Fabulous goals from Gary Hooper and Victory Wanyama put Celtic back on winning ways, their first victory in four games in September but Dundee held out until minutes before the break, aided by an excellent performance from Rab Douglas.
Another ex-Celt, Gary Irvine, had a penalty claim 7 minutes in but the ref wasn’t convinced; Irvine’s tumble was a tad overdramatic. Celtic were cut open on 15 minutes when Colin Nish found space inside the box but his shot was blocked. The rebound broke to John Baird who should have converted but fired over the bar.
A minute later Lassad, making his home debut, dribbled to the edge of the six yard box when he appeared to be tripped but again referee, Beaton, denied the claim.
Kris Commons then stepped up the pressure. His cross was dummied by Lassad but Gary Hooper’s shot was saved. Commons then played a diagonal ball through to Lassad who shot wide.
Charlie Mulgrew brought a good save from Douglas from a free kick on the edge of the D after Wanyama was brought down. The Dundee keeper then topped that effort with a save from Forrest after a good cutback from Lassad, before saving again from the same player a minute later.
Lassad’s movement eventually brought a reward when Beaton pointed to the penalty spot after the former Deportivo striker had his legs clipped. Scott Brown has been reliable from the spot this year but this effort didn’t get anywhere near the post, allowing Rab Douglas another opportunity to show what he can do.
Brown made amends a minute before the break when his forward pass was collected by Gary Hooper. Hooper still had a lot to do but nutmeged his marker before firing home, from an angle, into the far corner.
The advantage was almost doubled a minute into the second half when Gary Irvine tried to chest the ball back to Rab Douglas but found the post instead, however, Dundee were two behind three minutes later.
Victor Wanyama shot low and hard from 26 yards, clipping the inside of the post before crossing the line.
Lassad almost opened his scoring account for Celtic with a good header but Rab Douglas was a match to the attempt again. Tony Watt used his impressive strength to get a cross to Gary Hooper, who steadied before shooting against the upright.
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well done to the Wee Oscar bucket collectors today ,
being a long time reader to cqn from the early days , and very occasional poster , was good to meet the people behind the names , money in midfields maestro’s bucket . good to meet you .I see other greenockian / portonion’s were out in force , greenlion , st stivs i know you both very well from our big blue days , as you do me . Vhman i know as well , last time i met you was at ibrox at the broonie game { 2 – 2 } when you were sitting next to me
Hail Hail
ElDiegoBhoy
20:01 on
22 September, 2012
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I think it was your good self who put a load of money in my daughter’s bucket across from the Kerrydale Suite, I tried to get over to say hello but I was too far away.
I was so proud to be a team leader for a wonderful bunch of men, women and kids today my pride in them was only matched by my admiration for the Celtic support, who gave in such large amounts with such good cheer.
My daughter who is 10yrs was so full of joy at the thought of helping a young lad who she has only seen on Youtube, in her tender years she knows what it means to try and help others she inspired me and I am so proud of her, she has a Celtic Heart. My girl knows what it is like to be near death and if it was not for ground-breaking surgery at Yorkhill she may not be with us now, she was lucky but she is happy to try and help others, more than happy. It is important to try and educate them in our ways while still young, when Oscar is her age I am sure his Mum and Dad will be happy to bring Oscar and his sister to similar events to the one we participated in today. Oscar you will be a star in years to come and you will think back to what your Dad and a team of people with a Celtic Heart achieved in a few short hours.
I have had a few Magners and Morgans Spiced Rum but God bless Wee Oscar and the entire Celtic family
Nearly forgot good result boys
eldiegobhoy
21:05 on
22 September, 2012
Sanna
What kept you?
Is kept a word?
I kept
You kept
He/she kept
We kept
Yous kept
They kept
What school did you go and were you kept back for a year.
It is also an adjective “kept man”
Evening All
I enjoyed the game today, but thought the players all looked a bit hungover from Wednesday’s excellent display. Apart from Broonie and Victor, both of whom were great from beginning to end and despite a super goal I thought Broonie was MOTM,
Lassad has a way to go and looked like he wasn’t used to the system. Difficult to tell what his potential is, but early days.
Ambrose was only on the park for a few mins and was involved in only a handful of plays, but he did look like he has potential. He’ll be great backup for Victor and may be a solid partnership to come from those two? :)
Izzy showed wee flashes of his old self, but still lacks a bit of pace. A few more games before winter kicks in will help get him back to his best.
I thought Dundee played really well and tried right to the end, but lacked any cutting edge. Good turn out from their fans too.
Well done Celts
Bookie
You know – I had a thought when we were bucketeering today. Hate to bring Sevco into it but ….. they have this awful chant “no one likes us – we don’t care”. Well we, us Celtic Supporters DO care.
We care about our fellow supporters and we care about those less fortunate. We care about children who are suffering, we care about our fellow man, no matter their creed or colour.
Those collectors were outstanding today, all of them. CRC, Bundoranbhoy and Minx did a fantastic job in organising the event – the work involved was incredible and you deserve a huge huge pat on the back for that. Most of all the support – including Dundee supporters – they were magnificent. I know that a lot of guys were putting their hands in their pockets 2 or 3 times – just brilliant, we are indeed more than a club, we”re a world wide family.
An immense pleasure to be part of it!
Hail! Hail! God bless wee Oscar!
DavieL
Well done to all those in and around Celtic park today collecting cash for Oscar.
Truly the beating heart and soul of our club.
Liked the look of Lassad today. Linked up well, unlucky not to score and looked to take up good positions throughout. Intelligent footballer.
What I can’t understand is why the Celtic support are not turning up. Don’t really care if the excuse is the September weekend or whatever. I understand times are hard and fully appreciate if someone isn’t able to afford to go.
But for many I suspect it’s simple apathy, why ?
Che – how did yer nap get on?!
T4
how is the Oscar appeal going?
absolute disgrace of a country i live in. we only heard about the time the Rep fans auctioned their flag for the wee man
all we are interested in is how we will force this march past the chapel that we ignored all the rules before for the biggesy ever hun get together in over 100 years
bad spelling their big style
all we are interested in is how we will force this march past the chapel that we ignored all the rules before for the biggest ever hun get together in over 100 years
St.John.Doyle
21:07 on
22 September, 2012
CRC did a classic today on me, he went pass me and said “motivational chat to your team” I replied ” it just me and my daughter”!!
He looked at my members and said “you have the whole Oscar family ” and a fine bunch of people they are.
the_huddle
23:06 on 21 September, 2012
petec
22:56 on 21 September, 2012
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I agree, Scott is a very versatile player and he really upset Dynamo that night because, and Wednesday night was another example, he has incredible energy and IMO is getting better all the time. I just hope he becomes injury free.
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Thing is I’d still argue Brown is a poor player, I know he did great those last 20 mins against Benfica but he’s the type of player that is the poster child for what’s wrong with our game.
Wednesday night Brown won the ball in midfield, looked up and seen Forrest free on the right to start an attack yet Brown played some weird floated miss pass to the Benfica full back. Brown then charged in and tackled the boy awarding Benfica a throw in.
The biggest cheer the crowd gave in that move was Brown awarding Benfica a throw in. There’s something wrong about that.
I remember reading a comment from an Italian player i think in the English league who was stunned at the crowds reaction to a player wining a sliding tackle, or knocking the ball out for a thrown, or even better a corner.
Until we appreciate retaining the ball over winning a tackle we’ll always be lagging well behind the rest of Europe.
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Apologies for not responding last night, I watched a film and I didn’t have enough time this morning.
I agree with some of the things you’re saying but I think you are being harsh on Scott, there is a decent player in there and he brings real impetus to the team and who I feel is getting better and better now he has really settled into being the Celtic Captain.
There is no doubt we need to get the hammer throwers out of the Scottish game and the only way to do that is to get the referees to hammer them and start protecting the flair players. There is plenty of talent in Scotland but it needs to be allowed to flourish.
No more of, “it’s the first foul of the game” or things like that. A booking is a booking no matter what time it happens.
Don’t worry the penny will drop eventually. ;) And we can then look forward to seeing some excellent football back in Scotland.
I put my money in and so did you
But let’s tale our hats off to those who have spent a lot of time organising this
HAIL HAIL
To the spirit of why Celtic was founded
Just seen a pic of banner at today’s game. “Justice for Zombies”
Got to laugh
EDB , by the time i poured OldTim onto the train and wended my way to glorious G69 , well , it goes by .
Anyway kept is a word , as in “the memory of today will be kept in my memory ” – i blame Matt Bissett , St Pats 76-82 .
Sanna
It sounds like it was a good performance today and well needed victory
but in all fairness the real positive sounds like it came from the Celtic support and apparently dundee fans too.
A MASSIVE well done to everybody who put cash intot he buckets today for wee oscar
an even bigger well done to the volunteers holding those buckets
and final word goes to the organisers, I have met Celticrollercoaster twice now briefly outside Celtic park and it is obvious what the Celtic family and the Celtic way means to him.
Hail Hail and God bless Wee Oscar
……..an’ annura hing………
‘sailing’………….?????
Why get on a sail boat,
don ski gear
and then hurtle about a space no bigger than a phone box,
ignoring the view and without a ‘supersonic’ in tow………?
BearsdenBonkers CSC
Well done all involved in the collection today.
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
I thought one of Lassads biggest problems today was that generally he wasn’t getting into the right positions. Once he gets familiar with our system we’ll see what he’s capable of, though he was unlucky with his header that Rab D touched over. Also, he was not happy with Commons for not cutting the ball back, when Kris shot just wide. It did look like he’d have scored if he had.
All the best
Pen
Natknow…:
You will be pleased to hear my bucket was very heavy today…
I have to doff my cap to the Burger Bar crew at the end of the Celtic Way…first the woman came over stuck a £5 in. Then up walks a Bhoy hands me, what on first look was a tin containing a bottle of Jack Daniels…how wrong was I. It was full of money…well you know they machines that you can put your coins and it counts it and gives you cash! Well I didn’t have one, had to pour the money into my bucket a bit at a time and sort it through the slots manually. I turned to the Burger Bar, crew asked if they could dispose of empty tin. Then I got £10 each of the other crew members.
Two things blew me away today…sorting money into my bucket, which was not easy, people were handing me paper money…I asked them to wait to ensure their notes went in…no you’ll put it in.
The other thing that blew me away, was after the game…not a bucket in my hand, just wearing my wee oscar t-shirt, walking along with leftclicktic past the Straw House when suddenly Bhoy shouts us back…excuse me are you collecting fir Oscar? Give me change of a £20, he donated £10…trusting soul. For the record, I phoned Bundoran Bhoy and declared it immediately.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Straight from bucket collection, game, meal & drinks with Mrs MM, please accept my spelling apologies etc.
CRC/Bundoran & others, what an achievement to get 200+ strangers together for such a cause, brilliant ghuys, take a bow.
What a family I belong to…Celtic.
Lennybhoy…Supporting Neil Lennon and CFC until I die
21:27 on
22 September, 2012
correct, there was a lot of bhoys who must collect change in bottles and broke the bottles into plastic bags for collection.
Had to replace four buckets due to them being too heavy :)
Well done to all concerned today.
Regarding the match today Victor was absolutely outstanding.
He has it all when he wants to play.
Thrilled to read of the efforts of the Bucket Brigade today.
More heartwarming is their tales of the generosity of the contributors.
We all know of the ethos of the Celtic support, but special mention to the staff and support of Dundee FC.
I trust that an acknowledgement will be on it’s way to their club.
sounds like we have made a big dent in what was still required for Oscar
I felt bad about walking past some of the collectors today but you can’t put it in every bucket, I am sure it was a CQN’er who got my contribution…no idea which one though….. silver haired would probably describe a few :-)
prestonpans bhoys
21:16 on
22 September, 2012
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I had my wife, children, and son’s partner with my old pal in my team I had the easy bit as I had the clip-board for Company N the rest of my team were strangers but not any more as we will remember the good work we did today and when we meet again will have a smile and remember.
Can I just pay tribute to the organisers today we were allowed to do the easy part today which was have a laugh with 1000s of Celtic supporters but that was only possible because some of our guys had put in place a fantastic amount of work to make today a success. We were a professional outfit today and that was down to some very hard work by our team top marks for organisation, God Bless all in the Oscar Army.
My wee girl still has her badge and T-Shirt on and dont know when she will take it off
Lennybhoy –
Glad to hear it mate! ;-)
On a personal note – well done to you and to all the Bucketeers. Fantastic effort by everyone collecting. It’s giving me a warm glow reading the Bucketeer’s stories. Superb effort from all involved and great organisation by CRC and BDB!
Looking forward to hearing the totals. Hope Paul67 publishes a special article on the blog to recognise the achievement and give us an update on baseline vs target. M.I. is important to me!
Was that the same rab Douglas i watched in Seville.
To be fair he did have some good games for us.
Thinking the huns are getting worried now.
The truth is coming back to haunt their treacherous ways.hh
Here comes the Scott Harrison fight
St John Doyle – was good to see you today – the stories from everyone involved was great, we even had 2 Sevco fans buckateering! They were absolutely buzzing at the end and were grateful to be involved! Think we may have 2 converters!
magnificentseven
21:41 on
22 September, 2012
Cheeky, no need for, Just for men, from me, yet!
midfield maestro
21:48 on 22 September, 2012
magnificentseven
21:41 on
22 September, 2012
Cheeky, no need for, Just for men, from me, yet!
a bit salt and pepper myself :-)
minx1888
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Only complaint today on the organisation Marc obviously sourced defective T-shirts mine was supposed to be a XL and was very tight on my slim frame.
serious questions have to be asked about these errors I was made to look chunky for no good reason
6/4 well? Grab IT!!
When the fire comes Chuckles will melt down the golden calf & take the scrap to Ramsdens…I now have visions of a laughing clown milking a cow…let them all drown in the gravy train…maybe Chuckles has a gravy diving suit?
St.John.Doyle
Hmmmmm
I must admit I asked for an XL but because I didn’t arrive until 12:30 the XL’s were gone, I then asked the young girl if they had XXL’s to be safe and she said there were only L’s left.
I managed to squeeze into it so I’m very happy. :))) I think rascar capac tips are working well. ;)
It’s all good.
st.john.doyle
21:55 on
22 September, 2012
Agreed about the size of the T-shirt, I also had to upsize.
Much to MissDocs and Bundoran Bhoys amusement.
The Raven
21:07 on 22 September, 2012
You’ve got me intrigued… gies a clue
Magnificent sight getting off the bus today and seeing all the Oscarteers, absolute fantastic effort by everyone.
Bma
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