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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SRS
Last year in Europe was fab, this year the pits.
Are we going backwards or is it just a hiccup?
Eddieinkirkmicheal
hi there,was wondering if you could post that link to Celeidh/seminar in Ullapool you posted
might be toddlin up there and pop in
thanks
hail hail
Single malt
pogmathonyahun aka laird of the smiles
15:14 on 14 February, 2014
That had me spluttering my Tetley especially the end.
Went for a swim today and sat in the communal Jacuzzi afterwards where I overheard some Berrs discussing their prospects in Europe next season- I kid you not
Ah well I’ll take a red card for this, but…
See some of the shite on here nowadays?
Third rate, sensationalist, red top worthy bullshit.
They say you get what you deserve, I sometimes think some people get exactly the worldview they deserve.
God Bless Martin O’Neill and John Robertson and Steve Walford.
Gave me the journey of a lifetime. A season (In which we won nothing) I would not change for the world – it’s all in there – and we are all in there too…
U
fed up philbhoy
16:14 on 14 February, 2014
ACGR
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Hoops just reading back :>)
EKBhoy
15:45 on
14 February, 2014
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 …
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There are other pieces about this but the link below shows that MON was prepared to go.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/7076789.stm
Martin and the courts:
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/international/o-neill-has-track-record-in-law-courts-1.1528182
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 ….
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http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=25106.0
Fed up Philbhoy 16:23 on 14 February, 2014
“Last year in Europe was fab, this year the pits.”
I agree. But reaching the last 16 last season would indicate we are not ‘useless in Europe’ as Charlie was claiming.
“Are we going backwards or is it just a hiccup?”
Time will tell. But we punched above our weight last season and we are in the fourth pot for a good reason. The fact Celtic compete at that level at all is an achievement lost on some people.
We have played Barcelona 10 times in the last 10 years. The hiding was always going to come. They have battered teams will greater resources than Celtic on countless occasions.
All we can do is qualify and do our best once we are there.
Steinreignedsupreme
The operative word is ARE
Last season we WERE
The period relating to the word ARE would be in the last year – have a look at the results and the goals against and tell me again that you agree that we ARE good in Europe
BognorBhoy……….Brill…….stolen for CQN/Facebook
Steinreignedsupreme
You may not have seen this on Ajax which I think is interesting in terms of expectations.
http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/topic/9035553/1/#new
MON Celtic Legend.
Unlike WGS and NFL he was never bought off by PL.
Not only in posts but also in leader articles CQN has saught to denigrate MON and that era.
If you are just a mouth peiece for Peter Lawwell what do you expect its a yolk aroudn teh mans neck.
Anyway you dress it up Celtic will never compete in another European final while PL carries out DD orders.
Welcome to the slow lane its just nor profitable enough as last years transfer window demonstrated.
HH
MON – He let a new generation know what being a big time club was again. His signing success on all his big buys was immense also.
Maybe if we had traded more in those days (£10 million for Agathe?) we could have had a sustainable model- one that would have battered Ajax home and away.
MON Celtic was a golden period,
Auldheid,
I agree with you policies not personalities. No problems there.
HH
Cheers philbhoy, I’m going to high tail it into the metropolis of Forfar and see if they have it there. I think the one I saw in lidl (brechin) was a 12 Y.O. blend. might give that a go. They also had a 5 Y.O. malt.
Vmhan, any news on the GB surprise for Sunday? I had a look on their site but all I could see was that they’re planning a meet at the London Rd CSC before the game.
Auldheid, you have incoming.
“We didn’t spend £50m on a player last summer, and I think a few people were surprised by that, and there are no plans to spend big this summer either,” Fergie said. “We’re looking at something different. We’ve signed Chris Smalling for £10m, Javier Hernández for £6m and Mame Biram Diouf for £4m and a bit. People clamouring for big signings are missing the point; £20m is a lot of money to spend on young players, but that’s what we like to do, get players who are going to develop in the club, because the long-term view has got to be important here.”
Charliemac.
Other teams that aren’t any good in Europe.
Copenhagen, anderlecht, cska moscow, Viktoria Plzen, steau Bucharest and the worst team in Europe marseille.
SFTB
When did I promise to answer your post Friday or Saturday night ?
I canny find it
HH
Occasionally the referendum debate surfaces here.
Last night’s Question Time threw up an interesting aside on the matter. Supporting Osborne’s stance on the currency debate, the Labour’s representative on the panel referred twice, if not three times to England being asked to bale us out should a pound retaining Independent Scotland find itself in difficulties. No mention of other UK members such as Wales and Northern Ireland having to dig deep to rescue Scotland.
A perhaps unconscious demonstration of how Westminster’s only concern is
England, England and England.
MON was the best manager we have had since Mr Stein
He took a team that had lost 4-0 ( going on 6 or 7) at the bigotdome and with some real solid additions destroyed them 6-2 in the next derby -a couple of months later
MON ‘s team gave us some of our best ever Celtic days
They destroyed the Huns on and off the park
Like all managers -even Mr Stein -he had his faults but to accuse him of fabricating his wife
is well out of order
HH
charliemac 16:39 on 14 February, 2014
If you wish to judge Celtic on this season alone then we finished fourth in the table as fourth seed in the group.
Maybe some realism is required.
Of course it should read “fabricate his wife’s illness”
Doh-almost as stupid as the original post
HH
Not trying to denegrate MoN’s record or acheivements in anay way and thankful for his time and the way in which he overcame the bloated and cheating hun, but he did inherit some fantastic players in Henke, Lubo, Lambert and Petrov to mention but 4.
HH
Changin Scotland: March 28th-30th
February 12th, 2014 | Author: Gerry
Changin Scotland
A weekend of politics, culture and ideas …. And fun!
Friday March 28th-Sunday March 30th
The Ceilidh Place, Ullapool
WHO HAS POWER IN MODERN SCOTLAND?
In association with the Reid Foundation
Friday March 28th
8.00-9.30pm:
Welcome:
Gerry Hassan and Jean Urquhart
Scotland after the Crash: The Collapse of RBS
Ian Fraser, author, forthcoming ‘Shredded: The Rise and Fall of RBS’
Saturday March 29th
10.00-11.15am
What would imagining a different Scotland look like?
Creative activism, imagination and change facilitated by Joe Lafferty
11.30-12.45am
Social Class, Social Justice and the Issue of Education
Gerry Hassan, author, forthcoming ‘Caledonian Dreaming: The Quest for a Different Scotland’ and Eileen Reid, commentator and writer
12.45-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30pm
The Shape of Inequality, Housing, Place and Power
Ailsa McKay, Glasgow Caledonian University and Douglas Robertson, Stirling University
4.00-4.30pm
What is Missing from the Scottish Debate?
David Donnison, former Professor of Urban Studies, Glasgow University; author of ‘The Politics of Poverty’ and ‘Speaking to Power’
4.30-6.00pm
Radical Scotland? Common Weal and the New Radicals
Cat Boyd, trade union activist, Robin McAlpine, Reid Foundation, Bronagh Gallagher, member, Reid Foundation Commission on Democracy, Jean Urquhart, MSP, Jamie Maxwell, writer and journalist, ‘New Statesman’
Sunday
10.00-10.45am
The Power of Business Interest Scotland
Craig Harrow, MHP Scotland
10.45-12.00am:
What do we do about ideology and Britain?
James Foley, Radical Independence Conference and Jamie Maxwell
12.15-1.00pm:
What do we do about the Media?
Paul Holleran, NUJ Scottish Organiser
For Bookings, Tickets and Accomodation:
Please Phone The Ceilidh Place Reception: 01854-612103
Cite ‘Changin Scotland’
Weekend Prices: £60 for all weekend events.
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http://www.gerryhassan.com/ullapool-events/changin-scotland-march-28th-30th/
MON was cheated out of every trophy he lost domestically. Many … very many on here too thick to realise it.
HH
or to enthralled by the Old Firm to care ….
HH
Tom Hanks is a Tim now according to the Scotsman.
http://www.scotsman.com/what-s-on/film/tom-hanks-is-a-celtic-fan-says-actor-s-friend-1-3306325
Awe naw.
So was tommy burns, Jo venglos, Gordon strachan, tony Mowbray, Neil Lennon and every celtic manager before them.
Well if The Bono money and the Tom Hanks money got together…
Wah Wah Wee Wah!!!!
THM
but it was not official at the time. Now that it is what are we doing about it ?
HH
Tom hanks will be gutted we sold Wilson in the summer.
Honest mistake -cracker – I get that one – but let’s leave the mystery a while longer
Good evening friends from whiteout EK.
Awe naw.
Resolution 12 is the only attempt to get justice I am aware of. All credit to canamalar morissey and auldheid.
We should all give them support in their quest.