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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reiperman
ditto,turned on at the wrong time… o((
Steinreignedsupreme on 2 June, 2012 at 16:05 said
The vast majority in the same position – Old England or Eldorado?
tommytwiststommyturns on 2 June, 2012 at 16:11 said
The way the Huns’ lawyers have been performing they’ll no doubt make the analogy the plank of their case, or are they planks?
Rieperman,
Must be running late. Talking about something from years ago is taking priority.
Paul67
i know you’re reading this while quaffing some eau minerale awaiting yer big gig
pls dont forget yon request furra cliff richard summer holidays
sah classic !
ghee thum wot for, captain !
:)
monaghan
is it not Old English :¬)
Monaghan1900 on 2 June, 2012 at 15:58 said:
Guy from RM seems to have a point. Anyone spot a potential flaw?
“Bringing the Game Into Disrepute
Humour me with a hypothetical scenario.
In this scenario I am self employed and a member of a gold club. My wife does my accounts and has deliberately not paid my taxes. With this money she has instead bought me golf lessons which has resulted in my game improving, so I am better than everyone else at my club. HMRC find out I have not being paying taxes and decide to take me to court. The golf club hear about this and decide to charge me with bringing the game into disrepute.
Do you think in the real world a golf club would do that?”
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Aye, the entire thing?
A more accurate analogy would be that:
His wife advised him on his tax affairs, but he decided to ignore her and spent the money as he pleased.
The gold (sic) club was actually a monetary incentivised golf competition with standard rules applied to all players (including the provision of ensuring payment of taxes from money earned from golf participation).
And rather than using the saved tax to pay for additional golf lessons, he used the money to hire Tiger Woods to play in his stead.
Apart from all that, his point is quite solid.
TAL
Only 4 matches in the Danish Betsafe League and they all end up as 2:2.
Wonder what the odds are on that?
btw, Dundee College 5-asides World Record attempt ended this morning at 05:10 (21hrs, 10mins), some 19 hours short of the target.
Tangerines won by 50 odd goals (can’t remember the final total).
Will post an update of the total raised.
Also: new soup recipe tomorrow (Roasted Red Pepper and Lentil)
They’ll keep Paul 67 waiting,till he’s dying for a @p,then hand him the mike…
They didn’t get where they are today,without being cunning….
•-:¦:-•** -:¦:- sparkleghirl :¦:-.•**• -:¦:-• on 2 June, 2012 at 16:12 said:
He’s responding to the SFA’s counsel who remarked that only lesser sanctions would now be available. Not at all, he says. After all, look what the Appeals Tribunal said – if they didn’t have a transfer embargo available, they’d have to consider suspension. He’s certainly giving the AT more than a nod in that direction. Carloway is not a particularly even-tempered individual. Any volounteers to replace Richard Keen at the next hearing?
Doc
I don’t think the streets will be un-littered until after 6. Been caught a few times 5-6 but I don’t know the actual routes this time.
Radio Scotland and stories from the past
I’m guessing lots of you will remember an Only An Excuse special for the World Cup 1990 called Tackle. I did have it on VHS but in this digital era I’ve looked and looked and can’t find it. If anyone can point me to a source I would love to see it again.
“….wan o’ the immortals…… he’s deid noo, o’ course”
here we go with Paul
http://www.bbc.couk/radio/player/bbc_radio_scotland?lang=en
Social media discussion now starting on Radio Scotland
….PFayr on 2 June, 2012 at 16:31 said:
monaghan
is it not Old English :¬)
After two bottles you can call it what you want…
….PFayr on 2 June, 2012 at 16:31 said:
monaghan
is it not Old English :¬)
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I’m getting old myself, I thought it was Old England. I know two guys at school who got chucked out of a pub for trying to buy it by the glass!
Monaghan1900 on 2 June, 2012 at 15:58 said:
Guy from RM seems to have a point. Anyone spot a potential flaw?
This kind of argument relies on a comparison between a hypothetical situation (in this case a golf club) and the real situation (RFCIA) in an attempt to convince us of some proposition in relation to the real-life scenario. The strength of the argument relies on how similar the two situations are. In this case there is little similarity and in fact many differences between the two cases. For example:
The golf club is described as a one-off? RFCIA failed to pay a variety of taxes over an extended period.
Is his wife a director in his company? RFCIA directors had full knowledge of what they were doing.
Is it a condition of golf club membership that members tax affairs should be in order? In the professional, commercial football world, there is – and failure to comply means sanction.
I could go on but you get the picture.
This argument is an informal fallacy – an incomplete or inconsistent comparison.
Spot a potential flaw? Errr….aye….
dirtymac on 2 June, 2012 at 16:32 said:
I think he’s more than solid!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_scotland?lang=en
‘Mon the Paul67!!
Tom English trying to sound like a big man. Blocked me from tweeting him. I have never abused him. The questions were just a little too awkward. Coward.
Tom English: “CQN sometimes gets taken over by lunatics!”
To be fair, he did also say there was a lot of intelligent comment
Well done MacLean ‘as someone who’s been in the vanguard’. Word chosen carefully, Robin. ‘Sinister’ I suppose.
This website sometimes gets taken over by lunatics?
LIKE WHO??? IS THAT SONOFABITCH TALKING ABOUT ME??
HEY ENGLISH!! You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Well who the Hell else are you talkin’ to?
Guys, this man is slandering all of us. Get the torches lit. Let’s march ….
Gordon J
he was talking about Super Sally @ Truth :¬))
To balance English’s comment, often his brain gets taken over by lunatics.
James
torch blazing already….. o))
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon on 2 June, 2012 at 16:46 said:
Tom English: “CQN sometimes gets taken over by lunatics!”
To be fair, he did also say there was a lot of intelligent comment
That’ll be yersel Gordon ;)))
HH
JF
i`ll hold him down …you can kick him
PFayr,
There’s a fair few he could be talking about
The intelligent comment that is :)))
HH
James Forrest – I think he is!
I’ll haud yer pitchfork while you chib him – gaun yersel ya internet bampot!!
On a more serious note (haha) ….
This is a different show without the hacks, like Chick Young and the stumbling, bumbling buffoon Jim Traynor.
Still, when you read absolute nonsense, a product of hallucinogenic magic mushrooms and the finest red from the Murray vineyards, like that in the Daily Record today … dear oh dear. That article this morning, about cutting deals, is one of the most staggeringly bad I’ve ever read.
Thank God for this site and others like it. There is more truth on here than the Daily Record could run in a year.
gallagher,
I was thinking that was a compliment – then I saw all the smilies …
Is English talking about our very own Declan??
Just saying like
the lunatics have taken over the asylum
Of course the blog gets taken over by lunatics.
Tom English just admitted he comes on here. He’s not the only lunatic who journo who does so.