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<\/p>\nHere was me all happy and jovial yesterday, and then someone called me out on Davie Moyes, once of the bhoys…<\/p>\n
Makes me think of that MP, Lucy Allen, the lass who adds death threats to her incoming email so she can feel important. Today she will be talking about a letter sent to her home address demanding money. We know its the electric bill, but she doesn’t see it that way.<\/p>\n
And I know, courtesy of a friend in Jersey, that Davie Moyes was the first choice to replace Neil Lennon. He said no, presumably so he could write a book about it later.<\/p>\n
Here’s how it came about, for those who can’t be arsed trolling through old diaries, or listening to old podcasts.<\/p>\n
In the same vein, by the way, the first person to moan about us getting three new strips next year should just go and stand in a bucket of water whilst prodding the socket with a copper strip.<\/p>\n
Hang on, did someone say Prod?<\/p>\n
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Lifelong Tim and uberfan Rod Stewart, I meant, not Prod Stewart, the seventies tribute singer pictured here. \u00a0If you read his book, you’ll find out he became a Tim after Stein looked at his shoes, more or less questioned his sexuality, and as Prod says, scared the bejesus out of him.<\/p>\n
And the crackly voiced crooner wants Moyes in….. Moys who has sung the sash with the best of them, and lets be honest, we know that there is a breed of humanity-maybe the wrong word-not noted for it’s aesthetic beauty from that part of Glasgow.<\/p>\n
Still, that doesn’t apply to perennial under achiever Moyes, does it ?<\/p>\n
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Everton fans still remember his legendary tactical talks, where he used to ask the players to fill in the tricky bits about movement and positioning<\/p>\n
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Anyhoo, there I was in Jersey, at a wedding, shortly after Lennon was sacked.<\/p>\n
A chap from Monaco, related to the bride, made some small talk. The family are Everton fans. Hence I got to sit at the Bobby Collins table, as he was the only table with a Celtic link. Despite eleven years at Everton, there was no Davie Moyes table. Oddly enough, despite his lengthy tenure at Goodison, he was largely supported simply because he wasn’t Walter Smith.<\/p>\n
Wee bit if small talk, and I was asked what I though of Neil Lennon being sacked by yer man from Monaco, who incidentally, also told me about a certain Craig Whyte and his company over there, who shared an office block with his own company, \u00a0right up until they were asked not to as they were seen as “dodgy “.<\/p>\n
And , as he said, they were dodgy.<\/p>\n
But we know that, don’t we ?<\/p>\n
Neil Lennon wasn’t sacked, I replied, which got me the kind of smile you get from an old fellow when you point out that the trenches might have been a bit damp, but it wasn’t that bad.<\/p>\n
Lennon was embarassing the board, claimed yer man, his sectarian baggage, although not his fault, was not what they wanted to be the clubs image. There is no suggestion the board didn’t fully support him when he was under, shall we say, duress, but it was having an effect within the walls of Celtic Park.<\/p>\n
Ask Anthony Stokes about the time big Johann remonstrated with him about his, er, Irish folk singing in Belfast.<\/p>\n
Something along the lines of “After the shit he’s been through, you go and fucking do that “. Meaning , of course, the attcks and threats toward Lennon.<\/p>\n
What I was told was that the board were looking for an excuse to mutually decide that Neil was out of here. His demands for money to spend on more duds, and I believe Jimmy Bullard may have been the straw that broke the camels back, led to a stand off, then a sit down, then a handshake, and a quick call to Desmond.<\/p>\n
Who in turn made a quick call to Moyes.<\/p>\n
At the time, Moyes was still being paid by Manchester united. This is quite common in football circles. Celtic were still paying Martin O’Neill long after he left, though not with an EBT, which is less common in football circles.<\/p>\n
If he had taken another job, he would have lost that money.<\/p>\n
So, Moyes told Desmond no. A move which fits in with his complete lack of ambition, drive and personality. Eleven years at one club, no trophies suggest also that nobody else wanted him.<\/p>\n
But hey, never mind that.<\/p>\n
Until Man U came calling, found out he was shite, and fucked him off. On full pay.<\/p>\n
Thn we rang him, Larsson and Keane.<\/p>\n
They all said no.<\/p>\n
Deila didn’t. He was proud to be offered the job, and flattered. And he has become Celtic minded. As anyone who has spoken to him for any length of time will tell you, he knows his stuff.<\/p>\n
And he also knows it will take some time to get his systems in place, as he told me, he is sticking to one system until he feels the players can handle other ways. Perhaps we have seen a wee bit of that coming in in the last few games.<\/p>\n
He’s not a one trick pony, he just has a long term plan.<\/p>\n
Back to Moyes, and at the time, I paid the usual polite ear to yer man and his , what I thought, warblings. Until I mentioned his source to Hector Bandido, my Etims colleague.<\/p>\n
He told me who the source was, and believe me, its , if true, very credible.<\/p>\n
Very credible indeed.<\/p>\n
so , during the Monaco Grand Prix that year, I got his number and checked what he’d told me wasn’t down to the drink or anything else.<\/p>\n
It was kind of weird watching the race on tv and talking to a guy sitting on his balcony watching it at the same time.<\/p>\n
He was adamant he was right.<\/p>\n
And he night well be, as we can only take everything we hear for what it is, something we hear.<\/p>\n
And this is Etims, where we make stuff up, apart from the stuf we don’t.<\/p>\n
You now have to decide whether or not I’m making this up, or the chap in Jersey was.<\/p>\n
And frankly , I don’t give a toss whether you believe me or not.<\/p>\n
But I do know I don’t want Davie The Donkey anywhere near Celtic.<\/p>\n
Even to watch us.<\/p>\n
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Right, on with the show.<\/p>\n
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Former players are often in the press earning a few bob for their thoughts. You see, having played the game, they are really quite clever and know how to run a team.<\/p>\n
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Alright, maybe not all of them.<\/p>\n
Anyhoo, can you guess from which former Celtic man these words come ?<\/p>\n
“The one position where you really need to be playing all of the time is striker because you need that fitness and sharpness,” he said.<\/em><\/p>\n “If you are not playing it\u2019s hard to be at your best and that has clearly been the case with Ciftci.<\/em><\/p>\n “Sometimes it takes a player to get injured to give you the opportunity but it’s tough, especially with so many managers playing with one up.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
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