Derrick Wright

Family, Celtic and friends. Left wing politics. Shuttle between Glasgow & London for the job.

[Stephen Flynn @StephenFlynnSNP]

A week to celebrate. A week to recover. An extra week just to annoy this guy.

On repeat every year until the end of time.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

Today is the anniversary of D-Day & at the American cemetery in Normandy, French caretakers collect sand from Omaha Beach & rub it into the gravestones to highlight the names of the departed.

They do this for all 9,388 soldiers who lay there.

#DDay80

[Derrick Wright @Derrickw146]

@For_Film_Fans Great movie 👍

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

59 Candles 🎂 today for one of my favourite Actors - PAUL GIAMATTI

SIDEWAYS (2004)

[MickG @gorbalsmick71]

Born in the Cowgate, Edinburgh,
158 years ago today.
Socialist, trade unionist, revolutionary.
James Connolly 🇮🇪🚩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Paul John Dykes @PaulJohnDykes]

Whilst we’re on the subject of sabotage…

Before agreeing to return, Rodgers was assured that recruitment had improved since his first tenure.

Remember that first window? £19m spent on 10 players. Nothing had changed. We were still on the hunt for cheap punts.

He wanted centre-backs with pace for the Champions League. Mark Lawwell delivered Maik Nawrocki & Gustaf Lagerbielke - two players who had no pace.

We sold Jota & Abada, but failed to adequately replace them.

Joe Hart announced his retirement in February 2024, yet we had no replacement lined up five months later when Rodgers had to personally contact Kasper Schmeichel and do the recruitment team’s job for them.

On to the second season, where we actually showed some ambitious intent in the summer window. The fact we were without a Head of Football at that time due to the departure of Mark Lawwell may have been coincidental.

We sold Matt O’Riley and then Kyogo in January, but failed to adequately replace them.

Then came the third season, where we were dreadfully ill-prepared for the Champions League, failing to negotiate the qualifiers for the 7th time in 9 attempts.

We sold Kuhn, but failed to adequately replace him (do you see the trend developing here?).

We kept Maeda when his head was already in Wolfsburg.

We sold Idah, messed up the Dolberg deal, then had to go back to the Rodgers Rolodex to bring in Iheanacho.

When Rodgers eventually spoke out about this amateur approach to recruitment, someone at the club briefed against him to the worst tabloid rag imaginable.

You may well have a predetermined view on Brendan Rodgers, but he wasn’t the one sabotaging Celtic. If you believe that, you’ll agree with every word of Desmond’s statement obliterating the man on his departure - a statement that remains a stain on Celtic’s reputation.

The target of our disdain should be fully focused on those in the boardroom who are incapable of progressing our football club, not on managers trying to achieve success to a backdrop of chaos and dysfunction.

[Past Glasgow @PastGlasgow]

There are precious few photos of tenements under construction, but this one's a beauty. Looking down the avenue and beyond to Victoria Rd in the 1870s, with the tenements on Queen's Drive going up on the left.

📷 George Washington Wilson

#Glasgow

[Karen Tennents girl 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💙 @karen_flynn]

Day out for the Bank Holiday ☀️ go and see John at the Ice Cream Shop,Pittenweem(also a fab old fashioned sweetie shop)He helped us rescue a gull and raises funds for SSPCA. #Pittenweem #Fife ##SSPCA #Scotland

[Karen Tennents girl 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💙 @karen_flynn]

Big shout out to John from the ice cream shop Pittenweem who helped us when we managed to catch an injured seagull. Called SSPCA and now at vets . Poor soul has a broken beak.
Go and buy an ice from John when you re in the area !

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Nigel Farage has 5 houses.

Zack Polanski lives in a house share with 5 other people.

The media is trying to tell you Zack is the problem.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised.

RT if you know it has to be.

[Derrick Wright @Derrickw146]

@andrewsparrow68 Looks stunning 😍

[Celtic Supporters Ltd @celticCSL]

Adidas and Celtic have launched a beautiful 60th anniversary Lisbon Lions strip. CSL fully supports this. The Lions are our greatest team and Lisbon is our greatest triumph. They deserve every commemoration we can give them.

But a jersey is not a strategy. Football has changed. The financial gap between Scottish football and Europe’s elite is real, and nobody is pretending otherwise. Celtic cannot outspend PSG or Manchester City. That was never the argument.

The argument is planning. The board knew this anniversary was coming. Every supporter knew. The 60th anniversary of becoming the first British club to win the European Cup. The most important milestone in our club’s history. A competent board asks one question: what does it take to be in the Champions League for 2026/27? Then you work backwards. Recruitment, squad planning, budget allocation, managerial stability. You build towards it.

That did not happen. We went from strategic failure to tactical negligence.

What should this anniversary have looked like? Champions League football as the foundation. A prestige friendly against Inter Milan at Celtic Park, with the surviving Lions walking out and the families of those legends who have passed represented alongside them. A pilgrimage to Lisbon to play in the city where it all happened. History, revenue, and fan togetherness in one season. The kind of campaign that reminds the world what this club means. A truly unifying event for all associated with our football club.

Instead we got a strip launch.

CSL has done the work to understand why this keeps happening. We will be sharing that work with our members first, on 11th May.

If you want to be part of that conversation join: https://t.co/FBswUqUh43

Register:
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She may not be SNP... But she is YES as fμck 😃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
I am not unhappy with this result in Glasgow. 😃👍

[Derrick Wright @Derrickw146]

@jimmerfaestoney This must be 50
Years old or more
But still 100% on the button. Let’s have more Margos 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💚💚✊🏻✊🏻

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

My post on Farage, Nathan Gill and Russia is being suppressed by the X algorithm - a mere 592 views in 9 hours. Has the algorithm been tweaked to protect Farage in the run up to the local elections?