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I’ve watched the after-match video from last night’s Rangers Women-Celtic Women game several times, showing Celtic Women’s manager, Fran Alonso being attacked from behind by an opposition coach.

What happened is consistent with the Two-Bob Hardmen who pace the lines at kids, non-league and now apparently, women’s games.  The most common target is the referee, who is very much on his own, but commonly involves opposition coaches, players and even their own team’s players.

There is an ocean of inadequacy masquerading as aggression in the grassroots game, last night’s incident was an example.  We have yet to hear from the police and football authorities, who I expect to act in due course, to look away would be a betrayal of those who work at games away from the TV cameras.  You can be assured that Michael Nicholson would dismiss such an offender from Celtic without the inappropriate delay across the city.

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  1. Big Jimmy on

    BIGRAILROADBLUES on 28TH MARCH 2023 1:57 PM

     

    Good afternoon all from Tennents Bar. Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes.

     

    …………

     

    Maybe you could buy Mrs BRRB a wee box of chocs on your way home Today, since she let you go out on your Birthday…..

     

    After all, its not like you to go out too often ?

     

    LOL

     

     

    ALL the best BRRB Mate.

     

    HH

  3. Coneybhoy on

    I used the word h@n to describe that coach guy on Facebook last night.

     

     

    ”well done to the women’s team; weird stuff from the h@n guy. Assault charge’

     

     

    FB called it hate speech today and removed it, final warning before a ban.

     

     

    Never thought FB would have that on their list

  4. Big Jimmy on

    IF that Hun CHUMP ” MCPHERSON” was a real MAN……He would have RESIGNED first thing this morning ?

     

     

    Then again he is NOT a real Man….since he attacked FRAN from behind. Another Hun COWARD.

     

    IF he has any ” PREVIOUS” Convictions he should be in the JAIL ?

     

     

    MOTORMOUTH McCOIST has said….” the Heid Butt was…….POOR”

     

     

    ” POOR” ??????…….How would McCoist describe it IF it was a Celtic Employee behaving himself like that ?

     

     

    SEVCO FC…..What a SCUMBAG club they are all over…..NO Doubt the ” ONION BEARS” will have Flags and Banners…..and T- SHIRTS made in celebration of their new Hun HERO !

     

     

    HH

  5. Big Jimmy on

    HEID BUTT HUN….

     

     

    I watched it on my TV, while at the same time I had the Ireland v France game on my Computer.

     

     

     

     

    The most disappointing issue for me was immediately after the ” HEAD BUTT”, the FIRST Guy on the scene was a member of Celtics coaching staff, who went face to face with the HUN assailant, but who ONLY PUSHED the Hun away with both hands…..He SHOULD have DECKED the Hun Bassa there and then !

     

     

     

     

     

     

    LOL

     

     

     

     

    HH.

  7. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    Coneybhoy,

     

    almost as prone to the old cancel culture as CQN eh

  9. Coneybhoy on

    Canamalar

     

     

    😁. I’ve been squeaky on FB for ages as well. used to get regular bans on comedy pages.

     

     

    The worst one was on Popmaster page. Guy asked what was the novelty song that a cockney comedian did in the 70s and I said ‘ugly duckling’. One month ban for hate speech.

  10. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    Coneybhoy,

     

    Happy to say I’ve never been on facebook, never got hooked or interested in what people had for dinner.

  16. An Tearmann on

    Coneybhoy

     

     

    FB/meta have been at the forefront of gleaning,stealth tech,reading you for years.

     

    @CaroleCadwallader wrote of their impact on u.s presidential election,brexit etc interesting what and how we dissent online etc.

     

     

    HH

  18. Coneybhoy on

    AT

     

     

    I read something similar a while back. Their AI isn’t very clever though. Banning the innocent and letting proper trolling/fighting go.

     

     

    On a tangent, my IT colleague put a few key words about me into ChatGPT yesterday and it wrote me a song! You can get it to do the music on top as well. Bit of a laugh but Coneyghirl Jr won’t touch it for Uni just in case she gets dinged

  19. Fred Colon on

    Fieldodrams at 11.19 am.

     

    Spring forward, fall back.

     

    The Zombie clocks went forward at the weekend to 1690

  20. paulsthroughball88 on

    Edinburgh jury to buy “clumsy attempt at a kiss” defence? ( Not a glesca wan).

  24. Fred Colon on

    Aipple at 12.05

     

    Need to be more specific, there’s more than one nutter over there.

     

    Was the screwball who booted the youngster at the Hibs / Huns cup final ever identified?

  25. An Tearmann on

    Coneybhoy

     

    All those giants glean,glean covertly and counter glean.they have to make money out your presence somehow.;-)

     

     

    Why stop at singing a song created on Chatgp

     

    Virtually youll be walking out to a knebworth soon,go the hole hog

     

     

    HH

  26. garygillespieshamstring on

    Interesting to read that “your faith, your ethnic background or your skin colour is no barrier in Scotland “.

     

     

    Obviously no Scottish political party has been able to find a Catholic of Irish descent good enough to lead them.

  33. bigrailroadblues on

    Fred Colon 4.34

     

    That book still gives me nightmares 😳.

     

    Bognorbhoy

     

    How did you manage to get most of my favourite guitarists in one clip?

     

    Almore

     

    Slainte Mhaith. 👍🍺🇮🇪

  35. scullybhoy on

    Mikey Johnston will have a new status at Celtic as a result of his progress on loan at Vitória Guimares.

     

     

    That’s the opinion of their manager Moreno Teixeira who has been impressed with how the winger has adapted to the Portuguese top flight and contributed a lot to the team despite the competitive nature of the league. The 23-year-old has three goals and three assists in 22 appearances and recently impressed on his Republic of Ireland debut after changing his allegiance from Scotland.

     

     

    Teixeira believed he was signing a young player with good attributes but plenty of scope to develop and he hasn’t changed his mind after working with Johnston. He reckons he has shown a maturity and good tactical know how which could stand him in good stead when he returns to Ange Postecoglou’s side.

     

     

    The Vitoria boss told the Herald: “Mikey Johnston is a young player who is still learning and we knew he had room to improve.

     

     

    “I was not mistaken: he has skill, speed and fits easily into any tactical system. He is growing in every way, becoming more and more useful for the team.

     

     

    “He has three goals and three assists in 22 games played by Vitória SC, which is already a very good record for someone playing for the first time in the Portuguese Liga, one of the most competitive in Europe.

     

     

    “We have excellent options for the wings and he deserved the opportunities he had, being a very competitive and professional both in training and in games.

     

     

    “Naturally he should improve some aspects and he knows what they are, but I am not at all surprised by his call to the Republic of Ireland.

     

     

    “He is a valuable winger, he has evolved a lot and, therefore, I believe he will have another status when he returns to Celtic at the end of the season.”

  38. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    The next day after the assault … and the working day is almost over.

     

     

    And still silence from Sevco leadership.

     

     

    Two possible factors likely driving that silence.

     

     

    1. They don’t care

     

    2. They DO care but don’t know how to position the club.

     

     

    Either one is simply a hazard of operating in a moral vacuum.

     

     

    We give you ….. Sevco.

  40. scullybhoy on

    A cautionary tale.

     

     

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

     

     

    Malaga: From Champions League to inescapable nightmare in 10 years

     

    By Andy West Spanish football writer

     

     

    Ten years ago Malaga looked poised to become European football’s latest rags-to-riches success story, joining a growing band of unfashionable clubs whose fortunes had been transformed by the arrival of a wealthy new owner.

     

     

    Now, though, the Andalusian club are on the brink of relegation to the Spanish third division, with their dream long ago turning into a seemingly inescapable nightmare.

     

     

    This is their story, which should serve as another cautionary example that, when it comes to sudden injections of cash from afar, fans should be careful what they wish for.

     

     

    On 9 April 2013, Malaga were a few seconds – and a non-raised linesman’s flag – away from the Champions League semi-final.

     

     

    An entertaining team managed by Manuel Pellegrini, and featuring former and future Real Madrid stars Julio Baptista and Isco, were leading 2-1 on aggregate at Borussia Dortmund as their quarter-final second leg headed into injury time.

     

     

    But then Jurgen Klopp’s team scored twice in two minutes, with Felipe Santana’s scrambled winner netted from a clearly offside position, to seal one of the most remarkable comebacks in Champions League history.

     

     

    Despite that heartbreaking loss, the future still looked bright for Malaga, a previously anonymous provincial club that had never won a major trophy.

     

     

    The arrival of Qatari businessman Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani as new owner in 2010 heralded a dramatic transformation, with new coach Pellegrini given a hefty budget in the transfer market and spending it wisely – including heavy investments in Ruud van Nistelrooy and Santi Cazorla – to secure fourth and sixth-placed finishes in La Liga.

     

     

    Although Pellegrini left for Manchester City in the summer of 2013, and rising star Isco was snapped up by Real Madrid, initially there was confidence that Al-Thani’s backing would keep the team fighting for a prominent place in European football.

     

     

    But then everything started to unravel, and it has been going downhill fast ever since.

     

     

    Firstly, the club was banned from the Europa League by new Financial Fair Play Rules, giving Al-Thani – who was already frustrated by Barcelona and Real Madrid’s financially dominant position in Spanish football – a clear realisation that rules would obstruct his attempts to create a money-means-nothing superpower.

     

     

    But even more significant developments came far from the world of football.

     

     

    In 2011 Al-Thani had announced plans to substantially redevelop the marina in the tourist hotspot resort of Marbella, 40 miles west of Malaga.

     

     

    Marbella’s mayor hailed the project – partially owned by the city hall alongside Al-Thani’s company – as “an emblematic work that will lay the foundations for a new city model and act as an engine of economic development for the entire coast”.

     

     

    The idea of investing 400 million euros to create “the most important marina anywhere on the Mediterranean coast” – to be named, of course, the Al-Thani Marina – offered the promise of regenerating the local area, leading to thousands of new jobs and vast profits for its owner.

     

     

    But the plans soon ran into problems, with Al-Thani seemingly unable to meet his financial commitments.

     

     

    At the same time, his relationship also soured with another business partner, BlueBay Hotels, with whom he had struck a deal to jointly own and manage the football club. Those sagas eventually ended up in court, with both rulings going against the increasingly absent Al-Thani.

     

     

    The marina remains unbuilt.

     

     

    The fortunes of the football club mirrored those of its owner, and Malaga were inevitably relegated in 2018 amid unmanageable debts. Two years later, in February 2020, a regional court ordered Al-Thani’s removal as club president because of alleged misappropriation of funds, with an audit concluding that Al-Thani and his family owed the club more than 7m euros.

     

     

    Control of club affairs was handed to a court-appointed administrator, Jose Maria Munoz, who has stayed in charge ever since and largely succeeded in steadying the club’s financial position.

     

     

    The football side of the business, however, has not improved.

     

     

    Another relegation is ‘nailed on’

     

    Freelance journalist Alex Fitzpatrick, who runs a Twitter feed and podcast dedicated to the Spanish second division, explained to BBC Sport: “Former Malaga player Manolo Gaspar was made the club’s sporting director, and he was not up to the job.

     

     

    “He oversaw all signings and many of them were disastrous. The squad planning was very poor, and his managerial appointments were scattergun.”

     

     

    Scattergun is perhaps too kind a description, with Malaga racing through 10 managers in the past five years, including three this season alone.

     

     

    The most recent incumbent, Sergio Pellicer, returned for his second spell in January, shortly before Gaspar himself departed to add further chaos behind the scenes.

     

     

    Hamstrung by a litany of poor signings, no managerial stability and an absent owner who continues to protest his innocence, it is no surprise that the team has suffered.

     

     

    Results and performances this season have been consistently poor, and Malaga are deep in relegation trouble – eight points adrift of safety with nine games remaining.

     

     

    “It looks nailed on that they will be relegated,” says Fitzpatrick. “But beyond this season, there is some hope they can bounce back because the club has a good youth system and is now commercially well-run.

     

     

    “The most important decision is appointing a new sporting director to replace Gaspar. The rumour is they are looking at Chema Aragon from Mirandes, who looks like he’d be perfect. The future depends hugely on that appointment.”

     

     

    At some point, the future of the club’s ownership will also be settled, with another court hearing in the ‘Al-Thani case’ scheduled for 21 April.

     

     

    Al-Thani will surely eventually have to give up or sell his controlling stake in the club, and Qatar Sports Investments chief Nasser Al-Khelaifi – owner of Paris St-Germain – has admitted his group is interested in buying Malaga.

     

     

    On the field, with 27 points still available, it is too early to completely give up on avoiding relegation. However, the ongoing demise currently shows no sign of abating, and Malaga’s glory days of Champions League knockout stages will surely soon be replaced by semi-professional opponents in the regionalised third division.

  41. setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on

    What the hell is this with the Daily Mail patter about “Woke”, “Cancel Culture” and threatened extinction of the White Races on CQN?

     

     

    Nazis and White Supremacists will scream for free speech to spread their hate until they have the upper hand and you’ll have had yir “free speech” then.

     

     

    Because there is no such thing as “free speech” in anyone’s law or morality. They all have proscriptions. We would find it unacceptable, I hope, to have pro- paedophilia propaganda linked on here or pro-Islamic State nonsense. You can’t shout “Fire!” are in a crowded cinema and we would not welcome or tolerate posters who promote Orangeism, “we are the people” and Protestant Supremacy.

     

     

    So this figment that anything goes and my opinion is as good as anyone else’s is questionable at best. Like the woman who denies she will ever prostitute herself bu begins to waver when the price reaches £2m, we are not talking about absolutes; we are talking about where to draw the boundaries.

     

     

    Mines are clear. I will not share space with racists, whatever the colour of their skin. I will not accept exceptionalism that says all whites are better than all other people with different coloured skin, or that all Catholics are better than all Protestants or Jews or Muslims and I won’t accept that all Celtic supporters are better than all the supporters of other teams.

     

     

    The evidence of my eyes and ears and brain and heart tells me otherwise. Those sharing space with Tommy Robinson and acting as the O’Duffy wing of Republicanism have nothing in common with me and the people who made me. I have no regard for Humza Youssaf’s ability as a Minister in charge of Departments; he has palpably failed to make a fist of any of them. However, I have nothing against his colour or his religion or his status as the son of immigrants.

     

     

    Because I am one too.

     

     

    And that generation of Irishmen and women got called the same names and had the same accusations made against them. They can’t be one of us because they owe allegiance to Rome. They’re dirty and lazy and will weaken our genes through intermarriage. Those are the tropes and themes you are being asked to share. To pull the ladder up like Braverman and say “I’m alright, Jack”.

     

     

    I have no problem with people who want a strong workable immigration policy or those who want schools and hospitals sorted out. But don’t use those as excuses and say we need to do that first and then we’ll take a look at taking in 1 or 2 but no more. You know you are lying to yourself.

     

     

    There won’t be any cancel culture involved with my approach to this issue. If I ever thought CQN was gonna surrender to the “I’m not a racist; I’m just more comfortable around white people” crowd, I’d cancel myself and get off of here. I don’t want to share space with racists and supremacists. Nor with alpha Males and the Alt-right. Nor with Libertarians who don’t like being called Tories.

     

     

    Those Tossers can do one. And if they are welcomed by CQN in the future, then CQN can do one too.

     

     

    Meanwhile Many Fish still has his post up from last night. I guess the MOD agrees with him.

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