We all know Craig Whyte doesn’t get nearly enough credit for the wonderful job he is doing for Scottish football but his cause was not helped by rookie manager, Ally McCoist, who when asked today if Nikica Jelavic asked to leave Rangers said, “No he didn’t, not at all. I have a wonderful relationship with Nikica. He never said that.”
The Rangers manager then passed the buck onto the unfairly beleaguered club owner, telling STV, “We received a bid from Everton which Craig [Whyte] found acceptable. Therefore business was done.”
McCoist refused to take a manager’s responsibility for deciding who leaves the football club. Craig Whyte made it clear to all concerned yesterday that Nikica Jelavic wanted to leave Rangers and there was no point keeping a player who didn’t want to be there. Whyte needs the backing of everyone with the best interests of Scottish football at heart, including his manager. The intrusive scrutiny he has been placed under in recent months will not help him achieve his objectives.
Whyte hasn’t put a foot wrong so far, we should all mind our own business and let him get on with his job. Eye on the prize, Craig.
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La dolce vita
Inner City – Good Life
: )
G64,
but…. its cauld ootside
Theboyfromoz
Google
Reports on Ali’s fight etc & Celtic legendary articles. Loved his boxing but loved us more.
THE EXILED TIM
The good thing about that bet is you can shop around for an even better price right up to the kickoff.
My opinion is over 1.5 goals first half at almost evens is superb. I will defo have it in my Sunday accumulator. Barca brought on another wonderkid last weekend and he looked superb, can’t remember his name but he was very fast.
MM
Will do pal.
I can see it means alot.
HH.
midfield maestro@22.57pm
Re John Rafferty. In my opinion the finest sports journalist that Scotland has produced in my lifetime.
He wrote a piece for the Observer on 26 September 1971 ” Kelly,the man who was Celtic ” upon the burial of this man was connected to the club through family from it’s inception.
That piece captured and still captures the uncomfortable relationship that many of us, who hold Celtic dear to our hearts,have with establishment Scotland.Rafferty’s description of how Bob Kelly keenly felt the injustices meted out to the club and it’s support base is unsurpassed ( even by James Forrest ).Rafferty tried to argue that in 1971 Jock Stein had all but obliterated the old prejudices against Celtic but Bob Kelly had a deeply developed sense of grievance against an establishment that was inheritantly anti Celtic,anti Irish,anti Catholic.
He wrote about these things 40 years ago and imagined that Scotland had moved on.Bob Kelly was fighting old battles which may have been justified in their time but had failed to recognise that the club’s support base had become educated and that under Stein it had attracted many admirers from a broad base of Scottish society.
Interesting to think what the that great journalist would make of the events unfolding over the last year or so and what is about to happen.
Here is a wee snippet………..
” He lived Celtic because he had been brought up to do so.Celtic had become a cause in his life because he lived through the period when to be a Celtic man did not quite fit in with the mood of the establishment.Glasgow is a peculiar city in which there is always a depressed class and for many years Celtic were of that class.
At one time the depressed class were the poor Jews who crowded into the Gorbals.Then came the Irish to be the hewers of wood and the drawers of water,and they were resented because they represented cheap labour and in sophistication and in education they were second class citizens.They established Celtic but like the Jews before them the Irish produced educated sons and daughters and won a respected place in the community although in some places the old notions persisted.
….scorned and treated like second class citizens,that is the way that Celtic were received in their early days. Robert Kelly’s father knew well how these things went and was tolerant of them but his son heard of them and was exasperated and that explains why he was often so difficult.
The peculiar mixture of fair play and allegiance to the cause came through in that famous controversy when the SFA used pressure and threats on Celtic to make them cease flying the flag of the Irish Republic which they did out of respect to their Irish origins.Bob Kelly’s case was that there was no rule in the SFA book which had been broken….but he had the compelling idea,well founded,that somebody was trying to get at Celtic just because they were Celtic.The old opposition had not yet died then.
Celtic with their playing record and world wide acclaim should have given them a bigger conceit of themselves but he found it difficult to accept as if it were too good to be true.He had been brought up to bear prejudice and even to expect it.
Under his influence Celtic became great.”
Oh for a John Rafferty today.To write such things and explain how the world turns.If John had a problem,looking back ,he assumed that Celtic had managed to raise themselves above the petty minded bigotry that existed in Scotland and that the country was changing fast.He did not see the resentment to Celtic’s worldwide success that was building within significant sections of Scottish society.The troubles in Northern Ireland played a significant role in polarising parts of Scottish society and these things don’t play out over a few years.They are generational.So we find Neil lennon being attacked at Tynecastle,bullets sent to Celtic players and high profile supporters and a complicit media inferring that it was self inflicted.
A penny for the thoughts of Bob Kelly and John Rafferty.
Repeat thought.Shame on any Celtic supporter who offers Rangers Football Club any comfort as they teeter on the brink.
JQB
Put your longjohns on ya big jessie.
1. Custurd.
2. Pakora
3. S_ringfield Vaults
4. Gary Pallister
5. Bobby Petta
Great Song from Pete Wylie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcXi-VYy_Yw
CELTIC DO NOT NEED RANGERS © Neil Lennon
Fair gladdens the heart to hear the manager is in TOTAL sympathy with the mood of ALL the fans.
Is there a Celtic man who does not wish to see them pay for it ?
No.
The local media have been banging the the big drum ( I know ) loudly to welcome back into the fold their beloved Newco, crazily even before their previously beloved Oldco has been flushed down the Ibrox toilet by the evil genius, Craig Whyte.
These are momentous times in Scottish football.
I toast their downfall.
pigalle
Garcia,
With their souls of patent leather,
they come down the road.
Hunched and nocturnal,
Where they breathe they impose,
silence of dark rubber,
and fear of fine sand
tarrant says:
3 February, 2012 at 23:57
Good theory there.
MM,
i’ll tell you what, I hope any one of my nephews has even a half the respect for me as you obviously have for your uncle.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Watchin sexextra just now. Seems the Brazil fad is dieing out!! lol
G64,
;)
Estadio Nacional – A Paradise Sabre Man ;)
I hope you are keeping well m8.
petec says:
4 February, 2012 at 00:01
Cristian Tello – he’s 20
Think they’ll need him – short of forwards with Pedro and Villa injured and Alexis inconsistent.
HH
TLK
I posted this earlier, but I’l;l post it again. This summer (maybe sooner, maybe later; but at a sensitive moment….) I will release the Death of The Huns OST. Come the day, come the CD. Suggest tracks please. It’ll be a free download so fill your gloating boots!
I intend to open the CD with
For Whom The Bell Tolls
and close with
The Man Comes Around
The lyrics could not be more appropriate.
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, And I looked and behold: a pale horse. And his name, that sat on him, was Death. And Hell followed with him.”
One of my favourite features of the NTV fanzine was the Book Of Tim (and lo the timmites looked upon their ragged soldiers and there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the face of the rejoicing hunnites…[cont’d in page 1994])
This delightful orange FUBAR reminds me of that Book Of Tim feature, and how the great Old Testament themes of suffering and vengeance lend themselves to what’s happening. Do the Huns have New Testament atonement and redemption in them?
Reap what ye sow, ye huns. Cast thine eyes oer the destruction wrought by thine own greed, pride and vanity.
Promising beat-combo with jangly guitars.
“Catching On”,from their fine debut album,”Trace”.
Nice plaid shirts too..
Son Volt-On the Austin City Limits show
JQB
HH pal.
philvisreturns
Whytes pooters – phil mac hacked em :)
The Exiled Tim 22.51
Hugh McIvanney’s Triumvirate of great Scottish Managers ( Busby, Stein and Shankly) was the finest piece of sports journalism of the last 50 years. This should be compulsory viewing for to- day’s minnows such as Traynor, Keevins etc. although they might need the help of ‘translators for the blind’.
Pigalle
Our manager speaks for us.
The Lizard King says:
4 February, 2012 at 00:10
Thanks for the info m8. Was that his first competitive game? because he looked very composed , not normally associated with fast wingers.
The Singing Detective
Your link is not playing. :(
maybe the best modern day tinternet vi-j-o
ever.
moravcik67 superb work ma bhoy.
The futures bleak over the clyde
Half Man Half Biscuit – Govan Riots
petec says:
4 February, 2012 at 00:14
He played in a couple of the Copa games and (I think) scored in the 9-0 win over Hospitalet but that is it. I noticed him too – very quick and direct.
Interesting that Barcelona did not buy anyone in Jan as I think (by their standards) they have been struggling recently, especially for goals. I think Tevez would be perfect for them but he obviously comes with Imelda Marcos’s baggage.
Seems even Barca are not immune to the ecomonic realities.
HH
TLK
I have just recently moved to Sydney and I am thinking of subscribing to Setanta to watch the Celtic games that they show. Will be viewing online on my laptop or iPad. Can any of you advise how good the service is? Thanks HH
tarrant says:
4 February, 2012 at 00:11
and there was much rejoincing in the land of the tim-et-s
for the savior called the bun-et came form the land far away and spoketh , in a funny can-a – din way
“for i shal smite the hun, if you will trust your smeckels with me”
or soemthing like that
SC
In the world of sports journalism HM is a collosus.
The tired and weary eejits we put up with in our sports pages
is a national disgrace.
Saint Stivs
Its defo in the top 2 and it is neck and neck with Neil Lennon v the rangers
TET – Hola amigo, on the lookout for a newer, not new, car myself….just tanned a chicken madras, washed doon with an ice cold strongbow with the repas being enhanced the noo with a wee spanish tinto:)
There can be no easy access for the huns…..3rd division at best; i hope and pray they don’t survive…..i will have a full week of cava if that happens and will gladly use uo holiday time instead of self certified sick joy.
Straight left bat and 75%, who loves ya baby???
slainte
tony
The Lizard King
Thanks again for the info, I remember them playing Hospitalet but didn’t know their team. You make a good point about not buying in January, I think they will JUST pip Real to this League and will introduce more of their Young Hungry players.
He looked very good when he was brought on.
garcia lorca says:
4 February, 2012 at 00:02
midfield maestro@22.57pm.
Bob Kelly was fighting old battles which may have been justified in their time but had failed to recognise that the club’s support base had become educated and that under Stein it had attracted many admirers from a broad base of Scottish society.
I found your piece very interesting and can recognise family members who identified very much with the attitude displayed by Bob Kelly.
Now dismissed as paranoia.
I knew a few staunch Rangers supporters who went to the Leeds game at Hampden and supported Celtic.
Sadly,since then the gap would appear to have widened and
I don`t feel that the “other side” must shoulder all the blame.
Night folks.
ICT tomorrow.
We’ll need to dig deep
and KTF.
Celtic!!!
That is all.
God Bless each and every one of my fellow supporters
of the greatest team in the world.
Day 2 of s**t-stirring in The Sun:
Neil Lennon ‘lets rip in an astonishing rant’, McCoist ‘stunned at the explosive attack’.
Utter cretins.