Cast your mind back to earlier this month. February ended with a 100% domestic record, qualification for the League Cup Final and two merit awards for performances against Inter Milan. We then walloped nearest challengers Aberdeen 4-0. A small matter of a game against St Johnstone lay ahead before the Scottish and League Cup double-header against Dundee United. Which we lost. At home.
If a team drops even a few percentage points below its optimum the actual drop in results achieved can be enormous. Celtic have answered all the big questions over the last seven weeks, despite the reversal in Milan; there will inevitably be a drop in adrenaline when normality returns, which is tomorrow, again against United.
We have a month to prepare for the Scottish Cup semi-final but another St Johnstone-type episode would cut the gap at the top to zero points, with Celtic having one game in hand.
I’m a great believer than a manager cannot and should not ask his players to climb the mountain every time. If he does, he loses that special intensity he’ll need for the truly big occasions. The players, from captain to novice, must carry the burden.
Niggles between players happen in every game. On most occasions it will be a couple of months before you face the same opponent again, so whatever happened last time will have been replaced in the mind’s gallery of items the player feels sore about.
Since Scottish football became the Celtic-Dundee United show that’s changed. A player who elbowed you last game will be running at you next time out. This is the stuff red cards are made of.
There is a chance that we’ve beaten United into submission and that they’ll turn up in body, not mind, tomorrow, but if Jackie McNamara manages to convince them they are victims of wanton Celtic player’s face-on-United player’s elbow action, you can expect more reds.
Keep your cool, Celtic. Nothing more than wanton hair ruffling.
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geordie munro
You are beyond hilarious!
ObtuseParExcellenceCSC
HH jamesgang
BRTH
What have the Italians ever done for Scotland?!
Eh?!
HH!!
JAMESGANG…..brilliant mate….great music….
Jamesgang,
I didn’t use to be. I’m learning from you experts on here :)
Mike in Toronto
Ya talkin’ ta me??
The Departed starred Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon who i always thought was the same person.
Matt Damon seems to be in 50% of the films I’ve seen in the last 10 years.
Apparently, he is the best value for money actor in Holywood in terms of box office receipts versus his fee.
The same study has Nicole Kidman as the worst.
I think we will win extremely comfortably tomorrow.
My only concern is when I think like that more often than not, we don’t.
Guinness
Soda bread.
Fish n chips
Good coffee
The ability to start a fight in an empty phone box x2
Decent coffee
Jelly n ice cream
Migrants, eh. Who needs them.
UkIPgtfCSC
HH jamesgang
jamesgang
Re the You Tube Inter match
I put 3 of the comments by the Inter fans through Google translate. Very complimentary and I liked the last one – the fans of celtic simply VERY LARGE and UNIQUE
Great stuff
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From traveling to the match! By their fans at the goal! Thank you, once again, of the heart, for letting me live this game with you! How I wish one day, be able too, for those who follow me, make them live these emotions! Hopefully come soon!
I hope to see you again! Thanks Biagio!
Beautiful video from beginning to end, especially with the final exchange of scarves, fantastic fans.
You’re so great biagio k nn perhaps you understand haha .. YOU ARE A MYTH !!!!!!!! Beautiful game,, and returned to the inter mancio or anke today at Cagliari game of thrilling finish …… x the fans of celtic simply VERY LARGE and UNIQUE !!!!!!! ALWAYS FORZA INTER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Delaney’s, we moved to Knightswood about a month after the blessed John Ogilvie became St John Ogilvie.
I remember Campbell Ogilvie was asked his thoughts about an Ogilvie becoming a saint but no reply was forthcoming.
Goodfellas not in the same class as The Departed…not in the same universe as Godfather 1-2….or a truly great movie like Mean Streets……
thomthethim for oscar ok,
Sorry didn’t see your post earlier. Unless he’s over for Easter I might not see him until our AGM in the summer.
Árd Macha
Mod night for me.
Árd Macha
Jamesgang
Cardosi’s in Paisley!
I was voted the worst wrapper of fish and chips in the history of Cardosi’s in the Piazza!
Wee Mrs Cardosi used to call me Petrocelli and send her son,George, out to buy steaks and cans of beer for he and I to eat and drink up the stairs during our extended lunchtime!
I always remember the key to the loos at Cardosi’s.
Members of the public had to ask for the keys to the loos — to prevent people wandering in and shooting up etc back in the bad old days — and so there was no wandering in off the street to get into the loos.
No, you had to ask for the key to the loo — which was attached by a piece of string to what had been the leg of a large chair or a snooker table!
It was bloody hilarious watching people wander to the bogs with this bloody great wooden leg under their arm.
I must write about my experiences in there at some point.
That and working in the carparks where i learned how to fix a greyhound race.
roy croppie
great photos Danny McGrain the best full back ever, world class
H H
I can see me sending Paulie,Christopher and Sil round to see a few people……:)
Another interesting fact about Good Fellas is that the Joe Pesci ‘You think I’m funny. Do I amuse you ?’ scene was all ad libbed by Mr P.
As for other gangster films, I thought Donnie Brasco was right up there.
None of them compare, though, to the Godfather (especially Part 2).
Google translate is crap!
HH!!
Frank Wilson.
Do I love You (indeed I do)
http://grooveshark.com/#!/now_playing/Do+I+Love+You+Indeed+I+Do/5xZ4DC
Árd Macha
nakasammi
The craic was grand before and after the game.
I love that guests feel the Celtic vibe.
‘very large & unique’ they say……..
One an tearmann, there’s only one an tearmann!!!
HH jamesgang
The_huddle
Bobby de Niro still proud of Goodfellas 25 years on.
That’ll do me.
Brilliant as Jimmy Conway.
Once Upon a time in America was another.
Amazing soundtrack.
BGX
21:33 on 20 March, 2015
Goodfellas not in the same class as The Departed…not in the same universe as Godfather 1-2….or a truly great movie like Mean Streets……
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The Departed is massively overrated, Goodfellas is a movie that’s been watched over and over again, Departed one maybe twice.
Pete the Beat at 21.13. David Chase who created the Sopranos wanted Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco to play Tony and Carmella in the show.
Lorraine Bracco agreed to a role in the show but not as Carmella.
In a way I’m glad James Gandolfini and Edie Falco got the roles, both excelled.
Good evening friends.
The ole Last Man Standing window slams shut in a couple of hours but not too late to join in the fun. Just email NOW to cqnlastmanstanding.gmail.com and we have a team of advisors (might just be me) ready to respond by return. Although as there’s currently rouge involved I’d advise you to act NOW ;-)
Jobo / CRC
BRTH
You are indeed the Resident raconteur of CQN!
How long have you been alive for – youve squeezed 300 years’ worth of yarns into half a life so far!!!
HH jamesgang
Spiritof67
Danny McGrain! My favourite ever fitba player. Watched him live for the majority of his matches. The Greatest!
Dia dhaoibh, a chairde,
Passport: check
Boarding passes : check
Sterling: check
Alarm set: check
Lift to airport with 51%: check
See youse tomorrow
Coinnígí an creideamh
The Lambrettas:
Dance.
http://grooveshark.com/#!/queue/Da+a+a+ance/3kG16S
Árd Macha
‘The Departed’ – good.
‘Goodfellas’ – better.
Imo, of course.
‘Godfather’ and ‘Godfather 2’ – the best.
HH!!
BGX
T’was taxman then,an he’s chasing his arse again.
Just seen a good gee up line on the basketball ,’Don’t pace yourself,as there is no tomorrow…’
Has anybody ever seen Jim Goodwin and Kryten from red dwarf in the same room?
I’ve read Gangsters & Goodfellas, Henry Hill’s follow up to Wiseguys, the book Goodfellas was based on.
It was about some things not mentioned in the Wiseguy book and about his time in witness protection. He came over as horrible wee creep with looking after number one his main priority.
Petethebeat
Once upon a time. . . Was that the movie with the scene in which the young boy is unable to resist eating the cake, despite other pleasures being on offer in exchange for it?
Voguepunter…..taxman is lk
like an ex…..relentless….dam phone
Jobo -you have mail