During the game on Saturday we had a conversation (it was that kind of game) about defenders in general, and left backs in particular, available for selection in the CQteN Dream Team (have played since July 2004). Consensus was that Izaguirre, van Dijk, Ambrose, Matthews and Lustig should feature high on the list.
The real concern was the lack of genuine competition for Emilio Izaguirre’s place over the decade. We have two excellent right backs, with Darnell Fisher showing lots of promise, but have had little genuine talent on the left. Mulgrew and McNamara (both used there occasionally), Naylor, Danny Fox, Braafheid, Mo Camara and Ulrik Laursen were at best fillers for the position.
Neil Lennon has talked for over a year about adding a new left back to the squad but I don’t think we’ve come close to signing someone for this position. The problem is not limited to Celtic, either, lots of clubs at the highest level (budget) have struggled.
I read during the week that Izzie has achieved more assists this season than any since he arrived four years ago. His form is good, so there is not a compelling need to recruit, but form and fitness are fickle. He is also one of the few from the squad who will spend the summer in Brazil, interrupting preseason preparations.
Izzie arrived after World Cup 2010, where he put in enough of a shift in two appearances to convince Celtic to move, without shaking the game to its core to the extent he was snapped up by an English or German club. If the groundwork has been done ahead of this summers’ tournament, I’d be happy to recruit another solid performing left back from a small Latin American country. I’d not be averse to shopping there for a striker either, instead of Europe, England’s lower tiers, or the Israeli league.
Seville – The Celtic Movement:
“As I recall, I was sitting at the table when I got a shout from some friends to come to the bar where they had engaged in conversation with the owner of the restaurant – Luis – who was originally from Lisbon. At the bar, Luis introduced himself and quickly handed me an official postcard complete with a place for a stamp and a message although this particular card was blank and had never been sent.
The Picture on the card was the Estadio Nacional on the afternoon of 25th May 1967 at the precise moment when Stevie Chalmers turned the ball into the Inter Milan net for the winner. Luis had been in Lisbon that day and he had kept this postcard as a memento of the day and had held it for 15 years as his own wee homage not so much to Celtic as the Celtic fans.”
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voguepunter
00:03 on 1 April, 2014
TBB
Excellent post……but I prefer the more simple ‘EFF the polis’hh
So we have the option of TBB’s thoughtful prose or your ‘get straight to the point GIRUY variety….’
CQN. Something for everyone.
KTF y’all and be good to one another.
HT. School in the morning for you young man. Get tae bed!
HH jamesgang
Embramike…..dreaming of the Weedgie invasion…..zzzzzz….£&@#!!!
HH jamesgang
Howdy Smeagol.
@CQN: Hear new investment in Sevco coming from US.
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Dallas Cowboys?
My Mrs just wrote to me from Japan that she saw on the news that Naka was playing for Celtic again???
Anybody heard that??
I`d forgotten this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYYiaZcuEuk
WO……WO……..WO……WOOH……..Davie Hay.
John O’Neil
20:52 on
31 March, 2014
Evening everybody,
Nick Cohen’s ‘You can’t read this book’ is a fine read. That does not mean that I approve of all of his arguments of course. He argues that our freedom of speech has been curtailed by Islamic fascists(and their liberal defenders), Britain’s legal system and laws, the power of the bankers and other powerful groups, as well as the internet itself.
Wikileaks gets a well deserved bashing. Left wingers are condemned for appeasing the lunatics who wish to impose Islamic states worldwide.
“Worldwide Islamic States” I almost Shat myself laughing at that one.
All this proves is that Islamophobia is totally acceptable in the 21st Century western world.
Good Evening DJ,
You should read it. Actually the writer arrogantly disdains all religion. Good night.
I’d rather not.
Good evening, goodnight man.
Hail hail!
Hamiltontim, having seen your link to the Bairds auction of St JD’s shirt I’m pretty chuffed with how Celtic supporters can behave……………… Not you in particular though. How you find the time to post these gems is beyond me ya drunken fanny:_))
Hail Hail the huddleboarders.
HH troops of a nationalist type of thinking
Scottish independence now there is a thing
Yay or nay ?
Just one killer Satchi and Satchi poster like Britain Does Not Work could swing the balance apparently
So on behalf of the yayers needing a few very simple words
Vote yes so the Scots can be Scots
Well done the young hoops in slaying the new club zombie youth (is there an age limit on these zombie youngsters?) if they were deid at U20 are they now over the age limit or does being a newco zombie U20 mean the clock started at the point of deidness, zombification, being undeid?
This is really confusing. What’s not confusing is that the deidheids are foaming at the mouth about it on nazimedia……………………………………..HAW HAW HAW.
Let them foam.
My Dear Macjay1…..
Only Recently Discovered This Video Of The Second Leg Quarter Final 1980..
Real Madrid V Celtic….
And Realised How We Spurned Yet Another Golden Opportunity….
To Progress To Another SF…..
We Would Have Been Much More Comfortable…..
If We Had Not Had A Perfectly Good Third Goal Chalked Off At Parkheid…
Even So,Celtic Were Very Impressive In The First Half…..
And Could Easily Have Been A Couple Of Goals Up By Halftime….
If They Had Taken Their Chances…
(Shame On George McCluskey’s Left Foot)
And The Madrid Huns Could Easily Have Had Three Players Sent Off In The First Five Minutes…..
Danny McGrain….Who Missed The First Leg….
Looked Imperious At The Back….
And Peter Latchford Played A Blinder..
Only Conceding The First Goal Just Before H/T…..
When He Was Fouled By Two Madrid Players…..
Celtic Seemed Strangely Lethargic In The Second Half…..
As If They Did Not Quite Appreciate That A Single Celtic Goal….
Would Leave Madrid Chasing Four…
Just A Wee Bit Of Self-Belief Needed….
Or Gordon Strachan In The Hoops…?
( He Nearly Signed From Dundee For £40,000….Just The Season Before )
We Could Have Been Kings….
With Five PROPER Gold Stars On The Jersey……
If Only We Had A Wee Bit More Composure……
And Alpen ……Instead Of Sugar Puffs..
For Breakfast..
Real Madrid V Celtic 3-0 (19.03.80) 95minutes…..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PmlZMagYx94
G’Nite ,Cobber…
TSD
While you’re on.
You can have as many free shots as you wish.
There will be no retaliation from me. No repeat of last year’s mud wrestling.
Memories are made of this. I had a we look in here
http://cairney2.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/285/
for a bit of nostalgia. It is the History of Scottish Football by Jim Craig.
It is the decade when I suspect a few CQNers first started watching football. My dad had taken me to Celtic as a wean but 1958 was when I first really got interested in going to games with my pals.
One was a Clyde supporter and I remember going to the Scottish Cup final Clyde v Hibs. Johnny Coyle scored the only goal of the game but I remember Joe Baker punching in a cross that was rightly ruled out. Clyde had some useful players in those days.
The period 1958 to 65 was a bleak one for Celtic and that will probably come out in the decade on the sixties. No league titles and cup final or semi final defeats to Rangers, St Mirren and Dunfermline, misery until Big Billy ended it all in 65.
Anyway a site worth paying a visit to.
S.F.T.B.
Keep engaged.
I need the mental stimulus.:-)
I just made the mistake of reading one of tsd’s post’s. FFS, what an error that was. He’s berating The Exiled Tim for trying to make a living from selling his wares and in the process help some of those less fortunate.
I’ve met exiled tim on more than a few occasions and he’s one I regard as a friend. I’d never have met him if not for this blog, a cracking guy, a Tim, a guy with his heart in the right place.
I sincerely hope I never have the misfortune to meet you tsd, you come across as a spiteful, nasty prick of a man who’s only purpose in life is to destabilise this blog.
You’re probably not aware of TET’s contribution to CQ10, his “Bespoke Tacky Dug-Collars An’ Bangles” as you call them raised money at the event towards P67’s chosen charity and continues to help some of the poorest people on the planet.
What did you do, you arrogant pretentious twat? Probably nothing.
I might make the same mistake in another year or so but I really hope I don’t.
The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie
01:22 on
1 April, 2014
Thanks for that.
I was already in OZ in `80 and communication and the flow of info. was primitive by today`s wonderful standards.In any case, I was pretty unfamiliar with the events in that game so I will now watch it at my leasure.
Thanks again for your consideration.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/scottish-politics/10735711/Alex-Salmond-to-replace-the-Queen-on-new-Scottish-pound-coin.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exclusive-un-draws-up-peacekeeping-plans-in-event-of-scottish-yes-vote-9226892.html
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/01/scotland-driving-on-right-independence-road-scheme
April Fool’s Day.
Today’s the day Fat Sleekit Sally gets his transfer budget; Gordon Wallace already written out the cheque – ‘Pey Sally Fufty Milyun’.
The FA already started fleecing the Huns yesterday – £90 smackeroos for a XXXL Engerlund Wuruld Cup tap. How many gormless Orcs will be sporting them at the Ramsden’s and Scottish Semi?
Morning, a few years ago I was down in Liverpool for the Celtic UEFA cup tie. Was in a pub nearby just at Anfield, full of Liverpool fans was maybe twenty mins before kick off, me and my mate in for a quick beer. As we were standing at the bar the song goes up, Who’s that lying on the run way….. the Munich disaster song. Disgusted me and D kinda booed it, to be shouted at etc.
We walked out the pub and a starts on me, I told him your out of order and with what your club has been through, Heysel and Hillsborough, he said watch it mate, my cousin died at Hillsborough… I looked at him, shook my head and I think the penny dropped.. we walked out unscathed.
Football is a funny old game, we go to watch our teams and don’t think twice about returning home safely, sometimes we engage our mouths without thinking. Hillsborough was the greatest tragedy in football in my opinion, so avoidable but to blame supporters desperate to watch their team and going along with the flow of the crowd and direction of authorities is a slate on the dead…..
How some can sing of such and deny justice for such is beyond me, hopefully closure will bring some peace.
Ayrshire is Green and White
micktt, how any human person can glorify another persons death over a football match is beyond me, and that includes our own who goad the hun about the ibrox deaths.
Here’s a wee song for you about my toon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1QjkYqYtV8
Hail Hail bruv
Ayrshire’s Green & White…………………………………………………………….Oh aye.
a ceiler gonof rust
03:27 on 1 April, 2014
I saw ye in it, the wee one with the high heels, well it looked like ye….!
Nice wee number, never heard it before.
HH
GOLD COAST TOM
There’s a lovely article in today’s Daily Record about your brother Gerry.
I think-I hope-it does him justice. I won’t post a link to it,but it’s there if you get a chance to read it.
HH.
Regarding the liverpools fans efforts to keep the issue of the 96, ongoing
The Liverpool fans were not prepared to swallow the MSM, Polis, Fitba authority lies .
Good on them.
We have our own issues with lies (that will never match the seriousness of the 96,) but its still MSM and Authority lies and we should never accept the lies.
That goes for us as Celtic Fans and our Club too.
Never!
there will never be another old firm game
Never
Good morning CQN
Seems like Monday wasn’t the blogs best ever day
Hopefully some goodwill returns today
The Huns are blooming deed and were the champions
…… hey mickey
BMCUW –
Thanks for the heads up. I knew the Record were doing a story but wasn’t sure when.
It’s a fine tribute.
It has been a very emotional few days. There was family from all over the world and I met cousins, nieces, nephews and old family friends I hadn’t seen for years and some I was meeting for the first time.
Saturday was very special as it turned into a real celebration of Gerry’s life. A lot of tears were shed, but there was also laughter and joy as old stories were told and retold.
At the requiem mass, the priest announced that “Gerry’s brother Tom had written a moving tribute to his brother in Celtic Quick News”.
That was a nice surprise. Turns out a CQNer had emailed the link to him. I won’t name him without his permission, but you know who you are. Much appreciated my friend.
I am quite exhausted right now and fly back to Oz tonight.
Thanks again to my friends on CQN for your words, thoughts and prayers.
Good morning friends from a wet and grey EK.
GCT
Safe journey back buddy
G.C.T.6.42
Long flight back to godzone,pal.
Sometimes a wee aspirin is a good idea.
That`s what I`ll be doing on the next long haul.
I agree with your points about westerners being programmed to hate people of color (especially Muslims) and that the elite use divide and conquer tactics to keep the population under control. But 1 thing I must tell you that you probably won’t understand (or maybe even never heard of) is that we the Muslims are the victims of European colonizers, before we can unite among ourselves (among Muslims) we have to fight off the foreign invaders coming to steal our wealth and rule us with an iron fist. When we have successfully fought off the western troops(our own people who fight for western hegemony) and removed the western handpicked puppet leaders( like Bashar Assad etc.) then we can start to defend our homeland against the Europeans again. Because you better believe that the Americans, Europeans, Australians, Canadians, (all powerful European nations) will come after you if you decide to be self determined. We can expect embargoes(like Cuba), European invasion (like Mali) and we can expect many people to die in a bloody war. All of this is because of colonization, you might not know this but the Europeans never “gave back” our lands, that’s just dust in many people’s eyes. Only the truly gullible in the Middle East, Africa and other conquered places believe that they’re “free from European rule.” I could explain this to you very easily but it’s nighttime and I’m kind of tired right now. To give you a simple example, watch the movie Ché about the living legend Ché Guevara. In the movie (or documentaries) you will see that the Europeans never actually fight the conquered people (Cubans). The Europeans use their own people against the guerrillas, that’s how Europeans have ruled people of color for decades. They don’t have to physically come over here and fight to suppress us, they just pay off and blackmail our own people to do it. Look at any conquered country in the world, they’ve all been victim to white supremacy and imperialism. And they all claim to be “free” and “sovereign” but that’s just on the surface. That’s how good the Europeans have planned it, these devilish people are masterminds. For example, I live in Belgium (the country that killed 15.000.000 Congolese for rubber), this country has NO NATURAL RESOURCES! Yet Belgium is “richer” than most countries in Africa. On the surface (for an idiot) you might think, hmmm “they’re just good businessmen” but you would be wrong. The only logical explanation is that Belgium is a thieving, murderous rogue state that has gotten rich off of Africans by way of genocide and slavery. The Belgians got super rich after they stole all the rubber from the Congo but then they became insanely rich when they started to steal diamonds, gold and other precious metals from Africans. This is how Belgium (a country that has no natural resources) became rich and powerful. If we lived in a fair world, Congo would be the powerful and rich country but we don’t live in a fair world. So in conclusion, all of us (in Africa, Middle East and abroad) have been robbed, our countries have been raped and our people have been left with two choices, to either die of hunger (while under the rule of a puppet regime) or to go somewhere to find work. The Europeans left us nothing, we had to do something to survive! Then The Europeans themselves came about 50 years ago to our country and picked out good strong men to come and work in the mines and other places of unbelievably hard work. The Europeans themselves didn’t want to work in some places anymore (like coal mines). So the government went to their client states and recruited some slaves to come and work for 1 cent. Years later, here I am and we have risen above their attempt to humiliate us. We have our own houses, cars and we own many properties in our own countries back home. And what do we hear every single time from Europeans (who brought us here)? GO HOME YOU MONKEY! YOU DON’T BELONG HERE! We’re being demonized by the very same people that robbed and sucked our lands dry, so now we are “the criminals” and they are the angels of light. This is why the Muslims cannot and why we will not “unite” with our sworn enemies. We would have to have our land, wealth and sovereignty back and that will never happen unless there is a war. And this day will come my friend, the bloodiest and longest war we have ever seen will be between the former colonies of white people and the white Europeans themselves. There is no escaping it.
The following is from a conversation I had earlier today with a decent Muslim.
How did we ever become so evil?
I agree with your points about westerners being programmed to hate people of color (especially Muslims) and that the elite use divide and conquer tactics to keep the population under control. But 1 thing I must tell you that you probably won’t understand (or maybe even never heard of) is that we the Muslims are the victims of European colonizers, before we can unite among ourselves (among Muslims) we have to fight off the foreign invaders coming to steal our wealth and rule us with an iron fist. When we have successfully fought off the western troops(our own people who fight for western hegemony) and removed the western handpicked puppet leaders( like Bashar Assad etc.) then we can start to defend our homeland against the Europeans again. Because you better believe that the Americans, Europeans, Australians, Canadians, (all powerful European nations) will come after you if you decide to be self determined. We can expect embargoes(like Cuba), European invasion (like Mali) and we can expect many people to die in a bloody war. All of this is because of colonization, you might not know this but the Europeans never “gave back” our lands, that’s just dust in many people’s eyes. Only the truly gullible in the Middle East, Africa and other conquered places believe that they’re “free from European rule.” I could explain this to you very easily but it’s nighttime and I’m kind of tired right now. To give you a simple example, watch the movie Ché about the living legend Ché Guevara. In the movie (or documentaries) you will see that the Europeans never actually fight the conquered people (Cubans). The Europeans use their own people against the guerrillas, that’s how Europeans have ruled people of color for decades. They don’t have to physically come over here and fight to suppress us, they just pay off and blackmail our own people to do it. Look at any conquered country in the world, they’ve all been victim to white supremacy and imperialism. And they all claim to be “free” and “sovereign” but that’s just on the surface. That’s how good the Europeans have planned it, these devilish people are masterminds. For example, I live in Belgium (the country that killed 15.000.000 Congolese for rubber), this country has NO NATURAL RESOURCES! Yet Belgium is “richer” than most countries in Africa. On the surface (for an idiot) you might think, hmmm “they’re just good businessmen” but you would be wrong. The only logical explanation is that Belgium is a thieving, murderous rogue state that has gotten rich off of Africans by way of genocide and slavery. The Belgians got super rich after they stole all the rubber from the Congo but then they became insanely rich when they started to steal diamonds, gold and other precious metals from Africans. This is how Belgium (a country that has no natural resources) became rich and powerful. If we lived in a fair world, Congo would be the powerful and rich country but we don’t live in a fair world. So in conclusion, all of us (in Africa, Middle East and abroad) have been robbed, our countries have been raped and our people have been left with two choices, to either die of hunger (while under the rule of a puppet regime) or to go somewhere to find work. The Europeans left us nothing, we had to do something to survive! Then The Europeans themselves came about 50 years ago to our country and picked out good strong men to come and work in the mines and other places of unbelievably hard work. The Europeans themselves didn’t want to work in some places anymore (like coal mines). So the government went to their client states and recruited some slaves to come and work for 1 cent. Years later, here I am and we have risen above their attempt to humiliate us. We have our own houses, cars and we own many properties in our own countries back home. And what do we hear every single time from Europeans (who brought us here)? GO HOME YOU MONKEY! YOU DON’T BELONG HERE! We’re being demonized by the very same people that robbed and sucked our lands dry, so now we are “the criminals” and they are the angels of light. This is why the Muslims cannot and why we will not “unite” with our sworn enemies. We would have to have our land, wealth and sovereignty back and that will never happen unless there is a war. And this day will come my friend, the bloodiest and longest war we have ever seen will be between the former colonies of white people and the white Europeans themselves. There is no escaping it.
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spfl/celtic-invite-lions-to-lisbon-for-champions-league-1-3359877
Well done Celtic a lovely gesture on behalf of all of us who support the club
Apologies for the double post!
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
03:27 on
1 April, 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1QjkYqYtV8
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Thanks.Loved that .Esp. the visuals.