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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The Spirit of Arthur Lee says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:30
Dontbrattbakkinanger says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:28
googybhoy- you might even get a game ;/)
Now I no longer trust your opinions on footballers.
I am carrying too much holiday weight. Well 40years of holidays.
Cronyism – an Irish trait! Comedy Gold when you think about the corrupt environment we’ve played in over the years!
Googy – you can have my ticket. Seriously!
I bought the 3-match package and I’m missing two of the games due to work commitments. Really hoping I get to use my A Madrid ticket.
T4
DBBIA 1020
Perhaps an intrepid journalist might wish to interview your pharmacist,in the way that SKY always have the opinions of former G1 ref on a Monday morning?
Ach,who am I kidding? But it certainly hurts more when it’s one of “our own”
In the late 70s,the brother of my Chemistry teacher,a bank manager by profession,had to arrange a transfer down South to advance his refereeing career.
Watching that wee nyaff makes me pine for the good old days….
greenjedi says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:33
About time someone took the ones marked with a * and made them be arsed or have them sweeping the steps of the north stand!
The Honest Mistake (Sickened) says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:34
I see CQN is again over run with the anti Celtic rumour merchants and posters that have never posted a positive comment about anything to do with Celtic.
Paul67, I think you need to do something about repeat offenders who continue to post lies on this site.
Hear hear
Every time there is a new bad story coming out of ipox this place gets infested with them.
There are more huns on here than swallow swallow.
googybhoy
Are you on the Chris Commons diet
kitalba – Yup.
Also, the loveable cheeky rogue Gazza is a wife-beater. (thumbsup)
tommytwiststommyturnssays:
31 October, 2011 at 10:35
Thank you for that offer. I will let you know later in the week.
philvis
Don’t forget Broadfoot the ole egg beater.
The honest mistake
Keep it up mate I have no doubt one day you will get the recognition you crave
greenjedi says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:33
I like the look of that.
Give Lenny a ring and tell him.
Phil:
And I hear Ally likes wander.
The Spirit of Arthur Leesays:
31 October, 2011 at 10:37
googybhoy
Are you on the Chris Commons diet
Yes a week in Spain with Hooper. Instead of training.
bournesouprecipe – The way I heard it, the egg beat him.
Must have been laid by a Coatbridge hen. (thumbsup)
mickbhoy1888 31 October, 2011 at 10:40
“Keep it up mate I have no doubt one day you will get the recognition you crave ”
Aye well, I know you’ll not get the result you crave. I however know the result I crave is just around the corner. See ya!!!
Snake Plissken 09:36
“dallasnomore – With the greatest respect who told you?
Players drink as well you know and for that tale you told people say Hooper and Commons are
hitting the Glasgow club scene.
Lennon disciplined Stokes for missing a curfew and going on the bevy last season so it cuts
both ways.
I’m not sure about your original post.
I think something has gone on but I wouldn’t necessarily say it was drink.”
Lenny is a habitual drinker – does anyone here dispute this?.
Sources? First of all, the man himself. I think he is quite open about his public drinking habits; maybe someone who has had a drink with him recently could help me out about where his current watering hole is.
Lenny has given a tabloid serialised account of a health condition, bi-polarism, (Black Dog, anyone!) which can be excarbated by too much alcohol.
So, when our manager has to take a member of the playing staff to task for lack of fitness or personal social excesses, even when it is justified, his managerial advice, or entreaties, can smack of the pot calling the kettle black.
Other sources: I have been told by staff at Celtic Park; I know players at other clubs; I know umpteen people who have seen him drunk.
If time permitted, (I am supposed to be working) I could spend all day telling stories about our manager’s excessive drinking from Buncrana to Las Vegas .
pintaguinness 09:37
“Dallasnomore-That’s one helluva an allegation! Source?”
Please see my reply to Snake Plissken (above)
“In addition those who belive Lenny should go, who should replace him? Who would manage the
team in the interim?
I dont have a clue!!!!”
You said it!
Good Morning,
For the benefit of anyone who has been taken in by recent ramblings about some of the Machiavellian schemes being hatched at Ibrox regarding Administration, Liquidation, re-in-statement, substitution, reincarnation, hallucination and even resurrection of a certain footballing entity– can I just point out that for any of that to happen it would have to happen in full compliance with the law!
The law is not and never has been an exact science. It has to be tailored to meet and fit each and every individual set of facts and circumstances. In so doing, you establish a body of law, distinct legal principles that then apply in all cases and then a set of precedents which guide and indeed may dictate what will happen in future cases.
Paul McConville, who posts on here, has started an excellent legal blog on the subject, and while I do not want to bore the reader with interminable and often inexplicable legalese, it is well worth a read.
So far the applicable company law, insolvency law and even the contractual law has been considered.
Below however I concentrate on the judicial and licensing function of the SFA and suggest why much of a recent newspaper article ( which someone somewhere must have wanted someone to print ) is total bilge and worthy of discarding in a Clydebank Canal!
The fact is that the SFA MUST comply with the law and be seen to comply with the law or face the legal consequences! And we know that the SFA know all about the legal consequences of making a bollocks of it!
Remember that all of this has been brought about by a Board of a PLC who have deliberately and willfully sought to avoid paying legally due revenues by way of a scheme which they were warned may well turn out to be illegal and with consequences that are severe.
These are facts and a risk that were taken on by Mr Whyte using all of his most successful business experience and acumen, and with the benefit of some very expensive, learned, protracted and detailed legal and accountancy advice. He did not go into this either naively or blindly. Foolishly may well be another matter!
Accordingly he knew the consequences and the pitfalls of the legal position he chose to buy into.
SFA members may well have a conflict of interests if they put their own private interests before that of justice and the law.
What is clear is that there will be plenty for the Celtic legal team to consider and mull over in deciding what stance to take on any application to any body by any new co controlled by anyone who may have had an interest in a recently failed club.
What you can expect is a considerable trial by newspaper as much of what has so far been printed could never find its way into any future application or representation as it would – in my humble opinion– render any such application or submission as completely invalid and illegal.
However, we have a free pres in this country and they are perfectly free to print what they wish it would appear– even if it means that they themselves do not fully understand what they are writing about.
They of course are also free to book a one way ticket on a slow boat to China which regrettably they have failed to do as yet.
No doubt upon arrival they would be met by the much maligned Zheng Zhi who would greet some sports journalists in fluent Manadrin or a dialect thereof– something which I am sure they would be far more likely to understand than the legalities of the SFA processes upon which they appear to be so expert.
Then again these are newspaper men, many of whom enjoyed substantial financial reward at the hands of Robert Maxwell and who they would have undoubtedly supported to the death had he attempted to re-establish himself in the land of British Newspapers.
Alas– poor Robert made no such application and instead did buy the ine way ticket to on the slow boat providing the newspaper hacks with one last “splash” so to speak!
I think Rangers PLC are in the same boat!!!
http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/would-a-restructured-rangers-football-club-be-eligible-to-play-in-european-competition/#comment-389
kitalba – I hear Ally likes fag burns in fur coats. (thumbsup)
philvis
He’s not tough enough to take a hammering from a Chequered Coatbridge Skipper
BMCUW- he’s a dandy Don;he is of the same vintage as Mr B.Mcginlay of Balfron.
The first time I met him I apologised for some of the abuse I gave him back in the day.
Whenever I discuss decisions with him he usually says ‘I can see why it was given’, but today he was pretty unequivocal in his condemnation.
phil:
I hear he likes to get all oiled up and roll around on a barber’s floor.
Bhoys.
Re. the striker debate. The more I see young Forrest, the more I’m convinced he’s potentially the best centre forward at the club. This boy is no winger. He has everything in his locker to succeed as a modern centre forward. Drop the others, play James Forrest up front by himself. 4-5-1, with him up front and players with guile behind him. Watch the goals flow. No team in SPL would compete with us.
dallasnomore 31 October, 2011 at 10:44:
Scum.
Celtic_First says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:21
Hibs played well. At one stage I actually counted the number of purple shirts because it seemed they had about 13 men on the field.
I’m not sure what the answer would have been or will be the next time we face men possessed, but that’s why I have my job and other people run football clubs.
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Make sure Celtic players play like men possessed too.
I really cannot figure out what has happened to the Celtic midfield that absolutely bullied Steven Davis etc last season. We have the same players. What has happened to them?
Let’s be honest here. This Celtic side have no leader and it shows. Neil Lennon is doing his best but what are the team doing?
It looks like they have chucked it. Nobody takes responsibility in that side. They are looking at young Forrest is if he was some kind of saviour. The Bhoy is a good player but should not be our only hope.
We have internationals who play better for their country than guys they train with everyday. Sometimes they appear to have just met before a match.
We are missing various players but the 11 on the park should have been good enough to beat an average Hibs side.
There is no urgency. The team is changed on a week to week basis and I’m struggling to see where we go from here. Neil comes out and slates various players which I’m not a fan of myself. Keep it in house and back the players in the press.
Can Neil turn this round? We are behind a poor Motherwell team in the league and continue to drop points against poor sides. We have scored stupid OG’s and our defence are calamitous at times. The midfield is poor and we are missing Brown as at least he strikes fear into opposition players with his aggression. Kayal is a shadow of the player he was an Ki looks tired in every match. Joe Ledley is one of our better players but he too is struggling. Hooper and Stokes are too similar for me and it showed on Saturday. Kris Commons was a relevation last season but doesn’t look like he wants to be at the club. His red card against Hearts was foolish.
Celtic are in real trouble. We are so far behind it’s frightening. I would love Neil to turn it round but I’m not sure it’s possible.
How long do we wait to change things? Motherwell will not be scared of Celtic at the weekend and if we play like we have in recent games they will take points from us. We ae in danger of being almost 20 points behind before December. I didn’t think that was possible but it’s a fact. We can all hope that Rangers get deducted points but I don’t want to win a league in that fashion. We should be playing flowing, attacking, attractive football not playing well in fits and starts.
Forget the CEO and the owner. We have the tools to beat St Johnstone and Hibs at home and didn’t. What is wrong? How will it be fixed and when will it happen? We are running out of time.
LB
The Honest Mistake (Sickened)
Rise above it mate, I hear there is going to be the biggest wake ever in the history of Scotland coming to a street near you soon. The inflicted should never be mocked, they are pitiful and the appropriate behaviour regards them is the extension of pity. Contempt is also a viable and acceptable option if you aren’t too schooled in pity for the troggs.
DALLASNOMORE 1044
I hope you never have to suffer the travails which have afflicted Neil.
If you do,I hope you find more sympathy than you have offered to our manager,and a little more support too.
You might wish to check a dictionary for the definition of support,btw.
Down for Sam
Interesting idea.
kitalba 31 October, 2011 at 10:53:
I understand what you’re saying but stuff like that left on the site will be regurgitated by the simple of mind and used to attack Celtic in another Chinese whisper morphed form.
I can’t wait until what they belong to is gone forever!
Vinibhoy – Named Neil Lennon on his birth certificate says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:41
greenjedi says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:33
I like the look of that.
Give Lenny a ring and tell him.
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Look of what????
Livibhoy
Lennon in the Summer was probably in the strongest position of any Celtic manager since Mr Stein in 67, he shouldhave demanded the board got him the 3 experienced players he wanted or resigned. Instead he got kids and was told to sit down, shut up and behave himself, to his eternal shame thats what he did.
dallasnomore,
“Sources? First of all, the man himself. I think he is quite open about his public drinking habits; maybe someone who has had a drink with him recently could help me out about where his current watering hole is.”
You and our hun bretheren would probably love to know!
Away back to Swallow Swallow ya eedgit!
gsu
Watchin’ the ole Celts these days would drive ole Donny Osmond to drink.
As far as I can remember Neil Lennon suffers from depression, he’s not bipolar.
I don’t know what, if any, effect alcohol has on depression, though it didn’t seem to have bothered Churchill too much.
Having said that, he was never much of a dancer, and his paintings were rotten.
“our” = “your”
gsu
greenjedi says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:57
It’s painful to watch. I don’t know where we can go. We can have all the optimism in the world but we have a hard European match and then a trip to our bogey ground. Neil had the tools to beat Hibs on Saturday but we didn’t. Why are the players so inept? There has to be something wrong at the club.
I have no idea what it is at the moment but I can’t see our form improving with the current first team. They are gutless and the lack of a leader is massive.
Mulgrew appears to be one of few who actually care. Most of the rest let the heads go down easilly. I would have McManus in that side in a second. We haven’t replaced him. You don’t sell a captain with no replacement. He may not have been the greatest player in the world but he drove us onto a victory at Tynecastle when we were 2 down at half time. This team would be scared to come out the dressing room at half time if they were 2 down!
LB
dallasnomore says:
31 October, 2011 at 09:13
The players have witnessed Lenny and his staff under the influence of drink too many times on too many social occasions. The players have lost respect for the management team and hold them in contempt.
How a situation like this was not foreseen by Lawwell and co. just beggars belief.
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Can you give a source for this information? Can you verify it?
ernie lynch says:
31 October, 2011 at 11:02
As far as I can remember Neil Lennon suffers from depression, he’s not bipolar.
I don’t know what, if any, effect alcohol has on depression, though it didn’t seem to have bothered Churchill too much.
Having said that, he was never much of a dancer, and his paintings were rotten.
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He was a good bricklayer though.
I don’t think Alcohol is something that is helpful for people who suffer from depression.
SydneyTim says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:20
That I am afraid costs money and It won’t happen as long as DD and PL are at Celtic park
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The personnel at Celtic’s disposal right now should be able to win the SPL at a canter. In this instance it’s not got a lot to do with money.