If you haven’t had a chance to listen to the podcast I did with the LostBhoys on Celtic in the 1950s (superb production quality, you should check out what they are doing), I took the opportunity to mention the Hibs team of the late forties and early fifties, including the celebrated Famous Five forwards.
They won three league titles and narrowly missed out on another two as they unequivocally dominated Scottish football. They were probably the best team in Europe at that stage, only the lack of a formal European competition denied them recognition. Celtic battened down the hatches against Hibs in the 1953 Coronation Cup final but nothing would be the same again for the Edinburgh club, although reputation got them an invitation to the inaugural European Cup, in which they reached the semi-final in 1956.
We learned today that the last surviving member of the Famous Five, Lawrie Reilly, died, aged 84. Their achievement should be suitably acknowledged (this is not an endorsement of Willie Ormond’s later work, obviously).
The news that Hibs have today bid £200k for a striker is significant. £200k doesn’t buy you much in English football but it is a substantial investment for any club, apart from Celtic. Maybe Hibs long period in the wilderness is coming to an end.
I only caught up today on the Scottish Sun’s online coverage of the arson attack in Salsburgh (alas, not unique in the bus industry), complete with photographs of Celtic supporters and Neil Lennon (all of whom were four hundred miles from the incident). I remember reading a story on rape, robbery and assault in London in The Sun back in the 80s, accompanied by inner-city photos featuring exclusively Afro-Caribbean-Londoners going about their business. Real subtle.
Remember the email Charlotte Fakes produced on negative news stories against ‘other’ clubs being planted? Utterly breath-taking. Scottish football, as it was, and for some, still is, is inherently an unstable influence on Scottish society. We need to take our business elsewhere and I don’t believe any of our top-flight colleagues would object.
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henriks sombrero
00:02 on 23 July, 2013
Click on time at top of the screen, it will take you to the top of the page, and then press the refresh button.
Henrik
Click the time/date of last post
Click top of iPhone and hit the circular arrow
Should be job done
macjay1 for Neil Lennon,
do you agree with John that the royal baby has been born into a horrible life
Congratulations to Michael Fagan on the birth of his granddaughter.
HT
Hoped i’de get a chance to wish you have a great holiday and hope to see you on your return. Off to bed now and looking forward to seeing ma wee maw tomorrow then off to the game. Cannie wait. :))
Weefra HH
Gordy, I should not assume the baby will have a horrible life. Some royals seem normal enough but being surrounded by servile sycophants isn’t good for the soul surely? Would you wish to be born into that circus?
Thanks guys, but I don’t see any circular arrow at the top of the page…
WeeFra
First leg of journey to France is done, I’m at my mammy’s in Upton.
Up at 4:30am for ferry at 8:15am but can’t sleep with this heat and humidity!!!
Hope your wee mother is keeping well mate.
Henrik’s
It’s to the right of the word ‘reader’ on the scroll bar.
henriks
Is there a function at the bottom of the phone either side of the main function, which may brign up the refresh function? It does of the Samsung. Remember to activate the refresh by tapping the time/date. Hope this helps.
Weefra HH
Henrik
Check address bar
Should read http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk, an icon ‘reader’, then the circular arrow
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Henrik..
If it’s a Older iPhone you tap the 3 Lines then Circular Arrow..on the Right..
Summa
John,
we are just going round in circles,you think the boy will have a horrible form of life,
I think it will have a life of enormous privilege and will want for nothing,simply because of the family he is born into as I said I can think of thousands born today that will have a horrible form of life,and its those children I feel for
I can’t believe the fuss over a baby.
At this time our thoughts should be with the recently departed.
A bus has left us that can never be replaced.
Simply The Bus.
so the redshield’s now have an heir to the throne of england. more power to them (pun intended)
Got it guys. I had set it up as a link on my homepage and wasn’t seeing address bar. Using safari now and see the refresh button !
oh and the “i pity the rich” was hilarious.
Gordy those (not you) who cannot engage in debate without resorting to insult and innuendo are also deserving of your pity. A baby. A beautiful life. Yet some here make cheap comments about people they don’t know. Bitterness consumes them. Some would also probably profess to be Christians.
HT
She is very very weak. Really worried about her. She has had a wonderful life, and at 93, you have to ask yourself, how long do you want your mum to go on??? But she is my mum, and it is not nice to see her not even being able to walk. However, being brought up in Govan, that breed don’t know when they are beaten.
Regarding yourself and family, we did the ole driving through France 25 yrs ago, and thoroughly enjoyed every minute of these hols. In fact we did It three times. All the way through France to Llorett de Mar camping all the way. Brilliant holidays, couldn’t do it now, too old, but were the best holidays we ever had. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Then you will really have a ball. :))
Weefra HH
The BBC wastes vast resources on the birth of the surrogate royal, David Cameron spends the day deflecting media attention away from Lynton Crosby’s overbearing influence on him and Gideon.
Anyone would think Media House were running the press in this country!
You ought to pity them as if they don’t redistribute their wealth to charity then they will surely never be in peace.
Won’t somebody think of the chilterns!!
Welcome to all wee babbies, and may your god help you
john you’re crackin me up man. you say some here make cheap comments about people they dont kno the follow it up with some on here would probably profess to be christians sounds like a cheap shot at folk you dont know. dae write yer ain stuff?
WeeFra
Thankfully I only have an hour or so to drive on the other side :-)
I will keep your wee mammy in my thoughts and prayers.
Must try to sleep this heat is brutal!!!
Just in from taking the missus out for anniversary dinner. Looking forward to the game tomorrow (still Monday here).
It looks really bad the campaign the Sevcoites have just now against everything Celtic. Hopefully the effort of trying to smear us on an international level backfires on what’s left of them.
WeefratheTim,
prayer said for your mum,god bless you both
My point is fair green. Arguing with such hostility is futile but I will not kowtow to leftist (or right) bigots. The cheap shots only indicate a sparseness of reason.
gordybhoy64
00:05 on
23 July, 2013
I do.
I wouldn`t wish their goldfish bowl existences on anyone.
Weefra, I also wish your family well. I try to follow your affable posts.
sparseness of your braincells mair like
WeeFra,
Ive recently been in the same situation my friend, and know its no easy – heart goes with u
Good morning Bhoys from a quiet and windy Playa Blanca. 2 days of chilling left.
Hoop ur all well?
HH
CRC
oops forgot smiley thing
HT
Have fun. :))
gordybhoy64
Thank you for your response. It is really appreciated.
Weefra HH
Yes green infurrafenian. Yes green. I am being insulted by somebody who calls himself Green… Oh the irony.
weefra
you stay up later and later each night
Addicted CSC
HH
CRC
john o neil
Cheers.
Weefra HH
United in Celtic. See you all tomorrow.