We’ve had a few free kick experts in modern times. Lubo was first. He could hit them, and score with them, with either foot. The man was a menace to opponents on many levels. He also taught us that hitting the ball as hard as possible into an opponent’s body, standard fare for Celtic in the 80s and early 90s, was a poor return from a dead ball situation.
Lubo clearly influenced Shaun but it wasn’t until Naka arrived that Shaun really found his grove. With right footed Maloney and left footed Nakamura lining up behind the ball keepers were forced to leave a vulnerable space at any centrally-located free kick.
I don’t remember any player scoring with three consecutive free kicks, an absolutely exceptional feat. John Guidetti is proving to be an exceptional player. From what I hear he’s also enjoying being a Celtic player, there’s been a meeting of minds on what is expected and what’s on offer.
This is a young player who has already learned a few lessons on football clubs and career management. He has the makings of a Celtic legend.
Those of you who weren’t there last night, make sure you see the goals. Four of them were exceptional.
Many thanks to everyone who has big on our auction for two debenture seats for the Inverness game on Saturday, courtesy of Celtic sponsor, Magners. Funds raised go towards building our forth kitchen for Mary’s Meals in Malawi, specifically for the 909 children who attend Chibwata Primary School in Dowa, which currently doesn’t have a kitchen.
Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world, but……… things are improving. 93% of your money raised is getting to the projects on the ground, Mary’s Meals are now feeding hundreds of thousands of kids there each day, over 2000 of them in kitchens CQN readers have already built.
Kids who are fed at school there are able to attend instead of having to work for food – primary school attendance is up 30% after Mary’s Meals build a kitchen. As a result they all get a basic education, some of them are set on a road to a higher education and all have better chances in life.
The auction closes tomorrow. You will do nothing better today than get involved with this one, which you can do here.
Above link is now sorted….
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mike in toronto
15:22 on
30 October, 2014
newradbhoy
You post raises some interesting linguistic and philosophical issues.
Grilling is defined as ‘broiling on a grid iron’.
Broling is ‘cooking by exposure to direct, intense radiant heat’
Toasting is ”cooking or browning by exposure to a grill, fire or other source of radiant heat’.
Roasting is sometimes used as a synonym for broiling or grilling. However, as someone who is doing my chef’s program, I would say that roasting normally refers to long slow cooking at a lower temperature (that the above).
So, I would say roasting and toasting are both probably okay.
However, your question does not end there.
But what if the bread is not toasted before it is covered with cheese and grilled? Then only the corners get grilled? Is that toast?
There is a story about young prince Arjuna ( a friend of Lord Krishna in the BhagavadGhita) …..Arjuna has a chariot. If you take a wheel off the chariot, it is still a chariot. What if you take 2 wheels off? Then the side boards. Followed by the floor boards. At some point, you just have a pile of parts. At what point does the chariot cease to be a chariot and become a pile of parts?
Following that line of thought… How much of the bread must be toasted before the bread BECOMES toast?
Does the bread have to be toasted for it to be grilled cheese? Or is is sufficient for the cheese to be toasted (even if the bread may not be).
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Ah! The ole “Ship of Theseus” paradox applied to the roasted/toasted debate, eh? Few (very few) other online Celtic blogs have applied this classic thought experiment to the roasted/toasted issue. You win today’s Bertrand Russell Award for novel argumentation! :-)
HT
I kinda take the position that the club were fully aware at all levels of what was unfolding.
I back this view up with the evidence of my own eyes in that they are backing FOCUS policy to a hilt by banning supporters on the basis of FOCUS arrests rather than awaiting due process to present the facts and findings.
CELTIC PLC representative’s are a group of individual’s whom I have no trust in what so ever.
The club is rotten at it’s core unfortunately and complicit.
MWD said AYE
Dubaibhoy-Ur they still deid?
I take it you are in Dubai ?. I am coming over end of Nov when we play Salzburg. Will it be shown in Dubliners Bar or is the kick-off too late for that?.
Thanks
HT sorry unable to help re Aberdeen, long story, fuming with certain people within Celtic. Hail Hail Hebcelt
“I back this view up with the evidence of my own eyes in that they are backing FOCUS policy to a hilt by banning supporters on the basis of FOCUS arrests rather than awaiting due process to present the facts and findings.”
Moonbeams,
This has been common practice by near all Scottish clubs for at least 20 years. Nothing to do with any new set up.
Natknow …
cheers! I miss being back in school, obviously!
I figure if Eco can make a tidy living out of writing crap like that, why cant I post a few nonsense posts on CQN?
Besides, it is more fun than what I am otherwise doing (reading reports on mould, and how much/what types of mould entitle a purchaser to cancel the purchase of an otherwise beautiful (25,000 square feet, based on the Palais of Versaille) home.
Living in the Love of the Commons People
Totally agree mate about Guidetti, but as I said earlier did you see who ended up with said jersey ? Some bampot who looks older than me wrestled it out of a kids hand and pissed off with it, shame on him
Ive seen all the names metioned, re free kick takers, we have or had, One name Ive not seen is Leigh Griffiths, used to take then regularly for Hibs
Lilys
Ps. was going to say, he scored regularly when at Hibs!;) sorry Leigh, if you read this!
MWD
Celtic have liaised closely with Police Scotland in light of a number of complaints from supporters to the extent that there has been a reduced police presence at all home games this season.
I’ve also been told that there has not been a FoCUS presense at Parkhead so far this season.
If you watch JG’s deadball thunderbolts, they are of a very similar technique as you will find in rugby, or American football kickers: pick your spot, measured run-up, then head down watching the ball all the way with you left arm extended 90 degrees for balance.
hebcelt
16:09 on 30 October, 2014
HT sorry unable to help re Aberdeen, long story, fuming with certain people within Celtic. Hail Hail Hebcelt
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I’m sorted for Pittodrie do you want me to see if I can get you one?
He has a right pop at us, I’m telling you is ban this rag from CELTIC park.
Michael Gannon: Why hammer Celtic? Every business should pay a living wage
Oct 30, 2014 08:46
OPINION BY MICHAELGANNON
MICHAEL clambers up on his soap box and plants a smacker on the Jambos’ stubbly cheeks following their decision to pay staff a living wage.
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SNS GroupKind Hearts: Ann Budge and her Jambos are leading the way
THERE now begins a party political broadcast on behalf of the Gannon Party. No, not the kind of party that involves an empty and crates of Buckfast, but bear with me.
Hats off to Hearts. Again. The Jambos used to be one of the clubs everyone else loved to hate and they loved to be hated.
Now they are the lovable wee granny you’ve got to kiss on the cheek while trying to avoid stubble rash from her chin.
Well, shut your eyes and pucker up folks because Hearts deserve another big smacker. And it’s nothing to do with football.
This week the club have announced plans to become living wage employers.
That means rather than just pay the national minimum wage – about £6.50 per hour – they will pay all their staff at least £7.65 – the figure campaigners reckons is the bare bones needed to survive these days.
It’s just the latest act at Tynecastle that makes you think, fair play.
There was the way the fans rallied in their hour of need. There was the class shown when the club was hit with embargoes and a points deduction, along with their spirited fight against the drop.
The way the club has been restructured and reborn is worth a wee round of applause.
Hey, it’s not all been sweeties and shortbread. We can’t just shuffle past the debt dingying of the previous regime.
But the Jambos have been impossible not to love of late and this living wage move is another admirable intention and terrific piece of PR.
It’s also, bizarrely, something of a nightmare for Celtic.
The Parkhead club have been wrestling this grenade for 12 months and now the Gorgie men have thrown another live one on to their lawn.
All of a sudden Hearts are the hoity-toity neighbours sorting out all their recycling containers on the street while grubby Celtic are cramming black bags down to get the wheelie-bin lid shut.
SNS GroupCeltic chief executive Peter Lawwell
They’ve given Celtic a red neck and brought the issue back into focus ahead of their agm. It was around this time last year Peter Lawwell and the board were accused of shaming the club by rejecting a resolution to bring in the living wage at Celtic.
They rode it out and hoped it would go away but instead the living wage has become a rod to continually scud Celtic with.
And unfairly so, in my opinion. Yes, it’s great Hearts have taken a moral stand. Of course Celtic should follow suit. It goes without saying.
But it shouldn’t be just Celtic getting it tight over the living wage. Every employer in the land should be getting nagged morning, noon and night.
Yet it’s Celtic who are copping it. There’s some amount of nonsense going round about this issue and Celtic.
The more pious Parkhead punters reckon their club should be leading the way because of their charitable beginnings.
The board have a moral duty to the club and the community apparently. Pass me the sick bag. We all know the story of Celtic’s origins but they are not a charity any more. They are a business.
The club actually do have an impressive charitable side these days but, like it or not, they don’t exist to feed the poor in the East End any more. Anyone who sees their club as holier-than-thou moral guardians standing shoulder to shoulder with the church and state needs their heads read.
It’s an entertainment business these days and Celtic are struggling like the rest to compete in their marketplace.
The staff on minimum wages at Parkhead will be the same sort of staff on minimum wages in bars and restaurants all around the country. Are we saying because they have a Celtic badge on their uniforms they deserve more than others?
It’s a travesty the minimum wage isn’t enough to survive on. But it’s a political travesty.
Celtic’s staff should get the living wage but so should the supermarket shelf-stackers on zero-hour contracts, the cleaners mopping up the mess in our schools and the orderlies pushing wheelchairs in our hospitals.
The Celtic Trust can keep badgering the club on the issue but maybe they should use their power and resources to join the national fight to drag everyone up to a decent standard of living.
mike in toronto
16:14 on
30 October, 2014
Natknow …
cheers! I miss being back in school, obviously!
I figure if Eco can make a tidy living out of writing crap like that, why cant I post a few nonsense posts on CQN?
Besides, it is more fun than what I am otherwise doing (reading reports on mould, and how much/what types of mould entitle a purchaser to cancel the purchase of an otherwise beautiful (25,000 square feet, based on the Palais of Versaille) home.
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Indeed! Not sure how much would be considered nonsense though – have you read some of the other posts? It’s all relative…! :-)))
http://youtu.be/Pi_zCfzxhCQ
Young mans anniversary today.. Irelands youngest patriot.
Leave use for tonight with a great version of a great tune by terry cruncher o’neill .. Fantastic singer from belfast.
http://youtu.be/gz3_9iDmGfk
God bless the tic
Hamilton Tim
I think Fab Virgil struck a fairly accurate narrative of how matters developed on both Focus and the OBA.
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On Focus let’s not pretend all supporters are angels and that any organised to support in a particular way say for example around the BNP, should not face organised policing. That is inevitable and the police were only to happy to attract funding for their own purposes.
Celtic suffer in that some of our policing probably have a few BNP thinkers in their midst, but Celtic could hardly have not taken part on those grounds.
The OBA is bad for Celtic as a business, the only thing that some of their critics say matters to them, but they were not the only body to oppose it and still it got through.
The latest Celtic statement from memory showed that Celtic asked for an early review which was rejected. There are limits to Celtic’s power that when taken into account produce a slightly different narrative than its all been done to get at a section of the support Celtic do not want at CP.
In that sense both the club and the support are the victims of Scottish parochial politics, so let’s hope lessons are being learned from what are mistakes but not deliberate ones and moves can be made on a political front to bring this political stupidity to an end.
tonydonnelly67
16:20 on 30 October, 2014
Solution- don’t acknowledge it and don’t read it. Most importantly don’t post it on Celtic forms to give it the oxygen they crave to bolster their ever declining readership.
natknow
Actually, as I’m in the office today, I’ve been skimming the posts … .I’m quite pleased to see some discussion about Celtic/free kicks, good memories…. and even some good debate of the OB Act … with relatively little name calling, so I am quite happy.
After going through a bit of a rut, hopefully, CQN, like CFC, is back on the upswing!
Hail hail
Sinisa Mihajlovic scored a hat trick of free kicks in a Lazio game v his former club Sampdoria.A great player / racist scumbag.
Tony67
I’m not sure you have read that properly pal.
Thunder Road,
My Dad, at the age of 91, still talks of Charlie’s feat at Brockville. Charlie is one of his (many, many) favourites.
Tonev guilty, 7 match ban, time to get rid
HH
tonydonnelly67
16:20 on
30 October, 2014
I certainly agree with what he has written.
He could perhaps strengthen his argument by pointing out how many in his own organisation are paid less than the Living Wage. That would be brave.
mike in toronto
16:24 on
30 October, 2014
natknow
Actually, as I’m in the office today, I’ve been skimming the posts … .I’m quite pleased to see some discussion about Celtic/free kicks, good memories…. and even some good debate of the OB Act … with relatively little name calling, so I am quite happy.
After going through a bit of a rut, hopefully, CQN, like CFC, is back on the upswing!
Hail hail
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Yes – some positivity. Long may it continue!
In terms of great free kick takers (non Celts), Thomas Hassler was always one of my favourites.
Stupid BBC headlines number 41:
“Penalties do not stop drug use”
Totally disagree.
When Guidetti was stepping up to take his hat-trick penalty last night I stopped smoking the large splifter I had just lit.
So more penalties = less drug use
Simples!
(makes meerkat style squeak which cant be written on my keyboard)
Unless he appeals, and wins it, Tonev should be returned to Villa as soon as possible.
That’ll be Tonev going home then. Coventry I think…
A Celtic spokesperson said: “Racism has no place in football and as a Club for all people, Celtic absolutely abhors racism of any kind.
“This was a very unfortunate case, but the Club has accepted Aleksandar’s explanation that he did not say the words that were alleged to have been said and that he is not a racist.
“We are, therefore, very disappointed by the outcome today and can confirm that Aleksandar will be appealing this decision.”
club statement
http://www.celticfc.net/news/6985
TD 67
I’m with Geordi Munro. Check final paras.
Oh I’ve read it properly, he goes on at others having a pop at us, SAIS it’s not fair, then he chips in his tuppence worth, and slags off the charity work that Celtic do, just another Celtic hater, and it’s kinda silly ignoring it, the whole of Europe ignored a wee painter and decorator once.
Cappielow has good memories for me too, although I remember once sitting on long planks of wood (main stand?) beside this Morton supporting old dear, at the time I thought she was in her 70s but looking back she probably was about 50 (had a hard life as my granny would have said) and gave me dogs abuse for celebrating a Celtic goal; I was young at the time and couldn’t believe or understand most of the swearies she was using, ah Scottish football!
The Club must take the moral high ground here and not tolerate behaviour that is gross misconduct
No ifs, no buts
back to Villa
auldheid
16:38 on 30 October, 2014
TD 67
I’m with Geordi Munro. Check final paras.
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Oh I did, but tha was after his wee rant and slag at us, a thing the SMSM do, and by the looks of it from some in here it works, ah well, we all see things differently.
Leftclick
The SFA must have had corroborating evidence to come to such a decision surely?
Does the bread have to be toasted for it to be grilled cheese? Or is is sufficient for the cheese to be toasted (even if the bread may not be).
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Ah! The ole “Ship of Theseus” paradox applied to the roasted/toasted debate, eh? Few (very few) other online Celtic blogs have applied this classic thought experiment to the roasted/toasted issue. You win today’s Bertrand Russell Award for novel argumentation! :-)
Schrodingers Toast… It is effectively in both states at the same time until it observed…
Auldheid
Please don’t think that I’m being rude or deliberately obtuse but I fail completely to understand what the BNP have got to do with Celtic, FoCUS or the content of my original post mate. Apparently there are less that 20 FoCUS officers on Scotland and supposedly there are no more than two at any one game on a particular day. They volunteer which concerns me but I still fail to see the relevance of the BNP.
At no point have I ever suggested that the Celtic support were ‘angels’, however, to suggest that any ‘crimes’ of the celtic support were worthy of the creation of FoCUS would be ridiculous for anyone to make. (I’m not remotely suggesting that you did btw)
Regarding the rest of your post, I feel I’ve made my point. I believe that any statement which has come from Celtic in relation to the OB Act has only been as a result of expressed dissatisfaction and anger from the Celtic support.
You’re right Celtic are limited in what they can do but it’s a bit like closing the stable door after you’ve actually helped the horse oot the stable.
does anyone know what tonev was alleged to have said? feel free to put asterixes in the appropriate places!