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Watching last night’s Champions League semi-final, it is clear that Manchester City are one of the all-time great sides, as well as everything else, they retired half of that magnificent Real Madrid team.  There is a belief that City will, sooner or later, win the tournament, but this could be their last chance for a while, or ever.

They have been charged by the Premier League with 113 breaches of Financial Fair Play rules.  Uefa banned them from European competition for two years for similar offences in 2020, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport lifted that punishment, as many of the offences were either time barred or not sufficiently established.  The Premier League has no such bar.

This is all conjecture at the moment.  City are yet to be found guilty and may never be.  If punished, they will suffer at least one year of significant points deduction, with possible limits on future budgets.

It is important to keep an eye on what is happening at the bottom of the Premier League table right now.  Everton face a points deduction if found guilty on charges of breaking Premier League financial rules.  It looks like any deduction will happen next season.  If so, Leeds, Leicester, Nottingham Forest, Southampton and Burnley have threatened to sue Everton for £300m, as a points deduction this season would relegate the Merseyside club.

England has a different view on sporting advantage than Scotland.  With Everton hovering the right side of the relegation battle, a precedent could be set that would have ramifications for charges for a decade’s non-compliance at Manchester City.

Much of what is going well for Celtic these days happened because of the City Group’s off-field talent development strategy.  We have had a profitable, informal, partnership with them for many years, culminating in the recruitment of a spectacularly successful manager and head of recruitment.  For this reason, I want their on-field strategy to be successful, because ours is a scaled down version.

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  7. Chairbhoy on

    SAINT STIVS @ 4:42 PM,

     

     

    Well, I’ve just read the lead again and I’m pretty bamboozled

     

     

    Think it just P67 talking up a mate potentially

     

     

    If you are running a Celtic blog and looking for tidbits on the transfer window, the Head of Recruitment seems to be a good contact!?

     

     

    Yet I’m not sure highlighting an informal, you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours, relationship shows anyone in a good light here

     

     

    Yokohama F. Marinos, are owned by Nissan

     

     

    Didn’t Ange delay a transfer from Japan because he wanted to show the club respect?

     

     

    BOURNESOUPRECIPE @ 4:59 PM,

     

     

    Hope alls good.

     

     

    You misremembered I’m afraid. Ange was going to AEK Athens when the Eddie Howe deal was botched

     

     

    Our gain and AEK’s loss, that they pulled out of the deal at the last minute – Ange was not a plan B but a fluke

     

     

    Remember Ange was on our radar when big Pedro appointed Lenny to the role of manager

     

     

    What’s the saying!? More luck than judgement that shower…

     

     

    Hail Hail

  8. Big Jimmy on

    YORK 4.45 Today.

     

    The Horse ” WE NEVER STOP” ran a very credible 3rd Today, just between by a ” head” for 2nd place on its first time on a Race Course. The winner was the ” experienced” Favourite.

     

    ” WE NEVER STOP” finished 3rd at odds of 16/1.

     

    I backed it early this morning at odds of 20/1, so I am happy enough.

     

     

    It could be worth following in future Races ?

  13. st tams on

    I wonder why , we never just went for Ange

     

    initially, before chasing Edddie Howe for months.

  14. bournesouprecipe on

    CHAIRBHOY @ 5.29

     

     

    All good here and as chilled as the Chilterns despite around us, the world having gone mad mad mad mad.

     

     

    You know me, I’m glass half full Celtic. Wee Napoleon was often criticised for merely winning battles due to luck ! His reply was that he’d rather have lucky generals than good ones.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  15. petec on

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXZl4UITor0

     

     

    Driving my Youngest Oldest Sister to Cardross Crematorium…….

     

     

    She imparts knowledge that a Priest has went frae Presbyterian to a Catholic Priest @ St Pats.

     

     

    Intriguing.

     

     

    I Love this.

     

     

    Ma Weest Big Sister still goes to Everything related to St Pats.They now have a Mass for Primary 7s leaving the wee School. Superb.

     

     

    Love is the Law.

  16. st tams on

    BIGRAILROADBLUES

     

    I hope you enjoyed your visit to the West End yesterday 👍

  19. Saint Stivs on

    Just cos everyone was speculating why is DD in town.

     

     

    Could it simply to be to attend the mass ?

  20. petec on

    bournesouprecipe on 18th May 2023 6:10 pm,

     

     

    We huv been gash since we owned Killie.

     

     

    I’ve never seen Anything like it.

     

     

    I had over 4.5 Celtic Goals that Davie Hay.

     

     

    You just never know.

     

     

    Really LordLucan forrward to the CL – we huv a wee bit mair eperience. It’s harsh tho.

  21. Saint Stivs on

    This year’s National Famine Commemoration, which will be led by President Michael D. Higgins, will take place on the site of the old Milford Workhouse and graveyard in Milford, Co. Donegal at 2pm on Sunday, May 21. As in previous years, the commemoration will include a wreath laying ceremony in remembrance of all those who suffered or perished during the Famine.

     

     

     

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    Patsys town of origin, was he or family ever in the workhouse ?

  23. Chairbhoy on

    BOURNESOUPRECIPE @ 6:10 PM,

     

     

    Yes, for glass half full Celts the future is bright and Napoleon definitely had a point, I remember a report saying the French troops were singing

     

    Michel Ney, is here for ten in a row, at Waterloo…

     

     

    We got Ange eventually and the synchronicity was perfect.

     

     

    Great times for Celtic

     

     

    Hail Hail

  25. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Basel 9/2 at home v Fiorentina looks fawlty…won 2-1 away in first leg…

  30. Tontine Tim on

    PETEC on 18TH MAY 2023 6:19 PM

     

     

    Driving my Youngest Oldest Sister to Cardross Crematorium…….She imparts knowledge that a Priest has went frae Presbyterian to a Catholic Priest @ St Pats.

     

     

    Ma Weest Big Sister still goes to Everything related to St Pats.They now have a Mass for Primary 7s leaving the wee School. Superb

     

     

    *McLean Place aka Wee St Pats, my da’s ould alma mater

  31. bigrailroadblues on

    Marspapa

     

    You keep out of it B. 😂

     

    St Tams

     

    Great day mate.

     

    St Stivs

     

    A hellish shirt. A wind up, must be. 😡

  33. McPhail Bhoy on

    SAINT STIVS on 18TH MAY 2023 6:31 PM

     

    This year’s National Famine Commemoration, which will be led by President Michael D. Higgins, will take place on the site of the old Milford Workhouse and graveyard in Milford, Co. Donegal at 2pm on Sunday, May 21. As in previous years, the commemoration will include a wreath laying ceremony in remembrance of all those who suffered or perished during the Famine.

     

     

     

     

    —————–

     

     

     

    Patsys town of origin, was he or family ever in the workhouse ?

     

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    I believe Patsy was born there?

  34. setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on

    Chairbhoy

     

     

    “You misremembered I’m afraid. Ange was going to AEK Athens when the Eddie Howe deal was botched

     

     

    Our gain and AEK’s loss, that they pulled out of the deal at the last minute – Ange was not a plan B but a fluke

     

    ——————————————————-

     

     

     

    A bit of misremembering going on there too. Ange applied for the AEK job while we were still waiting for a dithering Eddie Howe. He made it on to their list for consideration but they chose someone else. Ange wanted the AEK job because of his roots and he would have taken it ( I think he may have preferred it to the Celtic job). AEK did not pull out of appointing Ange like Eddie Howe pulled out of going to Celtic. They actively appointed Vladan Milojević instead as they had the same snobbish attitude towards Ange’s managerial record as 90% of Celtic blogs and supporters had.

     

     

    How quickly we forget that Ange’s appointment was greeted as yet another example of Celtic’s biscuit tin mentality and as another example of us overpromoting rookies (in a European sense, Ange was a rookie) because we wouldn’t buy a “proven” European manager.

     

     

    We (most of us) treated Ange with the smore disdain than AEK did. They preferred to appoint a man who had already managed in their league and he lasted only 4 months before being sacked.

     

     

    Celtic deserve credit for being willing to appoint Ange, a manager that they has been monitoring, but they did so in a wave of criticism similar to that they faced with 2 of our 9iar successful managers- Ronny Deila as an over promoted rookie (who has continued being successful in the USA and Belgium) and Neil Lennon (successful with us, Hibs and, subsequently, in Cyprus; He is even being considered for Olympiacos now, a bigger club than AEK).

     

     

    Celtic had to face down their own fans anger and that of most blog producers in the Celtic internet to get Ange in the door. Celtic may have been lucky that AEK went down a different road but it wasn’t luck that Howe and Postecoglou were under consideration. Both have been very successful and that reflects credit on our club.

     

     

    Like you, I have no admiration for Man City’s financial strength and cheating but there is no doubt that we’ve done well out of the players we have scored from them- and they still have tremendous talent withering away on the vine of their B team. (Rico Lewis, Yan Couto, Liam Delap and James McAtee are solid prospects as were Samaras, Boyata, Frimpong, Denayer, Guidetti and even Arzani (barring a bad injury) and would strengthen our team.

  36. Hot Smoked on

    BBC News ( UK) at 6pm reported that Wasps ( Rugby Club ) had been demoted to the 10th tier of English rugby after having been liquidated. I thought Wasps had `only` gone into Administration.

     

    Anyone know?

  42. petec on

    Tontine Tim on 18th May 2023 7:08 pm

     

     

    Man City were exceptional.

     

     

    I’m confident in Our Team in the upcoming CL games.

     

     

    We are the worst Team to get frae pot…….. Toney Yeboah!!!!!

     

     

     

    Oh Cheers Sevco for making nexr Season C’est possible.

     

     

    The Dump Newco – 0 Celtic 3

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