Celtic blitzed Aberdeen with three goals in the opening 11 minutes in what at that stage looked set to be a drubbing, but the hosts pulled a goal back in the 12th minute, which set a parity for the remainder of the match.
Leigh Griffiths has had to be patient this season but he made the most of his starting opportunity tonight. The opening goal, came from his corner, which was headed into the net by Dedryck Boyata. Patrick Roberts had a clear chance to open the scoring seconds earlier, but Aberdeen keeper Lewis turned his effort behind.
The second Celtic goal arrived on the 8th minute. There was nothing really on when Griffiths collected the ball wide on the right, but one cheeky nutmeg later and the Aberdeen defence were chasing shadows. Leigh crossed and Callum McGregor fired a shot which was blocked by Logan. The rebound fell to Stuart Armstrong, who contorted his body to make a contact good enough to score.
Again, there was little obvious danger when Leigh Griffiths collected the ball 30 yards out in 11 minutes. The Celtic striker took on two defenders before cracking a shot from 24 yards, which moved and deceived Lewis before smacking the back of the net.
At this point Celtic looked more likely to score six than to settle for three, but, remarkably, the fourth goal of the game arrived just a minute later, when Jonny Hayes lost Kieran Tierney with a quick change of direction before thundering one into the top corner from 23 yards.
It was now Celtic’s turn to rock. Perhaps the game’s most important subsequent moment came after just 14 minutes when Stockley lost the Celtic central defenders, but couldn’t make contact with a cross 7 yards in front of goal.
Celtic’s passing in recent weeks has been exceptional, but they didn’t get this right on a choppy Pittodrie surface, as the unforced error count spiked. The ball rotation we have become used to seeing this season didn’t happen often, underlining the importance of suspended Scott Brown.
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Anyone got any spares for Firhill on Thursday. Two would be great but 1 will get me in!
KTF
BBC October 2012
Rangers Ticketus deal conversation ‘was recorded’
By Mark Daly
BBC Scotland Investigations Correspondent
24 October 2012
BBC Scotland has uncovered new evidence showing Rangers administrators Duff and Phelps knew Craig Whyte had sold season tickets to buy the club.
The recording of a conversation indicates they were intent on denying it because they thought they could get away with it.
A Duff and Phelps spokesman said the words were taken “out of context”.
The BBC reported Duff and Phelps partner David Grier may have known about the Ticketus deal last April.
This was before Mr Whyte’s takeover.
Mr Grier denied any knowledge of the deal until August 2011.
The BBC has obtained a recording of a meeting between Mr Whyte and Mr Grier, which show Duff and Phelps did know.
Mr Whyte bought Rangers from Sir David Murray for £1 and paid an £18m debt to Lloyds Bank by selling three years of season tickets to finance firm Ticketus for £25m.
As well as being involved in Mr Whyte’s takeover, Duff and Phelps were appointed as Rangers’ administrators after the club plunged into insolvency in February 2012.
In May, a BBC Scotland investigation suggested that Mr Grier may have known that about the controversial Ticketus deal before the Whyte takeover was complete.
Mr Grier, and Duff and Phelps, denied the claims and said he was unaware of this particular Ticketus deal until August 2011.
Last week, in a BBC interview, Mr Whyte said that “everybody who was involved in the deal team at the time knew about” the Ticketus deal.
He added: “They (Duff and Phelps) knew everything, they attended meetings, they were copied into all the emails, they were there on the day of completion. They knew from the start.”
BBC Scotland has now received a secret recording that Mr Whyte says he made at a meeting between him and Mr Grier in a private members’ club in London on 31 May, after its investigation was broadcast.
Media captionCraig Whyte met David Grier at a private members club in London
The recording, which is to be used in a forthcoming court case involving Duff and Phelps and Mr Whyte’s former lawyers Collyer Bristow, has been obtained legitimately by BBC Scotland.
During the exchange Mr Grier and Mr Whyte discuss Ticketus and Saffreys, one of the companies of lawyers involved in the transaction. Saffreys were acting for Mr Whyte with responsibility for dealing with Ticketus.
Mr Grier said: “I’ll tell you what we’re doing with that just so you…”
Mr Whyte: “Yeah.”
Mr Grier: “We, we went to see counsel yesterday and had a full sort of debrief of all the email
correspondence.”
Mr Whyte: “Yep.”
Mr Grier: “Now, the fact is that we probably did know what was going on with Ticketus. There’s no email traffic whatsoever.”
Mr Whyte: “That says that you did?”
Mr Grier: “That says that we did.”
Mr Whyte: “But we all know that you did and f****** hell.”
Mr Grier: “Yeah, yeah. There’s no…we were not involved in dealing with Ticketus directly.”
Mr Whyte: “Yeah. So you knew the structures of the deal. You were dealing with Lloyds.”
Mr Grier: “Absolutely.”
Mr Whyte: “And the Ticketus part was Saffreys.”
Mr Grier “Yeah. So we’ve maintained that line quite rigorously.”
BBC Scotland has been able to confirm with a voice recognition expert that the recording is of Mr Grier.
Duff and Phelps spokesman Marty Dauer said: “As we have previously stated, Duff and Phelps maintains that our conduct of the Rangers administration was carried out to the highest professional standards.
“We do not respond to information that is taken out of context, as we believe is the case in the BBC story.
“We welcome the opportunity to review a complete copy of the information that the BBC references in its story.”
TRICOLOURED RIBBON on 15TH MAY 2017 11:43 AM
Coming over to Clydebank on Thursday for a few days.Will be in Glasgow on Saturday where I plan to have a few swallys.Would be delighted to meet anyone in town if they fancy a tipple for an hour or two.
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TRICOLOURED RIBBON,
I’ll get back to you on that possible swally meeting…I have to wait to see how money is ?
HH
new article posted.
ASMH- That’s the one mate…
ERNIE:
Possibly, he is human, I tried to cross check with the BBC but they have stopped reporting and I can’t find the other feed I had.
But from what James Doleman wrote… it just hangs with no apparent meaning.
https://twitter.com/Arsene_Parcelie/status/864032986597130240?s=08
VG
Jimmy,
If you moved to Ireland you would never regret it fella.
As regards to your other issues, I’m sure some of our learned people on here would advise you on that.
I’m assuming you live in Scotland?
With respect to the MSM putting our players ‘up for sale’ it would be foolish not to accept the wages that some players could earn in englanshire would not be tempting no matter how much they enjoyed playing for us.
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Of course whyte handed over a whole 0.00073 Bitcoin for oldco