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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THE EXILED TIM
13:43 on 26 May, 2014
Well said sir
Just now BBCR4 is serialising David Goldblatt’s history of Brazilian football.
Gavin Mc cann
http://www.onfieldsofgreen.com/who-will-succeed/
HH
Celtic Glasgow 1967 Lions of Lisbon
A 13min break from politics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_6MLX1YHdI
Till later all
The Exiled Tim,
We don’t matter.Remember when Ireland voted against the Lisbon Treaty in 2008?What happened?the vote was done again in 2009 so the Irish people could get it right that time.
Cowiebhoy. Just arrived back on the time machine. Is this a Celtic blog or has it become a place for politicians, real or otherwise? Appears not much was said on here yesterday about 25th May.
Kevtic 13:10
mentioned that the following teams in the SPL might struggle to attract more than 5,000 fans at games
Motherwell,
Inverness,
Ross Co,
St Mirren,
St Johnstone,
Hamilton,
Partick,
Kilmarnock
There is a possibility that the hearts, hibs and the sevco might get more crowds
anyway, for me its time to stop showing live scottish matches and i wonder how much of a hit each club would take.
Aditionally can scottish fitba control/influence when Sky shows live EPL games too
I reckon that live fitba stops fand going to see fitba
why would a 50/50 supporter pay 28 quid in a cold november evening when its live on TV in the warm pub, near home, that serves beer too
time for the sunday morning kick offs to be kicked out
Where is ole Mort?
My post of 13:52 is truly woth a watch
Tommy & Stevie at 8:47 is a joy and Stevie referering to Big Billy as
“Mr McNeil the captain of our club” had me filling up.
Hi BMCUWP,
Have you heard about the Yogi Hughes & BRTH & Auldheid ‘smoker’ at the WImbledon Irish Centre (home of the Wimbledon CSC) on Saturday 21st June?
The Honest Mistake is currently locked in a darkened room until he finishes creating some form of ‘e-flyer’, hopefully later on today….
Read your comments on the Farage (in the best traditions of populist rightist anglo-politickos he is of course of immigrant stock, German Huguenot) effect with interest.
FWIW, it seems to me the appeal of UKIP is being subtley mis-represented by the media here. It is supposedly a single-issue party, so naturally much of the heat around it is centred on it’s anti-EU stance, and the concomitant xenophobia that many of it’s office-holders and supporters find hard to disguise.
For me though this is a massive protest vote, similar only to the 15% of us who voted Green in a 1990 local/EU election round. This was of course a ‘mould-breaker’, yet 25 years later there is only one Green Party MP. Of course most of those Green votes went back to Labour at the next gen. election.
Many, many people are voting UKIP to give the political class, the ‘Westminster Village’, a good kicking. Since the ‘Westminster VIllage’ is a symbiotic frenchie between the elected, their runners and funders, and the media junkies that dole out the endless ‘gleeful, insider-toned’ reportage….well no wonder it’s easier for them to focus elsewhere.
Cut across political allegiances and you find folk anxious over the same things….massive insecurity and anxiety about things which one could seemingly previously exert a decent amount of control over…
Job security and prospects….home/housing costs and security of tenure….we all know the script. Erstwhile Labour voters will respond to this with grumbles about corporations, disaffected Tories with moans about the EU and immigration policy.
If there had a been a well-crafted folksy left-wing anti-machine politician for the disparate groups to coalesce around they would soon attract a significant polling presence.
Your point about the BBC backing us into a situation whereby we are forced to acknowledge the UKIP manifesto as mainstream reality is excellent and well-made.
The political villagers exist in this adversarial world and seemingly know no other form of presentation.
setting free the bears supports res.
12 & oscar knox
13:29 on 26 May, 2014
ryecatcher (and TSD)
You can judge his honesty and
intelligence on this:-
Farage & O’Brien
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Nigel Farage Was Asked A Direct Question,By A Member Of The Public..
At An Election Rally:-
“Would You Be Concerned If EIGHT Romanian Men Moved Into The House Next Door?”
Given The Horrendous Crime Statistics Associated With Romanian Migrants In UK..(As A Group)…
This Scenario Would Obviously Elicit Momentary Anxiety….
Before One Ascertained That They Were Band Members Of Romania’s Top Rock Combo….
Or Half The Dinamo Bucharest Squad…
‘Course,Unwashed Leftie O’Brien….
Then Went On To Give A Nonsensical Comparison..
“Would You Be Concerned If A Family Of German Children(!?) Moved In Next Door?
Rod Liddle ,At The Spectator…
Rightly Passed Scorn On This ‘Drive-By Shooting’ Of An Interview….
By The Odious Unwashed Leftie..
—–
“Should we be worried about the vast numbers of German-born people living covertly in the United Kingdom? The Office for National Statistics estimates that in 2011 some 297,000 Germans were resident here, the fifth largest non-British-born contingent (after Indians, Poles, Pakistanis and the Irish respectively).
What the hell are they all up to? Sitting in smartly furnished homes, biding their time, and waiting, waiting. That’s what I suspect. A report in the Guardian a while back suggested that our German community tended to ‘stay under the radar’, an ability which mercifully eluded them 70 years ago. The paper also reported that while there were a few areas with significant German numbers — Kensington in London, for example, and Richmond in North Yorkshire — mostly they had simply assimilated with the locals, like terrifyingly serene blond-haired aliens from a John Wyndham novel. When the time comes and the signal is given, they will advance like automatons upon their British neighbours and set about them with an implacable violence, their eyes flashing weirdly.
In point of fact, I think the phrase ‘stay under the radar’ really implied that they were not likely to stab you at a cash machine and make off with your wallet. As immigrants go, the Germans are about as good as it is possible to get; economically productive, favouring small families, unlikely to commit crime and more than happy to integrate.
According to a hugely sententious man called James O’Brien, a presenter for the radio station LBC, merely to say this is to paint oneself as a racist. O’Brien had been interviewing the Ukip leader Nigel Farage, who had made the point that most British people would probably prefer to have a family of Germans move in next door than a family of Romanians. ‘You know the difference,’ Farage chided the presenter, who was so swaddled in his purblind political correctness that he actually — au contraire, Mr Farage — knew nothing at all, apart from his own utterly misguided certainties. Although this exchange produced a small media firestorm, a partial apology from Farage and Ridiculous Ed Miliband insisting that the Ukip leader had made a ‘racial slur’ — the public, I suspect, really did know the difference. And they would have been right.
A Freedom of Information request to the Metropolitan Police has revealed just how correct this horrible racist prejudice actually is. The request was for the number of arrests of foreign nationals in London over the period 2008–2012. Having read the data, I now wish to live next door to a Sammarinese, as only one suspected crime was committed by immigrants from San Marino across those four years. But then it may be that there is only one Sammarinese living in London, and he’s a wrong ’un. ”
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And A Doughty Romanian Migrant Springs To Nigel’s Defense….
Much To The Chagrin Of The Disgusting Jon Snow…
In A *CLASSIC* Channel 4 News Interview…(5minutes)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PzNsedunHHY
Channel4 News Fail. Romanian Woman Agrees With Nigel Farage’s Comments..
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9896121/Up-to-one-in-three-Romanians-arrested-figures-show.html
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F-
Must Try HARDER..!
TOOTING TIM
Thanks,bud.
Re the twentyfirst,this lecherous oul’ git is always available for them!
DBBIA,
I caught the first two parts of that – soooperb stuff:)
Apologies if this has been posted before;
You could be the new owner of Reading Football Club for just £1 after current chairman Anton Zingarevich put his 51% share up for sale.
Russian billionaire is looking to sell the club after they failed to win promotion to the Premier League, missing out on the play-offs in a dramatic final day of the Championship. Brighton and Hove Albion managed to pip Reading to sixth, with many fans invading the pitch in celebration after they were led to believe that the Royals had done enough to have one last chance at promotion.
Having finished an agonising seventh, Reading will face another year in the Championship, and it appears that Zingarevich lost his interest in the club after putting it up for sale for just £1.
The catch? The prospective new owner must be quick with their takeover bid, and be willing to take on the £38m debt the club has racked up in recent years.
Zingarevich is believed to have invested £25m in the club since taking over from former chairman Sir John Madejski in January 2012, with the businessman also helping with the search for the new owner.
It is reported that billionaire tycoons from Israel and India have shown interest in purchasing the club, with the promise to pay the debt off instantly, meaning that the club could press on with plans to strengthen the squad in a bid to return to the top flight next season.
The above is taken from the Independent
Time for Charlie boy to leave the Chateau and once again make a fast buck.
HH
Tooting Tim- I have just read the book; it’s very good but ultimately depressing.
This WC is just the first in a sorry trilogy [Russia next, then Qatar. Ggggrrrr] to show how FIFA have stolen the game.
FIFA’s ideal WC host is Sevconia.
I’ll not be watching it.
ernie lynch
13:28 on
26 May, 2014
Does the Daily Record contacting Di Canio’s agent and asking him if his client would be interested in the Celtic job constitute di Canio throwing his hat in the ring?
Yes.
Ernie
Even assuming that is what happened. It’s just asd likely that Di Canio’s agent did the contacting.
TheSingingDetective.
Thanks for the Farage link.
asd as.
Turkeybhoy
Great post about who we should be targeting for our new manager.
Surely there must be a decent coach other than those with EPL experience who would want to manage us? As you say Yakin would be a very good choice.
Btw a disgraceful cheap shot about Neil Lennon in the so called ‘Hotline’, that section those MSM cowards state is from ‘fans’.
I know we shouldn’t read or react to them but it really is time Celtic do something about them.
If they did it might encourage a few more season ticket sales!
new article posted.
Dontbrattbakkinanger
14:03 on 26 May, 2014
Just heard from a friend of ours, to let you know he had noticed on twitter that Morts dad has not been well,so that may explain his absence.
Germans in Richmond North Yorkshire. ?
I go down there to see relatives regularly and only time I saw
Any German sympathy was when at Euro 2000 I think a group were
Quietly cheering on Germany v Engurland in the pub.
Group consisted me my dad Brother a couple of brother in laws.
Engurland won 1 0 Shearer I think : > (
DBBIA – Fick FUFA
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xJZmbBbbwNQ/TC0UD0Zn9nI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/bWJx103CT8Y/s1600/IMG_2929.jpg
Ukip get elected on a piss poor turn out
Labour will have no problem moving ro the right, they have done so every time they have drenched themselves in power.Ed has already started tge chase for the ‘middle classea’ whilst his colleague Ed balls aligns himself to Gideons budgetary paramerers.
Labour appear to forget twas they(oor gordi) who deregulated the banks and Alistair wrote cheques.selective memory me thinks.
Ernie you still never answer what power Labour (old or new-yeh I rememberthat nonsense)will have when Scotland votes Yes.
Neganon
You poor little thing…..So easily bullied….Jackanory!
An Tearmann
Watch the current Scottish M.P.s all shifting their stance if indeed your prediction comes true and we vote yes! The Scottish Labour movement are terrified to speak their minds on possible independence in-case we vote no and the London Labour hierarchy take their revenge on the careerist M.P,s we have at the moment, voting yes to rid ourselves of the tory-kip policies once and for all is incentive enough.
H.H.
Coyle has ruled himself out of the running as he has unfinished business at his boyhood hero’s “Burnley”