Quote from: Rory on September 13, 2021, 09:12:25 PMDoes McGinn even have a connection with Celtic? We bought him from Hibs, right? I know Hibs/Hearts is a similar dynamic, but it's not like SJM is Neil Lennon or Martin McGuinness. I've always thought of him as just Scottish.You really have to be a dedicated prick to find out another team's players' religious denominations! I had no idea which he was, and nor do I care. Sigh. Such utter bullshit it all is.
Does McGinn even have a connection with Celtic? We bought him from Hibs, right? I know Hibs/Hearts is a similar dynamic, but it's not like SJM is Neil Lennon or Martin McGuinness. I've always thought of him as just Scottish.
Having a 2nd club is weird.
Quote from: Proposition Joe on September 14, 2021, 09:24:43 AMQuote from: Rory on September 13, 2021, 09:12:25 PMDoes McGinn even have a connection with Celtic? We bought him from Hibs, right? I know Hibs/Hearts is a similar dynamic, but it's not like SJM is Neil Lennon or Martin McGuinness. I've always thought of him as just Scottish.You really have to be a dedicated prick to find out another team's players' religious denominations! I had no idea which he was, and nor do I care. Sigh. Such utter bullshit it all is.SJM’s uncle or Grandad used to run Celtic in the 80’s / 90’s. I think he was called Jock or Jack McGinn. Scottish version of Ellis from what I remember being told by Celtic supporters. Jack McGinn and his biscuit tin (where the money was allegedly kept)
I cried singing Abide with me at the 2000 Cup Final.It was such an emotional moment especially as I was totally convinced we would win.
Quote from: Nunkin1965 on September 14, 2021, 09:27:10 PMI cried singing Abide with me at the 2000 Cup Final.It was such an emotional moment especially as I was totally convinced we would win.This club has to win the fucking thing before i face the oven
Quote from: Hookeysmith on September 15, 2021, 01:59:14 PMQuote from: Nunkin1965 on September 14, 2021, 09:27:10 PMI cried singing Abide with me at the 2000 Cup Final.It was such an emotional moment especially as I was totally convinced we would win.This club has to win the fucking thing before i face the ovenYou'll starve to death!
Quote from: Monty on September 14, 2021, 09:04:08 PMQuote from: Sexual Ealing on September 14, 2021, 08:49:32 PMQuote from: dave.woodhall on September 14, 2021, 08:23:53 PMQuote from: Sexual Ealing on September 14, 2021, 12:17:19 PMTo avoid a massive quotathon:@WDV: definitely. Any terrace anthem that begins with "my heart was broken", and has as its main refrain the word "sorrow" will do for me.@LeeB: it was Renton, but wasn't it in Dead Men's Trousers? I can't remember any chapters of the Blade Artist written from Renton's perspective. I'm probably wrong about both.There's a bit of that clip where a Hibs supporter is in tears singing. That's me, and you, and every one of us when it finally happens. The one with the green tartan scarf around four minutes in? I thought exactly that myself. The sheer disbelief/realisation is amazing.Exactly. I thought it was a great moment, and the only problem I have with that song is I always seem to listen to it when I'm chopping onions.And me.
Quote from: Sexual Ealing on September 14, 2021, 08:49:32 PMQuote from: dave.woodhall on September 14, 2021, 08:23:53 PMQuote from: Sexual Ealing on September 14, 2021, 12:17:19 PMTo avoid a massive quotathon:@WDV: definitely. Any terrace anthem that begins with "my heart was broken", and has as its main refrain the word "sorrow" will do for me.@LeeB: it was Renton, but wasn't it in Dead Men's Trousers? I can't remember any chapters of the Blade Artist written from Renton's perspective. I'm probably wrong about both.There's a bit of that clip where a Hibs supporter is in tears singing. That's me, and you, and every one of us when it finally happens. The one with the green tartan scarf around four minutes in? I thought exactly that myself. The sheer disbelief/realisation is amazing.Exactly. I thought it was a great moment, and the only problem I have with that song is I always seem to listen to it when I'm chopping onions.
Quote from: dave.woodhall on September 14, 2021, 08:23:53 PMQuote from: Sexual Ealing on September 14, 2021, 12:17:19 PMTo avoid a massive quotathon:@WDV: definitely. Any terrace anthem that begins with "my heart was broken", and has as its main refrain the word "sorrow" will do for me.@LeeB: it was Renton, but wasn't it in Dead Men's Trousers? I can't remember any chapters of the Blade Artist written from Renton's perspective. I'm probably wrong about both.There's a bit of that clip where a Hibs supporter is in tears singing. That's me, and you, and every one of us when it finally happens. The one with the green tartan scarf around four minutes in? I thought exactly that myself. The sheer disbelief/realisation is amazing.
Quote from: Sexual Ealing on September 14, 2021, 12:17:19 PMTo avoid a massive quotathon:@WDV: definitely. Any terrace anthem that begins with "my heart was broken", and has as its main refrain the word "sorrow" will do for me.@LeeB: it was Renton, but wasn't it in Dead Men's Trousers? I can't remember any chapters of the Blade Artist written from Renton's perspective. I'm probably wrong about both.There's a bit of that clip where a Hibs supporter is in tears singing. That's me, and you, and every one of us when it finally happens.
To avoid a massive quotathon:@WDV: definitely. Any terrace anthem that begins with "my heart was broken", and has as its main refrain the word "sorrow" will do for me.@LeeB: it was Renton, but wasn't it in Dead Men's Trousers? I can't remember any chapters of the Blade Artist written from Renton's perspective. I'm probably wrong about both.
I'm a bit of a sentimental old sod and back in time when the Villa winning the first division was just a pipe dream, I always thought that if I saw it happen I would burst into tears. Well, we did, and I didn't.Fast forward twelve months and on the bus travelling through Belgium enroute to Rotterdam I felt the same when thinking about winning the bloody European Cup. Well, once again we did and I didn't. What I did do, when Peter Withe's glorious shin guided the ball into the back of the net was to raise my eyes skyward and point my flag in the same direction and roar at the top of my voice: DAAAAD! I did it again at the final whistle. He'd died four years earlier and it was because of him I was on this incredible journey following the greatest football club in the world. The Villa have had me on the verge of tears many, many times since but you know what? Having been lucky enough to see what I have seen, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Quote from: dave shelley on September 15, 2021, 03:00:55 PMI'm a bit of a sentimental old sod and back in time when the Villa winning the first division was just a pipe dream, I always thought that if I saw it happen I would burst into tears. Well, we did, and I didn't.Fast forward twelve months and on the bus travelling through Belgium enroute to Rotterdam I felt the same when thinking about winning the bloody European Cup. Well, once again we did and I didn't. What I did do, when Peter Withe's glorious shin guided the ball into the back of the net was to raise my eyes skyward and point my flag in the same direction and roar at the top of my voice: DAAAAD! I did it again at the final whistle. He'd died four years earlier and it was because of him I was on this incredible journey following the greatest football club in the world. The Villa have had me on the verge of tears many, many times since but you know what? Having been lucky enough to see what I have seen, I wouldn't have it any other way.Brilliant post.And now there's something in my eye.
Quote from: Sexual Ealing on September 14, 2021, 09:45:56 AMQuote from: sickbeggar on September 14, 2021, 09:42:26 AMReminds me of a weird experience i had in a Birmingham pub years back when a drunk glaswegian Rangers top-wearing fan accosted me carrying a heavy looking scrap book. I was slightly nervous but he turned out to be tame, but the scrapbook just contained photo's of him following the Chelsea headhunters. No idea what was going on there except they have some vague hoolie link-up based on all that sectarian crap. Mind I once had a very drunk Celtic fan repeatedly ask me if I was Catholic or Protestant in a menacing way in another pub. Church of England seemed to confuse him and he went away. . As a recovering Catholic and atheist, I've always been a big fan of the CofE (whilst knowing nothing about it). It seems like a religion that sort of believes, but doesn't take it that seriously. As early Alan Partridge put it, he believes in God, but thinks of him as a kind of gas.yeah its a sort of universal "well I don't believe in God really but its easier to say COE" Mind the big fellah was obviously protecting me that day..
Quote from: sickbeggar on September 14, 2021, 09:42:26 AMReminds me of a weird experience i had in a Birmingham pub years back when a drunk glaswegian Rangers top-wearing fan accosted me carrying a heavy looking scrap book. I was slightly nervous but he turned out to be tame, but the scrapbook just contained photo's of him following the Chelsea headhunters. No idea what was going on there except they have some vague hoolie link-up based on all that sectarian crap. Mind I once had a very drunk Celtic fan repeatedly ask me if I was Catholic or Protestant in a menacing way in another pub. Church of England seemed to confuse him and he went away. . As a recovering Catholic and atheist, I've always been a big fan of the CofE (whilst knowing nothing about it). It seems like a religion that sort of believes, but doesn't take it that seriously. As early Alan Partridge put it, he believes in God, but thinks of him as a kind of gas.
Reminds me of a weird experience i had in a Birmingham pub years back when a drunk glaswegian Rangers top-wearing fan accosted me carrying a heavy looking scrap book. I was slightly nervous but he turned out to be tame, but the scrapbook just contained photo's of him following the Chelsea headhunters. No idea what was going on there except they have some vague hoolie link-up based on all that sectarian crap. Mind I once had a very drunk Celtic fan repeatedly ask me if I was Catholic or Protestant in a menacing way in another pub. Church of England seemed to confuse him and he went away. .
Quote from: Nunkin1965 on September 14, 2021, 09:27:10 PMI cried singing Abide with me at the 2000 Cup Final.It was such an emotional moment especially as I was totally convinced we would win.And so did I - i stood with my old man and hoped it would be full circle as i grew up with him reminding me every year about being at the win in 57 and what it was like to have won the 7th FA cup.Later that year he died and it was played at his funeralWhen i stood there for the final against Arsenal and it played i completely lost it.This club has to win the fucking thing before i face the oven