When I checked my phone this morning it was full of emails and texts about Kevin McKenna’s seminal article in the Observer on the treatment, or lack of it, Neil Lennon experienced during his years in Scotland. It placed a mirror in front of the former Celtic manager, for Scotland to look at its reflection.
The prime targets were not missed: the Scottish Government, the SFA and the conspicuously idle anti-racism bodies, while the “reserved professions”, the Tories and the C of S were marked for historically nurturing anti-Catholic and Irish sentiment in Scotland.
People outside Scotland will read in horror, perhaps tinged with a whiff of moral superiority that their own communities are not similarly afflicted. This, ironically, would reflect the moral superiority many in Scotland viewed the English with last week, as a sizeable minority of their apparently poorly-educated, old and white voters backed candidates who align with racist, misogynistic and homophobe views.
In CQN comments section Scotland has often been parodied as the worst small country in the world, which is absurd. In truth, its panorama of human values vary little from those shared by our neighbours or anywhere across the globe. To think otherwise invests more weight in racial traits than I’m comfortable with.
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Still waiting !
Never lost any sleep when NTL (Nae Treble Lennon) walked out the door
But will toss and turn over the next few nights with my decision to renew my season ticket for Celtic park without knowing who was going to actually be in our league next season
The one horse race just got that little more boring with today’s result
Paul67 et al
Some City Edinburgh. Nae fitba teams, but at least they finally have got the trams running on time!
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
Brilliant! Lets pack it out!
Zih
I was born in Partick. Your cousin Tam and I went to school together. We remain friends. Magic! :)
Oh and billy bhoy 05 I have now read your post where you say you want evidence of you looking forward to ridding Scotland of Union voters and comparing union voters with the OO and the BNP.
They are still on this blog and are a matter of record.
You seem to be in denial and have had similar debates with ernie who in the past gave you the time and dates of the responses.
You are clearly a liar and a fantisist too.
Your eagerness to find out more about ernie (bob may have been talking about me) shows your desperation to witch hunt people.
You are a low life. You deny you made those posts but why on earth would any of us make it up.
You have come on this site to peddle lies and half truths about independence. You have nothing else to offer.
Is that all you have?
Jim Whyte on Sky earlier trying to make league 1 sound more appealing the the premiership.Obviously all the Hibs fans were crying with joy Jim.
Mickbhoy1888 hope we get to cl group stages if not its going to be a long long season.
Paul67 and the rest
will thigs ever change in respect to the Irish Catholics being treated as @nd class citizens?
Discuss
Mickbhoy 1888
Aye very good .
Stevio62 only when we vehemently call them out on it…..
Nae Edinburgh teams next season .
Good means some of our games wont get moved because the EGG chasers are playing .
Stick your salt and sauce as well by the way.
O and before i forget ,
Pat Nevin GIRUY
P.s gonna be sum ramsdens cup next season. :-) :-) .
H.H.
The salt n sauce derby should take centre stage at the Fringe in August…
nevinknowsimmiserablenowCSC
mickbhoy1888,
Did you find the one horse race boring when a dead club was lording over us?
I know what I prefare.
DD
I live up in EK now, have not seen tam since his dad’s funeral shocking
I know. you’ll know Tam mills as well then.
Hail Hail.
Prof VAG says AYE
There ends the debate :)))
stevieo62
Don’t know,but with a huge influx of Poles,most of whom are Catholics, I believe the Catholic voice has to be taken more seriously now even though most of the Polish community aren’t entitled to vote.
stevieo62
Don’t insult the efforts of your forebears.
Or should that be Four Bears?
Paolosboots
We may sell circa 40000 season tickets for next years campaign……..nae Champions League Group stages and out of Europa before Christmas would see 20000 of those season tickets being left in the drawer most Saturdays thereafter
Does anybody out there really think that the Scottish government ( sic ) has any real power out there? Compared to say those who work in justice (Edinburgh court case verdict of not proven in Neil´s case) or media, football´s paymaster of today or the people who work in law or lack of law enforcement in our wee colony?
Keyboard hardmanning it csc
Connaire12
Still awaiting update with score
Nervous here :-)
Hail Hail
Zih
Aye bud, I have cousins I dont see till wedding or funerals. The downside of coming off a huge family. :))
leftclicktic We are all Neil Lennon
18:38 on
25 May, 2014
Phil MacGiollaBhain@Pmacgiollabhain · 16m
Note to Fitba authorities: Accies are up & Hibs are down as a result of Sporting Merit.
Remember that & don’t interfere to protect a brand!
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Jim Spence@bbcjimspence · 9m
How long before the calls come for a bigger top league ?
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Funnily…..or not so…..enough, i had been thinking that a bigger division might actually be something that Scottish Football might contemplate now……and that was before Hibs relegation today.
I have actually thought it might be a chance for other clubs to mount a challenge to Celtic and Rangers, although sadly(cough)they now NO LONGER EXIST.
Playing Celtic and Rangers in 8 league games a season meant that invariably the other clubs in the league struggled to win any of those games.
IF…..we had a 16 team league…..even when the huns existed……perhaps Hibs…..no wait….Hearts…..ah…..say Motherwell, Aberdeen, Dundee Utd…..could be the best of the rest and beat the other teams as consistently as we do?
Motherwell have been 2nd the last 2 seasons which is pretty consistent…..can they become better?
Can another team become a bit better than the rest and give us the competition desired?
Perhaps another manager like Fergie or Jim McLean may come to the fore again or a manager will be given the time he really needs to develop a team without getting sacked halfway through a season because the league is so cut-throat?
If ANY of these clubs can compete with us as consistently against the other 14 clubs, then a game at their own stadium or at Paradise might be a title decider.
I know we have greater resources and in theory be too strong but if we are only facing another challenger twice……who knows what THEY could be doing in the other games?
Ironically…..although i have felt the league should consist of 16 teams for years…..the league this year has been exciting in some ways for every club even though the top and bottom places were almost guaranteed before a ball was kicked, so maybe this format does have something?
Anyway….that is just me…..and NO…..I am not a hun!
To quote the scribe that is oor Kev(legend for that very thing)…..i am aff oot…..more beer to be consumed :P
theglasgowcelticway,
With respect, the majority of the Polish community are entitled to vote, however the vast majority of athletes who represent Scotland are not.
Not looking for a debate or the merits of right or wrong.
HH
zihuatanejo
The 2 Tams were great guys , ran a cracking bus.
neganon2
19:20 on 25 May, 2014
Billy bhoy 05. When you can explain why no supporters are the same as members of the OO or the BNP and why you will Remove those who vote for the union then perhaps you will be taken seriously.
But until then you look like a facist, bullying cybernat.
What will you do when you lose your independence vote? Go in the huff?
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You are the bully as you got into a wee group and launched a tirade at me.
I don’t peddle lies and as I have asked loads of times let me see the so called lies.
You said Scotland was a wee horrible and bigoted country, and more than once. I merely stood against that.
You are arguing on the same side as the Loyal Orange Order and The BNP, you may not like this but it’s the truth. At no time did I accuse any person on this site of being a member or the same as these disgusting and horrible people.
You also deliberately continue a lie. I’m no SNP member
As for Ernie: why do have so much trouble with me asking who he is?
I’m known by a number of bloggers and so are you.
What has he got to hide?
Hail Hail
DD
Yes mate at least we are the one big Celtic Family :)
Hail Hail
Connaire12
Where are you ?
Nae access to a Tele, or wireless :-)
Hail Haail
Four Green Fields, I was in the Smiddy after the St Patrick’s Day massacre and then onto the Pogues at the Barras. The Smiddy was absolutely bouncing and was a great warm up for the fantastic Pogues. Lou Reed’s perfect day was so apt after beating the stickies then seeing Shane and his crew .
I knew the chap who ran it in the early nineties, Stephen Curran. He was a friend of mine from school. We were in there for a well behaved stag night and he wasn’t exactly your genial tavern host despite the amount we spent . I have been in it very rarely since unfortunately.
Delaney’s, did you knowSteph Campbell lived in Boreland? I was in Loanfoot Avenue. Celtic was the connection to get to know a lot of good guys in Knightswood. I didn’t know anyone at first but through Celtic and the Lions bus, I was fortunate to meet good people but not peepul thankfully way out west.
dallas dallas where the heck is dallas
Is that Steph Campbell got brothers called Alec and Gerry ?
Mickbhoy1888 totally agree if PL doesnt get this right, no gambles, rookies, projects for both players and managers. If so we could be looking at shutting stands and lose peripheral income. We need cl group stages as a minimum and manager needs backing not selling our best players. If we do then its the managers shout.
Evening All.
Been out and about the Byres Road since around Lunchtime on Saturday so haven’t been in here to see what gives.
Hibs down, Real win in extra time, Lions in Lisbon.
Awe Naw
Now, I read you reply to my long diatribe of the other day and you have the wrong end of the stick entirely!
One of the things I don’t like at times about the internet you can never hear the tone or the voice of the writer.
Can I say most sincerely your post of the other day did not cause me any upset at all and I most certainly do not have a low or poor opinion of you and I most definitely don’t want you to think that I do.
This is a blog. A place to exchange thoughts, opinions, stories and whatever.
It will never be a substitute for a pub and face to face chat — one of the things I love most in the world — and there I have spent the best part of 35 years talking, yakking, opinionating, philosophising and generally talking cobblers — and al the time you have to listen to others and their opinions which you might agree with or not.
I don’t take offence at anything very easily, and I certainly don’t think that folk with a counter opinion to me on any subject are anything other than pals with a different opinion.
Dinna take this blog malarkey too seriously. It is bad for the digestion.
Up the rhebels!
mickbhoy1888
19:26 on 25 May, 2014
….and you get more boring by the minute….
Thunder Road
I totally agree with you. I have wanted a 16 team league for years for the reasons you stated. Two games against any team in a season is enough.
FGF
Cheers Mate, now got me thinking of the times when I was young
going back to Partick for a visit, manfields street I think.
HH
Billybhoy05
Did I miss your response…?
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
14:46 on
25 May, 2014
To sustain free prescriptions, free bus passes for the over 60s and other laudable initiatives such as no university fees, in the event of a September ‘Yes’ vote can anyone give me an idea what rate of income tax will be required? Can it be done on the 20p standard rate that currently exists or will it require a rise in the standard rate and, if so, roughly how much.
I would also like further information on the newly independent Scottish Government’s plans for old age pensions. These are set to significantly increase in 2016 for new pensioners in the UK. Will these plans be maintained or will the new Scottish Government have other plans. I would like information on what these plans are.
Can anyone help me with information on these issues?
Billy bhoy05 are you denying that you made those posts?
I never said you were a member of the SNP.
billy bhoy 05
19:45 on 25 May, 2014
What has he got to hide?
How about the FACT that he doesn’t have a vote in the referendum?