Illustrating the very high regard the business community and people of Barcelona hold Celtic fans, one of the city’s top restaurants, Cinc Sentis have donated lunch for two towards our annual charity causes.
I am assured by our resident food critic (WDH), Cinc Sentis is a fabulous dining experience. The auction has just gone live – so get a low bid in early – and ends Sunday. If you’re heading to Barcelona next week, or anytime thereafter, get your eBay bid in here.
Many thanks to Cinc Sentis and WDH.
Read lots yesterday about the vast majority of people in Scotland missing the ‘Old Firm’ games. Trying hard to inoculate myself against any “bravado” I really don’t see this. The edge we used to feel when going into the final minutes of a game needing a goal is no longer there, but I’m really not sure that edge is healthy or necessary.
More than this, I don’t know a single fan from another Premiership club who regrets the liquidation of Rangers, or feels their life is enhanced by the presence of Celtic. Everyone is aware of the harsh reality – we spoil the league.
We do, of course, sell copy, as did the liquidated lot.
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I posted this on my Facebook page last night and was surprised at the positive response I got particularly from my US colleagues. Thought I’d share it with you as I don’t post here very often anymore but I’m pretty riled up about this one.
Totally disgusted with the Board of Directors at Glasgow Celtic Football Club. Following the recent AGM and their stance on the living wage, I thought that was bad enough but Friday night football in Scotland? That is only a US deal. You should be ashamed Celtic. The average punter that works Monday to Friday needs a night out with friends or family at the end of the week. Not sitting in a plastic seat freezing your rear end off to fill the coffers of the board or the TV networks. If Jock Stein was still alive, this wouldn’t be happening. “Football is for the fans because without them we have nothing ” the great man once said. If the Celtic board had any balls they would tell the SFA and the tv networks to stuff the contract. The £2million or so we get out of it isn’t worth the effort. Football is meant to be played at 3.00 pm on a Saturday afternoon. Put a decent team on the pitch, lower the prices and fill our stadium every other week. The money will perpetually multiply. Invest in a decent striker and a mid fielder who can play a forward pass and we can compete in the Champions League, where the big money is, every year. Finally, forget about the team formerly known as Rangers. We don’t want them, we don’t need them, football in general doesn’t need them. Peter Lawell, if you want to leave a legacy, stand up and be the man who told the SFA and corporate tv to GTH. Celtic Fans deserve better. From Scotland, Ireland and all over the world we travel to watch real football on a Saturday, not Friday nights. That is for high school boys in the USA.
MHARK67 prayin for OSCAR KNOX @ 10:53 said:
‘Oh dear thank The Lord we have CQN and not the ” debate / logic” of FF’
Okay, bud, no need for the wee ad hominem: I may not be the sharpest tool in the box, but I can (occasionally and when sober) [which may not be as often as it could be] usually hold my own in a debate …
FF
Fogot to add the wee smiley/winky thing.
(It’s the drink) …
FF
Slightly off topic but word of warning to all Christmas shoppers.
Missus had her purse stolen while sitting in cafe in Trongate, bag was over chair covered by her jacket but this scumbag managed to get at it. Long story cut short, managed to catch the bstard and retrieve purse. Keep a watchful eye on your belongings as he was good but not good enough.
Ps. Many thanks to the 2 blokes who me helped keep a hold of him till plod arrived.
HH
GourockEmeraldBhoy
He was obviously a hun!
Hope you gave him a slap!
HH!!
Timsinohio.
I’m actually looking forward to tonight’s game and the novelty of the Friday night fixture. There has been plenty of notice so there shouldn’t be too much difficulty in integrating the game into normal Friday night plans.
I can see this as being an improvement on midweek fixtures.
just speaking to oldtim..
at least he is hoovering today and not hovering…..
enjoy your break oldtim….
BT
shirley ya mean havering!
MWD
ryecatcher
09:56 on 6 December, 2013
Are the Rainjurz players being paid in South African Rand?……hmmmmmm
Nelson Mandela RIP….A great man who cared far more about his troubled land than any Shyster from Castlemilk ever did.
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At first reading, I thought you meant Tony D, got you now….king ;-))
TALLYBHOY
A few years back my mate and his lass made their annual pilgrimage to Glastonbury while I planned a weekend in the pub.
All I had to do was make sure I looked after their kitten,fed it,let it out,and made sure I brought it back in.
They arrived back on the Monday night.
“Where’s the kitten?” asked my mate.
“Dunno” I replied. “I brought it back in an hour ago.”
It was outside in the pouring rain,drookit. Relations were frosty as there was no explanation for it being there.
Other than this well-known cat despiser cruelly neglecting his duties.
A week later,I found it about to jump out the bathroom window.
Did they believe me?
Cats? The Chinese have the right idea about how to deal with them!
Garcia Lorca
That was a great story you posted earlier– absolutely fantastic.
I posted this last night but here is the Corries singing about Mandela way back in the sixties long before any of the Johnny Cum Lately’s jumped on the band wagon.
The Folk movement has always been in the van when it comes to protest and civil rights but this is a real treat. When I first saw it last night only around 300 or so people had viewed the clip. That number has now gone up substantially.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtgRFW3e15U&noredirect=1
” That’s not a club. That’s a bunch of villains”. Brian Clough
” A permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace”. Ian Archer
New club but same old same old.
Guy with a bandana walked in my local last week and ordered four pints of cider.
He downed them all in about five minutes….leapt over the bar…..then wrecked the gantry with a few well placed martial arts kicks and punches.
Is that Kung Fu’ ?…..I loudly shouted to the manager.
Naw,he’s only had 4 pints ….he replied.
Definitely aff oot noo.
Ryecatcher
LOL
An oldie but a goldie …nicking it for FB
HH
Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Champions. C’mon Wee Oscar..
I only haver when I drink Malt with you and BT.
BMCUW
I quite like cats – but I could never eat a whole one!
The first Chinese restaurant in Troon opened in the early 1960s. It had been going for a few months when somebody realised that there were no longer any stray cats wandering the streets of the town!
Coincidence or what?!
A number of years ago – when,* cough*, the wife and me were temporarily estranged(!) – the lady I was briefly involved with convinced me to take two of her kittens. I named them ‘Henrik’ and ‘Larsson’!
They were beautiful, but pains in the erchie! I managed to find good homes for them.
HH!!
OT67
True. will need to try that again some time soon. Although this time would be good if you two didn’t start 5 hours ahead of me. :-)
MWD
Rest in Peace, Madiba.
Today is a day for celebration of the changes you made to our unjust world.
Thank You.
Glasgow’s greatest day was when it showed the whole world what it thought of Nelson Mandela, long before such accolades became popular.
From pmcn88
Here’s were its says in LNS enq. dates under investigation were now fm 23/11/2000 & after earlier being from 1/7/98 http://t.co/E1wFU6F7nn
From pmcn88
Here’s were its says in LNS enquiry dates under investigation were now fm 23/11/2000 & after earlier being from 1/7/98 http://t.co/E1wFU6F7nn
Sorry duplicate boys
BT
Going to the game tonight was thinking of stopping off at the p/ville for a pre match meal. Is that a good choice or is there any better.
One day the Johnny come lately’s will see Bobby Sands…. for a man as brave and as forgiving as much so, if not more so, than Nelson Mandela.
Bobby Sands believe in his cause of liberty just like Nelson did; Bobby Sands did his beliefs to his premature death.
I never met Nelson Mandela, my God wasn’t so kind to me, for whatever reasons. I’ve often mentioned his name on here, just in passing, I think whichever star Bobby Sands and his like drink on these days, I like to think a black man is looking for them.
There are more than a few not so ‘Johnny come lately’s’ who are hurting in their own humble way, who have populated here for a while now.
BRTH@11.35am
Thanks. Great song and agree with your observation about Folk music.
johnbay.
meals stop in the afternoon..
John Carrigans(the old manhatton) do meals, you may see a few faces you may remember in there.
will be in club with my father after match,
Kilbowie Kelt
11:51 on 6 December, 2013
‘Glasgow’s greatest day was when it showed the whole world what it thought of Nelson Mandela, long before such accolades became popular.’
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Mandela said subsequently how much it had meant to him at the time when the regime in South Africa wanted him to think that the world wasn’t interested in his fate.
Glasgow Cooncil was derided at the time for indulging in gesture politics.
I often think of that when I see Palestinian flags at CP.
Not sure if this has been pointed out for anyone who doesn’t have Setanta package
http://www.setanta.com/ie/sports/setantaoffer
So long as you phone before 31st December 2013, they only charge €1 for the service for December. Have checked with Customer services and so they will cut it off when you phone but so long as it’s not after Dec 31st, they won’t charge the €19.99 for 2 months…Just make sure to call. That’s me sorted for the match tonight!!!:)
p’ville not as good imho.
although their breakfasts are superb….
MWD
I intend to be in Bon Accord next Friday as mrs and mini BT at radio clyde live and loud…
My Mum’s family Hail from the Highlands. EVERY school holiday we would start the hours-long sojourn up the A82. The charts would be on Radio 1 and would peter out just as we started to twist around Loch Lomond. ‘Free Nelson Mandela’ came on….I asked my Dad to tell me more about this guy…..he’s a man who is in prison because he believes in freedom.
From then on I was hooked on this man and his message. And still more on his demeanour and attitude following his release. A legend of myth whose reality didn’t disappoint, but did provoke and surprise….
My Dad’s taught me a lot of things. Madiba did too. I had got into a mindset where I hated ‘white SA’ – his example was that I was slightly missing the point. I’d got to hating the racists rather than the racism and hating other people is ultimately a self-damaging way of life.
I was stopped recently by a white couple from SA who were in Mandela Place in Glasgow. Tourists. Asked about the title. So I told them. ‘Oh that must have been an unpopular decision at the time’ the lady mused. ‘No miss, it was one of the most popular decisions ever made in this city……’ and off I went for my train.
HH NM KTF in freedom and doing the right thing Ghuys n Ghals.
jamesgang
oldtim67
Quick post in case I miss you before you head off to Barca.
TET has all the arrangements for rendezvous + mobile numbers.
Safe journey – looking forward to seeing you.
ToTsCSC (Tims on Tour)
Glasgow University allowed clever and able students from apartheid era SA to study and complete their degrees through the Luthuli Scholarship scheme.
THe scheme is named after John Luthuli, who was born in Zimbabwe and voted rector of the University in 1962,although he was not allowed to travel to Scotland.
Clearly the GU students of that era were more politically savvy than my contemporaries, who voted for Arthur Montford.
Brilliant, I’m now italicised.
If only I could work out how that happened.
DBBIA
I’d see a doc about that…
BT
Cheers for that.Maybe c/wood would be better Will have my youngest with me (13) so will be straight home – he has football tomorrow. Give my regards to your Dad.
Does being italicised make you windswept and interesting?
Or was that yesterday?
The script seems to be engaging in lateral movement.
Is this an act of solidarity with the GB?
New font please….
Thought it was time to italicise as well.
Hope it works.
HH!!