Champions League match day six was a dead rubber, I wasn’t at the game only watched on TV, but two days on I’m still full of the emotional thrill of the occasion. With that in mind, the thought that today will be the players final training session before a league game tomorrow illustrates the challenge for Brendan Rodgers.
The players put everything into the game in Manchester, they were visibly flagging near the end. They will also have shared the high of the occasion. Bringing that all together to face a team who have been planning nothing but how to frustrate a potentially lethargic and distracted Celtic for a week and you have a game punters would generally avoid backing the favourites in.
News that James Forrest’s hamstring isn’t causing too much concern is welcome. We’ve all been there. You feel the twinge but it’s not enough to stop you, so you carry on. James has more experience of injury than most footballers, as a consequence it looks like he left the field before a “tightness” became an injury. He was a loss to the game but rather that than a loss to the season. This counts as very intelligent play.
I’d be reluctant to press James into action tomorrow, especially as it gives Gary Mackay-Steven an opportunity to revisit Firhill, where he scored 37 seconds into his Celtic debut.
Directors’ Box hospitality auction ending soon!
At around 12:18 this afternoon our Directors’ Box hospitality auction in aid or Mary’s Meals, courtesy of Intelligent Car Leasing ends. Money raised will go towards our seventh school kitchen across Malawi and Liberia – just incredible.
At the Celtic-Dundee game on 17 December, you can win:
2 seats in the directors’ box
Champagne reception
5 course meal in the Walfrid Suite
Fully expenses bar (pre and post-match)
Half time snacks and refreshments
Car Parking
And a match programme
Many thanks to Intelligent Car Leasing for making it possible.
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Philbhoy on 9th December 2016 11:08 am
DAVIDOPOULIS
I’ll be the tall, slim, bearded ,handsome hunk, looking lost.
Some or all of that might be untrue, except I do have a beard!
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In the interest of full disclosure, there was only one part of my statement that was untrue….
I’m very well spoken, so everybody can understand me ;)
SOUTHOFTUNIS
Googled “images” for Bernard Canavan. Thank you for that.
I’m no judge of art,for sure,and I’m not gonna box myself into Pseuds Corner either.
They are certainly striking,lurid where other better-known working class scenes are notable for being drab.
Dirty old town,bright hell-hot furnaces.
P @ 10.35
I am for progress — doing things better than we did in the past.
BrExit was a funny kind of response to globalism — burn local bridges for a brave new world.
The curtain twitchers will soon complain if manual / unskilled wages and prices go up.
BrExit was and is an uneasy alliance that will shatter rather than unravel.
The age thing has been underplayed.
Coffin Dodgers dreaming of a better yesterday.
1950’s and 60’s — a land of teddy boys, the piranha brothers, casual racism, industrial injuries, serial killers, backstreet abortions, gay bashing / blackmailing, knowing your place, Ted Heath and his rather strange career path, Maggie and her ruining of ice cream, Smethwick, polio …
Sounds great if you have no self awareness and little capacity for critical thought.
Bonjour,
As some of you will probably know there’s a fair Hoo Haa here in France about the offshore ownership / tax status of most of the Ligue 1 clubs.
Last night one of the points raised on twitter made reference to this site:-
http://www.theoffshoregame.net/the-offshore-league/
Interested to see who’s at numbers 8 and 9 in the league and what does it mean (in laymans terms) about the governance of Celtic Football Club?
Answers on an e-card to …….
DAVIDOPOULOS
Don’t be fooled,mate. They can’t understand a bliddy word you are saying,no matter how well-spoken and polite you are.
Want proof?
Grow a beard and moustache.
DAVIDOPOULIS
OK, I’ve got a beard and I always look lost.
:-)
belated birthday wishes to one of CQNs finest CRC
Estadio Grace https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OI2GIt09DgY
MADMITCH on 9TH DECEMBER 2016 11:15 AM
Ted Heath is a hate figure for the people you are talking about.
Rioskorrie
I believe Line Nominees Ltd is one of Dermot Desmond’s investment “vehicles”. Although if that table is correct and it accounts for 20% of the Shareholding, then DD must hold the remainder of his 35% holding elsewhere.
If I remember rightly it was named in the Panama Papers leaks.
In terms of our governance, it means nothing we didn’t already know.
MadMitch,
Thanks for your thoughts.
I somehow think Mary Whitehouse was right in so much. When I was younger I didn’t give a damn what she said…. I always felt she was saying things that made people laugh rather than respect her.
The door is ajar now. The Anti Mary Whitehouse crew just needed a foot in the Tony Yeboah
MADMITCH
Democracy allows the electorate to attack globalist economics by advancing parochial politics.
Nothing’s perfect,but it’s all for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
Strange that those words-or similar-are credited to a character in a satire,who centuries later delivered Lubo to Paradise.
PHILBHOY on 9TH DECEMBER 2016 10:29 AM
Vigilante groups that attack a pediatrician.
Well I seen you out there parading
In the streets of your distant land
In your strange caps and clothing
Shouting “I don’t understand”
But you, you look so loaded
It’s something I can’t feel
But I’m into some GOD action
And maybe yours is real.
‘Cause I’m Falling
I need your God on my side.
Well I see you objecting so strongly
To the ways of the liberal disease
And your armchair satisfaction
As you narrow the meaning of free
And I dream of a home that is tidy
And a church full of honey bees
And I wonder about the suppression
That you get when you’re down on your knees.
And I’m Falling.
I need your God on my side.
Well I see you thought we could change the world
If we gather round and pray
But it’s just like sending one letter
To more than just one place
But “Dear God can you help us”
Must be the opening phrase
‘Cause we’re falling
Need your God on my side.
One I can call my own.
I need my God on your side
Make a happy home.
We need their God on our side
In search of him I will roam
Need our God on our side
Mine got up and left home
You need our God on your side.
WEEMINGER
Aye,I totally understand the point you are reminding us of there. But to be fair,those same people who mob-attacked the home of a highly respected paediatrician because they couldn’t tell the difference between a medical professional and a pervert are still allowed to vote.
Wipes our smirks at the rustbelt Trumpets off our faces,really.
Anyone know what happened to the JJ site? I was reading the one about the child molest/pedophile thing going on; then its pulled down and then a lawyer’s letter appears?
AWE NAW
Or,alternatively,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JeXtfmAwvvY
Because I’m starting to feel like an extra in Metropolis.
Well John James apparently has been told to cease and desist re the Gough accusations.
Techie question if I may.
Need to free up space on my phone and a Big chunk is taken up with photos be videos (mostly from the safe standing section!). Just signed up for OneDrive. When I transfer my photos from phone to these I can then delete from my phone, correct? Any downsides that I’m unaware of? Should I similarly be transferring the photos on my laptop to OneDrive too – thinking that is a safeguard in case my laptop ever packs in.
My IT knowledge is really down there at the ‘if you have 3 apples and 1 pear’ level but am replies would be appreciated.
WEEMINGER
No, only paedophiles.
EXPATCELT
He’s been pushing the envelope on this.
I’m sure one or two people c&p in the expectation of events.
I know I did.
If you want a copy,
bmcuwp@gmail.com.
I’ll send it when I get home.
EL @ 11.25
He wasn’t in the 50’s and 60’s.
He was seen as the future, the new face of All inclusive Toryism.
He was into think tanks, project management and away days.
He was hated by the curtain twitchers then.
The contradiction — which extends far into the establishment and the media — has been fully laid bare in the last 6 months.
ShamCam was the future, the one to follow until he lost.
Now they — the exact same individuals — have seamlessly jumped horses to TM who spends her time decrying the old regime with a completeness and energy that JC would struggle to match.
However the badge remains the same.
Change is only allowed if it comes through the ranks of the Tories.
TH — wasn’t, repeat wasn’t hated by the curtain twitchers then / in the 1960’s.
Poor typing — crap I-pad.
JOBO BALDIE on 9TH DECEMBER 2016 11:41 AM
Jobo, it’s safe to do. If you want walked through it mail me with your number and I’ll give you a call.
KTF
Davidopolos,
Thanks for that. In a business sense (and let’s face it, like it or not, fitba is a business) it’s perfectly logically for a concern to have overseas ownership. And I guess “fiscally prudent tax management” is one of the features of that ownership.Wonder where DD’s other 35% lies?
As far as I can see, the French outcry (as the French tend to be very protectionist) on this subject is about “foreign” intervention in their clubs and a loss of National revenue thru offshore taxation.
Been at a funeral this morning. A man of 59 lost his 2nd battle with cancer.
Very sad – no age at all.
Say wee prayer for John. A massive Rangers fan but not a Hun in any way, shape or form. They do have some good guys in their support.
KTF
A banging track.
Call Me
MADMITCH on 9TH DECEMBER 2016 11:43 AM
Heath was a conviction politician who was driven by the desire to avoid another world war, hence his support for the EEC. He was also (for a Tory) very sound on the Spanish Civil War.
The people you are referring to would have been Powellites at the time, and would not have been Heath supporters.
VFR800 is now a Monster 821 on 9th December 2016 11:49 am
Been at a funeral this morning. A man of 59 lost his 2nd battle with cancer.
Very sad – no age at all.
Say wee prayer for John. A massive Rangers fan but not a Hun in any way, shape or form. They do have some good guys in their support.
KTF
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Celtic v Rangers means very little to me now. My own Son is right up for all the jibber jabber. He knew to hide his colours in the car taking our normal route to Celtic Park as we came off the M74 when a Busload decided to Walk it and piss all their way there. Thank the Lord Almighty that the Lone Celt walked with his Brazen Celtic Green and White Hoops, well he was just a minute before those horrors appeared and they were well juiced up.
new article posted.
JJ upset Goughie! Wonder what happened? :)
https://johnjamessite.com/author/sitonfence/
VFR800A8
We all knew people like John. Fitba daft,not an ounce of badness.
I’ve got many friends who support Rangers,and some of them,TBH,are huns. All of them are nevertheless friends.
Apart from those whose funerals I’ve attended. And all of them way too young,just like your friend.
Life can be short and miserable in the West of Scotland. I’m sure John made the best of it and lived it to the full.
R I P
TONYDONNELLY 1215
I’d tell them to eff off till they learn how to spell automatic.
Rioskorrie
In the immortal words of Manuel: “I know nothing….”.
However in the offshore ranking league table thingy:
(Man C) £445,770,264 69% – top of the league
(Celtic) £16,426,389 20% – sitting proudly in 8th(?) position
We are not in the same league…
Who was it said something about statistics… ?
However, I agree it is becoming a problem.
I live in Paris and the have “progressed” from:
PSG Nil
to
PSG potential CL winners.
But they will never have a patch on the famous Glasgow Celtic !!!
Gardez la Foi
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 9TH DECEMBER 2016 6:31 AM
MACJAY
Rick Wakeman’s joined Hearts!
*PGM of the chelski ludge, RW I mean no Austin McPhee, BTW who the Donald calls their wean after a motor.