Stephen Joseph

Faith and Family

[Jim Spence @JimSpenceDundee]

The resignation of Starmer is a parable for our times as well as the Labour Party. A weak, snivelling, arse of a man, who gave proper men a bad name. A hypocritical managerial technocrat without any real beliefs, except power for its own sake. And who before the madness of progressive politics would have been a second rate lawyer in some conveyancing firm. (No disrespect to conveyancers intended) good riddance to a disastrous PM. He will not be missed. A traitorous enemy to working class folk who he clearly despised.

[Stephen Joseph @clontarf52]

@TheAnchoress @The_Anchoress What an extremely interesting article!

[The Spectator @spectator]

Although the past few footballing weeks have been dominated by the convulsive conclusion to Arsenal's season – and the upcoming few will be dominated by the World Cup – I wonder if some of you might spare a thought for my own traumas north of the border.

As a Celtic supporter, I've had one of the worst seasons imaginable. After years of victory in the relatively impoverished (and severely mocked) Scottish Premier League, my team has had one of their most disastrous stretches, knocked out embarrassingly early from all European competitions and then continually shamed and outperformed by a resurgent Hearts, who haven't won the Scottish League since 1960.

✍️ James MacMillan

Article | https://t.co/mMSSyPV6ml

[St.Anthony mk II @murraystep26506]

The return of the Saint. Curses to twitter help centre or whatever it's called. They are worse than useless. Basically just a bot. The old St Anthony account 14 years and 25k followers, all down the drain.

Anyhow, we go again 👍

[TheTributeAct @TheTributeAct]

@RPMComo Got to agree.
There is a myth about a Celtic ethos.

The 19th century practicing Catholics who formed Celtic would be horrified by many of the values claimed by a vocal minority today.

There has never been a set of values that cover all Celtic fans. It’s modern made up bullshit.

[Stephen Joseph @clontarf52]

@PremSportsTV @CelticFC This is very very good 👍🏻

[Rod Dreher @roddreher]

HERO GRANNY!

[Lint @Zeshankenzo]

Leverkusen winning the League.
Fans on the park at 89:30 after final goal.
Fans not cleared.
No restart.
Game called.

[Lint @Zeshankenzo]

Warmth and happiness as they sing the praises of Martin O’Neill and the job he has done at Celtic to win the title.

Try finding similar content in Scotland.

[The Parkhead Faithful @TheParkheadF]

Can we please talk about the fact Hearts fans are disgusted they didn’t get to play another 30 seconds yet their team spent about 86 minutes wasting time?

I spoke to my mate during the game and we counted SIX times their medical team came onto the park before the 60th minute. That’s basically once every 10 minutes. Honestly, when have you ever seen that in a football match?

Derek McInnes set them up to slow the game down as much as possible and in the end that became Hearts’ downfall. Celtic never give up everyone knows that. You’d think after all the late goals Celtic have scored this season he’d have told his players to do the opposite, keep the game moving and run the clock down naturally instead of constantly stopping play.

And I said it earlier and I’ll say it again — If the whistle didn’t go, which I’m led to believe the referee’s report says it did, then why did Hearts leave Celtic Park instead of waiting in the tunnel area for the pitch to clear so the final seconds could be played?

If you were that desperate to play the extra 30 seconds, surely you wait 2–3 minutes and come back out?

This is nothing more than a smokescreen for failure because, like it or not, second place is still failure when you’re that close. The football world wanted a Hearts fairytale and Celtic simply said “not today.” 🍀

[Highland__Paddy @Highland__paddy]

Billy Connolly looking back on the centenary season and the late goals that brought our success.
His words ring true , especially after this season.

[The Ayrshire Separatist @DanielJMath1]

Nothing to see here except Derek McInnes celebrating with his teams fans who invaded the pitch. Those poor Arbroath players and fans must have been in fear for their lives….

https://t.co/IWdCSzXlGR

[The Herald @heraldscotland]

'When Martin O’Neill, their Irish coach/redeemer was brought back twice to salvage something from the chaos, he couldn’t have imagined this moment would arrive' 👇

𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘙𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴/𝘚𝘩𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬

[Lint @Zeshankenzo]

It’s amazing how quickly the great and the good of Scottish society are in banning pitch invasions and how disgusted fans are by it…try to get rid of racist sectarian chanting? and everyone clams up.

They claim it’s something we can’t get rid of or ignore it completely.

[Chris Sutton @chris_sutton73]

Now the dust has settled.. The reaction from many high profile people is way over the top. John Beaton was advised to go to the monitor and saw that the ball hit the arm in an unnatural position Bottom line is people would hate to see Celtic win the title again and that is all.

[Inside The SPFL @AgentScotland]

At the game, thought they were checking penalty for the elbow, even though they announced it as potentiel handball, thought the announcer made a mistake, thought the elbow would've been very harsh, but just saw the handball there and there's no debating it. Silly from Nicholson.

[Kieran @Kieran_Celtic]

Singing about being up to your knees in fenian blood is disgusting. A penalty being awarded is not.

[Stephen Joseph @clontarf52]

@GrahamSpiers Except he didn’t see it 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Stephen Joseph @clontarf52]

@90MinuteCynic @beebhoy7 This is sensational 💚

[Stephen Joseph @clontarf52]

@tirnaog_09 😆