Someone asked me a few weeks ago if this was a must-win game. Clearly it’s not, the cup games are must-win, as is the coming league game against Aberdeen, but tomorrow night is an important weathervane, indicating if the club is on the road to recovery.
Since that great high against Barcelona, we have faced Italian opposition twice, both in 2013, losing home games 0-3 to Juventus and Milan. You can trace the decline in European performances through a subsequent Champions League group stage which concluded with five defeats, and last summer’s abject qualification campaign.
Indications are we are a better team now than we were in August, or even when qualifying from our Europa League group, but there is still an almighty task ahead tomorrow night. I suspect none of this recent history will affect Ronny and his players. The manager has told the players they can win. Most of them are playing like they have a point to prove, all of them are looking forward to the challenge.
Inter will know they’ve been in a game.
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Other Doctors –
Shane Warne/ Sepp Blatter / Kylie Minogue / Danni Minogue / Kermit The Frog ( for the environmental impact of – It’ s Not Easy Being Green .)
Shane Warne made a joke about his – “Call me Spin Doctor “
ernie lynch,
Thought sure it was connected to the black magic voodoo which he used for fighting illnesses.
La nios sine la nios eolai (a day older a day wiser)
Ard Macha
Ard Macha
Catapult CSC :-)
!!bada bing!!
22:31 on 18 February, 2015
I’d actually forgotten about Boeriggter……
So has the entire Celtic support and management team, to think this imposter criticised his previous manager because he had the audacity to question his commitment.
Goodnight all,God bless.
Cowiebhoy
If macanbheatha’s only looking for one, and you have another one spare, I’d be more than happy to take it.
The pat nevin thing.
It’s the ultimate act of soup taking. A made up charade.
If he was genuine he would be attacking the hun on a weekly basis but of course he doesn’t. I wonder why.
The cup final half time accusations of celtic singing sectarian songs, when we weren’t was a window on the soul of scotland. They lifted their skirts and we saw the horror underneath. The fact they never apologised was symptomatic of the institutionalised sectarianism still rampant in Scotland.
Sorry SNP fans. But it’s true…..
jamesgang
22:42 on 18 February, 2015
Did Paisley not buy his ‘phd’ from an American institution that required you to submit a cheque as opposed to a thesis?
Night Timdom.
HH jamesgang
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The Bob Jones University in South Carolina. Allegedly a white supremacist, WASP ethos prevailed in that establishment. I’m not sure if he completed a correspondence course or if the signing of the cheque without having to resort to any course work was sufficient.
Wee Lara and Uri
Anyone know of a good t pinto watch the game in Newcastle tomorrow in the heaton area
Good celtic pub
boabyevans
The Irish Centre across from St James’ Park.
Modurn soup taking quasi Dr’s are rubbish as well
Bournesouprecipe@22.56
I was expecting to see the Trinidadian cricketer there
Jimbo67
Generally, a person who is given an honourary doctorate is not referred to as ‘dr.’ except at and by the institution which granted the degree.
VP
Ma ma told me Ian Paisley was the devil incarnate when I was 3 and living in Partick. She was correct as always.
Nevin evidence to Justice Committee for the OB Bill, Official Transcript, Columns 182 & 183
Pat Nevin: During the previous evidence session, I was slightly surprised to hear some of the witnesses say that we do not have a problem and we should not bother being here at all—we should all just go home. I strongly disagree with that. I agree that some clubs have had a problem with accepting the degree of the problem that we face just now. Historically, Rangers practised what we could call religious apartheid until 1989, which to me was very wrong. Over the past few years, Rangers has addressed that and further problems, arguably following the UEFA ruling, and the club has spoken out about the problem, making comments in the press and programme notes and so on. Graham Spiers talked about people being dragged towards the legislation. I am slightly disappointed in the attitude of some people in the Celtic camp. I should say that I was a Celtic supporter for 30-odd years. I was brought up in the east end of Glasgow, in the Irish Catholic diaspora, so there is no reason for me to be biased or bigoted against Celtic in any way at all. I supported Celtic for most of my life, but one day, I found myself sitting in the stand with my son, who had started to take an interest in football, hearing the song “Ooh ah, up the RA”. I could not accept bringing up my son alongside that, so I was driven away from the club that I loved. I was very disappointed about that. Earlier someone asked what other organisations have been brought in to talk to the clubs. Nil by Mouth was one, and Celtic Football Club started the bhoys against bigotry campaign, which I was delighted with at the time because it was needed. I am not convinced that the initiative has been followed through for some time. During the past few years, Celtic’s refusal to accept that there are problems has disappointed me. Someone once said to me that Celtic had the moral high ground and has now lost it. I did not make that argument myself, but I thought that it was interesting. I am now in the position of feeling slightly intimidated. A number of people within the Celtic family—certainly, a number of supporters—emailed the BBC to ask that I be sacked from my job because, during a cup final, I suggested that I was disappointed with the sectarian singing. That became a semantic debate about what “sectarian” means. The song went something like: “As a young man, I’m going to join the IRA (provisional wing)”. It offended me and I do not want to hear it at a football ground. I was shocked and surprised that Celtic Football Club and a great number of fans complained to the BBC, because I expect to hear them say that they do not want to hear that sort of song at their ground. It is a football ground; it should not be a political ground.
Nevin evidence to Justice Comm Columns 189 & 190
Pat Nevin: Whether we choose to deal with such behaviour through legislation or by working with clubs and fans’ organisations, I would like to make it culturally unacceptable. Legislation may well be needed to do that, because I do not think that the problem has so far been addressed. I feel that we—or at least a number of people—do not accept that there is a problem. I do not want to go back to the earlier discussion, but it was suggested that there is not a problem, and that if we let Celtic and Rangers get on with it they will be fine. However, UEFA does not agree with that and we have to find an answer. If that means passing a version of the legislation, I believe—much like Graham Spiers—that this is your gig and you must take care of it yourselves, but I hope that good legislation can be passed that will not involve using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. I have read many things that tell me that if we do not get the legislation right, the wrong people will suffer viciously for it. I understand and accept the point, but I hope that this place can provide good legislation.
Nevin evidence to Justice Comm Column 194 Pat Nevin: I am slightly surprised by that argument about lads not knowing what they are saying and it being just a bit of banter. Substitute the words “black” and “racism” and you would not say any of those things. Your argument sounded hugely similar to some of the arguments that I heard in the 1980s that, although someone was shouting the n-word or throwing bananas, they were not really a racist. I am concerned about that. I understand your argument—although Jeanette Findlay would disagree strongly with your suggestion that there has been no discrimination—but it worries me and, from living in the community that I was brought up in, I am not sure that it is true.
Nevin evidence to Justice Committee for the OB Bill, Official transcript Columns 197 & 198
Pat Nevin: You have to consider some way of affecting the fans. It comes down to the clubs to some degree. They need to make statements on websites and programmes and in the media. They should not deflect the problem and say, “They’re worse than us” or, “Oh, look at that lot over there.” If they have a problem, they should accept that they have a problem, even if it is a small one. I do not want to sound holier than thou. When I was chief executive at Motherwell, we had a problem there. Someone asked earlier how you can arrest all those people. I work in the television industry now and, trust me, the cameras can pick up problems very quickly. It is not just TV cameras—the closed-circuit television cameras that the police use can do it as well. We had a problem: much like the Hearts fans that were mentioned earlier, some supporters placed themselves down beside the away supporters. We targeted them—we got some spotters in there and we got rid of them. We banned them for life and ensured that they did not come back. The clubs have probably done that, but on top of that you have to make it clear that you will not tolerate racism, sectarianism or sexism in your club. You have to put it on a mission statement in your programmes—not somewhere in the back— and make it clear that this is something that you will fight against. It would help if it was clear that the clubs believed that and wanted to push it through. That will have a cultural effect on the fans. However, if the fans hear excuses, wriggling or spinning, others will join them and have that argument with them. I know that, as usual, I will get abuse on the websites for saying that, but I think that that approach would help the clubs. You will find that a better family atmosphere develops and that people are not driven away, as I was in the past. We will have a healthier environment in which our sport can be played. Remember, chaps, that it is a sport.
Nevin evidence to Justice Comm Column 200
Pat Nevin: James Kelly suggested that, to use footballing parlance, it seemed to kick off after the little McCoist-Lennon kerfuffle. Some of us feel that it was happening before that. Two months before that incident, I went to Radio 5 Live, for which I make documentaries, to say that I felt something different was happening up here, that I felt a change, and that things were getting uglier. It was very hard to explain, but I wanted to make a documentary to look into the causes of that. We never got it together in time before the current situation kicked off, but the station came to me and said, “That’s amazing.” I said that people on the ground felt the change coming. All this is therefore not just a knee-jerk reaction to what happened on that night. I felt it coming before then and, in my defence, I took it to Radio 5 Live and said that it should look into the issue from both sides to see the reasons for it. There is a wide field in the media and we are all individuals within it. We do not have one set voice and can only say what we believe. Although I feel slightly embarrassed by the word, I am seen as a pundit. A pundit is someone who gives their opinion on something and it can be no more than that. I hope that what I have said can be seen for what it is—it is about making our society better.
Nevin evidence to Justice Comm Columns 207 & 208
Pat Nevin: There is a slight dichotomy. I think that we have been misrepresented. Recently, I had to cover four games in the space of a week: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona, Liverpool v Manchester United and Celtic v Rangers. I enjoyed the Celtic and Rangers game the best. It was an astonishing and wonderful atmosphere, apart from a small part. To say that we are Guardian readers who want football cleaned up is a complete and total misrepresentation. I do not want that to happen. My background is exactly the opposite of that.
[ENDS With Convener gaining committee approval for her to pay witnesses expenses]
voguepunter
thanks for that link
Lennybhoy, thanks for passing contact details for Kickinthenakas. Contact established and arrangements to be confirmed tomorrow in the BV…!
HH
I think Henrik got a doctor gig fae Glesga Uni…..?
jimbo67
Sorry, I post rubbish stuff when a big game’s coming up.
Brian Lara CSC
GMS should be an eye opener for James Forrest.
James hands in air moaning after losing the ball
could do worse than watch GMS chasing back.
Hope so.
PS I like James personally think he has potential to be
better than GMS if he applies himself
Anyone
Please did anybody reply to the Ulan Bator request
Is the game being shown here
O’Neils here only has one telly and showing Uzbekistan cup quarter finals
Signed
Desperat
Doc Holliday was a gunslinger!!
Forrest to Bolton in the summer
#firstsummertransferrumour
Hamiltonian 22.58 cheers
Bob Jones University .
One of its founding principles related to students being able to avoid the atheist lies and propaganda known as The Theory of Evolution.
Doctor ?
More to the point………
Was he even a reverend ?
“title of respect”
Somehow I dint think so…..
Bada
Didn’t work for KC.
*despite the posters that ‘knew for a fact’
macanbheatha
you still around and looking for ticket for boy?
HH
Has anyone mentioned torn-faced jobby footerer “Doctor” Gillian McKeith – who was banned by the Advertising Standards Authority from using “Doctor” in her adverts as she bought her “Ph.D.” from an ice cream van or something…?
South Of Tunis
23:08 on
18 February, 2015
Bob Jones University .
One of its founding principles related to students being able to avoid the atheist lies and propaganda known as The Theory of Evolution.
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BJU – who’d want a hoodie wi’ THAT on it?!
voguepunter
22:25 on
18 February, 2015
dena29
Good to see you over for the big games too :O)
God bless you,,,,surprised yir mhan letting ye oot again :o)
Sorry for late reply washing machine malfunction
hes glad to get rid of me and get some peace
HH
Jc2
I disagree. I canny go James Forrest. He does ma box in.
f.a.b. virgil 1903 v 1909 and 1888 v 2012
23:09 on 18 February, 2015
macanbheatha
you still around and looking for ticket for boy?
HH
Yes waiting on Cowiebhoy getting back to me ( think he’s out walking the dog)
Bournesouprecipe
Ach I post rubbish most of the time.
Away to my scratcher
Jimbo67
macanbheatha
If you want to secure ticket for boy email me before noon tomorrow
rodfather67@gmail.com
HH
Vp@22.40
Glad to see you’re doing your homework big fellah
HH