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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Good morning CQNers,
NL’s recent comments on Scottish footballers could equally be applied to a number of Celtic players who continually utter the platitudes about will to win and playing for the supporters but continually fail to produce.
Each week they turn up to promenade through the SPL matches whilst the likes of St Mirren, Motherwell and the rest beat them to the greater share of 50/50 challenges.
There is a lack of hunger about this team and it is a concern that NLdoesn’t have the answer to the problem.
Link below for anyone interested in signing the petition to challenge Ian D Smith to live on £53 a week.
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/iain-duncan-smith-iain-duncan-smith-to-live-on-53-a-week
What a beautiful morning in the metropolis of Hamilton.
Somehow over the next few weeks the players and management need to raise their game, we have a title to secure and a day in the sun at Hampden to play for.
Time to finish a memorable season on a high.
Hamiltontim
We’re two victories away from a Double, how difficult can it be? After watching Saturday’s game I’m thinking maybe more difficult that we think! Since the LNS decision I feel I’m losing interest in the game and even a little in my Beloved Celtic and now with Longshanks unable to hide his true colours it seems we are in for another uphill struggle to save the game and not to favour just one third division minnow!
Neil, the support is depending on you to come up with the goods and show the world that a well run club can prosper in the face of the most appalling cheating and dishonesty..
Standing with Neil and his Young Lions…
Starry..
Sun setting in Brisbane, a nice wee Carlton Draught while you guys have yer tea & toast :-)
Morning All, intriguing CL fixture tonight, what with Bayern having put 9 past Hamburg at the weekend, but I reckon Juventus will still edge it.
HH
Fassreinfen
looking forward to David Beckham taking on Barca on his own tonight? o))
Starry
Our form of late, especially since the ties against Juve has been bordering on abysmal. All at the club must know the importance of achieving the double this season at the very least.
I sadly share some of your misgivings about Scottish football in general and Celtic in particular.
I came away from Paisley on Sunday thinking…25 quid for that pish???
I don’t remember grudging the price of a ticket based on performance before.
Whither the cash strapped scrofulous hillbillies the day?
Hamiltontim
As a Celt abroad I tend to wear the standard issue Green Tinted Specs and to be on the positive side but I realised of late that I can no longer hide from the fact that CL run aside we have been on a poor run of form, okay bad runs happen and players lose form, let’s not forget we have been hammered by injuries too but the underlying thing eating away at me is I see the whole season and since the Orcs went bust myself and perhaps a lot of the support have been looking for someone else to deliver us justice, Hector, LNS, SPL, SFA and it has not been forthcoming and this is chipping away at my support for the team I love and what bites deepest at this situation is that it’s not the way I approach my own life, I was taught early on if you want something done do it yourself and so by my logic if we want justice we will have to do it ourselves!
The Iceland Principle CSC..
Support the Support!!
DBBIA
Um hear so am ur
Good to see ye back sir!
✊
FPLG is a certainty for manager of the year. Sorry , that should read pie eater of the year !
vmhan
09:31 on 2 April, 2013
I’ll be at CP at around 11:15 on Sat if anybody’s heading into town and wants to share a taxi.
I’m aware there’s many who would like to make it and can’t, no worries you’ll be with us as part of a worldwide effort to oppose this crazy bill.
MWD, I think this is the latest?
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Now this is dedication!
Forest super-fan forced to miss a match for first time since 1973… 1,786 games ago!
Britain’s most dedicated football fan who has seen 1,786 consecutive Nottingham Forest games was left gutted on Monday after he was forced to miss his first match in 40 YEARS.
Loyal Stuart Astill, 67, has spent thousands of pounds clocking up a staggering 2,534 matches since he first went to watch Forest play in 1956.
The obsessed OAP reckons he must have travelled over 100,000 miles by coach, car and plane to watch his beloved side play across Britain and Europe.
He last missed a game in 1973 when he was an usher at a wedding – but has been to every home and away games ever since.
Last week Stuart was admitted to hospital after his foot became infected but still made it to his beloved team’s 2-2 draw at home against Brighton on Saturday (30/1).
But doctors banned the footie-mad pensioner from travelling to Burnley on Monday following an operation on his foot.
It meant devastated Stuart was forced to listen to a Forest game on the radio for the first time in his life.
Retired British Rail engineer Stuart, who lives in Sandiacre, Derbyshire, said: ‘This is my first missed game for 40 years.
‘The last time was in 1973 – it was at home to Preston and I was an usher at a wedding.
‘I’ll miss the atmosphere. I knew my run would end at some point but I didn’t expect it to be now.
‘It’s going to be really unusual listening to the game on the radio after how many games I have been to.’
Stuart started going to football matches with his dad – a Derby County supporter – and his first Nottingham Forest game was a 4-0 win over Middlesbrough in November, 1956.
Remarkably, he has only missed two games since the 1960s and even goes to watch the youth team play.
He was there when captain John McGovern lifted the European Cup after a 1-0 win over Malmo in Munich in 1979 and saw every game of the famous Brian Clough managerial era.
And Stuart said he would ‘move heaven and earth’ to see Forest play in the Premier League again.
He added: ‘Winning the European cups was unbelievable. Seeing John McGovern lift the trophy in Munich, a few tears came to my eyes.
‘I’d only seen the European Cup on telly – it was fantastic.
‘And I did see every competitive match that Brian Clough managed us in.
‘They were an unbelievable team. I feel privileged to say I was there.
‘I’m not sure whether I could afford to go in the Premier League, but I would move heaven and earth to do it.’
Loyal Stuart was even rewarded for his loyalty at the beginning of the season when Forest’s new owners, the Al-Hasawi family, gave him a complimentary place in the exclusive 1865 club for a year.
A spokesman for Nottingham Forest said: ‘It is a great shame Stuart will not be here to cheer us on.
‘Everyone at the club would like to wish him a speedy recovery.’
Hamiltontim
I hope they are able to find a way to up their performance for the run in. James Forrest could be the key I feel over the next few weeks if he can get fit and stay fit. We’ve seen in glimpses what he can do but he’s direct and will commit defenders and create chances. Something different to what we’ve been seeing in recent weeks.
I know some on here don’t like him but we need a catalyst to stir things up.
A sunny Hampden in May sounds good.
midfield maestro
08:42 on 2 April, 2013
Sun setting in Brisbane, a nice wee Carlton Draught while you guys have yer tea & toast :-)
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Seen your post the other day from oMalleys in Surfers Paradise, one of my sons lives a stones throw from there, might have been in for a ☕ :>)
V
Talk Crap had Celtic after Gregg Wylde!!!!!
Where do they get this garbage from?
roy croppie
Has the date for the Scottish Cup final been set already??
I’m home in May but only for a week, could be extended tho’ if we are in the final!!
Jobo another blue sky day along the Fylde coast, still cold though!
V
Off oot as they (KJ) say!
Smiley
starry plough
Sunday 26th May
roy croppie
Rats I fly back on the 22nd…
Oh Mrs Starry!!!
starry plough
09:43 on
2 April, 2013
You’re just going to have to buy 2 tickets, and a nice meal afterwords for 2…..LOL
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
Could do but what would I do with wee Starry, I wonder if Hamiltontim or BT are any good at baby sitting!!!
There’s a little matter of a semi final to play before we worry about the cup final …
Starry/Roy Croppie
The team definitely needs a shake up and Forrest could well be the answer. He will require support though.
On Sunday when Dylan came on he created a bit of oomph that we’d been lacking. It concerned me the number of times when he received the ball was left isolated by his team mates. There’s no point in asking him to create when there’s no one on the end of it.
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon
I asked when the final was as I am in Scotland in May, no one was taking it for granted we would be there..
ERNIE LYNCH. 0756
That’s why I thought it interesting.
To give him his due,he rarely picks a losing side.
Ridiculous,of course,that he wields so much influence. Though it does explain why he is so assiduously courted.
Hamiltontim
We’re missing the whole right side of our team at the moment, I really hope Wee Jamesy gets it soon, I like what I’ve seen of Dylan so far and also Rogic looks like he can commit players too, the St Mirren defence had an easy time of it on Sunday way too easy..
Starry
I could baby sit your wee one and BT at the same time!!
starry plough
10:01 on 2 April, 2013
That’ll be 3 tickets, 3 lovely meals then, and a big bar of chocolate…….LOL
hamiltontim
10:12 on 2 April, 2013
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha …… Whatever you do, don’t invite PL ……(just kidding BT)
The CQN Kindergarten, I like it, I like it…
Embdy compilin’ a list of [domestic] highlights for this season?
We need to find someone to give us a game next year; for all kinds of reasons I’d like it to be Aberdeen.
67heaven
Now that would be a recipe for disaster ;-)
starry plough
09:43 on 2 April, 2013
sorry mate had to walk Charlie the wee Celtic dug there. A bit of the old silver tongue needed for Mrs Starry; what about the Platinum lounge experience-food drink and a bit of footy :)
sorry Gordon_J no assumptions from me the Buddies proved that earlier.
From rm…..
“Posted Today, 08:53 AM
This may be controversial but I am going to say it anyway.
At the end of the day although the judgement was welcomed by us as there was no title stripping, at the end of the day we were still found guilty of the charges we faced, so I can understand why the SPL would be looking for their legal costs to be paid.
Having said that, the charges were against oldco and therefore, just like the fine that was imposed, any invoice for legal fees should be presented to the liquidators.
No chance of Green or the liquidators paying. ”
MAIN ARTICLE …..(Don’t know the source) ……. Interesting…..
“Posted Today, 08:06 AM
THE SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE want Rangers to pay the £500,000 legal costs of the Lord Nimmo Smith Tribunal which cleared them of gaining any unfair sporting advantage by using EBTs.
Yes, you did read that correctly, though I suspect there are many who will want to pore over it again just to make certain they got it right the first time.
Indeed, had such a sentence appeared here on yesterday’s date, many would have been forgiven for believing it was an April Fool’s story.
However, it is a true tale and the only fools in it are the Scottish Premier League, their – and Celtic’s – lawyers, the controversial Harper MacLeod firm and its attack dog lawyer Rod McKenzie.
I can reveal that Harper Macleod partner, McKenzie has written a letter demanding that Rangers stump up the £500,000 of legal fees for Harper MacLeod’s abortive prosecution of Rangers on the SPL’s behalf, and the cost of Lord Nimmo Smith and the two eminent Queen’s Counsel who sat with him on the Independent Tribunal which cleared Rangers of any crime against sporting integrity, to use Peter Lawwell’s favourite phrase.
The letter from Harper MacLeod lawyer, Rod McKenzie, a man who has previously represented Celtic and Neil Lennon, was sent in the wake of Michael Nicholson, another Harper MacLeod lawyer who has represented Celtic, leaving the firm to join Peter Lawwell at Parkhead as Celtic’s company secretary.
And I can further reveal that the letter has infuriated Rangers chief executive Charles Green. To such an extent that there were angry words when he met the SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster at Hampden last week.
There was a very public clash between the two, with Doncaster denying all knowledge of the letter and Green making it clear to Doncaster that there was not a snowball’s chance in Hell of the acquitted Rangers paying for the SPL’s failed attempt to strip the Ibrox club of five titles, a bid which was spearheaded by Celtic’s lawyers, Harper Macleod and the law firm’s attack dog, Rod McKenzie.
I understand that one senior legal figure who has had a sight of the letter described its contents as preposterous. Such a letter from Rod McKenzie could only have been sent on the instructions of Harper MacLeod’s clients, the SPL, which makes it strange that the SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster should have no knowledge of such a letter.
It also presents an image of a financially challenged Scottish Premier League desperately trying to either recoup their costs, or having Rangers pay those costs, directly.
Which begs the questions.
Have Harper and MacLeod been paid their fees yet by the Scottish Premier League?
Have Lord Nimmo Smith and the two eminent QCs who sat with him on the Independent Tribunal been paid by the Scottish Premier League?
Have the researchers who worked for the Lord Nimmo Smith Tribunal been paid by the Scottish Premier League?
Can the increasingly hard up Scottish Premier League afford the £500,000 legal bill?
If they cannot, then is it wise for the Scottish Premier League to run up more legal fees by employing Harper Macleod to try and bulldoze Rangers into meeting the costs?
And if the Independent Tribunal has not been paid by the Scottish Premier League, the people who engaged their services, then will we see the unedifying sight of a High Court Judge and two of Britain’s most eminent QCs taking the SPL to court for the money they are owed?
I’d pay to see that!
And all of this is going on at a time when the Peter Lawwell-Neil Doncaster-SPL Axis is trying to bribe Scottish Football League clubs with money they do not appear to have. “
Morning all. Lovely day here again but still very very cold.
hamiltontim
10:26 on 2 April, 2013
Hahahahahahahaha ……….there would be more than league flags flying……..!!!!!!!!