Treble chasing; business, not personal, the dirty battle

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Amid the general hilarity on Scottish football at the moment I’m sure it’s not escaped Ronny Deila’s attention that we have one of our most important games of the season coming up on Saturday.  The league is a marathon without any specific focus, the League Cup final is another huge game, but facing Dundee away is exactly the kind of game a club who are chasing a treble often lose.

It was Dundee who knocked the Aberdeen bandwagon off its tracks.  Given half a chance they will do the same to Celtic on Saturday.

Kenny McDowall must have felt a bit humiliated at being told he has to pick players on loan from Newcastle United, although clearly not humiliated enough to tell them to stuff the remainder of his contract.

Llambias’ instruction appears bizarre, but there’s always two sides to each story.  If McDowall informed his chief executive that he would not use the players, for reasons other than sporting merit, Llambias may well feel justified in making the instruction.

This public shaming of Llambias, the board, and by extension, Mike Ashley, is another act in a dirty battle.  Still, “It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business”, as Dave King almost said about Ashley yesterday.

Ashley’s men may be robbed of the ability to pick the team after an EGM next month, but he remains able to inflict a lot of ‘assistance towards the club’ before then.  If I can paraphrase Tom Hagan, ‘Mr Ashley never asks a second favour once he’s refused the first, understood?’  When personal offence has been taken, sometimes even good business isn’t enough to bring a ruthless patriarch to the table.

When news of the attack on the 10-year-old boy broke on Monday I assumed it would be a matter of hours before the offender was charged.  Three days on without news is concerning.  It appears that those who associate with people who believe random violence is acceptable and care little about the application on justice – which has nothing to do with any specific policing issue.

Hard cash is now available to anyone with information leading to an arrest. If you can’t report the offender for the sake of the victim, do it for the money.  You don’t need to be a witness to report the issue and collect the reward, you just need to know enough to get the ball rolling.

Well done to all who have gotten involved in the appeal to help the victim, especially organiser Rod Lee.  Stunning work, Rod.

CQN11 St Patrick’s Dinner, Cup Final weekend, Friday 13 March, at the Kerrydale Suite, Celtic Park, email me for details, celticquicknews@gmail.com

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  1. They’ll be pure ragin’ on FF, so they will!

     

     

    They papes huv nae respect!

     

     

    Monaghan where are you?!

     

     

    HH!!

  2. blantyretim is praying for the Knox family on

    The magnificent 7

     

     

    Just because of Henrik he haw to do with sevco

  3. lubo of the lamp on

    Robert88 – 13:58

     

     

    “I come from a very large Catholic family, and detest it. If children had the choice or young adults I would very much doubt any of them would willingly choose any cult to follow.”

     

     

    Sorry for delay, work got in the way.

     

     

    I come from an agnostic/ Presbyterian family, indeed the very heart of Calvinism, rarely went to church. I entered the Catholic Church a few years ago after attending the Papal Mass 2010 at Bellahouston, and how I ended up there only God knows – truly miraculous!

     

     

    It’s a shame you “detest” the Catholic Church as you were truly blessed to be bro into a Catholic family, just a shame you don’t know it yet, BUT where there’s life (cause you’re no a zombie) there’s hope, so I pray you will see things differently sooner or later as it is a Church of great Truth, Depth and Beauty! But of course how could it be otherwise as it is the very body of Jesus, our Lord and Saviour, Love incarnate!. :o)

     

     

    “About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they are just one thing and we shouldn’t complicate the matter.” St Joan of Arc

  4. 1) Kris Commons for 2 years = 2 Scottish titles wrapped up. Excellent.

     

     

    2) It’s Thursday, and them Hun Monkeys is still Hun Monkeys.

     

     

    3) Craig thompson is still a CHEAT. The more I consider it, the more his decision to deny LG advantage evidently becomes one of the top 5 worst ever pieces of MIBery.

     

    It had none of the drama of the despicable Cadette offside or the Dougie Dougie incident because it took place in the middle of the park; and in that, it makes it as worse – maybe more so. Thompson had TIME to survey the scene and make his decision. And that time should have been didctated by refereeing instinct and conditioning – that ADVANTAGE should be considered at ALL TIMES in favour of the team fouled.

     

    Sadly the instinct and conditioning that prevailed in Thompson’s heid was Hun Monkey instinct and conditioning, subservient forelock-tugging, ingrained by narrow-minded belief and a lifelong willingness to ignore rules and sportsmanship to the benefit of the Hun cause. Blatant, unrepentant, mendacity. CHEAT.

     

     

    4) You’d be inclined to feel a little sorry for McDowall had he not jumped ship to take the Hun pound and sell his sorry soul for a smidgen of masonic approval. As it is he’s deserving of his part in the comic-tragedy of the Zombie nation, carrying the buck like the guileless bumbling dunce he is.

     

    But didn’t the SMSM give him a grilling? None of the usual fawning tributes from the hacks to the Hun boss. How the poor dope must have thought he was in for some of the deification his predecessors received. None more than Fat Sally. Scotland’s wee-pretendy journalists’ pressers with the Sleekit One had about them the air of giggling schoolgirls meeting their favourite boy-band member.

  5. TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on

    Neganon 2

     

     

    Fair play to you and well done on congratulating Celtic on signing KC for another two years.

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