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The last playing member of the Iron Curtain, magnificent right half and captain Ian McColl.

Celtic Connections. This year has seen the thirtieth anniversary of the Glasgow based arts festival, 'Celtic Connections'. An early New Year, month long celebration of concerts, ceilidhs, talks, musical sessions and, workshops. The most tenuous connection to Scottish folk and traditional music is exploited to allow everything from Robert Burns readings to spiritual blues to be performed. Obviously, it works because it has been going thirty years and numbers in terms of those performing and attending continue to grow. These days it is a rare boost to Glasgow's night time economy and increases opportunity for those involved to network. At Pacific Quay, Celtic Connections has a different effort and aim. The members of the PQ CSC apply themselves in improving their standard of life both individually and collectively through on message support furra green'n'grey hooped horrors. This last week we have had RAB Cosgrove being the subject of a Kevin McKenna Herald double page interview, where RAB is demanding BBC UK provides more resources for BBC Scotland. Former Sellik View Editor and weekly contributor to ra Sellik Way podcast, Kevin McKenna lionises RAB for his academic achievements and agrees RAB's government grant funded production company is worthy of a bigger slice of the economic pie. After five years, the Nine is being scrapped because no one is viewing and the annual £32 million budget is being redirected. The man in his seventy-second year who continually informs the listenership of his chasing Gang Hut Producers around the PQ building has a considerable property portfolio to support and he was relying on his snout continuing in the Celtic Connections flowing trough. McKenna is Godfather to Angela Haggerty's son and since his tertiary education days when he founded his own amateur football side, 'the Vatican Strollers'; he only lends helping hands to fellow travellers on his designated road. Another Celtic Connection was BBC Scotland staffer, Paul English plugging Susie McCabe again in a Herald double paged feature last week. The two long term regularly appearing guests on RAB's 30 year old show took to the paper to sell tickets for Susie's gigs. It was the usual much told story of working class Susie(from leafy Garrowhill) sparking her bits on building sites, fighting anti-gay, anti-catholic and, anti one legged saxophonist prejudices to be signed by one of the UK's top established agencies, 'Off the Kerb'. Susie assures us her life has been harder than her hard hat and she is funnier than a fire in an orphanage? I first saw RAB Cosgrove some 36 years past, it was a TV show called, 'Halfway to Paradise'. RAB was the big star in a wee picture, sitting in a metal cage interviewing Gerry Dunbar, the Editor of Sellik 'zine - Not the View. RAB has always been Sellik connected.

I hope we give a good account of ourselves but the league has to be the absolute priority.

Is the clue in the name, do you think?

Born Is The King Of Ibrox Park. George Best-esque, as in he also sh@gged a Miss World.

Cyrille Regis & Laurie Cunningham - both brilliant players at West Brom and saw them play on a few occasions as my uncle played in same West Brom team. Sadly, both not longer with us.

John McGovern - great player who had a brilliant career. His autobiography had a nice title.

Well that explains a lot.....😀 Was more a Two Ronnie's / Morecombe & Wise man myself.

Taking Saturdays game first - Rousseau post in the MOTM thread that statistically Tav was our best player. I didn't think he was and voted Dio. Rousseau used these stats to show why he voted Yimaz as MOTM. I thought Yilmaz was very poor in 1st half, better in 2nd half and was posted missing for Motherwell 1st goal. Rousseau stats showed Yilmaz was statistically our joint 2nd best player along with Dio. As for penalties, up until yesterday Shankland took Hearts penalties - are we subtracting all his pens from his goalscoring record? How many seasons (top flight) or otherwise has Shankland outscored Tav? Tavernier is up there with the elite of Europe for goals and assists both domestically and in Europa League. He has had a good season this season, and I'd argue he has been our most consistent performer over a 5 year period. He is hardly ever injured (or suspended) and is hugely influential on and off the pitch (if you listen to various team-mates and managers (past and present). Right back has been one position that no manager, including Gerrard, Clement and Gio (managers who have won trophies with us and taken us to the business end of Europe, including a final) has even considered "upgrading". Doesn't take a genius to work out why. On the run to Europa League Ginal, Tav scored in every knockout round including home and away v Dortmund. The saying "you don't realise what you had until its gone' will be more true for Tav than it has been for the vast majority / any player / manager we've had since 2013.

I think our squad is spread thin enough as is with domestic duty. Just do what we can and avoid injuries please.

Did they not bring in European refs the last time the yahoos kicked off and they moaned about their decisions too? 🤣

Losing managers criticising refereeing decisions which they say has cost them the match is almost the norm. However Rodgers' reaction is strange. He singles out the VAR as the culprit. Two referees looking at the same incident could well come to different decision, as can two fans, as can 2 managers. But it's the onfield referee who decides finally. So surely he should have called out the onfield referee for not standing by his original decision. What is going on here? Is he really saying that we should not have VAR, because if that's what he is saying he needs to explain why. In this case it's not that it's slowing the game down. it's not that fans don't know what is going on. Is it that it's highlighting the poor standard of referee on the pitch who misses these in real time? He needs to explain or he needs to be asked the question by the interviewer.

I think Europe is just a distraction. The biggest game of the week is on Sunday at Easter Rd and then a week on Sunday at Dens

The greatest double act of all time Lester and Nijinsky

A young smoking Joe takes the 1964 Olympic gold

Home Nations

Colin, Colin, Colin Stein..... Grow up in the same wee village as my Mums family and turned professional a couple of years prior to my uncle.

They were a good side under Big Rin. Sure they played at Ibrox as part of The Tennent Calidonain Cup around 1977 / 1978. Willie Johnston played for West Brom at that time. Their last visit to Ibrox was 1983 and my uncle got us into directors box to watch the game - finished 4-2 to Rangers (IIRC)

That was a cracking Throstles team they were in.

Same challenge a St Mirren player got sent off for against Celtic. Unsurprisingly Brendan said that it was a deserved red card 😀

Eh? He nearly took his head off!

In our worst defensive performance of the Clement era, I just cant pick a defender as all were honking, Butland included. Gone for Mr Versatile, doesnt ever hide and tried his best in a position that doesnt suit him.

Absolutely! We win this league and it's the fatted calf next year.

Presumably because they pursue false idolatry and require a middle man in a frock to communicate with God. 🤣

Yes and they complained about them too. I'm sure a few of the refs brought in were also not told the real story why they were here..

Be interesting to see what the SFA do about this. Actually naming the official is something else.

City put United back in their box, 3-1. I didn’t see it nor did I listen to the commentary but when I switched on R5 for the result, I was lucky enough to hear soccer super sage Dion Dublin say “Bernardo Silva was outstanding without doing anything special” The rest of them must have been rank rotten.

I love it when they fail. I suspect you do, too.....

I'd put it down more as rotation than tinkering. He's trying to get Raskin back up to speed but he's having no real impact on the matches. Lawrence seems injury prone, so I doubt Clement wants to start him in every match. It's all a bit of a balancing act. Cantwell, Cortes, Danilo and Sima being out really limits our forward options.

Excellent article and whilst I agree with the vast majority of it, the part I agree with most is the requirement for long-term stability. Whilst PC has secured the League Cup, guided us into EL knock-out stages of the EL and has us dreaming of winning the title. Given what's happened both on and off the pitch since 2013, I can't help but feeling a little nervous that things are going "too well". PC has said himself that there will be dumps in the road, its inevitable. What is important is how we as fans deal with those bumps / knocks. Historically, we'd scream for players to be dropped (still evident on here even though we are on an amazing winning run), managers to be sacked, and public floggings etc. If, and it's a big if things start to go wrong (if our injuries get any worse, this is a distinct possibility), we need to stay calm and trust the process. We all want to win the league this season, but not winning it shouldn't result in players being ridiculed and cries for the manager to be sacked. Time for stability and I think most of us would agree that PC has shown enough to justify that he is the one to bring stability and most importantly success whether it be this season or not.