ALEX’S ANGLE: BEMUSED, BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED
EVERY now and again a clarion call of reason can be heard above the din…
Browsing: Personally Speaking
ALEX’S ANGLE: MIND GAMES, MISERY AND MISCHIEF
MISERY and frustration are frequent companions. It’s when anger, that often irrational and illogical menace,…
ALEX’S ANGLE: WHISTLING IN THE WIND
I RECKON I have more chance of growing wings and learning to fly than Willie…
ALEX’S ANGLE: LOVE AND PEACE IN PARADISE
THE angry brigade has fallen mercifully silent and the irate villagers can put away the pitchforks…
ALEX’S ANGLE: HAVE A HEART, BRENDAN
I WONDER if there is any truth in the persistent bulletins of sales of Valium…
ALEX’S ANGLE: DAVIE HAY, AN EXAMPLE TO ALL
WITH ear-splitting jeers ricocheting around the stadium, a disconsolate Celtic manager Davie Hay made his way…
ALEX’S ANGLE: LET’S HEAR IT FOR FAILURE
I HAVE no idea of your definition of failure, but I am beginning to get…
ALEX’S ANGLE: INTERRUPTED MELODY IN PARADISE
NICOLAS KUHN would have been forgiven for wondering what he had signed up for when…
ALEX’S ANGLE: SHOUT OF ORDER
THERE was a distinctly muted response from Celtic fans at the recruitment of a thirtysomething…
ALEX’S ANGLE: WHAT NOW FOR SEAD HAKSABANOVIC?
SEAD HAKSABANOVIC’S Instagram post back in August was more cataclysmic than cryptic. The Montenegrin international…
ALEX’S ANGLE: KENNY DALGLISH AND THE PERILS OF A QUICK FIX
MY LONG-SUFFERING missus would most assuredly endorse the fact I have not been blessed with…
ALEX’S ANGLE: WHEN RANGERS COMPLAINT LED TO 8-WEEK BAN FOR OLD FIRM REF
THE reported request by Rangers that Willie Collum be disqualified from refereeing any of their…
ALEX’S ANGLE: GO ON, BIG MAN, MAIK MY DAY
IT WOULD be an understatement of monumental proportions to say Maik Nawrocki has had a…
ALEX’S ANGLE: SEASON’S BLEATINGS AND THE MASTERFUL LACK OF LOGIC
THE small object which has been detected orbiting the globe since around 3pm on Saturday…
ALEX’S ANGLE: OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS FOR WIDE BHOYS
CELTIC go into today’s derby skirmish in the firm knowledge they will have to earn…
ALEX’S ANGLE: SEISMIC SWITCH? DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH
FOLK who really should know a lot better have been wittering on about “a seismic…
ALEX’S ANGLE: TALK ISN’T CHEAP, BRENDAN
THERE is nothing in a manager’s contract that states he should win popularity contests among…
ALEX’S ANGLE: KYOGO’S MISFIRING 387 MINUTES
SHOCK! Horror! Kyogo Furuhashi has fired blanks in six consecutive games. If you wish to place…
ALEX’S ANGLE: RUTHLESS RODGERS AND LESSONS FROM THE PAST
JIMMY JOHNSTONE’S glittering career stalled in season 1974/75, but, at the age of 30, most onlookers…
ALEX’S ANGLE: THE BERNARDO GUESSING GAME
I AM beginning to wonder if Paulo Bernardo is Oliver Abildgaard with a better tan.…
ALEX’S ANGLE: THE PROBLEM WITH BEING A CELTIC PLAYER
HERE’S a wee tale which I swear is true. I cannot divulge the identity of…
ALEX’S ANGLE: LAST WORD ON DARK ARTS AND THE DEPLORABLE DIEGO
THIS is the last time I will mention Atletico Madrid, I promise. Unarguably, the team…
ALEX’S ANGLE: LET’S GET UGLY, BRENDAN
BRENDAN RODGERS walks in the shadow of Jock Stein. The Irishman, and all before him…
ALEX’S ANGLE: RODGERS AND THE PRIORITY JANUARY RECRUIT
I DOUBT if Brendan Rodgers requires a reminder of his priority target in the January…
ALEX’S ANGLE: RISK-TAKER RODGERS AND DAVID’S DILEMMA
BRENDAN RODGERS didn’t hesitate for a heartbeat when he required a substitute for hamstring victim Reo…
ALEX’S ANGLE: RODGERS AND THE NO-BLAME GAME
NO-ONE could have blamed Brendan Rodgers if he had adopted a scattergun approach in his…