Adam Matthews has been on top form this season, his pace and partnership with Mikael Lustig have been unfailing for Celtic, so Neil Lennon will clearly feel robbed at a top players injury-enforced absence for three months.
It could be worse.
An injury to Forster, Ambrose, van Dijk or Izaguirre would be difficult to accommodate but we are not short of right side-midfield options. James Forrest is now back from injury and although Derk Boerrigter joined as a left-sided player, he has already featured on the right for Celtic. If Boerrigter plays on the left Samaras, Commons and Stokes can all feature on the right.
One man’s cloud is another’s silver lining, just ask Beram Kayal, who kept Victor Wanyama on the bench until he was injured in December 2011. Victor got the run in the team he needed and never looked back.
Signing van Dijk was a response to an unexpected transfer request/not in the right frame of mind to pull a jersey on statement from Kelvin Wilson, but the major planned summer activity was to inject pace into the team for Champions League games, specifically through Boerrigter and Pukki. For various reasons we’re not there yet, maybe Ajax at home later this month will change that.
Blown away by the 1254125 donations, which have flooded in since Friday. Each donor, from those who donated £5 to the several who gave £125 (like it!) are a credit to the spirit of those whose footsteps you walk in. Promise to stop pestering with a link to the page. Soon.
Thank you.
The Sean book, 90 years of pure Celtic:
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John O’Neil
01:14 on 9 October, 2013
You didnt get my one book thing did you?
Big cup winners
Headmaster of the Greg was probably John McGonagle from Airdrie.
Great Celtic man, now passed on.
Setting free, given your condemnation of the Mail for some past sins, would you also like to denounce the Labour party for the elements within it which supported Communism?
Sorry Margaret I didn’t read it! Will scroll back. I probably wouldn’t get it though. Your humour is perhaps too sharp for me.
Winning Captains
Stick me down as well please, H H.
Margaret I am not brave enough to comment on that!
If the Tory party is for hard working people. Count me out.
Setting free, you quite rightly mentioned far right racist loons pre world war 2. Would you also pass comment on those far left racist loons who supported socialism? You know those guys like Stalin who persecuted Jews and other minorities?
John,
People have been dying for millennia thanks to “these brutes”. “These brutes” aren’t defined by lines on maps, or skin colour, or religion – and i appreciate thats not what you’re implying.
In the systemic sense – be it any ism or religion – any evil of “these brutes” who commit the act, be it a crusader, a gulag or death camp guard, a warrington bomber, a suicide bomber, or a pilot over dresden, pales beside the pope, dictator, and general turd who implemented the system to enable it.
Jimmy I am glad that my posts are not being interpreted as being anti Muslim. As for your main point, I am not sure I agree. SS officers who gassed Jews do not pale into insignificance in comparison to Hitler. The victim’s family may consider that SS officer to be akin to Hitler.
From The Gatestone Institute:-
Pretending the Problem Is Not There
by Douglas Murray
October 1, 2013 at 5:00 am

After all, Islam is not a pacifist religion. Its founder was not a Quaker. There are many of the opinion that this problem should be out in the open, discussed and tackled. Not least in order to assist those Muslim scholars who are preaching against the extremists.
Is it ever acceptable to tell a lie? If you believe the answer is “no” then this is an area in which you disagree with our political class. The recent terror attack in Kenya — and the reaction to it — is only the latest evidence. When it comes to the truth about Islamic violence, our politicians evidently believe the truth is something we, the general public, cannot handle.
The latest example occurred this past weekend, when Islamic militants stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi. At the time of writing it is unclear just how many scores of people they have killed. What we knew from the start was that the culprits separated out Muslims from non-Muslims, allowed the Muslims to go free, and massacred the rest. This was a slaughter along specific religious lines: Muslims slaughtered Christians and other “infidels.” As if to reinforce this point, at the same time in Pakistan two suicide bombers blew up dozens of Christians as they left church.
Anyone wishing to observe anything striking in all this was warned off by David Cameron. While the Kenya siege was still going on, and the brutal nature of the selection already known, our PM took to the airwaves. “These appalling terrorist attacks that take place where the perpetrators claim they do it in the name of a religion — they don’t. They do it in the name of terror, violence and extremism and their warped view of the world. They don’t represent Islam or Muslims.” Very few people think they do represent all Muslims. But after so many years and so many attacks it is worth questioning why our leaders think the “nothing to do with Islam” lie is a remotely noble one.
At least the Prime Minister did not go as far as the distinguished journalist Sir Simon Jenkins, who blamed shopping malls themselves for the Kenya terror. But Cameron was still standing in a now decade-long tradition of deceit.
Convinced that “Islamophobia” is the real problem, and an anti-Muslim “backlash” the real concern, it has become almost impossible for Western politicians to have any rational discussion about what is both a local and global problem. When four young Muslim suicide bombers blew up the London transport system in July 2005, the smoke had not cleared before the then police-chief, Brian Paddick, told a press conference:”Islam and terrorism do not go together.”
Two years later, when Islamic extremists tried to car-bomb a London nightclub and Glasgow airport, the then Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, said what happened was, in fact, so contrary to Islam’s teachings that such acts should henceforth be termed “anti-Islamic activity.” It does not matter which party the politicians are from (Jacqui Smith is Labour, Cameron a Conservative), the lie is always the same.
In May this year, when Drummer Lee Rigby was decapitated in South London by men shouting “Allahu Akhbar” (“Allah is Greater”), David Cameron immediately tried to scotch any unhelpful inferences by stating, “There is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act.” London Mayor Boris Johnson assisted by stressing that it was “completely wrong” to associate Islam in any way with the killings.
One positive interpretation of this response is that since, with each attack, the fever-pitch of the politicians — their absolute insistence that this has nothing to do with Islam — increases, perhaps they intuit that their lie is getting ever harder to sustain. They must sense they are losing us.
It is unlikely, after this latest massacre in Kenya, that more people believe Islam is a wholly quietist and peaceful religion this week than they did the week before. Likewise, in May, after everyone in Britain woke up to blanket front-pages of two wild-eyed maniacs covered in blood, waving meat-cleavers, would you imagine that more people believed Islam to be a religion of peace that morning than the day before? Or a couple fewer?
In some ways you have to feel sorry for the politicians. They simply do not know how to speak to this difficult issue. They see that we have millions of Muslims in our countries. They also see — rightly — that the vast majority have absolutely no connection to such acts of violence. And although they undoubtedly over-worry about the potential of a popular “backlash” against Muslims, the longer the problem goes unaddressed, the more it appears that theirs is not an entirely unfounded fear.
Yet what the politicians cannot say — and a very small number of public figures are willing to even hint at — is that the actions of terrorists in Pakistan, Kenya and around the world on a daily basis most certainly are connected to Islam. In particular they are connected to a war of interpretation that has raged within Islam for 1400 years.
Islam is not a pacifist religion. Its founder was not a Quaker. People like to make comparisons at this point, so one might as well join in. Allow me to put it at its clearest: The history of Christianity has been quite bloody already. But it would have been far bloodier still if, rather than telling his followers to love their neighbour, Jesus had ordered them to “slay the infidel wherever you find them,” as the Koran directs Muslims to do. What if Jesus, rather than telling his followers to “turn the other cheek,” had — as Mohammed did — slayed and beheaded his enemies personally?
Does this mean that all Muslims follow Islam’s violent strictures? Of course not. The Koran and sayings of Mohammed contain peaceful, as well as violent, admonitions. A complex battle continues over which interpretation of these texts and traditions should win out, and where and when. It is not only mistaken, but downright untrue, to pretend the problem is not there. The truth that politicians believe we are not ready for is that, although the extremists have a wicked and — for everyone — obviously disastrous interpretation of Islam, it is not an implausible interpretation. The extremists do not get where they get to from nowhere. Unfortunately for the politicians, an increasing number of voters can see this.
There are many of the opinion that this problem should be out in the open, discussed and tackled. Not least in order to assist those Muslim scholars who are preaching against the extremists. Many will only jump if they are persuaded that they must in order to safeguard the future of their religion. Rather than apply such pressure, and provide some assistance, our politicians have chosen another way. They have chosen to lie. There are only two ways that lie will stop. When the Islamists prove them wrong more markedly on their own doorstep. Or when popular anger tells the politicians that their lies are transparent. It is interesting to consider which eventuality will be more uncomfortable for them.
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SFTB…..So The Sikh,Hindu….
And Jewish Chapters Of The EDL ‘Do Not Exist’….?
Your Sense Of Denial….
Is Most Convenient…
Like A Toddler Holding His Hand Over His Eyes…..
And Squealing,”You Can’t See Me!”
Dontcha’ Think..
The Inconvenient Truth…..
https://m.facebook.com/EDLSikhs/posts/413625958737888
Well if all the so called experts are saying that Sevco WILL run out of money next season if they do not get an invester then surely they should be allowed to start that season? And (not that I care) the supporters of that club ,,,or any other club in the same position….should NOT be allowed to buy season tickets, and attend matches only on a pay as you go basis, surely the SFA has an obligation to protect the fan, because if they let them go ahead next season and they are as they are right now, then it will be the SFA who have not done there job, just a thought?
Sorry second line …….should=shouldn’t
John O’Neil@00.56
“I assume you do accept that these terrorist attacks are evil? You do don’t you? If not then something is wrong.”
My final comment.
Loath as I am to answer “when did you stop beating your wife questions?”, I will make this one exception.
How could you fail to detect a condemnation of extreme Islam in my posts? I have sought with care to dissociate myself and this blog from the view espoused by TSD that “they’re all not to be trusted”. You too have dissociated from that view so, at least there, we find common ground.
You find my explanation that things are complex, too indirect or evasive for your viewpoint. Equally, I find that a reduction to the bombers are all bad, no matter what has been done to them, is simplistic and reductive. There we disagree.
As for the rest, a definition of what is “terrorism”and who is performing it might help to clarify the debate but that is for another day.
I will leave with the converse of Turkeybhoy’s expressed dilemma:-
“If you lived in those countries, followed that religion, and had been subjected to the humiliations, invasions, dispossession and oppression that they have, how long would it be before your reactions became physical? And how physical would they have to be before you were labelled a terrorist?
It is easy to demonise them as spoiled rich Arabs like Osama with no justification. They have more “wretched of the earth” in their ranks than there are spoiled rich boys.
Amongst the ranks of those deemed to be terrorist are Padraig Pearse, Nelson Mandela, Claus von Stauffenberg, Sophie Scholl and Martin Niemoller.
Among those normally omitted from such lists are Ronnie Reagan/ Olly North, who funded the Contras, Kissinger, who bombed Cambodia, John D. Rockefeller jnr who supplied the munitions and orders to the Ludlow Massacre perpetrators and Henrik Voerward who approved the Sharpeville massacre.
That’s quite a range of people and actions to be subsumed into one category.
Goodnight- I will discuss only football for the remainder of this week.
TSD / Kojo @ 0046
You’ve surpassed yourself there. The most narrow-minded, blinkered, embarrassingly right-wing drivel I’ve ever made the mistake of reading.
If it had been posted on a sevco site, it would have been reposted here as a parody, held as an example of the selfish, arrogant, scare-mongering mentality of the truly insecure.
But unfortunately its appeared here, and will be quoted by our detractors as representative of CQN.
John,
Guess we’ll have to disagree. Only consider that a whole people don’t become bestial by nature, it requires a system of “education”, fear, an identifiable enemy, and approval by law and/or the general populace. These conditions are crafted by people in power, and ultimate responsibility must lie with them. This does not absolve the individual by any means, but the weak are weak.
Setting free, I suggest the people who behead and stone innocents to death are terrorists.
Unfortunately your list -of those omitted from terrorist links — mention the many socialist/leftist terrorists who also deserve to be included. Therefore it was a biased range.
I appreciate asking you the question about the evil is perhaps unhelpful in an argument but your point about the reality of such evil seemed ambivalent to say the least.
Only a fool would say this is all simple. However we can strip away the spurious arguments and focus on the horror.
We don’t necessarily disagree on all elements. We would likely both agree that we need to understand and listen to the disaffected. However the lunatics mostly want to kill us rather than negotiate. How can one negotiate with them?
I appreciate the tone of our debate Setting free and will also wish you a good night.
Error in a recent post to you about terrorist list Setting free. Time for bed.
setting free the bears supports Celtic’s best fighter- Wee Oscar Knox
01:43 on 9 October, 2013
John O’Neil@00.56
“I assume you do accept that these terrorist attacks are evil? You do don’t you? If not then something is wrong.”
My final comment.
Loath as I am to answer “when did you stop beating your wife questions?”, I will make this one exception.
How could you fail to detect a condemnation of extreme Islam in my posts? I have sought with care to dissociate myself and this blog from the view espoused by TSD that “they’re all not to be trusted”. You too have dissociated from that view so, at least there, we find common ground.
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How could you fail to detect a condemnation of extreme Islam in my posts? I have sought with care to dissociate myself and this blog from the view espoused by TSD that “they’re all not to be trusted”.
You Are Quite Practiced At “Putting Words In My Mouth”…..
And Ascribing To Me Views That I Have Never Expressed..
Please Direct Me To A Post Where I Have Made A Statement That Is In Any Way Close To What You Have Posted Above..
Or Cease Your LIBELLOUS MENDACITY..!
Jimmyquinn, the SS officers were not weak. Many of their victims were though. The fascists had the power. Not sure we disagree entirely. How can one understand evil?
Singing Detective, I admire Setting free. I also respect many of your points. I am very dubious about allegations of racism. Leftists tend to smear their opponents frequently in such a way. I am not saying that Setting free did this to you though.
Goodnight all.
To all expressing thanks to me. Thank you for the recognition but I would like to give my thanks to Canamalar. I have tried on various on-line sites to get keyboard warriors to do more than just tap away on their keyboard. That is the first line of attack but the next is to take action. Well done to everyone who signed or supported Canamalar’s resolution. Special thanks to him for all his effort in creating the resolution and getting onto the forthcoming AGM.
If you are willing and able. You are needed in Govan on Thursday to give support to Thomas Rannachan who is standing in the Govan by-election against the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act.
@AXEACTGovan
https://www.facebook.com/ThomasRannachan
http://thomasrannachan.tumblr.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r4V_EbpLi8
wellbhoy7 –
The Unofficial Celtic shops around The Barras.
Big Nan –
I also helped in Govan on Saturday. We must have met each other?
leftclicktic oscar in our thoughts –
Great post!
Doc is supporting Oscar and McKenzie. @ 20:26
I thought it was weird that you posts congratulations before Canamalar posted.
Auldheid @ 21:49
Yeah. I’m not claiming a goal that hit off me on the way in. Leftclicktic, Cowiebhoy and yourself and many others played their part but it was Canamalar who did all the hard work deserves the credit.
ACGR Supporting Big Nan’s Reveal the Masonic Judge Petition @ 22:54
I only snore when I have drank lots and slept little, so… maybe you’re right.
Big Nan @ 23:08
This a a boiler room scam. See post by Cathedral View @ 23:17
A few people told me about similar calls when I was collecting signatures.
How do they get the details though?
ACGR Supporting Big Nan’s Reveal the Masonic Judge Petition @ 23:31
Ask Maggie about the recording I made of her snoring when I was a child.
Margaret McGill @ 23:38
I’ve saw you explain that a couple of times. The man drinks 12yr old single malt like we drink water, which also explains the original misunderstanding. I would recommend you accept his offer of a date. He is a hoot. The bed and whisky is just a bonus.
Margaret McGill @ 00:54
Is that a veiled question?
winning captains can you put me on the list please
Born 67
Good morning CQNers,
Reading through the posts about right/left wing terrorists’ I was minded of the old joke…
A guy was walking up the Shankill Rd one night when he happened upon some paramilitaries who stopped him,
“Are you a Catholic or a protestant”?
“I’m a Jew” the guy replied, to which the paramilitary leader asked “ Aye, but are you a Catholic Jew or a protestant Jew”?
A re-post to remind The Singing Detective the primary function of this blog.
Lennybhoy’s wonderful post at 19.37
So it goes something like this…
The Bhoy Jinky tells me there is talk of a tribute to St. John Doyle at the Ajax game. Linda gives us her Blessing and was overwhelmed by the gesture. Then a plea is made to try and get two tickets for the family so all four can go to the Ajax game. You lot were not satisfied with that, oh no, you suggested that we get the four family members seats together, shower of unselfish lot…:)
So it began, the torch was lit and the Baton picked up, was there ever any doubt, no way, no way.
Minx1888 offered us straight away her two tickets for the Ajax game. Next up was Hamiltontim who was pretty certain he could get us four tickets together.
I got a telephone call this morning, it was Sannabhoy…paraphrasing but basically we have the four tickets together. Time for the Bank balance to be checked, which I have just done. To-date we have amassed £425 and expect at least another £100 in pledges and cash. We will have enough to pay for the four tickets. We will have enough for the tickets and also for a Wreath, which I am organising. There will be change left over, with this we will kick off a Mydonate 1254125 in George’s memory, watch this space.
I have spoken with Linda and told her that the family will all go and sit together to the Ajax game. No words can express her gratitude to each and every one of you. She asked me to tell you that you have all be brilliant, so kind and that I would not understand what CQN meant to George.
Linda once again asked me to tell you all that you are most welcome to visit the House or to call. Arrangements have not been finalised but when they are they will be on GCC website, Twitter, FB and of course CQN.
You probably only start to begin to understand how the Family are feeling with the warmth and generosity shown to them by you.
Linda was talking to one of the Green Brigade last night and she asked me to let you know that the GB will be paying their own tribute at the Ajax game. I confirmed that there will also be a tribute on the Big Screen. What a night it will be for the Ryan Family to soak up the atmosphere, sitting together amongst their extended Family who are the Celtic Supporters; it may even bring a tear from George’s eyes looking down with pride on his 60,000 Family members. As Linda said he lived for CQN and Celtic.
Can I finish off by apologising to any of you that I have not personally replied to e-mails. Thank you for your support, thank you on behalf of the Ryan Family but most of all thank you on behalf of George who will be with us all on 22nd October and forever.
God Bless George Ryan, God Bless Celtic and God Bless CQN.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Clink,
The states isn’t a society of fear or fear of things not like you. Certainly not my experience anyway. Felt a lot more fear and dangerous scenarios in Belfast. Left that crap behind. The west coast is chillax bro , cept maybe LA but anywhere with that much traffics gotta suck right? Around here folks seem more concerned with random great white shark attacks, how their fantasy football team is doing or Barry O’Bamas boys closing the local herb stores down for a wee while.
DontbelievethehypeCSC
Hail Hail
winning captains 22:14 on 8 October, 2013
Lots of old friends from here not showing this year. Haste ye back.
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Haste ye back indeed.
Life and work gets in the way I suppose I’m sure our old friends will return if they can.
Can you put me on the list.
Good morning friends from a currently dry, slightly blustery (whit?) and bit colder than of late East Kilbride.
And happy birthday to John Winston Lennon, born 73 years ago today.
Winning Captain
Could you include OldTim67 on your list please.
Jobo
Oct `62
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xuMwfUqJJM
hamiltontim is praying for oscar
06:58 on 9 October, 2013
Have you heard from the old Bhoy lately?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Lenny
No mail in my box :(
Cheers macjay1 but I’m already spoken for ;-)
Work calling….
Top of the morning to you all from a still-dark Fife where the weather has a noticeable chill to it.
I would urge all who care about freedom of speech and thought to help out at Govan on Thursday. I may sound hypocritical as I can’t make it myself though I did help out on Saturday with leafleting (I was the distinguished looking gent stationed at the corner by the Coffee shop Morrisey the23rd, ask eddiekirkmichael, you must have been late arriving as I introduced myself at 10am).
Only 21 days left from today till Scottish Parliament public petition PE01491 closes on Tuesday 29th October. http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/GettingInvolved/Petitions/judgesmasonregister
2,030 people from 34 countries have signed so far.
H.H.
tbj praying for oscar knox
07:03 on 9 October, 2013
Your email all in lower case?
Be in Office in 20 mins willl retry. Text when I resend.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
I broke my collarbone when I was about 13 by standing on a ball while playing footie in a backie in South Nitshill – fact! Not recommended, very painful. HH
Lenny
My e mail is lower case… im just head case :)
I sent you mail to confirm address.
Im off work today .. using up a day owed to me from earlier.
First day off since March … :)