AMERICAN crooner and legendary “Rat Pack”-er, Dean Martin, had a 1955 “Number 1” hit with a hackneyed little sing-along ditty entitled, “Memories are Made of This”. It was a schmaltzy, saccharin ballad that typified so much of the mainstream output of the time, before emerging skiffle and rock’n’roll blew a raging hurricane through stuffy old…
Thoughts for the day …
THE recent deafening silence down Slybrox way suggests that either: 1) the roof is about to blow off the Big Hoose; 2) the director of communications is out to an extended lunch; 3) the latest convoluted Sevco survival conspiracy is remorselessly incubating … or, 4) all of the above. Jon Daly says his impending move…
The Pride of Erin … a Reflection on the Scottish Cup Final of 2013
HOW fitting that on 26th May 2013, the curtain will come down on Celtic’s 125th Anniversary season in a Scottish Cup Final clash with Hibernian FC. Back in the mists of time, a jubilant Glasgow Irish community threw a post-match dinner and celebration in honour of the original Edinburgh Hibernians in the St Mary’s Halls, Calton,…
Regrets? I’ve got a few …
FIRSTLY, let me congratulate and thank Lenny and the Bhoys for a scintillating, roller-coaster of a Champions’ League ride. This is where we want to be, though it can only get more difficult, as football is currently structured. Things could have been so different, though, in a round of sixteen tie, lost so comprehensively, in…
Where there’s muck, there’s brass.
ACTUALLY, make that Brasso! I hear an enterprising Sevco match-day trader was doing brisk business in “Not Guilty” scarves outside the Big Hoose in Govan on Saturday. 10/10 for enterprise – but he passed up a glorious opportunity for a tidy wee sideline in the vintage metal polish to buff up any neck that would…
The Wages of Deception?
SO, this is what passes as justice and integrity in 21st-century Scotland? An eminent judge rules that because the deliberate withholding by a business of fundamentally relevant details, conceivably as a smokescreen for the conduct of a potentially dubious parallel operation (… otherwise, why go to such lengths to disguise it …), went undetected by…
The Pen is Mighty …
SO … at the stroke of his enobled pen, Lord Nimmo Smith, seriously constrained, it has to be said, by the contentious evidence presented to his commission by a pivotal SFA witness, has stood the registration rules that have governed Scottish football for as long as I can remember (and probably a lot longer than…
Can I say something … ?
THUS far, I’ve bitten my tongue over the “Wrestling-Gate” controversy following last Tuesday’s ill-fated Juventus CL last-16, first-leg tie; but this morning’s revelation that UEFA appear to be “irritated” by Celtic’s official protest is the last straw. To be clear from the outset, I do not write this to minimise Celtic’s part in their own…
I Have a Dream …
WE ALL have – and why not? Don’t worry, I’m not going to bore you with my dream … but it kicks off at 19.45 tomorrow night at Celtic Park – and God only knows where it will all end up. We are blessed to support a club anchored in hardship, built on hopes and dreams,…
“An ordinary player with a big heart?” Make that, “extraordinary” …
THAT mighty Celt, Sean Fallon, died overnight in his 91st year. May he rest in peace. A stalwart of the topsy-turvy nineteen-fifties, a decade in which Celtic accrued some of its most memorable and historic moments while underachieving miserably in relation to the talent at the club at that time, “The Iron Man” went on…
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