Delighted for Martin O’Neill on taking Ireland into the last 16 of the Euros. Since his salad days ended at Celtic, Martin’s had more downs than ups as a manager. I felt the game had moved on from him, even during his five years at Celtic, the game tactically moved away from him, but he’s one of a number of managers of small nations who have overachieved.
I’m not buying Roy Keane’s tears, though. Reaching the last 16 of the Euros is a great achievement, but he disparaged Mick McCarthy’s achievement with Ireland in going out of the 2002 World Cup in the last 16 to Spain on penalties. Maybe it’s time for some humility from Roy.
If anything, Michael O’Neill’s achievements with the north has been even greater. Michael was mentioned as a possible Celtic manager before Brendan’s appointment, but the point was made to me, whatever he achieved in qualifying, he could be embarrassed in all three Euros games. Now he needs to beat Wales for a place in the quarter finals.
The group stages have been a delight. Some big tactical lessons for underdogs, and for teams who face 10 men behind the ball every week. If you don’t make defensive mistakes you can win any game, possession and territorial advantage is a mirage of influence.
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THE SNP – No way you can go off the Party Line.
Xenophobia wins the day.
The pound is taking a nose dive, already lost 11% – apparently a 30 year low.
Prediction – referendum result will be put before Parliament for ratification and MPs boot it into touch because of the ‘narrow’ majority (my prediction).
Watch the share prices crash when the Markets open. FTSE 100 closed at 6338.10 yesterday.
I’m not a big fan of Democracy – I Feel it can be bought because of Mans Sinning NATURE.
Major corrections in one direction followed by major corrections in the other.
If the market didn`t move there wouldn`t be one.
PETEC on 24TH JUNE 2016 5:57 AM
I’m not a big fan of Democracy
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Now there we differ,Pete.
Democracy is the key.
Apparently immigration was a significant factor in this referendum.
If so , it was the first chance for the British people to have their say on that issue .
Well I’ve Gambled that the Market will go downtown.
Dark Forces influencing.
Shelby.CsC
90% of Celts are Normal.
For Petec, from the Vatican:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTM7E4-DN0o
Democracy has worked, the Elites are Working their Magic.
Another Referendum – Thank the Almighty he is gonnae shut things down soon.
Absolutely scary stuf fthe disenfranchised English working class vote with the politics of fear, the bigots, bullies and bampots like Ian Pisley very happy this morning, cograts England you certainy are the people
@ianpaisleymp
I am watching the sun come up over an independent UK. Fantastic. We have broken the chain of EU slavery we are the people !
LIONROARS67
Says it all mate, says it all….
jimthetim53… Knows that Satan is being as Divisive as possible. Some might say…. he is Revelling in putting people against each other.
Hope all the leave voters had a bet on! Bookies rarely wrong…..but they were this time.
STUNNED the ftse100 hasn’t crashed. ;))
still sitting @ -£36 on a ftse buy.
The Remains Lies.
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Lies.Central
TWISTS N TURNS on 24TH JUNE 2016 6:10 AM
Hope all the leave voters had a bet on! Bookies rarely wrong…..but they were this time.
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I doubt if anybody will win enough to make up for the fall in their pension pots. ;-(
Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister calls for poll on united Ireland after Brexit
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-northern-ireland-eu-referendum-result-latest-live-border-poll-united-martin-mcguinness-a7099276.html
just checked…… it is a short. FFS.
The markets are STABLE TBH.
Liars on TV
The Result is in and the Market is STABLE, currently.
win for the xenophobes
40 mins to the kerching?
Clink\o/ on 24th June 2016 6:19 am
win for the xenophobes
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Nonsense dude.
Win for Democracy – Not that I agree with Democracy.
It is a Terrible Political Union.
Macjay, you’ll need a special stamp on your shit wiped passport to gain entry to the new Peoples Republic of Carmyllie. Luckily you know the ambassador, the president and the main advisor to the chief. You should be ok.
Thon donly chap will be executed if he tries to gain admission. We will of course torture him first by making him watch looped reruns of Sevco v Annan in division 3. If that don’t get him the one all drw v Montrose is a killer,
The North of Europe is going Right and the South is going Left.
Satan.
Lionsroar
Scary stuff indeed
Do you have a link to a good statto site?
HH
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/24/eu-referendum-britain-different-country?CMP=share_btn_tw
We have woken up in a different country. The Britain that existed until 23 June 2016 will not exist any more.
For those who ran the leave campaign – and for the clear majority who voted to leave the European Union – that is a cause for celebration. This, they insist, will be remembered as our “independence day”. From now, they say, Britain will be a proud, self-governing nation unshackled by the edicts of Brussels.
But for the 48% who voted the other way, and for most of the watching world, Britain is changed in a way that makes the heart sink rather than soar.
For one thing, there is now a genuine question over the shape of this kingdom. Scotland (like London) voted to remain inside the European Union. Every one of its political parties (bar the UK Independence Party) urged a remain vote. Yet now Scotland is set to be dragged out of the EU, against its collective will.
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The demand will be loud and instant for Scotland to assure its own destiny by breaking free of the UK. This is precisely the kind of “material change” that the Scottish National party always said would be enough to warrant a second referendum to follow the one held in 2014. And this time, surely, there will be a majority for independence. So a first legacy of 23 June could well be the imminent break-up of the UK.
The implications will be profound for Northern Ireland too. The return of a “hard border” between north and south imperils a peace which was hard-won and too often taken for granted. Note this morning’s warning from Sinn Fein that the British government has “forfeited any mandate to represent the economic and political interests of people in Northern Ireland.”
Of course, the divisions don’t end there. England is exposed as a land divided: London, along with the cities of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Bristol stood apart from the rest of England and Wales in wanting to stay in. There is a yawning class divide, pitting city against town and, more profoundly, those who feel they have something to lose against those who feel they do not. What determined the outcome as much as anything else was the fact that the latter group, many concentrated in what used to be called Labour heartlands, defied the party’s call and voted out. This is a deep rift that will haunt the politics of the coming era. Labour’s prospects will stand or fall on how they navigate it – and they are not the only ones.
The Greatest Trick……
Donly, just for the record. I was born in the G1 area.
HH ya auld fanny. Hope you get a good size pike on yer heid.
Peter
I voted leave. I am neither a bigot, a bully, or a bampot. This is a vote against the establishment and the money-men. Just like I voted with my feet against Celtic Plc by not renewing my season ticket (despite the Rodgers hysteria), the U.K. has voted. If Scotland wants to stay in Europe its path is clear. Will Scotland’s leadership now show the strength needed to reflect the will of the people and lead us from unit with the restof the UK?
petec on 24th June 2016 6:09 am
jimthetim53… Knows that Satan is being as Divisive as possible. Some might say…. he is Revelling in putting people against each other.
Another time I have been used. I never posted typed or posted that.
Pog, I bet you wishaed you’d stayed in Germany. How’s the boy doing in Dundee?
See you soon bruv. I’ll be selling short sock next to the guy that’s selling 6 inch plates, doon the barra’s.
Morning all from a sunny and warm North West Italy.
Speechless!
At least I can still consider myself a European, courtesy of my Italian passport.
Thanks English voters!
HH!!
PETEC on 24TH JUNE 2016 6:20 AM
Clink\o/ on 24th June 2016 6:19 am
win for the xenophobes
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Nonsense dude.
Win for Democracy – Not that I agree with Democracy.
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Perhaps a win for I.S. phobes
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Rejoice..!!
Ernie Lynch,George Soros, TBJ’67,
Hamiltontim, Nicola Merkel, Robert Tressell, Ena Sharples,Barak Obummer, BMCUW…… & The Krankies
Your Boys Took One Helluva Beating..!
The Dragon’s Breath Shrouds The Wrekin….
King Arthur Stirs From His Ancient Slumber….
Asks If The Huns Are STILL Deid..
Merlin Will Sort Out Them Pesky Eurocrats….
The Balance Is Restored
Oh Happy Enchanted Sceptred Isles….!!
Party Time..!
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This blog makes me laff at times.
petec “I’m not a big fan of Democracy”
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Me neither Pete. I think wee Nicola should clear us all out into the countryside, ala Pol Pot and make us work for our oats. Maybe someone should make your decisions for you and if you don’t do as you’re told you’ll get a steel spike through the skull.
I’m a big fan of democracy. FFS man, give yourself a shake.
HH Bruv Democracy gives us the right to laugh at the bad choices made by others.
I was denied a vote in the referendum. This morning I feel disappointed. I have been an immigrant worker for the last 25 years in different countries and now Britain has voted Leave. I am not alone in wondering what future we will have – so many questions are unanswered but there are rules in place, that we know.
Not sure of the consequences on your average Joe, and we will have to wait several years for it all to unravel.
I always felt that the Referendum was a Tory stitch-up in the first place and they got what they wanted.