25 years ago, Scotland were due to play a World Cup qualification game against Belarus on the day of Princess Diana’s funeral. The SFA, then run by chief exec Jim Farry, the same man who was eventually removed from office for delaying Celtic’s registration of Jorge Cadete, decided the game should proceed as planned.
Whatever you think of Farry, he acted without concern for the royalist contingent. Despite the SFA’s offices being vandalised and Scottish Secretary, Donald Dewer, applying political pressure, Farry dug in: ”We have taken heed of the various viewpoints, but let’s be reasonable about this, life does and must go on.”
He did not act alone, the SFA International Committee were involved, and they included Celtic’s Jack McGinn, and the Greatest Football Administrator the world has ever known, Campbell Ogilvie! This was a strange time in Britain, maybe the strangest few weeks of the last century.
Royalists were split between backers of the self-styled Queen of Hearts (honestly), and those in the minority, who sided with the actual Queen. The Queen, a bit like Farry, held out as long as she could against the indulgent wallowing infecting millions, by resisting calls to lower flags to half-mast.
Before the end of the week, royal flags were lowered and the Scotland game was postponed. Those of us who never took an interest in royalty were often heard saying “Let’s be reasonable about this”, but were largely ignored.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLJRSurlnsI
BRRB 11.36am
Sunday should be your day of rest …
Unless you & Leggy are still in mourning :-)
Petec 11.28am
Think wee Ben Doak was our only young striker of note, sadly breaking through at Celtic (especially) as a striker is a hard thing to achieve
Beaumont Hannant is obviously a Genius.
reading the room…
just back from 5’s (well 6 v 6)
10 tims, 2 blue noses
10 folk def against the n korean style forced mourning…
GerryBhoy,
Newco were SMASHED by a Determined Celtic.
The Gutter Press, absolute Gutter Press are no friends of you/me or anyone related to Celtic.
Wee Lizzie was a good wan, her Passing isnae Good for the World.
King Kong Charles frightens me in his stuff before he ………………………………………………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwTNbh9l9Xs&list=RDJ-fX0UbpZls&index=2
spikeysauldman on 11th September 2022 11:59 am
reading the room…
just back from 5’s (well 6 v 6)
10 tims, 2 blue noses
10 folk def against the korean style forced mourning…
…………………………….
Did you Jack McGinn?
There are some awesome fitba players out there.
Charles will be manipulated BIG TIME by those behind the DEVILs curtain……
Never forget Satan is the biggest Coward on his given to by Our Lord & Saviour, Planet.
Only if I had 1 more.
Danny/MWD Thanks for getting my Old Man to Witness the Leather Belts again with his Grandson.
We may clash politically but Yer awesome beyond Belief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y49Yxp_lEAc
A different view of lizzie
https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/09/10/dark-side-queen-elizabeths-legacy-matters-heres-why/
HH
Day 3 in the Cults induced mental health breakdown.
Are we awfydoon yet?
Feeling void for someone unknown?
If so
Give your head a wobble and grasp reality.
KoreanCsc
AN TEARMANN on 11TH SEPTEMBER 2022 12:26 PM
Thanks for the link.
Oh, and well done the Shamrock Rovers fans and Trevor Sinclair…
F*** the Queen and her fascist regime.
Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5.
SEYTON `The queen, my lord, is dead.
`MACBETH
`She should have died hereafter;
There would have been time for such a thing.
Ideally Sunday
So that we could have taken three points
Against Livi
And the Huns might have dropped some at Aberdeen.`
I am not sure if I have remembered that scene completely accurately.
Hot Smoked,
Perfect,word for word.
R&ngers Napoli match put back a day and no away fans? anybody else seen that?
Napoli game moved to Wednesday.No away fans allowed.” For sporting integrity” ?????????.
No tickets for Naples return will be issued.
Jackiemac 1.18pm
Skybet showing the Huns game now Wednesday at 8pm
Wtf … is that all about … maybe they stop mourning after Tuesday
In case the Napoli fans don’t share the packed hordes idea of “Staunchness”.and don’t shed buckets of faux grief.
“Sporting integrity”
Oh how the laughed and mocked that term in the recent past.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu-rWOx4rbA
Come on the Magical Celtic.
I don’t understand the no away fans at either game. Loads of both sets of supporters will have booked flights etc 🤔
and those fans will still travel.
This Celtic Team May well be Gigantic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu-rWOx4rbA
Our Boss is driving EVERYONE relentlessly.
Sevco v Napoli on Wednesday now,what’s the point of that?
Why are the police so “stretched” on Tuesday but ok on Wednesday ???
If I was in the boardroom of Napoli I’d been saying game is on Tuesday if the Huns can’t play we get the 3pts
Ciao
The authorities are crapping themselves that the mins silence is disrupted, I see the the Celtic and Lpool fans are getting the blame for the cancellation of the weekend fixtures for the same reason
TURKEYBHOY on 11TH SEPTEMBER 2022 1:18 PM
:-))))
Maybe because the travel agent used by the huns,made an absolute arse of trip to Amsterdam, and didn’t want any more grief
Attention all subjects and slaves.
Contrary to earlier reports HM The Queen isn’t dead, it was merely her holding company that died.
A real nasty wan for Napoli fans.
Newco will still get smashed.
Its a token gesture and self centred. Like their existence.
yeah wonder what’s really behind that
“Rangers’ Champions League match with Napoli has been put back 24 hours to Wednesday at 20:00 BST, Uefa has announced.
Uefa said the rescheduling was “due to the severe limitations on police resources and organisational issues related to the ongoing events surrounding the national mourning for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II”.
It added “away fans will not be authorised” at Wednesday’s match or Napoli’s home meeting with Rangers on 26 October.”
Is something else happening on Tuesday that need `police resources` ?
The Real ******* Deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHMPeZW4lxY&list=RDMM&start_radio=1&rv=NhjSzjoU7OQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHMPeZW4lxY&list=RDMM&start_radio=1&rv=NhjSzjoU7OQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHMPeZW4lxY&list=RDMM&start_radio=1&rv=NhjSzjoU7OQ
4-0
Ange is the Man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHMPeZW4lxY&list=RDMM&start_radio=1&rv=NhjSzjoU7OQ
60 years ago today
Celtic 1 Real Madrid 3
https://twitter.com/LilZe_7/status/1568373695302729731?t=H72T8XuuaEP0__DYo5ZCAg&s=19
HH
The police are meant to be “stretched” on Tuesday but ok on Wednesday …
Wonder how many police will be required to look after a couple of hundred Italians now with nowhere to go on Tuesday, am pretty sure the Italian fans will still travel if they have booked flights/accommodation ..
Only the Huns could f up their own CL experience
No away fans won’t change the fact their team is out of its depth
Backslapping, arselicking, boak inducing pish all day and night
And worse than that, the cortege is no comin’ through the hun hell hole that is Bo’ness!
Shockin’ so it is!
Oh an kin ye play GSTK again? It’s been at least 5 minutes since it was last on.
HS- you know the huns will be up to something here….do they know next weekend’s games are off? Surely better getting another 24 hours rest?
I was in Milton Keynes when Celtic smashed Aberdeen 5-0 at Pittodrie when Johnny Barnes was the dude Managing our Team.
Ange has real Substance and is gonnae go on to do Great future things, IMO.