comment by PointyBirds (U21890)
posted about a minute ago
https://x.com/TamseIIicsonIII/status/1790131006504133107

I mean, it’s a fair enough point.
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Neanderthal

comment by PointyBirds (U21890)
posted 4 minutes ago
https://x.com/TamseIIicsonIII/status/1790131006504133107

I mean, it’s a fair enough point.
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Wtf???

Was hoping Arsenal would win the title this season

Not looking likely now

There Supergran dead

A sad loss to TMQ’s vvankbank.

Although I think the bigger news was that she was still alive at all.

comment by St3vie (U11028)
posted 25 minutes ago
comment by PointyBirds (U21890)
posted 4 minutes ago
https://x.com/TamseIIicsonIII/status/1790131006504133107

I mean, it’s a fair enough point.
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Wtf???
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He might be steaming but we all think it.

comment by PointyBirds (U21890)
posted about 10 hours ago
There Supergran dead

A sad loss to TMQ’s vvankbank.

Although I think the bigger news was that she was still alive at all.
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It looks like the Spurs fans are turning on Podgycoglu this morning.

They obviously heard about Clement's team second half performance yesterday and want to act swiftly.

they want to calm their jets.

3 places up from last year having lost harry kane.

"It looks like the Spurs fans are turning on Podgycoglu this morning."

Thought 0-2 suits them perfectly cos it means that their noisy neighbours are extremely unlikely to win the league

The Ropey League will probably suit them better anaw

comment by Izzy... The Rat returns....fvck off back to Spain (U3410)
posted 20 minutes ago
"It looks like the Spurs fans are turning on Podgycoglu this morning."

Thought 0-2 suits them perfectly cos it means that their noisy neighbours are extremely unlikely to win the league

The Ropey League will probably suit them better anaw
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I think him wanting to win has annoyed them

That or their stinking form.

Who's all on the lash tonight ?

Hoping we have a fun night tonight

Honestly think we will turn killie over good style

comment by HB Fash (U21935)
posted 1 hour, 42 minutes ago
comment by Izzy... The Rat returns....fvck off back to Spain (U3410)
posted 20 minutes ago
"It looks like the Spurs fans are turning on Podgycoglu this morning."

Thought 0-2 suits them perfectly cos it means that their noisy neighbours are extremely unlikely to win the league

The Ropey League will probably suit them better anaw
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I think him wanting to win has annoyed them

That or their stinking form.
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Think he's 100% right to be raging

Club that's won fck all for years, got a chance.tonplay in the Champions League next year which is about the best they can do for now, and they are actually wanting to see that go down the pan just to spite their rivals

Poor show

thats why they win nothing btw.

i know our fans are entitled but that comes from success, where does theirs come from?

Indeed, entitled vvanks cos they got nothing out their brutal sequence against Newcastle, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool and now City. They got ahead of themselves at the start of the season - that would never happen up here . Ange will be raging, in fact he has been - his mantra was always finishing strong was more important than starting strong.

You just know we’re going to fvck this up tonight.

Think it’ll be much the same team from the weekend. Only changes might be for Hatate and Forrest for me. Rodgers has spotted Hatate’s flaw in losing possession with careless short passes, and don’t know if he might prefer Kuhn’s pace tonight.

Nick Walsh the ref for the final. Beaton on VAR.

Willie Collum the new head of refereeing.

he's dying to drop hatate, but it would be nuts to.

i think he wants rid of kyogo as well tbh.

prwrick tried to replace reo with turnbull ffs.

comment by St3vie (U11028)
posted 1 hour, 29 minutes ago
comment by HB Fash (U21935)
posted 1 hour, 42 minutes ago
comment by Izzy... The Rat returns....fvck off back to Spain (U3410)
posted 20 minutes ago
"It looks like the Spurs fans are turning on Podgycoglu this morning."

Thought 0-2 suits them perfectly cos it means that their noisy neighbours are extremely unlikely to win the league

The Ropey League will probably suit them better anaw
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I think him wanting to win has annoyed them

That or their stinking form.
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Think he's 100% right to be raging

Club that's won fck all for years, got a chance.tonplay in the Champions League next year which is about the best they can do for now, and they are actually wanting to see that go down the pan just to spite their rivals

Poor show
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Aw ma gravyguts.

https://x.com/chrismartinfilm/status/1790505644212048181?s=46&t=aPp6PYv3EpCIXaZLU4Kayw

comment by CelticTornado (U4316)
posted 2 hours, 29 minutes ago
Who's all on the lash tonight ?

Hoping we have a fun night tonight

Honestly think we will turn killie over good style
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Tron have cancelled their Saturday show - they must be expecting something happening?

https://x.com/therealdaddymo1/status/1790714576486432854

I don’t know if you have ever been to Bodo - a Norwegian town that sits inside the Arctic Circle - in February before, but let me tell you, it isn’t for the faint hearted.

When Celtic played there in the UEFA Conference League during Ange Postecoglou’s first season in charge of the club, I was despatched to this stunningly beautiful but utterly baltic part of the world to cover the match for this paper.

With temperatures below minus 20 and howling winds whipping off the water directly into the coupon, it comfortably remains the coldest place I have ever been. And I once covered a game at Broadwood in December.

The iciest blast of the trip though came from the mouth of Postecoglou. One radio reporter, who shall remain nameless, enquired after Celtic’s defeat and exit from the tournament whether there could be comfort taken from the fact that his team’s schedule had now lightened somewhat.

It seemed a fair enough question, given that Celtic were at that point engaged in a nip and tuck title race with Rangers, which surely had to take priority over UEFA’s newest and least glamorous tournament. Plus, the fact that Postecoglou had fielded a weakened side after a first leg 3-1 defeat at Celtic Park hinted that he was making concessions precisely for that reason.

Instead of taking the opportunity to spin a positive out of the situation though, Postecoglou tore the reporter a new one.


“How can losing a game be a good thing, mate?” he shot back.

When a brave local reporter then dared to ask for Postecoglou’s thoughts on how far Bodo/Glimt could go in the tournament – again, a pretty routine question in such circumstances – he wasn’t for humouring that either.

“I don’t care, mate,” he said, before taking his leave.

Sound familiar? When watching Postecoglou’s body language this week and his demeanour both with the media and in the dugout, I couldn’t help but be reminded of that first glimpse into his intolerance for inanity, and for mediocrity.

Over the last few days, he has been bombarded with both of these things, and largely from his own supporters.

As soon as I heard him being asked a question about his own team’s fans wanting Tottenham to lose their match against Manchester City in order to stop rivals Arsenal winning the title, I was immediately transported back to that tiny press room in Bodo.

I knew also that the continuing narrative around it would eventually lead to the sort of reaction we witnessed after the match, exacerbated further still by the way the Spurs fans behaved in their own stadium.

There was minimal backing of his side. Cheers, even, when Manchester City scored. Thousands of them performed ‘The Poznan’ when their team fell behind. All of these things are anathema to Postecoglou.

When he was at Celtic, he got the club, and the fans got him. It was a perfect match, with the Australian bringing back a culture where winning was the minimum standard and excuses weren’t tolerated.

He now looks like a man in the wrong movie, or certainly, the wrong club. He appears not to recognise himself in what it is that Spurs stand for, which he seems to have now surmised is an acceptance of their inferiority.

I covered Celtic and Postecoglou closely during his two years in charge, but to say that any of us on that beat got close to him would be stretching it in the extreme. He kept his players at arm’s length, so he wasn’t going to be sharing a beer with the likes of us.

As long as you were clued up and treated him with respect, though, that would go both ways. He could be funny and amiable, and despite his reputation for slapping the media around on camera, he was more than happy to have a yarn – as he might say - with the newspaper pack away from the formal setting of the press conference.

But he would make a pretty awful poker player. It’s not that he struggles to hide his emotions - or his contempt, more accurately - it’s that he doesn’t make any attempt to.

When then Rangers manager Michael Beale called him a ‘lucky man’, for instance, it got under his skin. It didn’t derail his focus though, but made him doubly determined to succeed, as much for the pleasure of rubbing Beale’s face in his own words as for actually lifting the trophies themselves, it felt like.

You can see it too when he is asked for the umpteenth time about whether he might require a ‘plan B’, or perhaps adopt a more pragmatic approach to his all-out attacking style when coming up against a higher standard of opposition.

Again, on the face of it, a reasonable enough suggestion you might think, particularly in the context of his European record at Celtic or some of the defeats that have been dished out to his Tottenham side this term amid what has still been a reasonably successful season.

But anyone asking those questions of him just doesn’t get Postecoglou. He is uncompromising. It is his way, or the highway, and he is more than happy to live and die by the footballing principles he believes in. In fact, it is those principles that define him.

What he will not accept is defeatism, or an acceptance of either his own perceived station in life or that of the team he is managing. It is how he eventually dragged himself from the A-League to the Premier League, and he is not about to change now that he is there. Either as a person or as a coach.

Some managers might be quite content with what Postecoglou has achieved in his first season in the English Premier League. He has taken a Spurs side shorn of one of the world’s greatest strikers, implemented an exciting brand of football, and taken them to within a couple of games of Champions League qualification after finishing eighth last season.

But if you are asking Postecoglou to settle for that, then you are asking him to be someone that he isn’t. And certainly not the person that Daniel Levy hired to try and finally shake the ‘Spursy’ out of Tottenham Hotspur.

What is eating Ange Postecoglou? Mediocrity, mate. And he will not settle for that.

it ironic that ange wants to be winners but won't adapt his game when required.

i liked ange, i loved his football and i think scotland was a perfect fit for him.

he is not a good manager though, his game management is poor and one dimensional.

when we played madrid we were superb in that first half and then it was game over, a manager like ancellotti is capable of identifying issues and then rectifying them.

I think fair enough to take that view but I understand why his tactical tweaks are minimal and why he doesn't change his philosophy and that is because he needs the players to believe it to buy in and play it. Any change, any weakness and they will think 'if he doesn't believe it, why should we' and that is a slippery slope.

It was facking brilliant at the time. Even the bears were in awe and still calling him gravy veins like an adolescent tugging the hair of a lassie he not so secretly wants to de-flower.

i loved it, its probably the happiest i've been watching celtic and i was content to lose in europe knowing that i'd enjoy just about every other game we played.

he made mediocre players look good, he gave us excitement, goals, & joy.

unfortunately i think OF managers have a 3 year shelf life, so is time with us was almost up anyway.