I was asked a cracking question last night: ‘Everyone knows Rangers went into administration on 14 February 2012, but do you know what date they came out of administration?’
Can anyone guess? This is the material Cognitive Dissonance is made of.
Duff and Phelps did an incredible job. Had they stuck to Whyte’s plan, put a fait accompli to the SPL, with a matter of days to decide, ‘Our Hero’ would still own the ground, the club and would still be exalted by those who initially crowned him ‘Our Hero’, before the term became a weapon of irony.
We got a further glimpse into the goings-on at Cardiff before popular and successful manager, Malky Mackay, was sacked. Chief exec, Simon Lim, while commenting on the £30m loss the club made last season, as a Championship club, spoke of the signing of 20-year-old striker Andreas Cornelius for £7.5m, from Copenhagen, with a £45k per week, 5 year contract, somewhat more than the £6k he was previously coping with in Denmark.
Earlier this month Malky said, “What I said at the time still stands. £7.5m was our record transfer at the time but a hit-the-ground-running centre-forward in the Premier League costs two or three times that and every team in the Premier League are striving for someone like that.”
There you have it, £7.5m is not enough to buy a hit-the-ground-running centre-forward, you’ll need two or three times that! In England, reality really is a different country (this is not me getting involved in the referendum debate, before the nationalists start trolling me again).
English football is broken in ways it is increasingly difficult to fathom. Only the persistent annual losses and ballooning debt figures offer a glimpse into what the future may hold.
Our namesakes, Belfast Celtic, withdrew from league football shortly after their players were attacked by a mob following the final whistle at game against Linfield on Boxing Day 1948. Star man, Jimmy Jones, died yesterday. The then 20-year-old was thrown over a wall and out of the stadium, breaking his leg in the process.
That was the end for Belfast Celtic but Jimmy recovered and is the Irish League’s all-time top goalscorer.
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Burghbhoy
21:01 on 14 February, 2014
BCW
Count me in son
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Dito
I am surprised that not too many have mentioned Stan’s performance on Fantasy Football this evening. What a wonderful, courageous, generous, funny and family loving man he is. Throughout the interview you could sense that “you can take the man out of Celtic, but never Celtic out of the man”.
He spoke very highly of Larsson and Lubo, and included Bobo, Thompson, Roy Keane, Larsson and Sutton in the best eleven he ever played with.
Wonderful too to hear him say that of all the managers he ever had, he would speak to his father first about how he should progress in football coaching. Interestingly he thought wee Gordon was the best tactical manager he ever had.
gordybhoy64
21:03 on
How did the launch go?
Happy Administration Day everyone.
A nice wee easy warm-up question……Good Luck !
Q1: Who scored for Celtic against Ajax in Amsterdam in 1982 ? The game ended in a 2-1 victory for us.
(2 Points for each Celtic scorer and a bonus of 2 points for the first to answer correctly).
Nicholas and mccluskey
Charlie Nicholas, George McCluskey
ishthurrakwiz?
nicholas and mccluskey
My first European away game. Been downhill since!
McCcluskey nicholas
Charlie, george mc
big packy
20:55 on
14 February, 2014
skyisalandfill will connect to usb port and see what happens many thanks and hail hail.
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You need to connect the keyboard to your computer via a USB or MIDI cable. The MIDI files go on the computer. You’ll may need to install a MIDI driver on the PC. The MIDI file can be “played back” using MIDI player software or a sequencer such as Cubase or Apple Logic – although I’m sure you’ll get free software these days. The MIDI file is just song data. The PC will send the data to your keyboard and use the keyboard’s sounds to play back the tunes. Simples. (!!!!!!!)
Charli Niich and Geo McCluskey
Charlie and McCluskey
WeefratheTim
20:58 on
14 February, 2014
Doing great mate. Two more weeks til am permanently home.
Tonight Valentine clubbing it with my Lady and her friends…. the biggest pimp in town…taxi driver really
Nice nd mild over here.
Been reading prvate eye how you farmers are getting done over by the Government
utter disgrace some of the stuff I have been reading recently.
HH
BT, apologies, Timternet crashed, that’s me just back on
No do not know Eddie
Do you work every Saturday in the KSC ?
Hail Hail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bLoWDFMAkI
Nicholas and McLuskey
here’s a better version, sorry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSEnHKmmLB8
When does the 9 a cloak quiz start ?
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
21:04 on
14 February, 2014
ChicNic and Chicken George with minutes remaining
HH
CRC
30 seconds for any late entrants………
Jimtim – you have no idea how much debate went into that very point. I wanted to name and shame and force the issue. BRTH, the astute lawyer that he is, doesn’t want just the individual bigot but is after the institutional bigot.
Cowiebhoy
yes only way to keep it open, previous staff used to close at 2.30.
took last Saturday off to go to match..8(
GREAT clip eddie
Answer Q1:
Goals from Charlie Nicholas and George McCluskey helped Celtic triumph over an Ajax outfit who had Jesper Olsen, Molby and some guy called Cruyff in their team.
BCW
Can i carry my 2 points over to next week as i am away to pick up the bhoy from his Valentine;s disco
Thanks
Benny Beulah
The BBC piece said that 128 fans had been BANNED from Celtic park whereas the official statement used the words “Precautionary Suspensions” if I recall correctly.
It is a minor point but the Beeb had the opportunity to quote exactly from the Celtic statement but for whatever reason they chose not to.
Q2
What country were the following players born in ?:
(2 points for each)
a) Aidan McGeady
b) Shaun Maloney
c) Gary Caldwell
d) Amido Balde
WC. Thanks for the reply . Go get them bhoys
Scotland
Malaysia
England
Portugal
Scotland
Malaysia
Scotland
Burkino Faso
Bloody Timternet not playing tonight
Some amount of empty spaces in the Milan game, must be celebrating Valentines :-)
scotland
malaysia
scotland
Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
Scotland Malaysia Scotland, portugal
A)Scotland
B)Malaysia
C) Scotland
d) French Guinea
A. Scotland b. Malaysia c. Scotland d. guinea bissau
right off to pick my bhoy