St Mirren are on a Christmas hangover which lasted past Valentines and through to the end of winter (today). Their nine league games in that period have brought defeats to St Johnstone, Dundee, Kilmarnock, Hearts, Dundee United and Celtic.
The only team outside the top four who have not recorded a win over St Mirren in that time is Ross County, who last met the Paisley side a few days before Christmas. Despite that, there is a buoyancy around Steve Robinson’s side, largely because of results against the teams in second, third and fourth in the table.
You probably didn’t hear, as the result did not materially affect Celtic’s lead, but a week ago, St Mirren beat Newco for the second time since Christmas. They also went to Pittodrie and won 0-3 and are the only team to stop Hibs scoring in their last 14 games, when the teams drew 0-0 earlier this month.
Defeat to Hearts midweek meant they slipped out of the top six with five games to play before the split. Claiming another top four scalp tomorrow is beginning to look crucial to their chances of a close to the season that delivers a good payday.
Our two earlier games against St Mirren this season ended in 3-0 wins for the champions. If anything, the away performance was more convincing. The extra day’s rest Celtic have, combined with St Mirren’s less familiar challenge of playing twice in a week, should be enough to see another sound win for the visitors. After all, the gap between top of the table, and those in second, third and fourth, is as wide as Paisley Abbey.
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Latest press release from the Donald….
(to Zelensky)
“You’re Fired!”
JACKIEMAC on 28TH FEBRUARY 2025 7:05 PM
who’s the best buddies’ player bhoys and ghirls have seen ? must be some great aul memories – can’t think of one meself – I’m only 55
*2 here, Gerry Baker who tore Bobby Evans a new one in the SC Semi of 1959 when the buddies won 4-0 and Tommy Bryceland who scored St Mirren’s fourth should have been a Celtic player, we pursued him as a 16 year old with Gourock Juniors, his brother Hugh was already on our books and its rumoured that he put him off it, so he signed for the buddies instead, he also played in the semis 3 year later in the bottle throwin game and along with Willie Fernie, who scored the opener, we had sold him to them 4 months earlier as it was deemed he was finished
Oh btw it was rumoured that we sent a scout to watch Gerry Baker and his brother Joe when they were schoolboys and he came back withy Jim Conway.
Tontine Tim on 28th February 2025 8:43 pm
Who was the other front three player along with Baker and Bryceland? I am thinking Gemmel but I am not at all sure.
BTW , I was at the 4-0 game and don`t have never seen so many bottle being thrown at a match. Apart from anything else, the bottles were not reaching the field and us young guys had to climb onto the running track to avoid being hit. Not Celtic supporters at their best, that day.
Cross out the `don`t ` :-))
Hot smoked
Was at a few games like that
HOT SMOKED on 28TH FEBRUARY 2025 8:47 PM
Tontine Tim on 28th February 2025 8:43 pm
Who was the other front three player along with Baker and Bryceland? I am thinking Gemmel but I am not at all sure.
*It was Tommy Gemmell, although he didnae score but left winger Ally Miller got 2, he also scored in the final against the sheep along with Gerry Baker and Tommy Bryceland in a 3-1 victory
TT
Thanks and
Cheerio for now.
GENE on 28TH FEBRUARY 2025 8:58 PM
Hot smoked
Was at a few games like that
*aye we wee known as the raining champions then on account of the amount of bottles that rained over our own support especially the young and elderly, nae wonder my da widnae let me go tae games without him or an older family member
Tontine Tim on 28th February 2025 8:43 pm
JACKIEMAC on 28TH FEBRUARY 2025 7:05
It’s difficult to verify what happened sixty years ago but the version I heard was that Celtic thought Tommy was ‘too wee’. Wee or not, he and Gerry Baker tore Celtic apart that afternoon at Ibrox. That win was all the more galling as Celtic had hammered the Saints at Love Street only days before.
I think Hugh Bryceland ended his playing career at Albion Rovers. Hugh was an exccellent man – a real gentleman. Sadly, he died last year.
Here’s a wee story about Evan Williams grhs, I have mentioned this before that Evan was a very close friend of my late brother and was at both my parent’s funeral, he was also at Mrs TT’s da’s as he knew him well also, being a neighbour of them in Dumbarton, btw another player with a Celtic connection stayed close by, the goalie who saved big Franks penalty in the 9-0 game against Airdrie, anyway this story wisnae told to me by Evan, I read it a local magazine.
Evan married a girl from Bonhill who was in my class one year, her quali my sub, her dad was the head art teacher at St Pats and had painted the Stations of the Cross in St Michaels, adjacent to the school, the family was active in Our Lady and St Marks Parish in Alexandria.
The curate, Father Crawley, who officiated at their wedding was transferred to a parish in Glasgow, may have been Kings Park, one night they had a social event and Sean Fallon was in attendance, Father Crawley on seeing him there asked if there was anything new going on with us, and he replied that we were looking for another keeper, now this may have been due to the concern over Ronnie’s health, anyway the wee Father asked why, you have Ronnie and John (Fallon), to which Sean replied that a team like Celtic needed 3 reliable goalies, this was 1969 btw and we were a top European side at the time.
So, Father Crawley then recalled Evan who by this time was down at Molineux, but due to the form of Phil Parkes he was sent out on loan to Aston Villa, he recommended him to Sean who went down there to have a look at him, he must have liked what he saw as we signed him shorty after, which as it turned out was just in time as the faither suffered a career ending injury.
Now what I find so interesting is that when we play in Europe now every team has 3 goalies stripped, 2 on the bench so it looks as if the Big Mhan was well ahead of his time with his us requiring 3 dependable goalies on our books.
Fritzsong
A few days back you mentioned a football book written in 60s by a chap called Handley.
.was wondering if it was a misspelling for Glasgow author Cliff Hanley who came to our school to talk bout religion(Celtic&Rangers) who i think wrote for the herald
Are they 2 different writers?
It just crossed my mind
AN TEARMANN,
2 different men. The Handley who wrote the Celtic Story was a Marist Brother, I’m fairly sure. I think he was either James or John, not Cliff.
Aye
Aye again
I remember Tommy Bryceland and Gerry Baker. I remember too that semi at Ibrox. My Dad had taken me to the stand but we had a grandstand view of the invasion that followed all the bottles being thrown. Gerry played for the USA, I think, while his brother Joe played for England.
It just crossed my mind
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 28TH FEBRUARY 2025 10:00 PM
AN TEARMANN,
2 different men. The Handley who wrote the Celtic Story was a Marist Brother, I’m fairly sure. I think he was either James or John, not Cliff.
*James E Handley was also known as Brother Clare and was the headmaster of St Mungo’s Academy
Cliff Hanley was what we would refer to as a social activist, his main claim to fame was he wrote Scotland the Brave for a pantomime
Thanks for reply Celts on the Handley / Hanley question.
Would any of you know the full title of Handleys book?
HH
A couple of right fekin roasters on here tonight,spewing out their ignorance about Ukraine.
Putin,Trump,Vance,apologists.GTF over to FF,your shit will be welcome there.
🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐
AN TEARMANN,
The Celtic Story.
Maybe CANAMALAR needs to be unbanned by CQN and set free to accurately educate the always the last to know dim Tims about World Events from angles were the Fake News don’t want you to look. as they lie to you, and deceive you, even into being killed by zio bio-weapons dressed up as vaxxeens.
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1895375885341262199
If Ireland’s wonderful – but now truly lost – peoples would let the True and totally switched on Irish journalist – who has to work in Russia – or he wouldn’t be allowed to report honestly yeah!
If Irish majority of folk stopped being duped by the Fake News and neo liberal, wokery, identity politicians, and gravy train seeking politicians, and listen to and watch, CHAY BOWES @BowesChay on X – Twitter , then the Irish would become a country of peaceful neutrality, and truly stand out from what has become a broken country, were minority White Irish folk are today smeared as “Right Wing Nazis” for putting Ireland 1st, and not the EU Warmongering evil.
The Green Brigade should be supporting Trump, Putin, Xi Jin-Ping, for trying to save you all from extinction. Maybe One day….maybe one day….
PS, Did you notice that Donald Trump has played a blinder by taking Palestine out of harms way?
Shhhhhh….sleeeep…..Timmy….Shhhhh.
I was hoping that vice president of America might turn up.
Leave aside, if only for a moment, the utter boorishness with which President Donald Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance treated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House today. Also leave aside the spectacle of American leaders publicly pummeling a friend as if he were an enemy. All of the ghastliness inflicted on Zelensky today should not obscure the geopolitical reality of what just happened: The president of the United States ambushed a loyal ally, presumably so that he can soon make a deal with the dictator of Russia to sell out a European nation fighting for its very existence.
Trump’s advisers have already declared the meeting a win for “putting America first,” and his apologists will likely spin and rationalize this shameful moment as just a heated conversation—the kind of thing that in Washington-speak used to be called a “frank and candid exchange.” But this meeting reeked of a planned attack, with Trump unloading Russian talking points on Zelensky (such as blaming Ukraine for risking global war), all of it designed to humiliate the Ukrainian leader on national television and give Trump the pretext to do what he has indicated repeatedly he wants to do: side with Russian President Vladimir Putin and bring the war to an end on Russia’s terms. Trump is now reportedly considering the immediate end of all military aid to Ukraine because of Zelensky’s supposed intransigence during the meeting.
Vance’s presence at the White House also suggests that the meeting was a setup. Vance is usually an invisible backbencher in this administration, with few duties other than some occasional trolling of Trump’s critics. (The actual business of furthering Trump’s policies is apparently now Elon Musk’s job.) This time, however, he was brought in to troll not other Americans, but a foreign leader. Marco Rubio—in theory, America’s top diplomat—was also there, but he sat glumly and silently while Vance pontificated like an obnoxious graduate student.
Zelensky objected, as he should have, when the vice president castigated the Ukrainian president for not showing enough personal gratitude to Trump. And then in a moment of immense hypocrisy, Vance told Zelensky that it was “disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media.” But baiting Zelensky into fighting in front of the media was likely the plan all along, and Trump and Vance were soon both yelling at Zelensky. (“This is going to be great television,” Trump said during the meeting.) The president at times sounded like a Mafia boss—“You don’t have the cards”; “you’re buried there”—but in the end, he sounded like no one so much as Putin himself as he hollered about “gambling with World War III,” as if starting the biggest war in Europe in nearly a century was Zelensky’s idea.
After the meeting, Trump dismissed the Ukrainian leader and then issued a statement that could only have pleased Moscow:
I have determined that President Zelensky is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations. I don’t want advantage, I want PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace.
Trump might as well have dictated this post on Truth Social before the meeting, because Zelensky didn’t stand a chance of having an actual discussion at the White House. When he showed Trump pictures of brutalized Ukrainian soldiers, Trump shrugged. “That’s tough stuff,” he muttered. Perhaps someone told Zelensky that Trump doesn’t read much, and reacts to images, but Trump, uncharacteristically, seems to have been determined to stay on message and pick a fight.
Vance, for his part, fully inhabited the role of a smarmy talk-show sidekick, jumping in to make sure the star got the support he needed while slamming one of the guests. The vice president is an unserious man who tries to insert himself into serious moments, but this time the stakes were much higher than the usual dustups with the media or congressional Democrats. He chuckled as Brian Glenn, a journalist from the right-wing channel Real America’s Voice who is reportedly dating Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, asked Zelensky the tough and incisive question of why he had not worn a suit in the Oval Office. (Perhaps he’ll ask Musk why he wore a hat and T-shirt to a Cabinet meeting, but I doubt it.)
The sheer rudeness shown to a foreign guest and friend of the United States was (to use a word) deplorable as a matter of manners and grace, but worse, Trump and Vance acted like a couple of online Kremlin sock puppets instead of American leaders. They pushed talking points that they either knew or should have known were wrong. Even if Zelensky were as fluent and capable in English as Winston Churchill, he would never have been able to rebut the flood of falsehoods. No, the U.S. has not given Ukraine $350 billion; yes, Zelensky has repeatedly expressed his thanks to America and to Trump; no, Zelensky was not attacking the administration. The Ukrainian leader did his best to stand up to the bullying, but Trump and Vance were playing to the cameras and the MAGA gallery at home.
Vance showed how dedicated he was to point-scoring rather than policy making with an observation so shallow that he was lucky that Zelensky was too off-balance to call him out for it. To emphasize Ukraine’s perilous situation, Vance noted that Zelensky was sending conscripts to the front lines, as if this was an unprecedented policy that only the most desperate regime would dare enact. Zelensky said that all nations at war have problems, but he might have pointed out to Vance that Ukraine is fighting for its very existence, while the United States has dragged conscripts to places far from home—including Korea and Vietnam—to fight against troops supported by the Kremlin.
Today’s meeting and America’s shameful vote in the United Nations on Monday confirmed that the United States is now aligned with Russia and against Ukraine, Europe, and most of the planet. I felt physically sick watching the president of the United States yell at a brave ally, fulminating in the Oval Office as if he were an addled old man shaking his fist at a television. Zelensky has endured tragedies, and risked his life, in ways that men such as Trump and Vance cannot imagine. (Vance served as a public-relations officer in the most powerful military in the world; he has never had to huddle in a bunker during a Russian bombardment.) I am ashamed for my nation; even if Congress acts to support and aid Ukraine, it cannot restore the American honor lost today.
But no matter how disgusted anyone might be at Trump and Vance’s behavior, the strategic reality is that this meeting is a catastrophe for the United States and the free world. America’s alliances are now in danger, and should be: Trump is openly, and gleefully, betraying everything America has tried to defend since the defeat of the Axis 80 years ago. The entire international order of peace and security is now in danger, as Russian autocrats, after slaughtering innocent people for three years, look forward to enjoying the spoils of their invasion instead of standing trial for their crimes. (Shortly after Trump dismissed Zelensky from the White House, Putin’s homunculus, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, posted on X: “The insolent pig finally got a proper slap down in the Oval Office.”)
Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy, the beginning of a long-term disaster that every American, every U.S. ally, and anyone who cares about the future of democracy will have to endure. With the White House’s betrayal of Ukraine capping a month of authoritarian chaos in America, Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us.
OJ
Take a walk. I worry for your mind and soul.
In fact, I don’t. You are with the worst of the vermin that live on this dear green planet.
aye
Aipple, OJ – Orange Juice?
The clue is from the muppet. Hard as it is, best to just ignore.
PS loved your precis of what happened in Washington today. Mrs Emeraldbee very, very impressed. Must be difficult for you there.
Ave Ave
Alan Muir, since 2014,failure rewarded, or rewarded failure to still be at it in 2025….
EMERALDBEE \O/ A DOUBLE NINER!! re: synopsis
Sorry my friend. Got distracted on a side chat. That wasn’t me, that was from The Atlantic.
I was shocked today in a new way. If anyone hasn’t watched the video they should.
It is tough. It’s not a joke anymore. Live around some ex military good people in my part of town. When civil war discussions start becoming more frequent among good peaceful men, albeit with experience, things are scary.
Long live the resistance but may they speed it up.
As for Starmer with Trump? Obsequious is the word of the day.
BADA
The Muir thing. Imagine those lies and cheating in your every day life and not just Celtic.
Ah, you don’t have to imagine any more.
Feed the lies.
Repeat the lies.
Lies are now truth.
Many have stood, more will have to.
Over to you OJ.
Aipple. I concur with everything you so eloquently said regarding the shameful cowardly debacle in the Oval Office today.
Trump and his familiar creature Vance are demonic entities.
The world needs to be rid of such vermin.
Regarding O.J. This guy should not be allowed to spout his filth on here.
He may be mentally ill or just a complete scumbag, but we should not have to put up with such bottom feeding obscenity on this site.
The world appears to be going to the (mad) dogs at the moment.
Aipple is allowing me to speak after he fell for the waffling and evil zio owned “THE ATLANTIC” and then he’ll expect to be taken seriously. lol
Putin and Trump and Xi Jin-Ping, are fighting to save the children.
Go away and learn stuff like – uncomfortable facts, and horrible truths. I can say no more about this utterly horrible stuff.
Trump an Vance have today saved the World from this crooked, cross dressing, Nancy boy, grifter, with his now dozens of multi million$ plush villas in US, which Trump and DOGE will now expose AND the Fake News suppression of how such a cheap punk could becom so inexplicably rich in such a short period of time????
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/ukraines-parliament-calls-emergency-session-to-impeach-zelensky-following-white-house-humiliation/
Meanwhile….
The BBC, The Guardian, RTE, SKY, ITV, Ch4, etc….
“Evil Putin is a Dictator!” – “Trump Needs To Be Impeached Now!”
Yadda Yadda..The Cow Jumped Over The Moon…etc.
RAY WINSTONE’S BIG DISEMBODIED HEID
I wisnae me that wrote it, sorry. I wish.
The multi moniker OJ should be more closely watched and removed. I see people on street corners over here spouting their hate and I find myself questioning free speech sometimes.
Not cool, I know.
But I would always rather know what others say and believe. Let them say it so I know.
That said, ban those posts on here. I do not want to be associated with a blog or user that has those views. Not a good look for us, the 99.9% majority,
OJ
Call me.
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Put your voice where your typing is.
You put China in the same basketry as trump and Russia. You know nothing.
*basket
Whatever.