Celtic struggled for much of the afternoon against Aberdeen but a second half goal from Charlie Mulgrew secured the win. The home team opened well and had a patience about their play which prevented Aberdeen from seeing much of the ball.
Aberdeen had the best chance in the opening stages of the game when Fraser Fyvie crossed from the left but Fraser Forster did very well to intercept an awkward cross under pressure. Celtic soon regained control and profited after 17 minutes when Beram Kayal found Gary Hooper, who squared to Ki in space. The Korean midfielder shot low and hard; Aberdeen keeper David Gonzalez could only slow its progress into the net.
Glenn Loovens, who put in a solid shift in Rennes on Thursday and opened well today, retired injured immediately after the goal, giving Daniel Majstorovic a return to the team.
Aberdeen, who lost by 9 goals in the corresponding fixture last season, slowly played their way back into the game as Celtic perceivably wilted. The early fluency from Celtic was clearly absent as the second half got underway. Anthony Stokes was combative up front but struggled to link with Gary Hooper, who is clearly playing below his best.
Ryan Jack drew Aberdeen level just before the hour mark when he jinked past Joe Ledley and Victor Wanyama, and shot into Forster’s bottom right corner.
Celtic then realised they were in a game and applied themselves with greater effect, forcing Aberdeen to defend four consecutive corners within minutes of drawing level, but without a cutting edge up front, they failed to work Gonzalez.
With 20 minutes remaining Neil Lennon recalled Paddy McCourt from a lengthy period out of the team but before Paddy could work his magic Celtic were ahead. Majstorovic knocked a free kick onto Charlie Mulgrew who took a touch before firing high into the net.
McCourt was an effective relief on an uninspiring game and clipped the ball narrowly wide after one of his trademark runs, proving beyond any doubt that he possesses unique abilities.
With 10 minutes remaining referee, Stevie O’Reilly, who has having a poor game, ordered off Ryan Jack for a second bookable offence. The Aberdeen goal-scorer will miss next weekend’s game against Rangers.
Aberdeen’s 10 men caused Celtic a few anxious moments in the final minute of the game but could not find a way past Forster.
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Vmhan
His mate in Paisley text my family this morning with the sad news, terrible.
He was a great friend of my Uncle whom we buried last month and I had a wee chat with Joe at the funeral, he was in great form as usual.
In total shock. The Celtic family have lost one of the best.
A Mhuire na nGael gui air
Vmhan
What the hell happened?
condolences to all friends and family
Can anyone tell me how Hooper played yesterday as I didnt get to see the game?
Is he still not moving about much and yapping like a big headed Scott McDonald?
I am beginning to think we are better with him not in the team.
RamaCelt
Hooper was playing????
greenjedi –
You not see the game?
Hooper made the first goal.
Tom
and that was it, didn’t make any runs, didn’t go looking for the ball, didn’t have any attempt on goal that I can remember. apart from one pass the only thing of note I remember about him was getting a mouthful of Stokes for not passing the ball.
A shocking performance amongst many poor performances.
@ Tom McLaughlin says:
24 October, 2011 at 10:06
Fair enough Tom but did he do much else?
Give Paddy McCourt a starting role, it will be the lift and kick start we need to win this league.
Just googling some stuff,and put my own name in to see what it came up with.
Apart from a prominent legal firm in NI,not a lot. Well,I do have a fairly uncommon surname.
However,it also comes up on 192.com in first place for that name.
Aged 55-59.
Anyone know any good libel lawyers?
Only asking because my first choice,Carter-Ruck,are a bit busy at the moment.
55-59,cheeky barstewards. That’s more like my IQ. NOT CHUFFED!
Is Hooper on the Chris Commons diet? He seems to be chunkier . He certainly is not fireing on all cylinders.
greenjedi –
I’m not saying Hooper had a great game, but he WAS playing. He made the final pass for Ki’s goal. He also had a couple of attempts at goal himself, one being deflected for a corner. He ran past Jack before being scythed down, resulting in a second yellow for the Dons player. He made lots of passes.
His first touch betrays a lack of confidence though, and his scoring record this season is a worry.
bamboo
is that the same 2 fat “athletes” who went on holiday to Spain instead of putting in fitness work at Lennoxtown?
I reckon the defensive frailties and the goalkeeper problem are one and the same. Neither has confidence in the other and when you can’t depend or rely on one another then hesitation creeps in. Forster does not command his area in any shape or form and for a guy his size that is a joke. we also need to decide on our best back four and stick with them, game in, game out. Continuity is paramount. We have a GK coach, yeah, then teach big Fraser to dominate his area.
With regards our strike force I think Hooperman is not fit and struggling with an injury but is being played regardless. He needs a rest and whatever is happening with Kris Commons needs to be sorted smartish.
We are not good at the moment, something is wrong, needs to be fixed, else we will be looking at them getting 4 in a row.Can’t be allowed to happen.!!
Hail Hail
KINGLuBO
I don’t think Hooper would have started yesterday had Bangura been fit, he took a sore one against Kilmarnock last week, Hoops is a marked man now in the SPHell and our players are not get proper protection from the refs.
That Icelandic guy yesterday had a dozen fouls before he got a yellow, Aberdeen came to kick us of the park and were allowed to do so, cynical fouls to break up Celtic’s flow, they were sent out to do that.
The job got done, three points in the bag, let’s get behind the team and the players for the Hibs game, they’re going to need us as the injuries mount and picking a team becomes harder.
Hail Hail.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS –
Your surname certainly is uncommon. You’re the only Winklepicker I have ever known mate.
:)
TOM McLAUGHLIN 1024
Cyberpint for that one,Tom. Very clever.
Tom
he didn’t have a great game, a good game or even a poor game, he had a shocking game.
He needs to be dropped and if we need to put on of the young bhoys in, so be it. His attitude stinks just now!
Noticed a wee snippet elsewhere that MCR plc, one of Pure Mad Mental Craigo Whyto’s firms, charges its subsidiaries in the order of 2-3% interest per month, calculated daily on the balance outstanding.
This means, in fag packet style, if this formula has been applied to the acquired Rangers debt of £18M, that come the end of the month his RFC Group Ltd company will have likely charged Rangers around £4M in interest, which of course, is compounding daily. By the end of the next transfer window, the interest on the debt will be nearer £6M.
Of course, we haven’t considered re-charged costs from Group to Rangers for the time and effort committed by PMMCW and his spreadable cheesy chum Philadelphia Betts, nor indeed the other Director of Group Ltd, Ellis Ellis, WhoTF is Ellis. I’m figuring £5K per day for each, adding another £1.8M or thereabouts to the sum due.
Doubtless there will be a chunk of transaction costs, arrangement fees and other stuff loaded up onto Rangers plc too. The more, very much the merrier for Pure Mad Mental and his ilk.
Given that this debt is covered by the floating charge assigned from LBG, PMMCW is doubtless polishing his cheeky chops at the prospect of a quick buck or two, realised within a short number of weeks following his appointing a receiver.
His only dilemma is when to hit the button. The longer he leaves it, the more he rakes in, and the less left for everyone else. 12 months at 3% per month on the principal sum would have been worth £8M in interest alone. The whole enterprise only works provided there are no more calls on cash, hence the significance of losing European football this season, which pure bummed out PMMCW so it did.
No cash is the end point of the plan. No point continuing with the HMRC appeal if it means putting money into the business.
KINGLUBO says:
24 October, 2011 at 10:21
Your post is spot on!
Best EPL example: same GK + back 4 starting every game have only conceded a total of 6 goals – who?
Newcastle.
Good Morning to the Celtic family from a dull overcast Central Scotland. It was good to get back to winning ways yesterday and to claim all 3 points it certainly wasnt an easy game and we do appear to lack confidence. I personaly feel it is time that Lennie tried on or two youngsters as several of our first team seem out of sorts Hooper and even though he scored a goal Ki is just going throught the motions.I dont know why there form has dipped but a spell on the bench might just refresh them.H.H.
PRAECEPTA 1034
That is a superb defensive record to have,especially bearing in mind they were unable to hold on to their giant young keeper,and had to make do with his understudy……….
And if they are really stuck for a keeper,they can always stick Stephen Taylor’s arse in there.
Equivalent to parking the bus!
Many happy returns to hoopslegend Jackie Macnamara.
Jackie gets to share his cake [presumably not the slice with the file in it] with cheeky Cockney rough diamonds Ronnie and Reggie Kray, and cheeky Scouse rough diamond Wayne Rooney.
Praecepta @ 10.34
Yeah, it sound good and they know each others stengths and weaknesses. Only prob I see is what back four do we select.? I’d like to see maybe Wilson(Mark) Loovens Mathews and Rogne with but it is pretty close with big Kelvin and aof course Izzy when he’s back. Not easy but the idea is sound methinks.
Hail Hail
KINGLuBO
The other intersting thing about the ole Mags is that when Pardew was appointed the Toon Army were up in arms.
Shows what supporters know about football ;/)
Top of the morning to you all –and good to see the site back up–from a bright and breezy Fife. The Neil Lennon assault trial is still causing waves it seems. And so it should!
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/top-qc-calls-for-jury-reform-1.1130814
Top QC Paul McBride QC wants jury reform.
CAROLINE WILSON
24 Oct 2011
JURORS should be made to sit tests before being selected for trials in order to improve the judicial system and bring Scotland into line with other countries, according to a leading QC.
Paul McBride said potential jurors should be interviewed to establish they can “read, write and speak English” and are not “riven with prejudice”.
The only requirement to serve on a jury in Scotland is that a person should be over the age of 18, be registered to vote and have lived in the UK for five years.
Mr McBride believes potential jurors should be forced to disclose their occupation and whether they have been a victim of crime. He said Scotland’s jury system, in which 15 people can reach a decision on a majority of 8-7, made reform even more important.
His intervention follows a jury’s not proven verdict in the case of Hearts fan John Wilson, who was cleared of assaulting Celtic manager Neil Lennon during a match earlier this year. Wilson was accused of a sectarian attack on Lennon, but he was acquitted.
The verdict came despite Wilson admitting in court he had lunged at the Celtic manager and struck him.
Mr McBride said: “The question is, ‘can we improve our jury system?’ and the answer is undoubtedly yes.
“This is an area that lawyers have been discussing for some time. Judges and lawyers undergo a high standard of training. The only area where there is no scrutiny at all on the people who actually make the decision, which is baffling.
“You don’t have to be able to read or write or speak English.
“We have got 15 people deciding whether a person is guilty and we know nothing about them.
“In Scotland, unlike any other country on the planet, a person can be convicted by one vote. Following the Lennon verdict a lot of people, and newspapers were asking about the selection process for juries.
“In every other country there is some kind of jury selection process to determine whether they have got the basic skills and whether they have committed a crime. A lot of trials are conducted by police statements. If a member of the jury can’t read or speak English that’s a bit of a disadvantage.”
During the Tommy Sheridan perjury trial a female juror was threatened with legal action after revealing confidential details of the case on Facebook.
The woman posted information about how jurors voted. It is a criminal offence to reveal a jury’s deliberations.
Mr McBride said: “In America they follow the voir dire system where jurors can be questioned by a judge to determine if they might struggle to be impartial.They might not tell the truth but we should ask the question.
“It is supposed to be a jury of peers but you tend to find that most are unemployed or retired because employed people often get out of jury duty. It is not a jury of peers.
“We were told after the Lennon case, that you must respect the jury’s verdict. Why do we have to respect the verdict by the jury? If a judge makes a controversial decision he is open to criticism on the front pages of a newspaper.”
Mr McBride said both Scottish Labour and the Conservatives had voiced their support for a shake-up of the justice system.
Earlier this year, Elish Angiolini, the former Lord Advocate, called for opening and closing speeches to be introduced to help guide jurors through cases.
She raised concerns over the ability of people who were more used to communication through Facebook to sit through hours of detailed evidence.
Why haven’t I got a wee bluebird next to my bhlog name?
Gang related?
With thanks to easyjambo on RTC, the following has the odd nugget on the Odd Nugget:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/70018617/Merchant-Corporate-Recovery-2010
I agree that now is the time for Paddy to get a run in the team. He is the only one who has that “spark” at the moment.
But you can tell he is getting more pissed off by the day as he only gets the occasional 15mins on the pitch.
Another miserable player . But he is probably the most talented.
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@ Estadio Nacional says:
24 October, 2011 at 10:15
Been saying this for a long time now. It is a sin to have a player of this quality sitting on the bench rotting away. The man is deadly when he gets on the ball. Ok he has lost the ball a few times, he doesnt track back enough blah blah blah! So! Leave him up the pitch where he can do real damage to teams. He can beat men with ease and is a great passer. I never see Lionel Messi defending in his own box! No way am I comparing the 2 but you should know what I mean. How come many other players get lots of chances whereas Paddy doesnt!?
I may well be havering here but I was just thinking over some of the stuff from the weekend. Am I right in thinking that Brown lied on Sportscene last night about Charlie’s booking and wasn’t corrected by MacLean, so that the lie passed as fact? (I can’t stand BBC’s coverage of us, so I seldom watch the programme.) Am I also right in thinking that Hateley, on EPSN, an Ibrox employee, claimed that they and their Edinburgh cousins like to sing the same songs (which we all know are illegal) and only produced a laugh in confirmation from Jeffries? Does this not confirm that we operate to another standard of reporting entirely from the likes of Nevin? People can lie about us and not even be challenged. People on live TV can glory in their sectarian bilge and elicit only a laugh in support. Only in Scotland. We can be kicked off the park and the manager of the team who did it is allowed to make the flimsiest of excuses for having a player sent off. Makes me sick. This is what our manager and team have to contend with on a daily basis and he (and any of the playing staff who show a modicum of ability) is targeted by the likes of MacLeod to undermine them. Let’s get out of Scotland as soon as possible.
Well blow me over with a feather!
The ‘most comprehensive statistics so far’ have revealed that the majority of the London rioters didn’t come from Richmond, Holland Park, Kensington, etc.. They come from poorer sections of society….
Never…..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15426720
RamaCelt says:
24 October, 2011 at 10:00
Can anyone tell me how Hooper played yesterday as I didnt get to see the game?
Is he still not moving about much and yapping like a big headed Scott McDonald?
I am beginning to think we are better with him not in the team.
He had a very poor game is the honest opinion
Hooper was involved in the build up to the first goal with others, Stokes IMO made the most valuable contribution in the build up to the first goal as he dragged Aberdeens defenders out of position, which gave space for Kayal and Hooper both made small 5 yard passes before Ki shot made its way into the sheepies net.
Hooper is certainly not putting in the effort or showing the desire that he displayed last season, the video clearly shows the difference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0D80EyyhRQ
Wordmeister Mark Hateley is now on the telly as well?
He’s become the thinking man’s Steven Fry.
..but if we did ‘get out of Scotland’ where would we go, and where would we start?
We would struggle to make an impact in the Championship [ole Div 2 in real money].
Looking back to pre blog days..I can never recall any period when Celtic fans spoke in such vehement terms about our players
It makes me wonder if Fholks just let rip with their most primeval thoughts and feelings on blogs because there is anonymity…not having to face the reactions of a fellow human being in close proximity?
Where I come from you get away with the odd rant about the odd player who peed you off…there have been a few over the years who I have had something to say about, tam mcadam was a guy I had no time for.
My point?
I could only say so much…would only…because others disagreed (top score v currants etc..)
There was always the risk of a bat on the mooth!
To temper too much of the lippy stuff
What I learned..maybe only say what people feel is fair or reasonable when chatting with fellow celts..and keep the dark nasty stuff to myself
Should those same principles apply on a blog?
Is there an online equivalent to a bat on the mooth?
HH
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Dolph says:
24 October, 2011 at 08:16
Tom McLaughlin says:
24 October, 2011 at 08:06
Tom, No problem, understand your question.
There are Celtic men like Jean-Luc around the world who have taken it upon themselves to establish a Celtic support and spread our message.
What CFC can do to help :
– some more formal recognition, more features in the Celtic View or on Celtic TV
– some financial help – eg if they buy 4 full kits a year, some extra stuff chucked in free
– better communication – Celtic need to be in contact with the Supports Clubs and understand their needs
I just felt, after speaking with the Marseille Bhoys, that they believe they are becoming more distant from Celtic Football Club.
Got the same feeling from Paris where the support is drying up
Based on this, I decided to use this forum (where I have a contibutor for a long time) to highlight this
Hail Hail
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The Membership scheme under development recognised the important role the support overseas can play and it will ,when introduced, provide the opportunity to address the issues you highlighted.
bamboo 10.45 I think there are a lot of unhappy players at Parkhead at the moment I dont know if its a money thing ie different wage levels for different players.Or it could also be Lennies style of management most players dont like being publicly chastised so Paddy is not alone on being pissed off.I find it amazing that if we go back to the last game at Parkhead last season where there was amazing unity between the fans and the players that only a few months later that has evaperated.H.H.