Delighted to see Brendan Rodgers is down to business at Lennoxtown, three weeks before the players return for preseason training. It’s interesting that he arranged an early opportunity to meet Scott Brown over a meal, and that this was made public.
Getting buy-in from senior players was one aspect of the job Ronny Deila allegedly didn’t achieve. The rights and wrongs of this can wait for Ronny’s autobiography, although you may wish to express an outsider’s opinion. All that matters to Brendan is that no one is able to speculate about the same issue on his watch.
There’s not much a manager can do three weeks before training starts than eat dinner with the captain, scout players and watch videos. I expect Brendan to have seen every minute of every Celtic game last season by the time players get back; there is lots to learn. In particular, what went wrong at the back to a team which broke defensive records in each of the previous two campaigns. You may wish to express an outsider’s opinion.
Those in the know warned us that blue collar crime is particularly difficult to prosecute, and so it’s transpired. Only Craig Whyte now faces trial in the Rangers fraud case, which saw remaining charges against Duff and Phelps’ administrators David Whitehouse and Paul Clark dropped at the High Court in Glasgow this morning. It’s far from a satisfactory outcome.
Good to hear the losing Scottish Cup final manager, who was left with some bears in Japanese forest for seven days by his parents, has been found safe and well, even if he has nothing to say for himself.
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Running? I am in the jogging camp nowadays. Did get my 5k times down from 32 mins to 28 mins but started getting too greedy and a catalogue of hamstrings injuries, well, hamstrung me.
Have now gone back to one road run and two treadmills 5k runs per week at around 30 mins. So am happy with that.
Today will be a laugh, after a week of vino and pasta in Rome I will struggle to get any momentum but will have a go in the gym anyway…be there around 9am before it gets too busy. I am hoping the lengthy walks in Rome and climbing up to the dome of St Peters will count as some sort of training…unlikely.
Anyway…great sadness to see that The Greatest has left us. God rest.
Back in the early nineties, I took an extended lunch hour to get along to Waterstone’s to The Greatest’s book-signing event.
The queue to get the book had formed at the side entrance of the store, and was massive by the time I got there. So I headed round to the front of the store just as Ali and his entourage arrived. I had a copy of Thomas Hauser’s biography of Muhammad with me, and as he was getting out of his car, the crowd was pushed back, leaving a gap which I moved into. I held up the book and a pen as Ali passed, and shouted, over the cheers and applause, “Please sign this, Ali!”.
One of his minders stepped forward, but Ali had heard me, maybe recognised his face on the front cover, so stuck out his hand towards the book, and I held it for him as i passed him the pen. His hand was of course shaking, but I’ve got his autograph, and I shook his hand, before he was ushered away. Any sadness at seeing him in poor health was lessened by experiencing the love the people gathered there had for the man, and seeing on his face that he felt it too.
He wasn’t only an incredibly classy boxer, he was exceedingly brave too, both inside and outside of the ring. He gave everything up while at his peak, even risking jail, to stand by his principles, and emboldened so many African Americans to stand up to racism and be proud of who they were.
If ever a man was not going to sit at the back of the bus, it was Muhammad Ali. If ever a man transcended his sport, it was Muhammad Ali.
All this, and he was so funny too, with that mischievous sparkle in his eyes as he recited a pre-fight verse, knowing he had a great punch(!) line about to hit you.
Truly, The Greatest. Rhyme In Peace.
Hello this is WEE BGFC
Crc
I will take a team. Mail you shortly. Need to run. ( literally)
This morning’s get up and moving choon–
Dennis Alcapone – Classius Clay (Jackpot ).
Choon !
Muhammed Ali R.I.P.
A giant of a human being in my lifetime or any other.
Just reading some of his quotes on telly
“DONT COUNT THE DAYS,MAKE THE DAYS COUNT”
Sleep well champ.
Ali’s poem to the students at Oford ( I think)
” Me, we.”
A genuine great.
Jobo, Twisty, JMC……………………
Aye……….
Some weel steeeeetch’d Lycra can be a powerrfully positive motivator!
:)
Waking to the sad news that “The greatest” has passed away.
Great boxing timing, great comic timing!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6xiw6BBJB2w
So where have Celtic stated that they have signed Steven Fletcher?
A return to Pollock ParkRun for me this morning and the expectation that my son will beat me again.
Must run….
Wee BGFC
What’s yer chat?
Outside of Celtic, I had three sporting heroes growing up. Pele, Muhammad Ali, and Ed Moses.
I was a peely-wally Scot with no well developed race consciousness but I recognised three classy and brave and graceful athletes as people to be respected. I was also in love with Motown music. As Roddy Doyle recognised in “The Commitments”, there must have been some sub-conscious connection between their overcoming all their much harder barriers and the attitudes we faced as boys from the schemes growing up in Scotland.
RIP Muhammad
Hi BT – I just popped him back in bed – we had a late night watching The Mummy, and he looks dead beat.
He’ll be on later when he gets up again, no doubt :-)
HH pal
BGFC
Twists n turns
From sitting on the chair thinking about running to getting round in 25 mins,is world class in my eyes.
Be proud of yourself.
I just walk alotCSC
Heavyweight with the speed of a lightweight.
Poetry in motion.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkhpZoPOfZI
Morning all.
Muhammad Ali RIP.
HH!!
BGFC
Good man, didnae want him to feel ignored☘☘☘
The first thing Rodgers did at Liverpool was hunt Andy Carroll as he didn’t fit his style of play. I would be amazed if we signed Fletcher.
Muhammad Ali, the greatest and the best looking .RIP.
The word legend was created for him.
HH.
Hugh McIlvanney on Ali, following his victory over ‘The Baddest Man On The Planet”, George Foreman, in ‘The Rumble In The Jungle”.
“And for this witness at least the most vivid recollection will not be the inspiration of his tactics or the brilliance of his technique, spellbinding though they were. It will be the glittering, flawless diamond of his nerve.”
Beatbhoy
Whenever i read anything by Hugh Mcllvanney, i can hear him saying it
RIP Muhammad Ali
Sftb
Ed Moses , absolute class.
Disturbing Question just occurred to me.
Would Ali have hidden behind a moniker?
Certainly not!
My name is. . . . Nah, wait! Ah cannae fight!
“Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee.
The Hand Can’t Hit, What The Eye Can’t See”.
Leftclicktic
Yeah, know what you mean.
Here’s some more easy listening for you!
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/mar/05/hugh-mcilvanney-muhammad-ali-rumble-in-the-jungle
Beatbhoy
Thank you
Sitting with the weemhan (6) who is asking who is muhammed ali.
Mohammed Ali – the Legend of Legends.
“They” found it hard to accept that ths black man was not only the greatest sportsman on the planet but that he was also more quickwitted and eliquent than them.
Not to mention his principled stand against the US war machine.
They couldnt find anyone to beat him in the ring so they forced him out depriving him and us of his prime fighting years.
Some fine tributes to Ali, RIP, this morning.
No words can really sum up the man, the legend, who inspired more than one generation.
I imagine that Hugh Mc.Ilvanney will add his own tribute, in is own inimitable style.
The Greatest even had time for mere mortals!
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/02/05/article-0-049FE2F40000044D-907_634x534.jpg
SFTB
2 out of 3 ain’t bad!
Few people dominate their sport in a way that Mohammed Ali did. But he was so much more than a boxer.
he was simply The Greatest. RIP
BT – thanks :-)
RIP – The Greatest
CRC ….please give me a raffle ticket! Will email you later …
Braw.
Jose Mourinho as El Papa?
Interesting.
Perhaps he isn’t so bad after all…
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/06/03/animated-fatima-film-will-star-jose-mourinho-as-pope-francis/
Muhammed Ali, a truly great human being, the very definition of manhood to this wee Tim growing up in Carfin. His fights were World occasions, I can remember them all watching with my Father and my Grandfather, they defined my childhood years alongside great Celtic moments.
He was the rebels rebel and like all inspirational human beings he had a seemingly endless supply of courage.
I was very fortunate to meet him briefly and shake his hand. He was huge but he shone like a diamond way beyond his physical size.
The world has lost a truly great man today.
Rest In Peace Muhammed Ali we will never see your likes again…
Before anyone trots out the story that ‘The Greatest’. for he was just that, dodged the draft, it should be remembered that a previous, spiteful, Draft Board in an effort to discredit him and his view, deemed him mentally unfit to serve in the army.
RIP.
Good morning CQN.
Not really a Boxing fan but I did admire Muhammad Ali, always loved watching his fights and listening to him.
May God rest his Soul.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!