Winning as comfortably as Celtic are these days, it is easy to forget those times when we struggle to breakdown packed defences. This has been a feature of Celtic games for as long as I’ve been watching. We have always and will always come up against teams who will put 10 men behind the ball and seldom leave their final third.
In most games we will move the ball around quickly enough for cracks to open up. The same is true for our main title rivals. Often, the league is won and lost on how well the contenders are able to overcome a packed defence that sticks to task.
Leagues are won by players and actions that set the champions apart. In this particular area, David Turnbull excels. His technique when shooting from outside the box is exceptional. In less than a combined 90 minute action against packed defences in recent weeks, he has scored three times from outside the area.
Low shots, hard and bullet fast, this is not about how Celtic move the ball or their ability to create space, it is an elite individual talent at work. When we are comfortably ahead of St Mirren, Morton or St Johnstone, this is of little consequence, but when struggling to make the breakthrough, David Turnbull is an outstanding asset.
He is still only 23, lots of road ahead. Talk of a new contract is not premature.
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CORKCELT
I did think of Taylor’s goal v Livi but that was from well inside the box.
Great strike though.
IDEGUCHI
Reports are he’s heading back to Japan to play in the J League
Fukuoka……not swearing at anyone , that’s the team he’s signing for. 🤣
marspapa on 6th February 2023 7:18 pm
IDEGUCHI
Reports are he’s heading back to Japan to play in the J League
Fukuoka……not swearing at anyone , that’s the team he’s signing for. 🤣
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Best wishes to Yosuke as he was just in Scotland and got Barry Ferguson’s treatment.
I hope to see him @ a World Cup in the future.
I’ll be in Fukuoka in late April too- might catch Ideguchi there
What’s the point of having Stuart Dougal review the week’s VAR decisions when all he does is back up his fellow masons, sorry, fellow referees?
Weebobbycollins on 6th February 2023 7:49 pm
What’s the point of having Stuart Dougal review the week’s VAR decisions when all he does is back up his fellow masons, sorry, fellow referees?
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That is the point. :)
Embdae ever heard Dougal backing any decision against the huns? When he gets wheeled out,you know that he’s defending the indefensible ,best ignored.
Dougal will back them on two counts;
1 they’re fellow refs
2 They’re fellow masons .
PETEC
I was told if we could get the best out of him he would be a superstar, pity it didn’t work out for him with us .
Hope he stays fit for his new team .
https://twitter.com/Redpeter99/status/1622607731348721666?s=20
He’s a Leeds United fan.
I don’t particularly like that club.
But this guy is always good for a giggle.
Two facts involving Stuart Dougal tell me all I need to know about the guy, his attitudes and his values.
1. He violently grabbed Neil Lennon to show him a red card at Ibrox.
2. Neil Lennon was violently grabbed by him at Ibrox before being shown a red card.
A story of cowboys and masons. An orengeman duffer goalkeeper and an american calvary man taking kick off, and goal nets appear for the first tiime,
2 american friends went from chicago to the museun today and i told them bill has a statue in glasgow, they didnt believe me so i told them the story and the celtic connection to out greates loss.
When I was a bhoy (the 70s) and we watched Cowboy films, my granda (born 1917) would tell a story that is granda (jacobus of coal island 1880 arrives in the port) had seen the greatest of cowboys and loads of his indians at Celtic park and at greenock
Buffalo Bill
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When Buffalo Bill brought his Wild West show to Scotland
William F. Cody, or ‘˜Buffalo Bill’ to give him his more famous moniker, visited Scotland twice as he took his Wild West show to Europe.
By The Newsroom
19th Jun 2017, 1:47pm
Updated
19th Jun 2017, 4:28pm
Over the course of six international sojourns in 465 different locations, Cody performed at numerous Scottish venues as part of two tours of Scotland including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeenshire and the Borders.
But it was Cody’s performances during his first visit to Scotland, in Glasgow in late 1891 and early 1892, that really put the showman in the public eye.
With performances held at the East End Exhibition Buildings at Dennistoun, from 16 November 1891 until 27 February 1892, Cody and his cohorts were making headlines before the run of shows had even begun – undoubtedly carefully orchestrated publicity stunts to try and boost attendances at the specially-constructed 7,000-capacity Glasgow venue – although there were numerous problems that delayed the start of the run as well.
During the three-month stint, Cody turned up at a Rangers match, sent a team of cowboys to play in a charity match at Parkhead and gave money to child beggars in George Square.
A report in the Scottish Sport newspaper, from 10 November 1891, referred to Cody’s appearance at Ibrox stadium, for a Glasgow Cup quarter-final match between Rangers and Queen’s Park held on 7 November.
Getting word that more than 12,000 people were due to attend the match in Govan, Cody arrived at the stadium unannounced, in full Western gear, where he was ‘enthusiastically received’.
“Ibrox was filled with congratulations. The club’s staunch friends and loyal supporters, Bailies Primrose and Guthrie, received a hearty recognition on their first appearance since their ‘creation’.
Haddow, the ‘light blue’ goalkeeper, who was married the previous evening – plucky lad – also came in for a mild ovation, and the boss of the Wild West was also enthusiastically received.
“Col. Cody was taken into the pavilion at half-time, and introduced to both teams. Probably he gave them an invite to the ‘Wild West’ in the East End.”
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Cunningham believed Cody deliberately arrived late so the crowd could get a good look at him in all his glory, he told The Scotsman in 2007.
Buffalo Bill, right, with Sitting Bull, in a photograph taken in 1895, just after his Glasgow stint. Picture:
He added: “Buffalo Bill knew virtually nothing about football, but he was a master showman and publicist, and wanted to turn up at the biggest game in town.
“It would be like the biggest Hollywood star turning up unannounced at a match today.
“I believe he turned up late deliberately so the whole crowd could watch him striding towards his seat in his big white cowboy hat.”
Not content with making an appearance at Ibrox, Cody sent his right-hand man, Major John M Burke, to Parkhead for a friendly match on 1 Jan 1892 between Celtic and Dumbarton.
Burke was enlisted to help kick off the match, which Celtic lost 8-0. The scoreline remains the club’s record home defeat to this day.
The Scotsman made a passing reference to Burke getting the match under way: “These teams met at Parkhead, Glasgow, on New years day and played before 15,000 spectators. Buffalo Bill’s manager Major Burke kicked off.”
‘Charging Thunder’ jailed for assault
It was an eventful trip for Cody and his troupe – one of the travelling Native Americans, named Charging Thunder, was detained and thrown in Barlinnie jail for assaulting another member of the show with a club.
The Scotsman reported on Charging Thunder’s trial at Glasgow Summary Court: “‘Charging Thunder’, one of Buffalo Bill’s hostages from the American Government, was taken before Sheriff Birnie, in the Glasgow Summary Court, on a charge of having, on the 31st December last [1891], in the Wild West Show at Glasgow, assaulted George Crager, Sioux interpreter, by striking him on the head and neck with an Indian club.
“‘Charging Thunder’ pled guilty, and it was stated on his behalf that he was only 23 years of age, and was usually one of the quietest members of the Wild West Show, but in common with other Indians, the slightest drop of drink infuriated him, and on the night in question he had obtained whisky in a public-house in mistake for lemonade, which he asked for. He entertained no malice towards the interpreter.
“The Sheriff said that the assault was of so serious a stature that had ‘Charging Thunder’ not been a stranger he would have sent him to prison for a long period, but under the circumstances he would limit the imprisonment to 30 days.
“He thought it a great shame that publicans should supply these Indians with whisky.”
Philanthrophy in George Square
Another tale about Cody himself was found in the Glasgow Evening News of 11 November 1891. A ‘correspondent’ told of encountering a ‘distinguished looking gentleman, with a somewhat outré appearance’, who bought a pile of newspapers from an old lady in George Square and noticed a shoeless young girl helping her to sell the papers.
The account continued: “Pointing to her shoeless feet, which evidently attracted his attention on the cold night, he asked the old woman what it would cost to get a pair of shoes for the child, and then handed her the amount she named. He paid for his papers, gave the old lady a sixpence for herself, handed a silver coin to another poor body in the neighbourhood, and then went off with a smile on his face, that showed he felt pleased at being able thus unostentatiously to do a kindly action. On inquiring who the gentleman was, the old woman replied – “Sure that’s Buffalo Bill, an’ he has bought his papers from me the last two nights. God bless him.”
The Glasgow extravaganza was quite something, by all accounts, comprising six dramatic episodes making up a wider show titled The Drama of Civilization. Included as part of this was a re-enactment of the Battle of Little Bighorn and shooting displays by Cody himself and noted sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
As the Wild West Show’s run came to an end in late February 1892, with big crowds turning up for every performance, Cody sent a team of cowboys to play local amateur outfit Brandon, in a charity match at Parkhead on 25 February.
The exact score is unknown but the cowboys are known to have lost the match.
‘Ain’t she a beaut!’
Although the final performance was held on 27 February, the last performers didn’t leave Glasgow until nearly two months later.
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Other notable moments from the tour included Cody attending the Court of Session in Edinburgh on a day off, causing a stir as he took a seat in the public gallery in full regalia, as well as a visit to the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
He is also reported to have climbed Calton Hill, and on seeing the view of Edinburgh from the summit, shouted: “Ain’t she a beaut!”
Of those that were left, the Cowboy Band – who provided the music at the Wild West Show – teamed up with the Alberger Troupe of Tyrolean Vocalists and around 12 Indians, and embarked on a five-date tour of Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire.
Performances were held in Greenock Town Hall, Coatbridge Temperance Hall, Hamilton Victoria Hall, Govan Hall and Paisley Theatre Royal.
Buffalo Bill returned to Scotland for a wider tour in 1904, with the first performance taking place in Hawick, on 26 July 1904, and the final performance being held in Dumfries on 14 September.
The lengthy tour had taken in venues including Edinburgh, Arbroath, Fraserburgh, Inverness and Ayr.
In Dundee, firefighters were called to put out a blaze in a goods yard, most likely caused by one of Cody’s trains passing through.
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Cody’s visit to the north east – Aberdeen, Peterhead and Fraserburgh – actually had an adverse effect on the fishing industry, as workers abandoned their trawlers to attend the performances. The price of fish reportedly sky-rocketed on the days following Cody’s shows in the region.
The man and the legacy behind the sobriquet
For all the rootin’-tootin’ extravagance of his stage show, there was more to Cody than cowboys and sharpshooting.
Born in Iowa in February 1846, William F. Cody began working at the age of 12, on a wagon train. The following year he got involved in the gold rush in Colorado. By the age of 15, he was reportedly riding for the Pony Express – although there remains doubt over the veracity of this claim, with some suggesting Cody may have elaborated elements of his past for publicity.
But regardless of any fabrication, as the Buffalo Bill Center of the West say on their website: “By the end of his life, he had come to symbolize the American frontier itself.”
During the latter years of the American Civil War, Cody took on a role as a scout for the Union Army’s Seventh Kansas Cavalry and maintained his links with Kansas in 1867 as he agreed to hunt buffalo for Kansas Pacific Railroad construction workers, earning him the moniker ‘Buffalo Bill’.
Due to his standing, Cody became the go-to source for advice on matters afecting the American West. Presidents including Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson and many more came to Cody for counsel on American West issues. Away from his role as showman and political adviser, Cody also established a newspaper, the Cody Enterprise (still in existence as the main news source for the town of Cody in Wyoming) as well as investing in hotels, mines, coal and oil development, film makingm town building, tourism and ranching.
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He also used his status to support women’s suffrage and push for fairer treatment of Native Americans.
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West carries a quote on their website attributed to Annie Oakley which perhaps best sums Cody up: “He was the simplest of men, as comfortable with cowboys as with kings.”
MARSPAPA,
He came back over after an earlier stint that didnae work out.
And he gets that Alloa thug assaulting him straight away.
I’m sure he will stay fit in a technically skilled League.
And despite everything he can always say he has played for the Mighty Celts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH6TJU0qWoY
Burke was enlisted to help kick off the match, which Celtic lost 8-0. The scoreline remains the club’s record home defeat to this day.
The Scotsman made a passing reference to Burke getting the match under way: “These teams met at Parkhead, Glasgow, on New years day and played before 15,000 spectators. Buffalo Bill’s manager Major Burke kicked off.”
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The Scotsman – Saturday, 2nd January 1892, page 10
Celtic v Dumbarton – These teams met at Parkhead, Glasgow, on New years day and played before 15,000 spectators. Buffalo Bill’s manager Major Burke kicked off. Dumbarton started and were first over. Celtic retaliated and Cherry of the Clyde who, who replaced Kelly, gave a chance. Hard forcing play in midfield followed. McLeod had twice to save on the post. McMahon was walking through the County defence. Dumbarton came away occasionally in brilliant form, but the ground defence was at its best. Still they were beaten sometimes. Taylor scored for the Dumbarton in twenty-five minutes, and Boyle put on a second a minute after. Before other five minutes Bell put on a third. Duff’s goalkeeping was very indifferent. Dumbarton were fairly [word indistinct] their opponents, who fell away considerably. With five minutes to go Thomson put on Dumbarton’s fourth. Dumbarton’s front play was brilliant, Bell’s considerably so. Another came from Thomson before the interval. Half-time:- Dumbarton, five goals; Celtic, nil. After a brief interval the teams resumed, and Dumbarton began best, but Celtic struggled through to the end. A hard game resulted:- Dumbarton, eight goals; Celtic, nil.
An erratic display from Duff is said to have been largely to blame for the Bhoys being thumped 8-0 in a friendly clash with Dumbarton at Parkhead. However, there were probably a lot of sore heads after the Hogmany drinking binge, as as this was a friendly many may not have taken the match as seriously as much beforehand as during it.
“On that day Celtic used goal nets at Parkhead for the first time and poor Tom, having presumably celebrated the New Year late if not to excess, had to retrieve the ball eleven times in a 0-8 defeat (three goals were struck off).” – Eugene MacBride
The Scottish Sport was crueller about him stating: “Duff for the day spelt his dame D-U-F-F-E-R. It will take a lot of his best saving to recover the reputation lost”.
Celtic Team:- Duff, Reynolds, Doyle, Maley, Cherry, Dowds, McCallum, Brady, Madden, McMahon Campbell.
Dumbarton :- McLeod, Richmond, Watson, McMillan, Boyle, Lang, Thomson, Taylor, Miller, McNaught, Bell.
Lucky man indeed PETEC 👍😍
The irish in Gorbals and Govanhill.
A history project out of Govanhill baths
https://www.govanhillbaths.com/archive/littledonegal/?fbclid=IwAR1jyB9mzbeHaan3uN8BaJ9AAWW2rgMwqZsx7IBeb1-uj7Gd76DEY5icuNE
HH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAFiRRlcbG8
celtic telegraph news, these posts just in stop.
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Celtic Team:-
Duff, who ever thought it was ok to play an orengeman in goals for the sacred team needs to take a good long hard look at themselves. stop
Reynolds, past his best, backs who cant kick and rush and overlap have no place in the modern game
Doyle, Danny bhoy, i hope your not stil here in the mornin
Maley, stick to the athletics , your just not suited to the edwardian game, royalist leanings an awe.
Cherry, if he was a cake he would eat himself
Dowds, if only everton would come and kidnap him back
McCallum, living off his “first ever goal” reputation, CONN should be moved ONN
Brady, The bold bhoys invisible man
Madden, Rumours his head has been turned to play continetal football in the czech republic, tether up the brake club cart, i will drive him to the ferry port myself
McMahon / The selkirk man has always wanted back to edinburgh his heart is in leith with the harp and the hibernians, makes no secret that the celts was his lesser choice, he wont win medals at celtic
Campbell. scoring 12 goals in a reserve game, bid deal if you cant do it for the first team, get rid
and that pitch, is it built on top of a quarry
An Tearmann
Interesting post about the centre of the universe, aka Govanhill. Still quite a few Irish folk in the area. Victoria Bar when the GAA is on is a riot.
A tricolour with a Celtic crest,behind the goals at the Wigan end
BADA BING
Saw that
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Great thread from rangerstaxcase. Thanks jobo :-))
https://twitter.com/rangerstaxcase/status/1622621988727713795?t=Dib25ydZR3Xr1n5e1olcig&s=19
HH
BigRailRoadBlues
I see old Neesons get a mention,still goin strong,is that still in family? is Heraghtys still goin i came by it late other night,looked like a change of name,and the old ‘kind man’ had entrance to a night club
First time in while down there changed area brrb
HH
*SENTINEL CELTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2022-23*
RESULTS FROM GAME #35 – ST JOHNSTONE 1 CELTIC 4 (CONSIDINE(OG), KYOGO, MOOY, TURNBULL)
Good evening, friends.
The McDiarmid Park playing surface was the worst that we have witnessed (so far!) this season but that didn’t affect Celtic’s approach to the game, trying to play our quick passing, on the deck football throughout the 90 minutes. Another 4 excellent goals (the own goal only prevented a certain tap in). And whilst Joe Hart would have been disappointed not to have put a stronger hand onto Wright’s fine 25 yard strike, we still managed to extend our lead at the top by a further 2 goals.
A game rarely goes by without something VAR related but for the referee to put a stop to a quick throw in whilst he listened to something (what?) in his earpiece was a new one on me!
Domestically we have now played 29, winning 27, drawing 1 and losing 1, scoring 93 and conceding 19.
A huge thank you to the 76 who emailed me with their 3 nominations, the biggest turnout of 2023. The total votes cast for each player with my own choices asterisked are as follows –
Hart: 1
Johnston: 2
Carter-Vickers: 13
Starfelt: 34
Taylor: 2
McGregor: 13
Hatate: 0
Mooy*: 71
Jota*: 21
Kyogo*: 59
Maeda: 11
O’Riley: 1
Abada: 0
Oh: 0
Turnbull: 0
Haksabanovic: 0
And so the players receiving POINTS for the game against St Johnstone are –
Mooy – 5 pts
Kyogo – 4 pts
Starfelt – 3 pts
Jota – 2 pts
Carter-Vickers and McGregor – 1 point each
And after 35 games the overall standings are as shown below –
73 points – Hatate
50 points – Carter-Vickers
45 points – Jota
42 points – Mooy and Taylor
35 points – McGregor
33 points – Kyogo
28 points – O’Riley
26 points – Abada
23 points – Maeda
22 points – Jenz
15 points – Haksabanovic
14 points – Starfelt
13 points – Giakoumakis and Juranovic
10 points – Ralston
9 points – Bernabei and Welsh
8 points – Forrest and Johnston
7 points – Hart
5 points – Turnbull
4 points – Kobayashi
0 points – Abildgaard, Iwata, Lawal, McCarthy, Oh, Siegrist and Vata
Our next game is a last-16 home tie in the Scottish Cup next Saturday with a 5.30pm kick off against St Mirren.
Hail Hail!
An Tearmann
Neesons been owned by Matt Reilly for years. He also owns Allison Arms, Beechings, Quarter Gill etc. Victoria Bar and Queens Park Cafe owned by big pub chain. Heraghtys still going strong, Kind Man has had several name changes, now called Rum Shak. New Regent still infested with smelly hun reprobates.
Oh and a couple of wee extra points if I may –
> we have played 35 competitive games this season. Reo Hatate has appeared in 31 of those. Yesterday was the first time he failed to receive a single vote.
> the 2 players who have made the most appearances this season,34 games each, are Matt O’Riley and Liel Abada.
> it may well be this weekend that someone has the honour of scoring our 100th goal of the season. We currently sit on 97.
Hail Hail!
Link to fouls per fouls per yellow card for this season in the spl
https://twitter.com/pieandbov/status/1622548456215568384?s=46&t=ozuKEmv3iPQ0FUFkA-Nc0Q
I believe that as we are in the minority sh!t like this goes under reported……
Anyone got links to full games?
Dying to collate all the fouls that show we get a tonne of nothing fouls against us to break our play
ideas?
God knows what the final death toll will be after the earthquakes.Horrendous images being shown all day here.Syria,probably worse.Most of the Cities hit there,had tens of thousands of Syrians living in shells of buildings,bombed for the last 10 years by the Russians,no where else to live,just collapsed,like paper.Freezing conditions.Hard to imagine it.One of my mates,who trains the search ànd rescue dogs is there now.
Had plenty of small tremors here,but nothing like these.Enough to give you a good shake.One we ran like hell out of the house.Very scary.
Many thanks to those that enquired,after the Earthquakes.Opposite end of the country.
Turkeybhoy.
Thanks for your update.
My thoughts and prayers are with all affected by the devastation wrought by the tremors,those tectonic plates show how fragile we are.Take care and let us know you and yours are doin alright.
Take care
HH
TURKEYBHOY
Good to hear from you. I knew from your previous posts that you are based well away from the earthquakes, but it still must be tough for you watching it all unfold. Can’t even begin to imagine what it must be like.
Take care and thanks for the updates.
TURKEYBHOY
Heartbreaking , stay safe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M04Cqc7MTc&ab_channel=GoodMorningBritain
TB,
wouldn’t/couldn’t wish whats happened on anyone, be safe.
10.18
Define your stat and what you want to measure.
Its prob why P&B is ceasing the measure.it is badly defined,whats a foul?what a yellow?not all fouls are yellow,some are.
I think you are looking for your own bias fit.
what ‘minority’ and what ‘we’ you talking bout?
Ask your boss is it the same ‘we/minority’ that our ownership ignored/muted as majority shareholder acknowledged ‘great club n history”nodded thro NimmoSmith and 92.01% of imperfectly registered players 99-’12?
Ideas? – Define that stat that shows by result and evidence your bias is correct and make coin.til then Mod + yirjob it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgC1AP3kYF4&ab_channel=StoptheWarCoalition