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Southampton are (or at least, have been) one of the best run football clubs in England. Their recovery from a third-tier outfit, to the side which finished sixth in the Premier League under Ronald Koeman, was impressive.

Yesterday they sacked the manager who took over from Koeman a year ago, Claude Puel, after a season which saw them finish 8th in the league, and reach the League Cup final. It looks like a bonkers move, but Southampton have a made bonkers-looking moves work before.

In 2013 they sacked Nigel Adkins, who achieved two promotions at the club, to replace him with little-known Mauricio Pochettino, who had been sacked by Espanyol a year earlier. What’s worse, Pochettino couldn’t speak to language. I’ve no idea what happened to him.

When bold moves come off, they embolden you. Risk-aversion reduces until you become an irascible gambler and are caught with insufficient chips. Southampton look like they are closing the book on an era.

The man who replaced Adkins with Pochettino, Nicola Cortese, left the club in 2014, his replacement also left last month. They are looking for both a manager and a chief executive. Your guess is as good as mine who will appoint the former.

All of this takes place which the club is preparing for a sale to Chinese investors, doubtlessly with the potential buyers approval. If it was Cortese placing these chips, I would hold my criticisms, but this looks like nothing more than a ludicrous punt.

Southampton fans didn’t cover themselves in glory on this one either, chanting “You don’t know what you’re doing” at Puel as his side ran out of steam at the end of the season. Football is so dysfunctional.

This episode tells us lots about the managers’ market in England, but the most relevant point is that it is an increasingly unpredictable environment, which Brendan Rodgers knew when he pitched his tent in Glasgow a year ago.

If you want to build a great football team, the Celtic job is a rare place you may succeed.

 

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  1. embramike supporting Res 12 on

    Bateen Bhoy

     

     

    Mondays CL Q2 draw will likely see us drawn against (due to regionalisation) the likes of ..

     

     

    Dundalk

     

    Linfield

     

    New Saints

     

    Vikingur (Faroes)

     

    Mariehamn (Finland)

     

     

    Can’t beat them, we don’t deserve to be in Q3 !

  2. quonno on

    BIG JIMMY on 15TH JUNE 2017 7:02 PM

     

    I have watched the GrenFell tragedy and heard housing officials on TV saying how difficult it will be to rehouse those survivors in London ?

     

     

    What about feckin Buck Palace to rehouse those Queens subjects, plenty of room in there and other stately homes.

     

     

    Only a few months ago we were being told that Buck house needed millions spent on to make it habitable for Big Phil and his brood.

  5. Bateen Bhoy on

    *Mike*

     

     

    Enough. I’m done embarrassing myself for one evening. Sorry.

     

    And I’m also all out of apologies now. :-(

  7. KEVJUNGLE on

    Lilly Allen…..

     

    20 mins ago on CH 4 news…

     

    “over 150 dead in the fire, most of them children, MSM covering up the facts to spare the shame of the Tory party who, had the rules changed to suit local land lords, 80 of them in the Tory party.”

     

    The above is the gist of what she said…..

     

    watch it again on CH 4 + 1 in a couple of mins….

     

    ……off-oot.

  8. Keving on

    Seemingly the Mexican influx over the river has seen them christened “Aztec Brothers”.

     

     

    Man City want £15m for Paddy. In a league where a relegated defender has been purchased for £17m, a relegated goalie for £30m and Robert “snoddy” Snodgrass for £10m that figure is achievable and a bargain.

  9. Margaret McGill on

    interesting CQN today…

     

    Paddy Roberts is a “no”..lets wait and see

     

    Southampton are pish and Celtic urny. Yikes!

     

    More condom taboo

     

    and more peasants burned alive probably due to removal of health and safety regulations to benefit landlords.

     

    Nice.

     

    later.

  12. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    The Green Brigade anti discrimination football tournament takes place this Saturday , 17/6/17 , at St Roch’s Jimmy McGrory Park in the Garngad. The first game kicks off at 12pm.

     

     

    The Invisibles charity for the homeless will be one of the beneficiaries from Saturday’s tournament.

     

     

    There will also be a collection of no longer needed children’s trainees and boots along with football strips, preferrably , Celtic tops , shirts and socks .

     

     

    The Celtic Research site has details about the reasons for the football strip and footwear collection.

  14. 50 shades of green on

    See if we get the Norn Ireland huns, will it be £ 50 a pop or is it on ra books??????

     

     

    Sitting pool side here in sunny Florida, well it was when i started typing, gone freakishly grey , And all the locals have done a runner indoors, I’ve a feeling they urnae telling me sumfin.

     

     

    Wimps the lot of them.

     

     

    H.H ( literally) only kidden.

  16. TimJim on

    The ten countries with the most Catholics account for more than half of the world’s Catholics. According to the Vatican figures, they are Brazil (172.2 million), MEXICO (110.9), Philippines (83.6), USA (72.3), Italy (58.0), France (48.3), Colombia (45.3), Spain (43.3), Democratic Republic of Congo (43.2) and Argentina (40.8).

     

     

    Not only that Mexico play in Green . Silly Billy’s

  21. 50 shades of green on

    Makes sense for the heed sheep man to stay,up here he is only up against one more dominant team, down the road he’s up against it every week.

     

     

    H.H

  22. fairhill bhoy on

    GENE,Ernie,just to be clear I’m not in favour of abortion,but I’m sure it’s not an easy decision to make.Gene -bye

  23. 50 shades of green on

    Funnily enough when mcinnes looked to be aff oot as someone once said.

     

     

    I was hoping they would go for NFL , If only to annoy the Zombies even more.

     

     

    H.H

  24. Gary67 on

    I think McInnes knocking back the Sunderland job shows what a basket case that club is. Who’s their CEO again?

  25. thomthethim for Oscar OK on

    Glad to hear Mc.Innes is staying put.

     

     

    Leaving would have meant too much upheaval in Aberdeen, with losing at least three top players.

     

     

    This would have given Them a clearer run for second.

     

     

    Hopefully the two Edinburgh clubs can step up,

  27. big packy on

    gary 67 whoa there i think youl find most sunderland fans are more of the celtic persuasion than the other lot.

  29. bankiebhoy1 on

    Has Jonny Hayes and Alf Tupper ( The Tough Of The Track) ever been seen in the same room together?

  31. thetimreaper on

    Credible source saying two The S*n hacks impersonated Grenfell Tower relatives to gain access to hospital.

  32. thetimreaper on

    Gerry Adams tells Theresa May she is “in breach of the Good Friday Agreement” at Downing Street meeting.

  33. bankiebhoy1 on

    Who’d win a fight between Jonny Hayes and Jimmy Francis “Schnozzle” Durante?

  36. jimbo67 on

    Evening all

     

     

    Quiet all of a sudden. You cannot all be watching reruns of The Persuaders can you.?Mind you there is a fanous Celtic fan in this one.

     

     

    Jim Paye as was

  37. saltires en sevilla on

    Heading back to sunny Scotland from Las Vegas – flight delayed again :(

     

     

    Hoping we have it’s at least 20 degrees in Glasgow and signed a few Galacticos!

     

     

    Probably 3 degrees and Johny Hayes ;-)

     

     

    Just kiddin’ CSC

  38. Neustadt-Braw on

    Evening champions.. Der unschlagbar….

     

    .. Just back from Miss Braw,s birthday celebrations…. Awfy braw…

     

     

    It has been decided that I need to lose 10 kg and apply for an Irish passport! She is a braw lass…and always right! Hahahahaha

     

     

    Brexit talks to begin on Monday…..a Maydup Tory brattash team .

     

    Conservative and Unionist Negotiations Team

     

    (No prizes for guessing the shortened version)

     

    Against the European Union of 27….

     

    This is going to be awfy braw to watch….

     

     

    Braw.

  40. INVINCIBLE 'GG on

    LEFTCLICKTIC on 15TH JUNE 2017 9:23 PM

     

    That video promised much

     

    And DELIVERED

     

    In spades

  41. corkcelt on

    Celtic Soul, New Irish Movie, might be worth checking out.

     

     

    The sun was dropping low on the horizon as my brother marched me along the Western Road.

     

    I’d just seen my first ever football game up close – a pre-season friendly between Cork City and Glasgow Celtic in Bishopstown. A delightfully pony-tailed Billy Woods scored a magnificent volley that night but I was more taken with the guests, in their immaculate black jerseys with green vertical stripes. I had read about Celtic a lot in Shoot! magazine and something about them – the colours, the crest, the hoop-design – even persuaded me to give one of their players, John Collins, a place on my hallowed and competitive bedroom wall.

     

     

    That night, I sat on the battered concrete seats, clutched my match programme and watched, spellbound, as some mythical figures came to life before me.

     

     

    Afterwards, on the amble back into town, there was the small matter of an emergency toilet break in Jury’s. And there, in the foyer, was the entire Celtic squad replete in dark blazers and grey slacks. And that night, as an eight-year-old boy, I shook John Collins’ hand.

     

     

    There’s a wide-eyed romanticism to the way we treat sport as children. For adults, it’s still there occasionally. For beaten-down sports journalists like me, it’s pretty close to extinct.

     

     

    In Celtic Soul, a documentary sports film I’ve spent the last number of years creating and which has its Irish premiere this weekend, I’ve tried to recapture that feeling of surprise and excitement and nervous energy we used to get when immersed in our favourite team at our favourite ground and watching our favourite players.

     

     

     

     

    It helped enormously that I had someone to share the journey with.

     

     

    I’ve never had an online date before but that’s what it felt like when I first began contacting Jay Baruchel, a proud Canadian actor and star of Hollywood films like Knocked Up, Tropic Thunder, She’s Out Of My League and This Is The End. There was the first text, the first Skype call and then, finally, a brief face-to-face in Toronto in 2014.

     

     

    Jay had been a fan of my work on Fox Soccer Report – a nightly TV show broadcast around North America – and I was aware he was an obsessive Celtic fan too. I wondered why. When he mentioned his Irish background and launched into forensic detail about his ancestors who fled Westport in the 1840s to find a better life for themselves elsewhere, it was a light-bulb moment.

     

     

    The film charts Jay’s journey from Montreal to Glasgow, via a stint in Ireland. While retracing the steps of John and Thomas O’Malley, he’s also – inadvertently – retracing the steps of Celtic’s history too, the club having been founded as a safe haven for those in need – predominantly the despairing Irish immigrants who were forced to leave their homeland. When we finally reach Celtic Park, it all makes sense.

     

     

    When it comes to most things – particularly sport – Jay is a perpetual excitable kid. And he retains that sense of wonder and effusive enjoyment throughout Celtic Soul. From showing me around the sacred Bell Centre – home of the iconic Montreal Canadiens hockey team – to gamely taking on a crossbar challenge with Scott Brown and Charlie Mulgrew at Celtic’s training complex, that childlike fascination is infectious.

     

     

    Thankfully, a lot of it rubbed off on me too. Spoiler alert: largely thanks to a cameo by a certain John Collins.

     

     

    Celtic Soul premieres in Ireland across four different locations this weekend: Dundrum, Swords, Gorey and Dungarvan.

     

     

    For more information, you can visit the film’s official website: http://www.celticsoul.ca

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