There are truisms in life. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, night follows day and Hibernian Football Club will not win the Scottish Cup. However, a failure to lift the trophy since Orville said to Wilbur, ‘I bet this thing gets off the ground’, does not guarantee subsequent failures. Hibs have already beaten Celtic this season and are perfectly capable of doing so again on Sunday.
Before this season Kilmarnock hadn’t won at Celtic Park since 1955, but it happened. St Johnstone, Motherwell, St Mirren, Inverness and Ross County beat us too. All these defeats were against the odds; no more so than Hibs are on Sunday.
Celtic need to get in touch with how they felt after their League Cup semi-final defeat to St Mirren, a day of so much regret. The 90 minutes will pass quickly, there’s no point leaving something in your locker for next week. Let’s get off to a flier.
Many thanks for sending over your Seville photographs, we are planning to pull photos and your comments on the event together into a special publication. If you have any more please send them in, celticquicknews@gmail.com.
Willie Wallace will be signing copies of his book at Waterstones on Sauchiehall St between 2pm and 4pm on Saturday, 25th May. Bet he knows what he was doing that very afternoon 46 years earlier. Get along to see him or order your own signed copy below. This is going to be a great weekend.
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free speech fine, killing innocent people no.
blantyretim
Any CQN’rs frequenting the club prior to travelling to Hampden on Sunday?
BT
Kids playing football 10:00 kick off
So we will finishing 11:20 ish time for a quick change and dropped of in Ruggerglen
Cheers for the offer
ps I was up visiting my wee mum in hospital and her friend was waxing lyrically
about a Sunday night in the KSC . I never even knew where it was but when she mentioned the road my wee man exclaimed thats where we play football in Blantyre.
Will send a text with my mums friend names as they are Blantyre folk.
paul you are pandering to all these left wingers on here,its how they see on here ,nobody else.
Big Peter Van Hoydy Donk…………hits the nail on the head.
Need to go and cut the front grass as folk are starting to leave upturned shopping trollies in it…
twists’n’turns.
I’ll go to the racing at Hamilton, Mind you last time I booked a hotel in Hamilton, I ended booking a hotel in Hamilton New Zealand.
Be nice to meet up with you again,what are the plans for the days jolly.
sannabhoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY95mNlAv0k
roots are important, I cannae remember a big tree, that says it all about what narcotics I was daein. Pharmakeia!!!!
The Blacks and the Fishers I know because of kids schooled at the same time. My memory is very poor and it is totally because I wizard seduced into taking Ecstacy and a lot of it. I didnae drink until 17 as well. ;))
A badge of honour or dishonour? Letting kids drink wine early and not making it such a devilish past time.
God moves in the most mysterious of ways.
HH
Benitez to Napoli.
2 year deal.
For all you Dumbarton Bhoys. Young Son Of the Rock scores for Celtic in Europe.
http://www.lennoxherald.co.uk/dunbartonshire-sport/dunbartonshire-football/local-football/2013/05/24/114557-33362888/
STV headline: “Pierre loses it”
That’s the impartial Scottish media for you.
I don’t suppose they are Sevco’s media partners for nothing right enough.
Pierre – there’s only one Pierre…
Well done big man – shedding some light on the titles that the huns stole off TB.Pierre highlights the – 94-95 – season….I would highlight the – 89-90 – season….the year that the huns signed – MoJo / Judas.
MoJo – when interviewed by Jim White on Scotsport in Oct-Nov 89 – said that – he didny sign for the huns for the wages as these were the same as Celtic had offered. What he did say was more revealing…”I had a tax-bill from my time at Nantes of £150k which – Celtic couldn’t look at but – Rangers took care of it for me !!!” said MoJo.
Aye – I’m sure they took care of it – right into the shredder !!!
The thing is…..when will sumdy grow a pair and investigate the ENTIRE SDM era ?
Btw – I’ve been hearing that Neil has asked for a rise of – £5k a week.
Hail Hail and Ghood Morning
roy croppie
not sure. a few lurkers coming from creetown and methil and district.. not sure how many tickets montrose managed to get..
also a couple of limos of hibees…
think most of the bhoys will go to vogue and livibhoy going to club in rutherglen glencairn..
LiviBhoy 15:30 on 23 May, 2013
Is it Jordan?
The Spirit of Arthur Lee 15:34 on 23 May, 2013
El Hadji Diouf
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From yesterday.
No idea who the signing is. Just that Sevco ‘plan to announce it on Saturday’.
weeminger
09:56 on 24 May, 2013
petec – I found a link to the original One in the Jungle mixes the other day. They might be up your (and other’s) alley.
Back to 1995
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Not accessible ma man. ;((
Richie Hawtin x-mix after John’s mix, says a lot about the person IMO.
Digital reality?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8NOW8KQ1dA
Was trying to avoid getting involved in the debate re the murder of the soldier, and did well to do so all of yesterday evening but I’m putting in my three pence worth now. It’s the brutal nature of the killing that has heightened emotions. We are not accustomed to seeing such horrific scenes on our screens. Ernie was trying to point out last night that he agreed the killing was barbaric and at no point defended such a horrific act, but he was being hammered from all sides. Had that young soldier been shot by a sniper, in the back, or blown up by a bomb, it would have seen about 10 minutes of news and passed over. There would have been no debate surrounding whether it was “cowardly” or not.
The perpetrator sees himself as a defender of, and taking revenge, for what he described as the brutal murders of woman and children in his country, wherever that is. Had as I say he chosen to shoot the soldier in the back, it wouldn’t have gathered such a media frenzy of interest. It’s human nature that we are sickened by the horrific nature of the attack.
It was clearly done, premeditated, to invoke exactly the reaction it did. It worked.
I was shocked, saddened and appalled at what I saw in the same way as I was shocked and saddened at the horrific deaths suffered by many in the various countries across the world where innocent children are killed daily. These unfortunately don’t merit much disgust or contempt in this country.
Out of sight out of mind.
I still weep reading diaries of hunger strikers suffering a slow painful death, physical and mental pain and torture, that was allowed to happen with hardly a raised eyebrow amongst most, many of whom are now at the front of the queue today to express their disgust at the death of the young soldier.
I feel for the young mans family and friends in equal measures as I felt for, and feel for the hundreds of thousand others who have lost, and are losing, loved ones hourly.
Steinreignedsupreme
10:20
Well, I hope STV follows its headline up with a blow-by-blow explanation as to where big Pierre has gone wrong in his analysis, but I won’t hold my breath.
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On October 29 2012, according to Charlotte, Aidan Earley said to Imran Ahmad: “Craig and, to a lesser extent, I (but still very painful) have borne the bulk of the grief in delivering a debt free Rangers that can go on and do great things.”
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I think the wording here is exceptionally interesting. It supports those who say there was a plan all the way through this and that Craig Whyte was the man to enact it. The plan was to dig the deady bears out of the mess they had got themselves into. Getting media spaniels like those at STV to deny that Rangers died or did anything wrong, to deny that they died, to deny that they were not relegated or demoted, but simply had to start again as a new entity (albeit much further up the football food-chain than they should have) has been a very important part of the plan.
Then an articulate, intelligent, knowledgeable person from outside comes and says, ‘They died and it’s their own fault’, STV’s reaction is to say that he has “lost it”.
ROY CROPPIE 1014
My mate was evicted by the council because of complaints about the length of his grass.
To be fair,it was up past his window-ledge.
He reckons it was the bitch in the flat downstairs who shopped him……
I’m more entertained by the crowd these days as opposed to on the pitch.
I wish that a DVD of the Green Brigade could be released from somewhere.
Hoping to hear big Pierre getting a mention the morRA :)
HH
Celtic_first
Thanks for getting back to me yesterday. To cut a long story short, I got a full season book. This is my first season book and the £100 off was a big incentive.
I agree with you in that the club could possibly do more for fans that have long distances to travel. I don’t think at the moment we’re even taken into consideration when kick off times and dates are getting sorted.
Thanks once again.
Paul67 said last night on Twitter that he thinks there are two journalists that are looking into the Charlotte Fakes allegations.
Two.
The rest are just saying how the emperor looks in his new togs.
An Dun
No bother. Well done.
STV
Scoddish Television.
Anyway,I really want to thank everyone who left their “Tales of Seville” for us all to enjoy at our leisure.
Some were hilarious.
Some heartwarming.
Some made you sit up and remember that life is not all plain sailing.
I had a wonderful convo with one of the Seville posters over the weekend-never met him,but I’ll never forget that conversation.
HH&KTF
twists n turns
Absolutely spot on. Those who carried out this act knew that this would attract the most attention and it worked. While shocking as you say it is no more shocking than the countless deaths of civillians in countries under UK/US military occupation nor more shocking than the murder of a pakistani gentleman in Birmingham a couple of weeks ago, who was killed in a similar fashion to the soldier.
This story is just as shocking (possibly more so as we would expect better of serving personnel) but received little in the way of coverage:
British soldier jailed for stabbing 10 year old
Mort
Jc2
Problems with replying to your text. Will do soon
Inside Track: Absurdity of new football laws
Published on 24 May 2013
Gerry Braiden
THE complaint was more frivolous than vexatious but the point was certainly serious: Scotland’s new football laws have the potential for utter absurdity.
An allegation that the minister responsible for the legislation, Roseanna Cunningham, may herself have breached the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act following her “evil Tories” outburst at the Scottish Parliament’s bar found she hadn’t.
A football match shown in the bar at the time involved teams with no connection with Scotland and was therefore outside the parameters of the law. But had, say, BBC Alba been showing Dunfermline versus Alloa in the bar at the time it may have been different. The act, if you didn’t know, covers televised football. And “offensive” is pretty broad. “The SNP can’t say it wasn’t warned”, one commentator said at the weekend.
Of equal ridiculousness to increasing numbers of the legal profession is the flood of press releases from the Crown Office on individuals prosecuted under the act. A look at the 10 news items on the Crown Office’s website shows half related to males fined between £60 and £375 for singing, shouting or even uttering something sectarian or offensive at lower league football matches.
Other news items involved a knife murderer jailed for life, £65,000 confiscated from a drug dealer, benefit fraud involving tens of thousands of pounds and animal cruelty.
Last month, two men were given Football Banning Orders and fines of £200 and £350 for singing “a religiously offensive song followed by another proclaiming support of a paramilitary organisation”. On the same date there were 13 breach of the peace convictions in Scotland. None was heralded with a press release despite, as one leading QC told me, practically all Offensive Behaviour breaches reported by the media would have been a crime before the act.
As the same QC said: “The idea that the prosecution service deem it worthy to publish the fact that someone has had a £200 fine is frankly astonishing given the seriousness of other crimes which are being prosecuted and the results of which are more relevant to society at large. That’s on top of any number of crimes which end up not prosecuted.”
Are some crimes given undue prominence? Why, like the Crackerjack klaxon of yesteryear, are they becoming synonymous with a Friday afternoon? Is a resource-poor prosecution service creating folk devils in pursuit of a hobby horse?
In exploring the enactment and enforcement of the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act, lawyers distil it down to their own idee fixe: allegations the prosecution service and police have been politicised.
The act has been one of the Scottish Government’s flagship policies and the vigour with which it is being pursued by the Crown is evidenced by its appetite to publicise prosecutions. It has, of course, a specialist unit on football to justify as well. Worth also noting that not one lawyer or politician has sought to discount sectarianism as a societal problem in Scotland.
It seems as long time since the Crown Office admitted to destroying years of data on sectarian crimes in a bureaucratic housekeeping exercise.
Glasgow Herald
Oldtim
I’ve emailed Hamilton for info
Jc2-If you have kids with you the Glens Club Glasgow Rd Rutherglen is ideal,run by good guys and family friendly ,food too.Good luck.
Off Topic…..
PAYE but the workforce has been moved away from the place of work, the company has made the disturbment payments taxable, in a lot of cases f*ng up a lot of family circumstances because the money is a loat better.
http://www.riftuk.com/ is the site that people are using to get money back but they are being done up like a kipper in my opinion.
An accountant or a fixed rate would be a lot better than a % Shirley?
Anyone know or advise in these matters?
twists n turns
Quality post mate…
An dun-enjoy.
blantyretim
I am not going to the game on Sunday. Our CSC is going to the Gelncairn club though.
I will be watching with Mrs LB in a rugby club in auld reekie and young LB who will hopefully watch his old mans team left the cup for the first time. he is 10 months old.
On the subject of big Pierre. met him in Tenerife a few weeks after he won us the Scottish Cup in 1995. he was astounded at how big Celtic were. Spent a lot of time on O’Casey’s Irish bar. It was then he realised how big the Celtic were. he spoke well and came across as being a very clever fella. He admitted Celtic were a stepping stone for him. He bought many pints and by the end of the week he was singing along with the songs. A decent big guy and a good player for the Hoops. He was gangly big player when he signed for us with obvious raw talent but we made him. I remember his heading was awful. It was pretty decent when he left us though. Once a Tim always a Tim tho and he has proved that with his comments yesterday.
Welcome back Pierre.
LB
Lisbon Lion Willie Wallace is sitting at my kitchen table, telling stories about Bobby Murdoch, Bertie Auld and players that Celtic could look at in Australia. He has a mountain of books to sign for CQNers…any questions you want me to ask him fire away…
Livibhoy.
I met big pierre in ocaseys that year.. have a pic of him and mrs bt..
Ocaseys was gerry and noleens boozer before they moved up to their current location . I actually stayed in los geranis which are the apartments where the fidker is now…
Made the mistake of going onto the scottish bar to be greated by the billy bhoys. No longer go into scottish bars on holiday..
Cheers bada.
Morning all from an autumnal Germany. Is it just me or is the MSM building up the Scottish Cup Final for a Celtic fall? Putting so much weight on it that they can get the cracked crest out if we lose and call it a failure of a season. For me it’s been a brilliant season whether we win or lose on Sunday.
HH
blantyretim
10:52 on
24 May, 2013
BT-I would make one exception
The Caledonian Bar in Budapest-run by a CQNer and has a Celtic room.
I have not been there for about four years, and I keep promising to book up for a wee weekend with MrsCRC
HH
CRC