tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-323264332012-02-01T03:35:09.152ZYet another personal view on Celtic Football ClubOne Star Means Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11428939035702209556noreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32326433.post-61124007212586734312011-08-15T18:10:00.002+01:002011-08-15T19:09:45.422+01:002011-08-15T19:09:45.422+01:00

Overall the key Company objective remains football success, as this will greatly assist revenue generation. Celtic Chief Executive, Peter Lawwell Once upon a time, in a land shrouded in myth, Celtic were promised a Generation of Domination. The term was catchy and carried the allure of some days of recompense when Celtic fans would enjoy success, as some compensation for a near-decade of misery

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Some weeks ago, I contacted the owner of a highly successful blog asking him to stop people from posting my articles in full rather than simply using a link. I did so privately because I had not interest in a public slanging match. The first time I had asked this was two years ago and the problem had remained. I was especially irked at the time as the article that had been reproduced had had a

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Following the now infamous incident at Asda Motherwell where young Celtic Boys Club players were told to remove their club blazers and ties during a fund-raising bag-pack before being told to leave the store (Asda claim they ended at the scheduled time but had not told the club what that time was), some more details have emerged. A statement from Asda to the local press indicated that the company

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As many fans are now aware, hostility to all things Celtic recently extended to preventing young footballers from raising funds for their club. Players and officials from The Celtic Boys Club, whose bag-packing to raise funds was abandoned on the instructions of Asda management Last week, players from The Celtic Boys Club were asked to leave Asda's Motherwell store, allegedly after complaints

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I read the statement from the SFA in response to Paul McBride's remarks with amusement and a degree of shock. I had intended to write a piece welcoming the rumour that the SFA were set to make a complaint to the Faculty of Advocates following the QCs castigation of Scottish football's governing body. That was before a stunning SFA statement, attributed to Chief Executive Stewart Regan, that could

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To: George Peat; Campbell Ogilive Sent: 12 April 2011; 15:01 Dear George and Campbell, Could you please advise us as to when you will be commenting officially on allegations that a culture either does or has existed within the Scottish Football Association that is hostile to one of its member clubs? This has, I am sure you will agree, become more pertinent in the light of recent reporting that

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Jim Traynor says it didn't happen - but Chick Young was there! --

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Newspapers exist to deliver the news. That is a simple truism. Throughout the industry, there is an unending competition to beat rivals to the punch - to be "first with the news". And what newspapers or any news media crave most of all is the exclusive - the story that no one else has. So you might think that when a newspaper gets first sniff of a story relating to an event that is to be the

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Isn't it remarkable? After a night of football in which one side set out to injure their opponents, allowing them possession only to hack and stamp on anything that moved, there is a classic Scottish media re-write taking place before our very eyes. The "Old Firm" tag is being used again to create a story of equivalence that flies in the face of reality. Let's not lose sight of some facts. The

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I have never met a man with a moustache who I really trusted. Likewise a trimmed beard. One can argue all day that to grow facial hair is to accept that natural state of man - fair enough for those who accept a tousled mop in their custard - but the crafting of such as a bodily adornment always gives me pause. The bible makes no mention of the Remington Beard Trimmer; no apostle is drawn with a

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John Lydon, 1978 Cast your minds back to December 2008. Celtic were Scottish champions and coasting to the SPL title. We played the R-word in January, establishing a 7-point lead in the SPL table. We were heading for a fourth title and bemoaning two title blips under Martin O'Neill that had spoiled what should have been a historic run of championships. All was right with the world, right? Well,

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No, it's not that old “let's go to the Premiership” line that we know is not going to happen in the foreseeable future. It's an even older line – but one that seems to have reached its peak at the most improbable time – the relationship between Celtic as a club and body of fans with the Scottish national football team and association. This angst goes back at least as far as Jimmy McGrory, the

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Wade through the euphemisms, the obscure language and the evasive waffle and Celtic's interim accounts, published yesterday, represent a total failure of the heralded strategy at Celtic Park. So catastrophic has this been that, in any other company, the Chief Executive and chairman of the Board of Directors would be looking for new jobs. Let's get one thing straight. Celtic chose not to invest

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Apologies for the recent site glitches which were caused by allowing TwitterFeed access to the blog. Beware. With the season – and any prospect of Champions League qualification – disintegrating before our eyes, Celtic need a steady hand on the tiller now more than ever. And with the latest rumblings being that change is imminent, it seems like a reasonable time to assess some of the likely

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"It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.""Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living."JuvenalDear Tony,I rarely like to call for a manager's head, especially one that is such a short time in a job. However, the time has come for you to make your most important contribution to Celtic to

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There are few things as irksome as being told what to do – especially when it is potentially damaging – by people who have no interest in your welfare.Yet in an unprecedented intervention in the affairs of Celtic, the Scottish Trades Union Congress has taken it upon itself to urge Celtic supporters to demonstrate solidarity with the Palestinians at a European match, a probable breach of UEFA

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Well, the fateful day approaches when Celtic discover whether or not salvation lies south of the border. Phil Gartside seems an unlikely name to be associated with the most radical reform of British football since the adoption of professionalism but then again so, once, was Jean-Marc Bosman.Occasionally, it is the less celebrated figures who make the greatest impact and if Gartside's plan for the

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I have long argued on this blog and elsewhere that Celtic fans must make the mainstream media irrelevant by ignoring it.For too many years, unscrupulous scoffing hacks made their own kind of sport taunting and goading Celtic fans, denigrating the club and its representatives and often succeeding in sparking unrest.That should come as no surprise – the Scottish media has long been an old-boys

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“If you can’t say anything positive, you should say nothing at all,” goes the instruction often given to the terminally morose and you could say that this is the excuse for the neglect of this blog in recent months.Where do I start? A few months ago, I was extending a cautious welcome to Tony Mowbray, a man whose credentials were inadequate for a potential Celtic manager but who, nevertheless, I

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Celtic, as we know it, is in peril. For evidence, you need only look to the television pictures of supporters leaving early against Arsenal, on a Champions League night, at Celtic Park.Tradition, such as the kind Tevye sang of so, is when customs become the fabric of identity.Once, long ago it seems now, Celtic supporters stayed to the end. Why? Pride, steadfastness and the traditional expression

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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.ConfuciusWell, we finally concede a goal and play a competitive game, with our Champions League

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Well, the close season comes, birds twitter, summer breeze makes me feel fine, blowing through the jasmine...... and blogs are neglected.Which is sort of a shame because there has been no proper welcome on here for Tony Mowbray, Mark Venus and Peter Grant. By all that's right and holy, Mogga & co's credentials shouldn't have got them near the interview stage at a club like Celtic but that's by

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Well, today is the first-day of post-Strachan Celtic and, for me, there is a degree of sadness. I had great hopes for Gordon as Celtic manager and for a time it appeared that he would fulfil all of them and more.However, his final season has taught us one thing – just as with Martin O'Neill's last campaign, it is folly to believe you can successfully carry out a job of the magnitude of the Celtic

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Betting is a mug's game. Of that, there can be no doubt. People who advocate speculating your cash on the outcome of sporting events/managerial appointments are the sort who invariably only remember their wins, failing to discuss the times they have blown their lolly on their folly.So the odds below are useful only as a guide to the expected probability of those listed as candidates for the

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Gordon Strachan's departure from Celtic should not fill anyone with joy. His commitment to Celtic in the most trying circumstances and his three SPL titles coupled with two last 16 places in the Champions League amount to an enviable legacy.He also invested in youth, meaning that his successor will not be afflicted with an ageing squad of has-been legends, as was the case when Strachan took the

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