Seven goal scores are remarkably scarce in football but for the second time this month we look ahead to a Champions League opponent who has recently scored that number in a single game. Helsingborgs went to town on Swedish Allsvenskan side Kalmar yesterday. Kalmar are struggling in the league this season but were faring better in Europe until Young Boys of Berne overturned a Europa League deficit against them on Thursday.
Form appears to vary widely in the Swedish league, not idea circumstances for placing a bet.
Midweek friendly internationals will not help Neil Lennon’s preparations as Celtic face the third of five games on the road in the Highlands on Saturday before heading to Sweden, especially as the early season injury count rises inexplicably. I would caution against risking too much on a bet on the Ross County game for this reason. County’s remarkably year-long run without a league defeat might stretch another week.
The first issue of CQN Magazine of the new season is due to be with you soon. If you would like to contribute an article to a future edition let me know, articles@cqnmagazine.co.uk. Final shout also for anyone who would like to advertise to the same address.
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Philbhoy
I often wear a blue shirt at work and I am surprised that this draws comment from those that support a team that recently died. They also comment when I wear a green and white striped shirt. Nae pleasing some folk.
yorkbhoy on 14 August, 2012 at 09:33:
“Reading the article posted by Monaghan and I think that encapsulates the biggest difference between Celtic fans and ex Huns. ” I don’t even eat green sweets… ” how sad petty and pathetic is that…. This is the behaviour of a 4 year old…”
I’m afraid I fall into that category as I refuse to suffer from the blues…
Philbhoy
Dark blue suit for me today too but don’t think I could add red and white to it. Something about that colour combination just doesn’t seem right.
Mort
P.S. Wonder how that sad being feels having to watch football played on a green pitch, though for him this season, most might be a more brown colour.
Many of the huns do not inhabit the same planet as we human beings, hence their terrible self imposed denial of green things etc.
I remember being both appalled and nonplussed at hearing an example of this for the first time as a teenager, when a friend informed me of a guy he knew who would not eat green vegetables because of their fenian associations in his mind ( sic)
How do these cretins get through life without walking on grass or enjoying the God given gifts of nature because of their colour?
There is something lacking there and their tragedy is they will never understand or realise twhat they have lost or will never have.
Nothing we could do to them could possibly be as terrible a punishment.
Condemned to live in hate in the darkness.
This is the legacy and birthright of ra peepel.
Regarding the not liking green stuff. I don’t go on holidays in case I end up somewhere sunny and have to look at a blue sky all day.
A nice grey Irish sky suits me just fine.
Mort
Blog has gone funny on my iPhone.
Next door neighbours cat jumped up on the bonnet of my car and it has caused some damage wit hits claws only a scratch really.
I have obviously phoned up my insurance company and informed them “Next door neighbours cat TRASHED MY CAR!”
See what happens…
Ah that is better.
Good morning from sunny Manchester.
Monaghan1900 on 14 August, 2012 at 09:18 said:
Oh that made me laugh! I’m sitting here chuckling away at that choob!.
I have no problem with any colour, particularly light blue, which for me is the colour of Our Lady. :-))))))
Philbhoy I have a couple of blue shirts, I mostly wear black, it’s all down to taste but green sweets, for an adult to make a conscious decision to not eat a green sweet is just mental. Is that why they are all fat because they can’t eat salad?
So Sevco have to advertise they are the huns on radio,I’m surprised were no’ gettin’ tv adverts yet.
Absolutely brilliant,reduced to campaigning authenticity which they’ll always have to do.
No rest n all that.
Is that green sweets, or sweets in a green wrapper?
How about the ole peppermint Aero, which is chocoloate on outside and mint inside?
Sounds like he’s set himself up for a lifetime of Hillbilly confectionery quandary torment.
Kevjingle- sorry for your sad news.
They will have a cat clause
yorkbhoy on 14 August, 2012 at 10:04 said:
Philbhoy I have a couple of blue shirts, I mostly wear black.
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YB,yir shoooorly no a fan of Oswald Mosley?
Love how the deluded fool spelled infiltrated on Monaghans post.
Vougepunter. No definitely not just an old goth….
Kevjungle
Thoughts and prayers…….YNWA
HH
yorkbhoy on 14 August, 2012 at 10:11 said:
Vougepunter. No definitely not just an old goth….
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You’ll scare them down the Darby & Joan club.
re the fashion debate I’ve went for the subltle look today of daz white shirt with yellow tie. Looked even better once I came into the office and donned my green pass round my neck.
Over and out…
The comments abouth the sevco5088 supporters not liking green sweets or wearing green clothes is sadly one of the main problem they have it is an indicator of their hatred.I’m sitting in my office with a blue shirt on typing away on a keyboard which for some inexplicable reason has a union flag logo ……who cares.It reminds when I had the Worthy master of the Greenock Orange lodge as a supervisor and he commented on how he could understand the desire at Ibrox to dye the grass blue “after all” says he ” we don’t even sell lime cordail up the Britania” sums them up…………Th Britannia is the name of the Orange Halls in Greenock just in case someone on here isn’t form Inverclyde :-)
Don Revie was notoriously chlorophobic- when Clough arrived at Elland Road he turned the place upside down looking for something green to wear, eventually he rooted out an ole green goalie’s jersey, which he wore all the time..
Mort on 14 August, 2012 at 10:01 said:
Bet you don’t go to Donegal then!
Bluestackmountains CSC
The post from the hun isn’t controversial because he doesn’t eat green sweeties,I personally avoid blue if I can but what was that dung about his country being full of immigrants and wanting to change it to the like of somewhere else?
This is from a fan of the jingo mob that like to tell us the ideology their part of is responsible for winning the fight for a free world but yet immigrants aren’t allowed to be themselves?
I could picture the slevers drippin’ when he typed that.
voguepunter on 14 August, 2012 at 10:09 said:
yorkbhoy on 14 August, 2012 at 10:04 said:
Philbhoy I have a couple of blue shirts, I mostly wear black.
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YB,yir shoooorly no a fan of Oswald Mosley?
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He is Darth Vader!!!
http://www.celticfc.net/newsstory?item=2939
Re the colour debate. I grew up in Gourock and everyone laughed about green peperami and employing people to take green straws out etc. Living in York and sitting in a pub and telling people this and they don’t believe you and you start thinking about how stupid it is… Imagine a life without Thai Green curry… Sad
Greenjedi …. I am your father…
tomtheleedstim
Nope. Don’t even like going to a hotel with a swimming pool incase the water is blue.
Actually just looked down and my morning coffee from the coffee shop and it has come in an blue, white and orange cup. Straight in the bin.
Mort
We rest our case ……..
THE TRUTH “THE SCOTSMAN”RESPONSIBLE FOR AIDING AND ABBETING CRAIG WHYTE IN PLUNDERING RANGERS FOOTBALL CLUB
By OnlinePubCo | Posted August 10, 2012 | Scotland
Just days before Rangers Football Club PLC sought the protection of Administration the Scotsman newspaper proclaimed on its back pages:
Craig Whyte reveals £25m ‘personal commitment’ to Rangers
The paper went on to revel in the statements made by Whyte with quotes such as:
““There is no risk to Rangers fans whatsoever. I want to tell the fans that the money they put into Rangers stays in Rangers.
“I can reassure the fans that any money we get in is used to run the club and nothing else.
“I have a personal commitment of £25 million in Rangers and I have never taken a penny out of the club.”
Giving credence to the statements made by Whyte the newspaper, established in 1817 whose circulation has dropped from 100,000 to less than 20,000 because of inaccurate and exaggerated reporting often in return for ‘favours to the authorities,’ stated to the supporters
“Whyte stressed he was the secured creditor of Rangers and not Octopus, the parent firm of Ticketus.”
The history of the paper is as controversial as its demise. Founded by a lawyer and a Customs Official in response to the “unblushing subservience” of competing newspapers to the Edinburgh establishment the paper was pledged to “impartiality, firmness and independence”.
In 1995 reclusive millionaires David and Frederick Barclay acquired the paper for an astonishing inflated price of £85 million but when they realised that the paper had become a “puppet for the political figures of the time” and “having disregard to the editorial concept of its founders William Ritchie and Charles Maclaren they offloaded the paper to the Johnston Press ten years later making an “acceptable profit.”
On the 22nd October 2011 after the BBC had broadcast the documentary on the clear wrongdoing and fraud at the club the Scotsman proclaimed
“Craig Whyte vows to sack anyone at Rangers who talks to BBC”
In an article heavily defending Craig Whyte the paper wrote that Whyte was
“incensed by what he calls an “institutionalised bias” against his club within the walls of Pacific Quay, Whyte re-iterates his intention to sue the broadcaster, adding: “Maybe the BBC are going to be paying the [HMRC] tax bill.”
It was this kind of support for Craig Whyte that allowed him the space he needed and was not “curtailed by the authorities long before St Valentine’s Day 2012.
A detective from the police currently investigating Whyte on the instructions of the Crown Office who requested not to be named said “With papers like the Scotsman supporting Whyte after the BBC expose there was a faction of the police and HMRC Special Investigation officers that wanted to move in on Whyte but we did not want to see headlines in the paper blaming us for potentially closing down the Club.”
There is no doubt that the debacle at Rangers was caused primarily by the support Whyte received from The Scotsman and in April 2012 financially pressed owners Johnston Press sacked John McLellan who was the paper’s Editor-in-Chief replacing him with Ian Stewart who assumed the role in June 2012 after he had sought assurances from Johnston Press that he was not “bound by the policies of the past regime.”
There is little doubt that The Scotsman has been responsible for the support Craig Whyte received and the hesitation in the Prosecuting Authorities investigating Whyte at a time when it could easily have avoided Administration.
It is difficult to believe that when as far back as October 2011 the Insolvency Service spokesman Robert Burns was sounding warning bells over the activities of Craig Whyte it was the Scotsman itself that carried the Whyte banner printing his statement with prominence
“On the basis of what I’ve heard the Insolvency Service said last night I’m looking into the possibility of suing them personally. For what he [Burns] said, he deserves to be sued personally. Because it’s a lie.”
But then it should be no real wonder because a number of journalists at The Scotsman were, as a source said, “under the influence and direct pay of Craig Whyte receiving substantive benefits for positive stories and what seemed endless excuses.”
There is no evidence currently at hand that sacked editor John McLellan was a direct party to accepting favours and “fringe benefits” from Craig Whyte but his dismissal a source at Johnston Press close to the much respected CEO Ashley Highfield said “the editor turned a blind eye to the standards in reporting.”
It was the support for Craig Whyte from The Scotsman and the clearly misleading articles written by the paper that permitted Craig Whyte to operate Rangers Football Club PLC when at the highest level the paper knew full well the real truth.
The Scotsman even defended Whyte when he was accused of misleading the Court of Session in September 2011 when yet more warning bells were ringing but muffled by the support of the paper.
The Scotsman printed an interview with Craig Whyte written by Tom English allowing Whyte to rubbish claims of financial troubles at the club. In one exchange the paper supported Whyte’s excuses as to non-payment of a £35,000 bill the respected law firm Levy & McRae, sued Rangers for payment of a £35,000 bill for representing the club in UEFA disciplinary hearings. The Scotsman wrote
“Tom English – You seem to be constantly fighting people. The tax man, Bain, McIntyre, the BBC, various solicitors firms, all sorts of people. Levy & McRae took action over an unpaid bill of £35,000. Why is there so much hassle?
Craig Whyte – Levy & McRae acted for Rangers previously and under Law Society rules they shouldn’t be acting against their client so when they represented Bain we complained about them to the Law Society and to be fair we were a bit bloody-minded when we said we weren’t going to pay them because they started acting for Bain against us. That was the reason we didn’t pay them. They took us to court and with hindsight it would have been easier just to pay them.”
It is of course correct that other Scottish papers published misleading stories about Craig Whyte but only The Scotsman operated a policy of openly supporting the regime of Craig Whyte at Rangers in order that he would feed them stories and hopefully enhance the circulation of the paper.
The Editor paid with dismissal, the Scotsman has seen its sales dwindle and its credibility reduced to junk, Craig Whyte under investigation by a multi-national prosecuting team, and Rangers Football Club PLC still in Administration facing an uphill fight by only a few who seek the truth about the involvement of the Scotsman in the club problems.
A source for Strathclyde Police stated that the role played by The Scotsman and other papers in the takeover and “after acquisition” would be subject to review as would “any evidence of benefits paid to The Scotsman” for media support.
FULL STORY ON http://www.onlinepublishingcompany.info
Morning all i see the good old DR at it again this morning with the Bedoya story.
I see a few Sevco fans have been arrested in the last few weeks so they then have to bring us into it again, just glad i don’t buy that rag anymore.
I also see Peter Houston explaining this morning in the same rag if a player is on form he’ll be picked, I’ll wait with interest to see what other 3rd division players are picked, no wonder our national team is in such a state with him and Levein in charge.
Has anyone noticed that a few people in the media called Black a thug and now he’s been picked and a lot of fans ain’t happy the media then go out their way to get stories from managers or ex managers to defend the decision.
From Video Celts
Hearts winger David Templeton looks certain to be the first player of the new season to be hit with a retrospective suspension.
Templeton was seen lashing out with his feet at Hibs skipper James McPake after he had been awarded a free kick during Sunday’s derby at Easter Road.
Referee Willie Collum was just yards from the incident as he raced to the scene but chose to make an honest mistake and ignore Templeton’s kick at the Hibs skipper.
SFA compliance officer Vincent Lunny is believed to have studied footage of the incident and is set to offer Templeton a one match ban which can be appealed.
McPake said: “It was a boot from David. It might not have been the nicest of tackles from me and it was rightly a foul but you can’t just boot someone.
“But that’s up to the ref or whoever looks back on the game to make a decision.”
The incident happened with the score at 0-0 with the match ending in a 1-1 draw.
New Hearts boss John McGlynn admitted: “David may have been lucky to stay on but he had taken a bit of treatment.
“You can’t condone this but he has been provoked with the amount of challenges.”
Hearts next match is at home to Inverness Caley Thistle on Saturday. The draw at Easter Road took the Edinburgh side to the top of the SPL table alongside St Mirren but both Celtic and Dundee United are a point behind with Saturday’s clash between the two sides postponed for Celtic’s match with Real Madrid.
Carrigan, why would the players be sick of travelling? have you spoken to them ab out this? So far they have had a pre season tour in europe, a vital european tie (unfortunately we have to travel for that) then took some of the squad to america to play arguably the best team in the world – something Super Joe described as one of the highlights of his life.
Personally would have given my right arm to see a bit of europe this year, get to helsinki then philly, that would have been trip of a lifetime for me, and these boys getting paid thousands for it, dare say there are a few injuries from people pinching themselves.
You do realise we have european football til december? should we ask to pull out in case our players are sick of travelling?
But you know what, its that big bad board trying to make some money for the club that is to blame – dammn them to hell!!
A week after being in america we have a league game. I think that should be enough time to recover, some are making way too big a deal of this!
Monaghan1900
You could laugh and say he is a one off but we all know that this idiot represents a sizable part of the population in this country.
One Nation and Independence?
No thanks…
Just realised I have a blue shirt on today, never gave it a thought putting it on this morning and everyone that knows me knows how much I hate the huns and Sevco.
Craig Levein’s permitted to call up whoever he fancies for a Scotland cap, but he will ultimately be judged on results. This week’s friendly, given the number of call offs, is not an opportunity for him to bed in the team he wants to use for qualifying, so inevitably he will try one or two ideas out. Fair enough.
But let’s look ahead 20 months: He has managed the team to qualification for Brazil 2014, and the draws have placed Scotland in a group with Argentina, France and Japan. Tough group.
Who better to match up to the technique, fitness and speed of thought of our opponents than a fellow who has spent 2 seasons playing against part time players in the bottom tiers of Scottish football?
Genius at work I tells yeh.
Carrigan
Neil Lennon described in his own words the trip to Philly as “A holiday with a game at the end of it.”
Danny Wellbeck signs new 5 year contract at Man Utd worth £75k a week
Methinks far too much Amarone is scrambling Fergie’s brain
TBB
‘He has managed the team to qualification for Brazil 2014’
About as likely as getting Charles Green to speak the truth regards all things SevCo