It was the Gary Hooper show as a five goal performance by Scottish football’s top scorer this season lit up a wet and windy Celtic Park on trophy day. Two poachers’ goals inside the opening 8 minutes had the capacity crowd celebrating. The opener came after Hearts’ keeper Jamie MacDonald saved a Kris Commons shot but Hooper was on hand to knock home the rebound.
The crowd had only just settled from that goal when Georgios Samaras broke down the left channel and squared a pass for Hooper to knock into the empty net.
Celtic were awarded a penalty six minutes before the break when Joe Ledley had his ankle clipped inside the box. Gary Hooper, not a prodigious scorer from the spot, smashed the ball straight down the middle and into the net.
David Templeton was unable to hit the target midway through the second half with what turned out to be Hearts only attempt at goal all game.
Hearts conceded cheaply on 66 minutes when Kris Commons found the unmarked Hooper inside the box who gratefully converted for his fourth.
By now it was all about whether we would see Hooper score a fifth, a feat most of us had never witnessed by a Celtic player before. He duly obliged two minutes from time when he rounded the exposed MacDonald and slotted the ball home before the late-arriving surge of Hearts defenders.
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SOAL – ha! Don’t tell me he got a medal?! He couldn’t have played more than half a game!
T4
weeminger
haha i thought he was hilarious to watch, think it was fergie who claimed the man was ‘born offside’
Fair dos though he achieved a lot for having limited ability
B-)
Right…..Good Night………
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
I hate to bring everybody back down to earth today, but Lee McCulloch said on the radio that Rangers were the best team IN THE WORLD. Well thats put us in our place then. Stupid stupid hun
Exiled.
Provo….dear doctor,you can get away with that in Spain but in Ayrshire when I wear
any of the 40 shades of green I get a “look”. The mrs wants another dog so the
soloution might be that she gets the the dog & I pick the name.
Provo here bhoy.
Just getting a chance now to watch the game after a long nightshift. Ignoring the celebrations surrounding this game so far after 20 mins I’ve seen two clear as day poor offside decisions, the ref allowing a retake of a throw in and a hearts player avoid a clear 2nd yellow i suspect because it’s so early in the game, which is no excuse. Very poor officiating should be brought to attention and not ignored just because it’s the end of the season
Think the goals are coming up on BBC News 24
Joe Filippis Haircut on 13 May, 2012 at 17:36 said:
Hoops. Like you I had never heard of dreambox but googled it to see what it was.Now as an old bloke I couldnt understand a thing. H.H.
If you do invest and get one, i will send you the details on how to rig it up, it’s simple enough if you have a broadband connection and a pc/laptop.
Paul will give you my mail addy.
Just in from a first holy communion , don’t tell me the score . Had hoops for first and 5-0
David Prowse.Thanks fella I appreciate your offer.H.H.
Todays City win is good for my bank balance.Good for faithful City fans.
Bad for football.
Over to you Mr Platini ?
Off out to have a few.
Enjoy our success and the huns demise.
The major downside for us is that drama like that in the EPL being transmitted live around the world will keep the overseas TV rights sky high for many seasons to come.
Come on Platini….let’s be ‘avin’ ye!
T4
Joe Filippis Haircut on 13 May, 2012 at 17:48 said:
Not a bother :)
Whats the score with this dreambox thingy- you plug it into your interweb and pay Sky £20 a month and you get all the channels?- even ESPN?
Gary Neville has just said that today just show’s that hands down the EPL is the best league in the world for talent and excitement! Now then Gary today was amazing i’ll give you; but best league in the world my arse!!! the team relegated in la liga would give most of the bottom half of the EPL a roasting
McTall – aye, United didn’t really try home & away against Athletic Bilbao. They were more concerned about the EPL….!
T4
Good afternoon from a sunny Manchester. Those are blue skies.
Well done to the champion display at Paradise today.
Great drama today and I was only listening on the radio.
Anyway should be a good night at work tonight.
Glad to be a Tim. Cannot imagine what it must feel like to have waited 44 years.
Turkiye is “Green and White”
CHAMPIONS !!!!!!!
http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/harryharry1888/dancing.gif
Think assistant referee on main stand side was a certain Mr Murphy, Walter told me :)
What’s the score with the medals, I thought the players had to play in at least 25% of the games, quite a few of the players getting a medal today didn’t.
Young Ibrahim was fair enjoying himself was he not….
Whats not to like -)
http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/harryharry1888/HOOPER.jpg
henryclarkson
Brillliant!! was lovin that earlier
StMiley* @StMiley
Rumour – Murray in court injunction to have Mark Daly prog stopped. Evidence he hired private dick to hack Fergus phone to gazump bids.
Just watched the Man City fans leaving the stadium. Every one of them looked like they had just woke up with a hangover and had been sent to the shops to get milk or something. You have just one the league do you not know how to celebrate.
Obviously not. Seriously. I was happy for them and have no interest in any English team really but what a glum bunch.
Stairheedrammy on 13 May, 2012 at 17:55 said:
Sky don’t get a penny. You rig up the Dreambox like you would a sky box. You go to a card sharing site that you pay £20 for the full Sky package and Espn. You will then be sent a file to your email address with the unlock code. You then twin your Laptop / pc to the Dreabox via an ethernet cable and copy/paste the file into the relevant area on the dreambox. All channels on the Sky Premium package (€70 + in Ireland) will be unscrambled.
stairheedrammy 17.55
the dreambox is a satellite (or cable) receiver just like your sky box at home with a user interface a bit like a pc so to speak
you wire it to your satellite dish, and connect it to your router
sky sports and espn use nagra 3(i think) software keys to scramble their channels, these keys are constantly being changed , thats why you need a card from sky
but you can pay a provider to send you these files over your internet connection, you make a minor change to the software in your dreambox and hey presto, you are wired up for sky sports/espn and other scrambled channels
hope that makes some sense
HH
Evening ladles and jellyspoons,
Great day to be a Celtic fan. Terrific performance today, Neil has create a very good team, capable of being great in years to come.
I’m way behind on this and sure it must have been discussed on CQN already, but there are huge rumours that Mark Daly’s documentary on May 23rd will allege Murray tapped wee Fergus’ phone. Dynamite if true.
TJ
Very surprised how Jaroslaw Fojut went.
Polish media say what was published on your websites. No more news. Player said nothing until now.
Tapping Fergus’ phone to stop bids for Celtic?
That would be the lowest of the low.
Dignity indeed.
all the goals for the guys overseas:
http://youtu.be/pTXvS3Ge4qg
http://youtu.be/6tdHV7_6dVg
http://youtu.be/TN0gAkfVtzE
http://youtu.be/4DISmeeiqeo
http://youtu.be/Q9iA9WxctEs
Meanwhile, outside the big hoose…
http://twitter.com/#!/MattMcGlone9/status/201693075779760128/photo/1
Tee hee
Celtic fans celebrating outside the big hoose.
haha! O.G.R – snap!
Oh so it is supposed to be he tapped the phone to gazump bids for players.
Hell of a story if it is true.
Watergate stuff
We will see if minty still commands the power he once held.
If he gets his injunction……….
where is everyone.
seen as i can’t moan about the football what about the music.
i don’t think that was the real drifters
estor
Mr Thomas Murphy in fact. The same spud that didnt flag the Accies goal offside a few years back. Same name as my grandad but please dont blow that abt!!
Alistair Lamont’s report on BBC Scotland ends with the line ‘one way or another, Rangers have found a buyer’.
One way or another Alistair, Rangers have found someone with a bid acceptable to the administrators, and if the creditors do not accept the CVA on June 10, one way or another, Green would not be the buyer.
Tell the truth BBC, not what you would like to see happen. Liar too much?