We waited three long years to get there but I suspect I’m not the only one who will be relived we’re not plunging straight into another Champions League game. Most Celtic fans shrugged the Camp Nou defeat off, but I hear the players have taken it all a bit personal. They want to respond appropriately in that tournament, however, there is the small matter of a trip to Inverness to deal with first.
Wheels come of the Celtic barrow at Inverness. Repeatedly. On paper, the Highlanders have endured an awful start to the season, but if you drill down you’ll see that their five league games have seen them play Aberdeen and Hearts away, and lose a local derby to Ross County. Form will improve when they face lesser-resourced teams.
Statistically, you are more likely to drop points away from home after an away European tie than at any other time. Ronny Deila defied these odds during his tenure, let’s hope Brendan manages to channel the frustration in the dressing room into a performance and result against Inverness.
While Celtic and Hearts have opened up a gap at the top of the table, the rest of the league went through a concertina last weekend. Any team from 10th placed Kilmarnock and up could go third over the weekend. Does that make it the most competitive in Europe? You could make a case, the champions aside.
Joint-fourth Ross County will go third if they win at Ibrox, while Aberdeen, Dundee and St Johnstone will all fancy their chances of being third if County can only take a point.
I was pretty keen on Joey Barton heading to Ibrox this season and his actions over the last 24 hours show why. No idea what happened on Tuesday, but he issued an apology of sorts on Twitter last night, before deleting it, and then went on live radio this morning saying, “I don’t think I’ve done anything to apologise for”.
You know best, Joey. Don’t take any crap from a manager with five games of top-flight football on his CV, or team-mates who don’t deserve to be on the same field as you. Apologise for telling it as it is? I don’t think so.
Mark my words, we’ll have him doing the halftime draw soon enough.
The Kano Foundation
Sannabhoy asked me to share this from The Kano Foundation, who will support their 5000th child at the Kilmarnock game later this month.
5000 kids! I’ve no idea the extent of the social impact The Kano Foundation is having, but it’s awe inspiring. It grew from the CQN community, when our pal Martin Kane, who is no longer with us, took seriously ill.
After we Brought Martin Home, the guys involved realised they would be able to harness this force for good going forward, and the Foundation was born – out of your efforts.
Here’s what Sannabhoy had to say:
“The Kano Foundation is holding our annual bucket collection at Celtic Park before the Killie game on the 24th of September. This game also marks the 5000th child that we will take through the turnstiles to see Celtic.
“We are really keen/ desperate to have as many people help us with the bucket collection as possible as every penny raised goes towards allowing more children to get to see Celtic.
“If you can spare an hour or so please get in touch with us as we would be absolutely delighted to have as many people as possible rattling buckets. Please drop a note to Sannabhoy at Sannabhoy@thekanofoundation.com or go online to our website The Kano Foundation.
“Every single volunteer is worth about £50-100 to us so the more we have, the more we can raise and the more kids we can take to Celtic Park. We are now up to 102 child tickets at each game meaning we can now take almost 2000 kids each season.
Thanks and Hail Hail.”
You’ll speak to a hundred Celtic fans, have a great day and the weather’s going to be warm and sunny, I promise, so go sign up.
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KEVINLASVEGAS
Agree 100% Kev if you try to play your own game they will punish you if you sit off them and let them play they will destroy you. Great individual talents mounded into a superb football team.
NAS NA RI
You get the feeling no matter who takes over are going to look like an excellent manager. These guys just do what they want to do. Luiz just turns up and throws them a ball and says see you in two hours. ;)
Easy
KLV
DAVIDOPOULOS on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2016 1:38 PM
NATKNOW
Roy Keane won’t be watching. It isn’t an EPL game.
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He’s off somewhere being angry with something … :-)
Armed Forces day at Ibrox – after having spent most of the week trying to fire an absolute weapon, TRFC let the Royal Artillery show them how it’s done…
NATKNOW
Someone told him he sees the world through the EPL prism. Roy is raging because he thinks the prism is an @rsehole…
After ripping off the arms forces and the flute stuff two weeks ago, Why would the armed forces want anything to do the sevco? Mind boggles.
Do the armed forces not care about public opinion.
Watch yer self on that roof boys. ;)
KLV
O.K Ghuys thats my little rant over regards our surrender to
the EPL onslaught and wipe out of everything Celtic merchandise
wise, time to load up the Celtic mobile as it’s halfway to Paddy’s
day tomorrow and as long as me and auld Paddy can swally our
Guinness the Celtic name will be sung loud and proud coz we
don’t need no merchandisers.
H.H Mick
KEVINLASVEGAS
Lol. You are probably right enough, but I watched the development game the other day and you could see they try to play the same way, obviously not as accomplished as senior squad but their philosophy must be the same at every level. Just heard the commentator say that leganes had spent massively in the summer by their standards €3m euros so fair play to them worked hard and got their first senior league goal against Barca.
DAVIDOPOULOS on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2016 1:52 PM
NATKNOW
Someone told him he sees the world through the EPL prism. Roy is raging because he thinks the prism is an @rsehole…
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:-))
Think Brendan pointed out the error of his ways
Our domestic start to the season is unblemished.
However, I still feel tmoro at Inverness represents an opportunity to ring some changes and rest a couple of players.
Goalkeeper is a tough one. I am not Craig Gordon’s biggest fan, but also understand that Doris hasn’t grabbed his chance.
History tells us, that a large volume of games in short period of time can hinder Lustig… So I would rest him.
Also feel like Tierney would benefit from a rest too. Not a slight on the bhoy. He has just played a full season, and now 11 or 12 games within 7 weeks.
Merely my opinion, I would like to see the following team tmoro :
———————–Doris De Vries————————-
————–Erik. Kolo Toure. Jozo Simo————-
——————-Broony. Bitton ————————–
—P.Roberts. T.Rogic. James Forrest——
—————-M.Dombele. S.Sinclair—————–
Mon the Hoops !!
NAS NA RI
They will be used to playing a higher standard of opponent every week, Hence the only losing the 5 goals. That’s about the same spend budget as us really, I know Sinclair was a bit more, but I think it will be installments.
Mon the Ross County. :)
KLV
NATKNOW
Brendan invariably tends to deal with such things well.
Long may he reign.
Of course, he’s no Mark Mcghee…
Sorry if you’ve heard it/read it
Man enters a bar, sees 3 pieces of meat hanging from tenterhooks above the bar
“What’s all this about” he ask the barman.
Barman says
“If you can jump and slap the meat ,it’s free drink all night. If you fail you have to buy everybody drinks for the next hour”
Guy says
” steaks are too high”
Hail hail
Armed forces day at the bigot hole is it.
Maybe thats why wee Joey got the week aff (unpaid of course).
Sectarian f’n bawn wan week, Army wannabes
2 weeks later and in keeping with todays theme, what was “stuck in the middle “for them? Ho ho ho.
DAVIDOPOULOS on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2016 2:01 PM
NATKNOW
Brendan invariably tends to deal with such things well.
Long may he reign.
Of course, he’s no Mark Mcghee…
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He’s not cute enough. No-one is a cute as Mark.
Don’t take that the wrong way though…. :-))))
Cracker Perdro. :)
KLV
NATKNOW
Don’t take that the wrong way? Too late. I’m currently standing in front of the mirror trying to develop an underbite.
The Habsbergs won’t have anything on me by the time I’m done…
DAVIDOPOULOS on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2016 2:11 PM
NATKNOW
Don’t take that the wrong way? Too late. I’m currently standing in front of the mirror trying to develop an underbite.
The Habsbergs won’t have anything on me by the time I’m done…
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Think the real in-breds are playing Ross Country today!! :-)))
I’m currently listening to Radio Shortbread discussion on Agent J. Barton. Hilarious!!
https://goo.gl/images/uKGMeQ
FAO NATNOW & TURKYBHOY,
Your right NATNOW it was someone named Gilligan who wrote the A side, and I would love to know who was playing the squeezebox on it ?
As I posted earlier The Tullyman wrote and sang the B side.
TURKYBHOY, I don’t know what age you are but here’s an opinion that is generally shared amongst the FIBA experts the world cup in 1970 ( which I watched) was and is still regarded as the Greatest world cup ever. Some of the games like West Germany v England, West Germany v Italy semi final , and all the games with that Brazilian team including the games with Oeke almost scoring from his own half, and running the goalkeeper, and goalieT time I ever saw a footballer go to his knees in celebration after scoring a goal was a guy called (Petras of Cechaskavia if I remember ), and blessed himself , with the whole world watching cue for TV sets and wives getting flung lot of windows in Bridgetown !
All magical stuff.
As for technique etc, just watch Pele’s first goal in the final against a world class Italian defence, his header was pure textbook with his neck muscles straining as he rose above a defender bigger than him, and headed it down into the corner past a world class goalie.
Again as for Barca v the Lion’s…wee ten thirty and luggy Clark would just stick wan oan them in the feckin tunnel ! Nae bother.
someone came up to my wife in work yesterday and asked if I and wee jackiemac wanted tickets to cp when her husband wasn’t using his ST ! how good is that.
mon the hoops
NATKNOW
St Joey the martyr. Played for Sevco so we didn’t need to.
Oeke ? = PELE
Bridgetown ? = Bridgetown/midden.
Jobo
Valdimir Putin does the best version of Blueberry Hill. Check it out on u-tube, its classic.
Running the goalie != DUMMYING the goaliel…sheer class
That ckwn Jimmy Hill claimed that when Oeke dummied the goalie it was cis he sh*t it from the goalie ?????
What a plonker that hill was.
Big Jimmy on 17th September 2016 1:13 pm
It has been documented more so in recent years when historians if the game rightly set the record straight about Frank Haffey losing nine goals against England at Wembley .
*Big Frank along with the Bear and Paddy Crerand were my Celtic heroes at that time.
I mentioned before seeing him walking out of Gordons on Glassford Street one day, couldnae talk.
Another time I was waiting on family at the Dundas Street exit of Queen Street station, I had my scarf on and saw this man that looked like Jim Kennedy, he kept looking over at me and smiling. Then 2 other men came running in and spoke tae him and they then ran oot intae a taxi, he gave me a wee wave before he went, the other men were Mike Jackson and Paddy. At that a bunch of Tims came over and said “did you see the President waving tae you”, I went fae four feet nothing tae my present 5’6”. Oh and we beat the champs in waiting 2-1 that day with golas fae Big Billy and Frank Brogan (what could have been) in what was the Buzz Bombs debut.
Anyway back tae Frank; he was 3rd choice goalie that day even though he had saved a penalty fae no less than cannonball Bobby Charlton the year before at hunden.
1st choice Laurie Lesley formerly of Airdrie and at the time West Ham called off earlier in the week and then his back up seven past niven also pulled out so Frank was called intae the squad at the last minute.
A few years later both Bobby Robson, who was england’s first goal scorer and the Big Mhan remarked that Frank was at fault for only 2 of the goals. Incidentally the game wisnae shown live north of the border as there were domestic games on that day !!!!!!!
Franks next 2 games were the Scottish Cup Final and replay against the Pars where in the 2nd game he didnae exactly cover himself in glory. Might have been a Wembley hangover.
Billy McNeill made his Scotland debut that day as a youngster, but Scotland’s ” best two fullbacks” were deemed to be two rankers players, Shearer and Caldow who offered poor Frank in particular no protection whatsoever !
*Billy was named the Scottish MOTM that day and it was often said of Frank that he was crucified between 2 thieves.
BIG JIMMY on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2016 2:20 PM
FAO NATNOW & TURKYBHOY,
Your right NATNOW it was someone named Gilligan who wrote the A side, and I would love to know who was playing the squeezebox on it ?
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Be good to know. The label itself was based in Belfast and from that list it looks like they released a lot of folk music. I suspect it was probably a local musician. If you ever find out – let us know! :-))
DAVIDOPOULOS on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2016 2:22 PM
NATKNOW
St Joey the martyr. Played for Sevco so we didn’t need to.
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:-)))
He’ll be out the door next week and off their wage bill. After that, a career on TV badmouthing Sevco beckons…!
Have posted this one before.
Following the 9-3 debacle, Scotland’s media quietly swept under the carpet that the two on form fullbacks managed to ship fifteen goals in two games.
As Haffey was one of my heros I am somewhat biased in all this.
I’d like to see Jozo get an introduction to our starting 11….
Got to start somewhere. Still believe there is a player there
DAVIDOPOULOS on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2016 1:38 PM
NATKNOW
Roy Keane won’t be watching. It isn’t an EPL game.
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Roy back home last night:)
http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/league-of-ireland/roy-keane-returned-home-to-scout-some-league-of-ireland-talent-in-cork-tonight-35055562.html
http://www.eveningecho.ie/sport/cork-sport/
Big Jimmy.
Yes – Petras.
Some of that Czech team played for Dukla Prague v Celtic in 67.
Big Jimmy –
Looks like the owner of Outlet Records had a colourful life :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-35548243
Love the nickname..! :-)))
Black & Tan wanna-bee’s at the bigot dome yis say.
Now would be a good time to turn the lights on :-)))
Here was me thinking the guys who sank to their knees and blessed themselves after scoring in thon World Cup were Polish. It was some World Cup. To me, the finest forward line ever were thon Brazilians. Pele, Tostao, Gerson, Rivelino and Jairzinho. One better than the other and Pele better than any of them. They didn’t really need a defence behind them!!!
BENDIGO on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2016 2:44 PM
DAVIDOPOULOS on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2016 1:38 PM
NATKNOW
Roy Keane won’t be watching. It isn’t an EPL game.
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Roy back home last night:)
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Hope he didn’t “lose it”! :-))
Huns 1/2. I think that’s a great price considering the rules don’t apply to them. If you lose, the Huns have lost also!!!
Or, err, drawn