It does look a little better without the school, doesn’t it ? Which is a pleasant surprise.
Celtic had someone in Lisbon last night, and he was watching Sporting Braga again, and so its either Eduardo or Rafa thats the next target for the hoops when the transfer window is opened and the green smell of summer freshens up the room.
According to Sports Witness, at any rate. Eduardo is a goalkeeper, and we might need one of them, and Rafa is a forward, and theres scope to clear out a few of them from the east end of Glasgow.
Everyone except Leigh Griffiths, that is. He’s not doing badly at all here.
“It’s been a great start for me at Celtic, and I believe I can keep this up. I proved it at Hibs where I scored near enough a goal every one or two games. So if I can keep that up until the end of the season, I will be more than happy.”
“The chances you get here are incredible.
“But, in the end, I was happy to get my first-ever hat-trick in the league and take home the match ball.”
Everything goes in my cabinet for my kids to see. ”
He loves his kids-he took some of them to the game on saturday;
“I got the match ball when I scored a hat-trick for Hibs in last season’s Scottish Cup quarter-final at Kilmarnock.
“The ball from Saturday will be sit nicely beside it.”
He’s settled in very well. Its good to have someone with that attitude on your side. He’s a winner.
Compare that with the line up for the third world war, being held initially in the Ukraine this week. We’ve got Germany on our side, and their record in this competition is shocking.
Its great to see someone happy with their lot, Griffiths sounds like a man who has won an Olympic Gold, the Nobel Prize for Literature and an Oscar all in the same week, a bit like my pal, who has just moved in with an unemployed single mother of four. He reckons the benefits are amazing.
Peter Lawwell has been telling the BBC that theres a few things need sorting with Scottish football;
“The perceived lack of competition in Scottish football in the league is an issue that we need to find a solution to,” Lawwell told BBC Radio Scotland.
“There are different challenges, different types of challenge but still big challenges for everyone in Scottish football.
“Things have changed over the last 15, 20 years, particularly in media values in the big nations that have gone beyond anyone’s reasonable expectations.
“The gap between the big nations and the small nations is huge and we need to find a solution for Scottish football as well as Celtic in order to bridge that gap in some way or other.
“It’s put Celtic and other Scottish clubs at a competitive disadvantage in terms of wages and transfer fees.”
Lawwell believes the club are now “probably financially in the best position we’ve ever been in”.
“We have the best facilities, we have a great management team, we’ve great executives at the club, the best sports science and one of the best recruitment functions in Europe,” he added.
“So, we are in pretty good shape, there’s no question about that.”
Then , he sort of stopped talking.
He left out the bit about joining the English championship-or any other plans to improve the game up here. But to be fair, thats probably left until after this weeks shitstorm.
It started when Alex Thomson realised that there was nothing on the telly yesterday, so he decided to have a play on twitter.
Rangers to go into Administration on Wednesday? At least one senior Glasgow accountant is saying so tonight.
What is absolutely critical will be the crisis meeting called for tomorrow
Why is Jack Irvine contacting journos quite unsolicited tonight to deny possible imminent Admin to people who hadn’t asked about it?
Will Rangers deny that Nash and Wallace have met 2 potential Administrators in the past 48 hours?
And will Rangers further deny Nash and Wallace have settled on one of them as potential Administrator?
@DrAndrewWatt asking questions is my job.
But not getting answers to them, it seems.
Well, it certainly gave us all something to talk about last night. Again.
Sash Wednesday was trending in Glasgow, and I found this little number which refers to the finances over at Ibrox.
There have been many, many false dawns about the demise of the new club, and as the season goes on, there is more chance that each proclamation of doom will be the correct one. They have released their new stringent criteria to vet potential investors though..
Its not all bad. News has reached the training ground that the wages have cleared in the bank;
And their recently recorded fund raising single is doing well in the charts..
McCoist though, can always count on his old friends to come and help him out.
Things are bad at Ibrox, but those stories are in the papers to deflect from the real issues;
Celtic spark fury among training ground neighbours after traffic wrecks temporary access road – which they now want to make permanent
Which is a stick on for ” most badly written headline of the year.” You have to read the story to see what its about.
CELTIC have sparked fury among neighbours near their training HQ after applying to make a controversial access road permanent.
So, the neighbours want it to remain temporary ?
The club agreed to use another route as a condition of planning when they opened the £8million complex in Lennoxtown, north of Glasgow, seven years ago.
But neighbours were furious when the promised new road never materialised and Celtic continued to use the single-track temporary route.
Residents claim up to 400 car journeys a day to and from the training centre have wrecked the road, which is now full of potholes.
Up to ? 400 a day is one every couple of minutes. No wonder the road has some holes in it. Like every other road in the country after the recent rain.
Now Celtic have applied to make the temporary road their permanent route.
East Dunbartonshire Council have blamed delays in building the new access road on owners Mactaggart & Mickel.
Presumably they’re busy filming the next series of Hamish MacBeth.
Electronic engineer Donald McLean, 61, who lives in a cottage beside the road, said: “It was only ever meant to be temporary and it is in a terrible state.
“It’s full of potholes. I’ve had my car damaged three times on it.
Its the steering wheel thats broke. He can’t drive round them.
“Mactaggart & Mickel built a new estate in the grounds of Lennox Castle hospital and were supposed to put in the new road but apparently didn’t do it because of the recession.”
Another resident Brian Pickett, 46, said: “On training nights, there can be up to 50 vehicles coming down this narrow road at 9pm, including 55-seater buses. It’s an accident waiting to happen and we’ve had some near misses.”
But, er, no accidents.
In their latest application to East Dunbartonshire Council, Celtic say they have been unable to honour the clause to access the site from the A891 because Mactaggart & Mickel have failed to complete the new road.
Mactaggart & Mickel said: “We are in ongoing discussions with the NHS about plans to develop the land at the Lennox Castle hospital site.
“This is separate to any plans or discussions that Celtic may be having with the NHS or council.”
A decision on the road will be made by the council’s planning board.
Celtic said: “There is no question mark over our current use nor is there any breach of planning consent.”
No, I didn’t think there would be. But its a cracking story-if you can make or tail of it.
So, will the new Rangers be in administration before the Celtic get closed down by the council for using a road ? The press are certainly going to ignore whatever is going on at Ibrox, but they will no doubt find some poor old fellow who starved to death in his Lennoxtown cottage because he hurt his ankle on a fenian pot hole.
Should be an interesting week.
Make it a little more interesting by following Markybhoys lead and having a look at this from Auldheid, on the Scottish Football Monitor.
” Have you contacted Harper and McLeod yet? Pertaining to Auldheids letter http://www.tsfm.net/scottish-football-an-honest-game-honestly-governed/
And if not then why not?
At least some of our lot are listening on KDS and the Huddleboard. ”
The Weewizard spooted James Keatings in yesterdays picture teaser.
After being released by Celtic ahead of the new 2013–14 season, Keatings went to Australia to have trials at Brisbane Roar and Newcastle Jets
He signed for Hamilton on a permanent deal in July 2013 by penning a one-year contract after having impressed the club during pre-season training once again. After moving to Hamilton, Keatings hopes joining the club helped him get his career back on track.
Who are these two, taken from a match when colour had just been introduced to strips ?
Big Billy and sir awex
Billy McNeil and a hun
big billy cant make out who the ugly ogre is
I used to play in that strip, not the one the King’s wearing, and nobody would come to watch me. Imagine, Tam the Tim in a hun strip. We were playing Edina Hibs when the Tic won at Ibrox, Harry Hoods goal and this wee Tim is doing handstands in a hun strip. Magic.
Billy McNeil and Alex Ferguson in the 1969 Scottish Cup Final just before big Billy lost him to score the first goal in a 4-0 rout. The same game where Ferguson head butted Bobby Murdoch. unsurprisingly the ref missed it. we didn’t in the Celtic end.
Humorous piece,Ralph.
So,Griffiths keeps his balls in a cabinet now.Not a bad idea,
as he is paying out plenty in maintenance as it is.As our next
game is against Killie ( would love to see them go down ) I
wouldn’t bet against Super Leigh adding another ball to his
collection.
Roll on Ash Wednesday,no doubt,the Lying King will be
paraded at Ibrokes.
Ralph. Take a closer look at the that photo of Caesar and erm, witshisnmname – There’s no barrier separating the fans behind them from the pitch – at an O.F match !!!
I reckon if one of my skinny-malinky-long-leg-big-banana-feet nephews was at that game, they look close enough to the action to be able to stick a leg out and trip somebody up.
The barrier was human in those games, what were called the neutrals. Strange people, they came from another planet and were transfixed by the mayhem surrounding them.
HH
Ceasar and Derek parlane without mullet
Ralph
That tongue of yours is making some bulge in your cheek today. Clever stuff. But I will stick to the ashes of burnt palm leaves for now on Wednesday. I think there might be a few chickens hatching before they have been accounted for. I am far from convinced it will be the burnt remains of a sash on my forehead in two days time. If it is, the scar will be permanent and the sign by which Peter will know to shut the gates on me for ever. He may, of course, be otherwise occupied, “ever ready” to shut the gates permanently in another place that I would not wish to enter anyway. One way or another, it will be hatched chickens or a blue doo come Wednesday. Not that the latest comments from Mr. Thompson have changed my mind about him. I am afraid he shot himself irreversibly in the foot with his Millwall piece. And his supplementary qualifications do not eradicate the fact that the thought is father to the deed.
That was a not unfamiliar pose by fergie, by the way, arms like windmills at full tilt. Cesar looks like he is distracted by something. Probably Wee Bertie ready to kick Fergie up the cheeky section. By the way, it has to be the Green Brigade that stole the barriers – A Record(ed) fact as reported by the neutrality station.
H H
Big Billy’s distracted as they’ve just put the cup out bedecked in green and white ribbons. “I’ll have to go up and get that in a minute”