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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I am Neil Lennon on a celticrollercoaster says:
11 November, 2011 at 23:55
Good late evening CQNers
Not long in. Great to meet Paddy G and Atilla
CQNers….Bundoran Bhoy, Praecepta, Kingoh, Smashing Milk Bottles, Matt_E Hail Hail
Nice to meet you Ghuys – enjoyed the company and trust everyone got home safe?
H!H!
thebhoyfromoz says:
12 November, 2011 at 00:13
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How about this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrb-NHsVpeI
I wished he had sung it at the last gig in Glasgow
What is the Stars says
I have no respect for any of the partionist states that make up this Island.
A nation once again
UC
Dublinbhoy @ 00:07
The British establishment have propoganda down to a tee – there are few can match them on it. UC is right, it’s crucial folk like yourself keep posting to highlight these things.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:
12 November, 2011 at 00:17
:-)
Here’s one for you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgXX8MGjNTo
Dublinbhoy
I am a proud citizen of the Republic of Ireland.
The term “freestate” is an insulting demeaning term in the same sense that “uncle tom” is
The last exchange i had with Ulster Celt resulted in him telling me I had a “slave mentality” that was because I wasnt voting for blessed St.Martin McGuinness
anyway
Up the Republic
Fortunes Favour Mibbee
British establishment have propoganda down to a tee – there are few can match them on it. UC is right, it’s crucial folk like yourself keep posting to highlight these things.
What exactly does that mean
Bloke 109…well done. If I am not mistaken then is your first win?
Fortune…. try next week when there is a decent quizmaster :-)
CSB-thank you as always. Your support is appreciated.
HH
CRC
Celtic Soul Brother
I really liked the sound of that intro, but the first line of the description was a bit disconcerting…:)
Were you ever involved in the Irvine CSC btw? (if you don’t mind me asking).
Another minor hit from the 80s -No. 55 in 1987.
Brilliant song and for 2 Jimmy Saville points what connects this song to Abba’s Super Trouper?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62mBkkuoLO0
What is the Stars says:
did I not apologize? why the sensitivity?
UC
After forty days when Jesus appeared to His disciples, Jesus led us to the outskirts of Bethany to the mount of Olives: that mount where He was transfigured in the sight of Peter, James and John. Jesus took us to the mount of Olives and He lifted up His arms and He blessed His apostles and He blessed His disciples. He blessed the holy women and He blessed me, His mother. He said to His apostles, “Go to the whole world and preach the good news to every creature. Teach all that I have commanded you. Baptize them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. I am with you always even to the end of time.”
What is the Stars @ 00:24
If you want to discuss it, you’ll need to be more specific about what bit you don’t understand?
Is it:
1. the British establishment have propoganda down to a tee
2. there are few can match them on it
or
3. it’s crucial folk like yourself keep posting to highlight these things
Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:
12 November, 2011 at 00:20
Thanks…but most people would call me a sh1t stirrer :) I like a good argument but sometimes its just not worth it. Anyway, there’s always next year :)
Hail Hail
crc
:-) Thank-you, you’re right. Still in shock :-)
been off the blog for too long lately with work and busy life
but
here is the best celtic you tube compilation ever.
praise to moravcok67
for the best celtic video ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ZKQfp7D6U
Palacio67 says:
Went to see the bunnymen at the albert hall a couple of years ago doing ocean rain. One of my top ten gigs.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:
12 November, 2011 at 00:26
No not guilty-never been involved with any CSC.
Here is one of my favourite singles of the 90s-features Kirsty MacColl and metions Red Star Belgrade in the lyrics -can you guess what it is yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liNnCKPeEv0
Ghuys,
I am fine – I have a precious daughter here who is making sure I am fine.
I said to my daughter tonight that we should think ourselves lucky. We have not lost our wife/mother, she is just on a different journey at this point.
One thing that has helped me immensely, is the support I have received from ordinary guys on this blog. It is heart warming. I read some of the posts from last night to my daughter and she cried – she gets it.
Hail Hail my friends in Celtic
Neil Lennon Is A Celtic Soul Brother says:
My I phone wouldn’t load the clip but i’ m guessing it’s sexuality by Billy Bragg
thebhoyfromoz says:
12 November, 2011 at 00:32
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One of my fav bands, many a good gig since 84,
Big let down at the RCH last month, did you hear?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaWs79v0ugE
Bring on the dancing horses
HH
Ulster Celt
yes in fairness you did apologise,but as a citizen of the irish republic I am very sensitive to anyone who criticises it
And yes I mean anyone
Fortunes Favours Mibees
You lost me really,
i dont like the term “freestate” its a derogatory term used by northerners to insult southerners in ireland.
they had their reasons fair enough,they felt betrayed (and maybe they were) but they know its an insult pure and simple and I personally object to that terminology.
Nothing to do with brits or propaganda just dont like it
Kitalba
I am so sorry to hear of your loss
When we spoke last Saturday you told me she was close
And this morning I have just heard of your sad news
I know your mum was a special lady who had a very hard
life
You my dear friend are a credit to your mother and father
I wish I could be with you now as you were with me last August when my
mum passed on
You were a rock for me and helped me keep perspective
when my world was turned upside down…..for that I am forever in your debt
I hope your pain passes soon and replaced with fond memories
you are are my brother in the Celtic family
You have spent so much time caring for others
Now it’s time for us to care for you
And you will never walk alone …. Ever
hail hail to you my dear friend
Ramie
What is the Stars says:
12 November, 2011 at 00:23
That’s fine….are you proud that the RoI stood by while our countrymen were burnt out of their houses and were murdered on the streets, that they were detained without trial, that they were tortured, that kids were buried after being hit by rubber bullets?
or
Are you proud that the government have gone cap in hand to the EU to bail out the country after the orgy of greed not just by the banks, builders and successive corrupt governments but also by the greed and stupidity of the citizens of the RoI?
I know I am not….but I am a proud Irishman.
Hail Hail
Celtic SAY NO TO ZENDEN.
TT
Spongebob
Good to hear pal
Kitalba
very sorry for your loss
Hear what? I’m intrigued.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
Ireland Qualifying is not enough of a story to get into the big pictures on the top of the page.
But “Crotia ease to victory in Turkey” & “Croatia and the Czech Republic enjoy wins, while Portugal draw in Bosnia-Hercegovina, in the first legs of the Euro 2012 play-off ties” is.
Is chick really up this late keeping good Irish news out of the main stories? ;-)
thebhoyfromoz says:
12 November, 2011 at 00:37
Well done-loved his lyrics -his voice is not brilliant but he could write a good song.Here’s another with the brilliant line “How can you lie there and think of England when you don’t even know who is in the team”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfKcG3gn3F8
kitalba
Just got in to the blog and read about your sad news.
May your mother rest in peace and may you enjoy memories of her over the years to come.
Channel 4
Thriller in Manilla
Hx2
Dublinbhoy @ 00:29
It’s clear there are many very opposing views. It should be acceptable to discuss these, so that those of us ignorant on what have formed the different opinions can come to understand and appreciate them. Crucial imo. Not shtstrring. No one should be opposed to that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ertt3o1x65c
My best Clash song
HH
What is the Stars says:
I am an Irish passport holder and therefore a citizen. I do not live in the republic and do not have voting rights but belong to the 44 % of the population of the 6 counties that make up northern ireland who regard themselves as Irish. the decision to partition the island was not made by me. I and my family have always regarded ourselves as Irish men and women and some of us have actually gave our freedom and our lives to that cause. if I have referred to you or your type as slaves as I have said I apologise but, I must admit I have not found anything to persuade me that you are not!
UC
Celtic Soul Brother
Kirsty MacColl, sad loss to music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS0Cilys808
VHMAN
loved the lyrics from earlier, and the tune even more so.
PALACIO67,
you sure its not BAMBI and the Bunny men, respect anyways, but what a lot of rubbish music, ska is the word.
SPONGEBOB,
tomorrow is another day. a better day.
so anyways, the wakes, and a cinderella story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_-u_cmEWqU&feature=related
Dublinbhoy
Yes I am proud of the fact that I live in a democratic state that prosecuted Britain in Europe for their treatment of irish Citizens in Northern Ireland,yes I am proud to come from a state thats Government ministers conspired to supply arms to people who tried to defend their communitites,yes I am proud to have grown up in a state where people took to streets en masse to protest against bloody sunday in derry resulting in the British Embassy being burnt to the ground.
Do you know where that goodwill towards the northern nationalist went
It disappeared in the smoke of the indiscriminate car bombings that the PIRA emabrked on
A wee song for those remembering any singer and any song
Jimmy Webb