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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This got BABASONICOS71 back the last time…here goes..
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Sixteen roads to Golgotha
04:19 on 7 October, 2012
You should look for more positive characteristics in life.
SFTB
refection..yes the act of eating ones own faeces to gain nutrients.
Happens all the time.
And one more thing(as yer man Columbo would say),i have the utmost respect for the Arab people…it is that Islam thing seems to be sending them haywire at the minute.
It is such a pity,the music,the culture,even the horse racing.
A friendly race,and intelligent into the bargain.
Hypocrites? Big time,sure all men are – but it’s that religious thing that makes them so.
And our African friends? – Legends,a more humble people you could never wish to meet.It’s just this – they bring diseases with them from their own continent,that are lethal to European folk. – Who are we to complain though – sure did the Europeans bring their own diseases to places like South America? – that struck down the poor natives.What goes around comes around.
And to our Arab brothers – their very own saying – He whom does not fear death lives forever.
Marvelous.
Margaret McGill
04:26 on 7 October, 2012
You will never meet a more easy going or fairer person.(self praise is no recommendation)
Nothing to do with negativity – all i did was read back from earlier,and give my tuppence worth on global matters.And it’s mostly diatribe,i know.
But when all i said and done – i am the bhoy that faced down the bullying huns.
All day long.
Was out all day, almost kicked the door in getting over to the computer to check the blog after the most offensive team in Scotland got beaten by, well just the worst.
The posts certainly did not disappoint! My incontinence must be back, as im struggling to control myself. Some of the submissions were absolute belters!
This week just gets better and better.
Scottish football?
Love it til the day i die – blood and snatters? Of course there is,but sure…there is also a lot of skill and goals.
Got Sky and ESPN,yet i haven’t watched an EPL game in well over a year and a half,that’s the truth…no interest whatsoever.
Celtic is our team,and believe you me – it’s got nothing to do with Oldco/Newco/Sevco – it’s whatever opposition we meet,be it the buddies or the sheep.
I have always maintained that Scottish football is a truer form of the sport – just as i maintain that national hunt racing is truer than the flat – despite the difference in prize money.And i am more interested in it now than i have ever been before.
Try that splofficial channel on youtube,if yiz get a wee chance.It is very good.
Over and out.
I was having a look at R****** Media earlier on, and it left me feeling cold! When I read about Islamic extremists it leaves me feeling the same way. And yet, when I go into the two local Asian shops I find them very curtious and friendly in fact, one of the shop’s staff are Celtic supporters! At work, I am surrounded with Sevconians and Jambos, but in all honesty there is no problem working with these people, although they are well aware I won’t stand for any bulls***.
My experience is treat folk as you find them, I have had loads of acqauintances (spelling?)who are not Catholic or Celtic suppoorters and my life would be impoverished without them. Having said that, I love everything that is happening to the zombies just now, as an institution they deserve everything that is coming back to haunt them.
Hail Hail brothers and sisters
The Sun
DEREK McGREGOR at Forthbank
Published: 06th October 2012
SOMETHING old, something new, something borrowed, something BLUE.
Never mind the good luck etiquette for absent Stirling Albion boss Greig McDonald’s new wife Jennifer yesterday.
That was Rangers at Forthbank.
But unlike McDonald’s stunning bride at a Dollar church, sorry Rangers were a shocking sight for everyone present at this Division Three occasion.
Brian Allison’s magical eighth-minute strike gave Scottish football’s worst side their biggest ever win — and at the same time threatened Ally McCoist with divorce from his one true footballing love.
Has there ever been a worse result for the once mighty Gers?
More abject even than the 1967 Scottish Cup defeat to Berwick Rangers?
For the disgusted Bears who packed Stirling’s home yesterday it sure didn’t feel there was a more humiliating loss.
And a quick recap of the Binos facts would appear to excruciatingly underline the depths to which McCoist’s flop team sunk:
Bottom of Division Three, 42nd out of 42 teams;
Goalkeeper Sam Filler lost at half-time with concussion, having played 23 minutes with the sight of only ONE eye;
Five successive league defeats in the run-up to the game;
A first win over Rangers in 59 YEARS.
As Stirling boss McDonald, 30, was walking down the aisle, the awful Gers were preparing for unforgettable steps of their own… into total ignominy.
Forget the stats which show they bombarded the Binos for virtually all of this game. Ignore the reality that Stirling needed TWO keepers to keep them out.
No, the blunt truth of the matter is Rangers — yes, RANGERS — couldn’t score in 90 minutes against a team whose only previous victories this season were against Annan and Dalbeattie Star.
And that’s abysmal.
McCoist’s desperados somehow managed to muster enough to hammer Motherwell in the League Cup barely a fortnight ago. Yet this collection of big earners, internationalists and journeymen foreigners still can’t get to the top of the worst division in Scottish football.
Still they haven’t won away from home — Stirling now added to Peterhead, Berwick and Annan. Allison’s blistering strike had every Rangers fan fearing the worst, but they were comforted by the fact there were still 82 minutes to play.
What followed was a remarkable Gers onslaught, with first Filler then second half sub Mark Peat producing wonder saves to ensure Stirling celebrated the greatest win in the club’s 67-year history.
Filler, remember, was the keeper who only 18 months ago PAID Stirling £200 for the right to a trial. He did enough to earn a contract — and yesterday he was absolutely heroic.
Not only did he produce marvellous saves in an incredible 45-minute spell, he was clattered by Lee McCulloch while coming for a Lewis MacLeod cross.
For a few seconds he didn’t move before somehow managing to see out the half — everyone else unaware until full-time that it was with just the one eye.
Peat came on and delivered a goalkeeping display of the same level.
McDonald had booked his wedding for yesterday before he’d even been handed the manager’s job last December. He couldn’t get out of it.
Still a registered defender, he would also have almost certainly played.
But he needn’t have worried, for his remaining back four played out of their skins. And stand-in boss and former Motherwell midfielder Shaun Fagan — who once scored against Martin O’Neill’s Celtic — did him proud.
Sure, Albion were a bit physical — but Rangers shouldn’t expect anyone to lie down to them just because of who they are.
Captain Allison was a rock, not only scoring but tackling and heading like his life depended on it.
But every single Stirling player deserved a commendation yesterday, with ex-top flight men Kieran McAnespie and Graham Weir playing tremendous roles too.
The moment no Stirling fan present will ever forget came from a bread ‘n’ butter corner from Daly McSorley to the far post.
It woefully wasn’t dealt with and the ball broke free from a pile of bodies to drop perfectly for Allison who lashed it in off the bar from six yards.
Cue fury from the mass Gers support in a 3,751 sell-out.
Peterhead, East Stirling and Elgin had also got the first league goal against Rangers. The response was powerful but ultimately nowhere near good enough.
Gers’ best player was 17-year-old Fraser Aird, his blistering pace and neat footwork causing Stirling problems throughout. Filler looked a safe pair of hands in the biggest day of his fledgling career.
McCulloch glanced a superb header from an Aird cross off the inside of the far post — the ball rebounding just beyond the despairing lunge of inrushing Greek Anestis Argyriou.
But Stirling were always a threat on the break — and eight minutes from the interval Emilson Cribari was almost punished for sleeping at a superb Graham Weir through ball for Jordan White.
White got past him easily before shooting wide to squander a gilt-edged chance.
Stirling definitely should’ve gone two-up in the 38th minute — with Ian Black culpable this time.
He was slow to clear from inside the Gers box and McAnespie deflected his effort across goal for Steven Weir right in front of Neil Alexander six yards out.
It looked harder to miss — but that’s exactly what the striker did, slicing a volley wide. By now the Gers faithful were screaming their utter disgust.
The second half was to be a tale of non-stop bombardment by Gers on the Stirling goal, with Peat on for Filler. The ex-Aberdeen kid was excellent.
Sebastien Faure had a header hacked off the line by Marc McCulloch but a Rangers goal would’ve been the heartbreaker to end them all for Stirling.
Not a bad first wedding night, you could say, for Mr and Mrs McDonald.
Is it really such a shock that Sevco were beaten by SA.
You must remember they have only been going a few short months.
They are a club going through the infancy period.
A67
Morning all!
Woke up laughing as I remembered events yesterday!
Looking forward to the game today – a full house, hopefully, and a good performance.
To all those going to the game – safe there and back and enjoy.
HH!!
Top of the morning to you all from a still, cold, and frosty Fife.
Clear sky and a perfect day to hump the Hearts would do nicely after Stirlings sterling humping of the Sevconians. Share issue anyone?
I see that Tom English has found his backbone in S.o.S. and is asking the question that many of us have asked in the past about Goram.
http://www.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday/sport/tom-english-andy-goram-s-media-prominence-troubling-1-2564930
I could never get my head round the fact that a few years back he made the draw for the Scottish Cup! In the company of George Peat the SFA President!
Tallybhoy
Up early this morning walking my dogs ..spring in my step and breaking into fits of laughter …hilarious ,,,
Good morning CQN
Happy birthday KilbowieKelt from another Clydebank man
Have a great day
Off to 8 O/Clock mass then get ready for the game
Come on you Bhoys in Green
Keep the Faith
Hail Hail
Good morning from a dark and dreary Sevconia where an ill wind blows and the sound of laughter from neighbouring states permeates the air
By TOM ENGLISH
Published on Sunday 7 October 2012 00:22
IN A sense, you’ve got to hand it to Andy Goram. No matter how much nonsense he comes out with, he always seems to have an outlet all too willing to take his words seriously.
As if he is some kind of neutral observer on the affairs of Rangers and Celtic, a voice of reason passing down pearls of wisdom. It’s a credit to his brilliance as a goalkeeper that he is still deemed relevant, that he can still command columns and spreads in newspapers and air-time on radio with his Old Firm schtick, while the ugly side of his story is quietly forgotten for the sake of a revelation that – shock, horror – he’s tipping Rangers to beat Celtic the next time they meet.
He spoke during the week of his longing for Rangers and Celtic to come out of the hat together in the League Cup quarter-final draw, a wish he wasn’t granted. Had it happened, Goram said he would have gone to his bookies and backed Rangers. “I really want to play Celtic, I really would,” he said. “I wouldn’t fear for Rangers. That game would take care of itself.”
Indeed it would, but not in the way Goram says. This season, Rangers haven’t been able to beat Peterhead, Berwick, Annan or Queen of the South and their players have just been lacerated by their management for a feeble performance against Forres Mechanics. Yet Goram pronounces that he’d lump his money on them getting a victory against a team that has just won a Champions League match in Moscow, their sixth consecutive game unbeaten in Europe. In fairness, what else did we expect Goram to say? You don’t buy a horse and expect it to moo, do you?
We live in a democracy and everybody’s entitled to their opinion, but Goram’s prominence in the media is still troubling, not for his understandable, but sometimes utterly daft, pro-Rangers assertions, but because of his back story.
John Terry is currently getting hauled over the coals for his racist moment in an incident with the QPR defender, Anton Ferdinand. Terry has been found guilty of deliberately causing offence with his sick remarks to Ferdinand and he’s paying a price for that now – albeit a lenient one in terms of the games he is banned for – and will continue to do so in the future. The stigma of this episode is never going to leave Terry. It’ll be a stain on his character for the rest of his days.
In his own background, Goram has a similar tale and it’s always been something of a puzzle why he’s been able to move on from it so effortlessly. About four years ago he told a story from his playing days in the heat of battle against Celtic. He recounted facing a penalty against Pierre van Hooijdonk in 1996, a penalty the goalkeeper saved, as was his wont when he was in prime. Taking this trip down memory lane, Goram said that once he’d beaten away the Dutchman’s effort he went to Van Hooijdonk and, paraphrasing in the telling of the story, called him a “non-white, unclean, non-Protestant with no father”.
In terms of bigotry and racism it was a tour de force but the admission came and went and still Goram is wheeled out to offer his verdict on the Old Firm as if his opinion is worth listening to. His autobiography, published three years ago, offered more glimpses of his other side. He recounts a yarn about a visit to a pub in west Belfast, a hang-out for supporters of the Ulster Volunteer Force. At the time, Goram was reading about the Shankill Butchers, the 1970s loyalist throat-slashing murder gang.
“I was told someone wanted to meet me,” writes Goram. “When I got up there, the man in question was a huge lad and he said: ‘Pleased to meet you, Goalie. I’m Big Sam [McAllister], the Shankill Butcher’.” Goram claims that he initially thought Big Sam was an actual butcher not one of the Butchers, despite being immersed in a book about their history. “So, yes,” he writes, “I’ve met men deeply involved with the UVF and been in their company on fleeting occasions. But terrorist sympathiser? No… Rumours and innuendo started to paint a picture of me: Andy Goram, hard-drinking, hell-raising bigot, friend of the UVF. I’d unwittingly add to that perception by wearing a black armband in a match against Celtic soon after (King Rat) Billy Wright was shot three times and killed by an Irish National Liberation Army assassination squad inside the Maze prison.”
Unwittingly? Goram wore a black armband in a game at Ibrox five days after Wright was killed, claiming later it wasn’t in memory of Wright but his aunt Lily who had passed away four months earlier. Now, there will be those who say that this was all in Goram’s past and that it has no relevance to what he is doing now, but it’s hard to look at him and not think about the Van Hooijdonk moment and wonder what the hell are we doing as a media giving him a platform.
Goram induces a sense of nausea in this space. Forget the barmy “let’s be having you” remarks directed at Celtic last week on the day they beat Spartak Moscow – he came across like the Black Knight in Monty Python: “Your arm’s off – ’Tis but a flesh wound”.
But there is one column I would like to read, an explanation of the Van Hooijdonk incident and what he thinks about it now.
It might not be spoken about these days, but it’s always there in his background and it’s a wretched thing.
….PFayr
Enjoy your walk – but don’t laugh too loudly: you might wake up some zombies!
Things could turn ugly!
Hahahahaha!!!!!!!
HH!!
Does it get any better for us Tims. Life is great! Mon the Hoops and lets see 3 more points added to the tally today.
Good Morning to all from a warm and sunny North Cyprus.
To celebrate our Wedding Anniversary, my lovely Wife is taking me to Whisky Joe’s in Girne / Kyrenia, to watch the Hoops humbling the Mini-Huns. It’s a wonderful life!
Hope that everyone enjoys their day, just as much, in their very own Paradise.
Credit where it’s due, excellent article by Tom English. The difference between the FA’s no tolerance of Terry, and Scotland’s hear-no-evil-see-no-evil attitude toward Goram is stark…
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/sfl-division-three/tom-english-andy-goram-s-media-prominence-troubling-1-2564930
I’m up early this wonderful morning……wonder why??
There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow……..
Morning all. What time is kick off today?
14:45 here, but 12:45 where it really counts.
skyisalandfill,
12:45. Celtic park time.
Lubo.
Liked this one….
“Stephen Mc Arthur I have wet myself 3 times just laughing since 4 45 I want to claim this as a WURRLD record.”
Superb article by English…a lone voice I fear.
Well said Tom English. He has just went up in my estimation
Kilbowie Kelt a very happy birthday hope you have a wonderful day with your family in the company of your extended family in Paradise this lunchtime!
BSR I am sure you had a great day yesterday
Had the pleasure of the company of a few CQN’rs last night! Sitting in their company reinforced my gratitude to my parents for bringing me up in this wonderful and varied Celtic family!
Off to walk to the shop for the papers wouldn’t bother normally but something in the air, might even go out and wash the car! All in the hope of giving a heart smile and a cheery wave to my Sevconian neighbours! Well I was always told its nice to be nice !!
Thanks guys.
Working until 2pm but have set skyplus and will assault anyone who even tries to tell me whits happening. Obviously no CQN after kick off for me.
Tom English article is understated but good stuff. He is improving.
A good article by English…well said
Not quite ready to consider him as a journo with integrity….
He was the mouthpiece of Whyte at the start of last season..
Maybe he sees which way the wind is blowing
Tam English has grown a set!
Surprised that piece passed the editorial.
Don’t know the guy personally but happy birthday to Kilbowie Celt. I appreciate your views and memeories. Have a great day at paradice with your girls. Also to BSR for yesterday.
HH
Good morning friends from a totally clear skied, bathed in sunshine but ice on the windscreen East Kilbride. A day created for Champions.
Rm match report?…LOL
RANGERS went in to this game knowing that a win would take them to the top of the Irn-Bru SFL 3rd Division, for the very first time this season and in their 140 year history. Rangers were also still the only team in Scottish league football to not have been defeated so far this season…
ALLY McCoist made two changes to the side that scraped past Forres in the Scottish Cup last weekend, with Ian Black coming in for Kyle Hutton and Dean Shiels also returning from injury at the expense of Kal Naismith.
Much to the disappointment of all who made the short journey from Glasgow to Stirling, it was the home side who took a shock early lead with only 7 minutes on the clock.
The Rangers defence were sound asleep as Stirling’s first corner was delivered allowing Alison to scramble the ball home at the back post.
Lee McCulloch and Fraser Aird were making most headway for Rangers as the first half continued, but neither were able to create any real chances.
The whole team in general seemed to be playing without any sort of invention and the ball was more often than not just being lumped forward aimlessly towards McCulloch.
Stirling continued to look for rare opportunities to break away after struggling to get the ball out of their own half, but striker Steven Weir got a little carried away with a horrible high footed lunge on Neil Alexander on 25 minutes. Amazingly, referee Bobby Madden only issued a yellow card and thankfully Alexander wasn’t seriously hurt.
Anestis Argyriou went close with a drilled shot on 39 minutes, but the Albion ‘keeper never looked concerned as the ball flew past the post.
As the whistle went for half time Ally McCoist must have been wondering how his side were still trailing, as the majority of the game had been played in the Albion half, despite the real lack of clear cut chances.
No changes had been made as the teams came out for the second half and the half started exactly as the first half had ended – Rangers on the front foot.
Dean Shiels, Fraser Aird and Lewis MacLeod all had decent opportunites before Sebastien Faure had his header cleared off the line on 53 minutes. Replays did not show the ball crossing the line, despite claims that it had from the majority of the Rangers team.
Just 2 minutes later Dean Shiels was hacked down inside the box, but when rightly claiming for the penalty, he forgot he was playing in Division 3! The chance did end up in a good save from the Albion ‘keeper.
On 66 minutes Rangers made their first substitution with Argyriou making way for Barrie McKay.
Personally I felt that Sebastien Faure should have been the one to leave the park and it was only three minutes later that the Frenchman sloppily gave the ball away and had Lee Wallace to thank for sprinting back to make the last ditch challenge and save his blushes.
Fraser Aird’s afternoon was over now too, with Kevin Kyle his replacement.
Barrie McKay certainly looked lively and could have grabbed an equaliser on 76 mnutes, but the young Scot’s effort went over the bar.
Moments later Ian Black was aerially assaulted by an Albion defender. It was a challenge that wouldn’t look out of place on SoccerAM’s Kung Fu Academy feature. Once again, the referee demonstrated that you cannot receive a straight red at this level by professionally fouling your opponent.
Kal Naismith was the final throw of the dice from Ally McCoist, replacing the still dazed Ian Black on 84 minutes.
Kevin Kyle wasn’t able to make the most of a few decent chances as the clock rapidly approached 90 minutes.
As Bobby Madden blew for full time Albion bench and staff ran on to the park with their arms aloft celebrating a famous victory over Rangers.
Not only was it Rangers first defeat in the league this season and in SFL Division 3, it was only the second time that Rangers have lost to Stirling Albion in 29 meetings between the two sides.
If already posted then apologies. But it’s brilliant.
http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/single/?p=11781590&t=8731534
Brimmer
Tom English…… Bravo!
Goram is a thoroughly reprehensible character , pandering and associating with loyalist terrorists at a time to engratiate himself with the manky mob.
I was at the game English refers to and remember him giving big Pierre a mouthful after the penalty miss.
Andy Goram is a mere microcosom of the Sevconian race, a typical stereotype.
One of my biggest regrets was at Linlithgow marches a few years ago pushing my young son in his pram. Unwittingly I pushed the prams wheels over the foot of an onlooker and immediately apologised before realising it was Goram.
My regret is I wish I had a bigger pram!
Hail Hail to all CQNers, c u at the game.
Lets give the jambos hell!!!!
brimmer
Fantastic work as usual from NOTLR. Here’s another good ‘un –
(We now go live to the Hilton):
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u292/hailfknhail/celtic-champions.gif?t=1349539243
I was fortunate enough to be at the Sunday Mail Great Scot Awards 2012 last night in the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow.
That bird Jackie Bird was hosting the evening and in her welcoming remarks said to the 500 odd guests there “…….and if you do see anyone from Rangers here this evening, please don’t bother them for an autograph……they’ll be busy enough serving you your dinner”.
I laughed.
SwanseaBhoy