Celtic were done by VAR yesterday. After receiving soft-ish penalty kick, which VAR John Beaton was unable to overturn (because the decision was technically correct in every aspect), he intervened twice in incidents which left scope for referee interpretation. Consequentially, he determined not only the outcome of the game, but which team tops the league table today.
While struggling against Motherwell a week ago, clear comparable incidents to yesterday’s penalty and red card against Celtic were overlooked. Yang’s red card was the most egregious of the decisions and ultimately led to everything that followed at Tynecastle.
For unrelated reasons, Celtic remain within touching distance of the top of the table. Newco’s impressive record of only having lost to Celtic since September crashed at home to Motherwell. The two-point gap at the top of the table will not determine who wins the league as much as which team plays better in the remaining fixtures. On that point, there is reason to be hopeful.
Yesterday’s 2-0 defeat was completely different than when Hearts won by the same result in December. Celtic’s passing, movement and purpose was significantly better at Tynecastle. We still struggle to know what our best 11 is.
Without injured Callum McGregor, there was still no place for Kyogo, who started on the bench. After coming on at halftime, our Japanese fulcrum put in one of his better performances of the season, playing in a deeper role, behind Adam Idah. In a side without Reo Hatate and Callum McGregor, there should have been a place for Kyogo.
Look back at the players faces after fulltime at Fir Park, the smiles and camaraderie, which had been missing, was clear to see. Teambuilding took a further step forward on Wednesday and I am sure yesterday’s shenanigans will further build a siege mentality into the squad.
A friend recalled the 1979, 1986 and 2008 league wins this week. Celtic looked unlikely to win around this time of the year in both those seasons, but they clicked at the right moment, leading to wins some of us still talk about. It’s on.
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punxsawtawneyphil on 4th March 2024 7:45 pm
“worst pogrom since the 2nd world War”
Jesus wept.
The hyperbole police are on the way.
The hasbara is strong here today . . . . . . .
HAIRLIKESPAGHETTI on 4TH MARCH 2024 7:47 PM
Clunks @ 7:29pm…I get your point re getting a decent fee for Abada, but how much more could we have won and how mucch more could we have demanded in a year or two if those coked-up pretendy-Ultras in the corner had actually stuck to supporting Liel, rather than isolating and alienating one of our best young prospects and driving him out the club? We’ll never know, but at least they got to wave a flag….
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So many ifs and buts matey
Ta Ta Abada
Dont let the door bruise your ego/ass on the road out
From around 1m 10s in- Sugar Ray Robinson tap dances-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNez1BxW2tg
TEVYE on 4TH MARCH 2024 3:41 PM
Tevye-all things Abada related? Yet zero comment on the serious harassment he has received from zionist groupings in Israel
Beg your pardon Tevye,to the state of Israel it is a big deal.They shoot freely at funerals of those having it draped on their coffin as done long before the Hamas slaughter of 7th Oct
A peaceful response in words,to the resistance that has been going on long before netanyahus invention-Hamas slaughter,a resistance that went back some 75 years(nakba)with tbe ethnic cleansing and deathcampification of Gaza since then.
I guess the deck chairs wont be getting laid out in Huj/Sderot to watch the bombing of innocent civilians in the concentration camp that was Gaza for a while
We do not need to rewrite history,as some reading had relatives who saw the results of dehumanization of their fellow man in Dachau and Belsen first hand,they are now watching the same subhuman tropes and genocide live in their newsfeeds by the minute,famine occurring/brought on
and no medical infrastructure or aid, no power or water to relieve suffering
Its not a jewish homeland,it was given to jews by the British,who the fook are they to give someone elses land? they have form,the parallels with the protestant state for a protestant people(stateen 6)and Netanyahus/settlers israel are there both in state violence and resistance(israel tho is a nuclear power so it wont loose) ,its a zionist genocidal apartheid state that bastardizes the honourable jewish faith tbat has given so much to every facet of life on this planet.
Am afraid Tevye you cant call out tbe horrific events at the music festival while opting to show subhumanity by not mentioning the genocide currently getting viewed nightly on
our televisions.i do hope your not implying being anti genocide is anti semitic,that would demean both your history(the nazis 1933-45)and mine(irisb genocide 1840-51) where famine(a common British weapon) was harnessed.We remember our own Genocide,our club was founded out of An Gorta Mor that is why the irish as well as anyone with humanity object to the Genocide currently ongoing in Gaza…we do not turn away,
Netanyahus/Settler israel has become the hatred it suffered under the Nazis,there is hardly a quote from Yad Vashem that could not be reinterpreted to the palestinian people,thats the dishonour he forces on honourable jews.i am glad many object to his govt,there is hope there.
St Pauli as an antifa group can do or protest in their own way,i do wish they would protest more virulently against the state which,Germany whose bombs and bullets currently are killing thousands in Gaza.i would even suggest the fetishization with death is owned by israel,the victim with the nuclear bomb will not be defeated.
We are nowhere,nor will we ever be near
your stereotyping of The Celtic Support.
No jewish player is being “hounded out”
especially as Genocide(not mentioned by you) is pointed out,we see the genocide,we see you ignoring it.The jewish fans i know are still going and free to opine on the disaster for israel that is this netanyahu/settler govt.
You,as pointed out earlier by others have no evidence of any of them chucking it,going to away games is a problem no matter who you are.And yes we are and always will be a club open to all,Celtic park is a welcome space for jews,protestants,sikhs,hindus,muslims and of course the faith of our founding Brother Walfrid,Catholicism
There are no chosen people,there are only Celtic fans of all persuasions backing a team founded out of the genocide of An Gorta Mor.
May we long shine a light on Genocide and oppression i apologize to no one who commits Genocide
Not seen anyone deny jews a ‘homeland’ but it is queastionable when that land results in others being ethnically cleansed as has been the case si ce 1948.i am certainly not denying Netanyahubirthed Hamas slaughter at the music festival,and i do not deny Genocide by the apartheid zionism that soils both jewishness and the state of Israel which you do not mention once.
Genocide is called out,not by you
Netanyahu/settler Govt are compromising Jews more than any anti semitic racist ever could.
Do watch please
https://youtu.be/qlcqsKvTSPw?si=j_sGhktXHLL_UgQc
Rabbi Herzog was indeed a most honorable man,irish speaker,advisor to Dail and De Valera,most notably he loathed discrimination foisted on other faiths leaving ireland in 1936 to become Adhkenazic head Rabbi in Palestine.we know our history Tevye,all of it not selective parts.
https://forward.com/culture/135979/the-rebbe-of-sinn-fein/
Peace my friend
HH
Here’s my tuppence worth on the decisions yesterday.
1. Our penalty – def soft and could have gone either way, except had it been Rangers when a penalty would have been given without hesitation by any referee in the country.
2. The sending off – very harsh and not helped by the fact the hearts player crumpled. I don’t think he was touched and certainly not in the face. Other challenges of a similar nature have not resulted in red cards.
3. Their penalty – a terrible decision. The rules state a penalty is given when a player “ touches the ball with their hand/arm when it has made their body unnaturally bigger. A player is considered to have made their body unnaturally bigger when the position of their hand/arm is not a consequence of, or justifiable by, the player’s body movement for that specific situation.“
There is no reasonable application of that rule which would have resulted in that penalty being given.
Both VAR and the referee were at fault. If either of them, let alone both, had assessed the incident correctly no penalty would have been given.
SFTB – priceless. Sides and abdomen sore from laughing.
Hairlike – you got me. 🤦
In my defence – genuinely was the spell checker.
2.3 million people trapped in gaza.
half the population of scotland.
imagine us all herded to the ayrshire coast and attacked day in, day out.
offski
2.3 million people trapped in gaza.
half the population of scotland.
imagine us all herded to the ayrshire coast and attacked day in, day out.
offski
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and being carried out with complete impunity by a country that is less than twice the size of scotland.
how can such a small country hold so much control over so many of the biggest countries military and political strategies.
all paid for by the tax payers of those countries – including us – while the politicians who support it from those countries rake in millions for themselves from the israeli lobby klan
absolutely criminal
Bognorbhoy
From last blog.
👏😂👍
is it just my perception or does Phil McG not like Scottish people too much?
So many things I’ve read of his over the last few years have made me think that.
SFTB
Sugar Ray Robinson. The greatest boxer in pugilistic history. So there now.
feel sorry for Sheff Utd but that game had a tanking written all over it before it started
bookies were taking no chances with their odds
Had to Google what hasbara was.
Every day is a schoolday.
LETS ALL DO THE HUDDLE on 4TH MARCH 2024 8:19 PM
I have thought that for a long time.He forgets that his origins are in Scotland, his education and upbringing here.Goes to Ireland,changes his name and spends most of his time telling us how great both he and his family are
He forgets many of are of Irish origin we stayed here and thanks to education and hard work succeeded again the all the odds.His superior attitude stinks.KTF
I like that Arsenal strip. Reminds me of our bumblebee kit.
Clunks @7:53
So many ifs and buts matey
Ta Ta Abada
Dont let the door bruise your ego/ass on the road out
Any examples of this supposed ego, or just your true colurs showing, matey?
Abada is a side story to what happened at the weekend
Lets not get pulled off track
Abada has agreed to leave us and has not yet inked the contract
Abada is the squirrel
VAR and the refs is where our anger should focus
Greenpinta,
I thought it was from the song,
“Oh ra wee Cock Sparra,sat oan hasbarra”
I have thought that for a long time.He forgets that his origins are in Scotland, his education and upbringing here.Goes to Ireland,changes his name and spends most of his time telling us how great both he and his family are
He forgets many of are of Irish origin we stayed here and thanks to education and hard work succeeded again the all the odds.His superior attitude stinks.KTF
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I think he blames the current scottish generation for the slave trade, the famine and the british east india company.
nothing i could have done about any of those things to be fair
Phil mac is a dinosaur
If he were a hun he would be running around with an orange holland top on…
I detest the man
Seeing some of the comments,and they wonder why Abada is leaving.Sometimes hard to tell this blog from FF.
And the comments on there are rank.A club open to all.Aye,but as long as you dont disagree with the Flock.
Some of the supposed intelligent comments on the subject that they espouse so much,sheer,unadulterated drivel.No idea where they get it from.Probably the same websites as Kev J.So much nonsense,it has to be.
LETS ALL DO THE HUDDLE Yes,History can’t be changed or rewritten practices that are not acceptable today were considered ok in times past
We can only hope that we can learn from the past and not make the same mistakes in the future.History is littered with examples of our inability to learn I suppose that is something deep root
ed in our human nature.
Heres a wee tip from an aethiest.Get your Bible out and read the Old Testament.This is only for the historical experts.
TURKEYBHOY
Been on FF a few times over the last week
They seem to complain about the referees, injuries and defense as much as we do
As in, same bollox – different bag…..
McElwaine is just livid that he wasn’t born in Ireland, and he’s gone full plastic on it trying to convince everyone he’s more Irish than the Irish themselves, smattering his blogs with misspelled Gaeilge words, used in the wrong context most of the time and name dropping authors that he’s just after finding on google in order to appear like an intellectual is some of the cac bó he used to stroke on there.
He calls the SMSM stenographers, when he himself is but a mere stenographer who is jotting down what was told to him with regard to the Rangers implosion, you’re not going to find out those details sitting in the brown bogs on the outskirts of Gortahork!
Calling your child ‘Baby doctor’ had me cringing on his behalf.
Goes to Ireland,changes his name
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Writes his family name as it was originally in Irish before it was changed by English colonisers.
Fixed that for you
Turkeybhoy on 4th March 2024 9:18 pm
I’m not surprised the Donmeh shy away from the New Testament.
if Abada left because he doesnt like supporters opposing a genocide then thats his issue not ours.
if he left because he wanted to play somewhere else then thats what most players come to scotland to do anyway.
so if he wants to come out publicly and say why he wanted to leave then im all for him doing that.
none of us know but my 2 guesses are –
1 – he didnt like celtic fans opposing a genocide
2 – scottish football is pish so he wanted to play somewhere else
but unless you know for sure then dont come on and abuse the fans
LETS ALL DO THE HUDDLE
Fecking nailed it
Phil (Douglas Hurd) McIlvanney?
MCPHAIL BHOy
Is that what his letters from the govt say
Or is that only for his website
Be interesting to know that?
If he hasnt changed his name to
phil mac giolla bhain legally
Then its just an online persona
Like clunks or McPhail Bhoy
LETS ALL DO THE HUDDLE Yes,History can’t be changed or rewritten practices that are not acceptable today were considered ok in times past
We can only hope that we can learn from the past and not make the same mistakes in the future.History is littered with examples of our inability to learn I suppose that is something deep root
ed in our human nature.
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but regardless of what century it is done, it is always done for the same reasons – to allow a very small number of people to make themselves massive amounts of cash by sending the rest out to get their heads blown off or making them work for peanuts
and it still hasnt changed now
Yes greed and power.
Clunks-Abada may be a side story to you but anti Semitism should be front and centre of any discussion about Celtic right here right now. All the posters above piling in about Israel are entitled to their view. It’s funny though that I write in about anti Semitism here in Glasgow in our support only to be met with challenges about Netanyahu. WTF he has to do with me I do not know far less somehow me being held accountable for him because I am Jewish.
Lets take this back. Abada left because of that display that day at that time. Whether the GB have before or since championed the Palestinian cause is irrelevant . That day they crossed a line into plain to see anti Semitism. It was no accident. And it need not be linked to anything else.
Abada was hounded out by our own-no one else. Time to reflect on that and what that says about us.
Not that I expect those who sing that dreadful song about Davie Cooper to care.
And Let’s All do the Huddle….If we Jews were half as powerful as you suggest do you not think we would have been able to fix the Celtic Park WIFI by now ?
St Stivs -some trivia -that Real Game was ten years before my time but what a line up. I met Jimmy Farrell ( Director of Celtic sometime and Jim Craig’s father in law) at the PSG game in Paris in the 90’s ( Pierre missed a sitter remember ) and he told me a Celtic team also went out to ” the Holy Land ” around then to play an exhibition match , Jimmy Farrell met and forged a lifelong friendship with Abba Eban a heavyweight Israeli politician.
I do not intend to continue the debate I have made my points.
Hail Hail and Shalom.
And Let’s All do the Huddle….If we Jews were half as powerful as you suggest do you not think we would have been able to fix the Celtic Park WIFI by now
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i didnt mention anything about Jews
but you know that anyway and no-one is falling for that shite anymore
Lets take this back. Abada left because of that display that day at that time.
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how do you know that?
TEVYE
To you, he is front and centre
To Celtic and her fans – he is the squirrel
In a weekend of obfuscation and mirrors
“All the posters above piling in about Israel are entitled to their view.”
AND YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THAT
No one has over stepped the mark or tried to force their religious and political beliefs onto others
Apart from you?
“That day they crossed a line into plain to see anti Semitism. It was no accident. And it need not be linked to anything else.”
Anti semetism
Please explain