We are almost week on from Morton (our only mustn’t lose game in March) but there will be a business-like atmosphere around Lennoxtown today as the team prepare to go to Ibrox, scene of three consecutive wins since Newco were promoted to top flight football. Brendan and his players are all too aware of the big talk coming from Murray Park. If ever they needed motivation, they didn’t need to look far.
Fans of either colour, who have been around long enough, will recognise the occasion, but this is not the way you and I used to feel about going to Ibrox. Back in the old days I preferred to go there as slight underdogs, which was often as good as it got for Celtic fans. Now, we travel to every ground in the country as strong favourites, no matter what our form. This is nothing like it was in the pre-liquidation years.
I want to win, of course, but I would have been devastated if we’d lost to Morton. Sunday’s game cannot reach me the same way. This is a step on the road to what will hopefully be a treble, don’t pretend it is about winning the league, it’s just not.
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Mahe 8.18pm
Your post earlier in the week stimulated debate (always good for a blog) but I’d you don’t mind can I ask you one thing, you said you enjoyed Man Citeh v Celtic as it wasn’t Scottish football was your justification, apologies if I picked you up wrong but in my opinion the “Champions” League” is the mist corrupt football version of sport on the go …
Again, not a dig, I have read your posts but for the life of me don’t understand why you wouldn’t pass Celtic on to your children, don’t pass the Sfa or any hatred just keep it Celtic… they willl thank you for it :-)
It’s a like a free inheritance :-)
ERNIE LYNCH on 10TH MARCH 2018 6:50 PM
Your absolutely correct, would never say otherwise, of course it is not compulsory.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Mahe
I see some insane assertions like the Celtic Board being a morally bankrupt institution….
Etc responsible for the worst criminality
That is blatant nonsense
Beleive it if you want but its nonsense …
There you have a polite exchange from me of my alternative views
https://youtu.be/AqzGM2ygcmg
Hrvatski Jim
Sorry that St Phils fell through.
Protocol is that the Hall won’t show the game while mass is on.
Glad you’re sorted and hope your team has a resounding victory!!
GFTB
Hail Hail bro
After,…….
25 years of Murray Mibbery
20 odd cheated tainted trophies, remain unstripped
£140 million hun tax swindle, not a penny paid back
LNS whitewash, meekly accepted
The sacking of Manchester 2008, swept under the carpet
NFL flung under a bus by Celtic PLC
Celtic’s current £45 k a week manager wears a Mibbery Muzzle
Then, the sickest of all, the clincher…..
Celtic supporters of 2018 pay £49 for tickets to see,….
Sevco FC vs Celtic FC.
After all of the above, the tear filled ghosts of the Parkheid Jungle, look down from above
singing – “We’re Not Celtic Anymore!”
Good luck.
……oot.
Good evening CQN,
Just popped in to wish Celtic all the best tomorrow. I hope we bury these feckers once and for all. Nighty night. HH
Kev 8.36pm
Aye right 25yrs
The Huns have been cheating forever
The past is in the past live for tomorrow
If you attended the jungle there were many not so good times then & when you were in attendance in the “jungle” what were your thoughts of our “bored” then ???
Enjoy the game the morra
PARK ROAD 67
You need to kill time watching something when you’ve nae money to go to the pub coz your circumstances mean you’ve got to buy mother’s day stuff for 2 and none of them is even your own mother and your mates fitting a kitchen in Troon aw day. LOL
Hope your day was better than mine.
KEEP THE FAITH
Weefrathetim 8.43pm
Get your bahookie back on here
Hope all is good and I hope we keep beating whatever form of the hun that appears
By the way players like Moussa, Ntcham, Sinclair, Paddy Roberts, Charlie Musonda all want to play a version of the Hun, we might not like it but without them we might not attract the top players we have (diving for cover) :-)
WEEFRATHETIM. keep posting pal.hh. i post a true story and nobody gives a feck but i know you from old you are a true tim hh.
Weefra
Pop in more often.
WEEFRATHETIM on 10TH MARCH 2018 8:43 PM
Good evening CQN,
Just popped in to wish Celtic all the best tomorrow. I hope we bury these feckers once and for all. Nighty night. HH
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Hope you are well Weefra and I hope yer teams wins easy tomorrow!!
HH
CRC
Gerry/BP
Thanks guys. Due to ill health, I have not attended a single game this season. I have a pre op on Monday and, hopefully, this will allow a successful op in the next 3 months. My ST is being used by a relative and I will probably renew come April. As far as CQN is concerned, I was brought up to stay away from where I wasn’t wanted. Bullying is a frightful thing. HH
WEEFRATHETIM, you are wanted please keep posting.ktf.
Ron Bacardi, sorry for the late reply.
Father John McGinley did replace Father James O’Hare as a curate at St Laurence’s.
The parish priest , Father Michael O’Connell, at the time used to take myself and two other parishioners to some of our games. Big Mick as he was known by the parishioners was a huge Celtic fan and was well known at Celtic Park as he was formerly the Parish Priest at St Michael’s at Parkhead Cross.
Father McGinley travelled with us on my first game at Tynecastle in November 1976 , when we won 4 3 after being 3 1 down after about half an hour. Willie Gibson had scored a hat trick.
My mum was disappointed when she heard John McGinley had left the priesthood.
CRC
Hi M, hopefully see you next season. HH
Weefra 9.00pm
Rubbish excuse you have many nite friends than foes on here
So get posting, even that rocket AoW was enquiring about the lambs, Cqn is for us all
Do you think Sinclair will start tomorrow I do
By the way Monday will take care of itself just you take care of you
Let’s cut to the chase here. How many of on here have ever had it so good. Iam involved in the amateur game so don’t get to see much live other than on the television. As always in football quality will tell. The one thingabout Brendan is that he and his staff are tactically aware .Wehave never had it so good and it will continue from tomorrow onwards on. .
Wits,
You wrote you can’t understand the mentality of some people on here,,well that’s funny because I’ve laid my mentality out very clearly for the world to read over the last few days.
I feel the current custodians of Glasgow Celtic football club have failed me.
My morals prevent me from taking anymore part of Scottish football because it is rotten to the core and a vehicle for sectarianism.
You might say that’s not their fault to which I would reply then show me they tried to fight it . Really tried.
DD- they are great rivals. PL-old firm is a phrase we no longer use. Well if they are dead say so, publically. And don’t treat the new version the same.
My support is now focused solely on our charitable aims and not the football team.
If the report is a whitewash then, like the pogues ,thousands are sailing.
I really wish to move on , I’ve taken up enough room on the blog and my stance is public.
I don’t wanna look or feel like a broken record.
Perhaps we should leave it. It is a Saturday night.
Take care
GFTB,
Gerry I justified to myself watching that Man City game because ,,
It’s not Scottish football which I’m boycotting
I knew I wouldn’t hear any songs of hate
The ref didn’t have a sectarian bias against us
It would be pure football, not lump it and get into them crap
It was an illegal stream , I wasn’t making millionaires richer
It was broadcast via USA TV and the commentators would be fair or at least if they did prefer city to win it wasn’t because they were playing the taigs.
I could go on.
Yes they (uefa/FIFA) are corrupt,,won’t give them a penny,,but at least they (uefa and away fans) dont want us to go home because the famines over now,,they actually like us and compliment us regularly.
I’m moving on Gerry,,,I hope you are well and enjoy the game tomorrow. I really do mucker. If it brings you joy,,by all means.
Hail Hail
BIGPACKY 740
During the miner’s strike,my best pal at the time had different opinions on it from me. You can guess what mine were.
We were heading into The Iron Horse in West Nile St one Friday,I think. I was picking up tickets for a game,and there’s the collection plate outside.
My mate just ignored it-pointedly-and I put a fiver in. Lot of money for a student then,about a gallonsworth where we were going.
I got the beer in,surprised you’ve got anything left after that says my mate. That’s a sesh you threw away.
I just looked at him,said it will feed someone who needs it,downed my pint and effed off.
Re the game tomorrow
There are many dead club follow followers who can see nothing but a win for murtinio’s marvels .
So there are going to be some very bitter and angry currants desperate to take their angst out on anyone and everyone
Be careful out there bhoys n ghirls
HAIL HAIL
VFR, when James O’Hare moved to St Roch’s , my parents went up to see him a few times. When they came back , my dad would say , James seemed somewhat disenchanted at the time.
He had helped calm down some gang related issues in Drumchapel and he felt he had been sent to St , by the Archbishop , to do the same.
He was a great loss to the priesthood.
Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on 10th March 2018 3:12 pm
BRTH,
I’m no surprised you don’t think there’s as much overt sectarian racism in Scotland for a couple of reasons, first being as you admit, you don’t recognise it when its abusing you and second being, the people in your circle of contacts are a bit better educated and know the risks involved with displaying overt sectarian racism, that does not equate with not being a sectarian racist bigot, just more careful about the right company to let the guard down.
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Hey big man where have you been and how are you doing? I hope all is well with you.
Now, about the above, If you read my post again I don’t think you will find that I say anywhere that I don’t think that racism and sectarianism doesn’t exist or that it is not on occasion overt and in your face.
The point that I was making is that Madman Mahe had previously said that he was of the view that the racism and sectarianism was such that he has chosen not to follow and support Celtic as much as he would like because of it and that he has deliberately chosen not to expose his daughter to Celtic and Scotland because of the level of sectariansim, bias and cheating etc.
I paraphrase, but that is what I understood him to mean.
My view, as stated, is that in my experience, and it is only my experience, I don’t come into see that level of bigotry on a daily basis, and indeed the majority, but not all, of the people I come into contact with are neither sectarian or bigoted or whatever — in my opinion.
Further, I state clearly that my own preference is that my kids do know about Scotland and the fact that is sectarianism and bigotry and that they face up to that no matter how and where it shoes itself, and irrespective of who shows it.
That is the gist of what I was trying to day.
However, with respect, your comment above is far too wide and generalist.
With regard to the bank manager chap I couldn’t explain his behaviour at first but when I mentioned it to Davie Hope’s Grandson, who worked in Financial Services at the time, he was able to tell me that he had clients who were all having the same problem with the same guy — and every single one of them had Irish sounding first names.
That is why I didn’t spot it but once I had the info which spelt it out then I made sure that it was nipped in the bud there and then. BTW the guy was also very good at falsifying documents and leaving completely false records of meetings and actions. A sick and villanous individual who could have caused someone real harm.
As for my circle of friends, contacts and acquaintances, no offence but you know nothing about them. I quite deliberately don’t associate much with the “polite to your face” professional type punters – and I have come across more than a few – as I have no time for them whatsoever. One very aspiring middle class Rangers supporting Lawyer once told me drunkenly that I was no more than a “punter with a law degree” to which I replied “And don’t ever forget it!”
There are many in the middle and professional classes who are jumped up two face bigots or racists, but there are many more – many many more – who are straightforward honest fair minded folk who don’t have an ounce of bigotry in my experience and, yes, in my judgement, which is not as immune to the existence of sectariansim and bigotry as you might think.
Equally, outwith those middle classes and “better educated” circles, there are loads of ordinary working class folk who perhaps don’t have the benefit of as much further education as others who are completely devoid of any sectarianism or prejudice in my experience.
That is just the way I see it, mind.
FERGUSSLAYEDTHEBLUES
A few years ago when the old huns were still alive, I saw a prog about the emergency services in Glasgow before, during and after games against thems, believe it or not, there was worse violence, more hospital admissions etc when they won as opposed to lost, seems their sense of supremacy got them worked up into a frenzy and they just attacked anything remotely associated with us, when they lost they tended to go home and to quote Willie Wadell, give their wives a bit of a bashing.
At the end of the day someone gets it I suppose, how sad.
HH
Sorry typos galore in that – shoes should be shows, and there is also the odd word missing. This blind typing is a pain.
FERUSSLAYEDTHEBLUES
It’s a cracking moniker,and you should display it more often!
And you’re perfectly correct. They’ve got that wee air of,well,you know,a whiff in their nostrils,and there is a sad litany of those caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Mob mentality,famous for it. We’ve all seen it.
Having said that,we all know that they’re not all like that. And I’ve got reason to thank a half-dozen or so in such a case for still having my Dad around. Plus his brother and two others.
A man’s a man for a’ that,and deep down,the hatred of bullies-the good guys-will always overcome the mob mentality-the bad guys.
Those guys have never met my Dad et al,before nor since,there wasn’t really time to thank them either! But faced wi a howling mob,jeez,that took some balls.
I’ll never meet them-I’ve met plenty like them-but I’ll always be grateful to them.
And,yes,you’re right. Cos it only takes one. And that’s the danger.
NAKAMUUUUUURaaa
Sid1888 on 10th March 2018 8:19 pm
Hey Sid, how are you keeping?
Are you coming to the One Night in Lisbon dinner on the 25th of May in the Kerrydale Suite?
BRTH
In your line of work I guess that you had to endure much worse than you admit, but through your determination you got to where you are now.
Likewise, when I joined my chosen profession I was only the 4th Catholic to be employed. The company had 250 employees.
You get choices in life, mine, at 19, was to say feck them. For some strange reason it worked. From becoming the almost token Tim I became someone who people trust to stand up for what they believe and even the Huns grudgingly accepted me.
Now, over 30 years later, that profession has as its president a rabid Tim and they know it, much as it probably kills them.
Good things come etc…
Mahe 9.07pm
Tomorrow I will meet up with fellow Celtic fans who admittedly only meet up for semi finals, finals or Rangers/Sevco games, we all work and have families so this is our time, I know the Sfa are bent, I know the Huns cheated, I know the Huns are still cheating but even if Celtic don’t win tomorrow nothing will change in my Celtic life, grieving up my Celtic never needed to win, I endured a very good grounding as atvs very young age being a Celtic fan didn’t equate with winning trophies, roll on tomorrow and I hope 50 Shades & 50 Shades junior have a great time, worst case scenario the cheats flick a result they are 3prs in our shadow with a wee game in hand against Donahd Findlay’s “right” have man
Enjoy the good times fellow Celts we are living in them :-)
In the days when English top flight football was littered with great Scottish players John O’Hare was always one of my favourites.
weefra
dinae forget regards to the boss..
smiley missed you thing
we will smash them tomorrow….and that is braw
Braw
Weefra: good to see you posting. Best wishes on your health issues.
PR67: I’m not a rugby fan but always loved the 5/6 Nations. Never been to a game but it is far more exciting than most soccer games I watch. Hope you are well.
Mahe: Keep on posting. You’ve been a breath of fresh air this week, primarily because of the honest and respectful way you post.
Never give up on the Celts. If you do the bigots will have won.
Coinnigh an creideamh. (KTF)
The Big Guy upstairs knows the Tony Yeboah.
Love is the Actual Law.
So many go against God.
I reckon if Scottie plays it will be 3-1 Celtic.
Right off a player at yer peril.
Used to be really nervous the night before an Old Firm match, hoping for the best but fearing the worst.
Thank Ghod those days are gone.
Early night for me.
Oíche mhaith.
Weefra, delighted to see you back on again please keep posting mate your contributions are valued believe me!
Weefra – CELTIC
Thank you Almore , I mean I just wanna post normal posts. No more about just me.
Hail Hail