Time to call Fifa to account

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The Fifa Executive Committee meet in Zurich today and tomorrow but it is unclear if the allegations of corruption concerning the decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar will be on the agenda.  The world body are no strangers to allegations of corruption, it seems to be an internal part of the fabric of the game at the top level, they are also extremely experienced at stonewalling such allegations.

The International Trades Union Congress, who are calling for the 2022 vote to be re-run, have called for fans attending games this weekend to turn their back on the field at the 22nd minute, to build awareness of what is going on with Fifa and the Qatari preparations.

When you get corruption at the top of an organisation it tends to undermine process all the way down.  A clean and alert Fifa would give us a far better game.  It’s time we were all asking questions about this.

Congratulations to Mrs Jobo Balde, who won at £50 voucher to spend at Cail Bruich, 725 Great Western Road.  Jobo, drop me and email……….

Photos are in from CQteN, great work by Geo, as usual. Click on the photo to see hi-res. More to come:

Seville, The Celtic Movement, is selling like the proverbial……

“I decided to go to the train station only to be told that there were no more trains to Malaga that night and so I was now truly stranded. By chance I met an old man who asked me if I knew where the train station was. “It’s no good mate they are all off—all the trains have gone!”

“The old man laughed and explained that he wasn’t looking to get a train, but just needed to find the station as that is where he had parked his car while he and his wife went to the game.

“We spoke for a few minutes about what had happened to me and then he said if I could get him to the station he would drive me to Malaga as they were staying twenty minutes outside Malaga for the rest of the week!

“I was delighted and accepted the lift and we got to the airport just as the last call went out for my flight. I rushed on board and guess who was there? None other than my mate Jim. I owe that old man and his wife so much for their help.”

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  1. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Neustadt-Braw, cool banana’s bruv but my Mutterboden is not from Forfar, well except the bit that’s in my front garden that my dodgy Forfar gardener stole from station park.

     

     

    He’s a good loon and a braw braw braw bhoy.

     

     

    Mon the baldies.

  2. A Ceiler Gonof Rust

     

     

    01:23 on 21 March, 2014

     

     

    Petec, how you doing bud. I get all that about the useless apprentice but if the hun management do what they should and sack the despicable fat boy, they aren’t exactly going to be bringing in Jose or Pep. FFS, what decent manager would take on this basket case of deadbeats and mercenaries?

     

     

    I’m past the point where he’s brought us so much laughter and would love to see him get what he actually deserves, i.e.his jotters.

     

     

    Hootenanny ya bam.

     

     

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    I’m doing ok, Ta for asking.

     

     

    Yer always positive, it is probably why I never ask yer good self, How are you?

     

     

    To be brutally honest, I don’t give a sh*t about the sh*t going on over there, they imploded, ye know my believe system, yer Lukewarm aTm but Green and Whyte?

     

     

    ;))

  3. A Ceiler Gonof Rust

     

     

    01:37 on 21 March, 2014

     

     

    MurdochauldandHay & Wee Oscar, that sounds expensive. Wayne Rooney spent ten grand getting a baboon’s arse transplanted onto his head. I can save you a fortune with my neighbour’s cat and some superglue. £6.50 for the glue and the job’s done. You can even choose between three colours. I’ve got black, ginger and a kind of greeny blue. Say the word bruv and I’ll get me gun oot.

     

     

    Us Bert’s bhoys stick thigither:-)

     

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    I may speak about Kris Commons not being the Number 10 to take us to the last 8 of the Champions League (I hope he does BIG TIME). Kris Commons will hopefully be a guide for the future Super Duper Stars that are going to grace Celtic Park (and earn ridiculous sums of Money) and it has nothing to do with Football, Kris, fitba is just a game, yer Family is well, Simply Amazing.

     

     

    Temptingfate.csc

  4. AI

     

     

    Frae Way Bach in the Day, not easy to decipher, if ye wurnae intae dance/techno music.

     

     

    Great sonic as well.

     

     

    The bad guys are at least 50 years in the Manipulation, anyone who disagrees is Normal.

  5. Ezekiel 38

     

     

     

    38 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech[a] and Tubal, and prophesy against him 3 and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech[b] and Tubal. 4 And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords. 5 Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; 6 Gomer and all his hordes; Beth-togarmah from the uttermost parts of the north with all his hordes—many peoples are with you.

     

     

    7 “Be ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. 8 After many days you will be mustered. In the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land whose people were gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and now dwell securely, all of them. 9 You will advance, coming on like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.

     

     

    10 “Thus says the Lord God: On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme 11 and say, ‘I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,’ 12 to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth. 13 Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its leaders[c] will say to you, ‘Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?’

     

     

    14 “Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord God: On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not know it? 15 You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army. 16 You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.

     

     

    17 “Thus says the Lord God: Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them? 18 But on that day, the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel, declares the Lord God, my wrath will be roused in my anger. 19 For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. 20 The fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground. 21 I will summon a sword against Gog[d] on all my mountains, declares the Lord God. Every man’s sword will be against his brother. 22 With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur. 23 So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

     

     

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  6. Marsapa said:

     

    Did’nt we have to replay Rapid because a fan threw a plastic bottle on the park

     

     

    It wasn’t a plastic bottle.

     

     

    It was an empty half-bottle of whisky and was made of glass.

     

     

    Having said that, it landed on the pitch about 6 yards from the touchline and about 2 yards from the nearest player, an Austrian, who amazingly went down holding his head.

  7. Gold Coast Tom

     

     

    03:19 on 21 March, 2014

     

     

    Marsapa said:

     

    Did’nt we have to replay Rapid because a fan threw a plastic bottle on the park

     

     

    It wasn’t a plastic bottle.

     

     

    It was an empty half-bottle of whisky and was made of glass.

     

     

    Having said that, it landed on the pitch about 6 yards from the touchline and about 2 yards from the nearest player, an Austrian, who amazingly went down holding his head.

     

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    I was gutted that we didnae get what we deserved. Everything, to the miniscule level, happens for a reason by God’s story.

     

     

    God Bless you olde fella, safe territory, and I just can’t get enough when you say Enough’.

  8. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS .........FC not PLC on

    PETEC

     

     

    How you doing,bud?

     

     

    Just nipped in for a nicotine and caffeine jag. L-o-n-g shift….

     

     

    Gog and Magog don’t half get around,you know.

     

     

    As well as Ezekiel,they are in Revelations. And also in English,Welsh and Irish folklore,though as heroic figures IIRC.

     

     

    Pretty sure they are also spread throughout Eastern European,Russian and Germanic lore,as well as appearing in Hindu tales.

     

     

    I remember seeing them in The Lord Mayor’s show and wondering what two forces of evil were doing on his crest. Hence my recollection of the above.

  9. Salmond’s Praetorian Guard announce “intelligence” sharing preparations with……the Met? TBC I suppose.

     

     

    In the meantime, while some of us are aware of the nonsense already going on regarding offences as minimal as speeding leading to assaults on English driving licences, or 15 year old boys being criminalised for singing songs of political freedom, things could get interesting.

     

     

    So what “intelligence” is being shared, if any…

     

     

    How to identify what is a crime?

  10. Celtic and Rangers set sights on Manchester United outcast Federico Macheda as striker prepares to leave Old Trafford as free agent

     

    Mar 21, 2014 03:00 By Craig Swan 1 Comments

     

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    THE 22-year-old striker, who is currently on loan at Birmingham City, is set to leave Old Trafford this summer after his contract expires.

     

     

    MANCHESTER UNITED outcast Federico Macheda is wanted by Celtic and Rangers – according to his agent Giovanni Bia.

     

     

    The 22-year-old, currently on loan at Birmingham City, is set to leave Old Trafford as a free agent in the summer after his contract expires.

     

     

    Macheda burst on to the scene as a teenager under Sir Alex Ferguson but quickly slipped from the first-team set-up at United.

     

     

    Loan spells at Sampdoria, Stuttgart, QPR and Doncaster have brought no permanent deals for the striker and he won’t be staying at St Andrews.

     

     

    Bia said: “There is some interest from Italy but Federico would prefer to stay and extend his career abroad. There are still opportunities in England but there is determination from Rangers and especially Celtic.”

  11. And before any of you cyber nats come on with yer pish, I’m voting yes.

     

     

    But it’s feck all to do with anything you muppets have said. The most childish, moronic political mince I’ve ever come across. Your stupidity in politics actually enforces your argument that we need to break away from British politics and media control.

     

     

    But you lot terrify me for the future.

     

     

    Off oot.

     

     

    (My condolences to BRTH on the loss of your dad. Sad news, but he will surely be proud of of you, as you are of him).

  12. THE QUALITY STREET GANG: THE GREATEST CELTIC TEAM THAT NEVER WAS

     

    March 20, 2014 · by Will Burns · in SCOTLAND. ·

     

    As the ink dried on his Anfield contract in August 1977 and another record-breaking cheque was inevitably cashed by the Parkhead powerbrokers, the departure of Kenny Dalglish signalled the end of a golden era at Celtic Park writes Paul Dykes (Author of ‘The Quality Street Gang’)

     

     

     

     

    Only ten years earlier, his green and white hooped predecessors had blazed a trail around Europe, bringing the ‘Big Cup’ home to British shores for the first time after a spectacular, quintessentially underdog victory against the mighty Internazionale of Milan. In just two years, Jock Stein had worked his own brand of sorcery on this hitherto unspectacular group of footballers and crafted them into the champions of Europe with only the minimum of domestic acquisitions. But as he stood at the pinnacle of European football, Stein already had designs on Celtic’s next generation of home-grown talent.

     

     

    Milan’s glitterati had grown old and Stein’s Celtic had knocked the twice World Club Champions off their pedestal in breathtaking fashion. These eleven Scottish individuals, who would be known ad infinitum by the moniker of The Lisbon Lions, had certainly served Stein well and he was not about to let them go the same way as Helenio Herrera’s ‘La Grande Inter’.

     

     

    How do you replace such an iconic captain and leader of men as Billy McNeill, who possessed all the natural qualities of a born winner? Or a winger of such supreme individual talent and panache as Jimmy Johnstone, whose strength and mesmerising dribbling ability bamboozled defences all over the world? Or the commanding and peerlessly influential and talismanic Bobby Murdoch, who could pass the ball with a range and precision that could orchestrate an entire match? These were just some of the dilemmas that faced Jock Stein but the breaking up of this incredible Lisbon Lions dynasty was made a lot smoother by the sheer raft of talent that were waiting in the wings.

     

     

    Despite the phenomenal success of his team over the previous few seasons, Jock Stein had possessed the foresight to plan ahead and had signed a procession of prodigious Scottish talents, who had been learning their trade from the very best in European football on the Barrowfield training ground every day since their arrival at the club. Inconspicuous young men whose indoctrination into the Celtic way had been gradual and methodical. These young cubs were reared to replace the Lisbon Lions, the most celebrated football team in the history of the Scottish game.

     

     

    Jock Stein almost simultaneously crafted two football teams in the late sixties and early seventies, that would ensure Celtic could enjoy utter dominance of the Scottish game for virtually a decade. His young collection of reserve team players would experience many talents, triumphs and tragedies throughout the most successful period in the history of Celtic Football Club and he believed they were so capable that he made a proposal to install them into the Scottish Second Division in 1968. Many clubs feared that they would win the league. The Scottish press christened the Lisbon Lions‘ heir apparent, ‘The Quality Street Gang’ and tales of the precocious second string’s successes have become the stuff of Celtic folklore.

     

     

     

     

    During one almost mythical encounter with Partick Thistle in August 1968, and with Celtic needing at least seven goals to win their Reserve League Cup section over Rangers, they ran out 12-0 winners with Lou Macari scoring four goals.

     

     

    Two months later, Scotland’s national team boss, Bobby Brown, asked Jock Stein to supply him with opposition for a warm-up practice match. Stein sent him the Quality Street Gang and the kids destroyed a full Scottish International team, featuring Ronnie Simpson, Colin Stein, Eddie Gray and Billy Bremner, 5-2. Scotland defeated Denmark nine days later.

     

     

    The 1969-70 Glasgow Cup Final was still a prestigious enough tournament to attract a near 60,000 crowd on a Monday evening and Jock Stein again took the opportunity to showcase some of his finest protégés. A George Connelly-inspired Celtic, with six Quality Street Kids in the line-up, swept a full-strength Rangers team aside and ran out 3-1 winners.

     

     

    By the time of the 1970 European Cup final, some of the Gang had already forced their way into this great Celtic side and within a few more years many more would become household names. Indeed, many observers believed that the omission of George Connelly from Stein’s San Siro starting line-up had a major bearing on the outcome of Celtic’s second European Cup final in just three years.

     

     

    The Quality Street Kids were the highest scorers in British football in season 1970-71 and Kenny Dalglish, who hadn‘t yet made his mark on the first team, scored an astonishing sixteen goals in just six games as the reserves wrapped up a League, League Cup and Second XI Cup treble. Their closest rivals, Rangers were defeated three times in just eight days in the League and two-legged League Cup Final. The scores read: 7-1, 4-1 and 6-1.

     

     

     

     

    Kenny Dalglish had scored 43 goals in two seasons with the reserves but his exploits were being monumentally eclipsed by Lou Macari, who netted 91, and the highly-rated Vic Davidson, who scored an emphatic 92. Both Macari and Davidson’s totals also included a spattering of first team goals.

     

     

    Celtic’s stylish babes were destroying all reserve competition before them and although Jock Stein’s vision of them developing in the more competitive Scottish Second Division had been rebuffed by the SFA, he was at least able to challenge them by regularly staging Lisbon Lions versus Quality Street Gang practice matches at training. Instead of being over-awed by the legendary first-team figures, these cocksure kids fancied their chances and occasionally won the largely-attended bounce games.

     

     

    So why has the wider football community not heard of the Quality Street Gang? Unlike Sir Alex Ferguson’s extensively lionized class of ’92, many of these underlings to the nonpareil Lisbon Lions capitulated in dramatic fashion and the gang broke up before realizing their incredible collective potential.

     

     

    Some of the fabled Quality Street Kids went on to become revered throughout the football world with players such as Kenny Dalglish, Danny McGrain, Lou Macari and Davie Hay achieving incredible success for club and country in the seventies and into the nineteen eighties but while the fortuitous few attained incredible glories, there were other phenomenal talents who fell by the wayside in spectacular style.

     

     

    Scotland’s 1973 Player of the Year, George Connelly, from a small mining village in Fife, walked away from the game at just 26. He had been compared to Franz Beckenbauer and was the natural successor to the seemingly indestructible Billy McNeill but mental illness, alcoholism and a disdain for the limelight drove him out of the game at a lamentably young age.

     

     

    Tony McBride was a “pocket edition of Jimmy Johnstone” according to Jock Stein but he failed to make a single first team appearance on account of his frequent brushes with the law, much to the annoyance of the taskmaster Stein.

     

     

    Brian McLaughlin was good enough to break into the first team at just 16. Yet his unfortunate and tragic downfall was prompted by a brutal career-threatening onfield assault in 1973 at the hands of a journeyman Aidrieonian thug, who is remembered for nothing else in the game. McLaughlin had it in him to be the Lubomír Moravcík of his generation but his sparkling career was molested and his grotesque injury literally brought a tear to Jock Stein’s eye.

     

     

    The enigmatic Pat McMahon became Celtic’s first post-Lisbon signing and burst onto the scene in the 67-68 season with his Beatlesesque flowing locks and fresh-faced good looks. McMahon was an intellectual, who had trained in the Priesthood as a youngster before moving down to London. Much to his chagrin, he returned to reserve team football after 5 goals in 6 first-team matches and his Celtic career hit the skids. Oddly, he made no further first team appearance and was released after just two seasons.

     

     

    And there were more. Paul Wilson could be considered something of an unsung hero of the wider Gang as his Celtic career was both lengthy and successful with his place in the club’s history being assured by virtue of his Scottish Cup-winning performance of 1975. Vic Davidson was undoubtedly a player who progressed on a level footing with Dalglish and Macari but only up to a certain point before his career tailed off and his potential was to be eternally considered as unfulfilled. Influential and popular members of the gang, Davie Cattanach and Jimmy Quinn were slightly older and their successes were enjoyed mainly at reserve level. And then there was John Gorman, a player who proved beyond doubt that Jock Stein was wrong to let him go. Not to mention the huge amount of talented young players who didn’t make it for any number of reasons, many of whom may consider themselves as unlucky as they may have succeeded at any other time in the history of Celtic Football Club.

     

     

    The Quality Street Gang is as much a story about the transformation in attitude from those loyal Brylcreemed round-collared 1960s servants, who encapsulated Jimmy McGrory’s 1950s pipe-smoking discipline, to their floppy-fringed, sideburned superstar counterparts of the 1970s.

     

     

    By the time of their European Cup semi-final first leg against Atlético Madrid in 1974, Celtic had reached two finals, four semi-finals and two quarter-finals in European competition in just eleven seasons. However, the Quality Street Gang were already fragmenting and Lou Macari had joined Manchester United for more pay in 1973. Davie Hay would follow him across the English border for Chelsea 1974 after going on strike with George Connelly over pay conditions and it wouldn’t be long before Kenny Dalglish left to become the King of the Kop. Celtic fans were left wondering just what might have been had the Quality Street Kids all reached their peak in the green and white hoops of Celtic.

     

     

    Over forty years on, it is easy to get trapped in time when looking back through the scrap book of a football career which promised so much. The teenage Celtic babes of 1968, who seemingly had the world at their feet when they posed for the baying Scottish press in their green Celtic blazers at Glasgow airport prior to their Italian international youth tournament, may all have had the same destination stamped on their airline ticket on that Summer’s day in May but they would all ultimately travel on vastly different journeys over the next four decades. Some would enjoy the emphatic highs of the game at the very top level whilst others would suffer a far more grim fate in living with the melancholia that hangs heavily over the harsh reality of what-might-have-been.

     

     

    The Quality Street Gang were brought up by the greatest football team Scotland has ever produced and the result was a group of young prospects who even threatened for a spell to emulate their predecessors. The kids were cultivated on the Barrowfield training ground and the Lisbon Lions passed on the torch so that their successors could continue their incredible forays into the latter stages of European football’s most prestigious tournament. Celtic won nine successive league titles but never reclaimed the honour of winning the European Cup for a second time. If only the Quality Street Kids had all hit their peak together there is no doubt that the Parkhead side would have lifted that glorious prize more than once.

     

     

    With such a blend of monumental successes, likeable rogues and enigmatic underachievers it is perhaps no surprise that the 2013 Quality Street Gang book is now being adapted for a major documentary film by director, Luke Massey. Celtic and Liverpool fan Massey, on the back of his success with war horror film Armistice, opted for this intriguing group of young footballers as his next project after reading the book over Christmas.

     

     

    The bittersweet tale of unfulfilled potential has struck a chord with football fans for generations. Many of us can relate to the peculiar, all-too-human idiosyncrasies, which often contribute to the downfall of some of our greatest cult heroes. Icons who threw it all away at the mercy of alcohol, slow horses, loose woman or all of the above, and worse. We seem drawn to these slightly broken characters and their urchinular charms and, once we have become intoxicated by their incredible talents, we always have it in us to forgive their irresponsible ways; we always have another last chance to hand out to them because we know they will always let us down. That’s why magnificent players like Robin Friday, Andy Ritchie and George Best became and remain cult icons of the British game. Perhaps we see a human side and fragility to them that we can identify and sympathize with.

     

     

    Despite the magnificent successes of Dalglish, Hay, McGrain and Macari, as the end credits roll on The Quality Street Gang, Celtic fans will be left wondering, “what if?”

  13. GCT

     

     

    :)) I am indeed. I wear that badge with pride :)

     

     

    The friggin nonsense from politicos on here, “yes” voters being the worst, makes my skin crawl.

     

     

    This country is rotten to the core, and some of us know painfully how that applies to issues more serious than football.

     

     

    But I will vote yes to give us the chance to recover from the notion of blaming England for our own corruption. It will take time though.

     

     

    Sadly, longer than necessary, as the fervent “yes” voters are oblivious to the issues that plague Scottish politics.

     

     

    But for the sake of humanity, we can start by being the first element of the British Empire, and one of the main players in its’ evils, to say sorry to the rest of the world.

     

     

    We should acknowledge our role in the triangular slave trade for starters. The role played in the attempts to subjugate Ireland should maybe be kept for another day.

     

     

    Where are the apologies, Scotland? (from a Scot).

     

     

    I laugh in the face of Scottish Nationalists, but will vote yes, as we owe it to the rest of the world to break up history’s most evil empire which we created.

  14. FFM –

     

     

    A bit perverse to say the least.

     

     

    You say you will vote YES, but will be the only YES voter who will do it for all the right reasons, as evidenced by your statement “I challenge any yes voter to deal with my points above”.

     

     

    Do you mean “any yes voter” or just those on CQN?

  15. embramike supporting wee oscar and res 12

     

     

    22:40 on 20 March, 2014

     

    Marrakesh Express @ 21:32

     

     

    Before I buy two new season books, I want someone at my club to ask the SFA or UEFA for a definitive statement on whether or not they legally view The Rangers as a new club ….

     

     

    That’s exactly how I feel. Can’t understand why this issue isn’t being forced.

     

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    Does your renewal only depend on asking the question or does it depend on the answer?

  16. minx1888 praying for Wee Oscar on

    A very Happy Birthday to our very own TTTT

     

    Is it a BIG one ? :-)

     

    Have a great weekend B

  17. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    Sincere condolences with the McGinley family in this time of sadness.

  18. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS .........FC not PLC on

    MINX

     

     

    I bet you say that to all the bhoys…

     

     

    Happy Birthday,TOMMYTWISTSTOMMYTURNS

     

     

    HH

  19. FFM –

     

     

    Under the circumstances and based on your comments today, I find it utterly hilarious that YOU accuse ME of “A depressing generalisation”.

     

     

    Oh the irony.

     

     

    :-)

  20. Good morning friends and a Big Happy Friday from a dry, bright but still blowy East Kilbride. Just one more sleep then it’s Matchday 30 featuring the all new Gazebo ;-)

  21. Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar on

    TTTT

     

     

    IT’S BIG B’S BIG BIRTHDAY!!!

     

     

    Happy 50th mate have a great one.

  22. An article above refers to a Golden Age coming to an end. I don`t think I have EVER read about any Golden Age OTHER than to read that it was over. Why do we never read about current Golden Ages? Is it something to do with the tint of the spectacles when looking at the past?

     

    Cheerio for now. Off to Arbroath Links to continue with my Golden spell !!

     

     

    JJ

  23. weet weet weet(GBWO) on

    bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers ………fc not plc

     

     

    06:56 on 21 March, 2014

     

    MINX

     

     

    I bet you say that to all the bhoys…

     

     

    Happy Birthday,TOMMYTWISTSTOMMYTURNS

     

     

    HH

     

     

     

    That wiz funny mate

     

     

    HH

  24. Geordie Munro on

    Gct

     

     

    “an Austrian, who amazingly went down holding his head.”

     

     

    Them antipodeans are always at it ;)

     

     

     

    Haw sid James….I mean bobby m……very good ;)

     

     

    Happy birthday tttt, and more importantly, happy Friday everyone.

     

     

    Thank fook there’s a game this weekend.

  25. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon, supporting WEE OSCAR..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    There was a discussion last night about Chromecast. Apple TV is a much better product, especially if you already use Apple products……… It does everything, and more, than the Chromecast.

  26. Geordie Munro on

    67heaven,

     

     

    You’re not wrong, but I think the guys last night were speaking of it in a ‘cheeky wee less expensive alternative’ sense.

  27. Condolences with the McGinley family. Take care of yourselves and each other. Live life and be happy.