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It’s great news that Celtic have secured three first choice players, Charlie Mulgrew, Adam Matthews and James Forrest, on new long term contracts.  It allows the players to forget about long-term career issues and concentrate on team matters and the manager and scouts can worry about squad recruitment efforts in other areas.

This news is a direct consequence of Champions League group stage qualification.  Not only do Celtic have funds to increase wage budget, more importantly, aspirational football players, who want to reach the very top of the game, have a reason to be here.

The same is true of Fraser Forster’s England call up.  Scottish football has long been regarded along the lines of lower division football in England, but with Champions League football, the English national team have endorsed our football.  It will be easier to attract the next wave of recruits as a result.  One day Kris Commons [stand out Player of the Year candidate]can only hope his own national team will regard his productive displays in the same manner.

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  2. petec on

    tarrant

     

     

    00:52 on 7 October, 2012

     

     

    I’m smiling because Celtic are starting to fulfill their potential.

     

     

    The Prodigy link last night led me to going through most of that album. Superlative.

     

     

    I think I have annoyed you about ET before as well. ;)) And I hope everyone realises my opinion is just like any other **s*h**e* and I pray to God I am barking up the wrong tree. :)

  4. owen on

    Sannabhoy

     

     

    As I said before “I use the Sun defence, never let the truth get in the way of a good story”.

     

     

    I am always protective of my big sis, she used to bring enough sandwiches for the whole bus but I was the only one to get mustard. When you see her tomorrow ask her about the great english/french debate!

     

     

    Anyway who is this voguepunter character offering booze to my delicate little flower of a sister, hehehehe, when it should be offered to me ;-)

     

     

    How are you good sir?

  7. TheBarcaMole on

    Tempted to get involved in some of the issues/debate tonight but naw will best leave alone, as happy to have met some good and genuine CQN contributors for a wee drink or two……..

     

     

    Being me though, have to say,

     

    Celtic First, ‘AGREE’………

     

     

    Regards & Hail Hail

     

    TBM

  8. petec on

    Not seen BABASONICOS71 for ages but I’m usually on Thursday nights now so unlikely to see him. I hope he is beating his own personal demons well as he laid it all out on CQN a while ago. It is not ordinary for a person to feel like that.

  9. tarrant on

    Stivs,

     

     

    I’d been reared listening to Christy Moore and Dubs tapes on car trips to Wexford, so had kind of ignored/forgotten it all for years after I moved over here (tae Alba), and when I watched In Bruges it reduced me to a shivering wreck; rarely seen music used so well in a film, and Luke’s voice…Jesus. Lost count how many times I’ve signed off here with the definitive version.

     

     

    Been asked a few times to sing it myself, but couldn;’t do it justice. I stick to Spancil Hill, which I do fairly well I would say. With it being an emigrant’s song and all. Or “an’ at”, as the local yokels would say.

  11. tarrant on

    petec

     

     

    ET? End of Times or European Techno? Is there a difference?!?! See when that Black Box howler appeared on TOTP, the world could have ended and I’d’ve been grateful.

     

     

    But then I’d never have got to neck an eck while listening to this.

     

     

    http://youtu.be/28w2LVzxVkU

  13. owen on

    Night All

     

     

    Enjoy it its good to be Tim.

     

     

    Hail Hail

     

     

     

    Am currently working my way through a Led Zeppelin playlist of the Top 100 videos on youtube and can heartily recommend it. Top tunes as the kidz are wont to say in the hood I do believe.

  15. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    I’m just about about to head off to my chariot before sobering up and driving to paradise. But, I couldn’t do that without coming on and advising anyone who has the stomach…………….and a sense of humour to have a look in on Hun Media. It’s quite magnificent to see.

     

     

    It’s civil war over there just now and there are umpteen threads where posters are calling for the head of the pie whisperer. Conspiracy theories abound, Sacking the manager is in, out, in and its all down to Peter Lawell.

     

     

    These huns crack you up at the best of times, and this is indeed the best of times. Only, not for them.

     

     

     

     

    Neil Lennon we Salute you once more, now lets go break some hearts.

     

     

     

    Hail Hail Celtic men and wummin.

  16. setting free the bears on

    Before I head to my bed I will also echo the hope that Babasonicos71 finds his way back on here.

     

     

    One of the great memories I have of pablophanques musical tastes was how catholic and wide ranging his tastes were compared to my own. He could be so open to new influences that it could come across as fairly indiscriminate, but in a good way.

     

     

    Babasonicos was the most worthy successor to Pablo in the range of new musical acts that I encountered from his links. Just as Pablo was very big on the Beatles and Radiohead, both of which I can only take in small doses, so Babasonicos was a big Stone Roses and Ian Brown fan, who I do not really get either, but, among the stuff I did not like were new gems which I was glad to have had the chance to hear.

     

     

    So I hope we get a few of his sounds back here when he is ready.

     

     

    Off to my scratcher and the game tomorrow.

     

     

    These are the days, right enough.

  18. tarrant on

    petec

     

     

    regarding BABASONICOS71, depressingly common for men of a certain age to feel like that, especially when your role as a father is threatened or diminished. I commend his courage in laying it out here like he did, and he seemed to have put things in place to support him, but his absence worries me; I only hope that he is occupying himself with more important and positive things than posting here; and if he is lurking, that he knows we’re rooting for him.

     

     

    http://youtu.be/1I8sYrJwvsg

     

    http://youtu.be/-2iujF4tJtw

     

    http://youtu.be/zLM9sI2ntw0

  22. tarrant on

    sftb

     

     

    as I posted I was also thinking about pablophanque and his eclectic and educational tastes…

     

     

    I have never knowingly met any of the posters here (although I suspect I know a few) – there are some very very good guys on this site.

     

     

    Oiche mhaith a chara.

  23. miki67 on

    Happy birthday to Kilbowie Celt…..another year older, another year boulder, and great tomes for a Tom to be livin’ in

     

    HH.

  24. miki67 on

    Great times for a Tim to be livin’ in an aw’……effin’ iPad…..tomes of Tom….I’d like to read those books.

     

    : > )

  27. Stringer Bell on

    I was in Comet looking at fridges this afternoon.

     

     

    A guy across from me was doing similar with his other half.

     

     

    His phone beeped. Text.

     

     

    He read it and his hand was shaking as he looked at the screen and said wooooooo!!!!! In a restrained ecstatic fashion.

     

     

    He showed the text to his wife who looked annoyed, bored, and agitated he wasn’t fully concentrating on the fridges

     

     

    He read the text again and whooped – very quietly – with laughter.

     

     

    I turned to my wife and said “the huns just dropped points”.

     

     

    True story.

  29. tarrant on

    petec

     

     

    01:13 on

     

    7 October, 2012

     

     

    tarrant

     

     

    01:09 on 7 October, 2012

     

     

    A vintage year……

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALsHox5sYCk

     

     

    My hands are actually in the air and I am blowing on a non-existent whistle.

     

     

    Even better, I had PE Caught Can We Get A Witness playing on another tab and for about 20 seconds they synchronised brilliantly!

     

     

    I am going to post a link which I know you like, because I have posted it before, but it brings back so many happy memories for me; it played in a club the first time I took E – not something I did often (often enough, maybe?) – and it always triggers a near-euphoric memory/reaction in me. As do similar tunes, like the one you just posted – thank you so much. I suspect our lives have a huge amount in common.

     

     

    Moby – Into The Blue (Spiritual Mix) – http://youtu.be/o5c69VJo7Mo

     

     

     

    Several minutes later…

     

     

    I’m in the mood, here;s another absolute touchstone track for me.

     

     

    Leftfield – Song of Life: http://youtu.be/Ic2Q-G0BEFQ

     

     

    I know the club purists hate the album version, but it;s the best one for me, with the slow, multi-layered build-up to about 2:16, then more layers until the fkr kicks off 3 and a half minutes in, then another minutes until the “work it – gotta work it”…pure genius – no wonder they got to score the “best ad ever” Guinness homoerotic surf ad a few years later.

  30. tarrant on

    “tarrant

     

     

    01:20 on 7 October, 2012

     

     

    You always pick out songs with challenging lyrics. A gift or a curse. ;))”

     

     

    It’s a gift. We’re intelligent men, we enjoy intelligent music. Have you listened to Tool?

  32. tarrant on

    Good night all. Love and best wishes. Been a bittersweet night. Remembering pablo and others who have left; thinking of Oskar and BABASONICOS71 and others in need of solace or support or help.

     

     

    http://youtu.be/FG0-cncMpt8

     

     

    Keep those candles burning.

  33. kitalba on

    Memories…

     

     

     

    Ewan Murray at Celtic Park

     

     

    The Guardian, Sunday 29 April 2012 15.26 BST

     

     

    Celtic stroll past Rangers in season’s final Old Firm match

     

     

    Celtic’s celebration of Rangers’ spectacular demise extended even to the Tannoy at the season’s final Old Firm game. When Will I See You Again by the Three Degrees echoed around Celtic Park. The jibe, as ever, had some foundation in reality.

     

     

    With Rangers’ troubles no closer to a resolution and the Scottish Premier League still to rule on allegations of registration breaches by the Ibrox club, the continuation of a top-flight Glasgow derby cannot yet be guaranteed.

     

     

    How Celtic revelled in this occasion. The level of partying already ensured by Rangers’ administration-hit state and the reclaiming of the championship by Neil Lennon’s team was merely enhanced by a comprehensive home victory.

     

     

    A meeting of SPL clubs on Monday could also play a key part in Rangers’ future. There, a vote will determine what level of punishments any club that reforms as a new company but seeks to remain in the league will face.

     

     

    “I believe Rangers and Celtic are different,” said Ally McCoist, the Rangers manager. “I might get criticised for saying that but if you take a step back then they are different because of the impact they have on Scottish football.

     

     

    “I can understand fans up and down the country, who don’t support the Old Firm, saying that is rubbish. In an ideal world, it would be a totally wrong statement. But it’s not an ideal world and I believe it’s a correct statement.

     

     

    “So whether you have to treat Rangers or Celtic differently in a situation like this I really don’t know. But there has to be an outcome. Obviously that outcome might hurt Rangers but it could possibly hurt Scottish football just as much if not more. And that is something that would obviously concern everyone.”

     

     

    Such sentiment is not fully shared by Lennon. “There is an issue of moral sporting integrity as well,” Celtic’s manager said. “I understand Ally’s point to a certain extent but if you have flouted the laws in the capacity they have, then I would imagine the powers-that-be will punish you accordingly.”

     

     

    Lennon took time to praise both sets of fans for their behaviour. “There was a lot of humour going around out there and that’s really what we want to see. We don’t want to see the other side, the nastiness. Both sets of supporters were a credit to their clubs.”

     

     

    Generally, the occasion was played in decent spirit but the sporadic return of unwanted chants within the Rangers songbook was apparent.

     

     

    The willingness of any Rangers fan to pay £42 to attend this fixture and proceed to enjoy themselves is admirable in itself. Scotland’s football authorities have been so utterly toothless when dealing with offensive singing in the past that any chance of Rangers being punished for it now lies between none and slim. Nonetheless, misplaced defiance in dragging Rangers back through the decades is hardly the message that should be portrayed as this club seeks even a glimmer of hope of a brighter future.

     

     

    Before kick-off, a series of banners and black flags to mark Rangers’ predicament were displayed by the home contingent. It is hardly a leap in the dark to question what exactly Celtic fans would sing about if Rangers were to disappear. For now, those supporters are giddy with excitement about Ibrox turmoil.

     

     

    Within 31 minutes, Celtic had two goals to celebrate despite Rangers starting in a perfectly competent manner. Charlie Mulgrew supplied the opener with an excellent diving header from a rehearsed Kris Commons corner. Commons himself notched Celtic’s second after brilliantly evading Kyle Bartley and offering a chipped finish over the advancing Allan McGregor.

     

     

    Rangers never looked capable of launching a response, especially as their most creative player, Sone Aluko, had been nullified by the Celtic defence.

     

     

    Gary Hooper lashed home a third goal after Georgios Samaras had robbed Rhys McCabe and played in his strike partner. It proved a suitably forceful denouement to Celtic’s afternoon.

     

     

    “We were brilliant from start to finish,” Lennon said. “Once we found our feet in the game, we were magnificent. People have thrown it at us, that we can’t handle the big games. Well, that accusation has been diminished today. I’m very proud of the team.”

     

     

    Man of the match Emilio Izaguirre (Celtic)

  34. miki67 on

    Revenge is a dish best eaten cold.

     

    I’m so looking forward to an ice cold dish of that.

     

    HH.

  37. Margaret McGill on

    Come on BABASONICOS71 seriously if your trying to save my CD spending money because I went out and bought everything white denim don’t worry about it.

  38. Sixteen roads to Golgotha on

    That’s what happens when persons get drunk and post on the blog.

     

     

    Alcohol you see,it’s a terrible curse if ever there was one.

     

     

    It is a drug it is.

  40. Sixteen roads to Golgotha on

    I have never read the bible in my life,because it is open to interpretation so to speak.

     

     

    Two people could read the exact same parable/verse,yet could be miles apart with the understanding.

     

     

    Especially that Old Testament thing.

     

     

    LSD was common in those days,although i would not dispute anything.

     

     

    Revelations? – Looks like what was written is coming to pass.But it is said that particular chapter can send a man crazy,just by reading it.

     

     

    Who knows? – Not i.

  41. Margaret McGill on

    Sixteen roads to Golgotha

     

     

    03:52 on 7 October, 2012

     

     

    LSD was common when the Old Testament was written?

     

    I thought it was wine that triggered all that gibberish.

     

    Goes to show.

     

    I see what you mean about revelations.

  42. Sixteen roads to Golgotha on

    Well Margaret McGill,nobody really knows for certain,but as i have already stated – it would be foolish to rule anything out,or in.

     

     

    The Zionists think that they have it all sewn up,but they don’t really.

     

     

    IMO it is all just another plot to obliterate them for once and for all – Concentrate – as in concentration camp – that most English of horrors – Get them all into one area(the promised land),then go about destroying that particular tribe.

     

     

    They don’t even realise it.

     

     

    It’s like Europe,this so-called take over,by Asian,African and Muslim folk.These poor cretins(rightly,or wrongly)believe that they shall soon be in the majority,and therefore shall be king!! – i ask you this though – who is really cooking the soup? – who is in control? Are those right-wing maniacs,when the day arrives,really going to say – “Oh fair enough our Islamic friends,yous are a majority now,this is a democracy,on yous go now”?

     

     

    Nonsense.

     

     

    A hard rain is going to fall.

     

     

    Everybody wants to do away with each other.

     

     

    It’s tribalism,nothing more,nothing less.

     

     

    Apologies for the rant.

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