Neil Lennon’s suggestion that fostering Fraser Forster from a lower-league loaner to an England international is “one of the best things [he’s] been involved with as a manager” is difficult to dispute, despite his various trophies and Champions League exploits.
Owen Hargreaves earned an England cap before he made an appearance in either of England’s top two divisions, although he was playing with European champions, Bayern Munich at the time. Hargreaves and Lanarkshire’s Joe Baker are the only two to have been capped for England without playing in any of the country’s four leagues. I’ve no idea if there are any others to have earned a cap without having played in the top two division but there must be precious few.
In short, Fraser’s appearance between the sticks on Friday was exceptional. We can now help fulfil the international ambitions of English players, just as long as we continue to compete in the Champions League.
Playing to the galleries
There’s a great line in the movie, Wall St, when Martin Sheen says, “If you live long enough you get to see everything”. Today we got to see the incredible sight of Craig Whyte’s former PR, who represented him before and during his Outstanding Contribution to Scotland, who in fact, represented him well before this, when Whyte was stalking STV as they teetered on the brink of oblivion, use Twitter to turn on another member of the Whyte coterie, for being a part of the Whyte coterie.
It reads like playing to the gallery, which the Daily Record, is a particularly useful punch bag for. No one cares what you say about the Daily Record, so exploit a common enemy and pile on. Tub thumping like this is embarrassing.
Puppet master
It will be interesting to see if the Record investigate who first suggested Whyte turned his attention to Rangers, after his STV ambitions ended….
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FAO BMCUW……..
The earlier discussed vodka is 80 proof………. No surprise then that I cannot get through to you on the Garry Owen.
Personal message……. Me a cowboy………
TBM
Enjoyed this…
Deadmau5 the renowned Electronic music superstar is well-known for being controversial when it comes to Social Media and Twitter especially. His recent online spats have involved a weird selection of artists such as Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and Tiesto to name just a few.
Deadmau5 recently caused a Twitter uproar when he named one of his new productions IRA, which although seemingly harmless is an acronym that has many different meanings. Unfortunately for those from Ireland (and the UK) the most infamous acronym is that of the Irish Republican Army (which you can Wikipedia for a brief rundown of the background of Irish History if you are that way inclined). What followed was an explosion of tweets which resulted in an extremely confused Mau5.
The following tweet resulted in Deadmau5 having his twitter account suspended & shortly after the Mau5 posted an official statement stating that his management will take over his Twitter as he is taking a step back for personal reasons.
His last tweet said – “what the F*** is “UP THE RA”?
ryecatcher
10:40 on 19 November, 2013
BMCUWP….
Going to the Crooked House this weekend.
All your fault if I have balance issues next day.
Shouldn’thaveremindedmeitwasthereCSC
>>>>>>>>>>>>
Why are you and bmcuwp goin to ipox ;)
Tamrabam
Priceless………
Auldheid
Bang on.
Bar an weeminger. … two strikers did nae do us any good then.
Off topic so apologies … Can anyone clear up the following conundrum ??
BBC1 showing” The Day of The Doctor” this coming Saturday night
but to take the wee bhoy to CINEWORLD to see ” the day of The Doctor” on Saturday night it’s £12.60 per adult and £9.90 per child !!!
Does this mean it s gonna cost me £45.00 (before popcorn, drinks etc) to take the bairns to watch something I can see for free in ma ain living room or am I missing something here???
ShowerofrobbingbarstewardsCFC
rye
Paulista’s EBT was repaid in full thanks to Brian Quinn’s expertise and diligence, just a pity
the wee Brazillian shrunk without trace.
weeminger
Bad day at the office? – agree good looking side
SIPSINI
Haha,good question!
It’s a quaint little ale-house in the West Midlands.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crooked_House
Auldheid
11:17 on 19 November, 2013
I don’t believe that PL is the big, bad, bogey man that many claim him to be. Nor do I think that he’s faultless or blameless in some of the issues that many Celtic supporters are unhappy with.
You are quite correct however, he is a shrew man who isn’t prone to making public comments without consideration.
In my opinion his remark about the Huns at the AGM was a deliberate statement to deflect from other issues including the Living Wage and Resolution 12.
Fair play to him, to a large extent it worked.
Auldheid…..a bigger risk than an uncorrected Deadclub is losing in the CL qualifiers,in my honest opinion.
Deadclub will not challenge for a title for at least 5 years after entry(not re-entry as Desmond would have us believe) to the SPL.
At our current rate of investment and in an arena of ever diminishing returns….there is a very high risk that we will get knocked out before the serious stuff begins in September of each season.We had a good attempt at doing this against Karagandy.
Aberdeen – 2004 , was that the game that we lost our 70 game unbeaten run at home ?. Seem to remember we were 2-1 down , pulled it back to 2-2 but then went for the winner and got suckered with a breakaway goal (John ?) in the 92nd minute
*burns toast on two consecutive days due to CQN*
John Stewart ?
MHARK67 prayin for OSCAR KNOX
11:30 on
19 November, 2013
Ah but it’s on a big screen.
BMCW/ Auldheid/ 67Heaven/ angelgabriel – thanks for your replies.
FFP – don’t want to clutter up the blog so here’s a good link explaining the theory:
http://www.financialfairplay.co.uk/
If you scroll down to an article 18/09/13 – Widening gap between elite clubs and ‘the rest’ it uses Celtic and Manchester City turnovers and CL income as an example.
UEFA appear to have set April 2014 as the deadline date for implementation. Now call me cynical – but I wonder why the CFC Board have put so much emphasis into this year’s set of figures (and to all intents and purposes are targeting similar these next few years)?
Fag-packet maths here! Assuming a continuous £76M T/O (based on this year) = a £38M FPP wage ratio for CFC (with CL qualification).
Compare and contrast with a certain ‘entity’ currently losing circa £1M per month. If they were to return (survive to 2015/16) with limited commercial income (and saleable assets) – they are likely to be circa £25M (or more) behind us in competitive wage terms.
Our only concern should be – can we continue to maintain this current formula? Buy, develop, sell-on and qualify for the CL year-in/ year-out?
$64K Question – Can we stimulate the support and keep them on board domestically these next 5 years?
MHARK67 prayin for OSCAR KNOX
11:30 on 19 November, 2013
I saw it advertised when I took my daughter to the pictures on Friday night. I got the impression that it won’t be shown on TV and that it’s a special ‘cinema only’ episode.
Still a con if you ask me :-)
THE BARCA MOLE
80 Proof?
Magic!
See if you can wangle an import licence,we’re in business.
I take it the Banana Rum is standard? I don’t like strong liquor.
MHARK67 prayin for OSCAR KNOX
11:30 on
19 November, 2013
And in 3-D
I’m on holiday in Australia at the moment and went to the Australia- Costa Rica match tonight. Im glad i did as I saw a very good performance from Tom Rogic.
He came on after 60 minutes with the score at 0-0, within 20 seconds of coming on he left 3 men for dead in a 50 yard run to the edge of the Costa Rica box.
He completed another 2 similar dribbles from midfield that had Costa Rica bamboozled and helped Australia win the game. I was very impressed with his strength on the ball and direct play.
He got a rousing reception when he came on – the Australian fans really rate him.
I realise its only an international friendly but he showed enough to make me think he could give us a more direct attacking threat from midfield and maybe take some of the load off Joe Ledley’s shoulders in terms of contributing goals from midfield.
Costa Rica have qualified for the World Cup and weren’t shy with their challenges but Rogic got right in about them and took the game to them and they couldn’t handle it.
Rogic has it in him to be a quality player. I hope he shows it in a Celtic jersey.
auldheid
11:17 on 19 November, 2013
It really is inconceivable that anyone could come to the conclusion that we would be better off, financially, or IN ANY OTHER WAY, with them back……….even the other SPL Clubs are starting to believe that they can achieve European games…….it is a much improved environment without the cheating zombies, to whom ‘sport’ does not come into the equation.
To suffer insolvency by chasing the SPL and a run in Europe is bad enough.
Imagine suffering insolvency by over-spending to win the fourth and third tiers of Scottish football.
Can they possibly be that dumb?
ryecatcher
11:35 on 19 November, 2013
Isn’t that part of the excitement……believing that we can qualify, then pushing for the last 16…..AND saying gonnae PLEASE win th e League Cup, FGS……..LOL
We have done really well in Europe, with more to come…….and, if all else (justice) fails, their continued absence from SPL / Europe will sign the tribute act’s death-knell…..
tgbs – I really hope you’re right about Rogic, but I watched him closely during the Morton LC game and I was disappointed in how easily he lost possession. He needs to adapt to the game here and toughen up a bit.
Biton wasn’t much better in that department either!
T4
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers backs resolution 12
11:14 on 19 November, 2013
RYECATCHER
J10a is the fella,then down the 449
Celtic Quick Routes.
………………..
Thought I had wandered onto Celtic Quick Nav.
Celtic_First
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
I think he may have been referring to the huns?!
celtic_first
11:42 on 19 November, 2013
THAT would be soooooo ironic………but we mustn’t forget that a good proportion of the missing millions has also found it’s way into the spivs’ pockets………ah, life is good….!!
Just in to say…
GoldStar 10
1. No I wasn’t at the AGM – I’m not a shareholder although my close relatives are. Good for them. Me…I see it as putting yer money into a big building and being told to stand ootside after doing so. Fergus said when he would leave the club that there would be supporter ownership and that the club would belong to the fans ? So what happened there then ?
I lost faith in Fergus when – after ‘using’ influential fholk to win the hearts n minds of the Celtic support to win control of the club for the ‘rebels’ by the ousting of the old ‘bored’ he slammed the door shut after the 1st share issue and got rid of the ‘rebels’ one by one and, until this day there isny one ‘rebel on the ‘bored’ who, for me, run a plastic version of the Celtic Fc that I grew up with
GOOGYBHOY
Won’t be much use to a taxi driver,that…..
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
11:48
I know, but at some point, surely, some high-up hun has to come to his senses and say: “Haud on … how much are we paying our coach and our squad to beat Elgin?”
It’s completely nuts. They can’t afford their business model.
2. Is irrelevant cause of 1. imo
apologise for split-post
Gremlins
Celtic-first…..
Deliberately overspending to create the insolvency in the first place.
The club then owes the holding company (with the assets) all of the wonga.
They are getting away with it ….so playing a blinder so far.
googybhoy ♥ celtic
11:46 on 19 November, 2013
On that subject, I finally got the Sat Nav lady to ‘speak ‘ to me last night….hahahahahahahaha ….now working on how I can achieve the reverse with my wife…
Fergus McCann and all his rebels.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon, supporting WEE OSCAR..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
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When, oh when – will yer monicker be realized ? Ever ? :)
HH
So PL set up a deliberate question, to make a deliberate statement, ffs, what a remarkable man PL is.
kevjungle
11:49 on 19 November, 2013
You really need to get (off) oot mare…..hahahahahahahaha……you’re carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders….
ryecatcher
11:51
That’s the spivs.
What are the ‘real’ Rangers men doing to stop them?
Celtic_First,
I have been convinced for some time that ryecatcher’s take that they are deliberately becoming insolvent is what is really happening. And it’s working, imo.