Good first half for us and should have been more than one ahead. Some very nice passing and quick attacking play but only one fine Hooper finish to show for it.
A team performance with some good efforts throughout the side. Cha getting forward well and Wanyama showing great composure in midfield.
1-0 Celts half time, we needed a second goal for that performance, we’ve had a few knocks to our players, I’d strengthen the middle if it was me. Victor Wanyama is brill in central mid, he’s the key to winning the midfield its a tough job for him and Kayal.
Dear Craig T thank you for your even handed refereeing of the first half…I’m sure you can do just ass well in the second half…
3-0 Celts
TopCorner on
Snake
not fantastic
but we are 1-0 up
so that would do me
need more on the right
and Georgious needs to calm down a bit
also, we missed one sitter, maybe two
mncelt standing up for Neil Lennon on
HT Dundee Utd 0-1 Celtic
First 15 mins we were on fire, got 1 goal and could have had another couple. DU gradually got into the game and made it more difficult for us but they have never threatened our goal. The game is never over at 1-0 but we definitely look in full control.
Glenda and Masto are doing really well in the centre of defence, Wanyama the standout in midfield and all 3 forwards have done their bit today.
Lenny will be itching to give Broonie a run out today but the only player he can take of is Kayal without shifting the midfield players around.
An early second half goal should allow us to settle down a bit and go on to score more.
Overall a pretty good first half. Brilliant first 20 minutes and at the time I was thinking we’d end up comfortable winners. Might be a bit nervy until we finally get the 2nd goal.
Big Victor is superb.
Jobo
notthebus on
Bright start and deserved early goal, but lost our way a little after that.
Hope those missed chances don’t come back to haunt us.
MWD
ItaliaBhoy on
Frustrating. First 20 mins we threatened to blow them away – then we stopped doing the god stuff like giving the ball to Samaras and running directly at their useless defenders. We also let slackness slip into our own distribution, especially at the back.
Just as I was thinking that the ref was doing all right, he then decides to influence the game, punishing Samaras for daring to jump, and stopping play when we were on the attack.
This ain’t won yet.
bamboo on
Whirlwind start but as the half went on we dont seem to be retaining the ball very well. Need a bit more quality possession.
Hope we dont throw away points to their crude set-piece attacks.
Stringer Bell on
Hoops 30 goals in 42 starts.
Socratese has passed away at 57, just announced. Very sad.
johnnie1888 on
Can’t believe penalty not even mentioned when cha brought down.
Big Joe on
YeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeS
1…………………,,,…0
BigJoe…..Abitslow,inLondonHeadingBack2Spain
iki on
bamboo says:
4 December, 2011 at 12:38
“Rob Shorthouse -lets be avin you! what have you got to say”
It is likely that you have just read in the article what he has had to say!
Lurgan 53 on
Playing well for the first 25 and should have been out of sight really. Need a second though and would have preferred it before half time. Think Skoosh will come on though don’t know who for.
TBH I don’t think the ref is having the influence some think. Got two wrong – one for each team. The Cha tackle was not a penalty IMHO.
Br\o/gan R\o/gan Trevin\o/ and H\o/gan on
Br\o/gan R\o/gan Trevin\o/ and H\o/gan says:
4 December, 2011 at 12:32
Good Afternoon,
When the management and players of Tadcaster Albion turned up at Garforth Town A.F.C for a Northern Premier League Division One North Match on 20th November 2004, they could not quite believe their ears……. or their eyes.
There had been rumours that Garfield Town ( formerly Garfield Miners ) had a new player coach, and that he was a “foreigner” but no one expected this. Matters were confirmed when the team sheets were handed out, and there among the list of substitutes was his name. Socrates!!
Socrates Brasileiro Sampau de Souza Veirs de Oliveira was Captain of Brazil, played in two world cups, and may well be the oddest class footballer of modern times.
Between 1974-78 he appeared fpr Botafogo SP on 57 occasions scoring 24 goals before moving on to the famous Corinthians club where he would stay for 6 years. By the time he left there in 1984 he had pulled on their Jersey some 297 times and had scored amazing 172 goals, which was astonishing for a midfielder. He then played with Fiorentina in Italy for a season making 25 appearances and scoring 6 goals before heading back to Brazil. By this time he was not far off finished with football and made 14 appearances for Flamengo and Santos over the next couple of years. That was it, until he suddenly turned up one day in the north of England and appeared from the bench for 13 minutes or so.
Socrates’ footballing abilities were in no doubt, and Pele named him as one of Brazil’s 100 leading footballers of all time. Anyone who saw him in the 1982 World Cup will recall him as the tall (6’4″) bearded captain with the curly hair and the occasional headband who was stick thin, immensely gifted and had an air of “cool” about him. Indeed he was declared the symbol of cool for a whole generation of football fans in Brazil.
But by the time he took the field for Garforth Town he was huge as the video below will show.
At his height, Socrates was known on the field of play for thrilling passes, great goals and for his trademark back heel passses that blindsided the opposition. Off the field he was known for his politics ( he once had a whole Corinthian team wear shirts that said Democracy in protest at the Government ), for being a fully qualified Doctor– and for smoking like a lum and drinking like a fish!!
Indeed he delayed playing any type of football to study medicine and after his retiral he practised as a Doctor in Rebeiro Preto where he lived with his wife and six children. He was also a newspapaer columnist on sport and politics, did punditry stints for the television and wrote books. However, he continued to smoke two packets of cogarettes a day and have a far from healthy alcohol intake which in turn caused balooning weight and health problems.
In August of this year, he was admitted to Hospital with internal bleeding and placed in intensive care. Regrettably he died this morning at the age of just 56. The liver and other parts apparently had seen enough for one lifetime– maybe two.
He will be mourned in Brazil as a past player and as a political activist and a character. He will be mourned as a father, husband and friend.
I won’t pretend to ever understand a clearly bright, intelligent,professional athlete who abused his body with cigarettes and alcohol the way he did. He knew exactly what he was doing, was dedicated to medicine from an early age and yet seemingly did not give a toss and lived the way he wanted to.
He loved John Lennon, Fidel Castro and Che Guevarra and named one of his children Fidel! When his mother complained and said that this was a “harsh” name for a child he responded ” Eh– You called me Socrates!”.
He was the captain of the greatest entertaining team to win absolutely nothing, and there was a suggestion that that teams general attitude could have been better if someone less laid back had been captain. After all this was the guy who only took two steps when taking a penalty! That may very well be– but Socrates was Socrates and you only get the good with the bad. Take it or leave it.
It was said that the longest he used to go without a cigarette was when he was sleeping or during the 90 minutes of a football match. Yet later in veterns exhibitions games, one ex pro talked of the unbelievable scene of the great man wandering to the sidelines and getting the occasional puff from someone during the game!
There may well be a hell of a price to pay for being a chain smoking prince of cool as can be seen here in that last footballing appearance.
However, it would be unfair to leave with that image as a finale.
So if you have 5 minutes to spare, grab a cup of coffee ( a fag if you indulge ) and just watch football the way it should be played– even by a mad, philosphic, political,chain smoking Brazilian Doctor and his team of under achievers! As a boy this is what makes you want to kick a football!!!!!
It’s spooky to think the internet sends these digital pulses throughout the globe. Like a collective heartbeat. An embraced hope made electric. Sends shivers up and down my spine.
Honoured to share the experience with you all.
U
antrimkev on
Cha playing well, Matthews a real find as is big Vic – poor Willo just bouncing off him every time
1 critical comment – STokesy has no pace whatsoever
keep er lit Celtic, im enjoying watching you again
Bhoys playing well, Forrest if he finished off the move 1 on 1 with the keeper at speed would’ve given us a goal to talk about all day. Dammit has been playing well, driving at the Utd defense well. Kayal and Wanyama plenty of energy and closing down midfield well.
Hope we come out the traps strong and get another goal quick to kill them off, I think Lennon will freshing things up around the 65-70 min mark after the exertions mid week.
Cathedral View on
Playing well and dominating the game but I get the feeling we need another goal to keep the nerves at bay.
We should be 3 up and cruising, shades of Dunfermline 11 days ago.
cv
Paddy Gallagher on
Two Pandas at Edinburgh Airport, was there a fight? :-)
David Tanner clings to the fact we are only one up, four times he said it in the interval – happy days.
Mon the Hoops
glendalystonsils on
1-0 at half time doesn’t really tell how comfortable it has been for us. Ref as bent as a nine bob note. Our forwards challenge a DU defender for the ball =freekick to DU. Their forwards challenge our defenders for the ball= free kick to DU.
Never mind, we’re 3 goals better than DU, even with that ref and I expect us to prove it in the 2nd half.
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1 – 0 HT
Good first half for us and should have been more than one ahead. Some very nice passing and quick attacking play but only one fine Hooper finish to show for it.
A team performance with some good efforts throughout the side. Cha getting forward well and Wanyama showing great composure in midfield.
Matthews has done well thid season but his delivery could be better.
pauloantony 09.56
I’m wrong about what?? I stick by what I said this morning, Hooper 1st goal. 3-0 win.
Comfortable first half, referee very poor every 50-50 going the other way( nothing new I suppose). Going for 0-3 final score.
HT 0-1
we played for 15mins then stopped
need more on the right side
and to take our chances
we cannot depend on Utd being mince
for the WHOLE game
got to try get another one or two
Great first half just missing the second killer goal.
Is it a competition between Walker on Sky and Burley on ESPN?
The rubbish the two of them speak.
Hail hail
MME
Big Ray says Hooper to score the next goal….6/1!
T4
Just got in, how are the bhoys playing?
Very good 1st. Half performance. Disappointed only 1 up. Time for another Stella.
Radio live update
Stephen Thomson of st mirren ran into victor last week hecended up hurting himself. Thomson describes him as incredibly strong.
Obvious I know, but still reassuring to hear from another pro.
1-0 Celts half time, we needed a second goal for that performance, we’ve had a few knocks to our players, I’d strengthen the middle if it was me. Victor Wanyama is brill in central mid, he’s the key to winning the midfield its a tough job for him and Kayal.
V
Good first half Celtic, let’s put this mob away…
Dear Craig T thank you for your even handed refereeing of the first half…I’m sure you can do just ass well in the second half…
3-0 Celts
Snake
not fantastic
but we are 1-0 up
so that would do me
need more on the right
and Georgious needs to calm down a bit
also, we missed one sitter, maybe two
HT Dundee Utd 0-1 Celtic
First 15 mins we were on fire, got 1 goal and could have had another couple. DU gradually got into the game and made it more difficult for us but they have never threatened our goal. The game is never over at 1-0 but we definitely look in full control.
Glenda and Masto are doing really well in the centre of defence, Wanyama the standout in midfield and all 3 forwards have done their bit today.
Lenny will be itching to give Broonie a run out today but the only player he can take of is Kayal without shifting the midfield players around.
An early second half goal should allow us to settle down a bit and go on to score more.
Overall a pretty good first half. Brilliant first 20 minutes and at the time I was thinking we’d end up comfortable winners. Might be a bit nervy until we finally get the 2nd goal.
Big Victor is superb.
Jobo
Bright start and deserved early goal, but lost our way a little after that.
Still, much more like it.
Second goal would kill the game
Hope those missed chances don’t come back to haunt us.
MWD
Frustrating. First 20 mins we threatened to blow them away – then we stopped doing the god stuff like giving the ball to Samaras and running directly at their useless defenders. We also let slackness slip into our own distribution, especially at the back.
Just as I was thinking that the ref was doing all right, he then decides to influence the game, punishing Samaras for daring to jump, and stopping play when we were on the attack.
This ain’t won yet.
Whirlwind start but as the half went on we dont seem to be retaining the ball very well. Need a bit more quality possession.
Hope we dont throw away points to their crude set-piece attacks.
Hoops 30 goals in 42 starts.
Socratese has passed away at 57, just announced. Very sad.
Can’t believe penalty not even mentioned when cha brought down.
YeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeS
1…………………,,,…0
BigJoe…..Abitslow,inLondonHeadingBack2Spain
bamboo says:
4 December, 2011 at 12:38
“Rob Shorthouse -lets be avin you! what have you got to say”
It is likely that you have just read in the article what he has had to say!
Playing well for the first 25 and should have been out of sight really. Need a second though and would have preferred it before half time. Think Skoosh will come on though don’t know who for.
TBH I don’t think the ref is having the influence some think. Got two wrong – one for each team. The Cha tackle was not a penalty IMHO.
Br\o/gan R\o/gan Trevin\o/ and H\o/gan says:
4 December, 2011 at 12:32
Good Afternoon,
When the management and players of Tadcaster Albion turned up at Garforth Town A.F.C for a Northern Premier League Division One North Match on 20th November 2004, they could not quite believe their ears……. or their eyes.
There had been rumours that Garfield Town ( formerly Garfield Miners ) had a new player coach, and that he was a “foreigner” but no one expected this. Matters were confirmed when the team sheets were handed out, and there among the list of substitutes was his name. Socrates!!
Socrates Brasileiro Sampau de Souza Veirs de Oliveira was Captain of Brazil, played in two world cups, and may well be the oddest class footballer of modern times.
Between 1974-78 he appeared fpr Botafogo SP on 57 occasions scoring 24 goals before moving on to the famous Corinthians club where he would stay for 6 years. By the time he left there in 1984 he had pulled on their Jersey some 297 times and had scored amazing 172 goals, which was astonishing for a midfielder. He then played with Fiorentina in Italy for a season making 25 appearances and scoring 6 goals before heading back to Brazil. By this time he was not far off finished with football and made 14 appearances for Flamengo and Santos over the next couple of years. That was it, until he suddenly turned up one day in the north of England and appeared from the bench for 13 minutes or so.
Socrates’ footballing abilities were in no doubt, and Pele named him as one of Brazil’s 100 leading footballers of all time. Anyone who saw him in the 1982 World Cup will recall him as the tall (6’4″) bearded captain with the curly hair and the occasional headband who was stick thin, immensely gifted and had an air of “cool” about him. Indeed he was declared the symbol of cool for a whole generation of football fans in Brazil.
But by the time he took the field for Garforth Town he was huge as the video below will show.
At his height, Socrates was known on the field of play for thrilling passes, great goals and for his trademark back heel passses that blindsided the opposition. Off the field he was known for his politics ( he once had a whole Corinthian team wear shirts that said Democracy in protest at the Government ), for being a fully qualified Doctor– and for smoking like a lum and drinking like a fish!!
Indeed he delayed playing any type of football to study medicine and after his retiral he practised as a Doctor in Rebeiro Preto where he lived with his wife and six children. He was also a newspapaer columnist on sport and politics, did punditry stints for the television and wrote books. However, he continued to smoke two packets of cogarettes a day and have a far from healthy alcohol intake which in turn caused balooning weight and health problems.
In August of this year, he was admitted to Hospital with internal bleeding and placed in intensive care. Regrettably he died this morning at the age of just 56. The liver and other parts apparently had seen enough for one lifetime– maybe two.
He will be mourned in Brazil as a past player and as a political activist and a character. He will be mourned as a father, husband and friend.
I won’t pretend to ever understand a clearly bright, intelligent,professional athlete who abused his body with cigarettes and alcohol the way he did. He knew exactly what he was doing, was dedicated to medicine from an early age and yet seemingly did not give a toss and lived the way he wanted to.
He loved John Lennon, Fidel Castro and Che Guevarra and named one of his children Fidel! When his mother complained and said that this was a “harsh” name for a child he responded ” Eh– You called me Socrates!”.
He was the captain of the greatest entertaining team to win absolutely nothing, and there was a suggestion that that teams general attitude could have been better if someone less laid back had been captain. After all this was the guy who only took two steps when taking a penalty! That may very well be– but Socrates was Socrates and you only get the good with the bad. Take it or leave it.
It was said that the longest he used to go without a cigarette was when he was sleeping or during the 90 minutes of a football match. Yet later in veterns exhibitions games, one ex pro talked of the unbelievable scene of the great man wandering to the sidelines and getting the occasional puff from someone during the game!
There may well be a hell of a price to pay for being a chain smoking prince of cool as can be seen here in that last footballing appearance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJzp5BjixzE&feature=related
However, it would be unfair to leave with that image as a finale.
So if you have 5 minutes to spare, grab a cup of coffee ( a fag if you indulge ) and just watch football the way it should be played– even by a mad, philosphic, political,chain smoking Brazilian Doctor and his team of under achievers! As a boy this is what makes you want to kick a football!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZxvYy5-ekI
Socrates– more than a name RIP
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Oops, sorry about that Paul.
Should know better. Won’t happen again Chief.
HH
btw
it is absolutely baltic today
:)
Chick Young : “By the laws of the game it shouldn’t have been a penalty?”
Wishy Kennels…
:– (
It’s spooky to think the internet sends these digital pulses throughout the globe. Like a collective heartbeat. An embraced hope made electric. Sends shivers up and down my spine.
Honoured to share the experience with you all.
U
Cha playing well, Matthews a real find as is big Vic – poor Willo just bouncing off him every time
1 critical comment – STokesy has no pace whatsoever
keep er lit Celtic, im enjoying watching you again
Never a pen for Cha… he never fainted in the box!
Bhoys playing well, Forrest if he finished off the move 1 on 1 with the keeper at speed would’ve given us a goal to talk about all day. Dammit has been playing well, driving at the Utd defense well. Kayal and Wanyama plenty of energy and closing down midfield well.
Hope we come out the traps strong and get another goal quick to kill them off, I think Lennon will freshing things up around the 65-70 min mark after the exertions mid week.
Playing well and dominating the game but I get the feeling we need another goal to keep the nerves at bay.
We should be 3 up and cruising, shades of Dunfermline 11 days ago.
cv
Two Pandas at Edinburgh Airport, was there a fight? :-)
BRT&H
Come on. There’s a gem oan.
;I)
MWD
David Tanner clings to the fact we are only one up, four times he said it in the interval – happy days.
Mon the Hoops
1-0 at half time doesn’t really tell how comfortable it has been for us. Ref as bent as a nine bob note. Our forwards challenge a DU defender for the ball =freekick to DU. Their forwards challenge our defenders for the ball= free kick to DU.
Never mind, we’re 3 goals better than DU, even with that ref and I expect us to prove it in the 2nd half.
Question!
Since Victor has been a success are the huns targeting him now?