“Not many know what goes on behind the scenes”, Shane Duffy’s words on Instagram as he said his goodbyes to Celtic yesterday. Arriving a year ago as a 28-year-old international with years of English Premiership experience, he looked like the ideal addition to the Celtic squad.
Whatever ailed Shane to prompt Brighton to move him on, a year in Glasgow, much of it in isolation away from family and his kids, did nothing to help. His parting sentiment alludes to some of his challenges has endured off the park.
If footballers would only be machines, nothing like this would happen. Competitions would resolve in a manner the aborted European Super League would approve. Shane was physically fit and desperate to be a winner at Celtic but still came off the rails. You can bookmark him for a reflective piece when his career is over, I expect he will tell a familiar tale of the toll life’s pressures took.
Yip, still no news. No, not a good sign.
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PHILBHOY on 9TH MAY 2021 9:43 AM
Well I’ve already started the garden bit, in between showers, but it’s Aberfoyle😰. Will have a few beers later, watch football and back down to sunny Prestonpans tomorrow morning😂
where is George Galloway?
You dont speak for the working class
enjoy ypur time on the debating circuit
you’ll get a meal there
your social conservative post brexit pash is an embarassment.
like your war criminal pal
you betray your core vote working with Tories
yes George being a cat for the tories
found his home
not only working with vermin
its the brexit splint his not voted for rump
got told to gtf.
see yi on the circuit
your blowhard proxy on here does not know anything of figures.thats been shown,cant source a figure.
keep farting your guff about vaccine
keep ignoring an initial death rate higher than india.
Looking at the colours on the maps.
Boris should do what the other great tories did, partition a country to protect their own self interest.
Let the tory borders maintain their union with england, and the rest of us have an independent scotland.
Worked for Irenald and India with no problems.
and if Dumfries and Galloway was still part of the union, it would give the Loyalists somewhere to stay once Ireland is unified.
what could possibly go wrong.
Scotland has spoken.
The democratic will is to have another referendum.
Let the people sing!
You can be sure,there was no Season Ticket money taken out of James Forrest’s account
Are the wummin playing?
Badabing
You can be sure,there was no Season Ticket money taken out of James Forrest’s account
aint that a truth.
hh
SAINT STIVS on 9TH MAY 2021 11:42
That did make me laugh👏👏
timhorton on 8th May 2021 4:12 pm
BADA BING
Eddie Howe………….Everton or Arsenal, is he that good.
Hi Tim,hope you’re well, Howe’s stock was high for a couple of years, when keeping Bournemouth in the EPL comfortably, Arsenal and Everton at that time, would have possibly done better getting EH in ,than a Marco Silva
PRESTONPANS BHOYS on 9TH MAY 2021 11:53 AM
SAINT STIVS on 9TH MAY 2021 11:42
That did make me laugh👏👏
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somebody in the government advisors team will suggest it as a solution, wait and see if it becomes a talking point,
we should also build thousands of social housing in west aberdeenshire and eastwood, and give it free to nationalists from other major majority constituencies.
tactical voting and gerrymandering is the way ahead
ONENIGHTINLISBON on 9TH MAY 2021 11:43 AM
‘Scotland has spoken.
The democratic will is to have another referendum.’
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It isn’t, but don’t let the facts worry you.
Imagine for a minute that you are Nicola Sturgeon.
Would you really want to hold an independence referendum now, knowing that you would almost certainly lose?
The reality is that there isn’t going to be a referendum any time soon.
And the irony is that the more people like you demand one, and the more impatient you become, and the more vociferously you make your demands, the more difficult you make it for the cult leaders.
So more power to you. Keep pressurising them to do something they don’t want to do and will not do.
The problem though of course that in the meantime the things that really matter will continue to be ignored.
ERNIE LYNCH on 9TH MAY 2021 12:11 PM
You seem to do your fair share of crystal ball gazing-
No ref soon?
Scotland would vote no…
I mean don’t let the facts get in the way of a good moan.
Any chance of the lottery numbers for Wednesday?
SAINT STIVS on 9TH MAY 2021 11:42 AM
‘and if Dumfries and Galloway was still part of the union, it would give the Loyalists somewhere to stay once Ireland is unified.’
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They’re more likely to move to Ayrshire, funnily enough, which is something of an SNP stronghold at the moment. Certainly that’s where they tend to go at he moment. Not many, if any, OO lodges in Shangri-La.
lovely goal; celtic 1 up
Can’t say I’m overly fussed about EH as I stated weeks ago , he has done nothing except keep Bournemouth in the top league by the skin of there teeth . He has no european experience either .
What does bother me is the time it is taking to appoint a head coach , which screams out to me that lawell is still in charge of business , that being the case god help us , look at the state we are presently in , a huge chunk of that is down to him , he should have been sacked ages ago , takes out the club enough to pay a couple of quality players . What a blooming mess can’t see things changing anytime soon till he is gone ,
JIMTIM on 9TH MAY 2021 12:21 PM
I don’t think the CEO has as much autonomy as you seem to think. I’d suggest the problem lies further up the food chain.
There can be no excuse now for not banning anti Catholic marches.
It just won’t wash anymore saying Labour didn’t ban them when in power. Times have changed.
School children have only known an SNP controlled Scotland, more than enough time to ban these hate fests.
ERNIE LYNCH on 9TH MAY 2021 12:15 PM
SAINT STIVS on 9TH MAY 2021 11:42 AM
‘and if Dumfries and Galloway was still part of the union, it would give the Loyalists somewhere to stay once Ireland is unified.’
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They’re more likely to move to Ayrshire, funnily enough, which is something of an SNP stronghold at the moment. Certainly that’s where they tend to go at he moment. Not many, if any, OO lodges in Shangri-La.
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Why would they come to Scotland if it is a replica of the united ireland.
an independent Scotland north of the expanded North Little Britain can introduce legislation that to live in our new Utopia you must have a Scottish or EU passport, keep the orangina’s south of the masons diddies line.
We could also build a new border fence and call if after my nephew, Adrians wall.
Hhmm.
Internet click bait journalists using the same tactics as the SMSM ?
Who-da-thunk-it?
– Peddle speculative, unsubstantiated guff to generate consumer response (clicks instead of direct sales)
– Let it play out for a period (shorter now in the internet age, hours instead of days)
– Publish a clarification ….
.. typically a complete 180 to the original
.. marketed under same banner headline
.. thus keeping alive a story which didn’t deserve life in the first place
Then sit back and enjoy dem clicks !!
Drew1967 – I am tickety boo mate apart from Arthritis riddling every joint in ma body.
0 for 7 that has got to be a record on a coupon. I liked her line “that’s me off coupons until this afternoon ” a great lengthy ban you gave yersell 😂😂😂
Hope you can try and make the beer frenzie on Friday 21st May where I would enjoy catching up over a nice cold pint or 15.
🍺🍻🍺
D :)
Her is your ffs I need a drink
D :)
Two quandries dominating CQN :-
Has Nicola got the balls to call a referendum now.
Have our custodians got us a manager yet.
HH.
Big Jimmy – Look after you’re wee pal Rocky and look after yourself to as we have some shipbank sheila’s to woo on the 21st.
D :)
and Sir keev will look after the working class
mining towns voting Tory
your route to power now gone
squealin like a wean.
Scotland was there to be explained to
but no explanation of iraqi dead continues the pumpin from the inside by the war criminal and the bankers friend 11fingered Gordon.
no explanation of the rich getting richer
betrayed
now wrap up well in your fleg,your a confused mess
Personally think its a disgrace the SNP even thinking of
a referendum when there is still an ongoing pandemic
I am sure thousands of people have more worrying
things on their mind now than another referendum
On the possibility of Celtic having taken season ticket
money prematurely I had a quick check of my Celtic
ticket account and no updates at all
Surely Celtic will give is all the ADDED VALUE for this
seasons ticket before trying to sell next season
Probably not
CELTICFOREVER on 9TH MAY 2021 12:44 PM
Personally think its a disgrace the SNP even thinking of
a referendum when there is still an ongoing pandemic
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To be fair the leadership have absolutely no intention of holding a referendum.
But they have to pretend otherwise to keep the dafties on side.
If the basis of political argument is now defining a party by moments or opinions in history then, by that logic;
The SNP doesn’t like Catholics.
The SNP doesn’t like anyone from Irish descent.
The SNP doesn’t like Celtic supporters.
And yet, anyone who opposes their constant campaigning on a Celtic blog gets demonised.
The scottish people have voted snp and greens on a mandate to hold a referendum for independence.
The uk government should respect the will of the people of scotland. The stuff about not getting the vote because the last referendum was a once in a generation vote is silly soundbites and underplays multiple change issues from being forced out of the EU to the 500k to 1m people who are now able to vote and those no longer able to vote. We live in a democracy, the uk government’s undemocratic legislation that can be used to veto this undermine the equal partnership of the uk.
I listened to Michael Gove today on Andrew M and his arrogance in telling the scottish people what they voted for and against was breathtaking poor in taste. We are apparently not able to understand what we voted for ffs.
HH
The pandemic will be finished sometime next year, maybe even this year.
Why does everything need to be focused on “the recovery” ?
Cant both be done at the sametime ?
what is the issues ?
3 NIL THE HOOPS
so far out of touch with Scots people, even the tory voting ones.
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Michael Gove talks up Scottish Champions League Final option as he picks Hampden over Ibrox for ‘obvious’ reasons
The Minister for the Cabinet Office has floated the idea of the biggest game in club football heading north of the border.
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Leading Tory politician Michael Gove admits he would love Scotland to be given the chance to host this season’s Champions League Final.
But the Minister for the Cabinet Office believes Hampden Park would be a better choice than Rangers ‘ Ibrox Stadium to welcome Manchester City and Chelsea on May 29.
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Talks remain ongoing with UEFA to settle on a venue with Istanbul added to the UK’s travel red list over the weekend which means no British-based supporters will be able to travel.
That has led to renewed talk over an alternative venue with several English stadiums putting themselves in the mix to host the biggest match in club football.
But Gove would like to see Scotland back on the big stage and earn their first Champions League Final since Real Madrid defeated Bayer Leverkusen in 2002.
Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, he said: “Personally speaking, I wouldn’t mind if it were held here in Scotland. I wouldn’t mind if it were held at Hampden.
Ps I am not a fan of the SNP and dont agree with everything they say, but they and the greens won enough seats to progress th key mandate promises.
The labour party are red Tories, sold their soul to the rich and powerful to get elected under Blair and co. Marginalised traditional voters and now coming back to tell those same voters they left behind that they are the peoples party.
Joke of a party
Question for ANY Brexiters on here….
Where is the £350 MILLION a WEEK….that the Tories PROMISED would be saved by the UK…once the UK has left the EU…..?
Where is the MONEY ?
simple question.
Covid19 will be superceded by Global Warming…I Mean Cooling….. I mean Climate Change.
We need to depopulate like China.
At the end of my street a fella has taken to flying a Union Flag up a pole.
Earlier this morning when passin, he was having a moment of changing the flag, a wee mini ceremony to himself.
He might be ex military i dont know, but jeese oh he is getting weirder.
The Good Book – Genesis nonetheless Talks about Multipying Humanity.
CELTICFOREVER on 9TH MAY 2021 12:44 PM
How much attention did you pay to the election campaign?
The First Minister stated throughout that the priority was and remains COVID recovery.
The unionists spent more time talking about a second referendum than she did.