Celtic’s pillage of Yorkshire’s young talent continued yesterday with the arrival of 20-year-old Dutch player Osaze Urhoghide from Sheffield Wednesday. Osaze is a central defender and arrives a few days after fellow Wednesday graduate, midfielder Liam Shaw.
Sheffield Wednesday are in turmoil. Their most recent published accounts, to June 2019, showed a trading loss of £17m on a turnover of £22.8m – horrendous, but an improvement on the previous year’s trading loss of £23.7m. They sold Hillsborough for £38m during season 2018-19, switched the accounts to a £19m profit, but they are now a club without a stadium-sized asset on the balance sheet.
Since then, a bad situation has gotten considerably worse. Despite being the biggest team in the Championship by some margin, the finished bottom of the table in May; at least one season of third tier football awaits.
In short, Osaze and Liam may read about Celtic’s supposed turmoil last season and kick into the Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen sketch:
“You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t’ mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home Peter Lawwell would thrash us to sleep wi’ his belt.” I’m pretty sure that’s how I remember it.
Football is a zero sum game and where one giant club disintegrates, others see opportunity. Young players with talent and options will not stay.
Celtic were able to use the arbitrage permitted to them with not being bound by transfer rules between two FA member clubs. That money, perhaps in the region of £5m a piece for Shaw and Urhoghide, went on wage offers outbidding clubs from England. It’s a rerun of the Dembele deal from four years ago.
I have been saying for years the Championship is the most dysfunctional league in the world. It also causes Scottish Premiership clubs more trouble than any other. Where Wednesday have gone, others will follow. It is a morality tale in the making.
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FAVOURITE UNCLE on 4TH JULY 2021 12:36 PM
‘Meanwhile millions of children are starving all over the world thanks to the UNION as you call it.’
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Aye, the failure of the Darien scheme has a lot to answer for.
BANKIEBHOY1 on 4TH JULY 2021 12:44 PM
The Rocket Launchers were from Easterhouse, and had rather natty baseball caps with their ERL logo. Not sure if they’re still going. I wasn’t aware of any such manifestation in Brigton.
SID1888 on 4TH JULY 2021 12:22 PM
I see David Low has stood down from chairing the CST, citing pressure of work. A good reason, though not necessarily the real one. I think their publicly stated aim of trying to acquire shares while encouraging a boycott might have had more to do with it, given the possible professional consequences of such activity for anyone involved in corporate affairs. Not that it ever bothered Dave King or any of the rest of them. But this is Scotland and these things aren’t always dealt with impartially.
ERNIE LYNCH on 4TH JULY 2021 12:12 PM
SCULLYBHOY on 4TH JULY 2021 11:10 A
‘if football ever does “come home”,…………..Patel will deport it!
Ernie Lynch
lmao Ernie.:-)
you should check Ged O’Brien.if only to inform you.He didnt mention the darien scheme lol.
:-)
hh
https://twitter.com/gedboy58?s=09
hh
Ernie – I think I’m quoting from another poster who a while ago shared a memory of a fan’s meeting that Jock was at………as I remember the story being told on here……at the meeting Jock asked the supporter groups to identify themselves after they had asked a question……..
the poster remarked that Jock burst out laughing when the aforementioned “Rocket Launchers” introduced themselves.
Made me chuckle…………we are a daft bunch when we are at our best I think ( Celtic daft!) I also think some of the groups let their responsibilities as Tims weigh too heavily on their shoulders and maybe take themselves too seriously…………..That being said, some smashin’ folks involved.
HH
I believe the Italians also claim to have invented football, and even trace its origins to the Piazza della Signoria in Florence. A suitably elegant and sophisticated birthplace for the beautiful game though perhaps it was the uneven flagstones that made falling over such an intrinsic part of the sport for them.
So perhaps football will be coming home after all.
ERNIE LYNCH on 4TH JULY 2021 1:16 PM
“Perhaps it was the uneven flagstones that made falling over such an intrinsic part of the sport for them”
Wonderful how time has not impeded its development, por cierto
AN TEARMANN on 4TH JULY 2021 1:10 PM
I believe he did his PhD on Gramsci so I’d hope his political analysis is a bit more sophisticated that saying that the Union is to blame for child poverty in the third world.
What’s hanging in the Celtic Boardroom?
The supporters out to dry?
No?
BIG JIMMY @8am
I too am an ex-Greg pupil, though a few years after you (70-76). I hope you have a Fantastic Day! 😊 🍀
Take Care, Keep Safe, God Bless and Hail Hail! 😊 🍀
Yours in Celtic,
TB&F.
My understanding is Chichen Itxa is the traditional home of football, where the finals of the Mayan League Cup were held until recent times.
Famously the ball used was the head of the previous year’s losing captain. Or was it the trophy presented to the victor. Defending corners involved jungle machetes, I’m pretty sure.
CELTIC MAC on 4TH JULY 2021 1:36 PM
I reckon it could be a Parks Of Hamilton calendar.
Also frequented the GREG (St.Gregorys) from 1977-1982
School was demolished a few years ago sadly
Think BadaBing also went there
Patrick Vieira announced as new manager of crystal palace
Apparently he will be signing Christie
ernie lynch
Featuring the back of the bus?
Vieira better get loads of ballboys outside the ground 😂
lol ADI
Adi
Fulham would be a non starter then.
DENIABHOY on 4TH JULY 2021 11:44 AM
Old Tina Turner and Simply the Best on the radio just now. Anyone else remember being at Ibrox one game when it came on and we started belting it out? We were in party mood, can’t remember if we had just won the league, and we made it our song to piss them off. I remember the whole Broomloan Road belting it out and the rest of Ibrox fell into stunned silence 😂
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DB I was at that game,one and only time I have sung that shoite ,as you say the huns didn’t know what to do
their faces were an ugly picture .hh
I am sure we sand “simply depressed”, well i was anyway
their faces are always an ugly picture
have you seen a handsome hun
I was at the Greg from 73-77
Sri Lanka all out for 166 with 8 overs remaining, pathetic one day total.
!!BADA BING!! on 4TH JULY 2021 2:47 PM
I was at the Greg from 73-77
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77? did you get kept back a couple of years ?
VP- I was only there on Wednesdays…👌
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/nov/06/british-invaded-90-per-cent-world
Maybe football is coming home to 90% of the World?
ERNIE LYNCH on 4TH JULY 2021 1:19 PM
AN TEARMANN on 4TH JULY 2021 1:10 PM
I believe he did his PhD on Gramsci so I’d hope his political analysis is a bit more sophisticated that saying that the Union is to blame for child poverty in the third world.
Not just the 3rd world. 4 million in GREAT YES THATS GREAT BRITAIN.
Oh and i am full blooded IRISH scottish sins are nothing to do with me.
Bada
Nice!😏🍀
Sid 1888 @ 12.22
Don’t let the door hit you on the arse on the way oot.
RD
David Low is an astute businessman.
David Low reason for quitting the CST has been given as “pressure of work”. Could it possibly be the pressure of dealing with a bunch of mischief-makers who have a politically-driven agenda and don’t care what damage they may inflict on the club. Together with the GB they are a ‘militant tendency’ – a small but potentially dangerous faction posing as real Celtic supporters.
The antics of the GB & their pals on the CST have cost the club hundreds of thousands of pounds in fines and threaten our reputation and participation in Europe. Now they want boycotts and punitive measures. Are these the actions of so-called supporters? Strikes me more like detractors & malign agitators
Remember the advert “because the lady loves Milk Tray” – the GB think they can do what they like because they shout “come on you boys in green”.
And now for something completely different but much more worrying.
Six of the worst ‘hotspots’ in Europe for Covid infections are right here in Scotland.
I’ll say that again – SIX OF THE WORST HOTSPOTS IN EUROPE FOR COVID INFECTIONS ARE IN SCOTLAND.
Think about this – out of a European population of 750m, Scotland with c5m has the six biggest locations for Covid infections.
These figures are not only staggering, but utterly disgraceful. Presided over by a bunch of SNPcult chancers who were boasting a year ago “we are near to wiping out Covid in Scotland”
Our population density is the lowest in the UK and among the lowest in Europe, we should be at the bottom of the league for Covid infections….however it seems that a significant proportion of our electorate is too dense to realise this and blindly support an administration in disarry.
and the ornage monkey marches were in force across Glasgow
yesterday so expect another surge in cases
CELTICFOREVER on 4TH JULY 2021 3:27 PM
and the ornage monkey marches were in force across Glasgow
yesterday so expect another surge in cases
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Plus a surge in fleas.
celticforever @ 1:56 pm
“Also frequented the GREG (St.Gregorys) from 1977-1982
School was demolished a few years ago sadly
Think BadaBing also went there”
I played a few games in the Games Hall there in the 80s and 90s.Three showers in the changing room- only one worked and it gave out cold water only. I remember my car sliding on the ungritted roads around the school in winter.
Big Jimmy
I can mangae a visit on the 16th but not on the 23rd as I am down south then visiting family.
I can manage it as well as mangae it