Our man on the inside, Charlie Green, seems to have upset a few people over the weekend. Charlie was playing to the gallery with his “bigotry” comment; it is not credible that the 35 clubs who voted against providing Sevco access to an elevated league are demographic significantly different from those of Rangers (1872/3). Although, there is a good chance that each of those 35 clubs will have a more mixed profile than the former club.
Green is still fending off interest from people with far greater pull with the Rangers (1872/3) support than he has (genuinely hope he succeeds here). He needs to sell tens of thousands of tickets to prevent his new club slipping into the hands of one of the other consortiums still trying to buy a piece of the action. I always caution Celtic from playing to the gallery, it delivers short term populism but is surely the alternative to a strategic plan. I am sure several clubs will express their alarm at these comments to the SFA.
Unfortunately, since the SFA failed to take action on either of Ally McCoist’s earlier inflammatory outbursts so they can expect more of the same from Green and others.
Attempts are being made to convince thousands of people a bigoted bogeyman has been out to get them. 99% of the target population will do no more than complain loudly but it’s the unpredictable >1% who exist in every community we should be concerned about.
To the best of my knowledge no Scottish club has ever accused others of bigotry, not even during ‘that’ 80 year period. If this is the new acceptable standard, the SFA are welcome to it, but it will be better for all if we go elsewhere to play our football. Our game has been potent for a century but it has now become dangerously unstable.
Let us go now, before this is whipped up any more. Anyone wanting to hold Scottish football together in its current form has a lot of explaining to do.
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anyone know if the game is on TV on wednesday. living in Galway so wont be able to make it over for the game. surely a champions league qualifier would be deemed an important game to televise
be a good night if anyone up for it…
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Watched a bit of the ole Judo yesterday, but it wasn’t easy, two of them doing more gruntin than Wimbledon, and tugging away at each others pyjamas.
loughrea celt on 30 July, 2012 at 22:05
Had a look but can’t see it listed anywhere. The return leg is listed on Premier TV
Pen
loughrea celt
be on vipbox
Have we signed anyone yet?
Has GB won a Gold Medal yet?
Which one of these questions be answered positively first???
Bookies Pen for a Button on a Blazer on 30 July, 2012 at 21:34 said:
lennon’s passion on 30 July, 2012 at 21:23 said:
Cheers for the reply forgot to say my source told me tickets were not moving as everyone was falling about pissing them selves laughing.
On a serious note I got told season book sales was just under £45000 hoping to hit £47000 for start of season. Which Is got to be good in this economic climate.
VP
Thanks, yes I’m still here.
But the ole drivin in Marbella is getting scarier, and I’m going to stay by the pool till home time, it’s the hottest spell I’ve ever had and i’m bitten to bits by
insects.
replay of tonight’s show…
http://www.spreaker.com/user/homebhoys/homebhoys_52_give_em_hell_sinki
Forget £ sign
cheers ghuys.
TC
Aye, was a good show tonight, pity more on the blog don’t listen to it, we will convert them sometime.
All too obsessed with getting worked up with spew heevins…….as for yer man deeyell, dearie, dearie me, heard more sence from a banana !!!
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SOAL
Was it a green one, if it was it counts, otherwise, must try harder :>)))
Yes and no
Andrew67 on 30 July, 2012 at 18:58 said:
I was in Bairds on Saturday ,the talk of the bar was that we had only sold 25,000 season tickets.
Ha Ha, honestly, sorry, See the day you actually get 25 people leaving Bairds, with a season ticket (tourists excluded) to head for … sorry,
So sad it’s untrue…
Yeez OhCSC
Tallybhoy.
My team exactly.
Braatbakk
yes imo Charlton is Englands best ever
Eusebio up there too. Netzer Rvera. Chris Ronaldo and umpteen other South Americans also.
lennon’s passion on 30 July, 2012 at 22:10 said:
Definitely! I’m really looking forward to this season. It feels like history being made. :)))
Books
loughrea celt
Defo on vipboxtv
Yep..Brazil 70 the best ever.
TET @21.58.
In all human endeavours- including the arts, science,sport- the practitioners of 40, 50 ,100 years ago were just as talented as those of today.
Knowing me, knowing you…. ah haa
G’night
Bookie
Whats the latest figure on the Wee Oscar fund?
DBBIA – Henrik, towards the end of his career, came on as a sub in the greatest club football match in the world calendar and changed the course of the game. You only have to listen to Henry’s interview after the game where he dismissed the hype about himself, Ronaldhino & Eto and he sang Larsson’s praises for having such an effective role in the outcome of the game.
He would have been a bigger star if he’d moved to a big club in one of the big TV leagues, but he chose to stay with us.
He’ll always be world class as far as I’m concerned and a true Celtic legend.
T4
I see London are pulling the well worn RFCIA trick of filling up the empty Olympics seats with squaddies.
The Token Tim- not sure if Eurochamps has advised but we are sorted for a lift on Friday, thanks to the top man Bjmac! Many thanks anyway!
Dontbrattbakkinanger on 30 July, 2012 at 22:17 said:
Yes, but 50 years ago the internet was in black and white.
:)
ArmandoIannucciCSC
cheers THE EXILED TIM. I hate having to just listen to the game, need to see what is happening.
Vmhan
Brazil side of 1970 were the best you’ve ever seen.
I always argue that the Brazil side of 1970 destroyed an Italian team made up of many Inter Milan players,whom,as we all know,were destroyed by the Celtic on a roasting day in Lisbon.Therefore,Celtic have a claim to be one of the best sides in football history.Sevco fans tend not to agree with me,surprise surprise.
Just watching the women’s weightlifting. Could do with some of them getting the shopping out the back of my taxi from Asda.
I see they are still talking about the negative effects of the cheating bigots not being in the SPL……They’ll have something to REALLY talk about when sevco run out of money, and are liquidated, round about December…!!!
Good Evening,
as we all sit amidst the Thirtieth Olympiad of the modern era it becomes increasingly apparent that Scottish Football, the SFA, the SPL and the SFL not to mention the press have learned nothing from this suummer’s debacle.
As the internet goes into overdrive with varying comments about insolvency, Liquidation, Employee Benefit Trusts, cashflows, balance sheets, share flotations, TV deals and finances and so on — there appears to be ample room for angst, anger, insults, misinformation, barbs, more insults and behaviour which verges on breach of the peace and other assorted crimes.
And all of this comes from just the fans…… and maybe the press… and a few of the chairmen!
Then comes Charlie Green with his bigotry comments.. and hey ho off we go again. In response to these latest comments, various parties including the SFL chairman, Celtic Football club and no doubt a host of others, rightly dump the whole nasty incident onto the laps of the beleaguered SFA and its even more beleaguereed and bedraggled CEO.
As a sports body, the SFA ( in whatever guise it is administered ) must be sick of the squabbles within Scottish Football. It is a sports authority which is skint, where the CEO is villified and castigated by all around– from fans to club chairmen, which warns of civil unrest, which has to balance between the equally bediviled SPL and SFL, and has to deal with a press corps which is well……..at times pandering, at other times vicious, and more or less at all times not trusted or respected by the readers and fans, not to mention the chairmen and the players.
What is a sports body to do in such circumstances, and who is there to learn from? Who can provide some guidance and some tips for a sports body in such a troubled land?
Well, perhaps the answer lied with the in the oldest sporting competition in the known world— The Olympic Games! Why is it the IOC can organise games involving athletes and competitors from all over the world without any of this broo ha ha? OK there might be the odd doping scandal, and there has been one terrible terrorist incident at Munich in 1972, but in the main, you don’t get folks turning up at the Olympics or their qualifying events brandishing petitions for insolvency, waiting for the results of Tax Tribunals or being run by fictitious Motherwell Born Billionaires– do you?
No. The Olympic games are games where athletes come to compete with the best of sporting intentions, to the best of their abilities, in the best of spirits. There are fierce rivalries– both personal and team– in the sporting arena, but outwith the actual competition those rivalries do not lead to skirmishing in the street, spats in the press, claims of bigotry, bias and so on– do they?
Nor do you see any Olympic City ransacked like Manchester, despite huge numbers coming to spectate!
No, the Olympics are “happy” games for both participants and spectators, and that is no coincidence… and it is something that the SFA should study, learn from and copy!!
From the very very outset, The IOC hit upon the secret to a happy games, a successful games, a peaceful games with start to finish bon homie among spectators and athletes– and that Secret is
………. SEX!
From the earliest Olympiads, competing in 776 BC, the winners were invited to take their pick of prostitutes from the Temple of Aphrodite, so setting the standard for all time coming. This tradition extends to the modern day, to the extent that the IOC organising committe actively propmote sex at the games.
The athletes all know that once the serious business of competing is done, then there is a real big party to follow which is accompanied by its own sex fest. Whatsmore the Olympic committees, mostly made up of former Olympians actively encourage the whole thing. How often have you heard “Its not the winning but the taking part that counts”– being spouted out as the epitomy of the Olympian ideal? Yea well now you know why!
The Olympic Committee has handed out a record 150,000 condoms to the athletes taking part in Sexfest 2012— sorry, the London Games,—- which is 50% more than the 100,000 that were supplied in Beijing in 2008.
That boils down to an ambitious 15 condoms per athlete for the 17-day event. No wonder the Olympic motto is “Faster, Higher, Stronger.” Seems like there will be a couple of different types of “heats” going on, if you know what I mean? No wonder you have to be as fit as a Butchers Dog to just qualify for most events– never mind if you get knocked out in the first heat!
You’d think that most athletes would want to focus on what they’ve trained so hard for over the last four years, but don’t kid yourself. What else do you think happens when 10,000 of the world’s sexiest, fittest, most athletic human beings go to sleepaway camp? And, plus, with everyone coming from so many different countries and cultures, there’s really only one common language.
Not even the tragedy of Munich interfered with this ideal…. or maybe it was because of Munich that the athletes put in that extra effort? When the ABC television station managed to get a camera crew on the roof of a building so that they could get a shot of a the block where the Israeli team were being held captive by the Black September guys, they were astonished to come across the site of some female American Gymnasts and some Russian weightlifters engaging in a “joint training session of the intimate variety”!
Matthew Syed is a British journalist and broadcaster. He used to be an English table tennis international, and was the English number one for many years. He was five times the Men’s Singles Champion at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships (in 1997, 2000 and 2001), and also competed for Great Britain in two Olympic Games.
Here is what he had to say when writing for the Times:
“I am often asked if the Olympic village — the vast restaurant and housing conglomeration that hosts the world’s top athletes for the duration of the Games — is the sex-fest it is cracked up to be. My answer is always the same: too right it is. I played my first Games in Barcelona in 1992 and got laid more often in those two and a half weeks than in the rest of my life up to that point. That is to say twice, which may not sound a lot, but for a 21-year-old undergraduate with crooked teeth, it was a minor miracle.
Barcelona was, for many of us Olympic virgins, as much about sex as it was about sport. There were the gorgeous hostesses — there to assist the athletes — in their bright yellow shirts and black skirts; there were the indigenous lovelies who came to watch the competitions. And then there were the female athletes — literally thousands of them — strutting, shimmying, sashaying and jogging around the village, clad in Lycra and exposing yard upon yard of shiny, toned, rippling and unimaginably exotic flesh.”
Ah.. but what about footballers I here you say?
Well, here is Hope Solo,– an unfortunate name for anyone discussing this topic if ever there was one—– the Gold Medal winning Goalkeeper in 2008 with the American Women’s Football (soccer) team:
“There’s a LOT of sex going on.”
” How much sex? I’d say it’s 70 percent to 75 percent of Olympians,” offers world-record-holding swimmer Ryan Lochte, who is in in London for his third Games and who walked of with another Gold the other night!
And it is not only the athletes, as all sorts of lovelies ( both men and women ) are wheeled into the Olympic domain for the duration of the games. International press corps relations apparently get pretty friendly, and the athletes in the village are accompanied by coaches, physios, caterers and all sorts of other invaluable personel who are reuired to ensure a “good” games!
How much better a broadcaster would Hugh Keevins be if he was not so uptight? Would Bill Leckie make more sense if he were part of a press corps which could look forward to a reasonable reward at the end of a long days summarising.. instead of just another styrofoam coffee? As for Graham Spiers and his corderoys and sensible shoes…… would he not be more more lucid if he had a wee toga party to look forward too?
You know it makes sense.
At the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, all of this went to a new level with the spectators being “advised” or “encouraged” throughout to “play safe” as it was recognised that supporters and fans were all there for a festival too. Even in the city of Brigham Young, it was seen that seen that it was important to ensure that the spectators were “entertained”.
So what has all of this to do with Scottish Fitba and its associated problems?
Well, first of all numerous women of my acquaintance have all commented that many of the male athletes are “easy on the eye”! So first things first- the SFA should be getting out there with super sexy adverts that encourage the male
( and female ) populace to exercise and get “easy on the eye”.
Further it is a scientifically proven fact that highly active training releases the testosterone and the estrogens which encourage greater sexual activity.
Now sex is portrayed as dirty, smutty, rude and all that but the simple fact of life
(pardon the pun) is that without sex there would be no one to write or read on this blog. Full stop. End of discussion.Further, while some moral theologians would argue that this argument for healthier bodies and increased sexual activity is against the teaching of their God or their priest or their minister or whatever, I would direct them in the direction of Pope John Paul I.
He argued that an all seeing, all forgiving, all understanding God is hardly going to conern himself with some illicit nooky before tackling wars, murders, genocides, famines and other nasties which infect the planet.
Although the author David Yallop argues that John Paul was bumped off for expressing such libertine thoughts.
In Scotland, one such nasty is of course institutionalised bigotry which can be latent, patent, permanent or temporary– even of the 90 minute variety.
Sex can cure this in many instances.
Take a couple of my acquaintance– one a Rangers (old or new) fan the other a Celtic fan. They looked forward to games between their two respective clubs immensely on the basis that if the Gers lost…. then the Ger of the household got…. well…. humped!! If Celtic lost, then the role was reversed.
What they didn’t look forward to was a no scoring draw, although a high scoring draw, depending on the importance of the game, could be better than a win!
Similarly a cup tie that went to extra time or even a replay was a thing of wonder!
This principle can apply right across the land— Hibbees and Jambos, Dundonian Arabs and their blue counterparts– even down to Airdrie and Albion Rovers fans. The Scottish Cup would be come a sensation– especially as you get near to the final stages.
Scotland v England games should be reintroduced– although the current SNP Government may frown upon too much joyous coupling with the Englanders.
And of course, once the SFA and football has taken to the IOC’s sexual masterplan other Scottish Sports will follow…. although I am not sure about the Curlers as they are a breed apart!
This would also lead to a re-education of the Scottish male who over a period would become far healthier in all sorts of ways … physically, mentally and socially!
On a recent trip to Barcelona I watched as a friend of mine went to buy some beers from a late night unlicensed beer vendor. The beer was for drinking as we made our way to another late night licensed establishment.
As he was making his purchase, a young woman appeared as if from out of nowehere and asked if he was in anyway interested in some sexual activity?
The reply was illuminating:
“Sex? What would I be thinking of sex for at this time of night? There are still pubs open!”.
Such an attitude is clearly not healthy. It is just not Olympian in its outlook.
Further, the consumation of alcohol instead of the sexual act often leads to arguments and that is when the dreaded bigotry that infests this wee land manifests itself in all its ugly personas. We should actively be working to avoid all of that.
No new initiatives are needed.Make love not war should be the golden rule.
Lets do away with ugly Stewards at fitba games. Lets “Police” the fans with beauties and sultry temptresses, with samples of the male adonis for the ghirls.
Segregate the men from the women during the game so that they are all stewarded by the right types, with the incentive that if you and your partner are forceably spearated for 90 minutes then the final whistle will indeed mean something special.
Of course, Football is a children’s sport as well and many children come with their parents to watch a game. Clearly, we can’t have children being stewarded by an army of sexual peacekeepers, but at the same time the youth of the country would grow up in a more peaceful and civilised society and can look forward to the days when they too can join the ranks of the adult fans…. and all that this promises.
Clearly consideration would have to be given to those members of the football family who are either homosexual or bi sexual but this is true of all areas of society– just ask the new Archbishop of Glasgow.
No all in all, Scotland and Scottish Football would be far better of if we adopted the Olympic report. Instead of working out the frustrations of the game with sectarianism, anger and bigotry – take a leaf out of Hope Solo’s book who advocates the notion that at the Olympics at least know that the better they do at the games the better the sex will be.
And when your team scores the fans cheering will be all the louder and more vigorous– boy will it be louder.
Club merchandising can be restyled. Track suits and hoodies are boring– get the clothing sexier and more “sociable”. Profits will go rise. No football club sells as much as Anne Summers, and greater profits mean more money with clubs being able to afford a better class of player!
It is our social duty– each and every one of us– to ensure that the Olympic message gets through and that this transformation is brought about. As Hope Solo says “Hey, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.” if you know what I mean!
This in turn takes me back to Mr Green and his comments of yesterday. Scotland would be a far better place and he would be a far more reasoned man if he had no tried to introduce “bigotry” into the equation in an attempt to sell season tickets.
So with the best will in the world and with true Olympian intention can I suggest that in Future Mr Green should just go and get f….ed instead of giving interviews!.
This post has been deliberately posted after the watershed so that no young eyes are likely to fall upon the same for fear that they be offended or their sensitivities compromised.
And with that I am away….. for my Monday night Pint.
Olympics or no Olympics!!!!
This is Scotland after all!..
Oh Chas you just couldn’t keep it buttoned could you you dimwit..
Chris @Christrutwin
SFA write to Rangers chief executive Charles Green to explain ‘bigotry’ comments via @Telegraph http://soc.li/WFJs9xj
You’re doing a greta job Chas keep up the good work..
benjybhoy mul on 30 July, 2012 at 21:59 said:
Email sent.
H!H!
googybhoy ♥ Celtic on 30 July, 2012 at 22:21 said:
You don’t get many tips do you?
You can argue until the cows come home about Henrik but to me he will always be world class. There surely can’t have ever been anyone with a better attitude than he had/has, at Celtic or anywhere else.
And yes, that CL final. Game changer.
Jude
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Of that I have no doubt ,but, why didn’t they all break the world records all them years ago, that they are breaking today ?
They were as good as the time allowed them to be. how advanced will the human race be in 100 years? will CQN be talking about the Celtic team that won the CL in 2020 as being as good as the one in 1967, tis all relative mi amigo :>)
As I said with the smiley face, it’s all about opinions…….
We signed anybody yet?
James Vaughan…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
loughrea celt
If you are watching the game via a computer, then you could try Streampro.
The game is on there, and for one night’s viewing it costs £2.99.
I use it to get Sky channels sometimes and it has been ok with me.
As long as you’ve got decent broadband.
SPF
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000 on 30 July, 2012 at 22:23 said:
One of your more outrageous posts but huge as always.
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