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5 minutes ago, gannonball said:
If you have to keep constantly repeating stuff like this, I think it’s really only yourself you are really trying to convince tbh.
Also yes our league may be massively flawed but it’s certainly not meaningless, PnB shows that every day alone.
Anyway back to game I was a tad nervous about this one but given Hearts are playing today and we haven’t had a midweek game is a massive plus for me.
No, what P&B shows every day is that Scottish football is very meaningful to an awful lot of people and that the club they love is very important to them. But what is now increasingly recognised by the vast majority of football fans who don't support either of the Glasgow sectarian clubs, is that our top flight league is meaningless. It is tedious, predictable and has to change. Sadly I doubt it ever will.
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13 hours ago, Greenlantern said:
It truly warms my heart to hear fans of the mighty jam tarts have resigned themselves to a routine scudding each time they visit the champions.
Another meaningless scudding from the meaningless champions in a meaningless league. That's what people have woken up to. That's the reality. Embrace it !
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On 18/05/2022 at 10:31, Charles Stiles said:
English play off finals being at Wembley and then treated like some major cup final. Playing there is being treated like the important prize for winning a couple of games, not promotion through the back door. They should be played on league grounds.
And they get a trophy
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8 minutes ago, Drew Brees said:
Was a clammy night, they’re known to struggle with the heat.
Clammy ? Does no one use the word 'close' anymore ?
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34 minutes ago, The Mantis said:
Point taken.
Still more interesting than Engelbert Humperdinck though…
Really depends on which Englebert Humperdinck you're referring to...
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I can only speak for the Celtic half of the twins but I have met many 'Celtic minded' folk over the years who are highly intelligent, extremely pleasant people and wonderful company who can be relied on to talk erudite sense on just about every topic under the sun except football and the team they support. It's genuinely baffling and rather sad. The can be vociferously and correctly anti racism, sexism, fascism etc etc but openly support a football club whose very business model relies upon fanning the flames of secterian division. They champion equality of opportunity while their club pursues Thatcherite 'survival of the fittest' economics. And of course they moan and wail about 'unlevel playing fields' whenever they are ritually humiliated in Europe without the merest hint of irony regarding the set-up in Scotland. Oh well,. nobodys perfect !
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Suggesting that Hearts, or indeed any Scottish club apart from their pals, would be tough to beat isn't about giving Hearts credit, it's about giving Celtic credit. Credit which, given the vast financial chasm between the clubs, they don't deserve.
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17 minutes ago, Insert Amusing Pseudonym said:
Would genuinely play the reserves. The two Zurich games are much bigger for us
Yep, there has to come a time when clubs treat matches against the old firm as the meaningless slice of nothingness that they are. A contemptuous fielding of youths and no hopers is just the ticket I feel.
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31 minutes ago, VincentGuerin said:
It's one of these things that seems sensible when you first consider it, but the practicalities of don't really work. For me it would definitely make Scottish football more dull, if nothing else.
More dull ??!! Is that even possible ! The issue is the Old Firm (and yes,of course, they still exist) and their obscene financial power. Either they agree to give up that power - share gate receipts, equal distribution of TV rights etc - or they are invited to leave. Nothing else really will halt the death of competitive professional football in Scotland.
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1 minute ago, wastecoatwilly said:
Having a cull is the only answer.
Precisely...we have two too many clubs in this country.
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17 hours ago, Dirty Sanchez said:
In fairness, it respectfully left out any mention of the time when he interrupted a Mo Johnston interview with his knob out.
That cretinous flasher should get his own nickname.
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14 hours ago, Flybhoy said:
Singing songs about Ireland's historic troubles with England and Irish independence is okay 50 years ago but offensive now.......
Fucking hell, that is an industrial scale level of stupid
No it isn't
it's simply understanding that context can totally change how something is viewed. A Union flag fluttering in a country parish church in Kent in December being a totally different proposition from a Union flag fluttering from a tenement window in Bridgeton Cross in July is another example.
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13 hours ago, Flybhoy said:
A lot of songs sung at football matches aren't relevant, not only Celtic and Rangers fans who indulge in this.
I'd agree they have little relevance but that does not make them sectarian nor offensive.
As ever it's all about context. Volunteers fighting for Irish freedom in the early years of the 20th century singing 'rebel songs' is clearly neither secterian nor offensive. Football supporters singing same songs in a Scottish football ground as we approach the middle of the 21st century is. Which is why they sing these songs.
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11 minutes ago, jamamafegan said:
AZ Alkmaar 7 Dundee United 0
Motherwell knocked out by Sligo. Knocked out by Stjarnan in 2014.
Kilmarnock knocked out by Connah’s Quay Nomads
Hibernian 0 Malmo 7
Hearts 1 Birkirkara 2 - knocked out.
St Johnstone knocked out by Minsk, Trnava, Alashkert and Trakai.
Aberdeen knocked out by Sigma Olomouc, Kairat, Apollon Limassol and Qarabag to name a few.
Inverness knocked out by Astra.
There’s a few of the many miserable results endured by Scottish clubs in European competition over the past decade or so. It’s grim reading. So many humiliating performances by Scottish teams, being knocked out by teams from - quite frankly - jobber footballing associations. Then there’s the odd results by Hibs and Dundee United who were turned over with ease.
On some occasions Scottish teams put in good performances and pull off excellent results. St Johnstone knocking out Rosenborg and Luzern. Hearts drawing with Liverpool. Dundee United beating AZ Alkmaar last week! Yet for some reason we are unable progress. It just seems like we lack bottle. Sometimes it’s fair to say the teams we are up against have significantly budgets. Aberdeen for example going out to teams like Real Sociedad, Sporting Lisbon and Burnley in recent years. I don’t think it’s a good enough excuse though, it doesn’t make sense to me how teams can put in a decent first leg performance and then just fold like a deck chair in the second. For me, it comes down to having a weak mentality. I fully expect Hearts to be beaten by Zurich in their upcoming game and it won’t surprise me if they get bodied in their Conference League group either.
How do we fix this mess?
Tell the Old Firm to leave, leave now and don't come back. We then dismantle their stadiums brick by brick, aluminium sheeting by aluminium sheeting and build decent low rise social housing in their place. Probably won't make a blind bit of difference to the kind of result we saw last night but by God Scottish football and, more importantly, Scottish society would be a far far better and more decent a sport to enjoy and a place to live.
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1 hour ago, Flybhoy said:
Do explain what is sectarian about Irish rebel songs please.
Do explain what is remotely relevant about Irish rebel songs at a football match in Scotland in the 21st century please.
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9 hours ago, Hoose Rice said:
Jack.
Bear
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14 minutes ago, Forever_blueco said:
Nobody has said we were underdogs for most of these
It wasn’t enjoyable either for long stretches by any means but it was certainly never boring or mundane was my point
Well it is for the rest of us
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7 minutes ago, Drew Brees said:
Oh well, if Alan Brazil says we should sign him then bring him home.
Any news on Rod Stewarts thoughts on potential signing targets?He doesn't want to talk about it.
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3 hours ago, Empty It said:
"Ignoring all facts and stats proving otherwise I think Celtic are as good as the top Dutch and Portuguese sides"
The last truly great Celtic side was 69/70 and the top Dutch side that year utterly horsed them (as did the top Dutch side a year later). They were as good as the top Portuguese side that year tbf. All three leagues have dipped in quality since then so it may be meaningless .
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30 minutes ago, Shuggie_Murray7 said:
Imagine being an OF fan and pretending to be excited to go to the football every week, as though you were going to watch an actual competitive professional sport.
Imagine gathering in George Square to celebrate winning a 2 hore race.
Imagine pretenidng to take joy from winning hollow titles and cups.
f**k that.
'A 2 hore race' - you got that right !!!
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1 hour ago, BigDoddyKane said:
Jota looks to be hitting form again early this season, hopefully that continues. Abada looks to be continuing his from from 2nd half of last season. CB's playing well and scoring. Signs are good, it will be some test the champions league for this team and way we play it could go any way but by feck I am looking forward to it.
This team is a joy to watch.
Whoever says that money can't buy happiness should read this joyful post. This gentleman is a cheering, smiling, shouting, jumping up and down repudiation of the sour notion that financial muscle and it's ceaseless and ruthless application somehow devalues success. What arrant wishy washy wokery nonsense that is !!
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As it's a given that Celtic/Rangers fans are the top two when it comes to glory hunters who might the least glory hunting fanbase be ?
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On 16/07/2022 at 20:20, Dons_1988 said:
Kuenssberg strikes me as someone who’s politics is driven by who will give her an exclusive.
Boris was good for her career and that’s about all that matters to her.
Your own career being all that matters to you is the very definition of being a raging Tory.
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2 hours ago, Lurkst said:
What nonsense was Paula Radcliffe trying to utter about Reekie making it a British one two, then shut up realising there was a Northern Irish girl in second.
A pedent writes: "Northern Ireland isn't part of Britain"
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Celtic v Hearts. 21st August.
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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'Football' isn't meaningless......the 'Football Competition' called the Scottish Premiership' is. It's not deficult to understand the difference really. Bit similar to the argument that being 2020 European champions in the financial closed shop of the Champions League is not as meaningful as being 1967 European Champions in the old European Cup.