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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jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
21:02 on 15 February, 2014
Night all Night wee Oscar my hero. God bless x
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How is wee Oscar?
nn leftclicktic, thanks for the nice comment earlier, it mean’t a lot.
Paul 67
It seems that we are headed for the old financial rocks
Perhaps people will now get off PL’s back about not spending money since it appears that any day now we are about to be bankrupt!
Perhaps Pistol Pete is saving our pennies for a rainy day!
HH
Tonight is a sad night for me personally.
I am about to finish the Craigellachie, gutted.
But what a journey, ACGR, thanks.
It’s not that sad you have to go on a 15 minute silence!
Jeez.
Evening Timland from a warm cave in a hun free mountain valley.
Been a decent day on the exchanges, 5 mins for AZ to score and a very good day, no looking like it tho.
Watched Tony Watt tonight, had a decent game, didn’t show as in the past few weeks, but mush of that was down to poor service.
Play him thro the middle and he will shine for us.
HH
Evening TET, quite in here tonight.
Justafan
Sorry to hear those comments. The Celtic family is a broad church and this blog as petec has illustrated encapsulates that. I too think that the blog is a much better site because of the wide variety of opinions expressed on a multitude of topics. In case you hadn’t noticed some NI politicians( using the term politicians very loosely) attacked our club probably on an issue that you would agree with them. Some on here decide to take issue with them on the issue itself and indeed on their hypocrisy. As I said earlier I will take no lessons on sectarianism from those whose sole purpose is to prop it up. The alternative is to act like a carpet and if you do that there is nothing surer than you will get walked over. In terms of following Celtic and attending games I get up at 6 to get the bus and depn upon the boat will be home at 11pm or 3am the next day. Having said that I don’t feel it gives me any more or less rights re posting on this site. Everybody’s contributions should be welcomed. That is what makes us who we are.
I notice the sentimental euphoria on Fergus is building to fever pitch in time for his visit.
He did a job,got well rewarded and walked into the sunset.(a foreign sunset at that…..Celtic fans’ share money in his sky rocket…..attracting very little tax,in an offshore account).
Fair play to him…..it’s what businessmen do….and some might say that he was disproportionately rewarded for a small risk that others would have taken.Rewarded from the pockets of hard working taxpayers even.
A polite round of applause on the day is probably merited.Anything else is like his level of reward……Disproportionate.
Some might say………….
croppybhoy
a wee song for Peter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsyMdIzscqs
doc-
I’m stil here.
Hope you fall in with another bottle of something equally good soon.
Slainte!
SixOclock, I truly hope to.
It is nectar.
Ps sixoclockatthechapel as well.
gearoid1998
Well said amigo.
HH
Evening Doc, it is, maybe that’s a good thing >}
HH
gearoid1998
21:34 on 15 February, 2014
gearoid1998
21:34 on 15 February, 2014
Well said, we agree, we disagree, but we should tolerate.
Scroll on by if you don’t want to engage.
Kojo
17:27 on
15 February, 2014
If you can read the article at this link from 2011 which is my attempt at exploring how we came to this pass in the world leading up to and after 9 November 2011.
http://celticunderground.net/gotcha/
TET, hehe. Just read back a bit, possibly.
It’s time to show we are Celtic supporters.
If u can , show your support .
Go to the game tomorrow.
Even balls are girly these days,ey?
Charlton captain Johnnie Jackson, 31, has criticised the pale orange ball that will be used in this weekend’s FA Cup fifth-round ties – claiming it is too girly.
Kojo
11 November of course.
ryecatcher
Feargus’ legacy is our fantastic stadium
and our well managed finances.
However i agree that there is some Feargus
revisionism now taking place.
FM was a football financial visionary
however he was not a football man.
Gearoid 1998-
Very good points and well made.
Ah-the old sixoclock start to the Celtic supporting day!
ryecatcher
21:35 on
15 February, 2014
I disagree. You cannot put a price on the cost of saving Celtic. Well you can but I would rather focus on the result than the cost.
Auldheid….
We can agree to disagree mate.
McCann got more than others would have taken,in my opinion.
There wee others ready to ‘save’ the club.
Gordan64
Hope you and the legend that is VP are keeping well.
Doc/Sixoclockatthechapel much appreciated.
Wonder if all the people on here slating the board about losing the soul of the club and Brother Walfrid being ashamed the way the PLC are acting etc ,etc . Do you think Brother Walfrid would have approved IRA songs being sang at Celtic Park.
Aiden Bhoy
I believe he would have.
HH
FM alone did not save Celtic although
he was instrumental in our eventual revival.
It should also be remembered that Mr McCann
made a shed load of money on the deal before he left.
Aiden Bhoy,
Even a member of the IRA has said they shouldn’t be sung. But CQN seems to have been taken over by those who want to castigate the Board for any ole reason they can come up with. Sad days indeed.
gearoid1998
Yir a ghood Mhan, God bless.
justafan
it’s diarrhoea btw
Aidenbhoy….
Songs being sung at Celtic Park?
Heard it’s noisier in Parkhead Library these days.
The Plc have no soul.
That is why crowds are on a downward spiral.
Not the Celtic most of us want.
aiden bhoy-
I think he would say-
Let the people sing!
HH!
Jackie Mac…
Still shit
gearoid1998
Cheers.
VP is still a legend in his own mind
and a big moaning git.
HH
Gordon64
21:48 on 15 February, 2014
ryecatcher
Feargus’ legacy is our fantastic stadium
and our well managed finances.
However i agree that there is some Feargus
revisionism now taking place.
FM was a football financial visionary
however he was not a football man.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbuiQtxEZ40
This track really resonates because it is so good and it has me SMILING every time I hear it. A very special track, IMO.