Spending £4.4m on a 22-year-old Hibs midfield player in 2007 was a significant demonstration of faith by Gordon Strachan and Celtic. A year later, Rangers owner, David Murray, said he was not prepared to meet the wages Celtic offered for Scott Brown, a player both clubs wanted to sign.
Murray was not known for underplaying his financial clout, this comment felt more like a taunt, implying Celtic were rash in spending so much on a player who was still bedding into life at the top. That first season at Celtic ended with Scott watching Barry Robson play a magnificent cameo as Celtic came from behind to win the title, the first of 22 major honours won as Celtic player and captain.
His off-field persona could not be further from the strutting bulldog he is on the park. Mixing with fans he is understated and generous with his time, there are no signs of the laser-focussed leader he becomes in short sleeves.
The No. 6 role does not provide many scoring opportunities but Scott has had his fair share. Defenders never figured that showing him onto his (apparently) weaker left was not a good idea. If you close your eyes and picture his goals you’ll repeatedly see him drop the shoulder before striking with his left.
The passage of a decade probably diminishes the importance in my memory of a Scottish Cup equaliser, when he led 10 men off the ropes at Ibrox, somehow the joy of a last minute winner against Hamilton feels more important than the rest.
Captain for 11 years, he motivated and disciplined the playing squad. He led by example of professionalism; the kind of player every manager loves to have in the squad.
In Celtic history there is only one captain who could relate to leading men through such a period of domination, Billy McNeill. Billy was also 35 when he left Celtic, also after the first title loss in a decade. Our greatest captain went out held shoulder high after winning the Scottish Cup. Scott Brown deserves no less. One more for the captain.
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Toaty Trumper @ 1.45
TB is not / was not / will never be a fascist.
TB is not / was not / will never be a fascist.
You — not so sure.
You have nationalistic tendencies and you just point a finger and shout obscenities.
80% there would be my guess.
What I find curious about the latest Salmond clown car is that the party was founded by Laurie Flynn who at one time was a reasonably high profile member of the IS/SWP and a journalist on Socialist Worker before he decamped to World in Action.
GB @ 1978
There were no chemical weapons used in Vietnam.
There were chemical defoliant agents used in Vietnam which had long term health issues.
Slightly different — one sets to kill you today / the other kills you three years later by accident.
Neither are nice but they cannot be considered to be the same.
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MADMITCH on 27TH MARCH 2021 1:55 PM
While you’re technically right, I think it’s semantics.
There was no “accident” about the death toll in SE Asia….
There’s a good book called Kill Anything That Moves. Highly recommended.
Makes Iraq look like a picnic.
GEEBEE1978 on 27TH MARCH 2021 2:06 PM
‘There’s a good book called Kill Anything That Moves.’
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Would that be about the McNamara fallacy?
MARTIM1980 on 27TH MARCH 2021 1:38 PM
Did you watch Once Upon A Time In Iraq last year? It was a great doc series on BBC and showed the utter folly of the Iraq war,
While SH was as you say a tyrant and murderer the war caused (and is still causing) far more death and suffering than keeping him in situ.
The West’s intervention had nothing to do with morality and all to do with oil, Bush and blaming someone for 9/11.
The new CEO will make all the announcements about the new DoF and the new Head Coach. If we announce before he is here then the media would have a field day in that he played no part in the appointments, no matter what we said. That can’t be allowed to happen. Oh, and by the way, Dominic is coming early anyway. You heard here first :)) por cierto.
FT @ 2.12
Why all the focus on the removal of SH?
Why no comment on Libya and MG — much bigger shambles to me?
SH was an ogre that was allowed to grow because it suited those in power.
He was a useful idiot — a stick to beat Islamic Iran without jeopardising Western / Russian soldiers.
He carried out some of the worst atrocities in the history of modern warfare and we all stood back and did nothing.
MADMITCH on 27TH MARCH 2021 2:26 PM
FT @ 2.12
‘He carried out some of the worst atrocities in the history of modern warfare and we all stood back and did nothing.’
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And given what we know now, that might have been the best course of action, being the least bad option.
But the idea that the US intervened on humanitarian grounds is ridiculous.
GB78 @ 2.06
Nothing about semantics — you made comments about the Vietnam War that were not correct.
If you want to accept that and move onto the war in general then fine.
However your initial point does not stand.
Conflict post 1945 — in seemingly an enlightened age — is just one very big can of worms where everybody who was anybody made mistakes although some more than others.
However my base point is that SH took it to the next level and had to go.
Saddam was probably removed at the request from the Bush families friends, the Saudis, por cierto
Bring back the ‘heard it from a taxi driver rumour’
EL @ 2.26
The wholesale use of chemical weapons in the Iraq / Iran war and our tacit acceptance / low key encouragement was a crime against civilisation.
It started on the battlefield in 1982 and then escalated into tactical and then strategic actions against civilians ending up as terror bombings of cities totally remote from the front line.
We allowed that to happen.
It coloured our view of the world in later years in that we were ashamed and tried to stop it happening again.
BOBBY LENNOX
Twelve Scotland caps………….says it all.
EL @ 2.26
And don’t forget the Tories / Thatcher was too blame.
And the BBC just showed the edited highlights on the TV and moved on to the weather.
BSR – 😂😂😂
Taxi drivers are the best for the auld rumour.
D :)
Are the party political submissions over yet and may one talk about Celtic on a Celtic Blog? It can only get worse as we approach the Elections.
sftb
Silly indeed.
But we aren’t talking about the English pronunciation of a word we use in English to describe a place like Paris or Nice. Alba isn’t a word in English as the word you are looking for is Scotland. Alba is a Gaelic word and should therefore be pronounced correctly rather than adapted into an English variation for a political party. It’s about showing respect to one of Scotland’s own languages. And for thousands of Gaelic speakers in Scotland, the mispronunciation of the name of their own country is embarrassing.
|BSR @ 2.58
You have to hand it to Not Jacinda and the Official Nats — they know how to throw a pebble into a pond.
Or they understand a particular clientele who would get hot and bothered over Gaelic pronunciations and how any deviation from the perfect would totally disqualify the group from serious political activity.
Away and throw shi*e at yersel man …
And anyway — the language back min the day of West Central Scotland was Welsh Gaelic not Irish Gaelic.
Our linguistic history is Brythonic and not Goidelic so you are arguing over nothing.
Timhorton
Jimmy Mcgrory 7 caps 6 goals and for the Scottish League 6 apps 6 goals
Now that really does say it all.
Like a sketch from One Flew Over on here….laters
The Brythonic languages are therefore sometimes referred to as P-Celtic.
Even then we were pish 🤭
MADMITCH on 27TH MARCH 2021 1:52 PM
Toaty Trumper @ 1.45
Trump is as rancid as your dear war criminal
TB is not / was not / will never be a fascist.
So you can explain the iraqi war then
you are to be pitied
TB is not / was not / will never be a fascist.
° i will take the word of any iraqi over your justification of colonial capitaljsm..oh and the several thousand murderex as the bombs reigned down
You — not so sure.
°icpuldnt care less never been a fascist apologist or sympathizer
You have nationalistic tendencies and you just point a finger and shout obscenities.
°dimple brain go back to your reporting desk.
80% there would be my guess
°sssshhh let the adults talk son
Tommy Burns – 8 Scotland caps
Worse still
Henrik Larsson 0 Scotland caps
Harry Hood (1962-1978)
“Harry has all it takes; control, physique, know-how… but he must force himself into the action,” said then-Celtic manager Jock Stein, who signed Hood from Clyde for £40,000 in 1969.The forward could play across the front line, create from deep, and was equally adept with either foot. He scored 89 goals in 174 appearances for Celtic before finishing his career with spells at Motherwell, Queen of the South and San Antonio Thunder.His only senior international involvement was in an unofficial Scotland XI world tour, never receiving a cap despite his undoubted ability.
@theinternet
Ernie,
Please explain.
1999,the day before Devolution for Scotland was passed,Blair signed a paper,which had no debate,no Parliamentary time,no media coverage,nothing,in secrecy,changing the English Sea border from Berwick to a few miles South of Aberdeen.Carnoustie,in fact,which gave England 60,000 Sq miles of Scottish waters,and the drilling rights and revenues of 6 Oil platforms.
Every total of Oil revenues that Scotland has had since,does not include these 6 platforms.
Nothing more than modern day Piracy,signed off by the Labour Party.
Independence for Scotland,and Maritime law will overturn this shameful deed.
An Tearman,
250,000,Iraqui civilians killed in ,Bush and Blair’s,”Shock and Awe” blitz.
BSR
“Alba isn’t a word in English as the word you are looking for is Scotland. Alba is a Gaelic word and should therefore be pronounced correctly rather than adapted into an English variation for a political party.”
I suppose for the 1% that speak the language, and whatever percentage can be trusted to pronounce it correctly, it may be an issue. You choose to find important what you find important. For some its flegs, for others it’s resurrecting a language that several generations never spoke, but these markers of importance often speak to an insecurity about National Identity that is evident in what we consider to be the requirements to be Scottish. For me, you are Scottish if you want to be Scottish. I have no problems with those who maintain and speak the Gaelic, but we will continue to conduct our business in the more International language of English. Tartan Kitsch is beyond me.
I lived all my life in the Central belt and I never heard Scots Gaelic spoken until I landed in the Park Bar one night in my 20s. In that environment, after a few halfs, I considered my pronunciation to be exemplerary and that I had mastered the language.
Brythonic Languages. They use nothing nothing else in the North Stand.
Scott Brown
TURKEYBHOY on 27TH MARCH 2021 3:48 PM
‘Blair signed a paper’
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What kind of paper?
Ernie,
Nothing you would call legal,or above Board.I thought you would know about something as reprehensible as this?
The Iraq War, I can think of least one Labour MP whose conscience would not let him vote for a John Major led war on Iraq. This despite clear evidence of Iraqi troops invading Kuwait.
A few years later his conscience took a back sear when, on the evidences of never found WMDs Tony Blair took us into war against Iraq.
Whitedoghunch
Don’t think I’ve seen you on for a while.
How are you keeping
Whitedoghunch, good to see you on here. How are you? por cierto