i never get my hopes up when rumours of him leaving swirl, because he would then have to get by on his actual footballing ability, which will never ever happen
🗣️ "It’s where I want to be. Ultimately I want to keep driving everything I possibly can to make sure this club is successful."
Callum McGregor on his Celtic future, hope for signings & Champions League target ahead of Monday’s league opener against Dundee, live on Sky ⤵️
Since the Arab spring, states on the European periphery have been more than happy to offload surplus young men — especially the chronically unemployed, delinquent & potentially restive urban underclass — to go and be someone else’s problem.
More than that, they use the threat of them as political leverage. And are beginning to understand the influence that can be exerted through their sizeable diaspora in European cities.
You can be angry at them for exploiting your generosity and playing dirty tricks. But you should also ask why some of the largest economies in the world let themselves get bullied like this.
AC Milan and Italy legend Franco Baresi has passed away aged 66.
One of the game's greatest defenders, Baresi won three European Cups and two UEFA Super Cups, representing Italy on 81 occasions.
Our thoughts are with his family, friends and former team-mates.
@SarahChampionMP@dignityindying Can I ask - do you agree with Kim Leadbeater and Lord Falconer that these are legitimate reasons for the state to offer people an assisted death?
The post-Widdecombe crisis for the left is that when they post images of themselves threatening to guillotine Nigel Farage, we tend to believe them.
There is no reason to interpret it in good faith because that good faith is never ever reciprocated.
probably at a 'he loved big brother' point with celtic, but i think i'd rather have a complacent senile billionaire who probably traces his lineage to the 12th century norman irish nobility as celtic owner than a
american hedge fund consortium or some crazy rich arab/asians
Anger at this Board aka Dermot Desmond is justified. Remember it wasn't long ago he instructed fences to be put up to keep fans out. A very dark day. DD might hold the shares, but @CelticFC belongs to the anti-establishment fans. Is he being spiteful 're transfers ? Just go DD.🍀
Nolan Odyssey suck and so do most who complain about it; they claim they want faithful retelling but complain on “nonlinear” narrative because they didn’t read it and think nonlinear is “leftist newfangled hipster bullshit.” They didn’t read it because they only care about it as a political symbol and museum piece devoid of any direct content or meaning for them beyond its social utility. They see religion the same way btw
Nolan's obsessions with the non-linear storytelling gimmick really hurts this film. It jumps around so much, and spends so little time on any one particular moment or scene, that you never really feel like Odysseus is on an epic journey spanning many years. When he makes it home, you never feel like he's been gone for 20 years. The film does not capture the grandeur and scope of the original epic. That's why it feels rushed and too long simultaneously. The movie comes off like a rough draft. Nolan was searching for the actual story but never quite found it.
Hard to think of a story that better captures coastal England today:
A seaside town's beach is sold to a French company that then seals it off. Locals break in. Someone shoots a CCTV camera with an air rifle.
Along the way, we meet teenagers who think it would be 'banging' to move to Australia, a young man who can't afford a flat so moves to Blackpool, a pensioner angry that the public toilets have been closed for three months.
I don't think that was true when I was younger. woke take but if anything, the obsession with winning meant athleticism was prioritised over technical development. physically dominant kids, banging in goals at 6–10 who ended up in goal by the time they were 15 etc
@Josh_Merfeld it was everything else that bothered me. the Med drained of its colour, Odysseus of his humour, valour, pride and thirst for revenge. Even Emily Wilson, whose feminist translation of The Odyssey underpins the film, felt Nolan goes too far in reshaping it to fit hollywood morality