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steven thicot

Okay, we lost 6-0 to Barcelona tonight, you can read about it everywhere else. In the second half, a new player came on and it appears to be a 21 year old French player, Steven Thicot. Here’s a translation from the French Wikipedia.

It has all the hallmarks of a few other not great signings we’ve made in the not too distant past. He looked reasonable tonight with the ability to pick out a pass but it wasn’t really the game to be judging players.

The announcer called him “Steven Thicot” when he came on rather than “trialist” which suggests he has signed for the Hibees already.

Good luck, Steven Thicot.

In an interview to the Mail Online, Sir Alex Ferguson came out with the following:

DO you think that as more and more clubs are bought by foreign billionaires, you are going to see more interference by them?

Aye, you are going to get interference more and more from a manager’s point of view. I think there are signs of that. I mean the guy who owns Hearts takes the team out to the manager.

I jokingly put out a headline about the extremely boring Tamas/Celtic saga being off a week ago.   It snared a few thousand Celtc fans, who took the prank with varying degrees of grace (see the comments).  Now, it appears from reports today that the deal has actually fallen through.  It seems that the biscuit tin is alive and well at Parkhead as they have refused the player’s wage demands.  120 years of copying the Hibees continues.

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Rangers & Celtic fans are known to partake in mutual fellation

Falkirk have rejected Rangers’ and Celtic’s demands for a 5% cut of sales they make to their supporters for away games.  The Bairns, who play Rangers on the first day of the new season, have decided to sell the tickets themselves and should have no problems in doing so.

Dundee United play Celtic on 17th of August, that being the next away game for one of the Old Squirm.  It’ll be interesting to see what line the Arabs take in this, as they will be next to show their hand.  Kilmarnock chairman Michael Johnston has already described the Rantic action as stirring up a hornets’ nest.

It’ll also be interesting to see how Hibs handle the situation.  Normally I would expect our board to act as spinelessly as they usually do but in this case, it’s about taking money out of Hibs’ pocket - and there’s no way any Old Firm thief is getting a chance to dip the Velcro sealed pockets of Farmer, Petrie and Lindsey.

If the clubs stick together on this, Celgers will have scored a massive own goal for their fans who will have to go out of their way to buy tickets from different clubs each week.  They will still sell out away ends up and down the country but it might be that there will be more local Huns and Tims going to the games than the usual sectarian rent-a-mob.  Maybe it’s a good thing after all?  I’d take characterless glory hunters polluting my street ahead of the pale, unwashed, nylon clad, bigot hoards that currently visit.

Only kidding, ya bunch of fannies! Feel free to leave a comment….

Note for fans of the first team to wear the green - they’re like flies round Celtic park when they hear any news about whatever Euro-journeyman they’re about to sign.  It’s fun to snare a few….