It was an unfamiliar Celtic starting line-up at Pittodrie this afternoon which resulted in the visitors dropping league points for the first time in four months. Andre Blackman and Mikael Lustig made their Celtic debuts at left and right back respectively, while Charlie Mulgrew played central midfield alongside Joe Ledley.
Neither full back got forward as often as we are accustomed to see Celtic play, which perhaps contributed to the disjointed performance.
Charlie Mulgrew almost opened the scoring on 5 minutes when his swerving free kick rebounded back off the inside of Jason Brown’s far post in Celtic’s only genuine chance before the 28th minute goal. Mulgrew was key again in the move that counted, controlling a difficult ball before twisting his marker and knocking the ball forward to Kris Commons. Commons spun before playing a perfectly weighted pass into space inside the box for Anthony Stokes to run onto. Stokes first touch took the ball past Brown in the Aberdeen goal before he slotted his shot into the net.
Aberdeen were well out of the contest in the first half and had to wait until near the end of the half before they managed an attempt at goal, a Fyvie shot which was blocked. Then, only seconds from the break, a long ball forward to Fallon brought Aberdeen level. Fallon turned and his forward run drew Blackman, Wilson and Rogne, leaving the right back space unattended. Gavin Rae ran 70 yards to fill that space and fired a shot which was going narrowly wide before Blackman’s block bounced over Forster into the net.
A minute into the second half Ryan Jack almost reached a cross from the right as Aberdeen seemed to take encouragement from their goal.
Anthony Stokes looked Celtic’s best player but whenever he linked with strike partner, Gary Hooper, the ball invariably bounced out of play or to an Aberdeen player, most notably on the 55th minute when Hooper failed to control on the edge of the six yard box.
Aberdeen’s best chance to win the game arrived on 63 minutes when Meganson evaded Lustig but shot wide when clean through inside the box.
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Is it really 18years today that ‘the rebels have won’.
One of the most emotional days of my life.
Some comfort for them is that they will get to see 4 in a row this season; Their 4 home defeat in a row when we celebrate on the 25th.
McCoist’s comments are poor but that’s him all over: wee fly digs, whispers in ears, gestures to fans etc. A coward, a poor manager and pandering to the no surrender brigade who lapped up the ridiculous ‘we don’t do walking away!’
The Rtv commentator called him Churchillian, bald and fat cruelly sprung to mind but may’be he wants a ‘fight on the beaches.’ He knows how many of his supporters are currently in prison for physical and internet attacks on our manager and after his cowardly behaviour at Celtic Park the very next day a suspicious package,packed with nails, was posted to Neil Lennon from Saltcoats.
Will he ever learn?
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Allistur is just a wee ned sleekit toley! He only got his dream gig at the wheel of the Marie Celeste of Scottish football because no manager with a reputation to protect would touch it. ‘Walter Walter you have left your wee fat prodigy in the keech and even in the gutter he is out of his depth.
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Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning! on 4 March, 2012 at 11:43 said:
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Ah sure, come in anyway. :-)
Is this the type of ‘fly kick’ McCoist means. Watch out for the Number 9 in this clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYjSyWIli0E
Árd Macha
TinyTim on 4 March, 2012 at 11:33 said:
Walter Smith Knew
I like that.
MWD
Árd Macha
Sums him up perfectly.
Paddy Gallagher
Is was a tough blog last night and this morning.
Told the wee one she wasn’t allowed on today.
Ah well, maybe tomorrow!
Take care my friend!
Why is when someone from the darkside talks it’s always with veiled threats?
Your names are noted, we know who you are etc etc..
Scottish rednecks not dissimilar to the Klan…
Aye Sally son you’ve got us all quaking in our boots…
Aww nae..12 months of Marydoll and her sisters and their Maw. I’d rather have Daphne Broon in her scanties for a year than have to look at Mrs Mason-Boyne covering up her tattoed dugs and wearing just a Union flag.
The post above – the huns calender.
Twenty odd years of financial doping and cheating on the football grounds of Scotland and Europe, as well as cheating the UK taxpayer. No guilt, no apologies, no humility, no plans to pay Hector, for they are Scotland`s shame.
Hateley talks about tainted titles – this from somebody who allegedly had 3 different and illegal contracts when he played at RFC and still bleeds his RFC connections dry through his weekly shot at murdering the English language in his Daily Record column.
Hatelely is a buffoon who looks like the illegitimate love child of John Redwood and that Joyce Wildenstein/Bride of Frankenstein woman. He missed his calling in life when Lord Haw Haw narrowly pipped him for the Nazi propaganda job.
McCoist – makes cowardly comments about people having a kick at Rangers, clearly referencing Neil Lennon and Peter Lawwell but he has not the balls to name them directly.
Neil Lennon and Peter Lawwell have made only fair and reasoned comments and only respect of questions presented to them by the media. They have not kicked RFC at all and Alastair McMourinho knows this.
Fat bin man McCoist knows that his comments will only inflame the situation and lead to Orc instigated violence. He also knows that such comments will deflect justified criticism against his managerial shortcomings as the Rangers fans deflect all their energies again at loathing “Timmy.” His comments are deplorable especially considering we live in an age where 2 Rangers fans are on trial for conspiracy to murder our manager and other Rangers fans have posted death threats.
Clowns like Hateley and McCoist – clowns who benefited financially and by repute through cheating for years – will be responsible for any violence instigated by angry Rangers fans over the coming months.
Is Naisey Miss July?
stevenagebhoy
I can picture them standing seductively behind a big drum…make that two. You’ll not know if it’s a calendar or an advert for bouncy bouncey castles
Can you finance their new calendar over 12 months?
Whytey has probably sold the rights to the calendar to Dunlop already. Bound to be a few spare tyres on show.
Have a feeling there may be goals in all 4 of the English games this weekend. And on that basis I’m hoping to be a wee bit richer by 6 o’clock.
Jobo
FAVOURITE UNCLE on 4 March, 2012 at 11:32 said:
stringer bell 11.03
ralph topping is a hibee.
total nonsence pal.i used to work with him at MECCA BOOKMAKERS.he told me of traveling on the local bus to eyebrox,party tunes were not allowed but a tape of them was played loud n proud.he is a nice guy but a H4N just the same.
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Fair enough mate, will stand corrected.
Everything public in his bio I could find has him as a hibs fan, including his own blog.
If you have knowledge and proof he is a rangers man, get it into the ether before any vote is made. Conflict of interest etc. CQN, RTC etc perfect vehicles for this.
If it is the manager and his assistant they will be ‘baldy tyres’…:-)
Thee penalty points for a baldy tyre?
Bombs and bullets sent to kill or maim or Manager and 2 other fans Yes BOMBS & BULLETS
Orange walks for the next 7 months shortly about how much they hate and despise us,while those ordinary and decent fans clap and roar ther approval on the sidelines
A scottish manager so out of his depth that he is reduced to making sinister comments that can be deduced as threatning to our support and whipping up anti Celtic hysteria
Im sorry but this shower dont do repentance or forgivness its not in there DNA
We forget this at our peril a DNR sign should be hung on the gates of that club for thet shame it has inflicted on Scotland
Remember the days of sitting at the back of the bus are OVER
Intolerance and bigotry is endemic it will never change within that club and its fans they have sowed the seeds of there own destruction let them die with dignity that is if they can find any
Ally McCoist
“We’re wounded, and there’s one or two people out there having a wee fly kick,” McCoist said. “I would suggest they give a right good kick just now, because we won’t be where we are for long.”
Exactly what does that mean?
Personally, I have a problem with this because, McCoist says “We’re wounded.”
McCoist’s understanding of the position Rangers are in is questionable to say the least. He is hanging from a cliff by his fingertips snarling at Celtic fans to kick him in the face. I have got this to say to McCoist. “I am sorry I am busy, havin a party.” :)
James Forrest is The Emperor of Ice Cream on 4 March, 2012 at 02:34
Excellent article, I concur.
Hail! Hail!
Have to go now and prepare lunch for guests. Great couple and although he is Jersey born he loves the Celtic. No family connections just picked Celtic as his team when he was a wee boy. Likes the songs and the colours, loves being a part of the family and revels in the passion. The kind of guy that can dine at my table anytime..
James Forrest is The Emperor of Ice Cream on 4 March, 2012 at 02:34
Well said Sir….
But you may have posted a warning about Hazel Irvine….cant get that vision out of my head, and its putting off my jelly an ice-cream!!
Terll you what, I’ll pay not to see the female huns calendar.
A pledge to scavengers.com of course. Deferred.
re Ralph Topping.
Definitely a blue nose. Conflict of interest in his decision on Newco is not just about what team he supports though!!
I hear that the crowd at Ibrox yesterday was rather excitable, with Stewards ‘wading in’ to break up fights in the stands and in the concourse.
Fellow expects things to be wholly unpleasant when Celtic visit later this month.
Perhaps the Law will have put them out of our misery before then.
Ard Macha, thanks for the clip. Ally loved the “wee fly punch” then. What a man, what a guy!
SffS
Ally McCoist
“We’re wounded, and there’s one or two people out there having a wee fly kick,” McCoist said. “I would suggest they give a right good kick just now, because we won’t be where we are for long.”
George Peat said in reply,
“This is just innuendo and inference.
It is just another example of them looking to blame others and not themselves and I find it tiresome.”
A straw seems to have been constructed with the purpose of making the case that anyone who disagrees with the language of James Forrest’s post somehow wants to see Rangers go unpunished.
This is not so, I didn’t like the violent analogies that James employed, but I agree that Rangers should be punished if found guilty and in fact I take the Ian Archer view that we would be better off without them.
How we express our views on this forum though is a matter of choice, and it is open to others to differ.
The differences we have on here are as nothing to how seriously we should treat the views of Ranger’s manager Alistair McCoist. He is an influential public figure and his comments about kicking and veiled threats of revenge could be taken literally by a prejudiced and often uneducated audience.
Just as Donald Findlay claimed that his post Old-Firm game karaoke was not to be taken literally and “of course he did not wish to be up to his knees in Fenian blood”, so too will McCoist be able to wash his hands of his violent analogy by claiming it was simply a metaphor to denote criticism.
The problem is that as Findlay, then Vice-Chairman of Rangers FC, was belting out his number at Ibrox blood was flowing in Bankhall Street in Glasgow a short distance from the home of 16-year old Thomas McFadden, stabbed to death for being a Celtic supporter by those who may have taken the words of violent songs celebrating sectarian killing too literally.
I like the posts of James Forrest, but with the greatest of respect, he does not wield great influence with large sections of the general public, and he needs no lessons from me in the language that he uses but I must say I felt uncomfortable with some of his post and thought I should say so.
1-0 sunderland pen
new article posted.
Has there ever been such a scandal as this in any other sporting event?
It is so big involving the establishment team and the authorities I still can’t get my head round it.
Surely justice and common sense will prevail?
Or will we be sold down the river as usual in this great wee country of ours by those in position of power?
How was the SPL created such that it broke away from the SFA “First Division” but somehow retained the ability for relegation between the SPL / SFL?
The reason for the question is because I know of nothing to stop the SPL from disbanding and reforming as SPL Newco and inviting the 11 teams from the current SPL plus Rangers Newco (Not in Administration) to join a brand new league called PSL (“Premier Scottish League” copyright, SuperSutton).
No points deduction, no penalties, no hangover for any former members.
Árd Macha at 11:46:
Many, many thanks for that.
I have been trying to locate that clip for weeks.
Sleekit chappie 20/23seconds in, then slinks away…
TBB and others : I’m not worried about our fans in the Broomloan Stand being attacked at Mordor, it’s the visitors in the directors box that will feel the heat.
If the next Glasgow derby goes the way I hope, then it will be a role reversal of the game that eventually brought down our old board.
When the Huns scored a fourth goal at Celtic Park, some of our fans went ballistic in the main stand and got quite aggressive towards the occupants of the directors box. It made such an impression on Minty that I don’t think he ever returned for a Glasgow derby!
I want to see their fans fighting amongst themselves at Ipox, as the Hoops go 4 up and their humiliation is complete.
Now, is that too much to ask for…?!
TTTT