You know the hardest part of doing the diary ? Figuring out how to start.
My wife has a unique way of starting conversations, she just says “Are you actually fucking listening, fatty ? ”
Maybe I should work on a catchphrase or something.
Craig Gordons been in touch. He knows I’m into the yoga, and he’s asked me to help him get his own yoga project off the ground..
Big game coming up at the weekend, a noon kick off against Heart of Midlothian, a lovely name for a club, but a shocking shower of ,,,struggling for alliteration here…that follows them.
And lo, the media did strike a blow… lets play a game..
You’ve just got a new job…
amd you’ve top come up with a story-journalists don’t find stories, they “come up with them “- ahead of the Celtic Hearts game that will delight one side of your readership and annoy the other..
So, we need a Celtic player, and a negative twist…
Lets take the main man this season, Keiran Tierney, and lets say he’s been playing well, and as we all know, as soon as one of our players does well, a wee light goes on in the boardroom, and the directors can start ringing round for quotes on a swimming pool.
so, who would be looking at him… ach, thats easy…their scouts travel up with the Southampton No.1…
And bingo, you’re a top Scottish sports hack. ( sort of like being the number one sprinter in an old folks home )
Southampton eye bid for Celtic and Scotland starlet Kieran Tierney
but a headline isn’t enough , you need facts, evidence and named sources, and… actually, you don’t..just run with it.
SOUTHAMPTON are plotting another big money summer raid at Celtic to add teenager Kieran Tierney to their old Bhoys club.
Tierney, 18, has enjoyed a whirlwind year after making his first team debut for the club 12 months ago — leading to a Scotland call-up.
The young left back, has now recorded 27 appearances for Celtic and his displays have attracted the interest of Saints.
He also made his Scotland debut in the first half of the 1-0 win over Denmark at Hampden on Tuesday night. Now Saints executive director Les Reed sees Tierney as an ideal back-up for first choice left back Ryan Bertrand, the England cap who cost £10million from Chelsea.
As a result, Celtic are getting ready to land West Ham’s Stephen Hendrie to fill the gap left by Tierney’s proposed departure as well as the expected exit of Honduras defender Emilio Izaguirre.
Izaguirre, 29, looks set to quit Parkhead this summer — ending his six-year stay — in order to fulfill his dream of playing in the MLS.
See the next time you read a rumour mill and refer to it as shite, just remember this article. Its got more holes in it than a Dave King financial statement.
In the real world, Southampton are in talks with Ronald Koeman about his contract, but thats unlikely to piss any tims, to paraphrase Scottish sports editors everywhere.
So, with Tims heading towards the Erskine Bridge, how do we cheer up the Govan Gullibillies ?
Rangers hotshot Martyn Waghorn targeting return against Celtic in Scottish Cup semi-final
Well, they’ll need someone to take their penalties.
Hang on, if their plan is to park the bus and hope for the best, how will they get them ?
And we all know what happened the last time they parked the bus…
so, here’s my headline that the MSM could use, which pretty much fits the criteria outlined above.
Dirty Fenian Bastards In Hampden Firebomb Plan
Anyhoo, the real reason Craig Gordon got in touch was to remoind everyone that he has now now notched up one hundred appearances since he came back from that career ending injury. Actually, he hasn’t been in touch at all, but i’ve still got my “want to be a Scottish sports journalist when I grow up ” head on.
But he has reached that milestone, and deserves credit, as do those at Celtic who put their faith in him, as paradoxically the one who came with an injury who gave us doubts turned out to be one pf the few who hasn’t done his best to increase the clubs health insurance premium.
“I was just looking to play one game again I just wanted to get out there and play and see how my body would hold up. In that first season, if I’d played over 10 games, I’d have been happy. But I ended up playing 55, which was beyond anything I had imagined after coming back. I didn’t think it was possible, but it was. I’m glad to have carried on.”
“Probably after six or seven games with Celtic, I realised I was in pretty good shape, and that my reflexes were still what they had been before I didn’t feel weaker in any way – in fact I probably felt better than I did previously, when I was maybe carrying injuries and trying to get through games.”
Whats next for the big keeper ?
“I’d love to save a penalty, if only I could get the chance in the Scottish cup semi final ” he didn’t say, but you know he’ll get the chance anyway.
Well, thats up to the ref. what do you reckon, Mr Thomson, will Craig get his chance ?
Aw, bless him.
Oh, hang on, maybe not. That sort of thing is frowned on at the SFA. And by Craig, it appears.
Politics now, and the Conservative Party have introduced a policy which could see them gain enormous ground in central Scotland, in the run up to the Holyrood elections..
They could lose their homes !
However, the writer here, clearly not a sports hack, did open with the words “pay back “, implying it wasn;t their money after all, and so therefore tits not their houses either, so [pardon me if I show little sympathy to their plight…
Just to help out here, , the Record, who for the last four years didn’t have anyone who understood this issue, have now hired an expert… and he’s laid it out in nice big colourful pictures so that everyone can be clear o
Oh, its like one of those game shows where you can pick out a celebrity and he comes out with a witty one liner and helps you answer the tricky question, usually along the lines of ” what colour socks are you wearing ”
In fact, we could maybe do something like that…
I pick Neil McCann, and I’d like to ask him to help me answer this question
“How the fuck did you become a football pundit ? ”
You’ll notice that the sports section isn’t covering this story.
Perhaps their inability to report fairly and without fear has finally backfired and now the London offices have taken it off them….
Fortunatley for the Record, Barry Ferguson, who could lose up to a million pounds of money that wasn’t his in the first place, could offer his thoughts in his next column….
Oh, by the way, did you see this…
Reminder that SE Corner will be closed on Sat so no access between East and South pre and post match
Clever, sell all the away end tickets and don’t let them in….
Brian may not be the messiah, but he’s not bad at these captions, his comment on Celtics scouting techniques winning yesterday, which will appear in tomorrows diary because I forgot to ask Charlie to do the picture last night.
Where it will feature alongside the winner of this one…a rare venture into the world of colour photography..
people clamering to watch the magic hats team play the greatest football ever played in a theme park in shitzville USA pre season
Nigeria fans threatening suicide after yet another Efe fuck up.
The BBC help out the EBT recipients with a place on the studio panel.
ha ha the fuckers are up to their knees in ebts noo ha ha ha ha aint life grand
EBT recipients queue up to claim the moral high ground to say why am I being taxed on the wages they promised me had been taxed at source?
caption is that the new homeless accomadation for the ebt mob
Caption…Pink times reports 28,000 at Celtic Park for league decider.
HH
Sue
ha ha back in the day that would have been the janefeild street residents watching the game without paying
Aye, but that was only how many the old board told them how many were there.
Southside Tarrier…totally agree, and according to relatives who were around at the time, I was told that there were three reasons for that.
The announced attendance (at all grounds I believe) was used to equally divide the ‘money’ taken between Celtic and the away team…
We had two gates on Janefield named ‘the manager’s’ and ‘Kelly’s gate’
and of course the announced gate/takings were used by the revenue to calculate income and hence tax.
The rest of it went (allegedly) into the biscuit tin!!
HH
Sue
I’ve only had time to very quickly scan the Diary but it looks a corker. Keep it coming, Ralph and Co. BTW, I’d happily make a wee donation if you have a method of doing so as the Diary is a must read and should be supported. Like Celtic, really.
Anyway, if Sevco insist that they’re really the ‘same club’ that’s in Liquidation, and, the ‘club’ has contracted to pay the tax due on EBTs if they got caught (like they have done) with their ‘troosers doon’, it kinda looks like check-mate.
Get out of that you shower of OBs (yes, that includes you lot in the SMSM) GIRFUY.
HH
Well done Hector, don’t let them off paying their wee English queens taxes.
hail glorious saint hector
Screw Hector. Why is he going after people who operated under PAYE? Go after the employer who didn’t withhold and pay the taxes.
reading about latapy and harper talking about racism stopping them getting a managers job in bigotland got me wondering how specsavers loyal would react to a big coloured guy being jemmied into their wee club ffs it would be like a klan rally
This really is stretchin’ it, ah know, but whit if the big coloured bhoy was also a catholic?
Would “specsavers loyal” (great term BTW, Charlie) need tae review things even more? If he moves, kick ‘im, double red and sine die tae boot…………Nurse…
vinnie if he was a catholic anaw the sfa would come to their aid with a down with that kind of thing campaign
McCann,Thompson and Dodds to name but a few will be clambering for more appearances in the media to get some sheckels together. Thank God for the mute button
Why isn’t every penny of every individual EBT paid back if it was a ‘ loan ‘?
You don’t borrow £5,000 from the bank and pay back £1,000!
It gets ‘paid back’ out of their estate when they die. In reality, because it’s a loan, it is a tax write-off and reduces the death taxes by the amount of the loan. I think. IANATL (I am not a tax lawyer)
That used to be the case but the law changed to restrict the deducting of liabilities from an estate when calculating inheritance tax.
True Monti, but you don’t get taxed 100% of what you earn, though they should be made to pay interest at a substantial rate.
so will it be the ‘same club’ these players go after when forced to pay back the money?
all of this should of happened 4 years ago
Caption:Aberdeen Ultras/ make final adjustments to Pittodrie for Helicopter Sunday
Hearts on Saturday. Our best 11?
Gordon
Lustig/Sviatchenko/Mulgrew/Tierney
Brown/Johansen
Forrest/Rogic/Mackay-Steven
Griffiths
McGregor, Roberts and Allan to figure.
Rogic may be tired after his travels. Maybe McGregor in the middle. I would like to re-capture our earlier form. It was 0-0 last time at Parkhead so we need to try do something different. 2-0 to the bhoys.
thats the problem devoy
we dont usually do anything different, we clearly dont train anything different as when we try it were just as bad
JOHANSEN FFS pish all season ,now were told his hip is fecked,ronnie is daft enough though to play him
I’ve watched, as most of us have, some of the shite we’ve played this season. However, FFS inject some positive thoughts. (Hamilton 8-1) It’s only fucking Hearts next. We should be able to send out our kit-man, John Clarke LL (thanks for all the happy memories, John) and a few of our under-valued, under-paid cleaners to dispose of that Edinburgh shower. WE ARE CELTIC. FFS don’t forget it.
Q: WTF has happened to Saidy Janko. Played a couple/few games, did really well, undisclosed injury and Ppffffttttt! Disappeared. WTF?
Anyway, to hump hearts? Now this is one of my easier quests.
A sort of malleable (it’s football, it fuckin’ has to be malleable) 5-2-2-1 as in 3 C/Bs-2W/Bs,2 D/M/F 2 A/M/F and striker.
Craig, – Saidy (in a stuccy), Michael, Erik, Charlie, Kieran,- Scott and Nir – Patrick and Kris – *Leigh*
WALLOP them HEARTS! Oh, and Subs, Goalie Big John Fallon LL (thanks for the memories Big Man), Izzy, Scott, Calum and my big brother Ian. BTW, Zig an Zag, I’m only fucking about here.
HH
hello, hello we owe a lot of dough
hello, hello i wish i hadnt voted no
were up to our knees in ebts and the interest rates are high
we are the murray metal boys
good yin bgbhoy ile be singing that to zombies soon with your permission ha ha
the cry was we must borrow, borrow or we’ll die… with pen in hand and cheque book, we’ll sell old derrys walls
Caption: Celtic midfielders on show at training camp.
England (sevco) fans await the arrival of the open top bus carrying the European Nations Cup
Could someone tell me how I go about getting an EBT as Lord Nimmo Smith claims no advantage gained?
The Warb and fans aiming for the sars
Killers advert for spaceman.
Caption: celtic finally introduce the safe standing area
Caption: “Hey der bhoys, when we find his ‘war-chest’, we maybe get our Pension-money back. Any suggestion on what to put in de empty chest………….WWHHOOOOOAH, 1 at a time bhoys, but I tink I’m gettin’ ya message.”
Caption….Dave King splashes out on a new grandstand at the scrapyard with adjacent state of the art corporate facilities.
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See that the Board have strongly opposed fan/supporters participation in the running of the club,noo thats a suprise.
They and a confidential statement from the SPFL,oppose the Scottish Goverments plans for supporters to own more of the club or having a greater participation in the running of the club.
Hector,Hector Hannibal Lector,Go get the Bassas.
Caption,Mintys that skint that he is forced to build a new home for all hun participants of EBTs.
McCann is the third yin doon from the Bottom.
Oh its a lovely day today,where the flying fishes play.
Where is the three stooges?we need to see that gravator.
mike, that is the most galling thing about this whole sorry episode. Minty, the horrible cnut, shouldn’t have a leg to stand on (oops!) and should be in custody,hauling his sorry arse around one of her majesty’s big hooses.
HA.HA.HA. Caption or not that is the funniest thing i have heard today.
Andy,believe it or not that Scottish Goverment(how many Goverments do we have again)piece of proposed legislation,could be IMHO a great thing to happen for our support and club.
H.H.Andy.
Hope it happens.
Aw Mike! You must be using email notices! Ruined my whole plan.
Tough ya wee keech.
Caption: First to the top gets a UK visa.
Oh dear.
Caprion: You see those white cliffs? That’s where the Tunnel ends.
Oh deary deary me.
Caption: Word quickly spreads that Derk can be seen kicking a ball from the TV scaffolding.
Caption: Due to the WiFi debt all WiFi repeaters have been returned to the company ‘cept 1.
4-2-3-1 with inverted wingers OUT!
Using INJURIES as an excuse when we have the biggest squad in Scotland OUT!
Using poor form as an excuse OUT!
Wide target men OUT!
Using CMs as CBS OUT!
You all must be watching soap operas.
I was doing a bit of gardening actually,…
Indica or sativa?
Never tried it in my life m8!
This is my last post for a bit so that those of you who use the recent comments section will be met with nothing but tripe upon your arrival.
Cheers for that Uralius, Dont go Shane/Uralius,dont care what anyone says,never read the gutter press,ditched sky and will never ever watch soaps, except River Shitty.
Angus leave that lassie alone,but bob i hardly touched her,Lenny stick the boot into that Kennedy Bassa,haw you ya mincer,ya prancer, dancer, chancer you yes you Monti ya cheeky wee monkey put that peh doon (reverts to Dundonian)whars ma Dandy and oor Willie,they were here a minuete ago.finger too sare to continue.
Tripe mibee but classy aye.
🙂
I only meant for 2 hours or so.
Thank you Lord,missing you already xxx.
As from today, the national living wage for over 25’s is £7.20, Peter Lawwell and his Tory pals won’t be amused.
Got to protect that £500,000 bonus!
See the more I think about this ‘ bonus ‘ the more disillusioned I feel.
He should be fucking embarrassed….
Fantastic News, David Moyes was seen last night coming out of Celtic Park with P.Lawwell a statement to be made later today.
A hope its the news we have all been waiting for.
Lord make it be true.
mike ffs if moyes comes in with big stubbs kawell must have been listening to the rumour i started last week ha ha
It wisna me, charlie it was you,ya cheeky wee bassa,
Nae flies on you charlie,get they bhoys to work harder and take it easy for the rest of the day,take a wee swallow the night tae loosen up your larynx for the morra,to cheer the hoopies on to victory,with the emphisis on the vic,less so on the tory bit.
H.H.charlie.
Chelie is ma darlin ma darlin oh cherlie is ma darlin the young cavalier. He.He.
mike ime tellin ye theres something the matter wae you mate ha ha
Aye OK….
monti ime saying its bullshit no that its true ffs
I was replying to Mike ya daftie lol
monti yoos 2 are some double act ha ha
Sorry Monti,the wain in me couldny resist it,hope you are good today,take care.Ya wee fud.
Wheres the feckin Vinnie, theres never a dull minuete when he is aboot.
Thers a moose loose aboot this hoose.
Ha.H
mike the bhoys in the van salute you haha
mike wan ae the bhoys is saying we need to get that crackpot oot for a swally some weeekend ha ha