There’s a moment in Woody Allan’s movie Bananas, after the leader of a military coup takes control, that he loses his faint grasp on rationality and plunges headlong into random nonsense. He informs the inhabitants of his Latin American country that Swedish will be their new language and that underwear now should be worn as an outer garment.
BBC’s Jim Spence this morning reports that a Dundee United director, flush with the success of reaching the League Cup final, told him United want almost double the ticket allocation for the final than they were able to sell for the semi-final, as “We want to ensure as big a crowd as possible for the game, which we are sure the sponsors would want too”, and that he wants United fans in the Toryglen end of the stadium, or the Celtic end, as it’s known by everyone else in the land.
Sure, ask for more tickets than you were able to sell, but don’t justify your request on the basis that this will ensure a bumper crowd. If anything, it will achieve the opposite.
Asking for the Celtic end is right up there with wearing your pants on top of your trousers. It’s a random and irrational exercise of power by someone who is evidently in way over their head. It’s technically possible to have United at the ‘Toryglen’ end, but it would achieve no benefit and only cause confusion and inconvenience to thousands. If Woody Allen is short of quality material (which appears to be the case), he should spend some time here.
Scotland is not full of these types, but those there are seem to gravitate towards positions in our national game. From now on, I’m going to think of United chairman Stephen Thompson with his pants on the outside. Pantsman Thompson, seems an appropriate handle.
I don’t know about you, but it’s been a while since I’ve had to listen to thousands sing “No Pope of Rome” at a public gathering. The problem is not as significant as it was a few decades ago, and is largely limited to the embers of a dying sub-culture. The rest of the country has moved on, as have most Rangers fans. I’m not sure how, or if, you can check these excesses, but I’m sure they are overwhelmingly self-harming.
Kenny MacAskill, appointed Justice Minister in the SNP government on the basis of having selective hearing and being able to make absurd claims, left his post in November. His government have yet to make any comment on yesterday. Nor have they repealed the politically-motivated Offensive Behaviour Act, or show they are remotely interested in asking for the laws they introduced to be enforced without fear or favour. The Act was aimed at you and is simply flawed. It is toxic, remains in place out of nothing more than bloody-mindedness and will be repealed at the first change of government.
Anyway, you’ve got a cup final to look forward to on the weekend of the CQN11 St Patrick’s Dinner at the Kerrydale Suite, on Friday 13 March. Email me, celticquicknews@gmail.com to book your tickets.
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Usual transfer window,linked with lots of players,and sign nobody.
Tic up their bid to £1.6 million for SA at Utd, just pay a combined £2 mill for both and get they bhoys in noo Pete. Don’t loose oot for a couple of hundred K
jimmynotpaul – Something seems familiar about that Alfie character…
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8585/jed2.jpg (thumbsup)
Canamalar
16:27 on
2 February, 2015
I totally agree that there’s lots of political baggage behind it rather than OPEC playing silly buggers. I was just struck recently with a story about I think Shell or BP laying off hundreds and citing the oil price slump and linking it to the SNP plans but job losses on that scale don’t happen overnight and it would have been getting lined up in the first few weeks of the fall starting before people really knew what was going on.
Anyway the price has risen a bit today. So maybe the future is a little brighter on that front.
Snake Plissken
From yesterday
Jim Spence@bbcjimspence · 18 hrs18 hours ago
bid of less than 150k rejected by @dundeeunitedfc for GMS to @celticfc and bid of less than 1.6 Million rejected for Stuart Armstrong
neustadt-braw
16:26 on 2 February, 2015
Big Georges Fan Club – Hail, Hail, Wee Oscar
16:17 on
2 February, 2015
Hello this is WEE BGFC. Have we signed that Michael Duffy guy yet? I know that we agreed a deal but I just got home from school so I don’t know if it is finalised yet.
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…………..done deal …he is sorting oot his pocket money with Big Pete ……hope you do a better job wee yer da
hail hail
braw
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Hello this is WEE BGFC. Cheers big-man. :)
Darren Fletcher celebrated his 31st birthday yesterday ,I thought he was a bit older than that.
I would take him if we could get him on reasonable terms for 2 years.
THE EXILED TIM
16:15 on 2 February, 2015
Superb, hun crowd when LG scores :)
Brilliant photoshopping!!!
hame for tea now.
http://www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/40-best-views-scotland-magnificent-4922377
some nice pics.
HH
Watching Ronny’s reaction to the goals and his post match celebration yesterday, it strikes me that it was all a little cathartic for him personally. A scan of the Meeja headlines on Newsnow Celtic leading up to the game would have given you a hint as to the extent of the GIRUY.
Sleazy politicians and their self-serving policies dancing to the tune of their corporate masters? Such as it ever was, just ask the ancient Persians, Greeks and the Romans.
And yet the general populace continues to be subservient to them and supply them with all the oxygen they need.The OBA is making money for someone, somewhere. It’s that simple. Follow the brown envelope and you’ll get to the bottom of it.
Let’s see if the Tangerines chairman turns up at the cup final resplendent in neon orange bloomers, while swanning around the posh seats. Challenge accepted says Stephen!
“Celtic are preparing to make a third bid for Stuart Armstrong”
How do you prepare to make a third bid?
I mean, how difficult can it be to take the previous email and edit £1.6M to £1.8M and press send, that it takes any ‘preparation’?
Weeminger,
They are simply using it as a cost cutting exercise and getting rid of dead wood, I think we can expect more accidents in the near future as responsibilities are foisted on less resources.
Reducing wages and labour is the current goal.
The last time we had similar crash exon Mobil built one of its biggest refinery’s and saved a fortune, there does not seem to be as much confidence this time round, which points to a prolonged price depression.
BSR,
We are where we are and it takes two to tango.
Our problem is that the calibre of player we require is EPL standard.
The standard we can afford are sub Championship level……unless we get an up and cominger.
KTF
Celtic out to 8/1 to sign Darren Fletcher, presumably following the new Armstrong bid.
HH
The Battered Bunnet
“Preparing a bid” paints a picture of Peter Lawwell in some Dundee Hotel – carefully arranging bundles of crisp £20 notes in a leather bound attache case.
Thompson – “So Mr. Lawell, – I suppose you expect me to sell”?
To be continued….
Catching up and reading about oil, Norway etc. Just back from Lanzarote and had many chats with a Norwegian MS sufferer in a wheelchair. His 3 week break in the sun was totally paid for by his health service including all wheelchair adapted transfers from and to the resort from his home including three therapy sessions per week while on holiday.
Jackson on twitter ..saying sevco are getting newcastle reserves on loan…one is the Highly Rated remie streete …guys been on loan at wait for it..Port vale..and played 2 games…Highly Rated….yeah right…
Canamalar
16:39 on
2 February, 2015
Yep. While it could go back up just as quickly I doubt it will. However those that state that this is it from here on in for a decade or more are just as delusional as they claimed the SNP were. About the only thing we do know about the price of oil is that it’s volatile.
Yogiy…how good is that mate…brilliant…
GerryBhoy
It’s good innit :)
HH
Can’t get the head around all this winday stuff, we need CB’s derperado, the 2 we have won’t be here next season, yet we faff about trying to bring in wingers.
Forward planing, aye right…
HH
Celtic manager Ronny Deila enjoying a dance last night to Eddie Grant’s ‘Give me hope, Joanna’ https://t.co/lDPGFg6I2B
!!Bada Bing!!
unless you uy into the tin foil hat school of lawwellian pr chicanery celtic has no control over who we are linked with. And we rarely, if ever buy no one in the transfer window, we probably buy too much if anything
A heard Guidi on snyde roughly 10 days ago saying the sevco would strengthen the squad for yesterdays semi cause big Mike was loaded, guidi, jackhun baith pish talkers
Sky Sports Scotland@ScotlandSky · 26 mins26 minutes ago
Sky Sources understand that Celtic have now made a 3rd bid for Stuart Armstrong of around £1.6 million
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Inside The SPFL@AgentScotland · 19 mins19 minutes ago
Celtic are preparing to make a third bid for Stuart Armstrong although I don’t believe its been made yet, this one is thought to be £1.85m
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Jim Spence@bbcjimspence · 4 mins4 minutes ago
Another bid in and expect yet another shortly from @celticfc for both @StuArmstrong16 and @Gary__11 @dundeeunitedfc the dance continues
:))))))))
Who Waants.. Darren Fletcher?
Oh… No..Not Kojo..
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Fur Kojo, Knows that Celtic ur a Selling Club..
Fletcher,is oan the Doon Slope.
Ah wid be disappointed if we Brought him tae Paradise..
Must surely be a Loata Paper Talk.
Kojo
Laughin’ fit tae burst.( Efter,,Last night)
Kojo
Are you ever short of words?
Philvisreturns.
That’s the one. Magic.
Alfie is that you? See 16.31.
Embdae ken how a “bid” in today’s tech savvy world is made?
Telephone? Email? Fax? Text?
The Battered Bunnet
They say they are preparing their next bid as we are uping bid by a £5 and it takeas around 20 secs to amend, send, a roraring laugh coming from Tannadice Street and then the effe orff reply. But we will get there and we’ll know we are close when the laugh’s coming from tannidice Stree get a little quiter over the next few hours.
In the meanwhile we will get naebody in. the trannies windy will shut and that’ll bee that!
F5 TO THAT.
MWD said AYE
Midfield maestro…great post …im really begining to like Deila( after ripping him to bits)…he gets involved , i think its great to see…
Kojo = Sensei
Why did Dundee Utd allow it to get the point that GMS’s contract was run down and he could speak to other clubs? Just a case that no bid was received? Would doubt that.
People saying they won’t let that happen again with Armstrong but they knew the rules and the risk involved when they didnt sell GMS last summer or even last January – there was always a fair chance he’d leave on a Bosman. Likewise for Armstrong if he’s not sold soon – value will go down and the longer they leave it the more the player will fancy leaving on a Bosman and all the extra benefits that brings in terms of signing on fees etc
What is their game exactly?!
I dont think the potential rewards for winning the League Cup are enough to knock back a couple of million for Armstrong.
Get it done Celtic ffs
HH
Jim Spence@bbcjimspence·5m5 minutes ago
@mcbhoy @celticfc @StuArmstrong16 @Gary__11 @dundeeunitedfc I think 2.2 would clinch it
We ***maybe*** offering
1:85 & 150K for SA & GMS
Just sack McGlynn and use his wages to make it up
Simples :)))))
*** = Peteromics :))))
do we email bids now? Thought it was the old fax machine – only use for them now!
Well done to Ronny in celebrating his easy peasy victory!
San Diego Bhoy
Peter is efficient. He does it by snail mail. It’s the new leader in the Celtic PLC offer softwear. the old nomail system never tended to get there on time.
MWD said AYE
Celtic are reported as preparing another bid for xxxxxx so that SMSM can say further Celtic bid prepared this afternoon, has been snubbed by xxxxxxx
Yada Yada Yada
san diego bhoy
16:57 on 2 February, 2015
Embdae ken how a “bid” in today’s tech savvy world is made?
Telephone? Email? Fax? Text?
Carrier pigeon…