I was at the Celtic FC Foundation Dinner last week and guest Charlie Mulgrew was asked about the best he had played with at Celtic. He mentioned Virgil van Djik and Victor Wanyama as greats but told us the best was Scott Brown. “Even when we were playing fives or sevens, his team almost always won.” When you hear comments like this, you pay attention.
Scott retired yesterday after winning 23 major trophies, a joint record in British football held with Billy McNeill, 22 of Scott’s won at Celtic, his first at Hibernian. He was adored by his managers as much for his attitude as his ability. Leading by example, there would be no hiding in a Celtic shirt with Scott on the field, no unnecessary lingering on the treatment table. As captain since 2010, he was the first line of enforcement of rules and standards.
This season was spent as player and assistant to Stephen Glass at Aberdeen, a venture that did not work out, although a goal at Ibrox, a venue he previously endured abuse and assault at, could yet prove to be a vital contribution in the title race. He left a day after his former mentor, Neil Lennon, accepted a managerial job in Cyprus. Hmmm.
In person, he could not have been more different than the bulldog he resembled on the pitch; he is intelligent and relaxed. You know the stats, there is no correlation between playing and managing ability, so let’s not burden Scott with any expectations. Hope to see him back soon at Celtic Park.
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AN TEARMANN on 9TH MARCH 2022 6:00 PM
Park the fake nooz
Give me the response from the listed people, or I’ll block you.
Thanks.
Na not here.you post shoite you get called.
You posted fake news
I hope wee racist George Galloway isnae making you shite yourself to much.
Your a touch to manic and to multi’d at the moment.
Hope your well kev.rest up on the drivel
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Show me the bit were George Galloway was a racist??
You whine about it every day without a shred of evidence??
It must’ve been pretty bad or you wouldn’t be saying it every day??
Until you do – it is you who is fake news.
Take care. 👍
Aipple @12:27 and SFTB @ 5:16. Very sound posts, gentlemen.
Part of me believes the blog should be open to all, even long term posters with intractable fixed views immune from amelioration ( and who may, for all we know, possibly deserve our sympathy for having a singular obsessive compulsion and no real social life to divert him ).
Then again, part of me wishes Kev J would just Park his Sceptical Citizen up his Edward Nygma. The slabs of text, uninterrupted by paragraphs, induce ennui and scrolling by.
And by the way, that Fekir just scored a belter of an equalizer for Betis.
Eintracht score another. 1-2.
……..eh, ignore…………………
Frankfurt second goal scored by Japanese lad. Tremendous team speed.
Some were Scotland Yard from here recently, for posting absolute lies,trawled from the internet….
MadMitch @ 1:25
It was me that took the bet you offered to St Stivs.
One thing though – I thought you were saying Scott Brown would have had more of an influence on his team than McCarthy would at Celtic. I was under the impression I had McCarthy – and was going to offer to pay up at the winter break 🤷🏽♂️
JHB 👇
https://www.footballscotland.co.uk/spfl/scottish-premiership/scott-brown-offered-leicester-city-23340498
ROCK TREE BHOY on 9TH MARCH 2022 6:08 PM
ERNIE LYNCH on 9TH MARCH 2022 5:53 PM
AN TEARMANN on 9TH MARCH 2022 5:51 PM
‘Mark mc ghee tests positive’
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Was waiting on his biggest fan telling us :-)
Yeh mmg working from home tonight
HH
For what?
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COVID
If Broony goes with Brendan then it’ll be the managerial moulding that will lead, hopefully, to an era of Broony the manager. 👍
https://i2-prod.footballscotland.co.uk/incoming/article23329295.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_13587791-1.jpg
Almost impossible to keep the determined nugget out………
but engagement gives oxygen and battery-life to an otherwise dud hun hump.
https://glasgowcelticstream.co.uk/2022/03/09/will-broony-follow-henrik-to-have-a-crack-at-england-late-after-rodgers-invitation/
Park your fake news
Its well known,Georgie has needed a them since he was kicking about hyndland
Ask his rentboy jhb,he went awfully awfully quiet once his commie corbyn repetitive posting,got answered
Once he was NOT re- admitted to Jeremy’s labour party on the grounds of racism- see Naz Chan.
Friend of Bannon and the ‘dangerous left
You vomit enough of it on here
Glad you get the repitition.
* shakes heid *
. (@sensiblehuman96) Tweeted:
The liberal nonchalance towards the Azov battalion is particularly bizarre considering the anti-semitism discourse we’ve had over the last five years. https://twitter.com/sensiblehuman96/status/1501563208494112770?s=20&t=YhSd3A129jNtE4uIwyHfDQ
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Exactly!
The same liars who smeared, Jeremy Corbyn, for 5 years, (( fake antisemitism )) are now cheering on Nazi’s??
And Tims are falling for every word??
Sing about Irish freedom out of one side of their mouths, then gushing praise for Nazi’s out the other side of their mouths, and then they shamelessly smear anyone pointing out that they’ve got this wrong??
Bottom line is, if you believe the media without question, then you are going to be led into all sorts of traps.
And may God have mercy on your soul.
Ta da.
Penalty to Frankfurt. Poor.
Claudio Bravo saves.
Great game this in Seville. End to end at speed.
EMERALDBEE \O/ A DOUBLE NINER!! on 9TH MARCH 2022 6:01 PM
AN TEARMANN on 9TH MARCH 2022 5:47 PM
Tom i dunno,I couldn’t access your link trying.
Mines was p1.
Yup Big D, t’was the same vid. Thanks for the original link – Mrs Emeraldbee commented on the positive demeanour of/from the trio in Oz towards Ange. (The only bit I didn’t like was the reference to the ‘Old Firm’ game in November but they were Ozzies so I can forgive them.)
Seen it at lunch and like yourself enjoy that ozzie backing he gets when interviewed.its warm relaxed and truthful.Hope all good.thanks I couldn’t get into Tom’s link but thats a double post I don’t mind.
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BB apologies mate.i try to adhere but its difficult.
HH
Nabil Fekir is some player.
AN TEARMANN on 9TH MARCH 2022 6:40 PM
Park your fake news
Its well known,Georgie has needed a them since he was kicking about hyndland
Ask his rentboy jhb,he went awfully awfully quiet once his commie corbyn repetitive posting,got answered
Once he was NOT re- admitted to Jeremy’s labour party on the grounds of racism- see Naz Chan.
Friend of Bannon and the ‘dangerous left
You vomit enough of it on here
Glad you get the repitition.
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George Galloway wasn’t allowed into the Labour Party because he had stood against Labour in a bye election within the 5 year election cycle, so what you say is a lie. Fake news.
Look at the coup that took place against, Jeremy Corbyn, led by Starmer, who also ‘refused’ to deal with the grooming gangs even though he was, the leader of public prosecutions at the time?? why eh?? there would’ve been no coup against, Jeremy Corbyn, if GG had been allowed back, indeed the coup would’ve been the other way, just the presence of GG in the Labour Party, would’ve made the Palestinian haters resign, or be given notice that they would be replaced at next election, along with Lab MPs who intended to stab 17.4million people in the back, and overturn Brexit, and the media would’ve been petrol bombed in every Labour Party interview, by GG.
Naz Shah, who refused to stand up against the grooming gangs in her area?? and she smeared Galloway as a racist for declaring that if he was elected instead of, Naz, that no matter what colour the grooming gangs are, GG, would hound them into prison!! is that a bad thing?? yet because of the colour of the groomers it was deemed to be racist if GG went after them?? really?? the media stood on the side of the bad folk, but GG was smeared as the bad guy for doing what is supposed to be the right thing??
Why do you think that was??
Jeremy Corbyn, and George Galloway, smeared by a media who support grooming gangs, and covered up for Jimy Savile??
and you take the side of that same media, and call GG a racist??
Deary me.
Charlie McCann (left) in action for the Republic of Ireland Under-17s against their Czech counterparts in 2019
Charlie McCann (left) has played for the Republic of Ireland’s Under-17s and Under-19s
Republic of Ireland Under-21 manager Jim Crawford has confirmed that Rangers midfielder Charlie McCann has opted to switch his international eligibility to Northern Ireland.
Coventry-born McCann has played for the Republic’s Under-17s and Under-19s.
The 19-year-old has impressed for the Scottish club’s B team since joining from Manchester United in a deal worth a reported £750,000 last summer.
“I spoke to Charlie a few weeks ago,” said the Republic’s Under-21 boss.
Speaking to the League of Ireland Central Podcast, Crawford added: “It’s unfortunate that he’s looking now to go and play with Northern Ireland.
‘This was the danger of the 2002 group that haven’t been involved in international football for so long [because of the pandemic].
“I had to say to Charlie that you have to realise that we have Gavin Kilkenny, Conor Coventry, Ross Tierney, Dawson Devoy, Will Smallbone, these players that are all really talented players. Charlie is a very good player as well but unfortunately he didn’t get ahead of them.”
While McCann has opted for Northern Ireland, Dublin-born St Patrick’s Athletic winger Darragh Burns is in process of securing his international eligibility for the Republic having represented both countries at youth level.
WATCH OUT FOR SUNSHINE AND SHOWERS WITH A BIG STORM OVER IBROX
Jan 22 2006 By Billy Paterson, Sunday Mail
WEATHER GIRL’S GREYSKULL JIBE SPARKS GERS’ FANS FURY ‘Kirsty is a Kilmarnock fan and was joking about Rangers after they pinched Boyd’ The BBC in London
A BBC weather girl was forced to apologise yesterday after calling Rangers’ stadium Castle Greyskull on air.
Kirsty McCabe sparked a barrage of complaints from outraged Gers fans after using the jibe in a breakfast time forecast on national TV. The derogatory Greyskull nickname for Ibrox is popular among Celtic fans and other rival supporters.
It dates from 1980s TV cartoon and comic He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Castle Greyskull is the dark home of the evil Skeletor.
Kirsty incensed Rangers fans, prior to their team’s SPL clash with Livingston, by telling them to “wrap up warm if they are heading for Castle Greyskull”.
Last night, a BBC spokesman issued an apology on Kirsty’s behalf and said she was a Kilmarnock fan still sore at the loss of star striker Kris Boyd to Rangers.
Her gaffe came during a BBC1 round-up of weather conditions at Britain’s top sporting grounds yesterday.
After telling viewers throughout the UK about conditions near grounds in England, she turned her attention to the weather north of the Border – and mocked the Glasgow stadium.
Gers fan Tam Cairns, 40, of Prest-wick, Ayrshire, said: “I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
“Never mind Castle Greyskull – this woman is a numbskull.
“Rangers fans are not exactly thin-skinned but that was totally out of order.
“I bet Celtic fans would feel the same if some blonde on the box made a slur on Parkhead.”
Another Rangers fan, Dave Stewart, 24, from Glasgow said: “I thought I had misheard what she had said but I replayed the broadcast and couldn’t quite believe it.
“It is a slur on Rangers to be calling Ibrox Castle Greyskull.
“I don’t know if it was some sort of prank for a laugh, but it is not the type of thing you expect from the BBC. “I bet Celtic fans have been having a good laugh at it.”
Rangers Supporters Assembly president Jim Templeton was also outraged by Kirsty’s gaffe.
He said: “That was a shocking statement. Still, I shouldn’t be too surprised because it seems that everybody is having a go at us right now.”
A spokesman for the BBC in London said: “We have received a handful of complaints about this.
“Kirsty is a Kilmarnock fan and she was making a light-hearted joke about Rangers after they pinched top scorer Kris Boyd from Kilmarnock a couple of weeks ago.
“She hopes most football fans accept the joke in the spirit it was intended but apologises if there was any offence caused.”
Kirsty, who graduated with a first-class honours degree in geophysics from Edinburgh University, joined the BBC in September 2003. Prior to that she worked for three months as an intern at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland.
Safe to say Porto are still a shower of cheating, diving buggers.
https://www.footballscotland.co.uk/spfl/scottish-premiership/mark-mcghee-wont-attend-dundee-23341472
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Does that not mean the whole team will have to self isolate??
Or is that just wee nippy the Celtic haters rools??
Get well soon, Mark McGhee, Celtic centenary year hero legend, Aberdeen 2 European trophies legend.
🙏 🍀 🏆🏆 👏👏
AN TEARMANN on 9TH MARCH 2022 6:28 PM
I’m told by people I respect that you are a straight up bloke. Really wish your posts would reflect that.
SAINT STIVS
Gers fan Tam Cairns, 40, of Prest-wick, Ayrshire, said: “I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
“Never mind Castle Greyskull – this woman is a numbskull.
“Rangers fans are not exactly thin-skinned but that was totally out of order.
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Aw, the sensitive wee souls!
the blonde comment as well.
not just racist and sectarian, but misogynist as well.
right wing bingo.
no one likes us and we care.
The FACt that this is true 👇 is genuinely disturbing!!
Voted for by (( in the wrong movie )) Tims.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNXL1zHUYAsXrw9?format=jpg&name=small
Betis lose home leg 1-2. Their goalie saved them from a real doing. Oddly, Eintracht looked a far, far superior team than the Dortmund team I watched a couple of weeks ago.
ernie lynch on 9th March 2022 5:38 pm
SCULLYBHOY on 9TH MARCH 2022 4:57 PM
‘surely any discussion about the 6 counties leaving the Union would also be insulting because what applies to Scotland surely applies here too?’
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No it doesn’t.
And it’s difficult for me to fathom the level of political ignorance, stupidity and naivety required to hold such a view.
No offence.
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None taken (just trying to be sarcastic there – learn from the master).
Oh dear, Ernie is cross :–(
Very mature level of debate there but none of us are worthy when we meet the master of sarcasm and defender of the Union. The Right Honourable Sir Earnest.
Lee Camp [Redacted] (@LeeCamp) Tweeted:
They lied to us about:
– Iraq
– Afghanistan
– Syria
– Libya
– Vietnam
– North Korea
– Iran
– Venezuela
– Guatemala
– Honduras
– Haiti
– Cuba
– Panama
– Nicaragua
…But they’re telling the truth about Ukraine https://twitter.com/LeeCamp/status/1494417984345026562?s=20&t=VAJrrYFl1zhEl6IGKjYdqg
👍 🎯 💯
https://twitter.com/peterstefanovi2/status/1501112986097926145?s=24
Corrupt to the core
Did Frankfurt not play really well against either Spurs or Arsenal .A problem with fans in London?.Vague recollections,.
if i ruled the world
ROCK TREE BHOY on 9TH MARCH 2022 7:26 PM
AN TEARMANN on 9TH MARCH 2022 6:28 PM
I’m told by people I respect that you are a straight up bloke. Really wish your posts would reflect that.
You answered Covid
I answered,poorly edited by myself as it should have
After your reply ☝so it should have then said👇
Was waiting on his biggest fan telling us :-)
Yeh mmg working from home tonight
HH
So to that you respond
I’m told by people I respect that you are a straight up bloke. Really wish your posts would reflect that.
Your a bit to precious RTB,and I wouldn’t believe a word :‐)
me thinks my engagement with trolls upset you a little so I don’t think your being honest with yourself.
I think I will get you a pillow so those elbows don’t wear out while windae hinging mate,either that or post about Celtic,there are enough lurkers reading and people watching,no need for you to give a runnin commentary on who or what is getting posted.
If your ever home,we will meet after a game,will get you a pint.thats if am not on your much vaunted scroll by list…guess thats 2 pints for me then.
Celtic
HH
Real Madrid – PSG game on a knife edge.
Messi, always available, with eyes in the back of his head. Slower now, but still superb.