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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I despair when I look at the election results in the UK. The Left need to get organised. The weak state of organised labour gives thevlikes of UKIP the chance to peddle their simplistic, racist nonsense to people who should be voting in the interest of their class not their ‘race’ (sic) or nationality or some perceived threat to their livelihood.
The people who have decreased your living standards, slashed welfare, fecked the NHS, led your young men to pointless wars in the middle east, suppressed wages – the owning classes, the political classes. Not the Poles, the lithuanians or indeed the Irish.
If the barriers go will the rest of europe stems the flow of UK immigrants in to other EU countries? 1.5 million Scots, English and Welsh living in the EU…… double standards.
By the way there is one Italian I would not employ and if he gets the celtic job I will have to consider withdrawing my financial support until he goes. No Fascists at Celtic Park please.
snake plissken,
When the NF got a bit off credibility among the bigots it was laughed off.
Farage, is a different ball game, he is collecting votes from voters that need someone to blame for the mess our country is in.
I’m just a bloke with open eyes…he needs reeled in before the bandwagon accelerates.HH
micktt, 10:32:
Really disappointed to hear that. I think Steve Clarke would do a great job.
Fully understand his reticence mind given Neil’s treatment.
Wouldn’t feel very excited by either Malky or Morten but then I was especially underwhelmed when Neil was touted and was gutted to see him go.
Would still really love the Board to tempt Davie Moyes with a bit of a transfer budget and a real crack at the CL…
delusionalCSC
Steve Evans the Rotherman manager ,big hoops fan, i wonder what council estate from glesga did he come from. quite a good manager i hear.
Rounding off a pleasant w/e in Edinburgh, centred on grandson’s First Communion.
Very interesting to see the large percentage of obviously Polish children receiving the Sacrament.
Beautiful kids, which augers well for the future gene pool of the city; less and less “nippy sweety faces” : > )
Had the obligatory football conversation with a taxi driver on Saturday.
After a bit of verbal sounding out, we identified ourselves as a Hibbee and a knowlegeable, handsome chap.
The only thing he disliked more than Butcher, was Hearts, whom he hated with a vengeance.
Also chatted with a Celtic man on Sunday, whilst Hibs were performing their Dying Swan act.
The only thing he regretted about it was, that as a local Celtic man, he would miss out on a couple of “doorstep” games a season.
He felt that the absence of Hibs in the top league would stop the neds who terrorise and vandalise the city whenever they have a home game.
I disagreed, as those thugs have no interest in football and would still turn up, no matter what league they are in.
It all came to me in a dream….or was it a nightmare?
Malky McKay will be new manager, Vincent Tan will then buy Celtic from DD and insist that we play in royal blue shirts…
Auldheid
11:30 on 26 May, 2014
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Thanks for reply.
Hail Hail
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sipsini
11:31 on 26 May, 2014
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Thanks for reply.
I always worry about the Celtic.
It takes all sorts – CSC
Hail Hail
timbhoy2
One of the guys in the office was just talking about him says he mentioned his family in Cambuslang during an interview after the match.
FFin’ Copa del Ramsden:
“Keep reading about how the Championship will be a cracking league next year and so it will. But what about the Ramsdens Cup? That’s going to be a belter as well.”
——
“Really wanted to win this, bit more competition will make it all the sweeter”
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“I really hope that we win the Ramsdens cup this season. People say that the cup means nothing, but to me I want to win it as we probably will never get the chance to win it again.
If we win it and the 1st division I can say that I have saw Rangers lift every single domestic trophy that is possible in Scotland.”
Ernie Lynch
The Scottish electorate, the people who live in and are registered to vote in Scotland.
Basic logic dictates if a referendum comes along it is the decision of the largest part of the UK which will carry the overall decision.
In short if you live in Scotland your vote doesn’t count because another part of the UK can and probably will make the decision for you even if every man and woman who could vote in Scotland did.
Better together eh?
The only way it would be fair is if everyone voted the same way overall and as we have seen in these elections the two parties with the largest vote in Scotland – SNP and Labour are pro-EU (at least until Miliband caves and chases the right’s vote in England).
Imagine a vote where Scotland within the Union says we want to stay in the EU and rUK says tough.
We have to accept that and I think that is not democratic.
Is it likely that both Scotland and England would vote the same way? Maybe but maybe not.
Is it more likely that the English electorate with greater ramping up of the anti-EU pro-UKIP agenda in the media might go a different way? I think so.
UKIP will not win a majority in Scotland. They can in England and they have proved it.
They have come top in England.
They were 4th in Scotland.
Be afraid.
Hope you all realise this is the 47th anniversary of the day after we won the European Cup
auldheid
10:50 on 26 May, 2014
Niolla83
Compared to Ajax, but because we play in a league with poorer quality opposition, Celtic have done well in terms of appearances in Europe since we embarked on the buy low sell high policy.
It is a learning process though and one lesson that I think the sale of Ledley demonstrates we have learned is not to have too many sales of first team regulars at the end of the season. That increase the risk of another Karagandy nail biter as it takes time for new players to find their feet.
SydneyT”s focus on Peter Lawwell’s pay which PL sneaks past the Celtic Board blinds him to the bigger picture that you paint.
On McGeady my recollection is he was the guarantee of failure to qualify not pushing our debt past tolerance levels. If that was the year we drew Arsenal then you can see why we hedged our bets.
It is not so much that we bought poorly last summer but that we sold too many at the same time, although my recollection is that all 3 players Wanyama, Hooper and Wilson wanted to go.
That we bought poorly is a fact that turns into a stick to have a go at Celtic and I would hope how those purchases came about is being re-examined to prevent a repeat.
Auldheid,
I think it’s a bit of both. We did sell too many players but we also did buy poorly. I actually believe that Biton and Pukki will be much better next season. Hard to see Balde or Boerrighter making an impression.
I just get really mad with the people who suggest we should abandon our current strategy because we signed a couple of bad players last season. The number of successes versus failures since we implemented the strategy in 2010 is about 3:1!!!
Nick Griffin loses his seat and the BNP lose both their MEP’s. Maybe it’s not all that bad.
Anyway……
If, NL and BJM were still in charge the now – where
would they be?
I’d guess – away on holiday.
I assume thats where the ‘bored’ will be the now?
Oh, and afore I forget….the ‘bored’ and PL,DD etc
will be lying on some sunkissed beach somewhere
paid for by – Mr & Mrs Celtic supporter.
Well done.
Sean Thornton
Sevco do have the biggest budget and should be the favs for the toughest league in the world
Perhaps Stewart is setting up ole Sally ….for when sevco fail miserably under his charge
Mea Culpa
11:47 on 26 May, 2014
How about WGS again?
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Yer kidding, right?
Aye, get WGS back and let him finish what he started
ie: the emptying of the stadium.
Sipsini
Called the ukip scenario spot on IMHO. Challenge is how to deal with the beggars isn’t it…..
(Completely insincere) apols to any lurking CQN kippers that I may just have offended!
HH jamesgang
Cant seem to get my head round this anti owen coyle thing, what has the man done to have a lot of celtic supporters ,who dont want him as the next celtic manager. me i dont think davie moyes will be the new coach, wages for a start that celtic,couldnt afford, di canio.no chance, garcia no chance , malky mckay maybe, stevie clarke i dont know about him , looks a dour person to me, john collins could be , even zola, but i think we should take a chance with henrik.or owen coyle.
Nigel Farage is a very influential Freemason.
Lots of Scottish politicians like Nigel Farage.
Nigel Farage has some very ‘American’ views on gun control.
Lots of American politicians like Nigel Farage.
Nigel Farage was involved with a company I once worked for.
I do not like Nigel Farage.
Nigel Farage is working for someone else’s agenda and this will become clear.
Like most politicians he is a self serving parasite who bleeds the taxpayer for as much as he can,while working for other interests.
He gives a good opportunity for someone with opposite views to oppose his ‘policies’ and in turn be elected to serve themselves well and bleed the same taxpayers dry.
It’s all a game.
Trust no politician……EVER.
KevJ:
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TNT
Now I prefer to read your posts, but you could have pointed drwhatfor & solmick to Celtic News Now :-)
Cowiebhoy, yes indeed I could, but some bhoys prefer to read the stuff on here I think rather than jumping in and out of newsnow. Agree though that if people are happy to do that, I’m happy to stop the cutting and pasting! Particularly since I need to delete so much crap adverts that are attached to each of those newsnow stories and there seems no way of copying just the bits I want.
Point noted.
Monaghan, the mirth provider extraordinaire!
Billy says
“I really hope that we win the Ramsdens cup this season. People say that the cup means nothing, but to me I want to win it as we probably will never get the chance to win it again.”
Timmy says,
‘Actually I think you just might!’
HH jamesgang
Snake Plissken
11:58 on 26 May, 2014
So the Scottish people all have identical interests simply because they’re Scottish?
That sound a bit like UKIP’s approach.
There are three fholk who – imho – would do the Celtic
job and, then some.
John Collins
Roy Keane
Mark McGhee
all in my humble opinion.
Kev,j
Although I don’t agree with some of your posts, I find you honest and true.
Catch a beer with you sometime.
Bed for me now, nightshift beckons. Hail Hail
roberttressell, 11:47:
Couldn’t agree more.
We are desperate for a left fight back.
– renationalise rail and the utilities (the notion of private sector efficiency and low prices shot to shreds)
– an end to council house sales and a (job creating) programme of building social housing to offer an alternative to the insecurity and rip-off rents of the private rented sector
– curbs on no or low hours contracts especially in huge retail sector companies
– an end to benefit cuts, abolition of the bedroom tax and higher taxes on the most wealthy
– a welfare system that positively incentivises work rather than forcing people to swap poverty on benefit for poverty on zero hours rip off ‘jobs’
The list could go on and on. The people are paying for the bankers crisis and poorer people are paying he most yet the only alternative electoral option is the bigotry of Farage. Its crackers..
In the rulebook of the Scottish Professional Football League there is this little gem-
E8
A Club may appeal against a deduction of points in te
rms of Rules E1 to E6
(inclusive) on the grounds that:
E8.3
the Insolvency Event or Insolvency Process, which gave rise to such points
deduction, arose as a result of a Force Majeure Event.
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now if sevco are to have an administration event sometime in the near future could the spivs claim that Dave King’s actions have resulted in an Force Majeure Event.
Now ordinarily I would laugh at such a suggestion but could this be the straw that Sandy Bryson clings to while looking to save his club?
“Force majeure is generally intended to include risks beyond the reasonable control of a party, incurred not as a product or result of the negligence or malfeasance of a party, which have a materially adverse effect on the ability of such party to perform its obligations,as where non-performance is caused by the usual and natural consequences of external forces, or where the intervening circumstances are specifically contemplated.”
http://spfl.co.uk/docs/067_324__therulesofthespfl_1375800603.pdf
Mea Culpa
12:06 on 26 May, 2014
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Yeah, yeah….I’m away
off oot tae hide ma big riddy :))))
Hail Hail – laters…..
sipsini
12:09 on 26 May, 2014
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Enjoy yer kip – amigo
Hail Hail – Off oot this time…..
ryecatcher @ 12.06
Churchill was at least right when he said that democracy was the absolute worst way to run a country until you considered the alternatives.
Similarly politicians. A few are good, some are bad, most are average. Much like the rest of us.
That said I wouldn’t challenge a single word in your analysis of Farage. A dangerous fool who’s less foolish than he would like us to think.
HH jamesgang
Kev J
Loved wee Collins as a player, kept us going in the 90s, think he’d be a good shout.
Keane doesnt take any shit and would be able to handle the “goldfish bowl” in Glasgow
Mark McGhee ? No
Nir Biton has the potential to be our best passer of a ball since Paul McStay. He does the simple things well and keeps the ball moving, an important part of football. He also needs team mates moving to give him a pass to make.
A perfect example was the pass he gave to Lustig in the seven nil game at Tynecastle in the lead up to Ledley’s goal.
One of the best examples of player movement was Paul’s pass to Chris Morris at the 1988 ne’er day game. Chris made the move forward knowing full well Paul would get the ball to him.
Paul was an excellent player in a very good team and a great player in a poor team due to the lack of good quality team mates in his last seven years with us who did not have the nous to move into space for Paul to pass to them. .
Biton has different attributes to Vic, he is a better passer of a ball and reads the game better but doesn’t have the same presence. A mix of the two would be ideal but way out of our fiscal policy unless we find someone of that fit for less than a million. .
Latest from ole Twists and Turns is that Force Majeure has sprained a fetlock, but should be fit to run at Haydock early next month; if there’s not much more rain and the ground dries up.
Kevjungle
Now if only there was a way to put supporters money straight into players pockets (who are also lying on the beach ) and avoid those nasty bored folk who should work for nothing your world would be utopia.
Unworkable though.
Well Said,Ernie..!
We Don’t Need No Mouthy ‘Anchor Baby’ Fae Ruritania..
Lecturing Jock Thamson’s ‘True Born’ Sons-Of-The-Soil…
About How They Should Be Voting…
Up The Hoops !
West wales… I like it. Even some on the right are talking about the railways coming back in to public ownership. If we could claw back those losses we will have done well. The housing, imo, is a huge issue.
Snake Plissken,
That makes no sense. We would do what the majority of people in the country wanted – that’s how democracy works.
It’s like saying that Glasgow has no say in the independence referendum as it will have to do what the rest of Scotland decides.
So, Scotland just the same as the rest of the UK.
Who knew?