News (confirmed by his club) that our next Champions League opponents Juventus have opened negotiations with Athletic Blibao striker Fernando Llorente, ahead of a possible free-transfer move in the summer, appears to put recent fantasy stories about Gary Hooper supposedly moving to Turin in the correct context. Liverpool, who several newspapers also ‘reported’ were interested in Hooper, signed a different striker this week.
The relentless pillage of Celtic player’s names used to sell newspapers is wearisome, probably more so to those at the club hoping to convince Hooper, and Victor Wanyama, to sign new contracts. Chances of re-signing Hooper if he thinks Juventus and Liverpool are about to bid for him: 0%. Chances if it’s relegation battlers from England: considerably higher. I see a new front has been opened today on Beram. We have to ensure another 28 days of this nonsense.
Llorente is a current Spanish international and played a huge part in Atheltic’s march to the Europa League final last season, but I would not be too concerned if Juventus tried to secure him this month. Moving to Turin is notoriously challenging for strikers and Llorente has never been based outside of the Basque country.
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natknow – “we welcome the paper-chase…”
10:46 on
4 January, 2013
googybhoy ♥ Celtic
Well done on the booze front.
Larry Gershon
I am out if here. “Shut that door”
Normanstreet49
Hope this link works.
https://www.justgiving.com/dryathlete-jim-mcgougan/
The Battered Bunnet
I would tend to agree with your assessment of football coverage in Scotland. Radio is generally decent while TV is awful.
It strikes me that there is something sundamentally wrong that such a visually rich, exciting and enjoyable spectacle as football is better on Radio than TV in Scotland.
fundamentally
stevebhoy, best post ive read on here in ages,thank god for celtic fans like you, keep me sane, sometimes reading on here i start to think I have nothing in common with most celtic fans these days then post like yours shines like a beacon.
Hail hail
And like the poster A Ceiler Gonof Rust im glad NFL doesnt read thi board for advice. Keep all 1st team players, if these young players do not deserve our trust and backing then nobody ever will and we would b as well chucking this sport.
Thank you gentleman for restoring my faith in celtic supporters.
BBC Scotland’s radio coverage of football must have improved in the last year or so, during which I admit to having listened to little or none of their output.
But I did hear Traynor and Chick, both being remunerated by the licence-fee payer at the time, have an argument about which of them had been the bigger cheerleader for Rangers. This in itself, as a public admission of partiality (which is meant to be anathema to the BBC), ought to have been enough to earn both a termination of contract.
googybhoy ♥ Celtic
Haha! Gotcha.
A poster from last night asked if Rami was of the Stairheid variety and, being a regular CQN lurker, I liked that. There can be no greter honour for a CQN poster than to have a Celtic player adopt his CQN nickname.
Dulce et decorum…errr…CQN…etc!
Celtic_First
You’re right. BBC Radio Scotland football coverage is by no means perfect. Young and Traynor are exactly the type of characters that devalue it. However, it is actually more entertaining that BBC Scotland’s TV coverage – which is quite simply awful.
All we ask is that the publicly funded broadcaster covers sport in a fair minded fashion. But that is seemingly too much to ask in Scotland.
Gordon
With all due respect, I think you may be falling into the well managed campaign that the EPL is ‘the best league in the world’ whereas the SPL is ‘mickey mouse’. The BBC’s relative production values – MoTD v Sportscene – exemplify this.
Why is the top league in England regarded as the UK National Football competition when it is clearly not?
Why do football fans in Reading benefit from a £3M annual subsidy from the BBC to their local football club yet fans of Aberdeen, who pay precisely the same amount in BBC licensing, get less than £100K?
There are more Scottish football fans living in England than there are English football fans in Manchester. Why are their interests not provided for by the BBC?
Scottish football is ‘crap’. I’ve heard it from so many sources that it must be true. When did it become so? When Aberdeen knocked Bobby Robson’s marvellous Ipswich team out of Europe? When Rangers beat Leeds Utd home and away in the inaugural Champions League? When Celtic papped out Blackburn and then Liverpool from the UEFA Cup? Manchester Utd. AC Milan. Barcelona. All have lost to Celtic in recent years. But Scottish football is crap, yes?
The BBC subsidy provided to the English clubs provides them with the wherewithal to take the top young players away from the SPL clubs, thus diminishing the game and contributing to the perception that Scottish football is ‘crap’.
Fyvie, Dempsey, Fraser, Dorrans, McCarthy, Kennedy and all the others who the developing club were unable to wage beyond their first professional contract, should all still be playing in the SPL. The standard of football would be considerably better had their clubs been able to compete of wage terms with EPL offers.
That they’re not is in part due to the BBC’s policy of redistributing licence fee raised in Scotland to benefit English football clubs, and in doing so, they actively undermine the Game here. Scottish football is crap only because it needs to be to justify BBC policy.
Livibhoy
Ferguson ..a bit thick…..extremely charitable there auld pal
While watchiing the disgraceful performance of referee McLean on Wednesday, another of my dreams was shattered. I had naively hoped that, with the departure of (The) Rangers from the scene, the perfomances of our biassed and incompetent referees would improve. How wrong I was . So I am left to return to my paranoia that there is an anti-Celtic conspiracy among our referees which must be part of their training. So we cann now add the name of McLean to that long list.
P.s. It would be very interesting to see the assessor’s report on wednesday – I wouuld have given him no more than 8 out of 10.
googybhoy……
link worked fine, you,ve now had my lunchtime tipple……
good luck….. and HH
PFayr
I tried to be as bnice as possible as his comments about TB were very genuine. It just shows what Tommy was about. A brilliant man.
LB
TBB,
Very interesting perspective on BBC spending on football. Obviously it is overly Anglocentric, just like their weather and news departments. What can we do about it? Even if we were to get a fairer share of the licence fee, BBC Scotland’s sports department aren’t exactly the ones I would expect to use the monies for the good of all of Scottish football.
Re BBC Scotland; from Only an Excuse to Sportscene it is absolute drivel. Rob McLean who I have had the misfortune to bump into a couple of times is clueless. When you put a clown in charge of the show what do you expect.
BBC Alba is probably providing value for it’s budget and it’s audience presumably appreciates it.
For the rest only Richard Gordon, Cosgrove & Cowan have their finger on the pulse and the skills to present Sportscene. The rest of the sports dept from McLean to Lamont should be chased ( from memory Al Lamont is another who is working off the BBC books to avoid tax).
When you look at the business editor and political editor of BBC Scotland their contribution is a big fat zero.
The last BBC Scotland person to deliver something substantial was Gordon Menzies Executive Producer ( original ) and created the Sketch of Rikki Fulton signing Brendan O’Malley for Third Lanark …no it was the other one Glasgow Rangers.
BBC Scotland Radio.
This is often the only outlet I have to listen to the game while out working down here and it is passable. They are certainly are not pro Celtic and some commentators have difficulty saying the word.
The coverage on Wednesday for 5live Extra was strewn with comments about the “home team”.
Listened to bits of the coverage of last nights Edinburgh Derby and it was dire. Given the game was no better but they were falling into the Alan Green mode of moaning and carping. Chief among them was Hibee fan Nevin.
He is a chameleon commentator that takes on the persona of the main commentator as he ingratiated himself to one and all.
Celtic_First
10:58 on
4 January, 2013
BBC Scotland’s radio coverage of football must have improved in the last year or so, during which I admit to having listened to little or none of their output.
It hasn’t you are still correct
Far to many with allegiances to the Govan club given a voice on Radio Scotland, a problem which recently Archie MacPherson referred to decades ago and was still evident recemtly with the now infamous Traynor/Young shouting match on who was Murrays biggest puppet, Moonbeams corrosive control on all forms of football reporting in Scotland took standards into the gutter, as of yet we have not seen any organisation totally cleanse itself of Murrays control, including radio Scotland
McLeans brother used to play for rangers, and although born in Scotland decided he wanted to play for Northern Ireland instead. You do the maths.
Interestingly, although like Aidan McGeady, McLeans brother decided to play for another international team instead of Scotland, he has never been subject to abuse over this by other teams supporters, or vilification by the msm, unlike Aidan. You do the maths.
normanstreet49
11:13 on 4 January, 2013
googybhoy……
link worked fine, you,ve now had my lunchtime tipple……
good luck….. and HH
Cheers mate
The Battered Bunnet,
My post was purely about audience figures, not relative quality.
And most of the English TV money comes from Sky for exactly the same reason – many Scottish fans watch English football while few English fans watch Scottish football.
Googybhoy
Another wee donation on it’s way!
Good luck!
Gordon
Last time BBC broadcast a Glasgow Derby nationally, it was 2nd only to Eastenders in the viewing figures.
It’s about justifying Anglo-centricity, not quality.
Sky is a commercial operation, with a singular remit to make profit for its shareholders.
BBC is a public body whose remit is defined in its public purposes, purposes that it is not being held to.
The fact that presstitutes like Jabba have been allowed to aggressively trumpet their guff so loudly, so long, speaks volumes.
Only one ‘team’ in Scotland. With a PR wing to die for.
the battered bunnet
10:16 on
4 January, 2013
Best not to waste your time….LOL……. There is no way Scotland will vote YES…… The bhuns will all vote NO ……. Any many of us will vote NO, following Mr Salmond’s intervention prior to Liquidation…..
googybhoy……
You mean Nevins a prick??
I think we all know that…… :)
Back from ticket office up Juve and St Mirren ticket’s they had a power cut
I had to go to the superstore, nothing ever simple
up there, to be fair the lad at the front door very helpful.
I asked him what were my chance’s of getting a ticket
for the league cup final if we get there of course as I am
not on the away ticket scheme. He told as Sevco were not in it
that I had a good chance, I was impressed he said Sevco,
nice to know the private’s are fighting the war against
the big lie even if the general’s ain’t.
What should a new national broadcaster in an independent Scotland look like? What should its priorities be?
We wouldn’t exactly have carte blanche, but it would present a great opportunity for a new start for the media in Scotland.
There would definitely be potential for getting partners in Australia, the US, New Zealand, Canada and, yes, England, to take some of the output and broadcast it for people with Scottish roots in their countries.
There would be no way of creating much meaningful drama, more’s the pity, but there could and should be the potential for investing in film, in music broadcasting (Scotland is world class in several genres of music and has been for a long time), in news and in sport.
If it was up to me, I would try to have a channel covering news, sport and mainstream programmes (many of which would have to come from outside Scotland, but ideally without swamping the schedule with stuff from England; there is great stuff from England, but there is also some dross and it would be important to filter that out). It would be brilliant also to have a second channel with children’s programmes in the day and film and culture in the evening. I am of the view that there is a gap in the market for serious film, by which I mean non-Hollywood and non-English language films. If you devoted your schedule to a few good films a night between, say, nine pm and two am, a lot of people in England, Wales and Ireland might tune in. TV5 Monde does this very well, in my view.
This is fun.
Mormanstreet49
That is very generous lunchtime tipple and you have given me an idea to get some money for my Dryathlon.
If people want to buy me a pint while I abstain from alcohol this month for Cancer Research then they can donate to https://www.justgiving.com/dryathlete-jim-mcgougan/
TBB,
the thing with football that mystifies me is how the sport has managed to adopt all the worst aspects of both a franchise system + free market pyramid structure with none of the redeeming checks and balances of either.
This has led to the dominance of particular leagues and particular teams within those leagues.
Telly money is certainly a major aspect of this but its not the only one. Not sure if its fixable though…
miki 67-
” IDS also studied fascism at a spurious and notorious Italian University ”
A vile man . A rebarbative man . Tells lies and spreads misinformation in support of his ideological aims and objectives. Have to assume that he is either truly ignorant re the facts and figures relating to welfare or is simply adopting the Fox News tactic of being wrong on purpose ——[ and hoping that the audience is dumb enough to believe the lie ]
But —-in the interests of accuracy ———-
He spent a few months at The University for Foreigners at Perugia .[ a place where the rich part with cash in exchange for being ” immersed” in Italian Language and Culture ]
He did study Fascism but he also studied the theory , practice and history of Italian Anarchism , Italian Communism , Italian Social Democracy etc. He studied Latin , Italian , Italian Literature / Italian history etc . Attended Italian Cookery classes. Attended classes re Italian Art and Music etc etc …[ all conducted in Italian ]
Whether he learned anything can only be a matter of conjecture
He got a wee certificate of attendance and a wee Diploma for meeting the criteria for getting a wee Diploma …
Note your use of ” spurious “—–mmm – it does what it says on the tin . Note your use of ” notorious ” —-why ? what for ? ——partying students? / sex drugs and rock and roll ?/ Foxy Knoxy ?
Me —— I studied Fascism at an inner city Glasgow school @ 1967 /68. Part of a course called European History
Murdochbhoy, The ads are syndicated, I have no direct business with Wonga and endorse your hostility towards their eye-watering interest rates (while acknowledging financial survival in poverty is a complex issue).
winning captains, thanks for adding Wonga to the exclusions list.
Googybhoy
Mormanstreet?
I knew who you meant though!
:0)
Did somebody steal my CQN moniker?
philbhoy – it’s just the beginning!
11:24 on
4 January, 2013
Googybhoy
Another wee donation on it’s way!
Good luck!
Cheers mate
Celtic First –
We know what budget BBC Scotland receives while Scotland remains a part of the UK. What budget do you think a Scottish national broadcaster would receive if the referendum resulted in a Yes vote? My guess is that it would be the same or possibly less depending on what is negotiated. Therefore I can’t imagine they would be in a position to provide quality broadcasting for all the areas you mention – they don;t do it just now. I like the idea though.
philbhoy – it’s just the beginning!
11:38 on 4 January, 2013
Googybhoy
Mormanstreet?
I knew who you meant though!
:0)
You get away with nothing on here.
;>}
Stairheidrammy –
It’s only a matter of time…!