I was asked a cracking question last night: ‘Everyone knows Rangers went into administration on 14 February 2012, but do you know what date they came out of administration?’
Can anyone guess? This is the material Cognitive Dissonance is made of.
Duff and Phelps did an incredible job. Had they stuck to Whyte’s plan, put a fait accompli to the SPL, with a matter of days to decide, ‘Our Hero’ would still own the ground, the club and would still be exalted by those who initially crowned him ‘Our Hero’, before the term became a weapon of irony.
We got a further glimpse into the goings-on at Cardiff before popular and successful manager, Malky Mackay, was sacked. Chief exec, Simon Lim, while commenting on the £30m loss the club made last season, as a Championship club, spoke of the signing of 20-year-old striker Andreas Cornelius for £7.5m, from Copenhagen, with a £45k per week, 5 year contract, somewhat more than the £6k he was previously coping with in Denmark.
Earlier this month Malky said, “What I said at the time still stands. £7.5m was our record transfer at the time but a hit-the-ground-running centre-forward in the Premier League costs two or three times that and every team in the Premier League are striving for someone like that.”
There you have it, £7.5m is not enough to buy a hit-the-ground-running centre-forward, you’ll need two or three times that! In England, reality really is a different country (this is not me getting involved in the referendum debate, before the nationalists start trolling me again).
English football is broken in ways it is increasingly difficult to fathom. Only the persistent annual losses and ballooning debt figures offer a glimpse into what the future may hold.
Our namesakes, Belfast Celtic, withdrew from league football shortly after their players were attacked by a mob following the final whistle at game against Linfield on Boxing Day 1948. Star man, Jimmy Jones, died yesterday. The then 20-year-old was thrown over a wall and out of the stadium, breaking his leg in the process.
That was the end for Belfast Celtic but Jimmy recovered and is the Irish League’s all-time top goalscorer.
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A bit off topic.
I remember someone on here posting this last year when I was in hospital, it brought a rather large smile to my face :-) So I thought I would post it again this year
a) To lighten the blog up and more importantly
b) to remind you “Fractious auld carmudgeons” (and I include myself in that) to look after yourselves.
Bowel cancer awareness
Hail! Hail! PMTYH
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………FC not PLC 15:07 on 14 February, 2014
“PS-embdy going anywhere near Swindon in the next month can make a fellow CELT really happy with some skwerr. Or a tip for Cheltenham.”
I’d have thought a boat would be your priority at the moment. After the fuse for the fridge of course…
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers ………fc not plc
15:07 on 14 February, 2014
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The way things have been going in recent times A tip for Cheltenham and some skwerr could end up being one and the same thing ;-)
BMCUWP
For breakfast in the office this morning we had rolls on skwerr wi broon sauce from a we restaurant along the road. (In Linlithgow)
Deliiiiciiiiouuusss!!!!!!
So I understand your pain.
Why not buy some links, take the sausage meat out of the skins, mix together with a selection of your own herbs and spices and divide and shape into skwerrs of a size that suits your requirements.
You could probably freeze them too.
Mibbe some expert will tell me this won’t work, but it makes sense tae me.
Naybdy talkin’?
Well one of our best ever Managers critized and denigrated – not very classy, more to the point not very Celtic.
I’d like to say a couple of things about MO’N’s time with us.
The reason he was hailed as a guru was because he took a Celtic side that was being embarassed by the likes of ICT and living in the shadow of Rangers and made them, within months the finest Team in Scotland and decimated the supremacy of Rangers.
He spent big because the Board allowed him to spend big, they wanted Celtic to be competitive in Europe again, to ensure when we joined the FAPL we could compete at the top level ~ indeed we were very competitive with all the Premiership teams we played.
The call from the FAPL never came, MO’N’s wife got severely ill ~ The Celtic squad post Seville needed to rebuild while downsizing.
MO’N decided his priorities lay 450 miles away from Celtic Park, with his wife and family, timing wise it was a natural break.
He left us with pride restored and many great memories ~ revisionism is not welcome for a Celtic Legend.
Hail Hail
Too busy daydreaming aboot skwerr.
Was MON not interviewed for a job in England before his wife took ill?
MON – Celtic Legend.
It’s awfy dark.
4 in a row?
On the skwerr topic – recently stopped off at Tebay services on M6 and the Westmoreland farm shop butchers had the best skwerr I’ve had in many a day. Also do haggis which in no bad too (but not as good as the haggis made on the premises at Stravaigin restuarant on Gibson St in the West End)…
Fed up Philbhoy
15:38 on
14 February, 2014
Was MON not interviewed for a job in England before his wife took ill?
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I believe he was falsely accused by the Record of meeting someone from Leeds United (at a petrol station if memory serves).
It was probably Keevins but hey MON’s interest in legal matters , where allowed some practical application, as he skinned £500K in damages from the Record ….
Maybe some of the bhoys can confirm …
and on the Stornoway black pudding – my hat tips towards Charles MacLeod. Especially as he delivers to my home in Englandshire…
EKBhoy
Yes, MON didn’t take any crap from the press.
I believe he was awarded damages a few times.
Fed up Philbhoy
15:23 on
14 February, 2014
Why not buy some links, take the sausage meat out of the skins, mix together with a selection of your own herbs and spices and divide and shape into skwerrs of a size that suits your requirements.
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Thought about that for about 2 seconds then thought “Naw not going to work with Bratwurst”
Pogmathonyahun……
Is that veal pork and beef?
Could be interesting.
Well at least you wouldn’t have to add to many spices!
John O’Neil
Do you honestly believe we are NOT useless in Europe
Where have you been for the last year?
‘Well one of our best ever Managers critized and denigrated – not very classy, more to the point not very Celtic.’
– imagine what it would have been like on here after the Feyenoord game.
Slabhoy you are indeed a man of exquisite taste!!! Hail Hail Hebcelt
FUP
Yes, MON didn’t take any crap from the press.
I believe he was awarded damages a few times.
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Aye, that’s right.
You’ll be next KevJ to have your piggybank emptied by the bould MON ;-0
Chairbhoy
MON had to spend big because Rangers were cheating!
LB
Dontbrattbakkinanger
15:52 on
14 February, 2014
‘Well one of our best ever Managers critized and denigrated – not very classy, more to the point not very Celtic.’
– imagine what it would have been like on here after the Feyenoord game.
ah was to busy roarin n greetin lol
An Tearmann
Me too! I was at the game.
Mind you we were away for about 10 days. Apart from the game, it was a hoot.
Martin O’Neill’s wife’s illness was the reason that Martin O’Neil left Celtic?
Was it?
I don’t know.
I do know (in my mind) that Celtic, as a club, owed Martin O’Neill more than Martin O’Neill ever owed Celtic.
Martin O’Neill was never obligated to Celtic, although when he does retire I think he’ll look back on Seville as the tops. But… to raise again his wife’s illness as the reason as to why he left somehow strikes me as crass.
I don’t think his wife liked the ‘home invasions’ too much; The planting of the Union Flag in her back garden too much; The bigotry, too much. Not that she hated the Union Flag otherwise why go back to Bucks, she just hated the intrusions and the implied threat.
Martin O’Neill came and he did conquer, and he left. No manager since he left should fear his shadow. Just like no player should fear the reputations of Jimmy Johnstone or Kenny Dalglish, or Henrick Larsson, or Johnny Thomson, because one day we are going to see a better player than each of them in their respective positions and if any of them are still alive to see it they won’t begrudge them their glory. Neither will Martin O’Neill begrudge any future Celtic manager success.
So why should supporters?
Is every Celtic winger that pulls on the hoops from today on a dick because he ain’t Jimmy Johnstone?
Philbhoy, was it you that was extolling the virtues of an Aldi or was it lidl own brand malt whisky a few weeks back?
If it was can you remind me please. I had a look in lidl but they only had a blend so I gave it a miss.
Fanx
Aussie Rules Bratwurst
EKBhoy
Yes it was wee bunged up Keevins. Him of the Artur George will be named celtic manager – CLOWN !
£50 free bet from Celtic this weekend. Or so the email would lead you to believe, click on the link however and it’s a matched bet of upto £50 also it’s an offer available to anyone not exclusive to Celtic fans. Capitalism, shove it up yer arse.
ACGR
It was me!
Aldi – Highland Black 8 years old blended.
Bought two bottles yesterday in Linlithgow store, £12.76…each.
Very nice.
Hope you are well.
Philbhoy
MON knew how to treat the MSM ….with the contempt they were due
He gave the a hard boot in the haw maws a few times thro the courts
It’s his we should treat them….instead we invite into our stadium , advertise in their companies …
Kitalba
Yes
Seven games won in a row without the Stinkies having a sniff of anything to cheer about …whitewash
Always a hero for me
ACGR
After I posted about the whisky someone else posted saying it had won a gold medal (i think)
as the best blend or whatever.
I bought it originally to serve to my mother in law, who likes lemonade in her whisky, sacriladge, I know.
It’s no bad with awee drop water.
…PFayr
I agree re the press.
Do they get hospitality on the house when they are our guests?
charliemac 15:52 on 14 February, 2014
John O’Neil
Do you honestly believe we are NOT useless in Europe
Where have you been for the last year?
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Where we you last season?
sacriladge?
Well you know what I meant.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1954831-ranking-the-top-60-strikers-of-all-time/page/13
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1954831-ranking-the-top-60-strikers-of-all-time/page/29
a ceiler gonof rust dancing in the moonlight with annabel goldie
16:07 on 14 February, 2014
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Afternoon and happy Friday Celts!
Don’t remember who it was but I’m sure it was Aldi, 8yr old single blend for around £12, I need to get some o that to try.
HH