“Old Firm game for Wembley”. Heaven help us. I don’t doubt International Champions Cup owner, Charlie Stillitano, has a sharp eye for what he could turn into a commercial success, but there can be fewer worse ideas in the history of sporting endeavour.
So many things could go wrong with such a fixture, some would go wrong, and the contagion would spread to Celtic. There’s no mention in any coverage of this item that Celtic have been consulted at any level, so I’m assuming they were as surprised as the rest of us at the moment (they were at a similar suggestion of a game in Australia a few years ago).
Stillitano cites hosting Manchester City-Manchester United in Beijing later this year as being something of an approximation. It’s not. I suggest he looks to somewhere deep in the Monglian hinterland for a venue for a Glasgow derby of this nature. Even then I would decline.
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GREENINBINGLEYINOSLO on 28TH APRIL 2016 8:47 AM
Thanks for the heads up…I think it will be warm and cosy in the Pubs…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
How to address the issue of 300,000 children living in ‘destitution’?
Stop immigration!!!
Eh whit?!
How about increasing income tax for the highest earners?
How about raising corporation tax?
How about scrapping Trident?
How about making the multi nationals pay the taxes that they should.
Naw, close the borders!!!
If rumours are to be believed and the Ashley case is dropped then once again John James is shown to be so far out of the loop, the he is looking down on the loop from orbit through a telescope. Why anything he says is given any credence is beyond me. At least Phil, got something right, albeit back in 2011/12.
I suspect Tony D is right. These guys are now being played.
http://youtu.be/nrdnbI9rHXY
Hope this works.
John James out of the loop
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on 28TH APRIL 2016 8:40 AM
Macjay
This morning
Yesterday is gone tomorrow is still to come
You brought politics into the blog this morning. Did you not?
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Bizarre.
You introduced politics yesterday.
Since then the conversation about the issues YOU raised has been ongoing.
You now seek to accuse me of “bringing politics into the blog this morning.”
I take it you mean this evening.
Either way , bizarre.
Was this you , Blantyretim ?
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BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on 27TH APRIL 2016 8:53 AM
OLD TORY GOVERNMENT
UNIONS MINERS FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS
NEW TORY GOVERNMENT
SICK AND DISABLED, JUNIOR DOCTORS TRADE UNIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS..
NOTHING CHANGES WITH THIS ROTTEN, STINKING,MONEY GRABBING, SELF SERVING ,VILE, TAX AVOIDING CHEATING MOB
OOPS SEEMS i’M SHOUTING…..
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I just wish some of the daft wee boys who sign about the CIRA or whatever else would read this
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/28/catholics-top-victims-northern-ireland-republican-terror-groups-new-ira
Almost 80% of people shot by the New IRA and other republican terror groups in Northern Ireland over nearly 10 years have been Catholics and nationalists.
A study of dissident republican violence has found that from 2007 onwards the hardline anti-Good Friday agreement paramilitaries killed or wounded far more people from the communities they claim to represent than police, soldiers or intelligence services personnel.
The survey results, in an analysis of fatal shootings and woundings for the journal Terrorism and Political Violence, record that in the categories “Catholics” and “criminals” the victims comprised more than 77% of the 175 people shot dead or wounded by armed dissident republicans.
PSNI rejects accusations that it is unable to solve terror group murders
The study, starting at a point in 2007 when Sinn Féin agreed to support the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) as part of a deal to restore devolution, stretches to the end of 2015, when all the people shot by the New IRA, Continuity IRA, and Óglaigh na hÉireann were Catholic civilians.
Timaloy29..,
You’ll be able to remind us all the last time you heard any songs supporting the CIRA or any of the others named ?
HAMILTONTIM on 28TH APRIL 2016 8:56 AM
Wrong answer , teach.
Brexit.
Blantyretim, doubt you know my wife as we are on the east coast – but who knows what she gets up to in her spare time :-) :-)
Tiamloy29 I haven’t heard a single song about the CIRA. Are you simply trying to attack the Celtic support?
This is akin to cough gate.
There you go then, it’s in the papers so it must be true, the same papers that print shite when it suits.
The mind boggles so it does.
TET
I posted , IF TRUE, and then posted my thoughts on it, just a thought, not a fact.
TD
I was talking about what you posted, but now you mention it :-)
I wasn’t talking about what you posted, not was
TET
Well a heading would help :) anyway I’m to busy on Twitter with all out war on Huns, you I’ll deal with later :)
HT
Increase tax for higher earners? To what level? I assume you mean the current 40% rate for folks earning above, what is the threshold these days, £38k or thereabouts is not enough?
What do you propose would be fair?
CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 28TH APRIL 2016 9:11 AM
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NEGANON2 on 28TH APRIL 2016 9:16 AM
Your right, there are no songs specific to the CIRA or the New IRA.
However, from my own experience. They aren’t without support. I’m not criticizing these guys as being anything other than daft.
Some people I know personally cannot differentiate between 1916 and 2016. In short, they believe that the IRA deserve our support regardless.
I couldn’t tell you how many within the support share these views. But they do exist. I just hope some people look past the labels and judge these groups on their actions against civilians.
You can allege that this is an attack all you like. All I’m suggesting is that people educate themselves.
To be fair to Timaloy29, he is talking about daft wee boys who sign [sic] about the CIRA.
No wonder we’ve never heard these ‘songs’ …
VIP
timaloy29 sleeps on the heated driveway on 28th April 2016 9:42 am
well that says more about you and your choice of friends.
You only have to listen to the words to be able to differentiate between a song about an uprising against an oppressor versus a song supporting illegal acts of whatever the dissident groups are involved in in 2016.
TD
I look forward to it……..
Get tore into them btw
TNT,
20% up to 38000,
40% on earnings above 38000
I’d go for 50% to 60% above £50K
Oh and TNT,
No tax on anyone earning less than £15K
Interesting comments on the latest homebhoys podcast ~35-40 mins in – strong suggestion that Lawwell and Celtic have had enough of the lies and misinformation spreading online and will come out all guns blazing on the current issues surrounding the club.
Also that official club publications will leave it in no doubt that the first match against the new Rangers at Celtic Park will be only the 3rd or 4th meeting between the sides.
A big change of strategy in the summer too.
All seems to good to be true but your man seemed sure of it.
HH
Our tax system is already very progressive. Nearly 50 percent of people pay little or no tax, the vast majority of the burden is borne by the top 10 percent.
Clobbering people on 50k is madness, and would almost certainly result in a fall in the tax take.
Sooner or later you run out of other people`s money.
Italiabhoy,
How would it reduce the tax intake
I think I`ll nip on to the FTSE site and see what they are saying about Joe Hansen and Broonie.
Cheerio for now,
JJ
Canamalar
I’ll assume yer joking.
JJ
I’m coming with ye!
Word outside court is that Mike Ashley will be dropping his case against the SFA.
Issue of costs to be decided James Doleman
Canamalar
I agree on the 15k no tax
Other people’s money ?
Like the banks and pension thieves.
The wealth strippers who cheat other people out of their money and ship it abroad tax free, I think we can do without their input to society.
TRADITIONALIST88 on 28TH APRIL 2016 9:48 AM
I’d call a lot of these people acquaintances. Friends of friends who I’ll rub shoulders with at pubs.
Secondly, as I said, it may be clear to you and I that these songs are nothing to do with current events. However, there are some who are daft enough to not notice.
I’m all for a united and free Irish replublic. I think there are just a few misguided lads who could do with some context regarding current events.
Exactly why I posted it.
What about corporate welfare?
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/07/corporate-welfare-a-93bn-handshake
Taxpayers are handing businesses £93bn a year – a transfer of more than £3,500 from each household in the UK
Many of the companies receiving the largest public grants over the past few years previously paid little or zero corporation tax, the analysis shows. They include some of the best-known names in Britain, such as Amazon, Ford and Nissan.
timaloy29 sleeps on the heated driveway on 28th April 2016 10:13 am
Fair enough – I haven’t seen any of those lads on here though. A few misguided alright but not to that extent!
I usually don’t get involved in politics on here but the tax issue brought a smile this morning. Watched Kezia Dugdale getting her arse served up on a plate by Bernard Ponsonby last night, when the issue came to tax she claimed that 75% of people Labour polled where in favour of a 50p tax rate for people earning the upper limit. Of course they were as I would guess that the majority of the 75% would never reach the higher tax bracket. A very uncomfortable watch for Kez…Sturgeon’s turn tonight, see how she fares…
TnT,
A simple way to increase tax and keep people’s earnings protected is to tax every city transaction at 10% every share deal and every gamble.
Corporation tax scrapped and a trading levy introduced for international corporations who want access to the UK market.