Hottest ticket in management lurches in the wrong direction

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Right now our former captain, Paul Lambert, is one of the hottest tickets in football management so it’s no surprised that Norwich City have been unable to hold onto him.  Inside three years he transformed the club from one that lost 1-7 to Colchester United (then managed by Paul) to one of the most improved teams in Europe, earning two consecutive promotions and a mid-table finish in the FA Premier League.

If Lambert ended up at Liverpool, or even Chelsea, you would not have been surprised.  Instead, he’s set to go to Aston Villa.  During their Martin O’Neill era Villa splurged cash they ultimately realised they couldn’t afford.  Martin walked out days before the start of the season in August 2010.  Since then they pitched Gerard Houllier at the job before poaching Alex McLeish from relegated city rivals Birmingham.

In short, Villa looks like a club without the vision to build stable progress.  Unlike Norwich, who seem to know exactly what they are doing.  They even coped with the loss of Neil Doncaster, who left the club a few months before the arrival of Lambert.

Norwich City is the better job.

I’m on Radio Scotland with Jim Spence around 16:15 today, talking about social media and football, square sliced, the price of milk and lawn care.

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  1. Green Oak Tree on

    Tri..

     

     

    No they were born and bred in Derry and if my memory is correct their dad owned a shop in the bogside before moving to Shantallow…Thanx anyhow…

     

     

    Vmhan..

     

     

    Would Derry Ghirl know…

     

     

    Long shot here…I have asked on here over the years if any of the Derry bhoys know the McLaughlin family who moved from the Bogside to Shantallow 2 (Early 70s)…There was about ten in the family and two of the boys were called Sean and Danny. They would be 54 and 52 years old now….

  2. angelgabriel on

    Roy Croppie…Thanks for posting the link from Radio Shortbread today.

     

     

    Paul 67…..Another man of the match performance. Now that Tom English has

     

    declared that he believes and stands by everything he writes well let me tell

     

    you Tom.The lunatics on here will be reading your stuff as much as you

     

    read ours.

  3. Jeg er Neil Lennon-Greeninbingley on

    Croatia playing with no names on the jerseys. I like that.

  4. jmccormick on 2 June, 2012 at 19:49 said:

     

     

    I had those cassettes until they gave up on me too. The Argentina ’78 section was very funny.

  5. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Grren Oak,

     

    Sorry mate I cant place them.Yer best bet is coorslad.Pretty sure he will know them or will be able to point you in the right direction.Good luck son.

  6. Tri coloured ribbon,

     

    Don’t forget the 33rd county bhoys will be running round Derry with the trophy this time next week;-)

  7. Baku/Black Isle Celt on

    Surreal moment in Baku – sitting outside the Garage bar enjoying a beer when a guy walks past wearing a Celtic top, myself and Jim start singing “hail hail, the Celts are here” while pointing at him. He looks at us as if we are crazy and continues on his way…

     

     

    MJM

  8. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Gordy,Dont forget yer zimmers.lol.Looking forward to seeing you all.

     

     

    Vinny,not sure whos on,one thing for sure.We are going to party all weekend son.

  9. tri coloured ribbon,

     

    Intensive training all week for us,broken only when a few of us had to go collect our pensions,mind you the mobility cars come in handy

  10. tommytwiststommyturns on

    baku – you working on the pipeline job out there? Got a mate from Blyth working for ABB, been out there for at least 5 years.

     

     

    Cheers,

     

    TTTT

  11. "THERE IS ONLY ONE TEAM IN GLASGOW" aka "@67MOULDY67" on

    Paul67

     

     

    Had a listen their to the BBC pod cast, interesting chat well done

     

     

    Mouldy67

  12. Green Oak Tree on 2 June, 2012 at 19:50 said:

     

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    Coorslad on CQN is yir man, he’ll ask around for ye, first time I was in his house he got out a book with names and address of Derry residents going way back, he was able to identify my dads house in the bogside when he lived there up until about late 1930’s, I was amazed.

     

    Hx2

  13. Vmhan,

     

    Doing the same trip as you Friday to Monday,but our manager says we ain’t allowed out on Friday night,guess I will be suspended for breaking the curfew then

  14. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Vinny,

     

    Coorslad quick to sort out yer queries.

     

    Heres hoping hes as quick up to the bar next week.lol.Big crowd coming over fae Clydebank and the Green Brigade coming too.Smashing wee thread on their site.

     

    Moonbeams coming? Wheres he from?

  15. Philbhoy - It's just the beginning! on

    Moonbeams is from another planet.

     

     

    But he is a lovely ghuy!

  16. DontPatmadug on

    anche gli angeli on 2 June, 2012 at 19:04 said:

     

     

    Kojo is a racist and can never be considered a member of the Celtic family.

     

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    Would like a definitive of what that is the “Celtic family” .

     

     

    I am going to assume regard yourself as part of the Celtic family and can therefore banish those who you deem are not. CoCo

  17. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Gordy,ahem, yer manager? Is that what he calls himself?

     

    When you’ve applied for The Man U.,Portsmouth,Motherwell and Arbroath jobs I suppose he has the criteria for the 33rd County.lol.hahahaha

  18. lochgoilhead bhoy on

    anche gli angeli on 2 June, 2012 at 19:54 said:

     

    Lanliq was the Glasgow weapon of choice followed by Eldorado Four Crown and Vordo if you came from Govan.

     

     

     

    I seem to remember “Old English” as well. Don’t remember Vordo.

  19. Green Oak Tree on

    I once went to an away game at Motherwell and travelled in the Larkfield (McMillans) bus, me and my big pal were the youngest (17 years old) anyhow it was a midweek game and all the bhoys chipped in for the carry oot and they decided that me and my big pal being the youngest should go and get it..

     

     

    We evetually found a boozer and asked for six bottles of eldorado. Never heard of it says the barman, the same whith four crown and lani…

     

     

    Big pal asks wit does the locals drink so the guy shows us a bottle, big pal says that will do six bottles a couple of cans of beer and a couple of lager..

     

     

    We got inside the park (No problem in those days) and laid the drink at our feet as you did ….Two mins into the game I got a slap on the back of the head accompanied by ya pair of effing idiots …Wits the problem says I,

     

     

    Look at the label ya daft Bs (Monks Benedictine wine NON ALCHOHOLIC)

     

     

    I still remember that barmans face to this day…The hun bassa…

  20. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Ok Vinny,

     

    Naw I knew Moonbeams was a good CQN man just wondered where was from?

     

    Whereabouts in the city?

  21. gordybhoy64 on 2 June, 2012 at 20:27 said:

     

    Vmhan,

     

    Doing the same trip as you Friday to Monday,but our manager says we ain’t allowed out on Friday night,guess I will be suspended for breaking the curfew then

     

    ……….

     

    I was the Blackpool teams manager last year, it never crossed my mind to tell/ ok ask the team not to drink on the Friday….. First thing you’ll do when you arrive is head for the pub, see ye there about 3pm (thumbs up).

     

    Hx2

  22. Philbhoy - It's just the beginning! on

    Tri….

     

     

    MWD!

     

     

    I live in sunny West Lothian!

  23. Headed out early this morning for a haircut and noticed a lot of orcs kitted out in the car park outside the stone cutters club. Swung the motor right round and hastened the ipod to play Sean Carrs Version of Jelly and ice cream at full volume, haha you should have seen their faces.

     

    Stupid huns.

     

     

    No to Newclub

     

     

    HH

  24. Tricoloured Ribbon on 2 June, 2012 at 20:37 said:

     

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    Sorry just having the craic, I don’t know abouts MWD is originally from, ye can ask him next Friday.

     

    HH

  25. Philbhoy - It's just the beginning! on

    HT

     

     

    …..if ye see big FF tell him i said he can f off.

     

     

    Have agreat time and take care!

  26. Green Oak Tree….. fyi wee Derryghirl is from the Port of Glasgow :>)

     

     

    ……. To beat Glasgow Celtic you’ll have to deport those mad fighting Fenians who come from the Port!

     

     

    Talking about Fenians from the Port, I hear there’s a memorial to Joe O’Neil on the Falls Rd, great Celtic man.

     

    Hx2

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