It is worth more than a passing observation that in yesterday’s game Celtic had players from 11 different countries in the starting line-up:
England, Sweden, Honduras, Scotland, Nigeria, Netherlands, Finland, Israel, Ireland, Greece and Wales.
Recruitment came from clubs in 7 different league structures:
England (3) and Wales, Scotland, Norway, Honduras, Israel (2), Netherlands and Germany.
There were a further four different nationalities on the bench.
Of the starting line-up only Fraser Forster is not a full international, although that is surely only a matter of time, but Fraser is the only player we have from a large football nation, perhaps an indication that it is more difficult to recruit nationals from England, Germany, Italy, France and Spain than elsewhere.
The signing of Emilio Izaguirre from Honduras three years ago came two years after the player’s representatives had him on trial in England. It’s likely Emilio’s CV was in every mailbox in the British game, so I doubt we have much of an infrastructure in Central America.
Celtic have obviously matured links in Israel recently, Beram Kayal and Efe Ambrose have delivered value, while Nir Biton fits the profile of the player Celtic should be looking for. Embedding relationships in similar markets offers a higher likelihood of value – and therefore football development – than taking our chance on the mainstream British and European circuits.
Prize to anyone who can point to Guinea-Bissau (Amido Balde’s country of birth and location of a Sporting Lisbon-associate club) on the map. There is a lot of work to do to catch up with the Portuguese.
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I have to leave the blog now to attend a meeting so I will catch up with comments later
Kitalba
I complained about him being in a clique ;)
hh
have a look at this , huns make me laugh
https://twitter.com/BigSanners/status/394774121911177216
HH
WHITEDOGHUNCH.
aye e did naw e didnae.wis u not it wisnae .eye ye ur naw am urnae.
emday seen a postman in CASTLE STREET GLESGA ???????
tallybhoy
12:35 on 28 October, 2013
About 280,000 homes in England and Wales without power apparently, due to the storm.
Stay safe!
HH!!
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Naw,mate. It’s joost that we canny afford the bills!
Italy doesn’t have much in the way of internal energy sources,are your charges there anything like back here?
Btw,mailed you yesterday. Please say you got that one! Getting right paranoid about mails going missing recently.
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Coming Soon..
CQN’s Underbelly..
A Tale of a Football’s Underbelly Blog..
CQN Underbelly, the first series of A Scottish Football blog television drama series CQN Underbelly. is loosely based on the real life events of the 2003–2013 Football war in Glasgow. It depicts the key players in underworld, including Canamalar and his rival, Peter Lawwell. The series is based on the book ‘I fought the Bored and the Bored Won’..After a ‘Self Imposed Ban’..It follows our Hero Canamalar as he tries to Wrestle Power from the PLC..
Our hero survives a Clique hit.. but is Ultimately stopped in his tracks(uit) by a Intercontinental Cement truck..
Summa
Quantum @ 1308
Could not agree more mate!
Well said.
Kitalba
As a kidney recipient your remark about looking a kidney donor in the eye piqued my interest so I went back to previous blog to look for the pertinent post.
I repost it below, mainly because it fascinated me and I think it deserves a wider audience.
kitalba
11:00 on 28 October, 2013
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS:
Thanks for your explanation. I read back to see what you were on about. I couldn’t really see anything too untoward other than proclaiming by contempt for liars and telling PETEC not to associate me with his genre of post. Now if that is what got your nose out of joint, then you have not been paying attention all these years. Many on here have taken issued with Petec contribution, I haven’t and I don’t. What he wants to post is his business as long as he does not try to align me. He’s been asked by many, better and more much much more devout than me on here to tone it down. I’ve repeatedly politely asked PeteC not to drag me in. Sometimes I do get a bit short with him but hardly constitutes dissing or intolerance. Now that is between him and me and your holier than thou interjection is not welcome by me, but you too feel free to post whatever you feel the need.
I cut my grass on Friday because I was invited to a party over the weekend. A party I didn’t want to go to and did not understand why I was invited, but out of a liking and respect for the host, I went. Now normally I cut my grass on a Saturday, finishing up about three and then having a couple of beers and maybe a whisky or two. I look forward to Saturdays, the exercise the beer, the game.
Anyway I went to the party, to be told it was to honour a man who had had a kidney organ transplant four years ago and who right at that moment was stood next to me wearing a Celtic strip, that was too big for me, a few months ago. There were a lot of people there, and although I could vaguely recognise a few faces. I was buggered if I knew anybody beyond the hosts, the man who received the donated kidney. I did know a lot of the kids from the school though and as always all they wanted to do was play football or swim. Neither of which I did because I felt totally out of place.
Being a smoker I took up my usual perch on the peripheral, and set myself in for a boring afternoon and evening, and being my turn to drive, my sober nose was well out of joint.
Now Paddy, the guy who received the kidney, and the guy who owned the house, spent most of the afternoon talking to me. In the course of a long drawn conversation he dropped in the name Kim. Now Kim is the wife of the guy who owned the house and who was hosting the party, a petite school teacher that only a fool would cross. I was sort of paying attention but to be honest I was sort of just staring out at Mount Glorious too and wishing I was up there. The company had been joined by a few others, but I was just going through the motions and then something inside clicked. I stopped the conversation and asked Paddy to rewind, back to the part about Kim, I just knew I’d missed something important. Anyway Paddy told me how if he didn’t get a friendly transplant he was going to die, soon. He’d asked all of his seven siblings if they could help out but none of them could for one reason or another. Again I stopped him and asked what that had to do with Kim. Kim, although not blood related, had a friendly kidney and she gave him one. And for four years she never told anybody outside of the group who were at her party, myself, and my wife too, obviously excluded.
I’m hearing this and looking Kim’s husband in the face and I felt a total stranger. I was in awe but I did not want to be there one minute longer. I was then told who the faces were, who I vaguely recognised from the church, the schools and the hospitals. But there were more faces missing than were present.
A long story short, I asked why I was the only one invited and didn’t know who the donor was, well along time ago, when Paddy was dying and waiting for a kidney, the school and and the church took up collections for the family. Food and cleaning stuff and everyday useables. I sent wine, whisky and chocolate and Celtic DVD’s. I got a wee bit of stick about it at the time, told I was insensitive, I did not think I was. I thought if he is too ill to drink the booze then maybe his wife will find a use for it, and as for the chocolate, tell me what kids under ten don’t like chocolate and he had four at the time. His wife did drink the booze by the way and he watched the dvd’s and the kids ate the chocolate.
I tried repeatedly to leave but it was made obvious that it wasn’t going to happen. After just about everybody had gone Kim told me that she was unsure what meant more to Paddy, her kidney, or my whisky and the Celtic top, and that’s why I was invited and she, with sincerity disguised as humour, was bigging me up.
It was a crushing moment of humility. I couldn’t understand her courage and her heart, she didn’t talk, she didn’t even think about herself and her own kids, she gambled her life to give life. No words.
True story.
Maybe you’re right mate, maybe I shouldn’t post here and pain you. I’m sick of words anyway.
…..hmmmmm… lurking looks appealing for a bit….
cadizzy 12:09 on 28 October, 2013
“Horrible, nasty and brutish article from the Daily Mail……and totally unsurprising. Read it if you want to get angry.”
I didn’t get past the headline – that was enough for me.
The kind of poisonous output the Daily Hate Mail excels in. As you point out though, it’s not surprising.
Paul67
Thanks for the explanation…..I do recall reading some eye-brow raising exchanges…….
cadizzy @ 12:09
71 years of drugs and excess. Sounds great.
Eurochamps67 @ 12:14
The current custodians of our club have an opportunity between now and the 15th to do the right thing.
I’m sure if after failing to do that, if you need more evidence, it will come out. The truth always does.
setting free the bears supports Celtic’s best fighter- Wee Oscar Knox @ 12:24
I have no doubt….
P67 gets a lot of info from PL. For that to continue he has to play ball with PL.
P67 provides a great site and get very little thanks for it.
P67 does not censor much and allows free debate on his blog.
P67 has not demonstrated support to the resolution. I think I can understand his position.
P67 can who ban whom he likes from his blog as he sees fit. It’s his ball.
Canamalar believes he was banned for calling someone who was being one, one.
Fess19 @ 12:24
You know I love Celtic. They have always been a big part of my life. Celtic have decisions to make. So have I. Judge Celtic on what they have done and what they do. Not on what someone says.
Summa of Sammi…. @ 12:26
The club RFC is in the process of being liquidated. The evidence out there says loud and clear to me that The Old Firm is sadly, alive and well.
The resolution is about the governance of the game. Not about any club.
Paul67 @ 12:26
Canamalar told me yesterday he has not received any communication why he has been banned. I don’t doubt you have e-mailed him. I will copy your post and sent it to him.
setting free the bears supports Celtic’s best fighter:
Are you trying to tell me there is no clique on here?
Are you telling me that the person who complained was not from the clique.
Why am I not part of it?
Because I hate cliques. I don’t own a crucifix and I don’t own a CQN badge, original or not.
I deliberately go out of my way to distance myself from them and those who populate them. Ever since I started wiping my own bum I realised I could do it without assistance.
I even learned to tie my own shoe laces without committee.
There has been a clique on here since before I started posting, and to be honest, I would not bad mouth any of them. I have an affection, a manly affection, for all of them.
But to deny it exists, then to me that is less than what I held you.
So Paul67 says one person complained and yet canamalar gets banned, on the strength of one complaint.
If I remember rightly I called you a prick the other night for sticking your nose in, how come I’m not banned?
Sftb you and ne both just getting back from injury myself (not your fault) thankfully ! See you at 5’s
Awe naw annoni
Wants a list of names, lol, reminds me of someone, wee fat guy I think his name was Ally.
Don’t ask what ole Jobo can do for you, ask what you can do for ole Jobo
LEST WE FORGET
Sevco Newsdesk 28 October 2013
SEVCO is delighted to announce the forthcoming Armistice Day celebrations will be the club’s biggest and best to date.
This year’s event will take place on Saturday, 9 November – when the Scottish League One leaders entertain our good friends from Airdrie.
The club has already formulated plans with head groundsman William Kingston-Bridge, and his team of proud volunteers, to cut the grass in a special poppy flower design.
While other Scottish clubs pay taxes from which Her Majesty’s Treasury donate a proportion to the Armed Forces budget, Sevco and Liquidated Rangers prefer to indulge in empty gestures like being the self-appointed teams of the British Military.
Despite the fact that no players from the Rangers group of clubs has ever died fighting for their country, the amount of qualified welders on the books of the old club remains a world record.
And Sevco is confident of repeating the recent resounding success of our delayed Armed Forces Day.
Representatives from the Army, Navy, Royal Air Force, Govan Shipyards and Clyde Blowers will take part in a special parade on the new look pitch before showing respect for the fallen by indulging in embarrassing frolicks and sectarian singing.
Thanks to the club’s unique relationship with the Ministry of Defence, Sevco has arranged for the RAF to parachute the exhumed remains of Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris on to the centre circle to present the match ball to the referee before kick-off.
Don’t forget Forces Sauce is available from the Sevco club shop. We have added to our tasty range with a delicious Forces Never Made It As Far As Country MAYO – proceeds from these items, definitely an unspecified percentage, will be donated to the MoD.
https://www.sevco5088nosurrender/holdingoutforaheroyetagain.co.uk
kitalba
13:04 on
28 October, 2013
Anybody complain about a post by any other user to any other user.
Can’t get more level than that.
BMCUW
Got yer mail yesterday.
Will reply later – might be rather wordy!
Italian energy providers are very much like their UK counterparts – a shower of thieving bassas!
Booze and fags a lot cheaper ‘tho!
HH!!
‘I don’t own a crucifix and I don’t own a CQN badge, original or not.’
– Kit you may recall it was our inability to find each other that got ole Pabbers interested in making the badges in the first place.
And obviously once he decided to start raising money for Martin it kind of escalated.
PAUL67
Thanks for the clarification on CANAMALAR. I and many others have transgressed in the past,and an apology-or at least a rapprochement of sorts-usually works wonders.
Clearly,you cannot spend all day monitoring the posts on here,and most of us are against heavy-handed moderation anyway.
Dissenting opinions are a major bonus on the site,we should always seek to know the views of others.
One issue that I have on the current spat is that when CANAMALAR is giving it out,he usually gets it back.
In spades. And shovels,come to that.
Now,I’m not suggesting that the other correspondent suffer the same penalty-I am all for free exchange of views-but I think there is a possibility of the site going down the road of the petty reporting of real or imagined offensiveness as witnessed by complaints to football and legal authorities about chants at football matches.
Or minor off-the-ball incidents,etc.
I respect fully your right to police YOUR site in the way that you do-in that respect,I agree with SFTB’s page one post-and I hope that you will allow CANAMALAR back here ASAP.
Steinreignedsupreme
the daily mail in my view is, without doubt, the worst newspaper in the UK. It uses its unearned reputation as being not really a tabloid to disguise what it really is. Every day it goes on about “benefits cheats”, immigrants, immigrants who are “benefits cheats”….a nauseating mix of pandering to the lowest common denominator types who don’t think that they are low at all. The comments section might make you sick if you were unfortunate enough to read it.
Free the CANAMALAR one!
HH!!
Dontbrattbakkinanger:
Mate, I regret that line, I honestly do, but in my defence it was a poor attempt to make a point, and I repeat, that is the most heartless line I’ve typed.
Breaking news- Ally McCoist demands to know who is in this CQN clique.
kitalba I still have some CQN badges and a crucifix if you want to buy one or other? ;-)
CQN=everyman on a bar stool…….don’t take it too
seriously,it’s only opinion’s that’s all…..meanwhile
in the real world……….drove past Helen st Police
station this morning standing guard at the carpark
entrance 2 armed officer’s in full view of the public.
Scotland 2013.
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I Remember Me and WeeFraTheTim were Banned but because No one Notices us No one Noticed..
Summa
Paul you neglected to say what the prize was!
I knew where big Amido’s home country was right away because it is just two ‘down’ from my favourite African country The Gambia – being a Geographer has its foibles I admit.
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I’m Obviously Not in the Clique with My CQN badge..Crucifix..and Celtic Tattoos..
A tell Ye Whit..I’m Gled I’m No in Yon Hootenanny Clique..
Summa
Summa of Sammi….
13:36 on 28 October, 2013
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I Remember Me and WeeFraTheTim were Banned but because No one Notices us No one Noticed..
Summa
Who said that?
Summa……
i would have noticed.. your posts are so long i have to keep charging the ipad to get through a thread…..
weeminger:
So if I thought your last post to me was offensive (which it was not) then all I have to do is e-mail Paul and have you banned?
Ask Paul67 what derogatory comments I have allowed to stand on here from huns as well as green huns with regards me. Now I’m not one to go and publish private e-mails to score points, nor would I ever worry teacher because him at the next desk to me called my a dick, to me that’s life and every little princess in Gola football boots will learn shin pads are good for your shins but those who play with the bat know what a ball in he goolies will do for your choir selection….
It’s a football blog, not freakin the opera appreciation society.
Morrissey the 23rd
12:05 on
28 October, 2013
Oglach @ 06:36
Yes. Canamalar is banned.
No. P67 has not been involved in asking share-holders to support resolution 12.
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Morrissey, Ok thanks for the clarification.
Frighteningversetoabucktoothedgirl CSC
I reckon many will see the banning of Canamalar under these SEEMINGLY opportunitistic circumstances as very good news for those that support the resolution. I think that it will motivate them and mobilise them even more.
HH
right bhoys the funnniiiieeeeesssss have taken over the blog “thank F”.so can all the blog cloggers take a wee break for a while?????
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The Only thing that Beats a Ole Double Bluff is a Triple Bluff..
Players from the 60’s and 70’s have this reputation of being hard workers unsoftened by the excessive wages paid in these times. However, I do not recall any of them ever giving more than 100%. These days even the fancy dan foreigners in Foreign promise to go out there and give 110%. Credit where credit is due
And in those olden times, before the wind chill factor was discovered, it was never as cold in the winter as it is now. There’s a good reason that players nowadays wear tights and gloves…..though if Sammi had been wearing tights as well as gloves yesterday, the extent of his problems would be a ladder that can’t be darned rather than a horrible gash (best to say “cut”) that needs stiches.
Modern effort measured in percentages is not rubbish. 110% true