You will be told by some that an invincible season holds less than it would have before Rangers liquidation in 2012, but that assertion overlooks the clear facts. Martin O’Neill’s then-record points hauling treble winners lost to Kilmarnock. The Lions lost to Dundee United, twice. We always lost games to someone other than Rangers. If invincibility was achieved by stopping only one opponent there would be nothing special to report from yesterday.
This is an astonishing achievement. Invincibility over an entire season is unlikely, no matter what your comparative strengths in relation to the rest of your league are, for mathematical reasons.
Football teams convert a small percentage of their attempts at goal. There will be occasions when a team scored three from three chances, but there will also be times when a team has 20 attempts and fails to score.
Over the course of a season, the random distribution of chances converted is likely to match one of Celtic’s highly unproductive striking days, with an opponent who happen to score with perhaps their only attempt at goal. This phenomenon explains most results when poor teams beat significantly better rivals.
Strong teams are also commonly drop points away from home to top half of the table opposition. Here, Celtic have been truly imperious. We won twice away to each team in the top half of the table, scoring 6 at Aberdeen, 7 at Newco, 9 at St Johnstone, 7 at Hearts and 9 at Patrick.
It would also be lax not to mention the style of football. This is not a brutal domination of the ball and physical area of the pitch, Celtic play a stylish, flowing, game, which entertains and succeeds in equal measure.
One more bridge to cross before the job is complete.
Thanks for all the encouragement, and especially the donations to Celtic FC Foundation, for the Stirling Marathon yesterday. Before going to bed on Saturday night I read through all the donations and couldn’t wait to get started.
It was an unforgettable experience. We’ll wait and see if it’s also unrepeatable.
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What a crying shame the tragedy that was/is Manchester and the deliberate targeting of Children.
What has happened in their life, the perpetrators, to turn them into such callous monsters’ who eventually are not only prepared to forfeit their own lives, but also to take the lives of so many innocents with repulsive and malicious indiscrimination?
Their actions are not those of rational humans.
And post the bombing, only the callously insensitive would dare seek to make any political gain – in any form, from the events.
My heart, my thoughts and prayers too, go out to all those who are suffering in Manchester today.
Safe travels to all the lucky CQN,ers heading to Lisbon.
Can’t imagine the mind of the cowardly scumbag who killed and maimed these innocent people in Manchester but please,when his identity is known don’t splash it all over the media.
Notoriety only encourages them!
Sometimes when you stop and think about such atrocities, sometimes I think it might just be the ones who have already gone who are the more fortunate, and that is truly sad.
Dear God what must it be like for the parents who have lost their kids to such pointless violence.
A STOR MHA CHROI on 23RD MAY 2017 10:37 AM
‘What has happened in their life, the perpetrators, to turn them into such callous monsters’ who eventually are not only prepared to forfeit their own lives, but also to take the lives of so many innocents with repulsive and malicious indiscrimination?’
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Although ruthless the action isn’t entirely irrational. It will be intended
1. to provoke a reaction against Muslims thereby radicalising a section of them
2. to highlight a degree of hypocrisy in the west over the differing reaction to kids being killed here, and kids being killed in, for example Syria. Again with a view to radicalising a section of the Muslim community.
ASMC
Its gut wrenching mental torture for the victims’ friends and families. The answer is not simple but it must involve bitter enemies getting round a table to talk. All conflicts end this way. Politicians, get to it. The reps of the front line troops, however unsavoury they may be, must be included in any talks. The West can make a start by imposing an arms embargo. This is soooo likely to happen.
GER57 on 23RD MAY 2017 11:03 AM
‘it must involve bitter enemies getting round a table to talk. All conflicts end this way.’
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Previous conflicts involved groups who had stated, practical, political aims.
The Islamification of the planet is a bit different . Negotiation just isn’t relevant.
Very hot on the streets of Lisbon today. Get yousel es
Damn. Get yourselves a hat Bhoys :-)
On another note, if your sitting in the many cafes dotted around the squares, you will be approached by geezers selling sunglasses who will also offer you some ‘herbal smoking products’ . Just say no :-))
Just got ‘high-fived by a young Lisbian guy ( is that the correct term for the residents ? ) who declared “Celtic are the best ” . found that hard to arhue with.
Bateen Bhoy
If I remember correctly Liboeta is the denonym. But you might find that “dude from Lisbon” works just as well
;)
*Lisboeta
ERNIE LYNCH:
I have lived and worked with Iraqi’s, Iranians for many years, I have several Muslim friends. Some of them to a degree to bemoan disenfranchisement, but all things considered and contextualised , none of them harboured such hatred of the west.
I can understand that some do, but what I can’t fathom (and rationalise) is the deliberate, premeditaed, targeting of children.
i can’t see how it garners them any sympathy for their grievances. whether imagined or real, nor do I understand your example of hypocrisy. I know kids get killed out there by the actions of western, or western supported countries, but I’ve yet to hear of one western endorsed suicide bomber walk into a kids school and detonate.
I don’t believe that it is an Islam v Christianity issue, I believe – in the main – that is a sham and it is used as a weapon on both sides to secure their end objectives.
https://twitter.com/Lisa_Hague1/status/866757236588126208
Good news indeed.
The end objectives on both sides being power and coin.
BMCUPW,
Please mate….give LISBOA a big kiss from me !
While your at it………Gonny give a few of the Lisbon Ghirls a kiss from me to……….mind you don’t get lifted by The Polis !
I’m sure you and your Da will have a great time.
HH
I was in Lisbon last year. Got offered lots of… ahem.. African woodbines down on the waterfront.
I saved my money for loads of pasteis de nata’s, the ideal stomach liner between bars.
Breaking news in Manchester…Police are getting the public away from The Arndale centre…..apparently one guy arrested ?
Ernie when you get the chance watch this:
Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers
Some public saying they think they heard a “Bang”…or maybe gunshots. The Arndale Shopping Centre being evacuated.
ERNIE LYNCH on 23rd May 2017 10:59 am
Ernie, whilst I fully agree with what you say in your post about so called Islamist bombers, this makes an assumption (without full knowledge) that this is being laid at the door of so-called Muslim bombers.
Whilst it may ultimately be an accurate assumption, we should not fall into the trap of assuming that this is the case.
I’m not accusing you of “blaming Muslims” but unfortunately the British media all to often jump on this bandwagon and that by its nature seems to categorise all Muslims as the same – bad/bombers/terrorists. The overwhelming majority of Muslims are diametrically opposed to these actions IMHO (speaking from experience as someone who has very close Muslim fiends).
Your sentiments regarding the slaughter of innocents in the Middle East are correct; however, it’s not only Muslim innocents who are being slaughtered: Christian children are being beheaded in front of their parents on a fairly regular basis in Da’esh controlled areas. I could point anyone to the evidence of this, but it is too graphic and distressing to post links here. Sadly, the voyeuristic media in the West don’t see this as particularly newsworthy as they concentrate on the more “sanitised” voyeurism of the entertainment and political news spheres – it sells more copy!
KTF
A Stor Mha Chroi on 23rd May 2017 11:31 am
I can see where Ernie is coming from; the anti-Islam backlash that will come from this (if it is indeed blamed on Islam) will be used by those intent on radicalising young Western Muslims to ideologise their perceived hatred from by West. This plays right into the hands of those who want to commit atrocities – the greater the atrocity, the greater the backlash and therefore the greater the opportunity to use “anti-Islamic” feeling for radicalization.
Not a pleasant thought, but one I share with Ernie.
KTF
VFR800:
To what end?
A STOR MHA CHROI on 23RD MAY 2017 11:31 AM
‘but I’ve yet to hear of one western endorsed suicide bomber walk into a kids school and detonate.’
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Perhaps if ISIS, or whoever, had access to barrel bombs they would use those rather than suicide vests.
I’m not sure if that would make them more or less repulsive.
Some brevity, I hope, on this morning of appaling news
James Doleman @jamesdoleman 10m10 minutes ago
Findlay asks what is the “new entity” described in the agreement which says:
“A successor to the football activities of the company”
McLean “I don’t think it existed at this point”
New club anyone?
James Doleman @jamesdoleman 11m11 minutes ago
Findlay asks what is the “new entity” described in the agreement which says: “A successor to the football activities of the company”
James Doleman @jamesdoleman 10m10 minutes ago
McLean “I don’t think it existed at this point”
KTF
A Stor Mha Chroi on 23rd May 2017 11:51 am
The end of using any means possible to radicalize young Muslims to establish their caliphate by whatever means necessary.
KTF
ERNIE LYNCH:
All violence is repulsive to a degree. Pemeditated and indiscriminate violence against innocents is indefensible, regardless of who is responsible. But to address your last point, I’m not aware of any western sponsored, or endorsed incidents of the use of barrel bombs in Syria.
I know children are mutilated and die out there.
My admission is merely I can’t understand the mindset of any individual who would indulge it. Whether they be western, Eastern, black or white, Christian or Islamic or whomever or whatever.
My point is that to stoop so low to participate in such barbarism is inhumane and beyond my comprehension.
We, the U.K, have bombed the bejeesus out of Iraq, indiscriminately and illegally, for over 15 years.
We, you and I, have killed many innocent children. In the name of what ? Righteousness ? Religious preference ? In Gods Name or Allahu Ahkbar?
I don’t think the children that will be killed today in Syria ( in an silent
, yet violent , droned hushed up way ) will be remembered.
But they shall be remembered for a cause: that of geo-political greed .
Sorry Donald , but how much was that arms deal worth?
Findlay also debunked the myth that the money was required to be in place for the deal to be completed; it was the £1 that was required.
1. James Doleman @jamesdoleman 28m28 minutes ago
Findlay “Where does it say in the contract that obligations are concluded when the money is paid” McLean looks at the contract
Points to clause 4 part 10
Findlay says that section refers to share purchase “the price of which was a pound”
Adds “I think most people could pay a pound without running into money laundering regulations”
Findlay Where does it say money should be delivered immediately? McLean points to clause 3.1 DF “That is the pound again
McLean now points to clause 6.4 Which says £5m of working capital should be “contributed at completion”
Findlay has Collyer Bristow undertaking put on screen. Says, “We will hold” £5m for the playing squad.
KTF
VFR800
That is not an end that the West will accept. Not until the oil and gas runs out anyway. So it is a redundant ideology until the deserts give up their riches and then the west will most likely build a Mexican wall around any caliphate.
So if their ideological dream is have a federation of counties without ‘infidels’ they only have to wait a few generations and they will have it peacefully.
In the interim… the west have a huge arsenal of shelf-lived ordanance that needs disposing off.
James Doleman @jamesdoleman · 18m18 minutes ago
Findlay “When does that money have to be paid?”
McLean “When it’s called upon”
Court takes it’s morning break
KTF
Manchester thoughts and prayers with the people involved The only solution lies in the Muslim community The Police MI5 or any other agency are working with political correctness as their objective similar to Northern Ireland it was the people who solved the problem (a simplistic view on a complex issue – I know) but essentially the people of NI wanted an end to the troubles You have to ask do the Muslim communities want to end the issue – only they can understand and confront the people breading extremists However sadly I see minimum effort from the Muslim leaders to confront radical Islam meaning peaceful Muslims are left to live with the consequences Complex problem too complex for me.
67ECW
A Stor Mha Chroi on 23rd May 2017 12:08 pm
I don’t disagree with any of what you said; however, their ideology demands the caliphate now!
KTF
new article posted.
VFR800:
Their ‘now’ caliphate is all but dust and all the dollars they tried to grab for themselves (in some cases with justification) are once again flowing west, and their medieval doctrine (imo (non-religious but based on simple human rights)) that underpinned the legitimacy of their perception of governance has been proved most unpopular with the majority of their kin.