Chill your jets. Far better to win and score five goals in a preseason friendly than to lose, but these games are all about improving fitness, the score is the least important aspect. Notwithstanding that, I’m pleased Teemu Pukki showed some form in front of goal. I don’t think Celtic would stand in his way if he found a potential new employer, but if he remains with us this season, his pace is likely to sit comfortably with the Ronny Deila model.
After missing the bulk of the last two Champions League campaigns through injury and Brazilian diving, news that Scott Brown will miss an extended period as a consequence of his hamstring injury is a blow to club and player.
It could have been worse. Celtic lost Scott for the bulk of last season’s Champions League on 1 October, when they were unable to compensate by tweeking the squad. Expectations are we will be without the player until October and we are only nine days into the transfer window. Lots of time to ensure we are at full strength when the meaty part of the season starts.
Brazil players and Phil Scolari turned up for yesterday’s semifinal wearing Naymar caps in the absence of their star striker. Their Excuse To Fail – emblazoned across their foreheads. Literally!
Add to the mix what can only be described as inappropriately enthusiastic anthem singing, while holding up the no. 10 shirt of, let’s remember, another player, not a fallen war hero, and you have all the ingredients for cloudy and unstructured thinking, instead of focus and awareness.
I don’t doubt this was all well-meaning but it was amateurish naivety. Players should turn up to a stadium with their game plan dominating their minds, not lamenting the loss of their best hope, having been consumed by national pride, one of mankind’s enduring fallacies. The Brazilian FA should immediately sack Roy Hodgson Big Phil.
Has all this Tour de Yorkshire business put you in the mood to get the bike out? If you why don’t you sign up for the Cardenden Cycle, which this year takes place on 6 September. You cycle from Celtic Park to the grave of John Thomson in Cardenden, Fife, a 64 mile journey. Full details are here.
If your cycling days are over, they are looking for drivers and stewards… if you’re available.
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Coolmore Mafia, I’ve got a pal in Holland who believes everything that has happened to the hun in the past few years was contrived by the hand of your moniker’s devious members.
Is oor Craig a member?
I do hope so.
HT, well seeing it’s not a school night for you. Ya wee howler ye.
That was some dinner you had with your priest!!!!
HT, did you see my query about tickets for the first murrayfiled qualifier?
I can call the ticket office later today but I thought the esteemed blog would give me the scoop.
Looking for one ticket for my boy but I’m still in the dark over the SB ticket for myself and the possibility of getting two beside each other.
I’ve got a bit of slack work day today and some new drams to try so it’s goodnight from me.
Hail Hail Lionel Messi
ACGR
Sorry I’ve just been watching the BBC coverage of Israel’s slaughter of innocents in Gaza, it reminded me of their coverage of Belfast, Derry and South Armagh in the 80/90s.
Re your ticket query, does mini ACGR have a season book mate?
PP is only just away, what a fantastic human being!!
In the midst of the anniversary of the Hunger Striker’s deaths the words of Pearce seem appropriate.
The Mother
I do not grudge them: Lord, I do not grudge
My two strong sons that I have seen go out
To break their strength and die, they and a few,
In bloody protest for a glorious thing,
They shall be spoken of among their people,
The generations shall remember them,
And call them blessed;
But I will speak their names to my own heart
In the long nights;
The little names that were familiar once
Round my dead hearth.
Lord, thou art hard on mothers:
We suffer in their coming and their going;
And tho’ I grudge them not, I weary, weary
Of the long sorrow–And yet I have my joy:
My sons were faithful, and they fought.
— Padraic H Pearse (Written the night before his execution 1916)
Billy Bhoy 05
We’re not sectarian, we’re of Irish descent, regardless of religion. This song is inspired by the United Irishmen, made up of many faiths.
http://youtu.be/8hHq-jlj6zQ
And at this point many will look back and wish that teacher’s holidays weren’t quite so long :-)
Hail Hail, God Bless and remember………Tiocfaidh ar la.
Last one.
For those who criticise Jeanette Findlay on here, this is her yesterday highlighting the barbarity of anti homelessness spikes in Glasgow City centre.
@JeanFind: Anti-anti-homeless spikes kerfuffle: I’m like Pavlov’s dog, point a camera at me and I start making a speech! https://t.co/Hw3KVo45O3
Ps the guy who removed them is a member of the Green Brigade.
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summa of sammi….
23:36 on 9 July, 2014
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Think the Krull factor might come back to Haunt Van Gal..
Summa
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Massive mistake by Van Gal to play for Penalties then have the Goalkeeper you had NO confidence in for the last game between the Sticks..
Must have gave Argentina a Boost and Put more pressure on the Dutch Keeper..
Summa
The people not welcome at Parkhead are the men who’re willing to be arrested for standing up for the homeless.
Take a bow Gary, our founders would be proud.
Kojo, TSD and a few others are going to be delighted with those posts :-)
We came as rebels guys, we’re still the same :-)
HAMILTON TIM
JF need nae waste her time asking the council to do something about it;I suspect that they were behind it!
Canny have that sort clogging up the streets and alleyways wi The Commonwealth Games about to start. What sort of message does that send to the world?
Btw,they probably got the idea from Atlanta and Sydney prior to the 1996 and 2000 Olympics.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/01/us/as-olympics-approach-homeless-are-not-feeling-at-home-in-atlanta.html
BMCUW
GCC weren’t responsible, they were actually instigating the removal.
Then a Green Brigader took humanity and decency into his/our own hands.
Ps I’m sure the Orange Order were planning the removal.
I’ve heard the saying when In Rome do as the Romans do…. Woke up and guess what? ….I’ve brought our rain with me:((
Ach well, had a great time yesterday, we’re Segway experts now and saw most of Rome on a three hour tour.
Vatican tour tomorrow, a few sets of rosary beads to be purchased. oh, and a postcard with the pope being sent too the hun work. ;)
What a disappointment last nights game was!
The UFH?
http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/91274795751/tier-drop-to-tear-drop-rangers-the-utt-the-ftt#
Summa of Sammi….
04:33 on
10 July, 2014
Couldn`t have put it better myself.
Well,actually I probably could……….:-)
Good mornign friends fron a beutifuklly dry and calm and broken-sunshined East Kilbride.
Jobo Baldie
Language Timothy :O( Mornin Jobo
BMCUW-
I listened to a report on the spikes on BBC Radio Scotland yesterday. A Glasgow City Councillor said, “No permission was asked for or granted. The council have given them a week to remove the spikes. If they do not comply, they will be fined 5,000 each day they remain.”
Whatever the result of the BTC the undisputed fact is Oldco hid side letters from the SFA. Their players were registered falsely and illegally for years. Begs the question, why hide the letters if you thought all was above board?
No they knew the EBT scheme was well dodgy and I’d like to know who if anyone within the SFA was aware of their existence at the time. As the testimony given to the LNS enquiry was laughable in this regard and stunk to high heaven.
HH!
They’re still dead, regardless of what some judge says.
Morning all.
SIPSINI
Glad you’re having a good time. Shame about the rain! It’s nice here. Had à barbie last night! Enjoy the rest of the holiday.
HH!!
Just been hearing how a family of 9, including elderly and children, while killed by a mortar attack in Gaza while they were watching the game on TV.
Good job defending yourselves you Zionist dogs.
Seems I made the correct decision last night.
Bet draw and went to bed early…
Morning all. Glorious once again. Could get used to this. Long may it continue.
Do we play Dukla Prague tonight? Name still resonates down the years…..Gives me a good feeling, unlike that of the undead.
Last nights game proved to me that maradona was a better player than messi is at the moment. Messi was almost completely anonymous last night. Yes I know messi was marked very tightly last night but maradona had that tight marking in almost very match he played.
Also on van gaal’s decision to replace the keeper in the quarter final shoot out. I heard someone say on the radio that it was a psychological master stroke as the Costa Rica players would immediately be thinking this keeper is a penalty specialist and they lost confidence because of that. I can see the merits of that argument and agree with it to a fair extent. On the other hand the Argentina players would have drawn confidence from the fact that the Dutch keeper wasn’t replaced last night because in their minds they would have rightly been thinking this keeper isn’t as good as krul at saving pens. Also from the keepers point of view his confidence would have been shot to pieces because van gaal’ obviously didn’t trust him in the quarter final penalty shoot out.
Parkheadcumsalford –
Dukla tomorrow night 5:30 Celtic Park time.
Stunning here over Stirlingshire this morning.
Pesky commuting malarkey!
Made worse reading about all your early retired gorgeous young things here on CQN!
;-)
HH jamesgang
Jamesgang
1st night of Pre Season training tonight?? You up to the task??
HH
HT
Reading your posts on the treatment of the poor, reminded me of the time I was in Brazil on a fact finding mission. One day we visited a Residence for homeless young people. The Director whom we had been scheduled to meet was not present as she was attending the funeral of a former guest who had been shot by the police on the Copa Cabana. It appeared that this happened frequently to homeless youth as big companies wanted the homeless youth removed from the fashionable areas because their appearance in these places was bad for business. Plus ça change…
Tom McLaughlin
08:09 on
10 July, 2014
Just been hearing how a family of 9, including elderly and children, while killed by a mortar attack in Gaza while they were watching the game on TV.
Good job defending yourselves you Zionist dogs.
Why are you getting so uptight about this?.Do you know anything of the trouble?.Or only what you see on TV.I lived and worked with these people for over 23 years,believe me,there is so much you dont know.It is not all one sided,never has been.
Some of the comments on here recently are smacking of Racism,and Anti Semitic.
tallybhoy,
The sun has burnt through, gorgeous here now, a wee pub crawl is on the cards.;))
Hutchybhoy
Might be tight as I’m at a meeting in Edin till late pm so not due back till prob half 6.
Will drop you a text to confirm which train I end up getting.
HH jamesgang
Sipsini
I can see the nice crease on those ironed breeks from here! Good ironing mhate.
HH jamesgang
Jamesgang
No problem
HH
sipsini
Good mhan, but remember to pace yerself!
Find a nice spot and watch the world and all those long-legged beauties go by!
Cin cin!
HH!!
Copy of the sun lying open on the train. Didn’t touch it. Promise.
Heads must roll is the headline. Usual suspects from SPL and SFA cited as being targets for rfc rip fans. Petrie too and our own PL.
The ugly side of Scottish media and society are priming themselves for a summer of uber ugliness I fear.
HH jamesgang