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<\/p>\nAs expected, Fraser Forster made the plane to Brazil yesterday, and though none of us were surprised, the announcement \u00a0seemed to have shocked \u00a0Sky TV , as they managed to get his name wrong and didn’t know what team he played for:<\/p>\n
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Roy Hodgson said it was down not only to the big mans ability, but also his professionalism. Forster has impressed the coaches when he’s been with the squad, and that is what got him the final vote. John Ruddy, the Norwich keeper who has dropped to standby, thought that ” playing in the Premier League would be enough” ( to secure a place ) which at first was interpreted as a dig at Forster and Celtic, but later suspicions were aroused that he was more annoyed that Ben Foster, who had “retired ” from international football , had only returned because Hodgson was always going to pick him, and despite sitting on the bench in all the qualifying games, he felt he deserved the third place.<\/p>\n
Still, who gives a toss ?<\/p>\n
Playing in a league that so many south of the border look down on Forster has done well to get on that plane.<\/p>\n
The media south of the border put the SPFL on a par with their Conference league-seriously, they see Celtic as a Birmingham or a Southampton at best, and only a few wiser minds-such as Hodgson- fully grasp the size of the club, and the level of football played. \u00a0 Well, theres a quite few chairmen as well who are absolutely terrified that a club that would dwarf all of them in appeal and within a couple of years, financial muscle, \u00a0ever comes near their league.<\/p>\n
Forster now is responsible for me-and probably many others-who will waken sweating and screaming at four in the morning- having dreamt that somehow England have stumbled to a World Cup final, and Joe Hart just got injured…..<\/p>\n
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I should be fairly easy to spot on that terrible day should it ever come.<\/p>\n
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The English last won the World Cup in 1966, and haven’t shut up about it since. Let it go, it was nearly fifty years ago. Its not like we’d keep harping on about something that happened that long ago.<\/p>\n
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Gordon Strachan named his squad for the friendly against Nigeria at the home of Fulham on the banks of the Thames, which is a little outside the capital Lagos, and anyone flying out to the game should check the bus times.<\/p>\n
Come on, surely we should have played in Scotland ?<\/p>\n
Anyway, three Celts made the squad, Mulgrew, Brown and Griffiths, and Strachan took time out defend Griffiths before the press got a chance to bring their knives back out.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s he done now? We\u2019re rather sensitive in the whole of Britain at the moment over anything.<\/p>\n
\u201cI suppose if you could put a tax on stupidity then it might have cost him a few bob. He would be a very poor man.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve no concerns. He enjoys playing football and he\u2019s no problem to me. I\u2019m glad it\u2019s not retrospective because I used to go to Hibs games and sing silly songs too when I was a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is in the squad. We are all very sensitive in the world these days. Even Gary Barlow has taken a bit today. He was meant to be a Sir last week now they want to him to send his OBE back. How ludicrous. If all the world was like Gary Barlow it would be a better place.\u201d<\/p>\n
A better place than what ?<\/p>\n
Still on international football, its been confirmed that Celtic Park will host the Scotland -Ireland game on November 14. The game will kick of at 7.45, just five minutes after the whole Irish support is ejected for singing an unacceptable song by enthusiastic stewards who thought it was a league game.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Ronnie Cully explains the thinking behind the decision not to use Ibrox, which was also under consideration, but they didn’t know who to ask for permission.<\/p>\n
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