Yeah he’s probably a bit skint
“You can go to quite a lot of teams in the Premier League and it would be like a holiday compared to managing Celtic”.
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Because being in Glasgow is like a prison sentence?
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I remember a visitor commenting about what a lovely view my Glasgow office had overlooking the Clyde. I then had to explain the body boat to her.
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our assistant coach once managed the Gers,
won the Scottish Cup, took the Gers to the Europa League final in the same season
beating Dortmund, Red Star, Braga and Leipzip along the way,
lost his job the next season because his Gers team were 9 points behind the Celts, with around 25 games still to play
If you manage an old Firm team, nothing matters except beating the other half of the old Firm and winning the league, if you dont then your out!
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Jan the Man hanging out with @RedWhippet
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That was McDermot’s second season and he still hadn’t established himself enough to get the number of appearances he needed. Another reminder to not judge signings too soon.
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2 absolute legends right there.
Darwin’s gone full Joe Pesci in Casino with that new haircut.
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I miss George. 
Would rather meet him than some of our ex-players or managers.
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Proper old school.
“I let my record player do my talking.”
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He actually introduced me to quite a few new bands during matches in the 1980s. You don’t really get that sort of passive exposure these days. It probably accounts for the turgid state of the music industry. Obviously, there will be good stuff out there, but no one is hearing it by accident.
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Gonna have to explain it to me as well,..
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I remember when we played Barcelona at Anfield in 2001, when we lost 1-3 (we went 1 up, but then Barca played us off the park, I think they scored one of their last goals after around 70 passes - we couldn’t get near them and at times it felt we didn’t want to).
The game was live on TV in Croatia and during HT, for some reason for once there were no adverts, the camera remained from the Annie Road End looking straight at the Kop. Even the lights were different inside the ground at that time, it made the Kop (back then even it’s roof was untouched, the border of it was just a straight line, unlike today) look really imposing.
Being 11 at the time, I remember just staring at that sight for 15 minutes and listening to George, the stuff he was saying and the music he played. It was another extra something about Liverpool that made me fall in love even more with the club.
Then when I made it to the Barca game on the Kop in 2019, he was at his best. Lots of us were still in shock and tears after the final whistle, not wanting to leave the ground. Then he played some extra few songs (even YNWA after the game was only on special occasions, like Chelsea '05).
Then he gave a radio interview the day after, explaining why he played some songs (including Imagine), etc. I’m really happy that I was able to witness it live.
From what I know, he’s often in Homebaked (great place, I love the Shankly pie) outside Anfield. I’d love to bump into him one day, maybe when it’s not even matchday and too many people around.
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The “Body Boat” is the Glaswegian nickname for the Glasgow Humane Society. They operate a lifeboat service for the Clyde, but often this is recovering corpses that were found floating in the river:
I actually found a dead homeless person next to the service door of that office building as well. For what was essentially and office based job, I did seem to see a lot of dead bodies.
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Remember Iago Aspas (38 yr young)? Scored a screamer today for Celta Vigo vs Nice.
Credit: 4gjdtokurwa on Reddit
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