It’s always encouraging to read positive comment on your club, so the positivity from a sports brand consultant at Brand Finance was welcome. Apparently we are something of a commercial miracle, reaching parts no one else from a small country can come close to.
It’s also delightful hearing about glamour preseason friendlies (not quite announced yet, but coming). We are a club with more than just history, we have a team the best in the world want to play. We also have a future.
We have the league championship trophy in the boardroom, Champions League qualifiers to look forward to, and the sun is shining on Glasgow!
These are great times for Celtic.
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HT you normally talk a lot of sense but it’s eye ways the same bliddy stuff, there’s a name for it….. Hing on it’ll surely come to me!
V
Sheff utd 1-0 up
Hudds miss again
Sheff utd miss, still up 1-0
Sheff wed score 1-1
Vmhan
Sense??
You must have me confused with someone else!!!
Sorry Hudd score 1-1
huns fc- love the queen but wont pay her – Thats my point exactly, the current format needs to be shaken up and with summer football i feel there are vastly more positives than negatives. Its worked well in Ireland and surely has to be looked at seriously as the product in scotland is tired at this stage. What have we to lose by trying it for 3 years and comparing statistics on the last three years, particularly if they end up in Div3:
Stats on:
Season books sold
Additional fans paying at gates
Sponsorship
Merchandising
Euro co-efficient increase/decrease
Let the fans decide, increase league to 14/16 to make up loss for them being gone, split/no split, help rather than hinder clubs with European games. Lets have imagination in the game ,it will be improved with better surfaces and weather.
We have an opportunity here that has presented itself lets grab it what have we got to be afraid o
Sheff wed hit post still 1-1, dreadful penalties
Hudd score 2-1 up
Sheff utd score, sudden death (A bit like the Huns…)
Rhodes scores
Paddy G was Damien Fae Derry no1 CSC there?
Will be with his family over in Doire soon.
Hx2
Sheff utd score
Hudd score
Vmhan on 26 May, 2012 at 17:46 said:
No mate, no Damien or Paddy.
Huddersfield score ,still neck and neck
Sweltering evening in the Chilterns – Nice wee interview with Aiden McGeady there on ITV4, Good luck to the bhoy and the ROI
Hi Paul,
Great to see that despite the shackles of the SPL we are STILL punching above oor wieght.
Can we move to Engerland*or start a British League please?
*I’m out tonight with some pals to watch the game, no great expectations of the Football but the Ale will make up for it…
Keeper misses Huddersfield promoted.
Phew….
HH
Tyrehoops do you come from Kilmarnock do you own a business there?
Ps here’s whit yir looking for:
Post from RTC overnight…….as you know a well informed poster.
Barcabhoy says:
26/05/2012 at 2:19 am
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Adam doesn’t bother me in the slightest. He has absolutely no influence on the outcome of this farce. He can therefore put his view into play any time he likes as far as i’m concerned
What may be of interest to him, and others, is that the very worst of the offenses committed by Rangers have yet to be properly put into the public domain. In fact they haven’t been put there at all.
They will be and when they are, they will be beyond belief. In fact I had a problem believing it myself initially. At the point of disclosure I very much look forward to reading Adam’s efforts to put forward the alternative view.It’s not my story so i can’t control the disclosure timescale, but when it comes out it will be nuclear
Just to make this clear, what has still to come out is worse than illegally registering players, is worse than using VAT and PAYE as cash-flow, is worse than deliberately not paying fellow clubs, is worse than deliberately abusing the EBT system
its much worse……
My advice to those who know what they have done……don’t walk away…….run away as fast as you can,preferably to somewhere without an extradition treaty with the UK……because you know what you have done, and you know that its coming out.
nae luck Sheffield Utd as they lose out again
Told last night that we will be playing in England in three years time, stated as a fact. I believe him.
Well done Huddersfield.
Vmhan on 26 May, 2012 at 17:52 said:
Does anyone have any idea what it is that Barcabhoy alludes to?
Does it have something to do with EBTs and officials?
Any theories out there?
Poetic – an extract from an article in the Guardian the day before the Manchester UEFA Cup Final.
‘The behaviour of the Scottish fans was shocking and ugly’
Five goals, a breathless comeback, pitch invasions, rioting and 36 years of bitterness. If the last time a Russian side met Rangers in a European final is anything to go by, we’re in for an eventful night in Manchester tomorrow.
Dinamo Moscow’s match against Rangers in the 1972 Cup-Winners’ Cup final made them the only club from Russia to reach a European final in Soviet times. For them it was not a happy experience.
For the final, Kozlov and Kozhemyakin were injured, but Beskov’s selection still seemed uncharacteristically negative as he started with just Baydachny and Evryuzhihin up front. Dinamo’s strength was their attacking play, but that night they sat off and tried to contain Rangers. The ploy could hardly have failed more spectacularly and they were 3-0 down inside 50 minutes thanks to a goal from Colin Stein and two from Willie Johnston.
Finally Beskov was forced to attack. On came Gershkovich and Eshtreko for Vladimir Dolbonosov and Andrey Jakubik, and Dinamo were transformed. Eshtrekov rolled an Evryuzhihin cross into an empty net on the hour: 3-1, and a glimmer of hope. Eshtrekov and Alexander Makhovikov missed great chances; the Rangers keeper Peter McCloy twice made fine saves from Gershkovich; Sandy Jardine cleared off the line from Evryuzhihin and then almost turned an Eshtrekov cross into his own net; Josef Szabo and Valdimir Basalaev fizzed efforts just wide; and Evryuzhihin was within an inch of getting a toe to a ball across the face of goal.
For Rangers, what had looked like being a procession had become a desperate rearguard action. Somehow they clung on, though, and Dinamo’s second did not arrive until four minutes from time, when Makhovikov, having exchanged a sharp one-two with Gershkovich, held off two defenders to slam his finish just under the bar.
Rangers kicked off, and within a few seconds a long ball had found Johnston in an offside position. To waste time he belted the ball into the stands, at which Rangers fans had a better idea for running down the clock, with hundreds of them pouring onto the pitch.
“The majority of them were drunk,” Pilguy remembers. “They had mad faces, with bulging eyes. They had to be cleared from the field and although they didn’t really do us any harm, it meant the game was held up, and that was a big advantage for our opponents. They were exhausted by that stage and could hardly drag their legs, and I’m sure in that final four minutes we’d have scored a third.”
By the time the game restarted, Rangers had regrouped, and held on until the final whistle, which was greeted with a full-scale pitch invasion. Franco’s police waded in with batons, the fans fought back and, as a riot raged outside, the Rangers captain John Greig and their manager Willie Waddell were presented with the trophy in an office deep beneath the stands of the Camp Nou.
While Rangers felt the end had been anti-climactic, Dinamo were furious, appealed against the result, and seemed to have most of the world’s press on their side. The Spanish media, not surprisingly, condemned the pitch invasions, but so too did neutral sources.
The correspondent of the UPI agency for instance, wired that: “The referee had the right to stop the match during the pitch invasion, but he chose to take a different course. He patiently waited until the hooligans had left the pitch, and then ordered the players to complete the final four minutes. The pitch invasion prevented Dinamo from converting their attacking superiority and so was not a fair result.”
Even the president of Uefa, Gustav Wiederkehr, backed them. “The behaviour of the Scottish fans was shocking and ugly,” he said. “I support Dinamo’s protest but the question of whether the game can be replayed can only be decided at a formal Uefa meeting.” A decision was expected when Uefa met on the day of the European Cup final in Rotterdam, a week after the match in Barcelona, but no statement was made.
The chairman of the Soviet Football Federation, Nikolay Ryashentsev, who was also a member of Uefa’s executive committee, raised the issue the next time the executive committee met and finally, on June 16, three weeks after the final, the result was upheld, with Rangers being banned from European competition for two years (although that was later reduced to one year on appeal).
In Russia, the sense of resentment still rankles.
Offski – good luck.
Thanks to all the guys who told their Lisbon stories. Whether they were long or short i loved every one. Born 7 years later so im very jealous. But one day i hope to go to Lisbon and go to the stadium myself.
SffS
Barcabhoy …..02.19
Palacio67 on 26 May, 2012 at 17:28 said:
I’ve been hearing snipets recently about even worse revelations in respect the utterly disgraceful cess-pit across the city…….and I’ve been wondering…
Are we about to hear about payments to MIB and other people directly involved in ensuring the bhuns ‘won’ their way into CL over the past 3 years ( at least)..?…….to alleviate their perilous financial, self-imposed, mess …
VmHan
no fae BlanTYRE
HH
Hamiltontim –
chasbhoy on 26 May, 2012 at 07:48 said:
thanks for the post – it is one of the best I have ever read. Hail Hail.
Doc
I have no knowledge of the root of Barcabhoys post, if I did and was asked to sit on it I would, the truth is coming our way soon, I’m happy to watch a long lingering demise!
HH amigo.
There’s a Gorilla in the room
Paddy Gallagher on 26 May, 2012 at 17:26 said:
great town St Helier – have a good one.
Has anyone seen Estadio recently? He always has a story or two for CQN and not seen any posts lately.
V
I queried the other day about the possibility of thems giving those EBT “loans” to the members of the MIB fraternity. Wouldn’t it be absolutely amazing if evidence of such “loans” were extanct? Nae wonder they had the shredders parked on Edimiston Drive. (Can’t really believe even they would be that corrupt, stupid and arrogant to leave proof available, even if it were true.)
Re playing in England, I had it direct this week from a source who is well connected that part of the Blue Knights strategy for rescuing the baddies was a direct parachute into League 2 in England.
My source was part of a seven a side tournament in Hong Kong last weekend where he rubbed shoulders with Ally McMoist and several assorted lesser Huns, like Durrant and Brown. They were part of the Seniors side of the event. With the Rangers party was a London Based Businessman our man got pally with. He was part of the Blue Knights backroom line, not high profile but well in. This chap said that he had been well down the line with a negotiated entry to England for the Horribles, that he had been able to formulate ways around obstacles and that the same route might be open to us. All of this was talked about in business terms and was not bluster or spin. The BK guy was more of a rugger man but was what he himself accepted might be termed ‘ex pat Glasgow Posh Establishment’.
Our Hong Kong correpsondent says the Sharp Suited One should be in touch soonest with his friend, that’s to say, if he hasn’t already BEEN in touch……….
As a foot note, our Bhoy said Danny McGrain was out with our under 19’s, who took part in the youth event, and that he was, as always, the perfect Ambassador for our club. Our man also says that from the under 19’s John Herron is the best young prospect he and many others have seen in many a long year and that a great future beckons. Young John was being noticed by all and sundry I’m assured.
This is all true, as Eddie Izzard says.
Glorious weather in Glasgow, and the marching season is under way with the Orange first to Walk away.
Ragers till July CSC
tyrehoops on 26 May, 2012 at 18:01 said:
VmHan
no fae BlanTYRE
HH
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just thought I’d ask, I’ve never been to Blantyre but it sure sounds like a great place, it’s very Erm Celtic minded…
Magners kicking in CSC