If you are overseas, its \u00a312.99 a month, which is still cheaper than planes, hotels and a pie. Especially the pie. And theres the added bonus that if the games shifted, all you have to do is turn it off and watch something else.<\/p>\n
Its apparently too expensive to get the berth back on the Sky Astra satellite, estimated by at least one Chief Executive at Celtic to be around \u00a31m , and with other clubs losing money with the set up, Celtic are reluctant to go back down that path, but its worth considering that other clubs don’t have the world wide appeal of Celtic, and its also worth bearing in mind that you retain editorial control, from the clubs point of view, giving the board, the players and the fans a platform to get their own opinions out without them being either distorted or just ignored by the media.<\/p>\n
With the right to reply offered via phone ins and emails, it would be a chance for the club to air their views, but also to listen to those of the support.<\/p>\n
And Craig Burley, Andy Walker and Pat Nevin would be nowhere near it.<\/p>\n
Anyone else hear Pat Nevin refer to England as “we ” when summarising their latest half arsed effort in the World Cup ?<\/p>\n
Apparently he took one of his kids to a Scotland game, and found the singing of \u00a0“She’ll be coming round the mountain” \u00a0offensive , as it used to be sung by railroad work gangs in the US , which harkens back to the days of slavery, and more importantly the bit about pink pyjamas might upset the gay community.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the English are welcome to him. He’ll fit in well with their distorted view of world football. The last time I saw the English worked over this bad I had to look up the word “coalition ”<\/p>\n
Another pundit who proving he “knows nothing about nothing ” as my old da used to say about me ( he had a point ) is Adrian Chiles, who tried to cross swords with Martin O’ Neill, another ex Celtic manager trying to talk sense amongst a host of fools..<\/p>\n
Martin O’ Neill puts Chiles and Co in their place<\/a><\/p>\n And thats without this idiot..<\/p>\n The three lions, which are actually leopards that turned into pussies, will be returning home next week after the Italians failed to beat the Costa Rica team that the tv experts figured would be the groups whipping boys. This same Costa Rica that the more optimistic on the tv panels figured would be beaten by the English while the Italians won all their games, thus ensuring Hodgsons side could progress, and leave Brazil,my the usual route, having been beaten on penalties.<\/p>\n And I thought I was over optimistic when we drew Ajax, Milan and Barcelona.<\/p>\n Something no-one has mentioned with regard to Englands piss poor performance in Brazil is that its actually winter over there, and whilst still warm and humid, it goes dark early, and although the tv studios are working on British summer time, the players have had little time to adapt to the dark nights and shorter days, which in turn means that their body is beginning to tire before they take to the field. Add to that the fact they had a 1770 mile flight from their base in Rio to the first game in Manuas, and you begin to feel that someone has made a complete arse of planning their stay down there.<\/p>\n Not convinced ? Remember the lethargic crowd at the game against Milan back in December. It felt like it had been dark for ages by the time kick off arrived, and I remember sitting in the ground feeling very tired-at kick off.<\/p>\n But don’t tell them, let them carry on making a mess of it.<\/p>\n On the back of the news that the enthusiastic Uruguay fan with the Scotland top on was actually a chap from Glasgow who had travelled out to distribute some football tops, the sort of thing he does regularly, the England squad siezed on an opportunity to get some good publicity in.<\/p>\n They visited an orphanage on the outskirts of Rio to see for themselves the conditions that kids live in out there, a million miles from their own pampered lifestyles;<\/p>\n ” It was heartbreaking to see the look of sadness and despair on their faces, ” said Jose, aged 6.<\/p>\n Former Celtic manager Neil Lennon-though i’m still not sure he knows that -had his own view;<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a lack of Champions\u00a0League<\/span>![\"Embedded](\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Bql1KzYCcAAh0Fa.jpg:large\")
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<\/span><\/a>\u00a0football in this squad,If you look at Jagielka, Leighton Baines and some of the younger\u00a0Liverpool players\u00a0 they\u2019ve never played Champions League football and for me that\u2019s one of the best areas to develop your game.<\/em><\/p>\n