Best news of the day? Kris Commons wants to be involved tomorrow against Barcelona. I doubt Kris is anywhere near match fit, so there’s no chance of him starting on Wednesday against Astana, but a 15 minute cameo, when the Astana players’ body clocks are telling them it’s after 2am, would go down a treat.
I’ve always been a bit more ambivalent about Leonel Messi than most. “He’s not hit the levels of Ronaldinho” is my stock comment, and then there’s the dirty little subject. (Tax).
But his media comments ahead of tomorrow’s International Champions Cup game, “I have a Celtic jersey at home. The games against Celtic were special and I want to remember them”, proves there’s substance to the man.
I’ve a Celtic jersey at home too, Leo. A few of us here do.
Former-Rangers former vice-chairman Donald Findlay is to defend Craig Whyte is his forthcoming trial.
Whyte’s urban legend is going to be difficult to shift, but it’s not accurate. We mocked Rangers fans a few years ago, referring to him as “Our Hero” but he never was. He was the bag man for a very dirty job.
How he handled the SFA, Uefa, HMRC and, most crucially, the insolvency court, when he managed to secure the appointment of Duff and Phelps as Rangers administrators was crucial in the continuation of football at Ibrox.
It was Duff and Phelps who gave Newco the right to use the name “Rangers”, after which point Whyte could claim he was passing on “Rangers”. Everyone else mocked this liquidation fantasy at the time. Until liquidation became a reality, that is.
Whyte left Newco relatively safe in the hands of Charles Green, where it would have thrived, if it hadn’t faced a hostile and damaging takeover bid from its first week of life.
Our auction prize, donated by (the pretty fabulous) Celtic sponsor, Intelligent Car Leasing, closes just after 1pm today.
You can win:
2 seats in the directors’ box
Champagne reception
5 course meal in the Walfrid Suite
Fully expenses bar (pre and post-match)
Half time snacks and refreshments
Car Parking
At the game against Kilmarnock on 24 September.
Money raised from the auction will go towards building a school kitchen in Malawi for Mary’s Meals. It it will be the 5th CQN school kitchen.
Our four existing kitchens feed over 2000 primary aged kids every day. School attendance has increased 30% since kitchens were built, as kids attend for their daily meal. This has an impact on health, education and life chances.
You can follow the auction on eBay here. Thank you.
I’m off to Aberdour now for the 12th annual CQN Golf Open. I’ll be the one holding the jackets.
See you then.
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MACJAY
#knaw has been posting shit for months.
There,corrected that for you(!)
BMCUW
Great thanks. Tried the newly converted Houston Inn yesterday for lunch then back to the old CSC pub nearby :-)
Then…curtains drawn and letterbox nailed up ….
until Messi lines up against the Bhoys later.
And so it continues :-)
Have a great day buddy!
SALTIRESINSEVILLA
Sounds good…
BMCUW
Howwood Inn … Hic! :-)
Heading down to Dublin now.
It’s always a good day when the Hoops are playing.
Up The Hoops.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 30TH JULY 2016 11:16 AM
MACJAY
#knaw has been posting shit for months.
There,corrected that for you(!)
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Do you think the guy has feelings ?
Or is he an object ?
Nobody has encouraged contributors to stay on our blog more than you.
( Recently our man In Turkey …….? )
That`s your job. Whether you like it or not.
:-)
Now do it.
Any tips for the horse racing at Hamilton today?
Kojo is in Turkey #knawing Macjay according to wiki.
MWD PL GTF
Sn hour out of Dublin chatting to a lurker Tom from Doncaster. Season Ticket holder follows Hoops all over .Grand ghuy, we are a universal family.
One other young lad wearing the Hoops on the bus.
Six hours out of Dublin, where are you?
VFR800A8
Looking to set up new chapter, CELTIC MCC.
Motorbiking ;-))
Mon the hoops, good game today will hopefully up standards required for Wednesday.
Saltires, belated happy birthday.
I hope you had a great day yesterday and a greater day today if our team put on a show today.
We went went down to the Queens Cafe on Victoria Road last night for some of their tasty ice cream.
The Victoria Bar down there is nowa Celtic pub.
It surprised me . They were advertising today’s game would be shown and that Irish bands would be playing there in future.
A big change for that place.
I saw I Neil Graham’s pal,Bob ( I can’t remember his surname) on Viccy Road. Its about ten years since I last saw him and he hasn’t changed a bit, looks wise.
Dallas
Thanks
When i lived on Bash Street, I loved the ice-cream there after Saturday morning walk to the park with C.
The Victoria Bar was owned by Jim Brogan around then, we often popped in at T time on Fridays before going to MJ’s – he signed my Alphabet of the Celts in there one night ( the pub pianist immediately moved to a minor key… ;-)
Boaby was complaining about sore knees 30 years ago, but still as able on a fitba park and cycles a million miles a week . I see him on FB from time to time. Hasn’t changed a bit. Lovely guy.
Enjoy the game tonight.
The Victoria Bar has been a Tim pub for many many years, all those bars are on Victoria RD. That’s why the call it the green mile, from Queens Park Gates, to the Brazen Head.
Do Italy, Germany and Brazil have over-the-top, taxpayer-funded celebrations of old World Cup wins?
Tony, thanks for the update about the Viccy Bar.
I was last in it over 20 years ago, and there were a number of currants in it , who normally wouldn’t be anywhere near anything to do with us.
An impressive array of Celtic pubs in that area along with Heraghty’s and Kelly’s on Pollokshaws Road.
MOONBEAMSWD on 30TH JULY 2016 11:28 AM
Kojo is in Turkey #knawing Macjay according to wiki.
MWD PL GTF
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Classy.
Or what.
MACJAY 1123
To be fair,you canny educate pork…
Just back from taking the Dugs for their a stroll
As part of today I had to cross a main road, would you believe it, a young Bhoy racer whizzes past as I cross the road, wearing his Celtic top whilst driving
How can I get this reported as a crime through Level 5 and posted on The Daily Rectum ?
Anyway the Dhugs and I are fine, and go back inane piece
Oh BRTH, give Jobo a nudge, we need a weather update :-))
Glad you enjoyed your wee sabbatical
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 30TH JULY 2016 12:18 PM
MACJAY 1123
To be fair,you canny educate pork…
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Thought you were talking about this guy.
MOONBEAMSWD on 30TH JULY 2016 11:28 AM
Kojo is in Turkey #knawing Macjay according to wiki.
MWD PL GTF
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Nae worries, pal.
Hoops on the park soon.
The rest is silence .
Or should be.
TD67
Yeah, the crowd we sat with were all good Celts, but there were a few currants in there too. Nasty ones ( not Gers!)
From memory The bar at the corner of Vicky Rd and Calder street was the only one that had fewer Tims than Thems the rest, as you say, were all Celtic bars.
Whe drinking on Vicky Rd I preferred The Queen’s Park Cafe and Sometimes Neeson’s when they had music on. Not a great fan of McNeill’s or the one round the corner (Flight of Earls?), en route to The QP Cafe.
When I lived on Dixon Ave. My nearest pub was probably the Hampden or the one frequented by Sons of Donegal CSC run by Evelyn ( opposite from the Irish Centre.) before she moved to Kelly’s, previously The Elcho, on Pollokshaws Rd.
However, i still preferred to walk to Strathbungo to Micky Joe’s my local, from my days living on Nithsdale Road. Dallas Dallas and his crowd all drank the Castlemaine xxxx back in the day. I didn’t realise he was my 2nd cousin until he met my dad in there on the night of the Scotland v Ireland match 1987.
Left that area in 1998 and there have been many change, but good the Celtic bars sustained us during those dark years of the fraudulant 9 in a row.
HH
To be fair to the Saxons over doing the 66′ world cup win 50 years nonsense, our own club isn’t too far behind trying doing the same with the 67 Euro cup win. Not on the same level as the Saxons over exuberant celebrations of a sporting event of half a century ago but, imo, still a tad embarrasing . All for celebrating the players roles in our greatest sporting achivement btw
Oglach
At least we have reached two finals since then:-)
Point is they enter every tournament trying to be one of the billy-big-baws “we’re going to win it”. If they really are one of the big teams why are they making such a fuss about what should be a routine tournament win?
MACJAY
MWD is on a different stratosphere from me,mate.
I had an argument with him once. Big lad,big brain,big sense of humour.
Thoroughly enjoyed it,but not enough to do it again.
(That should hopefully make him complacent. My only chance)
SALTIRES EN SEVILLA on 30TH JULY 2016 12:25 PM
TD67
Yeah, the crowd we sat with were all good Celts, but there were a few currants in there too. Nasty ones
Yes there where a few nasty ones, but mostly smart enough to know not to cause it, knowing they would be backing a Duce, it’s still a big Tim area I pop in there now and again going to the Brazen.
Plenty of Hoops everywhere you look in Dublin Centre. Great atmosphere.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 30TH JULY 2016 12:41 PM
We`re all Tims.
Life`s too bloody short for trivia.
Unite.
We have a common enemy.
Keep our trivial quarrels inhouse.
Eyes on the prize.
Just plain Liberty takers, and just don’t get what a wind up is, we know they’r raging, next thing they’ll be doing is putting Hun scarfs on nuns, oh here! Wait a minute?
http://talkingbaws.com/2016/07/rangers-fans-stop-emilio-izaguirre-for-a-picture-asks-him-to-say-we-are-the-people/
Oglach
I’ve always said we go on about Lisbon as much as the English do about 66. The difference is, England were second favourites to win and their path could not have been easier. We came from nowhere to win it and not in the way eg Wimbledon won the FA cup. We won in the style of Real Madrid at their best and cemented the club at Europe’s top table. Now that’s something to go on about.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/its-barcelona-all-right-but-not-as-we-know-them-did-anyone-tell-the-punters-34924524.html
Happy 70th birthday to the great Dixie Deans.
He spoke to me once yrs ago, a few mins to go in a cup tie at motherwell, the ball comes into the crowd and me at the front catches it we are leading and its now a corner to Celtic,Dixie runs towards me and I go to throw it to him when he says “haud on to it wee mhan there’s no long to go,just haud on to it. :-).
H.H
1970 was my favourite WC but I’ll always have a special place for 66. I fell in love with game watching it on the old black and white telly. Mesmerised is not too strong a word.
Main memories are The TV coverage, North Korea (Pak do ik), Hungary beating Brazil (Albert Bene) Eusebio brilliance, Pele hacked, bowling green surface at Wembley.
Perfect warm up for the season 66-67.
Jobs done.
Hitting the road to Dublin…
COYBIG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYR4xf5MG24
Reading about people leaving the blog or taking grief for their opinions – funnily enough if my views were in stark divergence from the majority of people on a blog, social situation etc I’d probably not keep posting or keep their company unless my intention was to wind them up or try and change their minds.
If after a while it became clear that I was failing with the mind changing I’d leave.
Therefore if I kept commenting it might well be evidence that I enjoy the grief.
So if I post on here, for example, that Scotland would benefit from Stalinist purges of dissident voices who oppose independence or who would like to repatriate immigrants, then I would expect to take a great deal of negative comment. If I was sincere in my stated view I would surely argue my point and probably leave it alone once the points were made. If I was just at the wind up then I’d love the reaction.
If someone feels ‘bullied’ by people who they can’t see, who don’t know who they are, who they never ever have to bf annoyed by again by either not posting or not reading the posts of the people they feel are giving them grief then they really need to get a grip and probably get off the Internet and seek some help with their personal resilience. But I don’t really think those in question on here are that timid.
In short, grow up.
TonyD – wee Izzy didn’t bite! Even their wind ups are bankrupt!!
50 SHADES OF GREEN on 30TH JULY 2016 12:57 PM
Happy 70th birthday to the great Dixie Deans.
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Cudos to you , 50 shades , for bringing that to the attention of the great Celtic diaspora.
Thanks , Dixie.
My favourite was Bellamy refusing to sign a diedco jersey – ‘I’m not signing that!’
Haha ha ha ha ha
https://youtu.be/u6BS8XKBpaU