In November we discussed Brighton owner Tony Bloom’s interest in Hearts. Yesterday, Hearts announced that Bloom has made a £9.86m offer to buy a 29% stake in the club, which is currently controlled through the Foundation of Hearts fan group which saved the club from liquidation in 2013.
This prospective shareholding would keep Bloom within Football Association duel ownership rules, in the event Brighton were relegated from the Premier League. I have no doubt that the fine print would allow Bloom control over all football operations.
Bloom, a gambling savant, is one of the most impressive operators in the game. His football algorithms are private, but they result in a total commitment to a player development model. He understands that if a club is to reach its potential, it must fill every space in the squad with players who can develop and be sold at a profit.
There are no passengers, not mid-career drifters. Guru managers do not exist in Bloom’s world, those who fail to develop or give opportunity to players, do not last. Even Hearts fans cannot be thick enough to turn this down.
It would be great news for Scottish football, including our Uefa coefficient (eventually). Celtic would face a fresh challenge from a competitor who is less indulgent than we are.
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what an absolute pisstake from our fans.
Rangers vs Celtic -Scottish Premiership- 4 May 2025 #rangers #celtic #rangersfc #celticfc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QevpeWDOcqg
7th May 1977, Celtic beat Rangers 1:0 to win the Scottish Cup.
Andy Lynch winner from the penalty spot.
Jock Stein’s 25th and final trophy as Celtic manager.
https://x.com/CelticGIFs/status/1919889916919742827
Penalty to PSG for hand ball?
Agin the young Arsenal full back….
Saved!
One of the worst penalties ever taken
☝️ 😂😂
Missed penalty or no PSG go two up on the night….
3-0 on aggregate
Gooners gone.
Their physicality and ability to win the ball in midfield is/was super impressive.
Lots and lots of possession in the final third, but unable to create much.
They’ve just pulled one back 😲
Arsenal get one back, but too little too late.
In all my years watching Celtic participate in European football at Parkhead. PSG have been the best we have faced. IMO.
About time they won the big one.
HH.
The blogger
Generally agree re Arsenal but Donnarumma made several incredible saves in the first 10
mins or so when Arsenal were on top.
Well done all you bhoys across the Atlantic,your Csc’s on raising funds for the kano foundation
https://x.com/KanoFoundation/status/1920167768877420917?s=19
HH
I missed the first 10 minutes 😂
THE BLOGGER FORMERLY KNOWN AS GM on 7TH MAY 2025 9:43 PM
I missed the first 10 minutes 😂
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How is Barrowfield progressing
PSG beat Man City 4-2, knocked out Liverpool, Aston Villa and now Arsenal en route to the CL Final in Munich.
The scourge of the EPL…..
We just saw probably the worst Hun team in their 13 year history,romp to second place in the league.Heartts never made the top six.Nothing wrong with what we are doing.We will not be worrying about any team in Scotland for the foreseeable future.Brendan is streets ahead of any manager any of the bit players bring in.
Success in the EPL,is staying there.
That pair of wallopers. commentating tonight,dear God.”What if”,”If only”,” Tell you what if Arsenal could get one back”
Biased gibberish.
I’m not saying Bloom’s methods aren’t workable but that they’re prob not unique. I’d be shocked if Celtic (and many other clubs) don’t already use various forms of analytics across multiple departments.
But despite Celtic’s spectacular on-field/off-field successes of recent times, it seems the only analytics that count are the ones used by other suits at some other clubs…
PS 79CAPS: I saw lots of Hibs’ Triantis in A-League where he started out as a very young centre half – always looked promising and I mentioned him as a prospect for us a month or so back.
Meanwhile black smoke spotted at Ibrox signalling failure to announce a new soccerball sugar daddy !
Meanwhile, THEMS bankers – Macquarie – are in a spot of fresh regulatory problems:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-07/asic-macquarie-bank-licence-conditions-compliance-failure/105262220
yet more criticism of the Celtic manager by p67. total joke.
Good morning from an overcast North Staffs
https://www.celticnewsnow.com/hoople/
Got it in 5
Good morning all from old Glasgow Town. A morning stroll around the city centre to admire the wonderful architecture.
Gene – hoople
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got it in 5 – got an “s” mixed up with an “n”, or would have been 4
An T
9.42
Really great effort ! Totally agree.
God bless Kano and all his family.
Saint Stivs on 7th May 2025 8:59 pm
WILD Celtic End Scenes After Adam Idah Goal & MORE Simply The Best | Rangers 1-1 Celtic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkcsHOSdshk
…………..
MAGIC STIVS !
Celtic Bhoys and Ghirls really winding up the Ugly Mob in their ain midden.
LOL.
Tremendous ?…..ABSHOOLUTLEY !
HH.
Celtic v St Mirren on Saturday MAY 17th, with 12.30 Kick Aff.
On the SAME Day Glasgow Council and the Polis are allowing an Orange Walk ( Approx 2,500 RABID HUNS ) to march about in their Jack Boots starting at 10.45 AM From the Toonheid, and into the city centre to George Square, and then onto Renfield Street and then the Soothside.
NOT to clever planning I would suggest.
Arteta reckons Arsenal were the best team in the CL.
Delusional at its best.
“Turkeybhoy on 7th May 2025 10:50 pm
We just saw probably the worst Hun team in their 13 year history,”
I agree with most of your post but the current (!) Huns worse than a team that couldn`t get out of one of the lower Leagues in their first attempt?
Big Jimmy on 8th May 2025 9:05 am
That really does seem rather stupid game scheduling.
Good morning CQN.
Agreed Gene.
Caught highlights of their game last night.
Good game, but Arteta’s comments before and after the game overshadowed it.
I suspect the poor guy is simply galvanising an exhausted group for next season.
Personally, I think he’s done brilliantly. I certainly didn’t expect him to do as well.
Problem though?
When you temporarily push yourself beyond your 100% limits …
(the club financially / the players physically and emotionally)
To get from “nowhere” to “nearly there”?
How do you then make that leap? – which looks tiny but is huge …
.. From nearly there to winners?
Big problem.
Faced also by Newcastle and Aston Villa.
Common sense will prevail on offside rule
Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has proposed a change to the offside rule that would mean attackers are onside if any part of their body is in line with the last outfield defender.
Wenger, head of global development at world governing body Fifa, said it would restore an advantage to the attacker that many feel was eroded by the introduction of the video assistant referee (VAR).
Players are currently ruled offside if any part of the body, apart from hands and arms, is beyond the last defender
This will help stop crazy ‘toe nail offside’ which has been a common complaint.
/I thought we lived in the 21st century, but apparently not.
Orange marches, come on to f#ck, pathetic beyond words
kinglubo
big jimmy
I would agree with you, both GCC and Police Scotland (Glasgow Division) are derelict in their duty in allowing an Orange Walk to take place in Glasgow on the same day Celtic will celebrate being SPL Champions and with Celtic supporters arriving in Glasgow from all directions. No doubt hiding behind Article 11 of the HRA and ignoring the risk of the threat to public order. I never tire of telling those who care, or dont care, to listen that Prince William, who became King only as the result of a coup d’etat and a foreign invasion of England dont forget, never ever set foot in Scotland. And neither should any of his followers or fellow travellers. It is a complete and total disgrace, and while the GCC are no friends of Celtic FC, the Police in particular will bend over backwards to facilitate Orange Walks, particularly in Glasgow, which holds more than Belfast. They should hang their heads in shame, but are more likely to join in than do the right thing, which is stop it happening in the first place.
Gene on 8th May 2025 9:45 am
Arteta reckons Arsenal were the best team in the CL.
Delusional at its best.
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Gene
He also thinks that no tax is payable on income
BSR
You could get the toenail onside where the attacker has clear daylight except for the defenders toenail playing his heel onside
GENE on 8TH MAY 2025 11:22 AM
Yip , that did occur when I’ve read about it before.
I think he Wenger proposal is a toe nail in the right direction, so to speak.
As a traditionalist I’m for clear day light, or whole man offside and opposed to VAR micro offside which disallows good goals.
I note the discussions earlier regarding the Dafty Parade Season.
I moved to West Lothian from Belfast in the 80’s, I discovered that there was an annual parade in my new home town , every April ( held on a Friday evening ).. about 15 -20 bands.
There is one benefit of having the Dafty Parade in your own town…. it gives you a gauge of how bitter your neighbours are.
About 30 minutes before the parade, I would see all of my neighbours walking past my window, to take up position on the main street.
These same people would tell me to my face that they don’t agree with the Orange Order etc. ..but they were “just going to hear the music, and to take the kids”.
Next generation being nurtured.
I suppose it’s all they have left.
White smoke at The Vatican
TT