When watching Real Mardrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munich it is easy to be discouraged at the gap between where we are and the quarter finals of the Champions League, but despite the many hundreds of millions spent on both Paris St Germain and Chelsea, the standard of passing and decision making throughout their game last night was abysmal. Despite their win, PSG were the worst offenders last night, even the Great One was poor.
There is now a real prospect that no English side will make it to the semi-final stage of either European tournament for the first time since 2003, when Liverpool were last to drop out, at the quarter finals stage of the Uefa Cup…….. You’re welcome.
What struck me most watching last night’s game was Sky TV’s Gary Neville pondering how long PSG’s star players would languish in such a poor league. This is the French league we’re talking about here, not the Scottish Premiership, it’s Paris, not the ‘New East End’!
It’s easy to mock Neville but he asks an interesting question, will players always migrate to a higher-profile league? If so, there are more clubs than just Celtic in need of structural change.
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Rock Tree Bhoy
10:37 on
4 April, 2014
What I find even more annoying than the 110% thing is when the pundits start talking about players in the plural sense e.g. the Shearers, and the Dalglieshes and the Sounesses, I mean what’s that all about! There only one of them! It rattles my cage every time.
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Oops, sorry Rock Tree bhoy, Hoopy-do didnt realise that Hoopy-do had done one of your pet hates by mentioning the Dalglishes etc
Hoopy-do will try 110% not to repeat this error
hoopy-do
The all time Scottish 11 is easy.
Simpson
Craig
Gemmell
Murdoch
McNeill
Clark
Johnstone
Wallace
Chalmers
Auld
Lennox
They would give any Brazillians a game!
LB
LiviBhoy
‘Early Doors’ – Grrrrrrr…….
You did that just to annoy me.
LiviBhoy – God bless wee Oscar
Correct, we will go with that
With maybe Lex Baillie coming on for Billy at half time if his hip cant last the 90 minutes
JohnnyClash
Hahahaahaha
LB
I’ve set my stall out early not to make any cliche’s today.
Livibhoy
Many players look good in defence playing for Sevco ..Like ole Weir ….given every assistance from the MIB
Wilson is moderate at best …hyped by the Scottish MSM …shame Dalglish bought the hype
!!Bada Bing!!
Can you last 90 mins though and give 110% out there?
LB
….PFayr supports WeeOscar
I think Alex Clelland was the best example of that. I just about blew a blood vessel when we allowed that eejit to score against us at Paradise. Never a fitba player!
LB
‘GG @ 02:22
This will bring a tear to the eye of all the oul yins on here. Like me. Mojo will be keeping a close eye on this prospect.This boy reminds me of Jinky in his early days.
Watch Paul McMullan tear the Sevco U 20 defence to shreds as he teases and torments the full back, drawing a yellow then a red card.If this doesn’t make you smile happily you are on the wrong blog
http://vimeo.com/90885300
Impressed by what I saw. How old is young McMullan? Hope he is carefully brought into the first team picture. A name to remember.
livibhoy – god bless wee oscar
10:53 on 4 April, 2014
!!Bada Bing!!
Can you last 90 mins though and give 110% out there?
LB
Only in the final third……
!!Bada Bing!!
mountblow tim-where are you staying mate?
!!Bada Bing!!
We are staying at the Double Tree Time Square
What about you?
MT
So if you give 100% for 90 mins and play for 95 mins, is that no 105% ?
gg
Ta for putting on the video of Paul McMullan. He looks a definite prospect and he does remind you a wee bit of Jinky
I know a song about these guys ;)
https://www.facebook.com/michael.mcgill.587606/posts/1574976579393178:2
Try this
https://www.facebook.com/michael.mcgill.587606/posts/1574976579393178:2
Canamalar
Is it not giving 100% for 105% of the match
Livibhoy
and the Scottish league is nowhere near as bad as it is portrayed. The number of foreign players is dropping and the average age of he sides is reducing. There are more ball players and flair players being introduced to teams. Our game is certainly on the up and if we continue in this format our game will get better and better.
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I agree all we need now is the press to start praising the game rather than slagging it off..
Morning all
Just on way to work and read comments re world class English players. Barton may be a thug but on this I think he is right. Somebody mentioned about an elite of the truly great players and in my time I’d only have one player from Britain or Ireland in this list . Banks who was their goalie in 66 is the best keeper I have seen ( never saw Yashin whom I told was even better) and deserves to be listed amongst Pele, Eusebio, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Maradonna, Van Basten, Maldini, Zidane and Messi as a deity of the sport.
I’d put Charlton, Moore and Shilton in the second bigger tier along with
Best, Law, Giggs, Jennings, Brady and maybe Keegan from the British and Irish Isles along with the likes of Jairzinho, Socrates, Gerson, Gullit, Baggio, Deyna, Platini , the two Ronaldos and a few others in that second tier.
There is a third tier of the ‘merely’ World Class – players who’d get in almost any team at any time and enhance it. I’d say that at times Rooney and Scholes of recent English players have been in this category though the former has been nowhere near it for most of the last four years
Difficult to be impartial about our own Greats but I’d have thought that Jinky and Danny were well worth a place in tier 2 that Dalglish and Murdoch (and had he hung around George Connelly) would have been on the borderline between 2 & 3 whilst Tommy Gemmell, Bobby Lennox, Davie Hay, Henrik ( for all he’s my second favourite Celt) and Lubo are category three. Pat Bonner and Artur Boruc were in that category for spells of their career.
Well it beats moaning about Sevco, pining for Kelly and reading about how great/rubbish this season has been
Jimbo67supportinf and praying for Oscar Knox
Stolen from the Scotsman. The “Beal gene breakthrough”, heeee heeee.
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After extensive studies at the Southern General Hospital and elsewhere Medical Scientists are making an important announcement today about their discovery of the “beal” gene. They were alerted to a high incidence of bealing in Scotland in summer 2012 and an academic study was established to investigate this phenomenon.
The Author of the Report, Doctor Francis McGuinness, soon found the epicentre of this disturbing outbreak was in and around the south west of Glasgow and had been triggered by the downfall of Rangers FC plc. High incidences were also found in Larkhall, Kirkintilloch, Kilwinning, Saltcoats, Ardrossan, Kilmarnock, and there were pockets in several parts of Lanarkshire. There were also reports of outbreaks in East Belfast, Ballymena, and parts of County Down.
It commonly manifests in males aged 30 – 70 of low intelligence that are morally deficient and socially inept. Make no mistake; these are the poor and disadvantaged that society has forgotten; they are often unemployed and unemployable and take solace in fast foods, alcohol and recreation drugs. They’re overweight and unattractive in every way and have no friends. Their living conditions are poor and they often live alone. They live their lives in a fantasy world and it’s not unusual to see them aggressively assert that someone or something they were once close to lives on for several years after its death. Despite their appalling predicament they hold on to delusions of master race and somehow reason that their behaviour is dignified and decent and it is others who are failing.
Their behaviours are typically obsessive and compulsive. They will spend hours online assuming multiple different identities and adopting well-worn strategies to avoid facing reality, including lies, deceit, ad hominems, whataboutery and if you persist they will resort to threats and sickening posts about paedophilia.
In the most extreme cases the bealer will repeatedly go online posting one word posts reciting the name of an individual or club that has recently died.
Should you encounter a bealer you must not under any circumstances mention the liquidation of Rangers FC, the prospect breaking up the Union for an independent Scotland or anything to do with Catholics or Catholicism.
Find more details on this stunning medical breakthrough in the May edition of The Lancet in the shops now, priced £16.90.
mountblow- I was over a couple of weeks ago stayed Affinia Dumont on E 34th @ 3rd Avenue,very good wee Irish bar The Pig & Whistle round the corner on 3rd Avenue.Neil the manager is from Dublin,lovely guy ,the Real McCoy burger is the best iv’e had :)) have a great time,we done Top of the Rock (Rockefeller Centre) which was great.We bought the New York Pass which was great value inc Hop on Hop off bus service,if you plan to cram in as much sightseeing as you can,check the website and see if it suits you,there are a few passes you can get but New York Pass was good for us.HH
yorkbhoy-the SPFL will be pure dead brilliant when the Tribute Act appear.
the press will start praising the scottish game once theres something called rangers playing in the top league
Happy Friday everyone.
AlbertKiddCSC is in Bristol this weekend and was wondering if anyone knew of any bars are about that will show tomorrow’s game?
Any help much appreciated.
HH,
CB
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1. Football is a funny old game
Generally used to explain the unexplainable, if something happens that was unexpected it was because ‘football’s a funny old game’. No-one usually laughs despite the game being ‘funny’ but this ends any argument and can justify just about anything in football.
2. He gave 110% / he worked his socks off
Generally reserved for a hard working striker or midfield player, and almost always deployed as the said-player is being substituted. Even if you score an own goal hat-trick, if you run about lots you can save some face by ‘working your socks off’.
3. A great advert for the game
This can be either a wholesome player (are there any left?) or an exciting match. Steven Gerrard is a great advert for the game (especially when frequenting a bar), or Manchester City’s 3-2 win over Tottenham was a great advert for the Premier League. Even though Balotelli should have been sent off.
4. This game needs a goal
Utilised mostly by commentators or onlooking neutral fans, this phrase is coined to state the speaker’s desire that more entertainment is offered by the players. If a goal is scored it breaks the deadlock and the other team have to come out of their shell and attack. Let’s be honest though; the game doesn’t need a goal, you just want to see one.
5. He’s hit it too well
If you connect with a cross ‘too well’ it means you have struck the ball cleanly. Used invariably after a chance is missed or more commonly saved by a goalkeeper, the thinking is if the attacking player scuffs or doesn’t connect with the ball as well, it would take a different direction and maybe go in. Funny, you don’t usually hear ‘he’s not hit it well enough’.
6. Too good to go down
“West Ham are too good to go down.” No they’re not. This one is reserved for under-performing teams who are threatened with relegation, but “on paper” (another cliché!. look to have too much quality (and another!. in their ranks to be demoted to the league below.
7. There are no easy games at this level
‘This level’ can be any level really, whether it’s the World Cup or the Albanian Superliga; all coaches will state this tried-and-tested cliché before a game that they expect to win, and probably expect to be pretty easy. Similar to ‘keeping our feet on the ground.’
8. Take it one game at a time
This one is a manager’s favourite; typically used by a side who are doing better than expected or progressing well in a cup competition. No thinking about the Champions League game against Real Madrid in two weeks please, lets take it one game at a time and beat Wigan in the league first.
9. It’s a game of two halves
In a literal sense I guess this one can be used as a pretty obvious fact, but the phrase is mostly spurted if one team is getting beaten at half time and have aspirations of getting back in the game. Still pretty stupid though.
10. Bad time to concede
Ask any football fan if there is a good time to concede a goal and they will stare at you blankly. This cringe-worthy phrase is uttered if a team loses a goal straight after they themselves have scored, or just before half time. If we are being honest though, anytime in the entire 90 minutes is not a great time to concede.
11. Every game is a cup final now
There’s something special about a cup final that gets the club – from the playing squad and manager to the reserves, the coaches and the tea lady – pulling together in the same direction and brings everyone together in a good mood.
But when you try to apply the same line of thinking to your last 15 league games (and we have managers spouting this line as early as January in the league), it’s the worst form of siege mentality – instead of experiencing the joy of playing in a final, the players are left with the insane pressure and fear of defeat in each game. That sort of pressure can get you relegated, and it sure doesn’t help when your team is already under a lot of pressure.
12. For a big lad, he’s good with his feet
You’re a footballer, you’re supposed to be playing the game with your feet. And it’s worse when that player in question is below average with both his feet and his head. Here’s looking (up) at you, Peter Crouch.
LB
Jimbo67
Excellent presentation of your opinion but i would take issue with you contemplating placing Keegan higher than Dalglish. Kenny was far superior. I would also suggest you have missed, arguably the best Scottish player of all time, Dave McKay
Bada bing / Hoopy do
the press will start praising the scottish game once theres something called rangers playing in the top league
Not if they are regularly getting gubbed by mid table teams….
a ceiler gonof rust
11:27 on 4 April, 2014
Stolen from the Scotsman. The “Beal gene breakthrough”, heeee heeee.
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Brilliant post!!!!
PF…,
No sure, would 95 mins no be 100% of the match :o)
So 90 mins would be 94.7% of 95 so obviously we’ve been getting it wrong all along he gave 194.7% or something, innit
Another brilliant post!!!!
livibhoy p– god bless wee oscar
11:44 on 4 April, 2014
1. Football is a funny old game
Football punditry is easy.
A favourite phrase is…”well, if they keep it tight for the first twenty minutes and get to half time without conceding, then they have a chance…..”
The possibility that the opposition could score a goal or two in the first minute of the second half doesn’t seem to count.
Billy Bhoy 05
I think most of us were too young to see them but surely Stanley Matthews and John Charles were world class British players.
James McGrory was world class too as his goal record illustrated.
LB
yorkbhoy-FWIW i don’t think Sevco will come up next year if The Snowman is still in charge,even the cheating MIB’s can’t work with what they have.
Syd Negakev
Only left footed players have a sweet peg that can open tins of beans.
LB
Billy Bhoy 05
Thanks. As I said objectivity with Celts is hard- best to be careful where assessing.
As for Dave MacKay – like the aforementioned Yashin and Garrincha, Puskas , di Stefano and others- he is a player I know only by reputation and from footage shown after their careers. All the great players I did pick I saw live in the flesh or on TV. No slight intended to Dave ( he’d bash me still)
Jimbo67 supporting and praying for Oscar Knox
new article posted.