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.
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RobertTressell…agree with you 100% re that article…patronising in the extreme…
Houl yer wheest
An article clearly written by an author who has no experience of CFC and had obviously allowed himself to confused by the Scottish mms and their preoccupation with the OF tag
OF is an anachronism and only favours the Huns
Green Lantern (((((0)))))
As Jim Bowen would say
“This is what you should have paid for”
Afternoon CQN,
Sevco have asked Alloa for 6 weeks grace before paying them their share of last weeks gate money.
Chuckles Green doing a great job.
Glasgow’s Green & Whyte!!
Afternoon bhoys from a warm hun free mountain.
I found this interesting.
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The first official poppy appeal was held 85 years ago in the UK. But when – and why – was the first poppy sold?
The red poppy worn around the world in remembrance of battlefield deaths has nothing to do with the blood shed in the brutal clashes of World War I.
Instead it symbolises the wild flowers that were the first plants to grow in the churned-up soil of soldiers’ graves in Belgium and northern France. Little else could grow in the blasted soil that became rich in lime from the rubble.
Their paper-thin red petals were the first signs of life and renewal, and in 1915 inspired Canadian doctor John McCrae to pen perhaps the most famous wartime poem:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row…
It was this poem which inspired an American war secretary to sell the first poppies to raise money for ex-soldiers.
WHO, WHAT, WHY?
A regular feature in the BBC News Magazine – aiming to answer some of the questions behind the headlines
Two days before the Armistice was declared at 11am on 11 November 1918, Moina Michael was working in the YMCA Overseas War Secretaries’ headquarters during its annual conference in New York.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6133312.stm
While flipping through a copy of Ladies Home Journal, she came across McCrae’s poem, and was so moved that she vowed to always wear a red poppy in remembrance.
Poppy lady
That same day she was given $10 by the conference delegates in thanks for her hard work, which she spent on 25 silk poppies. Returning to the office with one pinned to her coat, she distributed the rest amongst the delegates.
POPPY FACTORY
36m buttonhole poppies and 100,000 wreaths each year
Annual poppy appeal aims to raise £25m
Money helps former British troops and their families
Inside the poppy factory
When’s right time to wear one?
Since this group had given her the money with which to buy the flowers, Ms Michael saw this as the first sale of memorial poppies. She then threw her efforts into campaigning to get the poppy adopted as a national remembrance symbol.
Two years later, the National American Legion’s conference proclaimed the poppy as such. Among those at the conference was Madame E Guerin, from France, who saw poppy sales as a way to raise money for children in war-ravaged areas of France.
Having organised the sale of millions of poppies made by French widows in the United States, in 1921 she sent her poppy sellers to London.
Field Marshall Douglas Haig, a senior commander during WWI and a founder of the Royal British Legion, was sold on the idea (as were veterans’ groups in Canada, Australia and New Zealand).
So that autumn, the newly-established legion sold its first remembrance poppies. And so the tradition began
the whole world is singing or praises, let’s not let ourselfs down today…. http://harryhood67.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/what-they-said-about-celtic-beating-barca/
Asonofdan
And …that is the same guy who offered Hearts an immediate £500k payment …
What happened to the no debt, living within their means boast
The money from the share offer must be a necessary as we believe
Off to game, hope there’s a big crowd to cheer the team after Wednesday.
Hail Hail
RobertTressell
It will be interesting how the Indo handles next years 100th anniversary of the “Dublin Lockout
Minutes silence today.
I will respect it, not hard seeing as I still dont have my voice back after Wednesday.
The Independent is an awful newspaper, I have been boycotting it for years. They can take their half-hearted tainted tributes & shove them where the sun don’t shine.
….pfayr
Dignity FC
Described as a ‘cheeky bid’ by the laptop loyal. Can you imagine the reaction if we held back money that would kill a club?
oh! wait a minute, just go back and read the headlines when we asked corrupt fc to give us ticket money up front…
Well todays game will not be easy for the Bhoys forget the recent 5-0 drubbing we gave saints today we are coming down from a tremendous high.We must be professional and have full concentration winning the SPL is of paramount importance to us as winning ensures we at least get into the champions league qualifyers and enjoy more nights like Wednesday night.The game is no more important to us than the Barcelona game but its equaly important if we want to keep our young stars at the club we must be playing at the top European level.I dont know what todays team will be but I know one thing they need our vocal support today every bit as much as they needed it on Wednesday night.H.H.
Getting off the bus in a minute, Thank God as some auld drunk hun doing my nut in with his p1sh.
Enjoy the game everyone. HH
Britain : drenched in blood and the denigration, mutilation and murder of millions through the centuries. The so-called ruling class of Britain have operated with impunity for centuries, growing fat and wealthy off the back of the suffering of others, including their own citizens ; they shamelessly manipulate emotion as a cynical ploy to further enrich themselves at all costs and this is what we are supposed to forget at our peril today.
Shameless posing and poster-boy glorification of war.
That is not what the symbolism of the poppy was created for.
And God help you if you try to point that out.
Remembrance of futile suffering and the meaningless of war, not the mass hysteria of chest beating and rending of garments in manufactured fakery with the thump of war drums menacingly throbbing in the background.
Makes me sick and angry.
ASonOfDan, 13:43
Interesting that they want to hold on for six weeks.
They couldn’t possibly be in such financial trouble that they could be going into administration in about, say, six weeks?
Perish the thought
I see that laddy Griffiths has cored again. 12 for the season now!!!
Well said, ASONOFDAN, They want to help Hearts! Right Aye. They are shameless cheating Bassas, their performance yesterday was sickening. Pay your debts ye cheating Scum and then ye can tell us how much ye love the U.K.
RobertTressell, 13:26
You are entirely right. Usual West Brit nonsense.
Glasgow’s a vastly superior place in many ways to insular, money obsessed Dublin
Alloa should telll them to feck off.
THE EXILED TIM
13:35 on 11 November, 2012
Afternoon bhoys from a warm hun free mountain.
I found this interesting.
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The first official poppy appeal was held 85 years ago in the UK. But when – and why – was the first poppy sold?
The red poppy worn around the world in remembrance of battlefield deaths has nothing to do with the blood shed in the brutal clashes of World War I.
Instead it symbolises the wild flowers that were the first plants to grow in the churned-up soil of soldiers’ graves in Belgium and northern France. Little else could grow in the blasted soil that became rich in lime from the rubble.
Their paper-thin red petals were the first signs of life and renewal, and in 1915 inspired Canadian doctor John McCrae to pen perhaps the most famous wartime poem:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row…
*RD is not a statutory holiday over here although Government bodies for the most part get it, I did for most of my Canadian work life.
However the above quoted poem is read out in every school and workplace at 11:00 and anybody talking laughing or working on a key board is met with disdain.
Growing up I never wore a poppy but I do now to honour the soldires of my adopted land who gave us our freedom and are still out there in places like Afghanastan
More pathetic man Citeh defending
Reports today that Sevco are trying to pump their wee masonic cousins by offering to pay Hertz £450,000 tax bill if Hertz are willing to consider the £ 800,000 for Wallace as paid.
Can’t think why, but it reminds me of a nature programme I saw when a pack of starving, scabby, wild hyenas turned on one of their injured brethren and ripped it apart.
jockcfc13:36 on11 November, 2012
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Thanks for posting that. Brought me back to earth and reminded me of what really matters to us.
OneLoveCeltic CSC
HH!
Mark Hately says Artillery Gun is a fantastic new signing for sevco as they are desperately short of fire power up front
Can I ask why there is so much hand wringing and warning of the Celtic support to behave?
When have they ever let us down in order to merit such a warning?
The Green Brigade Banner?- a rare error from the GB where they over-stated their case, but it was as legitimate an occasion to protest against poppy fascism as was John Snow’s Newsnight stance.
The Falkirk game? A group of around a dozen lads audibly protesting outside the ground and ignored by the nearby police, seperate from the 500 or so Celtic fans still awaiting entry in an orderly queues, most of whom were unaware that the minute’s silence was underway. Meanwhile Falkirk fans inside the ground disrupted the minute’s silence in order to boo at the noise they were hearing from outside the ground.
The Ibrox coughing? After a 90 second silence some stray coughs were heard. A silence stretched to the length it took to await a breakdown in compliance.
The Celtic fans are a generally well behaved group and do not need warnings to know the decent way to respond. I have full faith that my fellow fans will respect the silence whilst many will have reservations about the event engineering imposed upon them.
Anyways 3:0 to the Celts today.
scored even hee hee
jackie mac
12:18 on 11 November, 2012
my son has to find proof of the existence of God for homework – anyone know any ?
apart from hmrc, mulgrew , jinky etc.
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In the latest 4-4-2 mag,Salgado talks about how,as a full-back not used to scoring goals,he only once pre-planned a celly.
Aclose friend had recently had both legs amputated;he had a t-shirt printed to wear under his shirt.
As he was about to don his kit,he basically said “Who am I kidding? I’m a full-back!”
His team-mate,Mazinha-“much more religious than me”-said…
Wear it,God will hear you.
Salgado NEVER scored more than three goals a season,frequently none.
He scored after twenty minutes that day…..
And then I’m stupid enough to read that toilet roll of an article from ‘the independent’……more boak from a presstitute trying to pass itself off as clever wit.
God grant us release from these lumpen eejits with laptops.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
God @TheTweetOfGod
jackie mac
12:18 on 11 November, 2012
God @TheTweetOfGod
sorry
No problem with that at all Tontine and indeed I have no problem at all with any British person wearing a poppy or anybody else wearing 1 either, its called freedom of choice. However that freedom is a 2 way thing and I for one could never honour the Paras who shot dead 13 innocent civilians in Derry, or the SAS murder squad who executed 3 unarmed volunteers in Gibraltar or indeed the Black & Tans who burned my City and murdered my relatives. I still don’t want any incidents in Celtic Park today, I just want the match started & Celtic to win and all this nonsense put to bed for another year..
TET
Alloa shld Sauchie to them!!
Joe Hart fumble gaff gifts Spurs the lead
FraserFosterEnglandsNo1CSC
is today’s game on TV?
Tontine Tim
I have read on here, and just about everywhere else that the poppy is intended to comemerate the fallen from WW1.
I never new that it was hyjacked by Haig.
I’m not going to get into the politics as I would probably get banned from the blog.
HH
Alloa should say they’ll wait six weeks for their money but will expect another 30% on top.
What’s sauce for the goose etc.
sannabhoy
12:46 on
11 November, 2012
back on the road again. hint . where do you get sent to when you’re persona non grata ?
Sanna
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Ipox?