I like Neil Lennon. If Neil Lennon is talking about football, I shut up and listen. But I respectfully disagree on other subjects. If the last three years have taught us anything it’s that Celtic don’t need oldco or newco Rangers. Unequivocally, Celtic Park is quieter since Rangers liquidated, the level of competition we previously had added many to the gates, none of us feel the anxiety of genuine sporting challenge, but so what?
If Celtic sell 40,000 instead of 50,000 season tickets are we mortally wounded? The accounts would suggest otherwise. Does it mean we cannot compete in Europe? I refer to Neil’s record. Does it mean we cannot attract quality players? Well, it means we will not be able to attract some players, but I’m more than happy with the calibre of players we’ve recruited at the moment. Good riddance to the parts of Celtic that went out the door when Rangers were flushed down the Liquidation Lavvy.
I’m going to cut Neil some slack. I’ve been among Rangers fans and been generous enough to acknowledge income will rise at Celtic if newco ever reach the top flight. It costs nothing to be magnanimous.
What we do need is competition, the like of which Aberdeen have given us in the league this season and they and Dundee United may provide next season, if current trends continue. Congratulations are due to Hearts, who won the Championship before the clocks went forward, an incredible display of dominance, but as our two cup wins against them this season (3-0, 0-4) proves, they are miles away from providing the level of competition we see from Aberdeen.
Don’t have time to get dragged into a larger debate at the moment, but whenever Scottish football next turns its mind to strategic development, how to bolster Aberdeen and United should be top of the agenda. I enjoyed our four games against United this month and the recent league game against Aberdeen. More of them would be welcome.
We have a league split at the moment, where the top six hive off to play for the title, but it comes with only five games to play. An earlier split, allowing us more games against those at the top, while creating more opportunity for teams at the bottom to pick up points from their peers, makes more sense. Especially if more commercial income could be shared with the likes of Aberdeen and United.
Have you ever walked up Ben Nevis? Will you ever do so? It’s a big task if you are starting from scratch. When is it safe, what do you wear, what if something goes wrong, how long will it take, what about nourishment along the way?
The Ben Nevis Huddle delivers much of what you need on a plate. The Foundation have it all in hand. You get to walk up the mountain with a couple of hundred other Celts. They let you know what you need to know, check the weather for you and generally look out for things. They have left no one on the mountain. Yet.
What’s more, you get to do it in the name of Celtic FC Foundation, for our work with autism, downs, the homeless and destitute, those marginalised from our society, and those living in third world poverty.
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Sounds better than 6 to 7 degrees of separation, for some reason.
jamesgang
some other terms for groups of animals…select as appropriate or not
a congregation of alligators
a coffle of asses
a flange of baboons
a cete of badgers
a rabble of bees (throw in a f’in, and this one might be the winner)
an obstinancy of american buffaloes
a horde …. of mandrill ….
mike in toronto
don’t forget A MOOTHFUL…………….. O’ HEEDERS
I think it was decided some time ago on CQN that the collective term for a group of Huns was ‘a stench’.
HT,
Wheest you. Im still calculating how much to sponsor you :)
mike in toronto
13:46 on 24 March, 2015
jamesgang
An implausibility of Gnu’s.
It’s a fact that FACTS are not in fact Facts but rather an opinion dressed as a FACT. But those who want the declare opinions as FACTS have to shout FACT to in so,e way prove their point. It’s a very Hunnish trait and that’s a fact.
TBGKAGM … had forgotten!
hendrix … hadn’t heard that one … I like it.
How’s about a Bunch as in sour grapes
hendrix67
An implausibility, eh?
Who gnu?
you can have that one for free
gettingmycoatalready.csc
I was listening to BBC Radio Scotland on my way to work this morning. The news described how Celtic striker John Guidetti had “sung a song which was offensive to Rangers”. The reporter went on to say that he had used “a word which Rangers supporters have complained about in the past, claiming that it was a derogatory term for Protestants.”
Two things stand out here.
1) Is the word “hun” as used by Celtic supporters and indeed supporters of most other Scottish clubs a derogatory term for Rangers supporters or Protestants? Rangers people claim it is used to describe Protestants, yet the news reports seem to be describing the song in question as being offensive to Rangers supporters. Which is it?
2) The offending line in the song contains the words “The huns are deid”. It was Rangers Football Club who were liquidated, therefore the song refers to Rangers, as in “the Rangers are dead”. It cannot possibly refer to Protestants. The compliance officer appears to be suggesting that the sentiment of the line is “the Protestants are dead” which simply makes no sense.
So is the perceived offence concerned with being offensive to Protestants, or is the offence that he stated that Rangers are dead? If it is the former, then Guidetti has no case to answer, because in no way can that line be regarded as referring to Protestants (being dead). If it is the latter, he has no case to answer, because Rangers were liquidated, therefore the line is a true and valid statement of fact.
Celtic and Guidetti must ask for clarification from the compliance officer as to exactly what is the perceived offence.
The SFA could be opening a whole new can of worms with this one. It could come back to bite them.
off to a meeting … will check in later . have a good one lads.
GM
They’ll be attaching my bed to it at this rate sir!!!
A stench of huns.
BBC Radio 1 is moving its chart show to Friday afternoons, where it will become part of Greg James’s drivetime show.
Starting in mid-July, the new show will be two hours long, focusing on the top 20, and will be accompanied by a live TV programme on CBBC.
The move follows a global agreement by the music industry to release all new albums and singles on Fridays.
It means the chart will now be compiled on Friday mornings, with Radio 1 the first to reveal the latest number one.
Sunday matches will no longer clash with the charts which is a good thing for attracting teeny bopper fans to Celtic Park next season.
LB
LiviBhoy –
What do you mean? Are you telling me Allan Freeman no longer presents the top 40?
The information below and so much more charity work done by countless Celtic supporters should be displayed on wall to wall in our Press room leave them no excuses for printing the truth ref Celtic fans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRAnU8D76yw&feature=youtu.be
https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreenBrigade?src=hash
Tom McLaughlin
Who????
LB
TBB & HT
Thanks for the welcome back. Really appreciate it.
Toe in water situation really, but life goes on.
Mrs RWE and Tony’s elder brother and I are coming over for the Kilmarnock game on April 15. We’ve ordered a paving stone and a tunnel brick and hope that they will be in place by then.
Dedicating a tree at Tony’s old school at 3.00pm on April 10 – Maiden Erlegh School in Reading, Berkshire. We welcome all. Having a laugh is what he liked, always. :o)
Bognorbhoy, I have not gone back on to Don’t Shrink and at the moment, cannot.
Thanks.
The online version of the Book will be sent within a week to all those who contributed.
Closure is such a clichéd word: we want some of it but not all of it, otherwise we’re scared we’ll be so much less than we want to be.
Saying more than I intended so ‘off oot’ for now.
HH
Livibhoy,
Are you claiming you don’t tape the charts on your ghetto blaster every Sunday.
Pause finger at the ready ;))
The collective term describing the simplest unevolved type of life is a Culture ;-))
or maybe a Sloth of Bears ;-))
H.H.
Didnt realise we still had a Hit Parade
HT,@1358
I just had a mental image of that there.
It’d be the least impressive zip slide ever. :))
RWE
Lovely and fitting tributes to Tony.
RWE
Bless you & yours pal.
HH jamesgang
GM
Oh I don’t know, the Spider-Man jammies are rather fetching! :-)
Geordie Munro
Mark Goodier presented the show when I did that but to be honest I was never a music trendy.
LB
new article posted.
A hearse of huns.
and the collective noun for a lot of huns is ….. a mass of huns………
I’ll get my coat……………………..
I would refer the RST to John Reid’s Statement to the Celtic AGM in 2008 when The Famine Song WAS deemed racist. Just to set the record straight.
John Reid’s Statement at Celtic AGM 2008
Why did you decide to speak out about ‘The Famine Song’ and is it important that the club make sure that our supporters protect the integrity of Celtic’s name?
I spoke out about it because this is a pretty vile song and I don’t think that any reasonable person who has read the words of this song can see it as anything other than a pretty vicious, racist song. It combines racism and sectarianism and goes beyond a lot of other things that we have seen in the past. That’s one of the reasons why I spoke out and I also come from Irish and Scottish descent myself, so that’s the main reason.
But there is a bigger and wider reason as well and that is, the nature of this club. We are proud of the fact that we have Scottish origins and Irish heritage and we are never going to deny that. We will defend that and that is not a cause for shame, it’s a cause for recognition and celebration. Indeed our very name ‘Celtic’ is about the unity of the Scottish and Irish people. It stands against those who would divide, discriminate and oppose those two entities. And because we start from that basis of the unity of peoples then we have always been open and inclusive as a club.
That’s why traditionally we have never discriminated. That’s why our board, our shareholders, our footballers and our footballing heroes come from all sorts of different backgrounds, religions, ethnic groups and do so internationally. That’s why I said last year that whatever differences we have when we come into this club we leave them at the door because we believe truly, in a Scotland that is one bit of many cultures and is way beyond now being Scots and Irish. That is our stance, therefore we have to speak out when we see racism or sectarianism being practised and of course, if we are going to do that we have to practise what we preach.
We have to be careful, from our own point of view and that’s why I am absolutely delighted that our fans in recent years have had accolades from the world football authorities, from the European football authorities and let me say when I point out that there may be a minority who are transgressing our own rules, that they are our own rules. I don’t know any Celtic fans who have been chanting racist slogans or anything of that nature, so I am not comparing like with like here. But I am saying that we have got to be whiter than white and that we have to explain to and educate everybody at this club, including that tiny minority which at away games sometimes leaves us exposed to those who would attempt to say that we are all the same. We aren’t all the same , but we have to make sure that that is evident to everybody. That’s the nature of Celtic Football Club.
Now read what Sir David Murray said in response.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/rangers/3492846/Rangers-chairman-Sir-David-Murray-accuses-Celtic-counterpart-John-Reid-over-Famine-Song-attack-Football.html
From the perspective of history its an absolute hoot. e.g
” and I think there’s a strong argument, especially in the west of Scotland that to have a politician in charge of a football club is verging on the dangerous. ”
that from Sir David Murray, killer of Rangers FC and vandal of Scottish football.
Its a belter.
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