History will record that season 2012-13 was more successful for Celtic than season 2013-14 but the champions’ league performances this season have been comparable only to those of season 2003-04, when the club completed a 25 game winning streak.
With seven games to go we have already collected five points more than the team which reached the knock out stages of the Champions League last season, and this season we have had a worthy competitor for second place, who are favourites to complete the domestic treble of League Cup, Scottish Cup and Best of the Rest titles.
Kris Commons, Virgil van Dijk and Fraser Forster have correctly gained enormous plaudits throughout the season but the story of Celtic’s success is more nuanced. We don’t just have a great keeper and a great central defender, we have a central defensive partnership which is better than either of the two partnerships I watched in the Manchester derby on Tuesday night.
In other times the story of our season would be the injuries at right back, but the standard of cover there, with Lustig, Matthews and Fisher, is such that no one really noticed.
The strikers didn’t really get going until Leigh Griffiths arrived in January, and much of our player investment over the summer missed the target. This had consequences on the autumn, when we came up short of last season’s (over) achievements in the Champions League, but we have a plentiful squad of players, including Forster, Lustig, Matthews, Izaguirre, Ambrose, van Dijk, Brown, Johansen and Commons who are more than capable at Champions League level, with others knocking at the door.
Congratulations to Neil, his technical team, the many who work to keep the ship pointing in the right direction, some behind the scenes and some front of house, and to each of the players who left their mark in the history books.
On the equivalent day six years ago, we recorded that Gordon Strachan had joined Willie Maley and Jock Stein as the only Celtic managers to have won three consecutive titles. Neil Lennon’s name is now added to that list.
With all this championship coverage, did the phrase ‘Good day to bury bad news’ slip into anyone’s mind? “There is a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence”.
You know when your chairman tells you he has a reasonable expectation the company will continue in existence that there’s nothing to worry about. All the doubters have been put in their place.
Seville – The Celtic Movement, is out now:
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Are we good for Meydan today Fleagle1888?
Cheers WITS
Out on the razzle last night …forgot I’d put it on …£10 ew…’ave it !!!!!
Fleagle1888
I assume it must be ok if the gaffer is napping a Meydan horse! I really should read back…
So.
Ruler of the World
Meydan 1805.
15-40 Stratford
GET BACK IN LINE
Som mes… it’s definitely OK…
:o)
KEMPTON 15:30
LANCELOT DU LAC
cheers and good luck all enjoy the party today!!!
Absolutely So 3:30
Picked with little thought going into it (as usual):)))
3:30 Kempton
Telt Ye :))
PF AYR
in money goes to money scandal.
Whodathunkit?
Well done,bud. And well done,WITS!
BMCUWP
Was out in Glasgow at La Lanterna …..sumptuous
Pished …..forgot that I’d put the bet on
Right good surprise when I opened my PP account this morning
Vercingetorix…chieftain of the Gauls
Bobby – he’s always moaning about his bad luck….who’s he kidding?! :-)
T4
Dance and Dance 3.15 Donny please, be lucky bhoys
I’ll go for one in Meydan as well, Ed Dunlop’s Joshua Tree in the Dubai Gold Cup (13:45 race).
Good luck
TTTT
TULLIUS………… 3.50 Don.
Chosen for the name as it is Latin for the immortal Charles Patrick.
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Well timed run has taken PF Ayr into Pole Position.
Great effort !
Sir Pitt 13:40 Uttoxeter
was 5th in triumph hurdle 2013, has dropped considerably in handicap, and should be capable of winning a low grade maiden.
HH
Hi There…………..3.50 Doncaster.
TOMMYTWISTSTOMMYTURNS 1132
His missus?
Bobby – aye good point! :-)
T4
Jacks revenge please in Lincoln.
Gl
McManus carve up
Vulcanite second horse …..gambled in then scooted in …
Mine was never put in the race
17:10 @ Navan – Jamesie Hall – NAP!
Good luck everybody.
CQN Saturday Naps Competition : Week 33/29th March results & standings
Week 33 winners :
Rockon Neil Lennon was the sole winner…(Benbens @15/8)
Cheers, fleagle1888