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The "Where should I put this?" Thread;; Strange stories from the crazy world of football.
Topic Started: 25 Sep 2012, 05:56 PM (238,166 Views)
Quiet Assasin
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Soupnazi
2 Apr 2016, 09:53 PM
He's at it again :lol: :cuckoo: bit at the end with his son :lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gesry8rvs7U
The guy's at it. He was sitting in front of my mate today and apparently didn't say a thing all game!
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Gothamcelt
2 Apr 2016, 05:39 PM
I find these comments offensive.

Greater Glasgow Police has threatened people with home visits if they send out inaccurate or “hurtful” tweets in a bizarre message posted earlier today.

“Think before you post or you may receive a visit from us this weekend. Use the internet safely. #thinkbeforeyoupost,” states the tweet which was sent out this morning.’

UK Police Force Threatens Home Visits For Inaccurate Tweets
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They're gonnae be busy then because a quick twitter search returns a lot of recent bigoted activity from huns. Nah, doubt they'll be that busy, actually.
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Arsene Parcelie
29 Mar 2016, 11:51 PM
I suppose for the statto it is a great resource, but as a means of determining 'best' or historical trends, I can't believe it proves anything useful. Subjectivity may deem trophies to be more successful than a mean performance level at less successful club during a relatively 'up' period.

Also, they can't predict future trends.

Really? You think that there is not a single thing useful in this?

I couldn't have drawn the decline in Scottish football better myself.
http://clubelo.com/SCO

Henning Berg, despite not being a great manager, is best playing against Ronny Deila's teams (bottom chart).
http://clubelo.com/HenningBerg

While I'm not going to watch a graph on a weekend with a scarf and pint in my hand, I think that there is definitely some use.

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It reminds me of that old Google comparison of disparate charts of things like 'Fatal gunshots in the US' v 'People with green eyes in Haiti' and get remarkably similar lines.

Some of these are marvelous.
http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
In those rankings, Celtic's 67 team isn't even charted whereas the hun's 68 team is in the top 100. It's full of balls.
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Cesare Maldini, Italian player, manager, and father of Paolo, has died
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Wonder if Green, Whyte or King are in this?

Lionel Messi, David Cameron's dad and top Tories among super rich named in leaked 'Panama Papers' about global tax haven firm

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Not sure where to put this, or if it's been covered.

Just watched a screening of the new Tina Fey film "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot". Great to see Martin Freeman playing a Glaswegian Celtic fan, complete with scarf and mentions of giving someone a kicking for calling him a "Fenian Bastard". The scarf makes a prominent appearance in many scenes.
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Gothamcelt
4 Apr 2016, 08:20 AM
Wonder if Green, Whyte or King are in this?

Lionel Messi, David Cameron's dad and top Tories among super rich named in leaked 'Panama Papers' about global tax haven firm

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Do you not need to have money to be involved in this?
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£3 million a season for Biig Sam!!

Antonio Conte to earn £6.5m per year at Chelsea... while Pep Guardiola will be on £15m at Manchester City! So how much does your manager get paid?
Antonio Conte will take over at Chelsea after Euro 2016 this summer
He put pen to paper on a three-year contract worth £6.5m per season
The Italian will only be the Premier League's fifth-best paid manager
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PUBLISHED: 13:04, 5 April 2016 | UPDATED: 16:37, 5 April 2016

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Is the fact that Celtic have to be a possession and ball dominating team domestically hampering the progress of Celtic when it comes to Europe? This article by football scout Greg Gordon showcases the top teams around Europe when it comes to fast break, counter attacking football. Not surprisingly the majority of the teams are from the Bundesliga. It's difficult for Celtic as they play in a league where they are expected (and pretty much have no choice but) to dominate every game. So when it comes to Europe it is relatively clear to see why we've been so poor in recent seasons. http://blog.gameday.live/2016/03/do-corner-kicks-still-matter.html
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Seeding for the Olympics :cuckoo: :cuckoo:

1: Brazil, Argentine, Mexico, Japan
2: Nigeria, South Korea, Honduras, Iraq
3: Sweden, Fiji, Portugal, Southafrica
4: Algeria, Columbia, Danmark, Germany

The Danish coach is pretty pleased that Germany has come in pot 4, even though they have been put in the lowest seeting they can get at group of Japan, Iraq and Fiji and them
Edited by DKB, 6 Apr 2016, 11:15 AM.
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kris_robb
6 Apr 2016, 10:05 AM
Is the fact that Celtic have to be a possession and ball dominating team domestically hampering the progress of Celtic when it comes to Europe? This article by football scout Greg Gordon showcases the top teams around Europe when it comes to fast break, counter attacking football. Not surprisingly the majority of the teams are from the Bundesliga. It's difficult for Celtic as they play in a league where they are expected (and pretty much have no choice but) to dominate every game. So when it comes to Europe it is relatively clear to see why we've been so poor in recent seasons. http://blog.gameday.live/2016/03/do-corner-kicks-still-matter.html
Surely then games against Molde (a team with inferior players set up to defend and counter attack against us) would have been suited to us, yet we lost both, meekly. It's not so simple.
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Gothamcelt
5 Apr 2016, 05:25 PM
£3 million a season for Biig Sam!!

Antonio Conte to earn £6.5m per year at Chelsea... while Pep Guardiola will be on £15m at Manchester City! So how much does your manager get paid?
Antonio Conte will take over at Chelsea after Euro 2016 this summer
He put pen to paper on a three-year contract worth £6.5m per season
The Italian will only be the Premier League's fifth-best paid manager
By KIERAN GILL FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 13:04, 5 April 2016 | UPDATED: 16:37, 5 April 2016

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And we're giving Ronny about £150k and wondering why we're strugging against Dundee. :lol: :cry:
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arklys
6 Apr 2016, 11:39 AM
kris_robb
6 Apr 2016, 10:05 AM
Is the fact that Celtic have to be a possession and ball dominating team domestically hampering the progress of Celtic when it comes to Europe? This article by football scout Greg Gordon showcases the top teams around Europe when it comes to fast break, counter attacking football. Not surprisingly the majority of the teams are from the Bundesliga. It's difficult for Celtic as they play in a league where they are expected (and pretty much have no choice but) to dominate every game. So when it comes to Europe it is relatively clear to see why we've been so poor in recent seasons. http://blog.gameday.live/2016/03/do-corner-kicks-still-matter.html
Surely then games against Molde (a team with inferior players set up to defend and counter attack against us) would have been suited to us, yet we lost both, meekly. It's not so simple.
I don't think so, and this is entirely my point. We dominate possession (for the most part) week in week out. When a team like Molde who is set up to defend and counter attack, it seems a lot of the top teams in Europe are doing that also. I'm not saying this is the way to win but if Celtic don't really get the chance / experience to play counter attacking football, how can they compete with all the far superior teams in Europe who do? This is the point of that link I sent. It wasn't saying that Molde should be suited to us, the complete opposite in fact. Leicester City are without doubt the surprise of the footballing world this season and yet, they are the only English Premier team in that blog post - what does that tell us? Keeping the ball is imperative to Celtic because the fans get restless when we don't play well and playing well is often defined by possession football but at the end of the day surely we must not concede and have faith we'll score against inferior teams - there needs to be a middle ground. Molde were/are inferior and we played the wrong way against them. Leicester are an inferior team and they have played perfectly well against the majority of their opposition this season.
Barca often play short corners because they know the price to pay against fast-paced, quick transition, counter-attacking teams.
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6 Apr 2016, 12:20 PM
arklys
6 Apr 2016, 11:39 AM
kris_robb
6 Apr 2016, 10:05 AM
Is the fact that Celtic have to be a possession and ball dominating team domestically hampering the progress of Celtic when it comes to Europe? This article by football scout Greg Gordon showcases the top teams around Europe when it comes to fast break, counter attacking football. Not surprisingly the majority of the teams are from the Bundesliga. It's difficult for Celtic as they play in a league where they are expected (and pretty much have no choice but) to dominate every game. So when it comes to Europe it is relatively clear to see why we've been so poor in recent seasons. http://blog.gameday.live/2016/03/do-corner-kicks-still-matter.html
Surely then games against Molde (a team with inferior players set up to defend and counter attack against us) would have been suited to us, yet we lost both, meekly. It's not so simple.
I don't think so, and this is entirely my point. We dominate possession (for the most part) week in week out. When a team like Molde who is set up to defend and counter attack, it seems a lot of the top teams in Europe are doing that also. I'm not saying this is the way to win but if Celtic don't really get the chance / experience to play counter attacking football, how can they compete with all the far superior teams in Europe who do? This is the point of that link I sent. It wasn't saying that Molde should be suited to us, the complete opposite in fact. Leicester City are without doubt the surprise of the footballing world this season and yet, they are the only English Premier team in that blog post - what does that tell us? Keeping the ball is imperative to Celtic because the fans get restless when we don't play well and playing well is often defined by possession football but at the end of the day surely we must not concede and have faith we'll score against inferior teams - there needs to be a middle ground. Molde were/are inferior and we played the wrong way against them. Leicester are an inferior team and they have played perfectly well against the majority of their opposition this season.
Barca often play short corners because they know the price to pay against fast-paced, quick transition, counter-attacking teams.
I sort of see what you mean but my point was while we don't get practice in playing against teams who will try and dominate possession and outplay us that way domestically, we should be well practiced in playing a team like Molde, who sat back and looked to get chances on the counterattack against us - basically doing what all our SPFL opponents do, only better. Motherwell did similar when they won at Celtic Park. We actually did ok against technically superior opponents in Ajax and Fenerbahce where we had to defend a lot - we came unstuck against Molde. I think I kind of agree with the bits of that though. Maybe our lack of practice in sitting back and soaking up pressure domestically is part of the reason we have such a poor Euro away record. That's not about to change though - whoever we're playing we'll invariably need to adapt our approach for European games, and adapting is not something we do much of just now.
Edited by arklys, 6 Apr 2016, 01:49 PM.
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6 Apr 2016, 01:48 PM
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6 Apr 2016, 12:20 PM
arklys
6 Apr 2016, 11:39 AM
I don't think so, and this is entirely my point. We dominate possession (for the most part) week in week out. When a team like Molde who is set up to defend and counter attack, it seems a lot of the top teams in Europe are doing that also. I'm not saying this is the way to win but if Celtic don't really get the chance / experience to play counter attacking football, how can they compete with all the far superior teams in Europe who do? This is the point of that link I sent. It wasn't saying that Molde should be suited to us, the complete opposite in fact. Leicester City are without doubt the surprise of the footballing world this season and yet, they are the only English Premier team in that blog post - what does that tell us? Keeping the ball is imperative to Celtic because the fans get restless when we don't play well and playing well is often defined by possession football but at the end of the day surely we must not concede and have faith we'll score against inferior teams - there needs to be a middle ground. Molde were/are inferior and we played the wrong way against them. Leicester are an inferior team and they have played perfectly well against the majority of their opposition this season.
Barca often play short corners because they know the price to pay against fast-paced, quick transition, counter-attacking teams.
I sort of see what you mean but my point was while we don't get practice in playing against teams who will try and dominate possession and outplay us that way domestically, we should be well practiced in playing a team like Molde, who sat back and looked to get chances on the counterattack against us - basically doing what all our SPFL opponents do, only better. Motherwell did similar when they won at Celtic Park. We actually did ok against technically superior opponents in Ajax and Fenerbahce where we had to defend a lot - we came unstuck against Molde. I think I kind of agree with the bits of that though. Maybe our lack of practice in sitting back and soaking up pressure domestically is part of the reason we have such a poor Euro away record. That's not about to change though - whoever we're playing we'll invariably need to adapt our approach for European games, and adapting is not something we do much of just now.
Yep, well put and I do see your point and agree with that too. With the gers being back in the league and Aberdeen playing with more consistently, hopefully it'll increase the skill level of the whole league in a few years' time giving Celtic more experience in defending and soaking up pressure.
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6 Apr 2016, 11:14 AM
Seeding for the Olympics :cuckoo: :cuckoo:

1: Brazil, Argentine, Mexico, Japan
2: Nigeria, South Korea, Honduras, Iraq
3: Sweden, Fiji, Portugal, Southafrica
4: Algeria, Columbia, Danmark, Germany

The Danish coach is pretty pleased that Germany has come in pot 4, even though they have been put in the lowest seeting they can get at group of Japan, Iraq and Fiji and them
If it's like the WC, apart from the Group Leaders, it's not really seeded, and things like geography will play a role, i.e., trying to have diverse groups etc.
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kris_robb
6 Apr 2016, 01:56 PM
Yep, well put and I do see your point and agree with that too. With the gers being back in the league and Aberdeen playing with more consistently, hopefully it'll increase the skill level of the whole league in a few years' time giving Celtic more experience in defending and soaking up pressure.
You might have to soak up some pressure saying things like that ;)

I'm not going to go into it though.
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6 Apr 2016, 11:14 AM
Seeding for the Olympics :cuckoo: :cuckoo:

1: Brazil, Argentine, Mexico, Japan
2: Nigeria, South Korea, Honduras, Iraq
3: Sweden, Fiji, Portugal, Southafrica
4: Algeria, Columbia, Danmark, Germany

The Danish coach is pretty pleased that Germany has come in pot 4, even though they have been put in the lowest seeting they can get at group of Japan, Iraq and Fiji and them
looking at 2012, Mexico won it and Japan made it to the semis. whereas Germany didnt even feature so probably plays a role in the seedings.

not sure how relevant olympics football is to the normal international football? Spain not winning a game in a group of Honduras, Morocco and Japan in 2012.
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arklys
6 Apr 2016, 01:59 PM
kris_robb
6 Apr 2016, 01:56 PM
Yep, well put and I do see your point and agree with that too. With the gers being back in the league and Aberdeen playing with more consistently, hopefully it'll increase the skill level of the whole league in a few years' time giving Celtic more experience in defending and soaking up pressure.
You might have to soak up some pressure saying things like that ;)

I'm not going to go into it though.
Ha! well ideally we'd want to get back to the days of actually being a bigger force in Europe. And I'm not talking about the late 60s. And in terms of skill levels, gers being back is purely down to gate receipts and the second largest club stadium in scottish football. With Aberdeen showing consistency, at least it gives us more to talk about than the all too often slamming our own players. Surely it can only be a positive to gain more competitiveness in the league.
Edited by kris_robb, 6 Apr 2016, 04:26 PM.
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Saw there was a new episode of Football Outposts on BT last night. Haven't watched it yet but they are usually decent viewing. Look out for a repeat :thumbsup:
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