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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Is it not about time UEFA made clear what their official view is regarding the huns’ history?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
The Rangers are not a big club.
LB
Sipsini
Possibilty this wasn’t an April Fool …??? ……rm post
“I just seen on some of the rangers pages on facebook that the spl lawyers harper mcleod has sent a letter to rangers demanding £500,000 for the ebt investigation. Is there any truth in this or is this just a wind up from yesterday. Sorry i cant copy and paste it as im using my phone to post.”
Also saying Graham Leggett is on about it today…….??
ernie lynch
11:43 on 2 April, 2013
It certainly is
we can all laugh about sevco 5088 founded 2012 winning the division 3 title
when you visit the msm web sites
the newco football club founded 1873
newco and oldco are the same
who has made a challenge on their claims?
sfa
spl
sfl
uefa
fifa
hmrc
bdo
msm
nearly 12 months and not 1 challenge from any legal body
jam67
Guess this place isnt the place to talk Celtic anymore.
Off for a wee swim…….on leave this week ……..whoooppeeeee Doooo
medtim
The club has struggled since the players and manager talked about players being on beaches before the season is out.
The players should NOT have been thinking like that until the season is over. They have switched off and are struggling to get going again.
LB
Just dropped in to say….
I read this somewhere this morn…..”Scottish football is finished. Rangers are no more. Celtic are struggling to win a one-horse race and how can Scotland ever find a team if
the reigning Player of the Year is Charlie Mulgrew ?”
Even I – couldn’t have put it better than that :o)))
HH
Off oot.
ernie lynch
11:43
Aye it is. But until someone who isn’t Tommy tries to put the question to them, they will just look on from afar at the mess that is Scotland, tut and then go to lunch.
Can anyone clarify what the position of The SFA and UEFa is with regards to Newco adding Oldco’s titles together?
TT
67 Heaven.
I wasn’t meening it was an April fool.:-)
MEDTIM
Watch Dortmund do exactly as you suggest against Malaga tomorrow night.
That team will press the opposition all night if required,no individuals or prima donnas allowed.
Yet they still play football.
I wonder how they manage it with such a small squad?
Ooooooops-I already answered that…..
I notice that Pardew has an eye on big Kelvin.
The man who doesn’t rate the SPL is looking at signing a player from here to improve his defence.
Show us the money Pardew. Offer a big transfer fee and you may get your man. The last Centre Back to move to an EPL team from Scotland was £8m worth. Offer that and you may get your man.
We should push this man for every penny IF he wants our CB. He is no friend of Celtic.
LB
LIVIBHOY 1144
Aye-but try telling them that….
Jam67
You are right to highlight this.
If the official bodies are allowed to let them to add Oldco and Newco together, then that is what will happen.
Celtic , the rest of Scottish football and UEFA must challenge this.
Right is on our side.
I am a defender of PL and the board, but on this issue they must pick up the gauntlet, and strike them across the face with it.
TT
KevJungle – MURDO’s 30 yds Title Winning Boots 1979
Where was that in Murdo’s wee column??
TinyTim
11:49
No, no one can clarify it because they have been careful never to make a clear statement about it. Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
Funny thing is, if Sevco had just shut up about it, their stony silence on the matter would have continued and Sevco could have kept playing the ‘Let’s pretend we’re a big club’ game. They are now forcing the authorities’ hand.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
I have given up talking to them. Any Sevco fan asks me to talk football I just say I would rather not. They are so deluded it’s frightening. It’s everyone’s fault bar their own clubs. They will believe anything their club and media tell them.
If Swally needs £10m to spend to win division 2 or 3 then they have bigger problems than I thought. Neil Lennon will be lucky to get that kind of money to spend to try and make the Champions League and we will probably make at least £20m in the transfer window.
LB
estadio nacional
11:45
give it 2 more years …………..till yon deid team are back in the top division
the cheats with whistles at montrose and paisley will be put to purpose
then when you complain to the rulers of the game at hampdump
it was the same old back in the old days
honest mistakes
you will be right we will not be talking about celtic
we will be talking about how we all sat in silence and allowed it to happen
jam67
TinyTim 11:05 on 2 April, 2013
“Just seen The front and back page of The Daily Record in the newsroom of a radio station.
“McCoist claiming 55 titles.
“Celtic need to challenge this.”
Why?
Ally Absolutely will say what he wants. This clown has been claiming they are the same club all season, so there is no surprise in his latest nonsense.
We all know what liquidation means. The Zombies all know what liquidation means. End of.
Just laugh – it really infuriates them.
Ernie Lynch
Just read your post.
Not only UEFA but the SFA also.
The whole thing is gut wrenching.
My constant stance on here was that there would always be a Rangers.
I am sick , that they are being allowed to convey the myth that they are still the SAME Rangers.
Unless the official bodies put them right , the myth will become the reality.
Celtic and every other Scottish club should be all over this.
TT
Looks like TINY TIM is Raffles,Gentleman Thug,and not PHILVISRETURNS as I had previously thought.
Striking across the face with a gauntlet will take more balls than anyone in Scottish football has shown so far.
PS-I got your name right with no typos;still mortified about that!
They shout louder than we do.
55 titles, if it weren’t serious it would be laughable.
Every Hun on the planet peddles the myth that a liquidated co. can sell history to a new owner and move on uninterrupted loosing millions of debt in the process.
We can expect no clarification from the SFA/SPL/SFL
This injustice can only be settled in court.
Celtic must stand up and meet the challenge.
We have had no leadership from them on this matter. We have no idea how they feel.
My club must stand against injustice and shout louder than them.
Sir Robert Kelly would
Fergus McCann would.
Dermot Desmond/Peter Lawwell/Ian Bankier… A plea from me…….,.
Your tenure at Celtic will be defined by how you react.
Up to now your silence is deafening.
Steinreignedsupreme
Sorry I don’t agree.
Every Zombie I know is claiming world record’s.
They are laughing up there sleeve at us.
No Debt.
No titles stripped.
SFL entry despite having no accounts.
Back in SPL in 3 years with full history intact.
Sorry , but that has to be challenged.
They have won every other battle apart from retaining SPL status.
TT
Ps Peter just think how many more season tickets u would sell if you grew a pair!!!
BMCUW
It was a funny typo. (:-)
TT
TIMY TIM
Can’t even blame the I-phone for it. Just forgot to reset my laptop when I switched it on.
Sackcloth and ashes after that….
I fear McMoist and Chuckles have silent approval from our official bodies and when questioned they will support The Sevco Myth.
UEFA will defer to the SFA and the SFA will support Newco’s Myth.
TT
Burghbhoy
Your right.
If Celtic get in a fight , more fans will respond to the battle cry.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
TinyTim
You are a respected business figure. I am just a bampot. But the point is that if either you or I were to pick up the phone to the SFA or UEFA today and ask them, bluntly, if Sevco are entitled to add this season’s third division title to the title Rangers won, by hook or by crook, before liquidation, they would not answer us. They would ignore us. They would probably be reasonably polite to you, but you still would not get any nearer to a straight answer.
Until Stuart Cosgrove or someone else who cares about Scottish football for its own sake asks them, they will never say.
Get intae thum!
I’m going to write and ask UEFA if the Rangers who are at number ninety in their club rankings are the same club as the “The Rangers” who just won the Barr’s Irn Bru Scottish Division 3.
Does anyone have an e-mail address?
tomtheleedstim@11.17
I do not seek to defend Kayal’s form over the past year BUT the amount of vitriol he has faced since Sunday where he was among our best performers (alongside Kris and Izzy and Vic) suggests he has become a pet scapegoat who can do no right.
As for your hiding and not being available- just look at the opening shot from the BBC highlights below:-
St. Mirren game
Izzy drops off his marker (Conor Newton) to show for a pass as Izzy breaks forward. He then gives a great defence splitting slip pass to give Hoops a good shot at goal. Now I agree that he did not race on into the box to seek a one-two with Gary but that showed game intelligence because a) Gary wisnae going to pass back, b) there were other Celts in the box< c) He was still available for a cut back to the edge of the box (unlikely though that was to happen).
Now, it is only one instance but I cannot say that I have noticed the pattern you assert. I have seen many poor games from Beram but, at a time when Scott Brown is missing, he provides more of the on-field agression and drive than any other player we have. If it had not been for Beram and Izzy (after Kris was subbed and Vic sent off) , we would have lost that game.
LiviBhoy/Bobby Murdoch’s
Agree with your points.
Too many already on the beach imo.I found the comments about giving players a break a little strange.I understand the logic of it on one level in that we have early CL Qualifiers to play but what was the plan for the eventuality that we reach the Scottish Cup Final?
If NL is struggling for a solution to this malaise,I would suggest he lays it down that those who don’t give 100% will not be considered for the Cup Final (should we get there)
I would also suggest,in Brown’s absence,he stops passing round the captain’s armband willy nilly.
A captain should display attributes that inspire his teammates to greater efforts through his own leadership skills and the contribution he makes personally.
Have you seen much evidence of that lately? Saturday?
I was prompted to post this partly through reading Miku’s recent comments.A talented player,no doubt,but another one in the non-trier box for me.Token runs,token attempts at regaining possession etc don’t fool many for too long.Sadly,he is not alone at CP at the moment
TinyTim
If they were to come out and support the Sevco myth it would, in some ways, be progress. It would be interesting to see how they explained:
1. Why Sevco had to start this season’s Scottish Cup in September
2. How players such as Neil Alexander and Lee McCulloch were magically able to TUPE from Rangers to Sevco, if Sevco and Rangers are the same employer, and
3. At what point and how Sevco transmuted into Rangers, given that, in the close season, both Sevco and Rangers were existing clubs at the same time.
My guess Sandy Bryson is still working on the metaphysics of it all.
tomtheleedstim
That should have read “Beram drops off his marker….. as Izzy breaks forward”
Doh! Izzy is a good attacker but not that good :-)