What a football fan wants most from the World Cup final is a clear and worthy winner. Instead, there is a feeling that everything that could have gone wrong for Croatia, did so. They attacked more, were on the receiving end of a very unfortunate penalty, put the ball into their own net and will forever live with the sense of what could have been.
France eased their way to the trophy throughout the tournament without being spectacular. Their 2-0 quarter-final win over Uruguay and yesterdays’ final were the only occasions they won a game by more than a single goal.
The more interesting element of France’s development as a football powerhouse is what didn’t happen at Russia. The legacy of Guy Roux, who educated the nation on how to develop natural young talent into tier one achievers, fills every top league in Europe today. Celtic’s young Les Bleus are a remarkable example of this.
The win will turn the spotlight onto French football, as a consequence, following up on the signing of Dembele, Ntcham and Eduard will be more difficult. Let’s hope that the wealthy in England are fully focussed on taking advantage of the obvious superiority of the English academy system.
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Mikey Johnson,don’t go out on loan to Hibs,I’m getting fed up with Celtic, especially ,the way this lot who are running the show,if McGinn is worth 3 million,fine stop f______g,about,go and sign him,if not just put it to bed,the club is awash with cash , and another thing we’re is all the 5 million pounds went,I see a new pitch,new lights,old stand new roof ,we’re ,but I will tell you one thing,which I have been saying for a few years,that stadium is in need of a good lick of paint, absolutely filthy,as for new speaker system, another joke,it’s worst than last season,
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/rangers-chairman-dave-king-face-12933187
Perhaps some will copy and paste this DR item here.
Mr King in yet another court battle. Contempt of court this time.
The SFA will have their fingers crossed civil Judicial process will get him before the SFA Judicial Process has to.
GALLAGHER
Can you imagine if these eejits fostered a spirit of co-operation with China rather than poking them with a sharp stick all the time.
The Anglos are getting spanked in the business world, bad loser attitude abounds. Trumps ” Art Of The Deal” bollocks just doesn’t hold up in the political world, it’s divisive and works off of the winner loser paradigm when surely everyone wins would be a much better and safer direction for all of us.
Good article by Prof. David Honig on just that, can’t find it right at tho’ mo, thought I had bookmarked it:((
HH
Ole Clarence at it again!!!
“Rangers chairman Dave King will appear in court after failing to pay an ordered £11 million bid for the majority
of the club’s shares.
The Scottish businessman is to face a contempt of court hearing in Edinburgh on Friday for missing a deadline to make an offer to the Ibrox shareholders in March after a court order.
King, 62, was previously told he breached takeover rules by refusing to make the bid and ordered to pay the money by business watchdog the Takeover Panel and Court of Session.
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The Takeover Panel ruled in 2016 he had worked “in consort” with a trio of businessmen – the so-called Three Bears – to take control of Rangers by acquiring a combined 34 per cent stake.
However the Ibrox chairman argued the ruling forcing him to make a compulsory bid of 20p a share went “too far”.
He was taken to court last year after he flouted the demand which would total a sum of about £11million.
King’s lawyer told a hearing in the Court of Session last year that his client was “penniless” because his money was tied up in offshore and onshore trusts in the King family name.
But in February this year, he was ordered to make the payment by the court and a month later it was revealed a company called Laird Investments (Proprietary) Limited would make the share payment.
It was said Laird was a South African-based company owned by a trust which King and his family are beneficiaries.
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The Takeover Panel document said they ordered King to have a third party UK account opened on Laird’s behalf so they had the “necessary cash confirmation”.
They said King later emailed them to say Laird was having difficulty negotiating South African “exchange control regulations” for transferring money out of the country and later asked for an extension of the deadline – something later refused by the Takeover Panel.
The panel went on to say that King missed the deadline for the money to be transfer and told how they had emailed King of “intention to initiate contempt proceedings” if that happened.”
Just shattered- didn’t notice any changes around CP on Saturday
timbhoy2,
if your fed up why not chuck it in.
How much his King cost the huns in legal fees?
if your found guilty of contempt of court, is that jail time ?
Word of The Day
Tautology (taw-tol-uh-jee)
noun plural -gies
1. the use of words that merely repeat elements of the meaning already conveyed, as in the sentence Willthese supplies be adequate enough? in place of Will these supplies be adequate?
2. logic a statement that is always true, esp a truth-functional expression that takes the value true for all combinations of values of its components, as in either the sun is out or the sun is not out
Derived Forms
tautological (ˌtɔːtəˈlɒdʒɪkəl), tautologic or tautologous, adjective tautologically or tautologously, adverb
Word Origin and History for tautology
n.
1570s, from Late Latin tautologia “representation of the same thing,” from Greek tautologia, from tautologos”repeating what has been said,” from tauto “the same” + -logos “saying,” related to legein “to say” (see lecture (n.)).
KTF
Timbhoy2,
Why don’t we just give Hibs the 5 million they want for the player?After all,we have plenty of money.Mikey Johnston would like to go out on loan.This season we updated the pitch,the lights,roofs,siding.Has it ever crossed your mind that this is an on going refurb,more to be done next year?
Thank God we have experts dealing with our finances.All the improvements,in and around Celtic Park seem to have flown right over your strop filled head.
At last……
Fans were fuming and complained about being treated as ‘criminals’.
And today SLO John Paul Taylor has confirmed that he has set up a meeting with Police Scotlands FoCUS (Football Coordination Unit for Scotland).
One Celtic fan posted a snap of an officer clearly pointing a camera at supporters to Twitter and added: “Filming and harassing fans during a non event friendly.
“The Act is gone, but fans are for now, still viewed and treated as potential criminals. This needs to change.”
And Taylor responded through his Celtic FC SLO account, saying: “Have set up a meeting with FoCUS about this, as always you’d be most welcome to attend, let me know if you’d like to thanks.”
Anyway………………………………………….
For those of yous CQN’ers who don’t have the brain capacity ;-))))) to follow, understand and enjoy the world of cycling, and more to the point the Tour de France………………… pay attention…………………..
today’s stage is stage 10, after a rest day yesterday
this is the first real time they are in the high mountains
4 big mountain passes to negotiate
today is not a summit finish, however, it should be explosive
Oh……………………..and we have an Irishman is 2nd place, who should be race leader come 17.30hrs.
WhatsNot2like
Bada Bing….little by little-step by step-on the way to a police state…it’s coming…cctv becoming omnipresent…
soon miniature drones will enter your home, your office and record everything…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stHLrBs-_iE
new article posted.
Sorry Big Joe…I’m one of those morons who doesn’t have that required brain capacity to appreciate the visual excitement of sports such as, cycling, darts, snooker etc…oh! I can ride a bike, throw a dart, chalk a cue (i can even sneakily run a saliva wet index finger over my mate’s cue tip just before he plays his shot)…but watch these sporting moments on the telly? No Nae Never…I’d rather be out on a boat……. :-)
regards….
Turkeybhoy, well you could have fooled me,it hasn’t had a lick of paint since it was rebuilt,and you are happy with that,and then some come on here poking fun at the state of Ibrox,well they should look closer to home,