Starting with a blank sheet of paper and a player found guilty of biting an opponent, I’d struggle to justify a punishment less than 6 games. It’s by no means the worst thing that happens on a football field, or the most dangerous, but it’s primitive, unhygienic and poses health risks.
Few of us have prior knowledge of Nadir Ciftci, so there’s little point in looking online for character references. The player was charged with biting an opponent. He denied the allegation but was found guilty by an SFA disciplinary panel yesterday. I’ve seen photos of Jim McAlister’s bite-sized leg wound and have no interest in hearing mitigating comment about what happened during the Dundee derby.
Despite this, Nadir is having a good month. He signed for Celtic, made his debut and potentially has five Champions League qualifiers to play between now and his domestic suspension concluding at the end of August (yes, six league games in August). If he’s a clever guy, he’ll force his way into the manager’s plans for those five games and never look back. If not, he’ll find his card marked, like a Dundonian leg.
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WBA have got previous -they hunted Anelka for an anti-semetic goal celebration .
Only it wasnt anti-semetic . That was a witch-hunt and now they’re going after MacClean. Crazy backward stuff.
Seriously, we need – and I am sure we will get – a professional display tomorrow. Champions of Iceland will be no mugs at home. Any win for us tomorrow will merit a wee clebration. Qualifying for next round will still merit a wee bottle or two of Tavel…
67
It will be a walk in the park tomorrow night.
mike in toronto 18:23 on 21 July, 2015
Must be true then that Glaswegian explorers sharing a bottle christened CANADA…………
‘what we gonnae call this place?’
First ghuy think of a letter…………. ‘C’……….. second ghuy eh!
Third ghuy N……… second ghuy eh!
Third ghuy D…………….. second ghuy eh!
It was the second ghuy’s bottle…………
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
GG and Tet
The huns do have their fare share of gullible boneheads who are drip fed daily crap by the msm. However I’d say the majority have taken the default position of ‘no surrender’ as it were, that is, whilst in full knowledge of the fact that their club died, cannot ever admit it. That denial in itself makes them out even more stupid that the ones who really don’t get it.
Then there’s the odd one who slips up, like the guy a few weeks back who under pressure from my questioning, finally buckled with… ‘OK we did die…., but so did yous in 94’.
Interesting stuff the discussion on punishment for players or clubs, why are clubs punished for their supporters behaviour but not their players behaviour ?
Ciftci punishment was a dawdle – seriously muzzle him for the 8 game she was banned for embarrass the crap out of him a punishment he would not forget in a hurry.
RWE
18:25 on 21 July, 2015
J………….Back online but managed to lock myself out but J came to the rescue……V disnae know……………Yet……………
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
Chet Baker -ggrrr.
He should stick to playin’ the ole trumpet.
Even I can carry a choon better than him, vocally.
Can’t wait for the game tomorrow. Hope to see a few in the Bad Ass Cafe, Temple Bar, Dublin.
HH,
Clogher
Is it called the Bad Ass Cafe because there’s no toilet paper ?
mike in toronto
18:23 on
21 July, 2015
I remember driving down south once, and this lady said (in the broadest southern belle way ) …’yall have the funniest accents’ .. which made us all laugh, … and when we said we were from Toronto, it nearly blew her mind!
*stopped off on our way to Graceland late one night at a Hampton Inn in Cincinnati (I had an exam that morning), when I asked for a room the wee girl at the counter said “have you just driven down from Canada”, “Yes” I replied, “how did you guess”, “oh your accent”. I sound the same as when I lived on the Bonnie Banks.
MiT
The bonnie banks of the Cart???
;-)
HH jamesgang
canamalar
19:14 on 21 July, 2015
Is it called the Bad Ass Cafe because there’s no toilet paper ?
__________
:-))
gg
sorry for not responding earlier … still midday here, and had to take a call.
Some parts of America I love, and some of them are great people, but, as a rule, I find them very inward looking …. I think it is over 70% of Britons who have a passport, whereas less than half of that number in america do (and that number has increased dramatically in the last 20 years) …
but, as you rightly point out, it is changing …..in spite of their traditional ‘melting pot’ mentality, the increased mutliculturalism has been and is good for America, and is hopefully changing its relationship with other countries …..
ps … I spent some time in New Jersey, and it was lovely… not at all the way it is presented in films.
Canamalar
You chill bro?
Had a wee look at the link to the player valuations site.
Interested to see that Derk is valued more than GMS or Stuart Armstrong.
Wonder how they would value biggins in comparison to Henrik.
Or Wayne in comparison to Christopher Baggins.
Sipsini
Or the sore ass cafe if it has the old shiny bog roll you used to get at school in the 60s.
Pleasewashyourhands csc
Mikeintoronto, further to your post about Americans and passports.
I read years ago that G W Bush had never been out of America until he became President.
What makes that even more unbelievable is that was he a multi-millionaire prior to becoming President.
I hope you get to see the game tomorrow night. You have a point in not playing Griff tomorrow night to reduce the chance of injury but part of me wants him to play as he is a natural goal scorer.
WITS,
All outraged out, blow out sabbatical
canamalar
‘In non Jobo recounted weather news, tropical storm canamalar has been downgraded to a moderate radge with occasional outbursts of tetchiness.
However the outlook looks set to change later in the week as dander levels rise once again.’
;-)
HH jamesgang
JG,
:oD too bloody accurate
;-)
dallas … fortunately, my case for tomorrow just settled, so hopefully I will be in the office and can have the game on in the background!
I agree about LG … they bhoy can score! and with a working midfield who could create chances … he would win the Golden Boot! I’m serious.. I rate him highly.
Dunblane bhoy ….top class forecasting …
braw ..
Canamalar,
Many of the Dublin based Celtic fans watch the games there. I understand it might sound like an unfortunate name.
Tomorrow, it will be a round trip of 60 miles, I can only have soft drinks because of the driving.
But it will still be worth it to watch the games with like minded people.
HH,
Clogher
neustadt-braw
;-)
HH jamesgang
In response to the Amuka attitude; it’s not all bad and only a sweeping generalisation but we are all guilty of that surely. It’s just that the funnier the story/tale, the more likely it is to figure the ‘Yank tourist’………………
Won’t bore you all with the numerous (personal) encounters but some really take a bit of believing:………….e.g.
Hilton hotel, back bar in Westheimer, Houston…….How did you get here from Scatland; you have aeroplanes WOW!!!!
In Kilkee, County Clare, on our way back in the mini bus from a visit to the Cliffs of Moher……… ‘Was OK but you would have thought they could have had an elevator for the older folks!’………
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
I just checked flights to Iceland. (Can’t spell Reykjavik). Thank you predictive text.
I was surprised that it was more than 800 miles.
I thought it was closer.
Probably because flying past Iceland I think I’m nearly home.
Clougher…,
I’d prefer to be joining you than sitting in Abu Dhabi
sounds like the development squad are taking no prisoners……good to see…
braw
referee is Willie the Gollum…
braw
barcamole
I used to stay regularly in the Hilton on Westheimer.
Catholic Church just past the lights and straight along to the CSC.
You didn’t work for a software company in a previous or even present lifetime?
Oooooooops.
It seems the Franck Ribery story
that I posted earlier may have been a spoof.
He wasnt in the bath, he was in the shower !!!
Ha ha
when you read the “bath” story in the SMSM tomorrow, you can have a double “Ha ha”…
TheBarcaMole
Agreed…. it is present to a greater or lesser degree in every culture …. and it is all in how we seem them.
There is a test/term used in sociology/anthropology ‘nacirema’ (from a leading study/paper from the ’50’s, I think) which referred to the strange habits of this tribe in NA…. of course, the tribe are americans (nacirema is american spelled backwards), but most americans were shocked to hear of these strange habits of this odd culture :) … good reading.
Canamalar,
Thanks, should be good tomorrow. Sorry about the name of the place.
Dublin2016, won’t be there.
Away to pick up the kids.
HH,
Clogher
garygillespieshamstring…
Izal it was called, remember it well :(
Pitch looking not to bad for tomorrow night
https://twitter.com/CelticView/status/623567983668031488
clogher celt…
I was talking to my daughters boyfriend whose dad is from Donegal, they’re heading over two weeks later than me and reckon the flights will rocket due to the celebrations.
When would be best to book up? HH