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
[calameo code=000390171e05b9b63a832 lang=en page=12 hidelinks=1 width=100% height=500]
CQN Annuals shipping to ever corner of the globe*. Order yours below.
*only three corners so far.
1,000 Comments- Pages:
- «
- 1
- ...
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- »
Its not it’s . Sorry
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
Don’t sell Fridjonnson,
Holmbert Fridjonnson
I just don’t think you understand.
If you sell Fridjonnson
Holmbert Fridjonnson
You’re going to have a volcano on your hands.
Welcome to Paradise Holmbert, I hope you score a bucketful son, as I sense that the mineshafters are already LITERALLY sharpening their pencils.
Yi mean broom right?
Green lantern…how dare you compare a sevconian to a noble creature such as a horse…away and wash your mouth out with black pudding!
Ryecatcher
I really hate LOL but your post made me literally do it!
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
I wasn’t at the AGM
I didn’t hear the question that PL gave the answer to
PL’s answer did not include the name of the deid team
As far as it was reported on here neither did the question include their name
Does anyone have a record of the exact question?
If no one mentioned their name surely the answer is ‘How do you make out that we were laughing at you?’
Like the black pudding modern life has not been good for the ole pencil; it’s hard to find a decent one.
And as for pencil sharpeners..
If we are talking meat products………….
Got to say, naebdy does it better than the Sith Effricans……
Naebdy!
Sandton CSC
I think those hoping that the Peter Lawwell complaint will results in a clearing of the air in terms of new club, old club will be disappointed. My expectation is that PL will tell them to,”feck off, it was a joke”.
I wouldn’t be holding my breath waiting for him to use this as an opportunity to force any debate on the matter. Celtic have nothing to gain by getting involved while they continue to self destruct.
What’s the story with the chicken and the egg?
Is this an explanation as to why Egg’s Benedict were removed from the menu at Ibrokes?
LB
With all the Steak talk and Black pudding floating about I thought about my best meal ever event.
I could be talking a load of shoite now as it was a long time ago.In 1962. I was in the Sudan with a delivery of Petroleum. I spoke to one of the sailors and and said we should go into town for a wee drink, He was an Irish guy from just outside Dublin, I forget his name now but I’ll call him Paddy,just for recalling sake. Paddy said that he had spoke to one of the workers at the Jetty asking about where we could go for a drink that night.And Paddy said I really wanted a good smoke and asked where the best smoke was to be had around.We were told to go along the road for about a mile and there was a village there and we were given the name of the guy we were to meet there.
Anyway,Four of us headed into town to find the supplier .when we arrived at this village, In my mind a village had two or three cottages, but this village was quite different there were about 20 mud huts,and the only semblance of something that looked like a house was the local Cafe?Restaurant??.I don’t know the term for the place but we had a seat in this place and Paddy got round to finding out where his supplier was.
Seemingly he stayed in another village about half an hour away,so they sent out a runner for him,In the mean time we sat at a table and had a couple of beers, a smell was wafting about and it put us in the mood for a meal,Language problems when ordering but we did order a meal,and it was beautiful,the flavour’s were fantastique,when we finished the meal the supplier arrived,and low and behold he could speak english,we wanted to compliment the cook on the meal and he asked the cook what it was we had, had,The cook told him and the Supplier said we had Camel Steak,I had loved the little white pieces on the plate and he came back with Monkey’s brains,but it was a lovely meal,and it must have been a nice meal as I remember it to this day.
For Afters we had a smoke that I have been chasing to this day,We floated back to the jetty High as kites floating our way along that path,even Lions roaring in the background couldn’t worry us that night.
Do you think Holden,from The Catcher in the Rye,was really an angst ridden Deadclub fan?
1. “Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”
“Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it.”
Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all right—I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing. No game.
This quotation is from Holden’s conversation with Spencer in Chapter 2. His former teacher is needling him about his failures at Pencey; at this point, he lectures Holden about the importance of playing by the rules. The conversation succinctly illuminates key aspects of Holden’s character. We see his silent contempt for adults, which is evidenced by the silent ridiculing and cursing of Spencer that Holden hides beneath his nodding, compliant veneer. We also see how alienated he feels. He clearly identifies with those on the “other side” of the game, and he feels alone and victimized, as though the world is against him. At this point in the novel, Holden’s sense of disadvantage and corresponding bitterness seem somewhat strange, given his circumstances: he’s clearly a bright boy from a privileged New York family. As the book progresses, however, we learn that Holden has built a cynical psychological armor around himself to protect himself from the complexities of the world.
DBBA
The guy who invented Cats’ Eyes for roads would have invented the pencil sharpener if the cat had been facing the other way.
Percy Shaw invented the Cats Eye.
My dad told me he was ‘the richest man in Britain’ [ Percy sadly, not my dad] but when he died he only left a modest sum.
Ryecatcher
Holden also had a dislike of the word ‘grand’ as in ‘it’s a grand old team’. Just about my favourite novel but now I see it a tract about a big Hun Looser
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
Saw a photograph of new Sevco chief executive, Graham Wallace
looks like he enjoys a steak bake and black pudding
He will be pally with Ally
Jimbo67……
Incredibly powerful novel.
Have read it four times,in different stages of my life since I was 18,and interpreted it differently every time.
Hail Hail the Huns are dead
ernie lynch@11:01
“Decimate now means to utterly destroy.
Think about it. How often would it ever be used properly if it still had its original meaning?”
I likes a challenge.
How about:-
A Mormon’s wage is decimated by tithing.
When Scott Brown got sent off it decimated the number of outfield players that Celtic could use.
UB40 claimed in their hit single that the number of employed people in the West Midlands was now decimated but they actually just rounded it up from 9.6%
Charlie Green’s Strategy has decimated the Sevco share price (give it time)
After ole Old Tim finished eatin’ the wee monkeys brains the wee scamp lived out the rest of his days follow followin’ the Gers.
‘ Why did the Rangers chicken cross the road ?’
I hope those who were asking the question earlier were not trying to suggest that it shouldn’t assert it’s right to walk where it chose on the ‘Queen’s highway’.
Auldheid
10:58 on 20 November, 2013
Big Nan
You remind me by mentioning Yorkshire that there is a butcher in York ( Favourite Uncle might know which one ) who does the most succulent tomato sausages.
Memories are made of such delights.
………………………………………
I have visited York for many years and the most memorable thing about butchers in that quaint city is the Pork Pies with gelatine that defies description and crust that crumbles at the bite a fresh pork pie from York with a large pickled shallot and some HP sauce is surely the food of the Gods.
But it must be freshly baked and has a best before of only about 2-3 days after baking or we are talking soggy crust.
Auldheid,
Reading back a couple of pages.
Perhaps, after another insolvency event, they could be named STRIFE, I.e. Still The Rangers International Football Egg!
This clusterfeck at Sevco is getting eggsciting now.
Did the Roman hen cross the road because she was terrified some big fat Hun would Caeser?
That Cats Eyes chap……….
Did Alan Whicker not do a programme on him………..?
seem to remember a b/w interview with him and his ‘entourage’ sitting in vast room strangely furnished with him not talking much but watching about 7 tellies randomly stacked by a window……..
The Cat’s P’J’s CSC
All this lighthearted stuff about BP is funny, but German Sausage ……are the wurst ;)
Glasgow wumin goes into the dentists , sits on the chair, dentist sais “comfy” , wumin sais “Gorbals”
Time celtic spilled the beans on they tramps . They have made scottish football a laughing stock . Peter bhoy is getting his reward for holding fire on what has gone on . Nows the time to sort this old new out once and for all . Mind you they have high profile QC,S defending them .
[Percy Shaw] became eccentric in later life, removing the carpets and much of the furniture from his home, and keeping three televisions running constantly (respectively tuned to BBC1, BBC2 and ITV, all with the sound turned down) with a fourth BBC2 in colour. One luxury was his Rolls-Royce Phantom. He never married and he died from cancer and heart disease at Boothtown Mansion, Halifax, where he had lived for all but two of his 86 years. Despite rumours of a personal fortune, his personal estate was admitted to probate in December 1976 at a value of £193,500. He was an agnostic, but his funeral was held at Boothtown Methodist Church, and he was cremated in Elland.
In 2005, he was listed as one of the 50 greatest Yorkshire people in a book by Bernard Ingham
-lifted from Wiki/EWLM/EWTB.
Off topic I know….
But is it true that Uhura, from Star Trek, was only that lovely chocolate brown colour because…………..
WILLIAM SHATNER
Will get my coat and Henrik the dug’s lead then?
DBBIA
That’s the very chap……
Dontbrattbackinanger……
Was he a Crystal Meth(odist) like the guy from the Coop Bank.
Are we allowed to mention that on here?
The Coop Bank that is.
In 2005, he was listed as one of the 50 greatest Yorkshire people in a book by Bernard Ingham
————
ally demands to know if Charles Green is on the list
new article posted.
DBBIA,
Your comments on the Gender guy reminds me of a line from a Billy Connelly character in a film.
He was a bible thumping eccentric and when arguing with a couple of other characters, he said,
” as it says in St.Paul’s Letter to the Hermaphrodites. Go F yourselves!”
Apologies for the carefully disguised sweary word. Will take a yellow for the team.
Saint Stivs
Guy Fawkes
Just logged back in. Trigger’s broom was based on an old joke about Paddy’s shovel.
Take yer pick.
Seen T’Rangers manager referred to as ‘Fat Salary’…………….I likes that :-)
Charles Green is at #1.
The ole Co-op Bank is the place to go if your brain is too mushed to be Mayor of Toronto.