The consequences of a brutal Scottish Cup tie at Alloa, permitted by the kind of soft touch refereeing that would see official intervention during martial arts bouts, has left us without our captain for an undetermined period of time. Callum McGregor’s facial injury was the most severe consequence, if not the most dangerous challenge.
We are likely to head to Tynecastle with Reo Hatate, who has played only 75 minutes for Celtic, and Matt O’Riley, whose entire experience is limited to a year in the English third tier, in central midfield, backed by Nir Bitton.
Should we get through this game unscathed, the experience will do us well as the same players are likely to be required when Dundee United and Newco visit next week. You would be forgiven for thinking these games will go a long way to determining the outcome of the season.
Saturday offered little encouragement bar the opening goal, converted by Giorgos Giakoumakis, his second for the club. Without Kyogo, Maeda and fourth choice striker, Ajeti, Giorgos has the stage to himself. He has started three games since joining from Venlo in the summer. This period could be the making of him.
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Janis Joplin – Me And Bobby McGee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfjon-ZTqzU&ab_channel=JanisJoplinVEVO
Why wouldn’t you kick Celtic players?
It’s a free hit. There’s no comeback.
Have Niang and King suffered any negative consequences as a result of their thuggery?
Have they been constantly harried by the press?
Have their, .. ahem, reputations been tarnished?
Have they been subject to further disciplinary action by the SFA?
Have they had to deal with an orchestrated social media campaign?
Have they been threatened or assaulted in the street?
Have bullets been sent in the mail?
Did two loonies try to kill them with a bomb?
EMERALDBEE \O/ A DOUBLE NINER!! on 25TH JANUARY 2022 9:51 AM
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You are 100% CORRECT, and I Fully Agree 100%.
I dont know who the ref is for tomorrow night against Hertz, but NO MATTER who it is, I have real concerns for any Celtic players health and safety for this game and any other against the HUN Thugs of Scottish fitba.
HH.
ERNIE LYNCH
You got anything to criticise the SNP for that isn’t confined to the dustbin of history?
Thought not.
Paradise By The Dashboard Light (Enough already Foxy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C11MzbEcHlw&ab_channel=MeatLoafVEVO
Hopefully AP is more vocal re referees in today’s presser,well done to G Mak for calling it out,tgey all should, when it’s called for………which is regularly…
Sionnaigh
25TH JANUARY 2022 9:57 AM
Enjoyed that👍👏👏👏
Hearts have over 1,000 unsold tickets, after cutting our allocation
Perfect.
An example ample of how not to run a football club, destined to fail.
Bada ☝️
Bada
Powderkeg tie with a nasty element of bile from the stands, and that’s before the football takes place, funnily enough managers seem to enjoy the atmosphere there, can’t get this.
Lee O’ Connor signs permanent deal with Tranmere
etims diary, its been a while
https://etims.net/?p=17437
” I asked them to go out there and bite at a few ankles ”
Baweh Ferguson
Always loved going to Tynecastle, even better if you got a seat bottom lefthand corner opposite the Dumfries Hertz flag.
We would offer each other niceties all day long😱😂
eTims diary.
I lasted 4 paragraphs. The usual petty nonsense from those self-indulgent agenda driven charlatans.
RIP Wim Jansen
Celtic Legends CSC
St.Anthony
@Stephen4_2
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Rare pic of Celtic v Man Yoo in Coronation Cup in 1953. Bonnar, Evans and Stein for Celts.
Musical noteBut alas for the hopes of those royal true blues
The Celts they beat Arsenal and Manchester too
Beat Hibs in the final and lo and behold
Old Hampden was covered in green white and goldMusical note
https://twitter.com/Stephen4_2/status/1485936476051451909/photo/1
Tomorrow will be my first visit to Tynecastle for 25 years, and that was to watch my son in a Youth Cup final. Looking forward to putting them to the sword.
BSR
Sad news.
RIP,Win Jansen.Forever a Hero.
The man who won that critical title.
Feyenoord confirm sad news that Wim Jansen has passed away
Originally posted on The Celtic Star | Last updated 1/25/22
The saddest news imaginable from the official Feyenoord Rotterdam account on Twitter. Wim Jansen the Feyenoord European Cup winner and club legend, Dutch World Cup star and former Celtic manager has passed away. Rest in Peace Wim, you will always be a Celtic legend too, in that one, never to be forgotten season, when you won the League Cup at Ibrox and famously secured the Scottish title to prevent the old Ibrox club completing Ten in a Row.
9 May 1998: Celtic Coach Wim Jansen and Murdo McLeod celebrate after a Scottish Premier League match against St Johnstone at Celtic Park in Glasgow, Scotland. Celtic won the match 2-0 to become the league champions. Photot: Shaun Botterill/Allsport
The official Feyenoord site reports:
Feyenoord has learned with great sadness of the death of Wim Jansen, one of the greatest football players who has ever played for the club. He died Tuesday at the age of 75.
In Wim Jansen’s biography ‘Mastermind’, which was published in October last year, it became clear that he was suffering from dementia. Although the intense sadness of course predominates, Jansen’s family is at the same time relieved that he has been spared a long agony. The family is pleased that their Wim has been able to keep control until the last moment, they have informed the club.
Feyenoord loses an icon and child of the club with Wim Jansen. He became a member of Feijenoord at the age of ten, after which he played in the first team for no less than fifteen years and won many prizes. Even after his playing career, Jansen remained loyal to the club and was, among other things, assistant and head coach, technical director and advisor. “I left Feyenoord a few times, but always came back. You could call it a blood tie,” he said in his biography.
In his time as a player, Jansen was part of the most successful Feyenoord teams ever. The midfielder was a permanent fixture in the team that in 1970 was the first Dutch club to win the European Cup I and the World Cup. Four years later, Jansen also lifted the UEFA Cup as captain. Three national titles and a KNVB Cup complete the impressive honors list of his period as a player in De Kuip.
Jansen played 476 official games for Feyenoord, scoring 39 times. Not only in red and white he belonged to the top, he was also allowed to compete with the best in Orange. Already at the age of 20, Jansen made his debut in the Dutch national team, with which he reached the World Cup final in both 1974 and 1978. The midfielder eventually came to 65 international matches.
The name of Jansen is also inextricably linked to the resurrection of Feyenoord in the early 1990s. After a long period of adversity, Jansen led the club as a trainer to ‘the turnaround’. The historic 0-1 win over PSV in the semi-finals and the eventual cup win in 1991 proved to be the prelude to better times and more sporting success, including the national title in 1993.
Over the past ten years, Jansen has mainly been a familiar face at Varkenoord. As an advisor to the youth trainers, preferably in the background and far away from the spotlight. That role suited him the most, he said in the summer of 2011. “Educating youth is my great passion and I will never get rid of Feyenoord.”
With that last statement, Jansen underlined the close bond he built up with Feyenoord throughout his life. He beautifully expressed how much the club meant to him at the beginning of 2017. “I have been a member of Feyenoord for over sixty years. Essentially this club has ruled my life. First as a youth player, then as a football player, later as a trainer, technical director and now at the youth academy. Feyenoord is my life.’
Funeral
Wim Jansen’s funeral will take place on Saturday 29 January. This is also an opportunity for supporters to show their condolences. More information about this will follow this week via the official club channels.
Condolence Register
Anyone who needs this can already express their condolences in the online condolence register. Click here to leave a message directly.
Feyenoord wishes the family a lot of strength in coping with this great loss.
RIP Wim, the man who stopped the 10.
Tom Mc Laughlin,
Same here.I find them funny at times,but anyone who actually thinks there was collusion to keep the Mob afloat,I would class in the same bracket as Kev J 5 Names.Mad as a box of Frogs.
Goodbye Wim – fondly remembered.
Barkas, if the Sheffield story true, may be the biggest ‘financial disaster’ signing yet. £4.5m fee & 4 years wages @ £1m. £8.5m down the drain. Double it for Ajeti – add c£5m for Soro & c£6m for Bolingoli.
If we don’t move these ‘no shows’ on for some money, the final cost will be just short of £30m. No club in the UK, outside the EPL, can afford to pour money down the drain like this on players who have contributed NOTHING!
FLABBERGASTING!!!!!
RIP Wim Jansen.
The right person, at the right place at the right time.
Forever part of Celtic’s proud unbroken history.
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 25TH JANUARY 2022 10:30 AM
ERNIE LYNCH
You got anything to criticise the SNP for that isn’t confined to the dustbin of history?
Thought not.
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Yes, plenty.
The state of the education system. And I’m not just referring to the SNP’s apparent fascination with schoolkids experiences of anal sex.
The health service.
The Covid/care homes scandal.
The politicization and incompetence/corruption of the Police and prosecution system.
The ferries fiasco.
In fact just about every aspect of public life that the SNP have control of.
But their Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 was their special gift to Celtic fans, so it’s relevant to mention it.
You say it’s consigned to the dustbin of history. Well, yes, for now. But only despite the SNP, not because of them. Every single SNP MSP voted to retain that Act. Not one single, solitary SNP politician or official has uttered a word of criticism of the Act.
They would reintroduce it tomorrow if they could.
So it’s relevant to mention it.
If only to remind people what SNP shills like yourself are all about.
Goodbye Wim. How very sad.
That afternoon in May 1998, when I got an unexpected ticket ten minutes before kick off in the fine hostelry that was Joanna Dees, will live me forever.
Thanks for the memories Wim.
HH
new article posted.
Jhb,
You are just pulling numbers out of the air here. 6 million for Bolingoli ?????? 5 Million for Soro ?????At the time Lenny was asked about the fees.He said” They were nothing near that”,and the fees mentioned was 5 million for both.Barkas at the time was a bargain.Great reputation,and International Keeper.No ones fault.Shit happens.I will give you Ajeti.At the time we could have got Ivan Toney.No idea the madness behind that decision.
Turkeybhoy @ 12:34
You are being contrary for the sake of it. Read the post and digest the context. The figures I quote include wages, assuming that they all see out their contracts. Transfer fees for all four were reported as, £4.5, £4.5m, £3.5m & £2.5m – total £15m….then add four year’s wages for each of them….simples!!!
RIP WIM JANSEN
Celtic will always be indebted to the man
YNWA CFC