Failing up in football

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European football news this week featured Vincent Kompany “failing up”.  After overseeing Burnley’s relegation from the topflight of English football, the affable Belgian was appointed manager of Bayern Munich.  Charm gets you places, people!

Hot on the heels of that, the Newco chief executive James Bisgrove handed in his resignation, he’s off to work his magic in Saudi.  If Bisgrove ever gives a seminar on job interview technique, sign up.  This is the guy who, as commercial director, booked Newco at the Sydney tournament in 2022 for less than half the fee Celtic’s commercial director, Adrian Filby, negotiated.

Newco are both delighted at Bisgrove’s work in his various roles at the club, and totally OK that he’s moving on.  Suggestions that churning through three managers and three chief execs in 18 months is a sign of a club in perpetual crisis is unworthy of you.

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  1. Tom McLaughlin on

    Someone needs to tell McCoist that as a co-commentator, the golden rule is you don’t talk about a scene that’s not showing on the TV screen. Fletch had to come to his rescue there.

     

     

    Idiot.

  2. Dortmund need a goal that there display deserves

     

     

    Real Madrid will eke out a chance or 2 at some point

     

     

    And will take one of them

  3. garygillespieshamstring on

    McCoist should remember that it is better to say nothing and appear to be ignorant than to open your mouth and dispel all doubt .

  4. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Last couple of games I’ve seen Bellingham he looked knackered, same here

  5. !!Bada Bing!! on

    VAR needs to get used,for diving and cheating, Dortmund GK was embarrassing

  6. TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 1ST JUNE 2024 8:44 PM

     

    Someone needs to tell McCoist that as a co-commentator, the golden rule is you don’t talk about a scene that’s not showing on the TV screen. Fletch had to come to his rescue there.

     

     

    Idiot.

     

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    Why is there a love-in, from TV, with sleekit Sally. Talks utter drivel. Dortmund deserve to be ahead. I hope they don’t regret it.

  7. Borussia Dortmund the better team and should be ahead

     

    Was going to say deserve to be, but you have got to put the ball in the net.

     

    Lets say they have the beating of Real with a better touch and a wee bit more composure once in a good position to score. They have got to believe in themselves

     

    They have got past AC Milan and Newcastle in the Group Stage, and Athletico Madrid and PSG en route to the final, no good reason why they cannot go on beat Real and win the Big Cup

     

    In VorFreude…

  8. bigrailroadblues on

    Good evening all from the Victoria Bar. Good game. Dortmund may regret missed chances.

  9. Why oh why do you have to listen to one of the most overpaid and failed mangers in a Champions league final????

  10. bigrailroadblues on

    And I just remembered.

     

    Celtic 1 hun 0

     

    Adam Idah 90 minutes.

     

    It’s a hard life.

  11. MAESTRO

     

     

    He is living off his Question of Sport rep

     

     

    A cheeky chappie, as sleekit as he is stoopid….

  12. Madrids goal came from a corner after a sclaff clearance from dortmund

     

     

    They should have scored in the first half

     

     

    I reckon the 600 million euros of a squad difference will now start to take control

  13. Celtic Mac

     

     

    Am running 2 mins behind the live tv

     

     

    Good goal, dortmund now looking tired

  14. offside!

     

     

    See how VAR works

     

     

    10-30 second response rate

     

     

    Not checking the previous 3 mins of play to try and rule out the goal…..

  15. Its not Celtic VAR

     

     

    Its scottish VAR

     

     

    Aimed at hurting Celtic

     

     

    And providing a sporting advantage to the huns

  16. Tom McLaughlin on

    CLUNKS

     

     

    How in the name of the wee man can you say that after the Scottish Cup final?

     

     

    Ridiculous.

  17. I hate Rangers 1 and 2

     

    Linfield FC

     

    Chelsea.

     

    Real Madrid.

     

    Add to this list…………

  18. TOM

     

     

    Cos the scottish cup final was broadcast to the world

     

     

    The snidey decisions leaked out thru the season

     

     

    And in the final,

     

     

    the handball by Davies,

     

     

    the career ending tackle by lundstom on Oreilly,

     

     

    Maeda getting booked after getting kicked in the stomach

     

     

    What game were you watching?

     

     

    Yeah Var nailed the easy decisions and missed a lot

     

     

    The easy decisions is the MINIMUM we expect

     

     

    What we have got throughout the season has been far from it

     

     

    Tom sometimes, you are fud bucket

  19. Tom McLaughlin on

    CLUNKS

     

     

    Have you finished the book Paul67 gave you when he sacked you — Computing for Idiots.

  20. Oh poor baby

     

     

    Glad you honed in on the very minor insult and not on the guts of my post

     

     

    ie that VAR did not work and only did the basics

  21. Oh Tom

     

     

    There you go again!

     

     

    So lets get back to the guts of my post and not taking it to insults

     

     

    Poor baby….