siebsbarmyarmy Posted April 24, 2013 Report Share Posted April 24, 2013 Higgy, according to BBC, is likely to be off in the summer. Main story on BBC SPL section. I'm actually reading into that article that he wants to stay!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milo Posted April 24, 2013 Report Share Posted April 24, 2013 What an absolutely pish article. Is it just me, or do you get the feeling these articles are sometimes willing the players away?!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Wellfan 2k7 Posted April 24, 2013 Report Share Posted April 24, 2013 I did say according to the BBC I read it as confirmation of the fact that no one knows yet what's happening! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NottsMFC Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 Pettigrew: Higdon is only man fit to claim top gong From Evening Times. No arguments from me! States in the article that Henrik is nominated for YPTOY? Not heard this, guessing it's a mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nethertonwellfan Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 He isn't nominated for the PFA award but maybe he is for the writers version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatcalf Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 Pettigrew: Higdon is only man fit to claim top gong From Evening Times. No arguments from me! States in the article that Henrik is nominated for YPTOY? Not heard this, guessing it's a mistake. Wanyama-Ojamaa, easy mistake to make considering some of the bools in the mooth presenters we have to listen to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NottsMFC Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 Wanyama-Ojamaa, easy mistake to make considering some of the bools in the mooth presenters we have to listen to That wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. Feck knows how some of these journalists get/keep jobs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatcalf Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 That wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. Feck knows how some of these journalists get/keep jobs! Only reason I know is cos I made same mistake yesterday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milo Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 Nae class from lennon as per. As he wonders why he's hated. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22292163 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NottsMFC Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 Nae class from lennon as per. As he wonders why he's hated. http://www.bbc.co.uk...otball/22292163 Knobend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbcmfc Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 Nae class from lennon as per. As he wonders why he's hated. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22292163 Hope Higdon gets it right up him with a hat trick on Sunday. If Lennon had half a brain he could take it as a compliment, celtic has been a team effort with no one stand out, meaning any celtic vote is spread across wanyama, hooper, Forster... That same factor may go against higdon, as anyone looking to Motherwell would have higdon, law and Randolph to consider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milo Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 I turn the telly off when ever he comes on. Even in a relatively stress free season for Celtic his outbursts and paranoid ramblings have been embarrassing. An appalling, vile, odious individual. He is, in short, the worst thing to happen to Scottish football in my lifetime. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nethertonwellfan Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 They guy is a yellow teeth stained ginger tobacco chewing moaning like a spoiled brat greeting clasless tadger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bop Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 Neil Lennon is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet away from football. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelboy Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 Neil Lennon is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet away from football. ted bundy was apparently a lovely guy when he wasn't raping and murdering. popcorn teeth said "I can't see why there's no Kris Commons, Gary Hooper, Victor Wanyama or Fraser Forster on that list." is he suggesting that the list should be 4 celtic players? surely the fact that he can't choose one or two players himself explains why he does't have one player on there? commons - fat, diving bastard who is only good at shooting. hooper - "£9 million" striker outscored by journeymen free transfers forster - a couple of good games in europe do not make a season. wanyama - lennon's think he's worth £25m. juan mata cost £25m. lennon may slightly over rate this average player. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 BTW, Higdon, Europe's 15th deadliest striker: Europe fears Higgy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelboy Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 BTW, Higdon, Europe's 15th deadliest striker: Europe fears Higgy. that finbogason boy at 18 played against us for breidabliek. good player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 Aye, he's on fire for Heerenveen! Interesting as well that Nicky Clark of QOS has scored more than all of what, 3, of them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Stall Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 BTW, Higdon, Europe's 15th deadliest striker: Europe fears Higgy. Dont see Hooper on that list. Someone should tell Lennon its abysmal! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numpty Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 Nae class from lennon as per. As he wonders why he's hated. I liked Fraser Wishart's retort that the nominations were decided by "a democracy, not an 11-1 vote" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJC_MKI Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 He is, in short, the worst thing to happen to Scottish football in my lifetime. This. He is everything that is wrong with Celtic FC and their attitudes to anyone of a non Celtic persuasion, ie. utterly obnoxious, arrogant and unable to see anything from a non Celtic perspective yet that doesn't stop him venting his spew about everything and everyone else in the game. And that's before you throw in the professional victim mentality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 Better article in The Scotsman today. RECOGNITION has not been easy to come by for Michael Higdon. But patience and perseverance have brought their own reward. In a season he will long remember, he is leading the race to finish top goalscorer in the Scottish Premier League and has also been shortlisted for the Players’ Player of the Year award by his fellow professionals. Drawing a blank in his first six games of the season, he has since rattled in 24 goals in the top flight and sits four goals clear of his main challenger, Leigh Griffiths, with four games of the campaign remaining. It is that clinical eye for goal that has seen bookies install him as favourite to win the award voted for by players throughout the four Scottish professional divisions. “It’s great to be honoured like this,” he said. “Obviously you want to do well in your career and, at this moment, this is the best thing that has happened to me. It’s special because it’s voted on by my fellow players. There is nothing better than that.” But it hasn’t always been easy. Despite his ability to score crucial goals, he has had to win over observers. “You learn from experience and, the type of player I am, I can look quite ordinary if it’s not going well. Sometimes I’m not easy on the eye but, now that I’m getting the supply, I’m there to put it in. The technique to score the more spectacular goals has always been there but when you are confident, it’s easier to do. When you are not confident, you blaze them off target. Hopefully my current run will continue until the end of the season.” The first goal of the campaign was the most crucial in that respect. In a campaign littered with so many goals, he says that one against St Mirren at the end of August eased any tension. “To be honest, I’ve felt underappreciated for most of my career,” he added. “But, as long as the manager and players have faith in you, the older and more experienced you get, you stop worrying about that. I take the plaudits when they come. But it’s a lot of hard work coming to fruition. “I think the Motherwell fans were with me from the start, with the exception of a minority – and I would like to think I’ve won them over. They have been great to me, they have a couple of songs for me now. I can’t complain about that.” The striker is out of contract in the summer but having broken club scoring records this term, there is a clamour to keep him. It’s not something he is adverse to but football issues not flattery will win him over. At 29, he is worldly wise enough to know that when it comes to strikers fortunes are fickle. Idolised when the goals are flying in, a barren run always brings stick. “Yeah, that’s normal,” he said. “Look at big Andy Carroll, he was getting stick off the Liverpool fans. My mates go to the games and give him stick and I was sticking up for Andy Carroll because I was quite similar, I think, and I kept telling them ‘he’ll come good, he’ll come good’. “With my body language, sometimes it looks as if I can’t be bothered. I don’t mean to look like that. I don’t know if I’m Marmite – I hope not, I don’t like Marmite but I like me!” But he says fans are entitled to their opinions, and if players don’t like it, it’s up to them to rebuff the criticism by sticking to their job and winning doubters over. Higdon has done that and more, impressing his manager, the fans and his peers. “You can’t feel low when the criticism is coming. You know there is a player inside you, sometimes it’s just a struggle to let it out. Look at other players in their career, they reach a stage where the penny actually drops and they start playing the way they should have done when they were younger.” In his first season with the Fir Park side he netted 14 league goals to help them to a third-place finish. This term he has built on that and he and his team-mates are firm favourites to finish second. A few more goals would aid that effort and see him become the first non-Old Firm striker to finish top of the scoring charts since Tommy Coyne managed that while at Motherwell in 1994-95. “When the carrot is there in front of you, you will try to grab it,” Higdon said. “I want to finish top scorer, there’s no doubt about that. If the player of the year award comes with it, that’s a bonus.” To win both, he will have to fend off the challenge of Hibernian’s Leigh Griffiths – the man he voted for as Player of the Year. While all the other nominees were at Hampden yesterday, the Scotland striker was apparently not allowed to attend, his club still shielding him from the media in a move that merely serves as a reminder of the off-field issues which sometimes overshadow his on-field prowess. “He has been excellent and he is a match-winner,” said Higdon. “He is a good lad as well but he just needs to keep his head down and concentrate on the football. I’m just sorry he is not here.” Higdon knows that plaudits are worth cherishing. He has had his struggles but this term the biggest issue is deciding where to continue his career when his contract expires this summer. “As I said I feel appreciated and I’m at a club where I am playing every week and we have a good team at Motherwell and if we can keep most of the team together then there’s every likelihood that I will stay. But, obviously, the phone rings and there are other things going on so at this moment in time I don’t have an answer. “You strive to get the best you can but sometimes you get more money but you don’t get to play and I don’t want that. That won’t suit me. I am settled here and even away from the game my family is settled and my child is in school and I don’t want to be uprooting them for the sake of a few bob here or there. It has to be right for me and my family first and foremost and hopefully I make the right decision.” That can wait, though, until the season is over. For now he has his eyes on the prizes and there are a few of them up for grabs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewarkfanclub Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 Lack of class from Lennon. Its the players that vote for it so he is in effect saying his fellow professionals dont know what they are talking about. If it was the sportswriters award he may have a point! Great interview from big Higgie. Really hope we can keep him and Law given their close relationship with the manager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggischomper Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 Have the club shop whipped up any Higdon designs with the Marmite logo yet? I don't like Marmite, but I like big Higgy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatcalf Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 Lack of class from Lennon. Its the players that vote for it so he is in effect saying his fellow professionals dont know what they are talking about. If it was the sportswriters award he may have a point! Great interview from big Higgie. Really hope we can keep him and Law given their close relationship with the manager. I'm quite sure the sportswriters won't make the same 'mistakes' as Higgy's fellow pro's Especially now that Lennon's told them all who to vote for else they will incur his wrath no doubt. Fanny of the highest order old Greenteeth. :wank: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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