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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My Dear Kojo….
Glad to hear of your literary ambitions…
But you’d better be getting on with it…
Afore Scranton makes demands on your time…
I understand that Lambert was on a rolling one-year contract,so the compo due to Norwich would be around one year’s salary= circa £1M…
Mark McGhee gained a bad reputation for walking away from a club…was it Norwich to Leicester?…cannot quite recall..
But his career never really recovered..
I was very disappointed when Mowbray was given the Celtic job,ahead of Mark..
I think he could have been a highly successful Celtic manager…and in it for the duration…
He was a really excellent striker,who should have been signed by Celtic much earlier. In his career….he had trials for Celtic,before he made his name at Morton,but they spurned the opportunity to sign him…Another one who got away..initially at least..
I very rarely bother to watch any EPL matches live…any even with Match of tthe day recorded highlights..I am selective in which matches I watch..
I have fast-forward when it came to the A.villa games…so I couldn’t tell you how dire they have been recently……
Still ,very pleasurable to see Big ‘Eck getting his Jotters….
In fact….Happy As Larry….
googybhoy,
For a so called friendly there have been a lot of bad tackles.Awful game.
saltires en sevilla on 2 June, 2012 at 17:19 said:
That sketch was on a hogmany edition of scotch and wry probably late 70s or early 80s. Rickie Fulton played the huns manager, Gregor Fisher the hun scout and Gerard Kelly the promising catholic footballer. Did’t understand it at the time , the ingnorance of youth.
England win this one. Belgium’ll never score.
Tricoloured Ribbon on 2 June, 2012 at 17:47 said:
googybhoy,
For a so called friendly there have been a lot of bad tackles.Awful game.
Well taken goal by Wellbeck.
http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/why-did-lord-glennie-find-in-favour-of-rangers-in-the-judicial-review-against-the-sfa/
In which I go through Lord Glennie’s judgement and try to make sense of it.
googybhoy,
Sorry if I’ve got the wrong person.Are you from the Vale?
One of the funniest lines I’ve heard this week…
from a post on RTC
“New Ranjurs in the SPL next season is about as acceptable as Davie Dodds’s coupon in High Definition.”
I laughed, anyway
thebhoyfromoz on 2 June, 2012 at 17:48 said:
I remember that S&W sketch with Kelly as the player
The one I was thinking about was a different one … It was defo Tony Ropermaybe it was just a job application not as a player …
I remember it because later that year I played in a Wildcat fitba team down at Cartha and Roper and Dave Anderson were in the team … I reminded him about the sketch and he said it took About 20 takes because everyone was p@shing themselves so much on the set
He’s a funny guy but no a very good fitba player had to save his ass a few times :)
HH
M
Don’t like Belgium’s socks.
Take that, Tom English.
Tricoloured Ribbon on 2 June, 2012 at 17:56 said:
googybhoy,
Sorry if I’ve got the wrong person.Are you from the Vale?
Yes Balloch…living in Manchester now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUXhW3JC9Zw
I believe that’s the clip you guys are talking about.
Not long home from the Caritas Award Ceremony at the Armadillo this afternoon.
It was tremendously enjoyable and there was a lovely tribute to Reamonn Gormley whose mum and dad picked up a posthumous award in his honour.
Kojo on 2 June, 2012 at 15:45
Hi m8, it is great to have you back on the blog, your submissions have been missed. I hope you are getting back to full health and taking things easy.
John 2:19 is indeed the most important Temple and it isn’t a building. ;)
Chairbhoy on 2 June, 2012 at 16:24
From what I have read Herod rebuilt and enlarged the 2nd Temple.
Tweet of the day goes to EddieJungle:
EddieJungle @EddieJungle
@StewartRegan any chance the hawkeye guys can invent pitchline technology that beeps when an illegally registered gers player comes on?
Hehehe..
Rieperman on 2 June, 2012 at 18:13 said:
Tweet of the day goes to EddieJungle:
Just knicked that one.
Me too
text away to son
ElDiegoBhoy on 2 June, 2012 at 18:11said:
Not long home from the Caritas Award Ceremony at the Armadillo this afternoon.
Did you pick up any awards????
Tricoloured Ribbon …
How is your good lady (Hope all is well)….
saltires en sevilla on 2 June, 2012 at 18:01 said:
me and brother were sitting right next to Roper at last years LCF.
front row, right next to the dug outs (or seats !)
he was chatting away to my brother , who was so into the game he didnt know who he was talking to.
at halftime i said so jamesy cotter is your new mate,
“whit you talking about”
i said your sitting next to him
doh.
he was funny slagging the huns about the brown brogues.
and telling stories about some big haddy he used to play with in the Wildcat team.
tal
Sitting here having a quiet pint. There is a Hun and couple local lads at the next table.
Hun says he fancies Spain to win Euros but he will be backing Holland.
Also putting money on Jellylegs being top scorer in EPL next season.
Should I intervene or let Jim talk p..h.
May ask what chance his team have of playing next year.
Saint Stivs on 2 June, 2012 at 18:23 said:
saltires en sevilla on 2 June, 2012 at 18:01 said:
me and brother were sitting right next to Roper at last years LCF.
front row, right next to the dug outs (or seats !)
—–
Hehehe Lol
Is the old office all decked out in RW & B bunting?
HH
M
saltires en sevilla on 2 June, 2012 at 18:33 said:
Saint Stivs on 2 June, 2012 at 18:23 said:
saltires en sevilla on 2 June, 2012 at 18:01 said:
me and brother were sitting right next to Roper at last years LCF.
front row, right next to the dug outs (or seats !)
—–
Hehehe Lol
Is the old office all decked out in RW & B bunting?
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nae chance.
not on my watch.
googybhoy
It was just a joy to be there. Came away feeling spiritually uplifted so don’t embdy be hassling me tonight or else:o)
googybhoy
Just leave them to it .Look how good a job they are making of killing themselves(slowly) without our intervention.
STUPID STUPID HUNS
HAIL HAIL
TopCorner on 2 June, 2012 at 16:16 said:
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A braw wee hoose!
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Kojo : mercy buckets for answering my question .HH!
>>>>
It is only in The UKplc that ‘friendlies’ are dismissed as meaningless. The results are important in computing the coefficient which in turn goes towards the rankings which in turn determine who you come up against in the early stages of international competitions. Only sayin’,like.
St stivs
Good man
TAL
St Stivs..
Once reffed a charity match involving pumperskin something or other…
Pumperskin were winning 7-0 with five mins to play…
I allowed one of the opponents to score a goal that was at least ten yards offside..
Chick Young went doolally bob and before I could send the wee effer off, Tony Roper told him to shut the F@@@ up and stop acting like a big lassie..
Coudnt send him off for laughing…Brilliant guy is oor Tony..
Celticbhoy on 2 June, 2012 at 16:11 said:
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Go on,mhan! Get in roon aboot the naysayers.
The Bhoys are the most accommodating bunch you could hope to meet,as is the club’s regard for its fans. I know.
HH!
ElDiegoBhoy on 2 June, 2012 at 18:11 said:
Not long home from the Caritas Award Ceremony at the Armadillo this afternoon.
It was tremendously enjoyable and there was a lovely tribute to Reamonn Gormley whose mum and dad picked up a posthumous award in his honour.
……………
EDB will be with Raemonns parents Jim and Anne next week in Derry, met them last year nice folk.
Hx2
Green Oak Tree on 2 June, 2012 at 18:41 said:
Dukla Pumperston?
sparkleghirl
The very mob..HaHaHa
Memory is sssooooo bad…
Zbyszek on 2 June, 2012 at 17:00 said:
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Are you actually in Poland?If so, I really would appreciate hearing your take on things. The programme by Panorama on The BBC was really frightening stuff…however,I do recognise that The BBC acts as the propaganda wing of the Anglo government,so if you know stuff that can tell a different story,it would be most welcome.
El Dorado on 5 USA just now, I guess all the Greenock folk will be tuning in Like me :>)
better then watching an england friendly CSC
saltires en sevilla on 2 June, 2012 at 18:39 said:
St stivs
total aside, having clocked my accent and pick up fot the company name, Mays cabs taxi drivers were asking how your doing.
i just said new job in london is all i knew.
nice people.
the woman driver topped it off for me, living in hartley whitley, great the drought is over, we can get the swinmming pool filled now, and the hot tub on.
aye,
Timeless comedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUXhW3JC9Zw
Green Oak Tree on 2 June, 2012 at 18:41 said:
Dukla Pumpherston
Played in another game against them at westerlands our bhoys were taking turns to nutmeg wee chuck Dung .. He was going mental Jim Duffy was playing at CH and remember him strolling through the game … Until our big Socrates lookalike CMcS nutmeggeg him as well
Not too happy is putting it mildly :)
HH
M
Vmhan…
Eldorado…Those were the days…