You know what Dundee United really need? Scott Brown to turn up at Hampden on Sunday with a point to prove. We’ve complained for years about the way media scrutiny falls haphazardly on Celtic but God help us if we ever acquire the cosy relationship others cultivate in order to avoid the light scrutiny required to keep them healthy.
Celtic players are allowed to drink before their day off (as is the manager). Scott didn’t punch anyone, didn’t threaten anyone, didn’t drive under the influence, didn’t speak inappropriately and didn’t break club rules.
Had he not sat down this would never have been a story, even if he’d had an additional 10 drinks. ‘Scott Brown sat down’ is the story – and that’s the worst they can come up with. Paying someone £100 for a photograph and spending 30 minutes writing about it has to be the cheapest cover in publishing history. It doesn’t pass the ‘news’ test, it is celebrity gossip.
Pin it to the dressing room wall and he’ll be Man of the Match on Sunday, you can bank on it.
CQN11 St Patrick’s Dinner is tonight! Soooooooo excited. See you there.
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corkcelt
08:26 on 14 March, 2015
My two older brothers in their 60s, my two young nephews in their 20s are usually only at funerals & weddings, last night was a night to remember, every one of my company said “what an event to have a stag doo” apart from Paul67 & all the others who actually done the hard work, I was one of the proudest theire, Family, Friends, Celtic & CQN, Got in at 3.30am the young team took me too the dancing, the future Mrs stayed up for and I was gabbing a lot of nonsense to her till about 5am,in the words of the Maestro there is still a buzz about the place !
josiebee:
Main Street, main stage right next to St. Patrick’s Church.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Lennybhoy –
a big shout out from me to for all the work you put into getting bums on seats for last night.
Now, if you fancy arranging my next family holiday for me… ;-)
Well some of you Bhoys will have sore heads this morning after last night.Well I think you all deserve to relax today with the hair of the dog. In preparation for tomorrows League cup final drinking so near to the final is bound to have an adverse affect on you I read that some where cant remember where. H.H.
Now on CQN:
A great night, no, a fantastic night, no…awesome night, aye.
All that was asked was if you could afford it and had the time was come along and support a worthy cause.
To those of you who came along I cannot find the words adequate enough to thank you all.
Gerryfaethbrig, you my friend and your entourage were great company and I am glad that you all enjoyed it, a Stag Night with a difference. On the 4th April 2016 you will recall one of the most memorable days of your life, I mean your Wedding Day. That will stir memories of another memorable day…13th March 2015…:)
setting free the bears for res. 12 & oscar knox:
Everybody that attended were a credit to this dear place.
On BSR, met him at the front door recognised him under his Sunday name from a previous life. Only found out as I left that he was BSR when I asked him his moniker, he produced his Badge…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Rd,s song on Radio2 now
joe filippis haircut
08:55 on 14 March, 2015
Hair of the dog…..
It’s St Paddys celebration Saturday in Coatbrig and Father Sweeney the parish priest has already ok’d it that lent is suspended for a day, cup final the morra, how good is it being a Celtic fan…. For the record any fan can join in the celebrations of both days… Open to all
I am away incase I get banned for being too happy !
Take care and a very big Hail Hail
Head off pillow now, what a fantastic night!
Lisa Hague is a truly special lady and would have liked to hear her speak.
I know a WAG who was ultra intelligent, top degrees, never worked a day in her life, spent all her time pampering herself and making herself look good.
As for Archie (we must have cheats Sevco in top league) and Joe (all the Celtic fans are missing Rangers(sic)) Miller. No thanks.
KO at 11 down in Coatbridge. Looking forward to a good day.
Good morning and have a good day CQN.
KLV
On sly spurts 5 at the moment is a show about football’s greatest teams featuring the Lisbon Lions. :)
HH
/Bishop B
Gerryfaethebrig
Father Sweeney is a top man. Not been to st. Pats for years. Moved to ML6.
KLV
jobo baldie
08:53 on 14 March, 2015
I will organise it for you my friend but unlike last night, I charge 10% commission…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
kevinlasvegas
09:12 on 14 March, 2015
I am a St Augustines Bhoy but Father Sweeney is a brilliant priest if he was employed at the Vatican he would double their profits !
“Beware the ides of March” – Don’t know who that applies to tomorrow but just thought I’d throw it in there.
I noticed that it’s first come first serve for the D Untd. Replay and it’s the lower stands first, our mob copped for the main stand, lol, nice one.
I am going now but for myself best part of last night (apart from the whole night) when Four Green Fields was sung I went over to FGF who was so singing his wee heart out, and then it developed into a massive line of people, hope CQN photographer got that picture, again thanks to every single person there last night for making it unforgettable …..
Lennybhoy thank you H.H.
Just a wee quite post cos I can sense a few fragile heads around cqn this morning.
Glad to hear cqn11 went so well.
Now back to racist scotland……………nah only kiddin -get back to sleep!
Morning all.
Wee bit grey down here. Still, quite quiet. Nae wind or rain so far.
Reading back, felt myself saying that if we’re looking for someone to put on the Board who lives our ethos, then Lisa Hague seems to fit the bill and then some. Hope she and her other half are still part of the fabric at Celtic Park when Kris’ playing days are over.
Father Sweeny was and is a breath of fresh air. When he was at St Bridget’s in Baillieston he used to come to our house on a regular basis for his dinner. Last year when my Mother was ill we reminisced about the evening I met FS outside our house when I was coming home from school. I used to sneak in to the kitchen and grab wee Biddy by the waist and she would always give me a nuclear verbal. A wee feisty woman from Donegal she new every verbal insult in the book but was always a paragon of virtue in front of the priest. Anyway one evening FS and I who met at the door both sneak into the kitchen and my wee Ma is peeling the tatties without a care in the world. FS who has been briefed on the mission shuffles forward undetected and grabs Bridged by the waist. Even I got a fright as she swung round with the tattie peeling knife and unloaded her Donegal gob machine gun with every possible explicit that you would deem to be profanity in the direction of the Father. He just burst out laughing as did I as wee Biddy tried to catch all her words as they launched themselves in his direction. My mother and I laughed and laughed at the memory of that evening last year on what turned out to be the last evening we spent together. Father Sweeny is one special guy and was a great source of inspiration to me and a great friend to my Family. My Mother always smiled when his name was mentioned. I am glad he was a part of a son and mothers last night together.
A plea to all CQNers, hung over and due sober alike.
THINK LONG AND HARD BEFORE PUTTING YOUR HANDS IN YOUR POCKETS AT THE NEWSAGENTS COUNTER THIS MORNING.
Absolutely brilliant night at CQN11.
Gerry so glad you and your gang had a great night, I got a couple of pics but they are really dark will put them in the FB page.
Disappointed reading to read gripes about cost/invites reaching out..etc! Last night was built on the very ethos of our club, to raise money to build kitchens to feed the poor and hungry!!
I totally understand £50 is a lot of money, instead of sitting moaning why not get up off your backside arrange another night, cheaper venue, cheaper tickets, cheaper entertainment etc …
Off to drag HT round Edinburgh for the day … Any tips for the horses before I go?
paddy gallagher
09:48 on 14 March, 2015
Brllliant
Top of the morning to you all from a grey Dunfermline Toun.
Kenny Sheils’ article in today’s Mail would suggest that we have another Dougie Dougie in our ranks.
Does this mean that young Dallas is a liar? Surely shome mishtake!
Scottish Daily Mail, Saturday, 14th March 2015
IT remains the pinnacle of a lifetime’s work spent at the game’s coalface. Yet, for Kenny Shiels, separating Kilmarnock’s famous League Cup Final win over Celtic in 2012 from his unseemly exit from Rugby Park a year later will always be an onerous task.
Already a hero among Killie fans for his forthright views and preferred style of play, that one-goal victory over Neil Lennon’s side at Hampden ought to have cemented his position at the club for as long as he cared to choose.
Just 14 months later, however, he was gone. A failure to finish in the top-eight was trotted out as the club’s party line but the suspicion lingered that Shiels’ increasingly frequent visits to Hampden on disciplinary matters were making chairman Michael Johnston hot under his SFA collar.
‘Still to this day, I’m unhappy about it,’ said Shiels, now head of coaching at Forth Valley Football Academy.
‘Getting rid of me wasn’t going to benefit Kilmarnock in any way. Why would you get rid of someone who was building a long-term programme for the club? What were the motives? I just don’t know
It’s a myth that I was getting the club into trouble. Three of my offences that season related to one incident — the sending off of my captain after three minutes at St Johnstone.
‘We had video evidence that disproved the three charges. It disproved everything that Andrew Dallas (the fourth official) had said. Still I was done.
‘I should have taken my medicine. Instead, I came out and said that he had fabricated evidence. I know I shouldn’t have said that and I got two more games for that. That was the worst thing I could have done.
‘Because of that, I’ve now got this reputation which I don’t like. I had something in place at Kilmarnock which would be just about bearing fruit now had I stayed there. The club still means a lot to me and what happened still hurts.’
For those adhering to the line that his contract was terminated purely because matters on the field were on the slide, Shiels has a compelling counter-argument.
‘It was a transitional period after that,’ he explained. ‘I had nine youths playing in the first team.
‘I did what Hearts did last season and what Falkirk did previously. I wanted there to be a pathway for young players to get through. And it was working. We sold four experienced players in January and replaced them with kids.
minx1888 praying to wee oscar
09:53 on 14 March, 2015
Only people that will gripe are the ones who contributed heehaw, I feel HT’s pain, my daughter is about to drag me about Coatbriig Main Street, wats remember the people who complain about others contributing don’t pay one thin dime !
Take care & Hail Hail
Minx……..
Just wave at them, don’t bet on them!
minx1888 praying to wee oscar
09:53 on 14 March, 2015
No freebies last night, we all dug deep and helped in a small way for a worthy cause.
Horse tips, don’t bet or keep your eyes open when sticking the pin down…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
I have a sore head
Ayrshire is Green and White
minx1888 praying to Wee Oscar
09:53 on 14 March, 2015
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No being cheeky…..but, the driving force behind me wants a new Jungle built at CP…charging £10 to get in and then…long lost Celts could re-connect with the place instead of being locked out of Fergus’s big ‘plastic’ stadium….in fact, it isny Fergus’s…’we’ built it…you and I…yeah, me as well…yeah locked out whilst hauf the stadium is lying empty…where is the Celticness in that?
Hail Hail
Here comes the FFin’ Blue Party:
“is it time to found the Blue Party?
We cannot drive the mhedia agenda the way things are. We all know how pervasive ‘their’ influence is in so many key areas of Scottish society right now. We are banging our heads against a wall in trying to push the mhedia to give us a level playing field.
Is it time we Scottish unionists funded some Blues Party candidates at the upcoming elections? The Scottish elections would be best because of the PR element. If the Greens can get MSPs, surely the Blues could do too?
Policies would include an end to separate schools, investigation of shady deals by local authorities, bias in the mhedia, biased laws recently enacted, and an end to the independence debate.
With an army of potential electioneers, surely we could win seats in strong unionist constituencies?
Holyrood is a parliament designed to be ‘hung’. It wouldn’t take but a few MSPs to have significant influence.”
——
“A bear of good standing should put himself forward in Govan on a justice for [Sevco] platform.
We need to know who RTC was and how he came by his information.
We need a full public enquiry into what went on.
Administration process, five way agreement, Craig Whyte takeover. The lot.”
——
“The [Sevco] support is guilty of a shocking abandonment of Scottish society in recent years, allowing the warped individuals who hate our club to set the agenda.”
——
“We do not need a new party, we need to vote “PROTESTANT” find out what religion the candidates standing in your constituency are and vote accordingly, doesn’t matter which party, just vote PROTESTANT!!”
——
“How do we find out their religion – not the old Irish sounding name thing.”
——
“Its infiltration that’s needed. We need to abandon Tory, unionist etc and join the labour party, snp etc and make the change from within”
——
“This is exactly what needs to happen, it’s what they have done over the past 30 years or so and look where they are now.”
Paddy Gallager
Wonderful story !!!
Monaghan1900
10:03 on 14 March, 2015
These medieval nutters are completely SICK.
Hellmend’emCSC
paddy gallagher,
Sceal iontach.
Árd Macha
micktt
No doubt the wee bottles in your pocket helped your sore head…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
kevjungle – that is a different issue that’s about football being affordable to the ordinary fan … And I agree too many are priced out of watching football! I too would love a pay at the gate standing area!
Good to see all who attended cqn11 had a great time
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend but spent a good couple of hours in the BV with some of the attendees before MrsBT took me home via Celtic park
Hail Hail
Kev
Money isn’t everything you keep family first mate
Mon the hoops !
Kind Regards
Ruggygman , sat doon outside Diamond Dolls