Brutal Stephen McGowan takedown of Timmy in the Daily Mail

[DavieM]

Thank christ the disco lights got a special mention.

Haha - absolute idiots were so obsessed with us they actually forgot to get their own house in order and keep progressing. Selling your best players every single season only works for so long and with recent recruitment that gravy train looks like it's gonna hit the buffers.

 

[Grigo Yossarian]

They blame their board, but they all indulged in the banter years. We were coming all right, but as a stealth missile travelling to the heart of Mordor.

Well said.

They blame their board for their arrogance, but even in January their hordes were on radio arrogantly declaring that there would be a collapse.

Funnily, they were right LOL

 

[McB Waters]

Gutted when I got to the end of that, wanted more. Final sentence is particularly pleasing.

 

[Chopper1974]

A wage bill of 53 million and they field a team who get paid only 5 million of it! They were paying 48 million a year to players who didn't play? Wow!

Maybe not just players but who was missing apart from griffiths, jullien and n’tcham?

 

[Jan Wyck]

McGowan is held as the go to journalist by the Celtc fans.

Read like the bleating of an angry Declan in a fanzine.

Which is nice.

 

[Bluetac 73]

And he is on scoreboard now.

Where is shoo?

 

[roscof]

Written by a Celtic fan.

that was my first thought. Oh god, he must be hurting, typing that out.
Oh well!!

 

[Dmac220]

A wage bill of 53 million and they field a team who get paid only 5 million of it! They were paying 48 million a year to players who didn't play? Wow!

£53 million across 22 players is £46k a week each. That figure is way out!

 

[Tailwind]

£53 million across 22 players is £46k a week each. That figure is way out!

They don’t have 22 players
53 is the total staff salaries

 

[The Highland Bear]

It is a Tim writing in the press about his favourite team.
He is in some pain.
As much as I try to ignore his scribblings which belong in a fanzine rather than a national newspaper, it is nonetheless a comical read.

Last season saw their world come crashing down in spectacular style.
One moment it was trebles all round the next they were face-first in the gutter.
Gerrard took them by the scruff of the neck and tossed them out the door of Scotland's football pub, like a dismissive bouncer ejecting a loudmouth, drunk on one too many.
Most drunks would have picked themselves up by now, but this one is still languishing in its own pysh.

It is a shame that the authorities are too corrupt to find a prison cell for this particular drunk, because hidden away in the folds of its tattered clothes are the crimes of half a century.
McGowan won't be writing about that!

This whole post is great but this part is magnificent.

 

[Marstonbear]

It was more fun to peer into a set of binoculars and mock the idea of Rangers coming over the hill than it was to raise the goggles a little higher and study the bigger picture.

Superb stuff

 

[WeeStephen]

Quite a good read that.

 

[Blues and Royals]

Another Tim hurting but genuinely admitting his club is in a calamitous state. Which is rarity in this country.

 

[Bigeye]

''Can you see us now '' ya filthy maggots.

 

[Corkinator]

They blame their board, but they all indulged in the banter years. We were coming all right, but as a stealth missile travelling to the heart of Mordor.

I love that it’s been thrown right in their racist faces.

 

[gilliangers]

I had forgot about the "disco lights" they were bragging about them and the atmosphere they brought. PMSL wonder what the atmosphere will be like now can't wait to see how many ST they have now and that article just tops it off