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Tannadice was so packed out this afternoon it looked like a Rangers creditors’ meeting and the Scottish Cup tie on show didn’t disappoint.  Dundee United had the better of the opening period but four second half goals from an irresistible Celtic decided outcome.

Jon Daly headed wide early on after a Willo Flood cross early on but the first great chance of the game fell to Johnny Russell on 25 minutes.  Gary Mackay-Steven got free on the left and crossed for Russell who mishit his shot, allowing Fraser Forster to make an incredible save and claw the ball away.

With Dundee United clearly on top defender Robbie Neilson received a straight red card for a forearm smash into the face of Georgios Samaras.

It took Celtic 36 minutes to make an attempt on goal.  Joe Ledley’s shot from a corner was blocked and James Forrest shot over from a corner seconds later.

Celtic stepped up the pace after halftime.  Charlie Mulgrew jinked to create space on the left side of the United box but Ledley couldn’t reach his cross.  8 minutes after halftime the visitors were ahead after the best move of the game.

Adam Matthews passed back to Fraser Forster who played the ball out to Joe Ledley.  Ledley moved forward after playing the ball onto Samaras, who passed to Mulgrew before the ball moved onto Stokes.  Anthony Stokes fired a low cross into the box which Gary Hooper dummied for Ledley, who never stopped running.  The midfielder won the ball by nipping in front of his marker and shot home from 7 yards.

Samaras shot over before a Stokes shot after 64 minutes from 25 yards was saved by Pernis, the first save the keeper made in the game.

United had a great chance to draw level when substitute Milos Lacny latched onto a long through ball but his shot from 16 yards was weak and off target.

Georgios Samaras made it 0-2 when he got on the end of a Mulgew free kick to bullet a header into the top right corner of the net.
Two minutes later Johnny Russell had a great chance to pull a goal back but his shot from 15 yards flew narrowly over.

Stokes should have tied the game up 11 minutes from time when James Forrest combined with Hooper before Forrest cut the ball back to Stokes, who contrived to hit the crossbar with his shot with an empty net waiting.

Samaras and Forrest both had chances to add to the scoring before Ledley threaded a pass through the middle of the United defence for Stokes to clip past Pernis into the net.

With a minute of the game remaining Samaras beat Dillon, who pulled the Greek international down inside the box.  Scott Brown rolled the resultant penalty into the net to make if 0-4.

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  2. Summa of Sammi.... on

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    Kojo..

     

     

    Jeezo.. You have Paul67 getting Sued for White Finger with Us iPhone users Scrolling down to Read that Epic..

     

     

    Are you Just in Fae the Jiggin or Still there..

     

     

    Hope Yir Guid..

     

     

    Summa

     

     

    PS.. Sammi was a Blonde Haired Bhoy Today..

  3. Árd Macha on

    Tuesday 10th

     

    It has been a fairly normal day in my present circumstances. My weight is 59. 3 kgs. and I have no medical problems. I have seen some birthday greetings from relatives and friends in yesterday’s paper which I got today. Also I received a bag of toiletries today.

     

    There is no priest in tonight, but the chief medical officer dropped in, took my pulse, and left. I suppose that makes him feel pretty important.

     

    From what I have read in the newspapers I am becoming increasingly worried and wary of the fact that there could quite well be an attempt at a later date to pull the carpet from under our feet and undermine us — if not defeat this hunger-strike — with the concession bid in the form of ‘our own clothes as a right’.

     

    This, of course, would solve nothing. But if allowed birth could, with the voice of the Catholic hierarchy, seriously damage our position. It is my opinion that under no circumstances do they wish to see the prisoners gain political status, or facilities that resemble, or afford us with the contents of, political status.

     

    The reasons for this are many and varied, primarily motivated by the wish to see the revolutionary struggle of the people brought to an end. The criminalisation of Republican prisoners would help to furnish this end.

     

    It is the declared wish of these people to see humane and better conditions in these Blocks. But the issue at stake is not ‘humanitarian’, nor about better or improved living conditions. It is purely political and only a political solution will solve it. This in no way makes us prisoners elite nor do we (nor have we at any time) purport to be elite.

     

    We wish to be treated ‘not as ordinary prisoners’ for we are not criminals. We admit no crime unless, that is, the love of one’s people and country is a crime.

     

    Would Englishmen allow Germans to occupy their nation or Frenchmen allow Dutchmen to do likewise? We Republican prisoners understand better than anyone the plight of all prisoners who are deprived of their liberty. We do not deny ordinary prisoners the benefit of anything that we gain that may improve and make easier their plight. Indeed, in the past, all prisoners have gained from the resistance of Republican jail struggles.

     

    I recall the Fenians and Tom Clarke, who indeed were most instrumental in highlighting by their unflinching resistance the ‘terrible silent system’ in the Victorian period in English prisons. In every decade there has been ample evidence of such gains to all prisoners due to Republican prisoners’ resistance.

     

    Unfortunately, the years, the decades, and centuries, have not seen an end to Republican resistance in English hell-holes, because the struggle in the prisons goes hand-in-hand with the continuous freedom struggle in Ireland. Many Irishmen have given their lives in pursuit of this freedom and I know that more will, myself included, until such times as that freedom is achieved.

     

    I am still awaiting some sort of move from my cell to an empty wing and total isolation. The last strikers were ten days in the wings with the boys, before they were moved. But then they were on the no-wash protest and in filthy cells. My cell is far from clean but tolerable. The water is always cold. I can’t risk the chance of cold or ‘flu. It is six days since I’ve had a bath, perhaps longer. No matter.

     

    Tomorrow is the eleventh day and there is a long way to go. Someone should write a poem of the tribulations of a hunger-striker. I would like to, but how could I finish it.

     

    Caithfidh mé a dul mar tá tuirseach ag eirí ormsa.

     

    (Translated, this reads as follows):

     

    Must go as I’m getting tired.

  4. stephbhoy on

    antrimkev on 11 March, 2012 at 23:49 said:

     

     

    i know, sometimes it just works out that way, the only sacving grace is the fact that his stock is ok in england so we should be able to get a little bit of money back for him

  5. Antifa on

    Hmm antrimkev Who is this Peter Reid anyway? I have never heard of him so perhaps he is a bit of a nonentity? If he is saying Rooney is one of the all time greats then that is very nationalistic and all most as silly as saying Kenny Miller is one of the all time greats…. If however he is saying Rooney is one of the best players in the world currently then I would agree that he is not that far from being one of the currently best 10 players in the world.

     

     

    If Peter Reid never won a world cup then his opinion is no different from Jabba thinking he is somehow qualified to comment on how to improve scottish football when he never managed or played in the game in his life, nor is he an intellectual who can make up for not having first hand experience of football with his Cognitivie skills.

     

     

    Its obvious Peter Reid is one to ignore just like Jabba and Keevins and Dalziel. I wonder why England employ Burly to work for them when a country of their size must have more articulate and insightful people out their to commentate on games.

  7. Árd Macha on

    Wednesday 11th

     

    I received a large amount of birthday cards today. Some from people I do not know. In particular a Mass bouquet with fifty Masses on it from Mrs Burns from Sevastopol Street. We all know of her, she never forgets us and we shan’t forget her, bless her dear heart.

     

    I also received a card from reporter Brendan O Cathaoir, which indeed was thoughtful. I received a letter from a friend, and from a student in America whom I don’t know, but again it’s good to know that people are thinking of you. There were some smuggled letters as well from my friends and comrades.

     

    I am the same weight today and have no complaints medically. Now and again I am struck by the natural desire to eat but the desire to see an end to my comrades’ plight and the liberation of my people is overwhelmingly greater.

     

    The doctor will be taking a blood test tomorrow. It seems that Dr Ross has disappeared and Dr Emerson is back…

     

    Again, there has been nothing outstanding today except that I took a bath this morning. I have also been thinking of my family and hoping that they are not suffering too much.

     

    I was trying to piece together a quote from James Connolly today which I’m ashamed that I did not succeed in doing but I’ll paraphrase the meagre few lines I can remember.

     

    They go something like this: a man who is bubbling over with enthusiasm (or patriotism) for his country, who walks through the streets among his people, their degradation, poverty, and suffering, and who (for want of the right words) does nothing, is, in my mind, a fraud; for Ireland distinct from its people is but a mass of chemical elements.

     

    Perhaps the stark poverty of Dublin in 1913 does not exist today, but then again, in modern day comparison to living standards in other places through the world, it could indeed be said to be the same if not worse both North and South. Indeed, one thing has not changed, that is the economic, cultural and physical oppression of the same Irish people…

     

    Even should there not be 100,000 unemployed in the North, their pittance of a wage would look shame in the company of those whose wage and profit is enormous, the privileged and capitalist class who sleep upon the people’s wounds, and sweat, and toils.

     

    Total equality and fraternity cannot and never will be gained whilst these parasites dominate and rule the lives of a nation. There is no equality in a society that stands upon the economic and political bog if only the strongest make it good or survive. Compare the lives, comforts, habits, wealth of all those political conmen (who allegedly are concerned for us, the people) with that of the wretchedly deprived and oppressed.

     

    Compare it in any decade in history, compare it tomorrow, in the future, and it will mock you. Yet our perennial blindness continues. There are no luxuries in the H-Blocks. But there is true concern for the Irish people.

  8. topkat on

    Hoop-do 23.39……………..st patricks day festival this coming saturday in coatbridge……..music for all tastes…….irish dancing….patricia ferns belting it out…..bands etc…..generally finishes about 16.00 hours….then onto the pubs for futher band music………normally about 10k attend for the saturday celebrations….great for kids …

  9. Quickdraw on

    My tuppenceworth on the Messi debate…..

     

    Great credit must go to the people who stood strong against the “its a mans game” macho posers. The ones who brought in the changes that allow us to enjoy the current barcelona side and messi in particular. When you see the abuse meted out to Pele and Maradona I say we should be grateful that the great players are given much more freedom to play now than they ever have in the history of the sport.

  10. Kilbowie Kelt on

    BRTH,

     

    Great list of footballing giants, but sorry not to see the name of the greatest all-rounder of all time amongst them.

     

    Take a bow, John Charles, known to the Juventus fans as the Gentle Giant. Equally at home as a striker or a centre-half & probably the greatest header of a ball in the history of the game.

     

    Never booked in a long career with Leeds & Juventus & never deliberately committed a foul on any opponent. Indeed the big Welshman was known to apologise for any of the few times that he mistimed a tackle. He is still a legend in Italy & in Leeds to this day.

  11. antrimkev on

    Antifa on 11 March, 2012 at 23:54 said

     

     

    one of the funniest things on that program was when it showed a near identical goal that messi scored, that peter reid was involved in (the 1st maradona goal v engurland)

     

     

    but they didnt show reid after it

     

     

    now that would have been nice

  15. 'crushed nuts?' 'Naw, Layringitis!' on

    so the money from Bonser Jererse, Amin Bawdjeep and Warwick Hunt isn’t good enough for the southside charity? typical!

  16. johnniem on

    KK

     

     

    i have never ever heard people speak as highly of a someone (when at the time still alive) as Juve people spoke of John Charles … on and off the field, this guy was a true great.

  18. hoopy-do on

    topkat,

     

    im only a few miles down the road and knew coatbridge done a good celebration, didnt realise it was as well attended as that.

     

     

    thanks for the heads-up…

  19. BABASONICOS71 on

    Went out with a girl from Coatbridge in my youth.What a lesson.Took me in as tatties and spat me out as chips. ;-)

  21. pigalle on

    That RangersMedia internet thing where they seem to be gettin themselves out of their beds and trying to raise some money for the cause:

     

     

    “The subject of potential owners was raised and we were informed that there are several people interested. Anyone buying the club will do so with a clean sheet and we are assured that any new owner of the club has to be transparent and open to the supporters whither it be good or bad news. We have also been left with a void since our directors were either sacked or resigned and no longer have any directors attending away games to represent the club hopefully when things settle down this can be rectified.”

     

     

    A triumph of hope. A tad sad.

     

     

    Then you spool down a bit on the website and someone’s accusing one of the organising commitee, Sandy Jardine of being a c*nt.

     

     

    Well who am I to argue ?

     

     

    And him a legned too.

     

     

    They are bound for the bad fire.

     

     

    pigalle

  22. BABASONICOS71 on

    Anyways it’s time i got my head down after what’s been a good day for Lenny and the bhoys.This time next week part 1 of the treble should be safely tucked away.

     

    Come on you bhoys in green!

     

     

    G’night all bhoys and ghirls.

     

    G’night Messi and

     

    G’night El Diego

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzc75cSIYcU

     

     

    FOREVERANDEVER!!!

  23. Margaret McGill on

    Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000 on 11 March, 2012 at 23:28 said:

     

     

    Andy Ritchie..contender for best player in the world….damn right he was! I’m glad you included Garincha…no Socrates? maybe one of the few others…

  25. lefthandpillaroldjungle on

    the ex wife was from coatbridge…just along from sunnyside stn……..i still like coatbridge though….

  26. Margaret McGill on

    So the world famous Higgs vector Boson walks into a chapel in the South west suburbs of Glasgow somewhere on Holiday from Edinburgh university.

     

    “Heh”, shouts the priest..” No Higgs vector bosons allowed in here”

     

    “Get oot! The power of christ compels you!”

     

    “Look!” replies the Uiversal Higgs vector boson in a jovial convivial manner

     

    “If you dont allow me how can you have mass?”

     

    Boom Boom!

  27. BABASONICOS71 on

    In good old fashioned 1-11 style;

     

    1.Schmeichel

     

    2.McGrain

     

    3.Maldini

     

    4.Beckenbauer

     

    5.Baresi

     

    6.Zidane

     

    7.Jinky

     

    8.Socrates

     

    9.Batistuta

     

    10.Maradona

     

    11.Messi

     

     

    I reckon that team would give anyone a game.And i’ve been charitable towards any opposition,i’ve not included Henke.

     

     

    And goodnight.

  29. weeron on

    BABASONICOS71 on 12 March, 2012 at 00:42 said:…

     

     

    Sorry. Can’t have a team without Pele. It’s a rule. Honest….:)

  30. Margaret McGill on

    BABASONICOS71 on 12 March, 2012 at 00:42 said:

     

     

    Replace Beckenbauer w/John Clark and now yer talkin

  31. BABASONICOS71 on

    weeron on 12 March, 2012 at 00:47 said:

     

    BABASONICOS71 on 12 March, 2012 at 00:42 said:…

     

     

    Sorry. Can’t have a team without Pele. It’s a rule. Honest….:)

     

     

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     

     

    He’s dropped.Missed too many training sessions doing Viagra commercials.You could say he’s been a flop at training. ;-)

  32. BABASONICOS71 on

    Margaret,

     

     

    Naw bad,only one change.You must know what you’re talking about when it comes to fitba’ if you almost agree with my team. ;-)

     

    Had a hard time leaving out Cafu and Platini but there’s only so many places.

  35. Margaret McGill on

    BABASONICOS71 on 12 March, 2012 at 00:58 said:

     

     

    Aye! Agree! the “one of the few others” can run into quite a few.

     

     

    So what tunes ye goat for us tonight Herr Babasonicos71?

     

    It’s always a pleasure and on this timmery night I await with bated breath

  36. Margaret McGill on

    BABASONICOS71 on 12 March, 2012 at 01:03 said:

     

    The Zutons – Confusion. ok. I spend a lot of time youtubing from your sources. How do you do it? Pray tell?

     

    I think you’re an Indie conglomerate or have way too much time on your hands.

     

    Sincerely and Jealously Your fellow Tim

  40. Teuchter ár lá on

    Forever and ever we’el follow the bhoys

     

    the Glasgow Celtic – the Timalloys

     

    For we will be…oops excuse me

     

    We all made a promise….that we’ed never part

     

    We beat the ra**ers

     

    We F***ed the hearts

     

     

    Let bygones be bygones for ever

     

    We’el win the lot once again

     

    NostalgiamixedwidrinkCSC

     

    TAL

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