I’ve never known so many people to be keen to get to a game involving Motherwell as there are for tomorrow’s encounter at Celtic Park. Most of us haven’t been to a game since the marginally entertaining 3-3 Champions League draw last month.
Motherwell head a pack of six clubs all within three points of each other, with bottom of the table Partick Thistle just one point further behind at the bottom of the table. They are still in touch with fifth-placed Newco Rangers, who the Lanarkshire club could overhaul if results go their way this weekend, but the table is starting to look like a top five and bottom seven fight.
Each of the top four clubs, Celtic, Aberdeen, Hearts and St Johnstone, are at home against opposition no higher than 6th place Motherwell, so there’s every chance the leading group will extend their advantage.
You and I have been speaking about a European League since 2004. During that time the remoteness of the possibility has come and gone but it’s back on the agenda, with Copenhagen director, Anders Horsholt talking about the proposed league between Danish, Dutch, Scottish, Belgian, Swedish and Norwegian clubs.
This proposal would be enormously beneficial for all involved, the only thing that’s needed is sufficient will on the part of clubs to make it happen, but even within this group of potential beneficiaries there are sub-interests which could pull focus in different directions.
Celtic’s interests would be best served with access to a European-wide league, replacing domestic weekend leagues. They would be able to compete and grow into one of the world’s biggest clubs in this scenario. The same would be true of the bigger Dutch clubs, less so for the Danish, and even the Belgians.
What we now have for the first time is a consensus that some change needs to happen among the disenfranchised. I’d bite your hand off for a scenario along the lines of what Horsholt discussed, but you have to consider this possibility in context of what’s happening at the moment with the financially elite European clubs.
They too want change. A meritocratic-ally-earned Europe-wide structure replacing domestic leagues falls short of their mooted closed-franchise system, but not by much. And it’s a lot more deliverable.
This is all horse-trading for now, but there’s a lot of money sitting on the table, so change is inevitable.
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Morning all.
That’s me back in Scotland. Still severely jet-lagged but looking forward to my first visit to Parkhead in more than a month.
Can’t say the weather has improved since I went to warmer climes.
DENIABHOY 840
And in a curious coincidence,the DR reveals that Joey Barton-whose only crime seems to have been to tell the truth-is revealed to be part of the £434m alleged tax avoidance scheme.
This paper is really crossing the line between journalism and lobbying,and that’s being very very polite.
BT sport showing the Sydney v central coast game live the now.
Sydney fans singing Come on you boys in blue, Sydney’s blue and white . A song initiated by the Green Brigade influencing fans the other side of the world.
Dallas
Thank you. His legacy is 25 children, grandchlldren and great grandchildren who all support Celtic in the image of Swiggy RIP.
Morning Bhoys a great day for a game of football. H.H.
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD
Welcome back,mate. Been blazing sunshine in Scotland for nearly a month.
Ask yer Dad.
Sandy Posey singing “Single Girl” on my favourite programme on Radio 2. Brilliant.
DD
Im good bud, hope you are too.
Ive been all over the place this week, some contrasting situations, suit and tie one day, bunnet, shades, and denims the next
If i wrote about it…nobody would believe me:)
Keeps the boredom at bay.
HH
BMCUWP,
Many thanks for the welcome back. I hope to see my Dad before the game today.
Delaney’s, sorry I never posted sooner.
Swiggy has left a great legacy, God bless him.
Did you see the Don Letts documentary on BBC 4 about skinheads last night?
Great music on it plus the maverick and republican, Kevin Rowland, is interviewed on it.
The magic twat is allways angry that big red baw face of his fit to burst he really does not seem happy at Ibrokes in my opinion.H.H.
The wee guy (Irish I think) who came on late in the Cally game ripped them a new one all on his own, I was thinking what any of our permutations where going to do with them next week?
They are a bottom six team of that there is no doubt, Cally? Not the same team that kicked f… out of us a couple of weeks ago, just another club who will never be a bogey club for the newcomers in the league, but will join the long line who are ours.
BBC say the Huns are gaining momentum after yesterday’s result, had to laugh , let’s see where they are once today’s games are played.
Missing the next two games because I’m soon to be off to the sunny sites of the Lake District and English real beers :0)
gerry, thanks for your post about my dad.
Sydneytim and I have known each other since he was stuck with me on the Uni csc bus going to Amsterdam. He is one of the most passionate Celtic fans I know. His view back then as it is now, our team on the pitch is the most important thing for him.
DALLAS DALLAS WHERE THE HECK IS DALLAS on 15TH OCTOBER 2016 9:47 AM
gerry, thanks for your post about my dad.
Sydneytim and I have known each other since he was stuck with me on the Uni csc bus going to Amsterdam. He is one of the most passionate Celtic fans I know. His view back then as it is now, our team on the pitch is the most important thing for him.
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I can second that.
DD, Sincere condolences.Not been on too much this week. Your Father in Law sounds like he was some bit of stuff. God be good to him. Condolences also to HT & Minx on their sad loss.
Dallas
That trip to Amsterdam with you Sydneytim and others who post on CQN will live forever in my memory. Magical first trip abroad to see Celtic for me.
MACKAY,
I take it you liked the wee joke about condoms ?
Cheers mate,but here’s the bad news, I’m going for 10 in a row !
HH
Corkcelt
He was some man indeed.
Known in Scotstoun as an Orange Walk objector with force. Hunskelper!
Gooooooooooooood morning all
Thanks to Matt Stewart & Roy C for their posts last night
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Tim Cahill Scores from about 50 Yards in his Debut in the Melbourne Derby..
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ROY CROPPIE on 15TH OCTOBER 2016 12:52 AM
Not long up read your post just after I logged off; that sounds like Joe…lol. I remember the game well but of course I was in the traditional east end. I will ask him about the Airdrie, the Skeleton in the closet next time I see him…
Father Joe used to go on the Bus I ran back in the day, Whifflet St. Mary’s Coatbridge CSC.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Delaney’s. When it’s spring again, we’ll sing again 2 1 in Amsterdam.
1982 was a fantastic year and my last year as a teenager.
The Huns are a top 4 team, let’s not kid ourselves. They have some decent players but fall well short of Celtic. It’s no suprised they have picked up a little after dropping way off the pace. Expectations have dropped in terms of winning the league so the pressure is off in that respect. Defensively they are there for the taking, I watched the last 20 minutes and Inverness looked like they could score everytime they went upfield. The only thing that worries me next week is our Hampden hoodoo and fatigue from the midweek game.
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I Once had a Night out with Ole SydneyTim and the Femme Fatale that is known as MrsSydneyTim..
Ole SydneyTim got bitch slapped every time he was late going up to get us Drinks.. especially when he forgot the Crisps.. and Beer Nuts..
Think he spent the 2nd Half drinking Water as I was on The Guinness and Ole MrsSydneyTim was on the Gin and Tonic with a Guinness Chaser..
Yea he is a Good TIM.. But he’s a Sh1t waiter.. 【ツ】
Summa of OleSydneyTimNaWonderHeWhingesCSC
Dallas
I remembered what you had mentioned before about ST, and obviously know he is good Celtic Bhoy (who has been to more games than me :-) my post was just more or less to enjoy the good times we live in
Tea break over
Hail Hail
In any Primal Scream fans are reading, they are on soccer am this this morning. The band are ending the programme today.
Macjay, from earlier regarding Sydneytim. He is some one I have always got on with.
Gerry, are you working today? I’m in tomorrow.
I’m about to phone the home my dad now lives in to find out when he and his fellow fans will be getting dropped off at Celtic Park today so I can be there when they arrive.
Huns are a bottom six club, maybe IMO , team full of old men, and journeyman, manager Whois a Fanny, board full of racists, and the most bile, vile supporters on this planet, a shithole for a stadium, an old hang on history of anti Catholicism, in bread royalists with a 17th century mind set, and a shower of ugly bassas, and a bus driver that’s a bigot. HH
Lennybhoy .
Didn’t Frankie Mulholland travel on the st Mary’s bus ?
Reading back
Chairbhoy 6, 21 pm last night.
Fine post signposting plenty for the betterment of our club,
Great point bout subscribing to sky is money goin out of Scottish game
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In-bread Royalists
TBB
Are they all part the Upper Crust?
Hail Hail
Matt
Tony, I get the impression that you don’t like the Huns.
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Celtic fan set for trial over the plastic dolls and banner.
“I’ve got huge confidence in the team but always mindful that we’re respectful to the opponent we are playing and we know that we have to work well in order to get the three points.”
Rodgers, who picked up the manager of the month award for August, accepts Celtic being tagged as favourites and hopes his team can prove the bookmakers are correct.
“When you are Celtic and when you play a game at home that is what’s expected of you,” he said.
“We’re not running away from it to say we don’t want to be the favourite for the game, because whether we were playing Rangers, Aberdeen , St Johnstone or Hearts – whoever we play at home – our objective going into the game is to win.
“Celtic – Rangers are always keenly fought tough games we’re really looking forward to it and can’t wait really.
“We know it’s an important game but we’ve had three tough games before this as well. Away to Hearts and St Johnstone then Aberdeen at home.
New David Bowie vinyl box set Who Can I Be Now arrived today. Guess what I’m doing tonight?
I read with interest your Press Release regarding the request to ban Celtic fans from forthcoming matches at Ibrox after events at Celtic Park during the Glasgow Derby on Saturday 10/09/2016.
As a Celtic season ticket holder of a number of years I agree with your condemnation of the effigies of The Rangers Fans being hung during the game it was wholly and totally unacceptable anywhere let alone a football match. I also condemn, amongst other things, the fan who had a flag that said “Kill all Huns” and the banner stating “Know You Place Hun Scum”. None of these has any place at a football match.
However, at the same time, I would ask if you will condemn the following?
1. Rangers fans displaying lynched effigies of Charles Green and Craig Whyte. See here: https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/1003370/beware-of-bomb-in-post/
2. The singing of the banned song with the sectarian line “up to our knees in Fenian blood” by Rangers fans at Celtic Park on Saturday.
3. The banner at least seasons Scottish Cup semi-final about pedophilia.
4. Several songs and chants about pedophilia sung by Rangers fans at Celtic Park on Saturday.
5. The signing of the sectarian song “No Pope of Rome” sung by Rangers fans at Celtic Park on Saturday.
6. The wanton destruction of toilet facilities by Rangers fans at Celtic Park on Saturday.
7. The Rangers players and management team posing for a picture with a Loyalist Band who were that afternoon going to commemorate the death of a Loyalist Para-military member who was shot after murdering an innocent Catholic in Belfast.
I would trust that in your desire to remove sectarianism and bigotry from football in Glasgow and Scotland that you will have a view on the points raised above.
I look forward to your reply.
Regards
Steve
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ERNIE LYNCH on 27TH SEPTEMBER 2016 1:07 PM
THOMTHETHIM FOR OSCAR OK on 27TH SEPTEMBER 2016 1:45 PM
The songs and chants were more radical during the late 70’s and early 80’s than they were when Fergus arrived. The battle fort the heart and soul of the club was off the park, not on it and not with the fans.
I put this article together last week to outline why we are more than just a Club.
The Mission Statement (and Social Charter) unequivocally lays out who we are and what we are here for; so can you explain why it is anathema to you?
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FRED COLON on 15TH OCTOBER 2016 11:05 AM
He did indeed. I worked with his Sister back in the day.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!