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Celtic players’ participation in the World Cup ended yesterday as Efe Ambrose’ Nigeria were eventually overpowered by France.  Baring injury, Efe will be in Champions League duty in Iceland two weeks from today, which leaves the player little scope to rest weary limbs for the season ahead.

The fitness management of Efe and Emilio Izaguirre throughout the season will need to take a different path from the rest of the squad.  The search for cover for both players should be a priority.

It’s a pity for Dundee United, and for Scottish football, that Ryan Gauld seems on the verge of leaving for Sporting Lisbon at only 18-years-old.  United have seen enough to know they have a genuine talent on their hands, but the player’s glory years all lie ahead of him.

United will continue to lose genuine teenage talent until they, along with other aspiring Scottish clubs, get a change of environment.  If the Scottish Premiership folded into the English Football League structure Ryan Gould would remain in Tayside for years to come.

Visit the CQN Bookstore to get Tommy Gemmell to sign your personal copy of his book, All the Best.

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  1. praecepta

     

     

    19:40 on 1 July, 2014

     

    Luck of the woodwork – money on a Brazil v Argentina final.

     

     

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    Sounds good and your on a roll, I’ll put a couple of quid on that.

  2. Marrakesh Express

     

     

     

     

    19:29 on

     

     

    1 July, 2014

     

     

     

     

    Great finish Di Maria.

     

    Good to see Lichsteiner’s coupon.

     

     

    *aye and buggeroff’s yesterday

  3. Marrakesh Express on

    Tallybhoy

     

     

    The worst headline in the history of British newspapers.

  4. corkcelt

     

     

    Got same for £100 + 7 up and need Belgium to qualify for last 8.

     

     

    Doing better with bet365 than the CQN Predictor!

  5. TBJ says Wee Oscar Knox is in heaven with the angels on

    HANSEN says di maria had worst game of any player in any match – I cant really see that at all

  6. Some Argentinians also speak Italian, the vast majority of whom have NO wish to be ruled by Germans.

     

     

    …or by Italians.

     

     

    HH!!

     

     

    That’s hail hail, and NOT heil heil btw.

  7. Marrakesh Express

     

    Hanson quite right. Di Maria Wd make Boriggter look good……on today’s performance.

     

    Thought Argentina Wd have had the guile to beat the Swiss who conceded 5 v France.

     

    This was a dreadful game to watch, esp when it does your coupon. The tennis on BBC2 was much better entertainment. The Swiss did show in the dying minutes that they did have the ability to attack…but paid the price for parking the bus.

     

    HH

  8. Aye di Maria is shite!

     

     

    Derk’s a far better player!

     

     

    Ffs!

     

     

    HH!!

  9. Gentlefolks –

     

     

    From a purely Brazilian viewpoint,

     

    Argentinians are Italians who speak Spanish, desperately want to be thought of as English, and succeed only in behaving like Germans.

     

     

    Okay, maybe also a Uraguayan PoV.

     

    Also, admittedly, a Chilean PoV.

     

    And kind of a Paraguayan PoV.

     

     

    Okay, I think you get the general trend of proverbial opinion in S.America…

  10. The di Maria who is being roundly scoffed at: is he the chappie who plays for Real Madrid? If so, I would have him and no questions asked. I thought he was one of their best players last season.

  11. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Bó-aire

     

    20:01 on

     

    1 July, 2014

     

    Gentlefolks –

     

     

    From a purely Brazilian viewpoint,

     

    Argentinians are Italians who speak Spanish, desperately want to be thought of as English, and succeed only in behaving like Germans.

     

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    Kind Sir

     

    That may well be due to the number of S.S.men who were welcomed by Peron the male to Argentina post war.

  12. Gene's a Bhoy's name on

    Di Maria never hid during the game and was in the right place at the vital moment

  13. Don’t know why Di Maria is getting stick on here.

     

    Great player.

     

    It was Messi that made the winning goal though, didn’t even look up when he eventually made the pass…

     

     

    Would gladly see players of that class again in the Hoops – gladly!

     

     

    Gardez la Foi

  14. corkcelt,

     

     

    Still a good bet, I’ll put a score on it.

     

     

    That was a result for the Aussie boy against Nadal…even show boated.

     

     

    Think Summa had a few quid on it.

  15. Kingsnake@19:36

     

     

    Very true. Another reason is that, even when he’s struggling to escape his markers and to find space, he never hides, continuously taking them on or trying to play an imaginative pass. And as he’s shown in this WC, he just needs a split second to exploit any space that eventually appears, or any marker that loses concentration, and he punishes his opponents by scoring or playing a vital assist, as he did tonight.

  16. ....PFayr supports WeeOscar on

    Sturgeon would put anyone off voting for independence ….imagine her having a serious role in running the country

     

     

    Head waggling jibber jabber doll

     

     

    Hopeless

  17. TBJ says Wee Oscar Knox is in heaven with the angels on

    Gene

     

     

    it wasnt his best game but he scored the only goal and their keeper pulled of a great save from another of his efforts from 20m

  18. TBJ says Wee Oscar Knox is in heaven with the angels on

    Pf

     

     

    I was advised years ago that her nickname within the snp was seaweed

  19. Macjay

     

     

    Quite a few of those SS types (and a good percentage of the money that they stole) ended up in Switzerland.

  20. …PFayr

     

     

    Derk is a far better dominoes player than di Maria – allegedly!

     

     

    HH!!

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