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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. Margaret McGill on

    Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 02:37

     

    Exactly! They dont call it alkaKeltzer for nuthin!

  4. Kevin - Put the Green Brigade into a new Jungle on

    Margaret McGill says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 02:35

     

     

    Kevin – Put the Green Brigade into a new Jungle says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 02:29

     

     

    Kevin I’m w/you or you could be a very very clever hun, but nevertheless you are not butting in.

     

    ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

     

    The CQN night-shift legend has spoken!

     

     

    Thank You Margaret.

  5. Dublinbhoy on

    What is the Stars says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 02:37

     

     

    Come home? Seriously, come home to what? A bankrupt state with no jobs. I wouldn’t be ‘entitled’ to benefits while looking for non-existent jobs.

     

     

    I don’t have a problem with local and general elections but I do have a big problem with not being allowed to vote for the president. I didn’t become un-Irish because I left the island. As you said, other countries allow ex-pats to vote so why not the Irish?

     

     

    Hail Hail

  7. Imatim and so is Neil Lennon on

    Kit

     

     

    May your Mother Rest in Peace.

     

     

    Heartfelt condolences to you and your family my friend in Celtic.

     

     

    My prayers and thoughts are with you all. God Bless

  8. Margaret McGill on

    Heh Guys.

     

    Question.

     

    I had this idea for a novel where a Celtic supporter invents a time machine.

     

    He can only go forward in time never backward.

     

    Its a law of physics.

     

    Anyway he goes so far forward in time that humans have evolved into 2 separate species.

     

    Morlocks and Eloi.The Eloi are beautiful and the Morlocks eat them as they are fine young cannibals. Morlocks live to eat and are not French.

     

    To maintain this symbiosis the Eloi never read books nor learn from history.

     

    They don’t even have the wits to pound their ancient libraries to dust.

     

    Seasonally the Eloi adorn themselves in their beautiful green and white paint and clothing and descend into earths caverns as a moth flies to a light. For it is written.

     

    Our valiant Tim fights the warlocks in the labyrinths but only escapes by throwing fellow Eloi to the Morlocks as one throws meat at hyenas. He then grabs Katy Johnson and hu…jumps back into the time machine back to the time machines inception.

     

    Sound familiar? Too sentimental? What do you think?

     

     

    We eat them all alive!

  9. Ulster-Celt on

    wits

     

     

    it’s nearly 3am here in Ulster, not sure what time it is where you live but the youngest of my 3 children, Odhran(note Irish name) others are Aine and Conchobhar!!!(future presidents) will be up soon, therfore I am retiring to my non freestate heaven.

     

     

    oiche mhaith

     

     

    TBC

     

     

    UC

  10. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    Mags @ 02:39

     

     

    Kaesers and their alba-keltz >:((

     

     

    KevJungle,

     

     

    Now are you here to promote the idea that only Glaswegian Irish Diaspora Celts should be running Celtic? Would you object to a Celtic supporting Australian diaspora Scot buying out the moustachioed one in Movember??

  11. What is the Stars on

    Ulster Celt

     

     

    firstly

     

    we are back to where we started.Dublin Freestater and all that silly childish name calling

     

    Secondly

     

    The conflict has not divided our island for centuries in fact the partition of the island is less than a hundred years old ( so much for highlighting an ignorance of the conflict)

     

    and regarding the SF vote

     

    People can vote for whoever they want,thats the beauty of democracy,I can appreciate your experience was different to mine but maybe you cant offer me the same indulgence.

     

    Personally I think Sinn fein have had their day and when the whiff of cordite disappears people will realise they have nothing to offer

     

    But I have been wrong before

  13. petec on

    Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 02:32

     

     

    Hehe,

     

     

    I think there may be ELements of truth in what you posted. ;)

     

     

    I could bring up many instances of hidden in plain SIGHT Global emblems but I will let people themselves go from this starting point, that you have highlighted, which means it is worth checking out.

     

     

    Carbon Atom, first port of call for those who want to realise the 6 6 and the last number.

     

     

    God Bless as Always.

  14. Dublinbhoy on

    Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 02:39

     

     

    I don’t want to consort with them in real life or in cyber space (I lie, I do have a couple of hun friends).

     

     

    I have been challenged by a Costa Rican buddy who house shares with a good Partick tim in Boston so I think I’ll take him on instead. Pity he’s too damn good.

     

     

    Anyway, thats it for me for the night.

     

     

    Take care all, its been fun.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  16. Margaret McGill on

    Kevin – Put the Green Brigade into a new Jungle says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 02:47

     

    Not Apathy mate. I’m w/you.

     

    KTF

  18. What is the Stars on

    Dublinbhoy

     

     

    Thats yor choice to come home or not

     

    I dont know your circumstances

     

    But you know some of us never left

  22. Margaret McGill on

    Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 02:51

     

     

    you just dont pay attention do you?

     

    Scroll up..scroll up..the blonde at the top…the archetypal Eloi

  25. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    Dublinbhoy @ 02:49

     

     

    A couple of my closest friends in life have been/ still are huns.

     

     

    It’s a prejudice they’re brought up to believe in. Canne fault a man when he hasn’t had the benefit of open-mindedness in his life. Doesn’t mean that won’t change with the benefit of my company :)

     

     

    It’s the establishment that are to blame.

  29. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    Mags @ 02:54

     

     

    Listen you, i’ll scroll where and when i want to scroll.

     

     

    You talk about your katys, johnstons and elois all you want.

     

     

    Don’t know what language the words come fae or what they mean.

     

     

    So leave it pal, right.

     

     

    All i know is, the words “katy” and “johnstone” sound easier on the ear than “eloi” and “archetype”. Nowt wrong with that, right?

     

     

    So leave it, pal, while i appreciate the benefits of word and picture association and forget about what’s really on my mind? Eh?

  31. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    Actually, all joking aside.

     

     

    As Margaret McGill has been alluding to (from what I can tell re some references), the ground is being prepared for an invasion of Iran.

     

     

    This isn’t known in the UK due to media control of course.

     

     

    But it’s the nest stage of the USA Neo Con plan which Bush implemented.

     

     

    George Galloway and the Impending Invasion of Iraq

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jtw5Zy2M6rk#!

  33. petec on

    Margaret McGill says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 02:54

     

     

    No offence to the very pretty ladies but hopefully the interviewers in the future when Quicknews TV is established as the main outlet for Celtic News will be stalwarts from this site, glamourisation is all very well but I’d much rather have a free reign to the interviewer and let them take an interview wherever it goes with any fan.

     

     

    I know you cannae put all the interviews online but uploading the files online will mean that if people want to waste their bandwidth watching lots of outtakes where people are deemed to look like a trumpet – so be it is what I say.

  35. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    I thought Paul67 was just having a laugh at the fact that “huns are ugly, bet you wish you were one of us Tims, where physical beauty and intelligence are both common features”.

     

     

    In terms of conversion tactics, it made sense to me.

  36. Margaret McGill on

    petec says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 03:19

     

     

    I think they tried that and It didnt work out too well.

     

    Seems Paul67 has his finger on the pulse.

     

    What are you looking for the Jabba and Chico show?

  37. petec on

    Saint Stivs says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 03:08

     

     

    Street music, Wonderful links m8.

     

     

    Globalisation and Monopoly Capitalism is very bad for the little guy. The people funding the protests against (Monopoly) Capitalism will undoubtedly be Monopoly Capitalists. LOL that is just the way it works.

     

     

    And the Mystery Schools are so embedded into all spheres of influence, all angles are covered.

  38. petec on

    Margaret McGill says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 03:26

     

     

    Mags and Awe Naw

     

     

    would get me tuning in and even though I am shy, I would phone in because I would be talking to non agenda people.

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