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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TET,
Cheers for your response,i just find it difficult to understand how 16 roads can compare the bookies with drug dealers,i grew up with an alcoholic father and believe me if he had money he would drink it,it may take a bit longer than had he gambled but he spent it all the same,i know there are issues with gambling in this country but I don’t think its a bigger evil than drink or drugs,or indeed causes as much harm as tobacco
TET, you have mail.
Catch you later bruv. Got to get some kip before the paradise pilgrimage.
Hail Hail Celtic men and wummin.
A wee prayer for a friend and neighbour of mine who died today while on a visit to Glasgow
RIP Betty
kojo
00:25 on 16 February, 2014
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I could well believe that mate.
Talking about books earlier, people quite correctly say the Godfather films were the greatest… But that Mario Puzo book has to be up there with the best.
Respect yerself.
HH.
hail hail
how are u all doing tonight
big game the morra.
eeeeemmmh
Delaney’s Dunky
Jis read yer Submission.. re.. Amido, Lee, Watt,Kris in the attack..
Ah am pretty well set..oan wantin..
Only ONE Lone Striker ,up front n Center.
Wid Go wi. Lee First.. then Amido.. then Tony Watt..
Wid Keep Stokesy fur the Old. Paddy Role.
Kojo
Still Laughin
Gotta Go, Joe.
Seeya..
gordybhoy64
I can understand 18 Roads line of thiking 100%
You work in the betting game, and you will defend what you do, no prob with that, but imo they inflick more misery on the punter than a drug dealer does.
When you are addicted to something………trust me on this,
I am going to bed now.
Laters.
Take care and god bless Timland
HH
KTF
ACGR – Oiche mhaith chief.
MCB – Sorry to hear about your chara.
HH.
Macan
Perpetual light, shine on Betty RIP
I was reading travellerbhoys chronicles this morning.
fascinating stuff.
I come from a pretty sheltered middle class comfortable background. However I was always told that a generation or two back there was hardship and perhaps less structure.
When my mother and father got married they went to Dublin for a honeymoon.
Up to Dublin castle they went, with the intention of inspecting their respective coats of arms.
My mother was a Farrell — of the ancient kings of Ireland — off right loyal lineage with a healthy and pronounced coat of arms — so said the man at the door!
As for my Father’s line — well — according to the same man — The McGinley’s were tinkers, Bog Dwellers, sheep stealers, a roaming clan who never lived long enough in the one place to merit any kind of coat of arms at all and mostly from the hills of Donegal!
I love my mother dearly — but I have always revelled in being a bog dweller, a drifter of sorts, a gypsy who flits from life experience to life experience … if at all possible.
And in that, there was always music, and poetry and while on these pages there is great talk of Luke or Christy or even Makem ,,,,,,, i have always wanted to be ……… Liam!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zypPoM4Nyew
TET,
cheers pal,definetely one we will agree to disagree on
Night Bhoys…Chill
Guyfawkesaforeverhero
00:08 on 16 February, 2014
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Sorry mate, just seen your post there, I was too busy rambling.
Yes, indeed you are correct, it’s all only fiction…but sure those quotes do ring true when you think about it.
I didn’t really think that the Corleone family were real people! ;)
‘Let The People Sing’
‘A beautiful sentiment’! (from: ‘The Quiet Man’)!
I just love to hear the Celtic Fans express themselves in ‘song’!
Loved the fact that a ‘little boy’ could direct the choir, and the ‘Celt’s responded!
‘Glasgow’s, Green and White”! ‘Nothing sinister in this’!
‘Rang’ out all over the ground,and the other sections joined in!
We have a fine tradition for ‘singing it up’.
We also have a fine tradition in singing ‘protest songs’!
The fact is:, there are lots of ‘protest songs’ to be sung!
Scotland has them, England has them, Wales has them,
N. Ireland has them, Southern Ireland has them.
Some of the people who wrote them, are ‘esteemed poets’!
The fact is, the injustice, inflicted on the people, caused
the poets and ‘street bards’, to express themselves on our
behalf!
When ‘The Establishment’, in any form, punish the people,
they deem it necessary, it is, ‘State Security’, and all that!
When ‘we the people’, respond, ‘they’ deem it Anarchy!
I have always been a ‘law abiding citizen’, that does not
mean I will allow anybody to take liberties’ with me!
I will fight my corner, as will all of you,’with in the law’.
So!, sing your songs, if others object, refer them to
those who caused the the songs to written in the
first place! Amen!
H.H.
sixoclockatthechapel
00:29 on 16 February, 2014
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I wouldn’t ever try and wind up Celtic supporters up on purpose.
Try and annoy zombies everyday in life though.
HH.
hail hail
god bless the pope
hi to the celts
all gone to bed then,
Morning.
Btw it’s Mario PUZO, not PUZZI.
Trust me, I’m an Italian from Greenock!
HH!!
16 roads – Wee Oscar the Celtic warrior.
00.50
Clearly, I can’t tell my Puzo from my Puzzi. I’m going to need a bigger library card.
Apologies to you.
As an aside, I’ve a young Aussie friend who is establishing a business in Glasgow which she started in Belfast three years ago.
She is a performance artist who can demonstrate stilts-walking for all ages, among other skills. for those so inclined.
Pertinent to these pages though, I believe, she offers translation services into English from Scots and Irish Gaelic and vice versa.
Her name is Ariel Aoibhone Killick and you can find out more about her at http://www.independentstateofhappiness.com
I promise I’m not a commission agent.
Speking to my mate tonight. He took his auld Da, an Ayrshire resident, to Somerset to see the Ayr-Zombie match yesterday. After the game the orc busloads excelled themselves as they made their way back to their buses. Young Ayr fans cutting across their route were spat on, verbally abused and for 10 minutes or so the rooftops of the area rang with the repeated strains of ‘Super Rangers’, ad infinitum with the particular lines ‘we hate Celtic, Fenian B*******’ belted out at the top of their lungs; Showing their reprehensible underclass to all and sundry, full-on intimidation mode.
Luckily, the police were on hand, and in well-anticipated number – enough so to enable them to actually apply their much-flaunted new laws. They waded into the Zombies with batons flailing and dragged the vile culprits kicking and squealing to the Black Marias, and ultimatley to face justice. Names were taken, photographs and video recordings made and presumably many more who violated the law quite blatantly in public and to the disturbance of the residents of the streets they marched through will face future home visits by the police as they seek to enforce the law fully.
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One of the above two paragraphs is true. I wonder what one it could be….
sandman
the first
he was u mate afterall
Wow seems to be the answer to my question earlier would Brother Walfrid approve of IRA songs at Celtic Park is yes according to some . So I’ll ask another question that I asked earlier but never got reply , would anybody on here come out publicly and say they defend the Celtic fans right to sing IRA songs and put themselves and there families in the firing line like they expect Peter Lawwell to do ?
BRTH,
And with respect to 16 roads, who took unwarranted flak imo.
The boy has a helluva story to tell. His words are rich and reekin, and he has a twist of the language that is pure magic. He needs to get his act together and write it down, there is no excuse otherwise.
Aiden Bhoy
01:50 on 16 February, 2014
very good question
would you
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sandman,
With butsybhoy and you know as well as me, nothing happened, just a bit of banter?
I go in and read their sites (best to know their view point and keep them where they are) I’m really surprised how they haven’t been closed down…the blind eye or all seeing eye!
Aiden Bhoy
01.50
Were we minded to settle down during these dark winter nights and learn to sing our songs in Gaelic, who in FOCUS or beyond, do you think would be offended?
Just sayin’ like. Aff oot. (Is this right?)
Tallybhoy
01.36
Yes I’m the only one who didn’t know that.
I do now., thanks
He was Spanish, wasn’t he?
butsbhoy , wouldn’t put my family at risk personally .Look what our manager has went through,but some on here want Celtic to come out saying this that and the next thing but it’s not them that are in the firing line.Imaging Peter Lawell coming out saying singing the ROH is not illegal or sectarian which it isn’t the SMSM would have a field day and I wouldn’t want to walk in his shoes , big bonus or not.
guyfawesforeverhero, not got a problem with singing songs done it for years myself.But some complain about the Huns songs Aberdeen’s signing last week then don’t see a problem with us singing IRA songs.I just want to support my team and watch them play football and be successful some are more concerned with songs and politics.At the open meeting last week a guy said supporting Celtic is a political act not to me it’s not and to many of my friends who go every week.On here plenty people attack the board for anything from the handling of the Green Brigade over the Motherwell game .They came out themselves and took full responsibility for what happened as it was there unofficial section but that never get’s mentioned on here.
Imagine Peter Lawell coming out and saying anything which would contradict the Uncle Tom position he now occupies.
I can’t imagine it at all.
Would you do it ?
Nah didn’t think so.
Aidenbhoy…
The boardroom at Celtic Park should be named Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
You haven’t answered the question yet .Would you come out and be the public face defending Celtic fans right to sing IRA songs.
Aiden Bhoy
02.25
Were I to advise you, then I’d say continue to do what you are doing – think for yourself.
The example you gave of someone at a meeting saying “supporting Celtic is a political act” is as trite as saying ” rising from your bed on Monday morning to go to work, is a political act”.
In my small opinion you’re doing the correct thing of collecting your own thoughts and setting them down.
Fair play to you.
As far as singing our traditional songs now, I’d say it can only be done safely privately.
guyfawkesaforeverhero,fair play just don’t think it’s as simple as getting Celtic to come out and say this and that.We have a fantastic opportunity to steam ahead here but we seem to be ripping ourselves apart.