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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KevJungle – Murdo Macleod is my favorit CELTIC player ever.
So PL bought Balde and PL bought Pukki but now he wants to punt both but Lenny was punted because he signed those two and Derk and they flopped.
I love these PL theories.
I know we will never agre but do you ever read your posts and think wait a minute every thing that goes wrong is PL fault but anything good is not him.
You can;t have it all ways. If he runs the team and makes the signings then you must praise his good ones. Victor Wanyama, Fraser Forster and VVD have been not bad signings for a man with no playing experience or coaching badges.
LB
jamesgang
16:29 on 9 July, 2014
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Thanks for the praise fella.
But, you know what?
When sumdy praises me….it means that
I have to leave cos, ‘you’ll’ get the thorn from
yon shower of – Hahahahahahhahappy Clappers :)
Take care Amigo – Off oot.
LiviBhoy
16:34 on 9 July, 2014
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With respect – what are ye talking about?
livibhoy
16:28 on 9 July, 2014 Tricoloured Ribbon That should be dwarves.
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http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/dwarf
Kevjungle
I’m your worst nightmare then mhate. A happy clapper who just agreed with you!!!
;-)
Mwah ha ha ha ha!
HH jamesgang
jamesgang
16:40 on 9 July, 2014
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:))))))
Aye, you just keep clapping.
Thing is, you don’t ‘Hahahhahahhappy-Clap’
cos yer simple, which yer not, not by any means
you do it cos yer the real-deal. imho
Hail Hail & KTF with RD & JC
Off oot this time, bye.
hmrc lose appeal againt thon deed yins
is that the end of it or can they re appeal
Kev
Reckon I’m prob 7 out of 10 on the happy clapper Richter scale. Critical friend of the CFC establishment.
You ok today mhate. You’re being v nice and constructive and fell into Edinburgh speak with an ‘off out’ this morning!
SunstrokeCSC ;-)
HH jamesgang
hoopy-do
16:49 on 9 July, 2014
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Only a fool would be surprised by that decision. imho
The only time that the huns have ‘ever’ faced TRUE Justice
was during the 1980 Hamden riot – the ‘only’ time that emdy
had the b#lls to fight them back. Sad, but too true. imho
Away oot afore all the self pittying begins, bye.
Guys..emdy put me onto a decent hotel in Amsterdam that wont eat into the drinks budget too much. There’s so many to choose.
Going for 2 nts with mrs ME end of month.
Cheers
jamesgang
16:50 on 9 July, 2014
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Ha, a slip of the key-‘bored’ :)
Anyway, watch yerself on here
There’s A Storm Coming…..(The Dark Knight)
Off out :)
Hoopy-do,
Look on the bright side they committed suicide for nothing :oD)))
Had they paid the wee tax bill they might still be with us.
KevJungle – Murdo Macleod is my favorit CELTIC player ever.
I’m trying to work out who PL signed and who he hasn’t. You got a list?
LB
SSN reporting HMRC lost appeal on EBT`s
livibhoy,
If you can provide the list Neil Lennon signed then we can take it from there
Found this on tsfm
http://www.tribunals.gov.uk/financeandtax/Documents/decisions/HMRC-v-Murray-G.pdf
Sneddoni 16:24
Thanks for your kind words. I take it your missus is Brasilian and/or you were watching last night’s debacle in Brasil?
…..BEFORE last night there were persistent rumours that Felipao’s agent, Jorge Mendes, (who also has Mourinho, Queiroz, Ronaldo and a host of others on his book) had negotiated a deal for him with Benfica. Felipao has family in Portugal and never hid his admiration for the place.
However, after last night………………
neil canamalar lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
16:58 on 9 July, 2014
Hoopy-do,Look on the bright side they committed suicide for nothing :oD)))
Had they paid the wee tax bill they might still be with us.
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too true. that does bring a smile to my face!
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
Neil signed all the players that came into the club when he was manager. He was the gaffer.
LB
Big Phil will always have my gratitude for putting out England’s ‘golden generation’ in the 2002 WC QF, preventing them from progressing to a semi-final with either Turkey, S.Korea or a very average, struggling Germany.
He won Brazil’s fifth World Cup, and they won’t forget that, despite how spectacularly wrong he got it last night, along with the players of course.
Brazil have given me too many wonderful moments watching football since 1970 for me not to feel sorry for them today, despite the shortcomings of the present team.
It was a perfect storm. . . Brazil at their worst, Germany playing with everyone at their best, and on a night where virtually every ball a German player hit went in, even Schuerrle.
I’d also like to thank those who described the Broonie/Neymar incident truthfully. As I said the other day, Neymar didn’t use some form of mind control to make Broonie give him a wee kick as he lay on the Parkhead turf.
Wasn’t the CVA rejected basically on the vote of HMRC, whose vote was swelled on the basis that the large tax bill money was owed?
If they’d had this decision 2 years ago the CVA would have been accepted, and they would have survived administration.
Breaks my heart, so it does.
Celtic Mac @ 14:26….
Re Scott’s injury.
You did post that you had not seen the incident but “imagine that it involved an overextended lunge of some sort or other.
I think that is unfair.
He injured himself after about 40 seconds of the match with his second touch after controlling a shy from Charlie Mulgrew on his chest and, under pressure from an opponent, trying to bring the high ball under control.
As for his sending-off against Neymar, both Neil Lennon and Gordon Strachan were of the opinion that he was harshly treated.
The French referee Lanois did not produce the red immediately. He was pressured by both Fabregas and Busquets and Scott paid the penalty unfortunately.
In the first half Monsieur Lanois actually spoke to Neymar after the Brazilian took a dive just outside our penalty area in an attempt to win a free kick (it is what he does) but was not brave enough to show him a yellow.
I happened to watch the French League Cup Final between PSG and Lyon at the end of last season when Lanois was in charge and he let a lot of tasty challenges go completely unpunished.
Scott was very harshly treated for an innoucuos flick of his foot.
McDowell Celt @ 13:17…
I think the you are referring to the 3-3 game v St Johnstone at McDiarmid Park when Scott Brown came on as a substitute at the start of the second half and completely transformed our fortunes.
In my opinion, he is our most influential player and will be a big loss in the weeks ahead.
I am sure however our management team will have a plan to
mitigate the loss of our captain.
sonsoferin
My sincerity meter didn’t register there.
Must need to change the batteries!
;-)
HH jamesgang
Because of his many strengths and despite his several (obvious) limitations and weaknesses I’ve grown to really rate Scott Brown.
Took a while for us to get the player I hoped we’d bought from Hibs but we got there eventually.
I think we miss his presence on the pitch even though he seldom hits the target with a shot and isn’t the world’s greatest passer of a ball by any stretch.
WeirdButTrue(IMHO)CSC
HH jamesgang
The question of the termination payments is referred back to FTT.
90.
The appeal is dismissed except in so far as it relates to the termination payments. I shall remit the case to the FTT (i) with a direction to allow the taxpayers’ appeals against the assessments relating to the payments to the sub-trusts of Sir David Murray, his sons,
Mr McClelland and Mr MacMillan; (ii) to proceed as accords in relation to the termination payments, the payments in respect of guaranteed bonuses, and any related questions of grossing up. Standing my findings and my disposal, the remit should be to the FTT as originally constituted. I reserve meantime all questions of expenses.
Can somebody tell me what this appeal ruling had to do with tinkerbell fc!.
So
If HMRC have ‘lost’ their appeal as is being reported, are we to expect subsequent appeals?
I was of the understanding that HMRC would see this one through until the tribunal found in their favour.
hebcelt
Obscure analogy but I was in the zone (on my own)
Just because SB is injured, I don’t believe we need to go out and buy another player in his place. There was some feeling that we were at a great disadvantage in CLQs without him, and that we needed to buy someone asap to get them bedded in for the CLQs. I disagree. We have other players that will do just as well in his absence.
He is a great locker room presence but we have other leaders on the park (Mulgrew,Commons) and Boton, Henderson, McGregor, Johanssen to fill his midfield position.
Nomoreanalogies CSC
Patey just oan says thats the end o big tax case.
So the big tax case rumbles on.
Largely insignificant now apart from how it informed Rangers decision to go into liquidation.
sean thornton
Aye and he talks of them in admin not liquidation would you trust this guys advice
BBC site
The upper-tier appeal has largely upheld that verdict but some payments will be re-examined by the original tribunal, including termination and “guaranteed bonus” payments.
It is unclear how many termination payments were made but the FTT’s decision referred to five “guaranteed bonus” payments.
livibhoy,
Can you prove that ?
Maybe if they paid the paye like everyone else, and didnae go doon the road o tax avoidance they wouldnae o died!.
Oh ma sides.
livibhoy,
Like you keep asking, provide the evidence
The UTT decision doesn’t alter the fact that RFC failed to notify the SFA of ALL payments to their players.
They were improperly registered, but were exonerated due to the Bryson interpretation of the rules.
Corrupt to the core.
BC or DC.
Rwe / hebcelt
Aye but through the hole in the pocket could fall and be lost more money than it would take to buy many new suits…..
Grasshopper&CantonaCSC
HH aff oot
Puncture repaired. Stunning evening. Nae parental duties. Cycle time!
Jamesgang
Gordon
Scott is the locker room/training ground captain and presence.
But Scott Brown licked out at an opponent who was lying on the ground. The ball was miles away. He did it in front of the referee, the dugouts, and millions watching on TV.
It was excessive, deliberate…and he had to be sent off.
FIFA Rule 12
Explanatory Notes
“Using excessive force” means that the player has far exceeded the necessary
use of force and is in danger of injuring his opponent.
• A player who uses excessive force must be sent off.
The ref had no other possible option.
Scott wasn’t treated unfairly, he was given the appropriate punishment for his actions, regardless of what NFL and GS said afterwards.
What the ref did on other occasions is irrelevant.
If he hadn’t sent SB off, his Uefa career was over. The fact that it was the arch diver Neymar who was the opponent only obscures the real issue. Beckham was sent off for something just as innocuous. No contact is required as its a kick or attempted kick at an opponent that makes the offence complete.
Nice post mind.
HH