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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auldheid
09:49 on 10 July, 2014
Thanks very much for the detailed reply, I only hope there are enough voices like yours that are listened to and thought credible to make a difference with public opinion. Sadly though I think the fudge is almost complete, history books will remain and the biggest scandal in the history of sport is close to being swept away. Ask anyone south of the border and beyond what they think of tainted titles and they’ll not have a clue.
Fans like yourself of course need to keep up the fight but with each passing decision like yesterday’s I’d imagine more and more are beginning to give up. The only solution I can see to this now is to get out of Scottish football. I only hope that Paul 67’s mutterings on this are true and Celtic are doing everything they can on this front, though somehow I doubt it.
HH!
Bonus
Sitting watching the scores getting updated on the golf and remembered i’m in my bro’s with all the sky sports:))))).
Livi –
You know it, we know it………..
All along we’ve been waiting on a Gotcha Hun decision in this – we may still get one but FOTBF will ensure that victorious perception is scoddlands reality………
Ok can someone clear this up for my wee simple mind…..
If Rangers had lost the FTT what difference would it make if any to The Rangers 2012???
….If any?
bhoylo83
I think the problem is that it will almost certainly form the backdrop for the (re)writing of history.
HH jamesgang
The stabbed in the back, didn’t surrender or die and WATP routine will be in overdrive.
HH jamesgang
LiviBhoy 12.42
And he certainly wouldn’t have offered them £10m to settle…….
new article posted.
Speaks well does young Liam.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=784872784885962&id=133829389990308
Jamesgang
Thanks thats what i thought
bhoylo83
the difference imho is none to the current or future incarnation of of sevco but the main thing as far as i’m concerned is that for every decision that goes in favour of oldco t lessons their tainted image…basically the cheats won but got found not guilty of cheating blah blah…………though i’m willing to be corrected!!!
Some excellent points made regarding the latest cover up to protect the ghost of the establishment club.
Auldheid keep up the good work but like ellbhoy I fear the worst.
Scotland is institutionally sectarian and is rallying round it’s main vehicle to deliver that sectarianism.
That’s why thugs in NI are described as blood of our blood and bone of our bone.
That’s why it’s okay for anti catholic organisations to march again and again despite the fear intimidation and violence that follows it.
That’s why when the green brigade attempt to walk to celtic park they are kettled.
That’s why it’s illegal to bless yourself in the wrong way.
That’s why singing Irish folk songs can be illegal.
That’s why the OB was passed (to criminalise celtic fans and Catholics).
That’s why people need to leave Scotland to get promoted.
That’s why it was deemed fair to be able to sign players you can’t afford (no sporting advantage).
That’s why politicians and the media in Scotland are in denial that the Huns died with my whole new language being invented.
That’s why the armed forces are allowed to sing sectarian songs with impunity.
That’s why the Huns were allowed to practice apartheid even after South Africa ended their regime and we were told there just wasn’t a catholic good enough.
That’s why scottish referees went on strike even after one off their own was caught cheating (they were defending heir right to cheat).
I could go on…….
But the real worry is that celtic have joined in on all this. res 12 is critically important. If celtic stay completely silent and then we all return to being cheated and pretending nothing happened then what’s the point in effectively supporting sectarianism and our own subjugation.