Some footage of the interior of the plane that took Celtic back from Armenia appeared on social media tonight.
You can view it here.
It is the sort of high-end executive flying machine that you would expect a top football club to use.
Certainly, that is the opinion of Mr Gerrard.
He knows what Celtic travel in and he wants the same for his guys.
I’m told that he had a fractious sit-down with the Serious Professional recently.
He wanted to know of the “logistics” of the away leg in Macedonia.
Although the Sevco High command wants to help their rookie manager there just isn’t the money to deliver for him.
Although they have pushed the boat out on new signings a private plane just won’t get off the ground.
I think it is fair to say that the Liverpool icon is already feeling a tad resentful at the resource limitations of Poundland FC.
If you think this rookie experiment at Sevco will end well then you haven’t been paying attention dear reader.
Meanwhile Celtic travel back to Glasgow with a three-goal lead.
Immediately after the match, I spoke to a chap who works in the sports analysis business.
He free-lances to various top end outfits in both rugby union and soccer.
He’s great at explaining this stuff as if he were speaking to a six year old-i.e. this sixty year old!
It was he who told me that Brendan Rodgers was a big fan of DartFish and had used it to spear a Scottish referee after a match.
Tonight I told him that I was puzzled when Odsonne Édouard was taken off and Lewis Morgan took his place on 77 minutes.
Moussa Dembélé had been hooked on 68 minutes so that left Celtic without a centre-forward.
I made that observation to my guy and he immediately responded with:
“Ah, that’s because he went to a False Nine”.
If I had been in the same room as him at that point I might have nodded in acknowledgement.
However, inside I would have been saying to myself:
“I really don’t know what all of this means”.
He preceded to tell me that he’s heard that Brendan Rodgers now requires his first team and the squads below them to be fully fluent in FIVE formations.
Moreover, they must be able to switch from one set up to another within a match all rather seamlessly.
I’m fascinated by all of this because it is terra incognita for my visuospatial neural circuitry.
His professional opinion was that the Irishman was a shrewd tactician and highly regarded in the professional footie world.
Celtic started for real tonight.
Soon the pretending will be over for the basket of assets.
I’ve heard the new messiah Gerrard isn’t the sharpest tool in the box but thought that he may have had an ulterior motive. It now appears that he is as dumb as folk say if he thought he was coming to a big, wealthy club. The glib one has gotcha’d him and left him to paddle without oars. Can we have Stevie and the Paupers singing ‘Fly Me To The Moon’. 🙂 HH
If the dj at celtic park plays requests at home games, could he please play “Come Fly With Me” at the home games against sevco? Thanks!
Our guys will wind them up rotten about Easyjet, bedsharing in B&Bs brekky with a greasy wee egg, can just hear Broony, constantly.
Well done the bhoys … a convincing win in tough conditions bodes well.
As for ‘deidco ‘…
If no progres is made on last years debut.. Sevvie G will be shown not to have a Shkupi about managing a football team.
Well done the bhoys … a convincing win in tough conditions bodes well.
As for ‘deidco ‘…
If no progres is made on last years debut.. Sevvie G will be shown not to have a Shkupi about managing a football team.
Our guys will wind them up rotten about Easyjet, bedsharing in B&Bs brekky with a greasy wee egg, can just hear Broony, constantly.
It was very timely that yesterday morning (Tuesday, 10th July), Mr Gok Wan was guest presenting a feature on how to pack a suitcase on ITV’s This Morning TV programme. I do hope that Mr Gerrard and his squad of professional sportsmen were enthralled, and at the same time educated by this, otherwise the Easyjet check-in desk at Glasgow airport will be in total chaos, as they struggle to squeeze their bags into the test rig that tells them whether or not their baggage will fit the overhead lockers, thus risking a hefty bill in excess baggage fees! I’ve read rumours that every pound is a prisoner for this young club, but for the life of me, I cannot recall whose blog I read it on, Phil! ?
Over 62,000 signatures on the ban OO parades petition.
This could top 100,000 by the end of the week.
What plans do the Scottish Government and Police Scotland have in place to protect the public from these bigots?
Is Show Racism The Red Card throwing it’s weight behind the campaign?
Or are they too busy backing the claims of Shay Logan who for the second time is playing the racism card with on both occasions no one to substantiate his claims… but good enough for the SFA to find a Celtic player guilty on the ‘balance of probability.’
An organisation that is unable to conduct the simple task of conducting a Scottish Cup draw without fecking it up…. and not just once.
Oh come on Phil, that’s just rubbing it in.
I’m sure that Newco booked priority boarding tickets for all of the travelling party, nothing but the best for the Stevie G revolution.
Biggest game of the season set to be played out in a London court today!
Level 5 will be on stand by with two quite different spin stories ready to go.
One of the participants will be painted as the big boy who did it and ran away, the other as a local hero, no matter the result.
Oh come on Phil, that’s just rubbing it in.
I’m sure that Newco booked priority boarding tickets for all of the travelling party, nothing but the best for the Stevie G revolution.
Biggest game of the season set to be played out in a London court today!
Level 5 will be on stand by with two quite different spin stories ready to go.
One of the participants will be painted as the big boy who did it and ran away, the other as a local hero, no matter the result.
Have Staunch Stevie’s travel vouchers been reimbursed yet? Or is the Serious Professional balking at paying 6€ for the in flight tapas snack box?