Celtic collected all three points in one of their most comfortable away performances of the season at Dunfermline this afternoon. Anthony Stokes and Victor Wanyama gave them a half time lead before a Charlie Mulgrew free kick completed the rout in the second half.
Mulgrew set pieces, the source of four consecutive goals, have become important to Celtic recently and could have led to an opener in 12 minutes when Thomas Rogne was wrestled to the ground inside the Dunfermline by Barrowman, who used both arms to prevent the Norwegian getting on the end of the corner, but referee Ian Brines, who had a particularly poor game, along with his assistants, missed the incident.
Five minutes later Celtic were in the lead when Mulgrew’s short corner was worked out to Anthony Stokes who shot from the 18 yard line into the postage stamp corner, giving goalkeeper, Chris Smith no chance.
Moments later Stokes, Hooper and Forrest combined well before Stokes tried a cheeky shot to Smiths’ near post. Celtic were now in full flow and Wanyama saw his shot from 25 yards tipped over by Smith. Five minutes from half time Celtic were in easy street. Charlie Mulgrew free kick from 28 yards was met inside the six yard box by Victor Wanyama who volleyed into the net.
Dunfermline almost caught Celtic snoozing within 60 seconds of the second goal when Barrowman knocked a through ball onto Burns but his shot was saved by Fraser Forster.
11 minutes after the break a Mulgrew free kick made its way left to Ledley who clipped a cross for Hooper but the strikers’ header went narrowly wide. On the hour mark James Forrest ran at Dunfermline from 50 yards but his cutback from six yards didn’t find a taker in the middle and slipped past the post.
High winds played their part today and almost caught out Rogne and Forster who struggled with a high ball that held up but Dunfermline couldn’t profit.
Charlie Mulgrew completed the scoring on 69 minutes with a free kick from 28 yards. Dunfermline keeper, Smith, should have done better as the ball went into the middle of the goal just under the bar.
Samaras linked with Brown to carve an opening but his shot was blocked. The ball broke to James Forrest who shot from outside the box but Smith made no mistake this time, turning the ball over for a corner. Mulgrew fired in the resulting corner and Ki found a yard of space 11 yards out but his shot went narrowly wide.
Ki Sung-Yueng made no contact in a tackle with Paddy Boyle, the Dunfermline player hurdled his challenge, but then grabbed and threw Ki by the throat. Ki never retaliated, no doubt expecting the referee to show Boyle a red card, but instead Brines booked both players. It was perhaps the most ridiculous refereeing decision of the season.
Emilio Izaguirre made his long-awaited return from breaking his leg at Pittodrie in August but almost marked his performance with a negative contribution. Having controlled the ball he then tried to dribble out of his own six yard box but was fortunate not to be punished.
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Good morning everyone,
Happy New Year again! What a finish to 2011 and start to 2012 – the confidence in the team is growing game by game and inspired by playing in Paradise
Hail hail,
sTICks
Fred C. Dobbs
Brilliant.
I think it is time we went and got ourselves a Treble. ;)
Hail Hail
I was thinking more along the lines of big bhoys school in EK
just incase i knew you
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man in a suitcase says:
3 January, 2012 at 01:11
jc2 primary in Cambuslang aye
hail hail
share
jtsticks,
happy new year bud.
Paradise…
Spancil Hill – Paddy Reilly’s version
Feelin a bit homesick tonight, had the mam and dad over for New Years, and feeling the pull and pang of the emigrant now as I do every time, even though I’m closer and luckier than most.
Car radio still tuned to RTE, tonights news was some bollox from the ESRI bailing out and warning the country of 10 more years of “austerity”, inflicted upon us by capitalists, property developers, bwankers and the corrupt politicians who turned a blind eye (at best).
But it’s still home to me and it’s where I want to be. And sure I’ve got austerity here, so I may as well have it there.
Samsara is the Buddhist cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth – more interestingly it is also an anagram of ‘Samaras’
Hail Hail
Estadio
And just at that JTsticks jumps in
Happy new year JT
Your big Lithuanian mate
Where were you all pre and after game against the hvns….. We had the kids so as usual in pub next to TC
was surprised that no one was in pre match and only Tuskers young and old after game
TCR
Ah would love tae say aye …but…I wandered a’wa tae see the ‘tic in 1994, met and married a wonderful wummin’ and never left Toronto…..but get yer arse ower here and we’ll have that swally.
TAL
Estadio
Like the Sammi post. !
jc2 sorry mate moved up here 18yrs ago well after school right enough.
live in stewartfield and do know a lot of bhoys from up here, in fact a very good friend has same initials as yourself, although 2nd name is same as elvis, as in olivers army
tarrant says:
3 January, 2012 at 01:16
Feelin a bit homesick tonight, had the mam and dad over for New Years, and feeling the pull and pang of the emigrant now as I do every time, even though I’m closer and luckier than most.
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we are all emigrants , just the way it is for most of our history,
have a beer on me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_-u_cmEWqU
Where’s awe the huns?
ok this’ll flush out the hun lurkers…..
What did the elephant say to the naked hun?
…Can you really breathe through that?
Estadio
Before Sami was re-born…I think I was at the game where he died:)
TAL
petec,
Imagine Neil Lennon’s treble?
I would die in peace :O).
St Stivs
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Agree with you on the Norwich away kit. Wish we had one like that, nice and simple. Reminds me of the one we played with against our main rivals in 1979/80. (Morton)
HH
Petec
Re your post about small number of fans driving the team forward.. Do they outnumber the small number of PLC suits holding the team back?
I’m DELIGHTED to be on top but I still believe we have arrived at this position later than we should have…..?
St Stivs – the very best to you and yours!
JC2 – Happy New Year. Pre match we were in the Legends bunker – it was mobbed! After the game we had a quiet jar and happy reflection in an Indian Restaurant! :o)
sTICks
Maggie
How the hell are ye doin’
I read you were over in India…..But I always knew you were a Raj!
TAL
man in a suitcase
No bother and wee JTsticks will be giving it JC ?????(again)
my bhoys names not my initials..
Everton join the race for Rhodes Kos he’s special,
Sounds like a Corfu of Crete to me…:-))
Teuchter,you’ve just taken the wind right oot of my sails bud.Toronto?More chance of me meetin ye in mid Atlantic son.
Anyway, you look after yerself and God Bless you and yer family.
If God spares me I’ll see oot ma days in Derry but ma heart forever in Republican Clydebank.TAL
guy goes into vet:
vet: say Ahhhh
guy: what for?
vet: because your dug’s deid
seriously!
Whyte goes into accountants:
Accountant: Say Ahhhhhhh
Whyte: gooood man!
HH
M
Do you remember 2005/6
My recollection :-)
Deja Vu????
Hail hail
Estadio
Paddy Gall,does another big Paddy fae Tracys ring a bell lad?
JC2
‘and wee JTsticks will be giving it JC ?????(again)’
you have lost me on that one??
sTICks
Fred C. Dobbs says:
3 January, 2012 at 01:25
It will be thoroughly deserved.
CultsBhoy loves being 1st says:
3 January, 2012 at 01:26
Lets be honest here, Celtic have been cheated out of the last 2 titles, we are not talking about a straightforward scenario as you paint it.
Whilst they continued to financially dope we have stayed rigidly to the policy the board set upon (rightly or wrongly) because they believe it to be the right long term plan.
Old But Gold…
Tricoloured Ribbon
I’ll start swimmin’ noo…..meet ye here for a pint
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6yb5n2JEtA
TAL
Tricoloured Ribbon says:
3 January, 2012 at 01:35
Paddy Gall,does another big Paddy fae Tracys ring a bell lad?
Naw mate, I know nothing ;-)
I enjoyed a pint in the Soliel Bar in Jersey today though, with a big fine Derry man called ‘Damien’. :-)))
P.S Big Paddy is a Gentleman of the finest order :-)
The first time I clicked who you were on here it took about 10 posts for you to figure out who i was
because you thought they were my initials (JC)
garibaldi Stinkoffolous :>)
jtsTICks says:
3 January, 2012 at 01:36
JC2
‘and wee JTsticks will be giving it JC ?????(again)’
you have lost me on that one??
sTICks
PETEC 0138
Lets be honest here, Celtic have been cheated out of the last 2 titles, we are not talking about a straightforward scenario as you paint it.
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Well said,my man.
Too many people happy to overlook this when discussing our shortcomings,or the legned of Walter,the Silver Fox.
Bhoys and girls,
Before you take down your tree, tinsel and lights etc, ‘I wish you a hope for Christmas and a brave New Year!’
For those who have not heard this – enjoy!
sTICks
I Believe!
petec says:
3 January, 2012 at 01:38
Celtic have been cheated out of a lot more than that..for example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl-JZO1A0us
and Chris Sutton was given a ban for telling the truth
Re the treble – this was me earlier:
tarrant says:
2 January, 2012 at 17:44
3-0 the table-topping ghood-ghuys
Just in, 3 great goals, Stokes especially – what a pro we have with him, whatever he may feel about not being first pick he is always committed when he plays. Victor’s run and Charlie’s long free-kick top find him was beautifuil to watch, Victor’s a brilliant find for us too – full credit to John Park, and before him Tommy Burns and Gordon Strachan (and whisper it, Peter Lawwell) who should take the plaudits for the long-term investment in our football development/scouting/signing strategy and how well it is being implemented.
I don;t think there was ever much chance of us taking less than 3 points today, but it is still encouraging to see us do it so professionally and comfortably, while rotating the squad a bit and bringing the mighty Izzy back in as a little reminder to all the MSM detractors (we’re taking advantage of huns injuries etc) that we have been without last year’s POTY for almost all of this season.
Two more weeks before any more league action. Interesting to see how our squad and theirs change in that time, before the Boche travel to Perth and we welcome D Utd to Paradise.
45 years since the Lisbon Lions.
Let’s get carried away, even if it’s only for tonight, about Lennon’s Lions.
The treble’s still on!
I’m feeling less reckless now – why the fk not?
I won’t lie – last year I didn’t think Neil Lennon was right for the job (for the same reason that Liam Brady and John Barnes weren’t right, although at least Neil had played here). I posted earlier this season that we had reaped the error of appointing an inexperienced manager; but that the worst thing we could do was sack him, and what we must do was support him until the end of the season and give him the chance to perhaps sign players he needed in January, and/or address the team’s tactical problems and defensive failings in training and coaching, on the basis that he would improve; and that fat PLG, after a sainted start, would crumble under any sort of pressure.
Neil’s had his pressure now and emerged like a fking Titan, and the players have risen with him, Samaras and Victor especially, in a way that to me suggests MON-like man-management.
I don’t think Sally can or will cope with that pressure – Christ, he couldn’t even handle it as assistant to Sir Waltermort – and the reaction from the hordes to today’s supposedly “emphatic reaction to an OF defeat” focusses on how much worse the Boche are going to be by the time January’s out. [Never mind the tax judgment in March/April…but we don’t like to talk about that. No sniggering at the back now.]
Our Day Will Come – Isaac Hayes
Margaret McGill 0150
Ah,Margaret,I never thought for one second that you would forget!
Amazing none of our former players tell it like it is when they get out of the country and away from SFA sanction.
My sister is reading Chris’s book at the mo,hopefully there will be something in there.
BTW,anyone heard lately from the esteemed poster,CHRIS SUTTON IS A LEGEND?
Palacio67 says:
3 January, 2012 at 01:25
St Stivs
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Agree with you on the Norwich away kit. Wish we had one like that, nice and simple. Reminds me of the one we played with against our main rivals in 1979/80. (Morton)
HH
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allright bambi,
back in 1980, my auchendores grannies brother came back to scotland for the first time since 1964, and never since.
he brought his afrikkaner wife, her brother and his wife.
they lived on our driveway for a week , in a camper van, while touring scotland.
what i remember was they were gigantic people, hard to understand, but generous.
uncle billy (offcourse) was the only son of a prominent orangeman from belfast who came to the port in the 1920’s.
but he was nice with me,
he wanted to give me a gift.
i took him to smiths in west blackhall street, and got him to buy me the green umbro top, which to this day is my 2nd favorite kit ever.
i wore it for the whole summer.
when my granny passed in 2001, the day we unfurled the flag, i phoned to tell Billy his big sister was gone.
he asked me ” do you still have that scabby green top i bought you”
aye, this one –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQccgDwMrEI