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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Careful,
Them Germans know how to construct a wall likes:)
Bryl cream on
Any chance the Germans have fielded an illegal player?
Something about Mary…..
Fletcher u tit
Fletcher .. What a player!
:)
Watching a programme about the German code breaking on BBC 2. Riveting so it is.
Fletcher is a lump a wid.
Fletcher misses from miles offside
Comeback on – the Rock have just scored!
SOUTHSIDE on 7TH SEPTEMBER 2015 9:27 PM
Fletcher is a lump a wid.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 7TH SEPTEMBER 2015 9:27 PM
Fletcher misses from miles offside
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You two out of order…that is the man who would have guaranteed the league for Celts.
Dumped Sky sports but watching Blitz Street on Yesterday to get me in the mood :-0
3 minutes injury time Dublin
VP
Would should have brought on Steven Fletcher
SFTB
The simple reason the word ‘I’ appears more in my posts than yours is that I just might be talking for myself alone rather than being mistaken to talk for others. Also I do not borrow statistics and ever twist them to my opinion. Well not often anyway, though I will hold my hand up and admit that I have done so in the past once or twice; But always knowingly and with my own agenda in mind.
How many times did I honestly and sincerely use ‘I’ in that post.
Don’t know, but it was honest and agenda free without any concern for censor or endorsement. I don’t need the brownie points, I don’t give a feck for the brownie points, I don’t need the attention.
Oops a few more I’s there, sorry for the sincerity and honesty and not trying to talk for others.
Ah well, we’re shite ..
Tennis started yet ?
Let’s go Andy, let’s go!!
:(
Ireland win one nil
Dae something!!!!
The meaning of the name Fletcher is ‘maker of arrows’ and the family motto is ‘ we arrow people’.
Not good enough – this Cyber Space scouting is a piece of urine so it is.
Too easy so it is!
Ach no bad.
Not quite the thrashing the experts predicted.
Cmon Andy.
HH
OVERSEASBHOY on 7TH SEPTEMBER 2015 9:13 PM
4th place
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Whenever I hear Scotland are playing international football, I’m reminded of this brilliant clip from Trainspotting. Warning it contains some sweary words.
https://youtu.be/FpxL3yaGM-o
The results change nothing.
Ireland have had their last points in the group.
The Germans and Poles will beat them.
The key is if the Scots get at least a point vs the Poles which means the win in GIbraltar guarnatees 3rd fro Scotland.
Oh well, a good try.
Poland next, here’s hoping.
m6bhoy
Speaking of which, for all you trainspotters out there, Trainspotting is on Film4 11pm.
I heard he was dead,
But wouldn’t Scotland need 6 v gib then?
Or is it head to head?
HH
Fletcher is useless. If Griff was not injured, then WGS’s tactics were equally useless.
Alwaysthesameshit.
I heard he was dead on 7th September 2015 9:39 pm
The “key” is that Scotland are pants & have no chance whatsoever of any progress in this championship.
The US open app is updating the scores before the TV pictures.
Uselessinflamation csc
CELTIC MAC on 7TH SEPTEMBER 2015 9:41 PM
m6bhoy
Speaking of which, for all you trainspotters out there, Trainspotting is on Film4 11pm.
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The fillum is twenty years old next year. Scary or what?
Follow the German blueprint – get all the foreigners in.
M6BHOY on 7TH SEPTEMBER 2015 9:48 PM
CELTIC MAC on 7TH SEPTEMBER 2015 9:41 PM
m6bhoy
Speaking of which, for all you trainspotters out there, Trainspotting is on Film4 11pm.
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The fillum is twenty years old next year. Scary or what?
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What’s scary?? That wean oan the ceiling :O(
Well done Ireland ……. !!!!!
Geordie Munro
It’s head to head and points and goals vs the bottom teams are worth nothing
GerryBhoy
I don’t say Scotland are good but Ireland are likely to have had their last points tonight.
Will they beat a German team on ths cusp of a win meaning qualifiation?
No chance.
Scotland and poland is the key game. If it is win or draw for the Scots they will be 3rd.
It’s an honest analysis.
voguepunter
Apparently Danny Boyle and the original cast, are gonny make a Trainspotting 2. Think one of the cast actually died back in the original, or am I gonny have to watch the whole movie again to confirm that. Wasn’t Sick Boy was it, he never seemed that well.
Good Evening.
In case of interest… Here are a couple of pieces from today.
The first is about the Record’s strange fixation with the SFA regarding the Scotland team’s delayed flight back from Georgia…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2015/09/07/departuregate/
And the second is about one of the most gushing reports on a football team that I have ever read. Hint: that team currently plays in the second tier of Scottish football…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2015/09/07/orgasmic-journalism/
Cheers!
Celtic Mac
Can’t remember mhate…saw it at the pictures,haven’t been able to watch it again.
BOTTLEMERCHANT C.S.C
Scotland will get beaten by Poland. They r garbage. I’m Scottish but I’m not deluded. Cmon Ireland.