Tony Mowbray: Celtic Manager
By: Matt | June 5th, 2009
It is fitting that the man that introduced a ritual that is considered in the same breath as Celtic FC will now lead the club into this important transition period. Multiple sources have now confirmed that former West Brom manager and inventor of “The Huddle”, Tony Mowbray will be confirmed as the next manager of Celtic FC on Monday. Assisting Mowbray will be fellow former Celtic player Peter Grant and Neil Lennon will keep his job as a first team coach. Mowbray will take over for a manager that led Celtic to 3 league titles and unprecedented Champions League success for Celtic. Expectations will be high right away for the new manager, but one must wonder if a former Celtic man will have a longer leash than the “outsider” will. In his time with West Brom, he nearly secured promotion for the Baggies his first season and was able to gain passage to the Premiership(suck it, Barclays) in his second. While the Baggies were sent down this season under his watch, Mowbray was known for attacking style, something that has been missing from Celtic for a few years, but simply did not have the players necessary for that style in the EPL. Mowbray will be sent into the pressure cooker early, as Celtic have some high profile friendlies in the Wembley Cup in early July and then have two rounds of Champions League qualifiers to sort out. The Celtic Offside would like to officially welcome Tony Mowbray back to Celtic and wish him good luck. Hail Hail!
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I like that as well Stephane! I also think, how you say, that you’re a funny guy…
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Walter Smith will destroy him. You timmys will be praying you had Strachan back.
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136 Years of Unsurpassed DignityPosted from
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oh thanks Tony. We backed you even when we got relegated, do you think we will back you when you do this? how could you leave a team with top class potential to join a team with no future!
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I think you have things backwards their danny boy…haha The Baggies are permaraging for sure…
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Typical English arrogance. I think how you say you should say realize that the EPL will collapse and many teams as you now know them will no longer exist.
Of course most English fans dont have enough brainpower to comprehend complex finances. So keep on believing this bubble will last forever.
When it bursts I will how you say laugh at all of you.
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StephannePosted from
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Who are WBA?
A club ran by a cheap bastard, a club with a microscopic fan base whose only relevance comes from playing in a league funded by Rupert Murdoch.
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Mowbray has not yet left west brom. why is it celtic fans are slagging off the EPL when they wanna join it ??? beats me!!!! If TM does leave west brom. i hope celtic faily epicly ( go rangers)
regards stu
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I was unaware that West Brom were in the EPL…But good to see you’re not petty Stu, wanting to see a guy who worked hard for your club to do well or anything. The only thing holding up Mowbray being announced with Celtic is West Brom being petty and childish.
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I’m a bit surpirsed at all the vitriol.
WBA is now a stepping stone club, a la Celtic. In the current economic landscape, we are catalyst clubs. The top talent, managers and players alike, want to be in the top-flight of England in the top eight clubs.
WBA should be happy a talented gaffer like Mowbray graced the Hawthornes for three good years. Yet, just as your young talent will move on, so too, should he.
However, when in Rome…
1. WBA are a club who can’t decide if they are named for birds, trees or shorts…or all three
2. WBA are a club who sullied the reputation of Jeff Astle by aquiring a completely soused George Best
3. WBA are a club who, since 1968, have one moment of beauty which came at the expense of Port Vale – PORT VALE – in ‘93…including the savior Kieran Richardson
4. WBA let Steve Bull walk – HA!Hail! Hail!
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I know Celtic are a big club, but a big fish in a tiny tiny pond. We know all about the Lisbon Lions, but theres nothing else. Mowbray would be mad to go to a club that only has to beat the Huns to win the League. Wheres your ambition Tony?
Stay at the Albion and fulfill yours ambitions and let these religious bigots fight over the crumbs.Posted from
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Riddle me this Tam…How’d West Brom do in the Champions League last year? And the year before? And the year before that? And how about this year? Oh, ok…Not sure what “ambitions” he can fulfill in the Colaship, besides promotion which he’s already earned. It’s time to move on for someplace bigger for ToMo. Good to see your soccer knowledge by throwing in the typical non-sequitor about “religious bigotry” having nothing to do with the argument at hand. You seemed to conveniently ignore the first post on this page, where Mowbray declares Celtic will be his club forever.
Good luck in the Championship and all, though…we hear Gordon Strachan needs a job….
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Ryan,
get your facts right.
A playoff win in the third tier of english football is more of an achievement then lets say 3 promotions to the premiership? or a FA cup Semi final?
numpty
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How about a Champions League win? Or a European Cup? Are they more important than that? Numpty.
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Looks like the Bhoys cant afford the 2 million compensation! And I thought that our chairman was a tight-wad!!
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Ryan,
The Baggies nickname actually came from Villa fans calling Albion fans “The baggies from bromwich” because of their ill fitting sunday best moleskin trousers.Posted from
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The baggies came in to existance 10 years before Celtic and have a very proud history thank you very much Schrute!
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Honours
The Albion team of 1920 display the League Championship trophy and Charity Shield* Football League First Division (old)[G]
o Champions: 1919–20
o Runners-up: 1924–25, 1953–54
* Football League Second Division (old), Division One (modern), Football League Championship
o Champions: 1901–02, 1910–11, 2007–08
o Runners-up: 1930–31, 1948–49, 2001–02, 2003–04
* Division Two (modern)
o Play-off Winners: 1992–93
* FA Cup
o Winners: 1888, 1892, 1931, 1954, 1968
o Runners-up: 1886, 1887, 1895, 1912, 1935
* Football League Cup
o Winners:1966
o Runners-up: 1967, 1970
* FA Charity Shield
o Winners: 1920, 1954 (shared with Wolves)
o Runners-up: 1931, 1968
* Victories in minor cup competitions
o FA Youth Cup: 1976
o Tennent Caledonian Cup: 1977
o Birmingham Senior Cup: 1886, 1895, 1988, 1990, 1991
o Staffordshire Senior Cup: 1883, 1886, 1887, 1889, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1924, 1926, 1932, 1933, 1951, 1969 (shared with Stoke City)
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Didnt say that did I matt, now your a super numpty
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Ricardo,
First of all, I was speaking facetiously…with euphemism.
Secondly, the fact that you have been promoted and subsequently relegated on three occasions only serves you in the West Midlands.
Third, thanks to decka76’s cut-n-paste job, we can clearly see my point – the bulk of Baggie history peters out around 1971. But I forget, we are including promotion / relegation as feathers in a cap.
The next time WBA hosts a European match, or even a match for the final Europa Cup place, I’ll gladly tune in with my ‘31 cup shirt on.
I would love to see The Albion acquire a player the caliber of Astle, Cunningham or Regis. But you, as Celtic will never have the funds to secure such a talent. Should WBA procure such a talent through a youth scheme, he will surely pull a W. Rooney. So, just relax already. We are a bit more alike than you may wish.
P.S. no need to list The Hoops accomplishments. We have a song about them.
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Good points made, well played.
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sad to see him go because after 2 or 3 or 6 years of tedium in the spl he will quit celtic and head back south to enter the real world just like m.o,neil did.
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Well tbh this is a classic case of ‘We’re a big club, and we want what a little club has.’ syndrome. We’ve all seen it 100 times and it’s still as shitty as it was the first time.
If Mowbray want’s to leave Albion, he’s not the man any of us thought he was. Let the Judas Prick go.
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I think mowbray is a good appointment for celtic. wba bosses wanted someone who could sell good talent to bigger clubs they were not seriuos in the big leauge it’s all about money and sustaining survival from sky and selling talent. mowbray wanted young players to move to greater things which is why they played good football which he taught them. so wba should wish mowbray well because his style has attracted a big move for him also as it will his young good players.
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Please, please, please…..Do not try to convince Albion fans that a move to Celtic is a move to a ‘Better football Club’…Celtic would. I believe struggle in the Championship.
Ok I concede that the lure of Euro football may be irresistable, however loyalty is still a treasured quality….If Celtic managers were to offered jobs at…Man U….Real Madrid…Barca…Chelsea…etc you would accept the ‘reality’ but abhor the suggestion of ‘a move to a better club’…West Brom have a long and proud history….My father grandfather etc were fans so my ties are as strong as yours…So do not patronise our irritation….If Celtic and West Brom played once per year over the past 100 years…we both know who the win to loss table would favour…..yes …the BaggiesPosted from
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Stew-I would actually concede that a move to any of the clubs mentioned would be a step up. I value loyalty, but it is not as if Mowbray has spent all of his career at West Brom. He’s moved around before, and the fact remains is that he is a Celtic man. He played there and has made it apparent that he is a Celtic man for life. If he were to get a move to Real, Chelsea, etc after being at Celtic, I’d wish him well because it meant that he’s had some great success at Celtic. We’re both stepping stones, we’re just a bit bigger.
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