I’ve not seen enough of Kolo Toure or Shane Duffy to have a view on their appropriateness for Celtic but I’m very pleased that despite the headcount of central defenders, Brendan Rodgers appears to be aware that he’s only got one he can rely on. We cannot afford to have another season of set-piece trauma in Europe.
Aston Villa’s Scott Sinclair has the makings of a more profound signing for Brendan, especially if he arrives for anything close to Villa’s asking price. Ronny Deila foundered in a sea of wide midfielders who were unable to command a starting place for any duration. We are the club where wide players come to damage their career prospects. Most of those who have ‘walked through Parkhead gates’ in this time had done so on a sale-or-return basis; at circa £6m Scott Sinclair would need to be right.
A friend once asked why the Argentinians adore Diego Maradona but appear reluctant to appreciate Lionel Messi. Diego single-handedly delivered the World Cup in 1986 and retired from international football having given everything to his country as a 33-year-old. Leo bowed out with a couple of runners-up medals two days after his 29th birthday. He could easily compete in another two World Cups, if he had the appetite.
That’s not to judge Leo; maybe he identifies with the people he chose, not with a nation. Many of us do.
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The absolute best of British.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/27/david-cameron-jokes-new-labour-mp-could-find-herself-in-shadow-c/?playlist=structure%3Anews
The huns.
They are a `comin`.
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/rangers/celtic-recruited-brendan-rodgers-out-of-respect-to-rangers-1-4163906
Scotsman.
Central defenders Dedryck Boyata and Jozo Simunovic remain out through injury ahead of Celtic’s opening Champions League qualifier against either Lincoln Red Imps or Flora Tallinn on July 12 or 13, but Celtic are not rushing to add to their back four.
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Are you kidding me ?
MACJAY
A very novel approach to disprove the theory that you only come on here for an argument-talk to yourself!
Hat doffed,mate. Superb thinking.
MACJAY
That’s how to disprove the theory that you only come on here for an argument-talk to yourself!
Hat doffed,mate. Superb thinking.
eh?
First one disappeared.
then came back!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 28TH JUNE 2016 6:10 AM
MACJAY
Bobby.
Hail Hail
At Glasgow Airport going to the Algarve,an instant double whammy,cheating Hun bassa Ogilvie checking in beside me,French air traffic scum on strike…..
!BADA BING!
Shoot him. Tell the cops I said it was ok.
RAI RADIO _28/6 /2016
” One more attempt to mislead — state several times that Article 50 will be submitted in the autumn and then submit it on the 27th of June. “.
Scorchio -way down south.
The Welsh team watching the game last night,funny!
http://www.punditarena.com/
An absolute beauty –
” Our promises were a series of possibilities”
Iain Duncan Smith 27 6 2016
Watching The Sports Newtwork (Canadian) this morning about the Iceman victory over the brexits.
They took great delight in pointing out that 8 cities in Canada have a bigger population than The Victorious Iceland team
Hola my friends from Scorchio Xavia.
And CM 67 if youre lurking – thanks for all the tips! All good so far.
The Brendan for england daftness.
More chance of him being announced as prime minister.
No
BR-exit here.
SIN CITY BHOY on 28TH JUNE 2016 1:45 AM
I’m Scottish. And unlike you, I actually live in Scotland.
I thought the English side last night were pathetic and Iceland deserved to win.
But the fact remains the Scotland side didn’t qualify, and the reason they didn’t qualify was because they weren’t good enough.
I’m no fan of the Scotland side, and see no reason why I should be.
LENNON N MC….MJALLBY on 28TH JUNE 2016 7:39 AM
Worst huddle ever.
Morning all.
Congratulations to Italy and Iceland on both making the quarter-final at Euro 2016.
Italy now face reigning World champions Germany on Saturday.
A point worth remembering is that Germany have never beaten Italy in a major finals tournament.
Italy have won four, and four have ended in draws.
HH!!
Did anyone think back to our Euro campaigns over the last two years when watching England succumb to Iceland? Uncanny similarities, in my view.
From jon snow twitter
https://twitter.com/ellen_coyle/status/746941250696323072
HH
Poor mclaren lol :-)
https://twitter.com/Or_is_He/status/747551633526169600g
https://m.facebook.com/?_rdr#!/photo.php?fbid=10210193169732681&id=1442479492&set=a.1972028027349.115015.1442479492&source=48&refid=8&_ft_=qid.6301149270162602951%3Amf_story_key.-498365898332569458&__tn__=E
AN TEARMANN on 28TH JUNE 2016 8:32 AM
The biggest mistake (apart form actually having the referendum in the 1st place) was declaring the votes by parliamentary seat. No politician is going to go against the majority decision in their seat.
The individual counts shouldn’t have been made public, just the overall totals. That might have given the parliament some leeway.
Useless at posting links thing but just seen following screen grab from Sky Sports News on Facebook
The Banner headline under the presenters reads
Jockey David Fitzpatrick given 21 day ban following Mondays ride on Roryslittlesister at Naas.
WEEMINGER on 28TH JUNE 2016 9:03 AM
Perhaps there should have been a minimum threshold for a change to the status quo, a George Cunningham amendment.
I saw a tweet yesterday of something Kelvin McKenzie had written expressing buyers regret.
It seems he voted as a sort of protest assuming all the time that Leave would never win so his protest had no possible downside. I suspect he was not alone in doing that.
As it is the UK faces a fairly bleak future, all in pursuit of a personal rivalry between two individuals that took root at Eton and was nurtured in the Bullingdon Club.
ERNIE LYNCH on 28TH JUNE 2016 9:15 AM
Possibly. Hindsight’s a beautiful thing.
I think this was suggested at an early stage though, and shot down.
My thought for referenda of this magnitude is that voting should be compulsory and any uncast vote is declared as a vote for the status quo. That way if people truly want change they’ll vote for it. If 50.1% genuinely vote for change then fair enough.
Done now, and I really don’t see any way out of it.
A lot of the “winners” seem to be hanging their hat on the UK obtaining a Norwegian style Associate Membership pf the EU. I have no doubt at all that this will happen, but to get this UK will have to conform to EU regulations including free movement of Labour, pay an agreed Annual Contribution to Brussels, yet have no say whatever in formulation of future EU policies. Can’t see too much winning there.
Blantyretim.
I’ll be in Blane Valley around 3.00pm on Friday.
I liked this response to Macjay`s 5:41 link:
“You are right Lee, there was a lot of money invested in the Rangers team of 2011
Just a shame that it all belonged to someone else – unpaid taxes and unpaid creditors financed your past “glories” and the shamelessness that the new club have in claiming the history of the old club without paying off its debts will cause resentment forever
I am a long way from being a Celtic fan or even a football fan but I am aghast at the arrogance of this institution and the appalling football governance that let them get away with this.”
ernie lynch
Do you think there is any/ a reasonable/no chance of the Leave vote not being acted upon in terms of actually leaving?
JJ
Lads Lagerbak has faced England seven times, six of them with Sweden.
He has not lost once.
HOT SMOKED on 28TH JUNE 2016 9:38 AM
I don’t see the UK leaving the EU.
Once the consequences sink in people will change their minds. Not the out and out racists, but enough of the rest of them.
And, while it’s the last thing I’d like to see, the threat of Scotland leaving the UK is enough to give any UK Prime Minister pause for thought. They know that would be what the history books would have to say about them.
ERNIE
How do you think the government will avoid leaving the EU?
You reckon the consequences are just sinking in,that may be true. But out of 17m people who voted to leave,there will be a majority of them would do so again.
It would be a constitutional disaster to refuse to enact this. No politician could ever expect to get away with it.
And btw,rules are rules. If they throw a rerun,I’ll vote to endorse the original decision even though I didn’t bliddy agree with it. I doubt I’d be the only one.
Regarding the EU referendum vote and it’s challenging result.
Very interesting to see the broad range of people now discussing the concept of a threshold.
That a figure should have been included — some sort of participation rate to make sure that the result would have had a higher level of validity than a straight majority of those that took part.
We had a threshold in 1978 and people cried fix.
We did not have one in 2016 and some of the same people are crying fraud.
The one positive of the EU ref outcome is that politics is now been taken a lot more seriously.
Slogans can have consequences.
MADMITCH
“Slogans can have consequences”
And as some politicians and pundits are now finding out,so can lying.
BMCW @ 10.05
The question was binary — in or out.
The world is a lot more complex than that.
The out vote is not monolithic.
Some would accept a fig leaf compromise to stay.
Others would want something more substantial that woul probably hurt St Nic and the City.
Finally there are those that want the Channel Tunnel blocked up and decimalisation revoked.
BJ and MG will have their hands full trying to herd those cats.
The most pressing now is to get on top of the anti foreigner tripe now being spouted.
That viewpoint will not stop at Polish fruit pickers and Spanish nurses.
Once that rock has been moved the last 70 years is now in play.
The outlier then becomes how people from Ireland are treated.
The stock songbook of the Little Englanders does not offer much hope.
CORKCELT @ 9.28 .
Indeed .
Saw the Italian Foreign Minister on the tele stating that Boris Johnson’s guff in the Daily Telegraph was ” pasta in the field ” ( Italian for pie in the sky ) He repeated the submit Article 50 and then negotiate line .He stated that Boris needed to study the EU’s agreement with Norway and it’s implications for what Boris had peddled to the British public . . He finished by stating there would be no Norway Plus for the UK — ” if we did that we might as well come to a similar agreement with New Zealand “
Since day one,the Labour establishment MPs have resented the rank and file electing him leader, and have been stabbing him in the back.
Now they want a vote of no confidence, but in doing so want to skulk behind a secret ballot.