I was asked to contribute a piece on John Guidetti to a German magazine last month. John was on his way to winning the European U21 Championships with Sweden, while being every inch the football personality. The German publisher wanted to know why Celtic, Stoke and Manchester City had decided against re-employing a striker with a flattering pedigree.
During last season it looked like John was destined for the English lower leagues, or perhaps one of the resting homes in Turkey, but a few weeks at a tournament later he’s won himself a five year deal with Celta de Vigo.
Guidetti is a better player than he looked at Celtic last season. We don’t play a system which lends itself to a classic, British style, penalty box striker, which is what John is, but would you give him a five year contract to play in La Liga? Of course not. You’ve watched the player way more than Celta’s scouts and you know better than they do.
This is the truism in scouting, people who watch a player week-in, week-out, know vastly more than a scout who only gets to see a month’s games, or a handful of games across the season, or worse, a selection of DVDs provided by the agent, or TV highlights.
What’s made John Guidetti is his outlier season, 2011-12, when on loan at Feyenoord he smacked home an astonishing 20 goals in 23 games. Without that season, the Celta scouts wouldn’t even know his name. Maybe the serious illness he subsequently suffered robbed him of his mojo, maybe he’s a pound or two heavier than his fighting weight, but my money’s on Vigo suffering buyers regret soon enough.
The best of luck to John in Galicia, but I suspect he’ll be available for loan this time next year.
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clogher celt
“Ireland, especially in the Pale has many nationalities. The thing is they are all Irish and accepted.
There is no talk here about mongrels.”
That’s the distinction between genetics and culture again (this started with the post from Careful with the tax moonbeams)
I am proud to be a genetic mongrel and there is nothing shameful in the term, at all.
I am totally with you on the right to culturally identify where you will/
Rod Stewart can be Scottish as can John Prebble while Lord Byron can choose not to be.
Aiden McGeady can be Irish and the Duke of Wellington can disown it, before they disown him.
Just don’t invent Nationalities or ethnicities (like Ulster-Scots)
i am an ulster scot/
hahahahaahahahhaha
hashtag
tormenting bastard
saint stivs
00:22 on 13 July, 2015
i am an ulster scot/
hahahahaahahahhaha
hashtag
tormenting bastards
Deary me, language police in here. Kids are on holiday at the moment. And night from me.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Sftb,
The thing is you will be accepted here as an Irishman.
There is a bit of dispute of Wellington’s statement about Ireland. Much the same with Kitchener.
With your background you are very welcome home.
HH,
Clogher
just cos its funny.
Published on 25 Sep 2012
“Jack in Coatbridge” calls into Your Call With Jim Traynor to discuss the tax situation and the liquidation of oldco Rangers and their current spending policy..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO2S4qDV7B8
St Stivs,
I can do another Ulstur Scotch quiz in a minute, if you are up for it.
sectarian signing , funny.
daft bigot phones up
and graham spiers was very good, its not equal. its rangers supporters being bigots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tl_gg7Y748
clogher celt
00:36 on
13 July, 2015
St Stivs,
I can do another Ulstur Scotch quiz in a minute, if you are up for it.
0000000000000
go for it
Clogher
There are 2 words in the ulster scotch language
No
Surrender
Then there are also 2 slang words
Fenian
Bast..d
There you have it the complete ulster scotch/ english dictionary
january 2011
phil phones clyde,
dellahunt gets all scared.
phil tells them the amounts,
funny again, telling you its a huge story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cynMmAXFBuw
For anyone that can get it,the Eibar game is on Setanta Sports.
Also if anyone wants a possible look at the boy Odegaard possibly playing,all Reals friendly tour games are on Sky.
His agent said today,a loan deal was still possible.
Worth looking out for ,I would think.
The Ulstar Scatch Nazi flegs saga.
Apparently Hitler’s Granda on his Ma’s side of the family was a hillbilly from the Appalachian mountains.
Wilson Albie Campbell his name was.
That’s the connection, there.
HH.
16 roads,
the campbells. mostly are tims
i rescent that remark..
hahahahahaha
keep it lit
And there in lies the problem.
Tomorrow the life’s of 7 of your fellow Celtic supporters will be determined by a no doubt, Tory voting, capitalist, ignorant bitch. My post received about a half dozen comments. They sang a song that the vast majority on here will have sung. Their crime? They were filmed singing it at a Celtic game.
The apathy absolutely sickens and disgusts me guys. SFTB, your support without comment on here is noted sir. I know your feelings mate.
UTLR
St Stivs,
Here goes with the Ulstur Scotch quiz,
Away to put the kettle on. Answers in 5 minutes.
1) Airlan.
2) Agane.
3)Baird.
4)cannie.
5) aboot
Good Luck.
saint stivs
00:53 on 13 July, 2015
16 roads,
the campbells. mostly are tims
i rescent that remark..
hahahahahaha
keep it lit
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Sorry mo chara.
Should have read Wilson Albie McClatchy.
The Campbells are a great tribe.
No offence intended.
HH.
Hamiltontim,
Your work is much appreciated.
Keep going, that is what James Connolly did.
Clogher
Frank (Celtic Fan) – “I want them out!” Real Radio Football Phone In 30-04-12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNCbdYF3dVk
best listen.
celtic beat barca,
mal the killie fan complains
frank tears him a new one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nOvbCAUNm0
remember when your granda died and you got all his history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhn2063f9I4
1:Airline.
2:Again.
3:Bird.
4:Can’t.
5:About.
Expecting 100% correct, being of US heritage myself.
Seriously though, the made-up dialect was for the sole purpose of getting grants. Tens of millions of pounds.
Incredible money swindlers they are, absolutely incredible.
Must be the Scatch in them.
HH.
clogher celt
01:01 on 13 July, 2015
Cqn has had the experience of a poster who’s son was arrested, charged and intimately found guilty under the OBaF Act. He was charged for something he didn’t do.
Still, the vast majority of posters don’t accept, recognise or comprehend what this Act is about.
Life’s could be decimated tomorrow and on here it barely receives recognition.
this guy was the king cheer leader many times on radio recently,
but listen to his pish in 2012,
then cosgrove beats up traynor
funny again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RTdzBzRpgU
saint stivs
01:08 on 13 July, 2015
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Belter!! :)
HH.
Sorry, found NOT guilty.
i think its obvious –
1) Airlan. / airline
2) Agane / again
3)Baird / bird
4)cannie can not
5) aboot about
god bless them, a culture right nough
Ulster-Scotch.
A lot of made up glasga slang pish…
Now,on to more important matters.
Hamilton Tim,
With you all the way pal.
Not in body but in spirit.
Hamiltontim
Cqn has had the experience of a poster who’s son was arrested, charged and intimately found guilty under the OBaF Act. He was charged for something he didn’t do.
Still, the vast majority of posters don’t accept, recognise or comprehend what this Act is about.
Life’s could be decimated tomorrow and on here it barely receives recognition.
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There’s about 3 posters on tonight, plus I’m sure a few lurkers, all know that they have zero effect on what happens in a court room. Apathy maybe but there you go.
Hamilton
I don’t think there is anyone on here who disagrees with you about the act
I don’t think there is anyone on here who doesn’t empathise with your activity in opposing the act and supporting those on the receiving end of it
HT,
That was why I was keen to move back here from Scotland.
I think the Act is making things worse.
I know I have said it before…butI Irish history really has to be taught in Scottish schools, maybe even exchange visits.
HT – Best of luck tomorrow mo chara.Hopefully the seven innocent Celtic supporters are exonerated.
Yer a legend and ya don’t even realise it.
KTF.
Tricoloured Ribbon,
You are 100 per cent right.
Hard to believe they want funding for this.
There’s the Londonderry posse on now and all ffs.
HH.
16 roads
Londonderry?
Is that ulster scots for derry
Ok Clogher
There are now officially 5 words in the ulster scots dictionary
No
Surrender
Fenian
Bast. ..s
londonderry
Indeed it is WITS.
They really get annoyed when ye call the place Londonderry!
:D
HH.
Clogher Celt,
Wee jeemy fae doon yon wee brae his chucked thay oul gers cos they dinny longer exist.
Noo he plays the bools doon Ballymoney way…
Government hands these UDA backed mutants about 2 million..
It’s not recognition for me me or anyone else involved with FAC, it’s about making Celtic supporters understand how we’re being criminalised under a ridiculous Act.
Tomorrow, 7 decent young men (I’ve met them, you’d be proud to know them) could have their lives changed dramatically and all because they sang ROH at a Celtic game.
Ffs will all of you please realise what polis scotland are trying to do.
The answers are,
Airlan..Ireland
Agane…again
Apen…open
Baird…beard
Cannie…careful
Aboot…near,around
HH,
Clogher