By all accounts Malky MacKay is a good guy. He is certainly a good motivator and tactician, and an excellent communicator, unburdened by the airs and graces normally associated by managers in the self-appointed Greatest Show on Earth. None of this saved him from the sack, though, accused of running riot with the cheque book in the summer.
Cardiff City certainly ran riot, spending in the region of £50m to help prepare for top flight football. If, as owner Vincent Tan alleges, the spend was unauthorised, Cardiff have a management control problem, not a problem with the manager, who is within his rights to spend whatever money made available to him.
‘Bluebirds’ fans are united on Malky’s side, they are equally united against owner Tan, who appears wholly unsuitable to control a football club. Changing their strips from blue to red, as red is the colour most associated with Wales, tells you all you need to know about Tan and where he will ultimately take the club, but the extravagance of the summer has already set Cardiff off on the road to rapid decline.
Every club should anticipating making mistakes in the transfer market, it is part of the territory, but they need to be able to afford those mistakes. Cardiff’s summer signings allowed for no mistakes. The totem was Andreas Cornelius, recruited from from Copenhagen for an outrageous £10m. The player received a five year contract worth more than the transfer fee. He’s only 20. Cornelius also earns more than seven times his salary at Copenhagen, no one will be able to afford to take him from Cardiff, his 18 career goals, all in Denmark, suggest he’s simply not worth anything like money he’s on.
If you’re Cardiff City, here’s the problem when you try to recruit for top flight football: after 50 years in the wilderness, you’re favourites for the drop. Players with other top flight options will take them, you’ll have to pay over the odds to convince players to sign on. You’re also shopping in a market you have absolutely no experience of – making mistakes more likely.
Spending £10m on a striker was possibly a sensible idea for Cardiff (I can imagine how popular it was, any sane voices would have been whistling against the wind) but what striker, genuinely worth £10m, would go there without being ‘bribed’ with copious amounts of cash? I’m aware of the parallels with Celtic, which £10m striker would come to Scotland?
They could have received 50 knock-backs before doing a deal in Copenhagen. This pattern was replicated across the rest of their summer spend. They should have invested their Premier League windfall on long-term development, irrespective of the short-term consequences.
For the sake of the club’s fans I hope they survive but inadequate controls at board level, with an owner seemingly intent on self-destruction, a rapid decline through the leagues seems inevitable, sooner or later.
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Big Nan – I’ve read your blog and signed all the petitions. You are a guy who flys under the radar and gets beneath their skins… they don’t like you… as I’m sure you know… you outwit them – please keep it up – you have my support 100%
MM – Guess I owe you a few then ;-)
TRCR – dailymotion has way tooooooo many ads
Struggling to keep my eyes open never mind type – here’s a wee fav of mine – Ireland Unfree
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV4QXNeC9ew
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That 20 GBP @ 50/1 for a Ashes whitewash Looking good Now..
Summa
Summa of Sammi….
03:31 on 29 December, 2013
What £1k for England getting pumped at the Ashes/ Scottish bookie?
Margaret McGill
03:30 on
29 December, 2013
CaltonTongues#TeamOscar
Hi Calton so how’s your crutches?
Ready for a square go yet?
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Crutches are long gone – First away game will be Easter Road late January.
Square go???? I know you’re from Whitburn so, are we talking fighting of Line Dancing??
CaltonTongues#TeamOscar
03:34 on 29 December, 2013
Me. You. Easter Road. January. Outside. Line dancing.
Alasdair MacLean
03:19 on
29 December, 2013
Alasdair
Paul67 is THE ORIGINAL INTERNET BAMPOT
I call you to task on that comment.
He created a forum, open to all, with a few basic humane rules. I love the simplicity of this site…. no daft avatars or smilies… no like or dislike…
Just pure and simple… Paul post’s a leader and then we all have an opporchanchity to make comment… I love the fact guys like you come on and teach us how to construct a sentence in qwkings engurland….. whilst displaying Gaelic characteristics!!! how bizarre
Oh Oh should that have been a capital ‘H’…… or should we just have smashed it?
Margaret McGill
03:37 on
29 December, 2013
CaltonTongues#TeamOscar
03:34 on 29 December, 2013
Me. You. Easter Road. January. Outside. Line dancing.
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Bring yer brothers, we’ll share a cell -:)
My last comment could be construed with ambiguity.. ….
Would have been better put like this… . .
Alasdair MacLean
03:19 on
29 December, 2013
Alasdair
I call you to task on that comment.
Paul67 is THE ORIGINAL INTERNET BAMPOT
He created a forum, open to all, with a few basic humane rules. I love the simplicity of this site…. no daft avatars or smilies… no like or dislike…
Just pure and simple… Paul post’s a leader and then we all have an opporchanchity to make comment… I love the fact guys like you come on and teach us how to construct a sentence in qwkings engurland….. whilst displaying Gaelic characteristics!!! how bizarre
Oh Oh should that have been a capital ‘H’…… or should we just have smashed it?
Il inferno de jeno de buenos intenciones
HAIL HAIL
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Maggie..
Whitburn..
Do You know a Guy who Lives in Melbourne who had half his face ripped off in a Hit and Run..?
Summa
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Bhoys..
Can we Stop the Grammar Debate.. I have a 8Yr old that Corrects my Grammar on a Daily basis..
And the Little Smert-E^se has been doing it since she was 4Yrs..
Ghod only knows where She gets it from.. 【ツ】
And I won’t even go into My Colon and Semi..*Wee Smiley Face with Thumbs Up*
Summa of SmertErsesCSC
Summa of Sammi….
03:55 on 29 December, 2013
Havent been in Whitburn since 1978. Melbourne Australia. Half a face ripped off….. I’m trying to piece it all together but I’m getting nothing. Can you throw me a bone of some description?
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Mags..
Cheek..?
He goes Home every Year..I would say he is quite well known.. But 78′ don’t think You even had the Service station then.. :-)
Summa
Paul67
Can i suggest you start a nightshift spelling bee on CQN .
Alisdair
You would have a field day at my place of work. My site managers e mails would really set you off.
Some examples :
“Crack on m8 ”
“Any questions just holla ”
And my personal favourite
” yous ”
The spelling and grammar on CQN is a breath of fresh ayr to me ;)
Summa
Hope you have not jinxed your punt by revealing it
A grand sterling for the pleasure of watching England get whitewashed by their arch enemies. Nice one
So .. what do you reckon to sammis future ?
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC has given an amazing hint that he could finish his career at Celtic.
The Swedish superstar, 32, revealed he would consider playing in Scotland.
Paris St Germain striker Ibra has discussed the Scottish champs with countryman and Parkhead icon Henrik Larsson and said: “I have a very important job to do in Paris.
“But in football I have learned that you can never say never.
“Celtic is a club with a big tradition and a place where any top player would want to end their career.
“How could I say I wouldn’t want to play for those fans every week?”
Ibrahimovic played at Celtic Park when Ajax lost a Euro qualifier in 2001.
And he admits he can understand why Larsson stayed in Glasgow for seven years. He added: “Henrik was good enough to play for any team in Europe.
“But after playing at Celtic Park it is easy to understand why he chose to stay there for so long.
“No player would ever want to leave playing in that stadium for those fans.
“It’s a beautiful condition to play in.
“I have played in the biggest games in world football. But I have never experienced an atmosphere like I did at Celtic Park.”
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Jinks..
Oh.. The Punt is Not mine.. A Mate..I’m still Off it.. Winning every Day..;-) *Feels Paranoid using Wee Smilie face as I Now know it’s because I can’t Construct a Funny Sentence*
My Bhoy Georgious..
Well he has Stated it’s Not about Money.. And will Only leave to be a Winner.. So Top 5 clubs in EPL or Top 2 in Spain.. Personally l think he should and Probably will do a Petrov sign up for 5Yrs then have a Great World Cup and Say Liverpool come in for Him in a Sort of Gary McAllister type move..
Summa
ALLY McCOIST has warned Rangers need to address the gulf that exists between them and Celtic — as Ibrox chiefs get ready to make major cuts.
McCoist admits he is excited at the prospect of teaming up with new chief executive Graham Wallace to finally put in place plans to overhaul a scouting system that is woefully inadequate.
He hopes that will eventually allow Gers to go toe to toe with their old rivals when they return to the top flight But he warned fans it won’t happen overnight.
McCoist admitted: “The worry is Celtic are off and running with the Champions League money. That’s obviously a big concern.
“It would be wrong of me not to look at Celtic’s finances and not appreciate the gulf between the two, so what we need to do is concentrate on our own club at the minute.
“They have handled things well and fair play to them, but we’ll reassess the situation when we’re back competing against them.
“At this moment we have to do what we have to do.
“Graham Wallace is going to conduct a total review of the business for the next couple of months. On the football side of things he’s been very keen.
“I’ve been delighted to hear that he’ll sit down with me to discuss the footballing future, to establish how he sees it and how I see it.
“We’ll then make decisions together. I’ve got to be encouraged by that. A football plan is what we all want — something we can look forward to the future with. Everyone’s talking about a four or five-year project and if that’s the case, great. I’ll obviously buy into it and it’s important the fans do too.”
McCoist knows he will have to take the rough with the smooth. While Wallace has promised greater investment in scouting and the youth set-up, the first-team budget will be trimmed after comments at the heated AGM that it was too extravagant for even a top-flight club.
That will hamper McCoist’s dream to challenge Celtic from day one back in the Premiership, but after all the upheaval of recent times he can live with it.
He added: “The ideal situation for me and the supporters is to challenge immediately, of course, but I accept that might not happen right away. I understand 100 per cent where the fans are coming from in that regard, but the fact is we’ve lost £50million worth of players.
“We could argue about valuations but that’s what we’ve lost and we had to replace them with free transfers, so it’s not rocket science.
“At the best of times you’ve no divine right to challenge for the top league, so when you look at the facts and figures we shouldn’t be challenging all of a sudden.
“But that’s not to say we can’t bring in some more youngsters and if that’s what it takes to move forward then that’s what we’ll do.” McCoist looked back on another eventful year on and off the pitch with the consolation that it was an improvement on 2012.
He said: “The high for me was on the bus back from Montrose, when Elgin beat Queen’s Park to secure us the Third Division title.
“It was fantastic for me, Kenny McDowall and Jim Stewart to see the reaction of the lads on the bus.
“I can understand why some people would question me saying that, but it was fantastic. We’ve had some sore results as well which have been hard to take, but that’s part and parcel of the game.
Crystal Palace boss Tony Pulis is set to be handed a significant transfer war chest during the January transfer window and will look to strengthen his midfield and attack with the funds, according to the Daily Mirror.
Palace’s last gasp Boxing Day victory over Aston Villa pushed the club over the 14 point mark, a milestone agreed between new manager Tony Pulis and the board that will allow the former Stoke man to spend some cash to strengthen his side.
The Eagles climbed out of the bottom three for the first time since September, and now sporting director Ian Moody will look to France’s Ligue 1 for possible deals as he has a number of contacts there.
However, Moody, who used to work as Cardiff’s head of recruitment, will make Celtic his first port of call as he hopes to tie up a £600,000 deal for Welsh international midfielder Joe Ledley.
Ledley is now entering the final six months of his deal at Parkhead, and though Neil Lennon has been keen to sign him up to a new deal talks have been slow to progress.
Moody will then fly to Lyon to check on the status of striker Bafetimbi Gomis, who came close to leaving the former French champions over the summer.
Bournemouth’s £3m-rated winger Matt Ritchie and defender Steve Cook are also on the radar for Pulis, who has had the pair watched in every match since he took control of Palace.
The only home match i would deliberately give a miss Andrew
by ANDREW SMITH
Published 29/12/2013 00:00
A BUMPER crowd is expected as Celtic bring in the bells at home to Partick Thistle on Wednesday.
With free tickets dished out and buses laid on, who knows, the Parkhead ground may even be at least half full. It hasn’t been that way recently. Indeed, the past two league games are the first back-to-back such encounters to have attracted crowds of less than 30,000 while the championship has been a live issue since the stadium became a 60,000-seater arena in 1998. Then, accurate attendances were given out. Now, these require freedom of information requests, with the club aggregating the number of paid-for-seats, which amounted to 46,000 for each of the victories over Hibernian and Hearts this month.
If that appears undoubtedly healthy then what is not is that around 20,000 season ticket holders – around half the entire figure, in fact – are electing to think better of occupying seats they have already parted with their money for. It will be pointed out that the weather and time of year led to a dip in attendances throughout the country but that doesn’t explain what is driving down Celtic’s capacity to have punters come out to watch them.
In the year-and-a-half the top flight has been devoid of the Rangers brand, Celtic have made great play of the fact that they have a standalone strategy not dependent on rivalry with a club playing out of Ibrox.
And, having turned a debt into cash in the bank and posted a near-£10 million profit last year, they are making good on their assertion.
Yet the declining interest from Celtic fans in watching a procession to their third championship demonstrates that they would struggle to operate at their current level if there was never again a team called Rangers in the top flight. The last two home games offered a glimpse of what would be the norm if the club operated in an environment in which they had no major – even from a numerical and cultural sense – rival.
The 20,000 no-showers among Celtic’s season ticket holder base probably retain their tickets currently for two reasons: they received a £100 reduction on them last summer and it will probably be only 18 months before there is a Rangers to ridicule and lord it over in the Premiership. Without that promise of ding-dong derby days, most of these fans would probably chuck their tickets.
In a non-Rangers world, then, Celtic would have a rain-or-shine hardcore of around 25,000. When they won the last of their nine-in-a-row run of titles in 1974, that was roughly their home average, as it was when they hit rock bottom in 1994.
To live within the means that a 25,000 season-ticket-holder base generated, there is no way Celtic would operate with the £30m playing budget they have at present, or spend even sums of £2m on a couple of players every summer. Such a reduced season-ticket-holder figure – with child and younger person reductions taken into account – would bring in around £8m. Celtic’s ticket sales for the Champions League last year alone were £10m. In the Martin O’Neill era, season tickets sales coined in £23m.
Celtic are too cautious to rely on Champions League income every year to prevent major losses.
However much their club’s supporters may want to be in denial about it, then, with no Rangers permanently in their domain, Celtic would undergo serious downsizing and most home games the club’s stadium would be morgue-like. In turn, a lower spend on player wages would inhibit the calibre of individual that could be recruited, which would result in the team being weaker and potentially more vulnerable across the three rounds of Champions League qualifiers they require to negotiate to reach the group stages.
It is perhaps surprising just how quickly almost half Celtic’s season ticket holders have canned watching domestic games.
Two years ago, their team wasn’t even champions. The apologists would claim that the club’s treatment of the now dispersed Green Brigade and its perceived attempts to “sanitise” the support has helped turn off sections of the support, but few are buying that. In the Glasgow domain, for a great many it is quite clear that hatred of the other side fuels interest more than love of their own club. And without this adversarial outlet, it is noticeable how the stuggles of both Celtic and Rangers have become internalised. When it was put to Celtic manager Neil Lennon that some of his supporters appear to have short memories, he said: “And a self-destrcut button. And it’s not helpful.”
The Irishman said he “can’t look at” the possibility that some Celtic fans have turned to navel gazing about their club as a more satisfying pastime than actually attending games.
“My objective is to take the team forward,” Lennon said. “I am aware of the point being made because it is almost as if they need something to fight or argue about. But I can’t do anything about that.”
In terms of the lowly 25,000 crowd estimated to have turned up for the 12.15 visit of Hearts last Saturday, Lennon pointed to mitigating circumstances beyond climate. “It’s the first time we’ve had a home game televised for a while and it’s Christmas as well which might have had a big effect on the crowd. We are always looking to give fans value for money and we’re always looking to bring a player in who might capture the imagination as well. But we’re 16 games unbeaten and we can’t do much more than that. Our away form has been very good but it’s a little bit different at home where teams camp in for long periods of the game. I know it’s up to us to try and break them down but we try to give the fans value for money at home as well.
“I don’t think [what has happened with the Green Brigade] has had any effect. There might have been a Champions League hangover as well. We’re out of that competition now. I would expect over the festive period the crowds will pick up again and we have Partick Thistle on New Year’s Day and I would imagine there will be a decent crowd for that one.”
A “decent crowd” these days, is very different from what it was five years ago.
Good Morning Timland.
No doubt we’ll get kicked up and down the park today,
with little or no protection from the officials….NFL will
factor this in when it comes to team selection,not a
day for ball players……but then again it never is in the
SPFL…….2 days to the window opening, come on PL
surprise us!!
lionroars67
Andrew Smith giving it we need a strong Sevco BS
or we’re all doomed……away too 8:00 Mass to pray
for all the lapse Celtic fans.
We need a credible rival, not Sevco.
McCoist yesterday talking about us, Smith the day, I’m touched that they miss us so much and their obsession with us continues but deep down they both know it will be a long long time before the Rangers group of clubs can compete with us in anything other than in their grubby little minds..
WefeelyourpainCSC
valentinesday
07:40 on
29 December, 2013
lionroars67
There is apathy amongst the Celtic support, including myself
No.1 for me is the unholy trilogy………..SMSM, SFA and Sevco, bored to death with all their nonsense, all three mentioned are destroying Scottish football from within, Andrew Smiths article is lazy journalism at its best
Kevin McKenna
The Observer, Saturday 28 December 2013 21.08 GMT
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Buckfast wine. Image shot 2008. Exact date unknown.
Buckfast wine is a tonic, not an evil potion. Photograph: Doug Taylor /Alamy
For breakfast yesterday morning I dispensed with the usual grapefruit juice and kedgeree and opted instead for a repast that recalled my 1980s youth: a bacon roll washed down with a couple of glasses of Buckfast tonic wine. When I was a student a few glasses of the red menace with its high caffeine content was just the job for writing essays while suffering from sleep deprivation.
Often too it was the ideal party-starter when we didn’t have enough money to get acclimatised in the pub. A bottle of this past your screech took you to a level that could only otherwise be achieved by the purchase of four pints of Guinness.
My re-acquaintance with the Coatbridge commotion lotion was not an unpleasant one. It has a deep mahogany hue and while not as easy on the nose as a decent beaujolais there is a fruity insinuation that lingers, even if it suggests prune rather than elderberry. The palate is not as unkempt as the critics would have you believe – there are cherries in there somewhere – and the finish is a tidy one which seems to curl around the thorax. In Scotland in recent years though, it has been blamed for so many social ills that they will soon be reviving our old witchcraft laws to banish it from the kingdom. I, on the other hand, cannot recommend it highly enough.
Its makers, the 16 Benedictine monks of Buckfast Abbey in Devon, along with their selling agents, are probably the most responsible purveyors of alcohol in the entire UK industry: their product does not feature in any drinks promotions; at around £7 a bottle it isn’t cheap and there is no advertising. All that it has to commend itself is a handsome green livery with an eye-catching yellow label. Thereafter, it is purely word of mouth. The drink makes a profit of around £1m a year, all of which is spent on charitable projects. It amounts to less than 0.5% of all alcohol sold in Scotland.
You always know though, when the police and politicians in Scotland are feeling guilty about their failure to tackle crime and social deprivation: they simply blame it all on the Buckfast. In the last few years its makers have been blamed for virtually all crime that occurs in Lanarkshire. Attention-deficit disorder; stunted growth; scurvy, rickets and Scotland’s repeated failure to qualify for the World Cup must all, it seems, be taken into consideration too. It is all nonsense and stems from the lack of political will properly to address the real reasons behind poverty and social breakdown. It’s far easier for them and an increasingly lazy, reactionary and overbearing police force to demonise the Buckfast, thus conveniently camouflaging their own failures.
Consider this piece of contumacious drivel, for instance, from Les Gray, former head of the Scottish Police Federation. “Buckfast, refuse, point blank, to take any responsibility for the antisocial behaviour that’s caused by the distribution and the consumption of Buckfast.” Mr Gray’s time might be better served exploring the issues of anti-Catholic sectarianism and violence against the miners in 1984 which have swirled around his own force for generations. For the sake of transparency it might be better for him to demand that all of Scotland’s police officers declare membership of any secret organisations.
Last week, the head of Buckfast Abbey, Abbot David Charlesworth, was forced to address the increasingly ridiculous campaign by the police and politicians. “We don’t make a product for it to be abused. That’s not the idea,” said Abbot Charlesworth. “We make a product which is a tonic wine. It annoys me to think that these problems, the social deprivation of an area of Scotland, are being put on our doorstep.” He might have added that tonic wine has been a staple of west of Scotland revelry for more than a century. There have been many other brands but Buckfast simply possesses more depth and character than some of the dishwater that besmirches tables in the Chardonnay estates.
The police’s role in this campaign is part of something bigger and more sinister. In recent years too they have taken advantage of an absence of leadership in the Justice Department to wage war on supporters of Celtic and Rangers through the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012. Young men in Glasgow’s poorest districts have been subject to Stasi levels of intimidation and a wholesale presumption of guilt for singing off-colour songs and being unpleasant to each other.
The politicians who dreamt up this piece of judicial nonsense have effectively allowed the chief of Scotland’s new single police force to become the country’s unelected justice minister. Rather than undertake a serious strategy in those deprived neighbourhoods where sectarianism and poverty and violence reside they are happy to hide behind the baton charges and the kettling of a police force which more and more resembles an out-of-control private army for the chattering classes.
Yet this same police force seems incapable of protecting young women in Scotland’s cities from being sexually assaulted at weekends. Figures released last month show that rapes and sexual assaults, especially in Glasgow, now outnumber robberies in Scotland. These are shocking figures and show that neither we nor Police Scotland are taking violence against women seriously enough. Any time now Police Scotland will be blaming it on excess consumption of Buckfast. It’s less time-consuming to target adolescent youths for singing about Bobby Sands and Derry’s Walls and taking flags to football matches.
In working-class communities Margaret Thatcher’s crusade against the miners saw entire communities left to wither and die with no alternative investment. Social housing was phased out and many of the people who lived in them were erased from the memory banks of corporate UK. Lanarkshire lost Ravenscraig, Scotland’s last steel manufacturer and the promises of new jobs and new lives failed to materialise as people realised how worthless a Labour vote was in those areas.
Alcohol-related crime and illness had taken root in these places long before the police started to become obsessed with Buckfast.
Smith never once considers nor do his colleagues consider that paying to watch a rigged game run by incompetents may have had an effect on supporters of all clubs not just Celtic’s.
Many are simply scunnered by the lack of justice and the press’s coverage of the hun’s journey through the nether regions of our game.
The constant bugging up of a diddy team like Sevco is embarrassing to all true football fans, not only that it leaves a bitter taste of those of us who are aware of the massive scam they are trying to pull off here.
This cover up like all cover ups goes much deeper than mere football games it strikes at the heart of our society where judges, bankers and businessmen seem to be above the law and millions can be just written off as the collateral damage of “top peoples” self serving schemes…
Or does Mr Smith not have the capacity to see beyond his own little corner of the cesspit?
Dougie MacDonald back working at the SFA
Speechless
Mornin’
Top o’ The League, points in the bag, unbeaten run to defend………..
Lookin’ forward to the game…………
Obviously the boul’ Andrew isn’t…………………..
He’s on-message at least……….
‘bless him!
(Jackanory)
HH.
Crowds are down at CFC home games because the performances have by and large been poor
Boring games with few goals ….
Add problems of finance , travel and time of year
Crowds will go down
Quite what that has to do with Sevco , a team from the third tier of Scottish football with less than two years history , is beyond me
Lionroars 67
I don`t know who Andrew Smith is but has he written a similar article about how this lack of apparent rivalry has affected Sevco crowds?
JJ ( Cheerio for now).
starry plough,
I don’t make comment on to many posts on here but I will make comment on yours. Absolutely spot on the money my friend. Scandal after scandal met with total silence and indifference. Nigella snorts a couple of lines in her own house and they’re talking about a police strike force to investigate her. God help us!
AR
MacDonald back at the SFA …utter contempt shown to CFC
The man is a cheat and a liar …development advisor ….FFS
More acquiescence from CFC no doubt
AR
The irony is the zombies are convinced the whole world is conspiring against them.
On a lighter note, the REAL Zheng Zhi was just on the telly in Oz, Football Asia, he has just captained his club Guangzhou to the Asia Champions League Trophy………the transfer window opens when?
AR
JJ,
Andrew H Smith is a former Celtic View man ; H is a Celtic man.
His article on attendances is valid. New Years Day I probably won’t go unless my son pesters me to go. The home games have been dire. Lenny hides behind teams camping in but in reality we create plenty of chances. Just that Lawwell took the cheap option and bought another striker with no track record of scoring goals. That’s Pukki, Balde, Bangura, Rasmussen, Murphy to name a few. When you look at all that it’s a pity Lawwell could not have bought one half decent striker especially when you take into account the money from CL and Victor / Hooper sales.
The club want the fans to invest in season tickets and turn up. The fans did that with over 40k bought ; the club have not reciprocated and I known plenty of supporters like myself who find home games a complete turn off. I enjoy watching the away games but again despite more entertaining football we miss a striker.
We had 17 shots on goal against St Johnstone and we rely on big Virgil to score. It’s criminal what Lawwell has done in the transfer window and it’s coming back to bite him big time. His excessive bonus will be secure but there will be much less season tickets to cover it next season.
I’m starting to wonder what the f*** Celtic football club are playing at in this country.
Dougie Dougie back & no doubt we will still remain silent on this blatant attempt to p*** us off.
I’m honestly gob smacked with this & CFC will sit in silence again.
Please don’t hit me with this BS line we’re waiting on the right time.
Disgusted at the corruption in this country and it’s us who suffer as per usual yet we remain silent.
DD back PL silent..
The more things change etc…
Andrew Smith is as Latchford confirmed a Celtic fan doesn’t excuse his writing for his masters though..
Hopefully alasdair still sleeping. .
We have a team with no stars no strikers no flair
Surprised we actually have 30k watching at the moment
Last seasons transfer window summed up our club. We worked very hard ( Neil’s words not mine ) in getting vic out the door
We got rid if hooper for nothing ( money gone on derk and pukki. So indeed nothing ). Never touched vic money and the big news for whole year was AGM balance sheet
Team is dire
No one worth watching
Window opens in 3 days.
Get vic money spent on a goal scorer
No projects