It is one thing for football fans and administrators to be embroiled in the politics of the game but it’s no wonder that Neil Lennon tires of such subjects. His team are top of the SPL and in the knockout stages of the Champions League but he is being distracted by references to his club emanating from the lower leagues. Maybe he should limit his comments on this subject to those of Walter Smith, “We wish the new Rangers Football Club every good fortune.” Every “new” club deserves the same courtesy.
Can you imagine the reaction if Neil said the same!
Speaking of which, I see the man who has avoided trying to win friends among other clubs since his arrival in the game last year is now trying to influence people on league reconstruction. Good luck with that.
We spoke over the weekend about well-run clubs in the SPL (Inverness, St Johnstone, Ross County, Motherwell), where managers come and go but results tend to remain buoyant. Notably absent from this list was Dundee United, who have underachieved for years, but whose manager, Peter Houston, was today given permission to speak to English Championship side, Blackpool. Houston has been unable to sprinkle magic dust over Tannadice so, if offered the Blackpool job, I expect him to accept.
United need to ask some fundamental questions should they be forced to replace their manager, like why they have vastly more resources than Motherwell, and appear to be able to produce prodigious young talent, but consistently fail to match the Lanarkshire side the in the league table. They are a club in need of vision.
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Green Oak Tree
I enjoyed your post (although I Farnborough is in Hampshire, not Kent……and I know you didn`t write the article!)
I am in a minority here but I don`t agree with the basic premise of GG`s post.I detest Thatcher.
JJ
Morning all
Congratulations to WGS.
In other news – I heard a rumour that Celtic will be playing a football match tonight. Excellent news, if true ;-)
Jungle Jim
08:45 on
15 January, 2013
“If your not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing” Malcolm x
Morning all.
Just read about George Hazlett. I hadn’t heard of him before. But, I’ll never forget him now. He was born on the same day as my Dad. I must tell him, although I suspect that my Dad was still a member of the forces serving out in the Far East when Hazlett was wearing the hoops; so, my Dad probably never saw him play.
Not of great interest to me (and possibly many others on here) but here it is anyway (:
“Gordon Strachan has agreed to become the new manager of Scotland, BBC Scotland has learned.
The former Celtic and Middlesbrough manager could be confirmed by the Scottish Football Association as early as Tuesday afternoon.
His appointment follows the sacking of Craig Levein in November, which followed a run of poor results.
Capped 50 times, Strachan featured in Scotland’s 1982 and 1986 World Cup finals campaigns.
The 55-year-old has been out of management since leaving Boro in October 2010.
After playing spells at Dundee, Aberdeen, Manchester United, Leeds United and Coventry City, the winger moved into management with the Sky Blues in November 1996.
After keeping Coventry in the Premier League for several seasons, they suffered relegation at the end of season 2000-01 and Strachan departed a few games into the following season.
He returned to the dugout when Southampton brought him in to replace Stuart Gray and the appointment helped Saints stave off relegation before they reached the FA Cup final in 2003.
But Strachan left the club the following year and took a break from football.
His move to Celtic in June 2005 followed Martin O’Neill’s decision to leave Glasgow.
Strachan recovered from a 5-0 Champions League qualifying defeat by Artmedia Bratislava in his opening match – a tie that finished 5-4 on aggregate – to win the Scottish Premier League title three years in succession.
He also led the side to two appearances in the last 16 of the Champions League, the club never having reached the knock-out stages prior to Strachan’s arrival.
However, Rangers won the SPL in 2009 and Strachan left Glasgow shortly after.
A year in charge of Boro followed but, after missing out on promotion in 2010, a poor start to the season led to Strachan leaving the club by mutual consent.
Levein’s three-year spell in charge of Scotland came to an end after a poor start to the 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign.
Having missed out on qualification to Euro 2012, the Scots began their pursuit of a place in next year’s finals Brazil with successive home draws against Serbia and Macedonia.
Scotland then lost from a winning position against Wales before defeat in Belgium consigned Levein’s side to the bottom of their group.
After Levein was sacked, Scotland Under-21 coach Billy Stark was placed in caretaker charge of the senior team for the friendly win in Luxembourg.
Strachan’s first match in charge will be the February friendly against Estonia at Pittodrie Stadium, the venue where he enjoyed success as an Aberdeen player.”
JJ
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Armstrong ‘admits to doping’ in Oprah interview http://www.channel4.com/news/lance-armstrong-oprah-winfrey-doping-drug-cyclist-cancer … #C4news
Will we ever see Sir Minty confess all in a TV interview…………………………
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“It’s a Funny Olde Blog Saint”
I Went to Bed on Page 2 Kinda Jocking Lenny is fed up Talking about the H*ns..and After 100 hundred posts 93 were about them..
then 94 out of 101 Posts Ha Ha..
i Woke up 9am Oz 10pm GMT..seen a Post Re; Thatcher and decided to ask a Question about her i had wanted to for Years on here..
I was Answered and replied a Couple of times..
The Last 2 Hours l have read the Full blog..Page 5 in Particular..2 Posters i have been ‘Likened’ to have so Extreme different Views to mine but l have Basically Partly agreed with 6 Pages later..
The Difference being..The Only thing l have ever Told posters on here to Believe or that I’m correct and they are Wrong is Samaras..
Live and let Live is My Motto..
The main Reason l actually Posted my Feelings was Nothing to Do with Thatcher..and More on the Industries She or Whoever Shut done..as they were IMHO Killing thousands in Lanarkshire..Does anyone have a Family that was Not affected..Eventually..?
Summa
Ps..Acke..I Think we are All just Venting because we Miss Rangers..:-)
Great post GG,but I attended 8 of the 10 hunger strikers funerals,plus countless victims of plastic bullets and shoot to kill,I Hate her and everyone how carried out her orders..
Lionroars67
Am I correct in assuming you are in agreement with my sentiments re Thatcher?
JJ
‘GG
Thanks Mate, a great start to my CQN day..
Hail Hail..
GG,
Thank you for what you wrote. I was beginning to think we were entering one of those occasional periods when CQN is hard to read, because of the intolerance that some show.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
01:05 on 15 January, 2013
fritzsong
00:00 on
15 January, 2013
‘Your reference to Airey Neave is offensive.
He fought against Nazi Germany and was captured and imprisoned in Colditz from which he escaped.
He was subsequently killed by the I.R.A.’
###########
It was the INLA.
A mysterious affair. There are rumours that he was set up by the security services.
GG at 05:16
Reading CQN can be like panning for gold: every now and again one hopes to uncover wee nuggets like that post of yours …
FF
I just found out the game is on Celtic TV, the day just gets better and better..
Bring on the Buchii
Big Nan,
It has been snowing and lying in St Andrews earlier this morning although, along with just about everything else in St Andrews, they probably have their own weather!
‘GG at 05:16 on 15 January, 2013
Very compelling and well-written post. Peronal experiences differ but if only we were all so eloquent!
My own bottom line….I care for her as much as she cared for me, and there is more to come out of the wash, and much more we will never find out about her ‘ways’
Glad to hear that Gordon Strachan is finally manager of Scotland as I think he will be a good manager.
I can only assume that the SFA couldn’t get anyone else. That’s not a slight on WGS, more my opinion on how the SFA operates, unfortunately.
great post ‘GG and I hope my comments above haven’t denied it.
A wee treat for Jungle Jim:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcXi-VYy_Yw
HH
hen1rik
23:49 on
14 January, 2013
Maybe that’s why it’s taking the authorities and BDO so long to get to the bottom of it all ……. I can see a big wave on the horizon ( a tsunami of prosecutions….)
personal….DOH!
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Jungle Jim
08:55 on
15 January, 2013
Not of great interest to me (and possibly many others on here) but here it is anyway (:
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Somebody once Told me..You can get a Good jist of Someone by the First Words they Utter..
Maybe he was Right..:O)
Summa
GG your post shames me but I did live and not work in the uk in the Thatcher years and I can’t bring myself to not hate her. Life before and after the witch was drastically different. We hope that our political and economical leaders at least have a desire to improve the big picture not create the big issue and the real social suffering she engineered. I need to deal with my own devils but I am damn sure that she will meet hers.
coorslad
08:58 on 15 January, 2013
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Respect mate.
V
Forgot to say well done WGS . Take Scotland back to the big time. Last sixteen of the big comps twice in a row will do nicely. Hail Hail Gordon Strachan
I really hope Gordon does well with Scotland. I just wonder how much success he has to achieve before the MSM get behind him..
Guan Wee Gordon Strachan…
Jungle Jim
09:00 on
15 January, 2013
I detest all that she stood for, the communities here that suffered through her mantra of no such thing as society………glad Celtic as a club and through its support regularly demonstrate the opposite
Regan and Thatcher started the economic folly of deregulation in the financial sector which has resulted in western banks going bankrupt
No tolerance of other viewpoints even within her own cabinet, a cold narrow minded mean spirited woman who left a lot of lives ruined in the world
I will not turn on or judge those to harshly who say they hate Thatcher, although like me i suspect they mean what Thatcher represented
Not very often I wish best of luck to a Scotland manager,because it is usually a
hun yes man,but I hope wee Gordon does the bizz.
I am at a bit of a loss here as to why GG`s post is receiving such wide praise.
In his post he tells us that:
1) He was not in the UK during the Thatcher years;
2)He infers that the Unions `chocked` the economy;
3)He sees Communism (bad) and Catholicism (good) as diametrically opposed;
4)He suggests `hate` is wrong but he hates what she did (in Scotland);
5)He says extreme is bad but centre is good. (That sentiment has been expressed on a regular basis by the MSM every time working people fight for their rights);
6)He suggests that the indoctrinated hate of those in Northern Ireland is no different from that felt by many who suffered (and died) because of Thatcher`s actions.
7)Finally, GG makes it clear that he hates what she did and shows no tollerance of the Unions or of Communism but he is lauded as providing the human touch on CQN?
My confusion remains (but I don`t. I am off to the gym. Too icy to train for the wee Oscar Bike Ride).
JJ
PS Not ducking out. If any responses to this post are necessary, I will give them on my return.
Morning team.
I will confirm in a wee minute, but I’m pretty sure the Irish-themed brass combo thing Rob Cowan is playing at the moment on Radio 3 just took us through The Holy Ground.
Fine Girl Ye Are.
That’ll be Radio 3 on the FF list, Last Night of the Proms or no Last Night of the Proms.
Good luck to the wee mhan in his new, and exceptionally difficult, gig. The only worthy Scottish candidate, I’d have thought, but it’s still a shock that they are picking him.
WGS for Scotland. Caldwell for captain!
Good luck to wee Gordon. He is the most under appreciated manager in Celtic’s history.
LB
Not often right, but wrong again. Gustav Holst, some military band thing or other, in which he seemed to want to go round the houses, with choons from Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England.
The one that is slightly reminiscent of The Holy Ground is called Swansea Town, and I’m prepared to stand corrected, but I am harbouring suspicions that it may not be Irish at all.
Follow Follow list compilers … steady, the Buffs.
Anyone on here reckon we can beat Juventus over the two legs?
Anyone on here reckon we can do so without Hooper?
Holding onto Hooper gives us a good chance,IMO,of progressing,with another £6m to be picked up as a result-a lot more than we would be likely to lose on his fee in the summer.
Or,of course,we could show we value him by offering nearer to his worth.
Good luck to WGS
The SFA in terms of Ogilvie and Regan went with the easy popular choice
Like some others due to the SFA not being fit to represent Scotland i wont be supporting the team, not anti Scotland…………..anti SFA
Celtic_First
09:57 on 15 January, 2013
Every day is a school day.
‘The Holy Ground
Originally a Welsh song by the name of The Lass of Swansea Town or Old Swansea Town Once More, this has been adapted as an Irish song with very similar lyrics. The tune is also known as The Cobh Sea Shanty and was originally a capstan shanty – a song sung as sailors turned the capstan to raise the anchor. It was popular on the docks of Cork and Cobh as well as on the ships.
The Holy Ground was a rather squalid part of Cobh once known as Queenstown, which was popular with the fisherman and waterfront workers, as there were many taverns and brothels.’
http://raymondfolk.wetpaint.com/page/Irish+Songs
BMCUW@09:59
‘Or,of course,we could show we value him by offering nearer to his worth’
He has been offered £25k a week for the next 3-4 years. A very generous wage in such a financially poor environment.
£2-3M is a fortune for us in this climate. PL is taking a big gamble
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
09:59 on
15 January, 2013
Holding onto Hooper gives us a good chance,IMO,of progressing,with another £6m to be picked up as a result-a lot more than we would be likely to lose on his fee in the summer.
Thats some equation you worked out there bud
Hooper playing = Celtic winning tie= £6mill
Or,of course,we could show we value him by offering nearer to his worth.
30 40 50 grand a week, whats he worth
Do you think his heart is 100% with Celtic, if not what does that take away from what he’s worth