I read critical comments on Cristiano Ronaldo’s comments after Iceland had the temerity to take a point from Portugal last night and recalled some of the heartfelt and genuine affection expressed last week for Muhammad Ali.
“Graceless”, “disrespectful” and “unsporting” was the general tone, which is pretty much what was levelled at Muhamad when he called Joe Frazier an “Uncle Tom”, surely the pinnacle of a career sending disrespectful barbs towards opponents.
I could listen to and watch Muhammad all day long, he was forever a treat to sport and the world, but had he shut his mouth and JUST boxed only actual boxing fans would know his name now.
Ronaldo sounds like he’s taken lessons from The Greatest. At first pass it doesn’t look like it, but when he reacts churlishly after a disappointment, he helps make football a bigger sport, just as Ali did for boxing. And just like Ali, many will want Ronaldo and Portugal to lose, just to take the smug grin off his face. That’s why sport engages so many, but if you loved Ali, be consistent and cheer on Ronnie.
I’ve read and enjoyed some of what this pantomime act they’ve signed across the city has been saying this month. Good luck to him, he’s sheer entertainment. Anyone who can give it thick to royalty, mix with certain councillors, shout for Celtic, then tell Newco to cheer for him as he takes millions from them, deserves some slack.
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just cos its brilliant,
sunshine on leith,
they touched it , they claimed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INW-cZSg5xs
and they beat up the hun dafties,
hahahahhahahaa
i will be with you
Macjay
I think in fairness describing English Football Hooligans as “animals” is not necessarily a racist jibe
They are behaving like beasts as is their wont,though it now appears that the Russians thugs have out yobbed them.
If Irish fans behaved like that I would describe them as animals also.
In general though Irish football fans at major tournaments dont behave like that,they drink a lot and sing and dance and are generally good humoured.
That doesnt make the Irish as a race any better of worse than the English as a race.All races have good and bad with the majority being,thankfully,decent people who simply want to enjoy their lives and do no harm to anyone.
Anyway..I hope you are well..Brexit me arse
The Masonic Founding Fathers gave the power to the wee guy, they had the Knowledge that the wee guys could be easily distracted to take their eye of the ball, so to say, and be Enslaved… seems like a plasma tele or an iphone????? Virtual Reality is being pushed, that is defo the one….. :((
Poetry
Is Clint Hill not a graveya….maybe not. HH and Night Night.
CURE FOR VERY SLOW LAPTOP PLEASE
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ on 16th June 2016 12:15 am
CURE FOR VERY SLOW LAPTOP PLEASE
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Reinstall operating system
Also you could download CCleaner and run it, though it
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
And Spybot
https://www.safer-networking.org/mirrors24/
Just saw this on Wiki. Clint Hill is older than is being reported. I thought I recognised the name.
Clinton J. “Clint” Hill (born January 4, 1932) is a former United States Secret Service agent who was in the presidential motorcade during the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.
During the assassination Hill ran from the car immediately behind the presidential limousine, leaped on to the back of it and shielded Mrs. Kennedy and the already stricken president with his body as the car raced to Parkland Memorial Hospital. This action was documented in the Zapruder film. Hill is the last surviving passenger of the presidential limousine which arrived at Parkland Hospital.
Just got the Will Griggs thing.
William Grigg
Who I think is a Fantastic Journalist, he was a regular guest on Stan Monteiths Radio Liberty show before he passed away. I wish he was in Scotland. Fearless.
There next signing is going to be Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.
Buzz to his mates :)
Conspiracy CSC
There = their
Clint Hill. A really good solid signing if the year was 2004. But it’s not. And neither is he (now).
HH jamesgang
I’ve never had a Laptop but I’d always have Spybot running.
Over 10 years, likely 15 now, that program has got rid of so many nasties.
Best program on the net for that horrible side of the internet.
Always been free as well.
Clint Hill in action
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Hill_(Secret_Service)#/media/File%3AClint_Hill_on_the_limousine.jpg
Jude,
I left you a post last night with my suggestions.
Hail Hail
Turkeybhoy your post made no sense . I do t actually think you understand what hypocracy is.
But man are you showing us irony…….
The original angry cloth cap wringing sychophant…….
WHAT IS THE STARS on 16TH JUNE 2016 12:02 AM
Macjay
I think in fairness describing English Football Hooligans as “animals” is not necessarily a racist jibe.
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Perhaps more drunks than animals .
I don`t really mind , mate , as long as there is no double standard.
” We don`t care what the animals say.”
The generalisation about…………the English………..Cornishman , Scouser ,Geordie .
Just silly.
In Europe there are no borders and therefore no countries.
I like countries.
Brexit.
All the best to you and yours ….and….
C`mon,Ireland.
SAINT STIVS SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 15TH JUNE 2016 11:59 PM
Share your love-in with Hibs.
Happy birthday Clint
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https://imgur.com/gallery/9jQzZ
Any possibility that the tricolour clad fan may in fact have been a Welsh fan with a Welsh flag
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https://twitter.com/tomwhite7?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Just read back,
Thanks Mats Nilloc,for the reply earlier, that makes sense.
Re Joey Barton working for TV3 in Ireland tomorrow. In fairness that was organised before he committed to the Sacred Trust (as far as I know). TV3 are now owned by Liberty Global, a multi-national.
Thankfully, Joey is on after the match in the magazine type show (Soccer AM type stuff).
The actual match coverage has been good and well presented, imo.
Graeme Souness is in the studio so plenty of “he’s a proper player.” “At this level.” “You need to be right at it.”etc.
I see Mr MacJay has spotted an Irish Tricolour among rioters in Lille. If there is one he’s lost as Ireland’s next game is Bordeaux, 800km away.
Orlando
for the doubters
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https://imgur.com/gallery/5KFTY
CLOGHER CELT on 16TH JUNE 2016 1:14 AM
This about the all embracing description of English supporters as animals.
Lost ? I don`t know .
But I do know what I saw.
French tricolour as well.
CLINK\O/ on 15TH JUNE 2016 8:22 PM
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Your basic refusal to call the man by his real name speaks volumes.
I did not launch an attack on you and I did not call foul on anything.
I merely made a comment on your post to which you called me an ignoramus and/or member of the PC brigade. The only way I’m a member of a PC brigade is because I’m posting on one right now.
Nobody brought up racism but you, nor the ghost of Kojo the great defender of civil rights.
And as I said earlier if you want to post controversial points on a public forum be prepared for someone to take issue with it. If that constitutes bullying then you must have led a very sheltered life.
Slán
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Something like that.
It’s gonna read like a victory to ye, ya fly cnut ye.
Insinuate.
A storm cloud is on the way.
Call it a clash – is that alright?
Yer failed experiment – Yer diversity, yer multi -culteralism, yer political correctness tripe.
People like me are a symptom of your failed idealism, not a result of.
Why diversity?
Bring a wee bit of yer so-called diversity to places like Pakistan and Bangladesh sure, why not?
Cultural enrichment sure.
Minorities?
7% of the world’s population, and dwindling rapidly.
Blame it on me, the racist.
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Are you drunk
No.
Sober.
Shocking question to ask any person.
Are you a zombie?
Ye read like a zombie anyway.
This place is pure mental sometimes.
Rocky Marciano was the greatest heavyweight champion of all time anyway, undefeated.
Matthew 5:5.
We will not Brexit – it will be closer than anyone had ever thought due to the hysteria over immigration.
Yes of course immigration has to be managed , otherwise we could have whole swathes of the population swishing around Europe like water in the bottom of an unstable goldfish bowl.
We are not the USA – countries are not bound together in a federal system.
The ideal is of course for all EU members to have harmonised wages and social conditions, negating the need for economic migration – that is a long way off, and until then we must handle immigration in a fair and humane way, for both immigrants and the indigenous population.
Brexit’s argument seems very similar to the defeated Nationalist case in the Scottish Referendum, i.e. “it will be allright on the night and we will make it up as we go along”
Without long and carefully managed rehersals, it is never “allright on the night” and in this complex and interconnected world, “making it up as we go along” is a recipe for disaster.
Vote IN – only real sensible choice.
I recall a conversation with a pensioner in a bar few years ago.
“I’ve always loved boxing son. To me the greatest fighter was Cassius Clay! Im not calling him Muhammed Ali as I don’t agree with all this change your name for religion nonsense.”
So it’s not Pope Benedict its Cardinal Ratzinger I ask him.
“No no its Pope Benedict”
But I thought you don’t agree with changing your name for religion I ask him.
” Ah well you see,,I mean,,its kinda different,, he had to change his name”
No he didnt he coulda been Pope Joseph.
“Aye but you know what I mean don’t ya?”
No idea sir but I do know double standards when I see them. You can’t have it both ways.
Cue a rant about young ones these days.
Ive just spent three and a half hours watching the directors cut of das boot. If there’s ever a better submarine movie I’ll eat my hat. No idea if it won any awards but imo it deserved them all that year (1981). Soundtrack was spot on also.
Can anyone confirm the submarine was invented by an Irishman?
Hail Hail
http://www.answering-islam.org/BehindVeil/btv5.html
MATS NILLOC on 16TH JUNE 2016 4:10 AM
We will not Brexit – it will be closer than anyone had ever thought due to the hysteria over immigration.
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Courageous call,Mats .
Correct. The many young ladies who were assaulted by immigrant groups on New Years Eve in European towns and cities were indeed hysterical.
Vote safer.
MAHE THE MADMAN on 16TH JUNE 2016 4:22 AM
Yep, the guy who developed the submarine for the US Navy was indeed an Irishman…John Holland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philip_Holland
Hail Hail
Thanks Dublinbhoy.
Hail Hail
MACJAY1@4:58
The clearest and best thing I’ve read about the EU referendum. Please read this if undecided.
https://t.co/L34VkPlY6w
MATS NILLOC
I don’t think MACJAY has a vote.
Just a thought-if you had as many identities on the Electoral Register as you do on here,it would be a landslide…
BMCUWP@7:07
Once again you delberately ignore the point of the argument and race to the lowest common denominator in order to score your ‘Mr Clever Dick’ point.
Good morning friends from a rather damp, grey and drizzly East Kilbride.