I get that football thrives where it is a manifestation of tribalism. Across Europe and beyond club flags offer people more affinity with than any national emblem.
But, with one or two exceptions, it’s a largely innocuous brand. We get to wear tribal garb and indulge in our rituals without onerous economic consequence. The echo from the Great Recession, which we are still hearing today, has been a lesson in what can happen when a tribe perceives that its relative position has diminished.
That perception often bears absolutely no relation to reality, but widespread economic illiteracy makes us look like a primitive animals.
My only flag’s a Celtic flag. You are my only tribe.
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Burghbhoy
Donald Trump…… Yanks appear to be like Sevconians… complete and utter fools
I am Deplorable but no fool……..
Well, I guess U R another one I don’t have to worry about seeing in the USA, as I know you wouldn’t want to be seen in the company of fools.
I have quite a list of CQN posters that I will be keeping an eye on to make sure they don’t become hypocrites by stepping on a plane to come to the good old US of A………….HH
Greenpinta- lesser working people- really? A billionaire businessman with a gaggle of advisors who represent various US corporations tells them he is just like them so they vote for him. Like Brexit it just shows how gullible some people can be.
GreenPinata
I suppose where you start defines things, but yip, it was a landslide.
HH
MWD
Democracy is great when you get the result you want, trust me scotts cudny handle the heat :-)
HH
smear tactics are on social media – anybody can say anything and get clever people to believe it with no evidence whatsoever
hilary has never done anything of concern or wrong but nutjobs can their message out there now to large audiences as often as they want
Happens at sevco every week
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37923424
Gordon
In form Lustig Simunovic Toure Svietchenko Tierney ( Perm two from three in the middle);
In form Forrest, Brown, the recent Armstrong ,90minute Rogic, Sinclair.
Dembele /Griffiths varying according to formation.
Looking at the above, where and with whom would we strengthen in January?
JJ
Celtic Mac on 9th November 2016 6:15 pm
ernie lynch
Just wait till the dead vote comes in…
The dead people in Chicago were a little slow getting to the polls, you might say HRC got “STIFFED”…
weeman
apparently, Harambe the dead gorilla got over 11,000 write-in votes, and Lionel Messi got 1.
Both would been a better choice than Clinton, and certainly better than Trump.
As far as I am concerned, any celebrities who want to leave the USA are welcome to join me in Canada …. along with all the rest who may feel that they are not welcome in Trump’sAmerica … like Muslims, women, latinos …..
and if Messi wants to come to Toronto, I hope he does so in the next two weeks, so TFC can sign him up in time for our semi-final against Montreal.
Weeman ….
lots of good americans …. Trump just ins’t one of them.
We canucks may have a duty to go to America now …. somebody needs to rescue those decent americans …. maybe Canada should invade the US! :)
The US could become the largest Canadian territory! :)
It’s times like these when you see how intelligent people are manipulated to believe what they want you to believe.
The absolute pish that some are coming away with boils down to Trump is bad, HRC is good, had the msm been pushing the opposite I wonder what the people would be saying.
The same people who are scathing of the msm, yet they allow the msm control their thinking.
I have read on here from quite a few that Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable, Labour supporters, they hear this from the msm who are shittin themselfs from the likes of Corbyn, yet they spout this crap.
You will have to live with your pain, thankfully I don’t :-)
BROGAN ROGAN TREVINO AND HOGAN on 9TH NOVEMBER 2016 6:29 PM
Wee donation logged.
HH
BGFC
Re ‘Leaving the country if Donald Trump wins’ I wouldn’t put somebody else’s money on it
Being an ‘auld yin’ I can remember the ‘celebrities’ who were going to leave the UK if Labour won the first Tony Blair election (another promised the earth did f-all when he won politician FFS never repealed even one Maggie Thatcher anti-trade union law) and from memory there were some stoaters in there …. Jimmy Saville Jimmy Tarbruck Jim Davidson Cilla Black … all good clean living Conservative supporters ! Aye that’ll be right Jimmy!
JJ- a No 10, if wehad an experienced guy in MF v Borussia , we might have won the game, a wee bit more composure in the final third, would make a big difference IMO HH
*apologies for the football post
THE EXILED TIM on 9TH NOVEMBER 2016 6:35 PM
GreenPinata
I suppose where you start defines things, but yip, it was a landslide.
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No, it depends on whether you chose to use the term correctly or not.
A landslide is different to an upset. Trump’s victory was not a landslide.
STAIRHEEDRAMMY on 9TH NOVEMBER 2016 6:34 PM
Greenpinta- lesser working people- really? A billionaire businessman with a gaggle of advisors who represent various US corporations tells them he is just like them so they vote for him. Like Brexit it just shows how gullible some people can be.
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The Clinton machine dwarfed Trump in regards to finance, celebrity endorsements, and had the support of virtually all the media.. He is a maverick who didn’t even have the support of all his own party.
And with respect , you say the people who voted Trump and Brexit are gullible. I credit ordinary working class people with more intelligence and knowledge than you give them credit for.
HH.
mike in toronto on 9th November 2016 6:48 pm
Weeman ….
lots of good americans …. Trump just ins’t one of them.
We canucks may have a duty to go to America now …. somebody needs to rescue those decent americans …. maybe Canada should invade the US! :)
The US could become the largest Canadian territory! :)
Your opinion Sir and U R entitled to it………..
I want the Donald to build two walls, deport all illegals regardless of the country they are from, get the jails emptied and get the inmates back to their country of origin, and if Canada wants them so be it. I want him to withdraw all the boots on the ground from the Middle East, Let Europe handle the problems it is on their doorstep. Use the troops to guard the borders while the walls are being built. The money saved by not servicing illegals can be used to rebuild the infrastructure of the country and in so doing create jobs.
That’s it, enough banter from me today, to nice a day to be on here, sunny skies and about 80f with 6 footers crashing on the beach, what’s not to like. All you CQN’rs that are anguishing over the vote, don’t be a hypocrite……..HH
WEEMAN67
R u far from North Carolina, I hear the Klan are marching up there the day, do they have a marching season like our bigots here or are they just out celebrating Trumps victory??
HOT SMOKED on 9TH NOVEMBER 2016 6:38 PM
Tin hat on , I’d buy Shay Logan fae the sheep. Bury the hatchet and all that
just looking to see which american footballers are democrats …. hopefully at least one is a midfielder … maybe we cold convince him to move to Celtic!
have to say… I have been REALLY impressed with Michael Bradley …. once the MLS playoffs are over, I wouldn’t be upset to see him in a Celtic jersey … puts in more work than anyone I have seen since Ngolo Kante!
ERNIE LYNCH on 9TH NOVEMBER 2016 6:56 PM
Would you agree that it was a landslide or overwhelming change of opinion then. ?
HH.
Ernie
My defenition and yours may well differ, but he reversed what can only be described as a massive lead she supposedly had.
IMO that is a landslide, and my opinion is the only one that matters, if another opinion mattered I wouldn’t hold the one I do, tis just the way it is :-)
HH
GREENPINATA on 9TH NOVEMBER 2016 6:57 PM
‘with respect , you say the people who voted Trump and Brexit are gullible.’
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Any working class person in the US who thinks that it was in their interests to support Donald Trump is gullible.
Wait and see how it unfolds.
WEEMAN…
You sound so compassionate.
Is America not a country populated by immigrants?
EXSLAEMUIRBHOY on 9TH NOVEMBER 2016 7:00 PM
HOT SMOKED on 9TH NOVEMBER 2016 6:38 PM
Tin hat on , I’d buy Shay Logan fae the sheep. Bury the hatchet and all that
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I always value someone’s opinion, but Not for me.
1) He is not good enough
2) He has crossed the line for me. And more importantly,perhaps for some of our players too.
3) As I wanted Celtic to fight him and the football establishment all the way , it would be hypocritical of me to welcome him.
Hail, Hail.
GREENPINATA on 9TH NOVEMBER 2016 7:03 PM
In relation to the popular vote, the figures I’ve seen are remarkable close, so it wasn’t by any recognised definition, a landslide. Not even close.
Leaving the politics out of it I think part of the shock of the result is that some as vulgar and trashy as Trump has won.
HOT SMOKED on 9TH NOVEMBER 2016
Fair enough, totally get where you’re coming from but, I think BR can make him good enough.
Time to move on after the unfortunate incident with Tonev
Good engine in him and not scared of a tackle and young enough
I bet Bill Clinton voted Trump :))
Ernie,
‘” Any working class person in the US who thinks that it was in their interests to support Donald Trump is gullible.”
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In your opinion.
But I do agree with you, that we we have to wait and see.
HH.
The little I saw of the yank election build up it appeared the meeja were firmly backing Clinton, at the beginning trump questioned the logic of being in Syria or trying to face down Putin, he was ridiculed and some even tried to imply he is a communist ffs.
The reason the meeja are so shocked and calling it a shock result is because their campaign to instal Clinton into the white house failed. The yanks appear to be sick to death of political liars and thought it was time for fresh lies in stead of the same old same old, me I think it’s a refreshing change, he’s threatened the establishment let’s see if he’s got the balls to carry it through.
Ernie
IMO anyone who believes anything politicians say to get their vote is gullible
CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 9TH NOVEMBER 2016 7:20 PM
:-))))))))))
Ernie
‘” Any working class person in the US who thinks that it was in their interests to support Donald Trump is gullible.”
Probably, but he told them what they wanted to hear, more than HRC did, maybes cos she knew that she had sold them down the river and the trade deals she has endorsed, and accepted vast sums of money to make sure they went through on the back of, would make sure they would never have an earthly of work again.
There is a chance that the likes of TTIP and a few others can be stopped under Trump, slim but it’s better that what it would have been under HRC, this is why they voted the way they did, imo.
HH
Canman
Nail on the head :-)
HH
Who was the young lad who made his debut at full back.? On the other side.fromc keiran..
Was just thinkin if mikel is injured.
Celtic beat edinburgh 21-0, any links to the goals
HH
Talking to my eldest earlier. He is leaving his job in San Francisco and coming home. The bigotry, racism and xenophobia of Trump’s people has sickened him.
Well done, the Donald. Looking forward to having you home, son.
AN TEARMANN
Anthony Ralston, I would promote him rather than sign Logan…
AN TEARMANN on 9TH NOVEMBER 2016 7:29 PM
Who was the young lad who made his debut at full back.
May have been Ralston