Teams can lose their competitive edge quickly. The Celtic team of 2003-04 were imperious: 25 consecutive league wins, they beat every team in the country, home and away, on the bounce. Larsson left, of course, but the following season’s problems were deeper than that.
Watching Argentina last night took me straight back to Fir Park, 2005. A feted team, packed with reputation and talent, simply failed to compete. Unable to match the industry of Iceland, or the ability of Croatia, they look like they want to return to the safety of club football immediately after the group stages.
Having great players is not enough if they are not sufficiently hungry, and keeping millionaires hungry for the SPFL is a challenge we will forever encounter. On this front, we must do what we can. Packed 60,000 seater stadiums help. I’m sure open-top bus parades help even more. These things create a sense of occasion and achievement, which is difficult to find elsewhere.
CQN Golf Annual Charity Open
This year’s CQN Open is set for Friday 29 June at the first class Aberdour Golf Club once again. It is a day of sport, entertainment, Celtic chat and is always good fun.
After the golf, we head up the road to the CQN friendly Woodside Hotel for our evening meal. We’ve the usual round up of all things Celtic by Paul67, and our very funny after dinner speaker is Willie Allan. Then musical entertainment from Scoogz, who you may have seen if you’ve been to Celtic Park entertainment nights. Plus all the usual prizes and charity fundraising, for the Petrov Foundation this year. Cost is £40 night only and £80 all day including golf. Please contact cqnopen2018@outlook.com if you’d like to attend this fun event.
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GFTB – If you are on Twitter, have you seen this –
https://twitter.com/FutbolsaCountry/status/1010635013463904257
ps Good morning, friends ;-)
I thought PC Lustig did very well last night, for starters HE and his mates were up against the World Champions, and very often Mikael was left with NO OUT ball to play up the line.
Yes, he didn’t cut out the cross for Germany’s 1st Goal…but some should remember that it’s a feckin game of Fitba…mistakes DO get made all over pitch, even by better players than PC Lustig..surprise, surprise ????
I sometimes wonder what IF….IN Every Fitba match, every Player played to absolute perfection, how would those games pan out, and what the score would be, and who would get Man of the Match etc etc ??????
Who would be ” The Escaped Goat”, ?
Ive seen wee Jinky, Murdoch, Bertie, Big Billy, Hay, McGrain, Dalglish…and Henrik etc etc ALL make mistakes at one time or other, some folk need to behave themselves and get a feckin grip. In fact I remember watching PELE in the 1970 World Cup, making the Greatest Dummy of all time…and STILL making a mistake by putting the ball past the post with an empty goal in front of him. Despite missing the target, in the build up, Pele did the GREATEST Dummy on the opposition Goalie, and on any football pitch, that I have ever seen ( Whits the Goalie Deaing Tom ?), and it’s just a pity the ball rolled by the post…whit a goal that would have been, but THAT dummy still lives on in my mind, no matter that it didn’t result in a goal for Pele.
If I remember correctly, that Fud, English Expert Pundit at the time “Jimmy Hill”, claimed on TV that Pele had ” Bottled it” from the Goalie ???????….What utter biased feckin Tosh !…If that had been Sir Geoff Hurst ( The only guy to get a feckin Knighthood for scoring just TWO Goals), fooling the Goalie with THAT Dummy, hurst would have got his Knighthood even feckin sooner !
Typical English Pundit Jealousy imho.
MON the Panama !
HH
Jobo
Cheers, not on Twitter (or facething) but turned java script on to see that…
Great start to the morning, the Senegal bhoys with smiles on their coupons, hope they have my coupon smiling later :-)
Much multi-monikered sleekitry afoot!
Same oul’ faeces………
;)
Sp CSC….
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 23RD JUNE 2018 11:46 PM
THELURKINTIM
Doubt it,and hope not. He may have taken umbrage at BIGJIMMY earlier,but…
He’s a lawyer,he’s been called worse!!!
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Just seen your Post mate, WHY would MIT take umbrage with me ? I NEVER called MIT anything whatsoever, I actually posted that I felt sympathy for him as every 3rd post by that Chump BP a while ago, was directed at MIT and sending emails, pics etc of Talking Dugs ?? Often thought that MIT had been saddled by that Chump.
IF MIT isn’t somehow happy with me, then I do apologise IF it’s explained to me exactly what I said wrong, but there was NOTHING in any of my posts bad about him or his wee Dug. I even posted that his Dug “Seamus” is probably a wee Belter and gave MIT a Hail Hail at the end. I don’t get it.
I’m confused.??????
HH
Anyone know if the Singapore Tims are still in existence? If so where do they meet? Ta H H Hebcelt
MIT, IF you are upset with me for any reason, please post and explain, as i certainly was NOT having a go at you a few days ago ?
Confused..aff oot.
HH
celic slow news
no mention of being an “old co” or “the business which owned rangers”
a quite honest assessment.
whit the journo dain tom,
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Former Rangers stadium announcer blasts Ibrox liquidation payouts after losing £1550
Former DJ Adrian Coll hit out after companies handling the Ibrox club’s collapse pocketed nearly £20million in charges while creditors have been given just £1.4m.
ByCraig McDonald
Former Rangers Tannoy announcer Adrian Coll got just £50 of what he was owed (Image: SNS/Spindrift)
A former Rangers stadium announcer has hit out at the huge fees paid to firms involved in the club’s liquidation after he got a fraction of what he was owed.
Companies handling the collapse have pocketed nearly £20million in charges while creditors – including thousands of fans – have received just £1.4million.
Ex-Clyde 1 DJ Adrian Coll was owed £1600 but received about £50 after a payment of just under 4p in the pound was sanctioned.
Ex-Clyde 1 DJ Adrian Coll said the payment he eventually received was “a bit embarrassing”
A list of 276 creditors was first published six years ago. But Adrian said he’d only recently received his payment.
Accountants BDO handled the Ibrox club’s insolvency.
Adrian, of Glasgow, said: “It leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
“I get the letters in from BDO regularly containing updates on their costs– they’re astronomical.
“I got a cheque a couple of months ago for payment and it was something ridiculous like £50. And there are people owed a lot more money than me.
“In my opinion, people like us, who worked for the club, should’ve been looked after a bit better rather than these people lining their pockets.
Rangers fell into administration under former owner Craig Whyte in February 2012
Since the club went into administration under former owner Craig Whyte in February 2012, legal firms acting for BDO have received nearly £10.4million, while the liquidator bill stood at £4.1million in April this year.
Papers reveal £8.2million in legal fees so far have gone to London-based firm Stephenson Harwood and were mostly over the settlement of a claim against Collyer Bristow, the solicitors involved in Whyte’s controversial takeover of the club.
It was revealed in 2014 that liquidators had banked £24million for creditors.
Just £8.2million was left to distribute to those who lost money as a result of the club’s financial implosion.
The collapse of Rangers left thousands of unsecured creditors out of pocket, including more than 6000 fans who bought £7.7million worth of debenture seats at Ibrox.
Legal costs expert Jim Diamond called the case an “absolute disgrace” (Image: Collect Unknown)
Creditors ranged from large firms such as Coca-Cola to face-painting and picture-framing businesses.
One small business owner, who asked not to be named as he still supplies Rangers, said: “I was owed hundreds of pounds but received about £50.
“You just feel it’s an injustice when you hear about the huge sums being paid to legal and accountancy firms involved in the liquidation.”
Jim Diamond, an expert on legal costs, said: “It’s an indication of the Scottish legal marketplace, which is totally geared up for the professional people and not to the benefit of the general public and, in this case, the creditors.
“The case is an absolute disgrace. Ordinary creditors have been completely stitched up. How can this be normal or acceptable?”
Happy Birthday Naka san:))
40 years young!
Lest we forget..
https://youtu.be/VvPYZTHpJEw
Thank God I’m not in England today. The BBC output is bad enough here; what it’s like on the street down there must be gut-wrenching. They are organising street partys, not simply for today’s match, but because this is THEIR year. They are going to win the WC. Their sense of entitlement and delusion reminds me of the followers of the deid team.
Now we have Hunt saying that those who voted for Brexit voted for the NHS. Do people buy such arrant nonsense down there?
Sorry for the rant on a Sunday morning.
Good old Peter Martin.Giving it big licks to the English commentators last night.
“GIRFUY,YA English Pr–ks”
Really brightened up my morning.
pasing the time on a lazy sunday morning, i am watching the cup final again.
calum’s goal is a thing of beauty. we live in woderful celtic times.
think about it, seven in a row, a season of invincibilty, a double treble,
marvellous.
Have to laugh at some bitter,knuckledraggers,on some blog about Belgium.
Telling the world how bad Boyatta is.”Bombscare,useless,worst CH at the WC,Engerlund will destroy him,only weak link in Belgian team”.
On second thoughts,might have been written by some on here.
Yesterday’s game the big man had two game changing ,brilliant moments.The one when he made up around 3,4 yards on the forward breaking away on the right.Caught him and put in a fantastic tackle.THe other when flew across and blocked a goal bound effort near the post.
The big man will do for me.CHs costing £40 million making mistakes all over the place,but let’s pick on Boyatta.
SAINT STIVS
I never thought we would see such times again, I was a bit wee to really appreciate our nine in a row, being 13 when it ended I remember being shocked when we didn’t win the league.
I hope we’re not in danger of taking these times for granted:))
HH
Starry
Enjoyed that wee video of the genius from Japan. Used to do strengthening sessions in the gym straight after a game, ultimate pro. In the Gary player mould of the more he practiced the luckier he got. His two against Van der Sar in the CL were brilliant, especially the one at Paradise which would’ve been around 30yds from goal.
Best taker of a free kick to wear the hoops? He would certainly get my vote
HH
On this day in the year of Our Lord,1314,10,000 Scots,formed into 4 great Schiltrom formations ,marched into battle against the 30,000 strong English army on the field of Bannockburn.
The rest,as they say,is history.
when brendan says odsonne is the best player at his age he has ever seen, well we might just have something special.
http://www.uefa.com/under17/history/season=2015/goldenplayer/index.html
DBHOY on 24TH JUNE 2018 10:20 AM
Starry
Enjoyed that wee video of the genius from Japan. Used to do strengthening sessions in the gym straight after a game, ultimate pro. In the Gary player mould of the more he practiced the luckier he got. His two against Van der Sar in the CL were brilliant, especially the one at Paradise which would’ve been around 30yds from goal.
Best taker of a free kick to wear the hoops? He would certainly get my vote
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I thought big Pierre was best until Nakamura came along,the ghuy was unbelievable .hh
Morning ghuys from another glorious day here at Auchenlarie caravan site , spotted a few huns in engerland tops earlier think i’ll put on the Hoops for the lunchtime kick off ! Mon the Panama !!
1970 World Cup,
my earlier post this morn about THAT DUMMY by the Greatest PLAYER PELE, I stated that Jimmy Hill accused Pele of “Bottling it” against the opposition goalie ?????
Now that Ive had time to reflect and argue with myself, I think it was Brian CLOUGH, who made the accusation as one of the studio “Experts” ???
Utter Bollocks by Clough .
I think the opposition that day against Brazil was The Czechs ?…or was it Uruguay ? I must check you tube right now.
HH
MIT, If your lurkin please post to me and again I it wasn’t my intention to have a pop at you or anyone else…except THAT Chump !
HH
DBHOY
Tony Hamilton’s commentary on Celtic TV on the wee mans goal at Old Trafford is still one of my favourite Celtic moments.
” The goalkeeper never moved, he’s never moved”.))))))))
Quality player wish we had one like him now:))
Voguepunter
Pierre could really skelp a baw. I was at hampden for his debut against Hearts ( I think ). He nearly took the rigging off the goals with his strike. Cracking player with a suspect attitude unfortunately
HH
Ive just checked and it was Uruguay that Pele did THAT Dummy.
Again, it’s easy to see why he missed the goals, as a Defender was racing back towards the near post , and Pele did the right thing by placiing the ball to the far post, behind the in rushing defender, as the defender fell on his erse…but sadly the ball just slipped by the far post.
sooo unlucky
HH
No more loanees,at Celtic,and that includes Patrick Roberts,I know a lot of Celtic Supporters would like to see him back at the club,but to be honest,and I know he had a bad hamstring injury,last season,but after watching him a few times he came on,I thought he played ok,but nothing special,so I said to myself ,nope I wouldn’t bother me if he didn’t come back and play for us,as for John McGinn,if as the rumours circulating,that he is going to be Armstrong’s replacement ok,but the player I would like Celtic to sign is Shinnie,up at Aberdeen,
Starry
And said with the same vigour as ‘ whits the goalie dain Tom :)
HH
PELE…my all time Fitba hero outwith any player of Celtic of course.
And another thing about that English mob, when they “won” the World Cup, they conviently forget to mention that they played every game at Wembley, whilst other nations travelled around different cities.
WHY did no one invent VAR before 1966, as Hurst would only have scored TWO Goals. I am aware that they “won” 4-2, but THAT NON GOAL, changed the game, as west Germany were then chasing the game, and thats another reason why Hurst scored a 4th for them, as it was a break away by England….cheatin bassa’s.
HH
I also don’t forget Michael Owen diving v Argentina (2002 ?) World cup and Beckham scoring the penalty to win 1-0. It was a blatant dive by Owen as the defender PULLED OUT of any tackle.
Cheatin wee bassa.
HH
HH
I wish we could get Pele on loan…or Ronaldo, Messi, Modric, Aguerro etc etc….I might even accept Harry Kane on Loan ?
HH
Big Jimmy
Harry Kane…his grand father was from Connemara. If Jack Charlton was still Irish manager he might be playing for the Republic.
John James not missing Flanagan,or Gerard in his last couple of articles.
WOOFT.
JJS WEEKEND ARTICLES ARE OPEN.
Viva Panama…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl52ZlHiXTc
I don’t mind the English doing well. It’s celtic only for me.
Sorry, but for me, this character JJ is an undignified balloon…or, as another poster might say, a Chump…
hebcelt on 24th June 2018 8:04 am
still working hard ,they are on facebook , last post was 15th June with awards for teachers
Sorry I cant send link , but I think you can access their page even if your not on facebook
HH
https://youtu.be/mCxQdCFuqf8
Harry Kane on Engerland’s chances….
dena29 on 24th June 2018 11:53 am
Sorry scrap last post to hebcelt , realise it was Singapore tims you enquired about and not Thai tims as I thought dohhhhh
away back to lurking
HH