While Celtic totally controlled the first half at Ibrox yesterday, Newco’s defence held firm and largely limited the visitors to shots from the edge of the area. Leigh Griffiths’ effort from that distance was touched onto the post but over the 90 minutes there was not a single chance where an attacker from either team should have scored.
Steven Gerrard made changes at halftime that made marginally reduced Celtic’s advantage, but not so much as to permit his side an attempt on target, even after Celtic were reduced to 10 men.
Nir Bitton played well until his red card. He and the impeccable Kristoffer Ajer brought authority and control to the game as they circulated the ball for Celtic. A momentary lapse that allowed Alfredo Morelos to collect goal-side of him saw Bitton grapple his opponent to the ground. Referee Bobby Madden waved his red card in a flash.
Morelos was in a wide position, Ajer, who had already demonstrated his pace by catching and overtaking Newco’s fastest player, Ryan Kent, was covering in a central position. The Laws of the Game ask referees to make a judgement on whether he thinks the covering defender would be able to make up the ground, Madden decided to show Morelos the advantage.
Madden also showed Morelos the advantage five minutes into the game, when the Columbian stamped on Jeremie Frimpong’s Achilles in an off the ball incident. Madden awarded Celtic a foul, but used his discretion to keep both cards in his pocket when many expected a red card. The referee determined the outcome.
Celtic conceded fewer chances yesterday than in any game in months but the goal came from a familiar failing – corner kicks. A ricochet struck Callum McGregor and flew past Vasilis Barkas, who had little else to do all afternoon.
The game was lost for a few reasons: despite our control of play, Newco’s defence stood firm, we did not get into the box or hit the bye-line often enough. Bobby Madden had two decisions to make and you could bet your mortgage he was not making them in Celtic’s favour. Despite the unfortunate nature of the own goal, we again conceded from a corner.
Had we lost and played in the manner we had in our previous three games against Newco the verdict would be straightforward: the better team won and is firm favourite to take the title. I don’t think that is the case, instead, it has taken us until now to make the correct selection and formation decisions against them.
A must-win game was lost, leaving Celtic 19 points clear with three games in hand. Newco are a club who find it difficult to get trophies over the line. They are defensively solid, but I think their league position flatters them. There is work to do for both teams.
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NORRIEM on 3RD JANUARY 2021 10:31 PM
Correct, I’ve been on holiday 10 days and due to restrictions I’ve had two exciting visits to the supermarket, visits to Prestonpans and Longniddry beach. and some clown thinks going a jolly with the team abroad is a good idea.
Tomorrow’s holiday peak is, since within local authority, a trip to John Muir park and Asda at Dunbar, Wahoo😵😱
The fear getting spouted is unbelievable.
I honestly thought that the majority of the Celtic support were educated, how wrong I was, Dearie Me.
We even have a fearmonger general on CQN and a fair few who want his title.
It’s gone from two weeks to flatten the curve to major lockdowns a year in, the overall death rate is actually less but don’t let the truth get in the way of the fear mongering, so so feckin sad.
Open your eyes FFS.
Oh and just to reiterate what I said the other day, the next scamdemic will be a cyber one, they told us this back in the summer, see when we have no leccy, no internet, a total infrastructure breakdown then the plebs will be pleading for whatever they are thrown, you have walked eyes wide shut into this scam, I tried to tell you all but was met with derision, see all the conspiracy theories that I was telling you about months ago, well they are reality now, waken up FFS or it’s your kids and grandkids who are gonna suffer.
I gave you link after link to the truth, obviously nobody bothered to look at them, well I can’t say I didn’t warn you all.
Enjoy the little freedoms you have left cos you are gonna need to.
Mornin’ MICK – hope all good down on the Costiera, as we dodge the Bayside COVID clusters from Sandy, to BlackRock and back up to Southland?
My faith is fair being tested by the piss-poor decision making – onfield and off – at our beloved club.
Sure; fly O/S against all best health advices. But look like you’re celebrating your successes when hordes of disaffected fans are gnashing and wailing…is there a more PR tone deaf org cutting about at the mo?
DEEPSIGHSCSC
Worthy of a repost
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 3RD JANUARY 2021 4:37 PM
Pat McCluskey, Ronnie Glavin, Roddie McDonald, Peter Latchford, Billy McNeill, Tommy Callaghan, Andy Lynch, Jimmy Johnstone, Stevie Murray, Danny McGrain, Paul Wilson, Harry Hood, Kenny Dalglish, Jim Brogan, Bobby Lennox, Dixie Deans, George Connolly, Vic Davidsn, Jimmy Quinn, and Jimmy Bone (manager Jock Stein)
Heroes or Villains??
Seems a stupid question , doesn’t it?
Withe the possible exceptions of Latchford, Quinn and Bone- they are all heroes to me.
But, just like Neil Lennon, Nir Bitton, Odsonne Edouard et al yesterday they were called out as every kind of snake and failure, 46 years ago, when we contrived to lose the 10iar bid first time round.
You won’t find any Celtic supporter admitting to it now, but, rest assured, from one who was there, they were called everything that we are calling the players now.
Before we lost that league, we had George Connelly walk out on us, twice, having lost his best pal, the irreplaceable Davie Hay the season before. We saw the retirement of Billy McNeil and free transfers for Jinky and Jim Brogan, leaving Buzzbomb as the Last of the Lions and of our EC triumphs.
We told Quinn Davidson, Bone and Lynch that they could leave on frees too as they were not thriving. Our only major recruitment was Ronnie Glavin but we retained our 2 prominent lightning-rod scapegoats for the support to berate, in Tommy Callaghan and Harry Hood.
We lost a pre-season friendly 4:0 to Schalke in Germany.
We won the Dryburgh Cup on pens from the Huns
We got knocked out of the EC in the first round to Olympiakos
We beat Hibs 6:3 in a classic LC final
and we ended the season with a 3:1 SC win over Airdrie
but we finished our bid for 10iar with a 3rd place in the league, 11 pts behind Rangers and 4 behind Hibs. We shipped 13 points in 10 games at one point.
So, we have been here before.
I am not naive. I know that the foolish approach to management that we have in Sports, requires the regular bloodletting scarifice of players and managers and coaches. This season will demand the same.
We won’t be saying goodbye to quite the calibre of player as JJ or, even Billly McNeill but we are likely to lose a fair bit of genuine talent in Edouard, Ajer and Ntcham, as well as guys who are very bit as good as John McGinn, in Ryan Christie and, possibly Callum.
The bid for 10 kept them here and now they have nothing to prove in Scotland, they will look for new pastures and challenges. We will have a major re-build.
We are also, highly likely to lose a genuine Celtic hero in Neil Lennon, probably at a quiet time when we have had a proper wake and set some distance between yesterday and his firing. Neil won 5 titles of our recent 9iar , 4 of our SC’s and 1 LC. He has sacrificed his health for this club and damaged his rep as a person and as a manager as Scottish Society had to learn to deal with a genuine unrepentant fenian. And many of our own have rushed to tarnish him, swallowing the hun and SMM narrative , as to what kind of man he is.
No, for sure, Neil will leave but he wil leave with more dignity and honour than many of our support still retain and like the guys named from 1975 will always be welcome back at our club . In 15 years time, you will find no-one admitting to the embarrasing vitriol that was spouted at this time.
I wish it was reserved for our custodians and their moral failure in handling res 12 and the events of 2012, but, when we can find no way to get at them, that does not also harm Celtic FC, we will slate our blood lust on a cull of the players and coaches.
Well, as I said , yesterday, fill your boots, but it’s not for me.
Today I want to thank Neil Lennon, Scott Brown James Forrest, Callum McGregor, Mikel Lustig and all of the 117 players who gave us 9iar (even forgotten cameos from Atajic, Berget, Ciftci, Fisher, Gershon, Herron, Ibrahim, Janko, Kouassi, Loovens, Mouyokolo, Nouioui, O’Connell, Pukki, Rogne , Scepovic, Toljan, Van Dikl, Watt and Zulaska.
Not all of the 117 can be counted as heroes but there are a good 40-50 players plus 3 managers who deserve to be so remembered.
And I don’t care if Brendan is the superior manager of the bunch, the one that delivered most to my club, was Neil Lennon and he has my fullest gratitude now and when he leaves, and forever after.
Hail hail my friend
:-)
DEXTER P. BAMPOT on 3RD JANUARY 2021 10:38 PM
After the biggest footballing failure since helicopter Sunday
*whits with this helicopter sunday scheidt, we Tims call it black sunday.
Celtic staff are employees, they are entitled to downtime and time off like everyone else, and that includes chilling and a beer by the pool on a day off.
We are all hurting and optics don’t look great particularly during a pandemic, but the simple fact is its no big deal. They will begin training tomorrow and put in a good weeks work.
KILL ALL TAIGS
The lack of public uproar on this piece of sectarian graffiti is soul destroying.
Do Catholic lives not matter?
TT
St Tams- made me laugh there, I voted for Bitton, the reasons were,he was playing well, and I didn’t think it was a red card.
Morning Quad.
Just thinking about a beer in the alfresco, pissing down here, just
like the CQN mood at the moment.
Better watch out might be a photographer about, imagine that a
Celtic supporter enjoying himself in this time of unprecedented
failure and depression. 8-))
H.H. Mick
Lennon pinting poolside in Dubai when some supporters struggle to meet finance payments on their season book.
I’m genuinely taken aback by this nonsense today and quite frankly, I feel very foolish for helping to pay it. I’m rapidly falling out of love with Celtic.
TT
Casual sectarianism?
scoddland’s happy enough with it, apparently.
Sadly.
HH
They will begin training tomorrow… provided the hangovers aren’t too bad.
AN TEARMANN/SFTB
Remember it all so well, as usual a brilliant post.
Don’t know how I’ve remained a Celt all these years?
Just maybe it’s in the blood.
H.H. Mick
Oh and football as we know it is finished, gone, any sport that involves crowds are a thing of the past, they are not part of the great reset, the great reset that was a con theory a while back according to the MSM and now everyone in the MSM is talking about it, well, I am predicting this now, you won’t ever be back into Celtic park, sport will be on the tv, no supporters, I will wager my grandweans lives on that, this scam is only going to ramp up, see the leaked memo from the Canadian government a few months back that was immediately denounced as fake, well go and have a look at it, everything it said is happening today, everything, you really need to waken up folks.
A simple thing that you can do, go to the government national stat site and look for yourself at the death tolls, the death tolls for everything and you will see for yourself that they are lying to you big time, deaths are hard to lie about and they are not, they know that 99.99% of the people won’t bother and they will believe the lies they are fed, sheeple indeed.
Sleep well Timland
JOBO BALDIE @ 8-13
One of the reasons i don’t get involved with the refs debate (i don’t know enough of the rules).
I thought a straight red was a 2 match ban ….glad its only one , for all he was stupid (Bitton) he was one of our better performers.
Sorry for the late reply.
TINYTIM on 3RD JANUARY 2021 10:51 PM
KILL ALL TAIGS
The lack of public uproar on this piece of sectarian graffiti is soul destroying.
Do Catholic lives not matter?
TT
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Hi TT, may i ask what you are referring to here? Thank you in advance.:-)
HH
AN TEARMANN on 3RD JANUARY 2021 11:27 PM
Sturgeon’s constituency?
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18982543.sectarian-graffiti-plastered-kingston-bridge-ahead-old-firm/
Manfred Mann: “Come all without, come all within, you’ll not see nothing like the mighty Jimmy Quinn” por cierto
“Kill All Taigs” Graffiti:
The Union Bears had a photo taken at that very spot this week, a coincidence? Mmmm, por cierto
AN DÚN on 3RD JANUARY 2021 8:12 PM
Neil Lennon has now completed his own treble of historic failures as Celtic manager:
He lost the last old firm derby ever played at Ibrox which would have won us the league at their ground.
He lost against Aberdeen which cost us the chance of winning the Scottish Cup at Celtic Park.
Now he’s lost the ten
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Jeez you have been carrying that chip on your shoulder for a long time.
Reeking of undiluted entitlement and when the time comes take that hunch out your back you choose to try load it onto our manager.WRONG i say.he is a team player.That team is Celtic
Not a hint of thanks for the trophies won.na thats not convenient or fitting in with your entitlement.
Go easy man.
HH
Calling Big Jimmy
In The Herald’s Hogmanay Puzzle (31 December)
Across
48 His cat “Rocky” gets allowed inside (9)
Are you the crossword compiler, Jimmy?
Ernie
Whats the relevance of it being in nicolas constituency? – none as far as i see.
and if it is relevant do we have to start stating
Event such and such happened in lab/ con/libdem/snp constituency?
Just asking as the inculcated sectarian shite has been goin on a lot,and you know that too a lot longer than the snp being a political force.
You would think the labour and no memory party member would have done something bout it.i suppose ex mps like ex livi mp would have stopped or spannered any balancing of rights.yeh thats right your ex labour mp was a member of the loyal fat gits…one of many.
Rancid duplicity on a sectarian level.
HH
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18982543.sectarian-graffiti-plastered-kingston-bridge-ahead-old-firm/
cycled past it yesterday morning
Greenpinata – absolutely valid. They were and are not the same as us. They are elite sportsmen subject to elite sports rules. They should do everything they can to maximise the probability of success within the rules as they apply to elite sports.
Bada Bing & Prestonpans Bhoys – look at all football – they are not subject to the same rules as us.
Ernie Lynch – don’t know. If Celtic end up with 10IAR maybe they will become the stuff of legend.
St Tams – Bitton (like Celtic) was playing well until the red card.
TinyTim – terrible.
The Exiled Tim – I get the excess mortality info from Euromomo (https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/) – clear that there are excess deaths albeit not in the millions. My understanding is that the key constraint is hospital (esp IC) capacity.
I was born in Coventry of Irish parents. Coventry are my home town team and Celtic were ‘our’ team. Just about all the guys I went to school with had a soft spot for Celtic. Played Sunday football in Coventry, the last couple of years from Jim Holton’s pub. He absolutely loved Celtic. Jim used to get Celtic-Rangers tickets for a few (CID) regulars in his pub . They were all Rangers fans and they loved him. I have visited Celtic Park / Parkhead three times – first time on a visit to Dunoon to see distant family – saw the big green gates and my Dad said ‘that’s Celtic’ – magic. Second time Eric Black gave us a personal tour. Third time Celtic 3 – 2 Livingstone. More magic.
Forgot to say that Celtic’s success over the last 9-10 years is astonishing. I hope you are all able to enjoy it.
How many folk on here have followed every one of the rules/laws handed down to us by our great leaders ?
how many on here head out to the supermarket for booze (most common place visited in the week leading up to a positive test) ?
Kingston Bridge
Carrying the M8 motorway through the city centre, the Kingston Bridge is one of the busiest bridges in Europe, carrying around 150,000 vehicles every day.
I reckon that graffiti on the scale seen in the eveningtimes, and the wee singsong the night before is worthy of comment from the local MSP whoever it is.
I mean even 30th birthday bashes are worthy of comment.
and remember the same folk who painted the bridge gave us this …
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16079402.video-hundreds-join-rangers-v-celtic-game-march-defiance-police/
FANADPATRIOT on 3RD JANUARY 2021 9:00 PM
You can utter words all day ,but action is better than words .
Ask for a refund on your season tickets then don’t renew .
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Quite the commonplace chat among the entitled customer base.
That is their right to choose as its their dosh.
However.
To most Celtic fans i know and have been attending,for years,book with old/new board
, the thought of not supporting Celtic would simply end them.it is not an emotional investment.it is about following Celtic thro thick and thin.40s/50s and 60s right thro,a club founded and the ground dug out by their forefathers.If i were to suggest not going to see Celtic,it would be met with a glaikit look and a chase yirsel smile.
Thats just my age range and above.
The younger mob may be more attuned to your customer action suggestion
Whatever may happen post covid football here will change
Happy new year to you
HH
An T
the younger mob dont visit this site and most wouldnt listen to anyone who did !
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 3RD JANUARY 2021 9:43 PM
Good evening.
Has been suggested on here that Celtic might even finish 3rd in the league.
Genuine question …..
Who won’t renew their season ticket if that happens?
HH
I do like that question b2b :-)))
HH
Neil McCann also suggested that Celtic could end up in a fight for 3rd. Thought to myself “What a horrible wee c*nt”
SPIKEYSAULDMAN on 4TH JANUARY 2021 12:58 AM
An T
the younger mob dont visit this site and most wouldnt listen to anyone who did !
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Beg to differ Spikeysauldman.most of the young mob i know are quite celticmedia savvy.they read and glean all sites relating to our own club,scouring intently for all opinion.
Whether they listen to them thats another thing,sometimes they do and sometimes they dont.the joys of being young daft and nae money,cos thats what itll take for change.
Happy new tear to you
:-))
HH
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