I spoke to a serial divorcee some years ago and he suggested that after one bad marriage, you’re more likely to plunge headfirst into another, then another, than your average person, despite all the warning signs.
He was driven by a need to put things right in his life. Regretful of lost time, he wanted to get on with finding a secure, lasting, future relationship.
Parma were a tiny club for most of their existence, occupying the fourth tier of Italian football, but they rose inextricably to become one of the top clubs in Europe. When Rangers knocked them out of the Champions League qualifiers in the 90s, they were sixth top seed in the Uefa rankings. When the money dried up and insolvency grabbed them a few years ago it must have been hard to accept their place – a club with little substance going for it, but with fans expecting glory.
News this week that after liquidation a newco Parma would kick off at the bottom tier of the professional game in Italy is a morality tale. Just as my pal, the divorcee, was compelled to plunge into a ‘lasting and successful’ relationship at the first opportunity, few people who pick up the pieces of insolvent football clubs seem to be blessed with pragmatic expectations. A second, even more damaging liquidation, haunts in the shadows.
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jobo baldie
12:19 on 28 June, 2015
I hope this link works – a fantastic, very recent fly over of Celtic Park. Including New Balance seats ;-)
https://vimeo.com/132003042
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The hum of the drone sounds a lot like YNWA.
Magic.
Thanks for the advice Bhoys, didn’t realise there were so many shoplifters on CQN ;-)
Captain Beefheart
13:13 on 28 June, 2015
Morning all.
Sounds like Ronny wants to work with Efe this season. If he can regain his confidence, Ambrose can be an asset.
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Efe is a Majestical fitba player.
I hope Ronny disnae see him as being a Centre Half, or even a Right Back.
I Love Efe as much as I love Celtic.
There is so much MORE to come from that source of Guidness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaUUYV7wKos
Jobo
I’ve never shoplifted.!!
I just remove the tags my squad of shoplifters being to me.
How do you think I have my big hoose in such an affluent area :)
Btw, nice link to paradise,cheers
Media shame ! Having a dig at Ronnies signing ……
http://fb.me/6Hj5IW1GK
ThompsonTwin @13:36
Hi Thompson Twin!
The first name that came to my mind with your description of someone who can hold the ball up is… Georgious Samaras! :-)
Yours in Celtic,
TB&F.
Women’s Football.
The ladies game has made great strides in Scotland since the early 90s.
I remember standing at kitchen window hearing a ball being hit against the wall regularly. That’ll be my boy I’m thinking but on looking out there is my 10 year old daughter playing wall pass. Hmm.
Next she comes home from school breathless saying she has been picked for the school team. All boys. Hmm.
I happen to be passing the football park on a cold wet windy day on way from doctors and realise the poor kids playing for tge school team on the park include my wee lassie.
Turns out it’s 3-3 with minutes to go and her team get a corner. The ball is cleared to her at edge of the box and I’m thinking “have a swipe hen”. She traps the ball, looks up and chips it into the top corner for the winner. Haud oan. This is serious.
Now back then not many girls played and I took her to trials in Cumbernauld where the Cosmos were a top team. They were for a reason as I found out. They got the best girls from Glasgow and all over Lanarkshire and after signing up my lassie I found myself going to all airts and pairts collecting her team mates. One of the girls called Iffy was greased lightnng and played for Scotland at senior level.
These girls from all over from different social backgrounds would never have met and widened their horizons if not for the football.
Some of them, including my lassie played for Scotland at teenage level. France, Israel, Faroe Islands and even Wembley.
It was a treat to see them come on not just as footballers but as human beings as they mixed with each other at a friendly emotional level I don’t think men are capable of, not as teenagers at least.
My lassie took coaching classes and when Celtic sent an e mail looking for girls to be coached in their Community Coaching scheme I offered them a girl coach.
Again something that would not have happened with ladies football.
She did that for a couple of years before moving to London and stopped playing regularly.
The point of all this is women’s football is a great thing. It may lack the strength and power of the men’s game but makes up for that in grace and graciousness as well as offering the opportunities to grow as a person.
On the field the game at WC level suffers yet is enhanced by mistakes of a serious nature. The Canadian CBs error was bad for England’s first goal last night but didn’t the CF take the chance well?
To its critics I say stop making comparisons. Enjoy women’s football as a stand alone sport. It offers entertainment and a level of conviviality that the men’s game cannot match but might benefit from in social terms.
marspapa is fagan :)
Auldheid,
I’ve no interest in Ladies fitba. IMO, it is, and always will be, dreadful to watch, unless you are looking @ the Ladies themselves. o_0
The Blurring of the Lines cannae happen with Fitba. :)
Petec agreed.
Utter guff unless they are good looking. Good luck to the participants but let’s not pretend it is any good. I looked for the supposed technical skills. There weren’t any.
petec,
People used to say the same about tennis, I’d bet Serena Williams would give plenty of the guys a real run for their money.
Auldheid
14:01 on 28 June
Brilliant, sir ……hahahahahaha
Auldheid
I used to play 7-a-side a lot with mixed teams (men and women), you are right about conviviality – lot more fun and better atmosphere when it was “integrated”.
Mixed sex football will never happen but women’s game deserves respect in its own right.
Next step Polygamy.
Marriage is to be abused.
Just round the Little Jack Horner.
The Door, when opened, even just ajar.
UI know nothing, it is an interface, I definitely know Nothing.
Hold On, Don’t be Scared.
OasisRobophobia.csc
Canamalar
14:15 on 28 June, 2015
petec,
People used to say the same about tennis, I’d bet Serena Williams would give plenty of the guys a real run for their money.
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The Williams sisters would struggle against any of the top 100 men, it would be interesting to see, maybe I’d be proved wrong, but that’s my feeling.
I watched the Germany France womans game the other night, thought the quality very poor. What I notice is the wild quality even within the teams, you’ll have a player that looks like they can play and then have another how can hardly kick a ball. Strange that they can reach international and world cup level yet lack the basics.
Captain Beefheart
14:13 on 28 June, 2015
Petec agreed.
Utter guff unless they are good looking. Good luck to the participants but let’s not pretend it is any good. I looked for the supposed technical skills. There weren’t any.
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Strange comment, no relevance to… maybe Timestamp it next time. ;))
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Canamalar
14:15 on 28 June, 2015
petec,
People used to say the same about tennis, I’d bet Serena Williams would give plenty of the guys a real run for their money.
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I doubt that, to be brutally honest, those Tennis Homies tend to be Hard as Nails and from the Hood, they still widnae get close to the top dude Tennis players.
Maximum Respect goes to that Parent for getting that girl/s… So Good at that ping pong game.
the_huddle,
Exactly it would be very interesting and your initial confidence came down a notch when you thought about it.
The women’s game is in its infancy, no one here can predict where it will be in 10 years, when the rewards go up the professionalism goes up.
Canamalar
14:31 on 28 June, 2015
the_huddle,
Exactly it would be very interesting and your initial confidence came down a notch when you thought about it.
The women’s game is in its infancy, no one here can predict where it will be in 10 years, when the rewards go up the professionalism goes up.
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I’m very confident world number 100 in the mens game would beat Serena Williams, it would just be good to see to be proved right :O)
Petec
Canalamar
I’m not asking you to like it. I’m saying there is much good in it.
Sorry Beefy
A pair of pliers and brute strength did the trick ;-)
Canamalar
14:31 on 28 June, 2015
the_huddle,
Exactly it would be very interesting and your initial confidence came down a notch when you thought about it.
The women’s game is in its infancy, no one here can predict where it will be in 10 years, when the rewards go up the professionalism goes up.
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And the Corruption goes up. :))
Power to Pliers & congrats Jobo hope you’ve not missed the Tee time
Canalamar
Sorry. I meant Capt Beefheart
I was agreeing Hugh Mcllvanneys summing up of the football greats . Pele ,Gerson, Best , Jinky, Murdoch ect.
Buutt…….. his choice for the best ever Scottish mid-fielder -Souness!!!???
Bias aside and I do recognise his qualities as a mid-field controller. He could keep possession, pass well and score some goals ….but he was also a vicious dirty b48$74.
I couldnt put him above Murdoch ,Mackay, Bremner, McStay ,Broonie etc.
Jobo Baldie
14:35 on 28 June, 2015
A pair of pliers and brute strength did the trick ;-)
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Jobo
Never over do it.
Maestro –
Cancelled my original 1.45 time whilst the cyclone passed over. Now going up at 3.30 for 9 holes or 50 strokes, whichever happens first ;-)
Auldheid
Brilliant stuff
Petec and capt beefheart
Naughty step for the 2 of you
Auldheid
Brilliant,you’re daughter probably knows more about the game than many on here,an inspiration indeed.
Auldheid,
That innocence you are wanting, and it is nonsense, won’t happen in the Wummins game, it is even more susceptible to the Money Men than the Mens game, IMO obviously.
Your,even.
What is the Stars
14:45 on 28 June, 2015
Auldheid
Brilliant stuff
Petec and capt beefheart
Naughty step for the 2 of yo
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That will be a hint to a certain 67/1 shot. A 2 year old as well. ;))
Now to find the Donkey and the course.
Auldheid,
I never commented on whether I liked it or not, I will say its the ideal atmosphere for wimmin n children.
Going to the game used to be the ideal opportunity for people to vent their frustrations and anger built up over the week, people having a hard time could scream and bawl it was a release.
Someone very famous once said football is the lungs of the nation.
Football is being suffocated by the sanitisation.
It matters not what internet windbags such as myself think about it. The game is growing.I wish them well but won’t be watching much more. Unless Russia or Poland are playing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWfCVjDMbE0
Yusaf Cat Stevens 2015
canamalar @ 14:55,
Someone very famous once said
“football is the lungs of the nation.
Football is being suffocated by the sanitisation.”
Was it Benjamin Zephaniah?
Just asking.
Hail Hail
Wonderful phrase used by Hugh McIlvanney in today’s show.
On describing the combination of power and skill that the great Dutch team of the 70s possessed, he said it was like “a cavalry charge of surgeons”.
He sets the bar high.
I also like his quote from a Dutch player explaining the concept of Total Football in simple terms, he (the unnamed Dutch player) said “When you are 60 yards away from the ball, you are still in the game”