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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Not that I expect those who sing that dreadful song about Davie Cooper to care.
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I 100% agree with that. no one is saying we dont have wee arseholes on our support
i was in the Prince Charlie up at Parkhead Cross before the game on wednesday and a table of wee pish heads were singing about david murray
i never liked him, horrible cnt, but i dislkied him for reasons other than what these fuds were singing about
When caught supporting genocide and cornered shout Anti Semite. . . . .
exactly
define the rules not refine the rules to suit
Lets ( if I can call you by your first name ) you did say this…
“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”
Forgive me for not realising you did not exclude the 2.3 million Israeli Muslims from that statement.
And that klan….they sound useful…how do I get in touch with them….are they in the phone book ?
I mean it this time I am off for now. Smirking though at the image of the bitter Herr Fearon in his dimly lit basement frothing atthe mouth with hatred and his unfulfiiled life of mediocrity.
HH CQN
the moral high ground the Zionist apologists are trying to claim here is stacked rea high with dead bodies, most of them civilians
Norman Finkelstein from a talk in 2004
“…it’s an interesting thing to remember in the course of the attack on Lebanon in 1982 between June and September, about three and a half months, the estimates are, and the best estimates come from Robert Fisk, who I understand will be speaking here tomorrow, the best estimates are 18 to 20 thousand Palestinians and Lebanese were killed, overwhelmingly civilians. Now if you go to the Israeli website they post the number of Israeli’s who have been killed, or should I say Jews and Israeli’s who have been killed since the beginning of the Zionist movement, which they date from the 1860’s. So from the 1860’s to the present, namely a period of approximately 140’s years, they give a figure for the total number of Jewish and Israeli causalities, they give a figure, if you check the website for this year, of 21,000. So it’s 21,000 over a 140 year period. Now that figure includes all the victims of terrorism, as well as, all victims of the ’48 War, ’67 War, ’73 War, the ’69 to ’70 Canal War, the ’73 War, the ’87 first Intifada, the 2000 second Intifada, the whole period. 21,000 causalities over 140 years verses roughly 20,000 causalities over a three and a half month period, with the difference being, not trivial, that on the Israeli side it was overwhelmingly combatants. In Lebanon it was overwhelmingly civilians.”
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem all charged Israel with imposing an apartheid regime against the Palestinians …and this was before 7 October.
Here is the link for Medical Aid for Palestinians if anyone would like to donate
https://www.map.org.uk/
Free Palestine CSC
did i mention anything about Jews?
you didnt answer that.
no, i didnt.
we all know the narrative
it isnt fooling anyone anymore
Tevye on 4th March 2024 10:00 pm
Running away without having answered my question.
I would expect little else from thee.
Slán abhaile gasúr.
Tony Green
R.I.P.
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🐂🐂👁
As far as I can see abada left due to the pressure other israelis were putting on him
not the pressure the green brigade were putting on him
(as they supported Palestine – and never mentioned abada in their protests)
Therefore the story is a squirrel
He left due to pressure from israelis, not from celtic fans
And I will repeat that
Best for Abada to move, fresh start.
Best of luck Liel.
Have the club finally had enough?
KLV
KLV
The club are in between a rock and a hard place
As is abada
A fresh start suits both parties
Celtic have been compensated for their (and our) loss
Am sorry to see him go
And more importantly
Am sorry not to see him develop his talent with us
As far as I can see abada left due to the pressure other israelis were putting on him
not the pressure the green brigade were putting on him
(as they supported Palestine – and never mentioned abada in their protests)
Therefore the story is a squirrel
He left due to pressure from israelis, not from celtic fans
I have many Jewish friends. I have many Jewish Celtic supporting friends who I grew up with and played golf with at Bonnyton ( one of the few which allowed Catholics as well as Jews back in the day including one Charles Patrick Tully).
I also strongly disapprove of the horrific response to the cowardly and hideous attack on October the 7th.
I detest the Israeli leadership and their blatant warmongering and the effect on the poor and completely powerless civilian population of Palestine.
As for the extremist who shattered the potential of the Oslo agreement back in the day, I hope the worst that can befall any human being happens to that jailed Yemeni Jew monster.
As I said I have many Jewish Celtic supporting friends. Sadly many of these are now feeling less part of a club they have supported since we were kids. Some more than others.
That’s my position. Personally I can’t take a polarised view on this. It is very sad that our ‘club for all’ doesn’t seem quite so. Whatever the reason to me.
Hail George Galloway and all independent MPs …Hail Palestine and all other oppressed people.Hail the Celtic support despised in their own land for daring to be anti establishment .There is commonality amongst all three and I thank my parents and faith for installing in me similar views and values 🍀💚
B78 have you been hacked??
We have all been top toeing around our responses
And then you appeared……
Charles Barnett was THE main man behind making Fergus’s deal stick back in 94.
Charles was one of the original leaders of Fergus’s vision of the reborn Foundation supporting Celtics original founding principles.
He is a really good guy an huge Celt and a devout Jew. He has done more for the club than probably everyone who posts on this site. I find it sad that such as Charles will not be feeling as comfortable at Celtic park these days through no fault of his own. Jews and Zionist Israelis seem obviously very different to me but clearly not to all.
Celtic, nor any other sporting entity who has a shred of any moral decency should welcome anyone who supports the recent genocidal behaviour and the continual theft of land from the people of Palestine.
Perhaps we should have paraded Stuart Sutcliff around the place and got him to do the half time draw before he shuffled off this mortal coil.
This nonsense of a ‘Club for All’ is being conveniently been used like the ‘Anti Semite’ canard that get thrown about when those who support atrocities, atrocities that are being beamed out to a live televised audience worldwide, in order to take some of the heat off and frighten people away from calling a spade a spade.
The bullsh1t has run it’s course and people have finally seen it for what it truly is, a method of silencing opposition to the disgusting behaviour of thieving genocidal maniacs.
B78
Thats 2 posts you have put up that contradict each other
Do you “detest the Israeli leadership and their blatant warmongering and the effect on the poor and completely powerless civilian population of Palestine.”
and also “find it sad that such as Charles will not be feeling as comfortable at Celtic park these days through no fault of his own.”
very confusing
fecking golfers….
Burnley78
Indeed and bringing the 2 sides Gerald Weisfeld/Haughey together for the most successful share issue in football history.Ours.God bless them all.especially filled with thd hope of 30 years ago today.twas a busy morning @pkf offices.
HH
oligarchs and war-mongers
thats what society is built on
and we are funding it
Hmm.
SSFRA is the Scottish referees union.
Possibly unknown to most before we beat Sevco and they moaned about an offside player not getting a penalty.
Sevco publicly announce Collum “cannot be allowed involvement in any Rangers (sic) match going forward”
Strong stuff.
The SSFRA release a statement …. 3 days later.
Celtic manager questions the performance of Beaton in a match (NB – no mention of him being disallowed from Celtic games)
The SSFRA release a statement … the very next day !
You could be forgiven for thinking mild rebukes of Beaton by Celtic are treated with more urgency by that union than attempted blackballing of Collum by Sevco.
You really could.
PS – reports that SSFRA stands for Staunch Support For R@ngers Always …. are unconfirmed.
He is a really good guy an huge Celt and a devout Jew. He has done more for the club than probably everyone who posts on this site. I find it sad that such as Charles will not be feeling as comfortable at Celtic park these days through no fault of his own
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honestly
folk need to chuck it with this religious pish.
you all believe on the same god anyway
you just have a different interpretation of it
but it doesnt exist anyway
its just fairytail material
Anti-Zionism is different to anti-Semitism. I was brought up in a Catholic Jewish community in the Gorbals. My grandmother had many Jewish friends visit our home. They were all good people, kind, humorous and musical, as I remember them. My last period of work before I retired was in Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza. It is important to state that although Hamas is the ruling party in Gaza, there is opposition to them. Fatah, PLF, DFLP, National Democratic Assembly. Hamas is committed to armed resistance and the destruction of the Israeli State. Fatah on the other hand are more in favour of diplomacy as a means of resolving the situation. I spent some time in the refugee camp in Deir-al-Balah which was a Fatah stronghold. I found the people I met there more resentful than hateful towards the Israelis. They believed they could live alongside them although they still harboured strong grievances.
It was so very different in (an awe inspiring, beautiful) Jerusalem. You could feel it everywhere, everyday. A strong anti-Arab sentiment. Jerusalem born Arabs treated as second class citizens. Arab vehicles have different coloured registration plates to the Israelis and are pulled over frequently by police or IDF. When entering the West Bank, the road sign tells you you are entering an area controlled by the Palestinian Authority and ‘can be a danger to your life’.
Anyway, I don’t want to go on and on about it.
I kept in touch via Facebook with the people I worked with in Gaza. The last communication I had was with my translator friend Ahmed who posted a picture of his destroyed home. I have heard nothing more since then.
I was brought up in a Lithuanian Catholic Jewish community in the Gorbals.
Neil Lennon making the shitballs and the media throws them.
I figured he wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed but this confirms it.
“When asked about Rodgers calling out Beaton’s part in Sunday’s decision making process Lennon said: “I’m a little bit uncomfortable about that but it’s not for me to say. That’s for other people to maybe take him to one side and have a word with him on it.”
Most peoples views on the shite that is happening in palestine as…
Take your country
Have it bombed it for 20 years
Then squeeze its borders with your army
so now the peoples live in poverty in a compressed space
Whilst getting bombed
Expect them to take it
But when they expectantly break out
Level what is left of their land
FREE PALESTINE
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS
I was brought up in a Lithuanian Catholic Jewish community in the Gorbals.
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So who are you and what do you identify with?
And f you were to get a takeaway of a friday evening
Which one of the above would you recommend?
Just when and where have any celtic fans said anything about Jews ??
I’m struggling to find one example.
If some Celtic fans dont like the GB’s protests for Palestine and against Zionism then who has the problem here ?
Yes the history of the middle east is complicated, but thats because it has been designed to be.
As for stating that the GB should not fly the Palestinian flag because they do not support other causes – feck right off – pathetic logic.
btw Tevye, thoughts on the genocide ? What have St Pauli said about the genocide, the starvation, the occupation ?
Lennon needs the msm, the media, the panelist gigs etc right now cos football doesnt seem to.
SPIKEYSAULDMAN
no fucker ever said anything against the jews
just
Free Palestine
As far as I can see abada left due to the pressure other israelis were putting on him
not the pressure the green brigade were putting on him
(as they supported Palestine – and never mentioned abada in their protests)
Therefore the story is a squirrel
He left due to pressure from israelis, not from celtic fans
Free Palestine!
phil
“The orchestrated anti Israel display” – bullshit, plain and simple
Its jews and israelis
The fuck are we not debating refereeing decisions
1 person in out entire 1st team, youth and female squads
ITS A FECKING SQUIRREL YOU DUMB BASTERTS
ITS ALL ABOUT VAR AND THE REFS
NOT THE WTF IS HAPPENING IN A COUNTRY WE DO NOT BELONG TO
As far as I can see abada left due to the pressure other israelis were putting on him
not the pressure the green brigade were putting on him
(as they supported Palestine – and never mentioned abada in their protests)
Therefore the story is a squirrel
He left due to pressure from israelis, not from celtic fans
SORRY THAT SHOULD READ
1 person in our entire 1st team, youth and female squads
the refs and var are bent
Look
A fecking squirrel
TurkeyBhoy
“What I will say on this subject,not the mayhem,is that the anti Jewish feelings,running throughout the UK is an utter disgrace stoked by illiterate morons and bigots.Seems in their narrow minds they have great trouble seperating Jews,from,Israelis”
Sounds just like the gaslighting gimp Sunak. You forgot to throw in words like hate, mob, hordes, stormed.
Where do you get your UK info ? from GB News ? In Glasgow e.g. I have been on most demos against the genocide since they started. Not once have I heard an anti-Jewish sentiment. I’ve heard plenty about racism, apartheid, occupation, genocide and starvation. I’m sure you know the difference between jews and the Israeli Leaders/IDF ?