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Set dancer. Footballer, hod carrier, pint lifter, spailpin.
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Comment on A dark day for Glasgow Celtic
on 14 February 2012 at 11:02 pm
DC: The heading, like some of the posts, seems to be in bad taste and symptomatic of Catholic sectarianism.
Celtic however does not need Scotland but Scotland needs Celtic as most Scots are black Prods with all the baggage that entails.
Rangers cannot just go to England, they have tried for years with their MATES, Celtic, to get out of Scotland.
Now listening to 5-live on this topic.,
The way forward has been mentioned above. The EPL needs the crowds of Rangers and Celtic. But the fans of both clubs are out of touch. This is all about Rupert Murdoch and his mates.
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Comment on A dark day for Glasgow Celtic
on 14 February 2012 at 10:23 pm
DC: Celtic and Rangers, partners in crime, have tried to get out of Scotland many times but the others need them and will not let them go.
Rangers, with even the 10 points deduction, are very comfortably in second place, showing just what a crock the SPL is.
Rangers will be reconstituted and will be back. But back to do what. To play the equally insipid Celtic in Old Firm boxing matches that have long past their sell by date.
Soccer is totally commercial. There should be one British (England, Scotland, Wales) system with say three divisions: BPL, BCL, British Div 1 and the rest going to regional areas: Highlands,. Borders (both sides) N Conference etc with the minnows having a knick out or whatever to get into Div 1 before they are again relegated .
Of course, all sporting bodies are run by anti democrats, the GAA being the exception etc
Most English clubs veer on bankruptcy.
What about Portsmouth FC? Catchment area of 400,000, good home support, “friendly” pitch, good firm for aggro. Just one more broken team and community. Pompey has a recent history out of a French or other farce.
It would be nice to get the views of Rangers supporters here, rather than the wanna be grave dancers.
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Comment on A dark day for Glasgow Celtic
on 14 February 2012 at 7:30 pm
Actually Derry dave: You are best not replying as you don’t seem to know much about the finances of football.
Rangers’ fall will have major knock on effects, unlike the Made in Cavan assembly factory. Sport is part of the leisure industry and that is where the money comes from.
Rangers are not the first. There is Pompey, Leeds and many more. All had to pay fortunes in the hope of winning. Indeed, Leeds’ fall is probably more significant. However, there is only one team in Leeds which is why the shady boys are back in there.
Then there is Notts Co, bought by a conman. But business wise, football is a con.
Tome Boatrace. Nonsense. Rangers won those titles fair and square. Financially stupid ok but that is the way with almost all clubs. cf abpove re Leeds and Pompey. When Akan Sugar ran Spurs, thefans hated him for not blowing his wad on prima donnas.
Without Rangers (or Celtic) Scotitsh football is doomed; outside of the SPL, attendances are minuscule.
The Scots face a footballing decision with far reaching consequenes: they can eitehr return football to its roots (not a chance as we are a spectator, passive society now) or turn it into a McDonald’s franchise.
The oldest “international” hot derby was England v Scotland and the Scots often rubbed the English’ nose in it. No more. The Scots have fallen a long way since the heady days of 1967.
Maybe they should follow the FAI and hire mercenaries. Either way, it is doomed.
I feel sorry for the genuine Rangers supporters as it is a major kick to them. But that is the future for all.
As regards Celtic, the Micks’ team: that wil never be the team of choixe in Scotland as Scotland remains rabidly sectarian, with the Hearts’ chaps much blacker than the Gers.
Maybe the Gers supporters wil weigh in behind another local club just like Belfast’s RC rabble did when Belfast Cwlsti folded or a la the Derry RCs with Derry/Finn Harps.
Still, overall revenues, or what is left of them, will take a hammering
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Comment on Football eligibility row illustrates unionism’s inability to respect ‘The Other’ tradition
on 14 February 2012 at 4:57 pm
Nothern Unionist political pygmies who wouldn’t get a ball in a bath are slabbering on about Irish soccer to appeal to their neanderal base.
Remember when Jack Charlton got his mercenaries to the quarter finals and the Dublin City councillors shinnying up the scaffolding to leech off his success.
Or the great Charlie Haughey, Ireland’s ever greatest cycling fan.
To think that people actually vote for these political retards.
Alan, hate to break it to you but no one likes Unionists mostly as there is nothing to like about them.
If the IRFU wishes to expand or even survive it has to continue to expand into GAA land where very many of their most recent greats came from. Rugby in Ireland is a delicate, foreign flower,hoping to be nourished by notions and dreams of being upwardly mobile and British.
If it shows its true colours, it will get its comeuppance and be kicked back to its sterile spawning grounds.
As a second rate Brit (ie not English), you must know that soccer continues its upward empty march and the GAA is the big Irish bulwark to the march of sporting mediocrity in Ireland.
The professionalism with which Irish provincial rugby is organised and the successes that has brought has helped a lot. Your urge to shove your generally loathsome (to real Brits) 12th July stuff down everyone’s necks would, in the minds of the IRFU be counter productive.
So your son wil have to siffer on. maybe we can organise a telethon for him?
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Comment on A dark day for Glasgow Celtic
on 14 February 2012 at 4:41 pm
Fitzg: the same thing happened at Pompey with the local painters and Knights of M (RC Catholics in Glasgow) not getng paid.
The FA woroe their own rules so all the overpaid prats get paid.
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Comment on A dark day for Glasgow Celtic
on 14 February 2012 at 4:39 pm
Derryddave: I think you are being an unreasonable and stupid cnnt.
Do you know how British soccer works? Do you know who Rangers will have to pay and who will not get paid?
Let me make it easy for you: the big losers wil be local businesses as they are last on the queue behind the Norman tasx collecgtoors and the soccer mafiosa.
If you insist on being sectarian and stupid (they go together): many of Rangers’ creditors will be Celtic supporters.
The Health mafia in Scotland are almost entirely Taigs/Arabs.
The losers will be the ordinary Joe and the media moguls wil find some way of getitng money from rangers supporters in whatever form.
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Comment on A dark day for Glasgow Celtic
on 14 February 2012 at 4:34 pm
Though it hard to resist to temptation to dance on Rangers’ grave, Rangers being the club of choice for sectarian killers, yes Rangers will survive as they have a huge fan base. But so too have West Ham and other very big clubs but they too are skint.
The basic problem of British soccer (forget the Linfield lot) is this: With a few unrealistic mergers, Liverpool/Everton and Celtic/Rangers being the obvious ones, there is a case for available British league playing into a super Euro league. But that just accentuates today‘s trend where soccer serves only BSkyB and Adidas/Puma. Coventry have gone the other way, back to their fans.
And Coventry show the problem as does the great Celtic team of 1967. These things should be local, not spin offs of Murdoch and Tevez. Before that Irish syndicate took over Sunderland for gain, the former local owner said in the good old days, the local multi millionaire would throw in a good few bob and they would give to Toon, the Boro etc a good run. But now it is Arab sheiks and shady Russians, back room deals kissing Fergusons posterior and more.
It is probably good overall Rangers have gone as the SPL and all of Scottish football dies with it. How the Holy Father must be smiling. Maybe with the death of Hearts (how James Connolly must be smiling), some kind of sanity will return to all sport. Kick the money out and get people actually playing again.
Why should any local support their local soccer team when there is nothing local about it? There must be Longfords in Britian where the local boozer gets more in to watch EPL than the local excuse for a tram get to their home games. They say Utd’s noisy neighbours, City, are the club of Mancunians. Maybe so but Bertie, the great Utd jet in fan, was no Mancs man.
Fitzg: The Rabgers over paying problem is one common to almost all EPL clubs. The crazy fixtures tietabling is just to have the big 5 or 6 on all the time and squeeze out other sports.
Personally, I think Suarez was right and Ferdinand, Evra and Sir Alex are all cnnts. I also think John Terry should be England captain and Capello should not have been undermined. But then I think Eastenders would be lost without Phil Mitchell and that Corrie is a great soapie but not as good as the soapie which is British soccer.
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Comment on A dark day for Glasgow Celtic
on 13 February 2012 at 10:27 pm
Mark: Pre ticket sales were central to the GAA and Croke Park so lay off Rangers.
And this ghould be about the Gers, the mighty teddy bears. WTF is there a lead about Celtic?
Scottish football is a joke. Remember 67 when the greatest team of all swept Europe and all from spitting distance of Celtic Park.
Celtic should get out of Scotland now that Rangers is folded. The only people who ever really believed in the Old Firm in recent years were the UFF and UVF. It is mostly Celtic that attracts the crowd to the circuses we call footbal matches. The Old Firm clashes were a cyncial money making ploy.
It is time to bury Scottish football. It is not viable and nor is Irish (32 co) football. God be with the great League of Irleand teams of the 1960s and 1970s.
The English (Championship) ould do with one new member. Osise Rules did something similar.
Destroy Rangers so that it may be reborn.
DittoLiverpool and Everton. Two once conjoined teams with undr capacity stadius with the capacity to build a new one on the space between then.
As a traditional Holy Goalie Catholic, I could no longer muster interest in the Old Firm and though the Provies will be dancing on their graves tonight, I have something more excisting to watch. Paint drying.
So gents, let’s give a bit two fingers, one each, to the Old Firm. Old Form, mo toin.
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Comment on Anonymous: freedom is #TangoDown
on 23 January 2012 at 5:54 pm
1. The article says the ongoing protests against the Co$ are the work of Anonymous. No they are not, They are mostly the work of opponents of the Co$, ex members and the like who, like many others, wear the Guy Fawkes V for Vendetta mask to hide their faces, a good move in their case.
2. 4 chan is just a front. The serious stuff is done away from that.
3. I was interested to learn 4chan is anti child porn (good for them) but the b board is full of it.
4. Anonymous needs useful idiots too. Witness those who were arrested last time, teenagers mostly.
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Comment on Thread under temporary review…
on 23 January 2012 at 5:42 pm
Dewi Thanks for that link. I have copied and saved the file for future perusal. If Alias is quoting from the same source, the figures or the data set seem suspect to me.
Whilst the effects of long term incarceration are well known and whilst Kieran Nugent was not alone in descending into the abyss, and whilst Brendan Behan wrote about the early morning houses being full of ex IRA men and ex Brits, I very much doubt the figures are that high.
Those ex IRA prisoners, who did long stretches for Gerry and the Peaemakers, I know on a personal basis, display slightly different personality traits. The hard drinkers among them are no longer with us. The rest show very controlled anger, traits of spending too much time in solitary/alone and unspoken regrets of what was taken from them.
I would imagine the sample is skewed. Ex (regular) soldiers are over represented in homelessness, prisons, mental institutions and what not. But many more are just fine and most do not speak of their exploits. Again, that has been my experience with veterans of all British, Australian and American campaigns back to VJ Day.
Another area where independent and proper reearch could be usefully done.
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