My inbox today was full of angst at the latest series of ‘favourites’ for the manager’s job. There are upwards of 20 journalists working on this story right now, each of whom need to push the story on every day.
No information? Tough, write something. Not found a single person Peter Lawwell has spoken to? Hard lines, get Ownie’s neighbour’s granny on again, she’ll be good for a word.
Who’s fault is this? The journos are just doing a job, the media have space to fill – and it will be filled with any type of speculation. We all know the rules so why take the bait?
By the time the news of Neil’s resignation leaked out on Thursday Celtic’s moves were already underway. Potential candidates jockeyed for position in the limelight for a couple of days, and for most cases they were disappointed the call didn’t arrive. Even Henrik was talking about returning to Celtic at one point, only to reaffirm his commitment to his current employers a couple of days later.
Agents will also be busy offering their clients, Celtic will respond respectfully, but just because an agent opens a one-sided dialogue doesn’t mean meaningful dialogue is taking place. Celtic will also speak to applicants out of courtesy. If a former player or prominent candidate asks to be considered, you can expect Celtic to meet them, whether they have a genuine interest or not.
>90% of this activity will be fruitless. Some of it will seep out into the public domain but it is vastly more likely that those wanting to raise their profile make the newspapers, as opposed to those Celtic have approached.
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Henrik would do for me, totally gets us, hugely respected throughout Europe, would get cut a lot of slack first season while getting to grips with being in charge of a massive club.
Problem is, is he a home bhoy for a couple of years and will not leave Sweden?
jamesgang
No a bad shout btw. The ole HT and masell would get the team all fired up wi’, the ole “Go to work on an egg” advert. Makes sense to me. Hehehe
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
jamesgang
It all depends on what the great moustaciod one wants.
Guys like Tuchel are taking the game to another level, he done brilliant in the Bundesliga this season.
There are quality coaches out there, some would give their eye teeth to manage a club like Celtic, I reckon it will be someone who has a link to the club, why do we need someone who has a past link to the club to manage-coach us, we must be one of the only clubs who think this way.
Go foreign Celtic, and reap the rewards.
HH
TET
This was the article about him.
http://90minutecynic.com/celtic-manager-search-five-alternative-options/
Sounds like one got the future. Or the present? Our present?
I’d be up for it.
HH pal.
Jamesgang
‘GG
22:40 on
26 May, 2014
Many thanks.
Many of my family were teachers and that name is very familiar.Not sure if he is the guy they used to speak of.
Thoroughly enjoyed your reminisces.
I read Chris’ article on Tuchel earlier and commented that it was a refreshing piece of analysis (when compared with the back page drivel we witness). Of course, like most, I didn’t know anything about Tuchel but the analysis was very intriguing. I hope that PL and DD are as analytical as Chris.
No point, in my view, hiring any good oul bhoy. I agree that we should go clever, go European, go for the fittest team we can possibly get.
G G
Met mrs j there in 63. Easter Sunday late night. Me and ma mate had a few Glen Grants in the Tudor then up to the Pally!!
Met the wives and the rest is history!! <:0)
Cot time for me. Night Night Timland KTF
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Night Weefra.
KTF jamesgang
jamesgang
Thanks for that link.
Very interesting stuff.
Looks like Coyle with Houston as his assistant then.
HH
jamesgang
You too buddy. :-)) remember that beer next season. I will. :-))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
I just pray DD and PL get this right, we are indeed at a crossroads, get it wrong and I honestly dread for the future.
Things are bad enough just now, reduced crowds that will only get worse if we don’t appoint the right coach, get it right and the worlds our banana >}
HH
Sleep well Timland.
Need to practice with my new toy.
HH
KTF
And do the right thing DD, please.
TET
Why does it??
So with John Park away where does that leave the bootroom approach. There’s no chief scout, no manager, no assistant and no Gary Parker. (What did he do?)
The information on Thomas Tuchel excites me and disappoints me at the same time. I don’t think there is a cat in Hells chance of getting a Thomas Tuchel or Yakin. I suspect mundane sold as the latest back the bhoys campaign.
Please do something interesting Celtic. This is the ideal set up.
Tiny Tim I expect Fraser Forster to go along with Van Dyke and possibly Izzy if Peter Lawell gets his way.
jude
Why does what ?
HH
I can’t make up my mind about that commonwealth city programme. It seems to veer between car crash telly and a few more positive lines. The focus on the Faulds family is an interesting angle but the more I think about it the more surprised I am that Martin Compston got himself involved in it.
Has John park gone then ?
Or is he going ?
Or is it just a rumour ?
HH
Airdrie legend Owen Coyle said no…..
What next if he gets the job?
Why don’t we try to get Dundee and Raith Rovers legend Nacho Novo at the second attempt?
Owen Coyle……if yer lurking……Feck off back to Bolton and don’t even think about applying for the job you didn’t want.
Nacho Novo….if yer lurking……Hahahaha ya wee rat faced toe rag .
New beginnings: Owen Coyle says he rejected Celtic’s advances to remain in Premier League Photo: GETTY IMAGES
By Telegraph staff10:16AM GMT 11 Jan 2010Comment
Celtic fan Coyle was the Glasgow giants’ main target to replace Gordon Strachan in the summer but signed a new contract with Burnley despite intense speculation linking him with the Parkhead job.
The former Republic of Ireland international confirmed today he was offered the position at Celtic – and insists his decision to turn it down is proof he has not joined Bolton to boost his wage packet.
“I’ve never been motivated by money in my life,” he said.
“If it was finance I would have taken the job at Celtic in the summer. That is just a knee-jerk reaction from people that do not know me.
“I have an unbelievable challenge ahead here at this magnificent club, with a magnificent stadium, and I have to take that on.
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“You want to be the best you can be and that’s my motivation.
“I want to be involved at the highest level and the highest level in world football is the Premier League.
“There’s no doubt about it, the best individual players in world football operate in the Premier League. You want to go and compete with the best in the business.
“Celtic were the team I supported as a boy and I spoke with Celtic in the summer.
“They offered me the job and I turned it down to stay at Burnley.
“I think that puts to bed anything about finances.”
craigellachie10
Agree completely mhate.
HH jamesgang
Ho! SFTB..!
Just Thought I’d Try To Catch You…
Afore You Go Oot ‘Haunting The Roon-A-Boots’…
UKIP Do Not Allow Any Ex-BNP Members To Join The Party….
Disgusting And Treacherous LieBore…
Have No Such Scruples….
And Allows Ex-BNP Members To Stand As Councillors …
And Even Ex-Nazi Jailbirds ,Too !
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*ttp://www.bloggers4ukip.org.uk/2013/03/former-nazi-elected-as-labour-councillor.html?m=1
Monday, 11 March 2013
Former Nazi elected as Labour councillor
A former Nazi and Hitler fan has been elected as a Labour councillor in Milton Keynes.

Margaret Burke and her ex-husband ran a militant Nazi group in Milton Keynes in the 80s. When her marriage broke up she left the Nazi group and decided to become an animal rights terrorist for the Animal Liberation Front which ended up landing her in prison.
Burke says she has repented and was brainwashed all those years ago. That may well be the case but next time UKIP is wrongly accused of being full of racists or xenophobic you can bet Ms Burke will be thrown right back at them.
In UKIP we ban Nazis from joining the party, in Labour they get them elected.
Posted by Stuart Parr at 22:58
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20 May 2014 11:08
(From The Spectator)
Is Labour A Racist Party?
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By Douglas Murray
Is Labour a racist party? The answer, I believe, is ‘no’. Apart from anything else, some of my best friends are in the party and I cannot think they hate themselves or anybody else simply because of their skin colour.
Yet the question must be asked. For just this weekend I was rummaging through recent editions of the Gazette Live (the latest news, sport and business from the North East, Middlesbrough and Teesside) when I happened upon this story: ‘Five Middlesbrough councillors resign from Labour Party and will stand as independents.’
You can read about the whole sorry episode here. But the crux of the article is this:
‘Cllr Junier said in his resignation letter: “I can no longer sit back and watch our fractured group implode through lack of direction, lack of leadership and more importantly lack of Labour values”
‘Cllr Pervaz Khan said he felt “ashamed” for belonging to Middlesbrough Labour group which “is treating some of my Asian family and friends in a manner which they perceive to be racist and, incidentally, so do I”
‘Cllr Sajaad Khan also criticised the current Labour leadership saying it was “different under Sir Stuart Bell, who would not have stood for all this”.’
Now I confess that I have no idea how different things would have been under Sir Stuart Bell, nor any particular insight into what he would or would not have stood for. But what I do know is that this story deserves to be front page news. After all, accusations of racism, especially justified or unjustified ‘perceptions’ of racism, from within any political party, from anybody at all – be he or she ne’er so low in the party’s apparatus – is front page news these days.
The Gazette Live ran this story on the 6th of this month. Yet this morning I have once again been scouring the front pages of The Times, Guardian and other national newspapers, and can find absolutely no reference to, or outcry over, this whole business. Is there a reason? Do any readers have any idea of what it might be?
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PS. Your Wee ‘Political Outbursts’ Are Increasingly Coming To Resemble Your ‘Hairline’…
Embarrassing….And Irrelevant !
(ThumbsUp)
Bed time for this Tim.
HH and good night.
Jamesgang
Kdc shortlist getting bigger:
Lambert
Mackay
McLaren
Laudrup
I was born and lived in Dalmarnock for first 10 years of my life. Just watched Commonwealth City on bbc1…was very interesting to see how it has developed .. Some sad statistics there
Mullet ….
Tin hat on here….
If Celtic are to lose a central defender then from what I’ve seen …..I hope it isn’t Efe Ambrose.
Juventus game aside, and I blame Lenny for playing him after a long flight with no sleep, Efe is a better player and athlete than VVD at the minute.
Would happily lose VVD before Efe any day.
Rejoice..! Rejoice..!
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Earthquake north of the border: Scotland elects a Ukip MEP
By Ben Riley-Smith Politics Last updated: May 26th, 2014
The grin said it all. From ear to ear, like some Eurosceptic Cheshire Cat, David Coburn stood beaming in Edinburgh’s City Chambers at around midnight last night. There was one set of ballot boxes left to count, but the result was clear: Coburn had just become Ukip’s first ever Scottish MEP. The “earthquake’s” tremors had reach Scotland.
Soon the spinners were out. Ukip came fourth north of the border but first in England. The party polled around 10 per cent of a 33.5 per cent turnout – not exactly a tidal wave. The SNP won the election despite seven years in government.
All true, all important points. But to understand the significance of Coburn’s surprise victory on the independence race, you need to look at what was being said over the last month now.
For a while now, all the the focus in Scotland’s Euro elections has been on the sixth and final MEP seat. With the way the polls were, the SNP and Labour were expected to comfortably hold their two seats, and the Tories their single seat. But with the Lib Dems heading for electoral carnage, that sixth seat was up for grabs.
Now look at what the SNP was saying in the run-up.
Spokesman for the First Minister, May 8: “Ukip are a party that have never gained any electoral foothold in Scotland at any level and as such their message seems to be one that doesn’t resonate at all with the vast majority of people across Scotland.”
Nicola Sturgeon, May 14, launch of the SNP’s Euro manifesto: “While we are putting forward the positive policies that we want to see for Scotland, UKIP want nothing more than to undo all the progress that Scotland has seen – by bringing back tuition fees, reintroducing prescription charges, scrapping free personal care and privatising the NHS as is happening in England.
“It is clearer than ever that the only way to stop the anti-Europe, anti-devolution policies that UKIP and the Westminster parties are promoting is with a vote for the SNP on the 22nd of May.”
Alex Salmond, May 19: “The intolerant message that UKIP is peddling has no place in Scotland. And the way to keep UKIP’s agenda out of Scottish politics is by voting SNP … “A vote for the SNP on Thursday is a vote for a tolerant, welcoming Scotland that rejects the deeply unpleasant politics of Nigel Farage’s UKIP.”
Alex Salmond, May 21: “The contest for Scotland’s sixth seat is between Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh and Nigel Farage’s UKIP, and people of all political shades who want to stop UKIP can play their part and back Tasmina and the SNP in Thursday’s vote.
“It is a contest between the new Scotland of hope and ambition that welcomes those who wish to come here and contribute to our society – and the appalling politics of intolerance being peddled by Nigel Farage’s UKIP.”
These weren’t off-the-cuff remarks – those last three came directly from the SNP’s press releases. These were carefully choreographed interventions designed to tee up the European elections for when the SNP got that sixth seat, as was increasingly predicted.
Look again at those statements. What are the common threads?
1. The claim that Nigel Farage’s politics doesn’t appeal in Scotland
2. The conflation of Ukip with England/Westminster
3. The argument that only voting SNP can save Scotland
The single message the SNP was gearing up to send out when they won that sixth seat was clear: Scotland has rejected Ukip’s right-wing, intolerant politics embraced by England; We are two countries with fundamentally different ideologies; Independence is the natural next step.
But they didn’t win that sixth seat. Ukip are no longer an electoral irrelevance north of the border. That slam dunk weeks in the making failed to materialise.
Alex Salmond tried – with some validity – to make the same point nonetheless last night. There is a “world of difference” between finishing fourth in Scotland and first in England, he said. And there is. But that clear narrative just got a whole lot murkier.
How can you claim Ukip are irrelevant in Scotland when they got more votes than the Liberal Democrats? If Scotland rejected Ukip’s politics then what about the Greens, the SNP’s allies in the Yes campaign, who also polled less?
Ukip was a handy weapon for the SNP. Its appeal south and struggles north of the border was used as proof for Salmond’s two-nations argument. With a grinning David Coburn now off to Brussels to represent the people of Scotland, that argument just became a hell of a lot harder to make.
*ttp://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benrileysmith/100273367/earthquake-north-of-the-border-scotland-elects-a-ukip-mep/
ryecatcher
23:56 on 26 May, 2014
Mullet ….
Tin hat on here….
Tin hat, body armour, shin guards. You should need them all after the assertion pal!!!
Night. HH jamesgang
TET
Coyle & Houston?? @23.39
Night all. Night wee Oscar God bless x
Whats the news up there wee Mhan??
From oor Phil …..Tick Tock
” Another day another meeting
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Yesterday all the main players at RIFC were in conclave about what to do next.
At time of writing they remain undecided on what to do about the Season Ticket money.
As has been reported here the Deloittes chaps are very keen that these monies be ring fenced while there is any doubt about the ability of RIFC/Sevco to continue trading.
So far the sales and pledges amount to around 10,000 and at an average of £400 per season ticket that brings £4 million.
We know from the accounts of RIFC and Sevco and the 120 day Review that the Ibrox operation has operating costs of around £3.4 million per month.
The Shareholder Option will bring in around £10 million if all 43.4 million shares are taken up at current market value.
The good news is that Commonwealth Games monies are available from today and I expect them to be drawn down immediately.
Which might come as some comfort to that nice Mr Letham as I understand that he has been ringing the club/company/celestial entity almost on a daily basis recently.
Interestingly he isn’t asking for his money, but he wants information about the ability of RIFC to pay him the money he lent them.
Under the terms of the loan he must be told when there is money there to pay him.
He has also been in contact with the London Stock Exchange Chaps as the loan contract was lodged with the AIM.
Puma have made it known to the company/club/celestial entity that they are not best pleased with the alternative shirt campaign.
This adds insult to injury as the millions and millions of shirt sales that Charles Green promised Puma have not materialised.
Last week an excellent source told me that the company that supplies professional football clubs in Britain with the letters and numbers for team shirts had informed the Sevco chap that their credit line had been cancelled.
Cash only please.
Now Deloittes have asked for a ‘definitive spend’ from RIFC and they want a ‘pound for pound’ income/expenditure plan on their desk very quickly.
That will have to include, I suspect, the bonus of 100% of his annual salary paid to Graham Wallace which was inserted into his contract earlier this year.
This was payable if the CEO managed to steer the good ship Sevco through the season.
He achieved that and the bonus is now due.
The generous terms of this incentive is that the bonus would be delivered to him tax paid by the company.
Norman Crighton, I fear, is not long for the Blue Room and his replacement will be a staunch Laxey man noted for being tough in the tackle.
This Sitcom has many episodes in development and I do not see the script writers running out of ideas just yet.
I hear there is another meeting planned for tonight “
Jamesgang
Interesting article on tuchel. Look forward to the next 4 suggestions.
This comment tickled me though
M.BARGO says:
May 26, 2014
“An interesting read. I suspect given the previous failure of promising prospects such as the spectacular implosion of Paul Le Guen, the board will make a more conservative choice.
I would be in favour of an appointment such as Herr Tuchel.”
Emdy want to see tomorrow’s (sic) Record back page?
http://twitpic.com/e4sotb
Thought not!!
HH
Geordie
I noticed that too. Easy to explain.
The old unseen Fenian hand at work again! Long before Green and Whyte, Le Guen was a timmish plant. Another secret agent to destabilise her majesty’s most loyal of subjects!
Tee hee!
Now I need to hit the cot as the Weefra puts it. I’m an ugly mug in fire need of beauty sleep.
HH. Night. Jamesgang
Fire = dire!
Doh!
Summer has finally arrived in the north eastern seaboard.
Warm sunny day with temperature in thee low to mid 80s.
Over 28C for you using the French measurement system.
Confirmation of the summer was the sight of a stink bug on the window mesh.
Fortunately on the outside.
I flicked it away thus saving it from the mercies of my grand daughter who seems to love the smell of them being crushed.
I need to think about protecting the tomato plants.
Just read back a bit and thought I saw somebody saying ‘I’d rather have Efe than Virgil any day’.
Am I hallucinating?
TSD
UKIP not racist??
Some alternative views:-
From The New Statesman:-
” Links with European far-right parties
Ukip is part of the group Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD). The group includes representatives of the Danish People’s Party, the True Finns Party, the Dutch SGP and the infamous Italian Lega Nord – all of them far-right. Nigel Farage is co-President of the group along with Lega Nord’s Francesco Speroni, who described multiple murderer Anders Breivik as someone whose “ideas are in defence of western civilisation.”
Mario Borghezio, another member of the group, declared in a radio interview that Breivik had some “excellent” ideas. Farage’s reaction was to write a strongly-worded letter to Borghezio, asking him to withdraw his comments or Ukip would pull out of the EFD. Borghezio not only did not apologise, but responded with an extraordinary speech in which he raged: “Long live the Whites of Europe, long live our identity, our ethnicity, our race… our blue sky, like the eyes of our women. Blue, in a people who want to stay white.”
Nigel Farage did not withdraw from the EFD. He continues to co-preside over it, along with the leader of the Lega Nord. MEP Nikki Sinclaire, however, was expelled from Ukip for refusing to take part in the EFD because of their “extreme views”.
Links with domestic far-right parties
“Ukip has no links to the BNP,” explained Farage in 2007. The first line of any description of Ukip calls it “a libertarian, non-racist party”. What party, other than one skating close to the lines of taste and decency, needs to describe itself as “non-racist”? Farage boasted on The Andrew Marr Show (20 January 2013) that “Ukip is the only UK party to explicitly ban BNP members from joining”. What party, other than a party whose policies are attractive to such organisations, would need to do that?
Christopher Monckton, their Scotland Leader and Head of Policy Unit invited the now-defunct British Freedom Party – an amalgamation of mostly breakaway BNP members led by a former Ukip candidate until January 2013 – to join Ukip: “I would very much like them to come back and join us and we stand together.” Ukip’s excuse for this lapse? Monckton had been away on a tour of the US and was not up to speed with current policy. More recently, however, Farage refused to vote to oppose moves for the European Union to fund the BNP.
The founder of the party, Alan Sked, says it has become “extraordinarily right-wing” and is now devoted to “creating a fuss, via Islam and immigrants”
From The Spectator (written by a Tory’s son)
“A much bigger problem, though, is racists who think that Ukip is racist. Because there seem to be quite a few of them, too. Take William Henwood, a party candidate in Enfield and the guy who declared that Lenny Henry should ‘emigrate to a black country’ and ‘does not have to live with whites’. That’s a bit racist, right? Or take Andre Lampitt, who featured in its election broadcast last week, and then turned out to think that Muslims were animals and Ed Miliband was Polish. Definitely not un-racist, him. Or take whoever has been unearthed in the time between me writing this and you reading this. There will have been others. Maybe lots.
‘So?’ Ukip might say. ‘Unrepresentative! Nutters! Merely indicative of a poor vetting system!’ And they might be quite right. Only, well, that’s not what the nutters think. These guys aren’t joining the Green party, are they? They look to Ukip and, rightly or wrongly, they see kindred spirits. As indeed did Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French Front Nationale. ‘In the past, he was rather courteous towards us,’ she said last week, sounding slightly bewildered, after Nigel Farage ruled out an alliance with her party because of its historic anti-Semitism. Look, good on him. A sound call. But personally, if I were him, I’d have a nagging worry about the way she’d been so surprised.
The thing is that, like Ron Atkinson, all of these people probably don’t think that they are racist. They just think things, and do things, and probably believe in them. And when people shout ‘Racist!’ at them, they tell themselves that these people are missing the point. They might not know, though. For racism is only rarely a secret card you put in your wallet. More often, you carry it without even knowing it’s there. Like herpes.
It is the difference, for example, between worrying that Britain cannot cope with a vastly increased population, and portraying this in terms of a weird, babbling horde massing for invasion on the beaches of Europe. It’s the difference between recognising that anti-immigrant sentiment is horrid, damaging and terrifying, and being sanguine about stoking it up for political gain. It is the difference between knowing why there are words you shouldn’t say, and merely knowing that saying them might get you into trouble. Ukip, to me, seems to fall down on the wrong side of all of these divides.
Hell, maybe I’m wrong. If it isn’t a racist party, though, why do so many racists think it is?”
And, lastly, even in The Express:-
“Mr Farage said Ukip could not vet all its 1,700 candidates, conceding that some may have already “slipped through the net”.
His admission comes after it emerged that Susan Bowen, who was due to stand in Cornwall, had been thrown out of the party because she was an ex-BNP member. Mr Farage told the BBC’s World at One: “I’ll be honest with you, we don’t have the party apparatus in a very short space of time to fully vet 1,700 people”
Now you may have found ( I confes to not reading all of your posts) an ex-BNP guy or gal who has disavowed BNP thinking and principles and joined a mainstream party. That is different from allowing unreconstructed racists to be within your party.
UKIP are not interested in being diligent about removing racists as the interview with Mr. O’Brien showed. Nigel was not even aware of who his followers and candidates are and what they stand for. If they say or do something racist, he will try to ignore it but, if the heat gets too strong, he will cut them off ruthlessly while ignoring all the other racists.
You are just on a loser in denying the attractions of UKIP to racists. Like an Edinburgh Jury, the racists have told you you’re wrong but, of course, you knew that anyway. Just substitute bluster for argument and evidence and you can imagine you’ve won the day.
BTW- Have you joined UKIP yet? Any fool can get on their election list. Even an Ampleforth dunce could be elected in that company. Go on- you could be CQN’s first troll Scottish MEP.
G’night. Sleep tight and stop worrying about when a Big Strong Leader is going to rescue you from these different people that scare you.
The last time PL drew up a shortlist CQN assured us the search would be lengthy but the favourite with the bookies ended up getting the job.
Mowbray was a terrible appointment from day one. Everyone that glanced at his tactics at Hibs good away but hopeless at home would have realised a grave mistake was upon us.
Any confidence I had in Lawwell went out the window there & then 5 years ago.
He got very lucky with Lennon.
Hopefully he will look further than the end of his nose this time but unfortunately the bookies favourite is Coyle.