Roy Keane’s “Celtic wanted me but they weren’t showing how much they wanted me” comment in his second autobiography about being courted to replace Neil Lennon as our manager in the summer is no doubt accurate on one level, but inaccurate on another. Some within Celtic certainly wanted him, but I’m sure the reticence he picked up (and was shared by many of us on the blog at the time) was also very real. Celtic wanted him, but their approach showed him how unconvinced they were.
Keane’s managerial CV is at best considered patchy and his reputation has sold more autobiographies of former team-mates and managers than the two volumes he has now published. Few were convinced he was the right manager for the job, although I’ve no doubt Keane’s claim that Dermot Desmond wanted him, and told him “The job is yours” is accurate, whether anyone else at Celtic was in on the plan or not.
Many thanks to everyone who sponsored me for Sunday’s Great Scottish Run 10k in aid of Celtic Foundation. So far, £677 has been raised to help OUR foundation’s work with poverty, education, learning and equality. The help and messages of support kept the legs moving.
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One more suggestion for Ronny. Get the players out to supporters functions. Let them see what the fans do to support the club and what it means to them.
LB
hankray
11:39 on 8 October, 2014
South of Tunis……………was in London last week and to hear an English accent was a rarity. Do any English born people actually live there? Saw a great show there The Jersey Boys try and see it, brilliant.
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Outrageous! I live in London and I….oh wait, no, I don’t have an English accent either.
As you were…
BMCUW-A few years back a few of us were going to the Celtic POTY in the Thistle Hotel.We met up early to hit the toon for a wee pub crawl before it.We went to the College Bar,and in walks Chris Sutton and Jackie McNamara.For the next hour i saw working class bhoys who had saved up to go to the event,arguing with each other about who was buying the 2 wealthy football players a drink.Strange stuff
I think that’s the most replies I’ve ever had to a post!!
Thanks Bhoys!
I just love this place!
C’MON THE CELTS!!!!!!
HANKRAY
When I’m travelling home,I get a bus from Swindon to Victoria. And dive in to the pub between arrivals and departures.
(Tube from Victoria to Euston then more beers before the train home)
I agree 100% that British accents are few and far between. I hear everyone walking by as I’m quaffing my ale and having a tab.
Much changed from when I lived in London in the 90s.
philbhoy-VG :)
Kano’s Ghirl is running at Navan in the 2:25. Paddy Power giving her at 20/1. The trainer thinks she will do well if the going stays good.
Zebelini in the 2:50 at Nottingham listed at 16/1 (she won her first race @ 60’s)
Good luck to them both!
hankray-seen Jersey Bhoys on Broadway last year,the best live singing i have heard,great show.
Philbhoy
11:34 on
8 October, 2014
The Onlooker
“What profiteth a man if he gains the whole world but lose his own soul” Mathew 8:36
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I went back to 8:36 but coodny find his post!!
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comedy platinum!
HH jamesgang
!BADA BING!
Precisely,mate.
And as you know,the few remaining Lions would still be able to do you if they weren’t allowed to stand their round,don’t you dare insult me!
Davidapoulos…………..we were visiting our daughter who works there who like your good self is an emigrant. Great city to visit really enjoyed it.
Well now you’re just exaggerating. If Maradona and various others thought Du Wei was a class act then why should Celtic not try to sign him? We would be the only club in the world that signed players on the basis of where they came from rather than how good they were. We do also sign local players and run an academy but the view seems to be that those produced locally are not all of sufficient standard. I hope Calvin Miller becomes a superstar. But we need to cast our net far and wide too surely?
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It’s a question of balance. I still think there’s a sufficient pool of talent within these shores to provide the base of our squad that could be supplemented by foreign imports. Every year we hear about the next up and coming generation of young superstars who win almost all the domestic youth tournaments they enter yet very few go onto fulfil their early potential in our first team. Granted some go on to have a professional career with other teams but the purpose of our youth system is first and foremost to provide a regular flow of players into the first team squad which it has patently failed to do particularly over the past ten years. As a direct consquence we end up with five loanees in our squad, four of who played in the match against Partizan Belgrade.
hankray
11:52 on 8 October, 2014
Davidapoulos…………..we were visiting our daughter who works there who like your good self is an emigrant. Great city to visit really enjoyed it.
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London is a fantastic place, although I often have to remind myself that there is a big world out there outside of this supposed centre of the universe!
Went to Bruges last week – what a beautiful and peaceful place.
Bada………..lived up to the critical acclaim best show I’ve seen in years.
Richie.
I bet Zebelini at 20/1 this morning,didn’t see Kano’s girl.I’ll put on a double hoping they both get a place. l bet Zebelini,along with Maybole Lass, and added Curved in a three cross.
Bestaluck Davie. You going Saturday?
Davidopoulos
Bruges
My 1st ever foreign holiday, aged 13.
Then back again 10 years later with a girlfriend, Belgian beer and mussels and stew!
Stunning!
Have you seen In Bruges? Very funny dark comedy with Colin Farrell.
Laters Timdom
HH jamesgang
livibhoy,
The Chinese player ping pong looks a player…:))
jamesgang
Calamari fish supper from the chippie at the bottom of the hill at Balmoral beach?
Sounds a rough neck of the woods!
Richie, thanks for the tips.
Here’s hoping.
Jamesgang, Brendan Gleeson is also in Bruges, fab film.
Dark though.
Wee e/w doudle richie and couple e/w singles..
good luck..
BT
Keep the chin up mhate.cannae be right stuck in wi aw them nurseez :-)
MASH holdings
Emdi else singin the Mash theme song?:-)
HH
PainlessCsc
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
11:49 on
8 October, 2014
HANKRAY
When I’m travelling home,I get a bus from Swindon to Victoria. And dive in to the pub between arrivals and departures.
(Tube from Victoria to Euston then more beers before the train home)
I agree 100% that British accents are few and far between. I hear everyone walking by as I’m quaffing my ale and having a tab.
Much changed from when I lived in London in the 90s.
Same here,I lived in Crawley for almost 30 years before I came out to Spain & when I left there 11 years ago you were lucky to here anyone speaking English in the main square on a Saturday afternoon.
The important thing about chips is to put the vinegar on before the salt.
That way the salt sticks to the chips.
If you do it the other way around the vinegar just washes the salt off the chips.
I can only hope this particular piece of insightful advice leads to an improvement in the team’s performance.
WDH
Diz the polly bag no melt in the hot oil?
TBB
dubble bag man dubble bag !
AT
it’s a chore but someone has to do it.
Just had mash with my steak pie btw….
BLANTYRE TIM
Lot to be said for private hospitals,eh?
hankray @ 11 39.
The Jersey Boys .
I am going to see the stage show in Edinburgh ..
I went to see the movie in Catania . Dubbed in Italian, which made the dialogue clunky ..Getting the English version is on my to do list .
Oh What a Night CSC-way down south..
new article posted.
Bmcuw
I’ll private hospital ye…..
WDH
What, like what they do at the Coop?
More seriously, I assume you use the bath to blanche the chips before a couple of freeze/fry cycles? Do you use salted water or stock in the bag?
TBB in essence yes and the stock or any flavouring would be dependant on the style of eatery- fish the same and batter
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/chris-sutton-ronny-deilas-comments-4393591
I’ve been looking for Sutty remarks that are offensive and I can’t find any – in fact he comes across as reasonable compared to the majority on here. I just don’t see the problem.
I don’t like or buy the Record,(since thugs and thieves) but to castigate Sutty for doing a column for them is wrong. Celtic advertise and deal with them on a regular basis, cfc fans buy it on a regular basis.
Remember the hun slept walked into liquidation because there was no critical ana;lysis on the media.
Keano was a good Celtic fan.
Keano was an average Celtic player.
Keano was a poor Celtic managerial target.
We still love Keano.