Bodo/Glimt converted a late penalty to secure a 2-1 win over AZ Alkmaar, whom Celtic eliminated from the Europa League in August. Since then, AZ have seen form fall before a spectacular recovery. They have won 12 and drawn one of their last 13 league games, a run that included victories over Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord. Whether Celtic would have coped in this company (I doubt it) no longer matters, although you would prefer to travel to Dundee on Monday without an exhausting European game last night.
I was pleased when I heard Roman Abramovich was sanctioned, inhibiting his largess at Chelsea. Abramovich started the trend that has seen the mineral wealth of emerging nations distort European football, the sooner it ends the better. The sanction justification was light on detail, littered with couched terms, nothing a lawyer could get their teeth into, which was probably deliberate. Some will read this as being an arbitrary decision.
Sportswashing is the term of the moment, but if it was used in this instance, it happened differently from most. Abramovich was unknown in the West before buying Chelsea, his money bought a profile and credibility before anything needed to be washed. Perhaps not before a profile in the West became useful.
The day of the oligarchs dominating European football may be numbered, but there’s many decades left for other spenders of their nations mineral wealth to go round. The circus will just move on from West London.
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Corbyn?
If the Labour party had been stuck with leaders like Corbyn over the years, it would have never got elected and couldn’t have rescued the working-class by winning all the great socialist battles of the last century. If you can’t get elected, you can do nothing. Corbyn inflicted the biggest defeat on the Labour party in its history…..why? Because he is an unreconstructed Commie! People seen it – knew it – and rejected it!
In the “Dandy” back in the day, (1960s!) the King of schoolboy Wanglers was one Winker Watson. You nearly got your wish Corkcelt!
Good afternoon all from Shawlands. In pub with Leggy from Sentinel Celts. A fine example of an East Kilbride boozebag. I may be led astray.
Seen the Huns goals this morning.
Surprised to see Red Star advertising Gazprom, thought EUFA had banned that, if not why not !!
Sure Abramovich had shares in Gazprom as well!
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Corbin had no discernible philosophy and was just politicking off the cuff.
QED- He’s a Commie
You can tell he’s a Commie cos he’s not in the Communist Party. Commies hate admitting to be Communists. That’s why we need heroes like Joe McCarthy to root them out.
Our European ambitions are hampered by a porous defence, Our record of goals conceded in Europe overt he last few years is nothing short of embarrassing.
All the talk of back 4 and keeper against domestic teams lulls us into a false sense of security and we are ultimately torn apart when the quality of opposition goes up. The lesson handed out on our last tie was particularly painfull.
I still think we have a long way to go with our back 4 and keeper before we can have realistic aspirations about making a dent in any Euro competiton.
eratic
Noticed the Gazprom livery too, but also that the broadcaster tried hard not to focus on it where possible. The other shirt sponsor on display, Unibet, was given extensive coverage. You coulda put money on that. UEFA is ending its’ relationship with Gazprom, only taken ten years to get to that point. And nearly £400 mill.
sftb
The names Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn
See an article about Alex Ferguson & Harmony Row.
Used to play for Lourdes on a Saturday morning, “The Row” in the afternoon, usually at the ‘Fifties’, or, Glasgow Green – ‘skint-knees’ up the park for four hours with the lads on Sunday afternoon, training after school on Monday/Wednesday & with “The Row” every Thursday……halcyon days – how did I ever ‘wangle it’?😅
JHB
People seen it.
Dear oh dear. Must do better.
bROONIE
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60705424
the play what I wrote
ERATIC on 11TH MARCH 2022 3:13 PM
Uefa have said shirt sponsorship is down to the clubs, they won’t be advising on whether they should drop it or not
Serbia are one of the few European countries not to impose sanctions on Russia, they are loose Allie’s of Russia because of the governments support of Putin’s brand of nationalism
Red star’s owner has come out in support of Putin. Serbian nationalism isn’t limited to the ultras
Poor Ange – forced to send out a team that plays off the cuff. Luckily he has the odd bit of individuality that saves the day.
League in the bag
Top of the Scottish League
Top scorers in the League
Best defence in the League
I think that Ange has had a lot of success for a manager who doesn’t / can’t coach.
JHBarroganceunbounded CSC
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Sorry, I meant League Cup in the bag.
https://www.celticfc.com/news/2022/march/11/match-gallery–dundee-united-v-celtic/
St Johnstone game sold out
Joe Cundy, Thanks for that,
Winker Watson is a grand name for him,
JHB desperately trying to wrangle his way out of another off the cuff remark. Keep digging.
BIGWAVY from yesterday:
“They go out then I tick one of my guilty pleasures of seeing any team beat them.”
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Why feel guilty? I react with unadulterated glee.🤣😂😅
Angle-bangle-dangle-jangle-mangle-rangle-tangle-wrangle…and my favourite WANGLE
CORKCELT
“Perhaps JHB should change his Blog name to the The Wangler, or something similar.”
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Corky, yer a bad man.😊
AIPPLE on 11TH MARCH 2022 2:48 PM
Indeed, faced with someone with intelligence and integrity his choice was to reveal his own idiocy.
Hope you’re keeping well, pal.
FT
Saint Stivs on 11th March 2022 4:18 pm
Still no sign of Kyogo? Its getting worrying.
Glad to see the vast majority of the blog beginning to see that arrogant tory prick for what it is.
He/she/it has been tolerated for way too long.
Spouting the same anti Celtic, anti Scotland, anti people garbage every day for months.
Every so often a poster, not always the same one, will opine that they don’t understand why its gets so much abuse, Jesus wept.
Kev has of course supported it, that tells you all you need to know.
SAINT STIVS
Classy farewell letter from Broony to Aberdeen. You can’t fake class.
IniquitousIV on 11th March 2022 4:42 pm
Absolutely, I hope he takes some time and makes the right choice for him.
It would be a terrible waste if he were lost to the game or relegated to monkey tv punditry.
Satchi & Satchi were supposedly the greatest advertising agency I would like to also nominate whoever did this wonder.
If ever a product was aligned with its consumers its this one,
Intimidating on its own. More so in the gang.
https://www.celticfc.com/news/2022/march/11/match-gallery–dundee-united-v-celtic/
Timmy, Ange has said Kyogo is about 2 weeks behind Turnbull,
Turnbull expected to return to Training net week.
Tom , a relation at all ?
popped up on st-anthony 4_2 twitter feed
Celtic Park official attendnaces.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNb3MK1WUAUBIVV?format=jpg&name=small
First ‘social’ trip into Glasgow with Mrs Emeraldbee in yonks, nice wee lunch in the Red Onion and a tasty pint of Guinness in Babbity’s. Heading back to Central for the train when I literally bumped into Craig Moore (aye, THAT Craig Moore) leaving TGIF.
“What’s wrong with your face” I was asked, a few yards later. I explained as best I could, but just kept wondering WTF he is doing in Glasgow? Visiting? Working/living? Scaring weans?
Every now and again, something I hadnever seen before will pop up on the Tim-Tir-Web and I just get a wow and a shiver, this just blew me away there, unbeleivable find, or maybe it was out there all the time and I just didnt know of it.
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Brother Walfrid’s autograph in the Marist book when he took his vows…
https://twitter.com/tirnaog_09/status/1501816457532952579/photo/1
EB,
there is a rumour that Craig Moore is that “trusted confidant” that Ange is looking for ……………
you heard it here first
the two of them get on like McGuiness & Paisley
BTW BADA, you kept quiet about you branching out in to the food industry! Nice wee place called BADA BING in the Merchant Square – any deals for CQNers?
SAINT STIVS @ 5.14. 😊
Jeremy Corbyn was smeared and trashed by 100% media, 95% Labour Party MP’s, and anyone who kisses the media’s ass would’ve fallen for all of it. imho
The media became medical experts in medical issues, handpicked scientists, celebrities, etc, warning anyone who was stupid enough to listen to the media, that you would die if you didn’t do the correct thing and get an, untested substance injected into you, but the company who makes the substance would be able to hold off
for – 75 – years before they would be due to tell the public what was in the substance, or what side effects would be possible from the substance??
If anyone questions this gets witch hunted, by pseudo witches, of them, there are plenty.
The courts ruled against big pharma insisting that the details of the side effects be released in tranches, last week the first tranche was released, and the deep state ordered a worldwide media blackout, zero coverage, not a single word published in any media!!!
And a lot of people believed the media and lined up for the substance that would save you from a disease with a, 99.9999997% recovery rate, that info was suppressed by the media??
Anyone who mentioned that FACt was called a “Tinfoil hatter” by those who knew better lol
None of the health situation would’ve been possible, without the removal of the honourable Jeremy Corbyn, leader of HM opposition party, from the privy council, which would’ve been required to sign off on all of the health crisis palaver, and the deep state knew that Jeremy Corbyn wouldn’t have signed off any agreement from the Labour Party, and the medical emergency would not have happened, as Jeremy Corbyn would have called a media conference and informed the British public about the great deceit that was about to visited upon them, and the entire scam would’ve died on day one.
Just think about that.
Why do you think the deep state spent every day for 5 years trying to remove, Jeremy Corbyn??
Now the deep state have their man in place, controlled opposition leader, Sir Keir Starmer, who as leader of public prosecutions, covered up the Jimmy Savile issue, the grooming gangs issue, and jailed the worlds best investigative journalist, Julian Assange.
Labour Party is now the red cheek of the deep state arse.
Lab, Con, Lib, Green, SNP, everyone of them are controlled by a foreign country, if I say the name of the country, there are plenty on here who’ll twist what I say and demand my removal, such is the way of it.
I mean seriously who in the world has got the time to type that amount of pish for posting on a blog.
seriously.
Superbru Update
After Wednesday’s late winner for St. Mirren, this week’s points total was highest by Auldheid with 11, Big Archie had 10 and Hutchbhoy 9.5.
3 players scored 1.5 points at the bottom (wee McCaff , Mick the Tim and wee BGFC) but, in a blatant display of heightism it has awarded the wooden spoon to Mick the Tim
Overall, Call Me Gerry has a near 10 point lead from Hopeful Hoops with Bhoy from the Village in 3rd. There are 5 others in close contention for that 3rd spot so plenty of competition with some moving up this week. At the bottom, the irregulars wee BGFC and Scaniel are vying for the wooden spoon but Chalmersbhoy is bottom of the more regular predictors.
No SPFL this weekend so next predictions are due by Saturday 19th March at 3 pm
Matthew Syed was / is a bought and paid for media shill, puppet, who said what the swamp told him to when it came to the anti-Corbyn pile on, fake antisemitism that was all proved groundless, didn’t stop Matthew from wading in with his anti-socialist campaign (( now look at the state of the place?? )) Matthew reading out tomorrow’s papers on SkyNews, lie, after lie, he was probably a covid witch hunter as well I don’t know as I’d stopped watching any median bull by then, then you see dim Tims doffing their hats to media references, and then you look at the decline of Celtic since 2003, complicit in untold amounts of corruption, scandals, bullied by pound£ shop swing out sister hissing under her breath at all thing Celtic, and dim Tims still vote her in?? still financially vote in a corrupt PLC that goes on, and on….??