Neil Lennon seemed hurt by the performance yesterday. “Some of [the players]look like their minds are elsewhere at other clubs.
“I don’t know if they have been tapped up, I don’t know where they are mentally, but you can tell by their body language they are not with us at the minute and I’ll have to sort that out.”
“I have pulled them out of places that no-one had heard of and put them in the shop window.
“And I want payback now. That is simply not good enough.”
Those of you of a certain age might have thought that sounded a bit like:
“You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met you. I picked you out, I shook you up and turned you around, turned you into someone new.”
Of course, that girl from the Human League retorted:
“I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, that much is true. But even then I knew I’d find a much better place, either with or without you.”
As Human League declared in verse, talent will find its level, but only if it performs. It doesn’t matter where they came from, players who cannot excel in the SPL will drift into relative obscurity on leaving Celtic. There has been no exception to this rule.
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!!Bada Bing!!
19:49 on
10 March, 2013
Were you right behind the goal about 3/4’s up the terrace because I do recall something flying past me as well?!?
Paul67 et al
I have one of the Official Souvenir Brochures (that’s what it says on the front), of the20th Anniversary celebration of our Big Cup in the Normandy Hotel on the 24th May 1987, and I have already offered it for raffle or whatever for the Wee Oscar Fund on CQN with no takers.
Paul67
If you think this can raise funds, you can email me an address to send it to.
Weefra HH
prestonpans bhoys-across from the main stand about half way down the terracing on halfway line
CK
Never heard of them, I’m talking about the mid 80s till I retired in 1997. Any help?
Weefra HH
Bombscare Ambrose starting to fall into the Bangura category…
VP-:) Remember the ole flagon bottles? About an inch thick.
In fact, I believe Summa was at that do in the Normandy. Howzat for a commendation :)))
Weefra HH
!!Bada Bing!!
They things would have killed you if contact was made.
Where as the stuff inside took a wee while longer :O)hh
I didn’t see the match due to inebriation. I have to agree with lennie and wouldn’t mind now if some flounced aff. Lennie has found this year difficult though and I think is still learning in a unique year.
!!Bada Bing!!
19:56 on
10 March, 2013
Oh well you were not beside me then. No idea what landed next to us because before we scored I was 3/4’s up the terrace and after we scored think I was behind the goalie!!!!!!
Celtic v Leeds 1970
Record crowd for a European tie
136505.
I got a lift-over into the Celtic end as soon as gates opened. I remember fans stuck in the passageway below me for the whole game who saw nothing, (extension bit of terracing at back).
My mates got into hun end via a big door that was caved in.
Crowd more like 150000.
Still my fav game seen live.
hh
James Connolly was, I believe, a lifelong Hibs fan.
HH!!
Monday 9th
I have left this rather late tonight and it is cold. The priest Fr Murphy was in. I had a discussion with him on the situation. He said he enjoyed our talk and was somewhat enlightened, when he was leaving.
On the subject of priests, I received a small note from a Fr S. C. from Tralee, Kerry, and some holy pictures of Our Lady. The thought touched me. If it is the same man, I recall him giving a lecture to us in Cage 11 some years ago on the right to lift arms in defence of the freedom of one’s occupied and oppressed nation. Preaching to the converted he was, but it all helps.
It is my birthday and the boys are having a sing-song for me, bless their hearts. I braved it to the door, at their request, to make a bit of a speech, for what it was worth. I wrote to several friends today including Bernie and my mother. I feel all right and my weight is 60 kgs.
I always keep thinking of James Connolly, and the great calm and dignity that he showed right to his very end, his courage and resolve. Perhaps I am biased, because there have been thousands like him but Connolly has always been the man that I looked up to.
I always have tremendous feeling for Liam Mellowes as well; and for the present leadership of the Republican Movement, and a confidence in them that they will always remain undaunted and unchanged. And again, dare I forget the Irish people of today, and the risen people of the past, they too hold a special place in my heart.
Well, I have gotten by twenty-seven years, so that is something. I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.
Tuesday 10th
It has been a fairly normal day in my present circumstances. My weight is 59. 3 kgs. and I have no medical problems. I have seen some birthday greetings from relatives and friends in yesterday’s paper which I got today. Also I received a bag of toiletries today.
There is no priest in tonight, but the chief medical officer dropped in, took my pulse, and left. I suppose that makes him feel pretty important.
From what I have read in the newspapers I am becoming increasingly worried and wary of the fact that there could quite well be an attempt at a later date to pull the carpet from under our feet and undermine us — if not defeat this hunger-strike — with the concession bid in the form of ‘our own clothes as a right’.
This, of course, would solve nothing. But if allowed birth could, with the voice of the Catholic hierarchy, seriously damage our position. It is my opinion that under no circumstances do they wish to see the prisoners gain political status, or facilities that resemble, or afford us with the contents of, political status.
The reasons for this are many and varied, primarily motivated by the wish to see the revolutionary struggle of the people brought to an end. The criminalisation of Republican prisoners would help to furnish this end.
It is the declared wish of these people to see humane and better conditions in these Blocks. But the issue at stake is not ‘humanitarian’, nor about better or improved living conditions. It is purely political and only a political solution will solve it. This in no way makes us prisoners elite nor do we (nor have we at any time) purport to be elite.
We wish to be treated ‘not as ordinary prisoners’ for we are not criminals. We admit no crime unless, that is, the love of one’s people and country is a crime.
Would Englishmen allow Germans to occupy their nation or Frenchmen allow Dutchmen to do likewise? We Republican prisoners understand better than anyone the plight of all prisoners who are deprived of their liberty. We do not deny ordinary prisoners the benefit of anything that we gain that may improve and make easier their plight. Indeed, in the past, all prisoners have gained from the resistance of Republican jail struggles.
I recall the Fenians and Tom Clarke, who indeed were most instrumental in highlighting by their unflinching resistance the ‘terrible silent system’ in the Victorian period in English prisons. In every decade there has been ample evidence of such gains to all prisoners due to Republican prisoners’ resistance.
Unfortunately, the years, the decades, and centuries, have not seen an end to Republican resistance in English hell-holes, because the struggle in the prisons goes hand-in-hand with the continuous freedom struggle in Ireland. Many Irishmen have given their lives in pursuit of this freedom and I know that more will, myself included, until such times as that freedom is achieved.
I am still awaiting some sort of move from my cell to an empty wing and total isolation. The last strikers were ten days in the wings with the boys, before they were moved. But then they were on the no-wash protest and in filthy cells. My cell is far from clean but tolerable. The water is always cold. I can’t risk the chance of cold or ‘flu. It is six days since I’ve had a bath, perhaps longer. No matter.
Tomorrow is the eleventh day and there is a long way to go. Someone should write a poem of the tribulations of a hunger-striker. I would like to, but how could I finish it.
Caithfidh mé a dul mar tá tuirseach ag eirí ormsa.
(Translated, this reads as follows):
Must go as I’m getting tired.
Bobby Sands
Dire Straits have appeared on my MP3 WTF
TSOAL – if that’s a problem you send them over to me. I love ’em.
Neil commented that Efe was attracting a lot of interest when there was never ANY SPECULATION in the rags.
I thought Efe would be here for at least 5 years.
He has been tapped up like Neil has said, hmmmmm.
I would hazard a guess and say that any of the players looking to leave Celtic are not concerned about playing in ‘ relative obscurity ‘ for the Stokes and Wigans. Their only desire is to make as much money as possible in the crazy world of the English EPL and championship. Nothing wrong with that at all but lets be honest outwith Vic W any other player in the current squad, perhaps with the exception of Sammi, will be heading for the lower EPL, relegation battles and obscurity.
There aren’t many like our Henke in world football these days. He could have went anywhere but chose to stay on a relatively modest salary compared to what he could have earned at Man Utd.
Fond memories of Easter Road. I saw my first Celtic game at easter road way back on 15th October 1960
Was high up on the old terracing opposite the main stand.Was taken by a great Hibs fan ( neighbour Patrick Joseph Lavin ) who hoped to make me a Hibbee. ” No chance” I said after the game
Celtic:- Haffey , McKay , Kennedy, Crerand, McNeil & Peacock, Chalmers, Fernie, Carroll, Divers and Auld
Score Hibs 0 v Celtic 6
Scorers- Carroll ( 2 ) Fernie, Auld, Chalmers ( 2 )
Crowd 28,000
That was me a Celtic fan, then , now and always
Ard Macha
I happened to mention James Connolly and you immediately posted the latest instalment of Bobby Sands’ diary.
Spooky!
HH!!
SOAL
As long as its of Sultans of Swing you are A OK
.
Who Mentioned Sammi..?
Summa
For younger viewers Suzanne Sully and Joanne Catherall were the Cat Cubie and Judith Ralston of their day.
greenyin..
my thoughts too. Was on it when dixie and kenny scored in a 3:0 victory which more or less tied up the league 1973..Great view of game.
48000 there if I recall. Even remember the tannoy played Argent at half time..sad?
My first away game was at Easter Rd.
Pat Stanton’s testimonial and I think it was 1978.
NBAAHMP
Calling Elvis
Mary marquis cor blimey
greenyin
Who’s talking of Mary Marquis? That takes me way, way back to the One O’Clock Gang and their ilk. She was one beautiful lady.
When you are coming from Africa and you have that mindset of sending home as much funds as possible then Celts will encourage players to go to the biggest earners.
It isn’t rocket science. I’m sure Celtic could cut a deal so a decent percentage of the transfer fee goes to needy causes. ;))
Football is just a game after all.
Marrakesh
sad? Not at all. Football and music are a great reference to instances in life.
Voguepunter
A Ford Granada if i remember correctly, cream coloured.
Ma faither was a sales rep so company car, comrade .
Hail Hail
Does anyone remember the midweek game when they shut the gates at Easter Road? I was being lifted over the turnstlie and was stopped. I have a feeling it was a Cup game and John Clark scored the only goal (and possibly the only goal of his career).
Parkheadcumsalford
Mary was much easier on the eye than john toye
greenyin
Hamiltontim
20:15 on
10 March, 2013
My first away game was at Easter Rd.
Pat Stanton’s testimonial and I think it was 1978.
We got beat 2-1 that day looking at the programme think Eamonn Bannon was a guest player or us, must be a tim?
Just like to remind all the Jeelyeaters out there that this is the feast day of St Kessog, Patron Saint of Loch Lomond, here’s a wee extract from wiki:
Saint Kessog was an Irish missionary of the mid-sixth century active in the Lennox area and southern Perthshire. Kessog was Scotland’s patron saint before Saint Andrew (this was after the reformation, there was no way that the Calvinsts were having an Irish born missionary as their patron saint, better a Palestinian fisherman), and his name was used as a battle cry by the Scots (in the movie Braveheart the chant in gaelic is “for St Kessog and Scotland).
Son of the king of Cashel in Ireland, Kessog is said to have worked miracles, even as a child. He left Ireland and became a missionary bishop in Scotland. Using Monks’ Island in Loch Lomond as his headquarters, he evangelized the surrounding area until he was martyred, supposedly at Bandry, where a heap of stones was known as St Kessog’s Cairn. Kessog was killed in 520 AD.
The St McKessog’s church in Luss on the banks of Loch Lomond is named after Kessog and the church contains an effigy of the saint. Kessog is claimed to have brought Christianity to the area around Luss in 510 AD and 1500 years of continuous Christian presence in the area was celebrated in 2010.
The Kessock area of Inverness is named after the saint, as is the Kessog oil field in the North Sea.
For you Dumbartonians out there your Patron Saint’s day is next Sunday.
Hamiltontim
Pat Stanton testimonial.
Was at the game. What amazed me as a young bhoy was the programmes were free!!
Eammon Bannon and Ralph Callachan who played for the mini Huns at the time guested for Celtic in what was a trial for them.
They obviously didn’t impress as a while after Bannon signed for Chelski and Callachan for I think Newcastle.
Hail Hail
Burghbhoy
20:26 on
10 March, 2013
My programme says it was 20 pence I demand my money back……
Callaghan and bannon both played for hertz as well
Just seen Artur Boruc saving the penalty yesterday. Brought back great memories. What a goalkeeper. Now, he would be a great captain.