“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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DHARMA BAM on 28TH APRIL 2016 12:51 PM
Reminded me of Billy Connolly and the Last Supper .
Superb parody.
TINYTIM on 28TH APRIL 2016 12:42 PM
The most significant thing in the whole thing though is that they DID go bust.
There were those who claimed it would never happen. (sorry, couldn’t resist)
The second most significant thing is how Celtic FC have responded to them going bust. That bit has all been a bit of a shame really.
I’m left wondering whether it has always been a con and a sham or whether that’s a recent development. I prefer to believe the later, if only to avoid feeling like too much of a mug.
Tell you bhoys.
That Dave King might be a glib and shameless liar.
But he is fly enough for Scodland….handshakes all round.
Meanwhile…elsewhere in the city, certain people sit twiddling their thumbs and sighing….’Its no fair, ah always get the blame’
Poor Peter eh….being schooled by a half-wit hun.
HH
Ernie,
“I’m left wondering whether it has always been a con and a sham or whether that’s a recent development. I prefer to believe the later, if only to avoid feeling like too much of a mug.”
There is a reason for the name “Old Firm”!
Apropos nothing very much at all.
Oor Hamlet
(Trad / Adam McNaughtan)
There was this king sleepin’ in his gairten all alane
When his brither in his ear drapped a wee tate o’ henbane
He stole his brither’s crown an’ his money an’ his widow
But the deid king walked an’ got his son and said, Noo listen, kiddo
I’ve been killed and it’s yer duty tae take revenge on Claudius
So kill him quick an’ clean an’ show the nation what a fraud he is
The boy said, Right, I’ll dae it but I’ll have tae play it crafty
And so naeb’dy will suspect me I’ll kid on that I’m a dafty
So to all except Horatio, an’ he trusts him as a friend
Hamlet, that’s the boy, kids on he’s roon’ the bend
An’ because he wisnae ready for obligatory killin’
He tried tae mak’ the king think he was tuppence aff the shillin’
Took the micky oot Polonius, treated poor Ophelia vile
Tell’t Rosencrantz an’ Guildenstern Denmark was a jile
Then a troop of travelling actors, like Seven-Eighty-Four
Arrived tae dae a special one-night gig in Elsinore
Hamlet, Hamlet loved his mammy
Hamlet, Hamlet, actin’ barmy
Hamlet, Hamlet, hesitatin’
Wonders if the ghost’s a cheat
An’ that is why he’s waitin’
So Hamlet writes a scene for the players to enact
So Horatio an’ him could watch to see if Claudius cracked
The play was ca’d ‘The Moosetrap’ – no’ the one that’s runnin’ noo
An’ sure enough, the king walked oot before the scene was through
So Hamlet’s got the proof that Claudius gie’d his Da’ the dose
The only problem bein’ noo Claudius knows he knows
While Hamlet tells his mammy her new husband’s no’ a fit one
Uncle Claud puts oot a contract with the English king as hit-man
When Hamlet killed Polonius, the concealed Corpus Delicti
Was the king’s excuse tae send him for an English hempen necktie
Wi’ Rosencrantz an’ Guildenstern tae make sure he’d get there
But Hamlet jumped the boat an’ put the finger on that pair
Then Laertes heard his Da’ had been stabbed through the arras
He came racin’ back tae Elsinore tout-d’-suite hot-foot frae Paris
Ophelia wi’ her Da’ killed by the man she wished tae marry
After sayin’ it wi’ flooers she committed hari-kari
Hamlet, Hamlet, nae messin’
Hamlet, Hamlet learned his lesson
Hamlet, Hamlet, Yorick’s crust
Convinced him that men good or bad
At last return tae dust
Then Laertes lost his place an’ wis demandin’ retribution
But the king said, Keep the heid, I’ll provide ye a solution
So he arranged a swordfight for the interested pairties
Wi’ a blunt sword for Hamlet an’ a shairp sword for Laertes
To make things double sure – the old belt-‘n’-braces line
He fixed a poisoned sword-tip and a poisoned cup o’ wine
The poisoned sword got Hamlet but Laertes went an’ muffed it
Cos’ he got stabbed hissel’ an’ he confessed before he snuffed it
Then Hamlet’s mammy drank the wine an’ as her face turned blue
Hamlet said, I quite believe the king’s a baddie noo
Incestuous, treacherous, damned Dane, he said, to be precise
An’ made up for hesitatin’ by killin’ Claudius twice
Cos’ he stabbed him wi’ the sword, forced the wine between his lips
He said, The rest is silence – that was, Hamlet had his chips
They fired a volley o’er him that shook the topmost rafters
An’ Fortinbras, knee-deep in Danes, lived happy ever after
Hamlet, Hamlet, a’ the gory
Hamlet, Hamlet, end o’ story
Hamlet, Hamlet, I’m away
And if you think this is borin’
You should read the bloody play
TINYTIM on 28TH APRIL 2016 12:42 PM
Lots of shams.
P.L. signed players.
Not Ronny.
TinyTIm:
What a lot of utter bollocks you talk.
Let’s go through your points one at a time, but before we do, let’s start with this.
A lot of people have stuck their necks waaaaaaaaay out there, and taken on more grief and hassle than you can possibly imagine. Has it raised profiles? Aye, that’s why I don’t publish my picture anywhere, although I do write under my own name. Even so, it’s been published on more than one less than friendly website.
I’m not the only one. Paul’s had more hassle than most of us would tolerate. McGiollabhain lives outside Scotland but he’s had plenty to put up with. Angela Haggerty has gone to court to deal with the threats she gets. I could go on and on and on.
Cowards flinch and traitors sneer is what the song says. Cowards also sneer, I’ve learned, from the sidelines whilst some us are in the wars.
I digress though.
To your points, one at a time.
“We were led to believe that there would be stripping of titles.”
Some of us haven’t given up on that. I’ll be writing about it later today. It hasn’t been done. Yet. But there’s a long way to go.
“That there couldn’t possibly be a same club myth.”
The same club myth is exactly that. It’s a lie. You can surrender the ground on it as you like. Some people never will, and we’ll keep on calling it what it is.
“At times we were led to believe administration 2 would occur.”
it’s simply mathematics. They don’t have bank funding. They don’t have the financial wherewithal to keep going in the manner they are. And they’re taking about spending more. Even someone in first year secondary school can crunch those numbers and knows what they mean. Say as you like that “everyone knew” they were going to go bust before; it’s not true though. Paul67, myself and a handful of others realised it about four or five years before it happened … by crunching the numbers as I just said … but it was nearly impossible to sell people on the idea before it became obvious.
It will become just as obvious in due course.
“We have been led to believe King would be smashed by Ashley.”
Ashley is a billionaire with unlimited resources and a reputation for winning. Does it seem like an unreasonable assumption to you? Besides, whatever he’s up to … I doubt it’s over. A lot of people seem to be celebrating winning the war when only a couple of battles have been fought. If Ashley hangs on to his merchandising deal for the full seven years … well that’s a win in anyone’s book.
“That they wouldn’t be able to survive due to cash flow and the lack of available credit.”
See above. They won’t.
You all through with the tantrum now?
It’s the most devastating moment in a young mans life, when he quite reasonably says to himself, “I shall never play The Dane!” It is at that moment that all ambition ceases to exist…
Lots of funny stuff going on today eh.
Mash learns that Scottish society will defend its right to be racist to its dying breath and the judiciary, politicians and the police round on any dissenting voices. I’m fried mr Ashley that you underestimated how corrupt Scotland is.
It was beautiful how the chess board was set today for res 12. Ordinary shareholders of clubs have no right to complain to the sfa? Ah now we see why Celtic won’t take this forward themselves. This is their way of burying it.
Has the veil fallen from your eyes yet?
No new article. Is cqn also in hiding alongside the Celtic board? Or is Paul running out of fluff squirrel stories designed to deflect from the disasterous administration at Celtic? Is it getting harder to come up with stuff?
Meanwhile we still have nationalists claiming that raising income tax is a regressive form of taxation. And decrying labour politicians for trying to actually tackle social inequality instead of pretending to do so.
As a higher rate taxpayer I have no issue. Let’s have it.
But the SNP would rather enforce austerity via councils than raise taxes.
It’s funny isn’t it. If you hang around enough you really do start to see the full cycle.
It’s becoming increasingly clear, by the day, that our Celtic board have thrown th r hat in with the Hun and if that means alienating Celtic supporters then so be it. All they are gambling on is that your are stupid enough to renew your season ticket and prop up a rigged, corrupt game and society.
Down with all accountants, apart from those on here. :-))))))))
NATKNOW on 28TH APRIL 2016 1:12 PM
The superb …..
” Withnail and I .”
Naw?
JAMES FORREST on 28TH APRIL 2016 1:10 PM
Thanks for all your efforts.
Sorry to hear about the price paid in personal terms.
By you and others.
It really is much appreciated.
The carrot has mystery!
Not one thin dime more until all the tax avoidance schemes are dismantled.
HH.
new article posted.
I think what we are seeing is a closing of the circle (Masonic reference intended!)
“Rangers” are back – de facto if not de jure. This was always going to happen and in many ways I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner (via a restructure of the leagues system into 2 divisions instead of 4).
Celtic’s lack of voice over the “same club” myth, and – more seriously IMHO – the mis-registration of dozens of players over many season – tells me that our club long ago decided to tacitly approve this resurrection. A calculation was made that we needed them, financially and in a corporate branding sense, and that as a result we would do as little as possible to disrupt their path up the leagues.
If it hadn’t been for fans’ outrage, I’m sure Celtic would have acquiesced to Sevco going straight into the SPL post liquidation.
The authorities and Celtic are preparing to resume the narrative of the OF as if 2012 was little more than a bad dream.
But we – and fans of other clubs – will always know the truth. That Sevco is a new club. They are destined to walk the footballing world with that mark of cain upon them.
The more I listen to Mark Wilson on Clyde ssb the more I’m convinced he’s went to the dark side, and gets his soup regular .