“Every goal is a great goal”, as Tommy Gemmell memorably once told me, but some are greater than others. This was never more evident than yesterday. Kyogo is a penalty box finisher. He comes alive between the posts, an area he can find space like no other in Scotland. Like no other has been able to in 20 years.
Our Talisman from Japan rarely deviates from this modus operandi. When he does, Jack Butland is his victim of choice. There are reasons why yesterday’s goal was better than the two from a similar distance he buried behind Butland within the last year.
At Ibrox, one year ago tomorrow, Kyogo latched onto a Matt O’Riley header and hit a first time shot which found the net. The key phrase here is “found the net”, this was a goal from an opportunist striker who knew to hit early. At Celtic Park in December, his left foot shot found the top corner, but benefited from a glance against a defender’s boot.
If you have played football at any level, you will know that when you are in possession and running towards goal, your every instinct is to get rid of the ball, either by shooting or finding a teammate. Adrenaline pumps through your veins and your field of vision narrows. The greats can overcome this and remain calm enough to take in all the opportunities. It is a rare sight to see this in action.
Try saying, “He scored with a [insert adjective]from 25 yards” without the inserted word being something like “screamer”. “He scored with a placed shot from 25 yards” just doesn’t roll. Were it not for video evidence, you would not believe it.
But it happened. What Kyogo’s three goals from outside the box against Butland in the last year all have in common, is that they were executed before the goalkeeper was able set himself. Butland is slow to get his feet into the right position; Kyogo knows this and takes advantage.
With the keeper ambling left in a pedestrian manner, Kyogo placed a shot with the inside of his foot along the ground and half a yard inside the post. The pedestrian Butland looked like he was still waiting on the green man before moving.
It was not a screamer; it was much better than any screamer could be. It was a moment of calm, by a rare and precious talent. Cherish what we have in Kyogo.
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Hankray
“ Great show by the Green Brigade with that massive canvas of St Patrick keeping a watchful eye on the proceedings and adding a nice dash of colour to the occasion.”
Don’t mean to rain on your parade but it was, I believe , St Mungo and not St Patrick
Otherwise I agree with the rest of your post wholeheartedly.
THE LONG WAIT IS OVER on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2024 9:44 PM
Hankray “ Great show by the Green Brigade with that massive canvas of St Patrick keeping a watchful eye on the proceedings and adding a nice dash of colour to the occasion.”
Don’t mean to rain on your parade but it was, I believe , St Mungo and not St Patrick
*aye me tae since St Patrick hail hailed fae Dumbarton
https://youtu.be/1hylqwqbW2Y?si=qo11KcgCLiseWS1d
Gene………better still. looked great
https://youtu.be/qTzaCOxMiCo?si=jybetQmtmAA0Eln9
Thanks to you all for you kind words on the loss of my old friend.
You are a great bunch of people and even if our arguments do get heated from time to time, I wouldn’t change this blog for anything.
Being a decent person with a good dollop of empathy is what makes Celtic fans special. HH.
https://www.youtube.com/live/JxRKQHNJNfE?si=YR9dO5u4v5MCRhuF
MadraRua
“I am so sorry for your loss”
We are always here for you.
@T.T .I always thought he was shipped of to Eire…fae Kilpatrick….
Hence the name…????
Forget all the talk of CEOs from 3 or 4 years ago and who signed who for the first time in my life i agreed with Kris Boyd – yesterday felt like the culmination of everyone at Celtic working together to produce something that’s miles ahead of the Huns. Players, management, fans and board all excellent, all more than the sum of their parts
Long may it continue
The Long Wait Is Over
Tontime Tim
Thanks for that info, looked a bit like St Paddy. A great canvas and nice colour for the occasion.
@Madrarua…Reading back…..May your good friend rest in peace
His music will continue through the universe .
H.H
BURNLEY78 on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2024 7:07 PM
You – or anyone for that matter – don’t happen to have a link to the Rangers Tv commentary?
It never fails to gladden the heart to hear their pain.
Perhaps that makes me a bad person.
From Jobo’s POTY votes
*SENTINEL CELTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2024-25*
*RESULTS FROM GAME #5 CELTIC 3 TRIGGERS BROOM FC 0 (MAEDA, KYOGO, McGREGOR)*
Good evening, friends.
When it’s the last day of the holiday, and the warmest sunniest day of it, it was a big call to stay in the apartment and watch a football game. But I am so glad I witnessed yesterday’s encounter ‘live’ as opposed to a full match re-run.
Our opponents started the game in predictable fashion, playing pretty direct and having most of the ball during those opening minutes. They also managed to pass up 2 very good scoring chances. However, the first real fast flowing football move of the match came in the 10th minute and had me leaping out of my seat as Kyogo finished off a brilliant move only to then be denied by the tiniest of margins with the Video Assistant Referee judging Kuhn to have been offside in the build up.
But from then on, the foot remained firmly on the gas and 6 minutes later we finally went 1 up. A terrific triangle passing move involving Kuhn, Bernardo and Johnston produced a ball into Maeda’s feet and our hippy scored against them again.
We continued to dominate the rest of the first half and in the 39th minute, the ever dependable Taylor stole the ball on half way and played a perfect pass to Kyogo. Our Japanese wizard must have wondered why Butland was standing near his right hand post and quickly hit an early pass of a shot curling beautifully into the left hand corner of the goal. 2 nil at half time was the very least we deserved.
Surprisingly, Voldemort decided against any half time changes and so the second half continued the way the first had ended with Celtic on top. On 62 minutes Arne Engels, Celtic’s most expensive signing ever, made his debut, replacing the very, very impressive Bernardo. And 10 minutes later the points were sealed when Captain Calmac picked up the ball on the right, shimmied inside for a bit and hit a peach of a left foot curler high into Butland’s net.
The second half also saw James Forrest make his 500th appearance in the hoops and Luke McCowan make his first.
All that was left to complete a memorable day was to see Kasper Schmeichel finally being tested, bringing off a couple of great stops in the closing stages.
I know others have already picked up on the wording in Mahe’s latest leader but it’s too good to ignore – WE ARE IN THEIR DIVISION BUT WE ARE OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE!
We have now played 5 games this season, winning them all. We have scored 15 and conceded 1.
And I am delighted that the voting numbers are up to a new season’s best for this one. A huge thank you to the 87 who joined in this time around.
The total votes cast for each player are as follows, with my own nominations asterisked.
Schmeichel: 1
Johnston: 9
Carter-Vickers: 3
Scales*: 38
Taylor: 9
McGregor*: 60
Hatate: 2
Bernardo*: 62
Kuhn: 10
Kyogo: 18
Maeda: 48
Engels: 0
Forrest: 1
McCowan: 0
Idah: 0
And so, the players receiving POINTS for the game against The Deady Bears are –
Bernardo – 5 points
McGregor – 4 points
Maeda – 3 points
Scales – 2 points
Kyogo – 1 point
And the overall positions after 5 games played are –
16 points – McGregor
12 points – Hatate
11 points – Kuhn
9 points – Maeda
7 points – O’Riley
5 points – Bernardo and Scales
3 points – Forrest, Johnston A, and Taylor
2 points – Kyogo
0 points – Carter-Vickers, Engels, Holm, Idah, Johnston M., McCowan, Palma, Ralston, Schmeichel, Turley, Yang
*PLAYER OF THE MONTH FOR AUGUST*
As regular readers may remember, the monthly award is based simply on the total votes received over that particular month. During August we had 4 games, Kilmarnock at home, Hibs home and away and St Mirren away.
Tied for 2nd and 3rd place are Nicolas Kuhn and Reo Hatate with 160 votes each. But the Player Of The Month for August with 184 votes is Calum McGregor.
We have now started one of those wonderful International Breaks and so our next game isn’t until Saturday 14th September when – at last! – we have a Saturday home game. And at 3.00pm too. Our visitors are Hearts.
Hail Hail!
Brendan once said “I know that I`m a lucky manager….I hope I`m always lucky.”
Lucky….to be competing against a Rangers with a manager Philleepey who is the exotic version of Murty.
Lucky to never have faced a Rangers side that would have kicked his team off of the pitch and then laughed into his face.
Lucky to be serving a fan base who couldn`t rebel their way out of a wet paper bag.
Lucky that he`s never had to face a real grilling from a real journalist as there have been no real journalists since 2008.
And it looks like Brendan made is own draw for the new look CL which if he fails to emerge from that run of CL fixtures…then Brendan is lucky that he will be begged by this marshmallow customer base, to go and do it all again…failure will be accepted as long as Celtic finish in front of the exotic version of Murty.
Now that is lucky.
PS, I didn`t buy shares in 1994 after Brian Dempsey announced that he had to leave immediately or he would be a constant reminder of the battles of Celtic`s recent past.
I immediately suspected that there may be a `rat` in the kitchen so BD made his excuses and left.
Time has proven me correct. BD was the only one of the `new` 1994 executive who wasn`t a rat.
If you knew McCann had lied to the fans and you backed him as a fellow member of the executive, then you also cheated the Celtic fans.
Brian Dempsey was the only one with the balls to refuse to back the McCann led executive, and he must be the most wrongfully smeared Celtic director in history.
If only BD had taken the lead with he and John Keane`s [ RIP ] £7 Million, Bank of Ireland account, in March 1994, and kept wee sneaky fly man McCann to fk out of Celtic we`d have moved to the new centre of the universe in Robroyston, and we`d have been in a new European League decades ago, and this would have prevented the Hun EBT Scandal which has left Scottish football as Tommy Burns [ RIP ] described it all those years ago as being like “The Irish League without the Old Firm!”
Shares in a club which you need to lick its arse before your allowed to ask a question…no thanks.
DRAMBOWIECELT on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2024 9:55 PM
@T.T .I always thought he was shipped of to Eire…fae Kilpatrick….Hence the name…????
*OK is in Dunbartonshire but Dumbarton had 3 St Pats schools and a St Patrick’s chapel plus the aforesaid schools got a day off school on March 17 and the town practically closed down.
PeteThe Beat………..eteTheBeat on 2nd September 2024 1:13 pm
Sevco were as bad as I’ve seen them.
The defence is slow so it can’t push up and that leaves loads of space for our midfield.
The conundrum is that they generally play better in Europe than we do,
They’re a pot one team in the Europa draw
@T.T May be a family thing from my youth.As my Granda had big connections in
Ole Kilpatrick….My wee maw(granny) Told us all the tales… From Dunbarton days.lol..
These were passed on from her Dad…..My Granda was 17th March 13 ..8th Sept 44.
H.H
Maybe the UEFA coefficient rankings aren’t the best measure of how good a team is?
Should we carry on benchmarking against steam we beat comfortably or look at something a bit more complex for our European performance?
DRAMBOWIECELT on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2024 10:27 PM
@T.T May be a family thing from my youth. As my Granda had big connections in Ole Kilpatrick….My wee maw(granny) Told us all the tales… From Dunbarton days.lol..These were passed on from her Dad…..My Granda was 17th March 13 ..8th Sept 44.
*aye OK is correct and thee is a St Patrick’s Well there but it’s only 5miles from Dumbarton where the Parish Church is, I went tae high school there as did all catholic weans with a 25 catch basin, St Pats and Notre Dame, my da was born there of Irish parents as was Mrs TT and our oldest
The Irish diaspora in Scotland is predominately Donegal except Dumbarton where its Clifden out in Connemara, the place would have been jumpin yesterday
I thought St Mungo looked like a picture of Saint Patrick without the snakes. :)
ORDINARY JOE aka TIT
on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2024 10:16 PM
Brendan once said “I know that I`m a lucky manager….I hope I`m always lucky.”
Lucky….to be competing against a Rangers with a manager Philleepey who is the exotic version of Murty.
Lucky to never have faced a Rangers side that would have kicked his team off of the pitch and then laughed into his face.
Lucky to be serving a fan base who couldn`t rebel their way out of a wet paper bag.
Lucky that he`s never had to face a real grilling from a real journalist as there have been no real journalists since 2008.
And it looks like Brendan made is own draw for the new look CL which if he fails to emerge from that run of CL fixtures…then Brendan is lucky that he will be begged by this marshmallow customer base, to go and do it all again…failure will be accepted as long as Celtic finish in front of the exotic version of Murty.
Now that is lucky.
PS, I didn`t buy shares in 1994 after Brian Dempsey announced that he had to leave immediately or he would be a constant reminder of the battles of Celtic`s recent past.
I immediately suspected that there may be a `rat` in the kitchen so BD made his excuses and left.
Time has proven me correct. BD was the only one of the `new` 1994 executive who wasn`t a rat.
If you knew McCann had lied to the fans and you backed him as a fellow member of the executive, then you also cheated the Celtic fans.
Brian Dempsey was the only one with the balls to refuse to back the McCann led executive, and he must be the most wrongfully smeared Celtic director in history.
If only BD had taken the lead with he and John Keane`s [ RIP ] £7 Million, Bank of Ireland account, in March 1994, and kept wee sneaky fly man McCann to fk out of Celtic we`d have moved to the new centre of the universe in Robroyston, and we`d have been in a new European League decades ago, and this would have prevented the Hun EBT Scandal which has left Scottish football as Tommy Burns [ RIP ] described it all those years ago as being like “The Irish League without the Old Firm!”
Shares in a club which you need to lick its arse before your allowed to ask a question…no thanks.
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YAWN….YA BORING TIT
@T.T Idon’t know if there was a Bridge there in 1800 but some how My Great Granny ..
And Great Granda met in The Port Of Glasgow…Small world right enough…….
H.H
OH JAY did you enjoy the result yesterday.?
How’s about you stick..Jethro Tull on yer headfones??
H.H
St Mungo (or Kentigern ) is the Patron Saint of Glasgow and appears o the Glasgow Coat of Arms with the words ” Let Glasgow Flourish “, hence the wording on the G.B. banner bearing his image.
418 racists/ordinary racist/covid freaked racist/brexit boat chasing racist
We see you racist
Dempseys ideas needed cash
Like Minty,the icon of unionist bissnissman it was all down to other people’s money,Brian didn’t have any sadly,a good heart but not the personal level for the job at hand.You can get Gerry McNee to verify,big Billy was right to wallop him.How you love McNee and Flanders Kevin’s gullible t!t.
He was sacked by the Kelly’s,never was part of Fergus team so stop your ruminating redaction of history,
You didn’t by as you were skint said your alter ego kev years ago,same kev or was it lions rampart who admitted you stopped goin 2006.
We all have a memory,so we can fill in the gaps you fill with made up mistaken nonsense
Sadly now as 418/9 you sucked in every bit of online racism exhibiting that in a post that resulted you changing moniker to Ordinary racist- we see you
Your huns,symbol of the union in Scotland,were shat out publicly in 2012,try as you might they brought every single bit of chaos on themselves by the dead clubs execut(ive)ors. Your romantic notions of the 2 clubs out of £1brox are competitive fantasy for the guff you write of Celtic.wish George gobbleaway would get back on uchoob so you can send him a tena from your benefits
Your self loathing is palpable,funny as reading it.
DrambowieCelt
Any further on with Malin Head?
Lots of Celtc interest up that way,Jimmy McGrory got married 1931 in Greencastle.
Derry is a fine base and plenty of its own history too,a great centre for music also
If you are driving over it is 2n a bit hours from Larne where boat arrives
I would suggest a more scenic route to Derry is via the coast Rd that skirts round top of Ireland,round sea border of antrim,Cushendall,Cushendun going on down past Ballycastle,Dunluce Castle ruins and Giants causeway,goin round by Portrush and round to Derry.
Please post the name of your relatives ship again and I will try get more info for you,may he RIP 🙏
HH
https://youtu.be/LZot5NEelpY?feature=shared
It’ll get old one day … but I reckon that day is a long way off.
Goodnight CQN
Tontine
Re Glasgow Diaspora,one of the reasons for stro g Donegal link was the Derry boat which ran straight into Broomielaw from Shantallow.
Fascinating about connections with Connemara,many shipping lanes existed from 19th century from ports down Ireland Atlantic coast.long since ended.
Andrew Kevin’s and a friend called McGetterick sold a pig to get over to Scotland,one went onto form a club we love and the learned Mr McGetterick went onto play a leading part as a Catholic in Scottish education,from those little acorns eh :-))
Hope ye enjoyed yesterday
Hail hail
Let Glasgow flourish through the preaching of thy word and praising thy name. This has been shortened to “Let Glasgow flourish.
The bird that never flew
The Tree that never grew
The bell that never rang
The fish that never swam.
What a bummer , the Squirrel Bar in the Barras is pulling its last pint at the end of October.
HH.
@A.T .Thanks for info…..Yes that looks like the route we will take..
The Empire Heritage lies about 15 mile north of The Malin Head
70 metres down….on Sept 8th will see the 80th year. of it’s sad demise..My Granda was 31…
Into the Atlantic go Ashes ,and into the history of our family…
H.H
Madrarua – saddened by your loss.
Peace in all your hearts.
Son i watch you sleeping…Share your dreams
And i feel a sense of pride…
Passing on the history ..Knowing what it means…It’s within you deep inside.
For i have lived in this story…Oh i am my fathers son..
I have lived in this story….Born to be a Celtic man…
AN TEARMANN on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2024 12:12 AM
Tontine Re Glasgow Diaspora, one of the reasons for strong Donegal link was the Derry boat which ran straight into Broomielaw from Shantallow.
*Mrs. TT’s paternal grampa came fae Derry but was only a wean and I believe the boat stopped at Dumbarton close tae the Castle, they had family there at the time and lots of work through the local shipyard and forge
Fascinating about connections with Connemara, many shipping lanes existed from 19th century from ports down Ireland Atlantic coast long since ended.
*I have a pal whose grampa was the first man fae the Clifden area to come tae Dumbarton, now I was led tae believe that my granny probably left fae Westport, but he said there were lots of boats came tae Clifden tae pick up and drop off supplies so she was probably on one of them, I took Mrs TT there as that’s where her mum’s side of the family hail hailed fae and as she walked around the town was amazed at the names on the shops, as she said it looked like the Notre Dame register when she was at school
Andrew Kevin’s and a friend called McGetterick sold a pig to get over to Scotland, one went onto form a club we love, and the learned Mr McGetterick went onto play a leading part as a Catholic in Scottish education, from those little acorns eh :-))
Hope ye enjoyed yesterday
*how could you no, it was the most relaxed I have ever been going intae a derby game, even better than when the Big Mhan led us
What Sunday’s result really means to me – because we regularly experienced it during the Murray years of the 90s – is that talk is cheap. And all those professional bluenose pundits, like Ferguson and Boyd and the fansites, don’t have the cloak of pre-match license to spout their Hoxhian optimism about Sevco’s chances.
With the international break, the whole Hun empire has to wallow in defeat and navel gaze about its future with no prospect of change.
I wanted 13 in a row but I’ll gladly take hegemony. Over to you Chris Jack.
Chris Mc Gachy
Are you a hun?
We see you.
https://x.com/joebhoy16/status/1830691257540022674?s=48&t=n88VVbIdhjVLji_v1UyGRg
https://youtu.be/yHHkJU59axs?si=goFJdiogMpSa1HN_