Occasionally an innocuous comment left here can stay with you for years. The day following the 2005 defeat in Bratislava someone wrote, “I suspect we’ll find an injury in Nakamura’s fitness test”. The player was scheduled to sign imminently, but with Champions League income looking unlikely, doubts emerged that Celtic would pay the money.
Soon others expressed doubts that Shunsuke would want to come, but within 48 hours of that defeat, he was sitting in front of the media at Celtic Park. I was there, among a gaggle of Japanese and Scottish journos, when one of the locals asked why the prospect of being without European football didn’t put him off.
Shunsuke handled the question perfectly, “I am not here for six games of football, I have signed for Celtic and hope to play here for many years.” Rumour has it that not everyone in the dressing room back then was equally as enthusiastic about life in Glasgow.
I’ve heard lots about Wakaso Mubarak in recent weeks, he appears to be a genuine talent, as well as being spirited. What is most appealing about him is that he wants to be here. This deal would not have happened if the player was not absolutely committed to coming to the club, and making his stay a success.
Back in August 2005 we didn’t know what we were getting with Naka, and I’m not going to burden Wakaso with a comparison to a player who turned out to be a transformational legend, but we need players with big personalities who can walk into the dressing room with the determination to be there, just as Naka did.
Welcome to Celtic, Wakaso. Be yourself and you’ll love Glasgow; Glasgow will love you too.
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SFTB
These groups you refer to are the gimps in the BetterTogether cellar.
It would be more honest, more representative, if they were fronting the No campaign, but they’re not. The face of No is Labour, Westminster Labour at that. There are damned few Scots based Labour personalities in the campaign.
Even the old guard, Helen Liddell, John Reid, and the rest, are invisible.
It’s Darling, Alexander and Murphy.
That said, I see the Prime Minister has started the EU Referendum campaign today with: “A large market, underpinned by a common currency, common taxes, common rules and regulations, with no borders, no transaction costs, no restrictions on the flow of goods, investment or people.”
I did get that right, didn’t I?
Tough to watch the CL Group Stage draw – will just rub salt in the wound as we miserably failed to take our second chance.
Still, we could draw Everton, Inter Milan and Feyenoord tomorrow in EL Group so all to play for
davidopoulos
If you’re a kit Kat Bhoy then all is forgiven. Surely no one, not even on CQN, could take issue with a kit kat?
Leftie
Peace n love pal. Many thanks for your lovely words the other day. You’re a wee blessing who walks quietly among us.
HH jamesgang
scullybhoy:
You don’t think there is a large percentage in Scotland ravenous to see the back of faith schools… really?
All this hot air about the independence vote.
Im really surprised, considering the obvious intelligence on the blog, that posters want to be so idealistic…great sentiments.
But the result of independence vote, will be the same regardless.
A political elite in control.
What difference does it make in the end, not very much.
Just the same old faces.
BTW….Guy Fawkes had the right idea:)
HH
Edinburgh juries… gotta love them.
Syd Negakev
16:50 on 28 August, 2014
Davidopoulos
But would the North Twix be better on its own or is it better together with South Twix?
Decisions!
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Personally I would say they should both be eaten together, but North Twix should be given a lot bit more choice in how it should be eaten.
Hang on, what currency did you use to buy this Twix(es)?
murdohbhoy
True, but I believe he will work within it.
And, RD will pick him as his onfield coach in his system.
Noses put out I think by this too.
HH
The Battered Bunnet
16:51 on 28 August, 2014
Great!! :-)
Barcabhoy
It’d be great if you reposted your spot-on contribution @ 12:34.
A repost every 5 minutes should just about be enough.
I’m not telling you what to do with your money, but me, I’d be looking at English registered banks to deposit my stash.
The Greeks and Cypriots could tell you some stories.
Yogiy
16:39 on 28 August, 2014
Haven’t watched your video. Is he the guy who married the stripper?
The Green Man:
I agree with you that there’s a risk that we’ll merely replace one band of elites with another, but this band will be right on our door, where we can genuinely hold them to account.
It gives us a fighting chance mate. That might well be all it does.
But I liken it to being in a burning building, and someone suggests climbing on top of the water tank to escape. Are we really going to reject that possible path because we might fall in and drown?
We’ve got one chance to get off this ship … and after that we go wherever it takes us, and I suspect it’ll not be to distant ports filled with treasure … this one’s holed below the waterline Sevco style and going down.
James Forrest: The Corporation Tax is only one issue but my concern there is that by cutting it, I feel that it will become a competition between iScotland and the rUK for jobs. In that scenario the only losers are the workers. If the Vote was for a republic, out of NATO I would be a definite yes. As it is I support neither the public school educated elite in Westminster nor their millionaire backed Tartan cousins. Just my humble opinion. HH
NB
Re Cellar of Gimps:
It was BlantyreKev who came up with the ‘gimp’ analogy for the missing Tories. I just added the collective ‘cellar’ for the rest of ’em.
AttributionCSC
timmy7_noted:
I think they will be history but only a Yes vote and a bit of time will tell. Me? I’m not a gambler with the lives and the future of my kids.
bhoy42
16:50 on 28 August, 2014
‘In my opinion if you support the cause of a united Ireland you have to give the Scottish people the same opportunity.’
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You mean like give us a chance to vote in a referendum and make clear what our views are?
Is that what you mean?
James Forrest
Yes, the Celtic supporters who are scared of them need to take a long look at themselves.
They are nothing to do with us and if we have to play them we have to play them.
I don’t see how Celtic supporters going to Celtic Park is going to save them. If they’re going to go the way of the old Rangers that will happen in time.
HH
Just back in.
BRTH
Celtic. Championship? Put me down as a YES!
davidopoulos
16:44 on 28 August, 2014
Syd Negakev
North Twix and South Twix comrades all…..
Kikinthenakas
TBB
“There are damned few Scots based Labour personalities in the campaign.”
I think the “in the campaign” bit was unnecessary.
Where else would the best talent in the Scots Labour Party be than in the seat of Central Government? I bet Alex fancies going back there when he loses next month and relinquishes leadership.
As for Cameron’s statement today, he is campaigning on two fronts. To the country at large and to his own party faithful. I would no believe any statement as gospel.
Still, if you believe in the inevitability of a UKIP/Tory 1000 year reich or even on them winning the next election, you can get generous odds that will make you as rich as Midas/Soros.
P.S. I never got a reply to my last post on our previous debate about the difference between nasty individuals or organisations backing one side or the other in the Yes/No interlude.
kitalba
16:57 on 28 August, 2014
I’m not telling you what to do with your money, but me, I’d be looking at English registered banks to deposit my stash.
The Greeks and Cypriots could tell you some stories.
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Mhate for someone who claims not to be telling him what to do with his money…….it sounds a lot like you’re telling him what to do with his money!!!!
:-)
HH jamesgang
JF
I will vote yes, out of desperation.
But in any case, if the yes vote looks like it could succeed, they will simply rig the vote.
They wont want to lose their huge earner.
Democracy….it doesn’t exist, its a figment of the imagination.
HH
kitalba:
I would stipulate that if you live in Scotland you vote No, that’s exactly what you are.
Gambling. With charcoal dice. On a table soaked with lighter fuel.
Matter of time before it combusts. If this country gives up, voluntarily, its right to determine its own future, we are going get screwed like never before.
You trust the people who lied us to a war? Who are protecting their own wee members club even through allegations of child abuse? Who fiddled their expenses and flipped their houses and sucked every morsel they could get off the public bones until they were caught, most of whom expressed no remorse, paid nothing back and have lied at every stage in this referendum campaign?
The Age of Innocence is not yet over it seems.
That is a gamble and a half.
kitalba
You playing a wee bit Devil’s Advocate here?
I am off to pick up my car. I’ll follow this line with interest when I return.
Earnie what I mean is if you support Ireland as a nation to deny Scotland the vote to be independent might sound hypocritical but I have my fears.
Davidopoulos
I wasn’t allowed to use Sterling, so buttons it was. That was my plan B anyway. :-)
Ernie sorry not Earnie as printed eye sight not good.
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox but saying no to CQN racists
17:02 on
28 August, 2014
Are you telling me that you’re in no way concerned about a long-term Tory/UKIP alliance? Given the completely disparate amount of air time Farage gets compared to other parties that (prior to today) at least had a seat in Westminster.
Also can you answer the following questions.
1) In 2012 did the Westminster parties agree in principle to the redrawing of constituency boundaries to reflect populations of approximately 60k?
2) In 2013 did this not get to debating stage only because the Lib Dems refused to back it, when the Tories wouldn’t back their Lords reforms?
3) Is it scheduled to come back on the agenda as early as 2018?
jamesgang:
I’m telling you what I would do.
James Forrest:
Voting No is every bit as determining your future as voting Yes.
SFTB
No I am not playing Devil’s Advocate at all. I’m voicing just some of my reasons why I would vote NO. If I was to speak to you in private I would voice a hell of a lot more and I would not be careful with what I had to say either.
I believe, honestly and sincerely, as one of the very few on here ever to declare his pride in being both Scottish and a Glasgow boy, that I would rather stay as is and keep my childrens future and safety as safe as I could.
If your kids wander abroad, which embassay are they going to go to if they get into trouble… the English one?
It be a better solution….just to have a massive traditional Scottish punch up at Bannockburn….just fists…..YES tribe v NO tribe.
At least we would get a laugh….Salmond, and the Morningside Grey give me the boak.
Yeah…lets have a big scrap to sort it out, I promise I will abide by the result.
Cmon
HH
Any political party that would deny its citizens a vote has got to be viewed with suspicion.
It’s country’s citizens….
Tradionalist 88
“Influential Posters” — jeez I really hope that ain’t me!
That is almost as bad as the level headed jibe of last week.
For the sake of argument I think I would be against the championship notion and I will tell you why:
I was brought up with Celtic in Europe playing against the Milans, Benficas, Madrids, Ajax and so on.
If we went down the Championship route we would be mixing with the Sheffields, Queens Park Rangers and so on and with no disrespect to them we would instinctively look upon such teams as a stepping stone to the EPL.
Let’s say we won the championship or even just gained promotion to the EPL.
Is that really the Nirvana many think it might be?
To compete at the top of that league you have to become like the top of that league. Owned by the sugardaddy with masses of money to spend or waste on the club.
Any semblance of ownership by the fans will not get you anywhere near the top of that league. Manchester Utd have just spent the equivalent of a whole years bloated TV money for a low lying EPL team on one player — and they will not be in the Champions League next year.
Further, as I have said previously, the set up with Celtic PLC as a business is such that under such circumstances, Celtic would be ripe to be sold like a chattel to the highest sports bidder with the danger that the soul of the club could be dropped ( might that be further dropped ) and in that sense would we really know the club that we support just now?
Of course the standard may well be higher than the SPFL, but the EPL ( and that has to be the aim for any Championship style move ) is a bloated league of teams owned by fat cats where the fans really are customers and no more.
I refer you to Roy Keane’s Prawn sandwiches.
Fergus didn’t have the right to sell me my own Celtic dream and i still long for a structure different to the PLC .
I fear that any move to the championship may be the catalyst for the worst of all scenarios.
Of course I may be wrong.
bhoy42
17:05 on 28 August, 2014
‘Earnie what I mean is if you support Ireland as a nation to deny Scotland the vote to be independent might sound hypocritical but I have my fears.’
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The majority of Irish people wanted to leave the UK, The majority of Scots don’t.
Ireland was a colony, it’s people were supressed because of their nationality.
Irish nationalism was part of an anti impirialist, anti coloniast struggle.
Scotland is not a colony. Scots are not supressed because of their nationality.
Scottish nationalism is not part of an anti impirialist, anti coloniast struggle.
Scottish nationalism, like English nationalism, is reactionary and divisive.
James Forrest:
Everybody who lives in Scotland is pure and innocent?
ernie lynch don’t think I mentioned the guy’s name so pleased you watched it, any comment on the content?
kikinthenakas
17:01 on 28 August, 2014
davidopoulos
16:44 on 28 August, 2014
Syd Negakev
North Twix and South Twix comrades all…..
Kikinthenakas
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That deserves a round of applause.