Arguably the most improved player under Brendan Rodgers, Stuart Armstrong, has declared he thinks Celtic can end their champions League campaign on a high when the hoops face Manchester City tomorrow night at the Etihad Stadium.
Incidentally, and keep this to yourself, we at Etims know exactly why this is, as explained in Russia today… sports science has truly developed in the 21st Century..
Researchers at the University of Bristol have found a means of creating a battery capable of generating clean electricity for five millennia, or as long as human civilization has existed.
Scientists found that by heating graphite blocks – used to house uranium rods in nuclear reactors – much of the radioactive carbon is given off as a gas.
This can then be gathered and turned into radioactive diamonds using a high-temperature chemical reaction, in which carbon atoms are left on the surface in small, dark-colored diamond crystals.
Obviously, Armstrong is testing one of these batteries out for the university.
Now restored to his favoured central midfield position, Armstrong is flourishing and now looks to step up a level to the demands of Europe. Well, its not really europe, becuase Manchester is in England, and England doesn’t want to be in Europe. However, they drew Scotland in the qualifiers and despite their best efforts still won 3-0.
“Ending our Champions League campaign with a win would be the ideal finish. It is a very tough competition, the performing level for the best players in Europe. If we give a good performance and continue to develop and learn then we’ll be happy.”
It would certainly show that there is considerable improvement in the side over the campaign, which has some notable bad memories-losing to Lincoln Red Imps in Gibraltar, the 7-0 hammering at Barcelona, and the weak performance at home to Borussia, which in hindsight was the one that killed the team off.
Celtic haven’t won any of their last six games in Europe, which is a hell of a bad run, and I’m not interested in the so called high calibre of opposition. At home Celtic should be winning, and thats the bottom line. There’s little point in having this terrific atmosphere if the other team is going to be inspired by it. One point from three games is unacceptable, but there are signs that things will improve.
Supporters slated early Knob of the Week candidate Derek McInnes for talking down the chances of his aberdeen side at Ibrox at the weekend. His side lost, and if the manager is to take credit for victories, he must also accept criticism for defeats, and frankly, he told his team, not in so many words, that they were second best to “rangers “, and even left out the players who could do most damage, in a sort of damage limitation exercise, clearly because he had decided that his side were up against Rangers, and not some plucky cash strapped newly promoted side.
The same argument could easily apply to Celtics attitude when the group was drawn out to include teams from Germany, England and Spain. Much was made of the comaparitive budgets, much was made of the standard of league they played in, and everyone agreed that we’d probably only get a couple of points at most.
Hey, guess what ?
Remember the old saying ?
If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’ll be right.
What is significant about Armstrongs declaration is this;
“We’ll go into the game against City with the same attitude we take into every match and that’s a positivity and belief in ourselves, as we showed against Motherwell.
There is a tendency to think that the players didn’t quite believe in themselves at the start of the group games, confirmed by the tummy tickling in the Nou Camp, but since then, as Armstrong says…
“After our initial poor performance in the Nou Camp we’ve done really well, including the home game against Man City, away at Monchengladbach – and there were even positives signs amidst the 2-0 defeat at home to Barcelona.
The accent is on the positives, and happily no one from the club has said anything about relative budgets being the difference. From now on, having less competitive domestic games than opponents will be sen as an advantage-like it was when Celtic were at their peak in the late sixties, and not a hindrance. After all, its all about how you look at things, and there are positives everywhere if you look hard enough.
No matter what happens tomorrow night, the players will be considerably more confident going into next years campaign than they were this time round.
And that is progress.
Then again, Peter Lawwell is so used to making excuses, he couldn’t help himself..
“If we played in a football league like the English Premier League, I think we could be the biggest,”
“Because there is no barrier then; we have the whole bit so there would be no barrier to where we could go.
“We have the history, we have the story to tell, we have a global fanbase and we have the facilities. We have got the profile of a big European club but we don’t have domestic TV revenues. Our fundamentals are so strong.”
Not only did he complain about barriers, he went on to say they were getting higher..
“I think the gap has widened,
To be fair we were in the most difficult group; we had an English team, a Spanish team and a German team this season. But did I feel that the quality had risen. We were up against three clubs from the biggest nations so it is extremely difficult. Perhaps in a different group, it might have been a different story. The group Leicester were in might have given us a better chance but overall I think we could consider that we have given a good account of ourselves.
We have shown we can compete and this is only the first year. Brendan is just in the door here but we have shown that we can organise and we can compete and that can only get better.”
So where do we go from here ?
A clue might be found reading between the lines in this comment from Rodgers after a meeting over dinner between the manager and the biggest shareholder..
“He was very good. I had a meal with Dermot on Wednesday for three hours or so, talking about how we can improve and keep moving the club forward. We’re content, but want to keep pushing.”
Two and a half hours of that was largely spent with rodgers asking for more money and Desmond complaining how he has the bills to pay, the kids to feed , the wife needs her hair done, the kids needing a school uniform and the cars head gasket had blown, but eventually the Irishman gave in to the other Irishmans incessant demands.
Well, so we think.
Jordan Rhodes is back on the radar, though he will cost £9m , and that may mean that Rodgers looks elsewhere for a striker, but if the club are to cash in on Moussa Dembele before anyone notices that he’s not quite as good as the hype suggests, then Rhodes is paid for with a few quid left over in the bank.
Oh, and before you tell me that Dembele has scored 17 goals-or whatever it is by now, have a look at this…
Goal involvement for Celtic 2016/17:
Moussa Dembélé – 20
Leigh Griffiths – 15
Tom Rogic – 13
Scott Sinclair – 13
James Forrest – 12
I don’t need to tell you that one of those has hardly played, and whilst bringing in another striker could lead to the same problem, sooner or later we will realise what we actually have in Griffiths, and build the front line around him.
One other thing that was notable was when Rodgers hinted that the club will no longer accept less money for players than he thinks they are worth, and he explained why..
“The different position the club is in now, with all due respect, is that I know the market and the level.
“If I see a player here and I think he’s worth £30million-plus then he’s worth £30million-plus. We don’t need to shift him for £10million.
“They don’t need the intermediate club to go. I would like to think that we can get the market value.”
Players will come , and players will go. The idea is to bring some in who want to stay a while longer than in previous seasons. Dembele wants to stay, but in his case its probably better to sell him while he’s at his peak value, because as Rodgers would agree, the value of your investment can go down as well as up.
The latest interest comes from Red Bull Liepzig, who will have a vacancy in the first team when Tim Werner leaves in January, so his career will be less interrupted than if he goes south.
Football is a business when seen from the boardroom, and as we know, players are often bought cheaply purely to sell on later. Thats why some players are bought by big clubs and languish out on loan. Then , after doing well under another coach, at no cost to the buying club, they simply sell him on at a profit. Doesn;t always work, of course, but thats what they try to do.
With Celtic, hopefully the key difference is that Rodgers buys in players of a higher standard than previous managers when they claimed they were developing players. Guys like Sinclair, for instance, have been around for a while, and need a lot less to kick start their careers than someone like Kristoffer Ajer, an undoubted talent , who needs a bit more time to get up to speed.
If I’m reading the signs right, then Rodgers and his backroom staff know exactly what they are doing, and as the man himself says, he feels more at home developing players, then we may be present at the start of a few special years as the club refuses to accept bids from mediocre mid table English sides, as the manager does his bit in persuding the players they don’t need to take the first offer that comes along.
That way we keep them longer, do more in Europe and get the full value of a player and not a percentage of a sell on fee.
Having now determined the way things are going to be in the next few years, this remarkably optimistic and intuitive Diary will now hand back over to the idiot who lives in Stoke for some funny pictures and a tasteless joke or two.
The template for the kind of player Celtic need could well be in this old snippet from when football was played in black and white..
In the space of a few days, he’s fallen ill, died, been buried and got his place back in the team.
Thats the kind of attitude we need, and not these pampered little pooches who end up in the hospital every time they stub their toe.
Celtic are lucky to have a settled manager in Brendan Rodgers, an outsider who has come to Scotland with his own ideas, his own style and shown that it can be made to work. Ronny Deila had the same approach, but he was hammered in the press on a daily basis, and one cannot escape the thought that it was more than partly because he was an outsider.
Something that Hearts new managerial target Ian Cathro is about to find out. He’s not even in the job yet, but the knives are already out.
Kris Boyd, who joined Barry Ferguson on the list of “Why the fuck are we asking them ? ” experts, had this to say over the potential Hearts boss, presumably because his buddy Baz was not even considered for the post. Along with neolitihic others such as Jolly Jim Jefferies, Jumpy Jim Calderwood and Alex McLeish, all out of work, all of whom must have thought they’d be in with a shout, depsite all of them being out of work for a reason, in that they’re bloody useless.
Thats the real world outside Portugal, Spain and England where he has done a fair bit of coaching. Although only 30, Cathro has aready been about a bit, and will be itching to get his ideas worked on in practice, which can only be good for the Scottish game, where we are used to the likes of Derek Mcinnes battening down the hatches for a visit to a newly promoted cash strapped outfit, who happen to share the same name as a more illustrious side.
Though Boyd doesn’t think so. In fact, boyd has kind of offerd up convincing evidence that he thinks thinking should be left to horses, who have bigger heads.
Exactly which superstar egos is he on about at Hearts ?
Its good to see Hearts avoiding the trap of bringing in someone who knows the Scottish game. What clubs need are people who don’t know it, and have the strength of character to see their ideas through.
If he arrives at Tynecastle, he’ll have my best wishes.
Here’s something that might interest you. BHS, the high street store that went into liquidation last week, presumably not having the nous to simply ditch the creditors by pretending to be another shop, has exactly the same liquidators as Rangers, and , it seems, exactly the same problem with them.. from the Times…
A row over fees has broken out between BHS’s biggest creditor and one of the administrators to the failed department store chain.
The Pension Protection Fund (PPF), which is bailing out the huge shortfall in BHS’s retirement scheme, has vetoed an invoice for £4.1m submitted by Duff & Phelps.
Duff and Phelps.
Theres a lot of money to be made in liquidation, it appears.
Christmas is just around the corner, and with that comes the debauched drunken celebrations, so it was good to see one local newspaper helping young ladies to take care of themselves…
Caption from yesterday…
I won-with this..
“Can you actually believe that fuckwit McGhee thought he was in the running for my job ?”
Today, study and appraise this one, if you will…
Good diary but have to disagree over Ronnie. It wasn’t the press who were the problem. It was Ronnie, full of sound and fury signifying nothing. Talked the game and that was it.
Caption. McInnes can’t understand why he’s no getting into the Ibrox trophy room.
There was nothing wrong with what he had to say about the approach he was going to take.
Some players bought into it some didn’t.
He was found wanting at times and failed to mix it up but then some Managers are like that they believe in one approach.
Those that failed to alter their game or failed to cope with the increase in demands of playing a high pressing game were the ones who caused him the problems.
Commons and Mulgrew.
One is gone the other on his way having not kicked a ball under Brendan who incidentally is demanding much the same as Deila did on the Park.
Europe was a step too far for Ronnie his inexperience at that level was his downfall.
Brendan has that experience and cannot be questioned when it goes wrong that’s the difference.
No one is complaining about playing 1 striker
No one is complaining about 4-2-3-1 anymore when Brendan deploys it.
Deila initiated that,Deila had them playing that all Brendan had to do was bring in the quality that was needed and his job became simple as a result.
Deila came in and done an adequate job nothing spectacular however he did deliver the 2 League titles needed to keep this run going and a Cup.
deila is a clown, a horrible, drunk roaster of a football manager
almost destroyed the club, drove a massive wedge between the club and the fans, nearly ruined the careers of 3 or 4 of our star players, messed about with his staffs family’s, jobs for the boys re coaching staff and doctors…. need i continue?
It’s painful now!
You will notice that Brendan does not just stick to one formation no matter what. Only an idiot would stick to one formation no matter the tactical situation, match conditions, your own players and opposition players.
That lack of surprise to all opposition players and coaches cost us dearly against decent and quality opposition.
Plus his exposition of 4-2-3-1 was slow, turgid and inflexible.
Delia was a wanna be Celtic manager – should have been an assistant at best. Rodgers is the real deal.
What I will say in Delia’s defense, was that he (and us in Celtic), were cheated by the SFA in two semi-finals to ensure we did not get trebles.
Why do you have blue and red as your background colours?
It’s my paranoia detection system.
That is a poor defense of something that doesn’t represent Celtic. Go Green and Gold, or Green and White.
Delia was a dud simple as.
Brendan does not stick rigid to the fabled 4231. He has changed it in the course of a match many times,to get the result.
Something Ronnie just couldn’t do.
Please no more talk of Delia, it was a painful watching experience even with two titles.
Lovely guy but not a manager.
He has played that system far more regularly than any others.
I did state Deila stuck to it rigidly as some managers tend to do.
He put 3 trophies in the cabinet and ket the ten on for future managers.
Brendans approach to games is not much different although he is inclined to alter it when needs be but the basic approach is the same.
Press high
Move it quickly
Use the wide men to feed the lone striker.
As a Manager,who likes to develop players,a coaching manager,would you,
A Like to have full autonomy over player purchase and development,or,
B Be required to go to a player purchase committee and only have your input into the purchase of players.
Surely your answer would be A.
That is one reason that Brendan and his team are very happy to be at Celtic,job satisfaction,what could be more satisfying than seeing the team you develop and players that you soley have the responsibility to bring in,be successful.
The Scottish Press are a nasty mob indeed. Before we knew anything about Delia they were attacking the decision. Brendan was “the highest paid” manager who missed out on an EPL title. The press in Scotland are woefully biased and anti Celtic. How do I know that – I occasionally read it and it is there plain as day. How they treat McInnes is amazing. Little to no criticism
of him for his curious outburst prior to the game against sevco and then his curious team picks seemingly designed to lose. You can bet if we beat Man City it will be a meaningless game and if we get beat it will be further proof of our inability at CL level. No focus on the Champions of Scotland and all the positives we generate for Scottish football. Just a list for their favorite team – now dead – and the pale shadow skint tribute act who they just wish would do better. They must all be sick – good GIRFU them
Spot on post.
Caption:The glib one protects his “warchest” at the top of the marble staircase.
Caption: Davies ‘I’ll show you who I am ya potato headed fanny!’
Caption: Jock Stein takes time out to hold a camera
Caption: John Brown protects the deeds
caption she says only kddin my arse
caption she says heers batty
Caption:
Kris Boyd is determined to get into that Pie Shop!
Caption……
Sevco wife gets ready for Hogmanay bash.
Caption:Meanwhile on the staircase of the Glenburn Hotel in Rothesay..
Right you cunts which wan ae yous has flattened the batteries oan ma vibrator?
Caption:
Jack,I don`t care how big your willy is,you can eff off right noo.
And tell that bassa Billy there`ll be nae Yankee repo incubator truckies in the bloo room.
Andy Walker (texas ranger)reveals how his leg gets pulled endlessly about the Broony!s comment,he is a poor man!s Garry Nevill.Serves him right.
He tells how under Big Billy,how he Billy carried a Diary of supporters functions and supporters who were in hospital to make sure that his players paid 1/2 visits each per week and how Tommy Burns RIP was the hardest working player,carrying out 2/3 visits per week,no wonder Tommy is seen as an icon of the support.
He reveals a split in the dressing room when Mogga was Manager,how the older and younger players split in to two factions.How he wanted the team to bond more,Walker suggested that the players came out holding hands,ala Brazil but that was laughed oot the door and the huddle adopted instead.
He goes out jogging in Rouken Glen if anybody fancies joining him.
Ralph,
I get the feeling negativity kind of pisses you off. In fact, I would be quite positive if it were not for the possible downside of agreeing with you which is depression, heartache and a sense of utter defeat and that is way before we have even had a serious conversation about it far less discussed it with the doctor or the marriage guidance people who would only make matters worse by saying we are incompatible and incapable of living together under the same roof or, if you prefer, writing on the same blog which is so disheartening given your sense of humour and penchant for fancy words and phrases which is your snide way of humiliating the reader as he bursts his sides laughing at your hilarious pictures, captions and funny jokes, all the time in tears because he or she knows in the final analysis you will be in a rage because you feel disgraced by our lack of confidence in our own ability to achieve the highest standards even in the face of those overwhelming odds we use as an excuse for our defeatist attitude before we even start writing or commenting thus leading us to massive phone bills from the Samaritans and, ultimately, to the fulfilment of all your wishes mass suicides.
Are you happy now?
Cation: ” I’ll show you a home run you drunken…..”
H H
Fans don’t care what formation you play as long as you’re winning with style, which we are now and we never did under the the last manager! To try and give him any credit for this season is outrageous and to blame his failings on a couple of players who have previously been players of the year for us is a joke!
Emjay,
Bang on!
Caption:
“Gettae feck fae yer ain winners medal Ralph!”
Agree totally with your comments Broxburn Boy.
Jabba the Hut and Ervine control the media. No mention that Rogic booked, but Ainsworth not.
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Scottish Media did not get their succulent lamb this time
Caption: Chris Jack Nicholson stars in @Level5PR film reenactment of Hibs Scottish Cup Final pitch invasion
Caption: The first of the 274 creditors head up the marble staircase to seek payment.
Were my eyes playing me up,1st goal off-side 2nd a definite foul pos yellow card,Dembele clean through about 30yds from goal when the whistle goes to end the game? que!He,s a tim as well.
Jack Nicolson stars in the Craig Whyte production
The 39 Marble Steps
Caption:
The same club debate rages on.
Caption : Kenny Millers wife gets ready to greet Lee Wallace back at the marble staircase. I will show you assault ya dick.
McInnes should have been sacked. Any manager with his attitude and team selection is not wanted in football. He is a useless bastard who never owns up to his own misgivings and it is never his fault when his team gets humped. The players must be disillusioned with this clown.
HH.
I see that there are fresh rumours of total collapse over at Ibrox. Barton will not get paid beyond the end of the year; Sports Direct will sue them out of existence; the roof will fall in; they have insufficient cash flow to pay this month’s wage bill, and so on.
I have resolved not to read this stuff any more. Soothsayers have predicted their demise so many times only for them to still be around and sitting second in the league. These predictions remind me of monkeys at typewriters……eventually something sensible will turn out. Eventually, one of the soothsayers will be correct. So what! It either happens or it does not. Christmas will still come; we shall still be playing BR football. Bring me news about the Tic…..what is happening on the transfer front? What is happening with Hendo, Ajer, Aitchison, Nisbet etc What about a European league?
Sevco are a damp squib….they will either smoulder away harmlessly, or they will explode. They do not matter. What matters is how do we get to the next level?
Rebus
Great post, Rebus. They’ve had far too much limelight already.
Irrelevant, insignificant; NO MORE OXYGEN.
HH
Caption: Richmond lady protects her back door.
Alternatively,
Aggie Moffat welcomes Graeme Souness back to McDiarmid Park.
Here is my thought for today,
Celtic,Celtic your the team for me,
onwards and upwards towards victorieee,
feared by the bad luved by the good,
Harry Hood,the bhoys dun good,
Harry Hood.
Hattrick hunskelper Harry Hood
Cheers TOM eh port.Your a guid bhoy.
Caption: New tactics for Toure’s defending!! Good piece.Agree,sell sell sell Dembele.Get Shorty in with a big,strong,mobile striker alongside him.Bank about £10 million.Get well soon Kieran T,missing you. WHGA
I can see clearly now,everything is gawn my way,
I can see further noo,all the guid things are here today,
I can see everyone is listening to what I say,cos,
I close my eyes and then I canny see,
H.H.( Harry Hood).
How fickle supporters can be.
Toure came up to help his mentor,bring some stability to a pish poor defence,he gave his experience to assist young players,everyone agreed at the time,that his experience would be invaluable.He gave his all for the cause in a C.L. game,being injured in the process,injured for 6 weeks,comes back and is castigated for poor defending against a freak goal,that Moult will never score again in his LIFE.Gies a fucking break,supporters are meant to oh well support.
Mike,
Whoa! Are we not to comment when a player makes a mistake or is caught out? We all make mistakes. We are all human.
Toure has been and is anasset to the club. Saying he makes an error or two does not mean he is rejected as an important part of the team.
Sure he made errors but he also made some important challenges. Saying this neither makes him a liability nor a hero.
After seeing it again, I am not sure that he could have done much about the first goal. It was a striker’s finish. Having said that, Well had our number in the first half by playing high balls into the left side of our defence. BR sorted that late in the half.
Izzy looked to be very affected by the minute silence. I wonder if he knew some on the doomed flight. His concentraion seemed off in the game.
Hope you and yours are well,
Rebus
McManus hit a perfect left to right long ball perfectly weighted Moult takes it on the half volley,it goes upwards over Gordons head and then dips into the goal,where was the mistake,a freak goal.Short of being a mind reader,he stayed close to his man.
The second goal,again was a perfectly played cross to the back post,where McGregor should have been,but again,its Toures fault,critisism when its due,but Toure was not at fault for the second goal,McGregor was.
Izzy was yellow carded,the Murderwell winger had him on toast,that is why he was subbed.
Mike,
This is your opinion of what happened. Others may have different ones. My point is that does not make them less supportive of the club.
You do not solve problems by ignoring them. First we need to admit that they are present. That involves pointing out mistakes when they occur. If we ban that, we cease to move forward.
In short, different opinions do not imply less support for the team,
Rebus
The second goal was a clear foul on Lustig, should never have been allowed,to stand. Terrible decision.
Left side posted missing. We do need a left sided Centre back.
Once again Jozo wins a 50/50 and sets it up for a goal just like the cup final.
Those are the tackles that few the crowd going, brilliant stuff.
Yes Jimmy that was correct,a bad decision,one of many,the point is the first goal a freak strike,one that might never be repeated,the second down to a poor ref. decision,compounded by a l.b.not being in the position to cover.
I was not aware Rebus that you had commented on the game,i read other comments that were soley appointing blame on Toure,he was coming back after 6 weeks injury,clearly covering for SVIATCENKO,of course he would be rusty,the whole team were caught cold,after the cup final win,but some of the comments were over the top.
Carried out when posters were still emotionally attached to the game.Looking for someone to blame.
Mike,
Well said pal!
Aye ok fu/pal.
btw that fu is missing the D,it was a joke,not fu in the sense of och ffs shut up.
Caption, Chris Davies answers back to Mr Blobby.
Caption: Keith Jackson’s Film Review – 11 Jack Nicholsons assaulted.
Caption :
The bread man ( in his evening attire ) to glibby
Yer signing David Batty …I’ll David Batty ye
Mark McGhee, take note please.
Hail Hail Conor
Chris “mic drop” Davies.
https://twitter.com/FocusOnCeltic/status/805816023597187072
The ref had no other choice but to blow for full-time when Moussa
was through.
His pen had run out of ink.
sevco v Hearts. AKA,
Philadelphia Experiment v Hipster Experiment
All the best Ian Cathro and welcome back to Scottish Football.
I wonder if Hearts have cornered the movie rights?
Just in case Cathro is a huge success.
Though those “jobs for the nipple boys club” would much prefer
that it all ends up a Video Nasty.
Bilel Mohsni prevents failed director Chris Graham from climbing the marble staircase at Ibrox.
G`day Hector.
Those Wallabies wackers have no depth when it comes to that
eggball game,again.
Hope all is well with your good self.
Aaaaaah Jar Jar Binks……forgot about him!
BR: “The guys out for the weekend are back. @eriksviat and @Leighgriff09 will be fit. Other than that we are fine.”
We`re up for this.
caption ian cathro asks the laptop loyal is it cause i is a catholic
Is Cathro black?
naw monti but theyd rather have a coloured fellow than a tim ha ha
Charlie,
You can’t say ‘ coloured ‘ lol.
ha ha monti ime saying nae mer your trying to get me the nick ha ha
Lol
Quality tune this… put the headphones on have a wee nip(optional) and put your feet up for 6 minutes.
https://youtu.be/D99LZg18OWg
Caption
Celtic tv record moment Brendan Rodgers meets Kris Commons wife
Off to Manchester bhoys from a very foggy Brighton today.
Hope the bhoys put on a show, that’s all I ask.
Let’s show the English what a Celtic team is capable of.
Armstrong time to step up a gear son. You have been poor in Europe, your slack passes need to stop. Let’s see you develop into the talented player you are capable off.
COYBIG 3-2 the hoops .
GRAND so 🙂
John Hartson on talk radio earlier, can’t believe Celtic havent won more trebles in their history.
It’s easy John, it’s called fuckin cheating.
Jimmybee,
Spot on!
As much as i disliked Ronny Deila, that fucking Inverness semi final was the worst example yet of the huns with whistles cheating our club and Deila out of a treble!
DOB the lot of them!
2-0 to the youth team so far goals on celtic goals twitter sorry canny dae the link
game on bt sport 1
Thoughts for today, We are thinking about you KIERAN TIERNY,
The team is missing you and the support are missing you,you must be fed up sitting on the sidelines,watching your pals take on Barca.and now City.
There will be other days in the future,that you will grace the hallowed game,your field of dreams,more games,more honours.
So sit back,take it easy and DREAM.
To dream,to follow that star,
no matter how lonely, no matter which bar,
to be able to reach that far away star,
this is my vest,torn ragged and stringy,
no matter how smelly,no matter how mingy,
to join the Eastern star,
that is my vestttttt.