Football is a results business and Sunderland’s results have been rotten for months, so we shouldn’t be surprised that Martin O’Neill was dismissed as manager on Saturday. But he is Martin O’Neill, who appeared to be able to walk on water when at Celtic. What happened?
Martin’s teams played the same football at Sunderland as they did at Celtic and Leicester. Direct and, if supported by excellent players, incredibly effective, but Martin was the antithesis of the tinkerer manager. He had his plan and stuck to it, a fact which Alex McLeish successfully exploited.
Of all the recent dismissals in England his was least surprising. Sunderland thought they were heading for relegation but still have a fighting chance, the right change could produce the short-term boost required. As for our old pal Paulo, I’m in David Milliband’s camp. He and ‘Arry can go the same way.
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Pen Fulham
Berbatov 1 nil
….PFayr
Sorry , but thanks for shoring up my point, whether £400 or £550 , it`s not on. West End prices for provincial shows is not on.
oglach
I sang in the Wullie Malloy Choir, whit a night that was!!
jmccormick
Re the attendances.
For some reason we are obsessed with how big is the crowd.
I watch football from all over, probably about 3 games at least a day, watching St Pauli just now, good crowd, but Germany, Argentina, Brasil, Turkey and England apart, in the rest of the world, the crowds are brutal.
I saw Spartak Moscow yesterday, there would have been about 20k tops at the game, the majority of grounds are half full
I think PL has something up his sleeve re pricing for next season, just something I was told, so we will see.
Zbyszek all four grandparents, and one of his two parents, are Polish born.
Do you have evidence that “a big part of” Millband’s family live in Israel?
The vast majority of Polish Jews, and their families, were extermniated by the Nazis.
Referring to “The Jew” is not acceptable on here.
Jmccormick
Quite so
Over priced for the dross on show most of the time
TET
Our problem is that we rely on ticket money more so than teams from other leagues
Other teams will get much more from advertising and TV than we do
starry plough
20:08 on 1 April, 2013
oglach
I sang in the Wullie Malloy Choir, whit a night that was!!
One of the best nights I had in a Celtic shirt was at a one of Wullie’s Bashes . Great days.
Wullie Malloy The man who pushed James Connolly out the post office. Brilliant
I think Celtic will sell high and buy low if at all.
It makes sense at this juncture to bank ALL monies. Well as much as is feasibly possible.
Disenchantment with and in descending order; our custodians, SFA, SPL, UEFA the SFL , Strathclyde police and the economy will see I suspect ST sales decimated.
Fans who have lost the faith with our club and games custodians have had enough. I wonder if Celtic plc are being pro active about this or will only address it once its reflected in uptake.
Will we be given another brow beaten sermon to appeal to our WWF sensibilities once it happens to cough up or will we sell sell sell
Looking at how we are handling matters it does not feel likely to me.
PL has to come out grom behind his information pimps and start telling the truth or is Jack Nicholson still in town ?
HH
THE EXILED TIM
`For some reason we are obsessed with how big is the crowd`
not too fussed myself however I feel that the spectacle is enhanced with a fuller stadium. I agree with your comments about other leagues and this marries with mine about a lot of sports.
I too have head the whisper about SB prices but a figure of 10% reduction is the one I am hearing……we need better, more incentivised packages than that.
Ntassoolla
having spent a week in Poland with Zbyszek I can assure you that he is not being anti Jewish in any way.
in fact he has a great respect for the Jewish people and what they went through in Poland..
maybe his translation was wanting…
Burghbhoy
Hugh Tennent ….. founder of our clubs current sponsor and the famous Tennents sixes comp
Ntass
Re zbyszek post, it,s a language issue,he meant no offence.
oglach
We probably crossed paths at some point, were the Wullie do’s not down at Lucifer’s pre Sub Club??
I still had a couple of the t-shirts until a few years ago, robbed by some young Swiss Tims I know..
Great days indeed..
praecepta
20:06 on 1 April, 2013
oglach
“What Colour is your Wullie?”
If you ask me – that we Wullie Flood is so white he looks as if he’s been dipped in a bottle of bleach!
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Wullie Malloy CSC (like the masons only they’d accept anyone) If you asked someone what colour their wullie was and your received a smack in the gob you would quickly establish they were not a member!!
My Wullie is a lowly yellow ( I was working overseas when the good colours were handed out)
The bhoy Jinky
Thanks for that mate
TET
‘I think PL has something up his sleeve re pricing for next season, just something I was told, so we will see’
They have to be looking at it. At £34 for a Main Stand ticket for Saturdays visit of Hibs. At those kind of prices and with the standard of football we are currently witnessing, crowds will slide on an annual basis.
Hasn’t Miliband just recently taken up a new post as head of a charity in New York???
Fulham 2 up
Berby again
Meanwhile
nil nil at Perth
HT
don’t comment on Labour..
you have no reason to question why
they are the answer to all our woes…now behave….
Arabs one up
utd 1 up at St Johnstone
1-0 DU
Young 17-year old debutant (Ryan Gold?) for Dundee Utd opens the scoring.
Jackie Mac looked absolutely delighted there
Transmission delay in Wishy
BT and 79caps
Thank you.
Ntassoolla
Previos post was sent from Blackberry. If sent from the computer I probably would check it twice. Even then, I don’t know why you find the refference to the Jew offensive? Must be an cultural difference, or something that I do not understand. Whatever, no offence was meant.
As for your question.
I read interesting article on Miliiband visit to Warsaw. He spoke about his connections to Poland (Warsaw) where his roots are and Israel where part of his family lives now.
PFayr
I agree we get eff all from our TV deal, but that is no excuse.
Take the likes of Holland, they get very little as well, but they produce far better players than scotland does, there are a few other countries in the same boat, but they consistantly produce players.
I hark back to the souness era, he destroyed the game re bringing kids through by his buying mercanaries policy.
I also believe, and make no appologie for harping on about it, if we don’t allow the footballers to play, they get well frustrated and give up on the game, Sean Maloney was always injured when at Celtic, plays nearly every game in england, protection is afforded him, if you are a hammer thrower in scotland you will do well, Messie, Inesta and the like wouldn’t be half the players they are if they played in scotland.
Tis a sad state of affairs, and they wonder why the game is in the gutter, jeezo, a half wit can see what the problem is, but as it’s half wit huns running our game, it’s no surprise.
If MilibandBrothers Incorp.Est.1878(Moscow*Lvov*Brussels)..
Had Their Way…..
Uncle Joe Stalin’s T-54 Tanks Would Still Be Parked On Zbyszek’s Front Lawn….
No Just Reliant Robins..
The Miliband’s Don’t Identify With Their Jewish Heritage….
Except When It Suits Them….
They Are Genetic Marxists……
Who Have Been Intent On The Subjugation And Destruction Of Western Civilisation…..
Since Before The First Caramel Wafers…..
Rolled Off The Production Line At Archie Tunnock’s
Superb to see a talented young 17 year old score for DU on his full debut. Credit to Jackie McNamara for giving him the opportunity.
As i write this, Lomas’s hammer throwers are trying to kick the young lad all over the pitch.
Lovely play by Berby
Though I agree that until we ditch refs and our over aggressive game Scottish football will never improve. Maloney is only playing more now because he wants to play, I’m sure WGS commented that Shaun is fit we just need to convince him now. And Maloney said himself recently that he’s got to the stage in his career that he realises playing when not 100% is possible.
First, it’s ‘Its Glorious Past’ not ‘It’s Glorious Past’.
Second, the fascist salute is a lot more sinister than you think. Ever since 1943 Italy has been in something of a civil war. See Red Brigade, see Milan bombings, see suspected radicals dying ‘accidentally’ in police custody.There are elements in Italian society who have never accepted the post 1945 settlement and are itching to reverse it.
Paolo’s salute is a public celebration of support for right wing thuggery – nothing more, nothing less.
Slight correction on the young Dundee Utd scorer – it’s Ryan Gauld
pauloantony
20:02 on 1 April, 2013
‘Miliband who grew up in a communist household criticising paulo di canio ‘
As I recall neither parent was a member of the communist party.
Have you read any of Ralph Milliband’s books?
3 nil Fulham
jmccormick
Kids are falling out of love with football, it’s no wonder that the poorer nations are getting stronger, and the so called richer nations are getting weaker.
Take the epl, I saw the chelsea, manure game today, crap it was, but they do know how to market the crap to your average joe soap.
Celtic should start a basketball team, and join the other big clubs in europe >}
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See if the referees blew their whistles now, I would have a 4 timer up, 35/1, hurry up ffs !!!
MON smited the most expensively assembled Huns side ever.
Gave us Euro fitba after Xmas for the first time in a quarter of a century.
Gave us Seville.
Gave us a treble .
Yes, Yes; he did indeed; our greatest progressive
AND succesfull manager for a long time. Got us to Seville after a decade
of drivel. What’s not to like about MON’s time with us?
BeingtherewuzthedealCSC