When you and I write, whether you are aware of it or not, there’s always a narrative. Behind the words the subtext explains why we think a game was won or lost, why events on the park reinforce our world view, or, for some, just that they are angry people.
For most, our narrative is bound by the constraints of realistic parameters, although some are so afflicted by a heavily prejudiced world view that no amount of evidence to the contrary would convince them, for example, that they are being led by the nose by charlatans.
As the game drew to a conclusion last night, this troubled me. I was proud of the way Celtic played. They attacked a team from one of the top leagues in a way we’ve not seen since Juventus visited in 2001. It was glorious and gutsy, skilful and dramatic. But with 92 minutes on the clock, it was heading towards defeat. No matter the circumstances, defeat binds any narrative as a failure, glorious or otherwise. It didn’t feel like failure, but this was how we would remember this game.
John Guidetti’s 93rd minute equaliser changed the result and created some memories, but the underlying narrative would stand, with or without that goal: the improvement in Celtic since our August debacle is as profound as anything we have witnessed in 49 years.
Delighted to announce that our treble winning captain, Tom Boyd, will be attending CQN11 St Patrick’s Dinner at the Kerrydale Suite on Friday 13 March. We also have big Packy, wee Joe and conventionally-sized Tommy Coyne. And Archie Macpherson’s going to talk about the transformation which got underway 50 years ago that week!
Fill your boots at what will be a great celebration of our club and heritage, with a wee song or two from Patricia Ferns, and you’ll also help to build a school kitchen in Malawi for kids who often go without a proper meal. For tickets and details, email me, celticquicknews@gmail.com
Congratulations to the SPFL, Hamilton Accies, Georgios Samaras, Celtic and Scottish football fans for last month’s Goal of the Month award, which was won by Jay Beatty for his strike at New Douglas Park. Up with this sort of thing.
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RC
The Clash love Norwegian Vikings like Ronny.
Fly the flag!
C’mon the huddle
Belle&S fan night
001 Bhoy.. 00:38,
That is a great article, both the bhoys were flung in at the deep end and they performed superbly well.
Dundee Utd are, I hope, really growing as a Club and I hope their youth system is every bit as good as ours in the future, it would be great to see them back in regular European competition.
A highlight (one of many over the course of the weekend) for me last week at the Floyd concert.
Comfortably numb
the huddle….i say your wrong…the guys on a mission with the conviction of a convert…this Will go further…
Paintballs Coming Home – Half Man Half Biscuit
http://youtu.be/IxR0JY-FMh8
I see the Record is spinning the Collymore story as “right message, wrong messenger”. Ok then Daily Record, why don’t you grab the baton on this one?
Thought not. Have written to the editor anyway. Doubt it will get a response but will post here if it does.
Just in from the Script painting Glasgow green!
Put the game on for half an hour to relive a great Celtic night.
Ones of the best aspects of last night was the fans stayed with the team even at 2-0 and after Gordon’s mistake. The response from the Celtic end to Gordon’s error was a show of terrific support. I’m sure in that moment Craig Gordon became a Celtic man.
The two goals in two minutes was the best CP moment since the Karagandy last minute winner.
Delaneys Dunky
01:01 on 21 February, 2015
RC
The Clash love Norwegian Vikings like Ronny.
Fly the flag!
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How many Ronny D huddles did we do last week? ;))
Oh Ronny Ronny, Ronny Ronny Ronny Deila.
Do Ron Ron
Stuart Armstrong’s goal followed 15 passes – good stuff
This is the one.
I Remember this badly written (vandalised) on a yellow Glasgows smiles better rubbish
Bin In mount Florida in the 80’s
Gaz
Half man half biscuit
Ira
I don’t know what daft laddie would have done such a thing
FTSFA (Gary)
fieldofdrams …..i asked Keith jackson on twitter if he would persue Stan Collymores stance on secterianism…he replied i hate it….i wrote back….im not talking about will you write an article on it…but will you PERSUE it…no answer…but i will keep asking…till i get blocked …laughing..
Timbhoy2,
John Hayes is still alive, sorry for the misunderstanding, just hi lighting what a great servant he is to Celtic.
Sorry.
Sean
Petecahah
Belfast Tims we met agree with us.
Ronny Deila is not a naughty bhoy.
He is our Messiah
For the superb Celt, Bhoylo83.
Acperience 1
Enjoy what was a monster track at that Time.
Delaneys Dunky,
Apologies for a missing Ronny in the RD comment above.
Oh Ronny Ronny, Ronny Ronny Ronny Ronny Deila.
Afrika Bambaataa and JL.
Petec
Read more George Orwell. 1984
Belfast tims I met yesterday are world class drinkers. Apart from the pukers at GLA this morning!
Delaneys D,
Nah, not for me anymore, I know what is going on. I got right into what was “really going on in the world” and well, that is a dark avenue to go down because it just is.
Love is the Ki
I listened to 1984 through an mp3 download, am I wrong in thinking that there was a reference to a National lottery (or similar) giving people hope?
Really not sure now, as I get older.
RWE,
Sincere condolences on the loss of your son Tony.
AR
delaneys dunky,
How good was Thursday night and what about Belfast? I couldn’t see the game last night so had to listen to Tom Boyd and the guys on Celtic TV, they claimed for everything and went ballistic when the Guidetti goal went in, it’s those moments that you miss when you’re on the other side of the world but the feeling remains the same.
I was at the Eagles on Thursday night, magic concert and off tonight to see Paul Simon and Sting. The highlight of the weekend will still be the game against the Accies, keep it lit my friend.
AR
BMCUWP
Love, Love, Love.
I’m sitting here thinking, do I go and watch the game with DD&eddie or young Patrick, what a fighting Irish man.
It is going to be tight to get to the game because of the wee guys kick off time.
A noobie question, how late does the ticket office stay open after the game starts?
RWE
16:35 on 20 February, 2015
Our big hearted, beautiful son and brother, Tony, passed away this morning at 8.05am in Lexington, Virginia.
To quote BMCUWP, he won many battles but could never win the war.
When he graduated from VMI in 2001 he put an entry into his yearbook which said it all.
“Though my accent is different, I am and always will be a Scotsman and a Celt..Hail! Hail!”
Our thanks to all on here, past and present, who gave such support to Tony; particularly, SFTB, bognorbhoy, weebobbycollins, sipsini, bournsouprecipe, captain beefheart, thebarcamole, BMCUWP,embramike, ACGR, An Tearnam, blantyretim, and of course Paul – and many others who will need to forgive my dodgy memory at this time.
Tenthirty, if you’re reading this, you are a lion amongst men, and Cora still talks about you. Iain J, just in case you are a lurker hereabouts, you elevated our visits to CP to a level that made them unforgettable for Tony.
We are satisfied that Tony hung on to make sure we got some kind of result last night, and then checked out at 8.05 this morning, just in case we were unsure.
Always wanted to have the last word.
HH Mr Happy – leave the light on.
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House of Love
Tony, Rest in Peace.
Mum and Dad, God Bless you.
The game the other night was made to measure for not just Tim’s or for lovers of the game, but Scots of every persuasion….
Delighted for RD, but maybe former Scottish neutrals can move on from the past and appreciate a Scottish team up against the Money of Europe…
The Firm..The Scottish Firm?
Here’s hoping….
Roll On The Future, not 1984, but perhaps….
A Brave New World?’
HuxleyCSC
RWE
Cannot imagine your loss.
Prayers to Tony, a man respected by many.
Peace.
PJBhoynyc
03:09 on 21 February, 2015
The game the other night was made to measure for not just Tim’s or for lovers of the game, but Scots of every persuasion….
Delighted for RD, but maybe former Scottish neutrals can move on from the past and appreciate a Scottish team up against the Money of Europe…
The Firm..The Scottish Firm?
Here’s hoping….
Roll On The Future, not 1984, but perhaps….
A Brave New World?’
HuxleyCSC
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Hail Hail to, Most, of that.
You are such an inspirational commentator on here.
I hope everyone takes on board yer last couple of lines, be it Cocaine or a psychotropic drug.
Dark sarcasm.csc
Hail Hail my fhriends
Having reflected on the game in optimistic. Although I think we will have to score at least 2 to go through. I wish Lustig was fit. Taking nothing away from Matthews. Thought he was brilliant but Lustig is better defensively. Adam was brill in the win against barca but that was all defensive. Whatever happens its a riot
Travellerbhoy,
Adam made a mistake for the first goal, he didn’t tackle like he should have done, yes Jason gave a poor ball but we lost a goal.
Adam was sensational after that, and he, as much as anyone, took the fight to Inter.
DD might be right about a quadruple, who knows. ;)
We are still in there.
HH
G’Night CQN.
The Support is Celtic.
Just had a great idea that would pee of the zombies. We should get Collymore his gig on sky sports back, and complain that having gasgoine on the show encourages alcohol abuse and we should send in requests to talksport to keep him on the show. (Actually I sort of hate the logic in general of person x was this bad thing in the past (what ever henious bad thing a person was or did) so they should be allowed to be treated and discriminated against in terms of employment or protection by the law, if a person serves their time and debt to society then they should be allowed to move on and people forgive their ill deeds or else we should just have a death penalty for every henious crime like many states in america do….)
Mind one exception is Pedo’s who should not be allowed to work with kids unsupervised or where their interaction is extensive. I don’t think folk who are done for dogging or for peeing in public when they tried to do so without being seen I don’t think they should be on registers nor bared from working with kids unless their is other offences that indicate they are actually a risk to kids.
Any people having sex with under 13’s should never be allowed to be taken of the sex offenders register. It is easy to say ban all sex offenders from working with kids through from 0-15 but when some are on such a list for peeing in public or dogging with adults and not child sex activities for some its just not fair.
Others maybe did a Position of trust violation with over 16s, certainly that means to me they should not work again in education of the 13-17 age range, I don’t think in most cases it means they are a danger to under 13’s, those who are should be excluded from work with all kids, but most wouldn’t be as the thing that makes someone be stupid and exploitive (And very arguably perverted) with a 17 year old in their trust (its the leverage of power that is the main abuse) is very different from the thing, sick sick disease that makes people pray on little innocent kids.
I am not sure how society can ever accept those who abused unders 13’s, those who did sexual acts with under 16s without their consent or those who raped people of any age back into society. As I find these acts just horrific and unforgivable.
Is it weird I can forgive violent acts, eventually, if the person is contrite, yet I cant for the worst sexual offences even if 100 years pass. I guess the often prolonged nature of what sexual abusers do make it hard to forgive them for the suffering they inflict on others. I guess we are all guilty of treading a fine line between righteous outrage and becoming lawless, blood baying vigilantes. And maybe daily mail headlines and other tabloids which often take complex issues and lump them all in together means we all have to take a harsh line for evasion of inadvertently sounding like we are saying something isn’t a big deal. Its the nuances that are key and law should be for the protection of people and good laws should probably but not always be nuanced. Lumping the evils of Savile in with the pervy rock stars in with some american who hit on a 17 year old which is legal in this country only confuse the issue and trivialize the abuse real evil folk like Savile cause and the harm caused by the pervy rockstars.
I do subscribe to the theory a person can experience harm even if they think they have experienced a great experience as no doubt some in the later case still think years later (bragging about being with a rock star), how they feel is irrelevant as its the actual not perceived harm that is important in law. If it was perceived harm that was important then we would have some children still working down mines and tobacco advertising would still be legal on tv… Thankfully its not perceived harm we legislate for, which is subjective, but actual harm, which is much less subjective.
travellerbhoy
03:31 on 21 February, 2015
Guidetti & 1-0 could be written in the stars, I have a wee feeling Craig Gordon will make sure Inter will not breach his goal this Thursday
Just woke up on the couch with CQN still on
Away to ma kip, take care fellow good guys
Over&outCSC
CeltIc 3 Hamilton 0……..then Craig G will shut out Inter
RWE
So sorry to read of your loss, at peace.
My Uncle and Aunt lost there son to cancer some 15 years ago was just 3yrs old.
My gran, his mother, a very devout woman said to him, these things are sent to test us, my Uncle replied I don’t want tested I want my son back.
Words help but sometimes we don’t appreciate someone’s loss, I can only say I have two son’s and thank God I still have them and hope I never feel your pain.
Requiescat in pace
Rational Thought
Just for you – http://youtu.be/AgpQ6ndX9h8
Up at 6 to take daughter to swimming.
Spend 20 minutes scraping the ice of the car and making myself look gorgeous (successful in the former only)
Daughter has sore throat.
So read CQN and then back to bed.
Morning & good night timdom!
HH jamesgang
Good morning friends from a dry but crisp and frosty East Kilbride. Hope they’ve remembered to switch on the underpath heating at Strathclyde and Pollock Parks
parkrunindoubt?CSC
Aberdeen, Chelsea, Inverness, Celtic – the 4 teams picked by the remaining upright persons from LAST MAN STANDING 3.
Good luck!
CQN Saturday Naps Competition
Lads, for those who are in the CQN Saturday Naps competition, please go back and post today’s selection at the end of the previous article :
“Celtic 3-3 Internazionale”
All the best, fleagle1888