We may have upset a Celtic fan

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I couldn't help but laugh it this guys blog post. It's his analysis of Boro that makes me laugh, his fact finding is second to none.
 
I came across this 7 minutes after he posted it, back then it had a comment button so I sent a lemon emoji, it said it was "awaiting moderation" but I took satisfaction that he would see it and now see that the comments button is disabled and only has site feedback option
 
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I couldn't help but laugh it this guys blog post. It's his analysis of Boro that makes me laugh, his fact finding is second to none.
they would have folded if it wasn't for us and 'the strachan project' - the SPL is absolute dross and it's not because of boro.. it's years and years of infighting! the trickle down economy of the premier league has turned the championship into a far superior league than the SPL take the top 12 championship squads and compare.. it's not even close.

unfortunately an SPL title isn't worth as much as a championship title or even promotion these days, any foray into europe is via a participation entry. THIS CLUB has fought tooth and nail to get what they have had handed on a plate for years.
 
He doesn't do "irony" does he. Bless.

And to head the "piece" with a ridiculous picture of their manager with a cup. Woo hoo well done you beat your rivals across the city/sectarian divide this time. Let's be honest the SPL is a joke. Ooooo... will it be the club that thinks it's Irish or the club that think it's British that wins the SCOTTISH Premier League this time? Woo hoo, the peril, the danger of NOT winning a bit of tin this season must be too much to bear at times. Speaking of us hoping to get to the EPL, did I dream of Celtic and Rangers trying to get into it at some point, or at least floating the possibility?

Perhaps this particular antipodean would just like to play competitive football more than a couple of times a year? Crazy idea Scotland, don't suppose it could ever catch on up there because the big two are too greedy and fixated on beating the other one that the wider health of the Scottish game has been flushed down the pan long ago (not that the EPL is much better).
 
What he has written is factually correct.
Celtic could have paid more and have chosen not to.
They do win silverware and play European football every season.

The point of the snipe by MFC is perhaps more subtle than the Celtic fan realises - or is capable of perhaps grasping.
Some people prefer the red of the Boro, not to the green of celtic, but the green as in money.
What Boro are saying is that Riley has signed because he would rather play for us and sees it as a better career choice than going up to play for them and it is not because we have paid a fortune more of "the green".

He may be right about that, he may be wrong, but the Club are very keen to shout not at Celtic but that they don't have to pay stupid money, just intelligent money.

If I were a celtic fan (perish the thought) I'd be mightily ***ed off that my club who could afford higher wages couldn't persuade a player the manager really wants to come.
Since 1970 Celtic have played in as many European finals as we have.

Of course they are a bigger club with a massive fan base, but their angry fans should be asking why they can't attract a player that a small town in Yorkshire seemingly can whilst staying with in FFP and outside the PL.

Just like Derby, the Cletic fans are focusing on the wrong thing. Perhaps why Rangers will do them again this season.
Complacent is as complacent does.
Hats off to Wilder, Scott, Gibson and Bausor for mopping up with this one.
I hope he helps us to promotion, becomes a £30m player. Perhaps that might make Celtic a little less complacent.
 
Maybe the 'red/green' comment was nothing more than a reference to the shirt he was wearing?
As a Boro fan you'd prefer to see a new signing in the home shirt I'd say.
Sounds to me like this particular blogger has taken offence, not because it was a dig at his team, but because he has a bit of an inferiority complex over his own team.
 
It cant be a difficult concept to grasp that the championship is more attractive than a league half full of part timers
 
"Their “importance” comes from geography; they are on one side of the English border and we’re on the other."

Pot/kettle. If Celtic played in the English football pyramid they'd be very envious of our 2004 league cup win. If we were an SPL side we'd have a cabinet full of cups and Europe on a regular basis.
 
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We’re not seventh we’re sixth
The trophy their manager is holding? I think they played 4 games and the includes Raith Rovers. Tough competition to win I know.
 
SPL = Sunday Pub League

There is no glory in winning a trophy in Scotland unless you are one of the teams that aren't Celtic and Rangers.
 
Well that was an entertaining read:oops:! he's not at all bitter is he!! Never mind lad, back to school now.
 
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I couldn't help but laugh it this guys blog post. It's his analysis of Boro that makes me laugh, his fact finding is second to none.
It's a good job he's not bitter :LOL:

My dog could win a trophy battling me for a tennis ball in the back garden, it doesn't mean it's worth anything to anyone (certainly not me), and the dog doesn't even want it after he's got it either.

Yes, they "play" European football, but it's hardly earned, as the competition outside the top two spots have <10% of the resources, and they rarely respectable in such competitions. They won one game in the group stage of the CL last year, and most years they get knocked out a the group stage. There's a big difference to playing in Europe, compared to winning as many as you lose, and even more than that to get in a Semi Final or Final.

They're probably one of the most well supported full time clubs in Europe, but the amount of games they win compared to other clubs of the same size is laughable, which is why nobody outside Scotland is fussed about them. >90% of their SPL games are effectively walkovers, and recently they're losing all the games against Rangers. Only took two years of Rangers being an SPL club, to overtake and dominate them again. Effectively they're bottom of their two team league and out of the CL in the second qualifying round, so how is that expected to appeal to most players?

They sometimes put up a bit of a fight against English clubs, I'll give them that, but they treat it like their biggest game of the year, where as their oppo just treat it as another game.

They would be below us in the Championship, if they were in this league, and if we got in the prem that's a level which they'll never get to, and have never been at.
 
I was surprised how far he was able get before his reference to the other Club that makes up the Scottish Premier League.
 
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It's a good job he's not bitter :LOL:

My dog could win a trophy battling me for a tennis ball in the back garden, it doesn't mean it's worth anything to anyone (certainly not me), and the dog doesn't even want it after he's got it either.

Yes, they "play" European football, but it's hardly earned, as the competition outside the top two spots have <10% of the resources, and they rarely respectable in such competitions. They won one game in the group stage of the CL last year, and most years they get knocked out a the group stage. There's a big difference to playing in Europe, compared to winning as many as you lose, and even more than that to get in a Semi Final or Final.

They're probably one of the most well supported full time clubs in Europe, but the amount of games they win compared to other clubs of the same size is laughable, which is why nobody outside Scotland is fussed about them. >90% of their SPL games are effectively walkovers, and recently they're losing all the games against Rangers. Only took two years of Rangers being an SPL club, to overtake and dominate them again. Effectively they're bottom of their two team league and out of the CL in the second qualifying round, so how is that expected to appeal to most players?

They sometimes put up a bit of a fight against English clubs, I'll give them that, but they treat it like their biggest game of the year, where as their oppo just treat it as another game.

They would be below us in the Championship, if they were in this league, and if we got in the prem that's a level which they'll never get to, and have never been at.
to be fair they were the first British team to win the European cup so they certainly played at a higher level that us but they are screwed now as there is no TV money in the Scottish game compared to England if they were in the english leagues don't think it would be too long before they were in the top half of the premier with the money they could generate
 
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