We’ll all be supporting Mikael Lustig and Georgios Samaras as Sweden and Greece attempt to qualify for the World Cup tonight but the prospect of Lustig, Samaras, Izaguirre, Ambrose, Forster and possibly van Dijk not having a break until July, days before the Champions League bandwagon starts rolling again, is unappetising.
Celtic contributed more players to the 1998 World Cup than any other team. Perhaps as a consequence, we started the new season in third gear, unable to string two league wins together until thumping five goals past a now defunct outfit. A Perfect Day.
Georgios, Mikael, Emilio and Efe are hugely important players to Celtic. They are also players we have an excellent chance of retaining, which in some respects makes it even more important that they are ready for action early than those like Fraser, who until he signs his new contract we can be less sure of retaining.
Best of luck to Greece and Sweden tonight, but if your guys return home disappointed there will be compensations.
Ross County have won the respect of many, and rightly so, for building a successful football club from little more than sticky backed tape and empty washing up bottles, but one of their key achievers, manager Derek Adams, has to be one of the most ungracious people in the top fight game, a fact now being picked up in the wider media.
It is unfathomable if this trait is a fundamental aspect of the club’s success. The clichéd football manager is an unapproachable tyrant but surely there’s more to it than that?
I’ve heard a good few footballers tell their tales of drama, they all have them, even the quiet ones, but it is an objective fact that Frank McAvennie has more stunning stories than anyone in the game. I’ve heard him tell some publicly, and then listened to the really incredible stuff privately.
The Untold Truth with Frank McAvennie, is at Victoria’s Night Club this Saturday 23rd. Doors open at 7pm for a three course meal, entertainment and Frankie recounting his stories. There will also be a sporting auction and a Q&A session. Book at www.franktalks.co.uk
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Whither the cash strapped heteronormative scrofulous hillbilies the day?
Jungle Jim, Auldheid,
Thing about Harris lamb is it’s NOT marketed. I had it on a visit to Harris once or twice and not being a mutton fan – too greasy and smelly – was completley taken with the Harris variety which was…..not greasy or smelly. (OK, I’m not a real foody!) The difference was explained to me as caused by the unique combination of the rocky terrain and the diet. Harris Lamb – it has a certain ring to it and it definitely is crying out for marketing.
Dharma Bam \o/ stands up for Neil Lennon,
I’m afraid I’ve never been to Tiree – or eaten it’s lamb as far as I know. I AM a fan though and record-consumer of all the bands and musicians you’re producing there over the past few years…..Trail West being the latest after Skippinish….etc.
A son of dan
Their stupidity knows no bounds but it does put Celtic and PL on the spot.
Because of the fear of backlash at being put straight will pressure be put on Celtic to apologise and will Celtic stand up to that pressure?
They certainly have enough info now re the licence skullduggery and COs involvement in the DOS scheme to tell SFA where to stick it.
However being ever the diplomat I think Celtic should apologise using my earlier thinking as the vehicle.
It would go.
” Celtic FC apologise for inferring Rangers are not the same club as before. We recognise they are simply an egg and ask the SFA to add all references in their articles to the term “club” with the term “or egg”.
Celtic themselves wish to continue to be known as a club but respect the right of others to be an egg.”
I wonder if the SFA will just file the complaint about Peter Lawwell in the bulging bottom drawer that contains all the complaints/investigations about Rory Bremner FC. In that way, RBFC’s supporters can continue to complain that their complaints are swept under the carpet, too.
Alasdair MacLean 08:26 on 20 November, 2013
I’m afraid I’m going to have to burst a bubble here: Stornaway black pudding quality is a myth…………………
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Stornoway black pudding is far from being a myth, ask Hebcelt, Major supplier to CQNr’s.
Alasdair, I’m with JJ on this one. I never touched the stuff until a few years back then tried some from a butcher in Dumfries (who incidentally makes the best pork sausages in the northern hemisphere) and enjoyed it. I thought that was as good as could get until I started frequenting Coais on match days. They do optional stornoway at an additional ten bob on top of the normal run of the butcher stuff with their fat bhoy fry up. I’ve parted happily with that ten bob week on week for this extra level of pleasure.
Are you telling me my money was wasted and I should have asked for Wick pudin?
Please send me a sample…………………………….by lunchtime today to go wi my sausages, eggs and tattie scones.
JJ, if you get yer arse up here on yer bike I’ll do you a nice lunch. You bring the BP and I’ll sort the rest.
Yum Yum
a
PS on the foody side…
I had my best fillet steak…..ever……in the Butcher’s Shop restaurant in Glasgow recently. Beside Kelvin Grove park up from the Snaffle Bit pub.
A son of dan
Being more serious Celtic simply tell SFA to refer the matter to UEFA and ask them if the principle behind Art 12 of UEFA FFP is being breached.
Great black pudding in Bennet’s Butchers in dunblane. They also have the best pies I’ve ever tasted – steak and pepper is the biz. And chicken and orange works a treat tho it sounds like it just shouldn’t.
As for lamb. I love it. Just not too succulent mind and always best served with jelly and ice cream and plenty of hubristic humble pie.
HH JamesGang
kayal33
08:42 on 20 November, 2013
Maybe we should now just call them the Free Rangers!!!
http://enjoyeggsmore.co.uk/
Don’t tell them but someone’s already bagged it
JJ, geis a bell on my moby No.
Coneybhoy
All financial experts acknowledges that Scotland pays more than our fair share of taxes: and it is us not the UK government that pays for the NHS in Scotland. If you want the figs I can get them for you but I have to go out just now
The zombies are a pure yolk by the way !
TheBarcaMole
08:46 on
20 November, 2013
BMCUW………… See yon Alasdair MacLean @ 08:26 has (unwittingly) proposed an extra for the venture (Thanks Alasdair!)…….. Harris lamb and Stornoway black pudding washed down with S.E.Asian vodka…. All we need now is a gourmet type critic/consultant to advise…………….. Do you know of anybody???? :-)
TBM
WHITEDOGHUNCH is your man.
Culinary Quick News
Yum Yum
So why did all these Huns buy shares in an egg….?
The big chicken hoose must stay open…
paddy turner
I think Tom McLaughlin would agree with me here in that someone trying to bring any kind of black pudding past our lovely Customs folk here in Oz would probably have enough material for an entire episode of Border Security, what was that you said, ” sheeps intestine?”, cue the heavy team coming over to take you away for an internal body scan.
AR
What kind of eggs does a confused chicken lay?
Scrambled eggs!
Someone should be writing a recipe book with all this;
Succulent Lamb and other stories?
What do you call a group of Sevconians?
Sevcomellete.
neganon2,
I’m a member at the WACA and have a guest pass for this season, if you want to get my e-mail from Paul and get in touch, I haven’t lined anyone up for day 4 yet so if you are happy to go into the members with me then it’s on.
Just remember it will be plus fours and a red, white and blue cravat as a minimum dress code old chap!
AR
W.A.T.P. – we are the poultry..
BR…. stop it ya bunch o’ bassas
droolinCSC
BR=BP
Wonder what Weefras take on all this chicken and egg malarkey would be,I suspect he’d be crying fowl play;)
ACGR Slavering over Stornoway Black Pudding and Supporting Celtic,
It IS a personal thing …and all the Stornaway fans must have a reason. (I think the fame stems from all the travelling tradesmen going to work at the Lewis Fabrication Yard at Arnish Point.)
Anyway, just to back up…
http://news.stv.tv/highlands-islands/189855-best-black-pudding-in-scotland-ross-shire-butcher-scoops-award/
I took a whole one of these to Africa recently and the boys there took the cover off, wrapped it in tin foil with a couple of pin holes and baked it whole on the barbecue with the steaks.
They were all raving about it…
Black Pudding..
Best served on a bed of rosti potatoes some thick cut bacon and a poached egg on top…
alisdair maclean
re your posts on stornaway black pudding
we would regularly meet charlie ( barley)macloud
on holiday in corfu each year
he didnt support any particular team but loved to
hear stories of great euro nights at parkhead
it was terrible to see illness take hold of him over
the past few years as he had been so active i,e
water skiing ect
jut a nice guy
Auldheid…….
SFA refer it to UEFA
Nail on Head………BANG
So simple but this is the ONLY course of action needed.
just
desertbhoy 08:58 on 20 November, 2013
TBM/BMCUW…. tam cowan!!
Stretching it there desertbhoy………………
TBM
paddy turner
Wonderful allegory!
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These Black Pudding Wars will be Offal for the Blog..
Summa
antipodean red –
Are you confusing black pudding with haggis?
I have a UK shop about 20 minutes drive where I sometimes buy black pudding, tattie scones and skwerr sausage. In fact last Sunday I had 2 rolls n skwerr for breakfast.
In fact I dropped in a couple of weeks ago on the way back from Brisbane and bought all of the above plus Maynard’s wine gums, chocolate digestives, Tunnock’s caramel wafers, jammy dodgers, Jaffa cakes and a few others.
They’ll last for months. Honest!
Come on you bhoys in baggy green!
DBBIA , gonny no dad that.
Now I’ve had to go and look up heteronormative !
Heteronormativity is the body of lifestyle norms that hold that people fall into distinct and complementary genders (man and woman) with natural roles in life. It asserts that heterosexuality is the only sexual orientation or only norm, and states that sexual and marital relations are most (or only) fitting between people of opposite sexes. Consequently, a “heteronormative” view is one that involves alignment of biological sex, sexuality, gender identity and gender roles. Heteronormativity is linked to heterosexism and homophobia.[1]
Quite apt tho , but please explain how it fits in with their egocentric view of the world.
Sanna
dad=dae
FAVOURITE UNCLE 09:06 on 20 November, 2013……. WHITEDOGHUNCH is your man…
Got it in one Favourite Uncle; the very man!
TBM
Ova and ova we will follow you.