I’ve only seen a Swedish team play live on two occasions, the national team, at Hampden, twice. The first was in 1977. Kenny Dalglish was still very much a Celtic hero at the time but back then I was captivated by Ronnie Glavin, who, for me, provided as much thrill as his more celebrated team mate. Ronnie was subbed early in the second half but it was Joe Craig who made the headlines after coming on as a late substitute to make his international debut.
I was far back in the Celtic end but memories of Dalglish crossing from the right wing and Joe stooping low to head into the net from close range – his first touch of the ball – remain vivid.
I’ve a few great Swedish football memories of TV coverage: Gothenburg in the 1986 European Cup semi-final against Barca. The Swedes were 3-0 after the first leg but wilted in Catalonia and lost out on penalties. The neutrals were disappointed. Gothenburg fared better the following season, edging Dundee United in the Uefa Cup final (I was disappointed again). Heady days for both. I recall cheering the same team on in a Champions League qualifier during our barren 90s, when European pleasure was taken second hand.
There are some who would tell you Swedish football is in dire straits. Gothenburg, once the regional superpower, are currently 11th in the league, but Sweden has a rare joy, a league title competed for by up to a dozen teams. The Allsvenskan has produced seven different champions in the last seven years, in fact, it is a bit like Scotland, without Celtic or former club Rangers (remember them?).
Clubs live within their means, have an absolute connection to their communities and thrive knowing that genuine talent will be rewarded with a league title. Aspirational Scottish clubs must dream of this status….
Looking forward to tomorrow night. The script is written for Tony Watt to ‘do a Joe Craig’.
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Paul McC
Good read mate. Cheers.
Dingwalls got such a thick brass neck you could not mark it with a blowtorch…literally
There was no part of the switcheroo that was good value for the creditors/taxpayers
The assets went for a song and 130 mil went with liquidation this is more about Dingwall bemoaning the money lost to newco by Duff and Phelps fee than any compassion he may feel for creditors
Has he said as much about oldco robbing the taxpayers and creditors out of their cash
“Mark Dingwall, a board member of the Rangers Supporters Trust, said Duff & Phelps had not represented good value for creditors”
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/ … -1-2492661
Boab, I have 7 episodes of Breaking Bad 5 online, sensational.
SffS
̶S̶T̶V̶ ̶R̶A̶M̶A̶N̶ ̶H̶e̶l̶s̶i̶n̶g̶b̶o̶r̶g̶s̶ ̶b̶o̶s̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶f̶i̶d̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶m̶o̶o̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶g̶e̶t̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶C̶L̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶p̶e̶r̶
STV RAMAN confident of Helsingborgs getting to CL proper
Sevconian TV CSC
Greensideisup – I heard that one explained on Snyde.
They said that since the game was on the TV they didn’t want to have any embarassing mistakes from a junior referee. Just `honest’ ones!!!!!!! HH
Estadio was the pub called The General Wolfe ?
Pretty sure it was Whitevale swimming baths
Estadio on your blog page ,cursor hovering over picture tells me it’s a bathhouse.
Any other words in hinglish with 2 hhs together ?
If Brown ( groin ) Commons and Rogne (ankle ) doubtful for tomorrow and Kayal and Ledley already out, what will our line up be ?
Forster
Mathews Wilson Mulgrew Izzy
Forrest McCourt Wanyama Twardzik Sammi
Hooper
Not sure if we have many options left. I appreciate that young Tony may come on but cannot see him start. Getting a bit concerned about midfield IMO we look a bit lightweight.
HH
CT/Auldheid
Thanks for The Whitevale Baths.
itsaboutatim……aye! :-)
CT….Re ‘The Stab Inn’. I still give the Emerald Isle that soubriquet. Can you remember the real name…I thought it had a woman’s name in it. Never drank in it myself since it was always overflowing.
Hail Hail
Estadio
Get well soon big Hamish
Scots footballer Hamish McAlpine is recovering in hospital after suffering a heart attack.
The 64-year-old former goalkeeper took ill on Sunday while trimming a hedge in his garden.
He was admitted to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, where he is currently being cared for, but his condition is said to be improving and it is believed he will be discharged in the next few days.
Mr McAlpine, best known for his 19-year career with Dundee United, fell ill at his home in Newtyle, Angus, on Sunday morning.
Speaking from his hospital bed, he said he had been inundated with get well messages from supporters of the Tannadice club.
He said: “I was out cutting the hedge on Sunday morning and I felt a pain. I thought it was just indigestion but it went on for ten minutes and I knew it was something worse. I’m normally going daft, but I was just having an easy morning, taking the dogs out. I headed up to Ninewells right away and they said I’d had a heart attack.”
Doctors inserted a tube into Mr McAlpine’s heart to clear a blockage in his chest. He will undergo a scan to assess if there are any further health issues.
He added: “The pain is gone and I’m getting well looked after. I’m not in a bit of pain and I just need to take tablets now. It was just a wee blockage, but they got it quick enough so it didn’t do any lasting damage. I’m on the mend and I’ll hopefully be back on my feet in the next day or so.”
Mr McAlpine made almost 700 appearances for Dundee United between 1966 and 1985 and was part of the league winning side in the 1982/83 season.
A former Scotland under 21 international, he also won the league cup with the side, both in 1979 and 1980.
He has also played for Montrose, Arbroath, Raith Rovers and Dunfermline Athletic.
Art of War
14:04 on
28 August, 2012
Lol, it reminds me of the games that we played against a former team, when we had a corner late in the game, cue the mysterious foul in the box, Hunbelievable!
gsu
Sorry to read that ole Hamish McAlpine former keeper of note, has suffered a heart attack.
Get well soon.
HeLivedTheDream CSC
2 hhs….
Witchhunt, often used in conversations about the scottish msm.
Talking of seeing Sweden I was at Italian 90 Scotland v Sweden possibly one of the best atmospheres I have experienced at a game. The only drawback that night was le petit merde scoring with a penalty I and another Celtic fan one row in front of me refused to celebrate that little bar steward scoring we just stood there as the place erupted in bedlam. If that man is on here now please let me know. Also on that trip me and my pal that I was with we’re possibly the only scots who managed to get a drink at the Brazil game ,it was a dry zone all around the stadium
ASonOfDan
:-)
Just think that we are not going to get UEFA’s answer by looking at their website on club’s pages.
The European Club Association might shed some more light on the situation when it reviews its membership.
Mort
JJP-ON
Good on ye,I’ve not got a big list of the answer in front of me.
mighty tim and kevjungle
thanks for your advice
hate to harp on about it but somebody tell me what is not perfect about us signing Del Piero
Mort
The question has not been asked really because the failure to provide audited accounts stopped SFA putting Oldco forwrad for a licence to play in the CL/EL.
Now had audited accounts been provided but Oldco had still liquidated, would UEFA have treated Sevco as a new club and asked for 3 years audited accounts or accepted Oldco’s accounts?
Highly unlikely as UEFA would not have wanted (or crucially thought they needed) a delapidated Oldco with an uncertain future for the season ahead playing in their competition. So chances are that UEFA would have argued they were a new club with no 3 year accounting history.
It all depends on the core belief of the ruling body and UEFA, unlike the SFA, would not be concerned about preserving Oldco and would have used the absence of 3 year historical accounts rule, thus making Sevco a new club, had the unaudited accounts rule not applied first chronologically.
Estadio
13:50 on
28 August, 2012
Right, today there is NO ‘where am I?’.
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your were am I could do with the addition of the “God Bless Tommy Burns” banner
you know the one I mean, for our guys based in foreign –
where / were
doh
marc_e_bhoy
13:46 on
28 August, 2012
ASonOfDan
13:37 on 28 August, 2012
scottimac
Some strange questions for someone who has been reading CQN for ages.
Look at the UEFA site and see what they have as rangers last game. It aint Berwick Rangers…
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Was thinking the exact same thing. I’ve been waiting months for a password reset but reading every day and those aren’t the questions of someone that’s been reading, more like the questions of a hun wanting to know our thoughts
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You’re only on here two minutes and already you’re calling people huns!!!
I like you already :-)
Spotted a highland branch van of Craig Thompsons FES up Inverness way last week. Mibbes hes suddenly expanding with all the new 3rd division stadium maintenance contracts now available. Next year SPL2.
I expect that the MIBs will do well out of the intensifying of masonic influence in the lower divisions and junior leagues.
stevo
14:12 on
28 August, 2012
hate to harp on about it but somebody tell me what is not perfect about us signing Del Piero
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Last time he was here ,he was nutmegged by an unknown from Slovakia.
ASonOfDan
Something is brewing………
So Sally has been telling his new signings they will be back in the SPL in two years.
Goian says he is coming back next season because he has been told there is a problem with money at a lot of clubs and Sevco will be fast-tracked back to the SPL.
Camp Ogilvie says reconstruction of leagues is not for a quick return for Sevco.
I smell shoite.
HH
Vogue
I called the picture ‘bathhouse.jpg’. That solves that one Sherlock! :-)
(as for your question, how about Pishhouse, washhouse, fishhog, lashhair, cashhake?)
Smyth , The General Wolfe strikes a chord but for some reason I remember it with a woman’s name…..mind you that might have been the chip shop.
Thanks all for your help. I’ll do a bit more digging.
Hail Hail
Estadio
Testing 123
Loan signings…………
Samaras was loaned to us from Man City.
HH
AIK confirm striker Mo Bangura is only Sierra on Leone till Christmas
Outer Garment and offski CSC
estadio
Are you referring to Norma Jeane’s which was one of the previous names of Bar67?
southside
14:16 on
28 August, 2012
Never mind dipping your toes in, just jump in, the water’s fine :)
gsu
Estadio
I know you made some of them up :O)
General Wolfe was diagonally across from pub you’re asking of.
estadio
1. Lynns bar
2. Whitevale baths
ernie lynch said:
” I think there’s still hope for Barton, but it would take an older, more experienced manager that Neil Lennon to handle him.”
Age and experience are pointless if little is learned in the process. If Neil Lennon has more talent than older and more experienced managers in the area of dealing with people then he might just be the sort of man who could deal with Joey Barton. Certainly Neil`s character has been tested more than any football person , manager,player ,ref et al, that I can think of and he has handled that superbly.If he decided to sign Barton, I would trust Neil Lennon to get the best out of him.
JJ
The Stab Inn ?
More than one establishment in Glasgow deserves the name but one which fully deserved it was— The Spring Inn in Springburn . Does it still exist ?
I can NOT understand the clamour on here from some posters that we should sign Alessandro Del Piero.
An undoubted world class player in his prime – but he’s 37 now.
I would rather that we brought on youngsters like Watt, McGeough, Twardzik, George (when fit again), McGregor, Irvine and others!
HH!!
southside – didn’t work mate, try again! lol