There’s some fresh enthusiasm in Lanarkshire this morning with the appointment of Englishman Ian Baraclough as Motherwell manager. Baraclough had a couple of successful years with Sligo Rovers from 2012-14, winning their first title in decades, before things fell apart this year, but his role as a scout for Huddersfield over the last six months is likely to interest Motherwell as much.
Motherwell directors have had a long-term tradition when looking for a manager of saying they want someone ‘plugged into’ the scouting and agent network. This game is all about the right contacts, you don’t get to acquire a promising Blackburn Rovers reserve (as Motherwell once did), but this particular activity is also very competitive.
The small matter of how to deploy players is, of course, equally important, but if you’re Motherwell, Celtic or Barcelona, that call is a shot in the dark.
I watched newco Rangers for the first time last night, although I ended up watching a lot more Queen of the South than I expected. The latter, each of them journeymen, were excellent, the former were symptomatic of everything that’s wrong with comfortably well-off footballers. Newco’s medium-term future, if they have one, will be to spend the next few years building a self-sustaining lower league club, capable of winning promotion and remaining a top-flight football team thereafter.
Get along to Celtic Park early tomorrow, Davie Hay will be signing copies of Caesar & the Assassin in the Superstore. If you ask him nicely he’s promised to sign your CQN Annual too. Don’t forget your camera!
Also remember to look out for the Foundation bucketeers as you approach the ground or enter the turnstiles. My boys and me will be at the North Stand, turnstiles 1-13, say hello if you’re around.
Thanks to everyone who donated to Mary’s Meals yesterday, the response was overwhelming. Emails went out this morning to winners of the Magners’ tickets.
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We’d get bigger crowds because all fans complain that games aren’t kicking off at 3 oclock on Saturdays.
Sftb,
I don’t recognise any of the castlemilk bhoys, then again, it was atleast twice the population back then…only about 400 pupils at Maggie’s nowadays.
Changed days, for the better. HH
Dallas
Sunday 1pm is great. Mass at 10 OHR. Coupla pints in Alexanders open 11 then train fae Clydebank to Dalmarnock. Back to my mammy in Knightswood in time for Sunday Roast wi my family. Perfect Day with 3 points. :)
Setting free the bears, When I have a few pints and am persuaded to sing , its either one of two songs, The one you linked or The Snowy Breasted Pearl.
The one you linked is what’s known as a lampoon.
In other words the deeds of the guy the song was written about who was indeed a real person are almost the total opposite to the song.
Thady Quill was a bachelor farmer’s labourer who lived alone and didn’t drink. He did a bit of work for a local farmer who fancied himself as a Bard. The farmer was short of cash so struck a deal with Thady that he would pay him by writing a song about him. Thus the Ballad was written and apparently Thady was delighted with people going around singing the song. A very popular song in Cork. CQN great source of useless information.
leftclicktic,
The one and only time I met Kev j, I was in BT’s haunt, he seemed tall to me, then again I’m only five fit ten :))
Paul67 et al
For those that haven’t seen ‘United’, based around the impact of Munich on Matt Busby’s team and club, it is on the Drama channel at 9pm. Poignant in more ways than one, learned only recently that Celtic faced a similar situation in the 1960s.
The huddle
Yea, I I know it is complicated, just saying there is more than ko times affecting attendances.
And even limiting broadcast areas doesn’t seem to work in this day and age due to illegal feeds.
I remember when a live game on the telly was a special occasion, I’d love it if we could go back to that but it’s not happening.
I think I met him at the FAC demo in George Square ,
Though i’m 6 4″ and most are smaller then you have yer Jamesgang thennnnnnnnnnnn
An tearnan(spelling) :)))
Notice
Big John Hartson Docu on TV on Thursday Alba 9pm (I think)
Dallas Dallas
My 5 favourite players.
Henke
Paul McStay
Tommy Burns
Iniesta
And then the other genius you speak of…..Xavi.
And I agree. Barca’s emerging team lack the class these gents bring.
Aff oot. Away to watch a filum with the mrs. Hope to see y’all @ the CQN Corner tomorrow.
HH jamesgang
Delaney’s, that sounds a great combination.
We have a great oppurtunity to create more daylight between ourselves and the chasing pack tomorrow if the players do their jobs.
Real surprise thistle turning over caley today probably a coupon buster for some.
Craigellachie10
20:59 on 13 December, 2014
The huddle
Yea, I I know it is complicated, just saying there is more than ko times affecting attendances.
And even limiting broadcast areas doesn’t seem to work in this day and age due to illegal feeds.
I remember when a live game on the telly was a special occasion, I’d love it if we could go back to that but it’s not happening.
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True.
I read that the Glazer family worked out that Man U would make far more scraping the Sky TV deal and going it alone via the internet. We aren’t at that level but I’m fairly confident we could make far more that we do at the moment. Enough to support all other teams in the SPL.
So when are the SFA going to deal with the Ashley conflict of interest and the breach of the undertaking he took re 10% interest (sorry, no lauging at the back)
Jamesgang
Danny McGrain
Paul McStay
Henrik
Tommy Burns
Iniesta
My five favourites. Paisley born bhoys wi similar taste in player.
See you tomorrow at the coarner big yin.
Clash
Griff is one of the most talented players at Celtic just now!!!1
I read today of some of the charity work by Celtic over this festive period and I applaud them for it but I cannot get over the fact nor fully understand why we did not implement the living wage – it is something that is troubling me – greatly
Embramike@19.08 and DD
Was dragged affoott for a while there so just scrolling back.
100% bhoys. The applause for Iniesta, I feel, is what defines us as a support. It also stands us in good stead as a club. Iniesta himself stated that he was surprised and thankfull for the reception he received that night and ,his partner in crime, Xavi has nothing but good things to say about our club.
HH
Jude2005,
Don’t disagree, but manager clearly doesn’t fancy him, so if offer comes in, I think he will be offski
Dont like what Tulisa’s wearing !! wonder where she gets her Gear !!!
the_huddle
20:50 on 13 December, 2014
If all the games where 3pm on a Saturday the complainers would find something else to complain about.
The kickoff times have been changing for years now so we should be used to it.
When it was a 3pm KO on a Saturday and it was cheaper to get in why did we only get 25,000-30,000 crowds ????
Clash
Hope no!!
roy croppie
19:20 on 13 December, 2014
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3raxm4IgAAXT39.jpg:large
One of my favourites photos
Hail Hail
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Roy C
One of my favouritists Celtic players ever…ever.
Jamesgang
Hope you’re well, you down for the game ramorra?
Maybe see u @ CQN corner, at the game wi the wee man & Ernie :-)
Awe bloody Giants on here, better watch my P&Q’s in the future..:))
Ronniecorbetcfc.
The spirit of artur lee…jeremy clarkson says to kate moss..”im jeremy clarkson,i do top gear..kate moss replies” sorry, i dont do drugs”…great put down…
Hadn’t scrolled as far up to see Dallas and Jamesgang in agreement re Xavi and Iniesta soooo now I know I’m right. Lol.
Hope your doing good big Mhan.
HH
corkcelt
Thanks for the education.
We will get one of the Belfast boys to get your version recorded soon enough.
Gearoid
My father always taught me to watch both sides when he took me to watch Celtic play. However, he would never take me to a game v Rangers. He said that they provided nothing worth watching. Hope to meet you in Belfast on St. Valentine Day
Watched Barca and PSG the other night
barca 2-1 up ,bring on Xavi they score and I dont think they lost possesion from the moment he walked on the park ,a joy to watch class at work .
pedrocaravanachio67
Hope to be there tomorrow. Solo wee Mhan at a footie party.
gearoid1998
Hola pal. Hinging in there.
HH jamesgang
Great memory just hit me….my hero at the time Dalglish…penalty at the bigotdome..into the celtic end…pretended to tie his laces…no doubt about the outcome…
There have been a few techies on in the past talking about streaming Celtic games on a subscription type format. I know some infrastructural probs would need to be sorted but given the paucity of funding for the Scottish game from Sky/BT et al at the minute, surely this has to be the way forward.
I’m sure plenty would be prepared to invest to make it happen. The alternative is to continue to “bask” in the shadow of EPL teams such as Burnley, Hull etc. Genuinely no disrespect intended to those Club’s but in every way I feel we are bigger.
I think Brth had mooted at one stage that Celtic were at an advanced stage on new media platforms for showing matches.
HH
Roy Keane and Gabriel Agbonlahor almost came to blows in an explosive training ground bust-up that hastened the Irishman’s shock departure from Aston Villa.
Sportsmail can reveal the real story behind Keane quitting his post as Paul Lambert’s assistant a fortnight ago, after just six months in the job. He had festering disputes and disintegrating relations with key Villa players. Morale around the club’s Bodymoor Heath training ground had sunk so low that news of his exit was welcomed by the majority of the squad.
A source said: ‘The atmosphere was horrible. It went downhill the moment Keane arrived. He p****d off all the big names he shouldn’t have p****d off and his relationship with the senior players slowly fell apart.
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Roy Keane quit as Aston Villa’s assistant manager last month, after reportedly leaving a negative atmosphere
‘There was so much gloom about the place every time he turned up. When he went there was just a feeling of euphoria and relief.’
Months of simmering tension came to a head when Keane clashed spectacularly with stand-in skipper Agbonlahor in front of stunned team-mates in training days before the Irish assistant’s departure was confirmed.
It is understood the long-serving Villa star was talking tactics with Lambert when Keane interrupted. Agbonlahor resented the interference and tried to belittle Keane by telling him: ‘Excuse me, but I’m talking to the boss!’
The two men then became involved in a heated row and had to be separated. The ill feeling continued after the training session and Lambert held talks with Keane in the afternoon when it was decided they would part ways.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor (pictured) and Keane had an explosive argument in the build-up to his resignation
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Keane allegedly reacted angrily when Agbonlahor was upset at him interrupting his conversation with boss Paul Lambert
This was the last in a series of flashpoints which resulted in Keane alienating himself from the players.
They began soon after his arrival in July when Fabian Delph objected to criticism from the former Manchester United captain in training and rounded on him in front of the rest of the Villa squad.
The England midfielder, who is said to have taken an instant dislike to Keane, screamed: ‘Don’t try to f****** mug me off.’ Their relationship never recovered.
The 43-year-old hardly endeared himself to his new squad after a 1-0 home defeat by Leyton Orient in the Capital One Cup in August when he berated the players in the dressing room afterwards, and told them: ‘If I gave you 10 grand, you couldn’t even score in a brothel!’
Keane is also understood to have laid into the team when Lambert kept them in the dressing room for an hour after a 2-0 defeat at QPR in October. Defender Chris Herd is another of the players said to have had a falling out with the brooding Irishman, who became exasperated with the relaxed attitude to training by some other players, including Charles N’Zogbia.
Sportsmail’s Premier League preview: West Brom vs Aston Villa
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Fabian Delph’s (centre) relationship with Keane never recovered after a training ground bust-up in July
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And Keane was also exasperated with the attitude of Charles N’Zogbia (centre) in training
‘It was a combination of row after row and none of them were in private,’ our source toldSportsmail.
‘The problem with Keane is that he demands the same standards that he was used to at United and the lads at Villa don’t get paid enough to put up with that kind of c**p. He just got everybody down.’
The obsessively punctual Keane would leave his Cheshire home at 6am to be at Bodymoor Heath in time for training, and there were players at Villa who liked his attitude as well as his training methods.
However, the atmosphere was so poisonous by the end that few were sad to see him go. Relieved players exchanged texts when they were informed ahead of the official announcement on November 28, and the mood on the team bus to Burnley the next day was said to be significantly better than in previous weeks.
Villa strongly deny Keane left the club due to disagreements with players, or that Agbonlahor was involved in any row.
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Keane’s (right) departure was allegedly welcomed by Villa players ahead of their game at Burnley last month
The official reason given for Keane’s departure is that he was finding it difficult combining his work at Villa with his job as assistant manager with the Republic of Ireland.
That has been met with widespread scepticism, however, considering that Ireland do not have another game until March. It also seems odd that Keane left a day before the game at Burnley and questions about the matter were strictly prohibited in Lambert’s post-match press conference at Turf Moor.
The Villa players have also been sworn to secrecy over the real reason behind Keane’s exit, but our revelations today will come as little surprise to those who have followed his controversial career.
As a player, his fastidiously high standards led to the infamous row with Mick McCarthy in Saipan over Ireland’s training camp for the 2002 World Cup and Keane being sent home from the tournament.
He departed United three years later shortly after a similar falling out with Sir Alex Ferguson and Carlos Queiroz on a pre-season trip to Portugal.
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Keane’s (right) left Manchester United as a player after an argument with Carlos Queiroz (centre) in 2005
Keane’s friend and former Ireland team-mate Paul McGrath, who spent the majority of his career at United and Villa, admits his compatriot struggles to get along with people who do not match those standards.
McGrath told Sportsmail: ‘Roy says it as he sees it and doesn’t have too much interest in respecting big personalities or trying to be nice to people he can’t be bothered with.
‘If he doesn’t agree with you, he will tell you in no uncertain terms and that can rub people up the wrong way.
‘He has high standards, good standards, that make those around him better and if you don’t want to follow them I’m not sure he has time for you. That’s no bad thing when you consider what he has to offer and what he has achieved.’
The intensity of Keane’s management style is laid bare in his splendidly candid autobiography The Second Half, published in October, which includes details of his time in charge of Ipswich and Sunderland.
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Keane released his controversial second autobiography ‘The Second Half’ in October
Roy Keane launches The Second Half at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin
He confirmed that his falling out with Ipswich captain and Republic of Ireland international Jon Walters over concerns the player was angling for a move to Stoke in 2010 involved some ‘effing and blinding, a bit of shoving’.
The two men have made up since Keane took over as No 2 to Ireland manager Martin O’Neill, but it’s understood the row was so heated at the time that Walters warned Keane that he knew where he lived. The Ipswich boss then grabbed a pen and paper and handed the player his address just in case.
It came to a head after Walters withdrew from a League Cup tie against Exeter in 2010 due to a stomach bug, and Keane demanded the player provide Ipswich’s medical staff with evidence.
‘I sent the physio a photo of my sick,’ recalls Walters. ‘He came round at eight o’clock the next morning with the club doctor and said that he could smell (on my breath) that I’d been sick.
‘You never know where you stand with him and that was the fear factor he brought in. I respected him as a player, but maybe he can’t get his point across as a manager.’
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Stoke forward Jon Walters has mended his relationship with Keane, following their time together at Ipswich
In his book, Keane admits: ‘I don’t think I’m a bad manager, but at Ipswich I managed badly. I spoke to some people like something on the bottom of my shoe.’
The combative streak that made Keane a great player just didn’t seem to work for Keane the manager. Defender Gareth McAuley — now at West Brom — describes a pre-season army camp arranged by the manager.
‘That was horrendous,’ says McAuley. ‘He took our phones and wallets away from us, saying, “You’ve got five minutes to phone home and say you won’t be home tonight”.’
At Sunderland, where Keane won promotion to the Premier League in his first season in charge, it was alleged that he slapped his captain Dean Whitehead during the half-time interval of a League Cup tie against Northampton Town in September 2008 after sending the tactics board flying with a kung-fu kick.
With more time on his hands now, Keane was back in his hometown of Cork this week signing copies of his autobiography.
As details of the latest chapter in a controversial career emerge, he is unlikely to be out of the spotlight for long.
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Sorry . I did not mean to post all of that.
Forget the dewey eyed past,TV football aint going anywhere.It will get bigger.Who knows where it will end?.Technology is rampant.We are in the grip of an organization who ,as far as our football is concerned ,are not fit for purpose.We are hostage to their ineptness.
We as a club could make more selling our product to the millions abroad,with a professional broadcast.Not the schoolboy Celtic TV.
Celtic could make the matchday experience much better,I am not talking about entertaining kids.We need a standing area.Not a cheese wedge at the side of the stadium.The whole lower stands behind the goals at both ends.AKA Dortmund.Cheaper STs.Unemployed on receipt of a current card,£10 entry.Kids free with ST holders.Pensioners STs costing £10 per game,or as per game..The kids are our future,the pensioners have paid their dues.Where they have the banners at the hun end,2000 tickets to deserving causes,or sell 2000 tickets,to sponsors housing the same,all proceeds going to worthy causes.We as a club have to get off our @rses and make it happen.We can all sit back and blame TV,the SFA.No one will help us get the punters in the door.We have to do it ourselves.
Leftclick, when i took my son to our victory v barca and the last scotland spain game at hampden, i told my son to concentrate on how barca and spain use the ball and what they did when they didn’t have it.
The one time i have saw xavi miscontrol or misjudge something was in the lead up to tony’s goal at celtic park. The picture with iniesta, savi and some wee argentinian guy, cannae remember his name, holding the celtic tops, is one of my favourite photos.
Delaney’s, your dad was a very wise man. His advice was so true.
To my mind Commons poor performances when he has had the chance are down to being in a huff re his contract. For me that is unforgivable
Bye Chris
Was I not meant to read it all jim?
Turkeybhoy
Forget the dewey eyed past,TV football aint going anywhere.It will get bigger.Who knows where it will end?.Technology is rampant.We are in the grip of an organization who ,as far as our football is concerned ,are not fit for purpose.We are hostage to their ineptness.
We as a club could make more selling our product to the millions abroad,with a professional broadcast.Not the schoolboy Celtic TV.
Celtic could make the matchday experience much better,I am not talking about entertaining kids.We need a standing area.Not a cheese wedge at the side of the stadium.The whole lower stands behind the goals at both ends.AKA Dortmund.Cheaper STs.Unemployed on receipt of a current card,£10 entry.Kids free with ST holders.Pensioners STs costing £10 per game,or as per game..The kids are our future,the pensioners have paid their dues.Where they have the banners at the hun end,2000 tickets to deserving causes,or sell 2000 tickets,to sponsors housing the same,all proceeds going to worthy causes.We as a club have to get off our @rses and make it happen.We can all sit back and blame TV,the SFA.No one will help us get the punters in the door.We have to do it ourselves.
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The future is web streaming via TVs the same as movies and TV series now (Netflix, Amazon Prime), all the big clubs in Europe would prefer their own “TV rights” so that they can stream online themselves. Celtic can jump to the front of the queue with this because we aren’t weighed down with huge TV contracts like the EPL.
And I wish people wouldnt keep on referencing German teams as the way forward, yes they do the match day right but they also get huge TV money allowing them to do that.