What a rascal that Neil Lennon is, laughing off interest in Amido Balde while leading us all down the Kevin Doyle road last week, then Amido pitches up at Celtic Park, complete with obligatory Celtic scarf, before heading for some scans and time plugged -up with on the running machine today.
Amido’s road to Celtic Park has not been straight. He was released by Sporting Lisbon last year without kicking a ball for them, but he has spent a year in a competitive league playing against some Champions League defences, so Celtic will have a fair idea of what kind of player he is.
Does he have the technique? Does he have the physique? Does he have the temperament? John Park and the scouts will have given Neil Lennon lots of information on these elements of Amido, so there should be no surprises.
This is even more true of Balde than of last season’s twin striking signings, Lassad and Miku (trivia question of the future, Who led the line for Celtic when they beat Barcelona in 2012?). Both arrived in the final days of the window, with options expiring all around and beggars choosing.
As always, the most important hope for any transfer window is that the manager and scouts get their first choices. That assured, we’ll do alright.
11 June and first piece of transfer speculation. Held the tide as long as I could.
We have a special Father’s Day offer for the Willie Wallace book. Order between now and Thursday morning and we’ll include a Father’s Day card, complete with your own message. See the big graphic to the right..
You can choose from two cards, see explanation and choices here, one with Tony Watt after scoring against some Spanish lot, the other with Billy McNeill receiving some trophy or other.
Click on the button below, enter the text you would like to appear in the middle of the card, and Tony will post your book off in time for Father’s Day.
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tommysbhoy, 23:34
I am well my good man, thank you.
The charity story, though incidental compared to Charlotte, is going to come back to haunt them
Raglan Rod being played on Radio Scot
Road even.
OG
With respect, NOTHING would dent the brass in their necks. :)) Bed now definitely. YNWA
Weefra HH
blantyretim
23:32 on
11 June, 2013
allright bud,
been following your tribulations last wee while
as a total medical coward, i need to go in at some point and get my knees fixed,
your shared ups and downs are keeping it real (johnny bhoy johnny)
keep it lit.
Goodnight to all.
Awerabest PJ
Craig Whyte nails Jackson to the wall.
Perfect summary and a great delivery.
He never got that job and Jabba is not going to help him out either…
Steinreignedsupreme
is your m8 in touch..he could have a field day with charlottes tweets..and maybe record his lawyers loosing the plott at the same time h.h
Nite bhoys
HH
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OG
Which charity story ?
They have history when it comes to stealing from charity.
Remember the legends game, the Us and them game, can’t remember off the top of the head, but they scammed quite a few hundred K from that game.
O.g.rafferty
cheers my grin just got grinnier
oh happy days..are we celebrating cva kicked out day too
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000
Regards your suggestion about an online petition stating we as fans have no confidence in the SFA… don’t you think that is rather stating the obvious. We could also go one step further and state, we have no confidence in the SFA but my tea is out so I suppose we will just have to live with it.
I put up a suggestion, before the horse bolted, last week suggesting we raise a parliamentary e-petition. It would require a minimum of 100,000 signatures alone just to have the question asked in parliament as to just how bent and incestuous are the SFA.
You’d think there would be at least 100,000 fair and concerned people interested in the health of Scottish football… wouldn’t you?
My suggestion was received with the ubiquitous deafening silence of those whose desires for isonomy are armed with impotent and forlorn apathy.
Re: the SFA, well we’ve got the incumbents we deserve. All hail the Chief thief, we could have tried to stop it… our club chose not to… and in our silence and indifference we each of us endorsed their endorsement….
Unless of course – our club – has a truly nuclear Machiavellian plan that would make even Baldric look like an idiot, and they are just no telling us about it.
Wher’s the boycot money from tannadichè gone lol???h.h
i might have missed it, but did we ever find out who “bawbag in pink tie with hand gestures” at cup final actually is.
someone must know,
So, there was the day at work, the perusal of CQN, the booze, and the urge to once again unlurk; haven’t howled at the moon for aaaages…
Anyway.
Back when I was doing Ph.D stuff, I drew attention to the fact that in China, at a period when everyone (as in every wannabe poet/hero/civil service candidate) was expected to be word perfect in Sun Tzu, all of the big, politically OMFG events stemmed from someone in charge making a decision; as in, they stopped calculating, and just frickin’ went for it. And although every 300 years or so, an entirely new dynasty resulted, almost invariably the folks en route to glory had battered the bejasus out of the opposition *in increments*; the non-chinese bits of world history are similarly jam-packed with partial victories which lead to epoch-making changes.
Now whilst I’d venture that Celtic FC is en route to something not a million miles removed from epoch-making doodahs, I suspect that the SFA ain’t going anywhere soon; that the system ain’t on the cusp of dissolution; that it won’t all get sorted by next week. My misgiving is that Celtic FC (currently engaged in the compilation of a vastly evidenced and well-devastating indictment of said SFA and all its deeds), is losing sight of the fact that the ultimate aim – presumably, escape from the ambit of the SFA – is not necessarily a “with one bound he was free” type of resolution.
Change is also accomplished by degrees; it’s a Farry thing; and in due course, it’s a Dougie-dougie thing; fact is, attrition *works*.
My point?
If “Those days are gone” then it’s important to remind the world, publicly and unequivocally, that they *continue to be gone*; that it’s not acceptable for institutional partiality to go unquestioned. Each day that the rehabilitation of Sevco goes unremarked upon by any other than the internet bampots is another day on which the perversion of history gains ground; and currently, that process is forging ahead uninterrupted. Now, even if there is a “master plan”, it’s unacceptable that we tolerate an Uncle Tim situation, and permit the ongoing re-establishment of the masonic status quo to pass without challenge. In fact, to permit its reassertion as the accepted norm. Note that: the *accepted* norm.
I don’t want to go gestalt on you, but what the hell: fact is that what people perceive is usually what they believe, and it is based on what they see, hear and think; and Joe Bloke is being subjected to a regime of relentless agitprop, courtesy of MSM. Scotland is heaving with folk that *don’t* know CQN, or Phil, or RTC or similar, and they are predisposed to accept what they read/hear/see.
I don’t demand that Peter Lawell restructure Scots society in one swell foop; however, I do feel justified in asking him why CFC is facilitating the rewriting of history; because today’s unchallenged “move along Timmy” events can’t reasonably be represented as other than CFC’s collusion in our ongoing reallocation to the back of the bus.
So Peter? Throw me (and the rest of what we might call the unaligned world)a frickin’ bone here; indicate to me that The Brotherhood can no longer act with impunity.
@PatersonTony 2m
@ETimsNet so Kyle Bartley had his own EBT – Extra Bits on his Tadger
Palacio67
22:59 on
11 June, 2013
Friday is the first anniversary of the rotten mob being confined to Liquidation.
Still time left to send your sympathy, Mass or GIRUY cards to Edmiston Drive Bhoys.
Lets get as many sent as possible.
HH
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select option 2
leave on a work colleagues desk.
pesky tims
Bó-aire
Quality post…..can’t add a thing >}
HH
Bó-aire
00:02 on
12 June, 2013
quality. well done.
phd level indeed.
tommysbhoy 23:54 on 11 June, 2013
No chance of that I’m afraid.
They backed him because they knew where he got his info and were 100% certain his story was correct.
Saint Stivs
You are awful but I like you!!
ps Why not forget to put a stamp on the envelope and they will get a wee card telling them thers summitt at the Post Office for them.
Those Charlotte tapes are hilarious
Stealing the food from the mouths of the poor starving children eh?
Shocking.
Been a good blog today, some real quality posts.
Take care and god bless Timland
HH
KTF……..cos we are sure going to need it.
S S
What type of do you suggest? Congrats,saddo,or happy anniversary or girfuy?
The Huns and the Tribute Act are rotten to the core on every level from top to bottom.
onon
Where can I hear these tapes?
Is Stokes for the boot?
The huns are so low they could parachute from a snakes a#@h#le
nite troops in the Hoops
Jude 2005
hen1rik posted them on here a few pages back..you might need to get a twitter acc..she’s worth it(charlotte no loreal or sammy lol)
http://t.co/qbg6DXcGjB
jude
I found that they roll on, just start on the first and it will carry on through….enjoy.
http://soundcloud.com/charlotteandthefakes/davidwhitehouse6june2012part01 …
http://soundcloud.com/charlotteandthefakes/davidwhitehouse6june2012part02 …
http://soundcloud.com/charlotteandthefakes/davidwhitehouse6june2012part03 …
http://soundcloud.com/charlotteandthefakes/davidwhitehouse6june2012part04 …
http://soundcloud.com/charlotteandthefakes/davidwhitehouse6june2012part05 …
http://soundcloud.com/charlotteandthefakes/davidwhitehouse6june2012part06 …
http://soundcloud.com/charlotteandthefakes/davidwhitehouse6june2012part07 …
http://soundcloud.com/charlotteandthefakes/davidwhitehouse6june2012part08 …
http://soundcloud.com/charlotteandthefakes/davidwhitehouse6june2012part09 …
http://soundcloud.com/charlotteandthefakes/davidwhitehouse6june2012part10 …
http://soundcloud.com/charlotteandthefakes/davidwhitehouse6june2012part11 …
http://soundcloud.com/charlotteandthefakes/davidwhitehouse6june2012part12 …
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000
20:50 on
11 June, 2013
I wonder– would anyone be interested in an online petition stating that we had no faith and confidence in CO?
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yes please.
set it up. get it lit.
jude
try again
If you play the first tape, it just rolls on, there are 12 in all. try this.
http://soundcloud.com/charlotteandthefakes/davidwhitehouse6june2012part01
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
00:18 on
12 June, 2013
S S
What type of do you suggest? Congrats,saddo,or happy anniversary or girfuy?
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we dont need to rub it in,
but i am going for
dear the rangers , happy birthday you are 1.
they might work it out for themselves.
yup yup yeah yeah yup.
really hoping tims are using such and such language every time we are engaging oldco types
yup yup
I’ve been off blog for a few days and have just seen that the campbel ogilivie has been re-elected?
WTF?
My first reaction is why would our football clubs do such a thing?
More importantly and very little discussed on this blog is that our clubs rejected a motion to sanction clubs for racist and sectarian behaviour within our stadia.
Ogilvies reselection has clouded the main event. This is probably the most shameful decision ever taken in the history of Scottish football and we’re discussing the re-election of one bent sectarian individual?
The failure to support the change Reagan was proposing leaves the door wide open for the hun to behave like huns have always behaved.
Ogilvie will be stroking his white cat with a brandy in hand tonight.
A bit strange that the SFA media officer should offer to meet a The Rangers blogger – “to discuss the (many) inaccuracies in your blog”.
Which has been accepted.
Do all Scottish football bloggers get this offer from the SFA.
The offer of the meeting has been accepted by the blogger I should say, not the inaccuracies.