Stephen Tierney

@Counteredlogos Well, I would too. I find myself praying non-stop when Celtic play, but Luis de la Fuente suggests it would be unfair to the opposition. Herbert McCabe, on the other hand, says that we may as well ask for what we really want.

@Celtic_First Let's see what happens in the final. Argentina have a statue of Our Lady of Lujàn, patroness of the nation, in the dressing room. 🫡

One of the worst consequences of the Enlightenment upon England is the loss of that very real, very important, very singular, and yes - quite happily irrational - folk-religion instinct to demand of God, with all the force of Moses, that your team wins at the football.

@GerardCarruthe2 @BremenBod It is also interesting that their team-mate, Laporte is from France.

@GerardCarruthe2 @BremenBod Now the police have advised against a public screening of tonight’s game in the city. Mikel Merino is a local lad. Nico Williams was also born there. Mikel Oyarzabal is from Eibar, Unai Simón is from Vitoria and Zubimendi is from San Sebastián. (2)

Quite interested in who the Basques in both Spain and France are supporting tonight? I wonder if they are constantly questioned, shamed and harassed into cheering for Spain and France by the French and Spanish media and their political classes?

@stefanompaolini @ItalyinUK It was very good, Stefano. Thank you.

@ItalyinUK a play about the Arandora Star on the 2nd of July at 2.15pm on Radio 4. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

This play is about to come on @BBCRadio4. @ronaldopatrizio, @BurnsMik. Could be of interest. Every time I think of the names on the list, I realise how many of the amazing families around us at @QMAOfficial and @RC_Ayr must have been deeply affected and yet never spoke of this.

@Rokewood Somebody has to be thirty-second-best, Bob. As hopes for it to be Scotland dwindle, you have to consider that whoever qualifies in thirty-second spot won’t, up to this point, have have played very much swashbuckling, avant-garde football.

My only regret here is that AI algorithms & dodgy matchplay stitch-ups are denying the #TartanArmy its traditional sentimental exit experience of heroic-failure final-tie goal difference—where we beat 1 of the favourites 6-5, somebody marries a local, & we win ‘Best Fans’ award🤷🏻‍♂️

Extending as much ‘fairness’ as possible to this arcane system for taking 48 teams to 32, who honestly believes that it would be right or desirable to see this 1-goal lacklustre squad progress in the tournament? & please don’t say the #TartanArmy😵‍💫 bbc.co.uk/sport/football…

@jmolaizola Precioso el poema. Felicidades.

¿SABES SI SON DIGNOS? ¿Sabes si son dignos? Esa fue la pregunta. La dignidad requerida no era prestigio, autoridad, distinción o prevalencia. No era la fortaleza de los invulnerables ni la presunción de los soberbios. No era la seguridad de los perfectos. Aquel interrogante envolvía otros más hondos. ¿Aman a Cristo? ¿Han experimentado la misericordia? ¿Comprenden quién es su prójimo? ¿Serán capaces de tomar en serio a Dios? ¿Conocen sus propios límites? ¿Sabrán ser discípulos? ¿Permanecerán cuando llegue la tormenta? ¿Llegará a ser su vida eucaristía? La respuesta fue un sí que tenía tanto de confianza como de apuesta. Era un ojalá, un con tu gracia, un están en camino. Respondieron por ellos quienes los conocían. Hoy la respuesta, más humilde, la da el tiempo, oro y plata de historias fecundas. ¿Sabes si son dignos? Lo han intentado. Han amado, sentido, vibrado, servido. Han llevado la Palabra por bandera. Se han gastado. Llevan dentro cicatrices y alguna herida abierta. Han estado en el desierto y el Tabor y aquí siguen en camino tras sus huellas. Han sido hijo pródigo, hermano mayor y padre que abraza. Han lavado con su llanto algún cansancio. Han escrito con sus dedos en la arena. En su interior aún pelean un fariseo y un publicano, el trabajador de la primera hora y el obrero de la última. ¿Sabes si son dignos? La respuesta es hoy distinta. Tú, Señor, nos haces dignos confiando tu tesoro a nuestro barro. (Al cumplirse hoy 25 años de ordenación . Se agradece una oración)

@mccaffepj @BBCr4today Lovely to hear the bold Archie Macpherson on the show, though. He was in sparkling form, even if he misremembered the final score when Scotland played Brazil at the 1998 World Cup.

@mccaffepj @BBCr4today Unbelievable. Even the pronunciation of the wrong name was execrable.

@BBCr4today Paul Lamont?…

@BBCr4today Thank you for inviting Thomas Heatherwick on to talk about Guadí and the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. I could have listened to him talk about it all day.

@Troyvisitor @Ianskellyradio3 @wigmore_hall @BBCRadio3 @BelceaQuartet This was my impression too. Well done, Ian. You went into all these details about the spa town in Austria as though the broken-string interruption had been part of the programme. Well done also to Corina Belcea for taking it all in her stride too. Thank you for the lovely music.

@Ianskellyradio3 @wigmore_hall @BBCRadio3 @BelceaQuartet Another excellent concert, thanks, Ian. Top quality music and musicianship. Well done for filling in while the new string was being fitted, and for your commentary as a whole.

The stage is set @wigmore_hall. I’m back in London as @BBCRadio3 brings you more from the hall’s 125 anniversary fest. One of the world’s top string quartets @BelceaQuartet and one of the world’s top viola players, Tabea Zimmermann, play Mozart and Brahms. Join me live at 7.30.

@TonyMcKelvie @JimSpenceDundee May she rest in peace, Jim.

@JimSpenceDundee Ach, Jim. Condolences.

Spent Sunday evening at my big sister’s bedside as the priest gave her last rites, then from early morning to evening on Monday as she finally slipped away. Never been keen on the ‘it’s a blessing’ phrase, but watching her ravaged with late stage Alzheimers I now appreciate it.

@JohnPearson68 Congratulations, John. A very good performance.

Thursday morning breakfast in Wellington, NZ. Only one place I could go after today’s result - Villa 3 Freiburg 0 UTV!!

@JimSpenceDundee @michael_merrick Could be a coincidence, Michael, but you especially may be interested to know that, from the 1990s onwards, if not before, top clubs in Spain were employing full-time qualified teachers to work with players. The boys had left school, but school didn’t leave them.

@michael_merrick I covered Scotland for the Beeb in the 3-1 defeat in Alicante in Oct 2011 in the qualifiers……it was a masterclass. Mesmerising stuff from them.

@frankcottrell_b Very good appearance on The World Tonight on @BBCRadio4 last night, Frank. Top drawer.

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@janedougallbbc @BBCr4today Good morning Jane. Just to help you and your listeners clear up this “highly controversial … questionable, late penalty” decision: x.com/AHoran79/statu…

@Palmeirasso51 “ … inventaram un penalti … ”. x.com/DM__42/status/…

Todo homem e mulher vivo ou morto no Sábado tem obrigação moral de fazer uma Gênio Dama pro Hearts na Escócia Já e impossível algum time sem ser Celtic ou Rangers vencer a liga. Quando Hearts ia por a mão na taça inventaram um penalti aos 97 pro Celtic Um empate basta

@AHoran79 Yes. And then ask him why he elbowed big Trusty. And then ask the Motherwell number 12 if he thought a two-handed push in Trusty’s back as the ball came into the box was a good or bad idea.

Goodness! X is rather lively tonight. Everybody and their granny weighing in on the Celtic penalty decision. Rather than questioning referees and VAR, folks might want to ask the Motherwell player what the heck he was playing at putting his hand so high between his head and the ball in the last seconds of the game.