Celtic didn’t need to get out of second gear to overcome Dunfermline yesterday, making it one of the most comfortable performances of the season. After the festive season games against Rangers in the previous two seasons we played the team bottom of the league, Falkirk and Hamilton, both of whom were subsequently relegated, but we dropped points on each occasion. Teams fighting for SPL survival are filled with players fighting for money to pay their mortgages, no result can be assured.
Dunfermline are everyone’s hot tip for relegation but they are still missing several players and having watched Hibs capitulation against Hearts yesterday I reckon nothing is clear cut yet. Hibs are in trouble.
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Just saw the huns goals…………….that’s what you
call a static defence,plus big norn Ireland hun craigan with an
extra wee helper.
Disgraceful.
philvis…,
how much of tha £170M a year is being spent on illegal wars at the behest of corporations who refuse to pay their trading permit (tax) ???
bournesouprecipe says:
3 January, 2012 at 13:41
Reminds me of Operation Stay Awake on the Nightbus..
Awe Naw no Hackney Marshes again!!!
TMWTL
Falling masonry??
ItaliaBhoy says:
3 January, 2012 at 14:00
‘The “note” was a joke, intended for another Tory MP whom Liam Byrne thought was going to get the job. It wasn’t an official economic assessment.’
It was a private joke between the outgoing and incoming governments.
A homosexual Lib Dem cabinet member made it public. Unfortunately he subsequently had to resign when he was outed in order to save his parents further embarrassment.
Apparently he’d never told them he was a Lib Dem.
And yes, he was a millionaire. He’d made his pile ‘in the City’.
ttg7uj
Gregory hopes for a happier New Year from The Football Ramble.
James Appell | 30 December 2011
Former Aston Villa boss John Gregory has scoured the globe in search of footballing success but 2011 has been a year to forget…
As 2011 draws to a close, one man who might be hoping for better fortunes in 2012 is John Gregory.
You’d probably forgotten about the slick-haired former Aston Villa manager, who hasn’t worked in England since leaving QPR in autumn 2007. Since then, however, for those of us who follow the world’s more obscure leagues, the sight of Gregory trawling his way around the globe in search of employment has veered from the fascinating to the toe-curling. A relegation, another near-relegation, and a fanciful but damaging accusation about his private life have marked down 2011 as a year to forget for the 57-year-old.
Gregory began the year in Israel as head coach of FC Ashdod, a mid-table side with aspirations to play in Europe. He had been hired after an encouraging 2009-10 season managing another Israeli side, Maccabi Ahi Nazareth. On a shoestring budget – many of the Nazareth players weren’t paid for long stretches of his tenure – and battling against the racial tensions generated by a club based in a majority-Arab city, Gregory impressed in guiding what many pundits saw as dead certs for relegation to the brink of safety, with only defeat on the final day condemning them to relegation.
That was enough to convince Ashdod’s owner Jacky Ben-Zaken, a real estate tycoon, to hire Gregory and push for a place in the Europa League. He signed a three-year contract at the club and set to work.
Gregory must have wished 2010 could have lasted forever. At the turn of 2011 Ashdod were in eighth position, just three points off a place in Europe, and Gregory’s reputation as one of the top managers in Israel was intact. But by April, after winning only two of their final 14 games and dropping into the relegation play-offs, Gregory tendered his resignation amid rumours he was to be replaced over the summer.
“It’s been a very difficult few months,” Gregory told the Israeli press, before somewhat euphemistically adding: “I have no doubt that Ashdod will stay in Ligat ha’Al [the Premier League] and I think me…stepping aside will help that.”
Admirably refusing to remain unemployed for long, Gregory accepted another exotic job offer just two months later, taking up the reins as manager of Kazakhstan Premier League side Kairat in June 2011. Some 3,500 miles from London, and with the delights of Kazakh cuisine to explore (notably ‘beshbarmak’ the Kazakh national dish of boiled horse), Gregory must have felt a long way from Villa Park.
This time his task was to restore former glories to a side which, though once Kazakhstan’s most successful – the only team from the country to compete in the Soviet Top League – had gone trophyless since 2004. First, though, he had to save them from relegation. “I wouldn’t have come to Almaty if the team didn’t have problems,” he admitted after signing a two-year contract. “Unfortunately I don’t have much time to improve the situation.”
Gregory’s bad year got worse. Off the field things took a bizarre turn when a Ukrainian website, commenting on his appointment, stated that Gregory was homosexual. The man himself remained completely unaware of the allegation – despite much gossiping in Kazakhstan – until he was told by an interviewer for Kazakh magazine PROsport.
“What?!” Gregory said, when told of the rumours flying around about his private life. “If I ever meet the guy who wrote that I’ll break his neck.”
Gregory angrily added: “I have been married for 38 years to the same woman. I have three children and four grandchildren. Maybe they talk about me that way because of the way I look, because I look after myself and try to look good irrespective of my age.”
Globalist, the publication who originally printed the allegation, eventually retracted the statement, but Gregory was clearly, and understandably, upset by the episode.
Meanwhile on the field results were poor, with Kairat winning just once away from home all season, slipping to second bottom of the table. A win on the final day away to fellow strugglers Taraz would have meant a reprieve, but a clumsy defensive error from Ilya Vorotnikov gifted the home side a lead which Kairat could never surmount. The match ended 1-1 and Gregory’s men were condemned to relegation in December – his second in two different countries in just under two years in management.
But there was a twist in the tail for Kairat. The club received new financial backing at the end of 2011 from KazRosGaz, a Kazakh-Russian energy company with links to Russian state monopoly Gazprom. With such powerful support it was no coincidence that this week the club were saved from relegation, when the Kazakh Football Federation (FFK) announced they were expanding the country’s Premier League from 12 to 14 teams. Next season’s enlarged Premier League will now include Kairat.
“KazRosGaz, the new owners of Kairat, are an affiliate of Gazprom, whose sporting projects have been successfully carried out at Zenit and Schalke,” read an FFK statement. “With the inclusion of Kairat among the member clubs of the Championship, the country will be strengthened by a big club with great footballing traditions…we must allow the new owners of Kairat to establish themselves within Kazakh football today, in order that in the near future we may have a club serious about taking part in European competition.”
This whopping piece of rule-bending was not enough to save Gregory from the chop, however. This month the Englishman was sacked just six months into his two-year contract.
With his professional reputation in the doldrums, it’s difficult to see where Gregory’s next job will come from – after all, once you fail in Kazakhstan there are few lower levels on the footballing ladder to sink to.
Still, after such an awful 2011, perhaps Gregory’s luck might turn in the coming year. Besides, things are already looking up – he no longer has to stomach beshbarmak…
I see Murray Park look like a demolition crew have had a go at it.
Karma is a wonderful thing…
HH
starry
Makes me feel young again. ;-)
Off with MrsB to see if Ikea is still where it should be.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS says:
3 January, 2012 at 13:46
If the RTC guy needs help on this then sure I would be willing to help him in a purely professional capacity of course and free of charge.
If he wants a copy of Hobby Tony V1.0 I can give him that also.
I think he is quite an I.T orientated guy anyway.
Would I be right in assuming that the professional hun gimps have left CQN to concentrate on RTC ?
Hail HAil
philvisreturns says:
3 January, 2012 at 13:25
Chuckle.
Swan meat expensive ? Get yourself down to Ally Park.
Here are a few suggestions to raise more revenue .
Appoint 10000 new tax inspectors who would concentrate on the top 100000 in the wealth league. Very few of these people pay any direct taxation by clever avoidance and sometimes clear cut evasion. In tandem give HMRC greater powers of sequestration and enforcement. Ironically the US model would do nicely.
Increae the rate of taxation on all unearned income to 95%.
All bonuses over £5000 to be taxed at 95%
All payments in kind to be taxed at 100% ie Free accommadation free holidays weekends away corp hospitality prestige cars etc etc.
Make offshore holdings for companies and individuals illegal . Break off all diplomatic relations with countries who encourage these scams and freeze or sequestrate their assets held here.
Those who leave the country (where it is suspected they do so on the grounds of evasion) should be denied re-entry until the tax is paid plus penalties.
Impose long jail sentences on those found to be witholding or evading tax with full recovery plus costs.
Its time to get tough on tax dodgers.
IbleaBhoy,
makes sense to me
Murray Park this morning
http://yfrog.com/ke2b2puj
just seen Craigan’s OG,he blasted it in,this guy may be the striker the tankers are needing.Slan
Murray Park is falling down……….
http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr219/annemarie6377/murraypark.jpg
Starryhope
Falling masonry??
looks like a building insurance claim going in, hmmmm
canamalar
do you think they are up to date with the premiums?
If that wall at Murray Park has been valued by one of Minty’s surveyors, then that must be about £3Million worth of damage.
bt,
probably brought up to date yesterday, todays damage purely coincidental :o)
I thought they guarded all their walls?
Kittoch,
and the roof is further £5M
law suit against builders £150M should see off hmrc just like the bbc :o)
Paddy Gallagher says:
3 January, 2012 at 14:35
Hehe.
2 coward scumbags guilty of murdering Stephen Lawrence
The first (of many???) to leave Ibrox…
http://sport.stv.tv/football/scottish-premier/rangers/292212-thomas-kind-bendiksen-agrees-tromso-move/
Starryhope
Stephen Lawrence murder accused found Guilty.
Hurricane Fudface!!!
brilliant, Scotland does hurricane names brilliantly
Dobson and Norris found guilty of murder.
Hope they get everything that’s due them inside. Animals.
AWE NAW 1417
You are a gentleman and a scholar!
I forwarded that to RTC,and even left in a certain word so that he will moderate it-the prude,haha!
Mind,I’ve had more posts deleted on there than I ever have on here……
As others no doubt better qualified than I am will tell you – at least the Americans take their market economy seriously
Over 400 have gone before their courts for mis-deeds in this financial crisis – many get jail time
How many over here?
The old boy/school tie/lodge network makes sure that no-one takes a fall
On the football
Time to press on
The major requirement being a powerful CF – capable of playing with their back to goal
We need an alternative to the pass and move of Hooper and Stokes
Sammi is not the correct type of physical presence
Bangura neither
A CH would be the icing on the cake but the CF is a necessity if we want to win the league
Happy New Year to all
HH
croppybhoy says:
3 January, 2012 at 14:48
‘As others no doubt better qualified than I am will tell you – at least the Americans take their market economy seriously
Over 400 have gone before their courts for mis-deeds in this financial crisis – many get jail time’
That’s because they can’t allow for the possibility that there’s anything wrong with the system.
The system’s good, any problems are because of individual failings, so it’s necessary to punish individuals.
“I had a very good contract offer from Rangers but I refused it,” Kind Bendiksen said.
I’d love to know how much they offered him.
starryhope says:
3 January, 2012 at 14:42
don’t post links to HunSTV please
hail \o/ hail
2Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon says:
3 January, 2012 at 14:54
“I had a very good contract offer from Rangers but I refused it,” Kind Bendiksen said.
I’d love to know how much they offered him.
*******
250 brick a week :-)
Awe Naw
Looks like you’ll need to update HT V1.1 for RTC
Je Suis Neil Lennon says:
3 January, 2012 at 14:54
don’t post links to HunSTV please
hail \o/ hail
Sorry mate! knuckles rapped! (not dragged!)
Starryhope
Paddy Gallagher says:
3 January, 2012 at 14:56
I pity your poor missus ,having to listen to that patter,
She’ll wummaning the life boats.