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Celtic 3-0 Rangers*

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Celtic outclassed what could simultaneously be both the worst Rangers** team in past 20 years and the best in the next 20 years.

**If they survive.

Goals win games but on so many occasions in the 124 year history of these games brave tackles are equally important and it was an exceptional tackle from Adam Matthews which set this contest alight.  Lee Wallace was in possession when Matthews hooked the ball away from him before whipping in a cross which Goian knocked off the toes of Hooper and behind for a corner.

Kris Commons was to have an enormous influence on the game starting with the resultant 17th minute corner.  Rangers marked man-to-man but as the Celtic players inside the box moved towards the front post a huge zone was left unmarked at the back post.  The ball was inside the box before Charlie Mulgrew but the Celtic defender was flying and dived full-length to head downwards.  The bounce left Allan McGregor no chance.

Celtic’s stranglehold on the game was a result of their domination of the key midfield area.  Rangers played with Little and Aluko either side of McCulloch up front but Celtic matched up with a risky three in central defence, Loovens, Mulgrew and Wanyama.  Such was the gulf in class between Rangers forward players and Celtic’s defenders that the profit Celtic gained in midfield didn’t have a corresponding debit in defence.

Kris Commons scored his first goal of the season on 31 minutes.  Gary Hooper collected on the by-line before playing a square pass into space 25 yards from goal.  Commons was first to the ball but feigned forward before pulling back and allowing the ball to pass across his body.  This fooled Kyle Bartley into lunging for a tackle in a space Commons never ventured into.  The deliciously intelligent move unlocked Rangers defences; Commons was clean through with only the keeper to beat, and boy did he beat him.

With McGregor advancing as though the tax man was chasing him, Commons was the personification of cool, carried the ball until 13 yards out and chipped the goalkeeper.

Although Charlie Mulgrew’s crossing was missed, the addition of Emilio Izaguirre, Commons and Adam Matthews into midfield ensured Celtic were always comfortable and threatening in possession.  This allowed Scott Brown and Joe Ledley to dominate the central midfield area.  Brown played his best game of the season, putting his body between ball and opponent innumerable times, no matter the odds.

By half time, the only question was, how many?

The record books will show a Kris Commons tackle won the ball off Ross McCabe on 54 minutes before Giorgios Samaras passed to Gary Hooper.  Hooper’s shot from the 18 yard line rifled into the top corner to complete the scoring.

I said the record books would show this is how the goal happened but another version of events will say that coordinated singing from Celtic fans spooked an inhibited looking Rangers team.

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  1. Kilbowie Kelt on

    How good was that ?

     

    How good do I feel after what could prove to be the last ever Glasgow Derby ?

     

    I will slightly misquote Walter Scott.

     

     

    ‘ Breathes there a man with soul so dead,

     

    That never to himself has said,

     

    This is MY OWN,…MY Glasgow Celtic.’

     

     

    Having said that, my sympathy tonight goes to Craig Thomson & his family in this time of their greatest loss.

  2. Che on

    ‘its queens park in july……..its queens park in july…you know it is were it is. Its queens park in july’

  4. johann murdoch on

    Just back….

     

     

    We outplayed them

     

     

    We out sang them

     

     

    We are the champions!

     

     

    Hh

     

     

    Well done the green brigade a simply stunning display

  7. Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon on

    One of two scenarios will play out next:

     

     

    The Blue Knights will come up with a big bundle of cash and outbid Bill Miller. Craigy-bhoy will see the error of his ways and pass his shares on to Ticketus in lieu of what they owe him. The Blue Knights will do a deal with Ticketus to pay some cash in the short term and the rest over time. The Big Tax Case bill will be much less than anyone predicted. The CVA will be agreed. The Blue Knights will take over to a tremendous fanfare. A share issue will raise enough money for a summer war chest.

     

     

    – or –

     

     

    The Big Tax Case will deliver a £70M bill. The Blue Knights will argue amongst themselves. Bill Miller will run like hell. D&P will issue a deadline. The Blue Knights will miss it and then Paul Miller will deliver a very final bid just after it. D&P will declare it incapable of acceptance. Liquidation will follow. Ticketus will sue Craig Whyte. Lots of other people will sue each other. A lot of lawyers will make a lot of money. Rangers will disappear and the assets won’t be sold until all of the court cases and appeals are played out. Dundee will be promoted to the SPL, someone will be promoted to divisions 1 and 2 and a non league club will join the third division for next season.

     

     

    Which is your money on??

  9. quonno on

    celt55 on 29 April, 2012 at 18:08 said:

     

     

    Lennox was extremely unselfish on that occasion.

  10. Kilbowie Kelt on

    the long wait is over on 29 April, 2012 at 18:06 said:

     

     

    TimJim on 29 April, 2012 at 17:16 said:

     

    Of subject and I underastand if I do not get a response.Anyone of you aulder cqners tell me who the short arse actor was in the early fifties who was the star of many cowboy and war films

     

    _______________________

     

    Audie Murphy. ?

  11. midfield maestro on

    At dinner table, telling Mrs MM & 2 mini MM’s about the Green Brigade in 2nd half, all bare chested & waving their t shirts in the air. Mini MM asks, ‘dad why did you not start it at your end’. Brilliant. Have you seen my torso? No thanks.

  13. bonbhoy on

    timbhoy in spain on 29 April, 2012 at 18:05

     

     

    Thanks for that.

     

    Ron deserves a lot of praise for all his charity work and getting up in the wee small hours to study the horses for us.

     

    I hope that he does get a Cheltenham horse for us for next year, I prefer the jumps.

     

    Do you use the 500Club forum. I’ve just registered with it under.

  14. the long wait is over on

    Just reread my post on the last page

     

     

    Got Henrik’s name wrong and the score wrong “5-2”. Ffs.

     

     

     

    Am I a Hun?

  16. quonno on

    As a Celtic fan described in a phone in a few weeks ago.

     

    For us, this is mega pay back time.

     

    And today we should extract every thin dime.

  18. glasgowbhoy on

    Congratulations bhoys and ghirls. This is a day I will never forget assuming I can remember it tomorrow! One love!

  20. Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000 on

    Alan Ladd was the shortest– had to stand on a Box to kiss some leading ladies apparently– and of course starred in Shane!

  23. quonno on

    Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000 on 29 April, 2012 at 18:20 said:

     

     

    Understandable if one of them was Ugly Betty.

  24. Celtic Mac on

    Paul67 et al

     

     

    Audie Murphy, that guy has got nearly as many medals as er Ali McCoist, which tells you a thing or two.

     

     

    I would like to thank Rangers FC, first for offering to play us in our first ever match, and getting beat by three goals, and secondly for playing us in their very last game, and, well you know the rest..

     

     

    Fantastic show by all representing Celtic Football Club today, Champions one and all. Deserved mentions for the goalscorers, Hoops, Krissy and Charlie Bhoy. A special salute to the Celtic Man from Lurgan. Player, Captain, and Manager, Neil Francis Lennon!

  25. Green Lantern (((((0))))) on

    Bonbhoy. Have you been a member of this racing club for long?

     

    If so, what sort of strike rate and average SP are we talking about?

  26. Stairheedrammy on

    The most comfortable I have ever felt at one of these derbies. The GB display was phenomenal (I only saw it on here as I’m in section 111 and only see the back of them) and we ripped the angry mob apart on the pitch. MoM is difficult as we had a few excellent performers today- though Broonie tackled everything

     

    HH

  27. Jobo Baldie on

    midfield maeatro –

     

     

    hope you were suitably attired for the EK weather yesterday for your trip to the Museum of Country Life!

  29. hotshot on

    Philbhoy,

     

     

    Audie Murphy was indeed their most decorated soldier.

     

    Good biography of him by Charles Whiting.

     

    Seems he suffered from PTSD for many years, often slept with a gun under his pillow.

     

    However condition was never recognised until many years later, he could never reach that high or adrenalin rush in civilian life that he experienced in combat.

  31. ASonOfDan on

    By Ewing Grahame

     

    Rangers’ liquidation

     

    could herald a welcome

     

    new start to Old Firm

     

    rivalry

     

     

    With no deal in place to buy the 83.5 per

     

    cent shareholding of discredited owner

     

    Craig Whyte and the verdict from the Top

     

    Tier tax tribunal imminent, the current

     

    incarnation of Rangers increasingly looks as

     

    though it is going through its death throes.

     

    However, anyone expecting sympathy from

     

    the home support for that predicament at

     

    this, the 399th (and possibly the last) Old

     

    Firm encounter, would have been

     

    disappointed long before the kick-off on

     

    Sunday.

     

    Banners displayed reading “Racism,

     

    fascism, sectarianism, no place in Scottish

     

    football – let the bigots die” and “Craig

     

    Whyte Celtic legend” plus the four horsemen

     

    of the apocalypse with the heads of Whyte,

     

    Neil Lennon and Hector the taxman

     

    superimposed alongside the legend: “Your

     

    day is coming.”

     

    Others displayed gravestones with the

     

    inscriptions “Rangers RIP” and “Rot in hell.”

     

    Welcome to Glasgow.

     

    The baiting was racked up a notch when

     

    Charlie Mulgrew was given the freedom of

     

    Rangers’ penalty area to run in and head

     

    Kris Commons’ corner behind Allan

     

    McGregor, sparking chants of: “We’re having

     

    a party when Rangers die.”

     

    Even so, it wasn’t until Gary Hooper played

     

    in Kris Commons for a splendid goal –

     

    incredibly, his first of a disappointing

     

    campaign – that the green party truly got

     

    under way.

     

    The enmity between the two sets of fans

     

    was all too clear, with the Celtic contingent

     

    celebrating their rivals’ potential liquidation

     

    while the visiting band resurrected Derry’s

     

    Walls .

     

    It wasn’t always like this. Celtic’s very first

     

    match was a Glasgow derby against

     

    Sunday’s opponents on May 28, 1888.

     

    Celtic won that friendly 5-2 in front of a

     

    crowd of 2,000, who paid six old pence

     

    apiece to watch the proceedings. The first

     

    competitive meeting came in the league at

     

    Parkhead on March 21, 1891, when the

     

    teams fought out a 2-2 draw.

     

    Back then the support had yet to be split

     

    along religious divides: that would emerge

     

    early in the 20th century.

     

    Perhaps, if the worst comes to the worst

     

    and Rangers are forced to emerge as a

     

    newco, this fixture can eventually return to

     

    its roots without the toxicity which currently

     

    surrounds it.

     

    Should that prove to be the case, it would

     

    be the one positive to be drawn from this

     

    sorry situation.

  32. patmcgrathtakesapenalty on

    All very, very satisfying.

     

     

    A loss today would have had some of us wondering just how good the side was and would have given them reason amid the gloom to see some light.

  34. the long wait is over on

    Stair heed

     

     

    Broony was phenomenal today I thought.

     

     

    Have you seen the replay of Commons goal and Broony grinning at the rangers fans after he falls off the heap of players?

     

     

    A great wee moment to match Charlie pi**ing himself laughing at Broadfoot in the NYD game.

     

     

    Hh

  35. sparkleghirl on

    Snigger. Just saw lap of honour. Tannoy blasting ‘Don’t look back in anger’

     

     

    …….Soooo, Sally can wait…..

  36. Philbhoy - It's just the beginning! on

    Hotshot

     

     

    Sounds like an interesting read.

     

     

    Thanks.

  37. Stairheedrammy on

    Long wait

     

     

    I just saw the Broonie clip there on SSN- he really shows them he’s enjoying it

     

     

    HH

  38. midfield maestro on

    Jobo

     

    Yes, a very enjoyable afternoon indeed, a bit cold up top of hill, nice wee cafe, if a tad pricey.

  41. Jobo Baldie on

    sparkleghirl –

     

     

    the choice of music after tyhe final whistle was in keeping with the afternoon –

     

    1. We’re Having A Party

     

    2. Don’t Look Back In Anger

     

    and then, best of all, The Three Degrees with

     

    3. When Will I See You Again…

     

     

    All that was missing was from The Beatles’ Revolver album , Side 1, Track 1…..

  42. sparkleghirl on

    Jobo — :) :) I still had the stream on when Having a party came on, but missed the others. Oh what joy!

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