Owen Coyle has probably no idea the trouble caused in his name at Celtic. Notions that his granny’s uncle’s cousin passed on verifiable information that either Owen rejected the Celtic job, or that he did so because he didn’t agree with the direction the club were going, were clearly nonsense at the time and are more evidently the case now.
Having just earned promotion to the English Premier League the man chose not to be interviewed for the Celtic position, a perfectly defendable decision. He was never offered a job. Coyle performed well at St Johnstone (without winning promotion) and did well at Burnley before managing an inevitable decline at Bolton. He remains a good manager who I hope gets back into the game soon.
The Bolton lesson to football is stark. On some levels the club was well run. Good manager, good scouts, a small but faithful following, a chairman who could see the iceberg ahead, all signed up to the ambition to remain in top flight football, but their budget was forever under pressure. Debts topped £100m, although the directors ensured public services didn’t suffer as a result of their ‘ambition’.
Three years ago Phil Gartside, the Bolton chairman, knew the model in the English game was unsustainable and tried to change things. He failed, unfortunately, and was unable to produce a reverse alchemy – turning tens of millions of pounds from Sky TV each year into a 17th place finish in the Premier League. I hope the change works for them.
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Gotta Go
Good Night Scotland
Good Night Ireland
Good Night Wales
Good Night England
Good Night Canada
Good Night New Zealand
Good Night Australia.
and
Good Night.. Tom Maley, Wherever You are.
Kojo
Still.. Laughin’
Did anyone see the early evening news tonight containing a report on the demonstrations in Greece against Angela Merkal? The Greeks were opposing what they are calling The Fourth Reich imposing austerity measures on the Greek people (as the Nazis did) and comparing Merkal to Hitler. Some of the demonstrators had Nazi flags and uniforms and one woman had an effigy of Merkal with a Hitler moustache.
We then saw a demonstrator wearing an emerald green T-shirt bearing our club’s logo and the legend “Celtic”.
Our fans are everywhere.
NatKnow @ 23:34
Great stuff. I think we sing from the same hymmsheet :))
BBC progs have always been loaded with agenda.
The absurd 9/11 and 7/7 Road Trip programmes should go off like an alarm in people’s heids.
Luvvin yer work amigo :)))
southside
had great banter with the Porto fans in Seville singing together in a bar on the banks of the river…Happy days..HH
Some nice “Celtic” sounds on bbc alba just now
My Dear Kojo….
We Have A Much Stronger First Team Pool Than We Had…
When We Last Played Them….
However,Oor Team Has Not Yet Gelled…
And NL Remains Reluctant To Exploit The Nerveless And Precocious Talent Of Oor Youngsters…..
The GigaWatt And The McGeouch…..
Show Them Scant Respect….
Just Like Oor Old-Bhoy Vidar Riseth Did When He Captained Rosenberg To Victory Against Barce….
The Season After We Last Played Them…
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I read A Review Of Bernard Cornwell’s Latest Book In The Media Last Week…
“Battle Of Poitiers” ….In the 1300s….
When The Black Prince & The English Crushed The Frenchies….
Ye’ll Be Readin’ Nigel Tranter Next….
And His ‘Faction’ Novels Bases On Scoddish History…..
However…..The Books You Should Read
The Byzantium Trilogy By Lord John Julius Norwich….
Comes In Three Volumes…
But There Is A Single Book ‘Short History Of Byzantium’,Based On The Trilogy….
Shows What Can Happen When Christians Don’t Stand Together….
As After The Disastrous Schism Between The Orthodox Church And Rome In 1054..
An Event More Significant Even Than The Reformation…?
The Sides Came Close To Full Reconciliation….
As Constantinople..The Jewel Of Christendom…..
And The Most Technologically Advanced Society On The Planet…
Withstood Siege After Siege…
Using ‘Wonder Weapons’ Like Flame-Throwers Mounted On Their Ships To Incinerate The Enemy Fleets….
However,The Eternal City And The Hagia Sophia,First Cathedral Of Christendom…
Would Fall To The Barbarians When The Pope & The Venetians Did Too Little Too Late….
And A Christian Bulgarian Traitor Cast The Huge Cannon That Were Required For The Turks To Breach The Walls Of The Old City,The Second Rome….
See What Happens When You Transfer Technology…..
Set Back Civilisation For Centuries….
And That’s Why You Don’t Have A ‘Ponderosa’ Ranch Oan Mars As Well….
An’ Hiv Tae Share This Wee Blue Planet Wi’ Kilbowie Kelt….
Right…?
http://www.foliosociety.com/book/BYZ/byzantium
southside
I like Striling Albion fans :))
Anyways, some no bad goals at the end of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Ta8ekk9k8&feature=results_video
just my opinion but I thought that if an argument was empirically based the logical conclusion was proven , whereas any other argument could be brought to a logical conclusion but was only proven if the premise was fact. OR NOT Discuss
HH
gedhed7
How often did they DIVE for cover.
MWD
Only joking bhoys I most certainly do not want to dicuss at this time of night
lol
When we played F.C.Zurich the pubs had to close in the afternoon , thanks to some Zurich fans landlord sold us enough alcohol to keep us going and let us stay in beer garden until they could legally open again. My vote goes to them
HH
FFM
Is it me or is Scottish football a happier place since their demise.
southside
Cot that last week was brill btw!!
Dena29
:))
Surely a logical conclusion was only proven if the premise was empirical??
southside
It is not just you. On the boat home on Sunday night myself and a few others made exactly the same comment
HH
sooside
Delirious.
Wee team supporters I know are happy with current situation but don’t want them zombies mummified.
Whereas me. Me! I wanted them obliterated.
MWD
Keevins showed total disrespect for every player in Div 1 – 2 & 3!!
southside @ 23:59
It’s just you. Can you not tell we are all glibly discussing football Armageddon with fear-filled voices????
You insensitive rat !!
:)))))
Got to go, before the hot water bottle cools down, night night.
Does anyone know the reason for Blackman’s loan deal with ICT being cancelled..?
FFM
Touche :)))
Cos I KANT discuss it tonight . good night all. Craic was good bring on the barca
Just Kant get enough(sorry couldnt resist)
HH
“Hot Water Bottle”.
More nostalgia,
I used to call one of my exes that……
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
tommy winning confirmed me tae
a true socialist
incredible man
what an honour eh
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
00:06 on
10 October, 2012
Does anyone know the reason for Blackman’s loan deal with ICT being cancelled..?
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maybe butcher was a prick
maybe im wrong
hes a good player
i no that much
sheik yerbouti
00:13 on
10 October, 2012
LOL………you’re right about butcher, that’s for sure. I was a wee bit disappointed we actually loaned Blackman to his team in the first place……
Night all…..
Sheik Yerbouti
Hah, a blast from the past! How you keepin my friend??
Without trying to provoke a religion v politics debate (quite the opposite actually),
CFC has embraced Socialism and Chrisitianity together.
There might be a base conflict there, but the beauty of it is, as well as most fundamental thoughts being applied, ie concern for your fellow man, we also have a good basis for discussion that does not rely on hatred or persecution, but on basis of thinking and genuine understanding. Imo, this shouldn’t be underestimated in where we are now…., ie. all inclusive, loving of all tradition, concern for all, etc etc.
This is why the government dinnae like us.
And why a hun member of Strathy’s finest also expressed the hidden agenda to root our those left wing extremist Marxists of the GB, which led to two 15-16 yr old boys being arrested, and detained by a court for Breach of the Peace, that also released murder-accusedes on the same day. Christian thinking? Hmm.
dena29
You Kan if you want….but you’re goin to your bed, so another time :)) HH
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
00:18 on
10 October, 2012
sheik yerbouti
00:13 on
10 October, 2012
LOL………you’re right about butcher, that’s for sure. I was a wee bit disappointed we actually loaned Blackman to his team in the first place……
Night all…..
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me tae bro
he v talented hope we dont sack him
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
00:18 on
10 October, 2012
Sheik Yerbouti
Hah, a blast from the past! How you keepin my friend??
Without trying to provoke a religion v politics debate (quite the opposite actually),
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doin well brother
hows triks wif you
hope u dain guid :}
Sheik Yerbouti
Am very well, amigo :)
Especially this year :))
I see a Green Moon Rising. Or is it blue. Doesnae matter.
The point still stands. The times they are a changin…(por have changed too quickly for us to realise). Heh heh,
You get my point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2w5kffJnq8
McDowellCelt
22:07 on
9 October, 2012
McDowellCelt
I’ll take the ticket if its still available, Paul67 has my email address
cheers
jimmybhoycampbell
For anyone that might still be up….
Kris Commons reaction to this leg-breaker from Bougherra…
http://youtu.be/3PLn6uFbfEw?t=4m57s
Also at the time of our turnaround.
ALSO co-incided with MIBbery backing up a wee bit.
But the main thing was his reaction.
KC had it sussed even then. Whit a player. More to follow…….
Kris Commons should just call in sick. To hell with them. I love Scotland and all but this mob..Levein….the SFA…Boak!
The Battered Bunnet
Its all your ……….fault
The earthquake is now causing trouble for Japans banking industry.
Origami bank has folded.
Sumo bank has gone belly up.
Bonsai bank has cut back some of its branches.
Karoake bank has been put up for sale and is going for a song.
Analysts report that there is something fishy going on at Sushi Bank and staff there fear they may get a raw deal.
Meanwhile, shares in Kamikaze Bank have nose-dived and 500 jobs at Karate Bank will be chopped.
Meanwhile some banks are pay rolling Sevco…and long may it con tim you!
ah I see that the Irish are a race apart has resurfaced.
Parthenogenetically speaking….
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~merle/History/SI-History.htm
In a jungle of the senses
Tinkerbell and Jack the ripper
Love has no meaning, not where they come from
But we know pleasure is not that simple
Very little fruit is forbidden
Sometimes we wobble, sometimes we’re strong
But you know evil is an exact science
Being carefully correctly wrong
Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home
We feel like Greeks, we feel like Romans
Centaurs and monkeys just cluster round us
We drink elixirs that we refine
From the juices of the dying
We are no monsters, we’re moral people
And yet we have the strength to do this
This is the splendor of our achievement
Call in the air strike with a poison kiss
Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home
Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home
How bad it gets, you can’t imagine
The burning wax, the breath of reptiles
God is not mocked, he owns our business
Karma could take us at any moment
Cover him up, I think we’re finished
You know it’s never been so exotic
But I don’t know, my dreams are visions
We could still end up with the great big fishes
Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home
This is worth coming out of lurker mode for:
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/nuj-motion-about-the-targeting-of-journalists/
miki67..it’s a fantastic article..Phil at his best.
Sorry about the other night on the jesus posting..no offence meant..youre one of my favourites!
Evenin’ chaps
Wee bit buckled tonight….but hey ho!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TKKSh0IHEo&feature=related
Teuchter ár lá