It didn’t occur to me until I read the CQN this morning that today sees a return on active duty to Bratislava for Gordon Strachan and David Marshall. 11 years ago Gordon started his competitive career as Celtic manager against previously unheard of Slovak minnows, Artmedia. The scouting had been done and Gordon was privately confident of progressing but the evening turned into his worst 90 minutes in football.
Six days later Celtic came close to overcoming a 5-0 first leg deficit, but could not add to the scoring after going 4-0 up with 20 minutes remaining.
Gordon went on to win three consecutive titles and took Celtic to the knock-out stage of the Champions League twice, no manager had previously done this once, but he never really shook-off the baggage from that night.
David Marshall wasn’t to blame for what happened on the field but Artur Boruc had signed a few weeks earlier and would soon supplant Marshall as first choice.
Chris Sutton picked up an injury away to Artmedia but I’m not convinced he really took to Gordon Strachan’s attempts to improve training ground habits. The last days of the Martin O’Neill era will never be recalled as a time of intense work. Gordon’s first job was to change this. It didn’t go down well with some senior players.
11 years later you can see the echoes of that time, as Chris wrongly tells the nation Gordon has lost interest in the Scotland job. I’m not a footballer, or manager, so don’t know if it’s possible for someone to lose interest in a job. It’s got me wondering, though, did Chris ever lose interest in a job?
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THE SPIRIT OF ARTHUR LEE on 11TH OCTOBER 2016 9:52 PM
Putin just tweeted… Don’t worry Scotland.. there wont be a World in 2018″
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Brilliant mo chara lol
Are there any people on here who use Ebay a lot to buy & bid for stuff ?
THE EXILED TIM on 11TH OCTOBER 2016 10:33 PM
Are there any people on here who use Ebay a lot to buy & bid for stuff ?
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You selling a flight ticket from Scotland to Russia?
TET,
i used to use it a fair bit a while ago,but not really used it lately,
always had no issues with any transaction
Lily’s Grampa, if you are about Wullie Degnan, East Kilbride died tonight. RIP Wullie Degnan
Turned over tae watch a taped delay of the fatherland/black north game, just saw the latter disembarking from the team bus. Blue trackies FFS, tae think I used tae like them, that was back in the day when they played in emerald green though. Oh dear a player called sammi, a good ken dodd name, just scored the 2nd
THE EXILED TIM
I sometimes bid for /buy choons from sellers on EBay.
THE EXILED TIM on 11TH OCTOBER 2016 10:33 PM
Are there any people on here who use Ebay a lot to buy & bid for stuff ?
Aye, often buy an sell money to be made and bargains to be had.
Foxy
Not giving a toss about scotland….
I was going to tell anyone that if they do use Ebay a lot they should use a quality sniping prog, it’s virtually for free, $6 a year for a mirror service, it’s quality, paid for itself the first day I used it, no need for your computer to even be on, that’s all :-)
Most charge a fair few bob, this one doesn’t.
HH
Judith on the weather.
Wonderful forecasting.
Just caught the Scotland game.
No way any player will perform in that pink strip.
Physcology and all that.
Oops forgot to link the prog.
http://www.gixen.com/index.php
Just sign up, you don’t need to pay the $6 a year, but it’s well worth it imo.
Log your bids and sit back, it’s as easy as 123.
If you need any help just ask, I have been using it for a while now, it’s saved me a small fortune, I prob bid on about 25-50 items a day, so it’s a godsend, but even if you hardly use it at all it’s well worth it
THE EXILED TIM on 11TH OCTOBER 2016 10:42 PM
I was just making one of my many bad jokes.
HH
Foxy
I know :-)
HH
* ‘I’ve never wanted to leave. I’m here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well’. Alan Shearer
* ‘You’ve got to believe that you’re going to win, and I believe we’ll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we’ re knocked out’. Peter Shilton
* ‘I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing’. Ade Akinbiyi
* ‘Without being too harsh on David Beckham, he cost us the match’. Ian Wright
* ‘I’m as happy as I can be – but I have been happier’. Ugo Ehiogu
* ‘Leeds is a great club and it’s been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough’. Jonathan Woodgate
* ‘I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel’. Stuart Pearce
* ‘The Brazilians were South American, the Ukrainians will be more European’. Phil Neville
* ‘All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed’. Mitchell Thomas
* ‘One accusation you can’t throw at me is that I’ve always done my best’. Alan Shearer
* ‘I’d rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd’. Johnny Giles
* ‘Sometimes in football you have to score goals’. Thierry Henry.
* ‘I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football’. Les Ferdinand.
* ‘It was like the ref had a brand new yellow card and wanted to see if it worked’. Richard Rufus.
* ‘There’s no in between – you’re either good or bad. We were in between’. Gary Lineker.
* ‘If you don’t concede any goals you’ll win more games than you lose’. Wayne Bridge.
So who will be the next tenant of the SFA hun pension plan?
“This will inevitably pour fire on the flames”
“The manager’s attitude will spread like wildfly”
“Typical Wednesday night football except that it’s Tuesday”
“Mick’s come in… he’s taken to water like a duck’s back.”
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TET,
The Four non RCs were Ronnie, Tommy, Bertie and Willie.
Of the four, only Tommy would have been at CP in 1963…….and he was the worst left back I had ever seen at that time!!
Can you imagine being sacked by Stewart Regan? How bad would that be…
Even though the rot set into the SFA 11 long ago, the last two games proved what we have known for a while.
Scott Brown makes a helluva difference!
Thom
I managed to work that out, can’t remember how bad he was, I was just a young fella and football was in short supply at the time on the tele, as you know I lived many miles from Glasgow, Oh and my memory is shocking to boot :-)
HH
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Bada
Hugh Dallas hisny done too bad after being sacked by Regan
HH
QHERE…
Sad to hear your news.
RIP Wullie Degnan.
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TET,
I was in the Central Station one night , after a midweek game at Firhill.
TG was walking across the concourse with his then girlfriend.
His head was stuck in the early edition of the morning paper.
I felt like going up to him and telling him not to read the report..as he was rubbish.
In fairness to Tommy, it wasn’t easy to play behind Jim Kennedy.
Jim was a whole-hearted full back, But a disaster of a left half.
Thom
Oh how the game has changed, imagine calling a player a left half today, or an inside right.
You should have gone up to him, he might have scored a couple more in Milan :-)
Can’t remember Jim Kennedy at all, told you the grey stuff wisny the may west >-)
HH
Sleep well Timland
HH
KTF
Goodnight TET and other ranks.
Heard a good point tonight that more than half the Scotland squad are used to Not winning week in, week out, especially those in Englandshire.
Winning mindsets are the sole property of the big club players.
Problem is that these numpties are picking up wads of cash for being losers. On a regular basis.
How that then transfers to a winning Scotland team is beyond me.
Which brings me to WGS, He has winners in his ranks which you woukd think might increase your chances of a result….but doesn’t use them!
Always start with your best and hope you get lucky with the rest.
Baffling team selection tonight.
Art of War on 12th October 2016 12:11 am
Nail on head.
If you were a professional mercenary why would you care if your national team wins?
Its the main reason internationals are now worthless.
Mags – yep. Nuff said. Next evolution of International football is around the corner. And it won’t favour the smaller nations.
ART OF WAR o
Spot on.Average footballers with a bank balance far above there ability.
HH
Their
Davie Provan in commentary. “It’s not that Scotland are getting bear, They’re getting beat by a bang average team,”
Qhere,
Thanks for passing on that sad message.
BMCUW, kindly emailed to let me know you had posted,thanks again M.
Thoughts and prayers with family.
Wullie Degnan, great Tim, but first and foremost a great man,
Sleep with the angels Wullie, it was a pleasure to know you,
Lilys grandpa
The article states there were 20 mins left when Celtic went 4 up. If that were true we would’ve scored a 5th. There were only 8 mins left when Beattie got the 4th goal.
What’s happening to this dear place, an even quieter night shift.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
RIP WULLIE DEGNAN.
Re GWS resigning,think it most unlikely since his next ‘gig’ is Wembley. I think the SFA would have to sack him if they want him out as I am sure he won’t want to miss it.BTW,gave up watching them at halftime same as Saturday! Brawn usually gives you mince (or dog meat when I were lhad!)
I notice that the Daily Ranger is running an “investigation” claiming that several Celtic officials including, PL, MON, NFL and a number of former players who invested in the film industry in a tax saving wheeze are now being pursued by HMRC for “tax dodging”
Pathetic rag always denigrating Celtic and looking for every way to align us with thems.
I haven’t provided a link as I agree that we should not buy the rag nor give it any clicks. HH
References to some of our players from the 60`s reminded me of a wee incident.
Someone announced that Kennedy ” had been assassinated “.
” Bloody hell! ” said John Callaghan. ” Who would want to kill big Jim? ”
Football is only a game, eh?
Cheerio for now.
JJ