{"id":9286,"date":"2016-06-23T10:32:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T09:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=9286"},"modified":"2016-06-23T10:32:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T09:32:33","slug":"celtic-diary-thursday-june-23-sinclair-robson-kanu-and-zlatan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=9286","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Thursday June 23: Sinclair, Robson Kanu and Zlatan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Diary’s been around for a while now, so we felt it was time to graduate from pish stained rumours to pish stained headlines.<\/p>\n

We’ve already told you about Robson Kanu, who is, in fact just the one player. He’s agreed terms, or perhaps more accurately, his wife has, as she wants to move back up the road, as us ex pats say when the longings for square sausage and tennents lager become overwhelming.<\/p>\n

Scott Sinclair, we discovered yesterday, is also poised to join the Rodgers Revolution, and there will be a few supporters, who haven’t heard of him. But you will have heard of his wife\/girlfriend\/life partner..<\/p>\n

Continuing with the recent misogyny that has shamefully appeared on these pages, it looks like the Neil Lennon effort<\/p>\n

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may be relegated to the second biggest selling \u00a0calendar<\/p>\n

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Unless there’s something seriously wrong with the support, that is. ind you, fair play to Lennon. Despite moving to Hibernian, he’s determined to win the calendar competition, and has redoubled his efforts to regain his crown, switiching to \u00a0this racy little outfit just before the photoshoot.<\/p>\n

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I’m quite worried that he might actually pull it off. .<\/p>\n

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The third name on that list is Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who now no longer has to be with the national team as Sweden are one of just a few sides to have exited the European Nations Championship after two weeks and thirty six mostly tedious games.<\/p>\n

And thats no mean achievement consdering that one win and two draws would have probably sufficed.<\/p>\n

So, from Zlatan having his pick of teams worldwide, its now down to manager Brendan Rodgers whether or not to gamble on the man who led Sweden out of probably the most diluted and lacklustre tournament since, well, \u00a0this one.<\/p>\n

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On to Resolution 12, and the fight for justice. The piece quoted in yesterdays diary was agreed amongst the Res 12 guys, and indicates, if you look at it closely, just how the landscape, as they said some time ago, has changed.<\/p>\n

I’ve not spoken with them of late, but if it has changed to include what was in the quote yesterday, and we can take imagination a step further into reality-though why they just didn’t just say so, i can’t quite fathom, although I guess I can understand the caution-then truly the dam has suffered another few cracks, and one of them looks like it can’t be patched up.<\/p>\n

Casting the mind back to Grant Russells STV piece, perhpas that was indeed just damage limitation on the part of a media which increasingly looks like its about to be shown up for what it is.<\/p>\n

We asked Grant what would happen next, and he, to be fair, pointed us in the direction of his new website, where he , like any good investigative reporter, sifts through evidence, contacts his contacts and puts together an insightful analysis of what could happen next….<\/p>\n

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I know whats going to happen next, because truth will always triumph over lies.<\/p>\n

The good guys always win, sometimes on away goals, sometimes on penalties, but they’ll \u00a0win nonetheless.<\/p>\n

In other news, well, if it is news, Roy Hodgson, who is in charge of Englands national side-he’s the doddery one on the bench who waves his arms about when he needs to go to the toilet-is annoyed with the English FA.<\/p>\n

He’s not had his contract renewed-and at 68 he couldn’t have been expecting more than a weekly rolling deal-, so surely can’t be surprised that they are shopping around for a replacement, but it hasn’t stopped him moaning.<\/p>\n

Anyway, according to the Sun, the Mirror and no doubt the Express some time next week, Brendan Rodgers was approached and interviewed for the position, but he turned it down to pursue his paradise dream.<\/p>\n

Sort of.<\/p>\n

The papers, determined to make sure that the new Ibrox club isn’t associated with the new lot unless its to sell season books, have created some sort of playground banter between Scott Brown , Celtics captain, and Joey Barton, the blue chip marquee free transfer who joined “rangers ” instead of continuing his footballing career.<\/p>\n

Thast “rangers “, not Rangers, as featured in the blast from the past below which reminds us just how compliant the media were, are and will continue to be unless we put a stop to it.<\/p>\n

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Brown said a couple of days ago that he and Joey-a Joey is a term for a skivvy, the guy at work you send out for pies and fags-would get on just fine as Barton is a Celtic supporter, whereas the quick witted Level 5 guys gave Barton the perfect rejoinder by pointing out that Scott, is in fact a Rangers fan …<\/p>\n

Yeah. Seems that way.<\/p>\n

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Maybe the twop could have their own show when they retire, like Saint and Greavsie, or Skinner and Baddiel…<\/p>\n

Based on what I’ve read so far it would be at least as funny as those two groundbreaking sports laughalongs.<\/p>\n

The stakes were lifted in yesterdays caption competition, with this effort from Arsene Parcelie, who used his photoshopping talents win handsomely.<\/p>\n

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So today, you’ve a lot to live up to… our man at the front sneaked this pic, though as usual we can’t vouch for its authenticity<\/p>\n

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