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What happened to Martin O’Neill?

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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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  1. THE EXILED TIM on

    corkcelt

     

     

    I have quite a few bits from Hill 16 in my cave, when they were building the new Croker, they were just bulldoziing the old Hill and taking it away to a landfill.

     

     

    Feckin sacrilage, I have one piece, that sits pride of place beside a piece from the Great Pyramid, and a piece from the Temple in Karnak, and a fake minature Mummy, wisny fake when I bought it mind you >}

  4. Thindimebhoy on

    Might be an April fool thing

     

     

    Green to relieve Mc Coist

     

     

    And a new management team is planned for the assault on div2

  7. blantyretim on

    night bhoys

     

     

    KTF..

     

     

    zimmernam..

     

    god bless your grandfather, wasn’t meant as a slight..

     

    missed out the smiley… O))

  8. Hamiltontim on

    Bada

     

     

    I was sure that Warnock signed him. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been wrong though.

  10. corkcelt on

    As down the glen one Easter morn to a city fair rode I

     

    Their armed lines of marching men in squadrons passed me by

     

    No fife did hum nor battle drum did sound its dread tattoo

     

    But the Angelus bells o’er the Liffey’s swell rang out through the foggy dew

     

     

    Right proudly high over Dublin town they hung out the flag of war

     

    ‘Twas better to die ‘neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or Sud-el-bar

     

    And from the plains of Royal Meath strong men came hurrying through

     

    While Britannia’s Huns with their long-range guns sailed in through the foggy dew

     

     

    ‘Twas Britannia bade our wild geese go that small nations might be free

     

    But their lonely graves are by Suvla’s waves or the shore of the great North Sea

     

    Oh had they died by Pearse’s side or fought with Cathal Brugha

     

    Their names we would keep where the Fenians sleep ‘neath the shroud of the foggy dew

     

     

    But the bravest fell, and the requiem bell rang mournfully and clear

     

    For those who died that Easter tide in the springing of the year

     

    And the world did gaze in deep amaze at those fearless men but few

     

    Who bore the fight that freedom’s light might shine through the foggy dew

  12. petec on

    zimmerman

     

     

    22:52 on 1 April, 2013

     

     

    I’m coming around to believing that JL was a good guy, FFM took quite a bit of abuse from me at times over the last year or so and he was religious in his belief that John was a Good Lad, I disagreed, Imagine didnae jive with what I had been researching.

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7L0IYPXKj8 cheers BMCUWP ;)

     

     

    It is all good though and it is important that we are now best of friends.

  13. Hamiltontim on

    Bada

     

     

    Just had a wee check. According to Wiki (I know!!!) Warnock signed for Leeds in Feb ’12 and Diouf signed for them in August ’12.

  14. jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ on

    Was up in Skye for a few days. Awesome scenery mountains stunning with the snow caps.

     

     

    In Macnabs pub in Portree for a pint and 4 hun brats kinda spoiled it for us with their gutter lingo. How did I know they were huns? They whistled the sash while they played pool.

     

     

    Multi talented or what??

  16. petec on

    roy croppie,

     

     

    Nae problemo.

     

     

    Here is another one that has came into my mind, probably because my Niece is contemplating job offers in Dubai and America. None of us want her to go.

  20. roy croppie on

    bournesouprecipe

     

     

    Sally’s fav song: ‘I dreamed a dream…’ it aint happening fatman, Glasgow Celtic Champions :)

     

     

    poor Subo looking like him!

  25. jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ on

    Remarked to mrs j a few times how dry the grass looked on our trip. Just heard thers a big grass fire raging just outside Fort William.

  29. petec on

    zimmerman

     

     

    23:22 on 1 April, 2013

     

     

    BT,

     

    No offence taken bud,

     

     

    HH.

     

     

    Petec,

     

    J.L. was up there with the good guys,although the MSM would have us believe differently. (imho)

     

     

    John Lennon Interview, 6/6/1968

     

    _______________________________________________________

     

     

    Thank You m8,

     

     

    I’ve started listening to this one that is linked from your link.

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OQl10ZlfqU&feature=endscreen&NR=1

  30. croppybhoy on

    Blantyre

     

     

    Don’t think many would want to be on Dev’s side in any debate

     

    Dev always did what was best for Dev IMHO

     

    The great tragedy of the Tan War and the Civil War that followed, was that at the end of that period so many good and great men and women were dead.

     

    Apart from Dev there were not many people of the calibre of those who fell on either side.

     

    Ireland in the 1920s and 1930s would have been avery different place if people like Collins,Griffiths and Connelly had been around.

  33. Burgas Hoops on

    1st time i come on here at this time (01:32) and ……………………….there’s nobody about -)))

  40. corkcelt on

    Great version OK praecepta, brilliant song. If we sung it at Celtic Park how long before it gets banned.

  42. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Zimmerman and Petec

     

    J.Lennon was a damaged guy (“Help”) and it would be reasonable to judge him on that basis.

     

    No father, and farmed out to his aunt.

     

    See his recordings “Julia “and “Mother.”

     

    Politically, he sussed out Nixon pre Watergate.See:”Gimme some truth.”

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