Football’s impudent scamps have long caused more annoyance than actual harm to their clubs. Many live by a different moral code to the rest of us which leads to all sorts of excesses, including the occasional violent bust-up.
Can you kick a team mate on the training field and punch him in the dressing room? You bet, there are hundreds of precedents for you. You can certainly kick lumps out of an opponent, but what about doling out racial references in the middle of a game?
The use of a racist term in my office, and I’m sure your workplace, would lead to summary disciplinary procedures, but football has a way of looking at miscreants through rose tinted lenses. The hoary old defence on these occasions, be if for footballers or anyone else, is ‘He’s not a racist, some of his best friends are….’.
This doesn’t matter. The guilty party may be more rascal than racist but he needs to be treated in the same way anyone else using racist language in the workplace would be. English football has done enormous work to combat racism since the 1980s but it’s in danger of undermining these efforts by accommodating people who should know better.
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Kris Boyd’s from Dalmilling estate in Ayr. He’s a dyed-in-the-woll hun, like most from there. He drinks in a Hun hellhole pub in Tarbolton, Ayrshire, another of the Orange County villages of benevolence and tolerance.
It would be like Frank McAvennie going to the Huns. It won’t happen. If it ever did I’d expect to see the next Royal Weding be between Lizzie and the Pope.
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ernie lynch says:
22 December, 2011 at 17:51
Where’s Kojo?
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Playing Dick Van Dyke in the Las Vegas panto.
Messi scores twice with 1 shot
http://www.insideworldsoccer.com/2011/04/lionel-messi-scores-snooker-goal-in.html
The “papped” teenager was on “Call Kay” the other week.
Despite being gently, “Sammed” right, left and centre, by the host and other participants, he was verging on the abusive with them too.
THE EXILED TIM says:
22 December, 2011 at 19:42
The shame not having an original idea?
Whatabout the poppy’s they have been behind that
since day one…………………..tell a lie ,it’s only been
two years.not a long time when you consider they celebrate
a skirmish in the north of Ireland over 300 years ago.
BSR’s caption contest:
http://twitpic.com/43nttv/full
StoneyBridge Cooncil’s live action version of Pixar’s Cars 2:
‘Cars Moo’.
any gamers about?
I need some help……The son’s xbox360 headset wasnt working so when the missus and I were shopping today in hmv we impulsively picked up a headset that said suitable for online gaming….when I got it home it had two connections instead of one and the connection plugs were larger. Can I buy and adapter that would fit and make it work or have I just wasted money?
cheers
Lenny is far too open and honest in interviews… “any player with that sort of goal-scoring record would interest me” does not translate to “we’re trying to sign Kris Boyd” but it makes it too easy for the rags to sensationalise. And when Boyd does, inevitably, crawl back to Mordor to earn play for free, it will be too easy for him and Fat Sally to come out with lines about how they snatched him from under Timmy’s nose.
**”earn play for free”**
you know what I mean
Youth players awarded contract extensions
By: Laura Brannan on 22 Dec, 2011 12:18
A NUMBER of players from Celtic´s Under-19 squad have been rewarded for their hard work with contract extensions.
John Herron, Paul George, Joe Chalmers and Marcus Fraser have signed new three-year deals, while Callum McGregor and Jackson Irvine already secured three-year contracts earlier in the campaign.
The Celtic Youth Academy graduates have shown great progression in the first half of the 2011/12 season, with only one defeat in the league so far and a string of excellent performances in the NextGen Series. And both Paul Geoge and Marcus Fraser have made their first-team debuts this season.
Under-17 graduates Michael Miller and Jamie Lindsay are also both set to sign their first full-time professional contracts with the club in the New Year.
Meanwhile, Omar Bogle, has been released through mutual consent, with Rhys Murrell-Williamson set to follow. The club thank both of them for their time at Celtic and wish them the best of luck in their career.
http://www.celticfc.net/newsstory?item=1910
Aidy the Tim says:
22 December, 2011 at 19:49
Aidy,google ‘ headphone jack sizes’ look on amazon site ,a few options.
Now Lenny needs to watch what he says. Give me strength.
If signing Kris Boyd on £50 a week could guarantee 20 consecutive titles for Celtic, I would not consider it for one second.
I would much sooner play in the THIRD division of our pitiful league system, than to have such an obnoxious human being
associated with our great club.
Having said that, I know perfectly well that Lenny is merely jerking their chain.
They deserve everything that is slowly unwinding for them.
ElDiegoBhoy says:
22 December, 2011 at 20:01
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Was that a dig at what I just said? Why??
VP- did you say “bliddy” © Voguepunter, that day?
!!Bada Bing!! Kano 1000 says:
22 December, 2011 at 20:03
NAW:O),much worser.
One of the games that made me vow not to go back to that cesspit.
tottenham v chelsea kicked off 5mins ago
on vipboxtv
1-0 Spurs
adebayor from bale cross the 6yrd box
1 -0 Spurs Adebaby
voguepunter says:
22 December, 2011 at 19:57
cheers….didnt really know what I was searching for to begin with. Can now look and see what is there.
I think Lenny was at the wind up surrounding monster munch.
If I were a Rankers fan ( and fortunately) I am not , I would be half expecting Jellyface , to leave and would be worried about the consequences and the potential replacement.
So along comes Monster Munch and , I am thinking , Jellyface is off , I am not happy , but , monster Munch would be a just about sufferable replacement.
That is , until , there is a possibility that we will be usurped by Celtic.
Lenny knows fine well , that Rankers can’t progress signing monster munch until Jellyface goes.
So if you are Comical Ali what do you do : stick or twist.
Keep up the mind games Lenny.
VP
I remember years ago when I had the misfortune to live in a hun village just outside Falkirk, it’s a long story, anyways I was winding up this hun one day about them stealing the Red Hand, in all honesty I was lucky to get allowed of the bar alive, he was going bluer in the face, fair enjoyed masel though :>)
THE EXILED TIM says:
22 December, 2011 at 20:12
Nice one.
Eh that flag is the O’Neill family crest.
When younger ,used to go about with a couple dobs who
didn’t know KB was a Netherlander.
allowed = out
Clashcitybhoy
“we are talking hypothetically here and you are starting to speculate already..”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/16305224.stm
Neil is answering questions from the floor honestly as he does at every press conference.Slow news days ,absolutely no story here.
Notthebus,
Only my opinion, but , I think there is a wee bit of mind games going on here, and , given what Lenny has had to put up , I have no problem with that.
Kris Boyd? I’d rather have Katie Boyle and I think she’s deid.
Right, bloody Xmas. Time for CQN cracker joke rubbish *
How much money does dashing, boggle eyed and alluring businessman Craig Whyte have?
Hunners
*cracker jokes are meant to induce a ‘please god no’ groan
Clashcitybho
Agree to a certain extent, its certainly wound up the huns, although probably extending a professional courtesy followed by a speculative line of questions from the journalists in attendance
VP
Another time the self same hun was in the bar in his finest regalia, he was still in his regalia two days after some walk he had been on, manky pig, I told him that KB was infact a Catholic mercinary who only cared about power and land, he tried to hit me that time, I evaded his punch he fell over and broke his arm, I wet masel that time, they really are thick.
TET
LOL
what did he do to himself when you told him KB was marrried to King James’ daughter ;-)
HH
M
Nuclear Bovril
Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married.
The ceremony wasn’t much, but the reception was excellent.
V
Nuc Bovril
A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says,
“I’ll serve you, but don’t start anything.”
V
Bhoy walks into a bar
oophhh
It was an iron bar
A dyslexic man walks into a bra.
V
A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm
and says:” A beer please, and one for the road.”
V
saltires en sevilla
I didn’t know that, jeez I missed out on that one, that could have been interesting :>)
I did tell him that the Pope paid for KB’s army though, he couldn’t get his head round that one.
Re
the tarbolten pie eater ,Lenny would not let him near the door but when the LL are fishing for a headline would we rather he gave his true opinion .
Well done Lenny gie them nowt son
hail hail
A guy walks into a bar with a giraffe ,the bar man says ……you can’t leave that lying there .
The guy says it’s not a lion it’s a giraffe
hail hail
A bhoy walks into a bar and buys a drink, sitting quietly he hears
Your looking good
He looks round and there is no-one there. then he hears, “your a plonker”
He ask the barman, “whats going on?”
The barman says ” well first it was the nuts you heard, they are complimentary, but the fag machine is out of order”