“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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Good morning all from Govanhill.
SFTBS @ 10:02 PM,
Excellent stuff again from JoBo, lots of stuff coming together this season
Lots of reasons to be opTIMistic
Looks like I was the only one who voted for the invisible man – 500 fholks, over 100 goals and 100 assists…
TONTINE TIM @ 12:50 AM, AN TEARMANN @ 12:12 AM,
Inishowen is definitely a trip my eldest and I have pencilled in, he did the ancestry thing and both in searching records and DNA got us back to the peninsula in the 1700’s
My G.G.Grandfather was a ships Skipper and we’d love to know the routes he sailed
He was born in Stroove but moved to Derry, when he retired, during famine times he brought his family to Anderston
So my G.Grandfather was born in Derry and moved to Glasgow then from Glasgow to Coatbridge
Really fascinating stuff,
I really don’t get the immigrant thing though, apparently it was easier going from Donegal to Scotland from those parts to Belfast – we’d have been doing that for thousands of years
Have A Grand Day
Hail Hail
Good morning from a dull and overcast North Staffs.
Lots of schadenfreude going on but nothing is won in September.
Good morning all from adry at the moment Garngad.
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Word of the Day : September 3, 2024
cronyism play
noun KROH-nee-iz-um
Cronyism is the unfair practice by a powerful person (such as a politician) of giving jobs and other favors to friends without regard for their qualifications.
City residents are pushing back against cronyism and corruption in their local government.
“Expertise, not cronyism, is needed to determine which strategies are most likely to lead to meaningful gains.” — Time, 23 Aug. 2023
The word cronyism evolved in the 19th century as a spin-off of crony, meaning “friend” or “pal.” In its younger days, cronyism simply meant “friendship,” or “the ability to make friends.” The word didn’t turn bad until the next century, when Americans starting using it to refer to the act of playing political favorites. If cronyism is new to your vocabulary, perhaps you’re more familiar with the related term nepotism, meaning “favoritism based on kinship, especially in professional and political contexts.”
Morning, all.
bigrailroadblues on 3rd September 2024 6:52 am
Good morning all from Govanhill.
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Good morning to you and pass on my regards to AT. Remind him not to bite, you know who is just fishing, just enjoy his pain after a beautiful Sunday.
BRENDAN RODGERS has enjoyed a record FIFTEEN victories in his 19 derby duels.
It’s an extraordinary sequence that not even the legendary Jock Stein can match.
The Celtic manager has also seen his side held on three occasions while suffering a solitary reverse.
In his debut campaign at Parkhead, the Irishman guided the Hoops to ten triumphs over the city rivals and he added handsomely to that tally in his comeback campaign.
In his first year after returning in June 2023, Rodgers guided the champions to three league wins – two at Parkhead and one at Ibrox – while there was also a 3-3 draw in Govan.
The gaffer masterminded a 2-1 success in the east end of Glasgow on May 11 which propelled Celtic towards their third successive title – and twelfth crown in 13 years – and he followed up a fortnight later with a 1-0 win in the Scottish Cup Final.
Adam Idah thumped in the late winner to hoist Rodgers’ total to 14.
And number 15 arrived on September 1 as Celtic triumphed 3-0 in the first derby duel of the new crusade with Daizen Maeda, Kyogo Furuhashi and Callum McGregor netting the goals that flattened the Ibrox visitors.
RODGERS’ RECORD:
September 10, 2016: Premiership: CELTIC 5 (Dembele 3, Sinclair, Armstrong), Rangers 1 (Garner);
October 23: League Cup semi-final: CELTIC 1 (Dembele), Rangers 0;
December 31: Premiership: Rangers 1 (Miller), CELTIC 2 (Dembele, Sinclair);
March 12, 2017: Premiership: CELTIC 1 (Armstrong), Rangers 1 (Hill);
April 23: Scottish Cup semi-final: CELTIC 2 (McGregor, Sinclair pen), Rangers 0;
April 29: Premiership: Rangers 1 (Miller), CELTIC 5 (Sinclair pen, Griffiths, McGregor, Boyata, Lustig);
September 23: Premiership: Rangers 0, CELTIC 2 (Rogic, Griffiths);
December 30: Premiership: CELTIC 0, Rangers 0;
March 11, 2018: Premiership: Rangers 2 (Windass, Candeias), CELTIC 3 (Rogic, Dembele, Edouard);
April 15: Scottish Cup semi-final: CELTIC 4 (Rogic, McGregor, Dembele pen, Ntcham pen), Rangers 0;
April 29: Premiership: CELTIC 5 (Edouard 2, Forrest, Rogic, McGregor), Rangers 0;
September 2: Premiership: CELTIC 1 (Ntcham), Rangers 0;
December 29: Premiership: Rangers 1 (Jack), CELTIC 0;
September 3, 2023: Premiership: Rangers 0, CELTIC 1 (Kyogo);
December 30: Premiership: CELTIC 2 (Bernardo, Kyogo), Rangers 1 (Tavernier);
April 7, 2024: Premiership: Rangers 3 (Tavernier pen, Sima, Matondo), CELTIC 3 (Maeda, O’Riley pen, Idah;
May 11: Premiership: CELTIC 2 (O’Riley, Lundstram og), Rangers 1 (Dessers);
May 25: Scottish Cup Final: CELTIC 1 (Idah), Rangers 0.
September 1: Premiership: CELTIC 3 (Maeda, Kyogo, McGregor), Rangers 0.
“The club were great, bringing the players in we wanted to strengthen and we played well. We played the game to a very good level. These games, no matter how well you are playing, you can never just assume. You’ve got to get your work done and we did that very well.”
Well said Brendan. I loved how Boyd squirmed trying to explain why the Rankers are so poor. It was the players, it was something rotten at the new club. He even praised the unity at Celtic! Surely even the ORDINARY Celtic fan can see that.
Busy day yesterday catching up on all the good vibes in between chores ….. but did set the alarm for 11 a.m. to bag 3 tickets for the Falkirk match. Don’t know if it was up against CL or Oasis clamour, but ticketmaster was painfully slow on the Celtic site. Or maybe it’s just the web that’s so slow down here. Four times tried to bag three seats together and seats gone by time I reached the basket. Still, happy bunny as fifth time lucky. Looked on the site this morning and it appears that there will be another really good attendance.
Many congratulations to Stephen McGuire, Olympic Champion and Season Ticket Champion. Just heard him being interviewed on 5Live. Sunday’s result set him up nicely for yesterday’s victory in the Boccia competition. Well Done that Mhan.
Great time to be a Celt. Enjoy them, as it hasn’t always been this way. Between 1927 and 1965 Celtic won 3 titles.
Chairbhoy on 3rd September 2024 7:14 am
He was born in Stroove but moved to Derry, when he retired, during famine times he brought his family to Anderston
I really don’t get the immigrant thing though, apparently it was easier going from Donegal to Scotland from those parts to Belfast – we’d have been doing that for thousands of years.
Chairbhoy
You really should get the ‘immigrant thing” CB.
As you Gfather would know trade and crosslinks between Ireland and Scotland in fishing industry terms have a long history,going back centuries when boats like your Gfathers were smaller than the industrial size nets and rigs of today.
The immigrant thing as you point out grew exponentially during the genocide that was the hunger,hunger was a weapon used by the state down thro the centuries,Edmund(edward) Spenser,English poet wrote of a little famine to clear the land of rebels(rebels to the planter cause) and cease this constant disruption.
The genocide that your forefathers avoided had humans emaciated and as those who recorded many died of green mouth,eating grass and moss on shrunken digesting systems.
Meantime the records show there was more than
enough food to feed the 8.5 million souls via exports of meat,grains,oats and other foods went as sustance to the empire from the ports of Cobh and kingstown(Dun loaghrie) near Dublin.by 1851 that population was some 3million lighter
The immigrant/refugee thing can be sought looking as the population explosion in the Glasgow area 1841-51 as the ‘boats of faces’ landed all along the Clyde doubling the then population.put that into context as today’s refugee influx does not even touch those numbers.yet look at the outcry.
There was also a religious difference,the majority of the refugees were Catholic,coming to a city that in the 1750s had more anticatholic societies than actual Catholics. It was no fun to follow Catholicism in the land of the reformation,a reformation augmented by a split in the Church of Scotland in the 1840s.Catholicism was treated with suspicion by our hosts who suffered poverty and great hardship with many tempted by the ‘soup’ to change their path.
It is easy to look back with today’s eye to these population movements,you and I could meet this evening in Derry socially,which reflects today’s wealth,back in your forefathers days no such luxury existed,poverty and hunger drove us here
Hope all well down in Chilterns
HH
Scullybhoy
My great uncle James O’connor died in 1964 – a great Celtic man who lived through those barren days and sadly didn’t see any of the big Jock years.
I’m going to town on Friday to celebrate Sunday. Embdy fancies a few beers give me a shout.
AN TEARMANN @ 10:21 AM,
Great in the Chilterns thanks, Hope all is good with you…
The population of Ireland was greater than the population of England
The methods visited on our people and good folk throughout the globe were unhuman
The Indians possibly the greatest Culture in known history, with huge resources were victims to it as well
It continues today…
A nation who is striking genocide on a people – in mourning over six deaths, the six deaths like a dagger through their heart, while they strike armaggedon to others…
Insanity doesn’t need labels, I’m certainly not going to use theirs…
In the times of my G.G.Grandfather there was no Celtic
But in Inishowen, Derry, Glasgow, Coatbridge today, there is Celtic, it should be celebrated
We call the chooon
Hail Hail
Nothing on Europa League ticket packages yet?
One poster on here (apologies, can’t recall who) called it.
Waiting to see which venue will be used.
There is a UEFA deadline to confirm this – again can’t recall when but it’s soon.
Limited info to go on but it looks like the venue decision will go down to the wire.
If it is Ibrox? They’d better be ready for Matchday 2.
UEFA aren’t the SFA or the SMSM.
Rangers midfielder Connor Barron has earned a first Scotland senior call-up as Old Firm rivals James Forrest and Greg Taylor drop out of Steve Clarke’s Nations League squad for games against Poland at Hampden and Portugal in Lisbon.
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Its GREAT that BOTH James Forrest and Greg Taylor have dropped out of the Scotland Camp for the upcoming games.
Can Anthony Ralston also send in a SICK NOTE to Stevie Clarke…and make it a Celtic TREBLE Withdrawal ?
LOL.
Loving it.
HH.
SCULLYBHOY on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2024 9:48 AM
Great time to be a Celt. Enjoy them, as it hasn’t always been this way. Between 1927 and 1965 Celtic won 3 titles.
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What is considered the main reason for only 3 titles during this time…..discounting WW2 years…was it total mismanagement…interference from boardroom….or just better opposition
Poor old tavpen 🤣
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Ordinary Joe 10.16 pm
Thanks for your reply. I doubt that anybody who purchased shares did so thinking that they would make money or fretting over Fergus or BD. It was a statement of support for the club we love. When you look across the city it is difficult to argue that it has not been a success.
Gene on 3rd September 2024 10:36 am
Scullybhoy
My great uncle James O’connor died in 1964 – a great Celtic man who lived through those barren days and sadly didn’t see any of the big Jock years.
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Yes, so many Celts stuck with the Club and didnt get to see what we have been fortunate enough to experience.
HH
As to why this is the case.? Where to start?
#Jock, the Lisbon Lions, and the Quality Street Gang, a one off unique coinciding of unbelievable circumstances.
#The general decline of Scottish football, mainly due to Sky.
#The old board were a disgrace and the examples of mismanagement are numerous.
So, a mixture of all of these?
You would need to ask a wiser man than me, but one thing is for sure, money does not guarantee success as Man Utd are currently showing. We are lucky to have a well run club and have a magical history that can attract a manager of the calibre of BR (even though I was originally against his re-appointment).
Meanwhile over on ff…
They believe that sky is full of Celtic supporting fenians 😂
BRRB
If he was t a horrible, cheating hun bassa I might feel some sympathy.
Or maybe not.
Chairbhoy.
Glad your good..
“The population of Ireland was greater than the population of England”
That is not so CB 👆 I don’t think it has ever been so am sure you will correct me,dates etc
1841 Census
Eng & Wales 15.9m
Scotland 2.6m
Ireland 8.2m
Celtic,formed out of St.Marys 1832 was a parish whose borders then extended out to Motherwell/Coatbridge in that direction and Clarkston in Glasgows south side
Celtic grew out of your GG Grandfather’s generation 1840s and the generation thereafter.
Genocide is not a label CB,it is very real in the oral(spoken) culture that Irish(language) is.
I only answer that point as history is written by those who are empowered to control and write of it.Genocide in Ireland is as real and authentic an infliction on those in the 1840s as it is on those Bengalis by Churchill in ww2,a hundred years apart but starvation caused by the same empire and it’s rampant civilization of dehumanization.That was based in London.
HH
Hoping for loss to Aberdeen mid to late October to mirror last year and lead to a further annual change of management structure across the city.
Dropping points at Dundee U or losing to Dundee a week later, then Malmo and possibly Lyon at home / Hampden really will pile it on and a trip to Aberdeen or a loss at Killie might just see the big Belgian put out of his misery.
An T
I really appreciate the history lesson and insight. Especially as someone who had a fair bit of Irish immigrant ancestry (both religions) fleeing poverty.
I do assume you mean the principle of genocide rather than the specific term itself being spoken of back then.
My understanding was that word itself (Genocide) was only coined by a Polish / Austrian lawyer in 1944/5/6.
What is Murty fiing these days?
Doing
new article posted.