A journalist friend in Norway tells me Jo Inge Berget is a traditional no. 10, not a striker. We need both. Kris Commons fills the creative roll almost exclusively, we need someone to share the burden, but we still need a strong, penalty box striker, who can stand up to the pressures of Champions League football.
Best of luck to Tony Watt, best of luck to Standard too, who I hear have put a lot of skin in his contract. Belgium should give him a better chance of fulfilling his potential than anywhere in the UK. It’s head down and work hard time.
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Livibhoy,
Many thanks.
Mucker
Abmucker
The tipster has been poor the last week. Not sure if they are decent or not. Place claims I would guess. Gives you a wee guide though. He had two winners yesterday.
Good luck
LB
Excited about tonight and hoping for a good result (i.e. any kind of win!).
Best of luck to the bhoys going to Poland – watch out for Police Scotland.
I see Usain Bolt has made himself as about as popular as Hector the Taxman in Glasgow
Kittoch (at 10:17 NOT 10:40) –
Cheers for that! ;-)
An away goal.
Gonnae dae that.
sorry if this has already been answered. Is the game on tv tonight and if so, how can I watch in the city of the most successful cw games ever (1986)?
BocchiniBhoy – I’ve only really watched Dundee Utd when they play us, so my view may not be the best. Conscious that we need a (left) winger, however GMS has never really impressed me when I’ve seen him. I always thought Stuart Armstrong looked the better player and a very good prospect.
Would be a shame to see a good Dundee Utd team lose so many good players this summer, they were one of the better teams to watch last year.
Bhoylo83….well done Setanta great servant to Irish Celtic fans
malceye…
Malones, Forrest Street… several of us heading there.
welcome to our world usain
having to put up with the constant lies,
spin and pure rubbish from our newspapers
just dont buy them
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BocchiniBhoy
10:37 on 30 July, 2014
speaking to Huddersfield supporter this morning about GMS, he says they are interested and Rotherham have had £600k bid accepted for him
MALCEYE
Bristol not good enough for you now,bud?
Here’s a wee tale about CW86.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/jul/22/commonwealth-games-1986-robert-maxwell
GARY67
Last year of contract,but doubt United will bite at £600k.
Get through these two games and we have European football up to Christmas. Europa may not be as good financially but a very competitive league and adds great variety to the season.
Number 2s is it?
Always felt sorry for Elvis. Fed up with all his number ones he died trying to have a number two.
GMS signs for Celtic for £600k and helps us get to group stages it may be a no brainer. Forrest is injured and Derk doesn;t look up to it. Worth the gamble I would say. He could be a fine player in our side. I agree that Armstrong is the best pick left in that side but I believe he is staying at Tannadice until the degree is finished. I think he signed a new deal recently too. Let him develop and study at Tannadice Plenty time for that lad.
LB
LiviBhoy
11:05 on 30 July, 2014
GMS signs for Celtic for £600k and helps us get to group stages it may be a no brainer. Forrest is injured and Derk doesn;t look up to it. Worth the gamble I would say. He could be a fine player in our side. I agree that Armstrong is the best pick left in that side but I believe he is staying at Tannadice until the degree is finished. I think he signed a new deal recently too. Let him develop and study at Tannadice Plenty time for that lad.
LB
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I thought Amstrong was doing his degree via the OU. Distance earning – he could do it anywhere? Might be wrong!
I do suspect that Mackay-Steven would revel in the wide open spaces at CP compared to Tannadice but am unconvinced he has the consistency to be a fixture for us. Another who would be worth a gamble I think.
HH
Lawwell, Topping appointed to Scottish FA main board
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
The Scottish FA can confirm that both Peter Lawwell, the Celtic Chief Executive, and Ralph Topping, the Scottish Professional Football League Chairman, have been appointed to the main Board of the Scottish FA after nomination by the Professional Game Board.
Stewart Regan, Scottish FA Chief Executive: “We are delighted to welcome Ralph back to the main Board, having already benefitted from Peter’s wealth of experience in the past year. I am sure both will play key roles as we enter the next phase of our strategic plan, Scotland United: A 2020 Vision.”
Neil Doncaster, SPFL Chief Executive: “Ralph Topping will be stepping down from the William Hill Board on 1st August. He will therefore have much more time to devote to the professional game. We are delighted that Peter Lawwell and Ralph Topping have been unanimously elected by the Professional Game Board to serve the professional game on the main board of the Scottish FA.”
NatKnow
He may well be but I believe he is spending some time at St Andrews Uni as well where United train. Playing for Celtic means a lot more nights away and if we stay in Europe a lot of travel. The boy appears to have his head screwed on and is thinking about his future. His time will come for a move. I would let him develop where he is for now. I would hope the club are being kept informed but possibly McGregor and Henderson are as good if not better. It’s difficult when we don’t see them train as well as play games.
Ronny and John know what they are doing. Hopefully some exciting times ahead with our young side.
LB
Desertbhoy – thanks. Her indoors has granted permission to attend Malones ! I’ll be the one with the celtic top on ;-)
BobbyMurdoch – her indoors would be a bit surprised if I nipped out to watch the footie and ended up in Bristol !
LiviBhoy
11:15 on 30 July, 2014
NatKnow
He may well be but I believe he is spending some time at St Andrews Uni as well where United train. Playing for Celtic means a lot more nights away and if we stay in Europe a lot of travel. The boy appears to have his head screwed on and is thinking about his future. His time will come for a move. I would let him develop where he is for now. I would hope the club are being kept informed but possibly McGregor and Henderson are as good if not better. It’s difficult when we don’t see them train as well as play games.
Ronny and John know what they are doing. Hopefully some exciting times ahead with our young side.
LB
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You will be right mate – my knowledge of his circumstances is negligible.
BTW “distance earning” was meant to be “distance learning”! Perhaps “distance earning” is some form of EBT! :-)
malceye
11:17 on 30 July, 2014
Desertbhoy – thanks. Her indoors has granted permission to attend Malones ! I’ll be the one with the celtic top on ;-)
BobbyMurdoch – her indoors would be a bit surprised if I nipped out to watch the footie and ended up in Bristol !
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Looks like I’ve got a pass for tonight too. How will we recognise each other? Should I wear a 4-leaf clover on my breast? Might be a few of those in there!
A wee tale from the 70’s when North Lanarkshire was just Lanarkshire and the only colours I can remember were green, white and Denis Connaghan’s vivid red top:
The Beginning of Something Special
24th March 1967
I was born. This would ensure a lifetime of enjoying the year of my birth and the realisation I’d missed some great games even though I was on the planet at the same time. It’s like a form of blindness.
May 1974
9 in a row had been achieved and the talk among the uncles was that 10 was a ‘cert.’ Paddy-my granda-wasn’t so sure and chided them frequently about their over confidence. Looking back now they had all just experienced a golden age for Celtic Football Club 1888 and my uncles’ exuberance and confidence was probably understandable but the ‘auldheid’ was correct as he usually was in all sorts of ways. Anyway this is when I entered the fold.
May 4th 1974 may not be a highlight to match some of the gladiatorial battles witnessed by my lucky relatives over the previous years but it’s the first game I remember clearly. The anticipation, the nerves, the thrill, the tension and the utter relief at the final whistle welcomed me fully into the world of Celtic Football Club 1888. I wasn’t at the game; an over-protective mother still wouldn’t allow me to go despite my pleas, threat of hunger strike and refusing to brush my teeth at bedtime (you’ll regret that one day was her wise words). My protests were all in vain and I couldn’t understand it we were playing Dundee United not RFC FTP, she still wouldn’t listen. My mammoth pre-match journey was to climb the interior 13 close steps to take me from 13b Northburn Avenue to 13c Northburn Avenue. Reaching the top I saw the welcoming green door and my mind wandered to the stadium I’d only seen on T.V. and I thought of that huge green pitch with the huge terracing, the ‘unfinished’ roof and the shoogly press-box. Maggie was in her match-day chair with the big, blaring radio that kept her in touch with the world. She’d lost her sight when she was quite young but it didn’t seem to matter in the flat, much like yir man in the Great Escape she had everything paced out. She had her packet of Miller’s Pan Drops, a huge cup of tea and a big smile to welcome me. Paddy was in the kitchen. Maggie had a bright green cardigan on that went well with her gleaming white hair, beautiful.
“What’s Granda doing, it’s nearly kick off time?”
“He’s making you something to eat.”
“I’m not hungry”
“You’re always hungry; you’re always running about wi that ball. Anyway it’s cheese n egg” (this was a family delicacy and dairy products were good for you in the 70’s)
“I’m hungry, you’re right gran”
“Told ye”
“Anyway say the Hail Holy Queen with me we need to win today”
“Hail Holy Queen mother of mercy…Oh clement, oh loving, oh sweet Virgin Mary”
We finished the prayer just as Paddy brought in the cheese n egg; I had questions about prayers and cheating but the food-which was served in a tin-foil tray-had my attention and I wanted it finished before kick-off. Anyway my mum was always saying Catholics couldn’t get jobs and she knew priests in Coatbridge who went to banks and argued with the manager to give Catholics jobs. All my family had jobs and they all told my gran they went to mass, so I just thought we were lucky in the job stakes. I knew RFC FTP didn’t say prayers but I didn’t know about Dundee Utd. They were worrying me, I knew there was another Dundee team but this lot were United and anything that I ever heard about being united was good. I, they were a worry right enough.
5 minutes to 3.
The cheese and egg was demolished and Granda was telling me all about Charlie Tully again. Now on our walks around Darngavel and Whiterigg I loved these stories but Dixie Deans was on my mind today. I was still polite but I wanted the commentary to start as I was sure Tully wasn’t playing. I wanted to ask my Granda if I should just chuck it just now because no player I was ever going to see was as good as all the ones he’d seen: “Tully, Gallacher, McGrory, Thompson, Evans and the Lions weren’t bad too”…I’d been born at the wrong time but for me Dalglish, McGrain, Hay, Hood, Murray and Deans were Celtic greats, my greats and we had to beat this bloody United of Dundee.
3 o’ clock. Oh God!
It has started, no more diversionary tactics, focus on the radio man. His voice filled the room, pan drops were sucked and not crunched in reverence to the man who would bring the good news we longed for. The team was: Conaghan, McGrain, Brogan, McNeill, McCluskey, Johnstone, Murray, Hood, Deans, Hay and Dalglish. Bobby Lennox was on the bench with Callaghan. I remembered they had Frank Kopel, I had about 6 stickers of him and so did everyone else so he wasn’t even good for a swap anymore. I felt something akin to terror when they attacked and the radio man’s voice got higher in his state of excitement. They had two early chances and the voice told us that ‘Houston really should have scored.’ I was glad he didn’t but I’m not sure about the radio man. Maggie listened intently and loved to hear the fans, I got it that we were sharing a similar experience but my radio blindness was temporary and I found it hard picturing what really was going on. Paddy’s truce about talking about the past was holding but I feared any minute now the 7-1 game-normally a welcome tale was going to get an airing-but something wonderful happened:
“McCluskey hits a long ball downfield towards the United defence, it’s gathered by Deans who knocks it into the area…Hood is on his own and heads ……………………………………….Goal, Celtic. The pause seemed to last 3 hours. Granda said ‘good’ and clenched his fist, Gran said ‘yes’ and smiled brightly. I ran around and around the couch till I was told to stop being stupid and sit down. They were far too respectable. We’d scored. I tried to imagine what my uncles were doing on the Hampden slopes and decided I was safer here. I’d just settled down and radio man was at it again:
“Hood shoots and misses…it falls to Deans who must score…he slices it to Johnstone who squares it to Murray who shoots-sit down says Granda-and scores. I’m sitting but I’m running round the couch in my head; granda is nodding in a celebratory manner and gran has sucked the life out of her last pan drop and it’s not even half-time. This is brilliant.
Half-Time. It is two nil and looking back it must be an in built Celtic default position. What if they score three? I FEARED THE WORST. This has never left me and I trace it back to this point.
4PM
Radio Man is off and running again and I’m now into clocks and watches and time. This became more desperate as that bloody United are having a go. Why can’t they just accept what Hail Holy Queen is doing…Gie it up Kopel. But no:
“a header from Gray and Connaghan saves at point blank range…”
“Knox shoots, beats the keeper………………………………and hits McNeill on the head and scrambled clear.”
Granda shakes his head and I know he’s thinking about Tully; I spot the surreptitious use of rosary bead by gran and I hope we’re not reported for cheating. I want it to end. I want all my family to be happy. I want to read ten papers and cut out the pictures on Monday. The second half had now lasted seven hours as the tired old clock on the mantelpiece that had witnessed so much ticked slowly on and then this cherished moment:
“Dalglish runs at the United defence, squares it to Deans, who shoots and the ball loops into the United net…it’s all over now…
“I’m running, I don’t care Granda.” That release of untold joy was matched on several occasions in the forthcoming years. My fastest was to kiss a TV screen in a pub in Portree when Henrik took us to Seville. That feeling never leaves you.
Minutes later Mr Paterson the ref, who nobody had mentioned, blew the final whistle. I wanted to celebrate but I was seven and didn’t know how to. I asked Granda to put his ‘Rebel’ records on but he said it was too early and he had to make gran’s dinner. I had to get my ball and head to St. Serf’s park where like minded bhoys and other boys were seemingly magnetically drawn to re-enact the day’s events at Hampden. Before I jumped the fence I looked at the white paint on the back of the wooden garages: CELTIC Football Club 1888. I wanted to paint 3-0 after it. RFC FTP on the next garage, in red paint, looked to be a bit diminished.
5pm
I scored Dixie’s goal in the St Serf’s re-match as I dreamed of seeing the Bhoys live; I was only 12 months away from my dream but there was a hurdle at Broomfield to overcome and the wrath of as younger brother.
lionroars67
11:14 on
30 July, 2014
Congratulations to Peter Lawwell.
Pilloried by the huns and some Celtic supporters.
The question: What do the huns know that some Celtic supporters don`t?
The answer: Thine enemy.
@Joe.
That statement was it from the Herald?
H.H.
NatKnow
I could be wrong mate. I read the article a while ago and St Andrews Uni was mentioned. It impressed me that the lad was studying whilst playing. Footballers have a lot of free time. He is young and probably doesn;t have many commitments outside the game. Very wise young fella.
LB
I’ll be shaved head, beard, green celtic polo shirt and khaki shorts if that helps !
malceye/NaKnow….
Me; easily recognisable, grey haired crabbit ol’ git.
Unfortunately didn’t bring the colours to Embra.
See you there.
if all you bhoys meeting in pub in Edinburgh go in and ask for a advocate or a snowball you can each stand looking like a lemon to others but it’s a sign for cqners..
Then get into the real bevvy of course….
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
11:21 on
30 July, 2014
lionroars67
11:14 on
30 July, 2014
Congratulations to Peter Lawwell.
Pilloried by the huns and some Celtic supporters.
The question: What do the huns know that some Celtic supporters don`t?
The answer: Thine enemy.
I will wait and see what transpires at the SFA before i congratulate PL
hmmm… NatKnow might be betterer but NaKnow describes my ageing body.. knackered now.
BT… zat a legal drink??
roy croppie
11:19 on
30 July, 2014
Better than good.
Much better than good.
That mustn`t be lost in the sea of posts.
Loved it.
Miller`s Pan Drops. Loved them too.
Advocaat…it’s all the rage with pensioners…