“Salzburg are a better team than Celtic. Celtic are a good team. We have every respect for Celtic. But the truth is Salzburg are better and showed it in the Europa League last year too.”\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
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“We’ll see on Wednesday. That’s when they have to show they are better.<\/span><\/em> That’s because Tarantino is a notorious litigator who would have pursued Ronny for using one of his lines. Have you seen that Direct Line insurance advert ? Harvey Keitel has to give all his money to Tarantino for using the Winston Wolf character to promote insurance policies.<\/p>\n Probably.<\/p>\n Airhead didn’t stop there. Prompted by an enthusiastic media, he continued barking, and spoke of his experience of Celtic and Scottish football…<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve followed Celtic from the early days, I\u2019m that old. I remember Jimmy\u2028Johnstone and the team that won the European Cup.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI watched the Final against Inter Milan when I was young. Jimmy was a fantastic player and I remember all the names \u2013 Bobby Murdoch, Bobby Lennox, Billy McNeill. And after that guys like Danny McGrain. All of them were top players of European standard back then.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cScotland have always produced very good players. When I was playing in England in the 80s the Scotland team were better than the English. They had guys like Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness and Archie Gemmill.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ve always produced good attacking players.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhen I was watching the Kilmarnock v Celtic game last week I was fascinated by the winger Forrest. He looked like a good old Scottish winger with pace and flair. He reminds me of Willie Johnston who I remember from his West Brom days.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cForrest is that type of player with quick feet. He\u2019s more of a winger than a midfielder \u2013 he\u2019s a throwback.\u201d \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Bit harsh.<\/p>\n \u00a0Then he started talking about Scots he has known, and anyone else he could think of. Such as Asa Hartford , once of Manchester City , when they couldn’t afford good players.<\/p>\n \u201cAsa is a close friend of mine from our days at Man City. I see a lot of him and I\u2019ve invited him to the game in Glasgow.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHe doesn\u2019t know too much about Celtic now. In fact I know more about them than Asa! He follows the English leagues more now as he does scouting there.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI played with a few Scots. Tommy Hutchison was at City\u2028as were Gerry Gow and Bobby McDonald.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAt Norwich I played with Ross Jack. We\u2019d play five-a-sides \u2013 it was the rest of the world v England. So I was with the Scots along with Martin O\u2019Neill. We had a good team.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI know Martin well because we played together at City and Norwich. We actually had a reunion at Norwich in 2003 and Martin brought his Celtic team down for a game.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhen I had the Norway national team I\u2019d go over to Aston Villa while Martin was there to watch my player John Carew. He\u2019s a good man.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI met Scotland twice when I was Norway manager so I know all about them. We\u2019re practically related to the Scots!<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cScottish football fascinates me because I think there is a lot of potential in the players there.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSince Ronny has come to Celtic it has strengthened the Scandinavian relationship with Celtic.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt started with Henrik Larsson and from there Celtic have had a lot of followers over here.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe always look at the Scottish league to see the qualities of the teams there.\u201d \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Satisfied with his speech, he put his Wikipedia notes to one side, and leant back in his seat.<\/p>\n So, what do we know about Hareide ?<\/p>\n He’s been around a bit;<\/p>\n \u00c5ge Fridtjof Hareide<\/b>\u00a0(born 23 September 1953 in\u00a0Hareid<\/a>) is a\u00a0Norwegian<\/a>\u00a0football<\/a>\u00a0manager<\/a>\u00a0and the current manager of\u00a0Malm\u00f6 FF<\/a>in\u00a0Allsvenskan<\/a>. In his playing career, he played for\u00a0H\u00f8dd<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Molde<\/a>\u00a0in Norway as well as\u00a0Manchester City<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Norwich City<\/a>\u00a0in England. Hareide was capped 50 times playing for\u00a0Norway<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n 24 games for Man city, 40 for Norwich between 81 and 84. The rest of his career was in Scandinavia.<\/p>\n As a coach, Hareide has won league titles in all of the\u00a0Scandinavian<\/a>\u00a0countries,[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In Sweden with\u00a0Helsingborgs IF<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a01999<\/a>\u00a0and withMalm\u00f6 FF<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a02014<\/a>, in Denmark with\u00a0Br\u00f8ndby<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a02001\u201302<\/a>\u00a0and in his native Norway with\u00a0Rosenborg<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a02003<\/a>. Hareide was in charge of the\u00a0Norway national team<\/a>\u00a0from 2003 to 2008.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n As a coach Hareide has won three European countries’\u00a0national league championships<\/a>, namely that of Denmark, Sweden and his native Norway, placing him alongside\u00a0Trond Sollied<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Sven-G\u00f6ran Eriksson<\/a>\u00a0while\u00a0Ernst Happel<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Giovanni Trapattoni<\/a>\u00a0have won championships in four different countries.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n No mean feat, but it’s only one more than relative rookie Ronny Deila.<\/p>\n He’s no dud, that’s certain, but one wonders why a man with his experience is talking so much, and so much shite at that.<\/p>\n Ronny seemed to have caught the bug. He was asked if Scott Allan would be included in the squad for the tie;<\/p>\n “We will see it is not as if Scott Allan is going to come in here and be the king from the first minute. Nobody is expecting that.<\/span><\/em> Berget , the man above, in case you had forgotten him, or deliberately wiped him from memory, also had a few things to say;<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cI felt I deserved another shot at Celtic. I did well in the Champions League qualifier against Maribor away from home and then scored two goals against Dundee United in the league.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cBut after that, I got subbed before half-time at Dundee and that was the end for me there.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe team started to play well and the manager didn\u2019t want to change it.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cRonny Deila told me that things weren\u2019t going the way he had hoped for me and, to be fair, his changes worked. I \u2028understood. I didn\u2019t agree with him but I had no hard feelings.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI knew after the Dundee game my time would be up because even before then things weren\u2019t good.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThen when you get taken off at half-time, as a player, you know you\u2019re not going to play. After that I didn\u2019t get a chance.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s frustrating for me that I didn\u2019t show my best at Celtic because it was a chance for me at a huge club.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve got a new opportunity here at Malmo and I want to take it.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt would have been nice for the Celtic fans to remember me for what I did at the club.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cBut they probably only remember me as a guy who played a handful of games for them and didn\u2019t do much.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI expect they see me as just some random guy.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n He can relax. Thats not how we see him at all.<\/p>\n No . Not at all.<\/p>\n Perhaps he just arrived with too much baggage…<\/p>\n \n \n \u201cSo, of course, I\u2019d like to prove to them that I\u2019m a good player. But, more importantly, I have to prove it to myself and the Malmo supporters because that\u2019s where I am now.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d like to show Celtic they were wrong about me and I\u2019ll have a bit of extra motivation for this game because I have a point to prove.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI have to say, off the pitch, the Celtic fans were great with me. They were supportive of me when I met them and I have no problem with them at all.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0I\u2019ve told my team-mates here at Malmo all about Celtic. I know all of the players and I\u2019ve also told them about the \u2028atmosphere at Parkhead.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cVirgil has \u2028everything as a defender.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cStefan has just got better and better too. He has been pushed further up the field and that has really suited him.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI lived with Stefan for the first six weeks of my time there. His missus cooked me some good dinners but maybe that\u2019s why it didn\u2019t work out for me at Celtic.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThings were going well when I lived there but it went downhill as soon as I moved out.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Yes.<\/p>\n That would explain it.<\/p>\n Still, it’s hard to forget the sight of him racing down the wing….<\/p>\n \n Malmo are on a bit of a roll just now, with three wins in their last three games after a bit of a dodgy start to their season, but we’ll do more on their current form and squad tomorrow.<\/p>\n However, \u00a0it’s worth mentioning their support today, who seem like a decent bunch;<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Malm\u00f6 FF are well known for their large local following.[43]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The club has several fan clubs, of which the largest is the official fan club\u00a0MFF Support<\/a>. It was founded in 1992. MFF Support describes itself as “a non-profit and non-political organization working against violence and racism”.[11]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The current chairman of MFF Support is Magnus Ericsson.[44]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n There are also several smaller independent supporter groups. The most prominent of these is Supras Malm\u00f6, which was founded in 2003 by a coalition of smaller\u00a0ultras<\/a>\u00a0groups and devoted fans.[45]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The name “Supras” is derived from the words\u00a0supporters\u00a0and\u00a0ultras\u00a0\u2013 the latter indicating that the group is inspired by a fan culture with roots in the\u00a0Mediterranean<\/a>. Supras Malm\u00f6 is the most visible group in the main supporter stand at\u00a0Swedbank Stadion<\/a>, marking its presence with banners, flags and choreography. Another group with similar goals is Rex Scania. MFF Tifosi 96 (MT96) is a network of supporters creating\u00a0tifos<\/a>\u00a0for special occasions and important games.[46]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The average attendance for the club’s games in the 2014 season was 14,090, the second best attendance in\u00a02014 Allsvenskan<\/a>\u00a0after\u00a0AIK<\/a>.[47]<\/a>\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n \n Thats quite a striking picture, and you’d be interested to know that the red and yellow flag is the Scanian flag,<\/p>\n The names\u00a0<\/span>Scania\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Scandinavia<\/a>\u00a0are considered to have the same etymology<\/span>[18]<\/a><\/sup>[19]<\/a><\/sup>[20]<\/a><\/sup>[21]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0and the southernmost tip of what is today Sweden was called Sk\u00e5ne by the Romans and thought to be an island. The name is possibly derived from the Germanic root\u00a0<\/span>*Ska\u00f0in-awj\u00e3, which appears in\u00a0<\/span>Old Norse<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0<\/span>Sk\u00e1ney.<\/span>[22]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0According to some scholars, the Germanic stem can be reconstructed as *<\/span>Ska\u00f0an-\u00a0meaning “danger” or “damage” (English\u00a0<\/span>scathing, German\u00a0<\/span>Schaden, Swedish\u00a0<\/span>skada).<\/span>[23]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0<\/span>Skan\u00f6r<\/a>\u00a0in Sk\u00e5ne, with its long<\/span>Falsterbo<\/a>\u00a0reef, has the same stem (<\/span>skan) combined with –<\/span>\u00f6r, which means “sandbanks”.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Every days a school day.<\/p>\n You’d also probably be interested to know that the writing on the scarves says ;<\/p>\n ” Take that fucking banner down I can’t see a bastarding thing “<\/p>\n They swear a lot in Sweden. The word Sweden is actually derived from the word “swear ” , as the weather, the difficult language and the break up of Abba means they are usually in a bad mood about something.<\/p>\n I blame the schools.<\/p>\n \n \u00a0Elsewhere, tired of linking Celtic players with a move away, the media \u00a0have switched tactic.<\/p>\n Now we are bringing some in. Presumably they are hoping that it will unsettle those already at the club.<\/p>\n Surprisingly, Celtic Quick News were amongst the first, citing a move back to Celtic for Jason Denaayer. That could be a crowd pleaser, and there’s no doubting his ability. There would also be the added bonus that he would be playing alongside another Belgian, which is good for both as it could further their international career, but there is one tiny drawback with this plan.<\/p>\n \u00a0It would be another loan, and he’s done one spell already. We need to be developing our own players, so perhaps the better option would be the Croat mentioned in the Record, who claim that they “understand ” Celtic ;<\/p>\n last night opened negotiations on a \u00a34million deal for Dinamo Zagreb star Jozo Simunovic.<\/em><\/p>\n The Scottish champions have targeted the 21-year-old centre-back with\u00a0Virgil van Dijk set to leave after the Champions League qualifiers against Malmo<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Sources in Croatia last night told\u00a0Record Sport<\/strong>\u00a0that Celtic chief executive\u00a0Peter Lawwell<\/a>\u00a0travelled to meet with Dinamo counterpart Zdravko Mamic to personally open talks about a deal.<\/em><\/p>\n But with Mamic aware of growing interest from other clubs around Europe in his talented Croatia Under-20 cap, no deal has yet been struck.<\/em><\/p>\n Simunovic has previously been scouted by Bayern Munich and Lyon and there is also Bundesliga interest in the defender.<\/em><\/p>\n Dinamo representatives remained tight-lipped on the situation last night but it is understood Mamic believes counter offers could start a bidding war which would push up the price for the youngster.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n As usual, they couldn’t be arsed fining anything out about the player, so here’s what we dug up. It wasn’t difficult.<\/p>\n He’s shite at hide and seek;<\/p>\n Jozo \u0160imunovi\u0107<\/b>\u00a0(born 4 August 1994) is a Croatian footballer playing for\u00a0<\/span>Dinamo Zagreb<\/a>.<\/span>[1]<\/a>\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n He started playing football at age of 7 in his village, Gornja Lomnica. At the age of 12 he joined\u00a0<\/span>Dinamo Zagreb<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<\/span>Hrvatski Dragovoljac<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n He made his debut for\u00a0Dinamo Zagreb<\/a>\u00a0against\u00a0Istra 1961<\/a>\u00a0coming as a 90th minute substitute.[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Teammate\u00a0Tin Jedvaj<\/a>\u00a0said,\u00a0It would be my dream to play alongside my great friend Jozo for DZ for the foreseeable future”.[3]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n Oh , here we go again. Another player taken away from his dream of playing alongside his best buddy<\/p>\n \n Or could Gary Hooper really be on his way back?<\/p>\n \u00a0Oddly enough, \u00a0 time really does fly when you’re having fun \u00a0, he’s in \u00a0the last year of his contract, \u00a0it’s up in July 2016 , \u00a0he’s banked a few quid during his spell at Norwich, and as he hasn’t set the heather alight down there, Norwich might be prepared to accept a cheeky wee bid.<\/p>\n Hooper and Griffiths ? Alternating or together ?<\/p>\n \u00a0That’s if we can’t get Zlatan, obviously.<\/p>\n \n \n Finally, away from football, we hear that the Second Rangers may have won a place on the stock exchange after they secured a new line of credit…<\/p>\n This video appeared on twitter, where someone described it as Scott Allan’s dad being asked by a sky reporter how he felt about his grandchildren being Celtic fans. Of course, it isn’t.<\/p>\n What’s really happening ?<\/p>\n
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