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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A wee heads up…
Item on the BBC NEWs 24 channel/ Click Programme…
After this weekend,you will no longer be able to download from Pirate Bay using Torrent stream..
So some folk might be rather busy tomorrow….?
Poppy is slang for mula. Odd that. :)
Rico
Dirty mac
Clever girl indeed…God bless her..
Night night fae Dublin, back in Glasgow the morra
seen simple minds a few years ago in London and they were Ok….just OK, Now I’m from the 80-90’s lovin everything they do, was at Barrowlands when Bono pitched up… amazing night
But that night in London just spoiled it for me, so disapointing.
hope they have got better again, glad you enjoyed it
TC 23:53,
Thanks, a wee wan my uncle peter (rest his soul) used t sing
I was workin outside a lunatic asylum one day
In the act of breaking stones
Along came a lunatic and said to me
Well good mornin mister jones
How much a week do you get for doin that
Thirty bob i cried
He looked at me with a twinkle in his eye
And this is what he sighed
Come inside ya silly bugger come inside
Ah ye want to have a bit more sense
Workin for a living, take my tip
Act a little silly and become a lunatic
Oh ye get your meals quite regular
And two new suits beside
Thirty bob a week
A wife and kids to keep
Come inside ya silly bugger come insidee
Paddy Gallagher
I would wear a Green Poppy :>)
Kittoch 0031
Drummer in Deacon Blue..
HH
Afore ye go (as our ulstar scatts friends would say)
I hope you took that wee clip in the spirit that it was meant , that of, a bit of banter between a couple of Celtic caras
Oíche mhaith
THE EXILED TIM says:
26 February, 2012 at 00:47
Paddy Gallagher
I would wear a Green Poppy :>)
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That would feek them all….I like yer thinking…
THE EXILED TIM says:
26 February, 2012 at 00:47
Paddy Gallagher
I would wear a Green Poppy :>)
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I have no doubt you would wear it on your sleeve big pal…:-)
jungle jam67
“the player — who we are not naming”
well, not today, at least
but we will be naming
him soon, no doubt
“with many predicting a bloody nose for the Light Blues”
a bloody nose ? obliteration, more like
Big I says:
26 February, 2012 at 00:46
Night night from Glasgow. Wish I was in Dublin tomorrow! :)
Looks like tomorrow’s game at ICT will be worth keeping an eye on.
I’m sure I heard a radio pundit say that tomorrow’s game could be the last hurrah for a few of the players? Anyone else hear that?
Rico
Just in fae the gemme…..Aye ah no…..wee bit buckled
If we win …for the rest of eternity, do we really need to worry aboot anything…….anymore?
Tonight I feel like Joe Craig when he scored that goal at Ibrox….Well! I’m asuming that he felt like me…now.
C’mon the bhoys.
TAL……Who tonight is drunk and uncatchable.
Apologies to any lunatics ;)
My brothers one
jimtim says:
26 February, 2012 at 00:39
The questions Tony asked demand answers and I would not underestimate the power of the questions that were presented on BBC to a wider public consciousness to create the conditions where the SFA enquiry remit is a) made public and b) widened if necessary.
I see the enquiry as constituted as a pre emptive strike by the SFA to stop a wider enquiry which of itself and limited unclear nature, further undermines SFA integrity.
The call might not have the desired effect but it was an excellent shot at widening the debate.
Strangely enough if it is the grand finale for the Dark Side im watching end of days
Seriously what’s with the chelsea fans in Dublin
Big I,
Bewleys, has it still got that daft wee disco thing goin on the ground floor bar.
JimmyQuinnsBits says:
26 February, 2012 at 00:47
I have a good mate in Jersey called Jimmy Quinn that hails from Shettleston , he speaks fondly of his Uncle Peter also.
Kittoch says:
26 February, 2012 at 00:27
Just back from Simple Minds great night met Jim Kerr big Celtic fan
need help. who was the drummer that has become a tv sports presenter
ooooooooooooooooo
Victor
JimmyQuinnsBits says:
26 February, 2012 at 00:50
Apologies to any lunatics ;)
My brothers one
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HaHaHaHaHaHa..Know where yer coming fae
Is it Dougie Vipond
Big I says:
26 February, 2012 at 00:53
They’ve been supporting Chelsea for years over there. I know, it’s seems weird, but if it’s your team, it’s your team :)
I’ve seen the tricolour at Chelsea games recently too.
Good on them!
Rico
JQ …. Naw mate has none o that but the Guinness is nice
Any word on the street, as it were, regards wor Mr Blackman?
Sis is a big Wombles fan (as in – goes to every home game and every second or so away – jealous much, me? heck aye)
Big I
I play football with a Dub every sunday mornin’ in Canada ….of all places.
When he shows up with that friggin’ top on…he gets the back hander to the nuts every time….he’ll never learn.
TAL
Paddy G,
This Peters family would be from Possil originally, but he died a few years ago in Falkirk. Actually my grandfathers brother and a king of a man, in the true sense. He and his brothers grew up in the hardest, and i mean that hardest, of times, but never lost the gentle part of gentlemen
all over ayrshire, july 2012
TopCorner says:
26 February, 2012 at 00:11
Here is the rest of the wee tax bill questions that an enquiry needs to answer
http://celticunderground.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=856:in-whom-do-we-trust&catid=47:season-2011-2012&Itemid=83
Measure Two
JimmyQuinnsBits says:
26 February, 2012 at 01:00
Sounds like he was a fine man that left good memories – good luck.
I normally don’t make many predictions
here but I truly believe that the away support at
Inverness tomorrow (today) will be at an all time low .
Does Paddy Power take bets on this sort of scenario?
PaddyG & GreenOak – cheers, she is a very perceptive/intuitive and yet oft frustrating little girl who reads crud like twilight despite my best efforts to introduce her to Dickens Twist and Shout, I mean Great Expectations, although she had read The Hobbit before hitting 8 and The Chronicles of Narnia before another year was out (cheers Menders (wee sis, mentioned above)).
She is a very clever girl, very much more so than I was at her age (and I manage ok), although she can be as dense as a sodden log at times.
prouddadCSC
i think the away team will out number the away support!
Bedtime methinks as the nightmare that is my youngest daughter, Madison Mary, will be up in about 6 hours.
Pleasurable reading, as ever.
-pmcc
Paddy
I see you now have a star*
If you are interested I know where
you may obtain another 5 ….soon.
…Maybe a little tainted though.
TAL
COME ON YOU BHOYS IN GREEN
Dirtymac,
It’s a lady’s prerogative to be blond
Teuchter ár lá says:
26 February, 2012 at 01:09
Naw mate, they can stick their fivers!
:-)