I looked up at the clock, 80 minutes. The closing moments would hold a disproportionate weight on our season. After a couple of early chances, Motherwell did not cause Joe Hart any difficulty, but Celtic, unable to retain possession, could do no more than clear their lines and wait for the next wave of attack as yesterday’s games closed.
Winning leagues is all about getting the job done, not being a hard luck story. Celtic, without a striker throughout the game, and weakened further through injury during it, won the three points, our fourth single goal victory in five league outings. That freewheeling performance at Tannadice a week ago was the exception.
There is a hidden problem when games are so tight; players need to compete to the last kick. This will drain energy further for a squad, with all the European games, internationals and unmatched ability to reach cup finals, already plays more football than any other in the game. Limbs and minds are taxed.
My worry is not for the big games. Adrenaline will pump in bucketfuls at Hampden and against Newco. Not so much at Dingwall, Paisley or Perth.
As for the Europa Conference draw: anyone but Tottenham, please. They were in the Champions League Final two years ago and have not slipped into obscurity that quickly.
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!!BADA BING!! on 13TH DECEMBER 2021 4:47 PM
The Board won’t publicly say Higgins isn’t coming, they will probably deny he was under consideration, so the stand off could drag on for weeks….
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There’s ways of disseminating information short of an official announcement.
T’was the rationale for this site at one time.
!!BADA BING!! on 13TH DECEMBER 2021 4:47 PM
The Board won’t publicly say Higgins isn’t coming, they will probably deny he was under consideration, so the stand off could drag on for weeks….
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Nicolson is another chinless wonder in an ivory tower.
Meet the new temporary boss, same as the old ancient long term boss.
Their lack of comms to customer and fanbase is incredible.
Dont advertise the jobs. (Dom did)
No free tickets to Kano Foundation (Dom did)
Organisation charts to show they actually do have structures in place (Maybe Dom wanted to, wehatis the big deal)
Ignoring the ishes of the fan shareholders to remove bankier and wilson
we could go on and on, but its actually getting worse.
They lsot the ten. There are many who cant forgive it.
Good evening all from the Vogue, Ruglen.
SAINT STIVS on 13TH DECEMBER 2021 4:32 PM
Excellent.
ernie said:
`Fortunately I have my therapist on speed dial. I should be OK.`
I can understand the need for the first and am pleased to read the second.
SAINT STIVS on 13TH DECEMBER 2021 4:52 PM
“Their lack of comms to customer and fanbase is incredible.”
Is there any GOOD REASON why they don`t communicate with us? In my correspondence with the SLO, I took the impression that he wasn`t given any information from them ( The Board) either that he was able to communicate to the fan base..
Grace Gifford Plunkett, a lifelong Irish Republican and the widow of 1916 signatory Joseph Plunkett died #OnThisDay in 1955
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eHstaQqngzM
The Berlin Wall has been now been down for longer than it was up.
TIMBHOY163
There is a designated area behind the Jock Stein stand beside where the supporters buses park ,for disabled parking and there are also some spaces available behind the Lisbon Lions stand
BSR, same with Mae West’s drawers. Allegedly. 111🤣
The Green Brigade need the lower deck seats in North Stand ripped oot, seats that are filled currently by silent bores, and a new Jungle built.
Its that simple.
Parkhead since 1994 has been so boring, dour, and dull, that without the Green Brigade, as was evidenced on Thursday night, then again yesterday afternoon, that if Parkhead stadium had to be “named” it would be known as,….
“The Strachan Syndrome Stadium.”
Having said that, the 50,000 “There’s ma money ah’ve done ma bit” self serving attitudes from boring bassas who see supporting Celtic as a chore, rather than a way of life, should be banned for draining the spirit out of a once fortress of a stadium, a sacred place that used to be sanctified in torrents of pish flowing from the never replaced 12th man in the12,00 strong, The Jungle area. An area that housed underdog types of Tim society with a point to prove, now the 50,000 are as plastic as the seats they sit on, standing up for two minutes to sing YNWA at two home games against the huns, and a handful of European games at most, the games where they hold up their scarves whilst looking up at the screens to catch a glimpse of themselves, in other words, going through the motions, actors!
The entire club is a plastic replacement of a once magical place.
The Green Brigade aren’t perfect, nobody is. But the energy, tempo, trademark songs, and slogans that the club have fully financially benefited from, and they have, as has been mentioned earlier, covered the lazy silent asses of 50,000 majority, who if challenged would probably reply,…
“Why do we need to sing, that’s what the safe standing, Green Brigade area was created for, wasn’t it?”
The seating of fitba stadiums has ripped the balls off of the societal impact of football supporters.
Do you think we’d see protests today were 100,000’s folk hold up bits of cardboard and nothing gets done if all seating at football stadiums hadn’t happened? I’m not saying that protests should be carried out like football hooliganism was in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and early 90’s, I’m saying look at how lame and sheepish football supporters have become since mid 90’s, when all seating was introduced, and measure the lame sheepishness, against how arrogant and entitled authorities have become.
Two reason’s why we’re all headed for 1984.
Seating all football stadiums, and mobile phones.
The Green Brigade are Celtic.
50,000 silent bores are not!
Bring back the pish flowing fitba terraces CSC
Agree that Mr Higgins should not be anywhere near our club.
GB singing Celtic songs are good for the stadium’s atmosphere, unfortunately they seem to only know a few of those……
111 was a typo. Unless ole Mae was even more prolific than I thought. 🤣
What age do you become really uncool being an Ultra. ?
There is a certain age limit to being a credible ultra. I guess that rules out the overwhelming majority on here and a huge proportion of season ticket holders.
I mean a > 50 year old would look really stupid with flares.
HH.
Greenpinata, that made laugh out loud. Cheers 🤣
Me ffs
GREENPINATA on 13TH DECEMBER 2021 6:04 PM
What age do you become really uncool being an Ultra. ?
There is a certain age limit to being a credible ultra. I guess that rules out the overwhelming majority on here and a huge proportion of season ticket holders.
I mean a > 50 year old would look really stupid with flares.
HH.
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formerly of this parish VMHAN, wont mind me saying, he was in his late 60s and in the GB, Coolest guy on the planet by the way.
As an aside, my 72 year old uncle frequents the North curve with his 40 year old son , and 10 year old grand wean..
its not exclusively brigaders.
Many of the Ultras would not even have been born before the Good Friday agreement.
Peace that is valued. Peace that is cherished. Peace that must be maintained.
Peace to all : silence can be golden; do we really need songs about bombs, rifles grenades , religion etc to undermine the peace ?
I can remember when drink driving was socially acceptable. Totally wrong on so many levels but another example of what is now rightly unacceptable.
BIGRAILROADBLUES on 13TH DECEMBER 2021 5:43 PM
BSR, same with Mae West’s drawers. Allegedly. 111🤣
and Braw,s brawest bits have been nearer that Gaswerkwand than Hadrians wan ..in my lifetime ..
funny Auld World
smiley the big clock tics for abidy thing
Braw
Soupy …last Christmas we didnae need Joe Hart ,,,till oor board chased Craig away …
think Jota csc
FAC
@FACKilltheBill
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Dec 11
Video 8 is another familiar tale. Police pull a bus over, antagonise fans, behave aggressively and then threaten those who dare to question them. This type of thing happened most weeks. We hope this series has demonstrated the culture of policing that Bernard Higgins oversaw
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1469664402748149766
SS,
There are always exceptions to the rule. A former great poster on here and a man who gave much time and effort for good causes used to stand on the North Curve.
I actually thought of him while posting. A better weatherman would be hard to find.
Haste ye back.
BRB @ 5.43
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NEUSTADT-BRAW
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FK Bodo Glimt say they’ve never heard of the Rainjurz
Borussia Dortmund
The club was founded on 19 December 1909 by a group of young men unhappy with the Catholic church-sponsored Trinity Youth, where they played football under the stern and unsympathetic eye of the local parish priest. The priest, Father Dewald was blocked at the door when he tried to break up the organising meeting being held in a room of the local pub, Zum Wildschütz. The founders were Franz and Paul Braun, Henry Cleve, Hans Debest, Paul Dziendzielle, Franz, Julius and Wilhelm Jacobi, Hans Kahn, Gustav Müller, Franz Risse, Fritz Schulte, Hans Siebold, August Tönnesmann, Heinrich and Robert Unger, Fritz Weber and Franz Wendt. The name Borussia is Latin for Prussia but was taken from Borussia beer from the nearby Borussia brewery in Dortmund.[10] The team began playing in blue and white striped shirts with a red sash, and black shorts. In 1913, they donned the black and yellow stripes so familiar today.
Over the next decades the club enjoyed only modest success playing in local leagues. They had a brush with bankruptcy in 1929 when an attempt to boost the club’s fortunes by signing some paid professional footballers failed miserably and left the team deep in debt. They survived only through the generosity of a local supporter who covered the team’s shortfall out of his own pocket.
The 1930s saw the rise of the Third Reich, which restructured sports and football organisations throughout the nation to suit the regime’s goals. Borussia’s president was replaced when he refused to join the Nazi Party, and a couple of members who surreptitiously used the club’s offices to produce anti-Nazi pamphlets were executed in the last days of the war. The club did have greater success in the newly established Gauliga Westfalen, but would have to wait until after World War II to make a breakthrough. It was during this time that Borussia developed its intense rivalry with Schalke 04 of suburban Gelsenkirchen, the most successful side of the era (see Revierderby). Like every other organisation in Germany, Borussia was dissolved by the Allied occupation authorities after the war in an attempt to distance the country’s institutions from its so-recent Nazi past. There was a short-lived attempt to merge the club with two others – Werksportgemeinschaft Hoesch and Freier Sportverein 98 – as Sportgemeinschaft Borussia von 1898, but it was as Ballspiel-Verein Borussia (BVB) that they made their first appearance in the national league final in 1949, where they lost 2–3 to VfR Mannheim
@ wiki ( caveat emptor )
GREENPINATA on 13TH DECEMBER 2021 6:13 PM
Freedom of expression doesn’t “undermine the peace”. It is one of the freedoms we enjoy under the peace. It is a right, hard won, demanded and fought for by many, many people. In no way is it comparable to drink driving.
GREENPINATA on 13TH DECEMBER 2021 6:13 PM
Many of the Ultras would not even have been born before the Good Friday agreement.
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aye but their blood flows from those that have been trodden down before their siblings eyes …
you are well monikered ….take a bash at the Green …and regularly as your tradition warrants…
smiley let the blog judge you …and I….
Braw
and ps.
LET THE PEOPLE SING, THEIR STORIES AND THEIR SONGS AND THE MUSIC OF THEIR NATIVE LAND.
SAINT STIVS on 13TH DECEMBER 2021 4:32 PM
Forgive the delay responding – work gets in the way
I sympathise with your passion on the subject – and you know more than me
If it’s not Higgins its someone else – Higgins does not make the law
But I accept he can be challenged for his interpretation and implementation of the law
Celtic feel the need to “police” internally they are unlikely to get someone popular
Remember just an opinion !!
On another subject – For what it’s worth I am far more passionate about not playing our senior players in cup games – the league is the only show in town
Hail Hail my friend
67ECW
‘ a chinless wonder ‘
Oh my giddy aunt 👍
no heard that for years CSC
AYE hAIL hAIL.
NEW AWAY TOP –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/pa7
The ole offensive behaviour to football fans act.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 13TH DECEMBER 2021 5:32 PM
Now that is interesting !!!!
I am old
67ECW
ERNIE LYNCH on 13TH DECEMBER 2021 4:29 PM
It would seem I need a big bridge
67ECW
Cracking video interview with Kyogo…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es7fKW4v3Zk&ab_channel=CelticFC
Guys,
We cannot live in the past. Things are sooooooo changed.
Just today, Glasgow Warriors banned headdresses out of respect for the native American community.
On a football perspective, We dwell in the past at our peril.
You don’t need to be a clairvoyant to see that. We need to strike a happy medium.
HH.
and for your further information ,,,the braw braw loon you mention was never a weatherman
he was as he frequently and facetiously posted … was a reporter from EK …
smiley choose you words among wordsmiths…especially Celtic minded wans thing
like defamation and libelous remarks against millionaire defenders …..
Braw
GREENPINATA on 13TH DECEMBER 2021 6:49 PM
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.