President of La Liga in Spain has stepped into the Catalonian independence referendum debate by saying if Catalonia became independent clubs from that region, notably Barcelona and Espanyol, would have to leave the Spanish league and compete within their new domestic boundaries.
This claim is without foundation as multinational ‘domestic’ leagues are authorised by Uefa, Fifa and the EU, while Spanish clubs are able to compete with foreign clubs in European competition, but this intervention is likely to be one of the more emotive topics in the Catalonian debate. Would Barcelona fans vote for Catalan independence if it required them to withdraw from the Spanish league and hand back their status as one of the game’s world powers? Some would, some wouldn’t.
Football is the key cultural touchstone of European nations. Those who want to preserve the Spanish nation know this. Excluding Scottish clubs from the England and Wales football market has an enormous commercial impact on top-flight clubs here. It also means that our key cultural touchstone is Scottish.
Those who want to build a cohesive UK would be more productive by working to end the exclusion of Scottish clubs from the England and Wales league than telling nationalists they would be wrong to hold another referendum.
Popcorn and ginger on hand for the latest Newco Rangers episode. Flash mobs and EGMs, all destined to further tear the club apart. As we’ve said here for years, internecine strife is the only thing that can really damage a club. That lot seem to have a infinite supply of the stuff.
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Big Billy was called Cesar long before Lisbon. Apparently his team mates thought he was a dead ringer for American comedian Sid Cesar.
Hrvatski j and mrs
Hebcelt and mrs
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Congratulations
:-)
hail hail
Cedar Romero is the guy Billy McNeil got his nickname from.
Salve x 2
Cesar that should be.
Ex ludo
Thank goodness someone stated that fact. My dad still doesn’t get that and he watched him play! MSM at work in the 60s
Just seen the comments on wages.
Quick discussion today at work in Dub, we reckoned the average wage was 50k and too low to buy a house.
As rents are running up in Dublin and crossing above mortgage repayment levels, anyone working for Tesco can either not rent or not buy(80% mortgage only despite rising prices) so the solution is clear…..what is it again? Bueller?
Capitalism is rubbidge
The evil is in persuading people that it ever can work for everyone
Step in the Tories
Guygawkesheroforever
Are you serious?
Isil are murdering their way around the middle east and you call them working class?
I lost one family member to murderous islamics and I advocated calm and not to lower ourselves.
This lot have no justification and are not workers.
Per ardua ad Astra
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Post was intended to start at Big “You Tube” Brother.
Please ignore all the irrelevance before.
Ach, it’s all the usual mince from those who for selfish interests cannot see self-determination as a possibility, when that future might hurt their bottom line.
Spxx, know your place. Get back in yer box, go to the back of the bus.
You will not pass “GO”, and no £200 either.
Papes need not apply.
That’s the message bruv.
Guyfawkes
I will prompt you you tomorrow and onwards till you reply to my annoyance at your post.
I suspect you are young and went to bed after your exclamation
Macjay, your videos are shite, 1/10.
A fat Romanian lady with a full backpack of twigs gets Three. FFS!!!!!
That’s a fail buddy.
By Roddy Forsyth10:30PM BST
Ronny Deila, the Celtic manager who has been criticised for his insistence on strict diet for his players, was praised for his methods by Mark Wotte, the Scottish Football Association’s performance director.
Wotte’s remarks were in sharp contrast to those of lifelong Celtic supporter, Billy Connolly, who asked – in the aftermath of the Hoops’ first home defeat by Hamilton since 1938 – if the Norwegian had banned his players from scoring goals as well as eating chips.
However, Wotte said of Deila’s insistence that footballers can add a vital percentage to their performance by careful attention to diet and well-being: “For me it was a general statement of what is acceptable in a country. You can be a good player or a very good player. A very good player looks after his body very well.
“[Cristiano] Ronaldo always catches the eye because he’s such an athlete but he trains a lot on his own and looks after his body very well. You can’t be a world class player, playing 60 games a year, if you don’t look after your body. Your body is your tool.
“It’s about awareness, not about the one time a year you take something not good for you. Over a period of years you must respect your body.”
Wotte also cited a willingness to overcome serious setbacks as typical of the best players, using Ryan Gauld as an example. “It made him the player he is now, to bounce back from disappointment,” said the Dutch coach.
“Ryan broke his leg when he was 13 and he had to fight back. There will always be late developers.
“Sometimes clubs with a director of football who’s the link between the first team and the academy can be a catalyst for young kids. I’m delighted to have invited Les Reed from Southampton to come to Scotland at the end of the month for a performance convention, to explain how they work.
“I’ve worked there myself as academy manager, I know the system but it’s also about other people are showing us best practice and making £100 million return investments on their academy.”
As well as Gauld, Wotte singled out Stevie May. The Sheffield Wednesday striker is also included in a Scotland squad for the first time and Wotte said: “He’s also a late developer and I see a little bit of similarity between Stevie and Dirk Kuyt.
“Dirk was 18, came from a non-league club to FC Utrecht where I was manager. He moved to Feyenoord, on to Liverpool, played in a World Cup final, played a Champions League final.
“The development of Stevie May is very unpredictable. He’s making steps nobody expected him to make two years ago, so he’s surprising us all the time. Nobody knows where his ceiling is.
“The good thing about Stevie is he’s a very specific player, he’s got strength and energy and scoring ability. It’s just about whether he can adapt to the next level every time. That’s the big question.
“He’s a lovely boy and I wish him all the best. I’m delighted for him he’s getting the chance to challenge himself in the Scotland squad.”
So Hartson and Sutton have decreed that Ronny isnae up to the job
Hardly news is it? Everyone in scottish fitba already knows that
Tamrabam
I didn’t know that.
timland is asleep
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This is just to give you a wee laff, I’ve no idea how it all ended. From the Celtictaxcase’s Blog, March 2012, remember that?:
This blog was set up to highlight potential financial doping by Celtic Football Club. In less than 24 hours of painstaking research though my investigation has went way beyond financial doping and way beyond Celtic Football Club.
What I believe I have uncovered could be potentially explosive with Celtic FC used as a vehicle for some seriously dodgy dealings which would leave the clubs reputation in such tatters it would be damaged beyond repair and in need of being put to sleep like a lame race horse.
Let me give you a little bit of a history lesson…
01/09/2005 Du Wei (China captain) signs for Celtic / 15/12/2005 Roy Keane (Ireland captain) signs for Celtic
Coincidence? Maybe… But what is the old phrase? Lightening never strikes twice?
01/09/2009 Zheng Zhi (China captain) signs for Celtic / 31/01/2010 Robbie Keane (Ireland captain) signs for Celtic
But what does this mean???!!!
Regular readers of the blog will know all about my expose on Dermot Desmonds dealings with former Irish Taoiseach Charles Haughey and the well documented Moriarty Tribunal.
Further investigation has linked Charles Haughey to Ben Dunne (entrepreneur and inventory of Dunnes stores) who is allegedly looking to branch Dunnes Stores to the expanding market in China?
So what part does China, Ireland and Celtic play in this? Will the British tax payer who has recently bailed out Ireland be happy to find they are possibly maybe in cahoots with the Chinese?
Why were Chris Killen and Derek Riordan (both signed by Dermot Desmond) plying their trade in China?
What role do the Keane’s, Zheng Zhi and Du Wei have in all of this?
WHAT EXACTLY IS HAPPENING!?
At the moment I do not know. I’m not going to get involved in whataboutery I will wait until I have actual solid reliable evidence before I accuse Mr Desmond or Celtic FC or China or Ireland or any wrong doing. All I know is that I can smell a rat a mile off in this who sordid web of deceit, lies and maybe backhanders too.
Be safe that I’m going to see this through to the end. Celtic, if they are involved in this potential alliance between the Irish Republic and China will struggle to ever recover. Remember bears…. The Boyne wasn’t won in a day. More digging for me tomorrow. FACT!
Ernie
Bookmarked for.later today.
Kit
Bonkers. That you is a fact….8))
BT:
It made me smile. Hope it all went well for you and you’ll be back in the boozer soon.
Out today hopefully kit..8)
Big Carol just been on. Mrs Ss just walked in and asked me what’s the forecast for today……. Ehh, never noticed says I.
twist n turns
We got a good run for our money – beaten by a nose after 3 miles.
Many thanks
Good morning friends where the early morning East Kilbride rain has now stopped and been replaced by a bright sky full of hope and lacking in clouds.
In contrast to the article posted by Twists and Turns its a negative spin by Halliday in the Scotsman
No problem with Scottish players’ diets – Wotte
by STEPHEN HALLIDAY
Updated on the
09 October
2014
00:05
Published 09/10/2014 00:00
SFA performance director Mark Wotte has insisted there are no problems with the diets of Scottish footballers, claiming it only becomes an issue for teams who suffer poor results.
Celtic manager Ronny Deila has caused a stir in recent weeks by questioning the fitness and nutritional discipline of players.
It carried echoes of comments made by Wotte two years ago when the Dutchman, then just 12 months into his SFA role, famously blamed “burgers and Buckfast” for declining standards in Scottish football.
“For me, that was a general statement of what is acceptable in a country,” said Wotte yesterday.
“Then I also said the pro-youth boys are very well educated and it’s not really an issue. It is only a subject when results go the wrong way. If you play very well and win games, no-one is bothered. You can be a good player or a very good player. A very good player looks after his body very well. Darren Fletcher is a prime example of a role model. He does everything right.
“I’ve seen young kids with the same mindset and attitude as him, so I don’t think it’s an issue in Scotland that all the players don’t know how to live or feed themselves. It’s just an over reaction to a statement, like it was when I did it two years ago.
“A lot of club academies are educating the players very well and they are being taught how to live as an athlete or prepare themselves for games and deal with the physical demands.
“I travel with a lot of national youth teams and their attitude has been magnificent. They are putting a shift in in training, never give up and eat the proper food because we give them the food. There are a lot of young kids emerging and my experience when they are with us at national youth team level is they are excellent with their attitude and lifestyle and their composure and awareness in what it takes to become a really good player.”
Wotte, who was speaking at an all-day festival for the SFA’s performance school pupils at the Toryglen Regional Football Centre, is pleased to see the current progress of younger players being drafted into Gordon Strachan’s senior Scotland squad.
He believes one of them, Sheffield Wednesday striker Stevie May, could be poised to follow a similar career path to former Liverpool and Dutch international forward Dirk Kuyt.
“We capped Stevie for the under-21s a couple of years ago when he was on loan at Hamilton from St Johnstone and he struggled a little bit,” said Wotte.
“But he is a late developer. He scored some fantastic goals for the under-21s against Georgia, he scored goals in Scotland for St Johnstone and now he’s in the English Championship.
“I see a little bit of similarity between Stevie and Dirk Kuyt. Dirk was 18, came from a non-league club to FC Utrecht where I was manager. He moved to Feyenoord, on to Liverpool, played in a Champions League final and a World Cup final. The development of Stevie May is also very unpredictable. He’s making steps nobody expected him to take two years ago. So he’s surprising us all the time. Nobody knows where his ceiling is. I cannot tell you where the development of Stevie May will end because when I was working with Dirk at 19 I couldn’t predict that he was going all the way.
“The good thing about Stevie is he’s a very specific player, he’s got strength and energy and scoring ability. It’s just about whether he can adapt to the next level every time. That’s the big question.
“He’s a lovely boy and I wish him all the best. I’m delighted for him he’s getting the chance to challenge himself in the Scotland A squad
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
04:12 on
9 October, 2014
Macjay, your videos are shite, 1/10.
A fat Romanian lady with a full backpack of twigs gets Three. FFS!!!!!
That’s a fail buddy.
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Ye gods.
The point is that You Tube have assessed what they consider my preferences to be. And have accordingly sent this stuff to me.Based on their assumptions.
Ergo.
Big Brother is watching me.
And you.
kitalba at 6.02 –
That brought back happy memories. All of the stories are at the link below. At the time I was following it closely and utterly convinced it was the work of a CQN-er and I remain of that opinion. From the links on the right hand side – try ‘huge new development’.
http://celtictaxcase.wordpress.com/
Enjoy your day!
BLANTYRETIM
Fingers toes and eyes all crossed for you today,mate.
Hope the lads have been busy on that chairlift between KOSC and your house.
MACJAY
Cookies?
mungolian bhoy
05:16 on 9 October, 2014
Tamrabam
I didn’t know that.
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“Ye ken noo” as they say in North Britain (formerly known as Scotland).
macjay1/BMCUWP
Re YouTube
Just checked mine…….. that’s the Whats popular in Australia tab…….mine is the exact same.
From Twitter
@OHenleyAlex: Former @celticfc manager Neil Lennon has applied for the #Bolton job.
HH
lymmbhoy
07:49 on 9 October, 2014
macjay1/BMCUWP
Re YouTube
Just checked mine…….. that’s the Whats popular in Australia tab…….mine is the exact same.
From Twitter
@OHenleyAlex: Former @celticfc manager Neil Lennon has applied for the #Bolton job.
HH
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If true then this is frying pan into the fire stuff. They are as skint as an absolutely skint thing. Transfer budget? Yer havin’ a larf, son. From Saudi Arabia to Bolton in 24 hours. Who makes this stuff up?
lionroars67
07:30 on 9 October, 2014
Talk ak about spinning a story to suit an agenda!
So wotte says diet was a problem 2 years, but isn’t now, but it’s nothing to do with diet, just results.
Poor, poor article.
Good morning all.
It looks like being a good morning and an even better day.
I was going to ask if the Pantomime season had started a month or 2 early in Govan but I was beaten to it by Chris McLaughlin on Radio Scotland. Can anyone explain the latest twists and turns (of the ole knife) in the carcass of the undead?
southside
08:04 on
9 October, 2014
Agreed pathetic drivel by Halliday, you would like to think someone at Celtic FC PR dept would get in touch with him today……………………………………………………
parkheadcumsalford
08:09 on 9 October, 2014
This might help
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/quite-an-image/
M6BHOY
Agreed,how they stay afloat is a mystery.
Debt is well over £100m,I believe. And they are one of the main HMRC targets if they win the Rangers Tax Case.