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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Vp bt is always glad to share the company of fellow cqners and good celtic men.
Be good to meet up again paolo at CQtEN your book choices have been great reading, look forward to more ps I’m on L& L these days shocking mixing your drink to lemonade and lime :)
Paolosboots
I am your polar opposite, myself and my two bhoys sanctified St Fergus. Now I am worried about the legacy he created, esp DD.
Murdochauld and Hay – Thanks for posting the John Boyle O`Reilly story earlier chief.
Never was even aware of that legend.
An education as always.
HH
Get yourself some of this and show these ‘peepul’ we don’t take no shit! Not then, not now not ever:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/roll-of-honour-single/id814414107
paolo
Agree.
Wim Jansen won the famous league in 1998 that stopped
them winning 10 in a row and was gone
before the start of the next season.
FM had many great attributes but he was not a football man.
Auldheid, just read and about to reread your article, brilliantly thought through analysis.
Ghuys, have a read, it’s made me think.
I have been a bit of a supporter of Voltairé, but with rights come responsibility.
There is sense all the way through that.
I am still a bit conflicted, freedom of speech is a right that should not be compromised, but in a football ground, where you pay for entry and there are rules, perhaps, compromise!
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/m/page/Controversies+-+The+Celtic+Song
natknow – supporting wee oscar
22:30 on 15 February, 2014
I had it for a month.:-)
aiden bhoy
22:32 on 15 February, 2014
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I haven’t got all of the answers my friend, but the Celtic support are always going to resist their pathetic, proxy attempts to break us… maybe it’s a rebel thing.
TET – KTF mo chara,we are winning!!
Natknow, 11 years, sorry, I thought that was funny.
The next one will be less.
All gone, Single Cask, 61 of 250?
One of the best single Malts I have tasted.
Everything is rosey in the Garden of Eden.
Everything at the moment is Rosey in the Garden of Celtic.
The Huns have been wiped out and a tribute act is on the rise limply.
Nah Celtic don’t do Superiority.
Something is afoot.
Celtic will never be more vulnerable than they are now, IMO.
Green Brigade will get the blame for the gas canister at Villareal.
And time change, attitudes too, history moves on.
A wee bit of context regarding the unfurling of the
league flag at the start of the 1998/99 season.
We had seen Tommy Burns being forced to leave
and Wim Jansen leaving before the start of the season
There was not a lot of love for FM in CP that day.
Doc is Neil Lennon
22:37 on
15 February, 2014
natknow – supporting wee oscar
22:30 on 15 February, 2014
I had it for a month.:-)
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You are a card! :-)))
Doc is Neil Lennon
22:37 on
15 February, 2014
natknow – supporting wee oscar
22:30 on 15 February, 2014
I had it for a month.:-)
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:-)))
delanayeys donkey-
Villarrreal gas canister-Neil Lennon and Green Brigade combine to inflict CFC havoc into Spanish Game!
Daily Record CFC!
Natknow,
Just a wee gag, glad you have the humour to get it.
It was lovely.
G64
There were also issues about Fergus being upset about our songs at that time too.
Doc is Neil Lennon
22:42 on
15 February, 2014
Natknow, 11 years, sorry, I thought that was funny.
The next one will be less.
All gone, Single Cask, 61 of 250?
One of the best single Malts I have tasted.
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Sounds great! May invest…
Why should Celtic FC comment about what songs their fans download?
They’ve never commented on anything we’ve purchased before.
Is PL now going to turn up unannounced at our doors (perhaps at 4AM) to browse through our CD’s and publicly out us for still buying Elton John albums!
Better hide my old Carpenters LP’s up in the attic – just in case!
If I Should Fall From Grace With God.
Shane MacGowan eh?
Now there’s a feckin genius if ever there was one.
The whisky was lovely, no the gag.
exiled tim…
Correct statistic…wrong century!!?
16 Roads, here he go.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBLqp-s__o
6O’Clock
The canister was thrown from behind a Celtic Tricolour. Obvious GB involved.
Doc – Thanks mate. :D
Natknow, can’t be bought, limited edition, single cask.
Our own ACGR buys casks, he gave me a bottle, I have invested in the next cask though.
He is a genius with whisky.
I am sure the other Craigellachies are great, if you see ACGR on, ask him, a very obliging chap. And knows where to get good Fish n Chips.
DD
Correct.
The Rutherglen Vogue (tricolour) banner was one of the first
at CP and was seen every week.
Mr McCann instructed the stewards to initially stop the banner
being shown inside the stadium and then it was prevented entering CP.
Then there were no banners allowed at CP.
This was long before our current board.
justafan
Is it ?
I know it right, someone on here, Ernie Lynch if I recall, many moons ago posted something, from the government of the time, was looking for it earlier to no avail.
Just thought it was interesting in the context of the discussion, songs etc.
HH
Let the People Sing.
I can’t believe that even now our club doesn’t realize that we actually hold all the aces. The tide is turning,We have to keep boxing clever. They don’t need a stick to beet us but we sure don’t want to give them one.
WE ARE MORE THAN A CLUB.
H.H.
Aiden Bhoy
21:54 on 15 February, 2014
‘Do you think Brother Walfrid would have approved IRA songs being sang at Celtic Park.’
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Brother Walfrid invited TD Sullivan to sing God Save Ireland at Celtic Park.
The song commemorates the Manchester Martyrs who were hanged for the murder of an English policeman.
On that evidence he’d probably be conducting the singing.
Delaneys Donkey-
Enough said-get the noose ready!
BTW-see you’re Cheltenham bound-hope the winners come for you often and big priced!
Best of luck!
burghbhoy
21:45 on 15 February, 2014It’s time to show we are Celtic supporters.If u can , show your support .Go to the game tomorrow.
That is what we are all about my friend HH
See the bold Shane is in my humble opinion, one of the greatest Irishmen that ever.
The thing is this though, Shane was born in England, and spent most of his life in London town… yet I have never once heard anyone question his nationality.
Why is it that the diaspora in Scotland, are the only ones that are scorned and criticised for celebrating their own heritage?
I don’t understand it.
Doc
Thanks bud, just pogoed about ma living room to the literary genius Shane McGowan. :))
Delaneys, you weren’t alone.
Doc, I’m chuffed you enjoyed my latest bottling. Its always good to get positive feedback when you’ve no idea whats coming out of that cask after the long wait from wood to glass.
Thanks my friend.
HH