To emphasize what a wonderful club Celtic are, and to promote further goodwill between Celtic and Barcelona, may we at Etims be among the first, and most genuine well wishers when we say congratulations, and good health to Lionel Messi, who became a father last night when his dear lady gave birth to Thiago, a welcome and hopefully loud addition to the family, who will keep his dad well and truly \u00a0disinterested in the upcoming Champions League game in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
Naming the boy Thiago has prompted all sorts of rumours, as it is coincidentally the name of a fellow player at the club, but apparently they have morals over there, unlike a club in London where there were an awful lot of little boys born with the forenames Terry, and John, presumably something to do with a seventies sitcom starring Terry Scott and June Whitfield.<\/p>\n
Anyway, heres hoping that proud daddy Lionel throws a big party for his pals on Monday, the police are called, and Barcelona thus write off the game in Glasgow and determine instead to win their last two games.<\/p>\n
And theres me breaking Neil Lennons orders to concentrate on one game at a time.<\/p>\n
Celtic visit the city of discovery tomorrow on league business, and to anyone in that fair and lovely place \u00a0reading this, they may not have fully understood the concept in the opening paragraph, where a father actually hangs around long enough to see a baby produced.<\/p>\n
Celtic have decided to ask if Scott Brown could be left out of the Scotland squad for the friendly against Luxembourg on November 14. This game, one which Craig Levein is optimistic that his team could even sqeak a draw, is not deemed as important as other friendlies the nation are due to play, as they try to get a team together to chase that elusive three points before mankind discovers a cure for aging, learns how to travel at the speed of light, and sees the Scottish press accuse Rangers of cheating. (Ok, the first two are theoretically possible, but the latter I threw in to show just how difficult its going to be.)<\/p>\n
Lennon said<\/p>\n
“Ideally I would like him to be left out of that because we have a heavy schedule of games. Scott has proved beyond doubt that he is good enough to play for Scotland, he is playing the best football of his career this season. He did come back from the Scotland trip not in the best condition but we half expected that and there is no blame apportioned. But I think if there is an opportunity for him to have a break then we will be asking for that.”<\/p>\n
Hmmm-we heard he got drunk in the hotel too.<\/p>\n
The manager also admitted he was sick of hearing tales about Victor Wanyama moving in January.<\/p>\n
“I have had a brief chat with Victor and we are both comfortable with it. Its a regurgitated story and theres no foundation to it whatsoever” said the boss, to a background squeal of anguish from the clubs bank manager.<\/p>\n
“It is just nonsense. I’m sure speculation will be going on between now and January and between January and June. But he has three years to run on his contract and he won’t be going anywhere unless we want him to go.”<\/p>\n
Then he had to go, as he had an urgent phone call from some old drunk in Manchester.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, former Celt and jolly fine chap Paul Hartley has had a shave and will line his team up against Scotlands newest club this weekend. Alloa Athletic, the first name on many peoples coupons when Aberdeen have an away game, will attempt to help Ally McCoist and his third division pacesetters keep their enviable record of being out of all cup competitions before the fireworks go off.<\/p>\n
Hartley, like he did as a player, is relishing the challenge, and thinks his team have got what it takes, which explains his refusal to borrow a few Celtic fringe players for the weekend, despite an offer from the only Premier side in Glasgow. Even though a number of these players are still camped in his street hoping he’ll change his mind.<\/p>\n
Rangers boss McCoist-this of course may change by the time you read this-siad of his charges, “Possibly , in the last week or so, there has been a more realistic approach to where the team is at the moment.”<\/p>\n
Oh, he’s noticed then. That’ll help.<\/p>\n
He also said, in direct contrast to him realising where the team is at the moment, that this Rangers team is under as much pressure as on any “Rangers team in recent history” . Now considering his club doesn’t actually have much of a history, thats some statement.<\/p>\n
Actually, we have a brief history of the club outlined below.<\/p>\n
The Rangers FC<\/p>\n
Formed 2012.<\/p>\n
Titles -0<\/p>\n
Cups -0<\/p>\n
European record -None<\/p>\n
Away wins (League) -1<\/p>\n
Away wins (Cup)- 1<\/p>\n
Friends – 0<\/p>\n
Tax bills paid -0<\/p>\n
Idiots with their head in the sand following the club- Loads<\/p>\n
Idiots trying to sell the club -1<\/p>\n
Chance of surviving till Christmas -Limited<\/p>\n
Chance of surviving after Christmas-Nil.<\/p>\n
Died -2012-well, 2013 at the very latest.<\/p>\n
Yesterdays teaser did indeed refer to the revelations of homosexuality at the club,well done to Andy who described it perfectly- published in the Sunday Sport way back when, and it was brought up again to highlight the damage irresposible reportage can do. After all, theres no point in concentrating on a real story when you can just print sensationalist shite to sell papers. A lesson that has, of course , been taken on board by the current lot of fictional authors pretending to be the guardians of truth, democracy and freedom.<\/p>\n
The quiz is going to try to have a question which ties in with the previous one, which should allow us to meander pleasantly through some memories of our club.<\/p>\n
The Sunday Sport at least kind of had no pretences that it was full of shite. But which Journalist of the Year raised eyebrows and set the bar for Scottish journalism when he won journalist of the year with such scoops as “wealth off the radar” and well, to be honest, he never quite reached those dizzy heights again.<\/p>\n
Oh, and sorry about the pic at the top of the page. I got all confused when someone mentioned a scandal about the abuse of minors in the in the eighties.<\/p>\n
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