I’d a look at the fixture list preseason and didn’t expect we’d be top of the table so early, having played only three games with 10 teams having played four, and two of those games coming against our nearest challengers from last season.
But we stepped up to the task. The earlier win at Tynecastle and beating Aberdeen 4-1 on Saturday has issued a warning to all. Bookmakers are offering Celtic’s title odds of between 2/9 and 1/7, and have created a separate ‘Betting without Celtic’ competition. One of Brendan’s jobs will be to remind players that they need to earn the points every time the whistle goes. Defeats come quickly to teams operating at 95%.
Not that we had it all our own way on Saturday. Aberdeen disrupted our rhythm and passing in the middle part of the game. You can see how Brendan has changed the way we use the ball in possession, but there’s still a bit of work to do for it to become more natural looking.
The goals were outstanding. Leigh Griffiths’ effort would be immortalised in song, if one of the Barcelona players due to visit Celtic Park soon had managed it. Tom Rogic’s technique is of particular importance.
Celtic face a lot of packed defences; having someone able to reliably hit an unstoppable shot from around 22 yards changes how a defence will shape up to play us. This is a player Leeds United thought they could buy for £1m recently.
I was pleased to see Dorus de Vries make his debut. He had little to do, and could do nothing about the Aberdeen goal, but if he’s to be relied upon in any of the important games ahead he needed an outing as a Celtic player.
It was equally important Erik Sviatchenko came through 90 minutes with Kolo Toure. The defence is set for some almighty challenges ahead, and will need to face them with little common game-time to allow partnerships to be cemented.
There’s a degree of trepidation for the Champions League task ahead, but pretenders to our domestic dominance beware: evidence mounts that this is a good Celtic team – one which will continue to improve for some time to come.
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DAVIDOPOULOS on 30TH AUGUST 2016 11:16 AM
‘They wrote in Spanish.’
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Every day’s a school day on here.
The other thing I’ve learned today is that in Italy Andrea is a bloke’s name.
And it’s not even lunchtime yet.
QUALITYSTREET1970 on 30TH AUGUST 2016 10:44 AM
@BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS I hesitate to post a link, but after that article came out, the writer, Joel Stein, agreed to talk about it on a podcast with one of the main offenders. The guy’s name is Milo Yiannopoulos–he’s part of the sociopathic “alt-right” clique that Donald Trump has recently embraced. This wee character makes James Traynor’s self-righteous mockrage look like good-natured ribbing from BFDJ.
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I posted a wee clip of Milo some time back.
The epitome of anti Political correctness.
A breath of fresh air.
The response related to disapproval in view of his obvious gender preference.
These trolls eh…
ERNIE LYNCH on 30TH AUGUST 2016 11:07 AM…
That’s not fair…I’m sure Davidopoulos refers to the imagery of the vocabulary…I read GGM’s books in Spanish 40 years ago…I have since read the English translations and they are very good…
Davidopoulos…may I recommend ‘No One Writes to the Colonel’ by GG Marquez, it is very short but it is a lovely read…
weebobbycollins
I think I have read it but can’t really remember it – I’ll give it another read!
talk about planning
Mate and me going on a wee mini tour up north
taking in (spelling) olde shore more,smoe cave ,sandwood bay and a few other sites,leaving tomorrow at 5am,
he then tells me i could be without a phone signal for a couple of days depending on our location :))))
nae transfer deadline day for me and i expect something to happen(but then again I always do)
enjoy you day bhoys and ghirls and ignore the AGITATORS on here.
Thanks guys for your replies regarding Rivera I was a lucky boy then as my next door neighbour was jock steins secretary so I used to get all the European teams photo card with all the autographs on them they would be worth a right few quid today but they must have got lost when we moved house
Reading all the other posts makes you feel so lucky and proud to be a Tim at all the things we have achieved I hate to imagine what life would have been like without the famous Glasgow Celtic
Winning Captains…Charles Green.
Did you read the Q&A from the Sydney zombies?
Q1: What school did you go to?!
Couldn’t make it up.
Then followed by ‘when can we get Linfield over to Ibrox?’
What is it with these rangers clubs? Guess they’ll never learn.
Spend cheat liquidate repeat.
SoT,
Gianni Rivera, as classy a player as you could ever see. Looked liked a film star too. Where did that nickname come from?
PS. We spoke a while back about Taormina. Cruise visit to Messina at end of the month, you said avoid public transport on a Sunday. Now in on a Saturday, any better? I hate using organised trips, likecto get a touch of local life. Any help appreciated. HH.
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Lennox%2C+Bobby
off Celtic wiki players A-Z page worth keeping
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/All+time+A+to+Z+of+Celtic+players
VFR800A8 on 30TH AUGUST 2016 10:49 AM
NATKNOW on 30TH AUGUST 2016 9:34 AM
Was it the polysyndetic syntax that made you draw comparison? :-)
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For polysyndetic syntax and unusual writing styles look at Gabriel Garcia Marquez, especially El otoño del patriarca – The Autumn of the Patriarch. His novels evoke the sweaty heat and dryness of Colombia and suck you right in. The interspersing of magical events throughout his work is, well, magical. Most are fairly accessible though the enormously long sentences and paragraphs in Autumn of the Patriarch are challenging. Leaf Storm is a good access point to his work.
KTF (or as Marquez would say Mantener La Fe)
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Cheers dude – I’m already a fan having read One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera and Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Haven’t read Autumn of the Patriarch yet – in the middle of some 19th C. litt. but may pick up after that.
Is this the cqn fringe? Bowlcut csc
HH
Davidopoulos…the Colonel in question is one of Aureliano Buendia’s men and he patiently waits for the boat arriving with the details of his war pension…of course it never arrives but you know that from the outset…this was the first book I ever read in Spanish and it prepared me for reading !00 Anos de Soledad…Mario Vargas Llosa’s ‘War at the End of the World’ and ‘The Feast of the Goat’ are exceptional…check the reviews on Amazon…
Davidopoulos on 30th August 2016 10:58 am
vfr800a8
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my favourites – 100 years of Solitude was the book that really got me into literature. He also got me into other Latin American writers such as Borges and Neruda. Latin American authors have a wonderful style and use words beautifully
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My all time favourite book followed by On Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest and The Catcher in the Rye.
So that’s maybe another list – 10 favourite books?
Here’s mine:
1. 100 Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
3. The Catcher in the Rye – J D Salinger
4. Five Minutes Peace – Jill Murphy (read to my Grandson)
5. The Chronicle of Thomas Covenant, the unbeliever (series of 3) – Stephen Donaldson
6. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkein
7. McCarthy’s Bar – Pete McCarthy
8. Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
9. Godspeaker Trilogy – Karen Miller
10. Ulysses– James Joyce
KTF
weebobbycollins
I do remember now! Although I think I read the English translation so couldn’t really tell if it was any good…
Never read any of Mario Vargas Llosa’s work despite it being recommended to me several times. Will check them out. Thanks!
@LEFTCLICKTIC on 30TH AUGUST 2016 11:09 AM
There are two s’s in Morrissey.
I share the joy of many of the memories posted on here.
However, one of my very favourites involved a wee guy called Jackie, who sold the Green Citizen outside Celtic Park on match days.
My Dad my wee sister Anne and me were standing outside Celtic Park waiting to go into the ground, canny remember the opposition and we were talking to Jackie.
Anyway, my wee sis say’s “Dad, there’s Billy McNeill”!
The paper seller say’s to us “Wid ye like te meet ‘im hen?
Shouts Big Billy over and introduced us, and the Big Man spoke to us for a minute or two!
I’ve no memory of what he said, but I suppose I did have a conversation with the man who is in my opinion, Celtic’s greatest ever player.
Lovely!
welcome gamboa
Morrissey the 23rd on 30th August 2016 11:42 am
@LEFTCLICKTIC on 30TH AUGUST 2016 11:09 AM
There are two s’s in Morrissey.
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:))))))))))))))))))))))
may only good things come your way my friend.
Re: Cormack McCarthy, ‘the road’
Fantastic book, good movie. The minimalism of his writing makes the novel startling – difficult to believe he can powerfully evoke so much in the imagination from the sparcity of words on the page.
I did read that the motivation – his meme – for writing The Road was due to the birth of his son; it was practically a love letter to the kid; McCarthy himself being in his seventies, realising that he may not live to see his son grow to maturity; the book seems to evolve from that primal fear.
WINNING CAPTAINS on 30TH AUGUST 2016 10:51 AM
Regarding Jim Traynor and his purpose re the club, have a read at this. You’ll find it very entertaining but take particular regard to the mentions Charles Green gives to Traynor…
http://www.sydneytrueblues.com/2013/02/12/charles-green-qa-report/
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Imagine HMRC after being lied to for 7 years having the gaul to put RFC into administration then liquidation.What will come out in time is just how much HMRC bent over to keep them alive. Lottsa porkies in there.
Your point about Traynor tells us what is now apprarent and that is he knows where the msm bodies lie and was brought in to use that knowledge to keep the lid on.
Traynor a guy who thinks sporting integrity is something to sniff at and The Famine Song a ditty vacant.
AULDHEID on 30TH AUGUST 2016 11:04 AM
I’m not too clued up on the whole Res 12 thing but I get the impression that UEFA have thrown the huns under a bus in order to protect the SFA.
Would that be an accurate summary?
Davidopoulos on 30th August 2016 11:26 am
weebobbycollins
I think I have read it but can’t really remember it – I’ll give it another read!
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Honestly, I don’t think you’ve read it; if you had, you would remember it,
Significantly, there are no names used in the book – a brilliant concept to reinforce the insignificance and anonymity to the state of the Colonel!
GGM reckons it is his best work.
KTF
Hard to believe that MOONBEAMS WD is usually the first to get mightily miffed at “lists,more bloody lists!” on here.
Mind,he has picked a mighty fine topic. Well done,bud.
Surprised he’s able to compile a list though,just being a young whippersnapper. I think he cribbed one or two…
vfr800a8
Oooft difficult list to compile – I’ll give it a go:
1. Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
2. 100 Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
4. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
5. Labrynths – Jorge Luis Borges (that’s cheating since it is a book of essays and short stories)
6. All Families Are Psychotic – Douglas Coupland
7. Empire of the Sun – JG Ballard
8. Fight Club – Chuck Palanchiuk
9. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? – Philip K Dick
10. Fatherland – Robert Harris
I’ll probably change this list in my head in 10 mins…
MORRISSEYTHE23RD
You fairly hissed that reprimand!
Whatever it takes to get you back on here-well done,LEFTCLICKTIC!!
NatKnow on 30th August 2016 11:36 am
Cheers dude – I’m already a fan having read One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera and Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Haven’t read Autumn of the Patriarch yet – in the middle of some 19th C. litt. but may pick up after that.
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The 19th C lit might pave the way for the complex syntax of Autumn of the Patriarch!
Mantener La Fe
Davidopoulos…it is a fallacy, in my opinion, that you must read these books in the original language…the translations are very good and, as you know, if a story is good, it is good in any language…
Last one from me…any book by fabulous story teller, Rohinton Mistry, especially ‘A Fine Balance’…a truly wonderful read, set in 1970s India…
Bobby
Got in touch with Vmhan. He’s alive and kicking in pleased to say. In fact he’s in training for the marathon bike trip to Lisbon.
( given he once ran some daft distance in his bare feet, he may doing this one in his bare erse :-)
He’s good though.
Davidopoulos on 30th August 2016 11:49 am
vfr800a8
Oooft difficult list to compile – I’ll give it a go:
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It is; I could have added Asimov; Oscar Wilde; Robert Harris; Hemmingway; to name but a few. Then there’s all the pulp fiction like Lee Child, Linwood Barclay etc. that are good easy reads!
And I’ve not even started on my top 10 albums of all times ………………..
KTF
Gianni Rivera?
Fabulous player.
Made his Serie A debut just short of his 16th birthday.
Played in the 1963 Big Cup final at Wemberlee aged 19.
HH!!
VFR800a8 at 11:40
My all time favourite book followed by On Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest and The Catcher in the Rye.
So that’s maybe another list – 10 favourite books?
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Reminds me of a quote back in December 1999
Question: Name top 100 books of the 20th Century
Answer: Impossible….PG Wodehouse only wrote 93!
TLScsc
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I love a list me. Been a list man for years. Especially charity lists. them’s the lists.
Anyway’s where is your favourite 10 from the 1920’s? :-)
MWD
weebobbycollins on 30th August 2016 11:55 am
Davidopoulos…it is a fallacy, in my opinion, that you must read these books in the original language…the translations are very good and, as you know, if a story is good, it is good in any language…
Last one from me…any book by fabulous story teller, Rohinton Mistry, especially ‘A Fine Balance’…a truly wonderful read, set in 1970s India…
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I actually read that in India; it gives a wonderful account of the change in Indian society reflecting the political change brought about by Indira Ghandi and her assassination!
KTF
Senselessness has six esses…
Ooooooooooh.
Book friends
:p
HH
Scaniel on 30th August 2016 12:00 pm
A very good riposte. However, I have thought about working my way through his works when I have nothing better to read; I have only 93 left to go!
KTF