Sunday’s League Cup final comes just one day shy of a year since Celtic last won a trophy, the Scottish Cup, season 2019-20. That day we celebrated the Quadruple Treble, in the knowledge that the run would end there, as we were eliminated from a domestic cup competition for the first time since 2016 earlier that month.
We celebrated that penalty kick decider against Hearts at home, with the Hampden stands empty. It is two years and two weeks since you and I have seen Celtic win a trophy in the flesh: that memorable League Cup win over Newco in season 2019-20. Celtic were poor that day but we had the fortitude to go the extra distance and get the job done.
Celtic eliminated our main rivals in recent seasons, St Johnstone, in the semi-final. This leaves the field open for Hibernian to become the third most successful Scottish club over the last decade, behind Celtic and St Johnstone – if they win on Sunday. We should not take that motivation lightly.
Hibs sacked manager Jack Ross after the club dropped into the bottom half of the table. A home win last time out over Dundee sees them remain in 7th spot, a point behind Aberdeen and 2 off both Motherwell and Dundee United. The latter sit fourth, in a European spot, giving Ross scope to believe he was hard done by.
Celtic pummelled Hibs 1-3 at Easter Road in October but that was the last time the Edinburgh side have lost more than one goal –they have played 8 games since. They are nothing if not strong at the back. During that run the humbled Newco in their semi-final at Hampden and only lost to the same team due to a late penalty. Most concerning of all, this is the biggest test since Referee Head Crawford Allan’s post-re-refereeing Celtic games regime started. It demeans our game that we have to hope referee Don Robertson is not influenced by his boss.
There is a truism: if you are good enough to get to a cup final, you are good enough to win it. Despite all the positivity around Celtic right now, we face a team who have genuine credentials to win the cup. But with Tom Rogic on the field, what chance do they really have?
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Eh?
‘Ross County ‘probe fans behaviour’. Supposedly sectarian singing from their fans (I thought it was only a west of Scotland thing. Who’d have thunk it?).
Click through to the story and your greeted with a picture of Celtic fans on the pitch with a last gasp winner “sparks pitch invasion” as a sub headline.
That (tax payer funded) organisation is seriously out of control (with no accountability) in it’s coverage of Celtic and Scottish football.
PHILBHOY on 17TH DECEMBER 2021 5:26 PM
Fair enough Phil
GREENPINATA on 17TH DECEMBER 2021 5:31 PM
That does help explain it a little, thanks.
AN TEARMANN on 17TH DECEMBER 2021 4:01 PM
It will be an absolute pleasure to share a pint or 10 with you.
I go away on the 26th.
Its funny, I have a queue for the ST on Jan 2nd. I wonder why that is when we keep saying there is no ” old firm” ????
Cheers and HH.
My team for sunday:
Hart
Ralsto CCV Starfelt Taylor
Bitton Cal Mac
Tom R
Juranovic Abbada Moffat
If Turnbull selected do not let him near free kicks or corners.
D :)
ERNIE LYNCH, can’t get it to play, and he looks differently dressed from video I saw, I’ll try and get it. But “isolated” or, “removed” is a play on words don’t you think? Anyway, I’m away to try and get the video I watched. 👍
JHB on 17TH DECEMBER 2021 1:46 PM
GREENPINTA @ 11:12
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I don’t think anyone is coming for the anti-vaccine people. However there is strong empirical evidence that suggests that unvaccinated people get much sicker with Omicron, and that the vast majority of new hospital admissions are unvaccinated individuals.
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Excellent summary of the current situation JHB
Greenpinata – Easy cause it’s a Glasgow Derby and you want to win derby’s. New and old.
I dont know why people struggle to get that The Rangers are a new Klub.
D :)
will Starfelt be banned for the LCF? It is an SPFL tournament
CONEYBHOY on 17TH DECEMBER 2021 5:50 PM
They will no doubt be drafting a rule to that effect as we speak .
THE BLOGGER FORMERLY KNOWN AS GM on 17TH DECEMBER 2021 5:38 PM
Eh?
‘Ross County ‘probe fans behaviour’. Supposedly sectarian singing from their fans (I thought it was only a west of Scotland thing. Who’d have thunk it?).
Click through to the story and your greeted with a picture of Celtic fans on the pitch with a last gasp winner “sparks pitch invasion” as a sub headline.
That (tax payer funded) organisation is seriously out of control (with no accountability) in it’s coverage of Celtic and Scottish football.
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(Some might say) don’t pay your TV license , there is honestly not a thing they will do about it (apparently…).
David 66,
You’re correct, however I’ll admit I really, really love gubbing the huns. New and old.
I’ll share a secret with you if I may. I’m on record saying Hibs will be a harder proposition than the huns would have been on Sunday. ( That was before both managers went ti#s up )
My guilty secret: Beating the huns in a cup final would have been a 10. Beating Hibs will be a 9.5.
HH to you.
THE BLOGGER FORMERLY KNOWN AS GM on
17TH DECEMBER 2021 5:38 PM
Agree with you 100%, completely out of control, no accountability, and a major recruitment organization for EBT ex huns
GLENDALYSTONSILS on 17TH DECEMBER 2021 5:53 PM
CONEYBHOY on 17TH DECEMBER 2021 5:50 PM
They will no doubt be drafting a rule to that effect as we speak .
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😂 I’m never sure , but the trend over the last few year is to avoid cup final ‘heartbreak’ headlines.
ERNIE LYNCH, the video I was referring to seems to be no longer there imagine that, the book burners seem to have beaten me to it, but journalist Neil Clarke gives his view on the Chomsky comments. 👇
hh
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/538535-noam-chomsky-covid-vaccines/
My team for Sunday ….
Celtic.
Sorry, couldn’t help it !
Too much parenthesis in one sentence, David😉
Does Chomsky know when Julienn will be fit to play?
PHILBHOY on 17TH DECEMBER 2021 6:17 PM
Does Chomsky know when Julienn will be fit to play?
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lol 😏
Reporting Scotland lead about covid and mentioned sports events I.e. cup final.
Now dear huns of the BBC there’s a game the day beforehand with a bigger capacity, discuss!!!
Greenpinata – Hail Hail
D :)
One for the Chris Julien conspiracy theorists from today:
Ange : On Chris Jullien, “He’s still working hard. With a long term injury you’re going to get setbacks at times, you want everything to run smoothly – it hasn’t for Chris.”
Hasten ye back big lad.
HH
https://m.independent.ie/news/there-is-no-silver-bullet-pubs-and-restaurants-to-close-at-8pm-as-taoiseach-announces-new-restrictions-until-january-30-41159555.html
Living in the BBC midland region I get the pleasure of having Slippy on the TV most nights 😨
Having read and followed CQN since its inception, you can spot the recent imposters easily. Because they………….STICK OUT LIKE SORE HUNS
Scroll on by.
Rimtimtim,
Yourself and another good CQN poster had a spat yesterday. Both of you had been on CQN for years and years and years and years.
All ended up well in the end with a series of fabulous posts which were a credit to CQN..
Both CV’ s displayed with impeccable credentials, not that it matters.
But the original observation must be why the ” mistake” if its so easy to spot.
Genuinely intrigued.
HH.
Greenpinta
Trial and error
PRESTONPANS BHOYS on 17TH DECEMBER 2021 6:25 PM
Reporting Scotland lead about covid and mentioned sports events I.e. cup final.
Now dear huns of the BBC there’s a game the day beforehand with a bigger capacity, discuss!!!
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The selective use of a “crisis” by proven media liars surely only serves to question the entire narrative from an anti-Celtic witches coven?
Celtic should single out the wee leader as a danger to Celtic fans, and make a point of singling her out in every media interview educating deceived fans about a leader who’s hatred of Celtic fc she can barely conceal, switch her and her me me me lies, off!
Or get Macari back instead of wee sleekit sooky Strachan, to teach Ange how to be uppitty!
What do folk learn from her apart from she’s got a new £4000 coat?
Socialist working class ethics will not be allowed in her dark frozen castle of cancel culture.
Any Celtic fan voting for this Celtic hating party must have season tickets removed immediately for stupidity beyond belief. Get the voting register out and any Celtic fans who voted for a culture that has a desire of visiting adverse outcomes on Celtic fc. Get thum banned tonight!
Did people die? Yes.
What did they die of?
Why when the scary fear fueled media cameras stop rolling, do the elites have champagne soaked parties full of rich elite bassas, and rich elite media lying propagandist bassas?
What do they all know that we don’t?
Why are they not scared but we’re all terrified?
Is the best medication to switch the TV off?
BBC, ITV, CH4, CH5, Sky, all Scottish news, are the biggest collection of liars probably ever imho.
USA’s CNN is their equivalent of BBC, lying propagandists, now CNN has its own Jimmy Saville issues that none of their masonic brethren will report on, and some Celtic fans actually quote stuff from CNN?
Some Celtic fans even quote from The Guardian which spent 5 years smearing Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn ensuring he was unelectable, now the same, The Guardian is whining about Bojo whom it helped to elect !?!
And still Celtic fans quote from this duplicitous rag which it was revealed a few weeks ago are receiving £millions from Davos to pump out Climate Change lies! 123, ABC, C = 3, CC = 33, climate bull is the next 33° masonic pile of fakery! And some Celtic fans are took to school by these liars? What must Celtic PLC think when they see how easily fooled a worrying amount of Celtic fans are?
Wtf is wrong with these people?
dearie dearie dearie me
Saint Stivs. Yes indeed, time for more beer.
Paul John Dykes was interviewed earlier on Shortie along with a Hibee blogger.
Bottom line was “hearts rule heads ” “people are scared” but will attend the game.
Would have been possibly accepted if authorities had postponed, and could understand if break is pulled forward and games postponed after this weekend, Prefer that than a return to closed doors.
As a ps, Paul67 Interview style is better than PJD,
I kinda gave up on the ACSOM podcast sometime ago, as it really seemed staged.
There would be no talk of postponing if the local govts favourite team were playing.
MARTIN O’SEVILLE on 17TH DECEMBER 2021 7:17 PM
You need to abbreviate, way too much info, you will lose your audience if its more than say -10 lines🙂
Always good to have a beer, unless of course you are driving.
A good memorable year sixty seven. Outwith the heat of Lisbon, It was also the year when it became illegal to drink and drive in the UK.
Another poignant example of what was previously acceptable not being so nowadays.
HH.
There wasn’t much political comment on CQN at first, more of a business&financial angle which I liked. The “songs debate” was the first big break from understanding amortisation. Feelings ran high about whether it should be Let the People Sing or Modern Life Is Good…..and you could really appreciate both sides of the story. Then Inevitably and naturally politics came to stay on the blog ..long pre seasons and international breaks helping it along. Por Cierto. We all have our views on life. And they can change.
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Greenpinata
Reading your post about D & D, a few years back, 20 odd, bloke left the pub blootered, seriously blootered, this was in the countryside, anyways, he was told not to drive by a fair few in the bar but he would hear of it, anyways, he managed to get about half a mile down the road and didn’t manage the corner and ended up down an embankment, polis arrived, and gospel, the polis told me this a few days later, the polis said to yer man, FFS Bertie, you are so efin drunk you canny even walk, his reply, well, why the eff do you think I was driving then.
For those of us who have a ticket and are planning to attend – here is the rules for Hampden,
MOST IMPORTANT I THINK
PROFF OF VACCINATION REQUIRED (OR EXCEPTION OR NEGATIVE TEST)
just like celtic park.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGzZAhKX0AIpVg9?format=png&name=small