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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Dallas Dallas.
He does , or did till recently , someone told me he’s now in Kilwinnig . Plenty of similar types around these parts but not as bad as some of the rural villages . Certainly not a good influence on anything .
Still plenty wearing the green down in Ayrshire though ;-)) HH
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Scientists…. Can Make Sweet Water From The Salty Sea..
And Draw Sweet Water From The Dry Desert Air….
And Create A Fluid With A Negative Mass….
BUT…..Can They Find The Unicorn…..
Wi’ The Fabulous Treasure Chest.?? :-(
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4375794/Graphene-filter-provide-drinking-water-millions.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/04/13/water-harvester-can-pull-moisture-air-using-power-sun/
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Park Road 67. I think I know a couple from that bus you were on !
Seriously need to get to my 4 poster ,but if you’re planning on going to the Scottish National on the 21st let me know . A fella from Dublin is making the trip ;-) . I’ll check for a reply tomorrow .
Sleep well all. HH
ANGELGABRIEL
Jim The Tim was on bhus , who else do you know ?
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 13TH APRIL 2017 10:56 PM
“Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
Tony Soprano
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Tony Soprano was a Withnail Fan? Who knew?
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Warning — Long post and story — especially for Bobby Murdoch’s Ankle
One Day in Lisbon — Part Two
The train pulled into Cruz de Quebrada station, and I knew that from there the Estadio Nacional was about 15 minutes walk away.
In truth, the station at Cruz Quebrada is nothing to write home about.
When the train drew in all I could see was graffiti on the wall and lots of it.
Loads of colourful swirls and words on a grey concrete wall which demonstrated both boredom and a certain lack of imagination on the part of the graffiti artists.
As an introduction to the hallowed Estadio Nacional the station was a disappointment, and looked as if it belonged on a clapped out industrial estate.
Yet this is where you get off the train and start the walk to where Celtic lifted the greatest prize in European Football some 50 years ago.
When you get off the train, you turn right and walk down the platform and after the train has passed you walk across the lines towards the motorway on the other side.
I was so focused on getting to the stadium that I hadn’t noticed that the Portuguese Cowboy and part time philosopher had also decided to get off the train as well.
However, I had barely placed my feet on the platform when the voice I had listened to on the train accosted my ears with a question: ” Mr Celtic! Do you mind if I walk with you?”
I turned to find the cowboy hatted political commentator striding up the platform towards me.
“Do you mind if I walk with you a little? My car is parked in the park where The Jamor is situated”.
Some Portuguese refer to the Estadio Nacional as “The Jamor” because it is part of the sports complex called “Centro desportivo do Jamor”
It would have been rude to say no, but, in truth, I was intrigued to learn more about this man with the leather cowboy hat and so I readily said that I would be happy to have the company.
“Not at all” I replied to my new companion “Provided you tell me your story of the Celtic fans in 1967.”
And so began no more than 10 minutes in the company of Luis. I never got to know his second name but I quickly discovered that he had lived in England for many years, that he was 67 years old, was a retired engineer, widowed, and was in the course of purchasing a flat in the park area close to the Estadio Nacional.
As we walked he told me his story and gave me a history lesson with virtually no interruption from me.
In 1982, when visiting the town of Ericeira, some 50 miles north on the Lisbon coast, I was told a story by a former Lisbon resident about how in 1967 the visiting Celtic fans had had a far reaching effect on Lisbon and Portugal itself. The man concerned said that he had always been a Celtic fan ever since the events of May 1967 and, while he heaped praise on Celtic and their football when beating Inter Milan, he spoke most passionately about the way the fans conducted themselves in Lisbon and how the Portuguese authorities had reacted to the unexpected arrival of thousands of Scottish people who only wanted to smile, sing, party and laugh on the streets of Lisbon when supporting a football team.
It was a story I had repeated often in the intervening years, but one which I took with a little pinch of salt as it was hard to believe.
To my delight, within the next ten minutes, Luis was to virtually repeat what I had been told over 30 years before and what the man had to say was measured, delivered without either false praise or any great drama and was absolutely fascinating.
“ I was 17 years old when your club and their fans came to Lisbon, and for some their very presence and attitude became hugely significant.
However, to others, I will be honest, and say they were just a one or two day wonder who came and disappeared again. I personally saw very little of them because I lived on the outskirts of Lisbon and so did not see the city centre and so much of what I am about to say was told to me later and it is important that you understand that.
The story I am about to tell was told to me by my father, who worked in the city centre, and then later by others whom I met at University a few years later. Some, perhaps the more political people, saw the Celtic fans as very significant politically.”
“Why?” I asked.
At this point, my far larger companion stopped and looked down on me with a huge smile.
“Because the sang; They smiled; They laughed – In short my father told me that what was so obvious that these crazy football fans were just not afraid. And that made them stand out! That made them different – very different.
“You have to understand what Portugal and Lisbon was like in 1967.
Antonio Salazar had ruled as a fascist right wing dictator since the early 1930’s. Prior to that, Portugal had suffered two decades of misrule by a hopeless and out of date republic which had replaced an even more hopeless monarchy.
At first Salazar’s promise of stability and order was attractive to some sections of society, and so there was support for his policies, especially among landowners, colonialists and some sections of the middle classes.
However, the ordinary people had to pay a price for this “order”. That price was a growing gap between the ordinary people and the very wealthy with those in power tightening their grip on all political and business appointments with a clear policy of keeping all wealth to themselves. While some got very rich, Portugal itself became poorer and poorer.
By 1967 Portugal was a ‘corporate republic’ with a handful of rich families controlling the financial and industrial conglomerates and virtually the whole population was beholding to them in one way or another.
Worse still was the fact that the Acção Nacional Popular (ANP), the state fascist party, was the only political organisation permitted, alongside its youth wing, and anyone who dissented from their policies was in danger of not only losing their job but likely to be imprisoned.
There were open paramilitary groups who terrorised anyone who was thought of as left-wing or who expressed what could be called socialist points of view. Independent trade unions and the right to strike were illegal.
The state police, The PIDE (Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado) was backed up by a massive network of secret agents and part-time informers, and so it was common to hear of people being arrested and imprisoned without trial. Ordinary people were often taken away and tortured.
No, in 1967, Lisbon was not a happy place. It was not a holiday destination and it was not a place where the ordinary citizens were used to seeing singing and dancing in the street. The people were afraid, even terrified of the police, the state and even their neighbours. It was a place governed and ruled by fear.
And then came your Celtic fans.
In truth they were unexpected. So unexpected that the airport staff risked going on strike as they had to handle far more work than they were used to or being paid for.
Until the arrival of the Celtic fans, My father told me that most people in Portugal would have supported Inter. They were one of the class teams in Europe. They had won the cup before, had players who were well known, at least to some, and were a proper football team.
As for Celtic? Well, who were they? Some funny wee team from Scotland or Britain? No one knew who they were. We didn’t know their players or anything about them – and we certainly didn’t know anything about their fans.
Yet here they came in their thousands.
They piled into Lisbon and cared nothing about the secret police or the authorities. Apparently, they came in from the airport, went to mass, came out of mass and simply sang, drank, laughed and joked throughout the centre of Lisbon without a care in the world.
For the people from Lisbon, this was something they had not expected at all and had never seen before. But the way it was told to me, many people could see that the police, the army, the armed guards and the secret police had absolutely no idea what to do with these people.
I was told that some people expected them to be rounded up and taken away to jail, but instead the police just stood there and let them get on with it. It was as if the police were no longer in charge and that these ordinary people were dictating the mood with their parties and their singing.
I am told that there was one song, in particular, which they sang which caught the imagination of some local students in Lisbon. They sang a version of a song by The Seekers pop group called “We shall not be moved” and I am told that the sight of all these football fans in the street singing that song and those words was inspirational because they were not moved, the police did nothing.
Had local Portuguese people taken to the streets like that then the tanks and armoured cars would have come out and people would have been shot and arrested.
I have since seen TV footage of Celtic fans running on to the pitch at the Estadio Nacional after Celtic had won. If you speak to any of the Celtic fans who were there they should remember that they ran passed armed soldiers. I will tell you now that a Portuguese crowd would not have been allowed to do that. Only the Celtic fans could have done that as they were there in numbers and were in a party mood. Had Inter won there would have been no such pitch invasion.
Years later I was at university and much the same story was told to me by others who lived in the city with some saying “Do you remember when the Celtic fans came and how the police did nothing?”
In 1968 Salazar had a stroke and was replaced by Marcello Caetano who at first introduced some reforms and what appeared to be greater democracy but in truth it was all a sham.
1968 saw the start of more and more social unrest with students and others becoming braver and going on strike and taking to the streets only to be met with fierce resistance from the police and more and more informers.
Portugal was at war in the colonies, Mozambique etc, and more and more young men were drafted into the army and sent away to fight in wars they could not win. By the time of the revolution in 1974, many like me who had been 16 or 17 in 1967 were in their twenties and they wanted none of it. They wanted change.
“Have you heard of singer called Zeca Afonso?” he asked
“ No” I replied.
“ Well he was a folk musician and an agitator. A radical.
Many of his songs were banned by the state because they were protest songs.
In March 1974 Zeca Afonso appeared in concert and sang a song called Grandola Vila Morena. It is a song which, on the face of it, is about the strength of the town and the people of Grandola which is in the Alentejo region of Portugal. Do you know about Alentejo?”
“ No” I replied
“In Portuguese, “Alen” means beyond and “Tejo” is the river Tagus. The Alentejo is that area beyond the Tagus. It is a large historical and cultural area of Portugal but for years it and its people were ignored. It is known as “The Breadbasket” of Portugal and it is here you will find our best wines, bread and olives. But it is a poor area and the people lived and still live like farm peasants in many respects. There is a high level of illiteracy even today. In the times of the dictatorship these people were treated dreadfully. They were poor and they were kept poor.
Anyway, Afonso wrote this song called Grandola Vila Morena and it used the Alentejo style of singing. The Alentejo historically sang while they worked. They have a unique Polyphonic singing style which makes every song sound like being sung by a choir with one voice.
At this concert in 1974, Zeco Afonso sang the song and suddenly the audience cheerfully burst into song with him and they all sang Grândola Vila Morena together, symbolising the unification of the people.
Very quickly, the song became a symbol of togetherness, a song for the people, a song that, if you like, said “we shall not be moved”.
This is important because on Thursday, 25 April 1974 at 12.25am the signal was given and the rebel song, Grandola Vila Morena, by Zeca Afonso, was unexpectedly played on Rádio Renascença – the state radio station.
This was the signal for the start of what became known as the Carnation Revolution which brought decades of Fascist dictatorship in Portugal to an end.
Captain Salgueira da Maia and other young members of the army left Santarém (50 miles north-east of Lisbon) with eight armoured cars and ten trucks, and moved on the capital. Other divisions under the command of the Movimento das Forças Armadas (MFA – the Armed Forces Movement, radicalised mid-rank officers, typically young captains in their 20’s, were mobilised.
The 5th Infantry Regiment took control of Rádio Clube Português, another state radio station, transmitting the first MFA communiqué at 5.30.
It appealed to police and ordinary troops to stay in barracks.
By the time the rebellious solduers reached the centre of Lisbon there was some opposition from other parts of the army and there was a very tense stand off. The radio instructed people to stay indoors in this time of crisis, but what happened next was remarkable.
The vast majority of Lisbon took to the streets and simply stood there. They blocked the streets, climbed trees and brought the whole city to a standstill. It was as if they were all saying “we shall not be moved!”
They placed carnations in the barrels of the army guns and ensured that there would be no fighting. The army soldiers who were originally against the revolution were won over and the whole crowd began to sing in the street – a bit like the partying Celtic fans 7 years before.
This then spread throughout Portugal.
Caetano was ousted and went into exile and within a year Portugal had elections.
And that, my friend is my story, and how some people say that Celtic and their fans played a little part in the story of Portugal.”
“ That is very interesting” I said “But surely it is stretching things too far to say that football fans – Celtic fans—played a significant part in the Carnation Revolution?”
Luis turned before heading to his car. He adjusted the cowboy hat and said:
“Well, Celtic fans come to this city and this stadium year in and year out. I know they are automatically given directions and all the help they need by the people of Lisbon, especially by the older generations.
So ask yourself this: Why are they treated so well? Because they won a football match 50 years ago? Loads of teams have played football in Lisbon and their fans don’t get the same reception. Why is that?
Portuguese people are very friendly in the main but Celtic fans are given a special welcome in this city by some – just ask yourself why that is?
“Further, I told you that in 1967 the people of Lisbon knew nothing about Celtic and their team. Well, I for one can now tell you that the manager was Jock Stein and that the goals that day were scored by Gemmell and Chalmers. When Jock Stein died it was front page news in Portugal.
Why is that?
I knew nothing of Celtic the football team before 1967, but my father told me the story of the Celtic fans in Lisbon and I later saw the video of the game against Inter who were the favourites. I made it my business to know and learn about this Celtic club and their crazy fans. That was not because of their football, although that was great, but it was because their fans came as one and won over a city and, for some, they played a part in showing what could happen if people stood and partied together. They rendered fear and oppression useless.
Perhaps that is hard to understand when you have always had democracy but here in Portugal the revolution is still very much celebrated.”
And with that, Luis shook my hand and bade his farewell as he turned right towards his car while I went left towards the Estadio Nacional.
But after only twenty yards or so he turned and shouted:
“Oh and another thing: Throughout my time in England I always looked out for Celtic and would tell anyone and everyone that I am a Sporting fan first but a Celtic fan second or even equal first – and we should have won in Seville! I don’t like Mourinho or Porto!!”
With those words from a Portuguese stranger ringing in my ears, I started to climb the hill towards one of the most famous stadiums in the history of Celtic Football Club and all the way up the hill I simply thought:
“Bloody hell!”
To be continued ………..
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On 24th May 2017, Celtic fans will celebrate the victory which took place in Lisbon on 25th May 1967.
The celebration will be by way of a large dinner in The Casa do Alentejo (The home of the Alentejo) in Lisbon.
The song Grandola Vila Morena has become the symbol of the Carnation Revolution which took place in 1974 and is sung in typical Alentejo fashion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQWgz7P0ueA
It is regularly sung to this day and the Alentejo are always recognised as its source.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ1JDqD746k
The Donald, Ernie Lynch
Really. Haven’t even put a time stamp.
When you have something to say you’re not confident about, stick to one link. Any more makes you look desperate to lesser readers like me.
I’m just home. What is it you want me to know?
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GuyFawkesaforeverheroon 14th April 2017 12:24 am
The Donald, Ernie Lynch
Really. Haven’t even put a time stamp.
When you have something to say you’re not confident about, stick to one link. Any more makes you look desperate to lesser readers like me.
I’m just home. What is it you want me to know?
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That You’ve Let Yourself Into The WRONG House…?
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Brogan Hogan, Trevino and Rogan on 14th April 2017 12:16am
Good story. Why do you need to put two links after it? Hope I haven’t missed your point.
BRTH
I struggled with
” As we walked he told me his story and gave me a history lesson with virtually no interruption from me.”
but great tale otherwise. :)
The Donald on 14th April 2017 12.41am
Ok, sorry about that. I’m here now, for a while. Are you a tough guy?
Got my SB renewal letter from Brendan today and I’m disappointed I don’t have two choices like the satan worshipping goat people get, renew with the club or renew with the holding company.
I feel cheated. I quite fancy a season following the holding company, I believe it can be done via the medium of wifi.
Sort it out Celtic, I’m a repeat customer.
GuyFawkesaforeverhero on 14th April 2017 12:55 am
Ok, sorry about that. I’m here now, for a while. Are you a tough guy?.
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Continuing with the Soprano’s theme there…………………….:_)
GuyFawkesaforeverhero , you gonnay whack him if he says no?
I hope he says no……..:_)
HH
A Ceilor Gonof Rust on 14th April 2017 1.07am
No, not at all. People get ahead of themselves here, I think.
GuyFawkesaforeverhero, giei him a goats heid. , he’ll get the message.
BRTH…
A great read and an insight to how we can be expected to be open heartedly welcomed in Lisbon come the 50th anniversary of our clubs massive achievement. HH
Last chance saloon for the glib and shameless one
Either he stumps up or quits
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On this Easter weekend
There is only one man I know of who can came back from the dead
Happy Easter all Celts
HH
Sopranos…..?
Away n take a look at yerselve’s……
Nane of yer fictional guff…..
Better with a wee bit of reality stuff….
Batman : The Animated Series…..
From the darkest JUNGLE’s of Gotham City….
Grand ole vigilante’s – CSC.
Anyway,…….
Thoughts and Prayers for all
Supporters of Glasgow Celtic.
……..off-oot.
AULDHEID on14TH APRIL 2017 12:54 AM
BRTH
I struggled with ” As we walked he told me his story and gave me a history lesson with virtually no interruption from me.”
but great tale otherwise. :)
Me tae, cannae imagine BRTH no interruptin lol.
HH
Thindimebhoy
I get the impression king loves all the squintifying obfuscation- lying to you and I.
He has boundless glibnessity lol…a neck hotter than lava
People like him dont follow the law until a judge is labelling him a glib and shameless liar, convicting the criminal 49 times with over 300 money laundering charges bargained out.
The ‘comical ali’ of the south african stock exchange..
Watch now how the snakes points and blames everyone bar himself for him being a dodgy criminal who continually breaks rules.
Hope your good mate
HH
See if the huns died…….?
How is it still 49 quid for a ticket ?
Who are the “real” fools ?
………oot.
GuyFawkesaforeverhero
I posted the links because after yer man Luis told me the story about Zeca Afonso’s song I looked it up and to be honest it has stuck in my head ever since. Not only that, I think there is something quite moving about a whole city coming out on to the street and protesting or creating change in my lifetime.
The two video pieces show what really happened in ’74 and how those events, and the song, are remembered and revered today. No doubt Portugal isn’t perfect, no country is, but the events of 1974 were quite remarkable.
As for that Auldheid, what a cheek he has to talk about interrupting folk or talking without interruption! lol
If you don’t listen to a good story when it is being told you will never be able to repeat its detail later!!
HUNDERBIRDS ARE GONE on 13TH APRIL 2017 11:22 PM
Had a watch of Brother Pedro’s presser earlier. He spoke of a league (Greece?), where the winners of the league were declared before the play-offs (to determine European qualification), and these winners took no part in the play offs, to allow them to finish their season early and therefore allow them the time to prepare properly for the next seasons Champions League.
Boy talks some sense…..
…. puts on tin hat and leaves the building.
HUNDERBIRDS ARE GONE….
At first glance I can see why Pedro’s take on the rules about league winners in Greece not taking part in any play offs etc………….however, perhaps you may agree, that scenario would in effect prevent Celtic from becoming “The Invincibles” as far as playing out the WHOLE League season ?
Yes it is FACT that we have won the SPL unbeaten this season, but if the Greek rules applied here, you can bet your boots that SHOULD Celtic were to stop BEFORE the play offs, it would be ammo for those against us to say that Celtic didn’t play out the WHOLE Season and therefore should not be deemed as the “Invincibles” ?
A 2nd point if we undertook The Greek Way……FINANCE ? I think you will find that all the SPL clubs ( INCLUDING Celtic), would be against The Greek Way, as to stop playing before any play offs would of course mean “Loss of Income”.
A 3rd point ( if I may be so bold ?), is what Brendan has stated since the League was won, as he wants Celtic to have “MOMENTUM” for the rest of the Campaign, especially with eyes on victory in The Scottish Cup. it is entirely feasible that some momentum would be lost within The Celtic squad, IF The Greek Way was implemented in Scotland ?
just my opinion Bhoys and Ghirls, but HUNDERBIRDS, at a closer look what Pedro the Bull has stated about The Greek Way etc, AIN’T so sensible to this particular Celtic man.
Hail, Hail.
BRTH,
Wonderful Post in relation to Lisbon/Portugal, and The Celtic fans ( one of which was my Father), who would sing and dance to most songs, especially Celtic songs, anytime, anywhere..
Whats Portugese for “VIVA LA REVOLUTION” ?
Superb stuff BRTH ( By the way mate, I have NEVER known you to interrupt anyone )
Hail Hail.
BRTH,
I should have mentioned that when my dad went to Lisbon by car, he had 19 of his Glasgow taxi mates with him.
He refused to take me to Lisbon because ” It’s too long a journey for a wee Bhoy in a car, but IF we were flying over, then I would take you” ?
That was the most lamest, and unreasonable “reasoning” I have ever heard in my long life from my own Father. This is the man who denied me my place in Lisbon !
i was obviously NOT one of his mates ?
I have refused to speak to this man since 1967 ( only joking), but for years I did often throw it back in his face, especially when he returned from Lisbon and telling the rest of the family about all the STRIP CLUB’s that he and his 19 mates went to across Europe !
i used to love that man ?
HH
Okay, I have it on good authority from one of my older mates who was in Lisbon, and he was about 18 years old at the time.
When I mention to my older mate how my dad never took me etc, he always reminds me of this……….” Jimmy…….there were NO feckin weans that travelled to Lisbon, in fact my being 18, I was probably one of the youngest Celtic fans there” ?
Aye okay then, I would reply………..” but it would have great to have seen The Hoops lift the Big Cup in the flesh, and talking about flesh…..Do you think an 11 year old Bhoy would have been allowed in all those Strip Clubs that my dad went to” ?
” so I also missed out on that early sex education ………..thanks Dad”
HH
I loved the Sopranos – Great series and its success it spawned a whole genre of productions.
However, The real life Mafia footage is both fascinating and really quite chilling.
Look up the famed Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello or Meyer Lansky.
Or far more recent guys like Jimmy “The Weasel” Fratianno or Frank “Bomp” Bompensiero.
Here is his real life story in 15 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onL6LtR9B-E
and here is Fratianno being personally interviewed – judge for yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FiWkchrEMg
Anyway, soon be Celtic time again cos I’m going to see The Celtic at The Training Day this morning……………” Is there ANY STRIP CLUBs between Glasgow city centre and Celtic Park that I could visit” ?
I would only visit said Strip Clubs, just to get a feel of how things were back in 1967 for my dad and his mates etc….just a form of research, you understand….following in my fathers footsteps” ?
HeHe ?
Hail Hail.
Does anyone know what Sky Sports Channel is showing The Celts v Ross County ( thugs) game on Sunday ?
HH
Good morning CQN from a cool, semi overcast but still dry Good Friday in East Devon.
Big Jimmy
Sky sports 2
BRTH
Fascinating read. Lovely way to start the day. ( mind you I was up at 3-50am)
Thanks for sharing that.
IanBhoy929,
Cheers mate, just after I posted the question, I suddenly realised that I could look it up on my tv menu ?
HH
Good morning from a bright, sunny and horribly hungover North East Fife
Awmaheid
just a “SUGGESTION” ?
How about Celtic’s PA playing ” Tina Turner’s..simply the best”, as Celtic come out the tunnel against Hearts in our last league game /
Now that would Get it right up the Huns…would it not ?
As I say, ” just a wee suggestion”
HH
Brogan , great post about Luis and Lisbon.
Itv did a really good documentary series called Crime Inc , around 1983/84 featuring interviews with Jimmy Fratiano, who was one of the mafia’s hitmen.
One episode telling how the mafia sucked a lot of money from the city of Newark , was fascinating .
BRTH.
Great read. Thank you.
I even persuaded my wife, who cares not a jot about football, to read it,
from an historical and political perspective. She passes her thanks on too.
Hail Hail.