I didn’t realise until this morning that the assault on Lukasz Zaluska’s assault by two premiership footballers was so serious as to have the player lying unconscious on the ground for several minutes. The Celtic player was out in Glasgow with his wife Sunday night before the incident.
Lukasz was singled-out for online abuse by two Dundee United players in August, one from Poland, one Scottish-born player who has represented Northern Ireland, after the Legia Warsaw Champions League qualifier. The Polish player subsequently took to Twitter to campaign for Legia’s punishment for fielding a suspended player against Celtic to be reduced.
The stories I could tell about various footballers would fill more than a few volumes, but all of the tales I’ve heard about Lukasz are that he is a polite, generous, player who repeatedly puts himself out to help Celtic fans and Poles living here. Very best wishes to the big guy, I hope we see him back soon.
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sipsini
18:03 on
21 October, 2014
micktt,
I’m grand mate as is jtt, as for acgr I can’t help but think of Steve Buscemi from Boardwalk Empire since I started watching it :))
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sips 4 feks sake you’ve gone too far….I know Pedro is the (slightly) better looking brother,
next you’ll be saying one’s Tom n the others Colin McAdam.
bournesouprecipe
16:23 on
21 October, 2014
Did newco Dodgy Dave jet in on oldco Dodgy Dave’s Learjet?
Dont know about that,but he “Swept”into Ibrox on his”Sweeper”I presume.
Heard he was “Sweeping out again on Wednesday,and “Jetting”out again on Thursday.
Old KJ is the man to keep you up to date on all the “Sweeping and Jetting”.
The Day Rangers Died
http://www.tsfm.scot/harper-macleod-and-lns/comment-page-14/#comment-32275
some work put into this.
Made me smile.
Blantyretim @17:26
Has all the appearances of being a Kangaroo Court in here….Judge Jury and executioners all ready to act without being in full possession of all all the facts
Give me your views on a similar situation where a Celtic Player is due to stand trial in Dublin in May after being being referred from a lower court to a higher court due to the severity of his alleged crime. Should he be found guilty should the only justice be administered by the Irish justice system or should additional punishments be administered by his employers and their governing body ?
VP,
I’ve not met Pedro yet, but if he’s anything like his brother it would make for a great if not mad night.
mickbhoy1888
19:49 on
21 October, 2014
Who does Elvis play for ? :-)
HH
1-0 Barca. Sooo clinical.
Good Evening.
As some who read these pages will testify I am occasionally partial to a pint.
I have roamed the Byres Road and the surrounding streets virtually all my life and it is probably the case that I have emptied more pint glasses in and around there than anywhere else on the planet – though there might be one or two places which could rival that claim.
In any event it is a place I know very well.
It is also somewhere where I have always felt extremely safe, extremely comfortable and very much at ease.
To find that someone – anyone – who is out for a quiet drink or a meal with their wife or husband or partner is attacked, beaten till they bleed and suffer a concussion is appalling.
However, it is even more appalling when you think about the fact that the only reason the individual concerned appears to have been beaten or attacked at all is because he is a footballer.
It is even worse if it is because he is simply a Celtic footballer.
And it is utterly shameful, disgraceful and almost beyond words of suitable condemnation if it turns out that the perpetrators of this assault are fellow professional footballers.
If such an attack had taken place on the field of play then the perpetrator would have been shown a red card and their name clearly entered in the referee’s book.
However, the very fact that someone has been assaulted to such a degree in the public street – a street not known for violence or danger or threatening behaviour – demonstrates that the perpetrators have chosen to ignore the standards by which the rest of us live, have engaged in violence against someone to their severe injury, inflicted severe bodily harm, caused distress to their victim and others and generally shown no regard for society at large.
Such people deserve to have the book thrown at them and to be processed and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Of course, the law concerned will be the common law not any trumped up convoluted piece of legislation such as the Offensive Behaviour Act.
That is because the law of Scotland has always known how to deal with serious law breakers and those who are a menace to society.
The law only falls down where it is overseen and administered by those who neither understand it or are afraid of applying it without rancour or favour.
It is not acceptable for anyone to be assaulted in or around Ashton Lane or anywhere else for that matter, but all the circumstances here demonstrate that this is not a simple case of assault as the victim, his situation at the time, the place of the assault, the nature of the assault, the circumstances of the assault and everything that surrounds this incident would suggest that there is something far more sinister at work here than meets the eye.
Under those circumstances the perpetrator is deserving of society’s equivalent of the red card, should be removed from the field of play and have normal participation in society’s affairs suspended for a period of time.
Mickbhoy1888
If AS us convited of a serious assault he should be sacked by Celtic imo .
any other employee who has a code of conduct and breaks it faces the possibility of losung his/her job, why should AS be any different.?
Brilliant Barca
Pedro celebrating BEFORE Naymar even touched the ball.
EC67
HT
Not really
The complainer is another term that is used to describe the victim
Bayern 1 up. Robbed allowed onto his left foot, right hand side of penalty area, curled in a peach.
Tictaewin
Cole should have known better..
Happy Birthday James Forrest
HH
Götze, Robben look in the mood tonight.
Lahm easily one of the best players Europe has ever produced, so consistent.
MickTT goes to fix a washer in the en suite and before we know it he’s building a whole new house around the aforementioned washer!
ACGR. An en suite is somewhere close to your bed where you can go for a wee during the night without having to go to the proper toilet.
HH jamesgang
You might also call it the wash hand basin…..
;-)
HH jamesgang
Lahm is a rich man’s Jackie McNamara!
HH jamesgang
Boating no better than Effe right enough, and I thought Alonso a poor replacement for Kroos.
He can be so rash.
Roma nae mugs btw. Well organised
Sir Alex leads tributes after Glenn Gibbons dies
Alex Ferguson. Picture: Getty
Alex Ferguson. Picture: Getty
by STEPHEN HALLIDAY
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21 October
2014
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Published 21/10/2014 00:16
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SCOTTISH football journalism lost one of its most authoritative voices yesterday with the death of Glenn Gibbons.
The former chief football writer of The Scotsman, who had borne a serious illness with fortitude for several months, was 69.
In a career which began with DC Thomson in Glasgow during a glorious era for Scottish football in the 1960s, Gibbons went on to become one of the most recognisable and formidable figures in his profession in the pages of the Scottish Daily Mail, the Guardian and The Scotsman.
Among the many high-profile names in his contacts book was Sir Alex Ferguson, who became his close friend as well as dealing with him in a professional capacity. The former Aberdeen and Manchester United manager led the tributes to Gibbons last night.
“Glenn was a journalist of substance,” said Ferguson. “He had a wonderful, lucid writing style but everything he wrote was underpinned by an unwavering accuracy.
“His great knowledge of football was complemented by a fearlessness. He always expressed what he believed with courage and style. He was a marvellous chronicler of Scottish football and beyond. He had a passion for the game and his knowledge was unsurpassed.
“He was a tremendous source of information and I referred to him regularly, particularly before the publication of my autobiography when he checked out many of the facts. He was simply a great journalist.”
As well as being a colourful observer of the action on the pitch, Gibbons was also a pugnacious commentator on football’s off-the-field issues. Peter Donald, the former secretary of the Scottish Football League, was among the administrators of the game who admired his work.
“I always found Glenn to be extremely knowledgeable about the game,” said Donald last night.
“He understood the political machinations of football and could see inside the story.
“He was very well connected within football. You could always speak to him openly and feel comfortable that he would develop and write his pieces without necessarily putting you in the centre of the story.
“Glenn was hugely respected within football and I know that I always felt good after speaking to him. I’m deeply saddened to hear of his death.”
Gibbons joined The Scotsman in 1999 and made an immediate impact on these pages, being named Scottish Sports Journalist of the Year in 2000. He retired in 2009 but maintained a weekly presence in the paper with his Saturday column.
Donald Walker, assistant editor and former sports editor of The Scotsman, said: “Few could match Glenn’s eloquence and authority in the sports pages of the Scottish press, and his passing marks the loss of one of football’s best-read commentators. His experience, judgment and professionalism shone through during his ten years as chief football writer with The Scotsman, and his weekly column was required reading. We will miss him enormously, and our thoughts are with his family.”
Gibbons is survived by his wife Mary, son Michael and daughter Samantha.
I don’t think he ever been really appreciated in UK, every other country Greece, Holland and France, Italy etc etc, you see him and articles about him in fit a mags etc.
2-0 bayern Götze lovely football again quick 1-2 with edge of box.
BRTH
I walked along Ashton lane by day and night for so many years as a student and since.
I’ve probably necked almost as many pints there as you have.
I love that part of town.
But this event and the previous NFL events (there was a 2nd in the west end when he was attacked by students in a passing car) serve to show that there’s hatred tucked away for ‘our types’ even in the most douse end of town.
HH jamesgang
@STVGrant @CowdenTony @alextomo
Yes @StewartMRegan on Radio Scotland when asked about King. I believe he fails Clause 10.2 on 2 of 5 points
maybe somebody has grown a pair?
brogan rogan trevino and hogan supports oscar knox, mackenzie furniss and anyone else who fights neuroblastoma
19:53 on 21 October, 2014
Hope you are right mate.
Think it may fall under another legal precedent of “swept under the carpet”
With Müller, not the edge, wrong riff
3-0 levandowski, free header.
Bayern superb..
Thoughts with the Lustig family. Hope their baby daughter makes a full recovery
HH
Barca superb 2-0
4-0 schoolboy stuff
Good evening friends.
Cole having a nightmare.. 8))
Maribor are on course for a thrashing tonight.
Good evening Mr Balde, I’ve been expecting you……
BondVillainCSC
HH jamesgang
Pen bayern, is this 5?
Yip
There is a guy De Rossi, I think, the fans call him Prince Charles lol.
Seemingly he has been waiting to be king(captain) for so long now (he’s 31)
But Totti is determined to be methuselah.
Bad night for Roma.
On another note.
My late father loved good sportswriters and was of the view that Glenn Gibbons was worthy of a mention in the same breath as Hughie McIlvanney and the peerless John Rafferty – one of whose relatives is a regular contributor to this blog.
GG was a very very good writer and a very good journalist – the two being different.
He was a credit to himself and his family, and a great credit to his Alma Mater St Augustine’s in the Milton.
He will be sorely missed by his nearest and dearest and by many further abroad.
Good evening all.
Loved that interview with Kris Commons and his mrs on stv glasgow tonight. The footie is good on sky tonight too. :-))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.