“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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Big Jimmy,
Respect Bro – I am a Brexit dude and cannae say where the Money has went.
No Governmemt has faced these challenges so they deserve some leeway – even the SNP who I really dinnae like.
I Wonder to myself Who Morrissey would vote for if he was Scottish.
England should have their OWN Referendum to decide whether THEY want rid of Scotland and wales ?
The Union Flag wavers on here keep telling us ” HOW MUCH”, Scotland relies on the UK Govt for money, Vaccines etc…..
So why not allow THE ENGLISH FOLK decide whether they want to continue to have Scotland and Wales ?
I would wager that a LARGE PERCENTAGE of Englanders would be more than happy to rid themselves of the Scots and the Welsh.
Maybe the SNP and/or the UK Pollsters should Canvas the English ?
If I am right, wee Nicola and the SNP Members WILL get exactly what they want…Problem solved.
Think of ALL the Money and Vaccines that England could keep for themselves.
SQUIRE DANAHER on 9TH MAY 2021 1:19 PM
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.
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100% CORRECT young Sir.
HH
PETEC on 9TH MAY 2021 1:26 PM
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Respect …ar last a Brexiteer who is HONEST !
As for Mr Morrisey…NOT for me as I always found him to be far too Sugary and Upbeat in his music…Sorry PETEC.
HH.
STEPHBHOY67 on 9TH MAY 2021 12:59 PM
I am the last one to stick up for M Gove but I got the impression he was sent out on a firefighting mission to ramen this media hysteria about the case for a second IndyRef ending up in the Supreme Court.
I thought he bent over backwards to give NS her place and even he acknowledged that she has persistently stated throughout this campaign that the priority at the moment is COVID recovery.
I didn’t get the same vibe from him today as you clearly did and thought he was on what for his normal standards passed as a charm offensive with less of his usual slimy pomposity on show.
I would NEVER get tired of Smacking Boris and that other CHUMP Gove in the Mush.
Ramen – dampen. Predictive text.
BIG JIMMY on 9TH MAY 2021 1:30 PM
“Young sir”.
You’ve made ma day ha ha
STEPHBHOY67 on 9TH MAY 2021 12:59 PM
What’s all this “telling the Scottish people” thing about – the majority have always voted for parties opposed to separation, in elections & the once in a generation referendum. The separatists are the minority – SNP voters are NOT “the Scottish people”.
Douglas ” RED, RED” Ross would go down with just one Slap……He makes Dale Winton look like Big Arnie.
JIMTIM on 9TH MAY 2021 12:21 PM
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.
JIMTIM, I’ve said repeatedly that my big, big worry is exactly that – the crew that got us in to this mess (including Lawwell) are still in place and, presumably, working on the solutions. God help us!!
The Tories once again have EMBRACED ANY Labour Voters who have Jumped Ship in order to Vote using Tactics to deny the SNP by Voting Tory in Scotland….
And Yet….
Those same Unionists are Greetin and Moaning about The Green Party being able to Vote alongside the SNP , and in turn giving the SNP an OVERALL MAJORITY….
Hows that for the Union Flag Wavers HYPOCRISY ?
STEPHBHOY67 on 9TH MAY 2021 1:12 PM
The labour party are red Tories.
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I don’t know what age you are – you sound very young. Suggest you read a few books on UK political history. The Labour Party has won all the great socialist battles for British working people – their proud record would fill four A4 sheets, back & front. The nationalists have never proposed, or, enacted any substantial piece of legislation for the working class in their 80+ years in existence.
MARTIM1980 on 9TH MAY 2021 12:57 PM
If the basis of political argument is now defining a party by moments or opinions in history then, by that logic;
÷÷ your logic is wrong÷÷
The SNP doesn’t like Catholics.
÷÷ nonsense.The Catholic faith works with all political parties.You dont like snp which is fair enough but less of the shiteswiping its only your opinion,one that is failing badly no matter how often repeated ÷÷
The SNP doesn’t like anyone from Irish descent.
÷÷ your into the realms of utter pish now.just lets say yir wrang!
Every fear you have felt fear,every time you have been seconded,every time you have been discrimminated against have all arisen in the union you grew up in ,all the orange marches with your labour(hidden fascists) grandees attending regularly. ÷÷.
Have faith Martin.your attempts to weaponize it are futile
hh
Just a few utterings on the Political front as political views are very personnel and also my own Political view is very much in the minority now
But i do get annoyed when all Labour supporters are dismissed as being BUTCHER APRON supporters when in my experience this is just not true
As for the continuing description that the Tony Blair administration is all the Labour party reflects is far from the truth
IMHO most of the improvements in the Working Class conditions have came as a direct result of labour policy but i know im just a Dinosaur
PS when Blair was voted in I would have gladly have voted OLD NICK in to get rid of that shower
HH
WHERE is the Feckin £350 MILLION A WEEK…That Unionist Tories PROMISED UK Voters ?
At least the Celtic Poster and Brexiteer ” PETEC” WAS honest enough to address that question earlier…UNLIKE The other Unionists on here.
Back in 2019 and the Tory Buses with the ” £350 Million a Week” PROMISE, in which MOST of that Cash was SUPPOSED to go to the NHS ?…
At the time I and many others thought that the NHS would NEVER need to Funded in any other way…IF that BUS Slogan was True….
IT was a Blatant Vote Winning LIE…Simples…and the NHS STILL needs funding with or without Covid issues…WHY is that ?
I’m not a political animal. Mostly bores me to tears. But I do like numbers and formulas. So I had a read of the rules which determine who gets a constituency seat and who gets the regional seats.
In short, constituency is first past the post. The individual with the most votes wins.
Regional, is a complex version of proportional representation. Designed to avoid a single party majority. Very clever. In summary, the region is made up of a number of constituencies. There are seven seats per region. The number of seats each party gets from those seven is inversely proportional to the number of seats the party got in the constituencies.
For example, if there are 10 constituencies in the region, and one party got all 10 seats, they will get 0 regional seats.
Hence the reason Cons, Lab and Greens got 3, 3 and 1 seat each respectively in a region where all constituency seats were won by Labour.
As I said, very clever system. And I approve of both the premise and the actual results.
Labours Jackie Ballie MP….is a Feckin Joke…a Scareddie Cat who couldnt answer ONE Simple Question from me…She BOLTED !
Is inversely proportional should have been expressed as “is most likely to be inversely proportional “
An Tearmann i respected the blog by waiting until after the election to post again to show I’m not a political campaigner.
You and your pals did not.
You post for your party.
I just want to read and talk about Celtic.
Ps you do not get to define who I am or what I have been through.
Your post is patronising.
social conservatives(toryglen) branch speaking on behalf of Labour party now
hahaha
is this the same “commie” labour of a few weeks ago
you should phone a friend…oh wait hes away forming his next party, what wiil he call it? working wi Social conservatives ? cause he will never speak for anyrhing working class again.
he can have a laugh with his betrayin pal Tony
who hollowed out that party from inside
So we entertain West Ham on July 24th.
Does our future manager have any say in these decisions ?
HH.
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.
Thanks Jackiemac for the CELTIC FOOTBALL TEAM updates.
I’ve worn a trench on my screen from scrolling past the political tennis match.
Two vote system is anti-democratic — easily gamed as we saw on Thursday.
Indy vote on a 61% turn-out — much lower than a GE — is 49.5%.
Consequently there is no majority for IndRef2 / 3 / 4 / 5 ….
Not-Jacinda and the Nats don’t want an IndyRef — they will lose and lose heavily.
Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas — the economics / financials are horrendous.
Pensions and benefits would have to be cut and mortgages would be a big issue.
Too many would be denominated in GBP and wages in the public sector / inland economy would have to fall.
There is just not the cash in the Scottish economy to keep them at their current GBP levels.
Export or die / starve — we would be reduced to selling passports / building plots / money laundering schemes / Peerages and titles /grouse moors to anyone with access to foreign currency.
However there is — for some strange reason — a strand of opinion that is desperate for IndyRef2.
They seem to want us to waste our time and energy on windmill tilting for some strange reason.
My thoughts are that it is a “plot” to hobble the UK / England / Westminster.
No matter how bad this shi% show is it is still only a boys game compared to Bojo and the Tories.
The Grauniad is a disgrace now — full of pictures of a smiling Bojo / Not Jacinda / the JL bloke in Brum.
Progressive my erse — first Orange Book Liberalism and now happy clappy nat waffle.
ALL Unionists wrap themselves in the Butchers Apron…Simples.
Those same Unionists will no doubt be on a Wrecking Spree of Glasgow next Weekend celebrating their 1st EVER SPL League Title…
If Police Scotland could stop themselves from joining in with the Mankie Unionist Mobs next week end…maybe they could arm themselves with Water Cannons and Machine Gun Nests…..and actually TRY and do the job that they are supposed to ?
that made as much sense as North Little Britain.
PAUL67
This is becoming tiresome on here, time to call a halt to the divisive nature of the posts re political persuasions.
I really don’t mind the odd one, but it has totally taken over a predominantly football blog.
Please put in place some way of stopping these personal insults to each other, Hail! Hail! por cierto.
Bojo and his jab bounce.
He has the credibility of Neville Chamberlain taking the plaudits for D-Day.
We have had the worst response to CoViD19 in the whole of Europe and yet somehow he is being held up as some sort of super-hero.
There is no hope — the world is going mad …
Back in the 1990’s I worked with some Huns…one in particular would also claim NOT to be Scottish…according to him he was… ” North British”, although he was born and bred ( maybe INBred ?) in Glasgow.
Even some of the other huns in work would laugh at him.
SICK in the Heid…is how I used to address him….he didnae like it.
And another note from lurking more.
As soon as there’s a danger of politics chat coming to an end up pops a “character” everytime to enable snp posters to respond. It appears to be used to undermine those who genuinely question/oppose how “amazing” the SNP are with every post and breath.
Sure those reading/lurking notice these trends too.
BJ @ 2.06
The problem is that they don’t laugh at him now.
They just want to find out where they can get the t-shirt.
It is the rise of identity politics over the politics of class.
POR CIERTO on 9TH MAY 2021 2:03 PM
Hail Hail Agree, 1000%
M80 @ 2.07
The Nat love / Not-Jacinda love on here is something to digest at length — it defies history / logic / reason.
We are living in an age where identity — real or imagined — trumps everything.
It provides simple solutions to complex problems.
That is what too many people want.
And we are paying a heavy price.
Nats / Trump / Brexit = All the same behind the different wrappers.
PC @ 2.03
Football is politics — just a case that you need a minute to adjust your focus.
Nah…I didnt think so….Spooky or what.
POR CIERTO on 9TH MAY 2021 2:03 PM
PAUL67
This is becoming tiresome on here, time to call a halt to the divisive nature of the posts re political persuasions.
I really don’t mind the odd one, but it has totally taken over a predominantly football blog.
Please put in place some way of stopping these personal insults to each other, Hail! Hail! por cierto.
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What personal insults, a bit of banter. Big deal. Im sure nobody is offended, unless of course you’re offended by everything. ( Which I don’t think anybody on here is )
This is one of the most sanitised blogs out there.
The biggest issues affecting Celtic right now are political. Politics dictate when and how many will get into games.
Will players be more likely to come to a divided, uncertain country.?
Will Celtic have to pay the higher tax differential in Scotland.
Will players and staff have mortgage and pensions difficulties
Can players travel abroad or home
Will Eddie Howe and staff be put off by Anglophobia
Unfortunately Politics is not dictating if not controlling our lives now, it is the biggest talking point and it’s consequences direct affect our club and our supporters.
Cheers and HH.
MADMITCH on 9TH MAY 2021 2:04 PM
Bojo and his jab bounce.’
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Each of the parties in charge of dealing with the pandemic has done well.
The Tories in England
Labour in Wales
The SNP in Scotland.
That may be because of the unprecedented level of unquestioning and generally supportive media coverage their leaders were allowed in delivering daily updates and briefings.
Or it may be that they each benefitted from the general feeling of relief and gratitude that we seem to be over the worse. It’s generally understood that people’s perception and assessment of long running experiences is determined by the latter part of the experience however untypical that might be of the entire experience.
Probably a combination of the two factors.
Regarding Howe, my feeling based upon zero evidence of course is that is, indeed, the end of contract holding up.
He seems to be quite a balanced guy and sounds realistic ergo he’s probably going to be on less here than even Bournemouth, so why not max up all the remaining contract clauses. Big Fraz did the same first tine around…sort of.
Lots of loan players went out, some players sold, would be suprised these weren’t the calls of new manager……..
Love to see us play all those out on loan playing next season with a mature, experienced spine to the team in place.