It was neither glorious nor convincing, but Celtic’s poor record at Easter Road was improved by Martin O’Neill’s sixth win in seven games since returning as interim manager in October. Hibernian bossed the early exchanges, with Celtic careless in possession, but outcomes are often determined by who makes the fewest mistakes. On that metric, the champions prevailed comfortably.
For the second time in three days Celtic profited from a poor pass from the opposing goalkeeper. You and I have watched Scottish football long enough to respect any side try to play out from the back, but Hibs’ Catcher in the Net, Raphael Sallinger, erred when trying to pick out a pass with Reo Hatate ready to pounce. The reborn-midfielder had the freedom of the penalty area before passing to Daizen Maeda, who rolled the ball into the empty net.
33 seconds after play restarted, Yang did what Yang does – found space on the left and delivered an inch-perfect cross for Arne Engels to power a header Sallinger got a hand to but could not catch. Hibs were bust and Celtic moved into what looked very like Game Management mode. Martin O’Neill must wonder why Yang and Engels were unable to command a starting slot earlier in the season.
A penalty early in the second half got the home side within touching distance of Celtic but despite forcing Kasper Schmeichel into action on a couple of occasions, they never looked likely to draw level.
The penalty did not affect the outcome of the game, but I have questions. The ball first struck Liam Scales on the shoulder before his hand made contact. When is a ricochet from close range that deflects onto a hand or arm not considered an offence?
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Who would win in a fight between yada yada yada and blah blah blah
TML,
Thank”s for the correction”s.Jesus sent his 12 Apostrophes out into the world,and some,of the wee bugger”s as you can see,keep interfering with my Tablet.
Still,who care”s.
Bsr
Yeah that’s about it. Ange sensibly quit while he was ahead. Domestic dominance, but improvement needed for European progress. Instead the team got weakened. As ever…..
Auldheid,
Your contribution earlier should be read and reread by anyone and everyone who says he/she supports Celtic and has no respect for alternative opinions. Like at the AGM, where I wondered how many actually caused the disruption, to this walk on Sunday by the Collective, what percentage of the support do they represent?
So Birmingham get awarded a corner because the Watford keeper held the ball for more than 8 seconds…..is it the same rule in Bonnie scoddland?….
In the SPFL, if a goalkeeper holds the ball for longer than eight seconds, a corner kick will be awarded to the opposing team. This rule is part of a recent change aimed at reducing time-wasting in football.
Every day’s a school day….
I had a wee search to see what Birmingham were building for their new stadium and found this article.
Not sure about the brick chimney stack design but the inside looks tremendous (2ND image in the article). Amazing what you can do with 1.5 BILLION.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6823751/2025/11/21/birmingham-city-new-stadium-plans/
Melissa Ciummei
@KSCUBKEE
“This one doesn’t look like Ai. This is not what the people want. I can say on my own behalf I’ve done everything to communicate with members of the council regarding issues of concern and have been stonewalled by those claiming to represent me. I’m lucky enough not to have a child in school.”
https://x.com/KSCUBKEE/status/1995587183994974707#m
A “New Republican Movement” is the response to non stop ignorance from scumbag types of political people.
If these Irish politicians thought that they could just laugh in the face of Irish people before throwing them over a cliff, there will always be someone who refuses to bow to such scumbaggery.
And here we are.
What a time to be alive
HH
oot.
KevJungle on 1st December 2025 7:46 pm
Auldheid on 1st December 2025 7:07 pm
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Yadda, yadda, yadda.
Parkheadcumsalford on 1st December 2025 8:14 pm
Auldheid,
Your contribution earlier should be read and reread by anyone and everyone who says he/she supports Celtic and has no respect for alternative opinions. Like at the AGM, where I wondered how many actually caused the disruption, to this walk on Sunday by the Collective, what percentage of the support do they represent?
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Not near enough to state what Celtic’s core values are to justify their behaviour.
Hence The Membership Service idea that gives all supporters an opportunity to reflect their values into any debate.
Kev Jungle
I’ll keep it short. Christ values are timeless.
bournesouprecipe on 1st December 2025 7:48 pm
Who would win in a fight between yada yada yada and blah blah blah.
Me of course. I have Highers in both.
Kev Jungle
Have a read at this article I linked to earlier.
There is ammunition for you £49 point in it.
https://thecelticunderground.substack.com/p/arguing-with-myself?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&utm_content=post.
In short are the support prepared to pay one of the prices to emulate Bruges or Ajax.
Its a reason I didn’t go there.
AULDHEID on 1ST DECEMBER 2025 9:16 PM
bournesouprecipe on 1st December 2025 7:48 pm
Who would win in a fight between yada yada yada and blah blah blah.
Me of course. I have Highers in both.
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I know you have, good St Mungo’s boy 👍
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vmn61l75ro
Donald Trump routinely commutes the sentences of incredibly wealthy men convicted of financial crimes.
It’s a real mystery.
Try as I might …. I just can’t think of a motive
Tim Malone Will Tell on 1st December 2025 12:43 pm
Celtic Collective – The Papes of Wrath
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Very cute Tim Malone 👍
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The Collective’s statement contents aside, I’m trying to figure out the semiology of ‘ye olde wurrild” fonts and parchment presentation. Is it to hark back to historical values? Align the Collective with ye anciente soul of Celtic? It does not really communicate forward-thinking and progressive practice does it? Or is it all a bit of founding-faither cosplay; designed after consuming a few too many SteinBecks ?
EastEndofEden CSC
Turkeybhoy on 1st December 2025 8:04 pm
TML,
Thank”s for the correction”s. Jesus sent his 12 Apostrophes out into the world,
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The problem is that references to what the 12 Apostrophes speak of put some folk into a coma.
From jobo
*SENTINEL CELTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2025-26*
*RESULTS FROM GAME #23 HIBS 1 CELTIC 2 (MAEDA, ENGELS)*
Good evening, friends.
After our excellent away win in Rotterdam it was anticipated that there may be a handful of changes to the starting line up for our visit to Easter Road. However there was only one change made, Saracchi coming in at left back for Tierney.
Martin decided to stick with McCowan wide right but, personally, I hope that is now the last time that we see that, as it only provided evidence as to how (relatively) slow Luke is, offering little or no protection to Donovan on the right hand side. Highlighted when Colby was forced into a bookable challenge on 15 minutes as the only option to stop a promising Hibs attack.
This had followed from a goal from Celtic that was correctly disallowed for offside. The offside came about, not because of the forwards going too early, but from McCowan’s through ball coming too late.
But in the 26 minute, and perhaps against the run of chances, if not play, Celtic scored the opener. Playing out from the back, the Hibs defender slipped gifting Hatate the ball which he quickly played into the path of fellow countryman Maeda to knock home from 8 yards.
We had hardly stopped celebrating that one when we scored our second. Saracchi advanced well down the left and fed Yang whose quality cross was met well by the head of Engels despite getting a boot in the face for his troubles. Had the ball not ended up in the net would we have seen a penalty plus a red card? No, me neither…
Celtic continued to create chances and the move of the match in the 42nd minute ended up at the feet of Saracchi whose effort unluckily just clipped the post.
Being 0-2 down at the break, at home, I did expect more from Hibs in the second half but fortunately they didn’t really up their game, being pretty lazy and playing with no real urgency. The officials seemed to notice that too and decided to take matters into their own hands in the 56th minute by awarding Hibs a penalty for a ball that seemed to come off Liam Scales’ shoulder. Schmeichel decided not to dive either left or right and Hibs were back in the game, well on paper at least. But just like last Thursday when we had a one goal lead, Martin’s Celtic decided to play keep ball for long spells refusing to give Hibs many more sniffs at goal. A pretty scrappy final half hour ultimately led to Celtic becoming the only top 6 side to actually win a game this weekend. Celtic now trail Hearts by 2 points with a game in hand.
We have now played 23 games, and have won 13, drawn 6 and lost 4. We have scored 41 goals and conceded 19.
As for the voting numbers, my huge sincere thanks to the 102 who voted, meaning that another £3.40 goes into the CHAS cashpot.
The total votes cast for each player are as follows, with my own nominations asterisked.
Schmeichel: 55
Donovan: 0
Trusty: 26
Scales*: 36
Saracchi: 16
McGregor: 6
Engels*: 70
Hatate: 33
McCowan: 0
Maeda: 39
Yang*: 25
Ralston: 0
Nygren: 0
Tierney: 0
Bernardo: 0
Tounekti: 0
Unused substitutes: Balikwisha, Kenny, Murray, Sinisalo,
And so, the POINTS earned by each player for this match are as follows –
25 points: Engels
22 points: Schmeichel
19 points: Maeda
16 points: Scales
14 points: Hatate
12 points: Trusty
11 points: Yang
10 points: Saracchi
9 points: McGregor
5 points: Bernardo, Donovan, McCowan, Nygren, Ralston, Tierney, Tounekti
1 point Balikwisha, Kenny, Murray, Sinisalo,
And the cumulative points achieved after 23 games played are now –
385: Scales
309: McGregor
244: Tierney
241: Engels
232: Tounekti
225: Hatate
218: Nygren
195: Maeda
193: Schmeichel
182: Forrest
158: Carter-Vickers
155: Donovan
153: Trusty
151: McCowan
148: Saracchi
140: Iheanacho
124: Yang
119: Ralston
115: Kenny
79: Murray
67: Bernardo
61: Balikwisha
60: Johnston
49: Yamada
40: Osmand
37: Sinisalo
22: Inamura
19: Idah
10: Simpson-Pusey
4: Doohan
1: Hale and Isiguso
0: All the other players who’ve not yet made a matchday squad!
We continue our premier league campaign on Wednesday evening with a home game against Dundee, kick off 7.45pm. Yet again, we are all expecting this to be Martin’s last game in charge but we’ll see…
Hail Hail!
407%
There’s something profoundly disingenuous about sermonizing on a sports blog.
After a lifetime of… let’s call it complex navigation, this feels less like a road-to-Damascus conversion and more like the strategic filing of motions – – reputational motions.
Interesting result tonight.Bologna beat 3-1 at home,by Cremonese.Jamie Vardy scoring a double.Not unbeatable then.A point against Roma would be nice.Not mentioning a win.
SONSOFERIN on 1ST DECEMBER 2025 2:15 PM
100% Spot on
Been saying the same thing for months
M17
Maolmuire O Muirgheasa on 1st December 2025 10:53 pm
There’s something profoundly disingenuous about sermonizing on a sports blog.
After a lifetime of… let’s call it complex navigation, this feels less like a road-to-Damascus conversion and more like the strategic filing of motions – – reputational motions.
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There is no sermonizing, only challenging a narrative I disagree with.
Who started sermonizing with their definition of Celtic’s values and reason for being?
Sauce for the goose.
Its not the aim of The Collective in terms of giving supporters a voice I have a problem with, it is the method being deployed to achieve that aim I think will not work.
I said I might be alone, but I hope not.
poor read back again.
in my search to learn something new every day. i failed.
anyone watching
say nothing.
i watched the agm and thought.
they are not exactly adams or mcguinnes
wait. let the others talk
come back unemotional and articulate.
must be on youtube
Its just as well we had no feck-ups in the transfer market just before european qualifaction takes place, over the past 20 years.
Its just as well Brother Walfrid was also a secret billionaire.
31003 on 1ST DECEMBER 2025 8:34 PM
In the SPFL, if a goalkeeper holds the ball for longer than eight seconds, a corner kick will be awarded to the opposing team. This rule is part of a recent change aimed at reducing time-wasting in football.
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Seems more like penalty to Rangers, regardless of the teams playing – I mean we have to level the playing field somehow….
We can all scroll by, or mock whatever your choice
It is to the hosts shame that the links to hateful ideology and the resultant violence and cruelty are allowed on CQN
Whatever the soul of Celtic is, its certainly not links to right wing fascism
https://bsky.app/profile/irlagainstfascism.bsky.social/post/3m6y5a5yoxk2a
A GROUP OF Afghan asylum seekers have told of how they were followed by men on motorcycles before being subjected to an alleged attack in rural Co Dublin.
The attack on the three young men – which saw the men beaten and their car windows smashed – has been condemned.
The incident happened yesterday afternoon as the trio travelled from their international protection accommodation at a former army camp in Kilbride near the Sally Gap mountain pass to a shop in Tallaght.
One of the men travelling in the car told The Journal that they were “followed” by two men on motorbikes after stopping for petrol.
The 19-year-old said these motorbikes were being driven “very fast”, and that this unusual behaviour continued until they reached the village of Brittas, Co Dublin at around 2.30pm yesterday.
After stopping the car in the village, he alleged that they came under attack.
“They started punching us, I was punched in the stomach,” the teenager said. “My friend was punched in the head by them.”
The young man described how they were saved thanks to the intervention of two women who came on the scene and raised the alarm, leading to the alleged attackers to leave.
Not overly religious earlier this year I had a week in Lucca found the story and message attached to the labyrinth fascinating
We are all on on our journey
The labyrinth of Lucca Cathedral: a sacred symbol linked …
Finestre sull’Arte
https://www.finestresullarte.info › Works and artists
5 Dec 2024 — The choice of the labyrinth’s location is symbolic: positioned next to one of the cathedral’s main doors, it seems to act as a portal to a …
The choice of the labyrinth’s location is symbolic: positioned next to one of the cathedral’s main doors, it seems to act as a portal to a profound reflection on the human soul’s journey toward redemption: this is the meaning to be attributed to the labyrinths we find depicted in medieval churches. The most famous, similar to the one in Lucca Cathedral, is probably the one found on the floor of Chartres Cathedral in France, while closer to Lucca is the labyrinth in Pontremoli, in the church of San Pietro. This symbol therefore invites the faithful and pilgrims (do not forget that Lucca was located along the pilgrimage routes that led from northern Europe to Rome, along those routes to which today we refer with the expressions “via Francigena”) to reflect before embarking on the spiritual journey that awaits them inside the church. And it is precisely this relationship between the architectural structure and the symbolism of the labyrinth that is one of the aspects that help give the Cathedral of Lucca its appeal.
https://bsky.app/profile/theferret.scot/post/3m6vykybrkc2j
Driving into Falkirk from the east, the politics are visible. As we pass a housing scheme known locally as ‘The Bog”, union flags and saltires on lampposts flutter in the wind, symbolism that smacks of loyalist estates in Northern Ireland. Our destination is the Cladhan Hotel, a dull grey and white block of a building, on two levels, close to the town centre with a line of swaying green trees at its back. It faces high rise flats where union flags stare back, and across from the hotel, where anti-migrant protestors gather, lies a sign that reads: “Call them what they are: Illegal economic migrants.”
We’ve arranged to meet Cameron Manning, an anti-racism activist who lives in Falkirk. A well-built lad originally from Somerset, he volunteers with a group called Falkirk for All which has been opposing anti-immigration demos in the town
Inside the asylum protests in a divided town – BBC News
BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk › news › articles
— A Disclosure documentary uncovers the figures behind the protests around asylum hotels which have divided communities.
An angry confrontation and online abuse: Inside the asylum protests in a divided town
This poison is everywhere
aff oot
Best fans in the world
https://youtu.be/SrGmXiGOqKc?si=T9q84RZxpE0ZCKx6
Good morning all.
Was thinking that the delay in Wilfs contract was due to the inclusion of a Sanity Clause
Chris Crimblecfc
Good morning CQN.
Hope all on here are well.
One more day until we get to see the Celts
… and at home
… with a run of home games to follow.
Really busy two months ahead … on and off the park.
As a Celtic fan, I often find ask myself
“What kind of nick will be in by X date” ?
(Injuries, form, league position, Europa)
Usually my thoughts are fairly clear.
(Not necessarily accurate, but clear)
Right now though?
I’m really struggling for that clarity.
Could be we just tick along nicely …
Or we might be average at best …
Or it could blow up.
I just can’t call it.
Influenced no doubt by the general instability around the club.
Hey ho.
Interesting times.
I can’t control it … might as well live it and enjoy the good bits.
Palestinian flag raised at Belfast city hall at six minutes past midnight after unionist councillors failed in bid to stop it from flying……raging they are
BTB
“live it and enjoy the good bits”
Excellent – really like that.
Thank you.
…..32 votes to 28….