You detect a notion in some circles that Newco might beat Celtic in the Scottish Cup semi-final next week, if only Scott Brown was removed from the equation. This belief is based on two football games, the corresponding fixture last season, when Newco prevailed on penalty kicks, and the more recent league draw at Celtic Park. On both occasions Celtic played well within themselves.
By any measure, we could lose on Sunday. Ross County (8th in the table) took a point on Sunday, while Partick Thistle and Newco have both drawn at Celtic Park in the last five weeks. Football regularly provides random results, and Celtic are due one. You will also share concerns we all have about refereeing decisions denying us the treble, as happened on Scottish Cup semi-final day two years ago.
But is a referee fails to award Celtic a penalty when an opponent punches the ball off the line, refuses to red card the player, then awards our opponents a penalty, and sends a Celtic player off, our chances of delivering the treble will likely perish again. None of this will have anything to do with Scott Brown.
We faced this lot in September without our talisman, Leigh Griffiths, who was injured. This created space for Moussa Dembele to score a hat-trick. What Moussa proved that day is that games are not determined by those who miss out, but by the attitude of those who take to the field.
Consider, for a moment, the attitude among the Celtic support, players and management since Sunday. There’s a sense of grievance there, a pulling together in the face of a clear injustice. It’s almost impossible to conjure up such a scenario when you’ve passed 40 games undefeated in the season, but here we are.
Let’s bring it onto the Hampden pitch.
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SFTB
Cliff Richard and Sue Barker were a hot item back in the day….shhhh:)
HH
Good Evening (again)!
Another new light-hearted offering…
“Alex McLeish Didn’t Want To Be Luke Skywalker”
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2017/04/18/alex-mcleish-didnt-want-to-be-luke-skywalker/
The biggest surprise is Bigus Dickus is married to a lady.
DD
Lady-boy
DELANEYS DUNKY on 18TH APRIL 2017 11:06 PM
The biggest surprise is Bigus Dickus is married to a lady.
Think JohnJames had the answer to that a few months ago before it was pulled from his site. Marriage of convenience, methinks. Heard he was fond of a convenience.
TGM
Kelvin Walkway was being filmed when he cruised full of ching.
Where did the Videotape go???
Floridaghirl, that’s a scam. There’s usually a note in the share pack warning Celtic shareholders of scams like this, and I’m pretty sure there have been details of such on the official club site. Tell you parents to tell these people to GTF, or alternatively, tell them to pass my addy onto the scammers at acgr@outlook.com. I like dealing wit shiteholes like these people.
HH Sister
DD
Ha Ha…..sash-wearing super bigots came to the rescue:)
Some may or may not work in the GCC and attend a certain cesspit and sit in the VIP section:)
HH
DD
GCC surveillance vans…seriously!
Secret, sneaky wee depot in my vacinity.
Seedy wee chancers wi greasy slicked back hair and taches.
I wonder who was behind that wee ongoing scenario?
HH
ACGR – thought so. He had a similar call a few years ago and there was lots on here and elsewhere saying it was a scam. My mother is not really one to tell them TGTF – will leave that for my father…..thanks
Thankfully we never pursued our interest in this individual in 2010…
” NAC Breda prospect Alex Schalk will travel to Glasgow on Tuesday for a trial with Celtic, if his current club give the go-ahead. The 17-year-old striker is without a contract at the Dutch club, paving the way for Neil Lennon to pick the player up for a modest fee under Fifa’s training compensation regulations.
Reports in Holland say Celtic want Schalk to spend the week at Lennoxtown, with a view to signing him for a fee of £46,000. NAC would be due 11,000 Euros, or £9,000, for each year of his development from his 12th birthday onwards.
If NAC allow Schalk to travel to Scotland on trial, it is claimed he will travel to Glasgow on Tuesday to immediately begin training with the club’s reserve side, with Lennon taking a look at him after Celtic’s Champions League trip to face Braga.
As STV Sport reported in May, Celtic scouts watched Schalk in action at youth level for NAC. The striker, who is equally adept with both feet, finished the season as the second top scorer in the Dutch A1 youth league but, despite his form, is yet to appear in the first team”.
The zombie support are raging off the scale that our captain is playing on Sunday, that’s showing how much they fear his influence.
Broonie needs to put it about and put the fear into the zombie players early in the game, winding them up should also be high on his list of priorities.
Time for Scott Brown to be our captain and lead from the front, this game and the remainder of the season is his opportunity to cement a legendary status at Celtic. He should see this, as will our manager.
Rip them apart broonie.
TGM
UK seriously needs a bit of Anarchy.
The political system is so fake. May, Sturgeon,Dugdale and Davidson. Should be Emmerdale or River City actors. Jokers
ACGR
They will target our captain, hoping to rile him.
Keep the heid, and he will stamp his authority.
We go right at the cheats, breathing fire:)
Grrrrrr
Where’s my boots:)
HH
DD
Guy Fawkes had the right idea:)
The poor pay for the crimes of the rich, thats the political agenda in this country….end of.
Pity the ‘voters’ cant see that.
HH
ACGR
The zombies pulled the same stunt to allow Rob Kiernan to play against us at Hogmanay.
The difference is, we were happy that he was in their defence, the monkey mob fear Broonie big time. Our driving force.
Floridaghirl, must be a woman thing. We regularly get calls about the car crashes we’ve been involved in and our right to compensation. Mrs acgr often spends a bit of time on the phone with these people explaining she’s not been in an accident. It doesn’t matter how many times I tell her to give them the GTF / rip the pish / hang up, she just canny do it.
Me, I have a bit of fun wit them.
Seriously, these people make me angry. It’s an organised effort to extort small amounts of money from a large amount of people, but usually vulnerable people who can least afford it or recognise it’s a rip off.
HH Sister, and best to your parents.
TGM, my thoughts exactly. Broonie needs to exhibit controlled aggression and box clever until we go three up then cripple one or two hun pretenders. He’s due an early holiday anyway and we have enough to see the rest of the season out with him sitting in the stand with a grin like a treble winner.
Garner should be top of the list if the fud is playing, and miller for his brutal tackle in the last game v the zombies. Retribution time and we only have broonie that looks capable of dispensing that.
TGM
Who are these tough sevco players that will target our ball players? They all look quite soft to me. Holt? Halliday? Wilson? Who in their team would we be feart of?
BHOYJOEBELFAST
I recall a Scottish Cup tie v Dundee in Feb/March 1966 that was postponed on the Saturday, due to snow.
It was played the following Wednesday and I was there.
However, the match was at Dens, not CP.
We won 2-0 and the game had a particular significance for me.
ACGR
DD
As you know..ye dont need skill tae HACK:)
They will be steamin in, looking for reactions.
We keep calm to game is done and dusted, then we strike back hard:)
Grrrrr:)
HH
Anyone who gets a crank phonecall about anything should pass the caller ACGR’s details so that he can sort them out!
I think that is a great idea.
I get calls and e-mails from people who want to sell me Palm Trees, Plant Pots, Motorised Zimmers, Glow in the dark boxers, musical jumpers, 3 D paintings of the Pope and Sophia Loren (these are separate paintings not one painting of the two of them together got forbid!), anti magnetic hairbrushes, do it yourself fortune telling kits (you would think they could tell I don’t want one) and repeated offers to rewrite my will — which I can do myself if I really wanted to.
Not to mention spurious holidays in places I don’t want to go, and cruises with lots of people I don’t want to go with.
So, from now on I am going to refer them all to ACGR (I have his phone number) and will explain that my executive e-commerce adviser will be in touch with them shortly to set about their gonads with a sclaffbaw bat, some dettol and a length of barbed wire!!
That should do the job!
TGM
Aye right enough. That wee pussy midget got away wi a scissor tackle in the back of Patrick and was nearly allowed to score fae his red card challenge by brother Madden. Watch Holt’s sleekitness on Sunday.
DD
Remember, they are brought up to cheat at football, because they are mince.
Never had our skills, never will:)
We have the Celtic style….and thats what they will never defeat:)
HH
BRTH, your own gonads will feel the wrath of my chib should you even think about passing my phone number to any undesirables………………..:_)
My email addy, I have no issue with that one, fill your snakeskin boots bruv.
HH
BRTH, also, can you add Henry McCrory to your mass list. My grandmother’s brother who made the trip to Lisbon in 67 and took me to my first Celtic game.
A giant of a man who lived his life for Celtic.
TGM
I always tell the hun unfortunates that I was brought up with.
“Our greatest player was Jinky, your’s was Greig.”
Sums up our differing mentality towards fitba in this City perfectly.
TGM
The Lions sum up the sheer poetic genius of true legends, as opposed to a mob who knew nothing but cheating.
Class will vanquish Crass every time:)
We are history, they are beyond contempt.
HH
DD
That was for you…getting a bit zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
TGM
I blame Kaya.
John Greig v James Connolly Johnstone.
Who would the fitba purist choose?
DD
Im still enjoying the variety:)
As for football….the sheer brilliance of Celtic overwhelms the hun senses:)
The green and white is too much for them.
We are beauty, they are the beast.
HH
ACGR
Bulldozers for the cesspit, hope to see that day come yet.
Irish jig round the rubble:)
HH
Celtic vs Hibernian ……a sell out…..if im not successful in getting a ticket for Celtic end.. Hibees end will suit.
ACGR
Smash the glorified Victorian lavvy into a pulp.
Then piss back on their grave. Karma is magic
TGM, I have some special drams put aside for that day.
HH bruv
ACGR
DD
Hopefully, some day soon, we can casually stroll by as they are bulldozing the circus of horrors:)
Grrrrrr:)
HH
DD, ha ha. I can’t deny I’d pay money to pish on the rubble of their demolished stadium.
Would be funny if there were lots of wee “watch yer motir” ibrox urchins making money off me pishing on the ruins of their stadium of hatered.
I’m off to dream about that.
HH Celtic men and wummin.
TGM
Wee staunch Jeemy Bell and Bommur Broon standin on the ashes of Ibrox masonic temple shouting weearrapeepul ftp nosurrenda wheresradeeds