18 days into the transfer window we’ve landed our first business, 24-year-old Danish international central defender, Erik Sviatchenko, joining from Danish champions Midtjylland, who are due to compete in the Europa League knock out stages next month.
On paper this one ticks all the boxes. The player has been tested in a league a little stronger than our own, and in Europe this season, where Midtjylland eliminated Southampton, Bruge and Legia Warsaw. He will add security to the back line in the chase for the treble, and will be ready for Champions League qualifiers in August.
Ronny Deila now needs to make sure Sviatchenko and Simunovic form a proper defensive partnership – something we’ve lacked this season. Pressure will now mount on Efe Ambrose (27) and Dedryck Boyata (25) to up their game if they are to force their way back into the team. Both are in their prime years, but older than the two I expect to keep them out.
I’ve been shouting for a defensive mid for two years, most noticeably on Friday night, when Dundee United ran straight up the middle of the park to score, but we’ll see what shape the team takes after the addition of Erik.
I think Celtic should also be congratulated on getting this business done below the radar until close to the finish line. We’re involved in lots of transfer speculation at the moment but don’t spend your time researching every name that pops up. There will be five players linked to the club for every prime target.
Welcome to Celtic, Erik.
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Desperado
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kCdjvTTnzDU
RIP
Good evening CQN, pray tell, where in Plymouth might I get to see the Celtic play tomorrow night?
Delaney’s ,I’ll translate my last mish mash of a post.
Gal stayed about five doors down across the road from us when we stayed in the Southside.
There was a pub at the bottom of the street Gal and I lived in. Gal told me there was a Celtic end and a deid club end in it.
Gal was in it the night they won a league title . He told me the horribles all started fighting with each other with the Celts just standing by watching the stickies battering lumps out of each other.
Doc
London???
Good night all and sleep well
The Green Man….
Unless we buy him out we’re stuck with Derk as a few others.
The drain on the the wage bill is a concern.
I bleed green and white
Good to meet you.
Dallas
He is in a good place now. He married a lovely Dalmuir lass and they live in Clydebank amongst Tims. :)
Fantastic song
RIP Glenn
https://youtu.be/WeNBspJGVko
HH
Googy, naw, Plymouth, Devon.
Different week, different city:-)
Googybhoy
Same to yourself mate
HH
Paul 67…
Does your missus know your posting. ;)
Shortly after I joined the blog I wrote a wee report on our rivalry with the deid club which the meeja at the time referred to as the “old firm” and how it went from sociable to loathing.
I mentioned that this all occurred when the influence of primrose ure and his pledging the zombies to the craft, the disappearance of the club manager in the murky waters of the Clyde and the relocation of employees of the “unsinkable” to the Govan area of Glasgow turned an average Scottish side who’s fans would regale followers of the game with songs like “the bonnie wells of weary”, into a hatefest of anti-Catholicism.
I included the following excerpt from the 1921 Glasgow Observer:
“On the terracing at the Dalmornock end on Saturday there was congregated a gang, thousands strong, including the dregs and scourings of filthy slumdom, unwashed yahoos, jailbirds, night hawks, won’t-works, ‘burroo barnacles’, and pavement pirates, all, or nearly all, in the scarecrow stage of verminous trampdom.
This ragged army of insanitary pests was lavishly provided with orange and blue remnants, and these were flaunted in challenge as the football tide flowed this way or that. Practically without cessation for ninety minutes or more, the vagabond scum kept up a strident howl of the ‘Boyne Water’ chorus. Nothing so designedly provoking, so maliciously insulting, or so beastially ignorant has ever been witnessed even in the wildest exhibitions of Glasgow Orange bigotry.
Blatantly filthy language of the lowest criminal type assailed the shocked ears of decent onlookers. There was no getting away from it, chanted as it was by thousands of voices in bedlamite yells. The stentorian use of filthy language is a crime against the law of the land. Policemen lined the track and listened to the hooligan uproar, yet nothing was done to stop it.
The scandal was renewed with increased violence in London Road after the match. Is it possible the blue mob can do just anything and get away with it? Prompt official steps were taken to suppress and prosecute the green brake-club lads who dared to sing ‘The Dear Little Shamrock’ in Paisley Road. Yet thousands of foul-mouthed and blasphemous Orange ruffians are free to run amok over the East End of Glasgow. How do you account for it?”
The vitriol that followed this with accusations of bigotry was breathtaking.
I left shortly after for a 2 week business trip pretty sure I would not log on again. I made no apology for what I said and figured this blog was full of supporters who never stood in the Jungle or Celtic end, who never had to stand up to that mob, who never almost got pulled off a train at Partickhill Station for simply smiling after beating them.
These were not the Celtic supporters I knew. Donald duck them I thought, too many PC punters on here, there still is BTW.
I returned and looked back at previous subjects, and found some sympathy and agreement with what I had written. So here I still am.
This blog is an excellent vehicle for Celtic supporters and long may it continue.
Steven Fletcher is 1.86 metres
Delaneys Dunky on 18th January 2016 8:44 pm
Dallas
Aye, but his grandfather is Jack McGinn and he attended Saint Peter the Apostle, Clydebank.
*and lived across the road fae Tradamus Lampada
Fletcher looks like Ronaldo,compared to some of the incumbents of the last 3 years,where the term ‘striker’,has attracted attention of the Teades Description mob.
*Trades
Tontine Tim on 18th January 2016 11:29 pm
Don’t worry mate. The indomitable scum and all their anti catholic triumphalism will be back with a vengeance next season to repeat the likes of 1921 like never before. While HMRC have pursued the legalities of the bury Jock Stein history legacy every other institution is dying for the return of the filth and the bigot buck including Celtic FC.Unfortunately 55% of our jihadists thinks its ok because its all they got.
Tontine Tim
My father would not take me to a game against the now defunct club, nor would he allow me to attend one with my mates who I went to every other game with. He often said that I was not ready to face the State sponsored gang with polis hauners. I went to my first game v them in 1980 aged 14. Scottish Cup Final. Saw first hand why my dad had tried to stop me going. Mammy never knew I was at that riot.
TONTINE TIM on 18TH JANUARY 2016 11:29 PM…
I nearly got killed on the subway many years ago coming back from ipox, if one hun had a blade, I was a gonner and my two kids wouldn’t be purring away along with Caesar.
Reading your post, I see where you are coming from, fight your corner mate, as most on here do…they might be right at times but not always. Like myself, your always learning. HH
Good to see some of the old regulars back in the Celtic cyber bar. Slainte!!
Tontine Tim,
Hang around, your recollections are priceless and uncannily accurate.
There are not many keepers of the old flame still around…..and we are getting fewer.
Paddy G
Great to see you posting.
Hail Hail
DD Cheers mate. If it all stays as positive as today I might just stay foe a second pint. ;-)
Paddy G
We shall share an ale or twelve one day amigo.
Hail Hail
Margaret McGill on 18th January 2016 11:44 pm
“…and all their anti catholic triumphalism…” So those scum you mention don’t include you? Fair enough.
For me, all your anti- Catholic posts are triumphalist. Actually, all your posts read to me as triumphalist.
Search out the anfield main stand development. Quite interesting and a construction method for a future Celtic park .
DD I will look forward to that mate!
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-fcs-main-stand-redevelopment-10712490
Tontine
That article from 1921 confirms what my father, god bless him, told us about them. He said that the brake clubs (us and them) would leave Govan together to travel to Celtic Park and this all stopped when Harlands opened up in Govan. I have no wish ever to see thier biggotry again again in Paradise.
HH
thomthethim for Oscar OK on 18th January 2016 11:55 pm
Tontine Tim,
Hang around, your recollections are priceless and uncannily accurate.
There are not many keepers of the old flame still around…..and we are getting fewer.
*cheers TTT. One of the oul hauns is TD67, unfortunately he never subscribed tae Dale Carnegie’s “how to win friends and influence people”.
Tontine
You reminded me of an early visit to Paradise see THEM. As a 17 year old I had to behave myself in exalted adult company (including Stephen McManus’ eventually to be grand faither) so there we were heading back to the car in London Road after a wee gubbing of the puir wee souls when one of our neighbours of the other persuasion shouted “Hey, Boyle, Cassidy, Reilly …..whit are you dain’ up oor end?”
Cue stares all round and us ignoring the muppets!!
O happy days.
Powerful stuff TT. Very well said.
This SNP party is a united front on EVERYTHING.
There can be no change, from what I can gather, on anything apart from the Party Line…. That can be almost Dictatorial, when you think about it.
What is that really?
Thank God, Scotland isn’t facing the abyss after the oil collapse.
Maybe people will take the SNP seriously when they allow dissenters in their midst, though that will sort of mess them up for good. :P
G’night
Mr Moravcik
Thats us goosed.
Naysmith to Norwich will mean 20% sell on fee to rangers.
Thats a cool £1.6 mill.
What’s that skip ?
It’s two different clubs you say.
The one Stevie played for died.
Pity that.
Ask phone ins and blogs why Norman bates fc ain’t getting any money.
One of my favourite Eagles’ song.
What more could you want,
Tom Waites song, sung by a legendary group with pictures of classic cars?
For the old guys like me, Please ignore the near naked ladies.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Eis5wOQuU
GuyFawkesaforeverhero on 19th January 2016 12:05 am
I am sorry you think I’m scum. Go forth and multiply.
Saint Stivs
I wonder if Regan dare comment.