The phrase Poisoned Chalice could have been written with the Scotland national team manager’s job in mind. Even in the 80s when we had great players, and the likes of Stein and Ferguson in charge, a sense of under-achievement followed Scotland in tournament football.
In Gordon Strachan’s favour as he takes over at Hampden today, is the 14 years in the wilderness which has reset expectations to ‘Incredibly Modest’. This contrasts with his arrival at Celtic Park seven and a half years ago, a few weeks after the messianic Martin O’Neill left the premises. Then expectations were huge, but Gordon had to achieve put a winning team on the field while curtailing expenditure against rapidly increasing budgets in the English game.
The result was not always pretty but it was effective. He became only the third manager in our history to win three-in-a-row and took us to the knock out stages of the Champions League twice, eclipsing O’Neill’s achievement in Europe’s top tournament. Few could have measured up so well.
In 2006, when he won the league at the earliest date in the history of Scottish football, he took his players, backroom and support staff onto the field in a moving movement of triumph. The stoicism with which he clung onto the league campaign in 2008, when all seemed lost, was remarkable. There can be few more enjoyable ways to win the league than from a 15 point deficit in April – one of the great times to be a Celtic supporter. When his team ran out of steam in 2009 he left the scene with much less fanfare than he deserved.
Of all the former Celts working in the media Gordon is truest to the club. Celtic is his team and the joy he gets as a supporter is evident. Such comment will be tempered now he is Scotland manager, but we wish him every success.
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If Liverpool fans did “walking away”
Would it be “desert our kid”
Off to bed. My loaf is hurting.
Thought Lizzie had a mare in the first half
What Trigger`ed the horse jokes?
tet
It’s a disgrace if even one is slaughtered for the food chain in the UK. There is enough beef, pork and lamb products to satisfy our market. Anyways, another gem from WGS, Reporter, do you still have the appetite? WGS naw, i’ve just had a sandwich. Class.
Weefra HH
Lets hope we get our `hands` on some `Silver` this season
Horse galloping along in last place and the jockey is wippin the hell out of it. Horse says why the hell are wipping me thers no one behind us.
Mo’s goal to win it tonight was Champion
Show me a herd of horses with a sense of humor, and I’ll show you a laughing stock.
Did Davie Hay no feed horses?
As jobo said,
“yez are awe aff yer heids” :))
Weefra HH
Loaf = foal backwards
Given my taste in humour is the likes of Blazing Saddles, thanks for putting a smile on my face with the horsey jokes tonight fholks.
Brilliant stuff.
HH.
Horse walks into a bar, barman asks “Why the long face”
Horse replies “I’m Sarah Jessica Parker”
Brilliant craic tonight……hitting the sack now…….night all
Im in a stable relationship.
Has this Tesco horsemeat scandal been going on furlong?
#Celtic seal Tom Rogic deal – more in tomorrow’s Scottish Sun
Other rags are available to be ignored too
Dyslexic horse walks in to a bra
My jokes are awfoal.
Taxi I am off.
Googybhoy.
That you hitting the hay?
Horse says to his mate, ” I ran 44 races and won 38 of them” His mate replies, ” I ran 56 and won 53″ A greyhound was walking by and overheard them. The greyhound said, ” I ran 96 races and won the lot”
First horse says to his mate ” F.F.S.!! A talking dog!”
It’s a wonder our friend from the dark side hasn’t come on tonight – Mr Ed!
Too many hoofed clearances tonight, we seem to be saddled with a bit of a poor defence. Lacking a mane man.
Bobbyrussell.
Nice one.lol
I know i`m dyslexic, but some of the jokes tonight were redrum
sipsini
22:59 on
15 January, 2013
Googybhoy.
That you hitting the hay?
Nay……….
Yes…… Shergar to go.
Neck and Neck with BobbyRussell
Derby winners stud career turned to dust.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HYXCcgWQmM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Ah, memories are made of this.
Always liked the dug as well :-)
A man goes into a bar. No…wait, it was a horse.
A man goes into a horse…
Guy in a movie theater notices what looks like a horse sitting next to him.
“Are you a horse?” asked the man?
“Yes.”said the horse
“What are you doing at the movies?”
The horse replied, “Well, I liked the book.”
Big George
There are websites related to that. So i`ve been told.
Horse walks into a bar
Barman says “We’ve got a drink named after you!”
Horse says “What Broadfoot?”
bobbyrussell
Was it you that mentioned the talking horse earlier? Was it’s name not Francis?
Weefra HH oh wait…
Thought this was supposed to be sensible adult site
The so called jokes are crass and standard and content makes FF look intellectual
Hopefully tomorrow brings the adults back on
A farmer lost his favourite book while he was walking through his fields..
Three weeks later, a horse walked up to him carrying the book in its mouth.
The farmer couldn’t believe his eyes.
He took the book book out of the horse’s mouth, raised his eyes up and exclaimed, “It’s a miracle!”
“Not really,” said the horse. “Your name is written inside the cover.”
shimmies33
Totally agree…but am afraid yer too late complaining……..yer lockin the stable door after the horse has bolted
shimmies33
See you on Friday