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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ernie lynch says:
29 November, 2011 at 10:39
ASonOfDan says:
29 November, 2011 at 10:30
isnt there a history of south american countries inviting despots and other undesirables to their countries?
ernie lynch 29 November, 2011 at 10:39:
Sounds to me like rangers are BRICking it.
India and Brazil marketing mentioned in the last week.
How does it benefit anyone in Scotland if Rangers sign Brazilians?
Did Celtic have similar support when they launched their link with the Mexican side?
This may be standard practice. I’m sure HMRC are watching with interest tho. Is it possible that Gordon Smith and Whyte are planning their escape to Brazil when the big tax case goes against them?
LB
“@CelticNewsNow: Henrik Larsson: Atletico Madrid will be appearing on ‘a magical stage’ — STV Sport http://t.co/BO9RXY8x #celtic #stvsport”
Nice One Henke!
V
hen1rik at 10:34
I have been blocked on twitter by Mr Regan and everytime I send an email to info@sfa.co.uk it comes back saying delayed and then fails.
Join the club. I had the audacity to reply to one of his tweets where he complained about the referee giving a penalty against Scotland. My response was:
“Just an “honest mistake” Stewart. At least the ref didn’t lie to Craig Lieven. #dougiedougie”
he didn’t like it and blocked me. Oh well, I think i’ll survive.
Mort
A quick search on Brazilian Google regarding Rangers from Scotland hitting the country reveals
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Nothing.
Scottish news in Brazil was dominated by the fact that apparently a team called Celtic stormed to victory at the weekend and has dramatically cut the gap at the top.
jeez_I_thought_blinker_was_pants at 10:36
I particularly liked this part from the article. Impossible to type that with a straight face.
That game also co-incided with the launch of a Rangers twitter feed aimed to the Indian Hindi market- which has already attracted 65 followers after less than a fortnight.
Mort
Che says:
29 November, 2011 at 10:17
Vmhan♣ who Supports Neil Lennon says:
29 November, 2011 at 10:02
thanks for the tip!
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De nada amigo!
Re tips Coorslad whats the odds?
V
TheExiled Tim. I understand what you are saying if somone has other problems ( your thoughts ) and these problems lead them to have suicidle thoughts or commit suicide they have depression at that stage although they will be not be aware that they are depressed. H.H.
ernie/Lennon n Mc
I know depression and related problems minifest themselfs in a host of ways.
Only going on a feeling that mental health problems wasn’t the reason.
Now you mention it m8 I seen that tweet lol, I called him an establishment puppet lol.
Wonder if Craig Whyte plans to outsource the huns to India?
Memo to self,stop reading The Telegraph. It has the most realistic financial forecasts and opinions out there. Not designed to put a smile on anyone’s face.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/8921483/Its-payback-for-longest-boom-in-history.html
Really,for a tory paper,you’d think they’d be talking things up!
The good thing we have on our side is Paul67 has more stuff on them and I know this as (FACT) so the SFA need to be careful what they’re doing.
Anybody seen an elusive cracked crest? Bobbie has lost his and doesn’t know where to find it.
Rangers’ £49m tax bill battle is on hold
By ROBERT McAULAY Published: 16 Nov 2011 (old news but good news)
RANGERS’ tax tribunal has been postponed until early next year — and the club may not know the final decision until the end of the season.
The Ibrox giants’ £49million battle with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs was expected to end this month.
But a new date for the case has been set for January 16 to 18 with the outcome due to be settled months later.
If the SPL champions lose the hearing they face a tax bill of £49million — and the threat of plunging into administration.
Speaking to The Scottish Sun earlier this year, club owner Craig Whyte admitted: “Rangers are in a crisis situation. “It’s a hard thing to live with — we need to get finality on it.
“We need to move forward and, even though it may be a tough process, we must try to remove the uncertainty that is hanging over us.
“The club is paralysed right now.”
Rangers are also involved in a separate £2.8million tax bill fight with HMRC which emerged last April. Bosses are believed to be disputing a fine that goes with that case too.
Just in case you’ve been away and missed it… ” (RangersThe (tax dodging) club is paralysed right now.”
Is Rangers’ Indian Twitter feed witten in Hundi?
Paul67 et al
I mentioned the William Hill Sports Book of the Year the other day and given the events over the weekend it was a bit of a shock, to me, to read that yesterday’s winner was ‘A Life Too Short’ by Ronald Reng ,a biography of German national goalkeeper Robert Enke, who took his own life two years ago. Haven’t read it but the fact that the author, a journalist, had been a friend for over seven years may give more than a bit of poignancy.
hen1rik at 10:46
Nice one. He doesn’t do criticism to well does he.
Mort
Frequently heading a football can lead to brain injury, warn doctors who say they have found proof on brain scans.
Imaging of 32 keen amateur players revealed patterns of damage similar to that seen in patients with concussion.
There appears to be a safe cut off level of 1,000 or fewer headers a year below which no harm will be done, but the US investigators say more work is needed to confirm this.
Heading is believed to have killed the English footballer Jeff Astle.
Astle, 59, who died in 2002, developed cognitive problems after years of playing for England and West Bromwich Albion.
The coroner ruled that his death resulted from a degenerative brain disease caused by heading heavy leather footballs.
Repeated trauma
Although the balls used to play soccer today are much lighter than those used in the 1960s when Astle was playing, they can still pack a punch, says lead researcher Dr Michael Lipton of Montefiore Medical Center, the university hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Footballs can travel at speeds as high as 34 miles per hour during recreational play and more than double that during professional play.
However, others doubt that the force exerted by the ball would be enough to cause damage.
Dr Lipton’s team set out to determine what impact on the head repeated contact with the ball might have.
They used a special type of brain scan known as diffusion tensor imaging, which is good for visualising nerve and brain tissue.
The 32 volunteers who underwent the scans were asked to say how often they headed the ball during football training and play.
This revealed that players who were “frequent headers” had obvious signs of mild traumatic brain injury on their scans.
Five brain regions were damaged – areas in the front of the brain and towards the back of the skull where processes like attention, memory, executive functioning and higher-order visual functions take place.
Cumulative damage
Dr Lipton, who presented his findings at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, said: “Heading a soccer ball is not an impact of a magnitude that will lacerate nerve fibres in the brain.
“But repetitive heading could set off a cascade of responses that can lead to degeneration of brain cells.”
The same volunteers also performed worse on tests designed to check cognitive abilities like verbal memory and reaction times.
The damage only occurred in players who said they headed the ball at least 1,000 times in a year. Although this might sound like a lot, it amounts to a few times a day for a regular player, say the researchers.
They recommend further studies to confirm what is a safe amount so that footballers could be advised on this.
Dr Andrew Rutherford from the School of Psychology at Keele University has been researching the possible damage caused by heading for several years. He says he is yet to be convinced by the evidence so far.
He suspects that researchers are looking at the wrong thing. He believes most head trauma seen in football is due to players clashing heads when they are going for a header, rather than contact with the ball itself.
i dont know if posted apologies if it has but worth a repost
We are the Mighty Rangers
We hail from Glasgow Town
We Celebrated 9 League Flags
As we fiddled Lizzies Crown
We borrowed tons of money
To guarantee success
Whilst we mocked the Glasgow Celtic
Who were in financial mess
We would win at any cost
Aided often by the Ref
As Farry and his cronies
Hoped and prayed for Celtics death
But in then flew a business man
From Canada he came
Bringing all his Dollars
To save the Celtic name
Wee Fergus took on the SFA,
The Establishment, the H*n
And swore to build a perfect Club
For the Rebels they had won
But now we’re in a different time
The Leagues have come and gone
Where Davey Murrays “L*gged” it
Knowing the books were filled In wrong
A time when all the lies and tricks
Have surfaced from the past
The Rangers have been outed
The Title Flag flies at half mast
The man they brought into the Club
Talked of Warchest and of pride
A Club so Great and Powerful
As his past he tried to hide
But the BBC got digging
And unearthed some basic truth
It’s a Club been built on Hatred
Even in the times of Struth
They wouldn’t sign a Kafflik
Nor pay the Queen herTax
They’d sing of No Surrender
Whilst denying all the facts
Yes they are the Glasgow Rangers
And they’re heading for a fall
Now I ask you all my Celtic Kin
To pass by them standing tall.
The Battered Bunnet at 10:53
Is Rangers’ Indian Twitter feed witten in Hundi?
Hope they keep it up.
2 games played, 1 draw, 1 defeat.
My favourite tweet of theirs:
लक्ष्य: Pascali कोड़ी के लिए Kilmarnock – 1:0
Not sure what the hindi means but apologies if I have broken a language violation.
Mort
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo
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Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo…
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo
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Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo…
Dee-ah dee-ah dee-ah
Dee-ah dee-ah dee-ah
Mort says:
29 November, 2011 at 10:57
it reminds me of when they used to swear in the Asterix books.
bournesouprecipe says:
29 November, 2011 at 10:58
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo…
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Dee-ah dee-ah dee-ah
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Rhubarb & custard!!!
constructive stuff from Phil on suicide
Sorry if already posted.
ttt
I saw the post this morning and will have a stab at responding, no easy when I agree with you btw :>)
Ok, the players are in complete control, but the club have a degree of control in that they control the players working enviroment, the Bobo saga was a joke, cutting of noses to spite faces from both sides, not good, and any CEO worth his salt will try to avoid this scenario.
The situation with Scott Brown should never have come to this stage, I don’t believe that PL has been talking to him or his agent as to acertaining his future plans, unless he intends to punt him for what he can get and take the hit, he may well sign yet, who knows, but PL has been here before, and he is here again, and this being the 4th time in the past few doesn’t make good asset management imo.
He will not sign Baba Diawarra btw. and I hope I am wrong with that.
He doesn’t m8, but my personal opinion on the Huns case is this.
Doncaster and regans jobs is they are trying to improve the brand in Scotland and they will not allow the Huns to go down to 3rd division it’s in everyones interest to keep them in spl so I know it won’t happen them in 3rd division.
I would love nothing more than them out but I can see 10pts and also banned from Europe for 3 seasons that’s between £45-£60 million in revenue so that would do me nicely.
Their protection in this country for them is Protestant referees they know it and that’s another thing that will never change in this country.
Regarding paye and ni. I. run a small business and got a letter 2 weeks ago from my accountant. It said that hmrc are clamping down on late payment. I have to pay the previous month by the 20th of the following month or start getting fines. Hopefully they get hammered.
weeminger at 10:59
I can imagine some poor hun sitting with google translate open to send stuff to twitter.
Mort
I think Celtic are at the Soccerex event too, unless the organisers accidentally published our crest instead of Rangers on the flyer I saw.
The Scottish Office (or whatever it’s called these days) was only offering grants of £750 to help companies take part in the trade visit, and even then not to all, only to ten qualifying participants.
Looks a bit like a giant jolly to me (and I know a giant jolly when I see one). Fair enough, Duffield. Better than a real job any day of the week.
“Rangers star Lafferty sickened by sectarian attack”
What religion is his car?
McNair
Gene Kelly
Threesy podium
I’ve only been a few times, but my understanding about India is that Calcutta is the place for football. But not for Hindi.
Hmmmm.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE 1108
As someone said yesterday,this is reported as a sectarian attack,but when Anthony Stokes’ home was attacked,they were only neds.
See the Gers are flying to Hamburg this morning for a game in Germany with a 6:15 UK kick off.
Amazingly they come back tonight.
Have they not heard of hotels or is the MBB too skint to pay them?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS 29 November, 2011 at 11:12:
Rob Shorthouse at work.
There was a story posted early this morning about the Kirk Broadfoot incident, where the police spokesman went out of his way to state that Eggo was in no trouble with the police at all. The police spokesman’s quote on Laughatme’s car was also printed in the same article.
Ridiculous that it’s allowed to happen.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS says:
29 November, 2011 at 11:12
BOURNESOUPRECIPE 1108
As someone said yesterday,this is reported as a sectarian attack,but when Anthony Stokes’ home was attacked,they were only neds.
Are you suggesting double standards in Scottish media?
Are you a Ned?