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<\/a><\/p>\nI hope its still there.<\/p>\n
Tony Hamilton, CEO of the Charity Foundation , thanked the support;<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very grateful to everyone who bought a bunnet and to the club, who provided this opportunity for us. Our next big effort is our Christmas Appeal, where we have set ourselves a target of positively changing the lives of many local people at what can be an enormously difficult time.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n We’ll put the details of how you can help on the site when we get them.<\/p>\n As you are probably aware, Celtic Park is being used this week, but its been hijacked for an international between Ireland, which is a country, and Scotland which didn’t want to be.<\/p>\n The two sides are managed by ex-Celts, who are assisted by ex-Celts and \u00a0captained by a Celt and an ex-Celt, so theres plenty of interest in the game.<\/p>\n Scott Brown, Celtic and Scotland captain, is looking forward to it;<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m sure there are a lot of Celtic and Scotland fans who are looking forward to it and on my own behalf I am relishing pretty much every game for Scotland just now and every game for Celtic.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cBoth teams are in a good place just now and for Scotland it would be great if we could get a victory because Ireland started really well and they got a good result away to Germany as well so the group is still wide open.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Its certainly different for a Scotland side to still be in with a shout after they’ve actually played some games in a tournament, so it might get exciting. Ireland , too , have started well, and with the possibility of three teams qualifying for the last 24, both managers will be out for a win.<\/p>\n \u00a0The media, noted for their unionists tendencies, have predicted a “good old fashioned Britsh cup tie “, which shows what they know about football.<\/p>\n \u00a0Neither of the managers are naive enough to forget whats at stake, so don’t expect a gung ho approach from either. In fact, if you like a trip to the bookies, and want to come out with at least the bus fare home, pick a 0-0 or 1-0 to Scotland.<\/p>\n \u00a0Anyway, international football doesn’t get the butterflies going like it used to, but something occured to me yesterday that does.<\/p>\n \u00a0After mentioning in the Diary that John Guidetti wouldn’t be likely to go back to Feyenoord, and that English sides wouldn’t have enough respect for the Scottish league to move for Guidetti, it occured to me that I was, as ever, full of poo poo.<\/p>\n \u00a0Southampton have been known to raid Glasgow on more than one occasion, and are delightd with the return on their investment. They are managed by Ronald Koeman, who was Guidettis manager at Feyenoord.<\/p>\n \u00a0If Guidetti chooses money over glory and adulation, thats where he’ll end up. Which has prompted an attempt at the world swearing record;<\/p>\n \u00a0Southampton are currently second in the EPL. We need them to collapse after Christmas. If Guidetti is offered more money and Champions League he’s off to the south coast.<\/p>\n \u00a0The Scotsman, which one would think would be a rampant radical rag seeking independence, bows yet again to the mother country and all its wealth with this story;<\/p>\n You can tell the journalist thought of the headline before he had even spoken to Gordon.<\/p>\n Gordon is content with the levels of both form and fitness he has achieved since joining Celtic on a two-year contract in the summer and has not ruled out being able to test himself again in the top flight of English football. \u201cThat\u2019s open-ended, that\u2019s a possibility,\u201d said Gordon. \u201cBut I\u2019ve only just started back again so there is plenty of time for that. I am still only 31 and I\u2019m not setting myself any boundaries. I\u2019m going to try and do the best I can, wherever that takes me.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou never put a ceiling on things because you never know what can happen. You have to be ambitious \u2013 and I certainly am \u2013 to do the best you can.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhether that\u2019s here or regardless of where it is, I want to be the best and play the best and play in the best competitions and play for my national team. So that\u2019s the goals I set myself. But there is no top level to that.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0The rest of the article, some thousand words or so, concerns Gordon making a possible international comeback, and how he is delighted just to be back playing.<\/p>\n \u00a0But that doesn’t attract enough attention.<\/p>\n And notably, the Scottish press aren’t commenting on the displacement of the Thunder to Lancashire<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Craig Gordon still has desires to play in England<\/h1>\n