I was pleased Hearts won last night as all season I’ve been telling people we will win the league by double figures. Dropping the ball on Wednesday night put that in jeopardy but the gap is back to 12 points ahead of the visit of Motherwell on Sunday.
Ronny is likely to deploy more first choice players for his final game as Celtic manager against a Motherwell team who staged a remarkable recovery after a dreadful 2015, which would have seem them relegated if it weren’t for the huge gap between Premiership and Championship.
It looked like farewell from Emilio on Wednesday but you have to expect a few more will possibly make their final competitive appearances in the hoops this weekend.
I see a “Five-in-a-row but Peter Lawwell just cannot win” article in The Scotsman. Aye, fair enough, but the article ploughs into the Resolution 12 guys, and accuses other Celtic fans of “breathtaking hypocrisy”.
It appears to imply Financial Fair Play rules are not applied elsewhere in Europe (citing Atletico Madrid), so there should be no issues with the rules not applying to Rangers in 2011. I don’t follow Spanish club licencing too closely, but you will remember Malaga being banned by Uefa for having “overdue payables” to the Spanish tax authorities.
The rules ARE applied, clubs are banned from European competition for overdue payables.
I’ve been in touch with both the Res 12 guys and Celtic on this matter this morning (they continue to work together on a daily basis). It’s fair to say both robustly rejected the tone in the article. I don’t know how this matter will end, but it will not be decided at Hampden, or in a newspaper office – cards marked one more time.
Zlatan on ending his stay at PSG, “I came like a king, I leave like a legend”. And then some.
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Eldiegobhoy
I’m only sneaking in as I want to
Lure you in to another fall out :-)
Thank you guys. We all see the club in different ways but they’re my club, warts and all, until the day I die.
SOAL
Promotional advert for Koolba in Candleriggs which was excellent as ever. Doubtless Whitedoghunch will think otherwise:o)
TALLYBHOY .
Sampaoli?
Sicilian radio claimed that his chat with Lazio was a disaster – allegedly his expected salary was a bit much for Lotito
Cultsbhoy
You’re never off the bloody place these days:o) You appear to have a lot of time on your hands for mischief making. LOL.
EDB
You pissed off and left me with HT and PfAyr ( Long Night ) Minx i can handle
LOve
Tally boy, the name is Vespacide for future reference.
Hail Hail.
EDB
My cousin was eventually buried today (his No.2 son was in distant lands when he died last week) and talking to his two lhads at the purvey they remembered soooooo much their last Saturday with him watching the Hoops ‘lift’ the title at Tynecastle. It meant so much to all three of them – a great memory for the family.
You will be in my prayers – a true Tim.
Penalty Hibs
WINNING CAPTAINS
Perhaps a message on the big screens at CP prior to Sunday’s game drawing attention to crowdfunding the advertisement. Not all Celtic supporters read or have contact with CQN.
Also if the succulent lamb munchers are in attending a message on the big screen might drive home their “incompetence”.
Just a thought. HH
Penalty hibs..
Pen Hibs ….scored
Hibs are level. Which is nice.
Wishaw bhoy scores for Hibs
EDB,
Genuinely sorry to see your news, a wee prayer offered.
What do you think of this for a strip, could you see a Celtic version ?
https://twitter.com/shockingkits/status/730860683609423872
2-1 Hibs!!
2-1 hibs;)
2-1Hibs
2-1 hibs, :-)
Hail Hail.
Wishaw bhoy again scores for Hibs
Jobo…
Yer quick on the draw tonight :)))
2012-05-13: Celtic 5-0 Hearts, SPLThis is a featured page
Match Pictures | Matches: 2011 – 2012 | 2011-2012 Pictures
Trivia
Celtic win the league by 20pts…
… and finally get to lift the trophy! Not allowed in prior games as 1) away matches 2) Not allowed to parade at home match v Rangers 3) chose not to parade at home midweek game.
Our only trophy of season.
Hooper scores five, first Celtic player to score first half hat trick since Hartson.
Hearts to play in Scottish Cup final the next weekend v Hibs.
Rangers lose their American bidder! Liquidation striking. However reports of new takeover by Charles Green! So chants of Glasgows “Green & [Craig] Whyte”.
Thai Tims sing again at Celtic Park after mini tour to N Ireland. Off home soon.
On award of the trophy, Neil Lennon took the trophy he sat the trophy just outside the GB’s corner of the stadium and applauded them and thanked them in his speech.
Celtic Graves Society Ceremony for Jermiah Reynolds.
Teams
Celtic
01 Forster
03 Izaguirre
21 Mulgrew
22 Loovens
02 Matthews
08 Brown Booked (Kayal – 67′ )
16 Ledley (McCourt – 69′ )
67 Wanyama
09 Samaras
15 Commons (Stokes – 81′ )
88 Hooper
Substitutes
24 Zaluska
11 Cha Du-Ri
23 Lustig
56 Twardzik
20 McCourt
33 Kayal
10 Stokes
Goals
Hooper 5′, 8′, 39′, 66′, 87′
Att: 58,875
For all the ‘early’ brigade on Sunday http://www.celticfc.net/news/10515?
Davie Hay still looks a hard barsteward, doesn’t he?
EDB
never cared for you but was looking for somebody to join me on this wee break
http://privatejet.fourseasons.com/fs/culinary-discoveries
eat together soon x
Not saying the Hibs penalty was a sending off offence but his inconsistency on these decisions is farcical.
EmeraldBee
Thank you. Your cousin loved Celtic as I also do now. Of course balance sheets deserve a mention from time to time but never to the detriment of our strong feelings for the club we all love.
There’s a fair number who post regularly here have the wrong balance.
2013-05-11: Celtic 4-0 St Johnstone, SPLThis is a featured page
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Trivia
Celtic receive the trophy for winning the league.
Scott Brown returns and starts the match.
Celtic Planning Application to demolish the former London Road Primary School buildings beside Celtic agreed at committee. Part of plan to create new “superstore, museum, theatre, café, ticket sales, offices and associated facilities”. It’s been derelict for years with plans for first stage complete by 2014 commonwealth games.
Wigan win FA Cup which includes ex Celt Shaun Maloney. Club captain and ex Celt Gary Caldwell did not play but lifted the trophy.
Celtic have taken French defender Steven Mouyokolo (26, centre-back) on trial.
Alex Ferguson, Man U & ex-Aberdeen boss, announces retirement from football at end of the season with his team winning the league title. He is an undoubted legend of the world game and has reigned for an incredibly long period at Man U.
Rumours begin of a managerial merry go round. Ex Celt David Moyes to Man U and our Neil Lennon to Everton in his place.
Neil Lennon wins Scottish Writers Manager of the Year award.
Teams
Celtic
01 Forster
03 Izaguirre (Kayal – 84′ )
06 Wilson
21 Mulgrew
23 Lustig Booked
08 Brown (Samaras – 61′ Booked )
16 Ledley
49 Forrest Booked (McGeouch – 72′ )
67 Wanyama Booked
10 Stokes
88 Hooper
Substitutes
24 Zaluska
02 Matthews
04 Ambrose
20 McCourt
33 Kayal
46 McGeouch
09 Samaras
Goals
Ledley 2′ Mulgrew 36′ Forrest 51′ Wright 90′ (og)
Att: 57,000
El Diego Bhoy
Good to see you on.soz I missed you on sat as i didnt get Iin til half 5.keep postin:-)
HH
got the last 2 posts in the wrong order , doh,
anyways that was 4 in a room trophys presented , sunday is 5.
we need that lisbon lions stand opened up and filled, give the tickets away,
By TOM ENGLISH
Published on 12/05/2013 02:12
NO MATTER where Neil Lennon ends up in his career – Everton or wherever – he will hardly have a less stressful afternoon than the one that brought him a second successive SPL trophy.
Scorers: Ledley 2, Mulgrew 36, Forrest 51, Wright 90
The Celtic manager may as well have replaced the dugout with a fluffy couch, may as well have removed the water bottle from his mouth and had a giant cigar instead. From the first minute, when Joe Ledley’s thumping shot from outside the box put the home team ahead, to the last, when an own goal brought up number four, Celtic had not a second’s concern. This was a championship sealed with a stroll. Lennon’s players may as well have worn slippers.
On the pitch in the aftermath, Lennon praised his team, the fans and had a thinly coded message for absent chums. “To celebrate 125 years of unique and unbroken history with a title is something very special,” he said. Ouch.
Later he referred back to Rangers. “This title is better [than last season] because it’s the next one,” he said. “We’ve proved we’re not a flash in the pan. I know there will be a lot of people out there saying there was no Rangers, it was a one-horse race. In essence there is something to that and we are not going to hide away from it.”
This was probably the first time Lennon has given any credence to the view that a title without Rangers as a rival is a lesser title. Interesting and honest stuff from the Celtic manager. “But we have a job to do here,” he added.
“We have a responsibility to win trophies. It’s in the DNA of the club, as is doing it in a certain way. These are days you want to cherish. It’s important that the players appreciate them because they go very, very quickly.”
Celtic did it in the most emphatic way yesterday. They had energy and brio, nobody bringing more attitude to proceedings than Scott Brown, making his first appearance since facing Juventus in mid-February. Brown never looked like he’d been away. He lasted an hour and left to a rapturous ovation. “Special,” he said, later. “Always special.”
Canamalar
Thanks for your kind words.
If PL thinks he can make money for himself that’ll be next season’s strip:o)
ELDIEGOBHOY
Big G texted me as I was getting into house..”Quite a persuasive argument on season
tix renewal CQN @7.37″
Was expecting a Gettysburg address on how Celtic have let everyone down and we shouldn’t renew ST’s comrades.
Naw !!!!!!!! Your short post was a belter ….Wish you all the best and hope you enjoy/suffer many a game in the years ahead hh
Source, Italian football daily.com 11/5/2016
Home / News / Club By Club / Lazio News / Possible meeting with Lazio for ex Chile manager Jorge Sampaoli
Possible meeting with Lazio for ex Chile manager Jorge Sampaoli
By Daniel Russo
Updated: May 11, 2016
Chile’s head coach Jorge Sampaoli leaves the field at the end of their Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup South American Qualifiers football match against Colombia, in Santiago, on November 12, 2015. / AFP / Claudio Reyes (Photo credit should read CLAUDIO REYES/AFP/Getty Images)
It has been widely reported throughout Italian media, especially from Sky Italia, that ex Chile manager Jorge Sampaoli has scheduled a trip to Rome and a meeting with Lazio president Lotito could be on the cards.
Certainly a proven coach in the international setting by leading Chile to a great World Cup run and an extraordinary championship run in the 2015 Copa America, Sampaoli could be set for a new challenge at the club level.
It could be a long shot to see Sampaoli at the capital-based club next year, with Simone Inzaghi likely to stay on as biancoceleste manager next year. However, there is still the chance that the Chilean coach could be landing in Italy to open a new chapter in his young coaching career.
The other teams reportedly interested in Sampaoli’s signature are AEK Athens from Greece and Espanyol from Spain. Undoubtedly, Sampaoli could improve the state of the current Lazio squad immensely by luring several South American talents that have trust in the manager.
Celtic should call him, we can compete with any of those clubs.
Hail Hail.
What a strike by Ross Wallace . 1-0 to Sheffield Wednesday
WDH …
how ya doing?
That trip sounds amazing!
although I have to say … if you are charging $135,000 for a trip, it seems a bet much to charge a further $12,000 for a single supplement! either way, a bit out of my snack bracket, I’m afraid.
Hibs looked a beaten side until they got the
pen, they’ve got their noses in front but I’m
not confident they don’t Hibsit.
Evening again ghuys, wondering if you can indulge me and help out with a “where are they now?” exercise. Players who have left us/moved on in the last 5 seasons, the more obscure the better. I’ll start it off – the Twardzik brothers? Hail Hail Hebcelt. EDB see you on Sunday.
Hugh MacDonald: A defence of Celtic’s unsung hero Efe Ambrose
THE estimable Celtic FC Foundation recently held an event to bring an exhilarating rush to the fan. The punter was sponsored to zip-line across the pitch on a wire, raising blood pressure, anxiety levels and money for charity. I hesitate to offer advice to anyone. My very life has been a warning rather than an example, but I wonder if they missed a trick.
Surely the greatest adrenaline rush in football, indeed, in history, is playing alongside Efetobore Ambrose. Surely, there should have been an auction to play alongside the venerable Nigerian in the last couple of games of the season. Efe creates apprehension in the same way that Billy Connolly raises laughs and in deference to Oor Billy, the greatest comedian of this or any other time, it is a photo-finish between him and Efe in the mirth stakes
This is no insult to Efe, rather a testimonial to his occasional fecklessness and his extraordinary resilience. As I have remarked before, the last stage of officer training for the SAS involves wearing a Celtic scarf, sitting in the Lisbon Lions stand and watching Efe in a Champions League match. If one can survive the pressure of this, then one can lead a bunch of guys blindfolded into an Isis camp, armed only with a stick of celery.
I swear there are bomb disposal experts who whisper in the most extreme trials, while deciding just which colour of wire to cut, that they may be under stress but “hey, I have watched Efe.”
The price for playing with Efe for the rich punter could be astronomical. Geez, they pay a million pounds to go into space. But, hey, that is a flight in business class compared to the soaring, tumbling and death-defying experience that is playing with the big defender. There are those adrenaline junkies who conjure up the most extreme pursuits. But the moment Efe passes the ball across the back four induces a surge akin to launching oneself into the Grand Canyon with a hankie as a parachute while dosed on industrial amounts of Dexedrine.
But there is a wonderful conundrum at the gently beating heart of Efe. It is not just that he seems so relaxed that one suspects he has enjoyed a massage, whale music and a Valium sandwich before stepping out onto the park. It is not either that bemused look he adopts when a pass direct to an opposing striker causes some urgent difficulty, a look that suggests “who could predict that giving the ball away in the final third to a £30m forward could cause such a fuss?”
No, it is Efe’s ineffable resilience. The crowd may cringe, the fans may occasionally scream in fear as if the stands have been turned into the Big Dipper, his team-mates may point out vehemently that he is wilfully sabotaging the project. But big Efe stills gets picked.
There can only be two reasons for this. One, he has photographs of all the managers on that stag night in Prague that went horribly wrong and detox, chain cutters and penicillin had to deployed. Or, two, he is a decent player. Yup, I will say that again: there is a case to be presented that Efetobore Ambrose is a football player. Here is the evidence: he has won three titles and two cups with Celtic, has won the Africa Cup of Nations for his country, has earned a living in a brutally ruthless game for 10 years and has been picked for Celtic more than 100 times and represented his country on 50 occasions. People do not do this over such a period of time without quality, even if they may have lurid pictures of their bosses.
It is my contention that Efe falls into a bracket that exists at every club. It can be called the “abattoir position”. This is filled by the guy who is slaughtered every week. Every team must have one. Neil Lennon and Ronny Deila have probably looked at Efe and decided he can be too casual, a little unreliable and occasionally as relaxed as a dipsomaniacal newt. Poor old Ronny has recent evidence of that in this week’s performances against Aberdeen and St Johnstone. But managers have decided he is more than a decent option at centre-half given his ability, a talent that has been gilded with silverware.
The increasingly frantic punter, of course, does not ascribe to this view. He or she believes Efe must be viewed with an expression that owes everything to Munch’s The Scream and with a level of criticism that suggests the amiable Nigerian has just shot Bambi’s mother and is luring the orphan to a barbecue pit.
There should be consolation in all this for Efe for three reasons. One, he is earning a more than decent living playing football all over the world. Two, he is merely following the tradition of being the “abattoir position” player. This role has been fulfilled at Celtic down the years by players of marvellous ability and talent. For example. One “abattoir position” holder was Tom Callaghan, a player of such touch, passing range and shooting ability that now a team would be built around his formidable gifts.
And, third, Efe should appreciate that in the annals of Celtic history, he will never be forgotten. Some will describe this in years to come as warm nostalgia. Others will label it post-traumatic stress.
Play Offs.
Wallace scores for Sh. Wed and 2 from Keatings for Hibs.
Lawwell must go.
As director of football he has failed.