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I don’t know what was said to Neil Lennon after the victory over Dunfermline last week but if it caused him to react I can imagine the tone.  The few visits I made to the South Stand during Gordon Strachan’s tenure left an indelible image of life as a Celtic manager.

Whatever Kirk Broadfoot did or did not say to Rangers fans towards the end of their defeat at Kilmarnock yesterday, does anyone seriously think it contained more invective than has been hurled at the player for most of his career?

The self-righteous indignation some football fans exhibit when an employee earning [insert a completely irrelevant figure here]exhibits intolerance to what would get you barred for life from any other workplace in the country is the epitome of hypocrisy.

Garry Kenneth, who is likely to face Celtic at Tannadice on Sunday, today told the world he will not be renewing his contract when it expires at the end of the season, saying, “Dundee United are a feeder club, it has always been like that.” Ouch.  Whatever Kenneth thinks of United he should at least respect their fans emotional investment in the club to be a whole lot more careful with his words.  Should make for a tense afternoon in the United defence, especially if we can put the big guy under some pressure.

Big game on Wednesday.  A win would fire enormous impetus into our season.  Whatever the outcome, the game will provide Neil Lennon with a guide on how to play in the hugely important month ahead.

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  1. !!Bada Bing!! on

    If Scott Brown wont pay a small percentage of his overpaid salary to his agent,for the honour of being Celtic Captain,………

  2. Raymac on

    Estadio, if they haven’t removed your laptop, hurry up on out of there. What WILL cheer you up is your removal from the list of CQN’s who may possibly be Declan. You haven’t read Declan? He’ll cheer you up no end. Think our old friend Joshyboy, but stupider. Reminds me also of a story about a priest trying to stop a guy jumping off a bridge.

     

    P. “Think about your wife!”

     

    J. (jumper)–“**** the wife”

     

    P. Think about your workmates”

     

    J. “**** the workmates”

     

    P.”Think about the Pope.”

     

    J.”**** the Pope”

     

    P.”Think about Celtic”

     

    J.”**** Celtic.

     

    P.”Jump, you ****** *******!!”

  4. Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on

    Houl yer Weesht

     

     

    he is so good I reckon nobody will buy him for more than what the huns paid for him. If he leaves in January it will be for less than what they paid for him. Fat hun boyd was a freebie and look how he plummeted without MIB support.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  7. bankiebhoy1 on

    As the wee fella is on a roll, perhaps we could ask the bold “seany” to go back to his folks and get them to cover Scotty’s leetle problem ?

     

     

    Unrealistic?

  8. Houl yer wheest on

    I’ve been posting for just a few months. I’ve only ever met one poster to the blog. I think I started at the top. I met Estadio in Sharkeys in September and am hoping to meet him again on 14 December.

     

    Estadio is a gift from God, a literary gem and a true Celt.

     

    Hope you’re well soon mo chara. Missing your posts.

     

    Hail hail

  10. jmccormick on

    Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo says:

     

    28 November, 2011 at 19:03

     

     

    agreed and agreed, he is,in my eyes, a Prso-lite. the Croats do not play to a big wooden striker,he is very much in their plan B , never a starter. The Orcs would do well to take the money now rather than risk the injury flaring up again. He will still score 20 in the SPL with MIB assistance and Gary Kenneth type of defenders.

  12. voguepunter on

    Interesting item on Man City site Bluemoon.

     

     

     

     

    Tom Maley

     

    Posted on November 28, 2011 by Gary James

     

    The recent ceremony organised via the Celtic Graves Society marking the grave of former City manager Tom Maley has brought a few mentions of the great man.

     

     

    Few City fans today probably know Tom’s story in detail and to be fair some won’t know his name. It is for this reason that I thought I’d share some basic stories and comments about him. He really is a manager all City supporters should be aware of. Without him Manchester’s Blues may never have found success at all.

     

     

    Tom Maley was, without doubt, the first truly great Manchester manager, not simply City’s first great manager.

     

     

    He had been a successful player in Scotland during the 1880s and was a member of Celtic at formation in 1888. Nicknamed ‘Handsome Tom’, his time at Celtic was mainly as an administrator and as such he is recorded by Celtic historians as one of the club’s most important early figures. Interestingly, despite being a proud Scotsman, he was born in Portsmouth on 8th November 1864.

     

     

    He arrived at City’s first proper home, Hyde Road, following the Blues relegation in 1902 and immediately encouraged the Blues to play stylish football. His view was that playing in the Scottish passing style – uncommon in England at the time – would bring the club success and would excite the fans. He was right. At this stage in English football the key tactic seemed to be to run with the ball until it was taken from you or you were able to have a shot, whereas Celtic in particular had perfected a passing style which seemed to bamboozle most sides.

     

     

    By the time he arrived in Manchester he was known as an excellent football administrator and tactician and, by adopting the passing style, he turned City into a major force. According to a 1920s journalist, Maley built the Blues: “It was when Tom Maley came to Hyde Road that Manchester City may be said to have entered fully into their kingdom. Under his management, he built a team for the club that was comparable with the mightiest sides in the country.

     

     

    “I never happened a greater enthusiast than Maley, nor yet a better informed man. If Maley had had average luck he would have gone down in history as one of the most successful managers the game has known. It is enough to say that so long as Maley was at the helm, the family at Hyde Road was a particularly happy one.”

     

     

    At City he managed to attract great players and the club’s popularity increased as a result. City’s average attendance exceeded 20,000 for the first time during his reign as the Blues became Manchester’s premier club, although it’s fair to say Maley’s first few weeks were a particularly difficult time for the Blues. Welsh international and star player Di Jones gashed his knee during the pre-season public practice match and, despite treatment from the club doctor, within a week the wound had turned septic and the played died. Another significant player Jimmy Ross also died that summer. Maley had to lift spirits quickly.

     

     

    His first League game ended in a 3-1 win and the Blues went on to lift the Second Division championship in Maley’s first season. This was a remarkable achievement but more was to follow in 1903-4 when Maley’s men won the FA Cup for the first time in their history. The Blues were the first Manchester side to win a major trophy and the feat had come a mere ten years after formation as Manchester City F.C.

     

     

    In addition City narrowly missed out on the double, finishing second to Sheffield Wednesday after fixture congestion forced the Blues to play five League games and the cup final in the space of 16 days! No squad rotation possible back then. Who said fixture congestion was a modern phenomenon?

     

     

    City’s success wasn’t popular with the footballing establishment – in particular the southern based FA – and FA Officials soon arrived at Hyde Road to check up on the young northern upstarts. They found one or two discrepancies over transfers but nothing major, however the following year Maley’s side were once again bidding for the League title. A controversial match with Aston Villa gave the FA another opportunity to investigate the club’s affairs and this time the FA claimed to have found widespread anomalies including overpayments to players. Tom Maley was questioned at length and admitted that he had followed what seemed like standard English practice. He claimed that if all First Division clubs were investigated, not four would come out ‘scatheless’. He was right but it was City the FA seemed determined to punish and they suspended 17 players and 2 directors. But the harshest sentence fell on the Chairman and on Maley. They were both suspended for life.

     

     

    The northern based Football League and the footballing press supported the Blues but the FA got their way and Maley’s brief but successful reign was over.

     

     

    Maley suffered more than most by the unfortunate events of 1905/6, and his role in football history has been tainted forever by the F.A.’s harsh treatment. However, in the eyes of thousands of Mancunians he is remembered as the man who brought exciting football and the F.A. Cup to the city for the first time.

     

     

    Without his period at Hyde Road, Manchester may never have found real football success. Many of his players were forced to join United after the scandal of 1905, and went on to bring the Reds their first trophy success only a few years later. Had Maley been allowed to develop those players further who knows what success may have come City’s way. I reckon he would have created a dynasty at Hyde Road.

     

     

    After City he became a headmaster in Glasgow, but in July 1910 the F.A. lifted his suspension and the following February he became Bradford Park Avenue’s manager. The Bradford club gave him full control of team affairs – something unusual at the time – and he remained there until March 1924. During his reign the club achieved its highest position (9th in Division One, 1914-15), and for a period played in his beloved green and white hoops. During the First World War he is said to have acted like an “amateur recruiting sergeant” and was famous for his entertaining lectures.

     

     

    After Bradford he is said by some to have managed Southport between May and October 1925, and then in 1931 he temporarily took over as Celtic manager from his highly successful brother Willie during a trip to the USA.

     

     

    On 24th August 1935 he passed away at the age of 70. Had his time at City not ended prematurely, it’s possible he would be remembered today as one of Britain’s most successful managers. As it is, he should always be remembered as one of Manchester’s greatest leaders.

  15. Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on

    ItaliaBhoy says:

     

    28 November, 2011 at 19:28

     

     

    I think he is going to be disappointed. Mid table championship club Leicester splashing out 7m??? Total Pash of the highest order. 2.5m at a push.

     

     

    Which will leave the huns after they have paid Rapid and his gangster agents and Mc Bain … the total sum to help with their finacial woes of sweet fanny Adams or 1 pound twenty pence.

     

     

    If anyone is going it will be Davis Or Mc Gregor. I reckon both.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  25. kikinthenakas on

    Estadio

     

     

    Hope that you are on the mend and will be back to your healthy and literary best soon, us auld guys need someone to look up to and laugh at now and again.

     

     

    HH

  27. jhilday on

    I’d forgotten that two of our players were booked on Saturday.

     

     

    In a game played in the right spirit, we were well on top, with no need to put it about.

     

     

    My recollection is somewhat impaired due to over- enthusiastic alcohol intake, but I seem to remember that the

     

     

    bookings were ridiculous.

     

     

    Has this topic already been done to death?

  29. Celtic Mac on

    Paul67 et al

     

     

    With questions being raised over Einstein’s theory of relativity only two certainties remain, one, that a classic building will go up in smoke in Glasgow, and two, that, regardless of the main topic, the usual suspects on here will queue up to insult and abuse our current club Captain, Scott Brown. This is a player who played 34 out of 38 matches during our last SPL title win, a season when we also made it to the last 16 of the Champions League, played 9 games in Europe that season including our victory over reigning European Champions AC MIlan. He played 36 league matches the following season, a league we lost, in effect, on the last day of the season and was one of our best players in winning the League Cup in 2009. He helped drive Celtic on last season and Captained the team to a Scottish Cup win. Celtic’s worst season in recent memory of course was under Tony Mowbrey, but that was a season Brown played in just over half the league matches under the chin. If anyone thinks we will win the league without him being part of Neil’s Celtic they are sadly mistaken. Still, even if he does go the naysayers will always find someone else to deride, to insult and to abuse, it is the Celtic way. But it is not my way!

  31. Seven Fishes Four Steaks on

    Jobo, I’m off on wednesday too! If your not a teacher what are you?! Enjoy the game if Wednesday? I miss night games. Haven’t been to one in 3 years!! Pesky kids!

     

     

    SffS

  33. kikinthenakas on

    jhilday

     

     

    “being done to death?” I take it you mean “your enthusiastic alcohol intake” tsk, tsk……

  36. Jobo Baldie on

    SFFS – if I told you I’d then have to…….etc

     

     

    Off now to watch the footballfest that is Charlton v Huddesfield. 3 or more goals in the first half – 5/1.

     

     

    See you all in the morning…

     

     

    Jobo

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