One or two of us mocked another team for struggling against Second and Third division sides this season. All good sporting fun but from the lofty heights of the Champions League knockout stages you need to make sure you can overcome a team who are treading water in the third tier of Scottish football.
Arbroath were good value for their draw at Celtic Park earlier this month. It would be wrong to say their late equaliser was coming, as they never threatened during the previous 86 minutes, but they were thoroughly well organised and apart from a bizarre own goal would have reached the 87th minute on level terms.
The CQN Annual is 196 pages dripping with pure Celtic. You can order online here, a glossy joy for someone for Christmas!
Our eclectic collection of African, Mediterranean and metropolitan players will have little experience of the biting Arctic wind that will blow in off the Angus coast tonight, just a few yards from Gayfield Park, whereas the part-timers from Arbroath will be very much at home. This, my friends in Celtic, is what they call the Romance of the Cup.
Don’t be comforted by the wins over Barca and Spartak, they guarantee nothing. One more lacklustre performance and dreams of Celtic’s fourth treble will be kippered. 2012 has been the year of the little man, the “diddy teams”, as a wild Rover coined them in the summer. There is one remaining superpower in our sport and every game they play is a cup final for someone.
Get Up for the Cup, Celtic.
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Rod Stewart singles bought(cant believe I typed that):)) in celtic shop in coatbridge.
I would play Gary & lassad tonight.
Just win celtic.
Back in the day only singles bought in certain record shops were registered for the purposes of ‘the charts’.
Don’t know whether the ole Sellik Shop in Coatbridge was one such outlet.
an tearmann
The truth will be out one day.The Finucane family will see to that.God grant them continue strength .
OleJohnnyClash- leggings for men- or ‘meggings’-yes? no?
Good to see our club are at least trying to get more into the ground by offering us ST holders a free ticket for the St Mirren and Ross County games. Good for them. HH
Arbroath 0 – 37 Celtic!
This would be a new world record!
HH!!
DBBIA – I think you know the answer…… But avoid the mistake I made and don’t underestimate what size to go for.
Somebody told me that Celtic gave Arbroath all the money from the first game because of the boycott. Sounds nonsense to me (but I thought Traynor going to Ibrox was nonsense) . Has anyone heard anything?
JJ
NASA@NASA
Here’s a new Dec. 21, 2012 video we planned to release on Dec. 22. Thought you might want to see it now! http://go.nasa.gov/W63e1z
That’s a relief still on for that date in wembley in May 2013
Gretnabhoy
What are you on about?
The Exiled Tim
Moggiopoli ——— ?
La Gazzetta Dello Sport said this ——-
” the championship was controlled step by step, from the transfer market to the goal disallowed at the last minute , from missed offsides to red cards given or not given ”
Not always using money ——- blackmail and intimidation were also used ..
It should also be noted that whilst Moggi was doing his stuff for Juve,AC Milan were employing someone who had the job of being a ” referee attache ”
Corruption is rife in Italy . My local paper reports it daily — Recent examples — civil servants selling driving licenses / Hospital bureaucrats selling places on waiting lists / policemen [ and women ] helping people reduce their car insurance bills . 106 local authority workers not at their work but clocked in . etc etc . .
Fitba is merely one part of that culture
Hollister…… Apple……… Abercrombie+Fitch……..
Jeez, kids have got expensive tastes nowadays. What ever happened to the days of a Captains Ball, a Chemistry Set and a Selection Box??
Johnnyclash
An orange and an apple, grapes kept til Boxing Day!
Jungle Jim
Got an email today from CP offering the free tickets by completing a form and either posting it or handing it into CP. hope I have got it right!
If I was technical I would put it on the site but I don’t know how to with an ipad
fanadpatriot, The dogs on the street knew t’was “The Security” forces that organised the murder of Finnucane. Todays report tells us nothing that we didn’t know before. Still no Justice for The Finnucanes and the many others who were set up by “The Security” forces. “and they dare to call us Terrorist”.
JJ-I know we gave them some champagne after the game in the dressing room.
Keep the flower blooming that is all things Celtic-Get through this freezing night and we can train the cannons on the pretenders
Jungle Jim
Just read the small print, there are only 5000 available . Still better than nothing if you get in quick ! HH
I hear their is now some doubt about Jabba the Hunt going to the mankies.
Apparently they asked him to bring his boots.
Gretnabhoy, that is a great move by the Club and is to be applauded. Bringing an extra 5000 into the stadium for free will cost nothing and there will be some income from food sales, Paradise Windfall etc. Plus it will enchance the match day experience for everyone who attends the game.
mon the hoops,professional victory tonight.mind wear yir gloves
Gretnabhoy
Sorry. I thought you were making a facetious comment about the unlikely event of the Club actually giving to the fans!
Bada
Oh well, that`ll be it. Hope they give them some more before the game tonight. No need to chill it.
Heard there will be a pitch inspection at Gayfield tonight.
10 minutes before the kick off, apparently, so as not to inconvenience fans who live less than 100 metres away.
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning!
16:39 on 12 December, 2012
I hear their is now some doubt about Jabba the Hunt going to the mankies.
Apparently they asked him to bring his boots.
Also heard that Sally was concerned for the safety of his pie stash.
As- I -Thought
Re Shalke
Edinburgh to Cologne with German Wings could be a good option
Good train connections from airport
A pitch inspection ten minutes before kick-off?!
Aye, makes a lot of sense!
HH!!
With weather heading in musk ox direction, ole #9 enigma may well turn out in meggings to protect his best bits in Arctic Angus.
Corkcelt
Justice will prevail.
Sally, Jabba, BFDJ.
The Fat Blue Line.
bmcd48
Cheers mate, ill look it up
HH
Wednesday 12 December 2012 UK
Pat Finucane and Northern Ireland’s collusive state
The murder in Belfast of Pat Finucane is totemic because he was seemingly killed at the behest of a corrupt security apparatus. But David Mapstone argues that Northern Ireland is built on collusion.
The atrocious murder of Pat Finucane is – at first sight – a surprising one to have an inquiry into. A vast amount is known about it. We know the name of one of the men who fired the shots and was found guilty of his murder (Ken Barrett), the man who supplied the weapon (William Stobie), and the man who set him up (Brian Nelson).
Was there collusion in his killing? Yes. Several investigations have left no doubt in the matter. All three of those individuals were British agents of one kind or another, and as if to add insult, the organisation which carried out the deed – the vicious loyalist group the UDA – was not even illegal at the time.
Totemic case
The sheer quantity of information surrounding the Finucane death immediately makes it very different from the large majority of the other 3,800 or so murders in Northern Ireland’s conflict, about which nothing is known at all.
The desire of the Finucane family for an independent inquiry is entirely understandable. Equally understandable is the frustration felt by thousands of others, whose friends and family members are by contrast almost forgotten, with only a poorly resourced Historical Enquiries Team ploughing its way through the Sisyphean task of reinvestigating unsolved murders.
The main reason for the significance of Finucane is that the case has become a totemic one for nationalist Ireland. Here was a solicitor seemingly assassinated at the behest of a corrupt and irredeemably biased security apparatus.
This is a seductive narrative and probably, as far as we can tell, there’s a large amount of truth in it – knowledge of which is presumably why the government has already apologised publicly. Mr Finucane met his death in front of his family in a dark, awful, terrifying night in north Belfast – one among many hundreds, but no less squalid for that.
Multiple collusion
The word collusion is a strange one in Northern Ireland. Collusion took place on multiple levels: there was collusion between the security forces and loyalist groups; collusion between the Irish government of the early 70s and the Provisional IRA; and there was a kind of collusion between mainstream society and the sectarianism that infested it.
Look at Northern Ireland now: the whole state is systemically based on collusion: the population, or most of it, has made a decision that colluding with one’s enemies, regardless of the heinous crimes they’ve committed, is fundamentally worth it.
Middle class people who didn’t carry guns could collude with attitudes, jokes, institutional practices, that sustained the conflict waged by those who, for whatever reason, did carry guns – who often colluded with each other.
And now, the Queen has met Martin McGuinness, and the husband of former Irish president Mary McAleese is reputed to play golf with Jackie McDonald, head of the UDA. These are kinds of collusion – and a very good thing too, most would say.
Human rights?
The same murkiness attaches itself to the phrase “human rights”. Mr Finucane was a (diligent and brilliant) human rights lawyer in the sense in which all lawyers are human rights lawyers; ie, he provided a crucial civic right to people. He provided these rights mainly to Irish republicans and, in particular, the Provisional republican movement.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. If he had provided the same services to members of the RUC, it would not make his death any more or less criminal and abhorrent. Human rights were routinely, and horrendously, abused by all sides in the Northern Ireland conflict, not just those acting on behalf of the state.
We should desperately hope that Mrs Finucane and her children find some satisfaction one day from a judicial or quasi-judicial process.
David Mapstone is a senior programme editor with Channel 4 News
Who is the ref tonight
Another government apology, another Tory cover up…
Johnnyclash 16:20:
It may surprise some of you but back in the day you refer to when only certain Record Shops’ sales counted for record sales, there was no Celtic Shop in Coatbridge. So to answer your question it would not have been one of those Shops.
Leftclicktic:
I’m a big Rod Stewart fan. The first dance at my wedding was Your in my Heart…Celtic, Utd. but baby I’ve decided your the best team I’ve ever met. Wife still believes that 18 years later. Little does she know…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Celtic Underground@celticrumours
http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/bottle-attack-1.657374 …
The MSM would have arranged it so that any discs purchased in Celtic minded emporia did not count towards the top 50.
THat’s why you never saw Glen Daly on TOTPops.
Andy Cameron yes, but not Glen Daly.
lionsroar, War is a dirty business and I wouldn’t attempt to justify any individual murder. Security forces did step outside the law and this was authorised from the very top echelons of the British Government. We all know of Loughall & Gibraltar but the assassination of a top Human Rights Lawyer because he defended Republican activists is an attack on the entire social fabric of a society. To know that British Forces organised and facilitated the murder is mind boggling. This was a war crime and the perpetrators and I’m talking about the Senior men who gave the go ahead should go before the Courts in Hague charged with war crimes.
looks like we’re now allowing the scottish media decide who is and who is not suitable company for celtic employees as well the songs that we sing