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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If DD wanted to appoint Keane because he believed he was the right man, do people seriously think he would not do it in case it upset the fans? This is the same guy who would not sack Lenny in case people thought he was bowing to fan pressure.
If Keane is out of the running it is because either he does not want the job due to the terms, transfer budget etc. or because there is a better candidtate that DD prefers.
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DENIABHOY on 29TH MARCH 2021 10:45 AM
I think that’s for me ? Sorry didn’t do the detail there, your right DD looks with disdain on many Celtic supporters he has a particular contempt for those of us who have the temerity to be independent of thought, to dare to consider other business ownership models, he detests any Celtic fan who criticise his role influence at Celtic FC, that’s a fact.
However, the club needs to sell season tickets, the present business model that Dermot continues to promote is the club will only spend within its means, income will balance expenditure, Keane IMO was rejected due to the fact a large section of the clubs season ticket fanbase went NAW
I’m sure the preferred blogs/media poodles will soon be flying the kite of the next candidate
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LIONROARS67 – I have seen a few posts here and on social media suggesting the same re. season ticket sales. I tend to think DD would not be swayed by the NAW reaction, he believes, when push comes to shove, most will renew and if they don’t there is a waiting list.
Time will tell. Cheers.
new article posted.
MARTIN.I AM REPLYING IN BOLD.NOT TO SHOUT BUT TO RESPECTFULLY DIFFERENTIATE.OK.😊
MARTIM1980 on 29TH MARCH 2021 6:34 AM
AN TEARMANN on 28TH MARCH 2021 1:09 PM
Sorry was out enjoying my Sunday yesterday another cycle and some relaxing cooking.
GOOD STUFF HOPE IT WAS GOOD.
So hard of thinking am I ? That’s automatically some one who questions indy is it?
YUP HARD OF THINKING.IF YOU LOOK BACK THIS IS THE 4TH TIME I HAVE TOLD YOU I HAVE NEVER VOTED FOR SNP.NEVER WILL
-YOU QUESTION INDY WHICHEVER WAY YOU WANT .IF I FEEL LIKE. REPLYING I WILL AS I DO ONLY REPLY TO UNIONIST DIRGE.
I DO NOT POST ANY PRO SNP STUFF IF YOU FIND A POST DOING OF ME DOING SO,PROMPTED AND INITIATING A POLITICAL DEBATE I WILL GIVE £100 TO KANO.
-YOU ARE DELIBERATELY USING MY H.O.T COMMENT ON YOUR UNIONIST VIEW NOT WHAT IT WAS DIRECTED IE- YOU FARTING THAT I AM CAMPAIGNING ON BEHALF OF A PARTY
Noted.
NOTE ALSO AS SAID ABOVE IF YOU NEED TOLD SOMETHING 4 TIMES THAT TO ME DENOTES H.O.T SO
NOTE
NOTE AGAIN
NOTE AGAIN&AGAIN
I HOPE IT SEEPS INTO
“You have emboldened unionist slandering the irish as in their “potato republic’ not a comment bout that..”
THE POTATO REPUBLIC VOMIT WAS MADE BY A FELLOW LABOUR UNIONIST.SEE MADRA RUA’S POST ON THIS BLOG FOR CONTEXT.THAT WAS SAID BY A FELLOW UNIONIST TROLL.
And now apparently my Irish heritage is in question, Really? Did you really type that in the blog?
THERE YOU GO AGAIN!!PICKING OUT WHAT I SAY MISINTERPRETING IT.IT WAS IN QUOTATIONS I WILL LET YOU READ BACK FOR CONTEXT OR ASK ONE OF YOUR FELLOW UNIONISTS OR TROLLS TYPED IT….I DIDNT WRITE IT.
SO DO ONE WI THE INFERENCES.
I KNOW YOU WONT.ITS ONLY ME YOU PICK UP ON.CARRY ON.TIS YOUR RIGHT NOT TO BRING YOUR FELLOW UNIONISTS INTO QUESTION.I WILL!!
I am from Irish Descent and proudly so but not responsible for the history of where I’m born.
NO ONE IS DISCREDITING YOUR IRISH HERITAGE YOU ARE STILL SUGGESTING
I REPLIED AS A UNIONIST POSTER DID.AND THAT IS JUST SHITE!
I LOOK FORWARD TO YOU CALLING IT OUT.WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FUTURE
This was a lie to attempt to discredit my opinion.YOU ARE IN ERROR REPEAT MODE MARTIM(THINKING THE ‘HOT’ READ BACK AND YOU CAN SEE WHO POSTED.ESTEEMED POSTER MADRA RUA (RIGHTLY) SUGGESTED HE THOUGHT THIS PLACE CQN WAS FF FOR A MINUTE
Just because you see people who question the purpose of indy as betrayal of Irish
History doesn’t mean you can lie about me or attack my identity.
PEOPLE ARE QUITE FREE TO QUESTION WHATEVER THEY WISH OF INDEPENDENCE.
ALL I DO IS ASK WHAT WHAT IS THE IDENTITY AND PURPOSE YOU PROPOSE IN THE STATUS QUO.
OVER THE WEEKEND I CONTRASTED AND CALLED OUT THE FASCIST CHATEL ERNIE TYPED OF,ALL I SHOWED WAS THAT MOSELEY,
THE BIGGEST FASCIST THE UK HAS KNOWN AS A MEMBER OY THE LABOUR AND UNIONIST
PARTY…..START AS YOU MEAN TO GO
– WE CAN ALL GIVE IT THE LANARKSHUR NOD WHEN OUTLINING DONALDSON YET SOMEHOW YOUR EX PARTY LEADER IS NOT A FASCIST,….DOES THAT MEAN INVADING ANOTHER COUNTY AND MURDERING 250,000
IS SOCIALISM? ..
AND ON LINKING WITH IRELAND WITH IRELAND IT WAS MERLYN REES WHO STRIPPED REPUBLICAN PRISONER OF THEIR CLOTHES AND STATUS SO IF YOU DONT MIND
LABOUR AND IRELAND TO ME IS TREATED WITH CONTEMPT.THO NOT UP THERE WITH NATIONALIZING BANK DEBT,LEAVING THE COUNTRY WITH NO MONEY
MY MAIN REASON IS BLAIR POCKLED YOUR PARTY FROM THE INSIDE.
ITS NOT A SOCIALIST PARTY.
IT SPENT 20 YEARS AS A EUNUCH TO THATCHER THEN FOLLOWED HER ECONOMIC POLICIES!! PRIOR TO THE WEE TEA INVITE.
EVEN TODAY YOU CANT CRITIQUE HIM .HE IS THE DEAR LEADER WHO IN MARKETING TERMS WAS ALL” RUPERTED” OUT BUT IN PLACES LIKE WHERE I LIVE NO CAPITAL SUBSTANCE INVESTED AT ALL.A CHARLATAN WHO BETRAYED THE WORKING CLASS
I think you should take a long hard look at yourself and apologise.
NO NEED TO MARTIM.NO APOLOGY NECESSARY JUST A REQUEST THAT YOU GO AFTER THOSE WHO SLANDERED YOUR IDENTITY.IT WAS NOT ME.
But your rhetoric involves putting all those who question in the one group-
THE LABOUR UNIONIST GROUP.I AM RIGHT TOO.IT BETRAYED ITS WORKING CLASS CORES. LABOUR ONLY WANT POWER. BUT KNOW IF SCOTLAND GOES THEY WILL NEVER BE IN POWER AS THEY MOVE TO APPEASE THE “SWINGING RIGHT WINGERS” DOWN SOUTH
AND BE MORE IMPOTENT THAN IN THE 80s
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and you either mistook me for another poster or,
NO I KNEW I WAS REPLYIN TO YOU.A LABOUR UNIONIST VOTERAND AS ONE LIKE A LOT ALL II ASK IS WHY ARE YOU SIDING WITH AN UTTERLY CORRUPT TORY GOVT.THATS WHAT YOU DO.
sadly, you will do anything, no matter how low to attain your goal.
COMING UP ANOTHER SELECTIVE MISINTERPRETATION👇AND SELECTION OF WHAT I SAID AS YOU ARE PICKING OUT LINES WITHOUT TIMES SO I WILL LET
I pointed out the plight of the Kurds because I’m passionate about equality, Saddam was trying kill off an entire race of people which is horrificly sad in itself , what’s worse is refusing to condemn (even for balance)
DONT DOUBT YOUR PASSION MARTIM BUT I KNOW IN REPLY TO YOUR SADDAM POST LITERALLY THE FIRST THING I SAID WAS HE IS AN ABHORRENT INDIVIDUAL,GO BACK AND READ I THINK FOR “BALANCE” YOU SHOULD REALLY CONDEMN THE MURDERING WAR CRIMINAL YOU VOTED FOR.
THIS H.O.T THING I THINK HAS SUBSTANCE!!
.I THINK I MAY HAVE ALSO RELAYED KNOWLEDGE TO YOU THAT THE UK & GERMANY SUPPLIED THE SHELLS THAT WERE ADAPTED FOR GAS.I ALSO GAVE YOU A FIGURE OF HOW MUCH THE COMPANY I WORKED FOR GOT OF THE GOVT WHICH IN TURN PILED THAT ONTO IRAQI NATIONAL DEBT,
it as it does not suit your agenda. The right wing media never showed balance either on the subject, it didn’t suit their agenda either.
THE RIGHT WING MEEJA NEVER SHOW BALANCE.THEY ARE SHAREHOLD OWNED BUSINESS’S WHICH ARE ADVERTISING BASED.NOTHING TO DO WITH TRUTH
APPLYING THE WELFARE RIGHTS NEEDS AND WANTS TO THE BUSINESS SECTOR WITH NOWT FOR THE POOR WEAK AND NEEDY EX love island tittle tattle vacuous nonsense..AT
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wake up Martim,i only want independence and i will keep posting on the same blog i have been lurking on since 2006/7 and posting since 2010 thanks so no agenda”
I totally respect anyones right to want independence but the behaviour towards anyone asking questions or raising concerns, pushes many reasonably minded away from your cause.
“MY CAUSE” MY REPLIES YOU MEAN AS STATED EARLIER I DONT INITIATE POLITICAL DEBATE.BUT IF ANYONE COMMENT ON CHARACTER OF ANY POLITICAL POWER I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS THERE LOGIC AND THAT IS NORMALLY WHEN THE ABUSE STARTS
TO ME….AM OK I CAN HANDLE IT
This dishonest character assassination attempt I feel has only cemented that view.
WELL I DARE SAY YOU WILL APPROACH THOSE WHO SLANDERED OUR SHARED IRISH IDENTITY IT WAS NOT ME.
But I lost respect for you in this post of yesterday.
YOU LOST RESPECT AS YOU ARE PICKING OUT SELECT BITS NOT WHOLE POSTS AND NOT APPROACHING YOUR FELLOW UNIONISTS
But I have made it easy for- you are campaigning in the wrong blog.
AW DIDDUMZ YOU A SOUNDING LIKE A VICTIM OF CENSORSHIP .AND I THINK THATS WHAT YOU ARE AT.
Try Borders/Queen of The South quick news.
NO I WILL STICK TO MY CELTIC HOME.CQN
Or Stirling Albion
YOU NEED TO CYCLE MORE!
Or Aberdeen fc quick news
OR CENSORSHIP 🤣.NOPE WILL HAVE NONE OF THAT
Or all the others where you need a swing in the vote on an election, which was once in a generation and happened 7 years ago. And you still haven’t accepted the outcome.
NOPE.AS IT WAS A FRAUD.
AHEM! BREXIT
LET DEMOCRACY TAKE ITS COURSE.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/events/scotland-decides/results
NICE WEE LINK.
YOU ACCEPT REF IN 2014
YOU ACCEPT BREXIT BY SUPPORTING THAT AS A DEMOCRATIC VOTE!!
AND YOUR A SOCIALIST.
YUP I CAN SEE WHY BLAIR HOLLOWED LABOUR FROM THE INSIDE(shakes head)
HH
MARTIM1980 on 29TH MARCH 2021 6:51 AM
Apologies to the blog for yet another excuse for the politics to continue but felt i had to respond.
I WANT CENSORSHIP
My last word on it.
I THINK ITS LACK OF KNOWLEDGE MARTIM.YOU SHOW NO INSIGHT INTO THAT MESS YOU FOLLOW.
Bunch of Celtic supporters sitting in a Celtic shop having a few sherbets. Talking about games, players,tactics.
Conversation moves onto unequal treatment of I the Irish Catholic community and Celtic supporters in Scotland even to this day in 2021 by Governance, Police and Judiciary.
And some guy comes up to those expressing their concerns and start to call him a Unionist.
YES AS EVERY ONE OF THOSE FEARS HAVE GROWN UP IN YOUR UNION.AND SOMEHOW IMAGINARY OR NOT THEY THEY GET TUPED OVER TO A COUNTRY THAT IS NOT INDEPENDENT YET.
How long does that guy last in the Celtic pub?
I NORMALLY FINISH MY PINT THEN LEAVE.FAMILY HAD REAL IRISH BARS NOT THE BROOM AND SHILLELAGH BARS OF TODAY
See you all after May HH 🍀
AND DONT WORRY MARTIM I WILL POINT OUT YOUR FELLOW UNIONIST AND SEE IF YOU CALL OUT “potato republic” GUY.
YOU WONT THO HE IS ONE OF YOUR OWN
HH