It took until 5th October but Celtic are top of the Scottish Premiership for the first time. The valiant stand by the Highlanders went the way of Culloden but whereas the competition for first place us over for the season, the league has a promising look to it.
The SPL suffered for many years not exclusively because Celtic and Rangers dominated but because those teams who should have been snapping at their heels – the city clubs – were hugely underachieving.
Motherwell have done enormously well finishing ‘best of the rest’ for three years but they are inhibited by being the third best supported team in Motherwell (population 30,311). Their coaching and scouting infrastructure would provide a completely different platform if they were one of the top-flight clubs from Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen.
Below Celtic sit Motherwell, and the other very well run SPFL club, Inverness, but behind them are Aberdeen and Dundee United, who for once sit above the detritus (sorry, Kilmarnock, but you are a terribly run football club) and plucky upstarts (Ross County, from Dingwall, population 5,026). Even Hibs are rallying. They will return to the top half of the table if they beat Partick Thistle tonight.
Of the big city clubs, only Hearts (in Administration) are off the pace, and even their league status is bound to be rescued when Kilmarnock’s name is inevitably written with the accompanying parenthesis.
As we’ve noted here often before, when the Daily Record finally acknowledges the reality Celtic websites have long explained about the Rangers group of clubs, you know it’s too late to do anything about it. Today’s piece in the newspaper confirms what we’ve known for a long time, the white flag has been raised. If they were more circumspect before declaring the unquestionable business acumen of the Ibrox key-holder, at any point over the last 15 years, the spivs would have been unable to fill their boots.
All those fawning pieces simply enabled the misdeeds.
While we are on the topic of enablers, what is the price of loyalty? £825k, apparently.
Congratulations to all who participated in the Great Scottish Run for 1254125. It turned into a great Celtic day with participants ranging from the dedicated athletes to those on the high side of 20st who grabbed the chance to make a different to their own lives, as well as others.
It’s happening again next year, so you have plenty time to get ready. The sooner you start preparing the better.
My sincere thanks to the many people who contributed to the 1254125 MyDonate page I put up on Friday. It now sits at an incredible £935, I’ll leave it up for a few days more to see if we can break into four figures.
Thanks for all your help.
Order Sean Fallon, Celtic’s Iron Man, below.
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Oh – aye – I never got my Willie Wallace book – what happened there?
HH
BGFC
gordybhoy64 20:43:
Mail back to you mate.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
TET,
Sad to say, I’ve touched on this one before, they have more in common with the establishment than they do with us, dontrocktheboatCSC
TBJ
Aye. Its all in the mind..o)
Lennybhoy
sent an email earlier re payment arrangements – what suits ?
Paul 67
Is Enablers Bale related to Gareth :)
BT
My minds inda gutta :))))
BT
thanks for the response, it was more the tablet version rather the e book type thing. I’ve got the kindle book myself, compact and bijou:-)
Cheers
HHPC67
Bada
See you ah was pure hoping he’d forgotten all about it!!!
VP
The books yours for a kettle :-)
Bada bing
We are as ineffective at sorting out dirty players on the pitch as we are about commenting about it afterwards
Exiled Tim @19.26………I could see Roy Keane rising from the turf even with an injured shoulder and giving himself maybe another ten minutes on the pitch and you can guess the rest.
HT
Don’t mention kettling …….will pay visit to ye ole pawn shoap.
Pedro
Sammy sung galaxy tab …. canny beat it with basil fawltys big stick
PC.
I bought the wee one from car phone warehouse for £50.
Not bad as I only use it for CQN and emails.
Thistle LB Sinclair looks half decent.
charles kickham 20:51:
Don’t think I got it mate, you want to retry lennybhoycfc@gmail.com, will then send you details.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Hankray
Remember henke being hacked down in halfway line. .. play waved on … kok gets up and races into the opponents box and rattles the cross into the onion bag … before falling to the turf in agony .
But .. he was our larsson
On the subject of the Lasley “tackle”–how do you get a broken collarbone from a “fair” challenge? Next Well match put big Balde on him to kick the Eartha Kitt clean out of him.
You couldn’t show BJMAC a nest could you?
….PFayr-I fear you are right hombre,we are shy when it comes to dishing it out to regular offenders.
Lennybhoy,
cheers pal,will get a cheque off to you tomorrow,
your efforts are much appreciated by me,shows what
this blog is all about
hail hail
lasley’s tackle on Adam Mathews was far worse than Gunning’s fly kick at big Virgil which resulted in him getting a 3 match ban, were’s Vincent Lunney? I suppose the comments of those 2 dumbnuts Stewart & Thompson on sportscene saying it was a great tackle and no penalty were enough for Lunney to take no action
canamalar prays Oscar can do it again
20:42 on
7 October, 2013
Ombudsman now theres a copy in, who is the Scottish ombudsman ? Is there one ?
If not them it has to go to London for questions to be answered, aye there is some devolution but in the end they still have to answer to the authority of London as the city police have shown us :o)
first Scottish Public Services Ombudsman was Professor Alice Brown. The current Scottish Public Services Ombudsman is Jim Martin
TBJ
Cheers, which one? Too many blinking choices, her main criteria is going to be internet, Facebook that sort of thing.
BT
same question, what version of the kindle is that? Yours might just fit ma budget ;-)
A lone Sevconian
Lennybhoy
I just re-sent the original – check your junk folder just in case – cheers
gordybhoy64 21:00:
Cheers mate, enjoy your break…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Not the first time that lasley has booted his way through a game against us, the guys a absolute thug and crap football player. The next time we play them one of our guys should take a red for him and break his leg HH
Pedro
Depends on the size required I suppose… fnar fnar
Ive got a ten incher but lots of boys have the 7 incher :)))
Its almost the same as the galaxy phone In operation and one big advantage is it takes a micro sd card so you can add and swap memory cards in seconds and expand to 64gb easily and very cheaply
Lennybhoy-you have mail.
PC
Its not a kindle. Just a wee Android tablet.
Avocado..
Stuck a 32mb card in it. Can use it for movies etc.
Talking to Tony Watts cousin at the match on Saturday – he goes on our bus. Tony has been given the week off due to International commitments at the club. He has the option of going home for the week.
Celtic F.C. – pictured on board R.M.S. Queen Mary
@CelticCollectibles
Aye, the same Lasley that would never put in a tackle against oldco or newco.
A cold fact.
hun type post hun skelper.
TET, Pfayr
Lenny is quoted as saying he apportions no blame to Lasley, and that Adam ‘fell awkwardly’.
You can see where the playing squad get their meek attitude from.
Oh for some fire + brimstone within this team.
corkcelt
21:08 on 7 October, 2013
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1-0 Hibs
TBJ……braw…witsthatincentimeterscsc….hahahahahhaa