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The Craig Whyte narrative. Kris, Leo.

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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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  2. setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on

    Foxy

     

     

    10 years after the event, a London newspaper ran a competition to win “A Night Out With The Blokes Wot Won The World Cup.”

     

     

    A couple of cockneys with the paper turn to their Scottish workmate and say “Jock, you should enter that!”

     

     

    Jock turns round and says- “You’ll no get much of a night out with a Swiss ref and an Azerbajani linesman”

  4. Delaneys Dunky on

    BMCUW

     

     

    Will pop into the CC pre match soon, to buy para handy a pint. His stories are well worth the price o’ a pint. :)

  10. THE EXILED TIM on

    PCS

     

    He may well have been, never saw him, obviously, nor have I seen any footage that I can recall, heard about him and your Da will most likely be bang on again.

     

    HH

  11. Tontine Tim on

    Burnley Football Club were one of the founder members of the Football League in 1888. Their home ground since 1883, Turf Moor, is the longest continuously professional used football ground in the world with a natural turf. They are also one of only three teams to have won all top four professional divisions of English football.

     

     

    Burnley have got many records and firsts to their name, they are the smallest town ever to give birth to a Football League Championship, a professional FA Cup winner and runner-up and a Community Shield winning team, they also reached the ¼ Final of the “real’ European Champions Cup, in their only appearance.

     

     

    In the 1950s and 1960s, they were one of the most innovative sides in world football and were a major factor in the development of youth academies around the world by being the first ever club in the world to have built a training centre, this process resulted in much greater development for youth players.

     

     

    Nearly all members of the 1959/60 Division 1 winning team had played in their youth team and were also the first to let a manager decide about the transfer policy, not long after, some of the most prestigious clubs around the world emulated them.

     

     

    The club spent most of their early history in England’s top two football divisions; however, like similar “big” clubs along the M65 corridor, Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Preston and neighbouring Leeds the collapse of the English textiles industry resulted in a steady decline in the town’s population.

     

     

    They remained outside the top flight from 1976 to 2009 and from 1985 to 1992 they had a seven-year spell in the lowest tier of the Football League, narrowly avoiding relegation to the Conference in 1987. They are now looked upon as relegation fodder.

     

     

    Their fall from grace will be almost complete tomorrow when they face the newest club in the uk/europe/world at the dilapidated and crumbling kenny lynch dome.

     

     

    Meanwhile approximately 245 miles south west at the centre of the catalyst for the falling of the british empire, one of the oldest and most successful clubs in the country will be facing what is undoubtedly one of the biggest names in sport up there with other icons like New York Yankees, Boston Celtics and Montreal Canadiens, in an invitation only prestigious tournament.

     

     

    It just doesn’t get any better than that, but you won’t read that in the SMSM.

  12. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    DELANEYSDUNKY

     

     

    You’ll only encourage him,ffs!

     

     

    He’ll be well pleased to see you,mate. As will whichever daughter he has with him to keep a close eye on him.

  16. Foxy on

    SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 29TH JULY 2016 10:40 PM

     

    Foxy

     

     

     

    10 years after the event, a London newspaper ran a competition to win “A Night Out With The Blokes Wot Won The World Cup.”

     

     

     

    A couple of cockneys with the paper turn to their Scottish workmate and say “Jock, you should enter that!”

     

     

     

    Jock turns round and says- “You’ll no get much of a night out with a Swiss ref and an Azerbajani linesman”

     

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    Belter. Thanks for that :-)

     

    HH

  18. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Strange to think that the Kinks started as heavy metal before the term was invented , with ‘ You really got me ‘ and then ” All day and all of the night.”

  22. Delaneys Dunky on

    Hebcelt and MacJay

     

     

    Born in ’65. Kinks at their peak. Was rocking to them in womb. :)

  23. Burnley78 on

    Tontine Tim

     

     

    Interesting post. Interesting facts. Shows the gulf.

     

     

    You missed out the Burnley riot though 78 at Turf Moor. They beat the mighty Celtic HK e and away in the Anglo Scottish ( formerly Texaco ) Cup ! ,

  24. clunks on

    Winning Captains

     

     

    Just saw the pic on the CQN magazine page circa 10pm Celtic Park time.

     

     

    Good stuff!

     

     

    Howevahh!!

     

     

    The more you try to hide your face the more chins you have!!

     

     

    #chinesephonebook!

     

     

    Is that Craig Whyte in the Jetski behind you?

  26. Chairbhoy on

    CLOGHER CELT @ 3:39 PM,

     

     

    Good question and good to see some very excellent teams that have been posted…

     

     

    I’m not long in, so it’s kind of a hard days night… but I will get round to posting it… soon

     

     

    I’ll just defend myself a wee bit from those who believe Messi is the one…

     

     

    Firstly, I’m not a Footballing expert, suffice to say I’m just a supporter, fan or spectator… Still allowed an opinion though.

     

     

    Secondly we tend to gravitate to teams and players we have an affinity with, your favourite right winger might not be the best right winger…:)

     

     

    Thirdly, we tend to be conditionEd by our era’s and to an extent personal circumstances. For me, the present isn’t a great Footballing Era…

     

     

    Finally, let me state why I “kinda” agreed with Paul67, now I’m not going to do a downer on a Great Player like Messi, especially the day before he faces the Hoops, but suffice to say…

     

     

    He wouldn’t be my best Striker, that would be Marco Van Basten.

     

     

    He wouldn’t be my best Play maker, that would be Platini.

     

     

    He wouldn’t be my best Argentinian International, that would be Maradona.

     

     

    He wouldn’t be my best Barcelona Player, that would be Johan Cruyff.

     

     

    Still hope you and everyone going to Lansdowne Road have a great day and see some great Footballers playing some great Football and of course a Celtic Victoree…

     

     

    Hail Hail

  29. Hrvatski Jim on

    MACJAY1

     

     

    Linda Ronstad.

     

    I will look up that album but I understand that it was released before she had to quit singing.

     

     

    There are some Youtube clips of her explaining how the Parkinson’s has stopped her singing.

     

     

    Irrespective it is so sad to hear her talk about the difficulties that it has brought her.

     

     

    I loved her as part of the Trio with Emmylou and Dolly. Both fantastic albums.

     

     

    Good night all

  31. Foxy on

    LEFTCLICKTIC on 29TH JULY 2016 11:01 PM

     

    Burnley78

     

     

    I was there

     

     

    a lonnnnnnnnnnnnng story

     

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    Cannae let that pass. Explain yourself ;-)

     

    HH

  32. Delaneys Dunky on

    Leftclick

     

     

    Were you an arrow thrower?

     

    That was a mental dog school 2 days. We had milkboys tanning oor bus windies wi full pints at 5 in the morning going home.

  34. Burnley78 on

    Leftclick

     

     

    I was at Burnley. 3 days after we beat the govan mob at home.

     

     

    BMCUW

     

     

    Steve Kindon I think it was. Scored in each game from memory.

     

     

    Who would have thought we would pull back and win the league that season with such a crap team.

  37. Delaneys Dunky on

    My favourite player playing today is Wee Andy Iniesta.

     

    My favourite ever player is Diego Armando Maradona.

     

    My favourite ever Celtic player is Daniel Fergus McGrain.

     

    Nice trio.

  41. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    BURNLEY78

     

     

    Kindon indeed. Big Roy didn’t cover himself wi glory that night.

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