It is quite incredible that the European Cup/Champions League final has not been held in Lisbon, one of Europe’s major football cities, since 25 May 1967. Lisbon is the home of one of the early giants of the tournament, and has had imposing cathedral-stadiums ever since, all but one of which was brought up to modern standards for Euro 2004.
When the Lisbon Lions return to the city of their greatest triumph, one day before its 47th anniversary, they will once more represent Celtic on the world stage, just as they did in the Lisbon sun all those years ago, and on hundreds of occasions since, when they have pitched up at supporter or media events.
This is a team of The Ages. The games’ dignitaries will pay homage to them next month, while locals of an older generation will recall their youth with a glint in their eyes. Delighted their going back, hope they bring their boots.
We’re in for a treat in the run up to this year’s final.
Well done to the Celtic fans who rallied round to buy Johnny Doyle’s 1977 Cup Final shirt for his family. Stunning work.
Is it unacceptable to say ‘Hearts are going bust’? The only disputable element of this claim is its transient nature; Hearts are already bust. I think it’s commendable that a Celtic player mixes socially and culturally with Hibs fans, who he previously performed for. Remember and acknowledge those who helped you on the way up.
Seville – The Celtic Movement:
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SFTB
Team selection I can perhaps relate to.
A win or draw for Dundee United I can’t.
If anything, I imagine it would be DU putting out the less than full strength team.
Malorbhoy
I will let you know when I talk to him..
If you know the history.
1914-04-01: Third Lanark 1-3 Celtic, Lge Div 1 The Celtic Wiki
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/1914-04-01%3A+Third+Lanark+1-3+Celtic%2C+League+Division+1?zone=addthis#.Uzr97hMCyGI.twitter …
A century ago it was The Mighty Atom & Napoleon for Celtic!
anybody fancy singing about the famine being over and seeing what happens
tonydonnelly67
18:56 on 1 April, 2014
The Arabs are foregoing their camels for this New Motorhome…
Especially designed for the Arab Market! And they’re buyin’em in droves at $3m a piece! The moving mansion can even clean itself.
What is that all about.
What a stereotype of “Arabs”
The SFA will use the fact that Celtic saw it appropriate to fine LG as backing up their decision to haul him up before them.
Considering the shenanigans McCoist, Green and their various cohorts have got up to, unchallenged by the SFA, this reeks of sheer anti-Celtic bile from the SFA.
Absolutely sickened.
Mind you. Timing could be wonderful for Celtic with season book renewals coming up. How the club manage this situation could,IMO,influence the decision of many many people to buy – or not to buy so they better get it right or John Reid / Ian Bankier might as well come out and tell us all we are at the back of the bus – again.
GM
No,- I hope it’s a new trend and they communicate everything. The BBC failed to finish the story with reporting that Celtic had apologised fined the player,and will defend the charge, so the story is brand new and biased, on from the day it breaks.
There is no media in Scotland, no middle ground, as for legally the charge is border line Laurel and Hardy, and would be successfully rejected even with a semi competent defence lawyer.
But, and it’s a big but the SFA is not bound by the rules.
When does LG’s trial start?
Before, during or after the CL qualifiers?
Embra jury?
HH!!
Regarding Police Scotland’s failure to get anyone for the Neil Lennon abuse harrassment and intimidation and yes assault with missiles.
If a 15 year old Celtic fan in a crowd of thousands was singing a chorus of the Roll of Honour with his face covered by a scarf the super sleuths of FoCUS would track him down and he would be getting a dawn raid and remanded in custody.
Must have been a day of for FoCUS or do they only concentrate on Celtic games?
excathedra44
18:50 on 1 April, 2014
Perhaps I clumsily put my point across, the Police did not arrest anybody at the time or having made their subsequent enquiries either found no or insufficient evidence to charge any individual.
On the other hand it is clear enough that our Manager was verbally and physically abused; this is why I am saying let the SFA bring action against the Club.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Geordie Munro
I’ve no idea why Leigh was fined and no idea of how much.
I have no intention like yourself of doing the medias work but in the face if it it looks like he will have been fined by Celtic for being disrespectful to another club .If that is true then Celtic have given these SFA fools all the justification they need.
This is a club that tried to obliterate his team from the face of the earth.
I tend to think that is a bit more disrespectful than what LG did
LG Is up against some stiff opposition, as some lead by example.
http://youtu.be/ryKBnRP4Xlg
Lennybhoy
I’m unsure why Celtic have fined the boy in the first place. He doesn’t seem to have done a great deal wrong but possibly they were trying to pre-empt a media backlash, as has happened, or perhaps they were just putting down a marker for Leigh himself.
Regardless, Celtic have acted, that should be the end of the matter. For the SFA to cite him for such a trivial incident stinks of bitterness and vindictiveness.
I really despair sometimes at the state of governance in this country.
“The SFA will use the fact that Celtic saw it appropriate to fine LG as backing up their decision to haul him up before them.”
Whit???
Big Nan
I think our youngsters seem to be the main ‘focus’ as they missed the armed services having a full scale BNP fest on the Ibrokes pitch, as they were having a cup of tea.
I hear they’ve been spotted in Costco this week buying Tetley in bulk for the Ramsdens cup final.
billy bhoy 05 @ 17:19
jamesgang and Embramike – A lively and entertaining tousle!
JG is salt of the earth – pleasure to meet him again at CQN Corner before the game last Saturday
And JG, wouldn’t know a capitalist if one came up to me and offered to buy my blue chip share portfolio or a share in my offshore holdings.
HH :-)
hamiltontim is praying for oscar
19:07 on 1 April, 2014
Exactly, he has not done a lot wrong in my book, except that it is play for Celtic! He only did what you, me and thousands more sing about the demise of the cousins of that dead lot. Are we guilty too…despair indeed.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
tonydonnelly67
18:56 on 1 April, 2014
The Arabs are foregoing their camels for this New Motorhome…
Especially designed for the Arab Market! And they’re buyin’em in droves at $3m a piece! The moving mansion can even clean itself.
What is that double post about on this site?
Paul67 et al
Free the Hibernian One!
HT,
Im unsure of the exact reason behind celtic fining lg too but as someone posted earlier, let’s not get bogged down in the fine.
Players are fined left right and centre these days. Most of it just token gestures.
Bourne
Apologies, my post at 19:07 should have been addressed to you along with that lump fae Coatbridge!!
“If that is true then Celtic have given these SFA fools all the justification they need”
Burghbhoy,
Sounds like you are saying something similar to Jimmci.
I have never ever heard of the sfa taking action or claiming they are taking action because the club has already taken action.
More often the opposite happens.
Double post? Musta made a boob on my part.
I’m thinking now Celtic would have given LG some sort punishment for stupidity, then again, I don’t get the SFA bein involved, that’s just nuts.
It’s annoying that there isny someone cute enough
at CP to come out and make it clear that LG has been
fined as, Celtic players seem to be governed by
extra-special rules.
C’mon Celtic – get yer bushy tails swinging.
Is this a common occurance? How frequently do the SFA cite players for off field actions?
roy croppie
19:09 on 1 April, 2014
Big Nan
I think our youngsters seem to be the main ‘focus’ as they missed the armed services having a full scale BNP fest on the Ibrokes pitch, as they were having a cup of tea.
I hear they’ve been spotted in Costco this week buying Tetley in bulk for the Ramsdens cup final.
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Yes quite, and in any case if they hear the bile they simply say it was a wonderful atmosphere as the co-founder Campbell Corrigan said after the 2011 CIS cup final!
Corrigan has always said the OB was aimed at domestic violence which is nonsense but then what was it brought onto the statute books for?
In his infamous Police Typing Fail video (over 1 million hits) he says it and when he retired he reiterated his position here: http://muckrack.com/link/hJjt/chief-constables-life-on-the-force-has-come-full-circle
Delahunt reads a statement from Jambos kickback saying the LG thing is nothing and the SFA should act on the things that do matter. A nice dig at their management of the Sevco debacle?
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
Only when their hurting, choking bluenose dignity has been offended, I didn’t see them cite any players who were arrested for signing sectarian songs in the street!! Oh that’s right he was a hun!
FTSFA two times..
HT @1918
I hope not.
Makes it easier to get lg off the hook ;)
googybhoy
I see the Scots have all been opening luxury hotels in Dunblane.
It is your tennis supporting money that pays for this.
hamiltontim is praying for oscar
19:15 on 1 April, 2014
Point of order please sir…define that lump from Coatbridge, there are two of us about tonight…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
This attempt to discipline/ban LG may impact on him being able to play enough games to get a league winners medal, it is serious for him.
Sorry but didn’t read the entire statement.
WTF are Celtic doing apologising to THAT club for???!!!
I know I’m old school, obviously, but I believe that football players, in general, and Celtic players in particular, have, at all times, in public to act responsibly.
As a Hibs supporter, Griffiths did absolutely nothing wrong, but as a Celtic player, he has to be more circumspect.
I imagine that will be the line that the club will have taken with him.
For me, the important part of Celtic’s statement is the final part.
It sounded like a warning to the SFA to back off.
The irony of it all is, that it was one of his fellow supporters who exposed him, through the curse of the mobile phone and Youtube.
starry plough
19:23 on 1 April, 2014
Or fail to take action against Swally for demanding to know who the Panel were!!
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Tony Donnelly 67 18:56 on 1 April, 2014
The Arabs are foregoing their camels for this New Motorhome…
Especially designed for the Arab Market! And they’re buyin’em in droves at $3m a piece! The moving mansion can even clean itself.
………..
I asked you a question? What is the relevance of your post about Arabs????
No reply????
America tells Britain to pick: replace Trident, or be a “real military partner”
As debate continues about the replacement of the Trident nuclear weapons system, many just assume that the United States automatically supports a new generation of British nuclear weapons – or even that they may not “let us” disarm. Those backing the retention and replacement of Britain’s nuclear arsenal often cite our obligations as part of NATO – a US-led nuclear alliance – and of our commitment to our allies in “an uncertain world”. Indeed some even see nuclear cooperation with the US as the keystone in our “special relationship”.
So it was interesting to read the following passage in the International Herald Tribune last week – “NATO at a turning point” (12 April) – under the heading “Sharing Capabilities”:
As for Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron is insisting on keeping a nuclear deterrent on a new generation of submarines, even as U.S. officials are pushing London to consider abandoning the idea. As one U.S. official said privately, “They can’t afford Trident, and they need to confront the choice: either they can be a nuclear power and nothing else or a real military partner.”
As the article clearly conveys, there are many in high places that would prefer Britain to be a well-equipped and viable conventional military force, capable of twenty-first century interventions and keeping up the European end of NATO military capacity. This lays bare one of the main arguments – whether implicit or explicit – put forward by those in favour of Trident replacement: that while times may be hard economically, maintaining a nuclear arsenal is the strong choice for defence policy. So it’s interesting to note that allies may see it as making us a bit of a military lame duck.
In fact, such a view is increasingly widespread here, as well as in the US, given the drastic reductions in personnel and capabilities as a result of cuts to the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
In the first instance, no-one should be in any doubt about the impact of Trident spending on UK defence equipment budgets.
The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has said that by the early 2020s, ‘submarine and deterrent spending is set to account for around 35% of the total core procurement budget’. And by 2017, cuts to defence personnel will see regular troops reduced from 102,000 to 82,000 – with increasing reliance on reservists.
We are now starting to see previously pro-Trident news outlets such as London’s Evening Standard and the Telegraph raising concerns about the government’s approach to defence priorities. The Evening Standard has written two excellent editorials on the question of Trident and defence spending, here and here, stating:
‘Defence must take its share of cuts and choices must be made. Something has to give: it is worth asking again whether renewing the Trident nuclear missile system, on which design work alone will cost £350 million, is as good a use of defence funds as more boots on the ground. Given our present challenges, the answer must be no.’
While many are still right to put forward the moral and humanitarian arguments against nuclear weapons, they are increasingly joined by those who see the strength in the economic and strategic arguments against Trident. These are people with serious concerns about the thinking behind the government’s defence spending and security strategy. And of course they’re right that the costs will be astronomical and devastating.
The MoD puts the build cost of the “Successor” submarines alone at £20-25bn, which, given its track record of delivering major projects around 40 per cent over budget, might be more accurately predicted as £28-35bn. The maintenance costs will be £3bn per annum (not factoring in inflation) for 30-40 years according to former Minister for the Armed Forces Sir Nick Harvey MP. Then there’s the estimated £25bn decommissioning cost.
£100bn is now a considerable underestimation of Trident replacement costs. It is clear it will be more.
But even without the grim economics, Trident replacement seems at odds with both government analysis – the National Security Strategy downgraded the threat of state-on-state nuclear attack – and with the ability to fulfil government policy. As the Standard rightly points out:
The Foreign Secretary talks tough about North Africa and David Cameron regards Libya as one of his foreign policy successes. Yet they must know that interventions like that in Libya, or a British version of France’s exploits in Mali, would be impossible with drastic reductions in troop numbers.
And this is precisely what is being called into question in the US administration. What use is an ally which becomes incapable of action through a dearth of personnel and equipment? How would Britain’s nuclear weapons play any useful role in US operations?
This dilemma should be ringing alarm bells for Labour, whose shadow Defence Minister Jim Murphy MP recently outlined his vision of a flexible, dynamic, military with “adaptable units” to head off emerging security threats around the world. Labour needs to understand that it will not be able to afford both that and Trident.
The debate on Trident will continue, to the general election and beyond. But those who still think we are well-served by nuclear weapons would do well to heed the view of former Conservative Defence Secretary Michael Portillo: Trident, he says, is completely past its sell-by date and a tremendous waste of money. I can’t say fairer than that.
http://www.newstatesman.com/voices/2013/04/america-tells-britain-pick-replace-trident-or-be-real-military-partner
This!
https://twitter.com/davybhoy7/status/451062149302202369