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I had a look at the story on the official site this morning about a compilation CD with various versions of the Celtic Song being released.  After the initial pleasure of seeing Emilio Izaguirre and Scott Brown on their feet unaided, what struck me most was the apparent body mass of the two players we would normally consider our midfield enforcers, Scott and Beram Kayal.

Against Paddy McCourt, Joe Ledley and Emilio, not to mention men of considerable bulk, like Charlie Mulgrew, they are comparatively svelte and diminutive.  The central midfield role is about mobility and football-intelligence more than anything else.  How you use your weight against an opponent is as important as having the weight to begin with, but when the margins between winning and not winning are so tight, getting the physical balance right is important.

I don’t think I’ve been happy with a Celtic 4-4-2 line-up for years but playing Scott, Beram and a couple of wingers across midfield feels like an invitation for more limited opponents to bully this area, something the Highlanders did very effectively the last time we visited Inverness.

After mentioning tomorrow’s Fans Against Criminalisation meeting in yesterday’s blog I read Joe O’Rourke’s item on the Supporters’ Association site on the same subject with a mixture of horror and foreboding.  The First Minister would be well advised to quickly reign-in whatever loose cannons he has roaming the corridors of power.  Well done to Joe for bringing this to the attention of a wider audience.

The guys from the Alzheimer’s charity, FootballMemories,org.uk asked me to bring their site to your attention.  They work with Alzheimer patients, using the universal platform football provides us all, to engage and invoke recollections.  The site has lots of great Celtic stories, take a look and add your own.

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  3. THE EXILED TIM on

    UC/cabbageandbacon/EBM

     

     

    Being scottish and having lived in Ireland, I can honestly say the the term Freestate in my mind is a non derogatory term used for the Republic, I don’t know any loyalists so I couldn’t speak for them, but I have know a few Republicans in my time and they all use the term freestate, I could be very wrong, but I always understood the term to meaning free from brit rule.

     

     

    Sorry for butting in.

  7. Ulster-Celt on

    EBM-ElectroBhoy2500

     

     

    please do not take it as personal slight against your good self who has obviously educated yourself in the history of your Island and it’s struggles. I will admit to using the phrase as a sly dig at the uneducated but my intention is not to label an entire “country”.

     

     

    UC

  9. Enrico Dandolo nicked my Crusade on

    Haven’t read back, so may be already said, but if Christine Grahame had a large say in the criminalise fans bill then it’s got to be binned. What is more worrying is that Alex Salmond will have known fine well that she was alledgedly :) a bigot, but did nothing to ensure she was kept well away from it. He then went and sold it to the Catholic church. Now THAT really worries me.

     

     

    Rico

  10. ßjmac ® °¿° on

    Kitalba

     

     

    You are in my thoughts and prayers. Very sorry to hear the news of your Mother’s death.

     

     

    May she RIP

     

     

    Ktf and stay strong, you are one of CQN’s finest.

     

     

    hh

     

     

    bjmac

  13. Neil Lennon Is A Celtic Soul Brother on

    Bloke109 is Neil Lennon says:

     

    11 November, 2011 at 22:38

     

     

    Really good song,Country Life was a brilliant LP-great album cover too!

     

     

    Here’s one of my favourite Roxy Singles-only got to No. 40!

  14. THE EXILED TIM on

    Just noticed an advert for rugby on a football blog, mmmmmmm

     

    Is this a prelude to football in scotland without the hun ? is somebody trying to tell us something ?

     

    Personally I would rather watch rugby for the rest of my life if it ment no more hun.

  15. Vic Ajax on

    HammyTim:

     

    the door is always open m8, ahm just up the road and any probs wae yir pc ah’ll fix!

     

    Ah’ll repeat:

     

    (f**k queen and country)…bouns if ye tell me the song they lyrics are fae!

     

    But…

     

    NAE CHARGE FIR TIMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CW-J71mJUI

     

     

    scarface ya ya gimme llello

  16. cabbageandbacon on

    Ulster-Celt says:

     

    11 November, 2011 at 22:36

     

     

    *******************************

     

     

    You’re certainly not, l know loads who use that term on a regular basis. More common than people think, in fact i’d use it before the term ‘Republic’

  18. Enrico Dandolo nicked my Crusade on

    Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:

     

    11 November, 2011 at 22:39

     

     

    I agree, Bryan Ferry was a genius. He is also as big a f*d as he is a genius! Still love the guys music though :)

     

     

    Heard him being interviewed on radio several years ago and he stated that his favourite ever Roxy Music song was Bogus Man, which was a big surprise and is one of my favourites too.

     

     

    Rico

  19. Vic Ajax on

    Enrico Dandolo nicked my Crusade says:

     

    11 November, 2011 at 22:47

     

     

    Christine Grahame

     

     

    She can go **** herself!

     

     

    Shows up the bill fir whit it is, ANTI-CATHOLIC

     

     

    !!!!!!!!!

     

     

    **** them, KEEP FIGHTING!

  20. Dublinbhoy on

    Ulster-Celt & EBM-ElectroBhoy2500

     

     

    I hate to jump in on a good discussion but during my youth demonstrating against the occupation of the 6 counties I always considered the south as being the Free State. It was definitely derogatory and aimed at the comfortable ignorance and ambivalence of the south towards our own people under attack.

     

    At times I will call the 6 counties the north of Ireland and the FS as the south….never Northern Ireland and RoI.

     

    Back to lurkin’.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  22. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Kit

     

    Just received your sad news.

     

    Deepest sympathy to you and to all of yours.

     

    Please remember to pass on my regards to your brothers.

     

     

    Requiescat in Pace.

  23. EBM-ElectroBhoy2500 - We are all Neil Lennon! Glasgow Rangers is the sporting icon for loyalist bigots. on

    Cabageandbacon

     

     

    Each to their own. I don´t like the term because it was used AGAINST me by MY own countrymen.

     

     

    1000 km from home, working in Germany 94/95 and looking for tribe it was used to start fights. By drunk Ulstermen. They tried to spit at us. Nut us. Kick us. Swipe at us. All the time useing this term in a derogatory manner.

     

     

    Not exactly fond memories.

     

     

    UlsterCelt is normaly a good poster and I enjoy reading his posts but the buck stops for me when he starts the “Freestate” stuff.

     

     

    Had this exact exchange 6 weeks ago with him.

     

     

    I think it´s a real shame.

     

     

    I´m proud of my land, all of it.

     

     

    I´m not going to let the English divide and conquer me and mine.

     

     

    We are all Irishmen.

  27. Ulster-Celt on

    Dublinbhoy

     

     

    why lurk? your opinions are always welcomed.

     

     

    cabbageandbacon

     

     

    maybe a Belfast thing?

     

     

    EBM

     

     

    Up the provos :0)

     

     

    UC

  30. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    Rico @ 22:47

     

     

    That has been my concern. I asked Big Nan about this as he/she seems clued up on matters of the SP, and he reckoned it was just naivety on Alex Salmond’s part, but i don’t think so. There’s too much politics involved – the choice of people to contribute to the “review”, the contribution of Strathclyde’s finest and other things. The mistake he made imo was overestimating the intelligence of Grahame. When dealing with Tom Devine she was supposed to twist and spin his contribution but being the muppet that she is she let her/ the SNP/ Strathclyde’s Finest’s intentions slip imo.

     

     

    The whole thing stinks and the “loss” of the crime stats confirm in my mind that there has been a seriously devious agenda behind this from day one, and that it is not a political misjudgement as some of us might think (or hope).

  31. JimmyQuinnsBits on

    Kitalba,

     

     

    don’t know what to say… condolences and deepest sympathy… one of the hardest things

  33. goldstar10 on

    Fortunes 10.15- No that wasn’t me- we arrived in Krakow on the Sunday of the LCF (we were also in New York in Sept and arrived just in time to see the 4-2 defeat at Ibrox). I pity the poor guy that used my tickets in those 2 games!

     

     

    Re Auchwitz, the suitcase pile was indeed difficult to take in, all those innocent people had taken so much time to beautifully handwrite their names and details on their cases to ensure they were kept safe- such deceit is hard to imagine.

     

    Equally the mountains of shoes, brushes, childrens toys, prams, spectacles, prosthetics.

     

    The sheer size of Auchwitz II (Birkenau) was what got to me, 1km x 2km in area, we walked along the railway track where the people were forced off the trains and seperated and followed the steps of their final walk to what is now the remains of the crematoria.

     

    Birkenau was an extermination camp of an unimaginable size and scale.

     

     

    Schindler’s factory in Krakow (south of the river) was was also very worthwhile poignant, after much searching we also managed to locate the only existing piece of Krakow ghetto wall.

     

     

    BJ Mac- I was at the Rosenborg v Celtic game too, but in with the home fans, quite mild a balmy -6C under cover, the uncovered area where the Celtic fans was totally exposed- all you dafties in there with short sleeves on too- the Norwegians were amazed!!

     

    A terrible game.

  34. Neil Lennon Is A Celtic Soul Brother on

    Trying to pick a Favourite Roxy track is difficult as there are so many of them.

     

     

    Here is one of the beat singles of all time and the first song that I was aware of that didn’t mention the title to the final words-can you guess what it is yet?

     

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEalg62F8Zg

  36. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    TET @ 22:50

     

     

    The huns would follow Scottish rugby thinking it was Moisty’s 11, and thinking that their team had improved considerably in the Up n Under tactics (heid shakes bowed and clasped in hands smilie ) :)

  38. Summa of Sammi.... on

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    Moonbeams..

     

     

    Thanks for that..

     

     

    It is My/Our worst Nightmare living Down here..(That Phone call/Trip Home)..l was on Skype to My Mum when l read Your Post..

     

     

    It is a small Mercy..I’m just glad he Made it Back..

     

     

    May She Rest in Peace..

     

     

    Thanks Again..

     

     

    Owen

  40. Twinbhoy on

    I am trying to understand the situation regarding Christine Graham, I have read through the posts and I gather that she has made some anti-Catholic remark but no one has provided a link. I’m assuming that this must be a recent development? Why are we gunning for her so strongly? What has she done?

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