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I hope Big Jimmy didn’t back my treble of Celtic/Fleetwood/Port Vale. I’ll get fecking pelters. 🙄😁
That was a flat preformance but we still had the chances to win the game. The big take home from that game as far as i am concerned is that we need a good quality right winger if abada is for the off. We need a box to box midfielder to support/ backup hatata and we need a centreback who can step/ pass throught the line as a priority if this team is to get better.
No point pointing out individuals today
Since coming back from injury, Mooy has looked slow, his passing is poor and his crosses likewise.
Perhaps understandable at his age.
He was poor against sevco and when he came on today was much the same .It was, I think, a similar story early season, plenty of us were not impressed with his first few games but the more he played the better he got. When he came back from the WC he was transformed. Looked like a new player.
Would anyone start him at Hampden?
Or go with the same as today?
I think Reo will play. I was told by a coach he was training this week, sometimes with the team sometimes not. Fingers crossed.
Watched the Hibs v Hearts ladies game..
I think we should have a look at the Hearts ladies coach…not necessarily as a replacement for Ange…just looking at her would cheer up even the grumpiest CQNer
WITS
On a similar note. I’ve just come back from a “soccer session” with my 6 year old grandson.
Their coach is a female ex college soccer star, and coaching. 6 year old Americans unfamiliar to football can’t be easy. .
5 a side running in packs and half of them can hardly making contact with the ball when they are trying to kick in the loose mauls.
Were we poor at kicking a ball or an opponent at 6 years old.
My grandson will have such a big advantage when I show him the ropes.
Thankfully the semi is Sunday so I will be able to turn up next Saturday to watch and admire.
WITS
Aye indeed 😳
I ended cheering for Hearts ….just to see her smile !!!
I know it might seem difficult right now but please do send me your top 3 performers from today’s game. I ask politely as currently there are only 8 (EIGHT) emails in my inbox! SENCELPOTY@GMAIL.COM
Hopefully some things learned from today for everyone. Apart from next weeks opponents.
We need to win the next 7 games for a record breaking season.
Simple task.
No protecting Hatate Abada Jota for better days. Next week is what matters. Next week is the start of the run in to the end of, hopefully, an amazing season.
The tension in the crowd allied to Beaton did not help anything today. That said we could have scored 6 from clear chances alone.
4 before their goal and 2 after.
Deniabhoy
Sadly I agree with you ref Aaron Mooy.
He peaked for the World Cup and we got the best of him just after.
Thanks and move on.
Sadly I am still waiting for our Japanese midfield tank to show us anything offensively.
Good that Matt O is getting a bit more like his old self again though.
For me it’s Matt O / Hatate / Calmac for next week.
Reading headlines…Ange blah blah Chelsea blah blah….looked up betting………about 20 names all the way down to 33/1……Ange not mentioned….SMSM….are at it big time !!!!!
You can never have enough good times. BelmontBrian is living proof my old adage. And he is a fine fellow and a good friend. Hail Hail Brian. 👍
Of ffs
Terrible thing, the drink. 🙄
Hello again all you young rebels.
Just watched the second half now after crashing out
at halftime.
Disappointed but I’m looking at a point gained, I think
other results will go our way 👍
LEFTCLICKTICTIC
Just catching up with your posts.
Glad your family enjoyed Oz, and I’ve watched a coupla
games with the Perth CSC on my travels.
They used to reside in ROSIE O’GRADYS but I’m no longer
sure.
H H. Mick
Anyone know if there’s s problem with Celticnewsnow website..
Getting security warning message..
SEAN it’s been clickbait crap for the last couple of years. I blocked it, suggest you do likewise so as you are not tempted. Sad because it used to be a good source of Celtic gossip but was full of anti-Celtic guff before I dumped it.
https://twitter.com/johnmcjnr1970/status/1649660501234794497?t=-E-KcRDgNXXUrzhKQIy38A&s=19
Any pre lions fans remember. JOHN
Hh
AT. John McNamee. Played for Celtic reserves with a couple of first team appearances. He had John Cushley and King Billy ahead of him for the CH position.
He would play for the reserves on the Saturday and then on Sunday he’d be down Espieside playing in bounce games.
He was what was called an “uncompromising” defender. I think he went down south.
From the Sunday Times:
FOOTBALL | JONATHAN NORTHCROFT
The rise of Kaoru Mitoma from college boy to poster boy
The Brighton star studied dribbling at university – now the late bloomer is schooling top-flight defences
Jonathan Northcroft
Sunday April 23 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times
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In Japan, an expression has been coined to describe the fine margins that the successful give their all for. Mitoma’s millimetre. ‘Remember, Mitoma’s millimetre . . .’ a parent might say to get their child to practice something one more time.
It’s a reference to Kaoru Mitoma’s extraordinary assist for Ao Tanaka to score against Spain at the World Cup, when the Brighton & Hove Albion forward lunged to hook the ball back for his team-mate a fraction before it crossed the byline. Camera technology — contradicting the naked eye — revealed the ball was still in play by 1.88mm.
Mitoma’s millimetre. “It was a scene that showed Kaoru’s faith and Japan’s never-give-up spirit,” his team-mate, Yuto Nagatomo, said.
Last month, in the Japanese baseball league, the celebrated infielder, Sosuke Genda, tagged an opponent out by a hair’s breadth leading “Genda’s 1 millimetre” — a term inspired by the Mitoma expression — to go viral and Mitoma was all over social media again when, a few days later, fans turned up at the national stadium in Tokyo for a friendly between Japan and Uruguay.
Mitoma’s assist for Japan in the World Cup was in play by 1.88mm and has sparked a new phrase in Japan: “Mitoma’s millimetre”
Mitoma’s assist for Japan in the World Cup was in play by 1.88mm and has sparked a new phrase in Japan: “Mitoma’s millimetre”
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Around the exterior of the arena were giant posters of the members of Japan’s squad. Although he is married, women queued to take selfies with Mitoma’s image. The next poster showed Celtic’s Daizen Maeda, but nobody queued there. “It’s tough being next to Kaoru!” Maeda lamented.
Mitoma has gone from college boy to poster boy in quick-time. He didn’t turn professional until he was 22 and only a year ago was regularly being used as an impact sub in Belgium by Union Saint-Gilloise. He is pivotal to Brighton’s prospects in their FA Cup semi-final with Manchester United today, having grown up in Kawasaki idolising Cristiano Ronaldo. Now, he is the idol.
The fork in Mitoma’s unusual road came when he was 19 and offered a professional contract at Kawasaki Frontale but he declined it to instead go to university. He didn’t feel that his body was quite ready for the J League and wanted the fallback, if football didn’t work out, of having a degree. He arrived at the University of Tsukuba’s school of physical education with an idea for his thesis: he would analyse dribbling.
Mitoma has netted seven goals and grabbed four assists so far in an excellent Premier League breakthrough season
Mitoma has netted seven goals and grabbed four assists so far in an excellent Premier League breakthrough season
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To do so, Mitoma attached GoPros to the heads of team-mates from the university XI he played for and found that the best dribblers didn’t look at the ball when trapping it or running with it; instead, they looked outwards to the pitch. Mitoma worked hard on the analysis, often coming back from a game or training session tired but still firing up his computer and labouring into the night.
“He was very serious. He even decided on his own theme and brought it with him. He was the type to think on his own,” Masakai Koido, his supervisor, said. Koido also coached the university team and asked his players what their ambitions were. “To play overseas and become a main player for Japan,” Mitoma answered boldly.
The thesis story appears to tire Mitoma these days. “The media like to talk about it a lot,” he told an Australian broadcaster who interviewed him this week. “In reality, I don’t think it contributed that much to how I play in the Premier League.”
An extract from Mitoma’s thesis in which he analysed dribbling
An extract from Mitoma’s thesis in which he analysed dribbling
What he does acknowledge is how hard he has worked to become, approaching his 26th birthday, a late bloomer. “I think I have proved you can achieve your dreams by grinding every day,” he said. Before university, he was regarded as a fine technician and good passer but he threw himself into gym work and nutrition to improve physically and went round campus to seek out Associate Professor Satoshi Tanigawa, who had run the 110m hurdles for Japan at the Sydney and Athens Olympics, asking to be taught how to run faster.
Mitoma’s speed, ball carrying and clear-mindedness in the final third have led to ten goals and seven assists for Brighton this season, most coming under Roberto De Zerbi, who promoted him from impact sub (how he was mostly used by Graham Potter) to starting left wing. De Zerbi has a rare knack with wide players. It was he who, at Shakhtar Donetsk, recalled Mykhailo Mudryk from a loan and turned him into the prospect who would move to Chelsea for £89 million. “I did not have too much playing time under the previous manager but under De Zerbi we went through a strategic change in the team being more possession based. As a result I can play higher up the pitch and that is where I express myself best,” Mitoma said.
University football is high level in Japan. The best players end up at professional clubs and Mitoma’s team-mate when he played for an all-Japan university XI was Celtic’s Reo Hatate, who remembers him turning up for trials with his nutritionally-planned food — “enough to fill a suitcase”.
Mitoma could have joined Hatate in Glasgow. Celtic’s manager, Ange Postecoglou, pushed hard to sign him when he was leaving Kawasaki Frontale (to whom he returned and turned pro after university) but Mitoma wanted Premier League football and Brighton’s development plan was shrewd. A loan to Union (owned by Tony Bloom, Brighton’s chairman) acclimatised him to Europe and he says that, under De Zerbi, “I know I can get better.”
Six weeks ago, Brighton started a Japanese Twitter account, which has already got more than 35,000 followers. There are some in Japan who even suggest that their national team should switch to a playing style similar to that of Brighton’s, partly to maximise the threat of their new poster boy.
And so his rise continues, millimetre by Mitoma millimetre.
AN TEARMANN
I remember John McNamee. A big centre-half from Coatbridge who made 27 first team appearances between 1960 and 1963 before moving to Hibernian and then Newcastle United.
My friends in Celtic,
A few things to get off my chest. The referee did not miss absolute sitters. We had about 100 mins to score goals.
Ange sums it up well ” We kicked composure ”
Who knows what some fans ( very few ) were booing for at the end of the game.. Frustration I would think.
One thing is for sure , we need to up our game for next week.
We had a decent debate last week about upgrading Celtic Park. However there are a few basics we need to get right prior to any upgrade.
Our Internet connection is shocking. Not a big deal I hear some say, but society now revolves round smart phones.. it should be a basic requirement.
As for our catering ( Is it still Sodexo ).
To be clear , our fans are being ripped off. It is that simple. Celtic plc award the contracts, they must take the blame.
HH.
Good morning all from a dry at the moment Garngad.
We move forward, but we better get our finishing boots on, we had enough chances to score 3 or 4.
The Ref was and is an embarrassment to scottish football.
D :)
Good morning all from Blackpool. Time for a fry up.
I don’t care about league season records. Most goals, most points, I just don’t care so long as the league is won.
For me, we’ve one massive season defining game next Sunday which has stood out like a sore thumb for weeks now.
Everything must go into Hampen. I suspect some of our players had their minds on Hampden yesterday.
A big week’s prep now lies before us. It will do us no harm to have such a poor performance to focus us on what we need to do against the huns.
I thought yesterday was a good chance to give ralston sometime on the park….. He gets to the byeline and provides good crosses.
Lack of flair and creativity……. hopefully jota, abada and Hatate are back.
My 3-1 bet went down but got a few quid back for Van Veen to score anytime…
They could have scored from the off, Joes Powder puff attempt to punch clear and their goal highlighted the fact we need to be better all over the park.
Second half of Kilmarnock game and yesterday was a wake up call for next week……
GG 2.28am
Many a fitballer honed their skills on the hills of espiside, you needed decent control while trying to run on the uneven surfaces :-)
Sadly the parks are all gone and now replaced with a few plastic pitches as it’s now St Ambrose high school where the “parks” used to be
AN DÚN on 23RD APRIL 2023 9:04 AM
` we’ve one massive season defining game next Sunday `
We have already won the League Cup. If we also win win the league but lose in the Cup Semi-Final, how would you define our season?
GREENPINATA
Spot on re stadium facilities. For family reasons I was seated in the South Stand Front yesterday instead of my usual location in the Jock Stein Lower. I used to have a ST for South Stand Front until I relocated about 4 years ago.
I was shocked yesterday to discover that catering & toilet facilities are even worse than they were 4 years ago. The place is a crumbling wreck and needs to be demolished and rebuilt. It is an absolute disgrace and an embarrassment for a club of Celtic’s stature.
Never again.
Aff oot.
Cheerio for now.
I remember John MacNamee. I actually met him briefly when I was about 13 or 14. If he is still alive, he will be in his mid80s, I think.
SATURDAY 23rd APRIL 1904 – Only a week after Jimmy Quinn scored the Cup final hat-trick which made him the talk of the country, he scores five today as Kilmarnock are beaten 6-1 at Celtic Park. Jimmy McMenemy scores the other goal, but manager Maley is not there to see this game because he is at the Crystal Palace in London, watching his brother Tom’s Manchester City win the English Cup by beating Bolton Wanderers 1-0.
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I gave up my season ticket in South stand front in 2018 due to the shocking and lack of facilities.
I had to go into the Lisbon Lions stand to use a disabled toilet and as far as I know, that hasn’t changed
Good luck to our Ghirls today as they face Glasgow City at Hampden in the semi final of the Scottish Cup.
HH and COYGIG
GP- a great idea to play games at Hampden, a week before 2 SC semi finals………..
BB,
Agree.
As for the game itself, there will be virtually no atmosphere and I would imagine that will diminish the occasion for the players.
Better options are available.
HH.
For anyone who follows the ladies game, ideas on why Glasgow City has been so dominant in it for so many years? Interesting to know how they have managed to resist the onslaught of the SPL clubs throwing everything at them.