Part of me would like to believe that Celtic destroyed Ferencvaros with a multi-cultural display of slick football as a consequence of the hostile reception they received for an expression of support for racial equality before kick-off. But that’s not true. The home supporters deserved no more than to see their team bettered and beaten, Celtic would have been as fabulous no matter.
An early goal followed by an early concession gave the expectation that anything could happen. Liel Abada’s returned to the first team after a few weeks rest did him the power of good, he snatched onto a poor defensive touch, squaring for Kyogo. What followed took me back 20 years….. it’s been that long since we’ve had someone with such composure.
Joe Hart could do nothing about the deflected equaliser but when he smothered a shot midway through the first half, he sprung to his feet to release a break. David Turnbull got the faintest of touches for what would prove to be another assist as the ball found its way to Joto on the left. The Portuguese drew four defenders before firing a shot that clipped one on its way into the net off a post.
Celtic were on fire now and spurned several chances to stretch their lead, the best when Kyogo controlled an inch-perfect Turnbull pass before dinking the goalkeeper, only to be denied by a goal line clearance. When the third came, it was another poster moment for great football. Turnbull won the ball for McGregor to find Kyogo, who played a pass into the box, between defenders. Abada did not break his stride as he found the corner of the goal.
A late consolation brought Ferencvaros within striking distance of Celtic but the visitors managed the game to the final whistle without concern. The Europa League knockout rounds are still a possibility but it will almost certainly be the Conference League, which Celtic are now assured of.
Newco accounts for the year to 30 June 2021 are out. I’ll do a more in-depth look later, a few headlines:
Comprehensive loss for the year was £26.024m, elsewhere you will mainly see the lower operating loss figure quoted, not that £24.153m is low.
For Financial Fair Play purposes, Uefa permit this loss to be adjusted due to the unique circumstances we have lived through. A quick ready reckoner of this:
While other revenue streams and costs remain consistent with the previous campaigns, gate receipts are down £17.46m (no fans spending money at games) and operating costs are down £8.8m (no fans to serve or steward at games). Subtract the former from the latter and Uefa will forgive £8.6m of the comprehensive loss, reducing the Financial Fair Play loss to £17.42m or thereabouts.
Football has returned to largely normal operations this year, so that £17.42m figure is a good proxy for Newco’s forward comprehensive loss. For a business that has never earned more than £59m in its history, the lambeg drums must be ringing the alarm! There’s so much red ink at Ibrox you’d mistake the Clyde for the Red Sea.
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have “real concern” over corporate governance and demanded clubs are shown “more respect”.
D.Park
These guys go dookin in volcanoes
Corporate governance.lol get the laundry sorted.
100 pence in,100 pence out.
They can’t operate in profit.
2011 again.
Who: who are you ?
https://youtu.be/PNbBDrceCy8
HH
Barleycorn freedoms Sons
https://youtu.be/GcYwup-PJsM
HH
Sineado connor Chieftains
The foggy dew
https://youtu.be/yaS3vaNUYgs
HH
The Green Brigade & CST, had the biggest open goal ever, just before this years renewal time.
Celtic fc put the tools away to avoid the fallout of winning 10 in a row.
Protest in the car park for 6 months, “pretending” to be rebels.
Singing non stop about Irish rebels, then proving you’ll never be board sacking rebels, only Celts with steel balls are capable of such a badge of honor.
6 months of protests and then when handed the silver bullet….
they shot themselves in the foot with it, as they showed the PLC, no matter the scale of the disaster inflicted upon Celtic season ticket holders, the ticket holders will be there, and they’re always there, down on their knees, renewing their tickets, same time, same place, no matter what.
https://videocelts.com/2021/11/blogs/latest-news/green-brigade-announce-new-protest-for-dens-park/
If the PLC bring in, Bernard Higgins, then the PLC will do so, because 53k soulless androids will bless ANY decision that the PLC will take, every renewal day.
Fakeful through and through, mastered by every mason bstrd on the PLC.
Year in, year out.
No thanks.
I’d rather sleep in my own bed, thank you very much!
“WESTCRAIGS on 6TH NOVEMBER 2021 9:56 AM
enjoy Kyogo. i don’t think he will be here long.”
What kind of Celtic supporter would feel the need to share that opinion?
Just watched the “highlights” of Aberdeen v Motherwell and St Johnstone v St Mirren on Sportscene. Dire stuff. Hacking was the order of the day. Very little football on view.
Kev J
I met you once in George Square and you seemed a decent sort of guy but your posts, being kind, are somewhat repetitious.
Beatles Get back
https://youtu.be/IKJqecxswCA
HH
See in the Lowland League where Celtic & Rangers B teams play, Vale of Leithen are rock bottom.
Played 17
Won 0
Drew 1
Lost 16
Goals scored 6
Conceded 100
GD -94
Apparently Celtic secretly loaned Barkas to them.
I noticed today that our dreadful and very shaky defence has conceded FOUR goals fewer than the next best defence in the League.
Hmm…
HOT SMOKED on 6TH NOVEMBER 2021 8:18 PM
“WESTCRAIGS on 6TH NOVEMBER 2021 9:56 AM
enjoy Kyogo. i don’t think he will be here long.”
What kind of Celtic supporter would feel the need to share that opinion?
The kind who writes for the daily record?
What do .Danny O Velenski, Martin O Seville, Blootir it up the Park, & Joe Ordinary plus another couple I can’t recall just right now have in common.
Celtic foundation appeal launched.
https://twitter.com/Barcajim3/status/1456995896818868231?t=atwFhEtIzVddlS13CT8b5w&s=19
HH
Broonie showing why he will always be remembered fondly by all ( well, most) of us :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QlbJ9YmbnY&ab_channel=ScottishFootballForTheFans
GLENDALYSTONSILS on 6TH NOVEMBER 2021 8:40 PM
You are not wrong :-))
Corkcelt
I posted as I did at 8:21pm to give the multi-poster a wee task:
How to respond to that post without owning up :-))
Yep J. absolutely extraordinary ;
What is the point of an AGM ?
The PLC have already won!
All of your power has been banked, onto the balance sheet.
And now no PLC actors will bother their asses listening to anything that any of you say.
They threw Auldheid under many buses and you all did….zero, zilch, fk all, just like always.
AGM’s are part of the PLC rools for fools book.
Guess who the fools are ?
AGM’s
Board’s (any board)
shares
season tickets
all seated stadiums = docile sheep & poodle generators
….all of these are Tory con’trap’tions so knock it down and rebuild it.
Go to Celtic settings – press delete – for all of the above….
….or all of your ‘data’ might disappear, like magic, like what happened to 600k Labour party members last week….
….like how 100% of MSMlodge never uttered a word about this ahem, data breach….
….If this breach had happened to Corbyn’s Labour party, poor old Jeremy would already be in an iron mask and chained to a dungeon at the base of the imperial ship headed for Botany bay.
If Jeremy had been Labour party ldr during Celtic’s Jungle years, his name would’ve roared to the Jungle rafters week in week out, like it was by the Kop fans, and Stretford End fans, and Jeremy would’ve been elected in 2017, the £78 billion that he said needed to be invested into Glasgow would be done by now, but but but, Celtic no longer have Jungle fans, we now have “fans” who vote for politicians who’ve turbo charged “specific” Glasgow aimed kilted austerity on stilts, into Glasgow, and delivered factories full of big fat rats to roam Glasgow’s streets, no wonder folk with balls go on strike, move a bin and dozens of rats jump out of the bins to attack you! Eye….
….like how the PLC high heid yins have ahem, dubious associations with certain folk…
….is your data safe when dubious people say they’ll protect it for you?….
….like, please wake the fk up….
Thanks.
CORKCELT on 6TH NOVEMBER 2021 8:41 PM
What do .Danny O Velenski, Martin O Seville, Blootir it up the Park, & Joe Ordinary plus another couple I can’t recall just right now have in common.
you’ve lost me, what ?
Has notification of the AGM been sent out? I haven’t received any word so far.
Yep, sent out last/this week
Thanks, The Huddle.
Mad that nobodies mentioned in the media that sevco sold this season’s season ticket money to a company during the in the year to June this year… Bet that wasn’t done in May.
Between that and the vat and tax deferrals, the deferrals on ‘high-earners wages and counting the covid loan as income, the £25m loss isn’t their bad news here.
They owe £13m to other clubs that they’ll be paying monthly and have a weekly wage bill of £800k.
The Celtic board couldn’t save them even if that was the plan.
for Farke at Norwich, see Ange? They stuck by him last season and he skated the league, playing outstanding football, maybe folk from above asking him to change his style, and refused? What would happen if AP was getting told to change his style? I’m guessing here but….
I’m no cunning linguist (always happy to give it a go, tho) – and my ex-wife was Scandinavian. So, maybe these bits can be translated more like this:
…fans trying to get into episodes they do not have access to [fans trying to get into sections…]
…Copenhagen’s Vestegns Police had to pull the poles several times [Police had to draw their batons…]
This is news: The CEO of a foreign football club accuses SEVVIES of all hues of bad/criminal behaviour.
Yet has any Scottish media title covered his revelatory claim?
PS – I’m pretty sure when Police pulled their poles, they weren’t trying a more, ermmm… intimate approach to placating the marauding huns ;)
Ange is Ange, nobody can change Ange apart from Ange.
Ange ball is superb when it works.
When it doesn’t…. Celtic fall into Europa league.
Or, have a scunnerring day at Ibrox.
Ange ball will be turbo charged, if we win the first trophy of the season.
If we don’t….
If Ange is told to engage in “The crazy goings on behind the scenes…”
….like ©Shane Duffy alluded to last season, will Ange play along….
….with “The crazy goings on behind the scenes….”…..
….or will Ange walk ?
HOT SMOKED
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“WESTCRAIGS on 6TH NOVEMBER 2021 9:56 AM
enjoy Kyogo. i don’t think he will be here long.”
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What kind of Celtic supporter would feel the need to share that opinion?
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I do understand your response – however if Kyogo continues in the same way for the rest of the season(could score 30+), he will become much sought-after come the ’22 summer window. We are a fixture on at least ten EPL clubs’ shopping-list……just saying.
if Ange walks, where will he walk to ?
Who would replace him at Celtic ?
We are controlled by custodians who are “old firm first” devotee’s.
Anything could, and probably will happen!
As someone once said, none of us is here for long.
So let’s enjoy our lives before we get sold to Norwich in the next transfer window and get relegated. But for good, not like when they go straight back up like normal.
Although maybe now they’ve sacked their manager they’ll not get relegated.
Needs a bit of work before I get a tattoo of it
Exciting football alright. For Angeball to succeed quickness of thought needs time to develop before it’s mastered to the utmost perfection. The players that have the ability will continue to prosper, those that cannot will be replaced if not suitably repaired. The key areas are everywhere, the danger areas are where opponents can strike at the heart of a mistake with one thrust.
Rogic and Turnball are particularly vulnerable to mistakes in danger areas yet breathtakingly sublime when they get it right in attack.
Bitton offers less going forward however strikes up a more secure defensive midfield barrier alongside McGregor.
Horses for courses.
Laxalt.
They personify corruption.
From their conception out of corruption in 2012.
Who will be her majesty this time!
HH
We got the full range tonight.
Absolutely nothing against Norwich btw. Norfolk is a lovely place
CORKCELT
Not one for calling for posters to be banned and I won’t start now, but suffice to say these guys are absolutely spoiling the blog. I for one have had enough.
Goodnight and Hail Hail.
TM
Agree.
JHB
OK, name the ten.
Or is it more made up pish.
Asking for hunners of friends.