Well done to the thousands who turned up for the Jock Stein 30th Anniversary game at Dunfermline yesterday. Money from the match is already helping refugees through the British Red Cross’s Europe Refugee Crisis Appeal.
The club site this morning reported David Miller of the Red Cross said, “Celtic FC Foundation and their fans’ support will make a real difference to the refugees and communities affected across Europe and in neighbouring countries. Thank you for supporting the appeal.”
We have a great auction coming up this week for hospitality at the Dundee game later this month, all funds going to the Foundation. Look out for it.
I was sorry to hear of the passing of Ralph Milne yesterday. Ralph was one of the outstanding talents of Scottish football when he won the league with Dundee United in 1983, a day after his 22nd birthday.
His scored the goal which won the league, but the memory of his chance in the European Cup semi-final, a year later away to Roma, still induces regret. 27 years later Roma would admit to bribing the referee for that game, as they progressed to the final with a 3-2 aggregate. A few years after winning the league the writing was on the wall for Ralph’s career.
I watched him playing a student team on a public park, telling the incredulous English person I was with about Ralph’s European Cup semi-final exploits three years earlier. He then floated around the English lower leagues before Sir Alex Ferguson signed him for Manchester United. Fergie remember the Ralph we were all amazed at from the 82-85 era, but by then (1988) Ralph was a a shadow of his former self. One of the game’s greats became one of its parodies.
Kick back and give yourself 20 minutes to have a read at Weekend at Bernie’s, recently published by the Hostile Monkey blog. In the light of last week’s court appearances it is a fully referenced, line-by-line, assessment of the “same club myth”, detailing six areas instances of the debate:
The Lord Nimmo-Smith Commission Argument
The European Football Club Association Argument
The UEFA website argument
The Advertising Standards Authority argument
The BBC Trust Argument
The SFA Registration Argument
It’s worth bookmarking for future reference.
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BT :))
Being ‘up oneself’ takes being ‘full of yourself’ to a whole new level.
BT,
To be fair to them at least they turn up after a defeat.
HH
Germany have only lost one competitive away game in 17 years. Surely not?
The Italian commentator thinks Hampdump is Celtic Park!
Feckin erse!
HH!!
Unsurprisingly Poland winning vs the Rock
Training game for the bosh
Anybody know if our latest acquisition played tonight for the Croatian u21 side?
HH
Geordie
I’m sure the atmosphere would have been better had Scotland not buggered it up on Friday
Just like a training match for Germany
Germans keep ball for 10 mins – we get it and hump it up the park
Captained the team – 4 nil win – booked in the first min
Aye but
ISIS are this century’s nazis, at some point they’re going to need to be beat.
Hammer the states that are arming them would be a start. Hammer the states that are buying their oil, and funding them, would be a decent second step. Isolate and deprive would be an option to consider.
Canamalar has a point – its medieval
One nil sausage side
Pfffft!
James mcarthur joke defending
Rotten deflection.
Losing.
Not surprising really
That boy Muller’s not a bad player.
HH!!
Play this game at Celtic Park. Another 10k Scotland fans @ £30 a head. Only the SFA could knock that back.
You would hope our coaches are watching how the Germans keep position against a defensive set up
Patience and movement required
And I know they are world champions
Looks like a long long night for Scotland. Nobody covered themselves in glory at that goal.
Ireland poor so far. If anything Georgia look more likely.
Is Stephen fletcher Berget?
Davy Provan missing the point as usual, ‘just a horrible deflection’
Og tastic
Classic Scottish goal
1-1. Another in off.
1-1
Wee Shaun
Ya Dancer
A proper Angus OG
Game on:)
Well 2 Deflections
1-1
We would have missed the penalty anyway
We’ll done wee Shaun great free kick causing panic
Correction on the books of the Koran, the older book of Mecca (written in Mecca) was the more tolerant of the two, the Madinat was written later in Medina and approved of the violence and extremism it appears God changed his mind after witnessing the treatment of his prophet.
Anyroadup,
Enough of that, come on fitba, couldn’t give a monkeys about international fitba.
Joke team
Acres of space at left back
Provan singles out Mulgrew for criticism of the German’s second
Another shambles
The goals the Germans have are huge mistakes
I blame izzy