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Lennon a better manager than England appears to believe

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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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  3. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Kris played for Derby and Nottingham Forest,i think he started at Stoke but don’t think he got many games.

  7. sipsini on

    weebobbycollins

     

     

    18:26 on 13 October, 2014

     

    BSR…agree totally…I shaved my off my droopy moustache yesterday, straightening my hair tomorrow…

     

     

    ________

     

    You must be one of the few on here with hair, between our ages and watching some of our performances of late…HH

  8. lennon's passion on

    Happy NL has a new gig. Hard job he has took he went through hell as our manager so he deserves a break. But it’s not Celtic.

  9. Gene's a Bhoy's name on

    Hope lenny does well at bolton however i fear that i may be seeing him down vale park in div 1 next season.

     

    Strange decision from big jan – thought he wanted a no.1 role.

  10. bournesouprecipe on

    sipsini

     

     

    I can assure you, that I’ve a very full head of hair……….. thank you very much.

     

     

    Let me eat cake CSC.

  12. Zbyszek on

    DBBA

     

    If you are interested in jazz, my favourite Polish jazz composer is Leszek Mozdzer. He worked with Marcus Miller, David Gilmour, Lester Bowie, Manu Katche, Pat Matheny and with many more.

  13. beatbhoy on

    Having moaned about the seemingly interminable journey to S. Queensferry yesterday, can I just say that the Ferry Tap pub on the High Street has a magnificent gantry.

     

     

    Sure helped get rid of the road rage stress!

  20. foghorn leghorn on

    Don’t want to restart the referendum debate (background noise of a referendum debate being re-opened which makes a slightly different noise to one being opened for the first time)

     

     

    But what the feck was Fannie Lennox greeting about saying that Scots need to grow up and stop hating the English

     

     

    The Yes campaign had no visible anti-English negativity about it, it was a very upbeat, positive, pro-Scottish campaign

     

     

    She should compare that to the her fellow No voters who engaged in acts of thuggery in George Square the night after the vote

     

     

    Fannie, zip it and never let us hear your voice again unless its when you’re singing

  21. Dontbrattbakkinanger on

    ‘In 2014, Haynes and Derek Trucks announced their intention to depart the group at the end of the year; following this, Allman has said the group will retire.’

     

     

    Derek Trucks is a genius; the true heir to Duane.

     

     

    …and on the podium when it comes to My Favourite All Time Dereks.

  26. Papa John on

    sipsini

     

    Shy clear owe the Perms yungyin, mid 30s Leo Sayer mark2 a wis, bur’nt awe ma ends, goat the polished look noo.Ha,Ha

     

    Awerabest Baldy PJ

  30. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    weebobbycollins

     

     

    18:07 on 13 October, 2014

     

    Jimmynotpaul@ 17.49…Paul67 is the only CQNer I have ever knowingly met…I am sure the great majority are terrific people, they are Celtic supporters after all…however, it is quite apparent to any long time lurker/observer that there is a CQN snobbery…I have seen good relevant comments from the occasional posters go completely ignored…it would never happen like that in the pub…would it?

     

     

    ~~~~~~~~~~++~~~~~~~~~~

     

     

    I first met CQNers about two years ago,mainly because I wanted the opportunity to put names to faces of those whose company I had enjoyed by proxy the previous four years.

     

     

    During my next trip home a few months later,I met another half dozen or so,plus a wee day with only two of us-plus me.

     

     

    Next time I decided to see if I could get a group sesh,and Saturday was the third such occasion.

     

     

    IMO,it’s not a clique-far from it. It’s a group of like-minded people who contact me on the mail address I post on the blog.

     

     

    It includes many people whose opinions are polar opposites.

     

     

    And you know what-we all talk bollocks,have a good time,don’t fall out.

     

     

    Maybe you should try it instead of sniping from the sidelines. The idea of a clique is by its nature divisive.

     

     

    A dayooooot in CQN company is the polar opposite.

  31. excathedra44 on

    Tontine Tim

     

    18:51 on

     

    13 October, 2014

     

     

    I knew about the bus incident,he had more sway with the players than TM,but having achieved his objective he wanted to ensure he had no rivals ( WMcS ).

     

     

    Guus would have been interesting,Big Jock was never right after the car crash,MON wanted away,Wee Gordon 6 months before he went had moved a % of his stuff from Mark McGhee.s house where he was staying.

     

     

    The number of amicable departures are few and far between.

  32. Neustadt-Braw on

    Papa John ………..snap …..the same horrible thing happened to my good self ….

     

     

    bit a look awfy braw any roads so it was aricht being curly for a month or so …

     

     

    Macnaughton was the wee lassies name that did the deed ….

     

     

    some things even braw can never forget….

     

     

    braw and Glätze …. :)

  34. beatbhoy on

    Foghorn

     

     

    Don’t think she had a vote.

     

     

    And I think the word ‘Westminster’ came in handy for the Yes campaign.

  35. scullybhoy on

    Media reports in Scotland claimed Deila had been critical of Lennon’s methods while he was in charge of Celtic, particularly the squad’s diet, but the 43-year-old insists the story was a complete falsehood in an attempt to create problems between the pair.

     

     

    Lennon said: “I don’t think that was true. That was a bit of muck-racking by some of the press north of the border. I think Ronny just wants to implement his own ways in terms of the diet.

     

     

    “I think everyone would know the diet at Celtic was pretty good and Ronny’s just trying to maybe eek out a bit more.

     

     

    “I don’t think he was critical of my regime and certainly not critical of the players, I think he just wants to look at putting his own stamp on the club and that’s altogether fine with me.”

     

     

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    BOXING CLEVER AT LAST

  38. foghorn leghorn on

    beatbhoy

     

     

    19:25 on

     

    13 October, 2014

     

     

    Foghorn

     

     

    Don’t think she had a vote.

     

     

    And I think the word ‘Westminster’ came in handy for the Yes campaign.

     

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    I suspect the words ‘Cameron’, ‘Farage’ and ‘Boris’ were much more relevant than the word ‘Westminster’

  40. Jimmynotpaul on

    BMCUW.

     

    It seemed a great day out and I posted yesterday I will try and attend the next one but it will be daunting…………

     

    Asking for permission from my wife. Lol.

  41. seanoc on

    I think it’s reasonable to assume Big Jan and Lenny wanted a new challenge which they weren’t getting at Celtic. But as the Stones sang, you can’t always get what you want. Lenny didn’t get the big EPL job he tried for so he’s settled for something lower. Which he’s right to do, because he doesn’t want to fall on the scrapheap.

     

     

    I found it odd the way he started branding his Facebook profile last year. It had all the hallmarks of an agent marketing their client.

  42. beatbhoy on

    Foghorn

     

     

    Also handy, and all sharing the quality of having negative comments made about them seem somehow positive, if you see what I mean.

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