Well, at least we don’t live in Spain, where tax fraud convicts are lauded like some sort of distorted victim if they have a connection to football. No one really expected Leonel Messi to go to prison, accountability in Spain isn’t that exacting, but he will have to live with a conviction for defrauding the tax system of millions of euros. A shameful act for one so wealthy.
I’ve always been a bit uncomfortable at the politicisation (from all sides) of the poppy and charities like Help for Heroes. Society has been poor at looking after its literal cannon fodder in the 100 years since the Somme, but flag wavers around these parts have imposed political sentiment on these charities which doesn’t exist elsewhere in the UK.
Four years on from the infamous Rangers-Milan legends supposed charity match, James Doleman’s article yesterday, on the unauthorised use of Help for Heroes logos on t-shirts, gives us more to ponder. It’s impossible to damage a brand which is already at junk value, but activity like this makes it difficult for all good causes to make their appeals.
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As the pink salmon said to the ootsiders
“I’m Stork in the middle with you…”
Fecking racket outside the hotel tonight. Cheering, singing, cars blaring their horns.
I think Lisbon is happy that Portugal are in the final.
Just the bread and butter games left now for flora.
Someone said earlier ‘Efe did well, considering.’
I thought Efe did well, full stop.
Wish we could give the guy an even break eg a fresh start. The boy can defend!
JUDE2005@11:23
How have you “nailed Blair”
Chilcott said no lies – no deceit – no illegal war.
There will be no legal move against Tony Blair – as PM he made a decision based on information given to him from Intelligence Agencies – decision made in good faith against a genocidal sectarian tyrant who had used WMD Chemical Weapons on his own people and who had invaded Kuwait – he ignored the UN for TWELVE YEARS.
Tony Blair persuaded the US to go back to the UN.
Saddam was given a final chance by UN Resolution 1441 under pain of action. He did not comply although he was “in material breach”
If people criticize TB’s decision they are duty-bound to offer another strategy – the only other choice was to leave Saddam and his murderous sons in place – no doubt you and all other Saddam apologists would have be happy for him to carry on slaughtering IN YOUR NAME.
1. Great to be back home.
2. Hunderbirds – great story.
3. Keep Efe as an option to play as a front sweeper.
4. Knackered – good night!
Flora took their goal well. The striker went through the defence like a hot knife through butter.
Ronaldo for all his theatrical stuff,a match winner,great header
JOBO BALDIE
Thanks. I enjoyed your posts from your holiday. Sounded like you had a great time.
Away and get some sleep so that we can get a good weather report in the morning.
Sorely missed.
mats nilloc
“no doubt you and all other Saddam apologists would have be happy for him to carry on slaughtering IN YOUR NAME.”
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well you were obviously happy to let tony blair carry on slaughtering IN YOUR NAME
as with many situations, the person at the top carries the can for the actions of those below him especially when he makes the final decisions
Time for bed.
Thanks for the updates on the game.
mats nilloc
Only comment would be that we have let and still let some horrible dictators and regimes survive. I don’t recall a clamour to invade Chile or Rwanda ? Saddam was a threat to his own people but was a minimal be threat to the people of the UK. Taking him out was a revenge mission by Dubya supported by Blair imo.
Had a wee read back there,some good posts.Saltires @ 945pm and Foxy’s follow-up were great reading,and enjoyed Hunderbirds post about his trip to Estadio Nacional,cheers dhudes.And Jobo’s back.All that and Celtic won too.
It’s all good.
http://youtu.be/FySOSYCR0WI
A thought.
The second Gulf war was more about the protection of Israel than anything else.
MATS NILLOC on 6TH JULY 2016 11:53 PM
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Alfie Noakes you scumbag. I am utterly staggered, it’s hard to know how to respond to such a low life parasite, Hundreds of thousands of innocent life’s have been murdered by Blair’s illegal invasion of Iraq, a decision that has enriched that war criminal to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. Yet up you pop in the name of fucking politics.
How dare you. You’re a disgrace to your family, a disgrace to your country. I hope that your poison dies with you.
Anytime. Anywhere.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 7th July 2016 1:15 am
A thought.
The second Gulf war was more about the protection of Israel than anything else.
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You might be on to something there.
Then again God is capable of protecting the Apple of his Eye.
I think people should at least contemplate that these are the very End of Days. No Utopia can possibly be built by Man.
Delighted about Brexit. The Elitest urnae.
Up in 3 hours. Outie.
Good result today versus the Slovenian champions.
Looks like Brendan is preparing a first choice for the Gibraltar games.
Tims please don’t rise and respond to the trolls. They win every time you do.
Petec-
I understand where you are coming from re Brexit.
What odd circumstances and mentality led to the leave vote, however.
Interesting times we live in.
MATS NILLOC
Blair is a very complex character. He had a Messiah Complex,now he has a Persecution Complex.
Neither of these tend to end well…
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 7TH JULY
Interesting.
Whatever his faults , I don`t think he is an evil man.
MACJAY
No,I don’t think so either. His ambition outgrew his judgement. And his main ambition,IMO,was to be remembered as a great statesman,someone who got things done.
Started well,then the Messiah stuff kicked in. “I can do no wrong”
Mats Nilloc,
We have an international war crimes tribunal that deals with people involved in genocide, mass murder and similar atrocities. So far it has brought before it, the likes of Charles Taylor, Radavan Karadic, Slobodan Milosevic and Radko Mladic to name a few, each of these are bogeymen of us good guys in the West. I’m not saying that any of these should not have appeared there but, the tribunal cannot be solely for enemies of the West, it needs to be equitable in its prosecution of all criminals. Just because you wear a suit and tie and pin one of those creepy little flags on your lapel to make you more of a Brit, American or Aussie than Joe Public, does not excuse you from appearing. Blair, Bush and Howard among others should be answerable to that court for the hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed as a result of their misadventures, misadventures which now leave a new generation to deal with untold horrors, displacement, discrimination and starvation as well as leaving a generation of innocent civilians here in the West to deal with a virtual invisible terrorist threat as well as paying for military spending that seems to have no limits.
John James on Blair:
https://johnjamessite.com/
Read his comments. He doesn’t miss and hit the wall!
Res 12 update today?
CRAIGELLACHIE@10:33
You are correct, we cannot take out all those who commit atrocities, we simply don’t have the resources.
The UN itself has had some spectactular failures, notably in Rwanda and Srebrenica, among others.
There was a coalition of FORTY countries fighting to overthrow Saddam in a country brutalised in a sectarian mannner, where 20% held the whip-hand over the other 80%, millions were on food-aid programmes – 4 million refugees had fled the country – the Kurds and the Marsh arabs were gassed by WMD Chemicals and the sons of Saddam had a string of ‘rape rooms’ as a pastime.
The UK,and the UK/USA,saved one and a half million, mostly Muslims, in operations in Sierra Leone, Bosnia and Kosovo by interventions, when the UN and the rest of the world were unwilling/unable to intervene.
The vast majority of Iraq casulties were NOT due to the invasion, rather they were sectarian in nature and instigated and carried out by insurgents backed by interested parties in the region.
The casualties and refugees, in and from, Syria, where we did not intervene, far and away dwarf anything in Iraq.
So much tripe sloganized about Iraq by those who did not have the responsibility to make any decisions and who would presumably leave all dictators in place, allow them to humiliate the UN, and torture and kill their own people at will.
If we had ever followed the advice of the “Stop the War’, the stop ANY war mob, including Salmond’s disgustingly opportunistic SNP, who turn a blind eye genocidal regimes, we would all be speaking either German or Russian in this country, or even a mixture of both.
Aw,ffs.
We were wrong to go in for the reasons we did,we were woefully underprepared and underequipped. We were wrong in not having an exit plan,and we were wrong in the company we kept.
That’s pretty much wrong from the first day to the last,and every one inbetween.
I reckon you’ll be holding your next Tony Blair Appreciation Society meeting in a telephone box.
Apologies for the colourful language Paul.
When you’re dealing with filth like Noakes it can be hard to articulate your emotions without bringing yourself down into the gutter with him.
I naively expect better from Celtic fans. I’ll try to rise above it in the future.
Jonnyrambo67 Celtic fans come in all shapes sizes, colours,creeds and political persuasions. I don’t see why you can call Alf Noakes filth because he had an opinion different to yours, even taking high emotions into account. Alf Noakes articulated his reasoning quite well. At the time the sadistic treatment of the Kurd, Arabs and minorities sickened me to the core. I was not a conscientious objector. In hindsight I should have been. Who knows whether the sectarian wars would have happened regardless of any international intervention. Maybe Saddam would have settled for Kuwait and only torturing a few of his own countrymen. It’s a harsh lesson that we need to ignore other people’s atrocities and let those victims find their own salvation. The butterfly effect. Anyway I suppose I am now filth who deserves to die in your sainted eyes. It is a blog , people should feel free to express an opinion , rightly or wrongly. Have a good one mate. Hail hail. Great to see Griff right back on the scoring sheet. Bring on the Gibraltians the hearts the Ragers.
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Why didn’t we get Bobbio M to write the bloody report ?
He nailed the war and blair’s level if culpability in two short posts on this page.
No need for for 200M words, half a dozen years and £Ms of public funds. Bobbio coulda just nailed it in a paragraph!
HH jamesgang
Noakes/Nilloc Whoever
Its terrific to see the Blairites doing hun like mental gymnastics to justify their war. It was a vanity project for Blair that cost half a million innocent lives. I don’t see how any of his supporters can sleep at night, never mind the sleekit bassa himself.
Blair has discovered how a good war can make some decent cash for a chap.A totally odious man, gives me the boak.
BMCUWP guru and wise man awright, you see it. Everyone else bampots and lunatic fringe clique.
Keep seeing references to comments by Noakes but when I scroll back, nothing. Are they that bad they were removed?
Confused Auld Tam.
Emusanorphan,
Stunning piece by JJ, not sure how much is factual but I couldn’t argue with much of it. Maybe Mats has backed another loser (in a manner of speaking) in Blair, he seems to have good form at backing losers.
Tom,
It’s probably related to the multiple monikers of Alfie Noakes/Mr Pastry/Thompson Twin/Mats Nilloc, universally acknowledged to be one and the same
To Bliars rent boy
a fascist murdering bastard then.
A fascist murdering bastard now.
A fascist murdering bastard for the rest of time.
A pity Goebbells or Himmler were not accorded the same right of reply after nurmberg as the murdering apologist was given yesterday for his part in securing american oil which happened to be under the ground of other countries.
A murdering fascist who did his part
Good morning friends from a rather grey looking East Kilbride. Breezy and less than half the temperature of the venue I l;ast peeked out the curtains from. Still, no work for another few days is never bad.
Antipodean Red –
Got it. Thanks.
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS – Hopefully the ole Jungle roof will come off this season ;-)
67 HEAVEN – God Bless ye fellow eejit ;-)
JOBO BALDIE – Hope you and all who are close enjoyed the holidays – CQN-LEGEND.