It wasn’t just the result, which was enormously satisfying, but the manner of Celtic’s performance yesterday was equally gratifying. We passed with speed and precision, creating space between what was often two blocks of five defenders. Hearts were in a sorry state but despite enduring the consequences of being unable to pay their dues, they remain considerably more resourceful than many of the lower league teams which have caused Celtic problems in cup competitions in recent seasons.
We finally got to see what the fuss over Nir Biton was all about. He brought control, time and space to the play. In particular I liked the way he tried to retain possession. Hope we see more of him in the weeks to come.
While most attention was drawn to the striker position following defeat to Milan last week, central midfield, bereft of recent departures, the injured and suspended, was just as under-resourced. The opportunity is there for Biton to grab a place for himself, just as Victor did a couple of years ago.
Christmas book offer:
To mark yesterday’s 7 goals, you can order a copy of last year’s CQN Annual (we’ve only a few boxes left), plus Willie Wallace’s Heart of a Lion, for only £7 (UK, Ireland only). Email David, david@cqnmagazine.com, who will organise. Once they’re gone, they’re gone…….
You can order this year’s CQN Annual below:
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jungle jim
10:06 on 3 December, 2013
Mick TT
I agree that it is each to his own but I would love it if very few turned up. If word got round that we weren`t going, then I suspect a lot of Sevconians wouldn`t go either…..IF we could get them to realise they were swelling our coffers.I would dearly love to see the media reaction to such a scenario 0:-)
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I like it, I like it…..
I think I could even sell that to my bhoy.
HH
Shuggiebhoy67 you can add me to your list
cadizzy
09:36 on 3 December, 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/28/lee-hazlewood-guru-cowboy-psychedelia?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
interesting article (see his singing instructions to Nancy Sinatra). Although the CD comes in at an eye watering £60 plus
Value for money in my book! I had to pay about £20 (plus £8 P&P) to get a vinyl copy of Nancy & Lee from the US via GEMM.com
micktt,
Ye, especially the away games.
I just hope my son is more sensible than I was on the road.
Sleeplessnightsahead.cfc
SOT
Long before you could buy things online, I spent months trying to track down a CD copy of the album for my wife (the vinyl being knackered) HMV/independents…the lot.
HMV in Oxford Street were kind enough to tell me that although they didn’t have it, according to their computer, there were two copies in their Southend shop but, no, they couldn’t have them sent from Southend, I would have to go to the shop personally. This didn’t really appeal since this was the same computer that had indicated that Oxford Street actually had 3 copies. For some reason, they weren’t able to order it from anywhere either.
I eventually was able to order it from Virgin in Croydon but heard sod all from them…ever. However, months and months later, as was my habit, I went through the “M’s” in the reggae section and there it was. They clearly didn’t connect the ordering of it with the selling of it to the person who ordered it.
It took the best part of a year to get that album. Until then, she had to make do with the soundtrack of the film “Rockers” which featured Police and Thieves. I say “make do2 but that was a good album also.
Junior Murvin boards the Roots Train for his final journey.
Another talent bites the dust in 2013.
Cadizzy
I enjoyed that version of “Boots”. First time I have heard it . Very good.
Bike ride beckons. Cheerio.
JJ
NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar
10:19 on 3 December, 2013
“Value for money in my book! I had to pay about £20 (plus £8 P&P) to get a vinyl copy of Nancy & Lee from the US via GEMM.com”
ye better watch for the Gram Parsons fan club comin’ after ye for that 0-;)
beebawbabbity,
I can vaguely remember the first time I went to see the Celtic, it would have been sometime around 1966/67 and it was to see the reserves play Dumbarton at Boghead. I think my Dad might have been testing the water, I seem to remember that there was a decent crowd in the covered terrace behind the goals that night.
From then on it was a regular regime of going down to Hunter & Currie in Clydebank for pie and beans, a short walk along Glasgow Road and up the path at the back of the old SSEB showroom and into Clydebank Central. We always got the train to Bridgeton and I always remember getting a lemonade and a packet of crisps outside the pub, while my Dad had a final chaser before heading up London Road with the excitement building and a copy of the Green Citizen and another poster of one of my heroes. We always had a look at the main entrance to see if we could see anybody famous or one of our local priests like Father Cairns.
Inside the stadium I tuned into the music and in a bizarre way, I thought that tunes like Congratulation by Cliff Richard and my favourite, Michael by the Highwaymen, were actually Celtic songs because they were on every time I went to Parkhead, Michael remains a favourite tune of mine to this day and makes me think of my Dad. At that time the game was so simplistic, we won almost every fortnight I went and if we were in trouble then just give the ball to the wee guy with the red hair and everything would be all right.
We didn’t lose very often but one thing has never changed since those days back in the 60’s, I wanted to hide under the bed back then when we lost, now I don’t fit under the bed but I still have the same dark mood whenever it happens, even when it’s Barcelona. And my old Dad, he is now 82 and is still going, in fact he is off to Barcelona on Saturday and will be at the game next week.
I wish I was going with him but it’s a bit of a trip from Oz!
AR
cadizzy
10:33 on 3 December, 2013
NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar
10:19 on 3 December, 2013
“Value for money in my book! I had to pay about £20 (plus £8 P&P) to get a vinyl copy of Nancy & Lee from the US via GEMM.com”
ye better watch for the Gram Parsons fan club comin’ after ye for that 0-;)
I wasn’t even aware of a “local rivalry”! They happily side-by-side on my shelf. :-)
I’m surprised the flare at Falkirk hasn’t been blamed on Chelsea fans yet
antipodean red
10:33 on 3 December, 2013
Magical…..
HH
gordon_j backing neil lennon
10:39 on 3 December, 2013I’m surprised the flare at Falkirk hasn’t been blamed on Chelsea fans yet
Heard the flare got lifted…!
HH
‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’- great album, even greater sleeve.
And lots of add-ons, in terms of controversy.
I think I must have bought it inListen on Byres Road, or the legendary Pink Panther in Carlisle.
I’m unsure if it’s available in HMV in Oxford St, or Virgin in Croydon.
natknow
see below…be afraid, be very afraid
Dontbrattbakkinanger
09:41 on 3 December, 2013
“Cadizzy -yeah, like I’m goin’ to fork out £60 for an album by a guy who ‘never liked Gram Parsons’.”
sipsini
10:26 on 3 December, 2013
micktt,Ye, especially the away games.I just hope my son is more sensible than I was on the road.
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Oh the away games, the laughs. The three barrels in Dundee, the Burke and Hayre Edinburgh…. The Western Bar… ah know, I’ll let him find them himself, he’ll have to, I’m no bursting to that one..!
HH
Antipodean Red – thanks for that.
Uplifting.
…I did however fork out £70+ [down from £120!] on the Bro Duane Allman box set, only to make the rookie mistake of leavin’ the ole receipt out for the Sweetheart to find.
We shouldnt be asking anything about the 5 way agreement, our club should have had that looked into ages ago , along with everything that went on before . A cqner went to all the trouble to get a resolution at the agm , and our board , didnt want the boat rocked , they are quite happy gor the cheating to take place , and take place it will , same with the laptop loyal , they could and should have been challenged long long ago , you bhoys and ghirls are gonna pay to compete with one hand tied behind the clubs back , and all with the consent off the people who should represent you . I fibd that hard not counting myself as one of you , but after 55 years following the celts , i no longer want part of this sham . And believe you me it hurts no longer attending , as someone poster earlier , wee mist the chance on cup final day , to bring all this out into the open , had we for just one high profile game made a stand , the question why would have been outed. The lack of support for resolution 12 from our caretakers should also have spelled it out for you .
Mist = missed
Aul’ Frankie Vaughan was a Chairboy – used to live in the same road (should that be Avenue), that the Convent where several of our Teachers abode.
Really down to earth guy who left Holywood because his wife didn’t like it.
Helped with Glasgow youth projects apparently.
Hail Hail
jimtim
10:52 on 3 December, 2013
Disagree JT, to boycott the cup final would not have made one iotta of a difference, the outcome would and still will be the same.
Your stand is admirable, but your only hurting youself…!
HH
cadizzy .
I bought the 45 from Honest Jon’s [ one of the great choon stores ] in Ladbroke Grove. A shop where you might have been served by The Best Dressed Chicken in Town , future Soul II Soul chaps or an old guy [ shamefully ,I can’t remember his name] who’d played bass for the great Joe Harriot. A shop where Portobello Rd fruit sellers traded things like Guava for just off the plane choons from Jamaica.
Although the flare appeared to be thrown from the end of the ground occupied by supporters of The RIFC it cannot be proved beyond reasonable doubt that the flare was in fact thrown by a supporter of The RIFC.
Fix it yersel’s!
philbhoy – free the dam 5!
11:03 on 3 December, 2013
Although the flare appeared to be thrown from the end of the ground occupied by supporters of The RIFC it cannot be proved beyond reasonable doubt that the flare was in fact thrown by a supporter of The RIFC.
And it was red smoke, we dont do red smoke, we do blue smoke, but not red. Although we do do, smoke and mirrors.
HH
If we get them at home, I’d be all for a boycot. I’d encourage fellow fans to do the same but I know there are those equally convinced going to the game would be the best thing for Celtic All the same, the zombies will not be getting my money. My seat would no doubt be filled by the sort of person who saw to it that the Monty Python crew are going to have a very comfortable retirement. The game would probably still sell out.
I couldn’t encourage a boycot of an Ibrox tie. We couldn;t see the boys playing, surrounded by four walls of hate.It still wouldn’t be for me but I’d have no problem with our faithful, away support going.
Just in to say….
I’m glad that my 2 favorite teams have been drawn together in the next rd of the SC.
No way were we going to be drawn v’s the huns. imo
Can ye imagine the carnage that would be seen on the streets of this country if – we dished oot a Swinecastle type of drubbing ?
I think that Fridays game v’s Murderwell will give indication as to were we are in terms of consistency ?
I mean, Swinecastle game will be different from Fir Park cause – imo – we’ll be playing a team who will, as Terry O’Neill once famously said on SSB – “M/well were allowed to foul the Celtic players with – impunity !!!”
If NL plays the same way at Murderwell and, comes up trumps – I’ll doff my cap.
Anyway….Worst MIBs
RH Davidson
JRP Gordon
R Valentine(for his 2 cup finals in 1984)
Oh, and….from last night
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jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
22:13 on 2 December, 2013
Kev J
If you are out there. What do you think Mark Mc Ghee wd bring to the Celtic dugout?
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A sage / savvy heid / a horses for courses philosophy / a PHD in playing media mind-games / the know how to eat Rob McLean and spit him oot with awe his fawning over his beloved Cellic on the BBC on Sunday.
That’s awe a kin think of the noo :)
Hail Hail – Take Care Tims – Off oot.
SOT
I expect you know all this but in case you didn’t know about the online service…..wikpedia, so beware
“Honest Jon’s is an independent record shop based on Portobello Road in Ladbroke Grove, London, operating since 1974. The shop is owned and run by Mark Ainley and Alan Scholefield, who took over from one of the original proprietors, “Honest” Jon Clare. Their record label of the same name is run in conjunction with Damon Albarn.
The shop sells a multitude of genres of music on vinyl and CD, specializing in jazz, blues, reggae, dance, soul, folk and outernational. It runs a mail-order business from http://www.honestjons.com.
In 2008, Honest Jon’s began a run of compilations of early recordings — mostly drawn from the EMI Archive in Hayes — stretching back to the start of the twentieth century, covering all corners of the world: from the break-up of the Ottoman Empire more than a hundred years ago, to 1950s Beirut, to late-1920s Baghdad, to 1930s East Africa.”
cadizzy
10:46 on 3 December, 2013
natknow
see below…be afraid, be very afraid
Dontbrattbakkinanger
09:41 on 3 December, 2013
“Cadizzy -yeah, like I’m goin’ to fork out £60 for an album by a guy who ‘never liked Gram Parsons’.”
Sounds like Love ain’t the only thing that Hurts when you’re dealing with Cecil Ingram Connor III fundamentalists (as Hugh Keevins would probably call them)!! :-)
A sage / savvy heid / a horses for courses philosophy / a PHD in playing media mind-games / the know how to eat Rob McLean and spit him oot with awe his fawning over his beloved Cellic on the BBC on Sunday.That’s awe a kin think of the noo :)
kevjungle
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Funny, right pub noo.
HH
11:09 on 3 December, 2013
If we were to draw them at home I’d like the board to celebrate the historic 1st meeting of the two teams by making it free on the Season Ticket.
Serie A
Last night .
Lazio 2 —-Napoli 4.
Lots of off the field action from Lazio Ultras protesting re 100 plus of their ” brothers ” still locked up in Warsaw following incidents before and after last week’s Europa League game v Legia
Having lost and having lost badly, the Lazio players found it appropriate to apologize to some Ultras . A growing trend in Italy and something that forcefully indicates the degree to which Ultras have taken control of Italian football.
South Of Tunis
Honest John’s whit a gaff, a treasure trove for the young and keen..
Antipodean Red…some post!
More so as you unknowingly rekindle so many familiar memories of the mid sixties and life as a Tim in Clydebank. Fr Joseph Cairns (wee ‘ball bearings’) , an absolute legend .OHR Boys Guild on a Friday night up the Institute ( 4 mojos furra1d,MB bars) rushing to see if your name was on the team sheet…….and of course the famous Guild bus. Max capacity 52……108 poured off it for a Mid week night fixture v them….4-0 Bobby hat trick. (If ever there was a game that Joe McBride was to ‘sort’ his drought against them,it was this one) Although my first sighting of the hoops was a team of five…..St Margaret’s Hospice Garden Fete….5-a-side competition at John Browns. Vaguely remember Crerand,McKay,Kennedy …..then I’m struggling ……but I’ll never forget the rugby collared hoops they were wearing and the smell of wintergreen!
Ye can beat an egg but you canny beat a Bankie!
BBB
jimtim
10:52 on
3 December, 2013
We shouldnt be asking anything about the 5 way agreement, our club should have had that looked into ages ago , along with everything that went on before . A cqner went to all the trouble to get a resolution at the agm , and our board , didnt want the boat rocked , they are quite happy gor the cheating to take place , and take place it will , same with the laptop loyal , they could and should have been challenged long long ago , you bhoys and ghirls are gonna pay to compete with one hand tied behind the clubs back , and all with the consent off the people who should represent you . I fibd that hard not counting myself as one of you , but after 55 years following the celts , i no longer want part of this sham . And believe you me it hurts no longer attending , as someone poster earlier , wee mist the chance on cup final day , to bring all this out into the open , had we for just one high profile game made a stand , the question why would have been outed. The lack of support for resolution 12 from our caretakers should also have spelled it out for you .
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By the end of this season I might be joining you, but Resolution 12 has to run its full course and it has not as yet.
The jury is still out, but whilst Celtic prefer not to do business in the open, that does not mean they do not recognise the issues at play. That was a factor in getting an adjournment rather than the Res being voted down and the matter closed.
They also recognise what many on here recognise and that is what they are up against.
I think we overestimate Celtic’s power in the hostile environment in which the club has to operate. We have seen that environment in full flow and can have no doubts now that the established order will do all that it can to stay established.
The problem is not getting Celtic to move, it is getting the other clubs who have all been disadvantaged by Rangers behaviour and those who allowed it and are still in power, to take action against those in power.
The banner at Hampden was encouraging, but it needs more than the Don’s fans to vent their spleen and it will take something pretty big to shift the foundations at Hampden and it will take more than Celtic to do it..
The Ottoman Empire has broken up?!
Jings, they kept that quiet.
It’s pretty clear the SFA want us kept apart until the final.
If Sevco get there the SFA will have one hell of a bill to pay to Celtic for damage caused because we will take at least 5 goals off that hopeless mob. It will be the first time in history the SFA will have lost money on a cup final.
I looked at the draw and thought it’s pretty straight forward here. Teams who i suspect will go through.
Celtic
Hibernian
Dundee United
Sevco
Stenhousemuir
St Johnstone
ICT
Alloa
That means that Sevco will have a chance to play another diddy team in the next round with either Albion Rovers or Stenhousemuir and Alloa and Dumbarton assured of the next round. Cup shocks are not as common as they once were but there could be a shock and another Premiership club could go out. At this minute in the next round they are guaranteed to have at least 2 lower league clubs to draw. They will get one. I have no doubts they will beat Ayr or the Pars.
That means Celtic will have another tricky tie probably away and probably at Tannadice/Easter Road or Inverness. I’m not too worried about where we play. We should be good enough to beat anyone anywhere but the SFA are desperate for a big showpiece final with the two Glasgow clubs to coin it in. The corporate available at Celtic Park must be far higher than Hampden. The SFA will want to make as much dough as possible.
Aberdeen will be a tough tie but if they make the League Cup final they will be pleased with that trophy and we will be too strong for them at home. I would prefer to avoid Sevco altogether but the way the SFA are talking about a Glasgow derby in the final it’s like it’s already predetermined.
LB
I openly admit to having sometimes perverse views on things.
Having said this, I have a question for all those posters talking about depriving Sevco of money should we meet them in the Scottish Cup.
How many of you happily subscribe to newspapers and pay per view television channels owned and operated by people with anti Celtic and anti working class agendas?