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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Burghbhoy
“Sevco are really getting in my goat”- allegedly! :)
BURGHBHOY
Aye-Masonic types do tend to get in any goat they can find!
Fans say no to league reconstruction in new survey
New on The Herald – 87% of fans want a larger top league
DBBIA and BMCUW
I think putting New in front of things obviously makes things worse
New Cumnock managed to out-dismal Cumnock
New Lanark is now a theme park whilst Lanark survives
New Labour went to war in Iraq
And New Rangers cannot count double digit numbers
Ole judges had an embarrassment of riches to choose from, as one lovely vista rolls into another.
If only the ole Ayrshire gene pool was as diverse.
SFTB – sevco Cumnock?
HH
If you look closely, we all see that Sevco have in place, a sympathetic ear and eye in every Scottish media outlet and I suspect government too. This is a whitewash on a scale never seen before.
The fact that Ogilvie remains, makes me despair. I will admit that I m finding this, the hardest period in my near 50 yrs of following football.
This may be part of the Sevco plan .. To just keep going brass ing it out. They ve virtually created a dictatorship within which they operate.
Madden at Paisley. Showing how far the collusion runs..
We need a concerted fight back v the media asking the awkward questions..
Most of the half wit journos are on twitter that’s where I pull them up.
Keep going hoops…
HH
SFTB
Neither could the fans of the old club-not without taking their shoes and socks off….
DBBIA 1326
I did my bit back in the day.
Definition of mass confusion-Fathers Day in Kilwinning….
Mighty Tim:
Blantyretim has asked me to give you his number, e-mail me and I will give you it lennybhoycfc@gmail.com
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
That was a glaring typo of horeman proportions.
Nobody misses a trick on here .
Brilliant.
Tell u what guys why don’t we set up a fund and send a couple of our eloquent posters to challenge Sevco in court.
That would be them gubbed
BURGHBHOY
Hopefully they will do it pro bono,plus beer.
Naw,cancel that-be cheaper paying them!
Lennybhoy
email sent mate
HH
Mighty Tim:
Reply sent to you mate.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
BMCUW
Counting on you being one of them
Jis in fae the jiggin’..
Like Will Rogers…
Ah only Know..
Whit Ah read in the Papers.
Right?
Think Aboot it…
And. Ah jis read that ..
Neil.. is Basing his Hopes of a Celtic Revival..oan
The .. Re-Appearance of .. Master Jamesie.
Guid fur you Neil..Ah knew you wid Agree wi Me.. In that.
Jamsie,is oor One and Only..our.. Golden Bhoy.. Our Fair Haired Child(Hey! Mac.. Haud oan.. Jamsie,disnae Hiv .. Fair Hair…ed)
( So he Dyes his Hair.. Jist like Elvis Did.. Naebuddy Luvs a Fair Haired Player..or .. a Fair Haired Rocker..That’s Well Known In the Biz)
Movin’ oan.
Didnae Ah jist tell You Fellahs, the Ither Day.. that..
We . Celtic.. Hiv only.. a Few Players who are worth thur Kellogg’s?
Ah didnae? Sure Ah did.. Mebbe, ye missed it.
Well.. Ah am tellin ye noo.
Jamesie, Charlie,Forster,Broonie,Victor,Hoops,Sammi,Commons, Adam,Lustig.
That’s the Lot…That Earns thur Cereal.
And.. Victor, And Hoops.. and mebbe.. Forster.. are .. Heading fur the “Tall and Un-Cut”
The Rest kin head fur ” Donkey Island”.. fur awe Ah Care.
Yep, Neil.. Jamesie, is Our Only Hope.. Ah’m Sorry tae Say..
And Why Ah should be..saying.. “Ah’m Sorry tae Say”.. Ah hiv nae idea…
but, Everybuddy.. Says that.
Although, Ah Personally, Hivna Hid Wan thing tae Dae wi’ Celtic’s Fall fae Grace.
But, Jamsies,nevahtheless,is Oor .. Wan and Only Hope.
Mebbe,he wull recover in time, fur Celtic, tae Scrap and Scratch thur Wey over
the Finish Line..
How many games is that Noo.. we hiv Struggled, tae Collect a Point, withoot
the Full Services of the “Wondrous Blond?
Five , Six, Seven??
Roon Aboot that.
Kojo
Stil Laughin’
Bring back Adam Virgo. He’ll save us. Did I no tell yiz that afore?
Burghbhoy
Are you one of those Agent Provocateurs?
BURGHBHOY
No problem donating to the cause but my legal experience has always been for the defence-mine!-and not the plaintiff.
100% so far but God knows how. My Guardian Angel is cream-crackered….
Just been told that the DR published a photo yesterday showing Madden sharing a masonic handshake with the St Mirren manager. Any truth in this??
Parkheadcumsalford
Why would Danny Lennon be in the masons?
setting free the bears
To advance his career in Scottish Football by tried and tested methods!!!!!!!
KOJO
We have all seen how good our players can be.
At the back we have Matthews,Efe,Wilson,Mulgrew,Lustig and Izzy
Mid we can pick from Brown,Forrest,Commons,Ledley,Kayal and Vic
Up front,Hoops,Stokes,Sami and Watt.
Virtually all are internationals. Getting them all available to pick from is the problem.
While I agree that we miss James’s pace,we should not be burdening him with being the be-all and end-all.
This season has already been a disaster for him-leave him to grow into the team,please.
starry plough
Would that not work for Neil Lennonn too?
It would save us a lot of hassle.
SFTB- did you not see ‘Spiral’?
Thae masons are ubiquitous.
Mercifully they have not got their tentacles into Mre Josephine Karlsson [yet].
Danny Lennon in the masons, heard it all now.
Coldplay are clearly in the masons.
SFTB
I could probably get him into the ludj in Kilwinning.
Dunno how I’d get him out though….
Saltires en Sevilla
Just a bit hacked off mate.
They seem to be getting off scot free.
Yes they have been liquidated and are a new club but it seems like only us bampots are saying it.
We need a louder voice.
We need Celtic to speak up.
BMCUW
Like your style bud. I’m sure you could do the LA law bit!!
Danny Lennon from Whitburn is no way a mason.
LB
setting free the bears
I also thought he was a Tim as well, we should all join the Masons en masse, every Celtic supporter in the world in fact I’m going down the village to find my local ludge..
Madden just couldn’t take his jealous eyes off Danny’s coiffured bonce and held his ‘grip’ too long.
Livibhoy
Absolutely, always thought Danny was a mad Hibbie, played against him whilst he was a teen at Whitburn.
Ran rings round us.
Good lad Danny.
BURGHBHOY
Sadly lacking the winning smile these days…..
Bungling Madden gets sent to Arbroath
Demoted for such a bad performance last weekend.
Is Vic red card going to stand?
Dontbrattbakkinanger
She’s such a baddie the heavy breasted Miss K, I just finished the 2nd series is there more??
Afternoon bhoys from a warm and sunny hun free mountain valley.
Must admit, I love a good conspiracy theory.
Danny and the goat fiddlers >}
Preparation .
” My woman asked me what the DVD was —– I told her it was about Dante — she said —-didn’t you get enough about him at school —— I said —- not that Dante – the Dante that plays for Bayern “.
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