Steven Gerrard went on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month. It is as though he was trolling those who yesterday were his comrades. No matter what we think of the other lot, you or I would have more taste than to do that to them. He could have waited another hour.
To Celtic fans, he will forever be the man who clung on after a curtailed season and then stopped 10-in-a-row, but we will lament today, as Gerrard leaves Glasgow. He was a walking UB40 manager, one League Cup semi-final defeat away from being able to sing, “I am the one in 10…. a statistic, a reminder”, of nine failed campaigns.
For months, I wrote here that I wanted him to stay. Celtic’s complete collapse last season made the league a non-event. Gerrard oversaw another year of massive and unsustainable overspend, and coasted to the title. Despite this, his squad was unmarketable, planning was all about consumption today, to hell with tomorrow.
The main reason I wanted him to stay, however, turns out to be false. Gerrard’s current contract was signed after it became public knowledge that Brendan Rodgers had a £9m release clause in his Celtic contract. Surely, I assumed, those sharp minds at Ibrox would tie Gerrard down on nothing less than the same terms. Newco need £9m more than they need a manager who can only win when there is no opposition.
However, Villa will pay £4.5m compensation to deprive Newco of their management team. Lots of things in football are out of your control, but the figure required to adequately compensate a club to allow their manager to break his contract? Someone slipped up here, and on this occasion, it was not Gerrard.
£4.5m will keep the lights on for another three weeks, if they don’t need to pay compensation for the next guy. Anyone in a job is likely to cost as much, if not more. Now comes the work of attracting a quality candidate to a club in the 10th year of living beyond its means. Some sort of miracle worker, would be ideal.
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ADI_DASSLER NOT FOR 2ND BEST on 11TH NOVEMBER 2021 4:58 PM
IMO
Lennoxtown will be sold. Hoooses
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I am nearly certain that one of the early planning applications was rejected for celtic wanting to have future right to sell off parcels of land for housing,
and same restirction for murray park.
lennoxtown has an indoor training hall, not a full pitch.
i always thought that lennox castle building would make a great statement builing as a hotel.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Lennoxtown_training_complex_from_the_air.jpg
Some fabulous hun on hun action on follow follow. King and the 1872 gang vs the current board and Park seems be the battle lines.
Also Gio failing miserably at Guangzhou in China seems to be getting airbrushed as easily as Ange succeeding in the vastly superior J League.
just read the sad history of lennox castle hospital, changed my mind, pull it doon.
Hi Ghuys, Salve salve;- Neither up nor down about Gerard going, only concern is that he may put in a bid for Kyogo, which would not be nice at all. Never underestimate a sleekit.
Greenwells
Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur
NOTTHEBUS on 11TH NOVEMBER 2021 3:19 PM
So has Gerard got a bigger move than Brendan did? I think so
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billionaire owners, with real money to spend, LC have nudged ahead of AV, in my opinion, recent title and cup, ECL participation, near misses last 2 years, an elite manager, lets see when the 2 clubs match up, cos one thing I never bought into was the thought that Brendan ran away from the SG challenge,
Its a pity there are no games this weekend that would have been fun.
adios
Ra Ra Ree
kick him in the knee
Ra Ra Rollocks
kick him in the other knee
I thought the 11th hour comment was very appropriate, for this version of “the club” that took over the milatarist obsession their supporters have under a misguided British Empire is something to be celebrated fixation.
Dad,
Aye son
was your granda in the war,
aye son
which regiment dad
your great granda billy was in the 4th Foot and Mouth Welders and Platers company.
hero he was.
see up there in the club deck, his debenture seat was there, it was going to be yours one day
Let’s be clear. What Paul said is 100% factually correct.
As the manager of an entity which ( in my view to a fault ) puts more energy and emphasis on poppy wearing and commemoration in this specific way ( we surely all have our own personal ways ) this seems disrespectful to be announcing his departure at precisely that time on that day. It could have been done this afternoon for instance and still made the media deadlines.
Jamie Carragher talking up stevie g, i had to put the sound down, grab my ear defenders and get the sub-titles on, but still the tv whines
Connor Goldson has a heart condition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-HsOpW7LIg
Saint Stivs
So funny Re the club deck seat debenture rip off.
The club deck anywhere behind row 6 or so is one of the worst places to watch football from in the world as well. It is so high but only gives a view of the actual pitch and not the other stands……some might say that is a benefit 😂
MADRARUA on 11TH NOVEMBER 2021 4:18 PM
Surely The Rangers can hire another manager then call him The Steven Gerrard and carry on just as they did in 2012.
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And the ‘same’ dafty Cellic fans paid the ‘same’ OF ticket price in 2016, as the as it was the ‘same’ OF ticket price in 2012.
What was it, £49 in 2012? Yeah I think it was.
Then £49 in 2016 again? Yeah I think it was.
Same price same easily mugged idiots. Yeah I think it was.
What price is an OF ticket in 2021? £52? Yeah I think it is.
What’ll be the limit in OF ticket prices before dafty Cellic fans realise that “they” are the the gel holding OldFirmism together? £55? Maybe?
But its asking a lot for dafty Cellic fans to really get the FACt, that “they” are the gel holding the anti-Celtic-Establishment facade of bigotry corruption deceit and lies together.
Give the keys to Galloway and he’ll drain the toxic swamp for you all.
100% of Cellic enemies are shit scared terrified of George Galloway.
Just think about that !!!
Cellic and Rangers are the twin towers of the corrupt landscape of Scottish football.
The two corrupt pillars in the OF lodge Masonic temple.
Cellic would be allowed to die and suffer inhumane mocking and ridicule, before the masonic Scottish establishment relented, and allowed folk to cobble bits together to build another Cellic.
But at what cost? £52?
Where as, Rangers died, Rangers have risen, Rangers are Champions again, and Cellic where at the front of the queue, including Sevco into TV deals, to drip feed the return of Rangers, into an environment were it soon became apparent that anybody who mentions Rangers as being a new club, is looked at in a way as though the person suggesting such a thing had just crawled out of Alice in Wonderland’s rabbit hole !!!
But the killer trigger for me is, when Cellic PLC agreed to the ‘same’ price OF ticket’s in 2016, probably thinking they’d get away with their deceit, as 99.9% of Cellic fans were on their knees in front of the PLC squirrel managerial appointment of, Brendan Rodgers.
I said the PLC were “probably thinking they’d get away with their deceit” but they did get away with it, because it is Cellic who are also supported by zombies.
Just think about that !!!
After four years of whining on every Cellic blog about, ‘the same club’ lie, dafty Cellic fans went ahead and bought specifically ‘same’ priced OF tickets, a ticket trap played by Cellic PLC, Rangers PLC, 100% of SMSM, who wouldn’t dare to ask a tricky question from anybody at Cellic fc about, the ‘same’ club issue, not a single question from anybody about this, 4 years long burning inferno on every Cellic blog, some even wearing “Persistence beats Resistance” t-shirts, and an OF game arrives, and thousands of Cellic dafty fans, raced into the PLC OF ‘same’ price, ‘same’ club, ticket trap !!!
Cellic fans had moved on !!!
“The fools, the fools, the fools.”
Do you think a Cellic hierarchy led by the unchallengeable, Mr George Galloway, would’ve jumped into bed with the Scottish establishment, to conjure up a deceit to screw Cellic fans? Do you? Do you really?
Well that’s what happens when Cellic fans are led by a hierarchy which includes the sell out, Brian Wilson?
Cellic fans need to led by, to be educated by, but most importantly, to be loved, and cherished by their hierarchy leaders.
When has that ever been the case at the Cellic? When? When ever?
But that is what a George Galloway led, Cellic hierarchy would be like, because the hierarchy would be 60,000 strong, probably millions strong worldwide, if the world saw a Cellic that loved being Cellic !!!
Not a Cellic who meekly sits at the back of the bus, as Poppy day becomes, Poppy month.
Not a Cellic who’ll sit quietly on the sidelines as a Scotgov full of frauds, and 33°Freemasons, maliciously prosecutes ‘fake’ squirrels over the Ibrox EBT-Corruption to the total cost of hundreds of £millions and expects ‘YOU’ the vicTim to pay for it, whilst ‘YOU’RE’ streets are covered with stinking rats !!!
Not a Cellic supporter would ever look at the anti-Celtic-Establishment Scotgov, ever again, in the same light, if they were led by a George Galloway Cellic hierarchy, who would lay siege to the corrupt Scottish establishment, and its cowed local msm poodles who would all be handed their fraudulent arses on a plate !!!
Just think about that, as you cast you’re votes at the AGM.
Same OF ticket price trap lol CSC
Back to Basics
Is that recently diagnosed ?
Brendan Rodgers teamtalk ahead of Leicester vs Manchester City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGaBJOLe4ss
BURNLEY78 on 11TH NOVEMBER 2021 5:45 PM
Saint Stivs
So funny Re the club deck seat debenture rip off.
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being the tormening bassa that I am, some of their supporters used to sit behind my desk in work, when they discussed anything i used to pick up the phone ,,,,,,,,,,
hello ticket office,
ive not received my tickets for the arbroath petrofac game
aye its on the season book
aye been a supporter 60 years.
listen offcourse i have buying privelages
aye club deck, ma debenture seat
row 16 seat 90
billy williamson, it has ma name on it.
whit, whit, dont be so ridiculous its mines for 30 years.
Jungleism should never be colonized by Poppy jingoism.
But it is.
Who’s fault is that?
Who pays the PLC swamp, who plays along, on Cellic fans behalf?
Just think about that CSC
JINDOM
Never thought of that.
Ta.
again, with the GG stuff, poor fella must be exhausted and have wore his finger prints aff
watching paint dry
https://twitter.com/i/status/1458522127842357251
Inside The SPFL
@AgentScotland
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Gerrard’s biggest flops
18-19 LCSF: Rangers 0-1 Aberdeen
18-19 SCQF: Rangers 0-2 Aberdeen
19-20 LCF: Rangers 0-1 Celtic
19-20 SCR5: Hearts 1-0 Rangers
20-21 LCQF St Mirren 3-2 Rangers
20-21 SCQF Rangers 1-1p St Johnstone
21-22 UCLQ Malmo 2-1 Rangers
21-22 UCLQ Rangers 1-2 Malmo
SAINT STIVS on 11TH NOVEMBER 2021 6:05 PM
again, with the GG stuff, poor fella must be exhausted and have wore his finger prints aff
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What’s the alternative?
Brian Wilson?
What?
Just shut up and suck it up?
What?
JOE ORDINARY on 11TH NOVEMBER 2021 6:15 PM
SAINT STIVS on 11TH NOVEMBER 2021 6:05 PM
again, with the GG stuff, poor fella must be exhausted and have wore his finger prints aff
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What’s the alternative?
Brian Wilson?
What?
Just shut up and suck it up?
What?
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st francis.
accept the things you cannot change.
SAINT STIVS on 11TH NOVEMBER 2021 6:16 PM
st francis.
accept the things you cannot change.
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That’s a cowards answer.
Stop funding it then saying
“there’s nothing we can do”
just understand and be a wise cowardly mug like me.
Is that the solution?
“I’m nothing, here’s my £666+ Mr OF PLC !!!”
Zombies in hoops !!!
Nurse! Nurse!
What an embarrassment.
josie, you need to let it go, your convincing no one with your charm offensives.
Nick bolting to America?
Hmmmm?
GB News (@GBNEWS) Tweeted:
https://t.co/qcsj6sOTqB https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1458543172800421899?s=20
Who goes to see Celtic.
The mentally ill are welcome.
BURNLEY78 @ 5:34 PM,
Let’s be clear. What Paul said is 100% factually correct.
Well that’s a fine endorsement, I now see him as the thinking Celtic fans’ Derek Johnstone.
Hail Hail
Slippy sliding away …
Slippy sliding a a waaay …
You know the nearer administration
The more Slppy’s sliding away .
PaulSimon CSC
Chairbhoy
So so funny !
I am still scarred by the young Johnstone’s goal in the 1970/1 League Cup Final. Hot on the heels of my first ever Cup Final when Bobby Davidson denied us justice Johnstone then introduced me to the concept that Rangers could actually win trophies. They had been barren for 5 or 6 years at that point.
Civil war in the blue room coming soon !
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FD0N8GHWYAIhMU7?format=jpg&name=small
BURNLEY78 @ 6:56 PM,
That was an interesting Rangers side.
My daughter has a Scottish GP, came back from an appointment one day – do you know a Colin who played for Rangers!?
Yes, Colin Stein.
My Doctor reckons half her class was called Colin after him.
Were always in Big Jocks Shadow but they thought that was a brilliant team.
Jock Stein’s Celtic team won all their trophies against first class opposition – that’s why our first nine in a row with a few little add ons, such as a European Cup was such a unique and incredible phenomena.
Never will be equalled.
Hail Hail
SAINT STIVS on 11TH NOVEMBER 2021 5:30 PM
Villa also have billionaire owners who have been happy to spend and have been recruiting well. I know Leicester have had the better of it on the field in recent years but there’s no doubt in my mind that all being equal, Villa are a far bigger club than Leicester.
The Ibrox/Gerrard situation has been discussed at length on here & rightly so. The most important thing now is that we, the players, the management & the board now must be reaching for ‘the kitchen sink’ to throw at the real opportunity of winning the title this season.
There is no doubt that the disruption at Ibrox offers us an advantage. We must seize this chance right now by staying in close touch at the top of the table over the next six weeks and buying the right quantity & quality in the January window.
To ‘drop the ball’ again after last season’s surrender is simply not an option. We have a bundle of deadwood lying around – we must NOT add to it in January.
Let’s make the most of our chances on and off the field.
anyone know what bin day it is tomorrow –
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FD7a2mNXEAMkXMq?format=jpg&name=small
mibbie its not the blue bin mibbies its the black wan
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FD7MgXeWQAQ7GvV?format=jpg&name=900×900
or mibbies just take right to the municipal dump
https://twitter.com/i/status/1458802249581445120