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Scottish football

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centralTon said:
Morton 3 v 2 Dunfermline

Fantastic performance after a shaky start saw the ‘Ton take all 3 points in monsoon like conditions. After the Pars had taken the lead, an unfortunate injury to midfielder Midge Millar led to Tumilty coming on and Jacobs being moved from right back to his traditional midfield role. This proved more than effective as he scored 2 of the 3 goals and had an all round fine performance. The other came from the head of team captain McAllister. Dunfermline’s last min goal was no more than a consolation, even tho’ it was the goal of the game.
Totally worth the 3 hour round trip in awful conditions. Looking forward to the trip to St. Johnstone in the Scottish Cup next week.
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Good result 'Ton, well done braving the conditions.
 
The Celtic View said:
Neil McCann came from a big Celtic supporting family, I think from around the Greenock area. I know one of his brothers was a drug dealer, but I saw a post on a Celtic supporters forum that's said he was playing for Rangers against Celtic one day, and he went to collect the ball to take a throw in, a Celtic fan shouted "Haw, McCann. Your maw has got thee sons. Two of them are junkies, but you're the only one she's ashamed of"
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They joked about McCann on tv about his family being catholic and him playing for the other lot.
 
Alanbileysfeathercut said:
They joked about McCann on tv about his family being catholic and him playing for the other lot.
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He’s from Port Glasgow, next town east of Greenock and a hotbed of Celtic fans. His family are indeed Catholic and were disappointed when he signed for Rangers. Port Glasgow is one of the few towns in Scotland to still have an A.O.H. Club, basically the equivalent of the Masonic club, but for Catholics.
 

Alanbileysfeathercut said:
They joked about McCann on tv about his family being catholic and him playing for the other lot.
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That's why the guy shouted his mother is ashamed of him. He's supposed to come from a big Celtic supporting family, but signed for the dark side. :)

What I can't get over about him is, when he's doing his pundit's gig he comes across as a guy who has been a bluenose all his life. He constantly backs Rangers, and get's angry if something goes against them, or for Celtic. On one occasion he actually had a rule book to show how a decision should have gone against Celtic. I don't know if he takes a rule book to every single pundits gig he has, but has only used it once, or whether that was a one off.
 
centralTon said:
He’s from Port Glasgow, next town east of Greenock and a hotbed of Celtic fans. His family are indeed Catholic and were disappointed when he signed for Rangers. Port Glasgow is one of the few towns in Scotland to still have an A.O.H. Club, basically the equivalent of the Masonic club, but for Catholics.
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It’s tragic that religion is so tied to the auld firm.

I had a Celtic jersey growing up (that fluorescent yellow/black one from around ‘96...Di Canio, Van Hooijdonk, Cadete (Bon Jovi lookalike) wore it), as a catholic you had no option but to support them. It was more out of convenience that I did. My favourite team was the Rangers side a year later (Laudrup, Albertz, Negri)...absolutely awesome in attack. Everything Negri hit went in. Ironically it was the year they didn’t win the league, with Larsson preventing 10 in a row.

It’s scandalous to think Rangers hadn’t had a catholic play for them for over a century until Souness signed Mo Johnstone. Very backward, much like many here in the north of Ireland. Much is made of the hostility in Ibrox and Celtic Park during auld firm games, but neither came close to Windsor Park, Belfast during the troubles. I was one of the few in my school that went to games there...it was basically enemy territory, and you never said what town you were from if anybody asked.

‘Norn Iron’ manager Billy the bigot Bingham riling up the crowd during the Republic vs Northern Ireland match at Windsor Park in the decisive 1994 World Cup qualifier was the most distasteful thing I’ve ever seen from a manager. The ground was swarming with cops as it was only a few weeks after the “trick or treat” massacre on Halloween night when Unionist paramilitaries opened gunfire in a pub to kill as many catholics as they could. The runt was inciting hatred among his fellow bigots in the crowd, which made it all the sweeter when Alan McLoughlin scored to put the Republic through to the ‘94 World Cup.

From time to time I check on recent deaths on Wikipedia to see who’s left us. Still no sign yet of billy the bigot.
 
artetas_biggest_fan said:
It’s tragic that religion is so tied to the auld firm.

I had a Celtic jersey growing up (that fluorescent yellow/black one from around ‘96...Di Canio, Van Hooijdonk, Cadete (Bon Jovi lookalike) wore it), as a catholic you had no option but to support them. It was more out of convenience that I did. My favourite team was the Rangers side a year later (Laudrup, Albertz, Negri)...absolutely awesome in attack. Everything Negri hit went in. Ironically it was the year they didn’t win the league, with Larsson preventing 10 in a row.

It’s scandalous to think Rangers hadn’t had a catholic play for them for over a century until Souness signed Mo Johnstone. Very backward, much like many here in the north of Ireland. Much is made of the hostility in Ibrox and Celtic Park during auld firm games, but neither came close to Windsor Park, Belfast during the troubles. I was one of the few in my school that went to games there...it was basically enemy territory, and you never said what town you were from if anybody asked.

‘Norn Iron’ manager Billy the bigot Bingham riling up the crowd during the Republic vs Northern Ireland match at Windsor Park in the decisive 1994 World Cup qualifier was the most distasteful thing I’ve ever seen from a manager. The ground was swarming with cops as it was only a few weeks after the “trick or treat” massacre on Halloween night when Unionist paramilitaries opened gunfire in a pub to kill as many catholics as they could. The runt was inciting hatred among his fellow bigots in the crowd, which made it all the sweeter when Alan McLoughlin scored to put the Republic through to the ‘94 World Cup.

From time to time I check on recent deaths on Wikipedia to see who’s left us. Still no sign yet of billy the bigot.
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Both Rangers and Celtic had great sides in that period.It was a golden era for scottish football.Unfortunately your comments about Billy Bingham leave you down a bit.What a disgraceful way, to speak about a man who served Everton well as player and manager.
 
Cork Evertonian said:
Both Rangers and Celtic had great sides in that period.It was a golden era for scottish football.Unfortunately your comments about Billy Bingham leave you down a bit.What a disgraceful way, to speak about a man who served Everton well as player and manager.
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lol lol lol
Another ridiculous post from the forum's Hans Christian Anderson. What do you know about Billy Bingham, Everton or Rangers other than the stuff you've looked up on Google?
What did you do yesterday when I was standing in the pissing rain at Cappielow ?, serious question.
 

artetas_biggest_fan said:
It’s tragic that religion is so tied to the auld firm.

I had a Celtic jersey growing up (that fluorescent yellow/black one from around ‘96...Di Canio, Van Hooijdonk, Cadete (Bon Jovi lookalike) wore it), as a catholic you had no option but to support them. It was more out of convenience that I did. My favourite team was the Rangers side a year later (Laudrup, Albertz, Negri)...absolutely awesome in attack. Everything Negri hit went in. Ironically it was the year they didn’t win the league, with Larsson preventing 10 in a row.

It’s scandalous to think Rangers hadn’t had a catholic play for them for over a century until Souness signed Mo Johnstone. Very backward, much like many here in the north of Ireland. Much is made of the hostility in Ibrox and Celtic Park during auld firm games, but neither came close to Windsor Park, Belfast during the troubles. I was one of the few in my school that went to games there...it was basically enemy territory, and you never said what town you were from if anybody asked.

‘Norn Iron’ manager Billy the bigot Bingham riling up the crowd during the Republic vs Northern Ireland match at Windsor Park in the decisive 1994 World Cup qualifier was the most distasteful thing I’ve ever seen from a manager. The ground was swarming with cops as it was only a few weeks after the “trick or treat” massacre on Halloween night when Unionist paramilitaries opened gunfire in a pub to kill as many catholics as they could. The runt was inciting hatred among his fellow bigots in the crowd, which made it all the sweeter when Alan McLoughlin scored to put the Republic through to the ‘94 World Cup.

From time to time I check on recent deaths on Wikipedia to see who’s left us. Still no sign yet of billy the bigot.
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Welcome to the Scottish football thread ABF, we always welcome views from a fresh perspective.
 

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