The End......
"The Lord Of The Wing" (LOTW) started three seasons ago so that I wouldnae get bored at lunchtime. It has grown without ever troubling the "Top 4" Celtic Sites, which pimp themselves on newsnow.
In football terms we are like Reading. Nice wee side, never going to win anything but play decent football but ultimately will be like your wee cousin who you like but you feel quite sorry for as he gets bullied at school and is useless at sport.
Over the last 3 seasons we have seen 3 titles, 2 cups and 2 last 16's of the Champions League. I think we have improved content wise since those early days but all things change and nothing stands still. So with great sadness I announce that http://www.thelordofthewing.blogspot.com/ will be no more from 28th May 2008.
You can stop celebrating at the back. As the Wu Tang Clan said once the revolution would be televised. Well LOTW is joining the revolution that is http://www.oleole.com/ . A football revolution on the net. An alternative idea, which, for me, is like John Lydon and The Sex Pistols swearing on national tv. Here is the blurb that can explain it better than I can.
The nice people at oleole want LOTW to become the featured blog on Celtic. It was an oppertunity I couldnae miss. We are in at the start. It's the future and I reckon it will be bigger than King Kongs gonads.
What will change? Nothing. Well, we will get a new address (http://thelordofthewing.oleole.com/) and a new lick of paint (the design is that top secret I have just seen a snippet, then the jpeg exploded) plus the chance to add new features.
So, here is the Lord Of The Wing profile page. Log in, tune in and drop out. It's life but not as we know it.
I hope to see all the LOTWites that have made this wee blog what it is over on oleole. If I don't then I hope to see you someday on the other side. Enjoy. I'll leave with a wee song that I think is apt.
Hello Goodbye.
In football terms we are like Reading. Nice wee side, never going to win anything but play decent football but ultimately will be like your wee cousin who you like but you feel quite sorry for as he gets bullied at school and is useless at sport.
Over the last 3 seasons we have seen 3 titles, 2 cups and 2 last 16's of the Champions League. I think we have improved content wise since those early days but all things change and nothing stands still. So with great sadness I announce that http://www.thelordofthewing.blogspot.com/ will be no more from 28th May 2008.
You can stop celebrating at the back. As the Wu Tang Clan said once the revolution would be televised. Well LOTW is joining the revolution that is http://www.oleole.com/ . A football revolution on the net. An alternative idea, which, for me, is like John Lydon and The Sex Pistols swearing on national tv. Here is the blurb that can explain it better than I can.
The nice people at oleole want LOTW to become the featured blog on Celtic. It was an oppertunity I couldnae miss. We are in at the start. It's the future and I reckon it will be bigger than King Kongs gonads.
What will change? Nothing. Well, we will get a new address (http://thelordofthewing.oleole.com/) and a new lick of paint (the design is that top secret I have just seen a snippet, then the jpeg exploded) plus the chance to add new features.
So, here is the Lord Of The Wing profile page. Log in, tune in and drop out. It's life but not as we know it.
I hope to see all the LOTWites that have made this wee blog what it is over on oleole. If I don't then I hope to see you someday on the other side. Enjoy. I'll leave with a wee song that I think is apt.
Hello Goodbye.
Forza
*T-shirt at the top of the blog is available at Kerrydale Street. All proceeds going to charity and they are the must have of the summer. I've got mine. No it isnnae an extra large....
*T-shirt at the top of the blog is available at Kerrydale Street. All proceeds going to charity and they are the must have of the summer. I've got mine. No it isnnae an extra large....
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Please note: The link to the new site disnny work. It won't until the offical opening on Wednesday.
Progress?
As long as you weren`t doing a Wim Jansen! :-)
Congratulations for the effort that you have been expending in order to give us all the clips and the stats that the blog is famous for.
What are the stats for the Eurovision song contest tonight?
Forza
Eastern European flavour I think this evening. The wee nations will club together and make sure one of their own will win.
The Russian entry is the favourite and rightly so. It's almost a home tie and she is a bit of a looker.
Norway could also get votes in the good look stakes. But do they travel well?
Canny see an away goal victory tonight.
11/2 Russia is the bet.
Each way? An henrick inspired Sweden seems to have Europes backing....
Oh, thanks for the kind words. There was no chance of me doing a Wim....
Didn't reading make the Waffa Cup this year? Quite the metaphor you've chosen...(disregard if the metaphor is not correct, can ya blame me for not knowing my middle table EPL?)
Congrats all the same! I got in on the OleOle revolution just before this announcement, but it was mostly because of your Tommy Memorial photos...
Matt: Reading got relegated on the final day. No goals in 7 games or something...
Still...people think that they are nice wee team.
Kevman, we're pumped to get you on OleOle. I think LOTW will look quite nice next to Arseblog on the homepage
If any of you boys have questions/problems/ideas during the move... or when Kevin gets too important for the rest of us, I'm TheCure on OleOle or you can drop me a line Joe.Cure@oleole.com
Cheers Joe.....
Aye, any problems E-Mail Joe, I no longer talk to the little people....
From Keving
(Lying beside his pool in his big Lenzie mansion)
At last flicking through the World Soccer that`s been unopened for the last 3 weeks.
Spain have a suspect defence and a small slow midfield.
Portugal have the better defence but they and Turkey will be expecting to qualify before second level countries Switzerland and the Czech Rep.
Hey there`s more!
Kevin, compliments for not bad karma, I can`t think of any player who has left this blog with egg on face. Where is Jim Hamilton playing these days? :-)
Forza Italia?
Scusi, I missed out my verb! You SO have to leave us behind!
I meant `not doing bad karma` :-/
Never did get a ticket for today, I was hoping to find someone to go with, anyway it`ll be full of restless weans! :-)
Enjoy
Hail! Hail!
As for the T shirts....if one of my students thinks he can wear that in class....
NO CHANCE!:-)
Was at CP today Ian. Restless weans and tourists causing the upmost confusion and long queues. You put the ticket in and it beeps.
Decent game with the hoops winning 5-1. No surprise as the hoops team was younger and fitter than the Motherwell team. Guys like McKay,Donnelly, McNamara, McLaughlin and Larsson still play, Jackson, Boyd, Gould play the masters circuit, Tommy Johnston (playing left back) has just retired and guys like Blinker, Reiper, Annoni Brattbakk, Burley and esp Morten Weighorst look like they did 10 years ago.
Only Tosh and Lambert seem to have a middle spread now.
Big Morten gave a midfield masterclass. I wonder If Massimo was watching? He really did look like he could still do a job at a high level.
Goals from Morten, Henrick (spectacular volley then the PA cracked up the M7 song) two from Brattbakk (both tap ins) and a diving heider from Jackson.
Great Phil and Tommy banner from the JB’s, moving tributes on the big screens (Mac The Knife for TB) and someone called Stephen McManus brought out a wee trophy at the final whistle.
Nice day and Henrick and the trophy didnae steal the limelight.
RIP TB and POD.
I`m pleased that it was great weather, it was strange knowing that there was a game at Celtic Park and not being there. Thanks for the mini report!
I`ve just checked the TV mag to see if there is midweek footy!
Friday 4.30 BBC2 Czech Rep v Scotland
AND Saturday 10.05 BBC1 SPL season in 90 minutes.
Forza
Ian: Not long until the Euros start. I will be covering it from an Celtic angle.
Also preparing a lot for the end of this week:-)
41 years ago today........Big Jock Knew what he was doing, right enough
The original television broadcast of the match on BBC featured the sound of a ticking clock. It was a fine day, a 5.30 kick off on a Thursday and I`d finished my last exam, the now defunct Applied Mechanics that day. Passed it too!
Everyone knew the magnitude of what had been achieved, the Real Madrid v Eintracht Frankfurt match at Hampden seven years earlier had made a big impression on Scottish football.
Laptop loyal alert.
I noticed in today`s Metro that they managed to have four negative Celtic stories on the same page(p61).
1)`Hinkel cool on Hoops move after Euro blow`- total nonsense
2) `Nicholas tips Strachan to quit Celtic`
3) `Kiev bid irresistible for happy Vukojevic`
4) `McDonald facing a wasted journey`.. `meanwhile Nakamura admits that Japan are in crisis`
Page 62, `Ferguson to avoid surgery`- the real headline from Smith is ignored, ` ..there will be a lot of movement in the summer with one or two leaving and more coming in`
On page 63, we have `DaMarcus tips Gers to depose champions`
-----------------------------------Our title glory didn`t last very long. :-)
Ian: Correct I noticed that myself. Smith was quoted as saying he will only replace the players that leave.....
Did we expect anything else?
Today is DDay for the blog.
Will post a message when it ends. Could be later on this evening (mair inlikely it will be tonight)
Is it up yet ?
Ole Ole
good luck with the new site
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