With Leigh Griffiths set to sign in the next few moments our business for the January transfer window is complete. As well as Leigh, we added 20-year-old Icelandic striker Holmbert Fridjobsson, and 23-year-old Norwegian left-midfielder, Stefan Johansen.
I expect Johansen and Griffiths to be holding down a starting place no later than next month. Johansen’s case will be made all the more straightforward if Joe Ledley accepts an offer from Crystal Palace, although he may choose to wait until the summer before leaving.
We’ll be wondering why we signed Mo Bangura years from now, he patently didn’t look a player at Celtic.
Neil Lennon has a fixer-upper with Leigh, a player he has taken a number of references for and believes he can turn into a productive Celtic player. The player’s personal history is something he has to put behind him now. I’ve read many comments on this subject over the last few days, with some empathy, but it’s just as well Twitter wasn’t around in the 60s, 70s or 80s. Some of our heroes from past eras have been more than a tad off-colour in my earshot.
Time for Leigh to get onto the field and do what he does best.
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Margaret it’s perhaps the darkest days in our history. Ethnic cleansing of the support, crippling lack of ambition and a desire to return to the bigoted pound.
If we weren’t streets ahead on the pitch in Scotland we would need to ask serious questions. But it’s more important than the football. They are letting down a whole community and there are those on this site that want to join in.
Nothing is rosy at celtic. Current football success is temporary. Wanting to mire yourself back Ina corrupt and sectarian game in Scotland shows the only interest is money.
Jimmyquinsbits
Capitalism has always been there and Independence is the only way we will reduce its malign influence, as Scots are more compassionate than most nations.
Freedom will only come with independence regardless of what the Labour Party unionists say
!!Bada Bing!!
00:27 on 1 February, 2014
Mug! All Celtic players are EPL fodder or Championship fodder
delaneys dunky
00:24 on 1 February, 2014
TD67
700 Celtic fans going to a ground where their songs and patronage is welcomed with open arms. That is a problem for us.
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Ehhhhhhhhhh, you see this is what I am talking about, the do NOT represent CFC, so it’s nothing to do with us, so don’t even go there, my club play at Celtic Park on Sunday.
to coin a phrase.
why dont you scaredy cat, soup taking , miserable cap doffers, green brigage hating, jeannie findlay demonisers ……………
girfuy
NegAnon2
You’ve mentioned ambition in your recent posts, what to you would be acceptable signs from our club that demonstrates ambition?
There’s no right or wrong here it’s all about what we feel in our expectations of supporting Celtic.
Me? Watching players playing with a smile on their faces at a tempo and gubbing the opposition. I’m easily pleased :-)
In the main drag of Carlisle’s pubs and clubs there is an Irish Bar called Gallaghers which about 1/2 a mile to the right of the train station. Further on up that road there is an excellent chippie called Fontanas.
Carlisle is a good day out.
JimmyQuinnsBits
00:18 on 1 February, 2014
Billy Bhoy,
err… it’s aw bollocks, johnny the boatmans, shuggie the ferm wurker, and nigger miners fighting for kings and queens who would’ve vomited if they’d sniffed ‘em.
Fek Wallace, Bruce, Boru, and O’Neill.
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Sorry, JQB.
Say what you please about Wallace, Bruce, & OK, even Boru,… but on this site Wee Martin is sacrosanct.
Behave yersel’.
margaret mcgill
00:23 on 1 February, 2014
tonydonnelly67
neganon says you have a list. he alluded to it last night. can you elaborate?
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You two are a marriage made in heaven, is it good fun in your wee world?
NA2
I am with you when talking about off the park matters.
On the park, not so much.
We are grubbing about in the bosman and freebie market, and will splash out a mill or so if needs be, that is our level, and in all honesty we are extremely lucky to be at the level we are.
We are not chasing dreams that we can’t fulfill, we are playing in a corrupt enviroment, and accepting that is another argument, but the place we play, we are doing good, much better that we should be.
The great moustachioed one wants out, and I have no doubts he is doing everything he can to achieve that ambition, it will happen sooner or later, and maybe then we can splash the cash, but I’m afraid till then, it’s no gonna happen.
Off the park, aye we ahve a few problems, whether they are resolved or not, time will tell, some will, some won’t
You are an intelligent bloke, you know what is going down, and you know fine well that what I am saying is true.
We are not a football club any more, we are a business first and foremost, the is the sad state of affairs, and it anit gonna change any time soon.
Bitching and bleating about it won’t make a blind bit of differencem it just gets the blood pressure sky high, trust me I know.
Let it all pan out, nice and easy, breath deep and embrace the love Celtic gives us, and feck the suits, we will out at the end of the day.
TAL
HH
KTF
td
My apologies for certain posts i made last week
which were unbecoming.
We may not agree on certain things
but we are all Celtic supporters.
HH
A great time to be a Celtic fan thanks to the Irish (so much for ethnic cleansing) we couldn’t do it without them.
Anyone that tells you different don’t live in the real world.
HH
Maggie doll, TD’s list isnay worth the price of the carpet tile he scrawled it on wi a big coloured crayon. If you want something novel to wipe yer arse with buy some sevco shares and leave Tony to his listing.
Will Leigh be registered in time for Sunday’s game?
TD67
I would imagine that the 700 in Carlisle tomorrow will be in Paradise on Sunday. Which club will they feel more welcomed by?
ACGR….
You really must question the intelligence of Sandy Easdale’s comments on Craig Whyte today.
Particularly when there is previous within Ibrox for heads smashing on marble.
William Taube was scum but amazing this wasn’t investigated very thoroughly back in 1999,ey?
LOYALIST MYSTERY # Witness claims murder was covered up # He tells of attack on stadium staircase
By Russell Findlay
A SHOCKED eyewitness has described how a leading UVF loyalist was murdered at Ibrox Stadium – and his death covered up.
William Taube’s head was smashed against the marble floor of the Edmiston suite inside Rangers’ ground.
In a sworn statement which has been passed to the Crown Office, the witness claimed he had been pressured to tell police it was an accident.
The witness – who is terrified of retribution – only spoke out as he could no longer live with the knowledge he had witnessed a murder.
He also wants to discover what happened to Taube’s mystery attacker, who he fears was killed in a revenge attack.
Unmarried dad-of-four Taube, 42, was co-hosting a Blue Mist function on a Sunday night in April, 1999.
Guests included several Loyalist prisoners recently released from the Maze.
Security was provided by Taube’s friends, including a leading member of the UVF in Glasgow.
Just after midnight, Taube, of Balornock, Glasgow, challenged an unknown man who was pestering female guests.
The witness, who The Sunday Mail has chosen not to name, says the man lunged toward Taube and headbutted him, causing the two men to fall down the stairs.
As he began punching Taube, he was attacked by a gang of Taube’s friends.
The pair then began fighting again and fell down a second flight of stairs.
This time Taube landed on his back with the man on top of him, cracking his head on the tiled floor.
An ambulance was called and Taube’s assailant was beaten up in the car park before fleeing.
Taube died of head injuries at Glasgow’s Southern General Hospital. His devastated family buried him in the city’s Riddrie Park cemetery.
The witness last saw Taube’s attacker being chased down Edmiston Drive by up to 10 of his associates.
The witness said: ‘One of them told me, ‘He’s a dead man.’ I’ve no idea what happened to him.
‘I was told to say Taube had too much to drink and had fallen down the stairs.
‘I objected but two ex-prisoners at the top table threatened to kneecap me if I didn’t do as I was told.’
During his first police interview, the witness told disbelieving officers it had been a drunken accident.
He said: ‘They knew I was lying because they kept asking if I was under pressure and if I wanted to change my story.’
Several days later, police quizzed him again. This time he claims to have been threatened by an officer.
He said: ‘As I was placed in the holding cell, one said that if I didn’t say it was an accident, Taube’s pals would be told I was holding up the release of his body.’ Following the incident, the witness received death threats and his marriage hit the rocks.
He believes Taube’s UVF pals were told he had changed his statement.
Last night, Taube’s heartbroken mother, Isabella Wallace, revealed she knew his violent death had been covered up.
Most of Taube’s family were not there on that fateful night, although his son William Jnr, 25, and Taube’s common-law wife were present.
Isabella and Taube’s brothers Thomas, 45, and David, 43, believe secrets have been kept from them.
She said: ‘I said there was a cover up at the time and still believe it. William’s death wasn’t an accident.
‘I haven’t spoken to his partner since and I think she knows more than she’s telling us.
‘I even fell out with the police and told one in particular he was telling us a pack of lies – he seemed determined to get it out of the way quickly.
‘I went to the procurator fiscal’s office several months after William’s death and the woman couldn’t get me out of there quick enough.
‘I insisted on a post-mortem but the fiscal said it was only a head injury and that was all there was to it.
‘Even when he got to hospital they left him sitting in A&E for two hours.
‘I don’t know if that’s because they thought he was just a drunk who had been in a fight but I wonder whether they could have saved him.’
Isabella added: ‘Nothing will bring him back but there was more to it.
‘I don’t even have a picture of my boy. I wanted one to put in a necklace but he didn’t like having his picture taken.’ At the time, Strathclyde Police did not release details and officially decided it was a fall.
The fact Taube died as a result of head injuries sustained inside Ibrox Park remains undisputed.
The man in charge of the enquiry into Taube’s death was detective inspector Alan Kyle, now retired.
He said: ‘I remember Taube fell down the stairs from the cloakroom area towards the front door.
‘The circumstances were as we obtained them from witnesses at the time and reported to the fiscal.
‘As for the allegations about a police officer, I had no knowledge of them. If I had been aware, I can assure you I would have investigated it.’
Last night, the Crown Office said: ‘Any new evidence relating to this case would certainly be looked at by the procurator fiscal.’
http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_…name_page.html
Neganon2
I wasn’t takin it to extremes, on the contrary I was trying to highlight the limitations we have. What are your ambitions?
Mags,
am I a green hun? is there another list?
NegAnon2
00:28 on 1 February, 2014
To hell with that! I’m with you
next?
Nagasammi that’s an easy one. PL claimed we would improve every transfer window. Ambition is building on success. He lied as we haven’t even tried to do that. Ambition is doing as he said not what he did. Are you happy at the way the club is treating its supporters (or should I say customers).
Margaret dear old tonydonnely proudly told us he was compiling a list of the posting pattern of certain posters on this site to out them as Huns or undesirables. Next step was ethnic cleansing of undesirable views. But tony is too much of a coward to confront it.
JimmyQuinnsBits
00:36 on 1 February, 2014
what list? who are these people? I demand to know who are these people?
Ambition jimmyqunn see me other post. It’s really not hard.
margaret mcgill- mugess Maggie,we all know where we are but some very niave opinions on guys who discard you like a dirty shiirt.
Gordon64, I saw your exchange and quite frankly I think you have nothing to apologise for.
Good on you just the same big fella for offering an olive branch after being deemed a Green Brigade arse kisser.
Better pucker up:-)
Margaret McGill and neganon
depressing posters, scroll by.not celtic fans in the true sense, goodnight and hh.
Billy Bhoy 05
00:29 on
1 February, 2014
I hadn’t even got to capitalism ;)
My point was, the pish we spout about these thugs, and the songs that (I’ve) sung about them, ignores the fact that they were the progenitors of the aristocracy. They didn’t give a toss about you or my ancestors, and used them as little more than cattle.
Scum, the lot
Tonydonnelly67 said I hope this does not become our problem, I have a feeling it may be, hopefully I’m wrong. What problem Tony???
delaneys dunky
00:35 on 1 February, 2014
TD67
I would imagine that the 700 in Carlisle tomorrow will be in Paradise on Sunday. Which club will they feel more welcomed by?
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As I said I know nothing about CFC playing in Carlisle tomorrow.
tonydonnelly67
00:33 on 1 February, 2014
Its tour world Tony. I just live in it. :)
tour=your
timhorton
00:40 on 1 February, 2014
Goodnight!
fred c. dobbs
00:41 on 1 February, 2014
Tonydonnelly67 said I hope this does not become our problem, I have a feeling it may be, hopefully I’m wrong. What problem Tony???
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Fred, stop trying to be fly.
Exiled I know. But I despise those who denigrate us as a support. We have a lot to be proud of. But we are being exploited by the suits. In DD we have the only billionaire owner who is milking the club. He won’t sell. If celtic escape Scotland he will make a vast profit. In the meantime he is getting a good return and has lost nothing.
We need to reclaim our club and our soul. We are not the Huns who sit on their hands. We must act.
ok I’m away to some other tim bloggeroos back in an hour.
Remember its a blog not a club.
Neganon2,
Ambition jimmyqunn see me other post. It’s really not hard.
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All I can see is “improve on any transfer window”. So, humour me, I’m obviously thick…. what is your ambition for Celtic.
Group stages every year? Last 16 every 2 years?
tonydonnelly67,
What problem Tony???
Has something happened?
What’s the matter tony don’t you want to talk about your list anymore. Are you a wee bit ashamed?
NegAnon2
As the transfer window has only closed it’s a bit early to judge whether we’ve improved. As we’ve signed a few guys we’ve yet to see in the hoops, I’ll like most I would expect, reserve judgement.
With regard to success that to me will be measureable after our qualifying games in the CL next year and not before.
It goes back to trust in our manager to develop and improve these young guys. I trust him to do so.
COYBIG…..
Carlisle is Green and White.