You can train to be a football player for years, hone your skills and work on your fitness, but there are situations you can never prepare for until you are in the spotlight. Yesterday Mark Wilson had to field questions about his team-mates’ performance and his manager’s position, after another abject performance which drew criticisms from Neil Lennon towards the players.
Mark gave a textbook response to the BBC, “I don’t like slagging my team-mates off but we have to do better.
“Football is a result-driven game but we don’t want that [Neil Lennon sacked]. We are firmly behind the manager and we love working with him and the coaching staff.”
We should be in no doubt that harsh words are being spoken in the dressing room and team spirit must be awful, but the outside world need to see stoic unity.
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hamiltontim @ 02:10
Wonder what else they haven’t been telling us!
Coneybhoy @ 02:16
You’re forgetting a wee court case that took place not too long ago. After a year of threats against your own life and that of your family, with some of them becoming actual attempts, you’d be forgiven if such a jury’s behaviour led to you taking your eye off of your your own job for a short spell, while you struggle to convince yourself that it is indeed working in a country that has done its utmost to make you feel unwelcome to say the least.
Rascar
For the first time ever, I have to disagree with you!!
I have been over for a few games this year and usually watch the lions share of the Huns game in o’neills then head for the celtic game. They have always dominated physically and won narrowly, we have gone for possession stat and lost points.
The concentration on their fouls and fiscal ineptitude is hiding reality that currently they are better at foot.
We will bevbetter in the next few months but it may only yield cups again.
Interesting point this week on Aiden McGeAdy for the play off is that nobody in Dublin thinks he has a finish or pass or cross…..never heard that before!
Rascar Capac
I hate to say it, but I was happy about the man getting a bad injury, that is the result of being CHEATED constantly.
I think Naismith and that rocket (I hope he disnae mind me calling him that) The Singing Detective called it correctly that he already has done the same injury before – there is a very good chance he is finished for good.
He has been Rangers most dangerous and intelligent player over the last 2 seasons IMO.
Coneybhoy says:
31 October, 2011 at 02:25
Yes DD’s..seriously..are you kidding…a man like that listens to his sons over money..prove it!
Ride are on BBC4 now
Class
Personally I dont care about Naismith or anyone else who has cheated against Celtic
petec @ 02:27
Well spotted. Remember it was only last week that Cameron announced his “intention” to change the laws regarding Catholics and the monarchy. Obviously he has experienced Charlie’s veto more than once, and that was a threat which he thought would be enough.
Politics is always a seedy world, but i was shocked to see some defending the SNP here earlier – this is the Scottish Government who only a few weeks ago lied to this country by stating that the sectarian crime statistics had been lost, the same statistics the Catholic Church had been lobbying for them to publish since 2004. We all know what they would reveal. The rest of this country doesn’t, or wouldn’t accept until the stats were published. The same governement who have revealed on public record that their intention is to even up these stats, which is the reason for the persecution of the GB and possibly, and more frighteningly, a more relaxed approach by Strathclyde’s finest towards the real bigots and bigoted killers.
No matter how much you want independence (and i was a supporter of that cause myself until now), this is no way for it to start, based on complete lies and hideous manipulation. Once it happened, what lengths would the SNP go to to ensure they retained control. How far would they go, to pander to the bigot vote, if they are going this far when it isn’t even necessary.
Frightening stuff.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
You are Super Speed reader/watcher.
hehe
I think you put the wrong time to the comments my Good mhan. ;)
Margaret
It was a macho investment along with his play at Man U. He made big money when he sold London City Airport and moved into ghe telecoms with Denis O’Brien another Celtic billionaire shareholder.
Both are tainted by the long drawn out Moriarty tribunal in Ireland over 3G licences. The Kaiser is looking to sue everyone not protected in that investigation.
My proof is flimsy in a blog but comes from my father in law who met him 10 years ago when Celtic were on high.
Remember he bought at the peak so has lost his shirt a long time ago.
I also work with people in Dublin who worked with him previously who attest to his belief in turning a profit.
Best I can do, just have to trust me!
Wake up it’s beautiful morning
Boo
Apologies FFM
I had not fully digested what you were saying.
FFM
A bit worried reading your post on lost statistic. I left Scotland in 1993 and thought unity and independence would possibly follow.
The vibe when I was a kid was thAt a vote for SNP was to lose identity if you had an Irish/catholic background and we should always vote labour(too right), by default.
My mother was always scared of the SNP for that reason.
I still say minorities should vote for Labour and the union but as I am foreign in Ireland would appreciate your view.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:
31 October, 2011 at 02:45
Independence now is useless as you quite rightly say.
Not because Oil running out but because Scotland will be run like Ireland, unless a Real Leader came forth, as we see with Celtic they are not easy to find in this {current} affluent society.
I think it is time for Radicalism and Make Victor the Captain. I love how much Charlie has improved but Charlie needs to focus so much on himself so he can continue to improve IMO, he is never a leader of men.
I like how young Victor has immersed himself in Celtic.
Petec
I’m not with you on the injury thing.
Yes, I have posted on here hoping for their best guys pulling a hamstring, or some minor injury that would help us.
Naismith, or Kennedy, are really tragic cases, and my heart goes out to them.
We can’t become what we dislike in Them.
Coneybhoy says:
31 October, 2011 at 02:53
OK. Fair enough.
petec @ 02:55
No worries. It’s hard for any of us with our eyes open to digest, no :)
Coneybhoy @ 03:02
Your mother was absolutely right. It should be different now, but instead it’s regressed at an alarming rate.
No minority is safe now that we know what lengths the SNP will go to ensure their majority vote. The biggest minority (the Catholic/Irish one, seen as the same by them) is the first to attack for the “results-orientated” amongst the SNP. The support of 2000 Orange Lodges and a vote of confidence from Sir Minty himself was not to be scoffed at.
The statistics are not lost, as anyone with common sense knows, they are sitting on computers in various government departments and police bodies throughout the country, not just in Scotland, but also in London.
The SNP have shown that they value the bigot vote – i don’t know the voting figures, but i’m concljuding that the bigot vote must be larger than the Catholic vote, which is why they have taken this route.
On a deeper level, we should have predicted it. There was no way the establishment was going to accept independence without doing its best to stop it. In retrospect, they went for the most obvious method which i didn’t see coming, despite how obivous it is. Divide and conquer. Increase/develop the existing tensions in Scotland to stop it happening – it’s worked for several centuries now with great success. Sadly, the SNP have dealt with it in completely the wrong way, as they obviously saw too much risk to Independence by exposing Scotland’s Shame to itself.
coneybhoy
here’s 2 great songs from 90’s scottish indie bands for you to enjoy
http://youtu.be/jCvrnMQq8oU
http://youtu.be/PzzNmbuGzgw
rascar Capac,
I think it is important to seperate things.
It was good to see SN get his comeuppance.
His tackle that the most ODIOUS Referee ever allowed to CONTINUE………… and I’m not talking about the tackle……
My venom was purely during that game, I knew the way he put his arm up that he had done his leg in again. I said to my Young Son, it deserves him right.
Now do I want him finished from football? No not at all but I would want him to be a more humble player/person.
Margaret,
As a positive addendum to my kaiser story, most foot fans here support up go numberv10 in the EPL so the best thing about living in Dub is the fans from here enjoy the day of weekend oot in Glasgow.
I go over in the morning, train to Johnstone, bus to Glasgow, breaky in John Lewis, meet the Bunnet, 2 pints, go to the game, grouch with , dinner with bunnet and mrs bunnet and mini ms bunnet and train to Prestwick.
There I meet thevtrue Dub fans and have a laugh, win , lose or draw.
Pain in the bum is I have to drive and they have a bus to another county which shows the effort.
A pot of folks on here are bin Glasgow or surrounds and need to realise the beauty on their dole steo.
I am fed up with the iPad spell check!! MAkes me look silly
Intersesting thoughts on the SNP.
Seem to match our sense of underdog, and with a new spin on Scotland’s history being a Gaelic one it’s an easy sell to youngish Irish Scots.
So we are excited by our new future.
The SNP know that they can’t reveal that there is a right wing movement against the immigrants.
Attacks on tims data lost.
Polis arresting Green Brigade members for nothing, evens up the stats.
I have voted SNP for years.
I am now watching and wondering.
Can someone answer me?
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
Keep looking for the extreme outcomes of different Governments Bi polar policies.
They are the synthesis.
No need for Fortune Tellers (no pun intended) :))
Serge
Bummer
My YouTube does not work on my wives iPad cos iTunes does not work on our pc hence pain in the hole.
Will go upstairs and log on to pc, quietly!
Ps I do not have more than one wife it is the spell check thing again!
James Forrest for Spurs according to The Sun. It must be true then!
Rascar @ 03:29
Aye, don’t vote them, and encourage everyone you know to do the same. They are showing total contempt for you, me and all we care about.
petec @ 03:31
Bi-polar policies :)) Like it…the expression that is.
Thankfully, somone has put some of the “Justice Committee” reviews on Youtube.
Here’s one here as a start for those unfamiliar, with Professor Tom Devine trying to educate them on the situation. Christine Grahame revealed at the end of this review the intention of the SNP when she asked Tom Devine (completely failing to understand his point at the time), if he was telling her that the new legislation would lead to less Celtic supporters being arrested than others. She seemed very concerned about that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL6lMjdRuxA
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
You are the epitome of Matt 5:9, I dinnae care if yer no a subscriber Yet, there is no doubt ye have always been wan.
Panopticon
Regarding that Justice Comittee, Christine Grahame who was put in charge of it, has previous:
“This Law Society member conveniently ignored the overwhelming documentary, statistical and eyewitness evidence exposing the inherent failures of legal self-regulation.”
Source online if you search.
Fortunes
I don’t want to just vote for Labour.
I want to change the SNP.
The SNP should be a celebration of everything that is good in the world, not a narrow view of a few Scottish things.
On a personal note, I have had my last drink til Christmas Eve.
So I will probably post less.
But I will still be about.
FFM,
I think my concerns about Google will be laughed off, I have spoke a couple of times now on this site about how sinister Google really is.
If you can grab THIS book, get it whilst it is available.
Raspar Capac
I remember a debate at Uni with Alec Salmond and Denis Canavan and Salmond did well when not talking about independence.
On that subject he got thumped. This was about 87 or 88.
Best debate that night was about banning the old firm. It did not carry.
Rascar,
You don’t need to vote either. The Scottish voting system is currently set up so that so you’re vote can make a difference even if you don’t vote mainstream.
I can’t comprehend Celtic supporters voting SNP given the current circumstances they have created.
Petec
A panopticon indeed >:((. A friend of mines came here from Sweden about 5 years after living here in the 90s, and was alarmed at the number of cameras. At the time, infamous in the world for having more cameras than anywhere else in the planet. Blair’s legacy indeed, after his war-fare attributes.
Now we have the polis walking around with hand-helds filming demonstrators, identifying them and loggin them on databases. They also do the same to the Celtic support. I expect they then return to their offices and delete footage as they see fit, which might show them in a bad light. Meanwhile, innocent folk are attacked, robbed, abused, and they are nowhere to be seen. When i speak to folk oblivious to all this, the first thing i ask them is, “How many people do you know have been victim of a crime at some point in their lives? Compare to how many who have seen the polis convict the criminal.”
So glad we pay our taxes eh.
Coneybhoy says:
31 October, 2011 at 04:03
Scottish “Independence” would be a beautiful thing for the “Dark North”,would it not? :)
Think about it.
Coneybhoy
In yer own time chara,in yer own time…
Petec.
Read the description there. Yep.
Ask anyone that comes here from Europe and they can immediately identify why we’ve been stupefied – the meeja. Britain and the USA are at the front line of nuisance anti-social countries.
But even being aware of this, the Scottish meeja last year knocked me for six. To see how they ignored the real issues and instead manipulated this country so succesfully that our manager was sent bombs….you have to wonder what lengths they go to higher up the food chain, ie. national government to control the way people here think.
I can see why the establishment are so anti-Catholic. That kind of education is one of the reasons why there are still folk questioning them.
Coneybhoy
Wee Alex is a very good politician.
When you try to think of an opponent in Scotland you can see how far ahead he is.
My brother in law votes Labour, and always will.
He says that he fears a bigoted Scotland crushing us.
Rule from London makes this impossible.
I always thought he was wrong, and maybe a bit bigoted.
Now… I don’t know, the treatment of The Green Brigade, with no comment from society…
Neil’s attacker pleading guilty but getting off…
I am a reasonable man, I think about things.
Something is wrong in Scotland.
I didn’t think that before.