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Aye, sure, Dick Advocaat would like to sign Virgil van Dijk for Sunderland.  Of course he would, but Virgil is very unlikely to go to Sunderland for a host of reasons.  Many clubs have made inquiries about Virgil but the player has an understanding with the club.

For a start, he’s going nowhere until after the Champions League qualifiers are over with, and even then, player and club have agreed that only approaches from tier-one clubs will be considered.  No disrespect intended for Sunderland, but a haul of one cup in 79 years leaves them well off the pace.

The prospect of Celtic being interested in Steven Fletcher, as reported in The Herald this morning, is unlikely to make any difference.  If Fletcher is wanted it will be for the qualifiers, there will be no quid pro quo.

Virgil has two years left on his contract and there’s little prospect of him extending his stay in Scotland, so if Celtic decide to listen to offers in late August it’ll do no harm having as many English clubs as possible bidding portions of their TV bounty for the player.  So let Sunderland bid away.

You and I have been working on the whole Mary’s Meals project for a couple of years now.  It’s not a big part of any of our lives, but what we’ve done is a big part in the lives of thousands of kids we’ll never know.

Reaching the 1 million kids fed each day figure last month has reinvigorated the charity.  It’s a worldwide phenomenon but incredibly started here in Scotland.

At midnight tonight a couple of guys will start to walk the West Highland Way, 96 miles, a 17 thousand feet ascent.  They hope to complete the journey within 24 hours.

You and I know that not every journey is completed on time, some, sadly, will never be completed……… but these two are close to hitting their £6k target figure for Mary’s Meals before they set off.  Go and give them a a couple of pounds, help drive them on to complete the task.  Every £1 you give will feed a child for a month.  A month!  Tell me you’re going to do something better today and I’ll not believe you.

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  2. FrankMarker on

    2 pens missed in 120mins played

     

    Pavlyuchenko 25min

     

    Jan vennegoor of hesselink 115min

  4. Jimmynotpaul on

    H.T.

     

    I wasn’t aware of Herald article. I Presume they were forced into a retraction.

     

    The press in this country are so biased it’s beyond belief.

  9. let the people sing on

    quonno, bgx

     

     

    Like your posts bhoys! – keep the coming

     

     

    C’mon Andy M tomorrow!

     

     

    HH

  11. let the people sing on

    Should have said, Keep them coming! Never post whilst consuming alcohol!

     

     

    HH

  13. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Hamiltontim, the herald headline was typical of our media’s potrayal of the Green Brigade and our support in general.

     

     

    Sev fans keep on harping about how the media hates the Ibrox hoardes but they get hee haw criticism in realtion to us.. The media and our board’s treatment of the Green Brigade is very one sided.

     

     

    The anti-racism tournament and the food bank drives have been brilliant but never acknowledged by the SMSM as it doesn’t fit in with the picture they want to paint about them and our support..

     

     

    The Green Brigade have made mistakes and some of our support are not to kean on them but I never see them leaving before the end of our games and they back our team at matches.

     

     

    I can understand some of our support’s reasons for not being keen on them but Celtic Park is a better place with them in it.

  15. Zbyszek on

    Delaneys Dunky

     

     

    Happy Birthday, my friend. I hope process of vitalisation of your Polish soul goes well.

  24. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Jimmynotpaul, one of the problems with regard to the FAC petition could be those in our support who go to home games only, don’t see the way our support is treated before before an during our away games.

     

     

    Also, if they don’t enter Celtic Park at the east end of Janefield Street , they won’t see the number of polis and stewards once you go through the turnstiles.

     

     

    All this if you behave you have nothing to fear chat does my head in. The case of Mighty Tim’s son’s did nothing but was still lifted. Thankfully, the right outcome was reached. ,

  25. roy croppie on

    Growing up in Airdrie and working in Bridgeton and Dalmarnock I have been surrounded with the ‘fraternal’ Orange Order. In case there is any doubt, I am 48 and I reckon I have 43 years of memory of their intolerance:

     

     

    Neighbours drunk and abusive and aggressive toward children.

     

    Familiies having to stay indoors

     

    Assaults

     

    Pubs Closed

     

    Children indoctrinated

     

    Chapels vandalised

     

    Assaults

     

    Serious Assaults

     

    Attempts Murders

     

    Murders

     

    Out and Out Bigotry…

     

     

    “It’s our day….it’s our right…”

     

     

    Is it?

     

     

    SCUM.

  29. ernie lynch on

    Hamiltontim

     

     

    19:42 on 5 June, 2015

     

     

    ‘Ernie

     

     

    Did Labour ever apologise for ending POW status in Ireland in 1976 which ultimately led to the deaths of 10 men on hunger strike?’

     

     

    ###

     

     

    Labour abolished special category status. I believe that move was supported by all mainstream political parties. I’m not sure about the SNP, maybe they were against it, though I doubt it.

     

     

    So far as I know Labour hasn’t apologised for that decision. Do you think they should? Do the SNP think they should?

  34. latchford on

    HT,

     

     

    agree The Heralds reporting of the Celtic support engaging in charitable work in relation to the Orange Orde bigot fest is obnoxious.

     

     

    It’s simple no Celtic supporter should buy the Herald.

  35. Stringer Bell on

    roy croppie

     

     

    21:37 on 5 June, 2015

     

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGmf5d-WQAAioWp.jpg

     

     

    Jock you are immortal

     

     

    HH

     

    ——-/-

     

     

    Roy

     

     

    Haven’t seen that Jock and Shankly pic before. Do you know what game it was from?

     

     

    Thousands of t-shirts waiting to be sold with that motif, if some bright young Thatcherite is looking in:-)

  37. Mrhenrik67 on

    Mike McCurry on stage at 2.30pm tomorrow at ‘orangefest’, yes it’s the same former grade 1 official that we had the pleasure of witnessing ‘honest mistakes’ in this beautiful little country of ours!!

  40. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Roy Croppie, the photo of Bob Rooney, Sean Fallon and Neil Mochan brought back memories of when my dad started taking me to games.

     

     

    Benny Rooney, Bob’s nephew, used to run the Queens Park Cafe near Hampden. The resmblance between the two was uncanny, you would have thought Benny was Bob’s son, they looked so alike.

     

     

    I always remeber Neil Mochan running on the pitch with his magic sponge and there appeared to be no medical stuff with him.

     

     

    Its a pity Jimmy Steele isn’t in the photo. From what I gather he played a big part in keeping our players spirits up plus he did his masseuse job voluntarily.

  41. Stringer Bell on

    Left click

     

     

    Been off the blog all day.

     

     

    Has the orange order sex scandal from CB been posted on here? The airdrie and Coatbridge advertiser has covered the trial assiduously, which must have been very tough for them:-)

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