The close season draws to an end this wekend with Celtic set to face new Scottish champions “rangers ” in a glamour friendly on Sunday.
The fledgling Ibrox club will be wearing 55 on their shirts to celebrate 55 tiles, as they seem to be allowed to add the titles of another club on to their own tally, which somehow makes them feel better.
Then again, when you compare the histories of the three clubs, two of them don;t really have a lot to shout about.
Celtic, for instance, have innumerable great players and several historic achievements.
From McGrory to Larsson, from Quinn to Dalglish, and all of those inbetween.
And thats before we mention the greatest of them all, Jimmy Johnstone.
Celtic were the first to lift the European Cup, the first to seven, eight and nine in a row titles, as well as the first , more recently, to a second nine in a row, and treble and quadruple trebles…
So its little wonder they are making a big thing of 55, even if it isn’t actually 55.
We hear they are also planning to celebrate the anniversary of the first Rangers man in space, the first Rangers man to isolate the genetic code for malaria and of course, the introduction of a safe covid vaccine , apparently discovered at the start of last season and tested on their players…..
Well, how else can you explain the plague free environment over there ?
Last season ended when Celtic lost out in the Scottish Cup, and since then there has been a quiet period of reflection at Etims, largely down to the little arrow on my laptop disappearing. An appeal on twitter for help solved the issue…
And so the problem was solved….
Dominic McKay has now officially taken up the reins at the club, but it appears someone has locked his office door from the outside, and so we haven;t heard anything from him. With Peter Lawwell still doing his magic behind the scenes, we might not hear from him for some time, although there was something about John Kennedy moving upstairs to help the new man….
He is in line for the post of sporting director, which is one step above running the paradise windfall, and somewhat bizarrely was encouraged by unofficial club website Celtic Quick News as a good idea becuase he knows where Tannadice is.
Apparently John Barnes didn’t and it was why he was a shite manager.
If Eddie Howe is to take up the manager vacancy, then he won;t need help from those who would be tempted to help him acclimatise to Scottish football, as he’ll end up making the same mistakes as we made last season.
We don’t want an advisor who will advise him not to criticise referees, or the SFA . I keep hearing the line that it’s not how it works in Glasgow, and the problem is that the way things work in Glasgow is geared entirely to the satisfaction of whatever club is playing out of ibrox at that particular moment in time.
Apart from that, Kennedy , along with Lennon, Brown and Lawwell…the gang of four (At Ibrox they call them the gang of 58 ) is responsible not only for the total collapse last season, but the manner of the collapse.
We can accept losing, but we cannot accept losing without a fight.
Yes, there were reasons for the collapse off the field, but there can be no excuses for the lack of fight on it.
Which is why every player who wants to play for Celtic should be looking at themselves today and making a decision they must stick to.
Do they want to be here next season ?
If not, they shouldn’t play in any of the upcoming fixtures as there’s a difficult Champions League qualification to prepare for, and we need players who are up for the battle.
Which pretty much excludes most of the first picks from last season.
That reminds me, did you notice the fury around the new European super League ?
Yes, you probably did….and it probably meant you didn’t notice the changes to the Champins League, which is more or less the super league with France and Germany in it.
There will be about 200 games before it gets to the last 16, which means the same teams from the same leagues will be playing each other over and over again as its now a formula that makes everyone money, and despite the claims that football needs Celtic Ajax Benfica and so on, it appears the teams who really need to form their own league aren’t the ones who thought of doing so…
European football is eating itself, with or without the super league, and sooner or later it will burst….
Although I wouldn’t, from a Celtic point of view, overly worry about that right now. the way things work, the first game in the qualifiers is the most important, as winning that tie guarantees group stage football at some level.
Which brings me back to the importance of the run of friendlies from now until May.
And the importance of getting the new man bedded in.
It’s fairly obvious he’ll have a few quid to spend, as quite a few players will be sold. Frankly, as good as some of them are, they didnlt perform this season, and showed little to suggest they will perform next season.
The purge of the gang of four is almost complete, now let’s get rid of the imposters on the pitch.
Or, put another way, of the three cliques in the dressing room, let’s keep the Celtic minded one…..
The return of the diary means also the return of
Etims Knob of the Week.
And I don’t know who it is !
It’s whoever came up with this idea…
Scottish hacks and authorities have united behind Glen Kamara, who may or may not have been racially abused by a player from Prague.
We didn’t hear it, so cannot conclusively say it happened.
However, we did hear this….. at the St johnstone “rangers ” cup tie….
https://twitter.com/i/status/1386964372233334785
Someone on the Ibrox staff referring to a “dirty fenian …”
Not a word in the media….the wrong kind of racism ?
Still, at least they didn’t call it a social media blackout…..
Caption competition….
Finally, the world of politics braced itself for another scandal last night….
These days Celtic Quick News is full of old codgers wishing each other Happy Birthday or condoling each other on so and so’s death, not to mention arguing about whether or not they belong to a cult (a lot of “cults” on CQN). It’s a bit like Still Game on Mogadon and without the humour.
You would often find it hard to glean from the comments that it has anything to do with Celtic.
And as for Paul Brennan; he is the ultimate board apologist.
Lawwell Quick News – an online Old Folks Home. AVOID at all costs.
I called Brennan out on here and other blogs as Lawwell’s puppet 5 or 6 years ago when he suddenly appeared on the BBC as a ‘Celtic fans’ spokesperson’.(sic)
But nobody wanted to know.
Incredible the things people don’t what to know until it’s too late to change them.
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Tory covert operative members (AKA The Devon Rex ninjas), wage war while concealing their true nature from humans.
I’ll raise you an S for your R for yon blonde on the right, Port.
A British Door cures so. So you are sitting. XOXO
Bus stop start hen!
Let us no finish.
No you did not but the of us pair would.
Hurry up winger. It is like putting your dog down.
What is his name is up himself. Mickey thinks injured. Soft.
Though ,though.
Cheers Port!
As eloquent as ever!
Caption: Project Fear and Loathing in Morningside
By Hunger S. Starvin’
am no wan fur causing an arguement but bobby lennox is the greatest of them all
Jinky, Henke & Buzzbomb, charlie, with Messi, Maradona & Pele trailing a close second.
Jinky, Henke & Buzzbomb, charlie.
Jinky, Henke & Buzz B0mb, charlie.
With Messi, Maradona & Pele trailing a distant second.
Caption: Mangy ball-licking mongrel brings a dog to campaign launch.
as for the 55 patter ignore it even the zombies know thur tellin lies its a tradition wae the fookers theyr aff thur collective nuts
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As the dregs of society wait for their garden bar table, they hold up Yoony signs the dug just wants to get away from them.
The Celtic statement on social media abuse is pathetic, someone should have added sectarianism. Duffy was clearly abused by the knuckledraggers that troll..
The media, are blinded by their loyalty to the powder puff mob that is Sevco. Mediocre players are built into super stars, negative stories turned into glittering drivel. Celtic packed it in as the players and the manager could not see the wood for the trees. But I love it that the Saints go marching home after last minute guys on two occasions. At least GCC will not have to worry about their benches as yet again they fail to make a final.
German shepherd
Alasation
Or a fuck off dug ?
Caption: I wish that Murray Ross would hurry up and move away from the clock, ma back teeth are floating here. I’d bite him but I had to get a tetanus when I bit Farage.
Caption: Tories agree to help Sinn Fein empty their weapons
Caption: ‘You having an orgasm, ya dirty Orange bastart?’
Somebody missed the irony.
Not a caption but the one on the right looks a bit of a goer (not the dug).
Does anybody know, does she go?
She goes woof woof
NOT the dog, the bitch in heat beside it.
(No offence to bitches, of course.
Even Tory ones …)
Yep she likes it doggy
Bushy growler.
Caption:
D.Ross and his team of candidates are to establish the new, Rewilding Nation Party.
Howe long, has this club been going on, going on?
Founded on the 6th. November 1887. Formally constituted at a meeting in St. Mary’s church hall, in East Rose Street, Calton, Glasgow, by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid.
That’s, Howe long, this club has been going on, going on…
BBC Scotland at 10.30pm THE SCOTTISH CUP FINAL OF 1988.CELTICS CENTENERY SEASON.
But the first meeting was in the Bethany Hall in Muslin St, Bridgeton, Mike, along with other members of Scotland’s infamous ‘civic society’, from whom Andrew Kerins had to receive their ‘civic’ blessing.
Andrew Kerins aka Brother Walfrid was both parish priest and headmaster of Sacred Heart chapel & primary school and was well known and liked amongst all in that long established Masonic hotbed of hatred.
Not amongst the bigots, of course, but amongst the estranged Irish & Catholics of the area, my own grandparents amongst them, who both knew him personally.
But he still had to get that permission from the chief Masons of what was then the largest Orange Lodge in Britain, with poor Andrew not realising how they would use this Tim team to further divide Scotland for their own ends.
So I‘m pretty sure HE got the feeling he’d been swindled, even if the boy soldier on here hasn’t.
Brother Walfrid – Andrew Kerins, born in 1840 in Balymote, Co Sligo, (O’Ceirin) ( died in 1915 – aged 74) buried in St. Michael Cemetery, Dumfries. Its reported that the Brother Walfrid Committee raised £30,000 for his statue to be placed outside Celtic Park, Brian Quinn, its chairman, donated £5,000. There was a bhoy on here a couple of years back who came from Ballymote and who lived near to his relatives. After leaving Glasgow his expertise was needed in Bow in London, where he served the poor by doing the same kind of works as he did in Glasgow. A few things come to mind , that he was intelligent, educated and had huge empathy for people, a caring, selfless person of faith. It would be difficult to find another human being who exemplified all that our club stands for. RIP.
Some man alright, a man who wouldn’t stand for nonsense from no one, not even the local Masons from Tullis St Orange Hall nor their low level cohorts.
Indeed, I wouldn’t be the man I am today without him.
Cos I take no shit, Sherlock, not from anyone, either.
As you’ve probably noticed.
Great to have ETIMS back.
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Tory Tossers
Caption: Collective noun for a group of tories? Cunts.
Caption:
Honk if ye see a Hun.
Caption: A referendum on 50+1 sounds good.
Which one?
Ralph, you’re such a tease. This is the 3rd or 4th time you’ve mentioned this.
Yes, there were reasons for the collapse off the field
Gonnie tell? sometime?
He’ll wait until they are all gone, but I’m going assume the following until then. There were players that were convinced to stay, but one after the 10 they were done and told their agents as much. Those agents do what agents do, but instead of stricking to the “after the 10” song book they started coming back to those players saying Leicester wants you now, Man City need you etc. This info unsettled one or two players and the word got to the Captain. Obviously John Kennedy was told. Now Kennedy was told and learning from the rat some to the players in question and slithered around the subject. Then Broony unhappy with how Kennedy handled it went to Neil Lennon and together they felt the players weren’t committed. Kennedy went to Lawell who got excited by the prospect of keeping his bonus as big as he was used to and sided with Kennedy and the players, trying to decide which one(s) they would sell. This fractured the whole club down the middle. Then Lennon went on TV and started accusing players publically which created a 3rd and 4th group of pissed off players who thought some things were OK, but others weren’t. The groups were loosely based around cliques of players using the club as a stepping stone, players who were all Celtic, players who has been to love Celtic and players who couldn’t believe they were in a professional football club. Naturally the players accused of being turn coats strolled through the season in a half arsed fashion, while the ones who thought they were in a professional club wanted out while the Celtic players were doing what they could. The stepping stone players couldn’t be sat on the bench because that would breach the contract signed and they were our most valuable assets that would be sold at the end of the season. This we ended up where we are today. Of course I just made all of this up and it’s only loosely based on Twitter and Facebook rumors.
Thats unfortunately wrong, U Rail.
It’s because the club has been bled from the inside out and all they’re going to leave behind is the fences.
As that’s what Masonic parasites, vampires & leeches do.
Leave only the skeleton.
If we’re lucky.
I think you are perhaps being a bit too dramatic. They aren’t going to sell the club for a pound.
Why would they need to when they’ve already taken it fir a billion, U Bend?
With another billion in the pipeline over the next 20 years?
You’re not thinking, my friend, your head’s in the U bend.
How much did Murray take out of Rangers without having to pay a penny back, knighthood intact?
But 268 creditors down the toilet ..?
Here’s the thing. I don’t think they are doing a terrible job. I do think many of them are paid too much, but at least we’re not in financial trouble.
But that’s because you know NOTHING either of what they’re doing and their part in the bigger picture.
I’ve told you on here dozens of times down many years but your brain’s too wee grasp it.
Or it scares you sh1tless.
Or both.
Fear and stupidity are not mutually exclusive after all.
*NOR their part in the bigger picture …
As a pointer, ask yourself this …
Just what secrets is it that secret societies keep?
Lived a life at others’ expense……that’s mibbaes why he’s always legless! Serves the bastard right, scumbag!
I’ve noticed on a few site, some fans tend to mention that Celtic are sent to the back of the bus..?
I’m turning 50 and I can assure everyone that being at the back of the bus 99.99999 percent means there’s people smoking, drinking, passing doobies or class A,
Also 99.99999 percent the of the noise including songs and banter and a helluva lot of swear words is generated there.?
The quiet people sit at the front usually next to the driver complaining about the noise at the back.
Now i never hear Celtic shouting about noisy peepul disrupting Scottish football so were on this magic bus do we sit.
Crushed by the number 55.
Caption…….
Am I seeing things or has that twat to the right of dross got a toy monkey on his shoulder, or does he have an enormous and disfigured left ear?
It’s a RA headshot that just missed,
Just his I.Q.
And this week’s bird rota
‘It’s Friday, it’s twenty tae ten, it’s time tae crack her, Jack!’
Phwoarr! No been this horny on here since you posted that pic of Sinky’s wife in her undies, Ralph!
Even auld Davie Wilson got a stiffy that day! 😀
O’HARA HUGHES MCCREESH & SANDS!
What about them?
They got stiffies too?
Though I suppose that bird in that gear COULD raise the dead …
Good evening Gringo…..you just back from a Mensa meeting?
Indeed I am, Monti!
You were tonight’s specialised subject! 😀
You ever heard of a Scottish fitba player called David Cox, Monti?
Look him up and let us know what you think of the abuse he’s been taking over his mental health, would you?
If you agree with it or not.
Cheers.
Btw, it’s not ‘evening’, mate, it’s night time, nearly midnight, in fact.
You feeling a little confused, maybe?
A tad ‘under the weather’ as regards space & time ..?
Hot flushes? Angry? Distracted ..?
Sounds like your on your menses, mate! 😀
Thats why tonight’s talk was called ‘Monti’s Monthly Menses‘ …
At our Mensa chinwag 😀
Talking to yourself?? Hope you have your EarPods on
No, Ian.
I’m talking to you.
You’re the only one here.
Get it?
If not, ask Monti …
He’ll take you Anytime Anywhere …
😉
Anyway, Monti, consider yourself lucky, it’s not everyone that becomes the central subject of a sociological study on how man reverted to ape …
😀
Like all good pros should …
Why I oughta!!
It’s my birthday today and I won’t have it spoiled by ruffians
Don’t pick fights then or you will.
Btw, where’s The Clumpany?
I owe him a pint.
But it’s Monti’s round 😀
Monti’s not round just a tad rotund
He’s an oblate spheroid
Anyway, when it comes to Tory bashing, I’d play a 4-4-2 …
Four fingers for foreplay with one up front then one up behind.
But only for the blonde yin, mind.
It’s a poem, if you don’t know ‘em.
What do ye call a bovine that’s been eating magic mushrooms all day?
A hai ku!
So those who have made a good earning through racism and sectarianism are to blackball the WWW for the weekend? Away youse to…
And STILL no mention of the ‘Fenian bastart’ comment after St J equalised in the media.
Not even from Graham Spiers.
As another Celric blogger write the other day, it’s almost as though they’ve been ordered to keep quiet about it on all fronts.
Lest they fail in their attempts to get Kudela deported.
Or at a least gie Ralston & Dembele a game.
John, play the defenders up front and contrariwise.
Or at least give Ralston & Dembele a game.
Priest tip for Kiss to song. I was made.
What the
As it were, wolf
Happy Birthday Ian.
Enjoy your Day. If somebody asks tell them you are 55.
Celts 8-2.
Is it true that Gringo is changing his name to Bingo? Heads down for a full Housie Housie.
The first ball out is number 67 – Phooaawwrrr.
Second number is 55 – knickers. (Happy Birthday, ****** Happy Birthday – Ian).
Third number is… sorry canny get Gina Lollabridgida out of my mind.
Fourth number is 0 -3 The score on the door for Sunday, so says Mystic Meg, and she’s always right.
House, shouts Tim, whats your winning number Tim? its 1888 – yah dancer. One club since 1888.
Good morning Mike, all well with you & the family old boy?
It is in fact NOT true, Mike, though I DID have a Bingo Master breakout a few months back …
Though none of you noticed.
Oh Hail Hail Bingo Master, big chief of the talk – talk show. ‘Bingo Master’ is that a porn app? or are you just pleased to see us?
Good morning dear Monti, I’m just a day late, but everything’s AOK, although my misses still has Amazon on speed dial, she’s a top 3 customer don’t cha know, I’ve tried to get rid of her phone, but i think she has a burner phone hidden away in a place that I’m not allowed. How’s it gawn yersell son?
Hail the sheep if it’s porn ye’re after.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DANIEL FERGUS MCGRAIN!
A TRUE CELTIC LEGEND!
I’ll second that!
Happy Birthday, Danny McGrain!
Weered gave me a row last night for sending him rebel songs in the middle of the night…..he’s getting auld & crabbit…..like Mike & Henke! 🙂
Nah,mits cos you were drunk & hysterically greeting cos I was ripping the proverbial p1ss oot ye and ye’d no comeback.
Plus ye’re oan yer period 😉
See, I told you you’d lost all sense of space & time, didn’t I?
All from your one dumb sentence too …
It was me that was at fault for being auld and crabbit, I actually like the rebel songs 🙂
Glory oh Glory oh to the bold fenian men
The finest songs on Earth cannot obliterate an oblate spheroid’s hiccups.
Gringo, Mastermind is about to start, would you like to watch or continue with cartoon network?
I’ll stick with ‘Monti’s Monthly Menses’ with my fellow Mensas.
Hilarious how the thickest poster on here is calling me daft when I’ve now been proven right on every single thing I first came on here to discuss all those years ago …
That just proves how brainless oul’ biscuit heid really is.
I even called the day Fredo was gonna break his duck against the Tic, which charlie can verify.
As Socrates the philosopher once said, I know I’m intelligent for I know I nothing but that which I know.
Whereas for Monti the reverse is true …
He doesn’t know anything but he thinks he’s a Mastermind cos he can quote a fictional taxi driver, albeit continuously out of context.
Nae luck, tubby.
your ershole must look like a fireplace wi ripped out grate given all the bummings you get regular on here.
And he keeps coming back for more …
Guess what that tells us?
Happy Birthday, Danny McGrain!
A truly cool and inspirational player who taught me more about playing right back than any coach ever could.
His positional sense and reading of the game were beyond exceptional and he made defending, and turning defence into attack, look easy, a mere move of the feet, and few have I seen that’s matched him since.
Danny once held the world record for most completed forward passes of any defender on Earth and everybody who watched football knew the great name of the great Danny McGrain.
Respect.
Let me think. You, what is that?
Stop thinking they are. It is there to be telt that those.
Explained in one. That is the way, I like it.
No nothing Ghirls and Bhoys, Listen.
Caption: Former etims poster ‘Unfit for Purpose’ hits the campaign trail.
What happened to him? I’m surprised he hasn’t been on blaming the Nats for our collapse this season
He was unfit for purpose.
Caption: Blonde poses for photo next to vicious, slavering animal… and her dug.
CL Second Qualifying round…July 20th. !!
If it’s irony you’re after you should check out the ETims sister site …
They’re aw singing hymns oer there!
The hun tactics tomorrow should be obvious. They will go out nd lose 6-0. This will convince our board that this season was a blip and money can be saved giving Kennedy the job. No need for them to replace the 9 players leaving neither which will save even more money. Hunz then roll out next season and sweep all before them. no problemo
Phil Mac saying that Eddie Howe is a ‘done deal’. I had a look on Oddschecker and they’ve got him at 1/16 so it sounds good. If we truly bring in quality to replace the traitor Lawwell and the failure of NFL, then we may just see real progress but I’ll never forgive the whole squad at CFC for abandoning THE TEN.
Jesus FKING CHRIST, 1st comment in ages, short, not contentious and straight to that TRULY AWFUL “Awaiting for Approval” Fukk my old boots! Eddie Howe as good as confirmed!
So, anither Catholic then ..?
Or is he just playing catch up to get a job?
Here’s a tip-top, TicToc …
Either change or your name or put spaces between the letters.
The algorithm doesn’t like you.
But Ah think ye’re brand new.
😉
I don’t give a fukk if the algorithm likes me or otherwise. I don’t change me to suit inferior shite. I’ve got another solution tho’…….
It’s just a handle, Tic.
It’s not really you.
You mean Eddie Howe’s a catholic? Disnae matter to me, just as long as he does his job, and does it well. And, if so, he’ll be, er, em, ‘Universally’ popular, in the Calton at least.
Naw, it was a play on your ‘confirmed’.
He’ll change nothing whatever he is, as all are now subservient to the Old Firm whimsies of King Moustache.
Gawd, it’s awffy hard to find anything about football through GRINGO’s constant nattering and trolling. Has anyone inquired as to whether or not he loves alone? I am concerned for his well being.
Uralius,if he “loves alone” he’d be called Master Bates!
Well ya gotta hand it to him
great post about football
They don’t do irony.
Caption,Due to cuts the Tory Referees Party have to share the 1 guide dog
In the ruff.
Bypass the realm of the myopic.
sevco 2IAR.
None so blind as those who refuse to see.
COYBIG
this team picked today id again f_uvcking pish. enough is f_ucking enough.
Liewell and his merry men should get to Fxxx with their Loan crap. They have destroyed everything the Brenda achieved. People on here criticise Delilah and Strachan, this is the poorest team, even Wayne Biggins would look good in this team.