Reason to enjoy Wednesday night number 67: Victor Wanyama didn’t get booked.
21-year-old Victor is a fabulous talent but he has also been a tad rash in his earlier Champions League outings this season. One more yellow card will bring a suspension but his timing, and more importantly, his concentration, on Wednesday was excellent. This is a player maturing; more to come.
The 1254125 charity cycle left Lurgan this morning for Belfast port where they caught a ferry to Cairnryan. After they set wheel on Scotland they have a 37 mile cycle to Maybole, 7 miles of which is uphill, one of the most difficult parts of the endeavour.
They are people with the spirit of this club pumping through their veins right now. Check out their everyclick page for more information.
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Here,the Glasgow Irish gave to the world the MIGHTY CFC – and they have also played their part in the struggle for Irish freedom.
The so-called “Cinderella” of the diaspora?
Like fcuk.
I will raise a glass now to John Fitzgerald Kennedy,but when it the list is written – achievements of the diaspora – Celtic of Glasgow relegates the legendary JFK into second place.
Poppy or no poppy – That is good enough for me!
Slainte.
Brill.The tax avoiding scum trying the old infiltration.ALLY get tae feck.
gordon64
I’m not anti Russian, I’m anti Communist that means anti evil.
Worked with Russians 15 years, like all people in other places some of them are good people, some of them are bad people. Communism made sign on their minds like it made on the Poles or Bulgarians. I’m afraid the signs the Communism made on the structures and people there is very strong and still exist.
Stalingrad turning point? Yes, without the doubt. The other was pact Rebbentrop Molotov as the were couple of other turning points. Without that pact there would be probably one or two million less Polish victims.
ALLY AV RUMBLED YE YA HUN SO CLEAR OFF AND INTELLIGENT PEOPLE CAN TALK.
Tri ribbon
Easy tiger.
Zbyszek
You are up there with the best posters on CQN mo chara,without a shadow of a doubt.
Tricolour ribbon you should be ashamed of yourself , as ever , and the reason I don’t post any more , if you post something people don’t agree with your automatically tagged a Hun , I sit in south stand ES 2 J 16 have done for 29 seasons , for what it’s worth my old boy went every week to see celtic and believed in a free Ireland but he gave a lot on ww2 and I don’t give a shit what uneducated morpns like you think about it .
If I was in the Green Brigade I wouldn’t have one minutes silence tomorrow, I would have a ninety minute silence.
That would make more of an impact at Celtic park tomorrow than anything else.
Sixteen Roads,
What a result for Cliftonville today
TR As a matter of interest what’s your seat number if your such s big Celt ?
Plenty of Buckie bravado on show tonight I see.
Pertinent to the debate. And awesome.
http://youtu.be/KAIUf_SYpwE
Dear Ron MacLean. Dear Coachs Corner. I’m writing in order for someone to explain to my niece the distinction between these mandatory pre-game group rites of submission and the rallies at Nuremburg. Specifically the function the ritual serves in conjunction with what everybody knows is in the end a kids game. I’m just appealing to your sense of fair play when I say she’s puzzled by the incessant pressure for her to not defy the collective will, and yellow ribboned lapels, as the soldiers inexplicably rappel down from the arena rafters (which, if not so insane, would be grounds for screaming laughter). They could be singing about the huns ludicrous display today.
MrZ,
So your saying you understand the philosophy of communism ?
I am not a communist but I think I understand the philosophy.
I do understand your family have suffered greatly at the hands of war criminals who have declared themselves as communists and you associate that behaviour with the word communist however I know there are many communists who are as ashamed of what the USSR done to misrepresent their philosophy.
There were many British communists who went to the USSR to join the great experiment, who ended up in the same prisons as every dissident simply because Stalin did not want his vision questioned, that is not communism, communism I thought was built on local democracy and consensus. Which is exactly why Lenin had to go.
Dug out all the old cassettes and cds – Toytown & Discoland. :(
And i never really liked the happy hardcore tripe!
That GB have a lot to answer for ffs. :(
Zbyszek
Thanks for the post,
Really respect your opinion.
My view is based on the history books
not the reality of what far too many endured.
It’s not communism as an ideolagy that is bad
but the people who exploited it.
HH
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Brilliance of Celtic only masks a wider malaise in Scotland..
Remarkable victory over Barcelona will increase calls for a breakaway league as SPL descends into financial meltdown
In the space of three hours last Wednesday night Hearts announced that the club might not survive beyond this weekend, Craig Levein revealed he is taking legal advice over his sacking by the Scottish FA, and Celtic beat Barcelona. Each individual event was in itself shocking, but what does the combination of all three say about the state of the game in Scotland? In one way, very little; in another, it tells us everything.
Levein’s actions can be isolated, since his record as Scotland manager was poor and even if there was a delay in the SFA’s decision to remove him from his post, he will still be paid his full salary – £35,000 a month – until the end of the 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign, unless he finds another job. He misjudged the public mood, since whatever pockets of sympathy there may have been were quickly overcome by indignation.
The discord between Levein and the SFA is in keeping with much of the hostility that has gripped Scottish football in recent months, but it was not a consequence of those dramas. The fates of Hearts and Celtic, so divergent on a night when Barcelona were vanquished by some shrewd play and the kind of raucous atmosphere that shook the soul, are indicative of the game’s underlying health.
Scottish football is in a mess. For the sake of its credibility, there was no option but to deny Rangers a place in the Scottish Premier League and force the Ibrox team to play in the Third Division this season after the public limited company that owned the club failed to come out of administration and the business and assets were sold to a new company.
Yet the game is even more imbalanced. The biggest crowds have been for Rangers’ home games in the Third Division, with only a small handful of clubs in England enjoying higher gates. Rangers have also generated higher television viewing figures than any other club in Scotland.
In the SPL Celtic have dropped 12 points, but nobody expects anything other than Neil Lennon’s side comfortably winning the title. The league is competitive, in the sense that Dundee are cut adrift at the bottom and Celtic will eventually run away at the top but the rest can beat one another at any given time.
Yet Hearts are on the verge of liquidation after being served with a winding-up order by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs for a £465,000 tax bill, while another £1.75m tax bill is being appealed against. If Hearts fold, other clubs are expected to follow because no bank will provide any credit.
The Sky television deal is not as generous as in previous seasons with Rangers no longer in the top flight but could be even less next year since there is a get-out clause for the broadcaster at the end of this campaign based on viewing figures.
Hearts’ financial problems are historical, since the owner Vladimir Romanov has not run the club prudently for some years, but the financial consequences of Rangers’ collapse has not helped them. Administration, right now, seems the best hope.
The imbalance between the Old Firm and the rest isn’t healthy because no teams are ever able to compete with them, but also Scottish football restricts Rangers and Celtic. The latter’s victory over Barcelona was glorious – a bold, defiant, rugged and resourceful display, even if the play itself was overshadowed by the sheer emotional turmoil of the occasion.
Celtic Park was a cacophony of joy and adulation, to such an extent that Tito Vilanova, the Barcelona manager, and other club officials marvelled at the experience. Yet Celtic’s victory was underpinned by the club’s fundamental values.
The team have been built on astute work in the transfer market, signing young players from under-exploited markets such as Israel and Honduras whose transfer values rise while they mature. Victor Wanyama’s power and delicate touch will soon carry him straight into the upper reaches of the Premier League, while Fraser Forster, Joe Ledley, Kris Commons, Georgios Samaras and Gary Hooper are all capable of joining him in England’s top flight. Celtic are well run, and yet the club could be so much more.
Rangers also have potential for growth, although they have a distance to travel to catch up with their old rivals. For a time, the Old Firm discussed an Atlantic league with clubs in a similar situation, such as Ajax, PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord, Porto, Benfica and Sporting Lisbon. The idea gained traction again recently, while Celtic and Rangers continually talk in private about moving to England.
One such plan involves the Scottish leagues feeding into their English counterparts, and the case is strengthened by the financial troubles of the SPL. The European governing body Uefa have discussed a Balkan league, while a women’s league in Holland and Belgium has set a precedent as a joint league being accredited by Uefa with the teams eligible to play in European competition.
Celtic’s victory over Barcelona has strengthened the case for a review of European football’s boundaries, but it was also a reminder of the stark contrasts of the Scottish game.
Summa
Time for bed too many pissed up morons on tonight goodnight to all good celtic people
Didnt realise Ben Stiller was left handed.
Tricoloured Ribbon.
I think you have got it wrong re Allyhuntersgloves.
A67
Tricoloured Ribbon
Brilliant chief!! :)
They are playing like champions just now.
Have ye been down to Belfast to see them lately?
Ok Allys hunters gloves I concede I read your post incorrectly.Apologies.
Canamalar
Do I understand philosophy of communism? Hmm. My studies were philosophy – Warsaw Uni. Never mentioned that, but here I’m. As you can see I’m interested in that region and digged deeper – how it happened that Russia adopted communism. Berdayev and other philosophers were good reading at the time.
Allyhuntersgloves
00:51 on
11 November, 2012
Time for bed too many pissed up morons on tonight goodnight to all good celtic people
I thought it was a quiet night :-)
Ally Hunter
If you want sensible discussion listen to
Radio 4.
If you want ‘pissed up morons’
this is the place to be.
HH
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southside
00:53 on
11 November, 2012
Didnt realise Ben Stiller was left handed.
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Ha Ha..
A Few Lefties on Here..”O)
Summa of AmbidextrousCSC..
So it’s here’s up the rebels,give us back our Teddy’s head!!!!!
YeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaaa…….
Sixteen roads,
Was seriously thinking about going up today and ironically you wer in ma thoughts..
Caldwell Boyce and poor old Winkie eh?
Re. Communism.
It’s not people who polluted good philosophy Communism, but it’s communism that changed people from good to bad or from bad to very bad.
Communism was good and only people who run it were bad is lie. It’s lie repeated by the communists. They used to say that from one turning point to another.
summa of sammi
Yeah. One minute lefties probably.
Sixteen roads
Thanks
Zbyszek
Great repost.
Stalin had more than 20M Soviet citizens killed….
Recently,on the ‘Spotlight’ interview programme on RussiaToday,the US ambassador during Gorbachev’s government remarked that ‘Stalin Killed 20M Soviet citizens’….
The host,Ed Gurnov,immediately corrected the ambassador…
“MORE THAN 20M…..More than 20M,Sir”
And Ed should know….
He was previously a Lieutenant in the Soviet Airforce….and served in Afg/stan..
Only 1:3 of the 20M ‘Soviets’ killed in WWII were actually ‘Russian’….
The bulk were citizens of ‘occupied countries’….such as the Baltic States,Ukraine…and Byelorussia….
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Around 350,000 people died from ‘Spanish Flu’ in 1917-18….
Unusually,in comparison to other Flu Pandemics….a high proportion of those who died were young,fit adults…
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Down With The Unwashed,Swivel-Eyed Lefties…!
Right…?
Tricoloured Ribbon
You are more than welcome brother,i sincerely mean that.
Didn’t know the bold Joe O’Neill personally,although he did pour me a few pints(sure he was best barman on the road) – but i will introduce you to a few good friends of mine that were very good friends of his.
You will be like a king.
Awe naw it’s the neo facist loony defective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iF8AX8BADI&feature=related hope it works still getting goosebumps
mise,
There are a lot of people I know in the west end who read this blog and their opinion of me is more important to me than the people on here, I live in the west end not in the blogosphere. I have rarely encountered the same reaction I get on here in real life.
Yep I’ll agree I am not everyone’s cup of tea and I can be aggressive but that is generally how I react when I think I am facing aggression and regardless of how you dress it up I have faced as much aggression as I’ve dished out. In fact there are many on here who enjoy a bit of canamalar baiting but get all indignant when they get the response they are looking for, as if its some sort of justification for their initial approach.
For the life of me I cannot remember the incident your talking about and my memory is no bad when it comes to discussions on here, I’m also struggling to remember any time I have ever attacked anyone looking for help, either here or on the street, so I’ll need help remembering that one.
But again I do not measure my worth by how people on here respond to me and I never will, anonymous posters don’t really matter that much to me except were I feel they are genuine.
I have had threats to my life sent to me, I posted one of the emails on here which was condemned by MOST who read it, the fact it wasn’t condemned by all who read it tells me more about this place and the people who populate it, so a pole of who likes me is really not something I’d have much respect for.
And the same goes for any of the CQN crew that ever happen to land in Beal Feirste.
This wee site has been more than good to me.At times i get home from work and lurk for hours,don’t even feel the need to post because i don’t wish to interrupt the flow.
It is always an education though,regardless.
Goodnight and good luck to all Celtic supporters.
Good to get an old yarn.Harry McCourt ,Paddys bro and Marty McCann whos mum lives ironically 100 yards from me were old men fae the last winning team I think from 1998.Am i right there Golgotha?