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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Burghbhoy
Aye, They are in it tight wi those rogues.
You in the hall today?
Paul67 et al
Fair play to Hamilton Accies. Not many clubs can claim to have produced two players, friends both, who went on to play in the EPL. One now at Everton, and the other, still in the Championship, possibly heading for Goodison.
Teuchter ár lá
Ive spoke on here in the past about that… he was a bad man… People forget he didnt allow the cameras into the Joe Craig game either..
Aye you lot aw laffin at the hi bees but wee pat nevins getting to go Tay loads a gemmes that you wulny
And he won’t hear any sectarian bile soon there
And Byra way ,,, don’t be sprized if a big multi national company gazumps ramsdens to get the worldwide publicity that tournament will bring
The Disney Cup ;)
….pfayr supports weeoscar
20:20 on 25 May, 2014FGF
And a crack at the prestigious Ramsdens Cup :-))
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I’d rather have a Ramsden’s fish and chips.
Och I stole that from my Dad, some Hun at his work was rambling on about the Ramsden Cup and he hit him with that, he was telling me about it yesterday and laughing away about it.
70 this year ye think he’d grow up…!
Ayrshire is Green and White
Four Green Fields, I only knew Steph. I got to know him through George.
The Smiddy and the Dolphin are each an oasis in the sticky bun desert of Partick. The stickies would beseige the Smiddy even when they beat us. They are a strange lot.
Delaney’s, Steph was a few years younger than you so it;s unlikely your paths crossed.
I was often asked if I played for Celtic Boys club. It was obvious those who asked me had never seem me attempt to play football lol.
I’m now in East Kilbride. I fell asleep on the 66 one night and have never managed to make the return journey. .
Fortunately, through the blog, I’ve realised there’s more Celtic fans than I thought up here.
The road down to Celtic Park is great as on a clear day, you can see our stadium. I still swell up with joy seeing it. I could never see it from the lowlands of the West End.
Teuchter
Nah mate wasn’t in the hall , was too busy tending tatties. Nurture is now my middle name.
Hope I don’t end up talking to them!!!
‘the bould bhoys’
19:57 on 25 May, 2014
Bmcuw & Micktt to name two
Aidy the tim
Quoting newsnet: not sure what you mean. Pls advise and I will respond
Greenlion2
I remember that game well when we won the league but that was Tom Hart who banned the cameras that day.
He, although not as bad as Swan, was a piece of work annaw’
dallas dallas where the heck is dallas
Steph is my mate , went through school together then joined the Smiddy bus . Went to the games with George , Tam , Dickie , Paul , Davie etc .
Drank in the Smiddy lounge .
Dallas
I work in nerston estate and come over the farm road by the rolls test bed on my way home to Cambuslang
Willie haughys new mansion is almost complete at the bottom of the raid and I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the stunning views it holds includes Celtic park
Billybhoy05 you put a link to a story on newsnet – obviously you believe it to be true? So in effect you are quoting newsnet.
Connaire12, what a trip for you
Enjoy the unbridled celebrations :-)
Champions of Europe, the Lisbon Lions
Hail Hail
Burghbhoy
Talking to tatties is good for them – perhaps you could teach them a few rebel songs.
There would not be a finer sight in the world than to see your green fingered sevconian neighbour being woken from his sleep to the sound of the whole garden bursting into a chorus of the boys of the old brigade.
Teuchter ár lá you are correct..
I was in the old big terracing as a near 13 year old among the Hibs fans.. we were not made welcome.. luckily all of the Celtic fans kept together..
https://twitter.com/tirnaog09/status/470646561564008448/photo/1/large
Spirit of Lisbon
HH
MSM no doubt will be sharpenning knives in readiness for whoever takes over from Neil
One of the plus points of today’s game is that Hamilton are not scared to go into lower Leagues and the Juniors to get players and coaching them very well.
Darian MacKinnon, the Accies midfielder, was playing in the West Juniors Premier league for Clydebank last season. He looks like and plays a bit like Broonie.
One of my son’s former team mates has been pro-youth with Hamilton for two years and is part of the Scotland u/15 set up. The last time I spoke to him, he told me the coaching he has at Hamilton has improved his natural talent no end. I hope he makes it, he always played with a smile as big as his ability.
Greenlion2
Was at the Celtic (dunbar) end that day.
Ended up in Pat Stanton’s pub in Abbeyhill.
Aye a few bad losers in there too.
HH bud
Is there really any need for all this HATRED? Its all ive read on this site for days now, even towards each other. Never mind the MSM prospective candidates will have to worry about, god help them if they read what’s said about them on here. Jeezo.
Houl yer wheest @ 18.18
Truly remarkable results. Surprised that you are surprised at Sunday Indo article particularly with “writers” ( now that really is stretching it) like Ruth Fudley Dudley Edwards and Eoughan super stick Harris.
Their articles last week in advance of the elections were absolutely scurrilous and designed to “queer the pitch”. It’s a blue shirt rag to be treated in the same way as the DR and has the same journalistic integrity. Ignore it, don’t buy it and ensure its circulation figures head the same way as the DRs.
HH and KTF.
Teuchter
Now there’s a plan.
Singing Rebs to the tatties, do they let folk into Canada who do that ?
COYBIG
Mcbhoy
Love and peace on CQN is the norm …. Your just noting the isolated troublemakers
Johnandyokocsc
setting free the bears supports Res. 12 & Oscar Knox @ 19:09
Auldheid
Weegie is an Embra word that I refuse to acknowledge.
I think the condiments they Embra folk use on their chips prove them to be the philistines :-)
Dear dear, and this from the chip eating, health centre of the Universe !! Real Embra folks don’t eat chips.
Re Jamesgang, well known fact the majority of chips in Embra are eaten by Weegies on Glasgow Trades sampling the joys of Portobello Beach in Scotland’s cultural capital.
Weegies + chips = heart attack central
Aidy the tim
Acknowledge your comment and will respond further tomorrow. Got to go
Ps Roy Croppie
That Spirit of Lisbon pic is unbelievable. Thanks, perfect for a screen saver.
HH
They let me in for worse :-)
Billybhoy05
Not asking for a critique of the article but obviously as you provided a link to the article you believe it to be true?
I find newsnet as fanatical as FF and certainly not balanced in its coverage.
Dallas
Your Aloyisius blazer was smarter than my Wrangler blue denim St Tams blazer. I had a Celtic and The Clash badges on it though. :)))
Greenlion2/ Teuchter
I was 7 and went to that game at Easter Road with my Da.
Stood in that steep terracing opposite the main stand.
Mind Joe Craig went to the Tally for a pint not long after that.
Stood outside for ages waiting for his autograph.
Take it he must have got talking to the Operator inside and couldn’t get oot?
micktt,
Age doesn’t wilt the love for the hoops…just ask tbj :)
Watched extra time and penalties in a Leith pub full of Hibs fans. Poisonous atmosphere including racist abuse of Accies’ black players. Seldom been so quietly pleased to see a team get relegated. Get it right up them
TBJ, they have been building there for the past two years at least.I thought it was flats being constructed. Normally builders have new flats up in about six months now.
My nosiness about if has finally been put to rest, thank you. It’s well seeing Mr Haughey is a millionaire, he will need to keep the heating on as it will be feezing there despite the great view of Celtic Park to keep his spirit warm.
City Refrigeration’s old call centre buildings next to Shawfield have been flattened. I went by there on the bus last week and couldn’t believe the changes along with a new pedestrian bridge just along from the road bridge.
The view from the new road from Shawfield up to Celtic Park is even better since the Celtic Way was opened.
Right off to the TOCSC for a couple o’swallies.
Burghbhoy….Later mate.
and BTW I’ll be able to spot any sevconian influences your tatties might inherit – that will be immediate grounds for disqualification.
C’mon the Cass’s tatties…..Oops!
ImpartialityCSC
Voting in Ukraine. New President election.
I heard that like mantra couple of times – fascist overtake in Ukraine. Bamboo and John O’Neil:
Radicals… if you even call them radicals:
Olech Tiahnybok 1,3 % votes
Right Sector’s Dmytro Jarosh 0,9 %.
Much better than Germany, Austria, Holland, France, Italy and few other old democracy countries. Watch less Russian propaganda in Russia Today and stick to the truth.
G’kids safely deposited back at their mothers in EK. Had a great weekend with them, they helped me out in the garden as I was building a fence round the patio. Saw marks are to be found on almost everything in the garden. Nails were hamered in to every surface that could take it. We now have a plant pot that resembles a hedgehog and I fear the trampoline may need replaced as Jayden tried cutting it in half. but hey who was the idiot that gave them the tools.
Already I am missing them, the noise, the screams and shouts, along with their ability to decimate a room in seconds simply gives me unbridled joy.
Life can be a pain at times, job insecurity, money worries etc but the poor joy of innocent children is something that gladdens my heart and puts a smile on my face.
We’re off on holiday in a couple of weeks and in the car on the way back to East Kilbride we were kidding the kids on that we had to choose someone not to go as the plane was full. Reasons for someone not going were explored, he farts, she’s got smelly feet etc. It was then decided I wasn’t to go as I was so annoying, then Jayden shouts “but Papa’s the funny one, we can’t leave him”. I was so chuffed, I just try to make them laugh and it seems they have noticed. On the way home I kept reminding Isobel that I was the funny one, I don’t think she thought I was funny.
Burghbhoy
He was in so long cause he was waiting for the ole operater to buy him a drink :-)
Bye this time.
mcbhoy
21:03 on 25 May, 2014
Is there really any need for all this HATRED? Its all ive read on this site for days now, even towards each other. Never mind the MSM prospective candidates will have to worry about, god help them if they read what’s said about them on here. Jeezo.
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You’re absolutely correct, irrational hatred – and there’s far too much on here – is a terrible, terrible thing. That’s why I direct mine at Atletico Madrid for the number they did on us in 1974.