{"id":11044,"date":"2017-03-31T10:09:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T09:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=11044"},"modified":"2017-03-31T10:09:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T09:09:40","slug":"celtic-diary-friday-march-31-anyone-will-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=11044","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Friday March 31: Anyone Will Do."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The list of experts hauled in by the Scottish sports Media grows almost hourly.<\/p>\n<p>James Corden, a fat bloke who does adverts on the telly wants Stuart arnstrong to join West Ham. Fair enough, as long as he stays away from what he thinks is comedy, he can say what he wants.<\/p>\n<p>Quite how it merits a mention in the papers is another question, however.<\/p>\n<p>Having run out of fresh faces to tout Celtic players, the media leapt on this tweet..<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item-header\" style=\"color: #14171a;\"><a class=\"account-group js-account-group js-action-profile js-user-profile-link js-nav\" style=\"color: #657786;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JKCorden\" data-user-id=\"215952307\"><span class=\"FullNameGroup\"><strong class=\"fullname show-popup-with-id \" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #14171a;\">James Corden<\/strong>\u200f<span class=\"UserBadges\"><span class=\"Icon Icon--verified\" style=\"color: #1da1f2;\"><span class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">Verified account<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"UserNameBreak\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"username u-dir\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #657786;\">@<b>JKCorden<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<small class=\"time\" style=\"color: #657786;\">\u00a0<a class=\"tweet-timestamp js-permalink js-nav js-tooltip\" style=\"color: #657786;\" title=\"9:28 AM - 30 Mar 2017\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JKCorden\/status\/847485763126153216\" data-conversation-id=\"847485763126153216\"><span class=\"_timestamp js-short-timestamp js-relative-timestamp\" data-time=\"1490891326\" data-time-ms=\"1490891326000\" data-long-form=\"true\">16h<\/span><span class=\"u-hiddenVisually\" data-aria-label-part=\"last\">16 hours ago<\/span><\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<div class=\"ProfileTweet-action ProfileTweet-action--more js-more-ProfileTweet-actions\">\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<div class=\"IconContainer js-tooltip\" title=\"More\"><span class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">More<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"u-hiddenVisually\" style=\"color: #14171a;\" data-aria-label-part=\"1\">James Corden Retweeted Focus on Celtic<\/p>\n<div class=\"js-tweet-text-container\" style=\"color: #14171a;\">\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-aria-label-part=\"4\"><em>I would love <a class=\"twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #1f98c7;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WestHamUtd\" data-mentioned-user-id=\"156247074\"><s style=\"color: #1f98c7;\">@<\/s><b style=\"font-weight: 300; color: #1f98c7;\">WestHamUtd<\/b><\/a> to sign this player!!!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-aria-label-part=\"4\">Meaning Stuart Armstrong..<\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-aria-label-part=\"4\">Corden, who used to be in alleged comedy Gavin and Stacey, a programme so bad even the pub in Runcorn, where it was filmed, has closed down in embarassment, has sen his career nosedive, and it seems he wants to take Armstrong down with him by trying to persuade him to join West Ham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-aria-label-part=\"4\">Another z list celebrity, Richard Keys, who was sacked by Sky TV , is the cheerleader for a new Daily Record campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-aria-label-part=\"4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/C8MrPH-XgAAfg11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-aria-label-part=\"4\">Couldn&#8217;t agree more with the anti Sky sentiment, its not just the contempot they hold the Scottish game in, but the money they spend in England allows english clubs to plunder, and thus weaken, our own game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-aria-label-part=\"4\">Etims did a wee campaign of similar aim ourselves, after we noticed that indirectly, every time a Celtic palyer went south, it was our own money they were using to buy him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-aria-label-part=\"4\">So the Record deserves praise for highlighting the issue, but Richard Keys ?<\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-aria-label-part=\"4\">Keys left Sky in disgrace after making sexist remarks, and would later run off with one of his daughters pals whilst his wife was having treatment for cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-aria-label-part=\"4\">At the very least one would say his views Sky would have a little conflict of interest, whereas most of us would just agree that he&#8217;s a piece of what doggies leave in the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-aria-label-part=\"4\">Anxious to play to his new audience, Keys said of the relationship between Sky and Scottish football;<\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-aria-label-part=\"4\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #141414;\">\u201cYou can trace it all back to 2002 and the deal Vic Wakeling didn\u2019t do with Roger Mitchell who was in charge of the SPL \u2013 but who wasn\u2019t very good at it.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141414;\"><em>\u201cVic put something like \u00a360m on the table and the response was, \u2018Come back to me when you\u2019re serious\u2019. Vic withdrew the offer and overnight he made it clear we were to stop talking about Scottish football on Sky Sports News which was a disgrace in itself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141414;\"><em>\u201cThe instruction was, \u2018Scottish football doesn\u2019t exist. Shut it down. We don\u2019t talk about it, we\u2019re not interested in it until they come back to the table on our terms\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141414;\"><em>\u201cIt really was a disgrace and in my view Scottish football has never recovered. Scottish football has made some extraordinary decisions domestically which I didn\u2019t understand but which have had a very detrimental effect on the game. And you know what I\u2019m referring to.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141414;\"><em>\u201cAll these years on still no one can tell me what Rangers were guilty of when they were sent down to the bottom tier.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141414;\"><em>\u201cThe expectation was they would be found guilty but my understanding is they were never convicted of any wrong- doing. But I guess that\u2019s another matter entirely.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-aria-label-part=\"4\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #000000;\">Keys doesn&#8217;t understand what wrongdoing is, does he ? either at home or in his professional life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #000000;\">Keys then went to work for Talkshite radio, and showed us how suited he was for that station with this;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141414;\"><em>When we went to Talksport I was very much aware that the station was broadcast nationally. But that we only ever talked about English football. I said when I went there I wanted our show to have an audience of over one million. I was told we would never do it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141414;\"><em>\u201cSo after a week or so I told them I wanted a full set of newspapers delivered every morning, including in particular the Daily Record because I wanted to know what was happening in Scotland.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe only reason I knew what was happening at Rangers in 2011 was because I started reading the Daily Record. And that\u2019s when we started covering it properly.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEffectively we broke the story in England because no one else down here had been paying attention to what the Record had been writing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not many in Scotland pay that much attention either&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA club the size of Rangers going bust? This was a huge story \u2013 it was cataclysmic \u2013 but no one in England cared about or even knew about it until TalkSPORT picked it up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141414;\">Er, didn&#8217;t he say something about Rangers being sent to the bottom tier-now he&#8217;s claiming credit for telling the whole world they went bust.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141414;\">The man is an imbecile, and clearly hoping for a column in the Record and another shot at being on Talkshite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141414;\">\n<p style=\"color: #141414;\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #000000;\">Usually we announce this award at the bottom of the page, but for comments such as these, and the hypocrisy within, richard Keys has come from nowhere-and the sooner he returns there- to win this weeks Etims<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 255, 0);\">Knob of the Week\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/static\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2011\/1\/26\/1296051893254\/Richard-Keys-003.jpg?w=700&amp;q=55&amp;auto=format&amp;usm=12&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1c1ac9e7efb23e566265b118d3b2ebe5\" alt=\"Image result for richard keys\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Back at the ranch, and Brendan Rodgers says Scott Brown can play for Scotland if he wants to, showing a huge amount of trust in, \u00a0and respect for, his captain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>\u00a0I think there is a genuine love for playing for\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: 600; font-style: inherit; color: #a01016;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eveningtimes.co.uk\/search\/?search=Scotland&amp;topic_id=8885\" target=\"_self\">Scotland<\/a>\u00a0for him,\u201d \u201cHe obviously retired but his loyalty to Gordon and what Gordon has done for him over the years in bringing him here and the relationship that he has, it is totally natural when he seen Gordon not having a good time earlier on in the campaign why he wanted to support him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>\u201c It also typifies the kind of guy he is. He has real old school values and he wanted to help someone that he really respects. So if he wants to play in the game it is absolutely fine, we will find a solution for that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>\u201cHe is a really important player for the spirit within the squad. Obviously I have to look at Celtic but we will find a solution that will do both, I am sure.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #000000;\">Brown is mature enough to decide if he&#8217;s up to it.<\/p>\n<p>And that is pretty much that.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-aria-label-part=\"4\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 255, 0);\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There is a possibility that the league could be won tonight, Aberdeen face Dundee, and a defeat would mean that Sundays game would be more or less all about singing and dancing, whereas should Aberdeen win, we&#8217;ll have to wait until full time.<\/p>\n<p>I think we&#8217;ll all have half an eye on tonights game..<\/p>\n<p>You should maybe keep an eye out for anyone in East Kilbride if you are selling a golf club..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/C8LnoUUXQAIw_3Y.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A couple of appeals now, one quite serious..<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item-header\"><a class=\"account-group js-account-group js-action-profile js-user-profile-link js-nav\" style=\"color: #657786;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CelticResearch\" data-user-id=\"239466707\"><span class=\"FullNameGroup\"><strong class=\"fullname show-popup-with-id \" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" data-aria-label-part=\"\">CelticResearch<\/strong>\u200f<span class=\"UserNameBreak\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"username u-dir\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #657786;\" data-aria-label-part=\"\">@<b>CelticResearch<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<small class=\"time\" style=\"color: #657786;\">\u00a0<a class=\"tweet-timestamp js-permalink js-nav js-tooltip\" style=\"color: #657786;\" title=\"1:55 PM - 28 Mar 2017\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CelticResearch\/status\/846828173639761920\" data-conversation-id=\"846828173639761920\"><span class=\"_timestamp js-short-timestamp \" data-aria-label-part=\"last\" data-time=\"1490734544\" data-time-ms=\"1490734544000\" data-long-form=\"true\">Mar 28<\/span><\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<div class=\"ProfileTweet-action ProfileTweet-action--more js-more-ProfileTweet-actions\">\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<div class=\"IconContainer js-tooltip\" title=\"More\"><span class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">More<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"js-tweet-text-container\">\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--large js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-aria-label-part=\"0\"><em>If anyone can help out with the collection on the day please get in touch. Need people from about 12pm to help unload bags from supporters\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--large js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-aria-label-part=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/C8CJsxBW0AA8Vtg.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--large js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-aria-label-part=\"0\">Whilst its shocking that foodbanks even exist in the twenty first century, the reality is that they need our help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--large js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-aria-label-part=\"0\">Do what you can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--large js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-aria-label-part=\"0\">It will be appreciated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--large js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-aria-label-part=\"0\">\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--large js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-aria-label-part=\"0\">\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--large js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-aria-label-part=\"0\">Another appeal concerns someone who has entirely different needs..<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/C8LmvwwUMAIUZqv.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Instead of a caption competition, lets have some suggestions of suitable songs for the man from the Blue voice, whose real name is actually Les Miserable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"js-tweet-text-container\" style=\"color: #14171a;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The list of experts hauled in by the Scottish sports Media grows almost hourly. 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