And we’re back! What a two days of systems nightmare. We went down at 7pm on Thursday. No conclusive information on why, we have had traffic volume related outages before, but this was on a more serious and persistent basis. We had to move the database to a new location and restore from backup to recover, we lost a few days articles. Better not speak to me about Fasthosts for a while.
We got access to the databases this morning and took the opportunity to upgrade facilities in the background. We’re on a new incarnation of WordPress and now have Facebook and Twitter integration. Good news is you can link your Celtic Quick News account with your Facebook and/or Twitter accounts, and share information from CQN to your social network timeline.
To do so:
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Should we be Celtic Slow News for today? Here it is:
Rennes 1-1 Celtic.
Hugely important second half performance and Joe Ledley goal.
Your favourite billionaire is getting divorced and has claimed he has no money! Oh dear.
One year on, the SFA are still smoking out religiously offensive correspondents!
The Berlin Wall fell and I hear Elvis is dead.
Have a try at the Facebook and Twitter links and let me know what you think of it. I’m off for a break but will catch up later.
Most importantly, there is a Celtic fan called Andrew who will be walking about Belfast in a daze this weekend. If you see him, but him a beer.
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Good to see CQN back up and running, long night last night spent most of the night on the RTC blog as did a few posters from here.
Anyone read the Scotsman Interview by tom english on wee craigy shite? def a lunatic, the icebergs getting closer.
Hail Hail
Right that’s me happy, now able to do the link creator. Pub time now.
Hail hail to all and goodnight.
Dan
God Bless CQN!!
These past few days have been difficult without it.
Great timing as well,means i don’t have to sit and watch the pish-factor with my missus!
Splendid. :)
congrats to young James Forrest
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15415767.stm
my team for tomorrow:
FRAZ
Cha loovens Charlie EL K
BIG VIC
Kayal KI Ledley
Bangura
Stokes
DM
Team for tomorrow (assuming Hooper, Sammi and Commons are out)
Forster
Matthews Loovens Mulgrew El Kaddouri
Forrest Wanyama Kayal Ledley
Stokes Bangura
Subs Zaluska, M. Wilson, Rogne, Ki, McCourt, George, Watt
“It is an institution wholly at odds with everything we are. They are bigoted, racist, nationalist, imperialist and an evil Scottish society need not, and should not, be forced forever to tolerate. This club will not reform, and so it is fitting that they should die, and if the people who run OUR institution act to keep them alive then they are a disgrace to the name of Celtic and they have sullied everything that has come before them.”
I only have £3000 of shares, miniscule in the big picture I know but I’d bin them in an instant if we even considered helping the muck survive.
My prime objective from the point of offering any aid for ‘them’ would be the removal of the current board. I would not darken the doorstep of the Holy Ground until that was achieved.
Watching Malaga v Real.
Malaga losing 4-0 but having a real go at them. Playing great football.
James Forrest is Lennon says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:13
great post,although there was a precedent in the Bundeslega about 10 years ago when Bayern Munich donated money to Borrussia Dortmund when the Dortmund club came close to collapse.
That said, we have a different type of rivalry in our great wee country. If we participated in any machinations to create a new SPL with a reborn Hun in the league ,we would be as bad as them. Forgetting our moral compass to make a few quid and cheating the founding fathers of our club. I even hear people talking about the “nightmare” scenario if Sky did not want us, well I CGAF about Sky,we are bigger , better and made of sterner stuff than Murdochs cash cow.
Would The Orcs help us? we know the answer.
Partizan
Sorry mate l didn’t mean to sound as if I was forcing you to express your views. I’ve always respected the posters who, despite being the antithesis of me, conduct themselves in the right way.
Rarely have I agreed with anything that Philvis posts, Celtic aside, but I love his posts.
bamboo
Alistair Johnston using the phrase ‘no surrender’ was mere banter – wasn’t it?
We’ve had Rangers Directors, and Managers who sang it, never mind slipped up in conversation.
I’d imagine you are right about Rangers ‘middle class’.
The men in the suits are, and always have been the real hooligans.
sftb
It has been stated often that 4.4.2 is old hat. That one striker should be the norm with appropriate support from midfield.
Any thoughts as I see you favour two up front?
Auld Neil Lennon heid says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:14
Chance, oportunity, just a couple of words you used, you don’t sound very convinced !!
We as a club, have them where we want them.
What happens next should be a no brainer, we should demand reforms, and demand them on our terms, but I doubt we will.
As I said earlier, the club need to think long and hard on this issue, they could well spell the end if they choose the wrong path.
TET
Now there’s a story, what did you read?
Bawsman, if we help the Huns in any way, shape or form, my Celtic supporting days will be over.
The Board better be very careful here.
The last time CQN was down I discovered a strange woman living in my house, claims she is my wife but it was never announced on here so it couldn’t have happened, along with a child and dog. Site goes down for 2 days and guess what she is still flippin here!
She even moved another dog in without so much as a “by your leave”. Some people eh!
Anyway Paul67 glad things are back to normal, well as normal as it gets in this place.
Palacio67 says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:22
Good to see CQN back up and running, long night last night spent most of the night on the RTC blog as did a few posters from here.
Anyone read the Scotsman Interview by tom english on wee craigy shite? def a lunatic, the icebergs getting closer.
Hail Hail
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That Iceberg is not moving …Craigy is steering directly towards it
he is laying down a marker in today’s press
he wants it now!
…. only as wee bit worried about getting all the blame!
HH
M
My team which I fully expect, not to get.
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Matthews;; Loovens;;;Mulgrew;;;;;;El Kaddouri
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Forrest;;;;;;;;;;;; Ki;;;;;;;;;;; Kayal;;;;;;;;; Ledley
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Hey Paul67, can ye put the site down for a bit the Martin house are watching x factor :>)
V HH to ye!
We are on the march again.A good win 2mara,and any sort of victory on Wednesday night would be excellent.
Really looking forward to the Hibs game i am.It is vital that we get right result – then we would be only 2 victories away from lifting the first trophy of the season – not only will that be great for morale,but it will be another piece of silverware for our leader.
I cannot stress enough,how important it is for us to lift the League Cup.
Recently posted my thoughts after watching Norwich City a few times (I live in Sweden, you take what you get on tv) without seeming to provoke any response. Have just watched them against Liverpool and had my views confirmed.
A very good team with lots of self-belief, discipline and confidence. They know what they can do and do it well. They don’t try to do that which is beyond them.
Discipline, belief, effort and a team ethos. When Liverpool’s “stars” stood still and held up their hands in indignation the Norwich journeymen ran back to position and got on with the game.
Still without a single player I would want to see in a Celtic shirt, but with a team effort which I admire and, currently, envy.
Surely time for us to pick a team which obviously does not consist of our best individuals, but rather those who work best together, as a team.
GK? – take your pick, I don’t see a lot of difference between our current choices
Back four – Adam Matthews + Charlie and Emilio, when fit. Make the best of the rest or, preferably, promote a youngster. They seem to be very competent and don’t have a clue that they are “too young”! Still contributing to a team as opposed to a collection of the “best” individual players.
Midfield – Ledley and Wanyami – totally reliable and real team players plus a fair bit of skill and muscle.
Up front – Stokes (who doesn’t seem to have NL’s complete confidence). He scores goals, he continues to develop as a team player and wants to be here.
Fill the gaps with our youngsters and see how James Forrest is not the only product from youth development.
Many on here talk about individuals like Henke, Lubo, Chris S, John H etc, but they would be the first to point that they were very successful because they were part of a well-knitted team. They shared the same team ethic and that’s what I miss now. Don’t care what they say in public – do your talking on the pitch! We don’t see much of that, do we?
Cheers
Alex
EDB
I am happy with 4:5:1 in certain circumstances, one of them being when Commons is available.
My main reasons for 4:4:2 tomorrow are:-
1 )You need scoring midfielders to make 4:5:1 work. Wanyama & Kayal are unlikely scorers and Ki & Ledley are not too prolific so we need Commons & Forrest available.
2) We are at home to Aberdeen and they should not be our strongest opponents. I would like to see a first half whirlwind as we may run out of steam towards the end and it would be best, if Aberdeen were well beaten by then.
3) Bangura needs a goal badly to kick start his Celtic career. If he is not scoring bring on, McCourt or Watt to replace him
Topic One: CQN
Well done Paul for getting us all back to normailty. We’ve all become rather dependent on our CQN.
Topic Two: Rennes game.
For most of the game we couldn’t pass the salt let alone the ball. Even questioned their fitness. I blame Fraser Munster for the goal. He didn’t even try to recover it. Just did the big drama bit. His other saves don’t make up for that.
Cha wasn’t grinning. He’s Korean. It’s a facial expression. End of.
Topic Three: Huns Documentary
Not quite clear where the £18M came from to buy the huns ( if it ever did exist ) but enough evidence to show Whyte’s the man for the job. The job of taking them into admin. He knows it. We all know it.
New, social, CQN, Elvis is dead!
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share1210 And we’re back! What a two days of systems nightmare. We went down at 7pm on Thursday. No conclusive information on why, we have had traffic volume related outages before, but this was on a more serious and persistent basis. We had to move the database to a new location and restore from backup to recover, we lost a few days articles. Better not speak to me about Fasthosts for a while.
We got access to the databases this morning and took the opportunity to upgrade facilities in the background. We’re on a new incarnation of WordPress and now have Facebook and Twitter integration. Good news is you can link your Celtic Quick News account with your Facebook and/or Twitter accounts, and share information from CQN to your social network timeline.
To do so:
Login to Celtic Quick News.
Cick on your name at the top of the Comments box to access your profile.
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Update your profile.
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Should we be Celtic Slow News for today? Here it is:
Rennes 1-1 Celtic.
Hugely important second half performance and Joe Ledley goal.
Your favourite billionaire is getting divorced and has claimed he has no money! Oh dear.
One year on, the SFA are still smoking out religiously offensive correspondents!
The Berlin Wall fell and I hear Elvis is dead.
Have a try at the Facebook and Twitter links and let me know what you think of it. I’m off for a break but will catch up later.
Most importantly, there is a Celtic fan called Andrew who will be walking about Belfast in a daze this weekend. If you see him, but him a beer.
Read issue 3 of CQN Magazine free online here or buy a print version at Magcloud.
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googybhoy says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:10
Was in Sharm recently and found that most locals preferred to watch La Liga rather than EPL.
We all know the EPL is overrated and even there they are only really interested in the top four or five teams. They mostly prefer watching Real or Barca.
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Lennon n Mc….Mjallby says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:10
It worked!
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Harald Flatpack says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:11
When I see these big Rangers financial stories I have mixed feelings.
On the one hand I’m desperate to see them punished for the financial doping that accounted so much for there success and ability to compete with Celtic at a time when we were fiscally prudent.
On the other hand this never seems to affect the football team, if anything it strengthens the resolve.
As long as players continue to be paid and squads stay together this is still about results. I think if Jelavic plays they win tomorrow, so we must forget about the what if and concentrate on the here and now. 3points a must tomorrow.
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Partizan says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:12
Hamiltontim
Most of the time I posted on here until the past few months I was drunk. That’s not to admit I was always wrong ;).
I suspect I’m in a bit of a minority on here on many subjects. “But we support the Celtic….”
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donegalbhoy67 says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:12
now back to buisness……
celtic don’t have a captain this has been evident during this and last season
i think Samba [blackburn] would be a great captain fer us……
can anyone else think of a good captain??
HH
DB67
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James Forrest is Lennon says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:13
Hey lads and it’s good to see CQN back up and running.
First up, thanks for all the birthday messages yesterday friends. Much, much appreciated.
Just catching up with the posts, but Auldheid’s latest ones jump out at me.
Mate, you appear to be talking about “conditions” under which we will help Rangers in the event this all ends the way it increasingly looks like.
Let me tell you right now, I for one am against helping them in any way, for any reason, under any conditions, and there are three reasons why.
1st, It would be Bad Business. To actually lend a hand to your rivals, your biggest competitors, knowing they WILL benefit, face you off and one day might have the chance to put YOU to the wall? Madness.
2nd, If Celtic leverage conditions out of Rangers, you and others can dress it up any way you like as being “for the benefit of the game” or even our own club, but none of it will wash. What we will have engaged in is a carve up, in a charade, in a fraudulent attempt to restructure the Scottish game to help out a team which, by benefit of illegal activity, got itself into trouble. That will damn the Scottish game as corrupt and bent, and run by charalatans and crooks, and it will do that for all time. If such a cut-up, if such a scandal, is being perpetrated we should be firmly and unmistakably on the other side of the fence, opposing it in every way. It would be outrageous to absolve Rangers of the same fate which would await any other club which behaved in this way, let alone give them a pass when clubs who, through no fault of their own, have suffered similar indignity.
If Celtic involves itself in a shameful display of blatant cheating – and rewriting the rulebook cause the rules no longer suit you IS cheating – then shame on them, shame on all who accept it.
3rd, and most importantly … Rangers is not just a business which has broken the rules, a company which has defrauded its way to financial returns and a football club which has cheated its way to trophies, at our expense, I might add … it is an institution wholly at odds with everything we are. They are bigoted, racist, nationalist, imperialist and an evil Scottish society need not, and should not, be forced forever to tolerate. This club will not reform, and so it is fitting that they should die, and if the people who run OUR institution act to keep them alive then they are a disgrace to the name of Celtic and they have sullied everything that has come before them.
It will be the biggest outrage in the history of our club, and I tell you, there will be no way back from it.
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Dan says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:13
Link Test
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Auld Neil Lennon heid says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:14
TET
Will Celtic push for reforms?
I think they will given PLs ability to influence the Professional Game group at the SFA and his awareness of both the need to restore integrity as well as the ideas in the article.
As well as an opportunity to reform the game Rangers situation also provides Celtic the chance to pull our support together into a more cohesive and so effective unit to influence our game for the better.
Lets hope the footballing side improves enough to allow the brighter future the opportunity to emerge.
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Partizan says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:15
Zbyszek says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:09
Partizan
I want to be one of those butchers, miners, doctors, professors who want Celtic to be great and want to be in a good company. Who I’m behind it does not matter. I don’t like your views, you don’t like mine and that’s the reason this place is different from other places. We (I hope) are still friends in here.
Definetely mate. Friends it is. That’s what I was trying to say and you just said it better :)
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Zbyszek says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:15
Martin42
I was happy to see your short article in the last CQN Magazine.
I hope you will continue your work and we will read more from you. You are good writer Martin. You have lot of good things to tell to all especially to those younger.
An example.
Hwo would guess that you played against Jingy? Please tell us more. I have learned from your work more than I learned from many other works.
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Barcabhoy says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:15
Paul67
You are not the only one hacked of with fasthost
I have never understood the fascination with the podium on here. However i did see the live updates for the Rennes game come up with no comments.
So i jumped in predicted a 1-1 , a comedy OG and a stirring fightback with Joe L getting a credit equaliser………honest ( in a craig whyte type of way)
On Whyte
Mad….
Nope
He is way beyond mad…..he looks at mad in the rear view mirror
Divorce court?
Now there’s yet another reason to keep the cash under wraps
Unless of course the Mrs knows more than you might think.
Such as…
When Whyte came back to the UK in 2007 he was still under a Director disqualification. His wife was a Director of a newly formed company called Tixway. Could she now say she was acting for her husband. He in fact was a shadow director. Not surprisingly when his disqualification expired she resigned as a director and he joined the board
Must have been a co-incidence
Unless of course Pauls reference of a billionaire in divorce court referred to someone else altogether .
In which case Whyte will have absolutely nothing to worry about. Its not as if there has ever been a lawyer advising a client in a divorce case to leverage all and any advantage they could
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THE EXILED TIM says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:16
During CQN’s downtime, I watched on youtube a prog about Glasgows underworld, never seen it before.
Know very little about what happened.
Arthur Thompson, Paul Ferris, Tam McGraw
Was there a religious connection, or was it just money and power ?
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bamboo says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:16
Alistair Johnstone seemed like quite a reasonable chap on the shortbread expose ——- Until he uttered the words “no surrender”.
His face became contorted and bitter . The mask had slipped and the bigot was exposed.
It will probably be the same with most of their middle class respectable fans .
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googybhoy says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:17
donegalbhoy67 says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:12
now back to buisness……
Hornblower, Cook, Hook, ……
Kayal?????
Honestly we need a few players to start being captains.
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goldstar10 says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:18
Re Thursday nights game- I thought we did very well after losing such an embarrassing goal.
Neil got his tactics right when he switched the team around in the 2nd half, dropping Cha back and switching Matthews to LB, he was not required to overlap therefore exposing his poor one-sidedness.
Putting Ledley in the midfield and gave us a wee bit more creativity and of course he chipped in with the goal.
Glenn had an excellent game as did big FF after his faux pas. Victor is growing game by game and he and Beram protected the back line, 4-2-3-1 is the way to go in Europe, even at home.
That’s 2 good EL performances but only 2 points to show from them.
Really looking forward to tomorrow!
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paladin says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:18
Guys, bit of help required please. technical idiot here so does anyone know how u change the link on ypur name ?
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googybhoy says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:20
donegalbhoy67 says:
Gattuso
Now then…cat amongst the pigeons.
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googybhoy says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:22
paladin says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:18
Guys, bit of help required please. technical idiot here so does anyone know how u change the link on ypur name ?
Open your profile by tapping on your name above the comment space.
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Palacio67 says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:22
Good to see CQN back up and running, long night last night spent most of the night on the RTC blog as did a few posters from here.
Anyone read the Scotsman Interview by tom english on wee craigy shite? def a lunatic, the icebergs getting closer.
Hail Hail
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Dan says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:23
Right that’s me happy, now able to do the link creator. Pub time now.
Hail hail to all and goodnight.
Dan
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BelfastCityCelt says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:23
God Bless CQN!!
These past few days have been difficult without it.
Great timing as well,means i don’t have to sit and watch the pish-factor with my missus!
Splendid. :)
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trickeymickey67 says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:24
congrats to young James Forrest
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15415767.stm
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MICK11 says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:24
my team for tomorrow:
FRAZ
Cha loovens Charlie EL K
BIG VIC
Kayal KI Ledley
Bangura
Stokes
DM
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setting free the bears says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:24
Team for tomorrow (assuming Hooper, Sammi and Commons are out)
Forster
Matthews Loovens Mulgrew El Kaddouri
Forrest Wanyama Kayal Ledley
Stokes Bangura
Subs Zaluska, M. Wilson, Rogne, Ki, McCourt, George, Watt
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Bawsman says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:25
“It is an institution wholly at odds with everything we are. They are bigoted, racist, nationalist, imperialist and an evil Scottish society need not, and should not, be forced forever to tolerate. This club will not reform, and so it is fitting that they should die, and if the people who run OUR institution act to keep them alive then they are a disgrace to the name of Celtic and they have sullied everything that has come before them.”
I only have £3000 of shares, miniscule in the big picture I know but I’d bin them in an instant if we even considered helping the muck survive.
My prime objective from the point of offering any aid for ‘them’ would be the removal of the current board. I would not darken the doorstep of the Holy Ground until that was achieved.
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Great post!!, you certainly speak for me mate.
Zaluska
Adam Wilson M.
Loovens Charles.
Forrest Kayal Ki Wayama Ledley
Watt.
setting free the bears says:
22 October, 2011 at 18:04
Still to be convinced by Beram Kayal but have no reservations about Fraser Foster. I know he took the blame but I think Cha (who I do rate) was more culpable.
That said I would still like to see Ola and Flavia in the side.
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sftb
Can’t disagree with your response.
Hope you’re well.
hamiltontim says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:26
No probs mate. See you tomorrow. I’m like a wee wean waiting for the game tomorrow.
JF there was a birthday message on GB site yesterday for a ?!*^%1888, you I’d say?
V
Is The Documentary on Youtube yet…?
Why No Fraser or Cha?
Are you Kiddin’?
There must be consequences.
Estadio are ye around?
Just saw Sky Sports News there run a story about Balotelli.
I can’t believe the madness of some of today’s players.
Literally a rocket!
Evening Bhoys
Whats been happening
The mere suggestion that we should assist the huns in any way is an affront to everything that we and our club stand for. We should rather do everything in our power to assist in and accelerate their demise.
Is soneone deliberately trying to crash the site?
HT
I watched a documentry on youtube, called Underworld, by Nat Geo, interesting stuff, obviously I had heard about it, but never paid any heed.
I saw a few Celtic and hun tops and just wondered.
Sad also to hear the news of Colonel Gaddafi’s tragic death.
A true friend of Ireland whom deeply believed in the cause of Irish freedom.
You will never be forgotten brave warrior.
RIP Col. Mummar Gaddafi.