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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Lord Glennies judgement here:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/sites/default/files/glennie%20report.pdf
Jmccormick.
I once got a taxi from Gatwick when I missed the last train.
Taxi driver (old boy) says ‘Where have you come in from?’
Me – ‘Vienna’.
Taxi driver – ‘Oh. I was abroad once but it wasn’t for me’.
Paul67,
I disagree with your article today, Paul Lambert will take AV on an upward curve IMO and quickly.
I’m not saying that as he is an ex Celt, I’m saying it as Paul is taking that club on at exactly the right time. It is a highly calculated move and he will be able to improve a higher skilled level player to achieve a top 10 next season and the season after he will threaten the top four. Going to Liverpool or Chelsea would mean they would more than likely look to start again if they never achieved the top 4 in his first season.
I hope he has Great success at Villa.
Embramike @12.14
More on the Shamrock here:
http://www.ntvcelticfanzine.com/history%20corner/history%20the%20shamrock.htm
Hx2
petec on 2 June, 2012 at 14:01 said:
Paul67,
I disagree with your article today, Paul Lambert will take AV on an upward curve IMO and quickly.
I’m not saying that as he is an ex Celt, I’m saying it as Paul is taking that club on at exactly the right time. It is a highly calculated move and he will be able to improve a higher skilled level player to achieve a top 10 next season and the season after he will threaten the top four. Going to Liverpool or Chelsea would mean they would more than likely look to start again if they never achieved the top 4 in his first season.
I hope he has Great success at Villa.
you also need to consider that Norwich have almost certainly peaked and there was no real upside to staying, a relegation battle next season would do nothing for his career
Villa is a decent move for Lambert. It was always going to be difficult to push Norwich much further than mid-table, and I think he realised that. Villa on the other hand could conceivably challenge for a CL spot – which would put Paul in the frame for the really big jobs…
Just watched Panorama’s ‘Stadiums of Hate’. Quite incredible. The Nazis have a LOT to answer for.
It was all disturbing stuff,and the way these extreme right-wingers have hijacked the celtic cross as a symbol of their perverted cause is awful.
Man,I hope any of you bhoys from Eire going to Poland and Ukraine stay real safe.
HH.
Read on the blogg recently that Celtic will be in Amsterdam the 21st July, has this been confirmed? Can’t find any info on this and I happen to be driving between France and Sweden that day, so an overnight stop would do fine.
Tá brón orm if this has already been posted .
The lad that got the hat trick is from round here,
Ahhh,living the dream.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWPaqhDMzTo
Wonkyradar ……from yesterday’s blog.
Thanks for all those zany Marx Brothers quips, really looking forward to seeing the boxset of their classic movies.
finbar42 is Neil Lennon on 2 June, 2012 at 14:04
Thanks for the link Finbar42 – much appreciated
macanbheatha
thanks for that. Enjoyed the film and some great goals.
Paul,
I think that Paul Lambert has done the right thing for his career. As others have opined, football has a short memory. PL has done very well, exceeding expectations for 3 years in a row. That can’t last, and he knows it.
The future for Norwich is one of backward steps. They have peaked. Even had he stayed, they would have a few seasons of dodging relegation, then the inevitable would happen. Three years of success? Time to walk away from that fruit machine and pocket the credits.
In management these days, there are 3 realities. Failures who change clubs because they get fired, successes who change clubs when it suits THEM, and guys who become part of the furniture, like Moyes for example.
Paul will be hoping to get a Europa place in a couple of years, then bounce on.
Just my 130 million pounds worth………:)
Jmccormick.
My dicky ticker just missed a beat!
H H
Estadio Nacional
And a wee tune that might be reminiscent to yourself, straight from Paradise itself. :))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbClX9AAYr4
I hope you are doing well m8.
I just watched the third show of The 70s documentary there which included a segment on the rise of football hooliganism.
Unsurprisingly the Huns featured – in their pre-season riot at Villa Park in 1976, much to the bemusement of the Grandstand reporter.
In-between other clips of disorder (from mainly Man United hooligans) there was some action from one of our visits to Ibrox, which included some ‘don’t-watch-alone’ close-ups of Huns, but ended happily with the Buzzbomb tucking the ball into the corner of the net.
No doubt the BBC have been inundated with complaints since the show went out about five weeks ago.
Petec 14:29
Cheers, alls well here, I think. At work so cant YouTube but will check that out later ron.
Hope alls well there.
EN
444 views
:)
Good luck to both our old bhoys!
PL has an inner steel that will make him really successful in management
He showed that by backing himself and heading to Germany to play
He came back a more rounded player and person
Aidan McGeady showed similar courage in going to Russia
DO’D deserved a better chance IMHO
Always focused – he gave his all every time that he pulled on the hoops
More importantly he has a hard edged aspect to his game that the like of Loovens and K Wilson lack
Hope he gets a move that suits him
Are the huns deid yet?
Suppose it would be too much to ask that HMRC get to pull the trigger on Wednesday – just to round off the Jubilee celebrations?
You know the way that in the good old days they stuck the head of traitors to a pole at the Tower of London
Would send a good message to all those other tax dodgers that HM wants to get!
HH
EN – that Lucky 15 is kwalitee! I’ll go for Excel Bolt in the Musselburgh race though.
BTW just had a fry up with eggs, 2 square and 2 black pudding (Simon Howie butchers). How’s yer samosas?!
T4
Hi Fellow Celtic Fans from a cloudy, dry and Beautiful St. Ives Bay in Cornwall. We are in the middle of the bay at a place called Hayle. When we arrived earlier atoday (we’re here for the week) and firdt saw the
Lord Glennie highlights the following from the Appellate Tribunal:
“Although the Appellate Tribunal agreed with the Disciplinary Tribunal that termination, suspension of membership would have been excessive, it made that assessment in the context of the availability of competent lesser sanctions such as the one actually imposed. Were that option not to have been available, suspension might have had to be considered appropriate for such serious misconduct”.
Guess what happens next? They can’t say they weren’t warned.
Paul67 et al
Brendan Rodgers Swansea with a team worth £7.5 million beat Mancini Manchester City, who had £225 million of talent on the pitch. Paul Lambert achieved something very similar with Norwich. Villa are a far bigger club than Norwich, but are losing money hand over fist so his first job is likely to be finding players to replace those sold. I hope he does well but doubt very much if he will get anywhere close to Martin O’Neill’s sixth place. From his reaction to the press a couple of weeks back, who asked if he had talked to Villa, it showed he was simply not used to that kind of pressure. Does well at Villa, world his oyster, does bad, joins the merrygoround of Managers out of work.
Darren O’Dea is certainly solid in the tackle, strong in the air and can mark a player well, but he doesn’t have the pass or the pace of a Majstorovic, Wilson or Loovens.
…and first saw the sign for Hayle my daughter and I burst into appropriate song… “Hayle, Hayle, the Celts are here!” :-)
Well done to Paul Lambert! A fantastic player who I expect to turn into an even better Manager…
Yours in Celtic,
TB&F.
Monaghan1900 on 2 June, 2012 at 14:49 said:
Blimey. I opened the link but didn’t read it.
So basically he’s giving the appeal panel the go-ahead to impose suspension or expulsion EVEN THOUGH they had dismissed it as too severe.
So all these people saying suspension/expulsion is out because it was already dismissed as too severe are wrong then :) – they will have no cause to protest if the penalty is increased. Haha!
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Square Sausages on the Radio.. Does Anyone Have any Links for That..!!
EN.. 79 Days to Square Sausage Day.. You’ll be Getting Your Just Deserts for Working in the Dessert..;0)
Summa of Sausages
Good luck to Darren and Mark Wilson,2 good tims who lived our dream.
I guess the claim, “it wisnae us, it wis D&P who went to the CoS” is kinda deid then…
naebody answered me earlier.
is O’Dea freed and away allready ?
or is he still a Celtic player at the Euros ?
tommytwiststommyturns 14:48
Haha, you lucky man, when Im home Im going to see if I can live on sausages and pork for two weeks. The samoosas as still staying down/in so far so Id say there were a success.
Ive just blindly picked Stars four in my ‘luvky’ 15, good luck.
Summa of Sammi…. 14:58
This is karma payback for all they Saturdays I went on about SS’s. Its no fair.
EN
Bloke109 is Neil Lennon on 2 June, 2012 at 14:53:
“Darren O’Dea is certainly solid in the tackle, strong in the air and can mark a player well, but he doesn’t have the pass or the pace of a Majstorovic, Wilson or Loovens.”
Good luck to Darren O’Dea – he always gave everything when he got into the Celtic team.
But Reading, Ipswich and Leeds all appear happy enough to allow him to move on. Not sure why, but that’s four or five managers that appear to think he’s dispensable.
Maybe we don’t really see his faults?
Saint Stivs on 2 June, 2012 at 12:24 said:
Doin ok St Stivs
You and me are on the same diet
Catman
Saint Stivs
Darren has been released from his contract.
is O’Dea freed and away allready ?
Yes told yesterday he was being freed
Steinreignedsupreme
Yes, of course. I thought he was fine for the SPL, and he did well in Europe, but he obviously struggled when he was deployed at right-back at the zoo and I think he played left-back in some of those games in England too. I think he’s better than how things went in England, and certainly Trap rates him highly enough, but ultimately I would hope for better next season than O’Dea and the ones I listed.
•-:¦:-•** -:¦:- sparkleghirl :¦:-.•**• -:¦:-• on 2 June, 2012 at 14:56 said:
Yip. Having been given a huge hint by the Appellate Tribunal that, if a transfer ban were not available, suspension would require to be considered, the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates advises his client to go to judicial review. The reviewing court sends the matter back to the Appellate Tribunal drawing that Tribunal’s attention to it’s own less than subtle hint. I could give you a ballpark figure for the cost of that advice but you’d say I was on the Old England.
Saint Stivs on 2 June, 2012 at 15:04:
O’Dea has left the building, he has been freed…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!