Congratulations to Scotland’s Player of the Year, Stefan Johansen, and Young Player of the Year, Jason Denayer. It’s fair to say Stefan had an underwhelming first eight months in Scotland, but the turnaround since October has been stark.
It was during our home defeat to Hamilton Accies that month that I noticed a change in his game. He took on more responsibility and pressed incessantly for the equaliser. The next game, away to Ross County, was a Johansen virtuoso performance and he’s never looked back.
There was a similar ‘So what?’ reaction to Jason’s early season performances. Performances were far more like Efe Ambrose than Virgil van Dijk, but he grew increasingly assured as the season progressed. His international debut two months ago was merited.
Manchester City want him back for next season, where he’ll be second reserve for central defence. On the upside, he’ll get six games, some of which will be in the cups against lower league opponents. If City and the player want to map a route to the first team, this is a step in the process, but it’s not without its risks to the player.
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Cheers Lymmbhoy
Lymmbhoy
do you have a link or addi that can be tweeted with above info?
HH
LYMMBHOY
Cheers,mate. Very important,as you say. I’m off to a CSA meeting in Birmingham later this month,and I suspect this may be on the agenda.
I dunno why police can lie in court with impunity yet others can’t. In fact,I know they are supposed to face the same sanctions as everyone else if they do.
Heyho….
It’s a shame,tbh. Most policemen I’ve ever met have been as honest and straight-up as the rest of us.
They must feel as let down as we do.
RWE
11:33 on
5 May, 2015
You obviously have a rosey garden and I applaud you on that.
You are clearly privileged enough to have the choices of do I or dont I – please spare a thought for those who dont.
Also, you have obviously never had a child screaming and crying at you because they dont have all the kits – as soon as they hit the shelves.
Please also spare a thought for the kind of sacrifices those closer to the bread line than you obviously are (rightly or wrongly) make in order to placate that child – or in many cases multiples of children.
Emdae had problems with Viva La Vouchers adding a few pounds to ur mobile bill under the heading Premium Information Service??
More drivel from Mr jungle……
D’oh got it
Wee radio preview of Thursday’s Europa League Semi Final First Leg between Napoli and Dnipro.
Benitez ——-
” A very good team but Inter beat them twice in the Group Stages and if Inter can beat them , we can too. “
Great read Livibhoy.
Absolute guff from Kevjungle of the growing negativity clique, that post here. Nonsense Kev.
lionroars67
10:24 on 5 May, 2015
Lisbon Lion @tirnaog09 2h2 hours ago
The laughter of our children, Sands, Celtic and Political expression in sport http://tirnaog09.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/the-laughter-of-our-children-my-twitter.html …
This blog reflects my own views on Celtic, Celtic fans……………dare i say it songs
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Enjoyed reading that.
Resonates with me as the son of a Highland Mum who ‘just liked Celtic’ and a Bhoy who was brought up by parents who said ‘celtic supporters are usually good guys…’
ie the antithesis of the WATP supremacist keich.
HH jamesgang
new article posted.
Kevjungle is correct. Broonie is a liability. Looked how well we coped in his absence earlier this year!
And the Larsson Ghuy was overrated too.
AyeRightCSC
HH jamesgang
an tearmann
http://fansagainstcriminalisation.com/campaign-news/
Link is in the article…….but here’s the petition link again
https://www.change.org/p/the-scottish-government-repeal-the-offensive-behaviour-at-football-threatening-communications-scotland-act-2012?just_created=true
HH
Livibhoy
Lovely, lovely stuff. I missed it first time round and glad it was bumped on.
When we speak from the heart we are unbeatable.
Thank you.
An tearmann
Thanks for doing the bumping. I wonder how many other good ones I have missed.
HH
K T F 3.58
Lovely!!!!
Chairbhoy
20:27 on
4 May, 2015
Hi Paul67,
Very pleased for Stefan Johansen and Jason Denayer, two players that have shown real improvement this Season and have performed brilliantly. There potential was there for all to see but how often have we seen that bear fruit at Celtic recently?
So firstly I pleased for the players and the application they have shown to improve so markedly, but from a wee selfish point of view I’m so pleased we have a set-up at Celtic that nurtures and brings talent through to play with such proficiency. It’s not only SJ and JD, for the first time in a generation we have a squad of young players who are improving and been given the support, training and expertise to excel.
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Apologies for the long post but having read the article penned by Martin Hannan and some of the comments thereafter I have to say, this is a very poor, ill-considered piece, if, as seems to be the case the chap was once a Celtic supporter.
The reason I say this is not due to the fact that the chap has a pop at Celtic, little new there by the SMSM, it is how scathing and belittling it is to each, footballer, coach, manager, supporter of every Club and the Scotland National teams.
It is a complete disgrace, it says to them, you are no hopers and to ensure competitive Football in Scotland you ought to do everything in your power to ensure a strong Rangers (sic) as without a strong Rangers (sic) you are incapable of producing good coaches, good managers good football teams and ultimately a quality international squad.
It’s as if some sort of bent “Old Firm” duopoly was the best Scottish Football can get. What absolute nonsense. This chap obviously doesn’t know or totally ignores the short term, medium term and long term history of Scottish Football, whichever one it is, it makes him an ignoramus. I’m not being judgemental here, I’m talking literally.
Looking back at the pre-sixties history of Scottish Football Queen’s Park had a golden age, Hibs had a Golden age, Rangers had a golden age and several teams became good enough to win many trophies.
Yet when Celtic were on route to their unique (for the time) 9-in-a-row could you say Celtic dominated Scottish Football? Well to a certain extent yes, but you must put that into context, Celtic won more domestic trophies than any other Club but we had other Clubs winning European trophies, the International team beating the World Champions in ’67, and qualifying for World Cup Finals, Scottish Footballers, Coaches and Managers were the best in Britain and the equal of those around Europe and for a nation of 5million, Scotland was a hotbed of Football talent and Celtic rather than dominate were the vanguard.
So even after Celtic’s “dominance” waned Scottish teams still competed and won European trophies, the International side still qualified for major tournaments, Scotland’s best Footballers, Coaches and Managers were still amongst the best in Europe.
This only changed in the late eighties when Rangers decided that their Club had the right to be preeminent among the Scottish Clubs despite being an also ran in the last 30 years. They would secure backing and funding that meant their financial doping would totally distort Scottish Football. They bought the best Scottish players depriving other Clubs of their talent, but often they resided on the bench or in the reserves not developing their talent, instead opting for highly paid foreign talent to crush the Scottish Clubs.
Their 9-in-a-row would come at the expense of a nurturing Scottish Football environment totally not conducive to developing talent, this continued unabated until Rangers went bust. The defining moment for me was when with one game to go to Qualify for a major tournament the Scotland International team lost their Manager and Coach who deserted Scotland at a crucial time to go to Rangers. Scotland failed to qualify for that tournament.
Since Rangers went bust we have seen a renaissance in Scottish Football, more teams winning trophies, more teams financially secure and a National team we can be proud of at all levels.
Mr Hannan does not cite a single fact or give a coherent argument to suggest how the new Ibrox Club will be any better for Scottish Football than it’s dead predecessor – In fact the reverse is true.
Mr Hannan reminisces about the eighties and the new firm – he forgets to mention their decline was nothing to do with Celtic who were arguably more or less on a par with those Clubs. No it was Rangers financially doping induced dominance that shattered the ambitions of the “new firm”, saw Hearts fall by the way side and Celtic were a hair’s breath from going bust – what did Rangers or their supporters care for Scottish Football then. In fact many a St Georges flag was waved at Ibrox.
It is a clear and undisputable fact that any success Celtic have had in the last 30 years is despite Rangers. What Celtic have done since they recovered from the body blow in the late eighties every other Club in Scotland was entitled to do. Hearts operate out of one of the most successful Capital Cities in Europe, Aberdeen operate out of the most prosperous Cities in Europe, with a proud Football heritage these Clubs could have done something, Celtic have no God given right to succeed, and still today we are their for the taking.
Mr Hannan is also very disingenuous to suggest the new Ibrox Club is comparable in size and has the similar resources to Celtic, in this Season of all Seasons that statement is so inaccurate it must be seen as a coecered, manipulative lie. The Ibrox Club is no match for Aberdeen, Dundee United, Hearts or Hibs ALL of whom are in a better financial and footballing situation. So without going back to financial doping which is now outlawed as a result of UEFA FFP rules New Rangers have no chance.
His support of Dave King is very worrisome. The New Rangers had a Billionarie at the helm before he was ousted by King, a man certainly capable of ensuring the Ibrox Club had the resources to continue and in the long term compete in Europe.
For me Martin Hannan’s article says, you don’t want the Tim’s winning everything, so allow The New Rangers to cheat their way back to the top. I do hope he’s a bigot, that I can understand, if not what motivated such a wrong minded piece – spite, envy, vengeance or plain greed thatever – you’ve got to feel for the man’s soul.
Hail Hail
a fine critique Chairbhoy :-)))
if ever imo there is a peice of ‘placed’ ‘journalism’ then it was Martin Hannans in yesterdays National newspaper
by placed i mean a loaded peice of ‘PR’ based planted nonsense farted out by jim ‘banter’ traynor etc
What happened to investigative journalism? nowhere here
Hail hail Celts
An Tearmann
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