When the Champions League draw was made, I feared we would face Anderlecht at home on the final game after five defeats. This would not necessarily have been the end of our interest in European football, but it would have damaged the momentum in the club in recent months.
You will remember, ahead of match day five, we discussed that the Anderlecht-Bayern Munich game was probably more important to our season than the PSG-Celtic game. As it transpired, Bayern’s second half winner made all the difference to the second half of our season.
News last night that Celtic are the only group stage qualifier from the Champions Pot to still be in European competition offer some comfort; outcomes could have been a lot worse.
While European football is the custard in our doughnut, all I hear from is Celtic fans who are grateful it is over for a couple of months. We have an unbeaten record to further and two games a week until the January break.
It can be pretty horrible, a huge club stuck in a minor league without competition, but it offers us respite, an opportunity to recharge, experiment and return afresh.
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Jimbob,
one of,if not the worst comment i have read on CQN,
and that takes some doing
Jimbob,
Told myself that I shouldn’t engage with you, but I will say this…..If ignorance truly is bliss, then you must be an incredibly happy man
Jimbob.
Seriously are you saying some on CQN are to blame for homelessness?
My heart goes out to those poor souls, the next 5 nights at least the temperatures are to be sub zero. The homeless need support not condemnation.
One wrong turn in life and it could be/have been any of us.
BRTH
Jellicoe Street was more or less vaporised, and 14 of the Rocks family died in number 78.
Ages ranged from 5 months to 54 years.
My mum, in Singer Street, survived the Blitz. Just.
I don’t think you’re right about the Luftwaffe targeting civilians. They were after the shipyards, factories, tank proving grounds, and the massive fuel dumps, all by the river. Luftwaffe aerial photos still extant today show their targets.
They just got it wrong, maybe as some say because the decoy lights on the Old Kilpatrick Hills threw the pathfinders off. There’s a theory that their navigators mistook the Great Western Road for the Clyde, but I can’s see that.
Some of the posts on here….jeezo….not in a million years are they from Celtic supporters.
“A football Club will be formed for the maintenance of dinner tables for the children and unemployed”
Think the homeless would have been in there somewhere.
Shakes head in disbelief and exits stage left.
HH
Bobby, thanks for the link, the very same, and BRTH thank you for posting it in the first place. Watched the 1st programme, of the lasting impact of one bomb, (which didn’t explode) on a street in Canning Town in the old docklands of East London, and the devastating impact beyond the initial chaos. No doubt tonight’s story will tell a similarly horrific story.
that could be any one of us on here. just be thankful for what you have got. some arent so fortunate.
JimBob
I cannot believe that you are suggesting that some homeless people are homeless by choice. Can you even begin to contemplate sleeping outdoors on a biting cold Scottish winter’s night with the thought st the back of your mind that when you eventually close your eyes you might not wake up in the morning – even if you are young. Surely any sane perdon’s worst nightmare and any parent’s worst nightmare that it could happen to their child for whatever reason.
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Jimbob, Take a bull by the horn & stuck in a ruck, I wouldn’t recommend either.
Gordon64,
I think you’d look good in a Zorro mask. There again, I think you’d look good in a Davy Dodds mask!
A sculpture depicting Jesus as a homeless man sleeping on a bench has been installed in Glasgow’s Nelson Mandela Square.
JIMBOB
I don’t think your posts about the homeless have been heartless,but they could certainly have been expressed better.
No-one is homeless by choice,but sometimes it’s because of poor choices they made in the past,or because of choices made by others. I think that is roughly what you were trying to say in your first post. I also noted that you were very much in favour of helping them,but that got lost too.
Homelessness is now a major problem in this country. Many of us have seen people throw away good home lives because the rest of their life is garbage.
Imagine how bad it must be if the rest of your life is garbage-and you don’t even have a home! I don’t know what the answer is,but they need every bit of help to get their lives-and their self respect-back.
And that includes a roof over their head.
Only then can they begin to hope for a future.
Hello, with all the hilarity over at Ipox, just as an aside I was waiting at Preston station this afternoon on my delayed connection to Glasgow from Manchester.
I am pretty sure that the Orcs M.D. ( Stuart Robertson) was stood beside me waiting on the Glasgow train also, I would have thought he would have been busy in Glasgow preparing for the great arrival. Or perhaps Pep is on his way?
Gordon64
see my post on previous page
GORDON64 on 7TH DECEMBER 2017 8:49 PM
A sculpture depicting Jesus as a homeless man sleeping on a bench has been installed in Glasgow’s Nelson Mandela Square.
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I don’t think Jesus would be offended as some were according to BBC Scotland news at 6:30.
JIMMYNOTPAUL-thanks pal,so we get them in the next round then:-))
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JMCCORMICK
Interesting. Who’s the manager of Preston?
Jimbob
God forbid that you or yours should fall on hard times. I can sleep easy in the knowledge that if it does happen to you that people on this Web site, and yes I will say it Rangers or any other teams Web site will not pass you by and ignore your suffering.
The general measure of good people are that they have a modicum of humanity no matter how they appear in the flesh or in this case via the written word. I hope that face to face that you are a better human being than your post suggests.
God bless you and yours and in particular God bless all that are less fortunate than you and I
Hail Hail
Highlandbhoy
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY
I doubt it. He was born in a stable because His parents had nowhere else to go.
Looks like Phil called this one right
I couldn’t understand why McIness would go there, it made no sense. A squad full of duds, no money to spend, spivs in the Boardroom, bleeding money, bigoted deluded supporters and a SMSM circus act. And that’s before you even think about Brendan Rodgers and Celtic. Any Manager worth his salt wont touch it with a barge pole. Any Agent worth his salt wouldn’t let his client anywhere near it.
JIMMYNOTPAUL-was in the town on Sunday to go to the two Christmas markets (total money making rip off),and the amount of homeless lying in doorways was the most I had seen in Glasgow.There but for the grace
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BMCUWP-8:50 pm,well said,you have a good way of being able to put down in words what others are thinking
FAIRHILLBHOY
Grateful thanks. I just wish I could remember to think first more often!
HH
BMCUWP-Don’t we all:-))
BobbyMurdochsCurledUpWinklepickers
Bobby you are one of the voices of reason on here. Keep up the good work. I know that even your patience is tested at times but you are good at pouring oil on troubled waters. Your podium post last week asking me to come back will never be forgotten.
Thank you.
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FAIRHILL BHOY on 7TH DECEMBER 2017 9:22 PM
without SPUD?????don’t be daft.
Quite funny reading the RM page on McInness appointment,
the excitement and delight they all have shattered in seconds,
with the announcement he aint leaving
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Goodnight all
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Greenbingley
Tommy Rocks had been in a kids boxing booth facing my father only a couple of weeks before the Blitz.
While I know the plans exist showing the fueld dumps, the shipyards, Singers Factory, The Royal Ordinance Factory and so on, it is inexplicable how a crack Luftwaffe Pathfinder unit who flew over Clydebank on practice runs before that first night, could mistake various other areas for the so called targets mentioned above.
They bombed Clydebank non stop for 9 hours each night and came from a sky which was lit up like daylight.
All the houses up Kilbowie Road – a road which leads away from the Clyde at right angles – called the Holy City, and which looked nothing like a munitions dump or a fuel depot or a shipyard, were all destroyed.
By the time they finished bombing on the second night, only 9 houses had escaped damage and most were seriously damaged or completely destroyed.
I know the theories behind mistaking the canal from the Clyde or Great Western Road for the Clyde but this was a crack squadron who had flown over numerous major rivers and thoroughfares throughout Europe and had never made that mistake anywhere else.
Anyway, it was a bloody hellish night when hell on earth was brought to that town.
Equally, as I have said before, the town was let down and left by repeated British Governments and call me a real old cynic it could well be that this as partly because Government knew that it was absolutely riddled with Asbestos from Turner and Newall’s Asbestos Factory in Agamemnon Street.
Bada – yip, wouldn’t surprise me re Docherty…..I really would love to know the full story about all this…wish we had a brave journalist to call them out on everything- upsetting a rival club, tapping, lack of money for compo, lack of money for players, running at a loss etc
And they are still losing about £800k per month EVERY SINGLE MONTH…….Madness , but it really is fascinating to watch them bust 2 clubs in a decade
HH