James Forrest

3 days ago | thecelticblog.com | James Forrest

Ronald Reagan used to tell a story about a kid who got up on Christmas morning expecting a fine present. He went downstairs, was led out to the back garden, and found himself standing in front of a steaming pile of shit. He was handed a shovel and told to get busy. Another kid, who lived across the way, came by and spotted him digging furiously, a smile on his face. He asked him why he looked so happy.

3 days ago | thecelticblog.com | James Forrest

Way back several months ago, as I was trying to get to the bottom of the abiding mystery of why a group of American investors would want to take over a football club based in Scotland, I spoke to someone with some knowledge of US-backed takeovers. They told me that much of the direction of travel would hinge not on whether they could obtain a majority shareholding, but on whether they could get to 75%. That conversation was the genesis of several articles I wrote on the subject.

4 days ago | thecelticblog.com | James Forrest

In the last half a week, we’ve seen, once again, how dreadful the media here in Scotland actually is. We’ve seen how bad they are at their jobs. We’ve seen, in fact, that some of them are dreadful at what they do. The sports media here has to be one of the worst anywhere. The takeover at Ibrox has exposed them all over again. Just the other day, I did a piece on how certain people in the mainstream media are taking a shot at the Celtic bloggers for our stance on this. They are talking rubbish.

4 days ago | thecelticblog.com | James Forrest

James Forrest | 16:00 03/06/25 Moving from one of the better transfer ideas to one of the worst… Earlier on, I wrote about Bojan Miovski, and how he would have been a really good signing for Celtic a couple of years back, and how, if he’s available for a £2 million knockdown fee, he’s exactly the kind of player we should be considering going for in this window.

4 days ago | livefortheoutdoors.com | James Forrest

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