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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Big Chris Sutton ripping into the “City Guy” to a stunned silence from his colleagues.
Big Chris doesn’t miss, he backed Brendan and pummelled the tragic hat.:)
sutton was brilliantly funny there
“its not barnet or the city, the job is too big for him”
hahahahahahhahahahha
We should have been out of sight long before the end, only the woodwork, some slopply shooting, and excellent goalkeeping prevented it being 2-2, going on 9-2 !
A daily ranger “sports journalist”, Gavin Berry describes the Caley goalie as being fantastic in the second half, and also describes Fon Williams as outstanding !
He the awards this fantastic outstanding Caley goalie with 7/10 ???????
Why do these chumps get the opportunity to even be in employment, as they really are hopeless.
I posted on here a couple of weeks ago about Keevins doing Celtic match report in in a game that we won handsomely, only for the scoring out of ten, man for man would have anybody believe that the opposition were a match for Celtic ?
When I quizzed Keevins on the radio about this ba claimed that although he was the match reporter, he didn’t take part in the marks out of 10 assessment that was published right next to his match report ????????
The Caley goalie reserved 10/10 such was his fine display !
I’m now totally convinced that Brendan will always refuse to be cr itical of any Celtic player in public, which I can fully understand. However, I sincerely hope two things, a) he laid into them in the dressing room for not seeing the game out at 2-1, and that b) he reinstates Craig Gordon as No 1 starting against Allow.
No Celtic fan will think bad of Brendan I’m sure, cos it takes a big man to admit being wrong,bot apart from the Barca battering, DDV hasn’t had much to do and yet he looks to me to being unsure and nervous ?
Maybe I’m wrong, and he will show his worth but I thought he should have prevented Caleys first goal yesterday ?
Barton suspended for 3 weeks according to Sky Sports at 11.10 am
Wonder if Baron is suspended on full pay ? I do hope so.
Barton and zombies refusing to comment further. Barton says after suspension on his way to car park, ” he’s not allowed to speak”. The sky reporter then asks, ” Are you still a rankers player” ? Barton replied ” dunno I think so” ?