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Turning gold into mud tricky for English clubs

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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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  2. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    Ok,

     

     

    Am not surprised we can’t see that video:

     

     

     

    38:47 – 4 years ago

     

    Richard Wolff a professor of economics at UMass Amherst talks on the current “financial” crisis and capitialism in general. A form of socialism is presented as a possible alternative. This talk was presented by the Asociation for Economic and Social Analysis and the journal Rethinking Marxism

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    A Bitte Deep in Ere tonight Bhoys..

     

     

    The Only Problem with Sammi being the New Cult Hero.. (Who everybody Always thought was a Player)..

     

     

    Is Wee don’t get thee Olde Sammi Debates..

     

     

    Or thee Olde Aiden Debates..

     

     

    Then there Was/is The Willo Window Donate..

     

     

    Summa of ChewinTheFitbaFatCSC

  9. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    Is Marxist theory wrong, no!. We know that. We are disagreeing on how you find out where socialism roots itself.

     

     

    And the big differentiator is “religion”.

     

     

    Is it true that the only people to respect this are

     

     

    But ignore this as I’ve 2 demonds at y napper….if you have sense yoiu knoew to igore…am losin the will….

  23. lionroars67 on

    Oscar Knox‏@Wee_Oscar

     

     

    Some v bad news today, an issue has been discovered with Oscar’s heart. He has been admitted to hospital for treatment. Will keep u posted.

     

     

     

    God bless wee oscar

  26. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    lionroars67

     

    06:19 on

     

    10 October, 2012

     

    Oscar Knox‏@Wee_Oscar

     

     

    A quiet but heartfelt prayer from me and mine.

     

    God Bless .

  30. Jobo Baldie on

    Good morning friends from yet another clear skied dry but scrapy-windscreen morning over East Kilbride.

  36. curly on

    Really sorry to hear that Oscar is having even more issues. The wee man has gone through more in his short life than most of us will ever experience in 50 or 60 years.

     

     

    He seems such a brave wee soul, and the thoughts of my family and I are with him and his family.

     

     

    Hail! Hail!

     

     

    Curly

  40. Chaplin on

    Good morning all !

     

     

    I had a pretty sleepless night but was very disappointed at the tone lowering in here overnight

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    The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie

     

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    9 October, 2012

     

    However…..The Books You Should Read

     

     

    The Byzantium Trilogy By Lord John Julius Norwich….

     

     

    Comes In Three Volumes…

     

     

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    Just bought the trilogy in a second hand bookshop in Devon, as new, unread condition for £40 :)

     

    6.2lb of reading in all – bargain methinks.

     

    First got to finish ‘The Spanish Civil War’ by Hugh Thomas a mere 1.6lbs and ‘How to Change the World, tales of marx and Marxism’ by Eric Hobsbawm, at only 1.8lbs.

     

    Hoping to pass muster to get registered on the Green Brigade website.

     

    I can still jump around at a mere 56yrs like I did in the Jungle a few years ago, think they’ll let me in?

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