The Barton issue: it seems bizarre to suspend a player for four weeks after an incident, more so to extend that by a further week immediately before a clear-the-air meeting, but it’s not.
This has got nothing to do with the player. Whatever he did with a team-mate in the aftermath of our 5-1 win a month ago has nothing to do with his continuing suspension. Nor is the player’s subsequent charge for gambling on football.
I’m pretty sure it’s not even about money, or the player’s lack of ability. This is about the manager and his board. Who authorised his signing in the summer and on what basis was he employed? Warburton has played his hand by passing the issue up to his board. The board can try to impose the player on the manager, again, or they can find the money to make the problem go away.
Or maybe the manager will go instead.
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Why is there a lack of any real coverage of the bombing of a funeral in Sanaa in which at least 140 human beings were killed?
Is it because
A) Those killed aren’t from the correct side?
B) Those responsible are from the correct side?
C) The apparatus used in the attack could’ve came from the £3.3 billion worth of arms the UK has sold to Saudi Arabia since the conflict in Yemen began?
D) All of the above?
I can’t imagine the coverage would have been the same if it had been 140 Americans or Brits or French or Germans who had lost their lives.And imagine the news if Russia had been responsible?
Maybe when we start reporting every loss of human life with the same attention we’ll know things are looking better.Until then it’s no more than a sick game and all sides (Yanks,Russians,Left,Right,Blue,Red) can go fuck themselves.
May the families of those affected by this atrocity,and the folk stuck in the middle of the ongoing carnage,find the strength to see them through.One love.
SIPSINI on 9TH OCTOBER 2016 6:05 PM
WEEMAN67…
Ps…My bhoy is going over next month to see the Italian girl he met there as they kept in contact.
To stay with family that is.
I can imagine it like a scene from the godfather with chaperones when they go out.:)))
As long as Barzini isn’t her father…….?? HH
SIPSINI, SOT
Thanks for info. have passed it on………….HH
TBM
How you doing are you up the road or down the Valleys
HH
Tontine Tim,
Thanks for the acknowledgement re John Jack.
Am I right in saying that he was our CH in the 4-4 cup tie v them at Celtic Park?
The game where Johnny Hubbard scored a last minute penalty equaliser and we beat them 2-0 in the replay.
I think Shearer virtually ended John Higgins’ career that afternoon.
My friends in Celtic,
If taxi drivers really know everything, then the ” Rangers” v Celtic game will be moved from Hogmanay to the Monday night.
We shall see.
HH.
I’m good J…
Apologies for not including you in my salutations so………
A big hello to you pal; good, very good man you are…
Back to Wellsh Wales a.m.
Getting too old and tired for this grafting carry on but hey, what to do and BTW say hello to others from the bus that I also neglected to include; JNP and HT for starters…
Take care pal and yes I am good, really!
Thanks J…
God Bless…
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
God
BABASONICOS71
Official number of dead human beings in the Sicilian channel -September 2016 -352.Figure for the First week of October 2016.-82..
motherwell should help us put daylight between aberdeen and ourselves – helpful with euro games still going on
No TBM isnae God… maybe He was looking over my shoulder!!!
Fed and watered , feet up and getting ready to watch Ireland v Moldova.
COYBIG !
I better do my warm up just in case MON needs me ?
greenpinata
If it does get moved into the New Year it will not be at the behest of the SFA, the SPFL, PoliceScotland or the Scottish government in Edinburgh, (whose leader incidentaly represents Govan), none of whom so much as raised any hint of opposition to the scheduling of the match.
Or Celtic Football Club for that matter.
I say to folk, ” I have been so unlucky in marriage”.
” Hows that Big Jimmy” they ask ?
” My 1st wife left me………and the 2nd wan hisnae” !
Only joking !
Babasonico @ 6.46pm: Re the Sanaa funeral atrocity.
I don’t buy newspapers anymore but my wife gets the (Irish) Mail on Sunday. Just had a quick glance through it and very few articles on international events. The continuing onslaught of Aleppo is featured on P.32 with much coverage of trivial news stories preceding it.
A sad reflection of the world we live in today.
Fair play to you for highlighting this.
The Irish might need me after all as their squad is down to the bare bones ?
I just MON let’s me finish ma cargo first ?
Bhoys, I too watched the Bbc news about strikes in Sanaa, absolutely horrific.
To see rescuers from the first missile strike,being caught up in the 2nd bomb minutes later is just ……
Man City relatives just texted me to say they have two tickets for me and of course I can stay at their bit. Hate it when a plan comes together……… :0)
Still can’t find any link to the away tickets the consultation is – any links to anything official anyone?
HH
BGFC
SOUTH OF TUNIS…
Tragic.434 souls lost,all those families devastated.And just as tragic is they won’t be the last,it’s a disgrace on humanity.
My heart sags at the thought of it.
PRESTONPANS BHOYS on 9TH OCTOBER 2016 7:25 PM
Man City relatives just texted me to say they have two tickets for me and of course I can stay at their bit. Hate it when a plan comes together……… :0)
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What’s that you said – you can get another two for me and wee BGFC? Fantastic :-)
HH
BGFC
The Company 6.36
Great clumping !
As I posted earlier maybe the camp that Barton went to was a ” Get the Boot Camp”?
Power to your clumping.
HH
Time to concentrate on the Ireland v Moldova match.
COYBIG
babasonico
You may also want to take into account that it was the US Air Force, supported by the RAF who ended the ceasefire in Syria, by attacking and killing over 100 Syrian soldiers, before it was so much as three days old.
ALMORE…
It’s very,very sad mate.We’re a strange species.
On a more positive note,come on Ireland.
Clumpany
Scotland’s Player of the Year 2016-17 were bang on the (non-EBT) money
Sorry maybe came late to this….who are we talking about ?
Cheers
Bgfc,
If only I could :)
ALMORE
HERE IT IS
HUNDERBIRDS ARE GONE on 6TH OCTOBER 2016 10:21 PM
As I hauled my shivering carcass through the front door, I was stopped in my tracks by the luxurious and welcoming aroma of roasting Sumatran coffee beans. I sat at a table by the window, looking on to the façade of the famous stadium, bathed in the weak October sun.
“Usual?” Asked the young waiter, smiling at me.
“Please” I answered, returning his smile.
I rested my hands on the quality linen table cloth, as I warmed up and looked around. There was the usual kind of crowd in. Some fans, some locals, the old guy who always sat on his own, at the same seat. A group of women in their twenties were animated and hysterically laughing at something or other. Two serious looking bespectacled men, both wearing fawn coloured sweaters, were furiously concentrating on the chessmen laid out on the board before them, as they sipped their drinks.
The waiter returned with my order. Cortado Coffee, apple strudel, scented with cinnamon and a glass of Cognac. As I sipped the comforting coffee, I looked around at the images on the walls. They told the story of the club, my club, from heroes that were before my time, McGrory, Gallagher and Malley, through the Lisbon Lions that I watched on small black and white televisions, as a wide-eyed youngster, to today’s stars, carrying the flame for the Celtic support.
I felt at home in this place. My daughter arrived, weighed down with the trophies of her assault on the shops. It was great to see her. I ordered her Capuchino and well-fired roll and square sausage that she always had. She touched the replica European Cup that was on the shelf near our table.
“For luck” she smiled.
The waiter approached us and WOO WAAH WOO WHAA WOO WHAA WOO………………..
………..WTF? Oh no, that’s the alarm. Got to get up for work and……….
……… OH NOOOOOO. IT WAS A DREAM. THEY HAVEN’T BUILT ALMORE’S CAFÉ YET. :)))
Great goal. 1-0 Ireland
Finally watched the Jinky program from Alba…….hankie nae use,towel sufficient.
CELTIC MAC…
That was the goodies killing the baddies,though.That’s ok.The goodies bombs aren’t as evil as the baddies.If you get blown up by the goodies bombs it’s a much easier experience than when the baddies do it.Killing people horribly is a more ethical form of murder than killing them really horribly.
It’s a disgrace.
Hunderbirds: Cheers. That would be my kind of café.
Back to the footie.
BABASONICOS71 on 9th October 2016 6:46 pm
Control the media and you control the masses, they think they can do as they please… and they can :(
We are a nation of headline readers.
I’ve got to the age where I can’t effectively fight it so I blank it out as it’s just too stressful.
Terrible admission and I’m ashamed of myself, but us ordinary mortals need leadership and I just don’t see it anywhere.
Corbyn is an honest man but unfortunately not politically astute enough it seems.
Maybe my children will see a revolution where the heightened selfishness inherent in society these days will be curtailed.
cometherevolution.CSC
Hunderbirds –
Saw that when you originally posted it and even better second time around.
And, yes, come on Ireland – my 2nd favourite ‘other’ Inernational team ;-)
And the good thing about a ‘3 or more goals in the game’ bet is the possibility of it coming to fruition early and having the ole head on the pillow at the back of 9!
It’s been a long and tiring (hic!) weekend………
“Grace” seeping through the crown noise……….
Jobo, my wife and I drove through the village earlier today. We got to the roundabout at the junction with Westmains Road.
At the war memorial across from the roundabout , plenty of peepul with orange sashes and the accompanying flute band were performing there.
Not the most pleasant sight on a lovely , dry and relatively sunny day here in East Kilbride.
Enjoy tonight’s game.
Grace is a tune hope the GB adopt Ave Maria next ….. good over evil :-)
VOGUEPUNTER
Just watched wee Jinky also mhate , that was hard going btw ! Lots of hankies !