I’m not taking the SPFL- face recognition plan too seriously but that’s not to say the politics behind the suggestion should be ignored. Scottish football has no hooligan problems, compared England or the Continent our game is orderly and sedate. Until recent years there was no such thing as a flare problem, and offensive signing was a thing of the past.
All that changed when the SNP government got involved in 2011. Two managers shouted at each other after a game, three Rangers players were ordered off, and First Minister, Alex Salmond decided a summit was necessary to reign in the game’s wilder elements. What utter tosh.
Three weeks later, Justice Minister, Kenny MacAskill congratulated fans on creating a great atmosphere at the League Cup Final, which was notable for the re-emergence of the previously eradicated Billy Boys song. At an instant MacAskill rebased what was acceptable behaviour at Scottish football.
Since then the game has been trying to put the genie back in the bottle. The arguments were rehearsed in the CQN comments pages and elsewhere, “They are congratulated by the Government for singing The Billy Boys and we can’t sing about nationalist politics”, or words to that effect. Songs which had disappeared from the Celtic support lexicon were soon back and remain. Incalculable damage done by two incompetent clowns.
Since then the Scottish Government and a very small number (very small indeed) of senior officers at Police Scotland decided to subject football fans to the kind of surveillance that would make a military junta of a banana republic blush.
It’s a mess. Officers on the ground readily complain in private, all other political parties pledge to repeal the Offensive Behaviour’ Act, while sheriffs line up to mock cases arising from the Act. Football has been left to pick up the pieces left from a Scottish Government created problem. The Government refuse to accept any liability, will not repeal the Act and having celebrated a new, low, standard for spectator behaviour, seem quite happy with the situation.
Scottish football was doing very well before the Government decided to rebase what is acceptable behaviour. No football authority will succeed in any endeavour if the government is working against it. What the SPFL did was make a clear, if clumsy, attempt to return the problem to sender – the newly disinterested in football Scottish Government.
When one becomes six
I’ve scoured the internet today but cannot see any complaints about Celtic’s alleged “one up front” tactics. This season hasn’t gone to plan, but we’re making an incredible number of chances and scoring a remarkable number of goals.
One up front leaves space for, what is in effect, two wingers on each flank, and an attacking mid able to work inside the box.
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Meant to say BT and MIT quit. Must have been bad.
CQN (and a few other timternets) are in meltdown because of the inevitable rebirth of the Old Firm. 45% of Celtic supporters do not like this one bit and the other 55% canny wait. This is the schizm. This is the failure. This is what our current custodians have visted upon us. This is the 5 way agreement. This is the silence. This is the attacks on the Celtic supporters from the custodians. This is filthy hun like SFA greed in Celtic clothing, This is the end. Now its WWF timtertainment and the love of the bigot buck. I will post on Timternets till the first new OF league game then I will bid farewell for you who are left to bitch whine and moan about the hun sodomy and the lash. Good luck.
To invoke our most recent celebrity…. GIRFUY.
If anything deserves support, C.Q.N. does.
If anyone deserves support, Paul does.
Twists N Turns
Hamilton Park Friday evening 13th May. Fancy it? PF Ayr, Chris, myself and big John already booked into hospitality but I can add to the table if I move reasonably quickly. Be great to see you again, been too long! By the way, I still can’t text or call you, unless I reply to a text from you. It’s odd. Anyone else fancy a night at the races, you’re most welcome. –
If it’s not too bold, I’d be up for that meeting.
You can get my details from Paul67 if it is acceptable.
Eurochamps67
Andy Murray wins the first set with a bagel.
His opponent Groth an Aussie did not trouble the score keeper.
Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Govania…..
..
The Sevconians fell under the spell of the Ogre
Mash, the Scrotum Gripper.
Nearly lost my tea when reading.
Andy wins 2nd set 6-4.
PHILBHOY
I hope and pray for a full recovery for Archie.
He and his family are in my thoughts and prayers.
PHILBHOY 1033
Any pal of yours…
I’ll look out for a shooting star for young Archie. It will have his name on it,with my wish for a full recovery.
HH
An addition to my 125 post earlier.
SOUTH OF TUNIS,I hope you reconsider your decision too. How can we get by,especially in the summer,without your choon recommendations and tales of The Good Lady From Padova?
In that,I echo the thoughts of MACJAY at 255.
The blog is too important in too many ways to allow it to fall to hordes of hunnish barbarians.
Euro champs 67
I will get your e mail from Paul later today and be in touch.
You will be most welcome.
Cheers
TWISTS
Mailed you,mate.
To all the posters who are thinking of quitting..please don’t…scroll by or ignore..it is only a blog everyone is entitled to an opinion when it gets personal they have lost the argument.
Bobby
Just got it thanks. Had actually just finished mailing Paul 67 for the address ! Thanks bud.
Good morning friends from a dry, slightly frosty but deliriously happy East KIlbride. What a fantastic, history making experience last night at the K-Park. So we now have 2 teams in the last 16 of this years Scottish Cup with histories of just 6 years or less…..
Twists
Just reading your post about Hamilton races. Text didn’t come through
Sounds interesting, I will text you later
Watching a dvd of the wee super Joe Miller SCF 1989 that I found up in the loft…..happy days.
Up the cage rattlers.
Down with the cliques.
…laters…..
WITS
At a loss with the phone thing. Tried 2 different phones now, 2 different networks, and there are no restrictions on my company phone, yet I cant text you unless I reply to a text from you? You are definitely not blocked ( only BMCUW IS BLOCKED:-), so I don’t know. I will reply to your text later when I get it.
Yes be great if you can make it. That looks like 6 of us now if you can attend.
PF Ayr
Chris 1888
Big John
Eurochamps
WITS (hopefully)
Myself.
When I phones to check costs, the guy said he had “limited availability” so I will call today and add 2 more if you confirm.
Anyone else interested:
Hamilton Park Races, Friday evening 13th May, Dukes restaurant, Champagne reception, 3 course meal, racecard, table for the night, viewing from restaurant if preferred, but May will be scorching I guess:-)
£99 plus VAT – BUT LET ME KNOW ASAP IF INTERESTED PLEASE.
EUROCHAMPS67 on 21ST JANUARY 2016 3:59 AM
TWISTS N TURNS on 21ST JANUARY 2016 6:18 AM
Just e-mailed Twists Eurochamps e-mail addy.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
TWISTS N TURNS on 21ST JANUARY 2016 6:18 AM
Oops, that should have been I text you his e-mail addy.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
WHAT IS THE STARS on 21ST JANUARY 2016 7:42 AM
You posted last night asking if anyone had heard anything of Tom McLaughlin, I keep in touch with him occasionally through text.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
PHILBHOY:
I will say a Prayer for wee Archie, such a young age to go through such a big operation.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
BT,MIT ….anyone
it is easy to filter out any posters whose posts you do not wish too see.
pimps, trivial, basic, elementary
A really good blog cleaner
If you want to try it let me know and I will guide you through it .. even if it´s my rubbish you wish to prevent seeing ;-)
but Weeminger and Canamalar are the men to ask.
HH
As Jobo has noted, it’s a fresh and frosty morning in East Kilbride, with a lot of Hail Hail expected shortly.
People who wish to filter out comment on a blog to suit their personal taste really don’t get what a site like this is all about. In my opinion.
Villa reported to be lining up £5m bid for Johansen.
Sell, if true. The one area of the pitch where we can afford to ‘lose’ a couple of players is midfield. His form has dipped dramatically this season, although he’s been a bit better the last few games, and with a bid for the Croat also reported to have gone he in a replacement is already being lined up.
THE idea of Rangers and Celtic joining the English Premier League has been thrust into the limelight once again after it was revealed Lithuanian champions FK Zalgiris have applied to UEFA to join the Polish league, insisting it is a higher standard.
Both Mark Warburton and Ronny Deila have previously expressed support for the idea of their respective clubs playing in England.
Stewart Reagan Chief executive of the SFA stated “Rangers and Celtic will not be allowed to join the English FA we will strictly forbid it. Loosing both Glasgow giants at the same time within the same season will undoubtedly bring civil unrest and will not be considered”
However he did not rule out the possibility of letting one of the Glasgow giants leave for a trial period, “As we the SFA have recently demonstrated it is possible to lose one of the Old Firm from the top tier and business to continue. We would have to judge the Scottish football environment at the time of such an invite which cannot be made until Rangers are in the SPFL. We need at least one of them in the top tier”
No wonder good posters are leaving.
It’s not just the drivel that some people put up – it’s also the number of entries they put up.
Arguments develop and you see the same 2 or 3 guys all over one page.
KEVJUNGLE
By cliques do you mean the people who having been posting on here for years who became friends on and off the blog through their love of Celtic?
By cliques do you the people who having found a place to post tried to keep up a decent standard and a few wee simple ideas of how folk should approach each other.
By cliques do you mean the folk like me who can’t get to Celtic park anymore and found this wee oasis of Celticness where they could connect with like minded souls every day all day if they wanted too.
Or did you mean something else as you are one of the worst for promoting the idea that this place was cliquey even though you were invited like I was by the great Celtic men and women to be found here to be a part of the CQN community.
I hope you are happy to see more and more great Celts driven from this place daily by folk who think it’s a clique and to see it descend into nothing more than an argy bargy square go every other day.
What a chance squandered by you and the other clique busters..
You must be proud..
Hail Hail
BT, MIT, and SoT you will be sorely missed in this Celtic place..
Starry, starry Plough
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer’s day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they’ll listen now
Starry, starry Plough
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent’s eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist’s loving hand
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they’ll listen now
For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry Plough
You took your life, as lovers often do
But I could’ve told you Vincent
This world was never meant for
One as beautiful as you
Starry, starry Plough
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frame-less heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can’t forget
Like the strangers that you’ve met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they’re not listening still
Perhaps they never will
HAil HAil
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
Lol
Thomthetim, ‘the baby’ hasn’t fallen into other hands, it’s been without any hands of support. I’ve not had the same time for the blog for circa 2 years. The other hands don’t have access to user details or the comments section.
I’m back on task now.
Macjay, thank you!
Alcora, the blog is certainly not about giving people a platform to abuse or bully anyone – things which must be filtered out.
Gary67, £5m wd be nice money for Stefan.
Awe Naw, not the greatest week for a Don McLean classic……….
Aston Villa being linked with a 5 million move for Stefan Johansen
Yes please.
Paul67,
honestly I chose that .. for exactly that reason. Fighting !!!
HH
Right off to source some curry wurst…
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
You saw that Ole Don McLean just got nicked in the States in a domestic:))
Peace man..
I have been very busy these last two years also. Working often away from home.
The community that is CQN does not depend on my support for Celtic.
The Celtic community for me is Celtic.
Like Starry I find CQN an oasis of pleasure .. mainly due to the posters who I have got to know from afar and virtually.
So anyone who wants to give up on it then good luck to you. I always scrolled past those that have one opinion or are just trolling. The new filter saves my index finger from Scrolling that is all. Nothing I have ever read on here has shocked me except for maybe news like someone passing away or being sickly
I am staying and when I get the time I want to help to reclaim the blog.
Content
Civility
Decency
Freedom of Speech
and a great bunch of guys and gals who I am delighted to know even virtually.
Come on all you lapsed posters that are lurking .. reclaim the blog
Hail HAil
ALCORA on 21ST JANUARY 2016 8:44 AM
People who wish to filter out comment on a blog to suit their personal taste really don’t get what a site like this
– See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/return-to-snp-sender-when-one-becomes-six/comment-page-13/#comments
I agree and often wondered why they just don’t go and start there own blog, and they could ban themselves :))