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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sparkleghirl
There are many churches which view the Pope as the Antichrist.They also maintain that Catholicism isn’t even Christian.
hamiltontim on 3 June, 2012 at 15:42 said:
‘Ernie
There were no Catholics in Fullerton’s gang, demographics had nothing to do with his group.’
It’s only what I’ve read, and I can well imagine it. The same source said there were Protestants in the Norman Conks, again for purely territorial reasons.
I assume, given your certainty on the matter, that you possess a full membership list specifying religious adherence, in which case I must defer.
THE DERRY AND CUMBERLAND BOYS”
Noo ye’ve heard o the Billies and Sallys
The Norman Cong and the Sang Toy
Here’s two more tae add tae yer tally
The Derry and Cumberland Boys
Noo the Cumbie Boys are Roman Catholic
Tae chapel they’ve been wance ot twice
But Parkhead is their new Jerusalem
And Jock Stein the latter day Christ
And the Derry Boys are tae be christians
That’s plain baith tae hear and tae see
For their language is really religious
“Jesus Christ”, “Oh my God”, “FTP”
When asked what they think o religion
They’ll say “Aw religions aw right”
But these guys are only religious
When they want an excuse for a fight
So don’t wear a green scarf in Brigton
Or a blue scarf in Cumberland Street
No unless your a heavy weight champion
Or hell o a quick on your feet.
TT
Oh,to be young again with hope in my heart.
Gone,along with religion,politics and art.
All that’s left is the bitter taste of lies
Which set us all apart.
Just watched a bit of the pageant.Is it just me or is this total pointless rubbish?
gunman/men in toronto.
was at the eaton centre downtown, one dead and a few injured.he opened fire in the food court, good bet it was gang related.
this was at 6.30pm toronto time, also danforth and warden this a.m agun fight six arrested. welcome to the ok corral.(spelling).
ernie
I could be wrong but as far as I’m aware there were no protestants in the “Norman Conks.”
theglasgowcelticway
I remember on TV a long time ago people being interviewed in the street being asked if the were Christian to which a young man responded “naw am a Catholic”
also a similar situation was asking people if they went to church to which a Glasgow lad said “naw i go tae Chapel”
miki67 on 3 June, 2012 at 15:37 said
O.o. only in Scotland….how pathetic..he wasn’t even bigoted ENOUGH!….?
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They’re not right in the head…….then there’s the Harlem Globetrotters and the theme tune to Coronation Street……what can you expect?
It’s aTsunami of Toffs on the Thames Today.I thought this government was going to get tough on welfare scrounging families, now they’re throwing parties and public holidays for them. Another U-turn by the coalition.
Canada’s gone the way of Amerika…..I lived there for a time in the 60’s and 80’s…it was going down the road then. And from all I hear,it’s only gotten worse. Sad…even sadder for the people there today.
Mrs Gene and her mother watching the pageant while I am watching cricket (quiet at the back)
btw – we have a mass on tuesday morning to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee (i live in england) – however one of our parishioners of Irish descent had s few words with the parish priest after mass – the response by the PP was along the lines that we should be praying for her conversion.
The Narrowbhoat Tim
You’re no kiddin anybody I can see your barge – give lizzie ma best
67th Heaven
in the sixties went to school with many of the Cumbie. Their ‘enemies’ then were the Calton Tongs and the Hill. Dont know what period youre referring to?
NO CQN ON A SUNDAY!
No whistling on a Tuesday!
No hanging out you washing on a Wednesday!
No ferries on a Thursday!
No bevvying any time ever!
Oh Aye?
No Newco and and no new club!
Gene’s a Bhoys name
I agree with the parish priest.Pray for the return of our misguided brethren to the fullness of the one true faith..
good afternoon cqn
Heard recording of paul on BBC Radio Scotland last night,wonder if he got a catholic education.Not golfing today,19 th hole yesterday, playing tomorrow,three in a row and she who must be obeyed would have left me,anyway,what about the mob in the Thames,I am deffinately missing something
H H
Gene’s a Bhoys name on 3 June, 2012 at 15:50 said:
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If I didn’t have a strong Celtic soul I’d despair. Where is the world going,where have we been? ‘They’ say it’s the same for every generation,but we seem to have reached a new level in hatred for ‘the other’,and keep on perfecting nastier ways of killing each other.
The more people on the planet,the worse we behave to each other.
Every corner,no matter how remote,seems beset with strife.
And the arrogant aristo/toff/bankster/gangster clique at the apex of the heap of beans get worse and worse,greedier and greedier.
The tipping point is surely imminent.
googybhoy ♥ Celtic and the Lisbon Lions on 3 June, 2012 at 13:53 said:
Tontine Tim on 3 June, 2012 at 12:43said:
Just heard about the gunman in Toronto shopping centre.
Nowhere near you or the.family?
*naw we’re up copuntry now, think Gartocharn, but my ouldest granddaughter was down in the Eaton Centre where it happenned last week, quite scary really. No more “Toronto the Good”. Gangtas have taken over.
DJBEE on 3 June, 2012 at 15:59 said:
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“No nuthin’ nevuhr,no way,no no no..I tell yooz. Oh no,not now,not nevuhr..”
The Paisley Mantra.
God rot his soul.
miki67
I dont think the tipping point will ever come – hell in a handcart
Gene’s a Bhoys name
I.m just getting up to ramming speed now and I’m just about to hoist up the Jolly Roger
The Narrowbhoat Tim
I hope Roger the cabin boy is a crew member and not a pastime
Ernie,
You don’t normally defer……that’s what I like about you…….LOL
With regards to the Norman Concs, no idea if there were Protestants in it, what I do know, because my Papa grew up there and his Da was one (a brute of a man apparently, who could only communicate with his fists), was that ‘Little’ Norman Street was the small end of the street broken by a big road crossing over it and it was a no go area for the Orange Walk, well apart from one year. My Papa used to tell me how his Da heard the OO got permission that year to march down ‘Little’Norman Street. So a big cast iron pot was placed in the middle of the room, all the table scraps, bed pans etc were emptied into it for the week leading up to the day of the walk………There was a riot that day and my great grandfather only escaped by knocking out a policeman and wearing his uniform to make good his exit!
assetmanager on 3 June, 2012 at 15:59 said:
Late 50’s ……..don’t think the Billy Bhoys discriminated as to who they fought with ……. I was under 10 when it was at it’s height……used to watch them all running at each other along Waddell Street…….LOL
Tontine Tim on 3 June, 2012 at 16:03 said:
Good to hear that. Mr Landed Gentry.
I thought up country was the Haldane when I moved from Bellsmyre.
;););););););)
new article posted.
Sorry one complaint about Paul 67 on R S he did not mention square sliced sausage or the price of milk,or when the Govan mob will Die
Thats three,Im not perfect.
H H
googybhoy
Bellsmyre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You kept that quiet.
Were you in the Myre:o)
I was around the Cumbie in the late 70 early 80s and the fights with the Derry (and Tongs) continued- mainly around the “shows” annual stint at Fleshers Haugh. The animosity continued mainly on religious lines though the Cumbie had a few prominent non catholics in their ranks- a mixture of geography and religion on one side, and god knows what on the other
The way I see it, the Jubilee- with the various street parties & pageants-is nothing more than a mixture of blind enthusiasm and an excuse for grouping. Enthusiasts of all types will try and sustain a certain raw impulse (normally for an emotional stimulus they can’t find in everyday ‘normal’ relations) by generating a heightened state of excitement. It is a phenomenon with very little duration. But by means of grouping, its life expectancy can be increased, through mutual reinforcement of the enthusiasts original raw impulse. People group all the time for various reasons. There is nothing pernicious in that itself. We are social creatures after all. But it is the ideological baggage that comes with collective celebrations like the jubilee that is pernicious. I am not a Unionist. I come from a Catholic background. I believe in Democracy. The Royal family does not represent anything I believe in. To me they are an anachronism no longer relevant to the modern world. I find it mind boggling when so-called intelligent people who possess an education, lose all moral lucidity, and become angst ridden when you challenge their views on Aristocracy/Royalty- it is schizoid to believe in democracy and equality whilst exalting the inhprivilege of royalty.cannot prop up a primitive/uncivilized blood biased weltanschauung that indulges economic parasites who are accidentally (serendipity for those who enjoy the luxury of such munity) born into such easement.
Who’s the backroom member according to Alax Nixon that has left Celtic?