Lots of speculation over the weekend that we’ll see Craig Gordon in goal for Scotland and Fraser Forster in for England tomorrow night. I’m claiming the two of them as ‘ours’. Big Fraser was a great Celtic goalkeeper and professional. He deserves one last curtain call on the pitch that made him.
I see Dick Advocaat completed his work with Serbia in less than half a season after their home defeat by Denmark on Friday and is now available for employment elsewhere. The Serbs have carried some hurt after Denmark made-off with Euro 92, when one of Europe’s great teams were denied their stage by civil war. The Danes were famously on the beach after being eliminated from the qualifying rounds by Yugoslavia before war in the Balkans opened the door for them to compete in, and win the tournament.
The last thing Serbian football fans deserved was to have Advocaat lead them. The Dutchman left us with so many great memories.
Do you have Craig Whyte holed up in a safe house, as the formerly advertised Motherwell-born billionaire remains at large after a warrant was issued for his arrest on Friday? If not, he’s perhaps gone feral and living in an outbuilding.
Check your shed, look behind the bins. It might be an idea to leave some food out for him. He may be disguised, there is no guarantee he’ll be wearing his Celtic scarf and Burton’s apparel, so stay alert.
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Geordie..,
Smile ffs some got two mentions it’s only a feckin anonymous blog name :oD)))
From the Irish Times report on the Alloa game.
Rangers get a free-kick. The grandad in front of me springs up. “Get every c*nt in the f**kin’ box!” he screeches. His two grandchildren, boys aged seven or eight, gaze at him inquisitively. I look around and, everywhere, angry men stand and rage at Rangers, while quiet children sit and watch with wide eyes.
Am I the only one who finds that a really really sad read? All gloating aside, there is just something depressing about this.
Get those grandchildren to Celtic Park…
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/sandy-row-pupils-raise-305-for-oscar-fund-30748566.html
Nice story – Sandy Row is a loyalist enclave in Belfast.
BT
I often cross the neru bridge where Jason’s mrs met an untimely death …
I’m pretty sure he could kid on he’s Russian and mingle in with the moscovites around these parts
Think I told you before … Never see an oldco or sevco shirt in Goa and hardly met a zombie
Canamalar
Easy for you to say…I think I’ll need therapy to get over it :))
ITALIABHOY
No,mate. It is a really sad read,as you say.
It is no surprise.
tbj
goa is a haven for hippies is it not?
Peace and love don’t really come into their way of living…8))
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spfl-lower-divisions/four-men-in-court-over-rangers-sale-1-3607411
PETETHEBEAT
Wonderful to see that charity and love can cross the divide where children are involved.
Now we simply have to work on the adults and the job is done.
Elvis seen on the moon as Lord Lucan turned up for jokes after March ( 5,5 ).
Off oot ———- vet man is here to castrate some unfortunate little piggies.
Another fascinating piece from the Irish times. Celtic come up near the end. Keane is a constantly interesting character, like him or not. I personally do.
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Roy Keane in tense stand-off with media over hotel incident
Ireland assistant manager refuses to answer question on issue
Roy Keane addressed a wide range of topics well when he spoke to the press yesterday with the 43 year-old dealing in a considered manner with, in particular, the disappointment of Ireland’s defeat by Scotland in Glagow, the nature of it and the increased pressure that exists now as a result for the team to win its home games in the new year.
Later, he suggested that he felt there would be significant changes to the team Martin O’Neill selects for the game against the USA at the Aviva tomorrow with, as he put it, “a lot of lads who’ve been in the squad for the last few matches . . . entitled to get a game and to show the manager what they’re about.”
Training had been cancelled so that the players could be given the day off and his press conference, somewhat unusually these days, was held in the team hotel.
For the most part, the atmosphere was fine with Keane answering the questions asked, as he tends to, politely and professionally; or declining to, as he did when a television reporter asked about the incident which in the same hotel had resulted in him calling the gardaí last Wednesday night.
When the general issue of the potential for trouble with outsiders was subsequently raised again, he dismissed the idea, replying somewhat light-heartedly.
“No. I go into Malahide, we have a coffee, it’s fine. We went out last night for a meal, it was fine.
“We’re not One Direction.”
As the broadcast media left, Simon Baker of the Irish Amputee Football Association stole the floor for a few minutes and, having apologised to Keane in a way that left the Ireland assistant manager little leeway to object, made an appeal to the remaining print media for a mention for his team’s participation in the forthcoming Amputee World Cup in Mexico.
Keane looked taken aback at the interruption at first but then actually seemed quite taken by the cheek of it and broke into a warm smile as he realised what it was about.
Subsequently, though, after another spell of questions and answers that passed without incident, he reacted rather less well when a newspaper reporter returned to the events of Wednesday evening.
The exchange became tense from Keane’s first reply, which started before the initial question was completed, with the assistant manager clearly increasingly angry as it went on.
Journalist #1: Sorry, Roy, I want to ask this because it was touched upon earlier. I expect to get ‘the stare’ but I’m going to ask anyway. Martin was asked before the game about the incident; he said it was a distraction and he moved on. I’m just thinking, in the last six months, I’d like your thoughts on this, between the Celtic link, the Villa link, the book situation and the incident last week.
Roy Keane: I’m not going to give you any comment on that . . . why would you think I have to give you an opinion on everything? Do you think you’ve a right to sit there and ask me anything you want and get an answer? I think I’ve been more than fair with yiz.
Journalist #1: You have. My point is that Martin is being asked about distractions. Has he had enough of those distractions?
Keane: What are you asking me for? What are you talking about? What distractions? Can I do anything about the Celtic stuff?
Journalist #1: Yeah, the Celtic and Villa…
Keane: Can I do anything about them things that come up? If I get approached about a job and I’m upfront with the manager and the media, do you want me to . . . how is that a distraction? What can I do about that? You’re making out I’m bringing all these distractions on.
Journalist #1: So it just happens; it’s just coincidence these things happen.
Keane: Well, if a club approaches me, these things just happen, yeah. The book? How is the book connected . . . do you think the book is a distraction to a group of professional people? Do me a favour. And then people all writing about the incident the other night. Lies. And people with their pals, talking to them. So I’ve got to justify all that to you? And you all sit there and think I’ve got to answer to everything? Who the hell do you think you are? I’ve got to answer to you? No, I don’t.
Journalist #1: Not to everything, no. It’s a press conference.
Keane: I answer to the FAI and Martin and if we don’t get the results, I’ll be gone and you won’t lose a minute’s sleep, so don’t worry about distractions. You’re the ones who write about the distractions.
Journalist #1: We write about them because it seemed to be an obvious thing to write about. There was an incident, so we had to write about it.
Keane: Exactly, yeah. But you’re on about Celtic and Aston Villa, what do you want me to do about them? If Celtic approached me, what did you want me to say? You couldn’t get enough of it.
Journalist #1: I’m not denying that.
Keane: Of course. So what could I do about the Celtic situation?
Journalist #1: I don’t know. Martin brought it . . .
Keane: Incidents. What other incidents? The book? Do you think that was a distraction? The book. Did you think the book was a distraction? An agreement was made six months before . . .
Journalist #1: Would you have liked your assistant manager to be bringing out a book before a match?
FAI Director of Communications Peter Sherrard: We’ll leave it there, thanks.
Keane: You’ve asked Martin. What’s he said? You’re asking me what Martin O’Neill might think? I don’t know.
Journalist #1: I’m thinking has he had enough of these . . .
Keane: Ask him. What are you asking me for? Go and see him in the lobby. You’re not brave enough. Why don’t you ask him? You’re not brave enough to ask him . . .
Journalist #1: I am brave enough. We’ll ask him. I don’t have access.
Sherrard: You’ll see him tomorrow. You can ask him tomorrow if you want.
Keane: What are you asking me about what Martin O’Neill might be thinking? Why don’t you ask Martin? What if we qualify? Do you think it’ll be a distraction? Do you think it was all a distraction from the result the other night?
Journalist #1: I don’t know. It was the build-up for the 24 hours before the game. Everyone was talking about it.
Keane: What was the problem with that? What was the problem with that? What was the problem with the build-up to this game?
Journalist #1: We were all talking about it
. Keane: Talking about what? Talking about something you don’t have a clue about. And everyone writing lies again. The usual nonsense. This happening, that happening. I’m turning down to . . .
Journalist #2: Roy, can I just ask about one final thing? You said you wouldn’t talk about what happened with Frank the other night . . .
Keane: Frank. Do you know him?
Journalist #2: I do know him.
Keane: Of course, you do. You know him well, yeah, you know him well? You know Mick McCarthy well, don’t you?
FAI press officer: Right, listen, Roy has given you his time, we’ll leave it there.
Journalist 2: I don’t know him very well.
Keane: You know Frank well don’t you? Oh, you know Frank well. Exactly.”
As he gets up to leave several journalists, including the two involved in the exchange, thank him at which point he stops and says to one of them: For what?
Journalist #1: For your time.
I believe Craigy was last seen reading a copy of Shawshank Redemption and ordering large posters of his favourite actresses.
Great new article Paul. I know every Celtic fan has been frantic with worry about the welfare of Dick Advocaat since he resigned from the Serbia job. Also nice that you balance that with a humorous look at the Graig Whyte situation.
Now, where can I find some Celtic news?
My friends in Celtic,
Has Craigy Bhoy found the lost mythical city of Atlantis.
HH.
glendalystonsils
12:40 on 17 November, 2014
I’m not saying I’ve got Craigy boy, but…..erm…… is there a reward for turning him in?
£1
Report of google eyed fud on comet 67p ;)))
HH
BT
You know I’m just a new age hippy and peace & love are my mantra ;)
In fact the woman on the plane to Mumbai was giving me earache so I said ” Gonny geez peace love “
Tbj
I can tell you are already chilling by your posts…●)
I saw the list of suspects from CQN but it is more likely that Ogilvie has him secreted somewhere.
Loch Lomond Golf Club, perhaps.
Ogilvie and Regan have more reason than us to keep CW out of the warm embrace of the law.
Seems a few dinosuars are stuck in the good old cold war mentality. Or maybe they are just brain-washed. Russia is evil. All that is bad in the world comes from Russia where the evil Putin is plotting his take-over of the planet.
Meanwhile the good guys US -UK France the EU support Isreal “mowing the grass” in Gaza ,illeagal bombing in Iraq and Syria Libya,supporting a facist regime in Ukraine .
I
Ra Berrs are no confident:
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yorkbhoy
£1 for one guy? You can buy a whole club for that!
David Conn @david_conn 2m2 minutes ago
Hillsborough Inquest: Ex-wife: Ch Supt Mole left the freemasons because he was annoyed with people always asking for favours for others.
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Hillsborough Inquest: Ch Supt Brian Mole’s ex-wife: Both Mole and Ch Supt David Duckenfield, who took charge of the match, were freemasons.
They seek him here
they seek him there
in Broomloan road
and Blytheswood Square
for he’s a dedicated follower of fascism.
Kinks csc
This whole whyte situation doesn’t make sense. He recorded and provided the evidence that incriminated himself.
blantyre tim
Cause there’ one thing I know Lord above
I aint goin’a go
I aint goin’a Goa
Alabama3csc
You can dance – but you can’t hide.
So any live feeds from the sheriff court ?
Craig Whyte was last seen walking away from police interrogation with a fast disappearing limp.
“I was, if you like, driving the train when it crashed but I wasn’t the one who set it on this path.”
Craig Whyte
Will the accused be bailed or remanded for background reports
BSR,
Is that the handcuff shuffle
“What was the alternative?” he asked. “What people are forgetting is that the club didn’t have any money to pay tax.”
Craig Whyte
canamalar
Ha – sadly, looks like the real villain isn’t in the picture, and our hero is going to take the wrap.
bournesouprecipe,
Craigy Bhoy had “wealth off the radar” he didn’t need the clubs money
HH.
Tried to buy the “Assassin” book online, but it declined my debit card.
Is the system still down?
BSR,
There’s a cartel of them and I’m hoping their day is coming,we can only observe for the moment.
Paul67 et al
Tomorrow Radio 5 is broadcasting from Glasgow, at least part of the time. Of possible interest is that Frank Mulholland will be interviewed, by Adrian Chiles, from 10.00am. Frank will be talking about his role in the recent World’s End conviction, but he will also be asked about the OBB Act. It is a phone-in, so hopefully this parish will be represented.