If you do not have a knot in your stomach, you should. Hearts managed to relegate themselves last season through inept performances against teams clearly below them in the food chain. They upped their game against Hibs and (especially) Newco, posing questions that the Budgeocracy has yet to consider. On Sunday, we face a team of usually-can’t-be-bothereds with a grudge.
In October, they started their Championship campaign by putting six goals past Dundee, whom they blame for siding with Peter Lawwell in the discussions that determined how last season’s league campaign would end. Then they beat Hibs, who they can always be bothered to play, in the Scottish Cup semi-final.
The new stands at Tynecastle act as a reservoir of resentment and Celtic are top of their list. Who else, other than their players, either managers, or the insightful new broom that was going to show football how it’s done in the business world, is there to blame for their relegation than Celtic.
And then there’s Eddie. You and I didn’t really discuss this at the time. A photo circulated showing the keeper took him out, but that was ‘fake news’ as it was not of the penalty incident in the 2019 final. Hand on heart; I think we got away with one then. A goal down in the second half, Odsonne Edouard took control; before you knew it, you were celebrating a Treble Treble.
I do not respect Heart of Midlothian FC whatsoever, but I respect any opponent who can so readily cultivate the unifying resentment that can produce results like the 4-0 that ended Celtic’s world record 69 domestic games unbeaten. This is a proper team, better than most in the Premiership and more than capable of winning on Sunday. If we are one inch less prepared than them, we will lose.
Before the Lille and Kilmarnock wins I saw a shroud of defeat ahead at Hampden. We may have turned it around just in time, but for now, the stomach remains knotted.
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David66,
Sorry to hear of the passing of your Aunty Betty.
May She Rest In Peace
If you don’t mind me asking, what was her surname?
My mum’s best friend was a Betty from Plains.
Hail Hail
Ronnie Drew’s boy with Damian Dempsey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKnDpR3p33E
Some more Rionnaigh Connolly from Armagh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKnDpR3p33E
That Celtic side that played Charles Patrick’s Cork Hibbees looks like:
Haffey, McKay and Kennedy, Crerand, McNeill and Clark, Carroll, Kelly, Mochan, Divers and Auld.
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Hail Hail
Hello again all you young rebels.
I’ve climbed the mountains, crossed the valleys and fields, today
I’ll swim in the ocean and marvel at mother natures beauty.
But can I find a handsome hun ?
Good morning bhoys/ghirls, is there still ghirls post on here?
Where’s Dena ? hope she’s well.
Our big Celtic weekend starts now, car already packed and ready
to roll.
As usual our CSC Christmas dinner is sold out, what could beat a
packed beer garden, lovely sunshine, and the company of singing,
dancing, Celtic supporters ?
I really am blessed.
And….and.. the chance for the bhoys to do a QUADRUPLE TREBLE
tomorrow…woweeee.
Better get the paracetamol out of the cupboard 8-)))))))
H.H. Mick
We’ll show Hearts 7 rooms of gloom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKnDpR3p33E
They’ve got a long walk home, according to Charlie Hatcher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKnDpR3p33E
!!Bada Bing!! on 18th December 2020 7:10 pm
I read that, was a tough read.
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Still love this song, quite a few not with us now.
https://youtu.be/NxaGnK3A-Pc
petec on 18th December 2020 7:41 pm
What a player Lubo was.
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Have a good few Lubo t-shirts. None of him controlling the ball with his arse though sadly.
Paolo Nutini – 10/10 / Candy / Pencil Full of Lead
https://youtu.be/JqJs2vGt0Lg
The Huddle- PN must be due some new stuff.
Aipple on 18th December 2020 10:34 pm
petec on 18th December 2020 7:41 pm
What a player Lubo was.
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Have a good few Lubo t-shirts. None of him controlling the ball with his arse though sadly.
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https://youtu.be/gDBIGtvUyDg?t=117
!!Bada Bing!! on 18th December 2020 10:49 pm
The Huddle- PN must be due some new stuff.
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Disappeared, which is a shame.
the_huddle on 18th December 2020 10:51 pm
THANK YOU!!
Man, it’s been so long since I saw that.
2 more sleeps ;-)
Neil Francis Lennon.
Take a Breathe.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rmHDhAohJlQ
Go and make mair Monumental history Celtic.
Ye cannae get Everythin’ ye want….. no matter how ye try.
Neil just Stay strong.
I’m hoping Dad sees us Win Lose or Draw this League.
Celtic Celtic.
The hypothesis will Celtic have gained or lost through Neil winning on Sunday
About John Adair.The man behind The Derryveagh Evictions.
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Oh Nellie come away with me, beyond the leaf and fern
The rural home I have for you, convenient to Lough Erne
The lark has risen from her nest, and wild flowers scent the air
While resting on this faithful breast, you’re free from John Adair
Oh Willie do not speak to me, of peace or happy homes
My parents have been dispossesed, this weary world to roam
Sad dreary thoughs appease my mind. I’m almost in despair
From happy homes we now must part, forced out by John Adair
He brought the sheriff to our door, and quenched our fire so bright
My aged grandsire is no more. He died that fateful night
My mummy keens; her only son, a boy of beauty rare
Just four months old, so meek and mild, all done by John Adair
For fifty weary years our race has tilled this mountainside
And smoothed Glenveagh’s once rugged paths and stemmed the Atlantic tide
Full fifty homes are levelled now, and wild cries rend the air
May fifty thousand curses fall on cruel John Adair
This couple took one last lingering look, and parted no more to meet
Young Willie lies beyond the sea, without a winding sheet;
But Nellie’s duty made her stay, her aged parents to care
With broken heart she pines away, her death on John Adair
HH
TONTINE TIM
Homesickness can be brutal, i was there.
God Bless An Tearmann.
Yer a Big Laddie in mair ways than 1
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NJZe_AVtD2c
Happy Birthday to BIG JIMMY
Hope you have a great day, and hopefully the boys winning the cup and Quadruple treble makes it a memorable weekend. Wish that in the coming year your health improves and you continue to ply us with your very entertaining stories. HH
Hope wee Rocky stays well also.
Apologies.from the same newsgroup who failed to smear the96,phone tap innocent murder victims phones.
King: Murray and Whyte are guilty of killing Rangers
By KENNY McALPINE
8th March 2012, 12:00 am
Updated: 5th April 2016, 3:48 pm
RANGERS director Dave King last night blamed Sir David Murray and Craig Whyte
for killing the 140-year-old club.
Outraged tycoon King accused former owner Sir David of “deceiving” him into
investing £20million into the Ibrox coffers — and plans to SUE
him.
And he slammed current Light Blues supremo Whyte for lying to him and the fans
over his takeover deal last year.
King has been studying the accounts as he tries to lead a consortium to save
the crippled club — but he believes the financial mess at Rangers is so dire
the reigning SPL champs WILL go to the wall.
But the South African millionaire — who is Gers’ second biggest shareholder
after Whyte — IS confident he and a team of rich businessman
can help a new Rangers rise from the ashes.
King said: “I do not believe that there is a reasonable prospect that the
company can come out of administration. I believe that liquidation is
inevitable.”
He lays the blame for the sorry state Gers find themselves in firmly at the
doors of Sir David and Whyte.
And he has vowed to sue Sir David’s Murray Group firm to claw back the
£20million he put into the club in 2001 under the steel tycoon’s watch,
claiming Sir David duped him over Rangers’ financial situation.
King, 55, said: “I have made a claim of £20million on the basis of
non-disclosure by the then chairman, David Murray, of Rangers’ true
financial position as far back as 2000.
Scot
“Other shareholders may feel deceived like I do and wish to take similar
action.”
He added that if he wins his action against Sir David he will plough the cash
back into a newly-formed Rangers.
King said: “I want to advise the fans and fellow shareholders that any benefit
I receive from my claim will be fully reinvested into the restructured
football club.
“I am 100 per cent committed to Rangers and will do whatever I can to advance
their interests.”
King was equally bitter over Whyte’s handling of the club.
Whyte, 41, secretly funded his takeover by mortgaging £24million of future
season ticket sales.
The troubled Light Blues chief initially denied the deal with firm Ticketus
but later admitted he paid off a £16million Lloyds bank debt with the cash.
King insists Whyte will be liable for that £24million — NOT
Rangers — and blasted him for telling lies to get his hands on the club.
He said: “My own visibility of the true state of affairs was being actively
restricted and, as it turns out, falsified by Craig Whyte.
“I met with Craig Whyte during a recent visit and he provided clarity on the
funding position.
“His true financial commitment was not by way of cash, as he had previously
advised me, but rather guarantees that he and/or companies associated with
him had given to Ticketus.
“He confirmed to me that Ticketus has no recourse to the football club.
Hopefully the administrators will be able to confirm this.
“The upshot of Craig Whyte’s confession is that the fans were duped.
Immediately upon the acquisition of the club by Craig Whyte — far from being
debt-free as was trumpeted by the Murray Group and Craig Whyte at the time —
the club was in a much worse economic position than before. It had no chance
of survival.”
King said he has been left with the heartbreaking reality that Rangers will
not come out of administration and will cease to exist.
The nightmare scenario means the club would have to reform under a different
name and re-apply to join the SPL. King, who has been on the board since
2000, has been trying to find a way to save Rangers for weeks.
He has met with manager Ally McCoist as the club toils under administration
and fights a battle with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs over a disputed
£49million tax bill.
King — who is himself involved in a £250million tax fight with officials in
South Africa — is hoping to work with a team of rich businessmen including
Paul Murray, 46, and motoring magnate Douglas Park to revive Gers’ fortunes.
He said: “It grieves me to state that it seems inevitable that the footballing
institution will survive but the company won’t. This will entail many
hurdles, that will be overcome, including ‘Rangers (2012) Ltd’ having to
reapply for membership of the SFA.
“It is a sad point to have reached, but if managed sensibly, it can result in
Rangers returning to their former glory as a football club in the shortest
time possible.
“We must remember that our footballing friends across the city came very close
to the point that we now find ourselves in.
“Scottish football needs a strong Rangers and Celtic — but perhaps in a
slightly humbler form.”
Last night Sir David hit back at King’s claims — and said the allegations were
“incredulous”. Sir David — who sat on the board for 11 years with King —
also said he would defend any action which is brought against him.
A spokesman for the Murray Group said: “We note with some interest, and much
incredulity, Dave King’s press statement. It is difficult to understand his
motives, given he has been a director of Rangers Football Club since 2000.
“Throughout his directorship, Dave King has attended and participated in
regular board meetings, including those approving the annual audited
accounts, received board papers quarterly, had full access to the executive
management of the club, and been privy to the same detailed financial and
commercial information as every other board member. In the event that he
actually lodges a claim, we would vigorously defend it. Murray Group fully
intends to make further detailed press comment on the wider circumstances at
Rangers Football Club once it considers this will not detract from or
interfere with the difficult and delicate work of the administration.
“It is deeply regrettable and hugely saddening for all the emp-loyees and
supporters that the club finds itself in its present situation.”
Meanwhile a spokesman for Whyte said “there is absolutely no necessity for
Rangers Football Club to go into liquidation”.
He said: “I believe we will come out of administration by way of a Creditors
Voluntary Agreement.”
kennymcalpine@the-sun.co.uk
Eeeee-aaaaawwwww haha
Howd that turn oot?
Granted Dave ye were just a dodgy bassa then,not even a 49 times convicted criminal
HH
Scottish Cup final weekend
My favourite weekend in my football calendar … my first final was as a wee daft 10yr old in 1980… oblivious to the riots on the park (couldn’t see much for the dust :-) attended the game with 3 gers fans, me & another guid Tim …
A December final is a bit crazy but we live in crazy times ….
Hope ma man Turnbull starts, won’t be unhappy if Soro keeps his starting place … but will be delighted if our captain leads the team out … don’t listen to the “noise” that this should be a formality … it’s a cup final and Hearts probably have the 3rd biggest wage bill in the land with both them & the 2nd largest wage bill paying wages they canny afford ….
Covid & 2020 has been shoite for many of us but ma wee yin mentioned to me the other day “dad, this is the first final we will watch live together” …. am usually oot … so I am now looking forward to this Scottish Cup final more than any other
100% behind Neil & the Bhoys 🍀
Happy birthday to Big Jimmy & Sean Thornton’s daughter … hope tomorrow the Cellic make it a champion weekend for you two & the rest of us
How imperfectly so?
SFA ARE SHAMEFUL
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https://www.whitehillwelfare.co.uk/news/club-statement-2591249.html
Club Statement
By James Stout
2 hours ago
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Scottish FA Disciplinary Tribunal
Following our Scottish Cup 2nd Preliminary Round tie with Hill of Beath Hawthorn on Saturday 12 December, The Club was made aware that one of the opposition players was potentially ineligible and should have been serving a suspension. The Club raised this matter with the Scottish FA on Monday morning and asked them to investigate.
The Club received an email late this afternoon from The Scottish FA to inform us that a Disciplinary Tribunal met this afternoon and has censured Hill of Beath Hawthorn and issued a £2,000 fine, which is suspended until the end of the 2020/21 season.
The Club finds this outcome baffling and inconsistent with The Scottish FA’s own rules for the competition and previous sanctions where a club has been found to have fielded an ineligible player.
As far as The Club can ascertain, regardless of circumstances, the Judicial Panel Protocol is clear that there is a mandatory ejection from The Scottish Cup for fielding an ineligible player (Rule 303, associated with Scottish Cup Rule 12).
To further compound our sense of injustice, the tribunal has reinstated the players suspension, resulting in the player missing the next round of The Scottish Cup.
Our supporters can be rest assured that The Club are raising this matter directly with The Scottish FA as a matter of urgency and will provide an update as and when they see fit to respond. The Club has however, been told that we have no right of appeal.
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SAINT STIVES
thank you for replying
TT has identified the Celtic team
what a man he is
HH
kTONTINE TIM on 18TH DECEMBER 2020 9:55 PM
That Celtic side that played Charles Patrick’s Cork Hibbees looks like:
Haffey, McKay and Kennedy, Crerand, McNeill and Clark, Carroll, Kelly, Mochan, Divers and Auld.
thank you for that
You are some man!
HH
Neil Lennon & Scott Brown have been easy targets in the last season or two .. Cluj, Ferencvaros, legs gone.. etc
Since the year 2000 … I wonder if there is/are any two more successful Celtic players than these two ….
Mistakes … both have made a few, but in the last two decades these two bhoys have gave us soooo many good times … roll on Sunday … one day we will lose a cup final (not lost one in a while) .. but hopefully not this December final 🍀
Since the year 2000 … I wonder if there is/are any two more successful Celtic players than these two over a couple of decades
Oor Neil & Oor Scott ….
They must have accumulated a fair amount of medals between them since the turn of the century …
No too bad for a dinosaur & a player whose legs went seasons ago … in fact think Lennys legs went when he was still collecting winners medals …
And for the record (not the Daily), any team, in any country, “enjoy” their nearest rivals not winning … only on CQN could this ever be “frowned” upon
by the usual suspects :-)
Canny get up for a cup final ???
You should try following some teams who rarely are given that chance, the opportunity that we get nearly every season, and lately every blinking cup final since 2016
At Night you hear,Baookas Roar…….
God Bless and protect Lenny and the Bhoys.
Bazookas, sorry.
PAPAJOE55 on 19TH DECEMBER 2020 1:03 AM
GFTB..
Cheers Bhoys for the Birthday wishes.
May I also wish a very Happy Birthday to ” Lynsdey”…Daughter of SEAN THORNTON on this day.
HH.
Good morning all from a cold and dark Garngad
Coffee time.
Big Jimmy – Happy Birthday to ya, happy birthday.🥂🍻🎂🍻
Chill today ma man, get your horses on and sit back and watch them romp home.
Tomorrow is Scottish cup final day which again I hope you can enjoy your day.
Hail Hail Amigo
D :)
Happy Birthday also to Sean’s Ghirl🥂
D :)
The gee light of the ….
CONDOR.
Conor comes from the most Amazin’ place
No pool when the horses are running.
I expect a VERY quiet Birthday Today as the Pubs are closed but I have The Rocky Bhoy for company. I think I will have to settle for a day of watching the Horse Racing. My Bets are on….and also my Fitba bets.
I have a gut feeling that there will be a few goals in the Cup Final Tomorrow….but as long as Celtic score ONE more than that Hertz mob, I will have a GREAT Birthday weekend…albeit a very DRY One LOL ?
Given my Life Style over many long years of Drinking, Smoking and Wummin, I am surprised that Ive reached the age of “65”…
Therefore I will concede that I am now just an Aging Lothario….although I would rather be a Drunk Aging Lothario, given the opportunity…
Get the Feckin PUBS OPEN !
LOL.
COYBIG.
On the read back……………
Some crackin’ contributions…………..
I’ve said before the stories as told by TT, and the pics ahared by Stivs…… and a few others , if collated into a book would be a fantastic oral history of the life and times of the Club and the Support.
Keep it lit Bhoys!
big Game this weekend………..but I must run and brave the 7 degrees water temps in my wee bit of emerald heaven.
Brrrrrrrrrrrr CSC