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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BT,
Drink them out the bottle n that’ll be your iron supplement for the day sorted
Celtic bring the Champions’ League theme music to Glasgow again on Tuesday and enhance our country’s reputation with every win.
There’ll be few nerves and lots of laughs tomorrow……….. just exactly like it was at Brentford on Saturday.
For fans of Alternative Comedy, check out also NewsNow’s headline non-stories from official Sevcoland tomorrow – could it really have been 13 produced during last Wednesday in a determined attempt to appear relevant to the football world.
Obviously, then yet another world record.
Valentinesday, your welcome.
*
* timmy7_noted
16:01 on 22 July, 2013
Got married in St Josephs and had my wedding reception in the Parkville………….
25 years ago today!!
mine 2 today mate. 13 yrs although it feels like 25.:-)
only kiddin angel if your reading this later.
Good afternoon CQNers,
A word of caution, we may wish to move to the EPL and harvest the richer rewards for our labours but what happened at Brentford is a foretaste of what Celtic would receive.
We can sing our Irish republican song book and blame the Scottish msm, we can sing and blame the Offensive Behavior at Football act , we can sing and blame the SFA but should it happen that we do get into the EPL you can guarantee English football supporters will not extend a friendly reception.
We’re outsiders in Scotland and should Paul67’s oft expressed wish to join the EPL come to fruition we’ll be the same outsiders in England.
Make no mistake a competitive Celtic in England will be greeted with much more than “Engerland, Engerland” and “God Save the Queen” that we serenaded with at Brentford, in every stadium from Newcastle to West Ham, it will not be the supposed friendly welcome some mistakenly believe.
GuyFawkesaforeverhero………quality moniker.
Guys,
This question may already have been asked but, for all us exiles, is tomorrow’s game on tv at all ?
Afternoon folks,
1st day back at work after 3 weeks hols and brain is fried so a quick question re the game tomorrow night:
is the game on the season card or do i need to run out tomorrow and get me and my bhoy 2 tix??
Thanks in advance!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Season ti ket ttt
Token- game on Timcard.
All those t’sand missed my c’s..
Contract invalid..
Cheers DBBIA and BT!
oh and BT, it wouldny have been a usual BT post without some sort of spelling mistake….
;-)
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
PS – missed you by around 10 mins last Thurs night!
the token tim
16:27 on 22 July, 2013
As BT says its on the ST as is the borrusia munchen game on Sat.
Tickets for next round of CL qualifiers on sale immediately after Tuesday nights game.
Token
Hope to be at bmcuw day and night session in September
Breaking news
Nicholas Witchell is now fully dilated.
Thanks Green Edge!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
BT,
me too…….but with my usual proviso…..!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Take the beer bottles to a body shop to get the rust removed and the tops resprayed. If cash is tight, go to the local scrappy and pick up used bottle tops, a tyre jack and hammer. Jobs a good un.
Those bottles will do you another Good 140 miles.
Celtic will never play in EPL and I am more than happy about that.
the newly formed spfl should be geared towards increasing our % of t.v revenue per population in britain. Scottish consumption of sky for example, is anything between 5% and 10%. start getting our true market value and Scottish football will thrive.
one spfl t.v station with one monthly subscription fee for Britain and Ireland consumers, oversea’s sales as is etc… maybe if we grow our game and stop taken rubbish t.v deals that f*ck fans over. we have a 100 million annual t.v product being sold for a 1/5 of its value
canamalar1
Great to see things taking shape.
I’ve been out of the loop a bit lately so may have missed out on some info.
Did we get the requisite numbers?
When the final submission is ready,is it ok if I stick it up on the other Celtic forum I use as it looked as if a good few from there showed an interest?
Thanks again for taking this forward.
Best Regards
medtim
Anybody know what this is about, to me it looks like they where due to lose there licence maybe
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Director(s): SCOTT BRUCE, JOHN BRUCE, JOHN BRUCE.
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PSV – S17 – Consideration of disciplinary action under Section 17 (The Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981)
PSV – S28 – Consideration of disciplinary action under Section 28 (The Transport Act 1985)
p.s and every time they increase the income towards the EPL it is from other less glamorous sporting events such as, Scottish football.
scottish football’s biggest enemy is lack of ambition and fear of the unknown with our clubs happy to take the scraps of sky and BT table than tell them to stuff it and that we’ll be going it alone
hail hai
scottish football needs to get some balls, is what am saying
Missed this bit at the end of post above
17Revocation, suspension etc. of licences
Wee story today that from this Saturday Paradise Windfall prize money being reduced from £15000 to £12000. Appears that due to falling attendances last season that there was more getting paid out in prize money than was getting distributed to youth development
Kojo/Pasquale
Greetings!
Team for tomorrow.
By Fraser (not Forster) do you perhaps mean Fisher?
If you mean Fraser (as in Marcus), he won’t be available ’til about Christmas.
HH!!
Plucky cash strapped Scottish 2nd division side spends 500k on a bus to take them round the stagnant backwaters of Scottish football.
Said bus then goes up in smoke.
Bonfire of the Vanities?
valentinesday
16.26
Sincere thanks.
I recognise the Don Quixote-like element of his aspirations, but I hope his brutal personal sacrifice will be remembered and honoured.
Probably not in Sevcoland though, I haven’t passed moderation anywhere there yet
Pretty sure the Champions League theme music is only played when the group matches start.
HH!!
stephbhoy
Great post…..last summer I was hoping Sky
would walk away from Scottish football, due
to the fact the hun we’re not in the Spl……kick
off’s back to 3 o’clock on a Saturday.
blantyretim.
Are you going to the game tomorrow night. I’ll be in Glasgow in the afternoon and would like some advice about wine shops. in and around the main shopping area of Argyll St -Hope street area, I’d like to buy a few bottles to be delivered to my home the advice I want is the shops that do deliveries.
Good Day CQNrs
Looking for assistance
Due to work i have to be in Carlisle tomorrow evening and overnight, Anyone aware of any bars likely to be showing the match?
As always, any help is much appreciated
Ta
medtim,
Please do, we still don’t have the required number but I’m hoping once we have a finished resolution then people will know exactly what is going to be asked and add their support.
Hail Hail
GuyFawkesaforeverhero…….yer welcome pal
The last man to enter the house of commons
with good intentions.
Bournsouprecipe
at 13.27
Those shocking Brentford v Celtic images……That one is horrendous….that boy should be banned sin die from Celtic Park. Drinking Tennents is bad enough but Tennents Super Lager..(If you need to describe it…it isnae).Is he trying to outdo Scotland’s shame?
Tallybhoy
This is Pasquale..speakn’//
Yep.. Ah Goofed!
Ah shoulda Made it FiSHER…like you Guessed..
Anyway,
Whadya Think
Of the Ma Selection?
Dae ye no agree that Commons is Being Miscast as a Middy?
He wid mak a Brammer of a Center Forward.
He has it Awe..
Guile, Quick Feet.. He is No a Lumbering.. Big .. Useless.. Stiffy the Goalie.. TARGET MAN..
and as ye know..
AH HATE BIG STIFF , Lumbering, Fitless.. Target Men!
Yep.. With Kriss’ Credentials, which Ah hiv jist Enumerated..
Kris, could Turn oot tae Be..
Anither.. Henrik…with his..
Quick Feet, Guile, Eye fur a Goal?
Na?
Well, Ah soitenly Dae.
Kojo
Still, Laughin’
Bobby Murdoch’s Curled up Winkle Pickers
Mention of The Royal Oak brings back many good memories of being doen in London in the summer of 84 for demos and staying in Bonnington Square fro a wee while. Great Boozer!
Oldtim
Too busy for me to attend a match yet.
Also with mrs bt at work mini bt has to look after me
The zombie bus would have only cost max of say £120,000, so why is it being reported as £500,000? Stupid and very lazy journalism, I’ll give them a wee clue……. At a total cost to the company of £500,000 will be closer to the truth.