When Anthony Stokes picked himself off the ground having won a penalty yesterday his eagerness for a piece of the action was clear. Having missed the majority of the season through injury he is a player with a point to prove.
The penalty correctly went to Kris Commons but Anthony still had an opportunity to remind us what a valuable player he can be. He is not the strongest or most skilful player at the club but he is a natural goal-scorer.
Competition for a place in Celtic’s attack has seldom been more acute. Lassad, Miku, Samaras, Stokes and Watt are all pressing for a place alongside Gary Hooper. Each of them will have to consider the possibility of new arrivals in the summer, when securing a place in the squad, never mind the starting line-up, will be a challenge.
Anthony’s return to fitness, and form, is a timely reminder of what he brings to Celtic, and what we have missed once or twice this season.
On Friday 1 March the Lisbon Lions will be at the Kerrydale Suite providing commentary and answering questions on their magnificent European Cup final win in 1967. This has never happened in 46 years since that game, to say it is a unique opportunity fails to tell the whole story.
The event is part of our 125 4 125 campaign – central to reinvigorating the charitable spirit which is part of the club we love. It will be a family occasions, tickets are available at £10 for adults and £5 for children. The night has been organised by several fans working in conjunction with the people at Celtic Charity, so please do your best to support this great occasion. Individual tickets or tables are available, details here.
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Fat fish fingers?
Oh for cod’s sake!
I’ve got it,
no need to carp on about it.
Perhaps a farrier would promote more dexterous typing in these evolving times
Ok, don’t lose the plaice!
Are farriers a shoe in for jobs at food processing plants these days?
Home now,so a quick tuna before bed,
Liam Clancy
Heard Frankel is about to cover but never caught what song.?
The hour is late.
The GB debate has subsided.
The moonhowlers now have free range on CQN.
Time for Frankie to sing about my favourite football memory.
http://youtu.be/Ajfe4ODwnpI
Personally I think typos are frequently hilarious.
I hardly ever make them from the desktop at work,but plenty of them from my laptop at home.
Is that because of dodgy keys at home,or over-imbibing? I dunno,mixture of both….
It will get worse soon-I just ditched SKY-TV,Broadband,the lot. So very soon I will be on mobile internet.
Oh,what fun that will be!!
I’m hoping there is some way of feeding from a mobile-probably an iphone5- into the laptop.
Anyone got any ideas?
bedtime,
goodnight ya Bass ;- )))
HH.
WHITEDOGHUNCH 0446
I believe it is this one……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKkJDiy8bRM
This was on the sidebar for the above link. I know it’s outa season,but what the hell,it always makes me laugh…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbA1iSjVSdo
Any Antipodean CQNers have their own shed?
http://youtu.be/tYu8GpJ9oek
It’s great what t’internet throws at you.
Time for bed.
God bless the Timnation everywhere.
PS We were fantastic Saturday against United.
Night all
Morning bhoys and ghals from a dry but chilly glasgow central. Excellent response from the team on Saturday to midweek.
Sanna
Bmcuw , you can tether your laptop to your mobile. , effectively turning your phone into a wifi hotspot . Be careful tho of your data usage – soon mounts up.
Good morning friends from a dry but cold and frosty East Kilbride. An extra 5 minutes this morning to defrost the windscreen…
jeez_I_thought_blinker_was_pants
01:10 on
18 February, 2013
001….if a cop can address you by your first name and roll off the names of your next of kin, partners etc….it’s open season I’m afraid.
I was once stopped going into the r****rs end years ago (pre-fergus) with a flimsy cake box containing 2 meringues, 1 snowball and a chocolate eclair and made to either chuck it away or eat it,due to it being a potential missile.
KTF
HH
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And yet pies are freely available inside……
And as everyone knows,a Parkhead Pie is ergonomically designed for throwing-either at a target,or up if eaten.
SANNABHOY 0558
Thanks,mate-I’ll enquire further.
Intention is to get unlimited data as there may be a lot of streaming involved.
Top of the morning to you all from a still dark Fife.
Bump
Big Nan
21:02 on 17 February, 2013
With the statements made by Ass Chief Constable Campbell Corrigan (now Chief Con) after the CIS League cup final and the statements made by many of Strathclyde’s finest in support of a law that they called for I would tend to believe the GB statement re the police.
With the failure of the club to address the failings of the police at the CIS League Cup final and the general lack of support for our supporters and willingness to decry them by the club I would tend to believe the GB statement re the board of Celtic FC.
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Stokes does have something that is at times missing against packed defences……a football brain.
I have a soft spot for Stokes since he grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck at Kilmarnock.
I have a bigger soft spot for the Green Brigade since they brought some vibrancy and life into a funereal Celtic Park.
The Celtic board and manager were quick to make adverse comment on one silly little banner in Udine, but were completely silent when the Green Brigade paid for and displayed a world class display for the Barcelona game. Says it all for me.
SANNABHOY
Tethering-seems fairly straightforward (though I’m a Luddite,so could be wrong!)
http://www.pcworld.com/article/240794/how_to_tether_your_iphone.html
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Bobby..
Some mobile Data plans don’t allow Tethering .. Ask first..
Summa
SUMMA OF SAMMI
Thanks,mate. I certainly will!
Ditching SKY was always gonna cause me problems,esp since I like to keep my gadgets separate (my phone still uses valves!) but I jooooooooost had enough of that lot.
Time to bite the bullet,etc.
Had great fun cancelling,btw. I was put through to their RETENTIONS DEPT!
As soon as I found out the name of the department,I was less inclined than ever to change my mind,and I doubt I’ll miss it,working nightshifts…..
Rangers have polluted the 3rd div with their illegal songs of hate as they feel no punishment can b handed out to club worse than where they r now. Police argument was always cant arrest 10000 of them it wud start a riot. Now that playing in smaller grounds these fans easier to identify and lift. Are there more arrests? These people r breaking the law. Why r gb bein persecuted while this vermin allowe 2break laws of land with no comeback. This country stinks, vote no or it will get worse. The club needs 2 bac fans against this injustice.
Morning all. Another beautiful day here.
O.G. Rafferty, can we expect any further revelations this week?
Good morning fellow Celts – frosty under lovely blue skies in Renfrewshire
Great result on Saturday and good to see Efe and Stokesy on the scoresheet
HH
You would think the logical way for GB -polis situation to be resolved is by communication and dialogue between the club the GB and the polis.
The GB statement says that they have repeatedly asked for meetings and been blanked by Celtic. Why have they been blanked? A meeting doesnt need to be with PL himself (who is a busy man) but maybe the security chief.
Neil Lennon and the club have stated in the past that they recognise how much the GB contribute to the matchday atmosphere. All that should be required is a line of communication where various issuses can be talked over and agreed on.
I dont find it very edifying watching police harrassment of the GB. In fact it sickens me.
It is a sad state of affairs if the club are colluding in this.
Does Man Utd really have 659m supporters?
By Ed Prior
BBC News
Last week’s 1-1 draw between Manchester United and Real Madrid was “the match the world wants to see”, according to the Spanish team’s coach, Jose Mourinho. In fact, according to Manchester United, any of its matches is of interest to one in 10 of the world’s seven billion people. What is the evidence for this claim?
Even the most ardent opponent of Manchester United would acknowledge that the club has fans right around the world. But the statement that the club has a global following of 659 million adults – out of a total five billion adults in the world – is still quite staggering.
This is not just a number picked out of thin air, though. Manchester United used a market research company, Kantar, to carry out a worldwide survey.
The company polled nearly 54,000 adults in 39 countries between June and August 2011. Some were surveyed face to face, but most answered questions online.
It then extrapolated from these survey results to produce a figure for each of those 39 countries – and for the rest of the world – taking into account such things as the popularity of football in these countries, and whether players born in them had played for Manchester United in the past.
Of the 659 million figure, Kantar says roughly half (325 million) live in the Asia Pacific region, 173 million in the Middle East and Africa, 90 million in Europe and 71 million in the Americas.
“I would back my figures and argue [they are accurate] to within a 1% margin of error,” says Kantar director Richard Brinkman.
“We work for a number of the largest companies around the world… it’s in our interest to use our knowledge to produce an accurate figure, not the biggest figure. We need to have more credibility than that.”
But there are plenty of football pundits who responded sceptically to the announcement of the figures in May 2012.
“The idea that Manchester United have 108 million followers or fans in China alone for example – which is what this research purportedly showed – is patently ludicrous,” says Nick Harris, editor of sports finance website SportingIntelligence.com.
Man Utd ‘followers’ (selected countries)
China – 108 million (8% of population)
Indonesia – 55 million (22.5%)
India – 35 million (2.8%)
Nigeria – 33 million (19.4%)
Vietnam – 26 million (29.2%)
Mexico – 25 million (22.3%)
South Korea – 15 million (30.6%)
659m people can’t be wrong… can they? (Sportingintelligence.com)
He also draws attention to the contrast between this survey, and one published in 2007.
“In five years, purportedly, Manchester United’s following has gone from 333 million, or thereabouts, to 659 million. So almost a doubling of people following Manchester United in five years. This is eyebrow-raising stuff!”
Nick’s eyebrows were also raised by Kantar’s suggestion that more than 30% of South Korea’s total population of 49 million were followers of Manchester United.
Live viewing figures for Manchester United matches in the country come in at less than one million people. And even taking the time difference into account, Nick questions just how much following these “followers” are doing.
It’s important to understand this word “follower”, because it is “followers” that Kantar set out to count – not “fans”.
Kantar included in this category people who answered, unprompted, that Manchester United was either their favourite football team or a team that they enjoyed following.
So there is nothing to stop people “following” several clubs, as Kantar director Richard Brinkman acknowledges.
“They will follow more than one club,” he says. “Indeed, that’s a trend we’re seeing around the world, particularly in developing markets. People do follow more than one club.”
But on the face of it, you might think the number of fans a clubs has is more interesting than the number of its followers. So why was Manchester United so keen to get a figure for its followers?
It’s partly to do with sponsorship, explains marketing consultant Ben Wells.
“Every sponsor… will expect a rights-holder to bring with them a number which correlates their potential reach,” says Wells, who spent six years as head of marketing for Chelsea.
During his time there the club did release one figure relating to the numbers of fans worldwide – about 110 million – though Ben admits he is sceptical about the significance of such figures.
“A lot of people get wrapped up in huge numbers,” he says.
The final minutes of a football game can be the tensest. If the match is tied, and both teams are desperate for victory, or one side is a goal down with the chance of pulling off a draw, these are desperate times.
Some (mostly non-Man Utd fans, it is fair to assume) accuse Sir Alex Ferguson’s team of getting more added time to score that crucial final goal than any other team – and have dubbed this “Fergie time”.
It’s unlikely to be a coincidence that Manchester United made the figure public shortly before its Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange, and featured it in its pitch to potential investors.
“Through our 134-year heritage we have won 60 trophies, enabling us to develop what we believe is one of the world’s leading brands and a global community of 659 million followers,” the document said.
Nick Harris says he can understand the motivation for trying to get this figure across.
“Soccer is not a massive mainstream sport in America. American sports can be quite insular. [American] sports fans think that the NBA basketball the NFL [American football] and NLB baseball are global sports, but of course they’re not,” he says.
“They’re primarily American sports with American audiences. They perhaps don’t realise that football is the only truly global game. Manchester United wanted to ram home quite how global football is.”
Which brings us to that favourite adage of Manchester United’s opponents – that most of the club’s fans do not come from Manchester at all.
In fact, if you believe the team’s own figure, a tiny proportion – less than 0.1% – come from the city.
Interesting filler on Radio 4 about the Pope. There was mention of his visit to the UK and how he had affected many. Well, I was in Bellahouston Park for that visit. I was there, like most, hours before. The atmosphere was palpable as soon as you entered the Park. The Pope didn’t create it; he occasioned it. People were simply revelling in their Faith. I go to Celtic Park for much the same reason: to revel in my love of Celtic. I don’t go for any political reasons. Go and enjoy football played the Glasgow Celtic Way and leave the rest outside.
My wee grandson was at the game on Saturday. Thoroughly enjoyed himself. Actually that’s his 4th game now and Celtic have been comprehensive winners in all four so he will be getting wrapped up in cotton wool until the next meaningful match.
That’s that’s not why I posted though. He was telling me all about the game. His dad parked near the “front door” and he had a “great seat”, a programme, some new souvenirs from the Celtic shop, a pie, juice, crisps and he watched the tv on some electronic device he had with him whilst waiting on the teams coming out. All very nice. That’s not the way to watch football though. Where is the fun in all that comfort. Nah. I took him back to the 70’s.
A 2hr bus journey, sweep ticket (hopefully stamped with “C9” carefully tucked away in a safe pocket), an hour long wait outside the pub on London Rd awaiting the “men” coming back out but the wait tempered by the occasional packet of crisps thrust into my hand. A brisk walk along the London Rd thro’ a sea of legs which I ducked and weaved thro’ like Jinky at his best as I grasped my dad’s hand for dear life. Lifted ower the turnstyle and abandoned at the jungle front wall with a plastic juice carton and told “don’t move and I shall come and see you at half time”. I used to scan the jungle looking to see where my dad was standing, but could never see him. I had no tv to watch either, so spent the time watching each passing policeman walking the perimiter of the track, hoping he wasn’t going to stop right in front of me blocking my view.
I used to watch the invalid cars drive down the entrance and take their positions behind the goal. I was always desperate to have a seat in one of those cars! Whereby my grandson could get all the ht scores instantly on sat, I had to try and read the board being carried around the track with some form of coded message, i.e A = 0-1. B 1-1. C 2-0. Who has a programme? Who are A? What letter are the huns?
I remember being “promoted” and being allowed to stand beside the “men” in the jungle, but being so small, had to carefully balance on 2 pale ale cans in order to see. I had calves like Bobo before I was 12.
Anxious wait at time up for my dad to collect me and then another jinky session back through the giant legs to the bus, hoping the sweep man didn’t forget to come along the bus and pay me.
Spoiled I tell ya, my grandson is spoiled, but I wouldn’t swap those memories for the world.
Hail Hail
Morning all!
How is the SPL inquiry into the sectarian singing at the Kilmarnock game which took place ONE YEAR AGO coming on?
HH!!
TWISTSNTURNS
Ah,memories similar to mine,except my Dad and his mates were Celtic-end men.
Did your Dad dump you down the front at Hampden?
Mine did-all I could see was ankles,since I was below pitch-level!
TALLYBHOY
It’s probably been dumped due to lack of evidence. Fat Alex might have ordered it destroyed,or it might be a wall of silence.
You know-like OMERTA?
I blame the Italians,haha!!!!!
twists n turns
My old man to say every game “Don’t tell yer Mum!!”
BMCUW
By the time I was allowed to go to Hampden I was 14, so I was already a seasoned “shoulder to shoulder” spectator. My first Hampden match was the centerary cup final. Not a great start!
On reflection, thinking back to those jungle days, I think I may phone one of those compenstaion lawyer folks. I am not so sure it wasn’t breaking some sort of rule forcing me to eat a roll on spam from a cardboard box. I can’t remember seeing a “best before” date, in fact, I can’t even remember it being wrapped. I think it may have been horse meat.
Starry
indeed. Exactly the same instruction!