As we reported yesterday, Celtic have been busy buying up land around the periphery of the stadium for many years. The club managed to get the deal to buy land behind the Jock Stein Stand done before the mineral seam running below it was discovered. I hear the excavation rights are estimated to be worth £50m to Celtic, who bought the land for £3m in January 2009 with money which had been earmarked to buy Stephen Fletcher. Hibernian thought the Fletcher deal was done but Celtic pulled out at the last minute when the land deal became available due to an emergency cash requirement at the Council, who needed to build schools to educate children arriving in the city from Eastern Europe.
Back then, when I asked why we weren’t signing Fletcher a senior source at the club told me, “We can only spend that £3m once and we need the land for burger vans and stuff.” Before kick-off, fans currently go off-premises to spend their money, cash that could be going to Celtic. Source added, “We’ll be able to buy a Fletcher every year with the catering income we’ll make from this land deal.”
Made sense at the time, makes more sense now.
That £50m is due to arrive in time to get the Co-op off our case and leave a substantial amount available to deal with what could be the first season we ever face Sevco- keeping them in their place.
Good luck to the Celtic fans based in North America ahead of the Féile on the weekend of 17-19 January. Events are based at The Plough & Stars, Philidelphia, include live music, a tour of the An Gorta Mor Memorial, a live Beyond the Waves broadcast and a Q&A with Celtic Youth Coach, Willie McNabb.
Visit ploughbhoyscsc.com for more details, including how to secure accommodation.
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ONE has been too sweet — the other has had a soft centre.
But it was Turkish delight for Teemu Pukki and Amido Balde last night as the strikers gave Celtic boss Neil Lennon some eastern promise.
Pukki and Balde hit the net in the 3-1 victory over Trabzonspor as the Hoops booked their place in Sunday’s final of the Antalya Cup, when they will play either Ajax or Galatasaray.
Finnish hitman Pukki rattled Celtic in front with a 25-yard shot which flew into the net.
Balde contributed to Celts’ second when he forced former Hibs stopper Sol Bamba into an own goal.
But the big Portuguese targetman wasn’t to be denied as he curled a superb second-half strike into the top corner.
It was no more than both players deserved, as they belied the lacklustre form they have shown since signing last summer.
In the build-up assistant manager Johan Mjallby had urged the pair to grab their chance and show they had more to their game — and they didn’t let him or themselves down.
The duo may not be the answer to Lennon’s striker search, but Balde and Pukki worked well together.
The Hoops manager threatened to name a team full of fringe men for this friendly. But Lennon went with his strongest back four, with skipper Scott Brown in midfield along with James Forrest.
Derk Boerrigter and Nir Biton started the game, but there was a familiarity about the Celts line-up.
Scott Brown and Sol Bamba catch up
Kenneth Ramsay
And right from the first whistle the champions looked like they were too strong for the Turks.
Balde and Pukki were eager to impress and there were early signs that there were goals here for them.
Trabzonspor sit in sixth spot in the Turkish Super League, 14 points adrift of leaders Fenerbahce, and they struggled to contend with the power and pace of Celts early in the game.
They were lucky the game stayed level for as long as it did.
Virgil van Dijk almost scored a screamer after 17 minutes when he had a blast at goal from distance, keeper Zeki Ayvaz reacting smartly to tip over.
A couple of minutes later Pukki set up Balde, only for the former Vitoria Guimaraes striker to hit his shot too early when he should have ran through on goal.
On the half-hour mark Brown flashed a shot across goal after neat build-up up play from Forrest, who had an excellent first half.
Trabzonspor were somehow holding on, but in the 32nd minute Celtic’s pressure finally told.
Pukki was allowed time and space 25 yards from goal and could have played the ball out wide.
But he had enough confidence to try an attempt at goal, with his fizzed shot flying into the bottom corner and leaving keeper Ayvaz with no chance.
Six minutes later things went from bad to worse for the Turks.
Emilio Izaguirre darted down the left touchline and whipped in a terrific near-post cross. Balde made his run in front of ex-Easter Road stopper Bamba with the ball finding the back of the net.
It initially looked like it was Balde’s goal but his reaction, and refusal to celebrate, suggested it was Bamba who got the final touch.
At 2-0 up Celts were cruising to victory, but a lapse in concentration allowed Trabzonspor a lifeline four minutes before the break.
Adam Matthews switched off as Yusuf Erdogan burst into the box, with the Welshman only partially blocking his shot.
The ball broke kindly for Emre Gural, who slammed it past Hoops keeper Lukasz Zalulska.
It was desperately unlucky on Fraser Forster’s deputy, who would have been eager to maintain Celtic’s clean sheet statistic from their last eight games.
At half-time Lennon made three changes, with Joe Ledley, Kris Commons and Charlie Mulgrew all thrown on. Brown, Forrest and Efe Ambrose were taken off.
But Celts’ dominance continued, with their two-goal cushion soon restored through the lively Balde in the 57th minute.
He had no right to score from the edge of the box after linking up with strike partner Pukki.
But showing great belief in his own ability Balde produced an unstoppable shot to make it 3-1
Celtic striker Georgios Samaras close to Parkhead exit as Atletico Madrid and Trabzonspor make their move
10 Jan 2014 07:01
SAMARAS’ representatives have spoken to both clubs with Turkish side Trabzonspor understood to be wanting to push through a £750,000 deal this month.
Georgios Samaras
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GEORGIOS Samaras last night moved closer to the Celtic exit door with Atletico Madrid and Trabzonspor battling for his signature.
Atletico have been in negotiations with Samaras and his representatives for several weeks and are close to finalising a package.
But Record Sport can reveal Trabzonspor have also made contact with the Greek’s camp in the past 48 hours to sound him out over a move to Turkey. They are willing to offer a two-year contract worth around £1.7million after tax per season.
And as they push for a top-three finish in the Turkish top flight they want the Greece frontman now and are willing to pay Celtic around £750,000.
The player’s preference is a move to Spain but he will consider the Trabzonspor offer as he gets set to end his six-year stay with the Hoops after recently rejecting a new deal.
Celtic are desperate for the 28-year-old to move on during this transfer window rather than lose him for nothing in summer.
They will get their wish if he opts for Trabzonspor but Atletico may prefer to leave his signing until the end of the season.
Meanwhile, Celtic boss Neil Lennon praised strike pair Teemu Pukki and Amido Balde after the duo scored terrific goals in the 3-1 win over Trabzonspor last night.
In the opening match of the Antalya Cup, the Finn and Portuguese both hit strikes from long range while Balde forced an own goal from ex-Hibs defender Sol Bamba. Lennon said: “I was pleased with their performances.
The two of them worked very hard, deserved their goals and that will do them the world of good overall.
“We will give them a run-out again on Sunday and I’m very pleased. They have shown what they can do and that will do their confidence no harm.”
Assistant manager Johan Mjallby had challenged the pair before the match to take their chance to shine and prove they can handle being Hoops stars.
Lennon added: “They have done that. It’s a different game. It’s a friendly obviously and a different culture of football.
“I think they are good players who just found it a bit difficult to adapt to the expectation, the pressure, the games.
“But they are coming along quite nicely. We always knew Amido would be a long-haul type but he showed again tonight what a handful he can be.
“I was really happy with Teemu as well. They need confidence. It’s easy people saying they need a run of games but when the team is playing so well they have to knock on the door and that’s what I want them to do.”
OF the six new players recruited by Celtic during the last transfer window, only one can be regarded as an unqualified success.
Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk’s performance levels have been consistent and impressive enough to see him linked with Arsenal and Manchester City this month.
The jury is still very much out on four of Neil Lennon’s summer signings, with midfielder Nir Biton, winger Derk Boerrigter and strikers Teemu Pukki and Amido Balde yet to make significant or sustained contributions for the champions. But, in the case of the remaining newcomer, it has hardly been possible to form any opinion whatsoever. Steven Mouyokolo had barely started his Celtic career when he suffered a serious Achilles tendon injury in training at the start of September.
For the French defender, who spent 17 months on the sidelines recovering from cruciate knee ligament surgery before signing a one-year contract with Celtic last July, it was another stroke of horribly cruel misfortune. But there is at last some light at the end of what Mouyokolo admits has been a very dark tunnel. The former Hull City and Wolves player, who will celebrate his 27th birthday later this month, has returned to training with the Celtic first-team squad during their mid-season break in Turkey this week.
Mouyokolo is poised to be back in action quicker than was initially anticipated as he looks to play a part in Celtic’s bid to win a second successive league and Scottish Cup double this season. “I have had a lot of disappointments in my life,” reflected Mouyokolo, “but this injury was one of the hardest ones to take, as I worked really hard to come back before it and felt really good and fit and I was enjoying myself.
“It happened a week before the Champions League, which everyone dreams about playing in. But this is life and you have to be positive – everything that happens, you always have to see the positive part.
“The injury is getting much better now. It’s been a while as it happened in September one week before the Milan game, and now I’m quite ahead of schedule and should be back jogging in ten or 12 days. The physios and fitness coaches have helped me a lot and I’ve recovered quite quickly. I’d like to thank everyone for all their support. The fans have been amazing, asking me in the street when I was going to be back, wishing me all the best and telling me to be strong. That was really good.”
Mouyokolo made an impressive first-team debut for Celtic in their 2-0 Premiership win over Aberdeen at Pittodrie in August, before being part of a far less convincing team display as they lost 2-0 to Shakhter Karagandy in the first leg of the Champions League play-off tie in Kazakhstan. He found himself as an unused substitute for the next few weeks before his injury scuppered his hopes of mounting a challenge to Lennon’s now established central defensive pairing of Van Dijk and Efe Ambrose.
Mouyokolo has become very much Celtic’s forgotten man since then and he initially took himself away from the club’s Lennoxtown training ground as he struggled to come to terms with the situation.
“I went to France to the rehab centre to take my head away from this environment as it’s quite frustrating when you are watching training and knowing you are not going to come back soon,” he told Celtic TV.
“But now it’s getting closer and closer and it just makes me more excited. Efe and Virgil are two very good defenders, and, although it’s also about the team, we have worked really hard in training on the defensive part and I hope we carry on.
“It’s good for everyone that we are not conceding goals which means we are at least going to get a draw or a win so, hopefully, we can carry on to the end of the season.”
TET
From last night …….. Sorry I missed your replies to my post. I was only joking about the bould Leonard Cohen. I wasn’t over fond of him in my youth because I found if I listened to too much of his stuff it put me on a bit of a downer but in the last year or so I’ve come to love his stuff. My 8 year old grandson is a huge fan. He listens to Leonard on my iPod as we travel up and down the motorway and he describes the older Leonard’s voice as ‘sinister’ :-)) He loves Hallelujah and prefers Leonard to Jeff Buckley.
First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin is my personal favourite for Desert Island Discs.
Listened to the 07.30 sports update on BBC Radio Scotland this morning…….I thought we were playing in an international tournament last night…….they obviously didn’t…….the ‘hurt’ is tangible….LOL
Cameron was right to ‘tell the truth’ on Bloody Sunday: Introducing an older, more mellow Rev Ian Paisley http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/my-sympathy-for-catholics-introducing-an-older-more-mellow-rev-ian-paisley-9050259.html …
Apologies for this old news but I hadn’t seen it myself. From Sept 2013.
“NewCo” in the Context of an Insolvency Event
Introduction
The SPFL Articles and Rules both contain a definition of Insolvency Event. The definition is identical. The possibility of an insolvent owner and operator of a Club applying to effectively exit insolvency by means of a share transfer of the SPFL share from the insolvent owner and operator to a new solvent owner and operator of a Club is not expressly referenced as an Insolvency Event.
A CVA is referenced as an Insolvency Event but would not typically of itself attract a 15 point deduction in accordance with section E of the SPFL Rules because, except in exceptional cases, a CVA would be part of an Insolvency Process and each stage of one Insolvency Process does not attract individual 15 point penalties.
The traditional exit route of an owner and operator of a Club from insolvency is by means of a CVA and it has been tacitly accepted by Clubs, both in the SPL and SFL, that a single sporting sanction of a one off deduction in points is appropriate for a single Insolvency Process where a CVA is used as an exit method providing that the whole Insolvency Process is completed within the same Season and the immediately succeeding close Season.
In effect, the SPFL Rules provide that if the Insolvency Process as a whole is not completed for the start of the following Season then a further 15 point penalty results.
There are instances in England where, for whatever reason, a CVA route has not been possible to implement in order to exit an Insolvency Process and in Scotland, to date, we have the one example of Rangers FC where a CVA could not achieve the requisite 75% vote of creditors in favour of the CVA proposal.
In such circumstances, if “a Club” is to be “saved” and not to suffer the fate of Third Lanark and Clydebank then the only solution is what has become known as the NewCo solution.
In contradistinction to football the NewCo means of exiting an insolvency situation with the business continuing, albeit with new owners, is the norm. Often this is accomplished by a “pre-pack”. Whilst CVAs have become slightly more popular in general business in the course of the last few years, the great majority of Insolvency Processes which involve the “saving” of the business are implemented by means of a NewCo typically as a component of a pre-pack.
For whatever reasons a NewCo solution to an Insolvency Process is regarded negatively in football and the widely held view is that additional sporting sanctions, over and above any sporting sanctions that might have been imposed at the time of administration (15 or 25 point penalty and registration restrictions in the case of the SPFL) ought to result from a NewCo solution being adopted to secure an exit from insolvency.
SPFL Articles
The possibility of the transfer of the business assets and undertaking of a Club between one owner and operator and a new owner and operator has always been envisaged in the Articles of Association of the SPL. The relevant current SPFL Articles are 31 to 43 (inclusive).
These Articles apply whether the context of the proposed NewCo is one which involves an Insolvency Event or otherwise.
So far as SPFL Limited is concerned the critical component of a NewCo Transaction is the transfer of the one SPFL Limited share held by the existing owner and operator of the Club (“OldCo”) to the proposed new owner and operator of the Club (“NewCo”).
Subject to a series of mandatory requirements where to consent to the registration of the transfer of the SPFL Limited share must be refused, the Board of the SPFL Limited has absolute discretion, unfettered by any express criteria, to approve or otherwise the registration of the transfer of an SPL share between owners except in the context of relegation and promotion.
The discretion is not limited by any express criteria becausethe discretion must be exercised in the best interests of SPFL Limited and the members of SPFL Limited. In short, the members of the Board cannot either refuse to approve the registration or decline to approve the registration for reasons which are not reasons having regard to the interests of SPFL Limited and its shareholders.
Rangers FC
It is important to bear in mind that whilst Rangers FC spent Season 2011/2012 playing in the SPL and Season 2012/2013 playing in Division 3 of the SFL, that was not as a consequence of any sanction or penalty imposed either by the SPL, SFL or, for that matter SFA. Rather, what some argue effectively amounted to a relegation of three divisions was the result of the then shareholders in SPL Limited not agreeing to register the transfer of the Rangers OldCo share in SPL Limited from Rangers OldCo to Rangers NewCo and then Rangers NewCo only being able to secure associate membership of the SFL on the basis that Rangers FC, owned and operated by NewCo, would enter the SFL in Division 3.
There are many, and to some extent, conflicting analysis and rationales as to why the result was as it came to be of that process and, in the present context, there is unlikely to be any benefit in further examination of the events which led to it.
NewCo Arrangements in Insolvency Contexts – for discussion
It is understood that there is a view held by a number of SPFL Clubs that explicit provision should be made for a specific sporting sanction to be imposed in the event of “a Club” seeking to emerge from an Insolvency Process by use of a NewCo procedure. Whilst SPFL Article 33 entitles the Board to attach whatever conditions that it thinks fit to the approval of the transfer of an SPFL Limited share between an Oldco and a Newco, it is considered by some not to be appropriate to leave decision making on such conditions to the unfettered discretion of the Board.
The proposal that has been articulated is that whatever other conditions may be attached to the approval of the registration of the transfer of an SPFL Limited share in an insolvency context, the conditions should, as a minimum, require that the Club concerned be relegated by one division if a NewCo solution is implemented (“Sanction Relegation”).
If the Club concerned were to be liable to be relegated in any event, by reason of its position in the relevant division at the end of the Season or by virtue of the result of a Play-Off Competition then the Sanction Relegation should be applied on top of the “Sporting Relegation”.
The proposal is best explained by example.
Assume during a Season that the owner and operator of a Club suffers an Insolvency Event, most likely an administration, the result would be that the Club owned by that owner and operator would immediately suffer the fixed 15 points deduction. Assume that the Club is playing in the Premiership and that at the end of the relevant Season the Club concerned holds tenth place in the Premiership, taking account of the points deduction for the administration. Assume also that the Club is unable to exit its Insolvency Process by any means other than a NewCo solution. In such circumstances the Club concerned would, as part of the conditions attached to the SPFL share transfer, be relegated to play in the Championship in the immediately succeeding Season i.e. a “Sanction Relegation” would automatically be applied.
If the same Club were to finish in twelfth place in the Premiership at the end of the Season in question, taking into account the 15 points sporting sanction, then the Club would be relegated initially to the Championship, being a Sporting Relegation, and would then be subject to the Sanction Regulation taking the Club down to play in Division 1 in the immediately succeeding Season.
Precisely identical principles would be applied in the case of Clubs in the Divisions below the Premiership in the relevant Season.
One anomaly could arise where the Club using the NewCo solution finished in a play-off place at the end of a Season. The proposal in that situation is that the Club in last place in the Division shall participate in the play-off competition and the Club using the NewCo solution would be automatically relegated.
Further detailed provision would need to be made in the Rules for situations in which more than one Club in any one Season in any one Division uses a NewCo solution and/or are in the Divisional play-offs or are compelled to take part in the Pyramid Play-Off Competition from League 2 in which case some kind of pre-play-off competition(s) would need to be included in the Rules. Detailed provision would also require to be made for which Club(s) would be promoted as a consequence of a Sanction Relegation.
Steps Required for Implementation
The above approach to Sanction Relegation by essentially one Division has unanimous support from the Board. The next step is to identify the extent of support for the proposal amongst the Clubs.
Any change in the existing arrangements would require amendment of the Articles which would require (i) 11 Premiership Clubs to vote in favour (i.e. 11 Clubs); (ii) 75% of the Clubs comprised in both The Premiership and The Championship; and (iii) 75% of all the Clubs in membership of the SPFL.
The required changes are to Articles which are not included in SPFL Article 194 and therefore the three year moratorium and the 100% vote in favour do not apply.
One option would be to take the proposal as a discussion matter to Clubs at an All Club Meeting in order to identify the level of support. If the support was at a sufficient level and was sufficiently broad based to indicate likely adoption by the required majorities, then detailed drafting could be undertaken with a view to bringing proposed amendments to the Articles to the General Meeting proposed for 13 January.
SPFL Board
16 September 2013
I know I shouldn’t but having a listen to last night’s SSB.
Guidi giving it laldy about Amido being a write off.
We could have spent the money on a Higdon or John Sutton apparently.
The value of hindsight; made me smile…
WWC
I’m very much in the camp that I’d rather our money had gone on one recognised striker as opposed to ” gambles”, but having said that, I’ve still got a feeling that Balde, Pukki and even Boerritger have something to offer. ( cue the jokes). Based on what? Well, the type of finish from Balde last night and his work rate, Pukki’s work rate and determination, and in Boerittger’s case, just a good old fashioned “gut” feel that he has something.
Sadiesbhoy from last night. Whether we all like it or not the bond between club and support is very damaged at the moment following a succession of actions that the club have taken. The decision to move the Kilmarnock game is by far the least important but what it does show is that supporter considerations are at the very bottom of the priorities. It is absolutely disgusting that they continue to act in this manner as they watch fans desert the club in absolute droves. It’s also very short sighted.
Big cup winners you asked what we can do? Well we are already doing it – stay away and starve the board into realisation and action.
the exiled tim-free the dam 5
23:25 on 9 January, 2014
That’s shocking.
Any club now has carte blanche to cheat themselves out of existence then, up pops a new version claiming, within the SFA rules, they are the same club!
Surely UEFA will not sanction this, it is a charter for cheating!
Was this from Lotte on Twitter, do you have a link?
TnT, that’s what I was just commenting on, TET posted it last night, I was catching up.
Shocking.
Benny
You know what you paid and you know the value now. So you can work it out. Not every shareholder was in such a lucky position to hold on their shares . Some maybe found it necessary to sell and as a consequence lost a large percentage of their investment.
Fergus wasn’t some financial genius that made his fortune at Celtic by the profits returned. He made his fortune entirely from trading his Celtic shares
According to DR Sammi is definitely going. Athletico or Trabzonspor
Limmy’s brother gets 6months for bigotry……,,A Result
Also: a Ned from Dalmuir fined £360 for tweeting he hoped Stan would die of luekaemia
Doc
I didn’t realise it had been posted.
Oh it’s shocking alright. I lifted it from here:
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rvj95a
Right continuing from last nights post from @rangersinter & reply from FrPaulStone
@RangersInter Utterly disgraceful from the SPFL board. The “club” is now the SPFL share, and liquidating and “newco” is a “solution”.
@RangersInter This completely is at odds with Uefa FFP, and it’s all designed to ensure Sevco will always be treated like Rangers.
See @RangersInter last tweet to see just how corrupt the SPFL board is. Rules rewritten entirely to benefit & safeguard one new club.
From @RangersInter – the rules that are an absolute affront to any kind of moral or sporting integrity. http://t.co/rv2JqpX0jd
Key points from http://t.co/rv2JqpX0jd 1) The SPFL share is now the “club”. 2) Liquidate and Newco is a debt “solution”. Simply corrupt.
Rules rewritten again to ensure Sevco will never die…
I can’t see it but certainly they’ll need to be alerted. It’s just outright fraud.
So the “club” wasn’t separate to the company previously, but the SPFL board are laughably trying to make it so now. http://t.co/rv2JqpX0jd
Here’s an interesting piece if true @GrahamSpiers – it will be impossible for a “club” to go out of business ever. http://t.co/rv2JqpX0jd
Thats it in a nutshell, all to safeguard Sevco. It’s saying to clubs, “Liquidate, stiff creditors and come back ‘same'”…!
TET, TnT – anybody else looking at Charlotte’s missive.
While I agree this is both shocking and preposterous it’s not actually in place – yet.
The document was from September last year and if you look at the final paragraph it suggest that if there is enough support among the club then it might be put forward at the meeting on the 13th January. Do you not think we’d have heard rumblings about this before now if it had got the levels of support required?
My suspicion is that Charlotte is just letting as know that the muppets in charge are still seeking to bend and break things for the benefit of one club.
The whole thing throws up a number of questions. Here’s one:
What if a ‘club’ is liquidated and it’s SPFL share is passed to a NewCo, however the new owners decide to change the name of ‘the club’?
So NewCo, new name – same club.
Complete shambles.
Weeminger
It just shows the mindset though of officialdom regardless of whether it gets the support or not.
Paranoid Celtic fans?
hen1rik
That’s the death certificate for the game that we all already knew in our hearts was dead, killed by the Orcs and their cronies in high places, they don’t give a rats arse about sport or integrity or paying their dues, or any thing like that all they care about is trying to get a hun team back in the top league so they can try again(Sic) to lord it over Timmy, it’s what drives their pathetic existence and it’s all signed, sealed and delivered by the authorities…
Thanks Mate for all your work keeping up the pressure on this story..
Starry..
Morning all
Re Twists’n’Turns post
I read it once and assumed it was some long winded joke. I read it a second time and realised it wasn’t. That such proposals can be seriously entertained is , alas, entirely believable in the less than wonderful world of Scoddish Foodball
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
Twists:
With up until Derk.
Nothing I’ve seen suggests any sign of value.
Could be my Guidi moment though…
:-)
Well done to Pukki and Amido last night….enjoyed that performance.
Pukki, looked like a real player last night, I think he has realised, that if you show a good attitude things will happen….good Lhad
Amido….this big Lhad has plenty going for him….he gets a buzz from the fans encouraging him….go on son
Cant believe im not moaning about a meaningless game…but, enjoyed it very much.
well done Lhads
C,mon the hoops
HH
From macbloscaidh twitter.
There are two ways to end this cheating scam.
Fans refuse to pay money into Scottish football and force change or take this thing to court.
New SPFL Chairman to be Vince McMahon, then?
What would the voting figures be on this corruption……with more than 50% of Scottish Clubs struggling financially (and one deed) it is not outwith the realms of ‘self-preservation’ that this could be voted in…….having said that, I don’t think it will ever reach the vote stage, since it is, so blatantly, corruption of the first order…..
Come on, Celtic Board, get us out of here……
From macbloscaidh twitter.
The way this had been handled is not only a shame on football but a shame on the country as a whole who have been paralysed by the whole scam just to aid the establishment franchise.
67Heaven
Its as bent as bananas….scoddish football is a punishment to those who refuse to speak up about the corruption.
And we all know, who should be speaking out….don’t we
Anyway…HH
Just in to say….
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Jobo Baldie
07:14 on 10 January, 2014
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Hi, remember me amigo ?
Anyway – I’m sorry to tell you that, I disagree wi ye.
Ye see what last night showed is that Neil was ‘wrong’ to not play Balde n Pukki. imo
Ye see, if a Celtic manager signs a player and, is then ‘feart’ to play him cause of the rabbid hun / animals that we play against ‘every’ week and the licence afforded to these players who play for these, hun / animals then…is this Celtic manager or rather, has this Celtic manager just arrived from Mars ?
Thats why, being a Celtic player means that, from day one…yer manager should have schooled ye for the barbarity that you(the player) will face both, on and off the pitch. imo
Ye see, this is an issue regarding the ‘vetting’ procedures that are implemented under the managers watch.imo
Not going to make a judgement on the players concerned but, I have been saying to generalise this issue, that the two players under discussion have been badly managed by Neil and, I expect the manager to do his usual and ‘brass-it out’ rather than put his hands up and say that, he fecked it up by, treating the fans to the goalless performances by a member of his clique to….what was it ? One goal in sixteen games ? That equates to ‘pish’ management. imo
I think that Neil should wield the knife(scalpal) and get rid of – Saammi and try to get a front line set-up that includes both Balde n Pukki.
Also…get rid of Joe(the ghost) and bring in young McGinn from St. Mirrens midfield. imo
OK wi that ?
Tough if ye urny !!!
Hail Hail – Off oot.
the green man
10:19 on 10 January, 2014
We can speak out but, legally, our Board cannot…..without evidence of corruption and, anyway, it is the SFA who need to address this corruption…..oh, no, wait….!!!!
kevjungle
10:21 on 10 January, 2014
Comedy classic…….please tell me you’re away oot….LOL
Blantyretim.
Are you okay for a phone call now.
billy bhoy 05 @ 08:47 on 10 January, 2014
And some supporters who needed to sell, made a profit. The shares soared in the early years.
Your assertion that most fans lost is just plain wrong, but it wouldn’t suit your argument to admit it.
You wrote something that you couldn’t back up. You might well believe it to be true. If this assertion is said often enough it will become “the truth”. In fact it is wrong.
My response was to try to show that it was wrong. Most fans did not lose out on their “investment”.
If I was Neil Lennon….Id get wee jaimsie and derk, and sit them down to watch a tape of Bobby Lennox .
Derk cannot beat a man, and wee jaimsie cant stop falling on his arse.
Show them how real wingers play….
In fact, one the buzzbomb recovers, ask him if he would show them how to play:)
Get well soon Bobby…you could still do a job in that team.
HH
I sold most of my shares not long after buying them and felt quite bad that I had made a substantial profit- that wasnt what I’d bought them for- they were to help my club in its time of need, and when that need passed for various reasons I required the money more than Celtic did- they weren’t about profit for most of us who bought
Yawn…
Sounds like a decent performance last night – doesn’t mean much of course but if it gives a bit of confidence to Pukki and Balde then it was a worthwhile exercise. Reports that Nir Biton played well too – he looks like a find.