A great philosopher once said “Every goat has his day”
He was then corrected by a friend of his who said “Yer no philosopher, its every dog has its day you dodgy arsed dangleberry.”
Which leads me to walty smith and his retirement from the managerial helm at bludgeon dungeon ibrox. He has been in the whereabouts of ibrox so long that he has began to smell naturally of crack, heroin and tennants super strong lager. This he does not care about as he quite prefers the new ‘Au de hobo’ addition to his usual distinct farmyard gland fume-age.
Now walty has left the gers and Lenny has set the foundations for something special waiting in the wings, what will the sour faced pug do with himself now?
Celtic Park will surely wish walty well and that we hope he doesn’t hit is arse on the door on the way out, if he does it would surely make his rocky dennis like features look even more dangerously macabre, but I can hopefully speak for us all that we are glad to see the back of him purely because his front looks so horrific.
Sadly this will not be the last sighting of the wispy grey haired carrot muncher as no doubt he will have a plan concocted to haunt us for many years to come as his ‘mordorial’ experience will no doubt have qualified him to sit beside Graeme ‘Llama faced cretin’ Souness and the rest of the bash street kids on match nights on proverbial football shows that you watch with a dish and pay Rupert Murdoch to experience.
I again have dug evervescently into the canyons of the beyond and I stumbled upon a gold mine. I found this little ‘beaut’ in some filing cabinet that smelled like the undead marked ‘Walters bits keep oot’ : –
So say what you want walty we will always be the respectable ones. In victory we do not cause harm to others or go on rampages throughout the city.
We can all honestly say that of Neil Lennon that we just cant get enough. . .
. . . and you walty we’ve had enough of you, its over let your bulldog chops flap and say what you want because ally will crumble and it will be Lennon standing tall, monumental smiling at the halfwits on the wrong side of the Clyde.
Comment as you wish . . .
Well spoken Sean, lets face it we all knew that Wallie was a spineless git, who has nailed his blue colours to the mast of a sinking ship, named Rangers sinking oot of Hunsvill.The man is a coward who only opens his mouth to spew out lies and wrongfull accusations against Neil and Celtic when he alledgedly leavs the huns with Ally 3 chins McCoist at the helm, truth will prevail and WE will have our day.
Walter Smith is a gentleman. He presents himself well and generally gives an honest appraisal in his after match comments. Quality opposition are praised and poor Rangers performances recognised and addressed. Over 20 years in management and he has hardly put a foot wrong. I don’t think he was being cowardly by making the statements he did after he left. By not saying them before the seasons end I would say he was showing diplomacy. Let there be no doubt he took on an ailing Rangers team and got the best out of them, that being good enough for 3 in a row and a Euro final.
Meanwhile across the city there was non-stop bragging about squad size, player ability, what the Scottish Barcelona would do and much more. There was no talk of “one of the most expensively assembled squads” whilst Reid was crowing about bank balances and fiscal mis-management. We’ve seen how all that’s turned out as well. Which ship is really sinking?
McCoist may fail but that remains to be seen and I see no point in making groundless boasts in the manner of Tommy67.
This season has seen Lennon raised to near sainthood by the faithful who will hear no criticism of him, certainly not from anyone who is not a Celtic fan.
He has managerial strengths but some glaring weaknesses not the least of which is a lack of diplomacy. Such is the fawning adulation of him by the fans that the Board, who obviously don’t want him, are now in a quandary as to what to do. Historically they’ve succumbed to the fans wishes and will do so again by rewarding him with a 1 year rolling contract. Or in other words, as soon as you start losing the fans you’re out.
The only people in football who like Lennon are Celtic fans. As a player he continually taunted and baited opposition players and supporters. He did the same at Leicester with Savage and were as unpopular a duo as any in the Premiership. He has brought these same qualities into his management style, and whilst they are not acceptable from anyone, they are beyond the pale from a manager.
In saying all that though, he has not in any way deserved the attacks and abuse aimed at him.
If your reasoning is correct then I fully expect savage to be watching his mail also. Plus, Smith did have a go during the season.
In the last 4 seasons the league has been settled on the last day 3 times. I would expect nothing more from both expensively assembled squads in a threadbare league. In the last 11 we have lost 5, 4 of which were on the last day. I would say we are quite right to be confident of our squads ability at any point.
It’s misplaced at times, true. But one thing we have been conistant.
Savage has only just retired and didn’t operate in the goldfish bowl of the Premier League. If a player conducts himself in a certain manner he can be quietly, or public reprimanded by his manager, and in any event a player has the excuse of being involved in an extremely physical contest which gets the blood fired up. Lennons behaviour as a manager is exactly the same as Lennon the player and until he accepts that he has a much greater responsibility for all aspects of the Celtic brand than any player then he will continue to be a P.R. accident waiting to happen.
I have said all season that there was little between the teams, in fact, maybe just the management and if that’s the case, said management cannot afford to be getting themselves sent to the stands for failing to control themselves.
So your admitting that your Savage comparison is basically bollocks? That it’s not because of their behavior that they are disliked? Ok, I get it…
I wasn’t comparing Savage to anyone, therefore no bollocks. Savage was disliked because of his conduct on the pitch, the same as Lennon. Savage is retired, Lennon is a manager but still showing those traits for which he was disliked. And I still think the Board don’t want him. They just can’t get rid of him because of fear of a fans backlash. So I guess in the end the clever thing to do is give him a contract, if he wins things they were wise. If he fails, then he was the fans choice and not us (the board) to blame.
Or am I being cynical?
Answer me this. If they wanted Lennon, if they had confidence in him, why not show that by giving him a contract months ago?
Have you or your fellow bares NEVER, EVER questioned how wally myth in your opinions is such an outstanding, fantastic, brilliant manager but yet nobody outside scotland except Everton have signed him up? Do you honestly not find that the tiniest bit odd? Surely if he was half as good as he is perceived to be by gers fans EPL teams would have spent YEARS offering him mega deals to go south. Seriously, do you lot find that strange in the slightest!?
The truth is, the football world is pretty small and a lot of ex players, ex managers, current managers etc often know each other, clearly wally myth would have been spoken of by club chairmen? Obviously he is seen for what he is, a manager who without the help of referees and the sfa helping rangers fc would be nothing but a steady, defensive minded average manager.
Obviously thats just my opinion, oh and the opinion of EVERYONE in world football except gers fans and their bum chums in the scottish media.
Probably as respectful as you would expect from thecelticblog regarding the auld goat.
Though I also her that hear will tell dear old mrs smith that Charles Adam was never a 10m player