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Pragmatic expectations and serial divorcees

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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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  1. clogher celt on

    The word in Dublin is that RD is coming over for the AICSC do tomorrow. Anyone else hear that?

     

     

    Maybe old news, I’m always behind the curve.

     

     

    Clogher

  3. LiviBhoy on

    Clogher

     

     

    The championship trophy is there. Replica in the trophy room today.

     

     

    LB

  5. clogher celt on

    James Forrest,

     

     

    Your work is much appreciated.

     

     

    Get yourself over here next year.

     

     

    Thanks, Livibhoy…I think tomorrow will be some night.

     

     

    Thanks,

     

     

    Clogher

  7. adi_dasler on

    On the stadium tour…,

     

    Havent done the tour but does it let you sitt in the directors box and dugout ?

     

     

    I know its obvious but assume if you go n the tour bus you get a discount for Cfc Tour & maybe discount off merchandise ?

     

     

    Havin been to barca ad madrid tours tech is the thing & you cant exit real madrid tour without

  9. sipsini on

    livibhoy….

     

     

    The last tour I did was in the late eighties myself and ex wife were having a farewell meal with my mate brian and his wife before they emigrated to (Perth) Australia.

     

     

    We had a lovely meal in the Walfrid and the tour was brilliant.

     

     

    Shown around the trophy room, photos of me and Brian holding the European cup (in them days it was allowed) then down to the changing rooms, there was still a hole in the away dressing room door that Butcher put his foot through.

     

     

    On the pitch running around like halfwits kicking kiddy on balls in the netless goals.

     

     

    Thanks to Melbourne Mick I’m in contact again with Brian nearly thirty years on…Celtic is just one big family, no matter where you are in the world. HH

  10. Cathedral View on

    j titor

     

    17:57 on 26 June, 2015

     

     

    Welcome back (or is that forward?).

     

     

    Good shout a while back on the implosion of rangers but you omitted the rise of sevco and the zombies from your future time reports.

     

     

    cv

  15. voguepunter on

    Aff oot for din dins still fekn roasting here,will catch SOAL’s mucho funny reply

     

    when I get back.hh

  19. owen on

    I am no financial expert, no expert of any kind if the truth be told, but my reading of the Phil Mac blog is that Big Mike gets his normal, extortionate, cut of any merchandise sold and the theoretical £52.50 for any unsold item he then sells as a discounted item. £50.00 rrp and his £2.50 cut of the £10.00 sale price. You know for a rapacious capitalist b’stard I kind of like him. Only for his Sevco work though.

  20. Jimmynotpaul on

    The Clumpany.

     

    Great picture of Bairdy scoring the winner. I’m sure he will approve he’s a big Celtic fan.

  21. leftclicktic on

    Or maybe Coatbridge

     

    Which was allegedly massively disrupted today ,including Glasgow to Edinburgh train service ,due to suspected explosive device

     

    Turns ooooooooooooooooooot it was a weans toy hand grenade .

  22. The Spirit of Arthur Lee on

    Second fiddle to Florence? Don’t make me laugh!!

     

     

    The Libertines

  25. sipsini on

    hrvatski jim…

     

     

    Cheers for that, I mind willing him on to win as a wane…must be the Catholic underdog syndrome that we lived under in them days.

     

     

    My how things are a changing for us uppity tims ;))

     

     

    Ps…cracking post yesterday… Now, no one reads my posts :((

  26. leftclicktic on

    Hrvatski Jim

     

    thank you,viewing sorted.

     

    Sipsini

     

    “john james” has been posting again.

  27. J Titor on

    Greetings Cathedral View,

     

     

    My machine has alerted me to your accusation…

     

     

    ‘but you omitted the rise of sevco and the zombies from your future time reports.’

     

     

    As you may not be aware due to your average cranial ranking of 5634. Delivering information of this nature would be breaking timlaw 8 of the timverse rules.

     

     

    8. Furnishing knowledge of future hilarity periods regarding implosion, extinction, resurrection, death, zombification, reimplosion or potato woes is strictly forbidden. Termination of agent licence will ensue for any agent guilty of ruining timversians enjoyment of any of the above situations to befall the hunverse.

     

     

    From

     

     

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  29. garygillespieshamstring on

    Soal

     

     

    Wasn’t Douglal second fiddle to florence?

     

     

    Magicroundabout csc

  32. jc2 on

    Wonder if King is rushing as we speak to

     

    congratulate the Fife man who found picasso

     

    in his loft and see if he wants to buy his shares.

     

     

    Potentially £15 million to Mr Dominic Currie

  33. bognorbhoy on

    You’ll never guess what I saw stuck up a tree……

     

     

     

     

    Quite a lot actually, I can see for miles up here.

  34. quonno on

    Kev Jungle.

     

     

    Did Brian Quinn or any other Chairman actually ever state that buying SB would result in buying players.

     

     

    My recollection is that there were agm debates about this where buying players became the football department getting money. Two entirely different, if seemingly the same things.

  38. sipsini on

    jc2….

     

     

    Think king will be f****d on the Christian name alone, secondly, they will need a gullible hun winning a euro million rollover to sort thems out.

     

     

    Off to watch the Arthur Ashe documentary.

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