We gave STV credit on Wednesday for their reporting on SPL voting process required to decide what to do if a new company applies to join the league after an existing team ceases to exist (through prepack or other means).
I subsequently noticed in the same article they suggest Leeds United went into liquidation and returned with a phoenix prepack. This is incorrect. Leeds United, then in administration, were sold in 2007 to Ken Bates’ newly formed company, with Bates agreeing a deal with creditors. Leeds were, therefore, only liable for the statutory 10 point penalty for entering administration, although the league increased the punishment to 15 points as the club failed to follow correct administration procedure.
I don’t wish to harangue STV on what was an article with genuine information but they cite Leeds as a precedent: “there is no guarantee that the Scottish Premier League would act in the same way as their counterparts in England but the similarities between the regulations mean that the precedent may be used as a guide”.
If I was Rangers right now I would be trying to convince everyone that putting a football club out of existence, only to allow another company to pick up its league share, with a points total calculated from the position of the former club, is similar to a common administration. It’s not. This would be a completely different scenario.
Having discussed this matter with many people throughout the game and the media, I can find no precedent for a football club going out of existence and phoenix-ing back into the same league spot.
Airdrieonians failed in 2008, when the owners of Clydebank FC moved to Airdrie and renamed to Airdrie United. Gretna FC were voted into the space created by the absence of Airdrieonians (then a Second Division team), but entered at the bottom of the Scottish Football League.
Gretna failed in 2008 and a new club based at the same ground successfully applied for membership of the East of Scotland Football League. Annan Athletic entered the bottom rung of the Scottish Football League after Gretna’s demise, not into the First Division spot Gretna were unable to fulfil. Third Lanark were in the bottom division of the Scottish Football League when they were replaced by Clydebank.
Gretna-Annan, Clydebank-Gretna, Third Lanark-Clydebank are the only precedents that exist. If you fail, the team that replaces you joins the bottom rung of the Scottish senior league structure, there have been no exceptions, in Scotland or in England.
The SFA have a say in this matter also. They must ratify any decision of the SPL board and grant a licence to a new club before if can play in the SPL or Scottish Football League. The national association is made up of member clubs, most of whom stand to gain considerably if a Rangers Newco FC were to enter the Scottish Football League.
Irrespective of the SPL’s decision, the SFA better have some pretty good lawyers if they deviate from precedent. The football authorities have a duty to ensure their competitions observe meritocratic and moral correctness. It’s only ‘fit and proper.
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Ingliston had one Truly memorable Rave when it decided to get a foreign flavour for most of the DJ’s.
Derrick May was a masterclass in Tribal sonics nerver heard before in Scotland, the most amazing DJ mix I have ever heard live and it was like Richie Hawtins X-Mix released on CD, except Much better…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z-Hv0BUfC0&feature=related
Richies mix is after John Acquaviva on this mix CD.
I tried hard to get the split tube but I couldn’t seperate the 2 mixes.
World Class down tempo techno.
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Celtic legend Dixie Deans recalls that penalty miss, life under Stein and habit of hammering Hibs.
Long before it became known as the Dixie Deans final – at about 11.45am that bright May morning back in 1972 – I was standing with my father waiting for the Hampden gates to open. Scuttling round about us, two boys were plotting their way in to the game. “See you at the wee barrier,” said one to the other as they split up to improve their chances of a “lift-over”. When the masses assembled on the red cinder slopes,
we ended up close to this stanchion, and just before kick-off witnessed the pals being happily reunited. What other remarkable feats would the day hold, we wondered?
Well, the scoreline in that Scottish Cup final would be Celtic (not such a grand team any more, so said the critics, a bit old) 6, Hibs (the coming men) 1, with Deans scoring a hat-trick. For his second, he rounded our goalie Jim Herriot twice and dumped three international defenders on their backsides. “I wasn’t much of a dribbler,” he deadpans, “so that was probably my best-ever goal. Whenever it was re-shown on TV my granny, who didn’t know much about football, would say: ‘Poor laddie having to do that every week – he must be awfie tired.’ I never disabused her of that notion!”
And, of course, he finished off with a somersault that has entered goal-celebration folklore. “I was no threat to Olga Korbut, was I? I suppose I rolled over in instalments. I probably looked a bit, well, unfit. I was one of the stocky guys, for sure, but I aye maintain those hoops made you look dumpier.”
This would be the first and last time I’d turn up for a match so optimistically early. The first and last time I’d be in a six-figure crowd – 106,101. The first and last time a result would reduce me to tears. It would be Deans’ first and last somersault, but not the last time he’d bag three cup-final goals against Hibs. If I could have found it in my broken Hibee heart, though, I should have been magnanimous enough for a tight little smile at his achievement. The ’72 hat-trick was one of the greatest acts of redemption by a bauchly Scottish poacher there’s ever been. So, in Steps Bar in Glasgow’s Merchant City today I’m buying the old Nemesis a drink.
“Vodka and Diet Irn-Bru – cheers,” he says, and mine host George opens up the snug for us. “You should see this room on Fridays,” adds Deans. “It’s hotching with Marks & Spencer girls from across the road.” “You should have seen it ten minutes ago,” quips George. “The Goalie was in.” Andy Goram gone, the dapper Dixie in a smart suit and shiny loafers takes centre-stage to recall how jubilation was somehow extracted from desolation in just 17 days.
Two and a half weeks before the thrashing of Hibs, Celtic were on the brink of their third European Cup final in six seasons. All they had to do, against Inter Milan at Parkhead, was negotiate continental football’s first penalty shoot-out. Deans was to take the first kick. “Still okay with this, Dixie?” said Jock Stein. “Aye boss,” said Deans. And Jimmy Johnstone, the only person ever to address Deans thus, said: “Big man, I’m going to say a prayer for you.”
“Of course,” continues Deans, now 65, “I had to walk from the halfway line to take the kick, something I hadn’t thought about beforehand. That took forever. My feet felt like lead. I broke into a wee jog, then stopped. What was I thinking about? Christ knows.” The 75,000 crowd, possibly sensing his nervousness, fell silent. They didn’t know how to react – this was new for everyone – and Dixie didn’t know how to walk without thinking he was in a cowboy film that was headed for a bad ending. Do not forsake him oh my darling.
“There was mud on the ball so I wiped it off. I was going to hit it low to their goalie’s left but he moved so I lifted it.” Over the bar and, in legend, over the Parkhead roof and the furthest high flats. “I didn’t miss by much but because it kept on rising there were cartoons in the papers about the Apollo 16 astronauts informing Mission Control: ‘Tell Dixie we’ve found his ball.’”
Being the first shootout villain made Deans front-page news and a hack-pack with attendant paparrazi was waiting for him as he birled his car into his driveway, long after his team-mates had commiserated with him and he’d quizzed Jinky: ‘What about that effing prayer?”
“I turned right round and booked into a hotel in Sauchiehall Street to drown my sorrows.” The journos wouldn’t give up the chase, though, and Deans was eventually flushed out by the Scottish Daily Express who stunted up a photo at a desolate bus-stop and headlined their exclusive: “Dixie Deans – the loneliest man in the world.” Then the next game, against his old club Motherwell, Celtic got a penalty. “The chant went up ‘We want Dixie!’ but no way was I taking it. Bobby Murdoch, God rest his soul, stepped up and scored. But that just summed up the Celtic fans; they were brilliant to me.”
A helluva 17 days, then, but, all in all, John Kelly Deans – inevitably nicknamed Dixie after the Everton legend when, like him, he quickly found goalscoring easy – has had a helluva life. Both parents died of tuberculosis when he was young, his father when he was just four – “I’ve no memory of him holding me,” he says – indeed he was the only member of a family of five in Linwood, Renfrewshire, to escape the disease.
He’s just committed his story to print and his ghost-writer Ken McNab – an old colleague so I can vouch for the thoroughness – doesn’t seem to have missed anything. Reaching H in the book’s index I was expecting to find “Hibs” and “hat-tricks” but “homosexual encounter” was a surprise. This dated from his days in junior football when he’d been consigned to the early bath which would be a feature of his career, and his manager, always dapper in a checked overcoat, nipped away from the touchline to proposition him.
Deans’ tale is a tremendously colourful one, with walk-on parts for Eric Morecambe and Bob Marley. The Motherwell years hardly lacked incident and top-hatted chairman Willie Miller handed him an envelope containing £500 to be shared round the team after thrilling wins against Spurs and Stoke City in the Texaco Cup (the Drybrough Cup and the Summer Cup were other quaint byways in Dixie’s journey). Gordon Banks was Stoke’s goalie, and a few months after his 1970 World Cup wonder save from Pele he was foiling a Deans header bound for the same corner. “I was 5ft 7ins but prided myself on my jumping and absolutely loved climbing above big centre-halves, sometimes even more than scoring goals. Mike England was one of the best when he played with Spurs but I horsed him that night.”
This might sound like boasting but Deans is a thoughtful fellow in conversation and mindful not to overdo the Jinky anecdotes. “Others knew him for longer than me,” he insists, although Dixie was a regular visitor to the home of the wing genius when he was stricken with motor neurone disease (Jinky: “For f***’s sake, big man, no you again!”) and still looks in on his widow Agnes every couple of weeks. He’s also first to mention the break-up of his first marriage and how drink took its toll on his wife and, briefly, himself.
His Motherwell stats were 78 goals in 158 games but he was also sent off six times. “Sometimes for handbags, others for typically bad forward’s tackles. I was a hothead but I wasn’t dirty.” Nevertheless he was serving a six-week ban in 1971 when Celtic bought him for £17,500 as a replacement for Willie Wallace, moved on to Crystal Palace along with John Hughes after the shock League Cup final defeat by Partick Thistle.
The transfer involved a football hack go-between, a secret assignation at Lourdes Grotto in Carfin, Lanarkshire, and a £50 fine for Celtic for their purchase of a banned player – “The only time that’s ever happened,” says Deans. Rangers had shown an earlier interest in him which cooled, he claims, when the Ibrox hierarchy discovered his mother was Catholic. Nevertheless, a photo of him signing for Jock Stein prompted suspicion among some Celtic fans about his true allegiances. “I was wearing my painter’s hat; it had the Rangers crest on it. I never scored against the Gers, which probably made the conspiracy theorists think I was going easy on them. But the truth is I was a St Mirren fan. In 1959, my mum took me up to Paisley Cross to see the Buddies bring back the Scottish Cup.”
Deans’ relationship with Stein was absolutely fascinating. The Big Man signed him and fined him. Stein dropped him and confessed he wished he’d got hold of him two years previously, to turn him into the best striker there had ever been. But he also kept him out of European games and, Deans is convinced, conspired to restrict his Scottish caps to a mere two. Then in 1976, after 132 goals in 184 games in those unflattering hoops (and only one sending off, while in the reserves), Dixie was himself shifted on, to Luton.
His debut at Kenilworth Road caused chairman Eric Morecambe to waggle his specs with delight. The new striker with the short, fat, hairy legs netted a double. His time there was short but he packed a lot in, including a stint as an emergency goalie and a “square go” with a Bolton centre-half called Sam Allardyce resulting in another dismissal. It was in Australia, pioneering the National Soccer League with Adelaide City, that Bob Marley, unknown to our hero, sought an audience with him to ask: “Are you the Dixie Deans who used to play for Celtic?” So let’s return to those days …
The Parkhead initiation wind-up came on a trip to Malta. “Start up a song and the whole plane will join in, Dixie. The Big Man aye likes that,” urged his new team-mates. Deans was left murdering Ten Guitars on his lonesome. “Christ, I hope you can play better than you can sing,” muttered Stein.
“But I think Jock liked me,” he says, “and when I went to chap on his door for being made a subby, like that Inter Milan game, he’d say: ‘You’re my secret weapon, Dixie, you’re going to come on and win the game for us.’ That made this wee guy feel ten feet tall. I didn’t win it, and I’m aye reminded of that, but that Celtic team doesn’t always get the credit it deserves.”
He talks warmly of his team-mates for what was the second half of the nine-in-a-row run, including Kenny Dalglish (“the greatest”), the equally-rotund Pat McCluskey and the enigma that was George Connelly. A Scottish dressing-room of the 70s could be a tough place for sensitive souls and Deans describes how the classy half-back tried to book a flight out of Bermuda after one too many taunts over the whereabouts of his wife back home.
“Mind you,” he adds, “I know I really infuriated Jock as well. He didn’t like my moustache and when I came in one day with it half shaved off for a joke he fined me again – five quid. I smoked and he didn’t approve of that, so when he was around me he’d pretend to have a coughing fit. And of course he was teetotal but I liked a drink. Many’s the time I’d be enjoying a wee bevvy and the cry would go up: ‘Is there a John Deans in the bar?’ It would be Big Jock going: ‘Get your arse out of there!’ He had spies on every corner. Jinky probably got more fines then me but I must have ran the wee man close. When the pair of us were on a night out we wouldn’t eat so when we were weighed at training – this happened most days – it didn’t show. Saying that, I could never get down from 12st 4lbs, not even when Jock told us: ‘No chips after Wednesday.’”
But Deans, who re-married, has no regrets. “I’d have to hold up my hands and say that on the socialising side I probably over-indulged, but I had a wonderful time at a fantastic club run by a guy who was right 99 per cent of the time and the other one per cent thought he was right.” Deans missed out on four cup finals under Stein, but not – unfortunately – the one in ’72. His mother didn’t see his greatest successes either, passing away the day before his 19th birthday. “I wish I’d dedicated that win to her. In my junior days, when she was ill, she had to be carried along the road breathless to my games. She was my biggest fan. But you didn’t do that sort of thing back then. It was ‘Heids doon, get on.’”
And if you were Dixie, Hibs would be back for their ritualistic tanking soon enough. In 13 matches against my team, he scored 18 times. “Sorry about that,” he says. “Hibs were a great team back then, a real threat to us, but I absolutely loved playing against them. I saw Sloop [John Blackley] the other day and said sorry to him, too. He tried to kick me and missed.”
Summa
Summa of Sammi…. says:
5 November, 2011 at 04:31
I missed the last half hour against a decent Rennes team.
How did Sammi do, going by the comments by the bi-polar massive he was God like.
I’d definitely have him in the team for Motherwell, it is obvious that Sammi Loves Celtic and is a true teamplayer that Neil, when the chips are really down, can rely on to play at the top level of his ability. Neil is trying to bring on so many players at the one time and it is extremely difficult. Neil knows Sammi is Essential to this new Celtic.
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Peter..
Re; Sammi.. I would Only play Him in Away Games or when the Neo Bi-Polar Celtic Fans AKA The Sammi Haters Don’t Go.. Guess What The Real Celtic Fans turn Up.. So Does Sammi.. Funny that..
Yea.. Ibrox.. Europe.. And Away Games.. That is Sammi’s Platue..
The 30K that Never Turned Up are Mostly the Boo Brigade EnyWhooo..
The Green Brigade Vs The Boo Brigade.. Errrm.. Let me Think..
Summa ft FaithfulThroughAndThroughCSC
CQN Saturday Naps Competition
Lads, for those who are in the CQN Saturday Naps competition, please go back and post your selection on the previous article :
(“Flats, Flats, glorious flats…”)
Alternatively, if you cannot access the previous article for any reason, then you can send me an email message with your selection to : fleagle1888 at yahoo.co.uk
All the best,
fleagle1888
Cheers Fleagle
hope your on the mend
Che
Raymac:
All I ever asked for for myself was just one more day.
Johnny Doyle tribute celtic fc
My Celtic team
Ronnie Simpson
Pat Stanton
Paul Elliot
Paul McStay
Kenny Dalglish
Davie Hay
Shunsuke Nakamura
Paul Lambert
Johnny Doyle
Henrik Larsson
Jimmy Johnstone
the Paul Lambert story – Celtic FC
The vision of that Dixie Deans penalty attempt soaring up into the night sky is still for some unknown reason ,one of my strongest memories of that era.
There were so many great goals scored by Murdoch , Gemmell, Lennox and the other Jock Stein bhoys that have faded into the mists of time but that miss is as clear as ever.
And just to rub salt into the wound that night ,walking back to the centre we were taunted by groups of huns who were celebrating victory in their euro cup-winners semi-final against Bayern Munich (I think) .
Martin O’Neill Man and Bhoy
Johnny Doyle tribute – Celtic FC
I see the Scotsman has a story that Ally is in the dark over funds to replace leading goalscorer Naibalance
Tips for Ally
Speak to the ole board in particular your old mate Bain and McIntyre the financial director, the inside story will be revealed Sally
Get yersell oan the internet Ally, check oot the RTC blog
Recent court cases with various people chasing Rankers for money surely you must know about them Ally? Sheriffs officers at the front door no give you a clue
Whyte recently warned that Rankers had a big black hole of around 7 million in this years finances, didn’t he tell you Ally? he told everyone else
Cant get a meeting with the new owner? Sally join the Vanguard bears it seems its not what you know its who you know
Tom English article today is a continuation of his ongoing war with the Celtic online community, however our own PR is like the Celtic defence on a European night
Lennon is always engaging company, in victory and in defeat. He’s always got something interesting to say and a fearlessness about saying it. He’s the sports writer’s dream, a man who has launched a thousand back pages in his time, just as he did on Saturday when he dynamited all bar three of his team in the wake of Celtic’s dispiriting draw against Hibs at Parkhead.
His criticisms were perfectly valid and much appreciated by his audience in the press room, who could hardly count the number of different news stories in that single conference. But you have to wonder about the logic of it all. Applaud Lennon for his honesty, sure. But what impact has his honesty had on his dressing room?
New RTC post
HH
Kitalba @ 01.08
Magnificent post my friend.
HH
Gorgeous morning here in beautiful North Ayrshire.
Still basking in the afterglow of Thursday night.
RTC new post extract from the end is on the money
The question remains whether Whyte can keep Rangers solvent long enough to divert blame for the disaster that is almost certainly about to befall Rangers. A post-Big Tax Case fall will be so transparently the work of the previous management and owner that Whyte will not need to comment. Falling earlier will leave Whyte with a lot of responsibility for Rangers’ problems, and he will not be able to openly throw any mud in the direction of the real culprit: Sir David Murray
According too Newsnow.celtic we are tracking my local teams goalie, Johannes Hopf who plays for Stockholms green!white Hammarby.
This guy is a very good shot stopper and fearless in and around his area, anybody getting in his way are simply brushed aside,and thats putting it kindly.
This story could be true as Cervi is now away to Morton.
KTF
lionroars
they can fool some of the fools some of the time
poor journalism churned out for the benefit of the myopic masses
when they crash and burn the fall out will be all the worse
English and co …Whyte`s new brigade of cheerleaders ….will no doubt changed white chargers shortly
Re-Post from earlier.
Morning all from Manchester.Looks like it’s going to be a fine day-come on United do us a wee favour today!
Thanks for all the entries so far-keep them coming!
As a bit of an antidote for all the Utd best ofs of the last 25 years:
Over the next few days I will compile any teams submitted from the following list and publish CQN’S best team of the last 25 years.
To make it relatively easy to compile please stick to the following rules:
1.Only choose players from the following lists(sorry if I missed your favourite player but there has to be a limit-I’ve also avoided loan players )
2.Only pick 11 players as follows:
1 Goalkeeper
2 Full Backs
2 Centre Backs
3 Midfielders
3 Forwards
3.Only pick players from the relevant list .For example I have listed Roy Aitken as a Centre Back-you can’t pick him as a Midfielder. I’ve no doubt missed some obvious ones but this is the final list!
GOALKEEPERS
1.Bonner 2.Gould 3.Douglas 4.D.Marshall 5.Boruc
FULL BACKS
1.McKinlay 2.McNamara 3.Agathe 4.Wilson 5.Hinkel
6.McGrain 7.Izaguirre 8.Boyd 9.Morris 10.Wdowczyk
CENTRE BACKS
1.Stubbs 2.Rieper 3.Mjallby 4.Balde 5.Caldwell
6.Aitken 7.Elliot 8.Mowbray 9.McCarthy 10.Valgaeren
MIDFIELDERS
1.McLeod 2.McStay 3.Lambert 4.Collins 5.Burns
6.McGeady 7.Di Cannio 8.Burley 9.Petrov 10.Thompson
11.Moravcik 12.Lennon 13.Nakamura 14.Brown 15.Kayal
FORWARDS
1.Cadete 2.Viduka 3.Larsson 4.Sutton 5.Hartson
6.Maloney 7.McDonald 8.Stokes 9.Hooper 10.Judas
11.Van Hooijdonk 12.Walker 13.McAvennie 14.Dziekanowski 15.McClair
I will re-post this over the next few days.
….PFayr says:
5 November, 2011 at 08:58
when they crash and burn the fall out will be all the worse
As RTC has alluded to today is Whyte hoping to hang on to enable Sir Minty to take all the flak
However is it worth it to spend millions to hang on for a judgement from HMRC and probably more relevant has Whyte or partners got the money to finance Rankers for another 12 weeks
My post @ 4:21: I should have added this mix.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSIdwTDly1Q
Summa of Sammi,
I so want Sammi to be the toast of Celtic Park, that is the hallowed ground for Celtic players.
lionroars
is there any prospect of Whyte going cap in hand to the hun hoards
ie looking for some sort of supporters trust loan
Lionroars67 @ 08.19
Mate I would say that the performance on Thursday showed that Lenny’s comments post Hibs did not have a poor affect on team morale. In fact the opposite could be argued.
2010 Never Again
Pay your taxes. Your Queen demands it
Good morning friends grom a lovely dry bright and sunny East Kilbride.
Brahma and Shiraz shouldn’t be mixed.
Jobo
Lads who would u pick for your captain this week between Suarez , aguaro, Rooney
Silva or van de vaart I can’t decide..
Lionroars67
I get the impression that whyte has only one plan….to walk away with as much money as he can, and he won’t care who blames who for what…….he will be planning to go into admin at the optimum moment for cw………then he will ‘walk’ and insolvency will follow……..how gullible are our LL…?? …….when it all happens, they will say they have had their reservationa about mr whytes motives all along….and they will dig deep to see if he supported Celtic at any time in the past……LLLOOOLLL..!!!!!!…………..TICK TOCK
Neil Lennon Is A Celtic Soul Brother says:
5 November, 2011 at 09:06
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Boruc
McGrain
Izzaguirre
Aitken
Valgaeren
Burns
McStay
Moravcik
Larsson
Sutton
Judas ( i know I know !!)
The more you watch that 2nd goal on Thursday, the more you appreciate what a brilliant header that was from Big Sammi, he came from 20 yards behind the defender and timed his jump and ball direction perectly. His set up for the 3rd was not too shabby either.
On his day he is indeed unplayable.
Youtube is a real pain in the Bristols, the actual Richie Hawtin (relatively short) mix has been mixed into the John Acquaviva mix for the online version I think.
Anyway here is the youtube linkies of an X-Mix classic.
For its a Grand Old Mix to listen to
And if you know its history
Its enough to make your heart go, oh oh oh
Better late than never. ;)
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!! Tick Tock !! says:
5 November, 2011 at 09:34
Lionroars67
I get the impression that whyte has only one plan….to walk away with as much money as he can, and he won’t care who blames who for what…….he will be planning to go into admin at the optimum moment for cw………then he will ‘walk’ and insolvency will follow……..how gullible are our LL…?? …….when it all happens, they will say they have had their reservationa about mr whytes motives all along….and they will dig deep to see if he supported Celtic at any time in the past……LLLOOOLLL..!!!!!!…………..TICK TOCK
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2010 Never Again
But what if Whyte is just a puppet? Someone is financing him. Why no disclosure on where the money is coming from?
Are there loyalist connections at play here? Is David Murray really out of the picture?
Why did the Black Horse and Murray only want to sell to Whyte? (as suggested by the old Hun Board)
So many questions.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!! Tick Tock !! says:
5 November, 2011 at 09:34
The Laptop Loyal are as loyal as they are paid to be. I think it is obvious that most Rangers fans have no real deep feeling for their club and primarily just hate Celtic. How they can easily just toss away their whole being was summed up perfectly by Aulheid, they have nothing that is dear to them that is worth holding onto.
tomtheleedstim says:
5 November, 2011 at 09:17
Lionroars67 @ 08.19
Mate I would say that the performance on Thursday showed that Lenny’s comments post Hibs did not have a poor affect on team morale. In fact the opposite could be argued.
It certainly was a well motivated team i watched on Thursday night in Celtic park i agree, very welcome to watch 11 triers in the shirts that shouldn’t shrink, it has for me been all to rare an occurrence this season.
Neil has seen how MON and WGS had different but very successful strategies in dealing with a hostile LL, IMO his wear your heat on your sleeve answer every question and answer it honestly is a disaster and the antipathy of how his previous very successful managers dealt with a feral hostile LL
My advice for Neil is
Treat temporary success and failure the same, say nothing till you win something, MONS mantra of they are the benchmark was perfect.
The ole cliche regarding articles being pinned on the dressing room wall, well Neil should pin English words about him on his office wall
I see no benefit whatsoever in dealing with people who are freeloading of the back of you whilst mocking you at the same time
Shug Keevins said on RC said Scott Brown offered him a square go ootside,
How i laughed when thinking of how Scott had the Celtic dressing room in stitches of how he wound up Keevins, PR par excellence IMO
Just catching up on last nights blog.
Wow!!!!
There were some really touching posts from friends who have, or are, experiencing difficult times in their lives. To come on here and tell your stories takes courage and humility and my heart and prayers go out to you all.
I was also moved by the instant flood of prayers, words of support and offers of help from from fellow posters.
It is true what we say, that Celtic is more than just a football team.
Is it now true that CQN is more than just a blog?
It certainly is for me and I am proud to be part of it.
Thank you and God bless you all.
I borrowed a tenner fae TBB.
Didnae pay it back.
Changed my name to EC76.
Now BSR won’t me in the Glee Club.
Fleagle banned me fae the horsey club.
Blantyre Kev and BJ Mac have banned me fae the golf.
Jobo wullnae let me run roon Strathy park.
But worse DBBIA has kicked me oot the Gazebo!
Seems fair to me.
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning! says:
5 November, 2011 at 10:02
Philbhoy.don’t mention it :O)
VP
Your welcome!
Have a great weekend!
No game today so will have to watch some epl instead. Tomorrow is going to be a good one – if we can start well and show the same intensity and work rate we did against Rennes.
I’m sure Motherwell will be in their ‘kick anything that moves’ mode rather than the ‘sit back and watch’ setting they seem to use in certain games. We need to be disciplined and not react to their tactics.
I have been reading the RTC blog for a long time now, and, whilst it is compulsive reading, and packed with brilliant information, I am at a loss to discern Whyte’s gameplan in all of this.
Increasingly, it is becoming more and more difficult to see how he makes money out of their collapse (especially if, as RTC reports, he has given away priority security to Close Brothers in return for a loan to keep the club afloat).
Is he hanging on so that Murray can be blamed for the collapse? Seems unlikely, frankly.
Is he a patsy for Murray? Possibly, but Murray can’t take a leak without LBG’s permission and I can’t see them wanting to prolong their involvement in this sorry mess.
Who are his backers? Good question, strangely unasked by the media in Scotland…
Increasingly, the likelihood seems to be that he has fatally miscalculated: that he has misjudged how much money a football club burns, how disastrous European exit has been, how much scrutiny from the New Media his every move would provoke… If he can’t make it till the tax case is settled, he is screwed. At the very least he must make it to January so that he can gut the squad…
Who knows? it is a tremendous story, abysmally covered by our sports and business media.