Making the great leap between playing Scottish Premiership teams and the likes of Inter Milan will always be a challenge for Celtic. We have done so many times in recent years, Milan were held home and away in the Champions League knock-out stage, Barcelona were beaten, but whenever we have carried the game to opponents of this stature, instead of reverting to our own style of catnenaccio, we’ve lost heavily. Quicker, more skilful, players, could make us look statuesque by comparison.
This is not a criticism. If the only way you can compete with a team with ten times your resources is to defend your 18 yard line, you should do so.
Things could have gone either way on Thursday. We were defensively inept during the opening minutes as Inter found space goal-side of their markers. I don’t know if Ronny had a moment of self-doubt at that point, perhaps he did, but was simply unable to unwind the attacking instincts of his players, but Celtic are all the better for the way they picked themselves off the floor.
I’m sure the odds on Inter progressing will be short, but I’m also sure Ronny Deila will know his players can win in Milan.
I arrived home late last night to read that Tony Conway, son of our own RWE, lost his battle against Motor Neurone Disease/ALS. I met Tony, with dad John and brother Martin, three years ago. Tony was still fit enough to walk, but evidence of the pain the family shared was evident. The three of them travelled back from their US home two years ago, along with mum Pauline, to see Celtic, and meet some family.
They bought hospitality tickets and minutes before kick-off, Celtic’s Iain Jamieson nabbed Tony and asked if he was able to make the halftime draw. Tony knew this would be the last time he would see Celtic, so his journey up the tunnel and onto the park was, to put it mildly, a very special Celtic Park moment.
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WWF
Weedgie Wedgie Fenians
HH jamesgang
PS thought you’d switch it over to songs of praise?
Night. Really am away.
HH jamesgang
pedrocaravanachio67
00:39 on 22 February, 2015
A tip of the bunnet to you too miss corningstone :o)
Till we meet again in about 11 hrs,
Hope there is no Euro hangover and would take anykind of victory.HH
a ceiler gonof rust
00:57 on 22 February, 2015
Sorry I missed you guys in belfast. Unavoidably detained on hallmark day business. Met you with my dad in bv the day of the vauxhall astra game.
A few drinks and my mouth runs off.
Hope all is well.
HH.
HT
Is that no a squeeze song
Pulling Lycra from an arse?
Off tae bed…..big game ramorra, these guys beat us the last time they visited.
Let’s take nothin for granted…
Good football and hard work and we’ll be fine.
HH PC67
ht & jg,
Lycra…wwf….
Very very funny :)))
HH
thebhoywithmcgraininhisside
Before I go, I had to google miss corningstone……..
She’s a wee honey that Christina applegate and what a great film :-)’
HH & nite nite.
leftclicktic
00:55 on 22 February, 2015
Near The Grange, hope you didn’t think I was being cheeky but reading some of your posts I knew you were in the Brig vicinity, enjoy our 3-0 victory tomorrow….. Hail Hail
Theboywithmcgraininhiside, I remember meeting you and your dad last year in the BV. Not a problem you couldn’t make Belfast, hopefully see you soon at paradise and you can stay for some swallies with them bad bhoys
Hail Hail bruv.
GM, wee is a stouter, just dont tell the mind a said it…………….. right!!!!!
Maire dram time.
Offski and hail our Celtic wummin.
ACH tell the truth Jim Delehunt would you not prefer to spell your name like so
Seamas O Dulchaointaigh
god bless stan
the man. call it as you see it
pedrocaravanachio67
01:15 on 22 February, 2015
See you laters.
Acgr,
Enjoy neebs.
Mind me to pick your brains about somert when wur aw mair lucid ;)
HH
GM, this tablet gizmo is editing and rearranging ma posts.
That should have read, HT and Manx.
The water of life is the better than rid bull.
FFS, I surrender, I give up with this toblot.
Celtic and
a ceiler gonof rust
01:17 on 22 February, 2015
I heard all about you bad boys. Drinking the clock around in a residents bar. Leading poor, impressionable young laddies like old tim astray…
Sorry I missed it.
Next time.
HH.
Just in,
This bloody Hollywood studio’s research job is hopeless,
I could have been in the xmen zombies vampires werewolf departments
No handsome huns department for me.
Up and down the boulevards, talking to various crack pots who believe anything
Do you know a handsome hun ?
No no
I asked a couple of zombie werewolves if rangers were the same club,
They told me to get ta feck and stop making up nonsense
Scottish racism and religious prejudice is deep-seated and will take generations to eradicate.
The OFFICIALLY ENDORSED policy of anti-Irish Catholicism has been in place for 100+ years.
It will take as long to eradicate.
Just as you cannot justify the actions of the White Supremicists in the US by pointing the fingers at the blacks, fighting against their treatment, you can’t blame the Irish Catholics for the actions of the Scottish protestants.
The Irish Catholics (& their descendants) have been treated appallingly badly by the proud Scots.
First step in addressing the issue is for the officials in all levels of authority, (government, police, legal system, Church of Scotland – to name but a few) to admit to their appalling record.
Perhaps then, Scottish society can begin to build the bridges across the great divide.
It most certainly won’t happen in my lifetime.
I miss that Alfie knokes fella on here
Sent email to clyde.. got auto reply with david walkers name on it.
Disgrace what they said.. we’ll probably never have a better chance to force them into an apology. Keep at them and report to all relevant people groups.
a viewpark lhad
01:20 on 22 February, 2015
A viewpark lad he was born and bred
John Doyle was is name and he played at Parkhead
Any relation ?
Wee vid
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=Ej_pVMC1DcT0UKzCgYgN&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dxrd4_qtvJHk&ved=0CCIQtwIwAQ&usg=AFQjCNGlj1_EiJ5JxOtUoG9bgZUOZjHjeA
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Eye on the Ball..Maybe Not..
Zanetti: Inter Must Improve Defensively
Zanetti – InterInter vice-president Javier Zanetti admitted that the Nerazzurri must improve defensively, after conceding thrice in the UEFA Europa League tie against Celtic on Thursday.
The Inter legend also praised the contribution of the returning Davide Santon and believes they should rally around captain Andrea Ranocchia after poor performances brought some criticism upon the centre-back.
“There are things the defence need to improve,” Zanetti told Radio Deejay.
“The fact that we won two consecutive games in Serie A though has brought more confidence.
“Santon has much more maturity and self-confidence; the experience in England has done him very well, he has grown so much.
“We must be close to Ranocchia, he will make his contribution.”
Inter are currently in 10th in the Serie A table, and the former Inter captain stated that it is possible to achieve UEFA Champions League qualification despite being 10 points behind third-place Napoli.
“Hopefully, Champions League qualification is possible,” he said. “However, we know that it is very complicated, there are many ahead of us, but trying does not cost us anything.
“The important thing is that we are finding a certain style and [Roberto] Mancini.
With the side still finding their feet since the return of Roberto Mancini the Argentinean felt that Walter Mazzarri’s failure to succeed at the San Siro should be seen as failure for the club.
“You have to respect what the previous coach Mazzarri did,” continued Zanetti. “When something like his leaving happens everyone is sorry, it is a defeat for the club; things did not go well.”
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I’ve been trying to find these goals for ages, two of my favs and both past Goram
Enjoy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ufwngjCYy0
The Fulton semi-final
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yjkDqIi7Ff0
http://www.androidauthority.com/best-emulators-for-android-315958/
http://m.coolrom.com.au/
http://www.eloklassikko.com/images/lana.jpg
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dyGu2-IZBlU
ReminisceCSC :)
Forgot boruc was on loan to chanpionship team.
Surprised an EPL team didnt pick him up in summer.. he was excellant for southampton last season.
Looks like Parma is for the drop and the chop.
Serie A outlines procedure should Parma go bankrupt
21 February 2015
All Parma’s remaining Serie A matches would result in a 3-0 walkover, should the club go out of business this season.
Serie A authorities have confirmed that should Parma be declared bankrupt before the end of the season, their remaining matches would be forfeited 3-0.
The rock-bottom club are facing a dire financial situation, with a lack of funds forcing the cancellation of Sunday’s home clash with Udinese due to an inability to pay stewards and security staff.
Youth coach Hernan Crespo also shed light on their plight with revelatory comments on Friday, claiming they cannot even afford the electricity to allow for the use of showers at the training ground.
Some reports on Saturday suggested that the club’s fate had already been sealed and that they had been officially dissolved, but those claims proved to be premature.
They do, though, remain in a precarious position, and the end could still be imminent after Serie A took the step of confirming the process should they go out of business.
In a statement, it was revealed that because Parma’s issues did not come to a head in the first half of the season, the results they have so far recorded – such as a 0-0 draw with Roma – will remain valid.
However, any Parma match that fails to go ahead before the end of the season will be forfeited 3-0.
They are due to face Genoa on March 1 and Atalanta on March 8, before their bankruptcy hearing on March 19.
I hope the SFA and the SPFL are taking notes.
It’s Sunday, well by the CQN clock.
Some big games coming up for us.
A win against Hamilton and this lad is, deservedly, into the LMS3 final two.
Then we have a series of games that will define our blossoming team.
A wee sneaky win in Milan and glory beckons.
Then we get a chance to shear the sheep and ram their hopes of a challenge.
Ewe think we can win three vital games in a week?
I do.
And it’s no wooly wishy washy ambition.
We have depth and backbone in the squad, and a real belief that we can win every game.
Tomorrow, later today, can’t come soon enough.
Goodnight my southern hemisphere friends, and Jock Tamson’s bairns …
4 – 1 tomorrow :)
Up and about early today, quick glance at Sunday papers reveals no mention of the sash bash on the back pages.
I will predict that the SPFL delegate will mention the BB & FS offences but his ears will have been switched off during the “black fenian b#stard” choruses. .wait and see.
Good morning from the sunshine of Goa
Not really been on line much this last week – caught the report from the inter match .. I miss another cracker :)
And picking up reports that the zombies excelled themselves again with their fans singing racist and sectarian chants at Stan collymore . Shirley with the Chelsea racist scandal collymore takes this further ?
Finally I see Parma are hamming it up in serie A … Looks like they have had their bacon after a streaky patch stretching back a while .
And on that note – I’m away to lie on a sunbed and watch the sites :)
Sad to see the engine room company that operates the club, Parma, has been dissolved.
Stifling debate on offensive Old Firm chants only encourages bigots
Daniel Taylor
Daniel Taylor
A poisonous culture is deeply rooted in some parts of football and BT Sport’s decision to back away from a debate is hardly likely to help matters
Saturday 21 February 2015 20.00 GMT
Last modified on Sunday 22 February 2015 00.42 GMT
In America, it is known as the YSA problem. It has been a bugbear of Major League Soccer’s commissioner, Don Garber, for longer than he will probably wish to remember and a couple of years ago, with a new television deal being negotiated, a memo went around that he could no longer tolerate that slightly strange tradition of supporters shouting: “You suck asshole!” every time the opposition goalkeeper took a goal-kick.
Real Salt Lake went for the naughty-step approach and warned their fans that if the song continued the club would not allow drums and banners inside the stadium, as well as halting privileges such as parking permits and discounted tickets. On the other hand, the New York Red Bulls opted for an incentive programme – bribery, to put it another way – and offered their supporters’ groups $2,000 each if they could go four games YSA-free.
Other clubs use different methods when it comes to the songs they dislike. Liverpool put a Bart Simpson cartoon on their website recently appealing for the naughty word in the Steven Gerrard song to be removed – roundly ignored, naturally – and the attempts at sanitising football crowds go all the way back to Brian Clough’s early years at Nottingham Forest.
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Clough once ordered that a sign be carried around the City Ground before one game with the message: “Gentlemen, no swearing please! Brian.” When Clough was in the running for the England job the Trent End produced its own sign: “Brian, no leaving please! The gentlemen.”
It’s different, though, with Rangers, trying to navigate a way through the fog of bigotry that still pollutes the club and the realisation, even in February 2015, that anyone who has a go will quickly find the hate mob unleashed on them.
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Sure enough, the poison started flowing when Stan Collymore set up an online petition – “Sectarian chanting is illegal” – aimed at turning down the volume on the Famine Song and Billy Boys and challenging some of the warped views that still exist behind Ibrox’s red-bricked walls.
In truth, the culture is so embedded and deep-rooted it might be 50 years, or longer, before Rangers (and Celtic) stop embarrassing modern Scotland.
But at least he was willing to have a go, when he will have known that every wannabe Begbie on the internet would be on his case. Collymore was told very clearly his campaign wasn’t welcome. There were threats of violence and other messages to his Twitter account that made it clear their first reaction was to attack, like zombies.
One guy who turned out to be a member of the club’s IT staff invited him to meet him in Glasgow, signed off with a clenched-fist emoticon that suggested he did not want to discuss Microsoft Windows or the latest edition of Smart Computing magazine. The Rangers Supporters’ Trust, an organisation that presumably wants to be taken seriously, reminded its followers what happened to Ulrika Jonsson 17 years ago (a bit rich at a club where they idolise Paul Gascoigne) and released a statement describing Collymore as a “self-publicist” and an “internet troll”, making petty jibes about his playing career and saying his complaints were “ill-advised, inaccurate and inane”. Plus, of course, the default-setting option every time Rangers are put on the spot: what about Celtic? It’s the tactic that is known in Glasgow as Whataboutery. Never mind what we did, what about them? OK, we’re singing about the IRA or 19th-century famines – but what about the other lot?
Maybe there are times when Collymore could be less strident and it would bring more people on board if he could soften his tone. His style will always put a few backs up and, in hindsight, maybe it would have been a more effective petition if it addressed both Old Firm clubs rather than just one.
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Yet it is still fairly abysmal that one of the sport’s prominent broadcasters and racism campaigners tries to tackle a song that features the line “up to our knees in Fenian blood” and is dropped from his slot with BT Sport because the station “did not agree with the nature of the debate”.
In Spain, they have been deliberating over the past week about whether Barcelona should be punished because a group of supporters known as Almogàvers, latching on to some video footage of Cristiano Ronaldo on a birthday night out, started singing at one match: “Es un borracho, Cristiano es un borracho” — translated to accuse him of being a drunk. The threat of disciplinary action may sound faintly preposterous bearing in mind what can regularly be heard at football grounds elsewhere but the death of a Deportivo la Coruña supporter during violence with Atlético Madrid fans last November has led to a purge on any chants that Javier Tebas, president of Liga de Fútbol Profesional, says constitutes “symbolic violence”.
Barcelona, therefore, have been charged and several other clubs are also in trouble. Sevilla are one of them because when they played Málaga their fans were apparently singing: “We want a tsunami in the Costa del Sol.”
Lugo, in the Second Division, have been reported because fans sang “clown, clown” at Girona’s Francisco José Sandaza and it does make you wonder how long the backlog of disciplinary cases might be were the same rules to apply in the British leagues.
Yet the songs Collymore highlighted are of an entirely different level. In 2006, Rangers were ordered by Uefa to make an announcement before each game clarifying that Billy’s Boys was banned because of its sectarian content.
The Famine Song contains the line “The famine is over, why don’t you go home?” and was deemed racist by three judges in 2008. Yet both were sung en masse, along with No Pope of Rome, at the Scottish League Cup semi-final against Celtic earlier this month. And, go on then, what about the other lot? Celtic’s dunderheads went through songs referring to a “Hun” and, of course, they have their own share of 90-minute and full-time bigots. But it was the Rangers end that seemed hell‑bent on going back through the decades and, if it does seem slightly unusual that Collymore is the one demanding change, maybe that is because we rarely hear a peep out of the people who really should be driving this.
The Scottish Professional Football League hides behind a rule that means clubs cannot be disciplined if they have taken steps “so far as is reasonably practicable” and the Scottish FA is just as feeble.
As for BT Sport, would it not have been better to highlight Collymore’s legitimate complaints and have a grown-up debate rather than decide it was too toxic and take him off air. “We abhor all forms of racism,” read a statement. “It should not be tolerated in sport. When issues of racism or sectarianism emerge, they should be tackled and discussed in the correct manner.”
Except it’s easy to put out a press release and promise the discussion will take place on another day. Why not involve the man who has brought it to light? And do they really not understand the irony that Gazza, the guy who once played a mock flute during an Old Firm game, is their guest on Sunday?
The same statement argues that it is “not censorship” that Collymore was removed from his role. Maybe not, but what has actually happened is that Collymore has complained a bit too vociferously for the station’s liking and the relevant people have taken what looks suspiciously like a commercially motivated decision rather than one that is actually fuelled by what is right and wrong.
Collymore had promised taking his petition to the various sponsors and broadcasters and suggesting they boycott Rangers until the sectarian songs stopped. Would the relevant people have had the nerve? Well, just look at what has happened instead. On Friday, when Rangers played at Raith Rovers, the soundtrack was defiantly predictable. The television executives have run a mile, Collymore has been bumped and the Rangers Supporters’ Trust has told its followers they “can chalk that up as a minor victory”. And everyone wonders why we are stuck in the same old loop.
Had this song stuck in my head for days……..can’t think why :-)
http://youtu.be/X5xdXqbuSPg
Ignore the title…….trust me
Enjoy
HH
Ps mild swearie word or two
Lennybhoy
When you are up and about drop me a text, I might have got carried away last night with numbers but definitely up for CQN11 and could meet in ML5 today to square you up with the cash, my good lady has told me to go for it and I have been assured the bhoys would love CQN11 and totally appreciate it…….