Judging by these quotes, John Guidetti may just be the most excited footballer on the planet right now:
“I’m just going to work my socks off…. do my absolute very best…. give 100%.
“The one thing I hate more than anything is losing. I can’t stand it.
“For 90 minutes I am always giving everything.
“You can always expect 100% from your players and I’m going to give that [note the repetition of this assertion].
“I promise I’ll do my very best to do even a little bit of what [Henrik] did.
“Football without fans is nothing, it’s not worth it for me.”
There is a common theme across a few players who joined this summer, they have something to prove. Guidetti, Mubarak and Tonev each had a difficult time last season, for varying reasons. They need to hit the mark, whether it’s through form (Tonev), fitness (Guidetti) or simply being able to play in an environment which is remotely normal (Mubarak).
Scepovic is different. He arrives with the wind at his back, but the prevailing attitude at Lennoxtown should be one of hunger. I suspect this contrasts starkly with last year’s arrivals.
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margaret mcgill
01:02 on 6 September, 2014
http://www.celticfc.net/news/4276?item=4276
Reid is a toad of a man
I met him face to face 12yrs ago and every word came out of the man,s mouth was a lie
Glad to see the back of him where Celtic is concerned but if I ever run into him again I will probably do time (again)
macanbheatha Oscar Abú
01:50 on 6 September, 2014
You think thats bad…. I voted for the c**t once!
Hey Mags…..
Greatest Bunnymen Choon I ever heard live at the Barrowland and other great venues after.
► 4:05► 4:05
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMUaVoWU0Sw
8 Apr 2013 – Uploaded by pigsfood27
“All My Colours”, by Echo And The Bunnymen. From “Heaven Up Here”, 1981. For …
Mags….
Dr. Death is the biggest c**t of a politician,and a man, that Scotland has spawned since Nicholas Fairbairn.
Absolute c**t of a man.
Glad we agree.
Mags……
Sorry
A certain Labour politician from Dunblane might be an even bigger c**t…..
Unfortunately we will all be long dead when the truth about what really happened with the compromised Masonic acquaintances of Thomas Hamilton and what happened to those poor wee kids comes out.
Most shameful establishment cover up ever in Scottish political history.
Macan etc etc
Totally agree
House of Lords, Reid and Livingstone……such nonsense. I have built and ran bigger businesses than these two, but didn’t go looking for a patronizing seat in the House of Lords…..maybe Scotland should separate.
And Big Jock never got the deserved knight hood.
Very much looking forward to the season beginning now that Ronny has the players to suit his style. Good luck to all of them at Celtic.
Great to be a Celtic man
ryecatcher
02:17 on 6 September, 2014
Robertson?
westies
Reid had power that you could only dream of and by f did he use it
If Scotland gains independent’s and can keep the pound. Our country continues to grow helping to strengthen the pound. And what if other country’s in Europe decided they want to ditch the euro and join the pound helping to strength even more. Don’t know if this is possible just a thought.
Mags ….
Check out Operation Ore….
It is truly jaw dropping……
Evidence based and not for the hard of thinking,which I know you are not.
A public enquiry that is ordered to secret the very evidence presented for next 100 years too…….
Incredible and bizarre
Can’t stand politicians and this convinces me never to change my opinion on this.
ryecatcher
02:32 on 6 September, 2014
ok I’ll check it out. Off to sleep. Big trip tomorrow.
Mags….
Apparently guys who work for NATO have very litigious staff who are well versed on ‘putting a stop’ to internet allegations………
But, I do remember the Golliwog on the front of my breakfast marmalade.
That lovable rascal, KevJ, well he said one thing succinctly, that the only person to never tell a lie, was Nailed to a Cross.
Grow up?
There are Many Men growing up further.
Doo, do, do, do, doo,
I need to do so much more.
I need to break the chains that are making me conform.
I Swithered for a long time about Voting Yes, unfortunately, I’m going to vote No. Who Cares?
That imitated Tower of Babel just Turns me off so much.
I’m a Celtic fan well after God and my Family.
HH always.
Anyone put under pressure like Peter was, will react like a Human being, or as Kojo says human bean, or something like that.
A lot of Judge and I’d say Mental people on CQN these days.
Ernie is being attacked like he is the AntiChrist.
Not Clever, Trevor.
BTW, UBUNTU, AWE NAW, it is horrific, IMO.
A load of problems, exarcebated by a Graphics card dying, I hudnae diagnosed it yet.
AweNaw, I’m dumbed down, of that there is nae doubt.
I’m just happy that I got the option to fat32 it through Ubuntu disk.
I know you Champion it, quite rightly so, it is a Bugger though when it is all going Pear Shaped and you have no idea how to bring it all back to Life.
Back to Life-Back to Reality.
We love you Celtic we do…
Margaret McGill
02:34 on
6 September, 2014
ryecatcher
02:32 on 6 September, 2014
ok I’ll check it out. Off to sleep. Big trip tomorrow.
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Enjoy this Trip.
I’ve enjoyed the Trips far too much. I know the Doors that they Opened.
I’d like BRTH to retain 3 tickets for me, Ma Amazing Dad, and my very Shy Son.
I’ve not even asked them yet, money is very tight at the moment, Brutal honesty, hey, who knows, I may land an accumulator this week. ;))
If I did, I’d be buying FFM every drink he could drink as soon as we can get Time to converse together.
larssonse7en
04:42 on
6 September, 2014
We love you Celtic we do…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oh Celtic We Love You.
We Love you Celtic, we do, We Love you Celtic, we do, we Love you Celtic, we do……….
What would Life be without Youtube?
hehe
Dr Jo Venglos.
Legend.
Life is so Precious.
Never forget this Fact.
Dinnae let aggressive Atheists persuade you that the World is OVER populated. Utter Nonsense that is straight outa Compton.
As Ever, IMO.
I know that I am the luckiest guy in the World despite everything going wrong at this moment. I am so lucky that my own Son is witnessing this.
Incredibly powerful testimony. I can’t believe that any company would be so stupid to not have a Spare Tyre.
It is definitely ma fault for not checking.
Morning all.
Any CQNERS flying to Italy today?
If so, bad news I’m afraid – you probably wont!
Italian air traffic controllers on strike. Loads of flights to and from Italy cancelled.
HH!!
Good grief, that was an absolute screamer of a free kick that Guidetti scored today in his U21 game! Top corner, with dip on it and some velocity too.
What was even more noticeable was his goal celebration. We have got one gallus character on our hands here.
Living_in_the_Love_of_the_Commons_People
I was about to post that!
Here’s the link for anyone who missed it earlier:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAjoXbpcaJ0
neil lennon & mccartney
06:26 on 6 September, 2014
Lovely. Looks like the kid feels he has something to prove, with us as the beneficiaries.
Scots commentator Archie Macpherson revisits his book on Jock Stein to unravel the myths of the legendary manager
Sep 06, 2014 00:01 By David McCarthy
MACPHERSON’S book was first published 10 years ago, but he has updated and reissued it to ensure Stein’s story is understood by a new generation of football fans.
Archie Macpherson with his Jock Stein book
ARCHIE Macpherson was as close to the late Jock Stein as any journalist ever got. Which, the veteran broadcaster contends, could be a blessing and a curse.
Macpherson, the voice of Scottish football for almost half a century, saw the kind side of the legendary Celtic and Scotland manager but although their friendship grew over the years, he also witnessed Stein’s darker side and his biography ‘Jock Stein’ doesn’t shirk any issue.
The original version of the book was a best seller when first published 10 years ago and a decade on, Macpherson has updated and reissued it, paying particular attention to the relationship Stein had with Sir Alex Ferguson, who was in the Cardiff dugout beside him during the fateful World Cup qualifier that ended in tragedy in 29 years ago next week, September 10, 1985.
But Archie insists one of the main reasons why he was happy to revisit the book was to make sure that Stein’s story is read and understood by a generation of fans who might have heard of him and his achievements but don’t really who Jock Stein was.
“I updated it, wrote a new reintroduction to it in an attempt to bring Jock’s story to a whole new generation of people who might know and revere his name but know little about the man himself,” he said.
“I think it is very important that what Jock Stein achieved and how he did it is not forgotten as the decades passed. His place in the annals of Scottish football history is assured and he will never be just a footnote, but hopefully the book unravels a few myths that have grown up over the years about him.
“He was no saint, and the book addresses this.
“If he had been an avuncular character he would not have had the success he had. There’s no doubt about that. He was an extremely ferocious tough man, who accepted no funny business from anybody.
“He was a strict disciplinarian, obviously, but he was better than that. He handled people cunningly. Some of the players in the book describe him as a ‘big fox’ and that’s exactly what he was. He knew how to handle people.”
Ask for example and Archie could have reeled off countless, but he tells a story about Jimmy Johnstone that made Stein laugh and Jinky sick at the time.
“One of the most volatile packages that passed through his hands was Jimmy Johnstone and he handled him brilliantly,” he said. “He once told me that he got a phone call very early in the morning at Celtic Park one day. He would virtually open the place every morning.
“This guy said to him, ‘I’d like to report misbehaviour by one of your players. Jimmy Johnstone was carried out of a pub, drunk, in Cambuslang in the early hours of the morning.’
“Jock said: ‘You could be anybody’, but the guy gave him his membership or season ticket number and ripped into him about how disgraceful it was that a Celtic player was behaving like that.
“Jinky came in that morning just before 10am, as white as a sheet. Jock took out Willie Wallace and Bobby Lennox, the two fastest men in the team and told them to give Jinky a right going over. He told them to run the legs off him and that they weren’t to slacken off because he’d noticed that the two of them had been guilty of that in matches – which was nonsense but a way of geeing them up.
“Sure enough, wee Jinky was puking before long and realising the error of his ways – for a little while at least.
“But there was more to Stein than that. He set totally new standards of coaching and management of players and teams.”
Macpherson describes him as a ‘man of his generation’ and believes he would have struggled to handle the demands of 24-hour sports coverage and the explosion of social media, were he still plying his trade today.
He added; “He was the kind of man who manipulated the Press. Some newspapermen were given copy by Jock Stein – he’d put words in their mouth and they regurgitated it. He was the most powerful figure in Scottish football at the time.
“If he were alive at the moment, trying to cope with 24-hour sports channels, twitter and all the other forms of social media, he wouldn’t succeed.
The players would be making huge amounts of money and the power is now with them rather the clubs.
“I think he would be swamped but he was a man of his generation and utilised what was best for him at the time.
“It was difficult to get close to him but he and I got on well most of the time. He had a ferocious temper and could lash out, as he did at me on one or two occasions. He really had control of Celtic Park. Nobody did anything there that he didn’t know about.
“There are real similarities with how Alex Ferguson ran the ship at Old Trafford for so long and in the re-written book, I explore the relationship between the two men and how Fergie’s style, aggression and handling of the press kind of mirrored Stein’s.
“It’s a replenishing of a book for people who may have read it but now want it in a paperback form. Most importantly, perhaps, it is the chance for people to understand just what made this man tick.”
• JOCK STEIN: the definitive biography, written by Archie Macpherson and published by Racing Post Books is available at all good book shops.
CQN Saturday Naps Competition
Lads, for those who are in the CQN Saturday Naps competition, please go back and post today’s selection at the end of the previous article :
“There’s only one John Guidetti”
All the best, fleagle1888
Link to Guidetti goal .
Superb strike!!
http://celtsarehere.com/video-john-guidetti-screamer-for-sweden-u21s/?
Piers in today’s Herald:
Hamburg revenge not so sweet in end for Gemmell
It is a little short of 45 years since the day Tommy Gemmell booted Helmut Haller up the jacksie.
This weekend, with Scotland once more taking on the mighty Germany, seems as good a time as any to revisit that comical evening in Hamburg in 1969, when two extraordinary football careers literally collided. You can watch the incident again any time you like on YouTube.
In a World Cup qualifier in which the Scots played heroically, Gemmell was lining up one of his famous thunderbolts 20 yards out when the prissy Haller clipped him on the ankle and put him off balance.
Incensed as only he could be, Gemmell turned and chased after the German, who tried to run away, like a wee boy in a playground. In the grainy black-and white footage, Gemmell’s right leg suddenly appears to become twice its natural length as it stretches out and applies retribution to Haller, booting him into the air. The Juventus striker had already jumped to cushion the blow.
Poor Tommy Gemmell. He was a great footballer – some said the best left-back in Europe at the time – yet this will remain one of the funniest moments ever seen on an international football field.
Years later Frank Skinner and David Baddiel recreated the moment on TV for their Phoenix From The Flames series. A self-deprecating Gemmell willingly took part in the spoof.
It remains a night the 70-year-old former Celtic player will never forget. “I can’t believe it was nearly 45 years ago,” Gemmell said. “But I can still remember the moment very clearly.
“We were trailing 3-2 and I was ready to shoot from my favourite distance – about 20 yards – when Haller came in and clipped me. I was raging and took off after him before catching him one.
“He went down like the proverbial ton of bricks, squealing, holding his head, and I got sent off. The minute I was off the park, Haller was up again, totally fine, dancing around.”
In fact, Gemmell might have been sent off 10 minutes earlier when he attempted a wild challenge on Reinhard Libuda as the striker raced through to score West Germany’s third goal.
So the Scot’s dander was up by the time Haller stepped forward to trip him. “That night had quite an effect on my Celtic career,” Gemmell said. “Jock Stein dropped me for the League Cup final against St Johnstone at Hampden three days later and the next day I asked for a transfer.
“I went in to see Big Jock and asked why he had dropped me. He replied: ‘It was the chairman [Bob Kelly] who suggested I drop you as a disciplinary measure after last week in Germany.’ I’m not sure things were ever the same again for me at Celtic.”
That said, it was fully two years before Gemmell finally got his move away from Celtic, to Nottingham Forest in December 1971.
Haller died two years ago, at the age of 73. Years ago he told an interviewer he would never forget the Gemmell, incident.
A brilliant footballer for 20 years, Haller played in the 1966 World Cup final yet never once appeared in top-flight German club football, either in the old top division or in its Bundesliga reincarnation.
A son of the Bavarian town of Augsburg, he played football for his local semi-professional team before being signed for big money at the age of 22 by Bologna. He would spend the next 11 years in Italy.
From Bologna, where he helped win the club’s only title in the past 70 years, Haller moved to Juventus in 1968. He returned to Germany when he was 34 to play for Augsburg again but they were still mired in the lower leagues.
But that’s not the half of it. Haller, who opened the scoring for against England in the World Cup final, was accused of “nicking” the match ball and making off back to Italy with it, despite England’s Geoff Hurst having scored a hat trick.
Immediately after referee Gottfried Dienst had blown the final whistle that afternoon, the orange ball was left lying on the pitch and as Haller walked past he picked it up.
There is film of the German team receiving their consolation medals from the Queen in the royal box and Haller can be seen, perfectly innocently, with the ball under his arm. This was before the days when it became the norm for a hat trick hero to keep the ball.
Thirty years later in 1996, with England euphoric at staging Euro 96, the Daily Mirror embarked on a passionate campaign to “get the 1966 ball back”, with Hurst the intended recipient.
Haller, by this point retired and living back in Germany, still had the ball and happily co-operated by bringing it to England. Today it rests in the National Football Museum in Manchester.
One more piece of infamy was to come Haller’s way. He had already had a heart attack and was not in great health when in 2003 he married a 21-year-old Cuban woman called Noraimy Rodriguez Guiterrez, whom he appears to have met at a bus stop while doing some coaching on the Caribbean island.
Haller liked to boast that his new young wife, 43 years his junior, even had a mother who was younger than him. He finally went to his grave in October 2012, having suffered from Parkinson’s disease, and after a pretty eventful life.
“My God . . . did he?” Gemmell said when I told him of Haller’s late and unexpected marital bliss. “Good for him. I never saw him again after Hamburg; our paths just never crossed.
“But over the years one or two other German players said to me, ‘you really gave it to Haller that night, didn’t you?’ Ach, I was just exasperated.”
Hopefully, there will be no booting up the jacksies in Dortmund tomorrow evening.
More Guidetti stuff with goal links
http://www.footballfancast.com/scottish-premier/celtic/five-reasons-john-guidetti-will-take-celtic-by-storm/2
The Celtic trust
Why we think the SLO function should be reviewed
Published on Friday 5th September, 2014 by Celtic Trust
Resolution on Governance proposed by the Trust
We are asking for a review of the SLO post based on Article 35 of the UEFA Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations and the SLO Handbook (2011).
We are calling for the structure of the SLO role and the club’s relationship to the SLO role to be reviewed in reference to these UEFA guidelines. We are not calling for a competence review of the present incumbent of the role, as this is someone who has our full support for the work they have done in an SLO capacity thus far.
Background:
Back in 2010, UEFA made it a licensing requirement for clubs across Europe to appoint, prior to the beginning of the 2012/13 season, a Supporter Liaison Officer (SLO) in order to ensure proper and constructive discourse between clubs and their fans. The staffing and administrative criteria present in UEFA’s Club licensing and FFP regulations are intended to improve the way football clubs are run (i.e. good governance).
The establishment of the post of SLO was widely welcomed by the Celtic support and we are happy with several aspects, including the present incumbent. However, our request for a review is based on the first full season of the project and we wish to look at what’s working well and which areas of the Celtic SLO structure, and the club’s relationship to the role, need to be improved.
We know the board understand the requirement for an SLO; we want to ensure that they understand the importance of the role and the unique relationship the post holds with the club’s supporters. We aim to ensure that the SLO is given all the necessary support – in terms of resource and influence – required for the successful resolution of ongoing issues, as well as for the broader, long term progress between the club and the supporters.
If you have not already done so, we recommend that you read the SLO Handbook to gain a better understanding of why UEFA have made the implementation of a Supporter Liaison Officer a requirement for UEFA Licensing.
We hope this clarifies the reasons behind our request for a review of the post, especially for non-members, concerned shareholders and fans who have been told complete nonsense by individuals who really should know better.
Please, don’t allow yourselves to be distracted from our other very important resolution calling on the board to make Celtic Football Club a living wage employer.
HITC Sport.
John Guidetti has been handed the number nine shirt at Celtic following his move from Manchester City.
John Guidetti has been handed the number nine shirt at Celtic.
The Swedish striker completed what turned into a protracted transfer to Parkhead yesterday and his squad number suggests that he will have a key role to play.
Guidetti’s loan from Manchester City was plunged into doubt after the Bhoys failed to confirm it before the transfer deadline but, after an appeal to the Scottish FA, the move was approved.
It means that the highly-rated young striker can turn his focus to impressing at his new home and he will have some level of expectation on his shoulders, given the former stars who have worn the shirt.
The likes of Georgios Samaras, Chris Sutton and Pierre van Hooijdonk have all been handed the number nine in recent memory and if he is as successful as any of the former trio then he will have had a good spell in Scotland.
Naturally comparisons will also be drawn between him and Celtic legend Henrik Larsson, because of his nationality and position.
Larsson is arguably the greatest player to ever wear the green and white hooped shirt and the hope is that Guidetti can follow in the footsteps of his compatriot.
The City front-man was touted as one of the brightest prospects across Europe in his younger days, but he has failed to make a break through at the Etihad and the move to north of the border provides him an opportunity to impress.
SEE ALSO: Celtic & Rangers latest: Bhoys loan star welcomes competition; Templeton full of confidence
In recent times Guidetti has spent temporary spells away from City at Burnley, Feyenoord and Stoke City, but he has never really settled. A career threatening injury has also stalled his progress.
As a result his career is in danger of stagnating, but the role as the main-man at Celtic should help him get it back on track again and if he can impress it could turn into a permanent home for him.
Can Guidetti be a hit at Celtic?
Today’s mad lucky 15 ( each way)
Borderlescott 2 05 pm at 16/1
Satellite 3 30 pm At 11/1
Don’t call me 1 55pm at 10/1
Robin hoods bay 2 20 pm at 14/1
10 p ew lucky 15 = £3 staked. Good luck if yer daft enough to try it :-)
Funny. Two years of history about to be flushed doon the lavvy.
Good Morning All.
Best of luck to An Tearman going up Muckish Mountain today and thanks to Phylis Dietrichson for some thoughts on Creeslough, Dunfanaghy and the view from the top.
Muckish makes me think of falling in love – albeit briefly or temporarily – and walking with a spring in your step and feeling like a king.
My Grandfather was born in Ballymote but was raised in Rathmullen and Ramelton. He has relatives who worked in the linen mills there and I have traced some of their work records going back to the 19th century so can see where they worked, rates of pay, how they were described and so on.
Donegal has always been in my heart and my very soul and sometimes I feel that really really strongly. At times you just get this feeling about people, my people, my history, culture, roots, fabric and what makes me tick and despite all that the 21st century has to offer, my education in Glasgow, University, profession, career…. whatever….. the soul just floats to Donegal sometimes without the body ever moving.
So best of luck to our friend climbing Muckish, and as Phylis says, sing one for me at the top as you look out over the Atlantic foam.
My sister, my niece and my daughter are all walking for the Clydebank Hospice at midnight tonight in honour of my late father who taught me nearly all I know about Donegal, its people and its history. My Ramelton grandfather helped found that hospice when he came to Clydebank many years ago and it has been a great service to my family and many others over the years.
In the early part of this week, My brother in law passed away under tragic circumstances, eventually losing a battle he had fought for a long time. He was a very kind fella when he was at himself and I can recall him clearly laughing uncontrollably at some mad exploits from 20 plus years ago with the tears running down his face like a river.
The people we meet in life, the people we love, the places we go to and which become familiar to us, all leave us with stories, memories and lessons — even when they are far away or when they have passed on. I am a great believer in that.
I need to go back to Ramelton for a wee bit of research with regard to a book I have part written in my head and part written down in print — it needs finishing and polishing.It is a great Celtic story.
It would be good to touch the roots, write the story and make a difference — I might even climb Muckish just for the sake of it.
Rest in Peace Gerard — and keep laughing.
BRTH
A lovely story, tinged with sadness.
Condolonces to you and your family on the passing of your brother in law.
RIP Gerard.