Celtic notched up their 13th straight win in domestic competition against St Mirren yesterday. That period included two wins against Lazio and a meaningless defeat to Cluj in the Europa League. After losing to Livingston on 6 October, we were two points off the pace at the top of the table. Now we are two points clear and have the League Cup back for the fourth season in succession.
Celtic have played two games every week since July apart from international breaks, when most Celtic players are in action for their nations. Their return in this period has been nothing short of exceptional. Were it not for a rush of blood to the head by Ryan Christie in Livingston and some penalty blindness at Easter Road, the question right now would be “Can anyone take a point off Celtic this season?”
Work still needs to be done to ensure we enter the winter break top of the table, but this is a script Neil Lennon and his players know well. They deserve our trust.
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Auldheid
Christmas dinners is It?
Aficionados of a Dissertation on Roast Pig by Charles Lamb
http://www.angelfire.com/nv/mf/elia1/pig.htm
probably think the Chinese also invented shredded duck, but the history comes much later, not from a canton in China but the Calton in Glasgow.
It was discovered in the 50’s when I was aged 10 or so.
The Christmas tradition in our Gallowgate red sandstone flat (I’ve always been privileged by fate) was roast chicken for Christmas dinner and (for reasons that escape me for my granny was minted and was the poultry supplier, perhaps the size of our oven) roast duck was the order of The New Year Day dinner. No steak pie for us, oh no. Roast duck it was.
At that time bookmaking was illegal and my father plied his trade from the back bedroom of my Auntie Nellie’s Well ST flat.
(She lived to age 97 proving the East End of Glasgow wasn’t quite the death trap that statistics portray.)
Anyhoo on New Years Day there were a few race meetings and my dad would set off as tradition required to meet his punters and take their bets. Of course he was always offered a few haufs during the course of business so that by the time he staggered home in the afternoon, he could hardly climb the stairs to our landing on the first floor and chap the door.
Entering the long hall his luck was in as there was a bedroom to his right to which he was directed by my vexed mother and he unerringly hit the mattress even though he was asleep when he began to topple.
Now this became a New Year tradition, the only day in a year when the auld fella got paraletic, so we as kids had got used to it in a forgiving way.
Not so sure about my mum. This was in the days before electric knifes made slicing any poultry a breeze, so half in anger and half in ineptness, she tried to carve the duck but instead shred it to a T. Word got around, as half my dad’s big family occupied the Calton, that this was a treat to be tried.
Not many people know this, but if you enjoy shredded duck you might want to raise a toast to Auldheid’s Maw and Da for providing one of life’s culinary delicacies.
The Unknown Citizen
He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be
One against whom there was no official complaint,
And all the reports on his conduct agree
That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint,
For in everything he did he served the Greater Community.
Except for the War till the day he retired
He worked in a factory and never got fired,
But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc.
Yet he wasn’t a scab or odd in his views,
For his Union reports that he paid his dues,
(Our report on his Union shows it was sound)
And our Social Psychology workers found
That he was popular with his mates and liked a drink.
The Press are convinced that he bought a paper every day
And that his reactions to advertisements were normal in every way.
Policies taken out in his name prove that he was fully insured,
And his Health-card shows he was once in hospital but left it cured.
Both Producers Research and High-Grade Living declare
He was fully sensible to the advantages of the Instalment Plan
And had everything necessary to the Modern Man,
A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire.
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content
That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;
When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went.
He was married and added five children to the population,
Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation.
And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education.
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
Sorry, was reading some verse, some may find perverse, but thought it not adverse… W.H.Auden
You might be more familiar with this piece – which I think is fabulous – from Four Weddings & a Funeral – which Auden captures the human spirit.
‘Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone’
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
W H Auden
DAVID17
“They don’t have two pennies to rub together.” With respect, when has that stopped Sevco from entering the transfer market? Getting out their EL Group has already reduced their projected deficit, and they will already have calculated the earnings from a potentially winnable Last-32 game. They are all in to stop the nine this season, and will not hesitate to splurge again in January. If we win on Sunday, it would not surprise me in the least if they outspend us.
IniquitousIV
I always liked this as a kid, it scared me.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Obviously that was William Butler Yeats, not AOW
A wee bit of Blake- not the guy from On The Buses who hated Yeats’s midde name:-
“Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.”
So sung a little Clod of Clay
Trodden with the cattle’s feet,
But a Pebble of the brook
Warbled out these metres meet:
“Love seeketh only self to please,
To bind another to its delight,
Joys in another’s loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heaven’s despite.”
Well I’m no up there with Blake or Auden et al…But there again they know feck all about Celtic….
Can you feel it in your heart, can you feel it in your soul
Can you feel the rising tide of pride as the breakers peak and roll
Can you hear the those urging whispers turn to roaring calls and cheers
Can you see the Hoops and Paradise shine bright and vanquish fears
Can you taste the Celtic sweetness can you touch the Celtic sky
Can you stride with hope and glory with your Celtic head held high
Can you hold the burning dream fire, can your smile light up the dark
Of course you can and so can I as we march to Celtic Park!
Hail Hail
Matt
Written in 2005 on the event of the CelticQuickNews website being infiltrated by the dreaded Boche from down Ibrox way.
And as I read with wandering thoughts of what the coming years would hold,
Lost in dreams of CQN as ambitious visions did unfold,
Like me I’m sure that most of you who post our inner hopes and prayers
Ignore those sad and stunted folk whose lives seem lost in woes and cares
who hope that ill befall each one who states our wishes on this site
instead of joining in the fun they sadly spout their verbal (I wonder what rhymes with site).
So behind me get, you evil hordes who hide yer cloven foot with shoe,
Go mix some toads and frogs with spit, get up the close and sniff yer glue,
Then pray to him who owns yer souls who’s made yer brains turn into slurry,
From Beelzebub, you’re Satan’s spawn, so say Seig-heil to Mr Murray.
Hail Hail
Matt
No way I can match the previous posts on this page.
But I do want to repeat a post I made yesterday to provide some resolve into those who are worrying and wavering about Sunday’s game.
Our home league form is flawless.
The bookies aren’t fooled by the bluster from Ibrox
The best odds for 1×2 for Celtic FC are priced at 23/20 with Betway. This price can be used to back the team in terms of the 1×2 market. The bet has a 47% likelihood of ending up as a success for a punter. Bet £10.00 on this market today and you could easily win £21.50.
https://oddsdigger.com/football/rangers-fc-vs-celtic-fc
And off to bed I go
Celtic FC find themselves among the top100 ranked teams on 32 in the world according to the World Team Rankings, so that their opponents will be in difficult situation to beat them. The action is set to kick off with Celtic FC at 23/20 to win the game with Betway whilst the draw can be taken at 5/2 with Unibet and Rangers FC looking for the away win at 47/20 with Unibet. The correct score line in the game to finish 1-1 can be taken at 23/4 with Unibet which may go against the match winner market favourite but does offer strong options. As the action gets underway between Celtic FC and Rangers FC , you can back both teams to find the back of the net at 10/13 thanks to Unibet’s best football betting odds. For both sides to see out the game without incident and keep all eleven men on the field you can get 8/25 with Unibet.
” Strong ”
A euphemism for favourable.
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/18125215.rangers-boss-steven-gerrard-calls-strong-performance-officials-celtic-showdown/
INQUITOUSIV 12:58
You’re right, the Ibrox club will spend whatever it takes to keep their support on board in January. If they can’t stop us this season, they will spend big in the summer.
Having a well-run club is having a winning club to them. Debt is merely an occupational hazard to the Ibrox club, a means to an end. They see no shame in it. There will always be money available from somewhere to keep the name Rangers alive, because it would be inconceivable to have a Scotland without them.
Celtic, on the other hand, need to run a sustainable operation, I doubt there’s another Fergus out there.
ART OF WAR @ 11:38
Is there something wrong with you? Are you unable to be civil? Can’t you post a different opinion without all the accompanying vitriol?
Just let me day two things to you.
My comments on Tavernier were in the context of his career at Ibrox, I should have thought you would realise that – I was not comparing him to Roberto Carlos.
In future scroll my posts and don’t reply, your aggressive demeanour depresses You seem incapable of understanding context.
For all the Celtic fans on the blog…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=azghP1daq6s
HH
McNut, then do not come onto a Celtic blog and bum up the captain of Sevco.
I will shoot that down every time.
He’s half decent going forward but never a defender.
You see it’s not vitriol, it’s sarcasm that I used.
To put that in context, you were describing his performances as akin to a Carlos type.
If you post SMSM type stuff then expect a response. Other than that I wish you well.
Hail Hail the Celts are here…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dGY2_KyHpHg
HH
My mate is giving me the use of his season ticket for Sunday so travelling down to G-town for the weekend.
We need to take control of the midfield and nullify Morelos on Sunday and we should win. Failure to do either will see us drop points.
Celtic Symphony…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5AXJjY4BTLI
HH
Good morning, friends, from a dry but very windy East Kilbride.
Good morning CQN from a dry at the moment Garngad
A great read back with some great posts/posters, to intellectual for this auld dumb ass right enough, a great read none the less.👍
I would not say that Tavernier is some sort of super full back, but in any football team you have to stop crosses coming into the box, starve the centre forward and whoever else can reach between the penalty spot and goal line of any service and they then have to play through the middle.
I think if we stop their full backs and probably Tavernier in particular getting crosses in then it will make our job a whole lot easier.
We have the players to destroy Sevco, just tell whoever is on that left berth to get goal side of Tavernier at every turn and stop cross, he will turn inside and we can disposes and attack the space he has left… Seemples..😂. I know I am a tactical genius.
We have superior players and Manager and I am sure Lenny will get whatever tactics he uses spot on.
3-1 us
HH
D. :)
Disposes was meant to be dispossess
Doh
D. :)
DAVID66 on 28TH DECEMBER 2019 9:02 AM
Yes.
Tavernier was a ” danger man ” in the last game.
We should recognise that and be prepared to counter him.
Stop crosses to Moribundo .
Tavernier is a liability at the back for the huns. Granted he is effective going forward.
I hope and expect we will exploit his failings.
HH to all.
Tavernier is a genuine threat.
If you don’t believe me look at recent evidence.
Why just the last game we played at home against this opposition (in March) …..
….. he set up the winner.
Hail hail
And, no ….
Green Pinata and I are not a tag team.
:)
Hail hail
😂😂😂
GREENPINTA @ 9:36
BACK TO BASICS @ 9:41
MACJAYI FOR NEIL LENNON @ 9:11
Yes indeed, Tavernier is no world-beater and can, as we have seen, be a liability in defence.
However in Scotland and in Europe this season, he has, notwithstanding the ‘clangers’, been invaluable to them going forward. I know it sounds crazy to be marking a full-back, but in my opinion, it must be done where he is concerned. He whips the ball in with pace, he did it at Hampden, and to be honest goals should have been scored from them.
I would be in favour of Jonny Hayes & Boli on the left tomorrow, switching , back & forward, as the situation allows. Of course this would mean leaving out Ollie, with Jamsie out right & Ryan No10 – it won’t happen, Neil is intent on persevering with Ollie.
Amazingly , ploughing through the expletives on F.F. a few weeks ago , you wouldn`t have heard a good word spoken about Tavernier. Quite the reverse . How they wanted rid of him .
Almost felt some sympathy for him.
Almost .
Tavernier is both their danger man in attack and their weak link defensively he helped set up the invisible man’s winner in our 2-1 victory in the last Celtic Park meeting.
Not 1 Sevco player would get into our starting 11.
From McNallyMirror.
Not a word from this Tory hypocrite when Neil Lennon was the victim of vile sectarian abuse & attacks, bombs in the posts etc & Scott Sinclair suffered racist chants & had objects thrown at him at Ibrox. Two football men from different cultures that Fraser isn’t interested in. https://twitter.com/murdo_fraser/status/1210871114886533120
This was a while back he wrote to HMRC
Murdo Fraser, MSP, has written to the administrators of Rangers with some advice and suggestions for them. He wants them to rule out any bidder proposing liquidation. He believes that liquidation would not be a good result for HMRC, Rangers or the well being of Scottish football. You will find his full letter here – http://www.rangerssupporterstrust.co.uk/RangersFC_030412.pdf.
mcNUT
“There will always be money available from somewhere to keep the name Rangers alive, ”
I don’t think it was money that kept them “alive” in 2012.
Sorry- there should have been a capital in MC too. Apologies
Morelos is the danger.Improved his game.Has to be watched for the 90 minutes.We laugh at the amount of chances he has missed against us,what worries me is the chances he has had.One day,he won’t miss them.Big Kris will be marking again and has to do better than in previous games.
From @macaroni1888
Ye have to read this. This is staggering.
I honestly don’t know where to start with it, there’s so much to take in. It really is very, very special.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/alfredo-morelos-scottish-rangers-star-21171723.amp?__twitter_impression=true