Vivalaraza
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It sounds stupid to me. It's very confusing but just seems like a mess.
Times, Telegraph and Banned Paper all running with Zaha > United. Think we will get him.
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Times, Telegraph and Banned Paper all running with Zaha > United. Think we will get him.
Benitez asked if Chelsea looked more dangerous in the last 10 minutes with Ba than in the previous 80 with Torres. "No, I don't think so."
Yeah, that's that it seems like. Don't want to say my judgment is better than SAF's but I'll be relatively underwhelmed if we get to the summer and he's talking him up as a starter. He's good, but its all very raw potential right now.
OriginalThinking
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I did. here it is below.
And then your follow up:
But the problem is, I don't buy your reasoning. You said "Way to go". When you use that phrase it's implying that someone has done something foolish, or is an idiot. As in "Way to go asshole, look what you you just did" And you made it clear who you blamed. "Way to go SPL". It's pretty clear that either you made the post in haste, without thinking it through or you didn't understand the full context of why there is now no old firm fixture. If I'm capable of misreading it, then so are most posters. I'm just ensuring that no-one in this thread who might know very little about Scottish football will come away with the impression that the SPL are to blame. Something that Rangers fans would very much like the world to believe. (I'm not calling you a Rangers fan, I would never want to tar someone with that particular brush).
Well, I suppose technically the SPL are to blame for the loss of the fixture, since they could've voted to catapult the newco Rangers straight back into the top tier. But that would've undermined the sporting integrity of the entire league to the detriment of all fans.
José Mourinho
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Who cares?
:lol
The_Hitcher89
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Imagine if Celtic did the same as Rangers. That's what it would take to make people give a shit about Scottish football imo.
I don't know exactly what doldrums are, but Scottish football is in them
I don't know exactly what doldrums are, but Scottish football is in them
SRSLY
OriginalThinking
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It's a terrible idea. Three 16 team leagues, incorporating some of the highland clubs with three teams down and three teams up in each league with playoffs as in the Championship etc. Then Scottish football would have some actual excitement in the top tier outwith the old firm. We've tried 12 teams before and It wasn't great then. There are enough decent sized teams to make a top tier of 16 and actually have something which doesn't involve teams playing each other as much as 4 times a season in the league alone.
I can't say for certain that you are a Chelsea fan, but if you are it pretty much makes any pithy point you might have had redundant.
The_Hitcher89
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José Mourinho
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Benitez asked if Chelsea looked more dangerous in the last 10 minutes with Ba than in the previous 80 with Torres. "No, I don't think so."
Let's be real. He ain't gonna hang Torres out to dry like that. He is a smart man, he ain't gonna give the media headlines. I'm sure he knows how shit Torres is, otherwise he wouldn't have got Ba. Just give it a few games and Ba will be phased into the starting 11.
Honestly though, a league so reliant on Celtic and Rangers was horrible for the rest of the clubs, and sadly it'll likely return that way in 4-5 years time. The old SPL voting structure was even created as 11-1 so that Celtic and Rangers could together vote down any proposal that challenged their dominance.
The new structure will be ridiculous and already failed in Austria but anything is better than what we have now so I'm fine with it pushing on.
It's closer than that, you can guess his second team.
OriginalThinking
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José Mourinho
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It's a well established fact that the team somebody supports should invalidate or reinforce any point they should make.
Celtic need to get into the Premier league/championship or wherever they would start. Only then can celtic progress as a football club.
The Scottish league is a joke. Celtic need out of there.
Vivalaraza
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They would start at the very bottom just as they should.
Not that FIFA seem to be interested in allowing it.
OriginalThinking
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Oh, not a team. Two words.
John Terry.
the Scottish league is strangely in better health than it has been for a while, even if parts of it are still on life support. Now that most teams can't afford to pay anything like decent wages, young Scottish players are actually getting a chance. The quality isn't great mind, but in the long term we might actually get some decent prospects from it.
The_Hitcher89
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Seems a joke league is exactly the place Celtic needs to be.
I keed, I keed.
Actually I think you could argue this season Scottish football has got better.
Well, not "any point". But still. Chelsea.
I don't want to lose our all-but-guaranteed CL qualifier though. European runs are the bread and butter of a club like Celtic and I'd take it any day over going to Wigan or Stoke.
I think some kind of pan-European league with the Scandinavians and Dutch is the most likely progression for Scottish football. This was discussed in the past but it was thought UEFA would block it (since then what's to stop all the big English, German, Spanish and Italian teams forming a league?). But they've just approved the merger of the Russia and Ukraine leagues so the idea has come back up.
José Mourinho
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I agree with this also. Terrible bastards the lot of us. We should of all burned our shirts at the first sign of Terry controversy.
Quite.
OriginalThinking
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Glad we're agreed.
José Mourinho
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I actually did burn my shirt.
Sod that, you can go play the Welsh and the Irish if you want a "pan european league" cant have the Scots fannying around in Scandinavia with the beautiful people, you stick with the rest of us ugly mug Islanders where you belong
OriginalThinking
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I may have judged you too harshly. Perhaps there is some hope. Perhaps.
The_Hitcher89
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A "fixture" like Celtic v Shamrock Rovers twice a year is the last thing Scotland needs for its alcohol problems. :lol Guinness shares would skyrocket.Sod that, you can go play the Welsh and the Irish if you want a "pan european league" cant have the Scots fannying around in Scandinavia with the beautiful people, you stick with the rest of us ugly mug Islanders where you belong
Is he on a free?
Might fit in well at Hearts. :lol
Terry controversy is a hilarious distraction from Chelsea being the toy of a murderous crook.
Loan ? SELL SELL SELL
OriginalThinking
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I'm genuinely afraid.
José Mourinho
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No, you judged me correctly. Shirts are intact.
Actually that sounds a pretty awesome fixture 8)
OriginalThinking
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How dastardly of you. Should have known 'twas but a ruse.
Sage00 said:
Now, hang on a second. Just because Ryan Stevenson is a tit doesn't mean JT should become a JT. Given the nature of the man he'd fit in better at a club that has elevated the likes of Derek Riordan to hero status. Hibernian.
Captain, Leader, Legend, Savior of Scottish football.
OriginalThinking
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I suppose sometimes you've got to hit rock bottom before things can get better.
You forgot Brave English Lionheart.
First Beckham saved the MLS, now John terry can save the SPL.
Its like a beautiful fairy tale ending to a glorious career.
The_Hitcher89
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When's the last time England played Scotland? I genuinely think if it happened now it could be the worst football match of all time
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