If you live long enough you get to hear or read just about everything. Today some in the old media are telling us Celtic and Rangers (sic) are both chasing a soon-to-be out of contract Manchester United player. The way it used to work is an agent would fly into Glasgow to see Celtic or Rangers, and make sure the other club had an option on the player their rivals were pursuing.
Anyone who thinks Newco can rival Celtic for a footballer had better consult their medication. The rules have all changed, in Glasgow, we stand alone.
Final shout for the ITUC’s 22nd minute Fifa protest tomorrow.
Today’s CQteN raffle winner, of a signed Celtic strip, is John McDonald, from table 36. If it’s the John McDonald I’ve just emailed, congratulations… If not, we’ll find you.
Today is World Down Syndrome Day. For too long those with Down’ have been stigmatised, shown a lack of human respect, or worse. The ‘does he take sugar’ days were not so long ago. World Down Syndrome Day is a about raising awareness and changing our perceptions.
Have to say I’m enjoying the Aberdeen fans’ ‘Peter Pawlett Baby’ campaign. Human League’s ‘Don’t you want me baby’ has flown up the charts on the back of delirious Aberdeen fans, celebrating their position as one of Scotland’s top two. Crazy stuff like this is how football clubs grow.
For all those who have supported Marys’ Meals over recent weeks and months, here’s a cheery video from them, with a little help from Pharrell Williams.
Seville – The Celtic Movement is another cheery wee thing.
“Somewhere around 5am and Glasgow airport is only open for Seville flights and is a sea of green and white. I’ve 80 Euros, my passport, boarding pass and a ticket in my shorts, Celtic top on, no baggage of any description. The happiest queue of all time has formed.”
You can get yours here:
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This week’s CQN coupon –
Lennybhoy – Burnley
Jobo – Motherwell
Awalkacrosstherooftops – Leicester
The Token Tim – Newcastle
Blantyretim – Wigan
Greenlion2 – Bolton
PFayr – Rochdale
Pogmanthony – Wolves
THE BOY JINKY
I’ll bet he even has you missing the place when yer in Goa!
Cheers Jobo, have a pint for me the next time your in the Murray bar, my old local.
JOBO BALDIE
I suggest you listen intensively to something else quickly.
Otherwise it will be rattling about yer head all day.
kitalba
08:22 on 22 March, 2014
IMHO
The words JERK , REACTION & KNEE
Good Morning CQN from a rather dull looking D&G, Getting ready to hit the road to Paradise, l don’t know how you all feel about your trips to Paradise but for me it is still with great anticipation and wonderment.
Tiny Tim
Classic post from a Classic guy, hope to see you today
Good Morning one and all.
A quick peek out of the window suggests a day of sunshine — then again this is Scotland so this could be the sunshine that hangs about just before the deluge as Jackson Browne would say.
I see that someone, forgive me I forget who, sent me condolences on losing my father Pat!
Now i don’t know if this is merely an error in the sense that the wrong end of the stick has been picked up with references to Pat as in Paddybhoy88 – who is my long lost cousin twice removed – but he is alive and well last I heard and I think sunning himself somewhere in a warm climate — though probably still trying to sell the natives beanie hats and the occasional tyre.
Alternatively- and perhaps more likely- it could be a confusion between myself and my late father — as his father was indeed Patrick McGinley, born 4th March 1894 in Ballymote County Sligo although he was “rared” as he would say in Rathmelton County Donegal.
My grandfather was a wee wiry ginger haired man — though by the time I appeared he had lost the hair and was as bald as a coot. When he upped sticks with his family of wife,daughter and son and left Ireland for Scotland in 1929 he was a qualified psychiatric nurse though that was a profession he would never re-enter.
He had long spells of unemployment in Scotland, going each day to the employment exchange in Clydebank to look for day work along with thousands of other men who might be taken on for the day or perhaps the week if you were very lucky — but he hated that system of employment as it depended greatly on whether or not the guy doing the hiring was fair or not and whether you had any influence with “The Union man” some of whom could be bought for a couple of drinks.
As my grandfather didn’t drink that was never going to be his road. Eventually he gained two long term jobs — first at the Auchentoshan Distilllery from which he was “poached” to go and work at Turner’s Asbestos Factory in Agamemnon Street in Dalmuir — he only took the job in the Asbestos factory because it was closer to home.
However, by 1958 he had left the Asbestos factory behind and had saved enough money to be financially independent becoming a “Master Grocer” somewhere along the way although he was forced to give up the grocery business in the early 60’s when he became ill and was diagnosed with what was apparently considered to be a very severe and life threatening heart condition. As a result, my grandmother insisted that he give up all sorts of working altogether and badgered him if he did anything that appeared remotely strenuous.
This resulted in him outliving his wife by well over a decade until the dodgy heart eventually gave out on him at the tender age of 88.
At some point in my earlier years, my father ( a quiet shy and retiring soul ) labelled his own father with a nickname that rather appropriately described his slight wiry appearance — and so everyone in the family and all my friends referred to him practically and affectionately as “Steptoe” — a reference to the senior partner of the well known TV firm of Steptoe & son.
Steptoe had the ability to some up a situation in a few brief words ( clearly a talent which has not been handed on through the generations ) and sometime his wit and observations were breathtaking.
He once stood at a bus stop on Great Western Road where he got speaking to an elderly black man:
” The difference between you and me” he said to the black man ” Is that THEY have to wait till I open my mouth before THEY discriminate against me — with you THEY just look at your face!”.
When Bob Champion and Aldiniti won the Grand National, Peter O’Sullivan the BBC commentator announced that the form horse and jockey had won. Commenting on the fact that both the jockey and the horse had had cancer Steptoe proclaimed ” Christ going by the form both the horse and the jockey should be stone dead” and shuffled off in disgust — clearly he had backed neither.
In his 86th year he took himself off on his own back to Donegal for a couple of weeks and based himself in Letterkenny but travelled about from there. Upon his return he pronounced that he had walked up Letterkenny main street and knew no one — then he went into the new graveyard where he knew everyone!
Always a philosophical man I once heard him make a comment when his glasses fell on the floor and at his age he had difficulty bending down to pick them up. However as he struggled he comforted himself with the thought that “If it wasn’t for gravity then I would be really in trouble” and he had a strange habit of singing the news headlines of a day.
Sometimes he actually just repeated the news headlines putting them to a wee tune and at others he simply outlined the opinions he formed from listening to the news itself. That explains how I came across him one day making a cup of tea whilst humming his latest composition which seemed to be called “Maggie Thatcher’s a horrible ba***rd” which I still think was pretty acute observation from an old man born in 1894!
Popped into the Argyle St Celtic store yesterday.
For the crazy price of £3 ( the cost of a match day programme) bought the hardback book “Undefeated” by Archie MacPherson. A tale about wee Jinkys battle with Motor Neurone disease.
Read a hundred or so pages last night, a terrific read by a very good writer about a wonderfully brave wee man. Will bring tears to anyone’s eyes.
When at the game today do yourself a favour. Pop in and buy one, You won’t regret it.
Back off for a wee read now before heading for the game today.
TT, read your story again, uplifting to say the least, thank you for sharing.
I take from your recent post you made contact with A.
Hope you get sorted
P
And enjoy your day with the rollers & shakers today!
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Kitalba
07.29
Good day to you, sir. Scanned that lengthy post and decided I needed a coffee and the time to read it thoroughly.
It stirred memories of a book I remember from thirty plus years ago, The Assisi Underground, which, I think, described some of the events included in your post within a narrative style.
I remember the wonder I felt for the individual acts of bravery performed selflessly to save innocents from slaughter.
It may surprise you to know that my son’s school, St Thomas Aquinas, Glasgow, is moving ahead plans to remove History as a subject taught there.
For me, a shocking indictment of current educational mindset.
Don’t try this at home:
It’s not rocket science
I hope he doesn’t try to remove the wart from his son’s hand.
A morning of clearing out furniture from my dear departed (last year) Mother-in-law’s house ahead of me. Then sausage. Then the Gazebo, game, Mass, Indian take away including Cobra and The Voice. “Doesn’t get any better than that, Ted”.
Enjoy your day and be nice now.
CQN Saturday Naps Competition
Lads, for those who are in the CQN Saturday Naps competition, please go back and post today’s selection at the end of the previous article :
“Time to call Fifa to account”
All the best, fleagle1888
GuyFawkesaforeverhero:
I’m ex St. Tam’s and my two favourite subjects were History and dogging it!
BRTH
Great post Larry Marshall used to sing the news on the one o clock gang he must have taken inspiration from your grandad
kitalba
09:09 on 22 March, 2014
GuyFawkesaforeverhero:
I’m ex St. Tam’s and my two favourite subjects were History and dogging it!
Oh what a different meaning that has nowadays,
DoggersnoteCSC
Malorbhoy
don’t forget the beanie you proudly displayed last Friday, there’s a nip in the old Blantyre air…
The life and times of an after dinner speaker, karma is truly a wonderful thing.
http://beyemystic.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/gay-referee-brian-mcginlay-what-they-did-next/
Beanie hat did l purchase a beanie hat:-/
Morning all. Freezing but bright down here at the moment.
The Celtic are playing this afternoon. Great stuff.
Malorbhoy
09:09 on 22 March, 2014
Larry Marshall….bhoy does that bring back memories. I recall watching the One O’clock Gang at my Granny’s. Late 50s early 60s I think.
HH
Gerry
Aye…
was telling pf anf fgf about the brandy shandy oldtim bought my dad in the lounge last week when you waltzed passed in your beanie…
Malorbhoy,
Strange but true. I was just thinking on Wednesday for the first time in at least 20 years of the bold Larry Marshall and the One O’Clock Gang. I guess no one under 50 has even heard of it.
KevJungle
04.34
Hope you continue to express your thoughts here.
Any sensible citizen of the blog can recognise the value of having watchmen in the tower to reveal what may exist in our vision’s blind-spots.
My personal alarm bells will ring in a couple of season’s when the PLC’s accumulated losses are gone and the potential for extracting cash from Ordinary Share dividends will attract unwelcome predators.
That’s for then, today it’s about another three points closer to being Champions again.
Come on, Celtic.
PCS
correct..8)
Bmcuw
If you saw the pics of goa I post on Facebook … You would know fine well how little I miss East Kilbride weather
THE BOY JINKY
Don’t need to,the way yer face lights up when you talk about it does the trick!
As for Facebook,I’m not to be trusted with these social media sites,as sadly proven once more earlier in the week.
LinkedIn even had the cheek to mail me about their privacy policy! Unbelievable.
bmcuwp
Saw your wee mishap with Linkedin last week…..good job I ignore all mail from you.
Tony D
Can I ask what on earth is the purpose of that article on Brian McGinlay?
Mornin CQNrs
Its a coold and bright grey morning here in upper Glasgow !
Looking forward to a great day at Paradise and will be joined to-day by my two bhoys and one of their girlfriends ( a Buddy –still to see the light ).
Kitalba
07.29
Great read and very informative, included a number of things I did not know.
More power to your pen.
Hail Hail
Bmcuw
My friends who are hitched like my pictures … Let’s me be the bad guy when their other halfs catch them looking …. :))))
Jobo
Have you tried mongoose beer . I sampled a couple of bottles in an Indian restaurant in Kent and it was very nice
TD
“At Iain Durrant’s 1998 testimonial he BRAGGED about giving Celtic nothing during his 21 Old Firm matches”.
That’s one way of reporting what he said that night, funnily enough seen on a friends FB page yesterday what he dis say.
BT,
About 1960, I actually attended the One O’Clock Gang Show at the old Theatre Royal, with my pal at the time. What made it memorable was not the show itself. We hard;y saw any of it because our seats didn’t have a real view of the set but while we were queueing Mary Marquis walked past us. Now what she was doing at the STV I have no idea because she was the pin-up of the BBC. But, if I can put it this way, it meant much more to me than if Charlie Gallagher had signed an autograph for me…….
TBJ
I’m saying nothing as mrs BT has taken to lurking again after cqten…
VOGUEPUNTER
Clever bhoy…
First such mishap since my laptop got hacked a few years back.
That time cost me more than damage to my reputation!
PCS
charlie wouldn’t mind but ill remind him when I see him next…
TTT
RE 4TH April, seems it’s ok, just received message telling me that alloa night is 5th..