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If an invincible season in the league is to be completed, we now know it will happen at Celtic Park on Sunday, 21 May, against Hearts. While getting over the line is always the most difficult part of a challenge, away games at Pittodrie, where we play nearest challengers Aberdeen, on Friday 12 May, and Ibrox, where we play Newco on 29 April, will present the most significant challenges to our attempts to complete the season undefeated.

There is also the non-trivial matter of an away derby match against our oldest Glasgow rivals, Partick Thistle, on 18 May. Thistle are a tidy team, currently on excellent form. This is exactly the kind of game that has a tendency of stopping history in its tracks.  We’ve work to do at Dingwall on Sunday before any of this, of course.

The league split was conceived to accommodate competing needs for more teams in the top flight, but fewer games. This season it has also given us some really attractive looking games after the main issue was settled.

I know one or two who would like future fixtures to be arranged to avoid the title being decided during Lent. I’m not going to say this will be easy to achieve, but it could easily be added to the agenda at next monthly conclave between the SFA, the Scottish Premiership and the Vatican.

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  4. VFR800 is now a Monster 821 on

    MIKE IN TORONTO on 13TH APRIL 2017 4:17 PM

     

     

    Yep, I concur – as it says on Sticky Fingers and Ziggy Stardust: To Be Played At Maximum Volume!

     

     

    Good news is that my 15 year old grandson is now listening to Dark Side of the Moon and other old ’70’s stuff.

     

     

    Better news is he is doing it without the chemical enhancements that were to the fore when I was listening to them in 1973!

     

     

     

    KTF

  7. Tontine Tim on

    MIKE IN TORONTO on 13TH APRIL 2017 4:17 PM

     

     

    Big Jimmy …. just saw the Godfather this (on TV) this week …..must have seen it 100 times! everything one needs to know in life can be learned from that film

     

     

    *when this came out the premier in the UK, including Glasgow, was a Sunday night. I had read the book so the following day me and a young Mrs TT took the day off and went up the toon, lunch and the afternoon show.

     

     

    On the way back we got off the train at Dumbarton and went tae Claude Alexander’s where I bought a pin stripe suit, also bought in Edwards a black shirt and white tie. Effin daft as a brush.

  9. Big Jimmy on

    Tomorrows Daily Rectum is carrying the story of how TAP have launched Court action against him and them. This was also on it….

     

     

    Rangers ace Barrie McKay turns down offer to extend deal at Ibrox and Everton prepare swoop for Virgil Van Dijk – transfer latest

     

    McKay has reportedly turned down Rangers’ first offer of a contract extension with his current deal set to expire next May – get all the latest transfer gossip here.

  13. mike in toronto on

    Tontine … sounds like I might be a few years younger than you …. by the time I was old enough to care about fashion it was punky/new wave stuff …. consider yourself lucky … I cringe at the though of some of the stuff we used to wear during that period!

     

     

    (although, even during that period, I always liked Zoot suits, so I probably would have thought you looked brilliant in your suit!)

  14. croppybhoy on

    Guys

     

     

    Lay off Arnold !

     

    He has a rack record of seeing things coming down the pike as our American friends would say.

     

    When working as a lad for the Hiroshima air raid warning patrol, he was heard to opine “Its ok people there’s only one plane incoming! How much damage can one plane do us?”

     

    Arnold is my type of zombie, thick as several short planks and a superiority complex straight out of the Hitler Youth or Boys Brigade circa1930s( present day punters do some great work )

     

     

     

    HH

  15. beatbhoy on

    Tontine Tim / Hot Smoked

     

     

    Back in 2012, Oldco Rangers couldn’t take Southampton’s money because it had sold the players’ registrations to Sevco, who couldn’t take any money for Davis either because it was not a football club until it had SFA membership.

     

     

    Another hole in the Continuity Myth.

  16. Big Jimmy on

    MIKE IN TORONTO and TONTIME TIM.

     

     

    Movies….

     

    My auld father told me an old story years ago of how when BEN HUR Premiered in Glasgow he went to see it ( 1959 ?).

     

    The “Baddie” in the movie was of course, Stephen Boyd who played MASSALA. Stephen Boyd was born William Miller in County Antrim ( I think ?), in 1931. He died of a heart attack in June 1977, aged only 46 years. Hollywood’s “Billy Miller”////Stephen Boyd,, often returned to his roots in Ireland and was deeply saddened by “The Troubles”.

     

    For those of you who are too young to remember Stephen Boyd, he was a brilliant actor, and was viewed as a very handsome young man by all the ladies.

     

    In my fathers story, he would tell me how that night in Glasgow, with the premier of BEN HUR, the audience were given a very special treat ( especially the ladies), as Stephen Boyd would appear on stage immediately prior to the movie being shown, and address the audience.

     

    According to my auld dad, when Stephen appeared there were wee Glesga wummin fainting and swooning all around him just at the sight of the dashing, bronzed Hollywood icon before them ( not my dad of course)., as these ladies gathered themselves, Stephen spoke…….

     

    “Ladies and Gentlemen, etc etc. In this movie that you are about to see there is a Chariot Race, and without giving anything away, I should tell you that the race was FIXED” !

     

    Of course no one in the cinema knew what Stephen meant, but as the action unfolded on screen, they soon found out that this Irishman from Hollywood had a devil of a sense of humour !

     

    Stephen Boyd RIP.

     

     

    In later years the “actress” Raquel Welch was to claim that Stephen had rejected her advances when they were making a movie called Fantastic Voyage in 1966 ( I saw that movie when I was 11in 1966). Allegedly she really fancied him, and asked him back to her hotel room after a meal on the town ?

     

    She claimed that Stephen ( when rejecting her advances), had strongly hinted that he was gay ?

     

    Of course I don’t know if that was true, but Stephen was always one of my favourite actors, and apparently a very, very nice good guy off stage.

     

    HH

  19. beatbhoy on

    South of Tunis

     

     

    A bit unfair on JohnJames, considering he was writing about King’s concert party activity long before the events of the past few weeks.

     

     

    From an article in October 2015.

     

     

    “What has been challenged is King, Taylor, Park & Letham’s alleged concert party activity.”

  20. croppybhoy on

    BigJimmy

     

     

    To protect their heads from the crash? If you’re going to hit something at 300mph you need to keep the napper protected for the 1/1,000,000 of a second before you’re deid!

     

    Also the Emperor wouldn’t have liked his pilots to be improperly dressed while they killed themselves, while he was drinking jasmine tea about 1000 miles away!

     

     

    HH

  23. mike in toronto on

    I am one of those who thinks the Godfather is one of the greatest films of all time…. but reallly do not get Goodfellas … Pesci is a ham, and Ray Liotta is an even bigger ham!…

     

     

    However, I know that others think it is a classic .. Michael Ballhaus, who was Scorcese’s cinematographer, including on Goodfellas, passed away this week…

  25. Margaret McGill on

    If there are approximately 87 million RIFC shares, with King, Letham, Taylor and Park owning 34%.

     

    then that means they own 29.58 million RFC shares.

     

    At 20 p a share thats £6m. Whats my point? dunno. Just saying like.

  30. beatbhoy on

    Mike in Toronto

     

     

    Others are right!

     

     

    Any shortcomings of the 2 you mention are more than compensated for by the performances of De Niro as Jimmy Conway, and Paul Sirvino and Lorraine Bracco, who would go on to great things as Dr Melfi in the peerless Sopranos.

     

     

    Paulie and Christopher were in there too, not to mention Frank Vincent, who played Phil in the series.

     

     

    The film that incubated the greatest tv series ever.

  31. Jobo Baldie on

    Margaret McGill –

     

     

    My understanding is that King had to offer 20p per share to everyone ELSE that owns shares, i.e. the other 57.42m shares.

     

     

    He couldn’t just ‘make the offer’. Instead he had to first lodge sufficient funds to ‘prove’ that if the others accepted his 20p a share offer then the money was definitely there. if all of the others sold, King would have needed about £11.5m to buy the 57.42m shares. It’s now abundantly clear that he doesn’t have those funds. And I don’t think it’s because he has already earmarked £30m for Ra Gers ;-)

  32. beatbhoy on

    My daughter drew me a very suspicious look when I bought her the box set of The Sopranos for her birthday.

     

     

    She made me suffer though, as she didn’t open it till just before her next birthday!

     

     

    And seemed to take an inordinate amount of time to watch disc 1, after I said I’d maybe watch it again when she was finished with it.

  33. corkcelt on

    Will be in Lanzarote for Ross County game but not in my usual haunts. This time its Playa Blanca, a place I’m not familiar with. Anyone know if there is any “Celtic Pub” in Playa Blanca. Tried Celtic Pubs online and it just came up with a general Irish Pub nothing about the Pub highlighted, made any mention of the ‘tic.

  34. !!Bada Bing!! on

    BSR- I wonder if the huns will regret knocking back £6 mil for Mackay from Leipzig……

  36. RobertTressell on

    Phils site is down. This used to happen when Orc FC mk1 was dying.

     

     

    Not saying there is a connection.

     

     

    But is there a connection?

     

     

    Maybe.

     

     

    Maybe not. Hope mk2 dies soon. Sick of them.

  38. beatbhoy on

    Roberttressel

     

     

    Maybe that’s why he put out 2 in quick succession earlier this afternoon.

     

     

    And may I echo your sentiments about Sevco.

  40. Jobo Baldie on

    Right, time to head out and go and watch some folk having their feet washed. Laters…

  41. timaloy29 on

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-39595626

     

     

    Gerry King, who has been chairman of Celtic Boys Club, has been charged in connection with historical sex abuse offences.

     

    Police Scotland have confirmed that a 65-year-old man was charged on 15 February and a report has been sent to the procurator fiscal.

     

    Mr King is a teacher at Glasgow’s St Martha’s Primary School.

     

    He has been suspended from teaching duties by Glasgow City Council pending the outcome of the investigation.

     

    Its understood the charges relate to alleged activities at Celtic Boys Club.

  42. Jimmynotpaul on

    Corkcelt.

     

    I can’t help you with your question, I just wanted to post have a blast.

     

    Hail Hail.

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