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Looks like Donati's mind was set fast for some time, on getting back to Italy, inspired by experience with Strachan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/8225760.stm

Doesn't say how much but Mowbray won't get his paws on it.
He could do well in the Serie A.

I don't understand the rationale that a player seen to dive in the box by the ref can get a yellow card but a diver potentially can get a 2 match ban using video evidence after the event for exactly the same dive.

Best situation for spotting penalty box incidents is one that stands the best chance of catching a diver in the act and a yellow card on the spot for a clear dive.

Peter McKenna
"This is the first time we've had criticism"

This is the first time the surface had been tested under very mild damp conditions.

edit,
I see there is another thread for the pitch  conditions

A very disappointing game for an AI SF.
Despite all the informed denials, those disturbances to the surface for the music concert have to be seriously suspect, to the extent of a GAA version of sporting harakiri.

Last year we had a top class exciting game at this level in the pouring rain with Galway and Kerry.
This year a few drizzles ruined the surface for even  basic bog standard play.

Good news for  Glenn Loovens, the Dutch coach has been impressed enough

'Celtic defender Glenn Loovens has been handed his first call-up by Holland for their upcoming fixtures against Japan and Scotland.'

My family could read and write and had a domestic servant who could also read and write.

I couldn't find my family in a custom search.
Then I discovered that the anglicized fecker who wrote down the details, misspelt my family name with a colloquial spelling.

Who said things were better under the Brits.

Nor will you get a manager like Mobray crying Infamy Infamy.

Mowbray said immediatly after the match that he's got no need to watch a video with multiple angles as it happened right in front of him and after Aiden running and having ridden one tackle with a 2nd about to happen he went over in anticipation of getting whacked.
It appears the vast majority of Celtic fans also think he dived without contact being made and deserved his yellow.

Refreshing honesty 

Very recent events have cause me to ponder that maybe there is some substance in this 'things even up, over a season'  theory.
I don't know if the theory is supported by stats.
Certainly the theory has its followers.
In line with the 'things even up' theory,
a team could not possibly control where, when or how fast retribution would be exacted.
Arsenal trading a dive  to win a (superfluos) goal in a tie that they had all but secured
for the concession of a crucial soft/suspicious penalty in their very next game against the EPL champs.
It would be the stuff of absurd irony, wouldn't it?

Looks like the article is part of a continuum, of what I would call, Mickey's postmortem survivalist psychology.

In general, the Irish survivalist attempts to minimise a bad situation  'ah sure, it could be worse'.

WTF was Almunia doing way out there?

They should have bought Given

[Mulligan did not cheat]

in a consistant world surely this should piss you off but then on one hand you're a Tyrone fan and the other a Celtic fan and I would question your ability to be impartial.

I am neither a Tyrone fan nor a Celtic fan.
I have never at anytime pretended to be either.
Do you understand the term "supporter" or has it become so degraded in EPL brainwashed ireland?

Where is your condemnation of the armchair pundits Giles, he was as bad as Spillane and was an absolute thug on the pitch but yet you find nothing wrong in him singling out Eduardo like Spillane did Mulligan.

You have not a clue about Giles as a player on the pitch and I would stake a tidy sum that you did not see him play either

Let me put it  simply for you Dinny.
Mulligan did not cheat when he was accused by Splillane, not just my opinion.
Eduardo did cheat, not just my opinion


 

Nothing but where is the condemnation of players faking injuries, pretending goals weren't scored and playing on as normal, surely that is any even worse form of cheating and completely against the ethos and spirit of any game.

I don't give a feck if a cheating player is from any one of Man u Liverpool Arsenal Chelsea  etc
Couldn't care less where the latest poncy arsed overpaid demasculated gobs is from. Couldn't care less what club Eduardo is from.
I am just glad that a cheat has been caught, and without doubt, totally comprimised, in the act of outragious cheating for all the world to see and that the people in Uefa who want to clean up this shite with sanctions will get some more support.

I paid good money for my plasma, I also have my honourable sensitivites to consider.

So for Wenger and Wengerites
it's
Why pick on us?

For elevation of life above the boring and predictable, let's not look to Arsenal for inspiration on that one.

Almost as predictable as your hypocrisy, you must be really pissed off with yourself

Here's a quote from the Alan O'Connor thread

I thought Spillane's ranting and raving about Mulligan supposed cheating for the second yellow incident were a disgrace.
Somehow it pees me off no end when the pundits single out a player and hammer him because they are on a mission from God in the pundits chair. In the last game some Mayo player got loudly slagged off in a very sly and vicious manner.

You are completly off your rocking horse Dinny.

Firstly Mulligan was loudly and quite wrongly accused by Spillane of diving/cheating when the Cork player made contact with him, which got him sent off.
Secondly the Mayo player I was referring to, was loudly slagged in a personal sly way by Spillane for not performing after he came on as a sub.

What possible connection has the ethos of GAA sport got to do with Eduardo cheating?
What possible contradiction does my opinion on Spillane have with anything i have written on this thread?
What has it to with efforts to sanction such cheats, as was perfectly demonstrated by Eduardo, and squash it out of the game as it is played at this level.

[b. Why pick on us for exclusive scrutiny?]

What are the odds
Wenger
a. Applauds UEFA and will cooperate fully with UEFA in their (feeble) attempts to clean up club sanctioned cheating.
or
b. Why pick on us for exclusive scrutiny?

He'd be correct in doing so.  I'm not going to defend Eduardo's actions but the decision to single him out is ridiculous, how many others have been guilty of diving in recent seasons but have gone unpunished?  If UEFA had made a statement at the beginning of the season that they were implementing a crackdown on this sort of thing then fair enough, but instead they have reacted to the complaints of sore losers and the over reaction of the british media. Why would the press decide to turn Eduardo into some sort of hate figure?  Who do England play in there next game?

Dislike Arsenal, but I'd echo Larry Duff's comments 100%.

Sometimes in life you reach the last straw.
It is incidental that it happened to Arsenal.
Eduardo made a mockery of the game, the ethics of sport and an affront to any decent arsenal club member.

Save me from the why us and not them nonsense.
Even a blind bat would be aware that there are cheats  elsewhere, permeating the game with the top clubs..