I know what you’re thinking. After the media heavyweights told you, on the day Neil Lennon resigned from Celtic, that he was going because he was unhappy with the amount of money he had to spend, pitching up at Bolton Wanderers is a bit curious. What you were told that day was nonsense, deliberately headlined to undermine Celtic.
Neil had been in the shop window since the Everton job came up in May 2013 and had long decided he wanted a crack at managing in England before the end of last season.
On paper, the Bolton job looks daunting. The club are bottom of the second tier of English football, while those immediately above them, Blackpool, Fulham, Wigan and Birmingham, like Bolton have recently had Premier League experience. It’s early enough in the season that survival is a reasonable expectation, but Neil will know little about the squad he takes over, or about their ability to step up.
Taking this job is a huge risk to an accomplished CV but so is spending an extended period on the side-lines as an out-of-work manager. Whatever the reasons he didn’t land a better job over the summer, Neil is a better manager than the English clubs appear to believe. He’ll get Bolton organised and picking up points against teams with better players, just as he did regularly in Europe with Celtic.
In other news many of the same media heavyweights referred to above today report Arsenal are preparing a bid for a Celtic player, in January. After selling us the same story that the same player would be subject to the same bid back in August.
It’s as though they have space to fill on the sports pages and there’re not been a lot of football recently.
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Wee bobby collins
Know were your coming from a wee bit.
I have been lurking for long time and recently just started posting.
i just like to make a relevant reply to another post that has been put on.
I do not need a reply.
Take out of CQN what you want.
As for clique.I dont think everyone is involved.JMO.HH.
CQN demographic revealed at last
weebobbycollins
I know it’s shocking CQN snobbery is a too bit Reliant Robin in styling, sitting there with their droopy moustaches, huge sideburns, striped tank tops and curly perms.
It should be stamped out…… I tell ya.
Hail Hail
BSR
Laughed at that.
But wouldn’t have dared to yesterday.
I am not sure if you could call any group on CQN as a clique it is only natural in my opinion if people on the forum meet each other for social events and charity gigs it is only natural those Bhoys will get to know each other well.They are likely to interact with each other more than a loner like myself.H.H.
Zbyszek- congratulations on your victory over the Germans.
It must have been very satisfying in so many ways.
Then you can never rule out the ole CQN’rs that think there’s a clique clique.
Gordybhoy64
Ah am afraid that that is how it Works.. in the Real World.
Each Person Is responsible fur Pitting the Breed oan His or Her Ain Table.
There is NO Free Lunch..
Each , fur Himsel.
The Survival o’ the Fittest..
Want Mair??
Pal.. The world disnae owe Ye a Living..
That is Life In the Big City..
N..if
YOU .. are no aware of the Above Facts..
Then Ye are in Fur a Big Surprise. wan day.
Kojo
Still,Laughin
Jimmynotpaul
The guy’s behaviour is understandable. Rags, (the DR in particular) is easily mistaken for toilet paper.
Kris Commons
Signed for £300 000
106 appearances and 53 goals.
Luboesque signing?
Not really…..KC has an even better record than Lubo.
A bit off topic, but has anybody watched “fifty ways to kill your mammy”?
My two teenage kids are in hysterics while watching it!
BSR…agree totally…I shaved my off my droopy moustache yesterday, straightening my hair tomorrow…
zbyszek
England won the World Cup in 66. Scotland beat them in 67 and declared themselves the new world champions.
So on that basis, all Hail Polska world champions…..till tomorrow evening at any rate
;-)
HH jamesgang
Moonbeams WD. Wee Oscar’s our Bhoy and Kano’s our mhan. The Vow – Critically Rebuked by 45% of this fine nation.
……………….have you no ” ö” on that keyboard ….
Ordnung muss sein…………..braw
MWD
Es waere die hoechste Zeit, daB Celtic Schnell Nachrichten eine deutsche Clique haette!
Es tut mir Leid, daB ich keine Umlaut machen kann.
Prost!
Gotta Leave.. Steve
Seeya
Kojo
Still,Laughin
Thunder Road- it was good to meet you on Saturday.
KC might have ‘a better record’ than Lubo… and some say Kwistoffer Boyd has a ‘better record’ than Henrik ;/)
England won the WC in ’66?
They kept that quiet..
If Neil Lennon needed a constant bodyguard at his side should we assume members of his family also had to live their lives in a similar fashion, what a dreadful thought. Do managers of the top clubs in the EPl also need bodyguards? Neil had a young family, not sure how many children he had, but surely this became an issue for his partner and the welfare of his children to be able to live a normal lives.
I can’t see Bolton having much money to spend in the transfer market but Neil knows the English so well after spending a lot of his career down south and I hope he is a success.
fer feck sake Kojo an aufweiderschreiben would have been Kojo…eer!
braw
Thanks for the witty replies folks.
In case anyone is wondering it was in Costa in Cumbernauld town centre, the one nearest Tesco and I can confirm it was definitely not H.T.
Jimmynotpaul
18:33 on
13 October, 2014
Thanks for the witty replies folks.
In case anyone is wondering it was in Costa in Cumbernauld town centre, the one nearest Tesco and I can confirm it was definitely not H.T.
……………..was he over 8 feet ffs and looked like a young Archie Leach?
braw
beatbhoy
Wie so nicht?? Hast du ein Britischer PC, Hände hoch Beaty:))
äöü Clique
DBBA
Thank you for congratulations. I’m not sure if the final score can still stand? There was a guy who invided the pitch and had a chat with Szczesny (our goalkeeper). The problem is the guy who inided the pitch was not in the protocol. UEFA are in the process of comparing the documents.
I thought about you today. I’m not much on CQN but whenever I lurked I did not see your good self posting. I wished you were not retired, in work, posting more. Today when I saw your posts I thought you probably were back to work.
jimmynotpaul
17:33 on 13 October, 2014
Evening folks.
On a slow news may I share a non football story.
Was in Costa today feeding myself full of coffeee and cake as usual when a man lifted one of the shop newspapers and then went to the toilet with it for about 10 minutes. When he returned he put it back in the rack. Thoughts please, Is this unacceptable behaviour?
____________
Maybe there wasn’t any toilet paper :((
The Clique
Koennen wir auf Russich schreiben auch?
Zbyszek- you were shafted by UEFA over the Celtic game.
A [small] fine would have been sufficient punishment.
Klooks Kleek Club at The Railway in West Hampstead -anyone ?
jimmynotpaul
17:33 on 13 October, 2014
Evening folks.
On a slow news may I share a non football story.
Was in Costa today feeding myself full of coffeee and cake as usual when a man lifted one of the shop newspapers and then went to the toilet with it for about 10 minutes. When he returned he put it back in the rack. Thoughts please, Is this unacceptable behaviour?
If it was the Sun or the Record I think the guy was perfectly within his rights to use them for toilet roll
Dontbrattbakkinanger
It was a pleasure to meet you.
I could not help thinking of don corleone as you sat in the corner, mulling over the conversation in Charcoals!
Thankfully i did not have to swim with the fishes ;)
Regarding KC and Lubo….sometimes we appreciate players more once they no longer play for us and i was just wondering IF we may do that with KC?
Lubo is a legend and was a joy to see, yet Kris has….in the games played/goals scored stats surpassed Lubo…..and by quite a margin.
The Henrik v Boyd thing is a damn good argument in Lubo’s favour though!
Dontbrattbakkinanger
18:45 on
13 October, 2014
Zbyszek- you were shafted by UEFA over the Celtic game.
A [small] fine would have been sufficient punishment.
………………………………..
they should have fined Celtic(large) after the Maribor at Celtic Park fiasco….
‘Ten Years After’s live LP “Undead” was recorded at Klooks Kleek in 1968.’
Wrt media tales of players leaving, the media has always done this. It’s what they’re good at. When they fear a Celtic player they start the he s leaving stuff. One particular year they had it that all that would be left at CP was the Jock Stein Stand.
Their totally predictable behaviour is for two reasons: wishful thinking, and to try to wind up the Celtic fans. All they do is make it obvious which Celtic players worry them.
The best to Neil Lennon.
DBBA
That was wee joke, not a claim :-)
On another note. Three or two years back I said there was something positive going in Polish football and I said – go Celtic for Polish players and for guys who played here. Only Brozek and Tonev were brought to Celtic since. Both were not my choices. Today I had in head long list of players who were on Celtic radar but Celtic gave up the interest in them or was too late for those players.
excathedra44
13:59 on
13 October, 2014
!!Bada Bing!!
13:17 on
13 October, 2014
Willie McStay was one that NL moved on after he succeeded Mowbray,it was always my view he would have been well served retaining him as No 2,however that would have made him a threat.
*and Willie was a bigger Celtic mhan than Lenny who had been in England since he was 16….Mogga must have looked on him as a threat as he had Peter Pointer kick him off the bus prior to leaving for hades….mibbees NFL was a ruffiano.
Don’t get me wrong here I loved him as a player and captain especially bossing captain tracky about…even as a coach on the sidelines when he pushed the wee ned back…but I never saw him at manager level and still believe that with a hurting hun and lame duck manager he was our luckiest manager ever.
I didn’t shed a tear when Jock, who game me a brilliant teenage and young adult life, left nor when MON went, especially after “Black Sunday”….often wonder how we would have fared with Guus……similarly with Lenny….his time was up.
‘The only non-British jazz came from the Polish Modern Jazz Quartet led by Zbigniew Namyslowski who returned by popular acclaim three weeks later.’
Polish modern jazz?
Mmm.
Nice.
DBBIA/LouisBalfourCSC
jamesgang
It’s going to be interesting game. I can’t tell you – good luck tomorrow :-)
DBBA and SoT
I did not know Gregg Allman works out of TABB. I just discovered wonderfull albums.