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
*Me too, I always looked on my own family as working class socialists or to be more precise Menshevik Catholic.
Never poor or downtrodden on both sides of my family, as my mother used to say although we’re Catholics we’re also blessed with good presbyterian work ethics.
I recall cartoon in a right wing paper over here where it depicted a young long haired lad with a peace/cnd symbol round his neck, the adjoining cartoon had him suited and booted with a Mercedes logo pin attached to his lapel.
Didn’t the tories invent the middle class after Ramsey McDonald’s first Labour government which although it collapsed after only 9 months, they and the October Revolution put the fear of God intae the aristocracy.
John Maclean CSC
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL Wonder if McLeish’s pet Rottweiler will be on Sevcosound tonight? talkink about rottweilers it was 2 of them that attacked me and my 2 westies in december i thought at the time it was pitbulls but after cctv footage it was rottweilers never forget that attack.hh.
SAINT STIVS on 22ND JANUARY 2018 5:31 PM
Surely we need to win the next 12 games to win the league ?
Never forget those 80’s run in collapses.
*Just what I was thinking although we can blame one of those on John McGinn’s grampa.
stevie clarke joe mclaughlin csc
TONTINE TIM,i love you to bits mate, but the word presbyterian turns my stomach, and the words free presbyterian ala ian paisley even more.hh.
Easy enough to mistake a rottweiler for a pit bull I suppose.
That Mhairi Black thing look like a mix of the two.
HH.
Maybe Broadfoot too? – “Everything is going to plan”!
MWD
Best wishes to your Dad
The Celtic Graves society is to honour one of our clubs founding fathers this weekend Joseph Shaughnessy.
Couple of paragraphs below were copied from the official Celtic FC web site. Interesting to note that when mentioning Michael Davitt they only mention his being the founder of the Irish National land league! Strange they mention nothing about his being a Fenian (a member of the IRB) convicted of treason by the British and spent a number of years of his incarceration in solitary confinement. Celtic FC redacting history! – Never!!!!
‘Joseph Shaughnessy was one of three lawyers involved in the establishment of Celtic back in 1887, and he dealt with any legal issues which concerned the new club. He was an influential Celtic committee-man throughout Celtic’s first decade, and he was elected Honorary President in 1892.
And it was Shaughnessy who proposed that the Mayo-born founder of the Irish National Land League, Michael Davitt, be the honorary patron of Celtic Football Club at the AGM in June 1889, a proposal that was received with acclamation.’
Big Packy
Sounds nasty. Must’ve been pretty scary to see. Always annoys me to see people with dogs they can’t control. Hope they are okay now. HH.
big packy on 22nd January 2018 5:57 pm
TONTINE TIM,i love you to bits mate, but the word presbyterian turns my stomach, and the words free presbyterian ala ian paisley even more.hh.
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Aye those pesky Presbyterians
Irish Republicanism first flourished among the Presbyterians of Ulster and Belfast in particular. They found common cause with their Catholic neighbours and were joined by equally idealistic members of the established church. Belfast became known as “the Athens of the North” during the 1790s because of the lively debates and discussion about all the new ideas. Athens was “the cradle of democracy” and Belfast could have become another cradle of democracy. Instead of that, the generous human ideals of the United Irishmen were suppressed and silenced and the flames of sectarianism were fanned, until the “Athens of the North” became a cauldron of bigotry.
MWD – Hope your oul fella makes a quick and full recovery chieftain.
HH.
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL. thanks for the reply, yes thankfully they are only puppies and will forget in time.hh.
MWD…….thoughts are with your Dad and all who love him….
Braw.
totally disgusted by the thread on here ….
Welcome to seventiesquicknews
OGLACH, my friend in celtic. dont know what you mean as regards presbyterianism, are you saying its not all bad.hh.
“When I first spoke at conference it was roughly a year ago and it was just after the referendum. The second time I spoke I did so as a parliamentary candidate. The third time I am now speaking to conference as a member of the UK parliament. The reason I mention this journey because it is symbolic of what has happened in Scotland over the the last year. The idea that a then 20-year old chip shop fryer could become a MP would have been laughed at, but not anymore.”
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That’s Mhari Black talking to the members of the cult at their conference in Aberdeen last year.
She describes herself as having been a ‘ 20-year old chip shop fryer’.
No mention of her being a full time student at the time and being from a comfortable, professional, suburban background (both parents maths teachers, lived in leafy area of Paisley next to a golf course).
She’s a fake. A phoney.
And she talks about plastic paddies.
Big Packy…
My son’s dog was attacked a wee while back, he was walking it through a clearing in the woods (off leash) when it was attacked by a Pitt Bull type dog.
My son shouted the the owner, a women, to control her dog, she said she couldn’t but seemed to be taking great delight in seeing her dog mauling another.
My son’s dog was not really fighting back but trying to get away at my son’s command. Anyway after a further warning to the owner, to no avail, my son got hold of the pit bull and pulled it clear.
The pit bull viciously turned on my son, at that point his dog attacked. It ripped into the pit bull. The pit bull owner went into full panic mode ordering my son to get his dog off. He duly obliged.
Too late though, the pit bull was in a state, one ear hanging on by a thread.
My son’s dog is a Rhodesian Ridgeback… a faithful, quiet dog, but ferocious in defence.
My son loves dogs, he was heart broken for the Pitt Bull – some people should just not have dogs…
Hail Hail
Reporting Scotland just now. Interviews in the street re Scotland manager. Two for McLeish, one for Billy Davis.
The future looks rosy !
JJ
ernie
Thanks for that. I understood your `irony` comment earlier but it is good to have the details should I bump into any Nats.
JJ
CHAIRBHOY, couldnt agree more ,your son done nothing wrong, hope he and the dog are okay.hh.
Barney67,
There was a resounding chant taken from a Heinz advert of the time which ran “a million Catholics every day day pick up their rosary beads and pray Stein, Stein, Stein”.
Sainthood by acclamation?
By the way, I haven’t read her comments (and have no love for the SNP) but I doubt Mhairi Black (or anyone else) deserves some of the stuff put up here today.
I know a lot of the ghuys on here might be described as being of an older generation but this is the 21st century FFS. Would anybody on here put up with those comments where they dieected at your daughter or granddaughter. I would guess not.
BIG PACKY @ 6:45 PM,
They were fine all things considered, my son’s a big strong lad – his dog had abrasions and bites from the initial attack but nothing too serious.
I remember reading of your ordeal at the time and your poor dogs… hope you all fully recover.
Hail Hail
Norwich City have signed Aberdeen midfielder Kenny McLean on a three-and-a-half-year deal for an undisclosed fee and loaned him back to the Scottish side until the end of the season.
*He’ll be at sevco in the summer on loan.
Good evening, friends. In my opinion (and therefore I don’t need anyone to second this) Mairi Black is one of our better and genuine MPs. Speaks from the heart and with passion. That’s all.
Jobo Baldie on 22nd January 2018 7:06 pm
Good evening, friends. In my opinion (and therefore I don’t need anyone to second this) Mairi Black is one of our better and genuine MPs. Speaks from the heart and with passion. That’s all.
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There’s one born every minute.
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There is no contaxt in which Mhairi black or anyone else can refer to plastic paddy’s in a positive manner unless condemnation goes before or after it. Its racist it is sad there is even a debate about that and if she qualifies as fit for public office then am lost for words!!!
Singing about the ira is not acceptable to mhairi, why mhairi not complainting about rule british, god safe the queen or flower of scotland songs. Afterall the british have a far greater history of killing and unjustified and illegal wars.
Uncomfortable truths see people duck, hide and point the finger at other people.
Ps Kids listen to gangster rap, heaviy mental, songs about love and/ or sex and a whole lot more. i dont want to be promotion violence agression or sti. But i know i am not the centre of the universe and if other want to listen to these types of music I have no right to tell them not to, why? Its called democracy and one’s right to decide for self. Pps a reasonable person may, in my opinion, view all of the above as offensive.
HH
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The reprehensive McIntyre trying to blame Neil Lennon for Levein’s comments
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CHAIRBHOY, all okay thanks.hh.