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Friday, 27 January 2012 16:40

2016 looming, 50-years from England’s World Cup football win. The Wembley victory, English football’s home, will be replayed time and again with old footage of flags proudly and patriotically flying. Union Flags that is.
But by 2016 it may be the EBC, the English Broadcasting Corporation, replaying the 1966 film, for by that year Scotland will have had her independence referendum and may very well be an independent state.
How ironic that within those old film shots, of English supporters celebrating, lies a fundamental reason why the union of the kingdoms between Scotland and England is under strain. England were playing but the Union Jack, not the St George’s flag, was flying.
For so long England and Britain have been synonymous. At times the UK has been the equivalence of Dundee United and Dundee merging clubs; with the former putting forward the name “United” and the latter putting forward the name “Dundee” – thus creating the new club of “Dundee United”!
It is only a... [Read More]

I am delighted to welcome Neil Lennon’s three new players to the home of football; Celtic Park; I’m sure Mikael Lustig, Rabiu Ibrahim, and if he comes in this month Jaroslaw Pojut will be great additions to the great squad we already have at our disposal.
There takes our first team playing squad to over 40 outfield players; and while I am not complaining about having cover in every position; it does use up valuable resources paying players who have little or no chance of playing.
Maybe the Board have learned the lesson of January 2009 when we failed to sign a striker and eventually lost the league because of that fact; what makes it worse is that the team that has won the last 3 titles have done so while supposedly on their financial knees.... [Read More]

It would appear it’s good to talk; St Mirren have now changed their policy of blanket searching on Saturday; to random searching. The letter is posted below.

Search Policy - Saint Mirren v Celtic Saturday 21 January 2012 Kick off 12.30 pm

With regard to the above. At today's regular pre match operational meeting held at New Saint Mirren Park a joint assessment was conducted regarding the match which involved all relevant stakeholders including this club, Strathclyde Police and Celtic Football Club. Following... [Read More]

I attended a meeting yesterday at New St Mirren Park to discuss the issue of searches and safety concerns with regard to our visit there on Saturday; representatives of the Celtic Trust were also in attendance.
St Mirren was represented by their General Manager Brian Caldwell and their Safety Officer Findlay Mc Auley.
Our first concern was the lack of turnstiles at the North Stand which holds 1,600 Celtic Supporters; access is through 4 turnstiles in 2 entry doors very close together at the west corner of the sand; we believe that is not enough; but unfortunately that is the way the stadium was built; so we will have to live with that.... [Read More]

We have enough Anti-Catholic/Irish/Celtic Bigots in Scotland without the likes of ex-referee Jeff Winter joining the brethren; his attack in his blog on the Catholic Church; and on His Holiness the Pope in particular is astounding; in fact I wonder if it is the work of a man who is in control of his own mind.
Over many years all things associated with Celtic Football Club were attacked on a daily basis from within the Scottish Media; we had very few friends in the newspaper industry; it could be said Big Jock had some; but even some of his close friends deserted him when he went to Celtic.
But a worrying development now is the increase in online blogging by two bit nobodies who come out with all sorts of Sectarian/Racist nonsense trying to endear themselves to a certain... [Read More]