The headline at halftime had a familiar feel, Celtic’s run of poor results looked like continuing, but despite this, we dared to hope a corner had been turned. The apparent lack of Commitment to the Cause which – seemed to envelop the team (I may be wrong) was not evident. Instead, players looked up for it.
Whatever ailed Kieran Tierney until recently was not evident, this was the KT we remembered. Available and energetic. Sebastian Tounekti looked to be synchronised with his left-sided partner. A word too for Michel-Ange Balikwisha, his late cameo brought energy and a bit of physicality which helped get the game over the line.
Benjamin Nygren was destined for headlines after last night. I counted six headed chances he had. Benji is not a winger, nor is he a target-man striker, but he has a nose for goal and after passing up four headed chances, he connected with a corner to put Celtic ahead. He needed the goal; we all did.
Just three minutes earlier Liam Scales drew Celtic level, a move which also started with a corner, following yet another Nygren chance. The equaliser was not a glorious goal, Colby Donovan’s cross was mis-hit, but Scales shifted his body angle and made the necessary connection.
You are going to think I am ridiculous, but hear me out. There is a Celtic European tradition of sticking a foot out to make contact with a ball and divert it into the net. When Liam’s shot crossed the line, I got the feeling things were going to be OK. Inspired by legends, and all that!
I was calling for Reo Hatate to be hooked for most of the game. That spark he so-often brings was absent. However, he proved important during the last 20 minutes. Despite being a man down, Strum were able to get into the Celtic final third far too often. Reo was the man who slowed the play down and looked to impose structure.
We need to learn to hold the ball better. This involves players moving into space, and not passing to others who do not have more than one option. Reo’s muscle memory for this was evident. Better game management would have kept Sturm out of our box during added time.
The game cost us Kelechi Iheanacho and Alastair Johnston, both likely to be out for a month at least. We win things because we have the biggest budget and strongest squad. It is for others to step up.
Last night’s attendance seemed down on the Braga game three weeks earlier, but those who were there were as committed to the task as the players. The stadium had an energy about it, which perhaps lifted players’ confidence. That quality – confidence – is as important a takeaway as the three points.
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I’m a banger.
RC
‘next transfer window’
Still a ‘NO’
how many ex-players and managers do some of our fans want us to bring back?
no to kyogo
He was great whilst he was here
But his time has gone
And the last 2 or 3 clubs he has been at he has shown the same lack, as his last 6 months with us.
Hearing some noise around Andy Robertson for left back?
Has his time gone, or is he a viable option
https://videocelts.com/2025/10/blogs/latest-news/end-of-his-tether-poking-provoking-severely-hacked-off-terminado-ii-why-sutton-expects-rodgers-to-leave/
Sack hiim.
Tell Kennedy he has a month to shape up or he’ll be joining Rodgers on the scrap heap.
Them’s the Apples!
HH
oot.
get Kyogo back in the next transfer window – Jan
Hearing some noise around Andy Robertson for left back?
NO from me
So the huns release an orange top accompanied by the Sloop John B song – which to the ibrox support is synonymous with the lyrics…the famine is over, why don’t you go home?
The future for Sevco is this….
Mid table finishes
No European football
A crumbling stadium
Downgrades on every player who leaves or they manage to sell for a lot less than they tell their fans.
Making a 36yo manager wear a suit to his work.
Blaming…
HMRC
Gio
Beale
Clement
Whyte
Green
Park
Bennet
Thelwell
Stewart
Martin
Cavanagh
They are a scum club with scum fans who deserve every single thing that happens to them.
I predict….there will be no Rangers in 5 years.
Anyway…I think CCV being out for so long is a blow….he brings a calmness to the team and the support and IMHO he is the best CH Celtic have ever had.
However, I think Scales will become even better as the senior defender and we’ll be fine.
I’ve a heavy bet on Celtic tomorrow at even money and a weeks bet on Johnny Kenny to score at anytime.
A big game mañana which could define the season and maybe even the next few years.
COYBIG
RC …
Who in the club would champions Kyogo’s return?
He doesn’t fit the club model due to his age.
Brendan isn’t a fan.
Weeks = weeish
Champion
KevJ…..this pish about the 60k ordinary innocent football fans being punished for the huns wrongs is just that…pish.
They lorded it over us in the press, in pubs, in workplaces, schools, boardrooms etc.
And why?…..because they hated the Irish snd they hated Catholics.
They deserve every bit of pain that they’ve felt for 13 years and which they are going to feel for the rest of their bigotted lives.
I hope Yamada is on the bench tomorrow….I really feel he has a good turn of pace.
BTW … RC
As a half season fix?
Wouldn’t bother me in the slightest
Cavanagh WILL 100pc sell the stadium to his ‘consortium’ and portray it a temporary measure for a cash injection.
The strips are Ashley’s forever.
The stadium is Cavanaghs forever.
They are fekd and it’s what they deserve.
Night
why have folk on here started indulging the brit racist in the last few months?
thats exactly what he wants.
“Cavanagh WILL 100pc sell the stadium to his ‘consortium’ and portray it a temporary measure for a cash injection”.
Quite an emphatic statement.
Why would anyone buy it?
laxalt
There’s an old joke in Scotland that when the clocks go back, at Ayebrokes they get turned back to 1690.
I do not think the hordes realise just what has been happening in recent years in the relationships between both the Churches of Scotland & England and the Roman Catholic Church which culminated in the invitation from Pope Leo XIII to King Charles and Queen Camilla to the Vatican this week. This time it was Leo and Charles who turned the clock back, over 500 years years in this case.
During the service at the the Sistine Chapel, Charles sat in a specially made throne, (bearing the King’s coat of Arms) bearing the message “Ut Unum Sint”…..that they may be one. That throne will remain at the Chapel, for his use and that of his successors. The King was also declared the ‘Royal Confrater’ of the Basilica and received a Papal Knighthood from Leo. King Charles was accompanied by the Right Reverand Rosie Frew Moderator of the Church of Scotland who presented both the Pope and the King a copy of the Saint Margaret Declaration, the historic statement of friendship between the Church of Scotland and the Catholic Church in Scotland, signed at Dunfermline Abbey November 16 2022, the 950th anniversary of the that very building, and the burial place of both Margaret and Robert the Bruce. A ceremony also attended by Princess Anne. In return Pope Leo was made the Papal Confrator of St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle and made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. A new orange strip will not stop history in the making…
ForeverChangesCSC
The blogger….because that gives them a guaranteed income for their investment.
Celti Mac….thats a great answer/post
So a sale and lease back?
Laxalt on 25th October 2025 8:58 pm
Hi, Laxalt.
Its like this.
Example: DD, Lawwell, whoever, is running a sort of EBT scam with all of these project players, and some Celtic hater susses it out, and Celtic get into bother about it and the club will probably be closed down because of it.
So who is to blame?
The crooked EBT/Project/Player/Scam/Directors?
Or the 60,000 innocent Celtic fans who were never near a boardroom?
I know, we all do about how evil etc the Huns fans are, WE get that absolutely.
BUT.
The fans might have done horrible violent things for decades, and are horrible bigots, etc, etc.
BUT.
The fans did not steal EBT/TAX/DODGING/MONEY.
But the fans got punished for it NOT David Murray.
~
[Yes DM went to court and was fined etc, etc, lost a lot of his companies etc.
BUT.
In a short period of time he had more or less got his lost money back, cause he is a Knight remember, they don’t get punished, that is why none of them should be in control of Celtic.]
~
Is that not wrong what happened to the Huns fans?
If it happened to us would it be wrong?
They can do the hating. Life is too short.
Btw, Nobody hates, if you can call it that, the Irish more Today than the Majority of Celtic fans who turn a blind eye, ignorance is hate, to what is happening in Ireland TODAY, not 1916.
Maybe a lot of Celtic fans should stop being hypocrites about Ireland, if they care about Ireland and its people, and don’t just use the Irish and their history as a badge of honor, which is wearing somebody elses medals.
Irish Republican Volunteers came onto this blog, CQN, and politely asked if Celtic fans could drop the Irish conflict song book as the Irish people were and are still trying to process a HARD WON Peace process, which must still be processed.
Sinn Fein are in clique mode now and they could not care less about the Irish working class.
They have tasted the gravy train money, just like the Snp, and now both of them could not care less, and do nothing but deflect or don’t answer their phones.
Troubled times for very different reasons now.
HH
oot.
Yip….in perpetuity….that’s what they get for chasing Dougie Park n Bennet n co.
But hell mend them… Park n co tried their best to keep it going that their only out was to sell to people that they knew were financial gangsters.
With absolute certainty….I’ll say that Cavanagh paid no more than £20m for the required shares to own 51pc of the Sevvies.
Even at that, I’ll bet hes regretting it now.
mates a rangers fan (not a uhn, there is a difference)
Fecking a week tomoz we play the huns
ugh
ugh ugh
It’s only a perpetuity if they can pay the rent in perpetuity.
I’m not an accountant, but I think the rules changed (IFRS 16) whereby the present value of future lease payments are capitalised, which means leases are now (correctly) classified as debt.
A sale and leaseback effectively layers more fixed cost on to the business.
Laxalt
After seeing the multiple videos of huns raging against their directors
He aint the only one regeretting shit
McFudden the soup taker on Sportscene tonight wearing the brit facist badge.
brit fascist badge??
Whats that?
being nosey….
a poopy???
its a rather large poopy tbf
Fascist is another diluted insult commonly used because you don’t agree with something.
Fascism is the evil that was the National Socialist workers party. and the National Fascist party of Italy..
The evil regimes were defeated by ordinary men and woman. Many of the international brigade continued their fight against fascism in WW2.
Possibly some of James Mcfadden,’s deceased relatives were involved fighting fascism
You are entitled to hate everything about the Poppy. You certainly dont need to wear one if you exercise your right to disagree. You are entitled to despise the British government. You are entitled to dispise the Royal Family.. You are entitled to despise British history and the establishment but calling millions of ordinary people fascists for wearing a Poppy is just wrong.
shush now,
Its an argument that neither can win
Just be catholic
And turn the other cheek
One of you can….
(and thats my problem with religion…
…no one can)
time goes back???
9 mins back….
Back To The Future
https://youtu.be/ez6WQ7IX72U?si=MY3yW-k2roR8qgzT&t=2
Noel Gallagher – The Dying of the Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jKUf3ppgnA&list=RDMM&index=27
INXS – Mystify
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ELh7P2ZtA&list=RDMM&index=27
clunks on 26th October 2025 1:31 am
lol