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I can't believe nobody has mentioned that utterly shambolic USA 5 Scotland 1 result at the weekend.

 

Another fantastic performance from the national side last night. Hopefully Levein won't be long in the job now.
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It looked like one of those pre-season games where one teams been on a intense programme for weeks and the other is just in the early throws after a long summer lay off. Utterly shambolic.

 

Having said the the way USA pressed the ball all over the pitch was incredible. Normally see that for 15-25 minutes if your lucky then players tire a little but they went hammer and tongs for the full duration and given the heat and humidity was pretty remarkable. Levein singling out Scott Brown for pass marks sums up a lot of our Scottish mentality as all he did was run around niggling players and noising people up when he didn't have the ball and not much when he did have it.

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Alan Thompson has left Celtic, apparently he'll be joining Lambert at Villa.

Trust you to report the boring, sensible version of the story! :laugh:

I've seen the other stories, but they don't seem to be backed by decent sources (yet)!

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Rumours of booze problems and that he's dating a female of questionable background. Nothing major really.

 

An interesting article regarding Motherwells first foray into the Champions League;

 

Herograms in the dressing room, budget cuts in the boardroom. The ultimate summer reality check.

 

Stuart McCall probably thought guiding Motherwell into the Champions League for the first time in the club

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Rumours of booze problems and that he's dating a female of questionable background. Nothing major really.

I don't get how supposedly dating a "porn star" is such a bad thing these days. It ain't the 1950s. BBC are reporting that he is gone though. Sacked apparently.

 

Alan Thompson Sacked!

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Rumours of booze problems and that he's dating a female of questionable background. Nothing major really.

I don't get how supposedly dating a "porn star" is such a bad thing these days. It ain't the 1950s.

It wasn't a porn star I was talking about. There are rumours that he was dating a gangsters ex-wife.

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So what are Willie McStay's credentials as a youth coach. Good, bad, indifferent? Our lot seem to have gone mental that we have signed him as Academy Director or something

 

With the amount of players, staff and so on being linked from North of the Border, may as well get renamed Bristol McCity and be done with it :/

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Not sure how broad the "lifestyle" story encompasses though because although Thompson was out all the time in the west end so were Lennon and Parker and, to a lesser extent, Mjallby. No big deal though, they kept themselves to themselves and just minded their own business and never got any bother. That being said they are all with wifes/partners and Thompson aint so there could be something in the above.

 

Thompsons got previous for drink driving; not sure if he's maybe been on a final chance or something similar?

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So what are Willie McStay's credentials as a youth coach. Good, bad, indifferent? Our lot seem to have gone mental that we have signed him as Academy Director or something

 

With the amount of players, staff and so on being linked from North of the Border, may as well get renamed Bristol McCity and be done with it :/

 

He was Celtic's youth/reserve coach from 1994 until 2009.

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