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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Last time Hibs got relegated it did them the power of good. I genuinely think Ally will be bricking it at the moment. Even he won’t survive failure to get out of the championship…
legeng.-legend
deary deary me.
till tomorrow all
Kevin Thompson
Get it roon ye
Paul 67. I disagree. I have lived in England since 1976 (including 10 years in Spain) never have I been asked what school did you go to – a catholic in Glasgow has a cross to bear (pardon the pun)
67 ECW
TB on Shortbread has just said he intends to stay and take Hibs back up, if he’s allowed.
Did anyone catch Craigan’s comment before Owen Coyle cut him off to say “well done to Hamilton – they deserve to be there(spl)”?
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 ?
Delaneys dunky was at cp on thurs and saw you were there from the blog but couldnt see you. You must have been getting vip treatment from sky :-)
Fools the lot o ye bhoys! Hibs going down will increase sevco season ticket sales. Watch how the media spin the 1st division as the more exciting league!!
No top flight football in the Capital city.
Surely a European first
leftclicktic @18:38
You just saved me a post.
The thing is Sevco know they only have to get to 4th to get to a play off and then the honest mistakes will kick in.
Hearts currently are a better side than they are.
Hibs are pure guff but if they sack Butcher, they have a chance.
Falkirk, Livingston, Dumbarton and Raith will be no pushovers in that league.
This would need to be the season of the honest mistake to end them all given the non-quality in their team.
“We shall not be moved” needs to be rewritten…
hellmendthemsoldtheirsoulsCSC
Snake
Dundee are a fairly well supported team
The reduction in travelling support from the Edinburg teams will have a minimal effect on league revenue
In the case of DU ..they now have a derby.. As do Motherwell
StJ have another local match too as do Aberdeen
No Hearts or Huns cause they weren’t run properly and no Hibs cause they’re a very poor team
I always hated going to Embra- never saw the attraction in the tram worshipping, we’ve got a hill and a castle with a gun, you’ll have had your tea, we like rugby and cricket here, private school festooned, mime artist dominated Festival, Walter Scott myths, crap Panda Zoo, can’t park anywhere, and Royal Mile Tartan Shawl Shop culture.
Much better to be going to Hamilton.
Another ( bigger) obstacle for the newcomer Huns to consider…
stebhoy
Yip.
Chapter 1 was last season………the lack of profile for Celtic last season astonished.
Time to buy season tickets.
Rock Tree Bhoy
18:32 on
25 May, 2014
bognorbhoy oscar in my thoughts – thats a great quiz question, where in Scotland is Burntis Land? Not too many would get it right:-)
the wife is english and had the family in stitches ……
Still on BT Sport,
Schalka 04 v Borussia Dortmund; demand for tickets regularly over 300,000.
Wow,
HH.
Rock Tree Bhoy
It’s in Fife, isn’t it?
As one who has a fondness for Hibernian FC,tonight I have a feeling of sadness but this is the worse Hibernian team I have ever seen.Surely Butcher must resign,an utter shambles of a team.
Hibernian Hearts and Sevco in the lower League ,all for a reason.
stebhoy
18:38 on 25 May, 2014
Fools the lot o ye bhoys! Hibs going down will increase sevco season ticket sales. Watch how the media spin the 1st division as the more exciting league!!
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That would keep them out of the reach of the Lyin’ King and allow the Spivs to make off with more loot. What’s not to like?
Paolo
Was working on a job in the Forge. In my half hour lunch break, I had a piece, cup of tea, two fags and a TV interview. No bad! :)
Latest quote from fat Sally
“Oh no – sh#t “
The men in black will decide who wins the first division.put your money on it, it’s a gimme.
bring on the Hearts the Hibs the Rangers!
bring on the Hearts the Hibs!
Bring on the Hibs!
Eh…..
Bring on the Dons the Saints the Accies!
SFTB
Don’t be forgettin’ oor’ James Connolly noo :-)
Very latest quote from fat Sally
“What this country needs is a bigger top league”
Ole Hibs enjoyed their Hearts relegation party so much they decided to have their own.
Hibs and hearts are pish. Why would that help Sevco ST sales ? More likely to put the hun glory hunters off but it will be a mib lead procession. Will the New lady of Hearts speak out ? Levine has already corrupted himself and Petrie will keep mum.
HH
There’s more pandas in Edinburgh than premier league reams.
Sftb
We now have short trips to Paisley .. Maryhill .. Hamilton … Motherwell .
With Perth and Dundee twice .. We only have the two highland clubs and the sheep for real road trips
HT Ireland 0 Turkey 1
Snake Plissken
18:31 on
25 May, 2014
Well the gall on Butcher is incredible saying he’ll stay.
6th when he took over, would have been bottom but for Hearts’ deduction and now blows a 2 goal first leg league.
Already these muppets saying more Armageddon because Hibs and Hearts and some other team are not there and the crowds will go down.
Accies deserve it. They now have a derby with Motherwell, the Dundee and Highland derbies are still there, St Johnstone are cup holders and Aberdeen are stronger than they’ve been in years.
If crowds take a hit then that is the nature of the beast, we’ll adapt and get on with it.
Merit on the park should be the only consideration from here on in.
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And that is just the way it should be.
Sporting merit.
The whole idea of us getting into the EPL without working our way through the division’s(if we were allowed to join another nations league)is wrong.
Kinda gives credence to the Celtic nation theory…..mmmm?
Who would have thought that a fairer distribution of money from the spl clubs would be brought down to the lower divisions by some of those clubs themselves!
Good day to be a carpenter in leith with the amount of doors tel butcher will have booted off tonight
It’s not just the league that far sally is gubbed for now.
The slim chance he had of winning a cup, the ramsdens sovvie ring special have now also got a lot worse too.
“When you go will you send back
A letter from America?
Take a look up the railtrack
From Miami to Canada
Lochaber no more
Sutherland no more
Lewis no more
Premiership no more”
ProclaimersguttedCSC
Isn’t about time that Glasgow took its rightful place as the capital of Scotland?
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, my post was unclear.
“After independence Scots would lose our ‘freebies’ like free prescriptions, free education, and bus passes for the elderly.”
Was the question being answered on the website that I posted the link for.
Sorry for the confusion, i should have made it clear