It’s been a long time since we’ve had a home game; 4th August, against Aberdeen. Since then we’ve played five games on the road, three of which involved international travel, with two games in the Highlands.
Statistical analysis shows that form suffers when teams are forced to pile-up away fixtures. Training schedules are interrupted as travel eats into time which would otherwise be spent fine-tuning fitness or working on defensive/forward strategy. Instead Celtic have improved enormously from their Flag Day at the beginning of the month, despite, or perhaps, because, Neil Lennon has indulged in extensive use of a squad rotation policy.
No one at Celtic will be complacent ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League play-off, the ghost of Ross County in 2010 and Inverness in 2011 will see to that. One ‘Big Dan Moment’ is all it takes to turn a comfortable lead into a tight tie with a player deficit, but I suspect Neil Lennon will be more concerned with putting the brakes on his players, rather than motivating them. A calm and organised performance is required.
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saltires en sevilla
22:32 on
27 August, 2012
Saudi Arabia won the FIFA under 16′s World Championship Final at Hampden Park, Glasgow in 1989
When their players were all 36 :-)
HH
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I remember that game was going to a wedding in Springfield road and we caught the start of it before the ceremony
We were pissin ourselves at the chest hair and 5 o’clock shadows of the Saudis against oor wee boys
Naw it widnae.
Italiabhoy…
And the first thing that Buzz and Neil did when they landed on the Moon..?
Brewed up some ‘Special Java’….in a Cona Coffee Percolator….invented by a Scotsman…and shared a Buttermulk Dainty…invented by Erchie Tunnock….
Back in the day…..
philvisreturns
Fleming???????????????
Well the drove a wee buggy with pneumatic tyres ….
Bundoran Bhoy – Wee Oscar 4 Life Campaign
21:27 on 27 August, 2012
PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO APPEAL FOR WEE OSCAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMplEzPEOUk
Thanks
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BB
Just watched it as you all must
What can you say when a family is going through that.
I may only collect pennies and hold a collection bucket but God do I feel priveliged to be able to help in some small way.
Get involved Bhoys & Ghirls YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
God bless wee Oscar & family.
Good night all MAY ONLY GOOD THINGS COME YOUR WAY
HAIL HAIL
The Singing Detective – Any word on whether they wrapped the foil from their Tunnock’s Tea Cakes into neat little balls and flicked them into orbit? (thumbsup)
4-0 Madrid a belter ….sigh gotta hope for one more I took 5-0 to cover mysel
philvisreturns
22:38 on
27 August, 2012
Also, Alexander Graham Bell did little to introduce penicillin as the wonder drug we know today.
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Not surprised.
And deep fried a mars bar
voguepunter – Fleming???????????????
Quite right.
Apologies, I was confused by all the Alexanders. (thumbsup)
I quite like the reference made on other sites to the new club as T’Rangers.
I wonder what they will call the new new club when the T’Rangers hit the wall in February 2012.
Sevco blow a gasket in the highlands??
dirtymac – My excuse is that I’m in my geriatric thirties. (thumbsup)
Sparklegirl
Me too- Brian O’Neil had a great tourney
TET
yup – I remember the beards -made Omar Sharif look like a toddler:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Sharif
:@)
Sabre67
22:42 on
27 August, 2012
I quite like the reference made on other sites to the new club as T’Rangers.
I wonder what they will call the new new club when the T’Rangers hit the wall in February 2012.
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Dirty cheating **censored**s?
How many of those Alexanders were “brothers”?
Early thirties is the new twenties (thumbsup); late thirties is the new sixties (sourface)
setting free the bears
22:45 on
27 August, 2012
How many of those Alexanders were “brothers”?
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And how did their mammy call them in for tea?
SFTB
Didnt know you were a Krasnodar man.
Is that pint still on for a week on Sunday?
setting free the bears – That’s between a man and his accordion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pNf771GtKI
(thumbsup)
Saltires.
Was at the game the young Scots were cheated and in cardinal follies that nite watching the Saudi youths? Celebrate.hh
….or even February 2013.
Damn that Rioja.
A voice you might recognise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTStgLxzMx4&feature=related (thumbsup)
leftclicktic
22:41 on
27 August, 2012
WELL SAID MATE
HH
G
Oops let slip a G there while lurking.
HH
Good evening all. Just waiting for Breaking Bad to load up and was wondering if any Porto Bhoys could help:
Mam-in-law away to start the Portuguese Camino tomorrow and will be in Porto on Wednesday. Any pubs in the city showing the game?
I had a chuckle at the NBC news report yesterday which flashed up…. ‘World famous U.S Astronaut Neil Young has passed away’. Later I read that an LA newspaper had reported over the weekend that ‘Neil Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles’. He must have been popping himself rotten to win those races at his age.
Only in America.
If they have landed on the moon, why can”t they take all the nuclear waste up there?
I recently watched Apollo 18…gave me the heebie jeebies
Big Dan Moments
Ach, that’s disrespectful to a centre-back who gave us a good part of his career, partnering what seemed like a different centre-back every week and getting injured with us to deprive him of a last international hurrah at the Euros, and who also took a kick in the heid at McDiarmid. He wasn’t the best centre-bac but despite some revisionism was a mile better than Loovens and certainly better than Wilson. He did a job like a good pro, and was I believe recommended by Johann – good enough for me. And if we’re referring to his ‘moment’ as being against Sion away, remember that game doesn’t exist, or we won it 3-0. If there’s more than one, it’s moot – we could mention Big Billy moments, and moments for every centre-back who ever played for us. A wholly undeserved sobriquet. Of course I know what is meant, but it could have been worded differently.
Only me, crotchety perhaps, but we surely have a better frame of reference.
jmc cormick
Down load google chrome thatll sort it. o)))
Mhark67
:-)
HH
Hello ghuys and ghals,
Just joined the blog tonight and im excited to be a part of this family. My husband has been a member for a couple of years and i enjoy discussing a lot of the topics raised here which are very many and very varied! A big thanks to Paul who helped me with a technical issue re joining the blog.
Hail Hail
Yes I remember the rampant racism and xenophobia against the Saudis when they “stole” the Youth World Cup from “our boys”, led chiefly by the Daily Record.
Sad to to see it being kept alive all these years later on CQN.
Father forgive me, for I have sinned.
I am playing Football Manager, and my team (not Celtic!) had an opening for a coach and I noticed David Weir was available, and cheap, and after much self-questioning, I signed him.
I feel dirty.
How many Hail Mary’s will it take to cleanse of my sin?
Marrakesh Express
Is it the 2nd or the 9th we’re meeting up?