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Feb 15 on Views from the Jungle
I watched a movie a few weekends ago titled “Silver Linings Playbook”; it was pretty good but this isn't a film review and I'm no Mark Kermode so I will leave it up to you to decide if you watch it. One of the characters in it played by Robert Di Nero...
Continue reading 'Doing My Compulsions in the Champions League'
Jan 30 on Views from the Jungle
Sundays dismal result at Hampden lead to a lot of debate, disappointment and a period of reflection of what might have been for the second year in a row in terms of the domestic treble. It can prompt you to look back into the volumes of back catalogue mem...
Continue reading 'Going Radio Ga Ga over Pierce O'Leary – an Eighties Cup Shocker.'
Jan 9 on Views from the Jungle
The world was taken by surprise yesterday by the return of a Sexagenarian who hadn't published a piece of work in a long time; it was unannounced and fittingly out of the blue. Many had thought his career had ended long ago but he has come blustering back...
Continue reading 'Its life Jim but not as we know it..'
Oct 26, 2012 on Views from the Jungle
On Saturday we return to the bread and butter of the SPL with a home game against Kilmarnock and the official team line up will be keenly anticipated to see which of the players from Tuesday nights impressive display will make the starting xi which will s...
Continue reading 'Filling The Gaps'
Sep 13, 2012 on Views from the Jungle
I feel a bit of a fraud writing this. I have no connection to Liverpool or the events of that day in Sheffield. The only connection I have is that I was a football supporter attending matches at the time and as a spectator experiencing what would be alien...
Continue reading 'Supporting Celtic at the time of Hillsborough'
Aug 17, 2012 on Views from the Jungle
“Roll up, Roll up to see the incredible bearded lady”“Roll up, Roll up to see the man with Lizard Skin”“Roll up, Roll up to see the freak of sport play at Ibrox”Two of these cries would commonly be heard shouted from the streets of the UK in t...
Continue reading 'A Good Old Fashioned Freak Show down Ibrox way'
Jun 22, 2012 on Views from the Jungle
The life of a football fan is punctuated with levels of extreme high when your team scores a goal, wins a match, wins a cup or wins the league. Sometimes a single goal in a match midway through a season is celebrated more than seeing your team lifting a t...
Continue reading 'Penance in the Pound: Rangers will never wipe the slate'
May 24, 2012 on Views from the Jungle
In the late 1970's there was a short lived science fiction series called “sapphire and steel” featuring David Murrays failed conquest Joanna Lumley. In it she plays a character called Sapphire who has the ability to take back time; rewind it to repl...
Continue reading 'A Helicopter Sunday with a difference – Pay Back Time'
May 8, 2012 on Views from the Jungle
The eventual result of the SPL vote on financial fair play would be no less credible if it were phoned in on a crackly line live from Oslo with barbed commentary from Terry Wogan over the top of it. For decades the Eurovision has been viewed as a contest ...
Continue reading 'The SPL is the Football Equivalent of the Eurovision Song Contest'
Apr 20, 2012 on Views from the Jungle
The decision to award a penalty to Hearts on Sunday in the final minute of the match spoke for itself, don't waste your time replaying it as it just gets more baffling and incredible the more you look at it. Our manager Neil Lennon didn't let the deci...
Continue reading 'Neil Lennon - becoming of a Celtic Manager? No Question.'
Apr 3, 2012 on Views from the Jungle
In a departure from the current affairs in the Celtic world of a mammoth 18 point gap and 1 point away from the league title win or the continued comical demise of the second biggest institution in Scotland (Copyright: David Murray), I am taking an indulg...
Continue reading 'A brief history of briefs - a Celtic ticket hunters memoirs.'
Mar 13, 2012 on Views from the Jungle
Taking someone to their first football match is a big moment in their life, taking your son to his first Celtic Match is a massive moment in both of your lives. I had debated with myself for a few months as to when was the right age to take my son to his ...
Continue reading 'Hoopy, Chips and Musical Chairs - A boys first Celtic Match'
Feb 24, 2012 on Views from the Jungle
Whilst the Rangers* situation escalates on a daily basis as the Mainstream Media catch up on what the Internet Bampots have been reading and talking about for months it has been interesting to note that the CVA route has been highlighted as the likely rou...
Continue reading 'Heard the one about the CVA and the 10 points deduction?'
Feb 20, 2012 on Views from the Jungle
I was thinking of phoning Radio Clyde tonight to ask them what I would really like for my dinner as I am honestly not sure I can trust myself to be truthful with my own feelings. You see there have been a number of hardened Celtic Fans who took the bait a...
Continue reading '“Aye Ready” for Life Without Rangers (In Administration)'
Feb 15, 2012 on Views from the Jungle
I had written a wholly different blog that I was about to post yesterday but due to what has happened to Rangers (In Administration) – to give them their proper title, it will need to be put on the back burner for a more appropriate point…..The last t...
Feb 3, 2012 on Views from the Jungle
We have all been exposed now to the blackmail from the media that Football would come to an end if a Rangers 2012 NEWCO was to start its new life in a Scottish Third Division, some of us will have heard Rangers supporters desperately grasping at straws st...
Continue reading 'Its Not Life. It’s Only 3 Years for Bad Behaviour'
Jan 30, 2012 on Views from the Jungle
I wrote in my blog on the 18th January “You's Lot on the Internet” that we should expect in the coming weeks the media campaign getting underway to put the case forward that any proposed Newco Rangers should be allowed re-entry into the SPL. Its bee...
Continue reading 'Since When is Liquidation an Acceptable Business Decision?'
Jan 26, 2012 on Views from the Jungle
I was impressed with the options we had on the bench on Saturday against St Mirren (Izaguirre, Wilson, Mathews, Commons, Stokes) and feel that the introduction of Commons and Stokes had a major impact on the outcome of the match. It got me thinking about ...
Continue reading 'No Substitute for Victory'
Jan 18, 2012 on Views from the Jungle
According to recently published internet usage statistics this recent sweeping generalisation by Hugh Keevins on the Clyde “Super” Scoreboard encompasses 82% of the population. This frustrated shriek sounded like the caretaker of an alleged haunted ho...
Continue reading 'You's Lot On The Internet! – Yes He Means You'
Jan 16, 2012 on Views from the Jungle
There is a relatively new phenomenon at Parkhead these days, one which is as common place on match day as the half time windfall ticket aeroplane display or the laziest ball boy contest. An anxiety has slowly crept into the match day experience, not the a...
Continue reading 'Panic Stations – Grounds for Alarm?'