Motherwell fought tenaciously for most of the game at Celtic Park this afternoon but a momentary lapse was all that Georgios Samaras and Gary Hooper needed to settle the contest. Celtic moved an astonishing 23 points clear at the top of the table and are odds on favourite to become champions before the next return to Celtic Park.
Samaras was first to show after 9 minutes when he latched onto a Matthews flick but Darren Randolph was quick off his line to block. Player of the Year elect, Charlie Mulgrew, then jinked past a defender before slipping the ball to Samaras. The Greek’s shot was block and Mulgrew blasted the rebound wide. Randolph then saved well after Samaras shot from inside the D.
While Celtic always looked dangerous, Motherwell were in no mood to concede, so the goal was surprising in its simplicity. Adam Matthews fired a throw-in to Samaras, who chested the ball into the path of unmarked Gary Hooper. Hooper put his laces through the ball from a narrow angle to give Randolph no chance.
Samaras, Hooper and Forrest all had chances to finish the game off but the second goal never arrived.
Good defences are a lot harder to quantify than poor defences. Today Celtic strolled through the game at the back. No one was stretched and Fraser Forster didn’t have a save to make until the 77th minute.
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…in Monte Carlo..in his wee flat empty Poppy collection cans…grinning, with his eyes popping out of his heid
Try Again
http://twitpic.com/8oohg2
I bagsy the flat where Davie Robertson got hit by a pie in the league cup semi v Aberdeen and had to be moved in with us for his own safety
TopCorner says:25 February, 2012 at 23:26
Aye the last few weeks have been great indeed.
Enjoy the jelly and ice-cream in the new fridge freezer.
I stock filled mine a few weeks back… our day will come.
http://twitpic.com/8oohg2
Auldheid / All
It looks inevitable that THEM will be liquidated, and I hope that Celtic have done their scenario planning.
Rightly or wrongly, I believe there will be pressure to re-admit ‘were the people’ into both SPL and SFA. Indeed , From my knowledge of the SFA rule book, re-entry to the SFA is about 99.9% certain.
In Celtic’s case, I think we need to consider / gameplan for :
– other teams allowing THEM to remain in SPL, but, on the basis that TV money/ voting rights are more ‘fairly’ split. I suspect there will be a majority who will huff / puff but inevitably they will be fairly happy with a change in voting rights.
– we need to think about the implications of THEM re-entering . My view would be that we negotiate a wild card exit ticket I.e. if you let them in, then we want a free exit pass that we can play anytime in the next 10 years. This would allow us to lobby the EPL / Championship over a sustained period, with a free exit pass and no parachute payments
– I suspect that our pockets are deeper thn the SFA’s. If they won’t sanction our exit, them it’s either FIFA, the Sporting Court of Arbitration or the UK courts . My instinct would suggest that the SFA would posture and lobby , but wouldnt fancy a court battle that exposes their incompetence.
The xx…Crystalised!
FTH
Where’s Whitey?
This Tim reckons he’s on the moon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otwkXZ0SmTs
Philvis,
Thank the lord these links aren’t workin on the ipad.
If ever there was a phrase concocted by the devil himself, it is “hot ginger action”
Unless you’re talkin snaps course. In which case sincere apologies
JQB 23:26
class !
thankyou !
MWD
tricky bit is not controlling myself…but my 10 yr old who supports Celtic but has AFC as his second team…he’ll celebrate any goal!!
The Exiled Tim
Now I know from whom you got your knowledge of the fruit of the vine :-) 12;00 min in
For some reason I always picture you as somewhat Falstaffian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwcO9qnlFHQ&feature=watch_response
TopCorner says:
25 February, 2012 at 23:38
Not on the Celtic Bars specifically but I think there is going to have to be a major rethink about the kind of future Celtic wish to create. My initial thoughts are that all we might now have for financial support is each other and Celtic have to find a way to reach beyond regular match attenders and regualr match viewers to the wider Celtic minded folk who fall into neither category.
My future sees technology and a change in broadcasting restrictions producing a SB that allows games to be watched according to the desire of the holder but at the same cost to all watchers.
Seville???? (from memory) first articulated the notion of a universal SB but much work needs to be done to change the thinking that puts most of the support cost on match attenders.
Big Nan says: 25 February, 2012 at 23:23
Another dodgy handshake? Greig is almost certainly. Remember the Masonic distress sign to the fans invading the pitch in Barcelona 1972?
***
What was that and what did it constitute? will be on the look out for the people in distress.
ttt
I don’t hate their support either, they know no better, they have only taken the lead from their club.
Their demise.
What is demise ?
Relagation to the bottom tier, NO, for me their total obliteration is what’s called for, then I will go to my grave a happy Tim.
But if they do rise from the sewer, they will forever be tainted, that I could never have envisaged.
If that is what happens, I would be reasonably happy enough.
HardtopleaseCSC
Are we The People now?……..ha!!!!!!!
Green Oak Tree says:
25 February, 2012 at 23:36,
100% correct.
The family surpassed itself today in my opinion.
thomthethim,
Go raibh maith agat as do chuidiu inniu.
Árd Macha
We’ve won!
Lá breithe shona domh
you’re nicked
thanks Auldheid
briefly if possible, what’s a “universal season book” ?
how would that operate ?
thanks again
Right,
Hauf time,
Oot for a beer an a fag as – quite rightly – i’m “discouraged” from smokin in the house.
Which – seein as im a red hot love machine – isnae easy. Friction – its physics annat
Exiled Tim
Have enjoyed the passion in your posts tonight.
Clashcitybhoy says:
25 February, 2012 at 23:52
Any “solution” that damages the games integrity would give Celtic little choice but to signal they are off at first opportunity.
Any choice bu other clubs to allow a Newco back into the SPL would be on a financial basis. The financial consequences of losing Celtic who no longer could play in an environment where ethics and integrity were absent will focus minds.
Phil MacGiollaBhain @Pmacgiollabhain · Open
When is a sports stadium not a sports stadium? Easy. When it’s a crime scene. #csigovan
JimmyQuinnsBits – I decry your anti-ginger racism.
Where would we be without gingers, and their puckish awesomeness?
Gingers are like normal people, turned up to 11.
Red power!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyF8RHM1OCg (thumbsup)
Auldheid
A brit league sounds like a plan mi amigo :>)
Just what DD ordered.
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macanbheatha
All yer man needs is a pair of gaffas and bobs yer me :>)
Highlights of todays game, 17 minutes in total
1st half
2nd half
Mick, Check this out.
Scroll down to “GRAND HAILING SIGN OF DISTRESS” on the link below, it is also what Dougie Dougie did at Tannadice IIRC.
http://www.ephesians5-11.org/handshakes.htm
bbc 4 right now? top of the pops 1977, MUD (go figure!)
THE EXILED TIM says:
25 February, 2012 at 23:57
Demise = deid. No more. Gone. Wiped out. Obliterated. Or even worse!
Good night CQN.
Posted on RTC that it was not liquidators who were photographing at Ibrox today, but valuers, for Administration sales.
Auldheid,
Letting THEM back in will involve a change in the rules.
We should ensure that this changing of rules works to our advantage.
If the SPL votes to let THEM back in ( which I think they will), we should throw the legal rule book at them , to negotiate an exit pass.
If we were in the Championship and won promotion, the precedent of Swansea would make it very difficult for anyone to block us.
Logged in for my quick fix over an hour ago just to catch up.
This blog is top notch,missed the game due to work commitments,my son used my ticket, his description of
the game matches most of the comments on here. NL has this team focused.Enjoy.
Meanwhile, liquidators with camera,s,& a potential poppy money theft. Dear doctor.
Tony on shortbread was magnificent,keep scratching the surface.Good night all & god bless.HH.
other thing i was gonna mention re
“quintessentially non-essential FC”
and the SFA was the outstanding petition of over 2000 signatures in relation to the Euro licence granted last year to play v Malmo and Maribor
there was the question of the 2.8mill
SO-CALLED wee tax bill at the time
of issue of the licence
@StewartRegan acknowledged that message again couple nights back but still made no comment re any of the questions relating to it – i then recommended to him that it ALSO be included in the current investigation (terms of ref, whatever) – no reply to that either
here’s the 2.8 issue in question
http://www.askthesfa.co.uk/
Even if, huge if, the poppy story was true, I’d see the glint of a wheel chair in the shadows behind it. Demonize Whytie.
Paul67, do a wee teaser again this week, but on an Ogilvie, yes an Ogilvie.
Let everyone start gathering info on him. He’s the man.
He comes down, and the lot comes down, the axis of evil no more.
haha
https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/1748664108/image.jpg
How come the guy doing the distress signal is Donald Finlay