Faux civility and pathetic winners

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I don’t know what’s worse, football fans who crave affirmation so much they indulge in faux acts of civil spirited behaviour, and who tell themselves they are loved by everyone, or a set who even though their side win their Euros group, boo and throw plastic cups at their manager.

The reality is, no one in the UK really cares about international football, at least, not in the way we care about our clubs.  If it was Celtic, you would not be caught dancing to disco music to try to convince yourself you were not a deeply miserable person (I’m not talking about you, obviously) and it wouldn’t matter how we topped a group, only that we actually achieved the feat.

The evidence is overwhelming that Scotland football fans were on holiday in Germany.  Good luck to them, I doubt there is a great deal of crossover between them and those who buy club season tickets.

England fans protesting about how uninspiringly they topped their group is even more pathetic.  They have qualified for two major finals in history (both on home territory).  That’s fewer than Czechoslovakia, which only existed for 74 years, and one less than the Czech Republic.  England fans have as poor a grasp on their own history as Davie Moyes has on the Czech-Slovak dissolution.

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  1. timmy7_noted on

    What a load of pish. Sounds like he’s been bullied a lot. Maybe some counselling would help.

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    “Undisclosed fee” caught my lug.

     

     

    I’d be interested to know how much.

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  4. Ah mean just lawl. 😀️

     

     

    TIMMY7_NOTED on 

     

    What a load of pish. Sounds like he’s been bullied a lot.

     

    Maybe some counselling would help.

     

    ……………………….

     

     

    Just like The Buffler counselled you?

     

     

    ….lawl 😂️

     

     

    Oh and I don`t want to meet up with you either.

     

     

    You`d probably emerge from an unmarked cop car…ah kin smell ye.

     

     

    Go away and have a good life.

     

     

    Take care.

     

     

    🍀️

     

     

    Hmmm…

     

     

    ….oot.

  5. Is Paul deliberately trolling the high number of his blog followers?

     

     

    He’s surely not stupid enough to believe what he’s postindustrial today…is he?

     

     

    HH

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  7. brrb, ta for photies, interesting.

     

     

    in other news, McCoist is spoiling my enjoyment of the portugal game, if anyone can listen to his non stop prattling on without getting annoyed then you are a better man than me.

     

     

    as an aside,

     

    blessed ange is also starting to my head in.

     

     

    theerei said it.

  8. Prestonpans bhoys on

    Yes I got back from a day out, then put on the footie and hit the mute button on the Portuguese game, wonder why 🤔

  9. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Rangers’ home fixtures will not be reversed to away games during the Ibrox lockout at the start of the campaign as the SPFL prepare to unveil the fixture list on Thursday.

     

     

    Daily Ranger

  10. wooft. good.

     

     

    so back to fleshers haugh for the gallant pioneers who had a dream.

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  12. TURKEYBHOY on 25TH JUNE 2024 4:08 PM

     

    Seems we have our keeper Livikovic,a massive welcome to Celtic.7.6 million.

     

     

    I should complain on here more often.:-):-).

     

     

    Now get the jets on,frighten the SMSM,the scum,to death.

     

     

    HOT SMOKED on 25TH JUNE 2024 4:22 PM

     

    “TURKEYBHOY on 25TH JUNE 2024 4:08 PM

     

     

    Seems we have our keeper Livikovic,a massive welcome to Celtic.7.6 million.”

     

     

    Where is that from?

     

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    programme .

     

     

    TURKEYBHOY on 26TH JUNE 2024 12:49 PM

     

    Hot SmokedYou mean the post that every Celtic blog posted about,and the Media.” Deal agreed.Jose has given the OK.Price agreed.” That post?.

     

     

    Maybe in future will have to wait until the player actually plays his first game before telling the fans he has signed.

     

     

    In fact,think I will wait on that myself.Transfer windows.Worse than Scottish VAR.

     

     

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    Turkebhoy

     

    You welcomed Litkovic to Celtic,giving a figure,

     

    Hot smoked asked you where you got it from? Ie its source

     

    As you see you never mentioned Cellic keefjacksons on their blogs,and really,what the rekord and murdochs bin raiders shuldnt even be alluded to.

     

    So if you do speculate as to what player is gettin signed,source it,itll give something to laugh at unless you are trying to pass it of as you in the know! Shoorly you widnt dae that

     

     

    HH

  13. lets all do the huddle on

    never a penalty in a thousand years.

     

     

    he dived yards after the event

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    SAINT STIVS @ 8:42pm

     

     

    in other news, McCoist is spoiling my enjoyment of the portugal game.

     

     

    ——–

     

     

    I’ve got the volume down and am doing bits and bobs in between the action.

     

     

    Has he mentioned AC/DC yet?

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    VALE BHOY on 26TH JUNE 2024 9:42 PM

     

     

    Both Belgium and Portugal have been a collective disgrace today.

     

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    Yip

     

     

    Roberto Martinez must interview well.

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  18. Martinez doing very poorly with very talented teams.Anyone know how he landed the Belgium job.

     

    Just who seeing him lead Belgiums” Golden Generation” to nowhere,thought,thats the very chap for us,in Portugese.The chancers that make fortunes from football.

  19. Rec’d an email today saying that I wouldn’t be offered a season ticket as it’s oversubscribed, but would remain on the waiting list.

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  21. Now that the Group games are over I think it is fair to say that Scotland were the worst team in the tournament. Not the supporters who made a great effort to go there and get behind the team, and try and enjoy the first away Tourney since 1998. And no Paul67 PsychoBabble will take that away from them. I know how that feels. I knew months ago Clarke’s race was run, he was living in the past, while time was moving on. and that a new manager should have been brought in with time to take a new approach. Clarke made Willy Ormond look like a tactical genius (and Willie had been great at St Johnstone) but we needed a Tommy Docherty in 1974, not Willie, but Steve Clarke is from a different age, the stone age.

     

    And so it goes…

  22. Turkeybhoy

     

     

    So that a no source then

     

     

    Cqns very own keef jackson

     

     

    You be good

     

     

    HH

  23. Good morning from a sunny North Staffs –

     

     

    So Scotland with 1 point and GD of -5 bottom of the pile.

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    Good morning CQN.

     

     

    With the obvious benefit of hindsight Scotland’s Euro campaign played out along familiar lines.

     

     

    Fans great

     

     

    Team not so great. Wherever the points bar is set they come up short

     

     

    Agendas played out in the media

     

     

    Inevitable calls for “rethink” lasting all of three days.

     

     

     

     

    Personally I don’t think Steve Clarke is a bad lad or a terrible coach.

     

     

    His team were flying 12-18 months ago when the other teams were slowly building up to peak for this summer.

     

     

    That raised expectations beyond realistic.

     

     

    And he ran out of luck.

     

     

    His point man (Dykes) was ruled out.

     

     

    His five highest pedigree players (McGregor, Robertson, McGinn, Tierney and McTominay) were all recovering from injury and/or jaded.

     

     

    It happens.

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