ONE thing you have to say for Rasellick - they do anniversaries better than that other lot across the city. Whilst the blue corner might get the year right, they never get the actual date of the Battle of the Boyne correct - it wasn't fought on 12 July!
Celtic, meanwhile, never miss a trick when it comes to celebrating past glories, so, why shouldn't we enjoy the current celebrations of the day in 1994 when the battle was over and the rebels had won.
So, I enjoyed reading, on scotsman.com, an uncredited interview with "The Bunnet" in which, as always, wee Fergus McCann made a lot of sense.
He was speaking of the possibility of Celtic transferring to English football. In all honesty, I don't see this happening. OK, the English Premiership is more-of-less self-governing, and, the EPL clubs do now virtually run the FA and English football, but, I don't see them ushering Celtic in.
At one time, the only way in would have been for both halves of the Old Firm to be invited as a job lot, but, only when the EPL power brokers decided the potential money to be made out-weighed the additional bother their troublesome fans might bring. After all, the English have long been wary of marauding Sweaties crossing the Solway to spread mayhem and misery.
Now, with "Rangers" a spent force and possibly heading for yet another encounter with civil and corporate law, the time is ripe perhaps for Celtic to move. However, I don't see it happening.
BUT, the news this week that Peter Lieswell, the Most Powerful Man In Scottish Football had been appointed to the European Clubs Association board - now that is a whole new ball game.
The time cannot be far away, when the top European clubs rebel against Michel Platini's well-meaning attempts to flatten a playing surface which more and more slopes towards the rich and powerful.
An NFL-style European League cannot be far away, and, with their man now having his feet below the top table, this is the route down which I expect Celtic to travel.
Aye, the lumpen knuckle-draggers among the Celtic family will miss the tribal encounters with the people they refer to as "Orcs", but, the vast majority will, I am certain, relish regular head-to-heads with the true aristocrats of European club football.
And, I think Wee Fergus will enjoy that too.
Meanwhile, across the city - like the Judean Liberation Front and the Front for the LIberation of Judea, the various ludges squabble about the Messiah, or, more correctly, Dave, the very naughty boy (when it comes to paying taxes).
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