Mad hatter silly season is well underway. We have been linked to a number of transfer “sensations” already but sadly Lionel Messi is out of the equation due to his ongoing contract discussions at Ibrox.
I believe over at Mordor they recently signed Zico, Maradona and Mario Kempes but sadly after the transfers went through, they found out they actually signed a Bee Gees tribute band. Well at least it gives rangers their only hope that they can now sing “Stayin alive” as they sink faster than the titanic if it was loaded with lead.
With our nearest rivals looking like a more proverbial “Alice” going down a rabbit hole and never returning, we meanwhile are looking like a fairytale in the making.
After overcoming a mountain of a points deficit behind our blue hooter-ed rivals, we persevered, battled and fought like spartans to now sit top of the league.
As with all battles some troops do fall slain and wounded. Kayal being now the most prominent of our injured due to the recent news that he will miss the rest of the campaign means that Lenny, after stating we will need a centre half and a striker, will now possibly look at another midfielder also.
One of our recent links more fresh in the media than others is Ivorian striker Boubacar Sanogo. The 29 year old, France based “hitman” is currently “being watched” by a few clubs but he has personally expressed his interest in coming to play at Celtic Park.
My view – He has been injury ridden recently and should not be a path we take, he seems like he is looking for first team football but I think he is looking for one last decent pay cheque.
Celtic have also “Gone to Iceland”. No, no, no the canteen at Lennoxtown is not filled with bread crumbed frozen foods but we have taken Icelandic winger Ingolfur Sigurdsson on trial. This news is also partnered by another trialist Rabiu Ibrahim. Both will play in bounce matches but yet any outcome as to whether they will be given deals is not known.
You may all know about this news (from sky sports): –
“Celtic boss Neil Lennon has admitted Rapid Vienna striker Hamdi Salihi could be a target in this month’s transfer window.”
This news is of the norm, a linked player as you see but the sensational dismay of this story is the headline: –
link to site http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/7421263/
The sheer audacity of a media outlet to use such a headline along sides our team is a complete outrage.
Knowing very well our history and past with links to Ireland plus the recent clamp down on sectarian chanting, they go ahead and print a headline in the region I can only describe that as dog dirt journalism.
Your views and opinions if you please Celts.
it was a pretty funny headline.
ps – yes, i’m a celtic fan
No offence sir but have you read my blogs before? you’ll be away to see the bee gees tribute act at ibrox singing stayin alive then? 😀
@corrib04
Sean,
When I first read it ..I shit myself…
I thought we were after John Brown….the ex-Rangers thug.
Got to agree with some of the posts ‘though…
It’s not a headline that caused me any upset…
and yes…you were a wee bit OTT with it…
Apart from that….
Great stuff…keep up the good work.
Thanks, its a pleasure to get great opinions flowing.
So now SSN have it in for Celtic? Do me a favour, to even publish such a piece is absolutely ludicrous! The guys nickname is “the bomber”. It’s sad that you are desperately trying to dig dirt on everyone to try and make Celtic Football Club look like the victims of the world. Sorry but your really not.
sectarian headline – get a life!!!! Go travel see the world a bit
I viewed that headline and didn’t make a link with Ireland. Maybe they were being fly, I don’t know, but says more about you for picking up on it than them.
well i am quite attentive cheers 😀
He is called the “bomber” – seen him play a few months ago. The fans over there call him that – they are being sectarian but in obviously different than if the broadsheets call Paddy McCourt the bomber – which he not, by nickname or by nature. This guy is a squad player at best, another Bratheid or Bangura.
So not a great addition if he came to us then?
shocking article. im 100% sure the players nickname is the bomber. seen the headline and did not think a thing and your are making a big deal of it. get a grip
I hate to say it but I think you’re reaching, the association is tenuous to say the least. If there was defamation in the headline it wasn’t obvious and if you have to engineer offence I’m afraid we are just going to look petty. Poor form.
I always wonder why people call us Celtic fans paranoid then I read this headline and was looking for the sectarian link and I am still left trying to find it.So having a nickname called “the bomber” is sectarian?.I fail to see where the big shocker is here does this mean the SNP will block his move to Scotland for having a sectarian nickname.Not having a dig here but there is no sectarian story here.
Thats what I wanted the fans to make their own judgement to whether it is sectarian or not, and thats the outcome of what I wanted the piece to express and bring comments in of your calibre, thanks.
You did put a question mark in the heading. Heh, teacher teach those kids puncuation…
At first I thought you had your tongue firmly in your cheek Sean but then I realised you were serious. Not everyone is out to get us, headline written by someone who probably does not have a clue about us, Ireland and the IRA.
Sorry cant agree.
Good story, ‘they’ can’t even afford to go to Iceland haha ‘they’ have to make any deals from a dodgy character dealing out of a van up a lane.
maybe its my time of the month or something, but thats how i saw it.
Respect to your comment thanks brian, opinionated is what i aimed the piece to be and comments from celts and footy fans alike are like the fruit of the labour as such.
I’m not offended by it, actually I thought it was amusing but to completely dismiss that the headline editor didn’t know what he was doing is folly.
Sky report about our IRA chanting. The English just see the IRA as bombers. Sky appeal to the English market by making an amusing link.
Like it or not we are seen as Terrorist luvin fuckwits by most of Scotland and those south of Birmingham.