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The "Where should I put this?" Thread;; Strange stories from the crazy world of football.
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Topic Started: 25 Sep 2012, 05:56 PM (238,058 Views)
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fraz1888
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6 May 2017, 09:20 AM
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- Rhodaus
- 5 May 2017, 11:13 PM
David Moyes has said that he will be at Sunderkand next season
Good for him and I hope he has a great season and wins promotion for the Mackem. He seems a very decent man who has had a few tough albeut lucrative seasons. Time for his pendulum to swing the other way
He'll be a better bet to take them straight down again! he's got to be one of the most negative dull managers in the game. Always came across as a bit arrogant to me, like the Celtic job was beneath him when he was linked when still at Everton and even his quotes before Brendan got the job weren't exactly inspiring. Don't think the Sunderland fans were dancing in the streets yesterday when they heard he's staying. I was praying he didn't get the Celtic job, wonder how differently things would be at this stage if he had.
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6 May 2017, 11:07 AM
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Rory Donnelly lol Suspended by Gillingham, I won't post the details 
Surely you can't suspend the guy for that??
I lived in the same fecking building as him as well.  Quick Twitter search says it isn't him.
Person in photos and videos has put a post up saying it is them and not Donnelly.
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6 May 2017, 12:24 PM
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Ray Wilkins and a Sun journalist having a good old barney on Talk Sport.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/former-rangers-star-ray-wilkins-10359361
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Jackie was my hero
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6 May 2017, 01:37 PM
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I lived in the same fecking building as him as well. 
Quick Twitter search says it isn't him. Person in photos and videos has put a post up saying it is them and not Donnelly. Fair enough
Audio file also debunked?
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6 May 2017, 01:46 PM
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- 6 May 2017, 09:04 AM
New Stand at TyncastleI've been following this thread on Jambos kickback for a while now, interesting how they're putting the new stand up while keeping the old one in place. Last game in front of their old stand tomorrow. Funny to see that one of the vertical beams has had CELTIC scraped on it, good work that man! Wish the internet and digital photography had been in full flow during the construction of the new Celtic Park stands, the thread on here would have been massive!
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DKB
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6 May 2017, 03:28 PM
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AS Monaco have bought Belgium side Cercle Brugge K.S.V. for the use of giving the Monaco talents first team action which they wasn't in line to get at Monaco (they already have 4 players there on loan this season)
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6 May 2017, 07:49 PM
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Saw on Twitter that we've had 14 different players in the team this season who've been under 21. Obviously some are older than that now, but I think it's correct:
Dembele Roberts Tierney Henderson Eboue Johnston Ralston Aitchison Miller Christie Janko Ajer O'Connell McCart
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6 May 2017, 10:26 PM
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http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/football/scottish-club-celtic-fcs-soccer-academy-holds-trials-in-new-delhi-4643723/
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Scottish club Celtic FC’s Soccer Academy to trials in New Delhi The trials will take place at the Thyagaraj Stadium in New Delhi on Sunday.
Celtic Soccer Academy, in association with its international partner in India, Madhya Bharat Sports Club, announced a nationwide trial tour to identify the best footballing talents in the country.
The trials will take place at the Thyagaraj Stadium in New Delhi on Sunday.
Through the trials, the Academy aims to build three squads comprising of Under-13, Under-15 and Under-18 boys, who would be taken on a full residential programme with equal emphasis on footballing as well as academic excellence.
The Academy is looking to identify 72 young footballers for the three squads in the first year, and the best three among these will also be sent to Celtic FC in Glasgow, Scotland for a one month player exchange programme.
Madhya Bharat Sports Club has signed a six-year deal with Celtic Football Club that will see the Celtic Soccer Academy work with the club to implement a development model for Indian football in the city of Bhopal.
Following the tie-up, the Academy has appointed UEFA Pro Coach Jose Carlos Hevia as the Technical Director.
Previously, Jose had a successful stint with Indian Super League team FC Pune City as the Technical Director and Head of Grassroots Development from 2014 to 2016.
He has successfully worked for Minerva FC and developed players there as well, some of whom are now a part of India’s U-17 World Cup squad.
Hevia, Technical Director of Celtic Soccer Academy – Madhya Bharat Sports Club said, “Having spent a fair bit of time with young Indian footballers at FC Pune City and Minerva Punjab FC, I firmly believe that there is a lot of potential here.
“I am sure that we will be able to spot some good talent at these trials, and given the right exposure and grooming, they can be developed into footballers who go on and represent India at higher levels.”
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Big Drew
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7 May 2017, 01:38 AM
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No transfer thread so...
Real Madrid are said to have made a Euro 45 million bid for Flamengo "wonder kid"" Vinicius Junior. The bid is supposed to take effect on the kid's 18th birthday in July 2018. Thats around double what Citeh paid for Gabriel Jesus.
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Haitch
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7 May 2017, 09:33 AM
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https://youtu.be/Iqd0WfSgf14
He had me at "hi, how's it goin"
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Gothamcelt
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7 May 2017, 10:04 AM
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For me it has to be Scott Sinclair for POTY, but Waddell makes a good point as to the votes being spread an how Hayes may nick it.
Celtic have so many stars in POTY running don’t be surprised to see Aberdeen’s Jonny Hayes walk away with the award – Waddell The Sunday Mail’s top columnist reckons Celtic may have a problem at the awards bash – too many of their players have been too good.
Spoiler: click to toggle ByGordon Waddell Awards time. The great annual debate. When immeasurable, unquantifiable qualities and totally subjective opinions are used to judge individual players who never perform as individuals. When you’re asked to validate and rank the work of managers, none of whom have the same tools, budgets or even objectives. Then have people beat you over the head for your judgment. Not because you’re wrong, just because they disagree. But we all do it, right? We all need lists these days – five things we didn’t know, 10 under-rated facts. The lists of lists is endless. You still need Numero Uno at the top, though. So, for what it’s worth… Player of the Year? I’m torn but Scott Sinclair maybe just shades it from Scott Brown. The latter’s leadership of Brendan Rodgers’ relentless demands has been outstanding but it’s hard to see past a wide player scoring 21 goals in the league and generally elevating bums off seats every time he gets the ball. That, after all, is what you pay your money to see. It’s almost certain a Celtic player will win the Scottish Football Writers’ award – and rightly so. Celtic have been the best team in the country this season by a mile. Have they had the vast majority of the best players? Absolutely. Would Rodgers trade any of his for anyone else’s? Doubtful. Yet weirdly, they may have a problem at the PFA’s Player of the Year awards tonight. Too many of them may have been too good. It happened to Celtic four years ago when they won a League and Scottish Cup double, made the last 16 of the Champions League and produced the single biggest ‘wow’ result in a generation of Scottish football by beating Barcelona. Yet they didn’t have a single player on the shortlist never mind winning the honours. Their strength was in their collective that season. They had great players – Victor Wanyama, Joe Ledley, Gary Hooper, Fraser Forster, Kris Commons – but they split the vote in so many ways none racked up enough to stop Michael Higdon winning. Hayes could be up there under the lights This year three Celts are in the hunt – Sinclair, Stuart Armstrong and Moussa Dembele – and Brown can’t have been far away from a pick. But if their own players awards are anything to go by – split four ways with Sinclair only just sneaking it – then don’t be surprised to see the fourth PFA nominee Jonny Hayes up there under the lights. If he is the choice of most Celtic players – you can’t vote for your own team-mates and we know Kieran Tierney and Craig Gordon voted for him – and sucks up the small-minded non-Celtic voters, as well as the alternative picks from those who did scatter their Celtic vote? He has more than a chance. Young Player? Kieran Tierney. It’s a no brainer. For the writers at least, we have to vote Scottish. But Dembele may well pip him to the PFA’s. The way Tierney came back from injury like he’d never been away, his love of a tackle and ability on the front foot – so often missing in the modern full-back – and his fish-out-of-water display for Scotland at right-back all prove what opportunity and belief can do for a teenager. Which brings us to Manager. And while we’re on the subject, let me clear up one thing that people constantly get wrong. The Football Writers voted for Jim McIntyre as their Manager of the Year last year – not Mark Warburton. He won the one from his fellow pros – the ones who think we don’t know what we’re talking about. Anyway, I’ve said for 25 years it would take something special for me to vote for a Celtic or a Rangers manager. There are fundamental questions you ask yourself first. How do you measure success? Is it what you win or what you do with what you have? It’s not about trophies but expectation. It’s an equation that has resources on one side, relative success on the other and the manager is the variable. The X-factor that determines the outcome. Historically, with resources so heavily in favour of the Old Firm, most of their managers have only ever met their expectations, in my eyes at least, and rarely exceeded them. This is, however, one of those years. What Rodgers has done with what he has this year – no matter that it outstrips what everyone else has tenfold – is exceptional. Unbeaten domestically, heading towards a Treble, groups of the Champions League, all with the guts of Ronny Deila’s team and some limited but stunningly effective recruitment. Plenty of our other managers have beaten par by a distance this season. Two finals and another second place for Derek McInnes, still with the chance of a trophy. Top six for Alan Archibald with a team no one outside of Firhill rated as anything other than contenders to go down. Tommy Wright is a serious omission from the shortlist and took Saints into the top four again and Europe on bobbins and buttons. Jim Duffy has done remarkably to get Morton to a semi and the play-offs considering he was stripped bare last July. Stevie Aitken and Darren Young, keeping Dumbarton and Albion Rovers in their divisions on meagre rations, also fantastic. Jack Ross dragging St Mirren from the brink. Gary Jardine keeping Edinburgh City in the league. All worthy. None worthy enough to dislodge Rodgers. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/celtic-many-stars-poty-running-10367772
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ticcy_paper
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7 May 2017, 11:24 AM
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'Fillum'
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7 May 2017, 01:18 PM
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This is mental 
https://twitter.com/gammajack84/status/861169996004823040
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7 May 2017, 01:27 PM
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- 7 May 2017, 01:18 PM
Mark Cooper off Celtic Underground was there.
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7 May 2017, 05:12 PM
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Bolstering the duty of good faith
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You've maybe never tried to get into a football stadium in Brazil then.
who gives them the right to have your fingerprint on database if you are not a criminal. Precisely. It's dispiriting that anybody could think this is anything other than a disgraceful proposal.
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8 May 2017, 10:07 AM
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reports from Brazil says that Real Madrid have bought the Brazilian wonderkid 16 year old Vinicius Junior for a transfer fee around 45m euro's with the kid getting 150k+ in wages a week. Deal will go though when he turns 18
the kid hasn't even played a senior match, but after the SouthAmerican u17 championships, Real though that they couldn't wait any longer before Barca would make a move for him
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8 May 2017, 10:17 AM
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who gives them the right to have your fingerprint on database if you are not a criminal.
Precisely. It's dispiriting that anybody could think this is anything other than a disgraceful proposal. See post on previous page by the bunnets' bunnet.
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8 May 2017, 10:58 AM
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reports from Brazil says that Real Madrid have bought the Brazilian wonderkid 16 year old Vinicius Junior for a transfer fee around 45m euro's with the kid getting 150k+ in wages a week. Deal will go though when he turns 18
the kid hasn't even played a senior match, but after the SouthAmerican u17 championships, Real though that they couldn't wait any longer before Barca would make a move for him Thats some scoop mate.
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8 May 2017, 11:25 AM
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We're here to eff shampoo up!
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- Big Drew
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reports from Brazil says that Real Madrid have bought the Brazilian wonderkid 16 year old Vinicius Junior for a transfer fee around 45m euro's with the kid getting 150k+ in wages a week. Deal will go though when he turns 18
the kid hasn't even played a senior match, but after the SouthAmerican u17 championships, Real though that they couldn't wait any longer before Barca would make a move for him
Thats some scoop mate. I'd be dead within the week if teenage me was being paid that.
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8 May 2017, 02:07 PM
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Double take on this on UEFA site re last ever European game at Atletico Madrid's ground. In among memorable matches was this:
Atlético 2-0 Celtic, 1973/74 European Cup semi-finals The goalless first leg is remembered as the battle of Glasgow for the fierce challenges meted out by both sides. The balance finally tipped Atleti's way when José Gárate broke the deadlock in the 77nd minute. Adelardo Rodríguez then sealed a first European Cup final appearance.
Both sides? Not how I remember it. Fuds.
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