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Bodo/Glimt converted a late penalty to secure a 2-1 win over AZ Alkmaar, whom Celtic eliminated from the Europa League in August.  Since then, AZ have seen form fall before a spectacular recovery.  They have won 12 and drawn one of their last 13 league games, a run that included victories over Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord.  Whether Celtic would have coped in this company (I doubt it) no longer matters, although you would prefer to travel to Dundee on Monday without an exhausting European game last night.

I was pleased when I heard Roman Abramovich was sanctioned, inhibiting his largess at Chelsea.  Abramovich started the trend that has seen the mineral wealth of emerging nations distort European football, the sooner it ends the better.  The sanction justification was light on detail, littered with couched terms, nothing a lawyer could get their teeth into, which was probably deliberate.  Some will read this as being an arbitrary decision.

Sportswashing is the term of the moment, but if it was used in this instance, it happened differently from most.  Abramovich was unknown in the West before buying Chelsea, his money bought a profile and credibility before anything needed to be washed.  Perhaps not before a profile in the West became useful.

The day of the oligarchs dominating European football may be numbered, but there’s many decades left for other spenders of their nations mineral wealth to go round.  The circus will just move on from West London.

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  1. An Tearmann on

    Majestic Hartson

     

     

    Seen the 5s q today,it does your head in:-),actually inspired a wee chat bout lack of 11s being played as a game.its all 5s,reminded boss motorway to his nice part of Glasgow carved thro 21 pitches at cowglen,I used to play there,sat mornings,schools,youthcubsbbz etc amateur in afternoon.all gone.

     

    :-)

     

    HH

  4. An Tearmann on

    MH 11.02.

     

    its the ‘whatever’ we will differ over :-)

     

    If we were the same we’d be on our 2nd club.

     

     

    HH

  5. park the bus 442 on

    Agent P (@AgentP22) Tweeted:

     

    “An independent inquiry would be the right way forward to bring justice and transparency to this whole sorry affair”.

     

    How true, so surely Labour will also back holding an inquiry?

     

    @michellegray75

     

    https://t.co/00j9BYHC2B https://twitter.com/AgentP22/status/1502346924346773513?s=20&t=n1Rz3hH_eQniEdh7LB73Sg

     

    ••••••••

     

    Something isny right about this.

     

    Wee torn face blocking an inquiry into abuse??

     

    She hates Celtic and everybody who supports the club, so why is she not doing her usual grandstanding all over Celtic, and twisting the knife, like Dornan loves to do??

     

    I smell a rat!

     

    A rat that was used to get Celtic PLC to play along with the Sevco-Rangers are the same club, £49 fix.

     

    Hmmmmm??

  9. park the bus 442 on

    Bernie’s Tweets (@BernieSpofforth) Tweeted:

     

    WEF – ex CEO of Pfizer.

     

    The FDA has approved an edible pill with a biological CHIP embedded in it, This will send a signal to the authorities confirming you took the medication.

     

    Total citizen control, compliance for freedom.

     

    https://t.co/ui0p5ciK1Y https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1502181417442111495?s=20&t=jP6JpBxQyov2YHLaB-4v5w

     

    •••••••••

     

    I thought that it was only tin foil hat loons who says the medicine had microchips in it??

     

    Deary Me.

  19. call me Gerry on

    MAJESTIC HARTSON on 11TH MARCH 2022 9:18 PM

     

    Was sent a pic earlier and I don’t know how to link…

     

     

     

    You’ve got £15 to spend on a 5 a side team-

     

     

     

    £5 players –

     

     

    Larsson, McNeil, Simpson, McStay, Jinky,

     

     

     

    £4

     

     

    Broon, Bonner, Auld, Kenny, Lubo

     

     

     

    £3

     

     

    Naka, Tierney, Boruc, Boyd, Sutton

     

     

     

    £2

     

     

    Bobo, Gordon, Hooper, Jamesy, Lustig

     

     

     

    £1

     

     

    B Robson, G Marshall, Izzy, Samaras, Wanyama

     

    ——————————————————————

     

    Gordon…Robson…Naka…Lubo…Larsson

     

     

    HH

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