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You want to know the real social cost of Scottish football’s exclusion from the league structure England and Wales share?  It’s the lack of pitches, nets, strips, balls and coaching certifications that the £1bn bounty, promised by the Barclay’s Premier League last night to the grassroots game.

£1bn to the grassroots is a huge sum.  It dwarfs what taxpayers can afford and will provide a series of benefits our kids and amateur players are denied.

If we’re part of the UK, we should be part of the UK’s commercial opportunities.  Every youth team in the land are excluded because of the actions of a cartel.

What are the SFA doing about it?  Nothing.  Their plans don’t seem to require world-class youth facilities.

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  1. theglasgowcelticway on

    roy croppie

     

     

    Was at the first leg then Benidorm the night of the second leg, still have a picture of me sitting with that top on. Eventually got through to my brother to find out we were through.

  3. frannyb67 on

    A wee story about george mccluskey not long after he stopped playing,myself Mrs FB

     

    And my ghirls where at a wedding in a social club in tannochside,I met George in the foyer

     

    And got talking to him asked would he mind getting a photo took with my ghirls,not a problem he said,he spent nearly a hour getting photos took n chatting to my ghirls,true gentleman is George Mccluskey,ps.ive still got the photos.HH.

  4. clogher celt on

    Thanks Everyone for the emails about Dublin 2016.

     

     

    Many people have said that this is a CQN event. It isn’t and it had been on my mind for a few days that Dublin 2016 might be reflected poorly on CQN by MSM.

     

     

    Dublin 2016, has nothing to do with CQN.I don’t know Paul nor any of the other contributors.

     

     

    Many thanks to Paul and others for the insightful blog.

     

     

    Clogher

  5. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Roy, the scene with Spider and Steve Earle is on youtube. A poster had done a link for it just after the episode was shown. I’m a technical dunderheid and I can’t do the link.

     

     

    Some of the cast in Treme were in the Wire and some other HBO programmes.

     

     

    Treme had the best music of any tv series I have saw. It was set in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

     

     

    Sadly, it nevr had high enough viewing figures and was dropped. Some viewers found it slow going but the music more than made up for it.

  12. Gerryfaethebrig on

    clogher celt

     

     

    22:59 on 28 March, 2015

     

     

    Apologies, i might have alluded it to as CQN just because of the blog, and as it followed CQN11 so from now on it is “Clogher Celt’s Easter Soirée” still not registered my interest (yet)

  13. theglasgowcelticway on

    roy croppie

     

     

    Ahh!the days before everything was on TV. If I remember correctly the game wasn’t shown on our TV because Ajax had sponsorship on their shirt and it wasn’t allowed here.

  15. South Of Tunis on

    the_ huddle.@ 22 46.

     

     

    Ah – Jack Nitzsche- Phil Spector’s right hand man.Great 45 / Great Lp.

  18. Hrvatski Jim on

    johnbay

     

     

    22:12 on 28 March, 2015

     

     

    Hrvatski Jim

     

    Just thought i let you know my daughter is performing tomorrow in St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh(I know I know but the unseen hand works in mysteries ways).It starts at 6PM and its free>All welcome.

     

    www,youtube.com/watch?v=LLGxj-ZTf2M

     

     

    –‘

     

     

    I was thinking about you today as we spent some of today with our friend Victoria Stevens who is the opera singer. I mentioned Carine to her and she went into her phone and showed me a picture of the two of them together in Lubec. (Hope that is the right spelling)

     

     

    Amazing that they know each other.

     

     

    Victoria was really complimentary about Carine’s voice.

     

     

    Pity I did not know a bit earlier but I cannot make Edinburgh tomorrow.

     

     

    I hope that the performance goes well for her.

     

     

    Best regards

     

     

    Hrvatski Jim

  20. Saint Stivs on

    BT and VP.

     

     

    Thanks for looking out for me last night.

     

     

    I had too many shandies pre posting and was in a very melancholic sorry for myself state.

     

     

    Van Man text me this morning which cheered me up.

     

     

    I then read Rwe Tony boy.

     

     

    And my troubles were little.

     

     

    Thanks for keeping it lit.

  21. jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ on

    FAO

     

     

     

    All you country music fans. Tune into Sandy Marsch on RTE radio. 917 on Virgin tv. She plays great music

  24. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Roy, hope your birthday went well pal. More power to your search engine:_)

     

     

    HH bruv

  26. Melbourne Mick on

    Hello again all you young rebels.

     

     

    Our big Celtic cruiser is now berthed in Port Douglas

     

    north Queensland after a great day at Airlie beach at the

     

    start of the Great Barrier reef, thought it would be tough

     

    finding any tims in a little tropical holiday town but my auld

     

    hoops top never lets me down, it’s like bees to honey, two

     

    young backpackers from Dundee working their way round Oz

     

    fruit picking to supplement their income and one wearing a

     

    ..just can’t get enough t shirt.. said it’s a bird puller, so as you

     

    do we took them for a few beers and great Celtic craic.

     

    Said to the princess when we had to leave

     

    ( maybe you could get me one of those ..just can’t get enough

     

    t shirts )

     

    She said (whit fur, no goat enough mere like )

     

    haruuumph.

     

    Now iv’e just spotted a Paddy’s Irish bar, let the next episode

     

    of our Celtic expedition begin

     

    H.H Mick

  29. Saint Stivs on

    The night of the ajar return match I wax with ex slaemuir boy at the lane to grampian road.

     

     

    it was near ten on a nice night and the local huns sitting on the railing with the radio on old clyde.

     

     

    It was 1-1. Celiac out.

     

    How they sneered.

     

     

    Listen tims your going out.

     

     

    George scored.

     

     

    Higgie and eldo jumped and screamed and laughed.

     

     

    The huns sat and took it.

  33. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    The Glasgowceltic way, A group of us were in Amstedam for that game in 1982, went over on the Uni bus, Sydney Tim had to endure me sitting beside him there and back. My first euro away game to see our team.

     

     

    I finally got to see the Dutch tv highlights of the game about four weeks later, The Carville and Arcari video shops each had a copy of the highlights and you had to pre-order it and were only allowed to have it one night as it was their most rented video in October 1982.

     

     

    It was great to watch along with the commentators pronunciation of our players names which started with Mc and after Murdo had fouled Cruyff near the end of the game, telling the Ajax physio to get himself to F.

  34. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Most Irish whiskey I,ve drunk has been mediocre at best. To say Jamiesons stacks up beside e.g. an Ardbeg is like saying cat piss is an enjoyable tipple.

  36. the_huddle on

    clogher celt

     

     

    23:18 on 28 March, 2015

     

     

    the huddle,

     

     

    Sorry I didn’t know that. I will look into it tomorrow.

     

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    No probs, You basically add all email addresses to a mailing list but no on else sees the addresses. Let me know if you need help

  42. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Roy, I hope you enjoyed your birthday.

     

     

    All your posts on here are presents for us.

     

     

    Good night all and sleep well.

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