The first reaction to the international break is never positive: “How many players do we have away and what condition will we get them back in?” The team which stopped the ten had more representatives at the 1998 World Cup than any other side (a remarkable achievement), but we caught a cold from these exploits the following season.
Leigh Griffiths would no doubt be delighted to start for Scotland this week. Representing your country is one of the things footballers look back on in their later years, so for his own sake, I hope Leigh gets the call, but for Celtic’s I’d be quite happy for him to have a quiet couple of weeks.
Griffiths, Scott Brown and Nir Bitton are precious commodities to Celtic right now, we can’t afford international mishaps for any of them. There’s better cover for the others who will be on international duty, but Stefan Johansen in particular looks like could do with a break.
You’ll know Packie Bonner’s autobiography, The Last Line, launches this month. Packie has a night at Walkabout in Glasgow on 29th October, where the big man will speak about his career, and many other things, past and contemporary. Tickets are available here.
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Ooooops, sorry about the caps.
Parkheadcumsalford & TD
I’m not naive. I know that the GB and other young Celtic fans will attract the attention of those with darker political motives.
But what we’re seeing from police Scotland goes way beyond that and encompasses many more people and wider issues.
IMHO
HH jamesgang
This place has become far, far too serious.
I don’t understand why it’s like this now.
It used to be a laugh,the night shift especially.
A motley crew.
Some characters.
Aff oot now as KevJungle himself would say.
Have a nice day.
HH.
jamesgang
Totally agree with you on that, as soon as the SNP got all the storm troopers together to be the one biggest gang in the land, I said, “awe aye here wi go”
Police State.
JAMESGANG
I agree with you,mate. It’s bad enough that a law exists to criminalise behaviour which would not breach laws elsewhere. Significantly worse that some sections of our police force use that law to decide arbitrarily what they will or will not allow.
As for ‘putting kids in the firing line’,they ARE in the firing line. Go to 111 at a home game,watch how they are victimised. They’re in the firing line because they are there to support their team.
BRTH – Not a problem mate.
It’s a beautiful place I agree with you on that score, and that penalty save will live forever in the memory.
Apologies for the parochialsim.
HH.
16 ROADS
CQN,a microcosm of life-some days are better than others!
HH,and see you Saturday. Drop me a line re your schedule,bud.
BMCUWP
There is no hope for TTT. At least I have 26 weekends free. His are all free until the weekend arrives. :)
MWD said AYE
WIFE:
What would you do if I died? Would you get married again?
HUSBAND:
Definitely not!
WIFE:
Why not – don’t you like being married?
HUSBAND:
Of course I do.
WIFE:
Then why wouldn’t you remarry?
HUSBAND:
Okay, I’d get married again.
WIFE:
You would? (With a hurtful look on her face).
HUSBAND:
(Makes audible groan).
WIFE:
Would you live in our house?
HUSBAND:
Sure, it’s a great house.
WIFE:
Would you sleep with her in our bed?
HUSBAND:
Where else would we sleep?
WIFE:
Would you let her drive my car?
HUSBAND:
Probably, it is almost new.
WIFE:
Would you replace my pictures with hers?
HUSBAND:
That would seem like the proper thing to do.
WIFE:
Would she use my golf clubs?
HUSBAND:
No, she’s left-handed.
WIFE:
– silence – –
HUSBAND:
F * ck….
Can I point out that the young Celtic supporters in the video clip have absolutely nothing to do with the Green Brigade.
the GB had their own banner at Hamilton on Sunday which was displayed in the Celtic end prior to kick off.
I find it incredible that any Celtic supporter could criticise supporters over this and not focus on the hostility from the authorities.
MOONBEAMSWD
My Dad knows that feeling…
Can I just point out a couple of general things.
Last night there was a bit of debate on the site about the lack of posts and the fact that some posters (like myself for long periods) no longer post – certainly as often as they used to.
Some of this might be down to the new shape of the blog and the adverts etc, some comments I have seen reflect on the adversarial nature of some opinions whether they be on politics, football, Celtic or whatever.
From my own point of view, from around November last year I had to take a step back from previous levels of CQN activity due to family and work committments and so there can be weeks that go by without me even seeing the blog let alone posting. Sometimes, that is just the way it is and I am sure I am not alone in that.
Hopefully i can regain some spare time and write some more and do some more fundraising etc but until thenCQN will have to take a back seat.
On the question of Police Scotland and the OB act.
I watched the video of the Police Officers confiscating the banner from the young Celtic fans and to be honest thought it was a disgrace and worthy of real legal challenge.
The Police do not have the right to confiscate any item of property from anyone unless that property is being used in the commission of an offence.
In this instance, they seem to accpet that the banner was not offensive per se and that they confiscated it in a supermarket car park.
They then justified some of their actions by arguing that of the banner ( that will be the non offensive banner – was displayed in the car park then it could be seen from inside the ground.
Well, hold on, does the OB act now extend to the banning of non offensive banners ( and that is a subjective test ) being seen from inside the ground?
If so, can someone be arrested or indeed have property confiscated if they display it at the window of their home that overlooks Firhill where it might be seen from the ground?
I realise that these were kids and that worries me. Would a Police officer react in the same way to say a group of 50 year olds who had the nous to not only question under what authority the officers were acting but also make it plain that they thought that the police officers were breaking the law and who would ask them straight if they were acting on the instructions of the match commander and seek the identity of the match commander for the purposes of the civil action that would follow such an illegal action.
The Police force in Scotland are directed and instructed by senior officers and it is not uncommon for Police “policy” to be quite rightly challeneged as being unlawful and going beyond the law of the land.
I don’t think the police officers had any right wahtsoever to temporarily conficate any banner and rightly or wrongly this is another example of the football fan being treated as a second class citizen.
I doubt very much if a Rugby fan would be treated in the same manner.
Oh and the banner had the name of a Celtic supporters club on it followed by AXE THE ACT.
That’s the extent of its political nature.
Sad nes from Germany, where the genuinely great Gerd Muller has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
Will do Bobby M.
No curry or kebab though, I don’t like that foreign cuisine!! :)
BRTH – should read Tír Chonaill Abu – copy & paste didn’t work right!
Laters.
HH.
This is the longer version of what happened on Sunday when a group of young Celtic supporters tried to take an AXE THE ACT banner into the stadium in opposition to the OBaF Act.
SUPPORTING YOUR TEAM IS NOT A CRIME.
http://youtu.be/HuBjNloQ26E
Why dont the petition-peddlars compile a petition along the lines of….
…”No Celtic supporter to give the Celtic-hun-loving-board another thine dime until….the ‘act’ that was rubberstamped by, Paul McBride QC and, other swivel-eyed accomplicies in the Celtic board room after the shame game….is, abolished and, for their sins….Celtics hierarchy to pay the legal fees for the ensuing fight against the anti-Celtic-establishment.”
Signed – Unrepentant-Rebellious-Celtic-Supporters.
BMCUP,
that book is one B I G book you know. Will take a while to finish it ;-)
But to be fair, a wedding that has been on the calendar for a year or more, is a decent excuse for missing out on Sat….surely? mibbe’s aye, mibbe’s naw?
MWD,
all my weekends are indeed free….when Im working away!
At home, well to be fair I have made the last 3 days oot and aw day at that :-)
Next year Bhoys, there’s always next year….
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Off oot to a place were, leprechauns and rainbows are real.
……oot. YNWA.
Well I for one wasent focusing on the authoritys hostility, so you can cut the spin on that right now, all I’m saying is and this is the third time, they where left hung out to dry, now whether they are fro section 111, or what ever group they where representing, and I neve mentions any in my post, they are being groomed, and let’s not be kidded who the cameras are for either, we know who they are for, so stop trying to be fly.
THETOKENTIM
You getting a ribbing for missing a dayooooot/Hootenanny is a bit like me getting same for missing trains.
There’s no offence intended in either case. Nor can we dispute the facts!
HH,and enjoy the wedding,bud.
!6 roads.
look forward to you explainin yourself bout this parochial hole your diggin yourself lol :-)
‘scutt ye.
HH
KEVJ
Mind and bring thon pot of gold along on Saturday,mate!
Tony
The guys on that video are not part of the GB and do not have any association with the GB. Furthermore they don’t sit in section 111 at Parkhead.
With respect you don’t know the facts here.
The OBaF Bill was introduced because of the behaviour of Rangers players and officials in the ‘shame game’.
The Bill was passed and since it has become an Act, has widely criminalised football supporters.
This Act is politically motivated and politically driven by the government and the police.
The Celtic support haven’t ‘politicised’ ourselves as a consequence of this. No, it has happened TO us, not BECAUSE of us.
BT -my bad, meant i was going to bookshop around 3pm to buy a book and signing then etc
CRC if ok with you will pay for my items on Saturday but no worries if you are snowed under it csn wait
Ps the guys in the video clearly state that they paid for the banner to be made themselves. It was made by or paid for by others and then handed to them to display. To suggest so is wholly inaccurate.
HAMILTONTIM
An excellent and totally valid distinction.
Those who deny that the act is being used to target us disproportionately point to the headline arrest figures.
Perhaps they should compare them to,say,five years ago. Are our arrest figures out of kilter by comparison?
Saltires
I’m sure he will sign your programme no problem….
hope to catch up Saturday..
Shocking young kids groomed and brainwashed, more worried about a daft banner, than getting in to see the game and supporting Celtic like we all did, well I did when I was that age, it’s agenda driven left wing? Socialist? University crack pots using kids, bottom line plain and simple, but you won’t see them in the firing line, not a chance in hell.
A cabbie picks up a Nun. She gets into the cab, and notices that the VERY handsome cab driver won’t stop staring at her. She asks him why he is staring.
He replies: “I have a question to ask, but I don’t want to offend you.”
She answers, “My son, you cannot offend me. When you’re as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have, you get a chance to see and hear just about everything. I’m sure that there’s nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive.”
“Well, I’ve always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me.”
She responds, “Well, let’s see what we can do about that…
1) You have to be single and
2) You must be Catholic.”
The cab driver is very excited and says, “Yes, I’m single and Catholic!”
“OK” the nun says. “Pull into the next alley.”
The nun fulfills his fantasy with a kiss that would make a hooker blush. But when they get back on the road, the cab driver starts crying.
“My dear child,” said the nun, “why are you crying?”
“Forgive me, but I’ve sinned. I lied and I must confess, I’m married and I’m Jewish.”
The nun says, “That’s OK. My name is Kevin and I’m going to a Halloween party!”
BT – really looking forward to it but not half as much as a young lady who had a wee crush back in the day :-)
Hamiltontim on 7th October 2015 11:36 am
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Instead of playing or, accepting that we’re the victims….why dont you call out the perpetrators of this ‘act’…the Celtic board?
Why do you refuse to look indside the club?
Why are the Celtic board not called out for their kowtowing which sold-out the Celtic support, after the shame game?
What did Celtic FC contribute to make it a shame game?
Who did these well placed billionaires on the Celtic board speak for when they agreed to this act?
Why are Celtic supporters easily fooled by a couple of ‘nameless’ statements on the Celtic websites stating that they disagree with the bill….all the while, these same nameless-wonders who run our club, couldny get into bed with the establishment quick enough…after the shame game…to sell you out?
It’s one big giant web of deceit, probably masonic but…the trick is…to see through it…not, to be taken-in by it.HH
HAMILTONTIM on 7TH OCTOBER 2015 11:44 AM
Ps the guys in the video clearly state that they paid for the banner to be made themselves. It was made by or paid for by others and then handed to them to display. To suggest so is wholly inaccurate.
– See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/the-international-precious-commodities/comment-page-11/#comment-2693790
Aye right, who you kidden , that’s how brainwashed you’ve got them, leave them alone ffs and let them enjoy themselves they are only kids, it’s disgusting , and the daft police aren’t to clever either, but the kids don’t know the score or the laws, so just throw them to the lions.
Oh dear.
I have no wish to drag CQN into another argument so I’m happy to leave it.
The majority of the GB have been arrested at some point since the introduction of the Act. I don’t have exact figures and most have had spurious charges dropped.
They come from a wide variety of backgrounds just like the rest of the Celtic support.
Anyone suggesting that they are using others or being used by others is quite simply wrong.
Some supporters have no time for them (my mate for example really disnae have much time for them!) but let’s get back to real issue here which is the criminalisation of football supporters for political reasons.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 7th October 2015 11:33 am
KEVJ
Mind and bring thon pot of gold along on Saturday,mate!
+++
Ha :)
Bobby, I’m sorry to disappoint fella…hopefully, there’ll be a next time.
I’ll drop you a line as well as BT.
Hope everything goes well for yer day son…yer an angel dont ye know…
…a Celtic Angel.
Hail Hail….take care.
Interesting comments by VVD regarding playing in the English Premier League.
He certainly didn’t look as accomplished when he first arrived a Celtic from Groningen, he was not International class.
He developed a great deal at Celtic and left a much better player. The fact he has adapted to the much higher standard in the EPL says much for the big man’s talent, determination and ability to raise his game. But the fact that someone can leave Celtic and within weeks look like a top quality CB against teams like Chelsea say a lot about the coaching and conditioning he got at Celtic.
Victor took a season to bed into the EPL.
I believe his recent comments are directed towards Danny Blind, saying I’m ready to be a Dutch International Player.
Good luck to him.
As far as the lack of posters on CQN is concerned, I agree with BRT&H, there are many reasons fholk don’t post. Certainly over the years I’ve been on (10+) my posting habits have fluctuated greatly.
Was even a victim of the new “are you a Hun” initiation, even though I’d been posting for years before that was the standard welcome.
Yet looking at the names Winning Captains posted yesterday, many of them weren’t blogging long term, some have always been occasional posters and some just fluctuate.
One name caught my eye, Celticlover, who was an original poster and pure gent, always treated everyone with maximum respect.
Well he posted that he was going to walk the Santiago de Compostela.
Never seen him post again, after that, I like to think he may have just raised himself up the Spiritual plain and had more worthy pursuits, who knows?
Yet in all my time through my posting no shows I’ve always read Paul67’s articles, the one excellent constant.
I remember the days before CQN and the like, not a lot of solace on any media for us Celtic fans.
So I never take it for granted, the work that the ghuys are putting in to bring the site up to the next level is certainly appreciated by me.
Once again – Thanks to all those that make it happen.
Hail Hail
Tony
It’s your opinion which as you never tire of telling us, everyone is entitled to.
I’m giving you the cold hard reality.
It’s your choice.
KevJ
We have called out Celtic on it. In fairness the club have recently come out in opposition to the Act.
Must go, have a good day.
Kev J said:
” Unrepentant-Rebellious-Celtic-Supporters. ”
Otherwise know as Urcs. Hmmmm….
JJ