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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papa john
I got a perm when I was sixteen told the bassa my hair was wavy and to go easy on the lotion, I ended up wae an affro:(
My Ma went off her nut when I got home, took me to the barbers and got it lopped off.
All part of growing up. HH
bournesouprecipe
19:27 on 13 October, 2014
thunder road
Ole DBBIA is a maturing Michael Corleone
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He does ooze gravitas in a quietly, understated fashion….and that’s no lean feat!
HH jamesgang
Neustadt-Braw / sipsini
The fateful day I took the plunge an goat ma Curls, I was night shift in the Fire Service, at the roll call my so called colleagues, were rolling with laughter, when I appeared with the curls hingen below my Dress Cap,btw wearen my Helmet didnae help either.
Awerabest PJ
Sipsini
I too got a perm in my late teens, also had a dodgy moustache thought that I was cool, then everyone started calling me Souness. That was enough for me to come to my senses. Shave and haircut.
JIMMYNOTPAUL
On that subject,I was in Glasgow with my Mum today.
Wee saunter round the shops then lunch. She didnae fancy the pie and pint in The Horseshoe option so we went a bit upmarket-by my standards,at least!
Lo and behold,as we walked out the restaurant,we bumped into PHILBHOY,his wife,and their daughter. (I now know why he prefers their company to ours,btw!)
Small world. Especially as they live in Edinburgh.
Point being,your missus may bump into some of us anyway,so just bring her along and get it over with!
beatbhoy
19:35 on
13 October, 2014
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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making any comments about them in relation to scotland could only be in a negative light.
theres isnt anything positive that those 3 could possibly offer this country
anyway, thats getting away from the anti-english accusation that annie lennox made, which just wasnt a part of the campaign at all
i think i can here the sound of a re-opened referendum debate being re-closed!
‘Yes campaign had no visible anti-English negativity about it, it was a very upbeat, positive, pro-Scottish campaign’
-that’ll be news to Harry Potter.
BSR- Magnificent gantry ,old bhoy….
BMCUWP- thanks for organisin’ Saturday.
I would have stayed longer but I heard the clique were meetin’ in Clatty Pat’s.
Bada Bing
Just seen your post regarding phoning me VG.
Not too Cliqueish imo.
Papa John
19:20 on
13 October, 2014
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
*ha me tae although I now have the “Bobby Charlton” look.
BSR,
Are you from Sparta? :))
DONTBRATTBACKINANGER
Absolute pleasure to meet you at last,bud. I’ve bugged you long enough that you finally gave in!
Wish you were a dentist and not a doctor,mind.
Dontbrattbakkinanger
19:43 on
13 October, 2014
‘Yes campaign had no visible anti-English negativity about it, it was a very upbeat, positive, pro-Scottish campaign’
-that’ll be news to Harry Potter.
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wooooooooossssshhhhhhhhhh – and that was the sound of a harry potter reference going over my head, sorry DBBIA, i dont know anything about HP apart from the authors name!!
TYA = Alvin Lee a guitar great but still not as good as Peter Greenbaum.
Foghorn
Fine by me!
Happy to let DBBIA’s humour have the final word.
Hail hail.
BMCUWP- apparently I ooze gravitas [gravy stains?] not miracles.
Thanks BMCUW
I will genuinely try and attend next one.
I was only teasing about my wife, I will be at Dingwall on Sat.
If she lets me go there I’m sure she let me go to one of your doos.
As far as I’m aware. I only know Hamiltontim and Butzy bhoy who post, so it will be nice to meet some others.
Tontine Tim
Can we no start another clique.He,He.
Awerabest PJ
Good luck, Neil Lennon. A true Celt and a living Celtic legend. Endured more medieval bigotry than anyone ever has or should have in this embittered little schizophrenic land.
Took Celtic beyond our hopes, into dreamland for a while, and surpassed all expectations of his managerial ability.
I hope he rocks that Championship. Will watch on with fingers crossed and relish every Botlon victory becasue he’s truly one of us.
On a separate note, Gerry Butler Celtic Hero – if you’re reading, Gerry, that new aftershave advert, ‘Man Of Today’?
Facepalm, brother, facepalm…
think I,ll watch the Belgium game …they will find Bosnia a handful methinks ….draw on the cards …
braw
I’m using my I pad and having problems while on CQN…freezing, not linking, anyone else having problems with this?
If not, I reckon it’s my I pad:(
Polish jazz
Lots of fine choons issued on Lp by the Muza label (late 60s -mid 70s.
Many of the sleeves were clearly iinspired by Blue Note.
sips
Well, since there were only three hundred of us to start off with, and we had to firstly see off The Immortals, moving to Rutherglen still felt like we’d fallen through the fabric of life, between here and Paisley.
But us lucky’s,were in the shadow Paradise and life went on.
Sipsini- all ok on tablet and mobile
Forza Malta.
0-0 after 22 mins versus Italia.
DONTBRATTBACKINANGER
I was always taught to look after my teeth,mate.
Didnae expect my guns to fall out.
Ach,worst thing I’ve had to deal with and plenty cope with more than that.
Auldheid17:25 on 13 October, 2014
M6bhoy
Paying the cost of a living wage by reducing the CEO pay is surely only one of the many options open to Celtic?
What would be the impact of such a course of action?
A new CEO? Now that might be popular with some but what quality of replacement would we get for that reduction?
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Given the club’s long term decline in almost every indicator you could use to judge the performance of the current CEO, is that even a serious question?
Guns,gums. Bloody iPhone.
Gute Nacht zur deutschen Clique!
Heute CQN. . .
Morgen die Welt!
South Of Tunis
19:57 on
13 October, 2014
Polish jazz
Lots of fine choons issued on Lp by the Muza label (late 60s -mid 70s.
Many of the sleeves were clearly iinspired by Blue Note.
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unfortunately grew up Jazzless….but in the late 80,s was visiting my sis in Gers ….have you ever been to the Marciac Festival? ….never met so many cool peeps in my life …
awfy braw few days ….even caught a Dizzie set ….never seen a neck like that …all in all a big big eye opener for a youngish Braw ….
Too soon.
1-0 Italia
Forza Malta.
JIMMYNOTPAUL
If you know BUTSYBHOY you’ve passed the test and coped with the worst the site can throw at you,haha!
aufwiederschrieben Beatbhoy ……lang may yer schönstien reek we ither Herrs coal!
braw
Pen given away by Bitton was a joke 1-1 v mighty Andorra..
Zico-Maltese Bhoy
Thanks
SIPSINI
Does the x in the bottom right corner-for deleting a letter-light up in black?
Happens to me too since the last update. Bloody pain.
!!bada bing!!
Cheers mate, what a Feckin day…car wouldn’t start this morning and had to get a taxi to work, it still won’t start and now the bloody tablet is playing up.
It comes in threes….so they say :((