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Police Scotland refuse to allow a game to proceed with 2,000 Napoli fans a few hours after the Queen’s body leaves for London.  It is only in recent years European games have been policed as though we were living under Martial Law.  Mini-vans full of officers, accompanied by impressively expensive hardware, now segregate our streets outside grounds.  The same is true when 700 Celtic fans visit Ibrox and in the corresponding game at Celtic Park.

No event proceeded the upgrade in spend, we went from peaceful, low-key policing, to what looks like a paramilitary occasion.  The overtime costs must be off the scale.  It solves a problem that never existed; in my decades attending Glasgow derbies and European games I witnessed countless occasions where rival fans walked away from games on either side of a street, with no police presence, never once did I see trouble.

There are real problems elsewhere.  This change did not make our streets any safer outside pubs and take-away venues, where, hours later, drunken flashpoints happen.  It also takes away the limited resources previously used for traffic duty, so fans are trapped in the area of the ground for much longer than before Mr Salmond’s policing reforms a few years ago.

Can we have the return of non-military policing, please?  Maybe then we will be able to cope with two low-key events happening at different times on the same day.  This is all a bit embarrassing.

Like you, I was keen for Premiership games go ahead on Saturday, as I expected Aberdeen to take points against Newco and for Celtic to beat Livingston.  Ultimately, I doubt the postponements will make any difference to the outcome of the title.

What may be more relevant is the unexpected gift of a free week ahead of the game against Shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday.  Shakhtar had an exhausting game against Chornomorets Odesa on Saturday.  Marian Shved equalised for them in the 74th minute before they scored a 96th minute winner against a team who have drawn two and lost two of their four games this season.

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  2. ernie lynch on

    SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2022 1:54 PM

     

     

     

    ‘Who paid off a charge against a paedophile with money we gave her’

     

     

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    I’m not aware of any evidence that the Queen’s favourite son is a paedophile. The settlement you refer to related to an encounter with a post pubescent 17 year old.

     

     

    The guy is without doubt a dishonest, obnoxious, arrogant creep who is as thick as pig shit, but I doubt he’s a paedophile.

  4. ernie lynch on

    SAINT STIVS on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2022 3:15 PM

     

    fair dos.

     

     

     

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    Talking of which, I think she used to keep pigeons.

     

     

    Has there been any mention of this in the coverage?

  8. ernie lynch on

    CONEYBHOY on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2022 3:32 PM

     

    If we did boo a minute’s silence or GSTQ, what would be the overriding reason for doing so?

     

     

     

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    Well for a start it wouldn’t be GSTQ, would it? It would e GSTK. So if GSTQ was played it would be regarded as an insult to the current monarch and potentially treasonous.

     

     

    There are other reasons of course, but that’s the first one that occurs to me.

  9. Coneybhoy on

    EL

     

     

    Oops, schoolboy error

     

     

    I did notice that someone online had now changed the words to Merry Ploughboy to ‘We’re all off to Dublin in the Spring’

  10. ernie lynch on

    CONEYBHOY on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2022 3:42 PM

     

     

    I was just wondering if there’s been any shift in the value of certain personalised number plates.

  11. Frank Drebin on

    SFTB Prince Andrew was not accused of any act of paedophilia. However, he was accused by Virginia Giuffre of sexual assault when she was 17 (just over the age for a charge of statutory rape), which if convicted of this felony would make him a sex offender.

     

     

    In other words a NONCE but not a paedo.

  12. joes11 on

    AULDHEID on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2022 1:53 PM

     

     

    ……………………………………………..

     

     

    You, and the others who have persisted in this with you, deserve great praise.

     

     

    Thank you!

  20. THE EXILED TIM on

    There was girls as young as 13, could have been younger at Epstein’s island, prob boys as well, maybe andrew just fancied them a bit older, but we have no idea what really went down there, to say they are not pedophiles is stretching it a tad me thinks.

  23. Celtic Mac on

    Stained glass windows, music accompanied hymns, psalms sung in Gaelic, (not unusual for the Kirk) and accompanied by the Harp, and Directors of Celtic Football Club among the congregation…..

  24. bournesouprecipe on

    Joe McBride’s debut for Celtic

     

     

    Scullybhoy was asking about this on Saturday apologies if answered already.

     

     

    A friend of mine tells me Joe McBride made his Celtic debut in an Isle of Man pre season friendly, against Motherwell. The game ended 1-1 and Joe didn’t score. My friend remembers saying to his mates “ I told you he was a dud “

     

     

    Cool Story CSC

  25. Tom McLaughlin on

    THE EXILED TIM

     

    but we have no idea what really went down there, to say they are not pedophiles is stretching it a tad me thinks.

     

    A contradiction if ever I read one.

  27. lionroars67 on

    SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2022 4:18 PM

     

     

    It is a public holiday

  29. Saint Stivs on

    CELTIC MAC on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2022 4:09 PM

     

     

    Stained glass windows, music accompanied hymns, psalms sung in Gaelic, (not unusual for the Kirk) and accompanied by the Harp, and Directors of Celtic Football Club among the congregation…..

     

     

    and a ctholic bishop reading the epistles from st giles pulpit ……..

     

     

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    john know and rangers will be spinning in their graves.

  33. Bhoyjoebelfast on

    BOURNESOUPRECIPE@ 4.11

     

    Can’t believe this.I posed the Joe McBride debut question and was ready to post it with another.Here we go;

     

    Q.Last Celtic player to score a hat trick for Scotland?

  35. Celtic Mac on

    saint stivs

     

     

    That’s both you and Ernie Lynch who have struggled with John Knox

     

    Could be something Freudian there….

  37. Saint Stivs on

    BHOYJOEBELFAST on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2022 4:40 PM

     

    BOURNESOUPRECIPE@ 4.11

     

     

     

     

    Can’t believe this.I posed the Joe McBride debut question and was ready to post it with another.Here we go;

     

     

     

     

    Q.Last Celtic player to score a hat trick for Scotland?

     

     

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    jamesie forrest with a 4

  38. Saint Stivs on

    CELTIC MAC on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2022 4:41 PM

     

    saint stivs

     

     

     

     

     

     

    That’s both you and Ernie Lynch who have struggled with John Knox

     

     

     

     

    Could be something Freudian there….

     

     

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    aye

  40. Tom McLaughlin on

    TET

     

    Dearie me Tom, if I didn’t know better, or I assume I know better, that sounds like you are defending pedos

     

    Which pedos would that be?

     

     

    I was in fact highlighting the contraduction of you admitting we know nothing of what went on, but let’s say he’s a paedophile anyway.

  41. Bhoyjoebelfast on

    79 Caps and Stivs Correct.

     

    Stivs what’s with the 4?😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😊🇮🇪

  42. Saint Stivs on

    did he not score four against one of the minnows, or am i mixed up ?

     

     

    was it a two then a three in two games back to back ?

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