The sun is shining on Celtic Park as the Easter weekend gets underway, while Celtic face Motherwell tomorrow, who look like they have discovered the limits of Stuart McCall’s managerial abilities this spring.
After some difficult news this week, here’s a ‘Happy Birthday CQN’ message from Wee Oscar, which he recorded last month; an even bigger ray of sunshine than the one beating down on Scotland.
Enjoy the break, if you’re getting one.
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I didn’t realise that wee Barry had appointed Boab FTP Malcolm as his number two.
Is there a world record for management team with the lowest combined IQ?
Thoroughly enjoying the Seville book. The stories are very evocative and its strange how words can instantly take you right back to a time and place. Apart from Lisbon, Seville 2003 is the other occasion in Celtic’s history where the club was thrust into the World limelight, thanks to a magnificent support.
Celtic FC also gave Scotland something to be very proud of, but what did we get in recognition of such a fan display, any other hugely supported club would have been proud of? Well actually not a lot from the usual Scottish sources. In fact the biggest insult I have ever heard from our detestable MSM was in the wake of the Manchester carnage 08. Some hacks on SSB took delight in shooting down Celtic fans with the ‘ones as bad as the other’ line.
Two extremely contrasting situations, one being the city’s most fearful scenes since WW2 ( according to Manchester Evening News), the other gaining a FIFA and UEFA award. Shocking.
Back to the book.
HH Timland.
Wee BGFC
Great day ahead for you, then! But what do you think the score will be at the end of the SECOND half?
Good morning all
Looking for a good display from the Bhoys today and a comfortable win. 4-1 to the good ghuys. :-)))
Weefra HH supporting and praying for Wee Oscar.
What Larks!!!
LunchTimeKickOffs CSC
dannygall
09:19 on 19 April, 2014
If you get the bus into Costa Teguise, head for Las Cucharas beach.
Proper Irish bar called Hennessey’s, they can show 3 games at same time. Owner a proper Dub which means he feigns interest in Celtic while being an EPL geek. He will happily show Celtic but you might need to watch it with no sound – no great hardship there though
On way into C Teguise at the Coronas Hotel there is a Hollywood Diner which will show Celtic game today no problem given KO time
Enjoy yourself :D
A number of short and long-term injuries (Forrest, Matthews, Boerrigter, Biton, Lustig, Fisher, and my personal choice for POTY, Mulgrew) will mean starts for a few also-rans this afternoon.
Ambrose, Izaguirre, Commons, and Samaras have been consistently brilliant at Fir Park, while Van Dijk was even better than he normally is in his one outing there. I’d like to see all starting the game.
When Pukki arrived at Celtic, I remember both he and Mixu Paatelainen acknowledging his best position was behinf the striker in a 4-2-3-1/4-4-1-1. It would be nice to see him given a chance to play there in a competitive match, particularly with our European qualifiers the only meaningful games on the horizon.
My preferred XI for today:
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Zaluska ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Ambrose ::::::::::::: O’Connell ::::::::::::::::: Van Dijk :::::::::::: Izaguirre
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Brown :::::::::::::::::::::: Kayal :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:::::::::::::: Commons ::::::::::::::::: Pukki :::::::::::::::::: Stokes ::::::::::::::
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Samaras ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
“People convicted of commercial crimes overseas could be banned from running UK firms in a bid to tackle “rogue directors”, Vince Cable has said.”
Can we think of anyone??
Nobody dots it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody dots it half as good as you
Baby, you’re the best
I wasn’t looking but somehow you found me
It tried to hide from your love light
But like Heaven above me
The spy who loved me
Is keeping all my secrets safe tonight
And nobody dots it better
Though sometimes I wish someone could
Nobody dots it quite the way you do
Why’d you have to be so good?
A MUST read…..
Check out @ETimsNet’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/ETimsNet/status/457298228342714368
Morning all.
What a glorious day to go and see the Celtic.
A very special video of @Wee_Oscar Our #CelticFamily will treasure these precious memories forever in our hearts
http://youtu.be/KNNMTigZ41s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNNMTigZ41s&feature=youtu.be
#FEARLESS Oscar Knox@Wee_Oscar·12 hrs
Absolutely LOVE that video of my special night at Celtic Park!! Thanks so much
Why, thank you, Bourneshoupreshipe.
Been oot at the market, picked up a few bargins, fresh Asparagus, 2 euros a kilo, also bought 4 point of lay chooks for 20 euros, happy enough.
WDH
Could be fake, but you never know with them lot, anything to placate hunnery.
Auldheid will know.
Ernie
My hands are down.
HH
A longish read, but well worth it, very informative about how to save your club. Thank Ghod the Mankies don’t read ‘posh’ newspapers or they could get useful ideas.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/apr/18/portsmouth-care-community-club-pompey
Rye catcher @17.22 hrs Saturday.
Good morning from a hazy Blackpool and it,s nothing to do with the weather.
Very interesting statistic about the percentage of Catholics in the north of Ireland ,38percent who want to remain in the UK.
In spite of all they have had to endure, amazing. Why, in a word stability.
Is there a message for Scotland there, absolutely.
This is a football blog and I make no apology for reiterating rye catchers remarks. IMO, the act and policy of separatism would be detremental to the aims and aspirations of our club.
I abhore racism in all forms and unfortunately the separatism agenda to many is a negative anti English message.
Granted the pro UK campaign has been poor to date, but it still maintains a healthy lead. When it gets it’s act together, and it will , the polls will reflect this. A leap into the unknown is no sensible option.
Hh, always in Celtic.
Ps: did shouting ” freedom” enhance Mel Gibsons racist tendencies. ?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2608092/Ally-McCoist-keen-discover-summer-spending-plans-Rangers-chief-Graham-Wallace.html
A wee bit………
‘We don’t know what we can offer players, if we can offer them anything. It’s very difficult.
‘We’ve obviously got targets, players who are out of contract. They will want to get themselves looked after for next season.’
McCoist’s hope is that he will be able to add a clutch of new faces to compete with Hearts and others in a fascinating second tier.
Asked if he would be confident of winning the Championship next season if told he couldn’t make any signings, McCoist said: ‘I’d be more than happy to do it.
‘Obviously, it’s going to be a lot tougher. With full-time teams, you’d expect a rise in the standard. I think we have a good enough team to perhaps do it. But it would be very difficult and from my own point of view I’d rather strengthen. If we can’t, we’ll just have to see how we’d get on with it.’
As one of our posters would say………Braw
HH
There is a bar in Los Pocillos that shows Celtic Games, at the shops, just in front of Los Jameos Hotel por cierto
HT
Good morning to you also. Excuse my ignorance last night, but meant to say that mrs weefra luuuuved the flowers and the vino is in the fridge. :-)))
Weefra supporting and praying for Wee Oscar.
38% of Catholics from the north want to remain part of Britain?
Where did that stat come from?
WeeFra
You’re welcome. Well we’ve just had some boiled duck eggs, to say they were a hit is an understatement!! :-)
Many thanks again F!
THE EXILED TIM
“McCoist’s hope is that he will be able to add a clutch of new faces to compete with Hearts and others in a fascinating second tier”.
Sleekit better be on the blower to Weefra for 6 eggs, thats the only” clutch” he will be trying to purchase shortly.:))
!!bada bing!!
09:57 on 19 April, 2014
A MUST read…..
Check out @ETimsNet’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/ETimsNet/status/457298228342714368
bada, thanks for that mate. As you say a MUST read if only for the constant references to “old club” and “new cub”
HH
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
10:15 on 19 April, 2014
It’s higher than I thought but not all that surprising.
There was always a view among the more purist republicans that what a lot of their supporters wanted more than a united Ireland was to be treated equally and fairly. That’s been achieved to a great extent.
Political (EU) and technological (the interweb) changes mean that people are less wedded to national states than they once were.
THE EXILED TIM
MSM Propaganda.
The last time Super spoke to Wallace was to tell him that the playing staff had rejected
his pay cut demand.
Tumbleweed CSC
Ernie
I think that in many other countries or states your points would have greater relevance but I think the memories of conflict are still too vivid in the minds of most Irish Nationalists for that figure to be accurate.
I might have a spare for today’s game but won’t find out until about 11:30 would anyone be interested?
THE EXILED TIM
Auldheid made a comment on TSFM about The Doncaster Letter 02:48
Till later all
bournesouprecipe
10:25 on
19 April, 2014
THE EXILED TIM
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The last time Super spoke to Wallace was to tell him that the playing staff had rejected
his pay cut demand.
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No, they only rejected the concept of a pay cut.
leftclicktic
I’d rather smash them against a wall than allow that buffoon the pleasure of our wee hens eggs. They’re all Tims are our wee hens. How you doing anyhoos, looking forward to meeting up again next sunday. :-)))
Weefra HH supporting and praying for Wee Oscar.
Brth@8.37
Once again a great read.
I also remember the short story of your uncle, the car and the raffle. E mailed you before on that. Definitely a market for a book of short stories.
Cqn publications could and should act as a showcase for one of our own. I had many things to do this a.m but couldn’t stop reading so you are inadvertently responsible for the decree nisi that is coming my way.
god bless wee Oscar.
Happy Easter Tims.
Good morning all!
Shameless repost of a shameless repost before I’m aff oot to watch the game.
From Living Social —Lifelong Celtic fan? Want to experience a game at Parkhead in style? Then check out this deal for a VIP match day experience when The Bhoys take on Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. April 27, courtesy of Celtic Football Club.
• For £39 (an £80 value) you’ll receive a Premium Match Day Experience, where you can cheer the Hoops to victory from a padded seat in the North Stand.
• Or, pay £49 (a £100 value) for a Directors’ Box Match Day Experience instead, taking in the action from a padded ‘armchair’ style seat in the Directors’ Box in the Main Stand…
Wife bought one of these vouchers, ‘Directors’ Box Match Day Experience’ but before we could buy another it was sold out. So, we have one of these spare if any of you Bhoys would like it. Face value (£39 we got a £10 discount on the advertised price). It can be used in conjunction with other vouchers to allow the possibility of sitting together (that bit is up to Celtic).
Any takers, get my email from Paul67.
HH
SpanishJohn
Interesting that evidence of the old SPL becomes available showing a desire not to punish Old Rangers and some folks first thought is Celtic are complicit. So rather than demand answers from the SPL we are immediately suspicious that Celtic would see it fit to agree not to punish old Rangers?
I can only see one issue for new Rangers in stripping titles from the old one. That is that they would be seen to be guilty and this would make global news ergo the brand would be toxic regardless of this being a new version. Otherwise why would Duff and Phelps argue that they should not be punished when they were entering the Liquidation phase.
If Celtic were , ‘in on’, this why would they care so much that the Rangers brand would be damaged? It wouldn’t have been damaged to the extent that not one entity would be willing to invest in the club?
It appears to me at face value that this letter was down to the only negotiating tactic that Green and co had at that time which was ‘we will walk away and sell the assets if you don’t’. It also suited the SPL and obviously the SFA not to strip Rangers of titles due to the ongoing repercussions for individuals , the national team and the on set of guranteed legal processes not to mention possible public disorder.
Celtic could have said and done any number of things in 2012 but they may not have be enable to influence negotiations to the extent that there was absolutely never a prospect of A Rangers. Other clubs, the SFA, the SPL, others possibly in politics, would have out shouted that kind of brinksmanship.
1-0 defeat for the U17 Bhoys to start off the tourney. Couple of missed chances near the end but Ajax probably desrved their win.
iki
Ahh right enough it was only a suggestion, nothing to see, move on, no surrender where’s me war chest.
A big thankyou to Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma for the link in his post at 08.37.
http://wp.me/p1G95H-1g6
That is a fantastic story – totally brightened up my wet rainy morning. I tip my hat sir.
Dannygall, The Hal’penny Bridge near the Biosfera Shopping Centre in Puerto Del Carmen, is one of the best Tim pubs on the planet. In recent times its closed a lot but opens specially for every Celtic Game Home or away. In the very unlikely event that it doesn’t open The Brendan Behan downstairs in the same complex has about a dozen Televisions and show any number of different games simultaneously. The Celtic Game will definitely be shown there and as an added attraction its one of the cheapest bars in the resort. However my advice is to go upstairs and watch it in the hal’penny, Sean will look after you. If you are over in Matagorda there is an Irish Pub in the Commercial Centre which is a Tim Pub as well, they will be showing the game too..
Dannygall ,ha,penny inn at the old town in pdc should definitely be showing it or walk or get a taxi to matagorda about 5 euros the auld triangle or the sports bar at the side of the commercial centre should have it HH