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The Media
Topic Started: 1 Nov 2017, 11:12 PM (581,206 Views)
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bricor
6 Nov 2017, 01:46 PM
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6 Nov 2017, 01:05 PM
bricor
6 Nov 2017, 08:44 AM
What I have noticed especially with the BBC, is that all
the headlines on our fantastic once in 100 years achievement is
not the BBC stating how good super etc we have been, oh no!.

It is Rodgers says, or Brown says or "X" from our club says how...,

So we are not being praised by the BBC sports but in fact we are praising ourselves.

Look at Europsport's headline of our achievement....,

contrast that with all that has been written by others in Scotland.

I think English in one of his articles does praise us highly but not
in the headline.
Media decent unbiased???? I right not in my long lifetime so far.
But we are invincible and we are the British record holders for games without defeat so F them

They’re reporting rather than offering an opinion.

You’re trying to find offence where there isn’t any.

They seem to offer loads of opinions on the huns old and new
and always have done :thumbsup:
Leckie was advising Muz to go for Batigol not so long ago.
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6 Nov 2017, 11:17 AM
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4 Nov 2017, 08:16 PM

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That’s the one that I read and have a subscription to too. The times. In Scotland it’s the only paper that’s actually increasing circulation month on month and has done for over a year. Online the quality is far superior, not just in its content but the reading experience... I.e your not hammered with ads, there’s no suggested articles, or pish about losing weight with ‘this secret trick’.

Incidentally, the times is part of the same publisher behind the sun too... news UK. Leckies employers!
Link to 'Secret Trick' for weight loss ?

Help a guy out :pray:
Shadow Bodom on a Wednesday.

I lost a stone in three weeks.
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Celtic and Desmond the main news on Rep Scotland 're the Paradise Papers.
Edited by lenobhoy, 6 Nov 2017, 07:33 PM.
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lenobhoy
6 Nov 2017, 07:31 PM
Celtic the main news on Rep Scotland.
Relating to a company that he was involved with and used the same tax avoidance scheme used by the Queen.

It's all related to the Appleby papers that were released today.

DD said to have saved $1.3M.
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Mark Daly has just described Celtic as “the biggest team in Scottish football” on Reporting Scotland.
True, but watch those windows Mark.
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All mention of the Queen dropped.
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6 Nov 2017, 07:38 PM
All mention of the Queen dropped.
But...but...but...Mrs Brown's Boys!!!!!
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Compare and contrast the opinion piece by Scottish sportwriter (I use that term extremely generously) Bill Leckie on the previous page - a man whose very living, you would think, depends on talking up the Scottish game rather than attempting to paint our unbeaten run as a reason why the rest of the world views our league poorly - with the following by Matthew Syed in today's Times.

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Brendan Rodgers deserves his place in history

A month or so before Brendan Rodgers took over as manager of Celtic, a banner was raised that read “Empty jerseys, empty hearts, empty dreams, empty stands”. The fans were feeling bruised by the defeat against Rangers in the semi-final of the Scottish Cup and a two-season absence from the Champions League. They were hungry for a style of football that evoked the great teams of the past.

Rodgers had been advised by friends to reject the offer of Dermot Desmond when he met the club’s majority shareholder in London in May 2016. He would not have sufficient funds to make any real difference, they told him. The quality of the opposition would be low. He should sit tight and wait for another offer from a Premier League club. He had already had three such offers since leaving Liverpool in October 2015.

But Rodgers took a different view. He felt drawn to the history of Celtic. He had grown up supporting the club from his childhood home near the sea in Carnlough, Co Antrim. He knew about the greats such as Jimmy Johnstone and Danny McGrain. He had taken the ferry across the Irish Sea as a young boy to watch his side, a 13-hour round trip, and would never forget the atmosphere he had experienced at Celtic Park.

The turnaround under Rodgers has been breathtaking. The club are on a 63-game unbeaten run in domestic competitions, encompassing 44 wins and seven draws in the Scottish Premiership, five wins in the Scottish Cup, and seven wins in the Scottish League Cup. They have risen to every challenge, dealt with every adversity. Rodgers has brought in new blood, not least Moussa Dembélé and Scott Sinclair, but he has also inspired the players he inherited to new heights.

Critics will say that the competition in the Scottish league is weak. They will say that winning against such opposition is to be expected. But this is, partly, the point. How easy for Celtic players to have succumbed to the virus of complacency. How easy to turn up at small grounds against weak opposition and expect them to capitulate. How often have we seen exalted Premier League sides get outmuscled by less illustrious opposition because they have become intoxicated by their own prestige?


The remarkable thing about watching Celtic under Rodgers has been their immutable passion, their willingness to press high and fight for the ball, whether they are playing against Bayern Munich at Celtic Park, as they did in a highly entertaining match last Tuesday (they lost 2-1), or in front of 6,800 fans at a blustery St Johnstone, as they did on Saturday to break a record for an unbeaten run in domestic football that had stood for a century.

Celtic are, in that sense, the antithesis of a glamour side. They may play the passing, fluent football so beloved of Rodgers but they also know how to scrap and battle. This is a team that trailed 2-0 at half-time against Motherwell in December, pulled level at 2-2, went 3-2 down as the pressure built, but then roared back to triumph 4-3 after an injury-time winner. According to David Friel in his excellent book Invincible, Celtic scored more than 41 per cent of their goals in the last half-hour of league games last season, and a remarkable 26.4 per cent in the final 15 minutes.

I have a family connection with Celtic. My wife’s great uncle, Stevie Chalmers, was one of the fabled Lisbon Lions, and scored the winning goal in the 1967 European Cup final. I got to know Stevie before his cruel descent into dementia and came to understand, if only vicariously, the pride and passion of the green and white section of Glasgow, and the unique culture that has been handed down the generations. When Chalmers talked about representing Celtic as the greatest honour of his life, he meant it. And this is another thing that has impressed me about Rodgers. He is an innovative technical coach, always looking to enhance his players. At Liverpool he produced a 200-page blueprint called One Vision, One Club, articulating his philosophy of management. But Rodgers also has a deep appreciation of history and realised only a few weeks into his tenure that the passion of the Celtic fans was one of the club’s most precious assets.

At a Premier League coaching conference at Cobham in May, I watched Rodgers eulogise about Celtic Park. About how he feels when surrounded by the raw emotion of tens of thousands of supporters. His PowerPoint presentation was full of close-ups of fans and how they react to victories, to defeats, to goals, to concessions. “They are a priceless source of inspiration,” he said. “How could a team not be moved by that level of commitment?”

The previous record for an unbeaten domestic run was held by the Celtic side managed by Willie Maley during the First World War. A wonderful report in The Sunday Times yesterday recounted how many of that team worked in factories and shipyards to assist the war effort. Peter Johnstone, the versatile outside right, enlisted in May 1916 and died a year later in the Battle of Arras. “He wanted to do his bit and hoped, if he had to go under, he would have the satisfaction of knocking over a German or two,” Patsy Gallagher, Johnstone’s team-mate, said on hearing of his death.

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63
Celtic’s unbeaten games in domestic competitions, beating their own British record that was set between 1915 and 1917

This Celtic team today operate in a very different world, but fans salute them as worthy successors to the great sides of the past. It is somehow fitting that they broke the unbeaten record of Maley’s men in the centenary year, just as it is poetical that in May they completed their unbeaten triumph in the league just days after the 50-year anniversary of the beautiful victory in the European Cup. These landmarks, these moments of cultural history, represent the heartbeat of the club.

Friel reports that in the final league match of last season against Heart of Midlothian, Rodgers wrote the word “infrangible” on a board, together with its definition: “To be unbroken, to feel that way.”

The side is still unbroken, 63 games and counting, a run that may take decades to surpass. The naysayers will whine “so what?”, perhaps the most facile phrase in the English language. Rodgers and his men, for their part, will keep going, keep fighting, seeking to write yet another chapter in the club’s rich history.


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6 Nov 2017, 07:34 PM
Mark Daly has just described Celtic as “the biggest team in Scottish football” on Reporting Scotland.
True, but watch those windows Mark.
That report was pathetic.
:lol:

Daly looked embarrassed with himself. :lol:
Edited by GoKartMozart, 6 Nov 2017, 07:45 PM.
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I mean at least DD isn't a convicted tax cheat...
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GoKartMozart
6 Nov 2017, 07:44 PM
mozza
6 Nov 2017, 07:34 PM
Mark Daly has just described Celtic as “the biggest team in Scottish football” on Reporting Scotland.
True, but watch those windows Mark.
That report was pathetic.
:lol:

Daly looked embarrassed with himself. :lol:
Analysing the British tax avoiders by interviewing an Irishman who will pay taxes in Ireland, which is not Britain. But dont dare say a word about Brenda. Oh and those Mrs Browns Boys actors ( also Irish). :brickwall:
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And after the big build up Reporting Scotland finishes with the line “there is nothing to suggest that Mr Desmond has acted illegally “.
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lenobhoy
6 Nov 2017, 07:38 PM
All mention of the Queen dropped.
..and nothing about the complex offshore webs used by two billionaires to buy stakes in Arsenal and Everton football clubs or a previously unknown $450m offshore trust that has sheltered the wealth of Lord Ashcroft.
I'm just surprised that people are surprised.

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6 Nov 2017, 07:43 PM
lenobhoy
6 Nov 2017, 07:38 PM
All mention of the Queen dropped.
But...but...but...Mrs Brown's Boys!!!!!
Funny how the narrative has changed on BBC news since breakfast...no external influences I'm sure :suspect:
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6 Nov 2017, 07:58 PM
And after the big build up Reporting Scotland finishes with the line “there is nothing to suggest that Mr Desmond has acted illegally “.
That's the whole scandal of tax avoidance though, it's not illegal. But, in many people's eyes, it's immoral.

Don't think Dermot Desmond should escape scrutiny just because he's our biggest shareholder.
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All you need to know about off shore banking, from 1979.

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NEW GERS BOSS SCOT THE LOT?

Blues must think big

MICHAEL GANNON

We've all been there. 2am, club closing, mind on a kebab.

Then you see it. The last munter in the place, staggering her way out of the toilet like Mikael Lustig on a run up the wing.

She catches your eye. You're in, job done, morals of an alley cat.

And that's exactly what Rangers will be doing if they go for a cheap option as their next boss. With Del McInnes staring at his mobile every five minutes waiting on his Sash ringtone going off, they have to act quickly and do the RIGHT thing.

If they don't, they are in danger of not even getting the dregs at the bottom of the kebab spit that the bloke scrapes up for you if you've £1.54 in shrapnel in your sky rocket.

And make no mistake, the Aberdeen boss would march all the way to Ibrox if the call to arms came. It's a no brainer.

But Gers bosses have dithered before. They've been the bloke who was too scared to approach the gorgeous bird with the high heels and wavy hair, and are now in danger of getting the Hattie Jaques double in the ski-pants and Robbie t-shirt. With a kebab.

Reports last night also linked the Ibrox giants with Steve McClaren, and that would see the light blues dining at a 5 star restaurant with silver service included.

The Englishman has managed at the very top but could he handle the Glasgow rabbit hutch?

McInnes has played for Rangers and therefore has the advantage of knowing what to expect. And sure we've all heard how Celtic made history at the weekend but records are there to be broken. It's hardly a big deal. In fact it's the barmaid that looks great until the lights go on at the end of the night and she's about as attractive as finding a curly hair in your kebab.

It's all there for Rangers to get should they get their collective digits out their posteriors and make that call to Del Boy.

And spare me the tosh about Aberdeen being Celtic's main rivals. If Dave King sends out the RFC badge signal then McInnes will be walking up the marble staircase quicker than you can slice some kebab meat from a revolving spit in a fast food take-away outlet that I've been in loads of times.

It's up to Gers. It's either a 2am crying into your beer consolation prize or a champagne reception with her from Friends.

And that would be Del-icious.
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6 Nov 2017, 08:03 PM
mozza
6 Nov 2017, 07:58 PM
And after the big build up Reporting Scotland finishes with the line “there is nothing to suggest that Mr Desmond has acted illegally “.
That's the whole scandal of tax avoidance though, it's not illegal. But, in many people's eyes, it's immoral.

Don't think Dermot Desmond should escape scrutiny just because he's our biggest shareholder.
Don't think any of us in here do but that was a shambles and
smacked of just a dig at Celtic .
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Let me get this right, a non UK Citizen allegedly, and legally, avoids Swiss Aviation Tax?

THAT’s the headline story?

Let’s be clear, there is one reason and one reason only why they’ve run with that - his Celtic connection.
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'Del McIness and his Sash ringtone'. :lol:
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