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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Jc2
I remember – your two buddies – JG and MG were in Legends for the game. I assume you were otherwise engaged or not invited :O)
sTICks
Mags,
The huns have spin doctored that youtube badly. BBC indeed.
Palacio67 says:
3 January, 2012 at 01:25
St Stivs
on morton being our greatest rivals around that time, up till xams 1980 they realy were.
i have much fun teasin many saint stephens pupils from that time who were cappielow diehards, but can now be found at celtic park shouting at, not supporting, the hoops.
i allways greet them with ” your a celtic supporter ? i dont remember you on the shammy bus or the woodhall train ?”
jg ?? Was at game with me and his youngest bhoy.
Gilly the madman asked me on ??? 22nd Dec if I could have got him a ticket??? He lives in Sheffield for the last ten years but gave up his season tkt this year i think
but he came and met me and JG after the game.
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jtsTICks says:
3 January, 2012 at 01:57
Jc2
I remember – your two buddies – JG and MG were in Legends for the game. I assume you were otherwise engaged or not invited :O)
sTICks
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Goodnight to you all, a very good day for us.
Teuchter yer bringing a wee serious tear tae ma eye.Heading for Malin Head.Rowing boat awaits.
Meet ye at Rockall son..and we’ll celebrate the Hun DEMISE.TAL.
JC2
I was talking about todays game! :)
sTICks
Goodnight Paddy Gall.
Petec
Being generous I’d say there was a bit of both ( cheating by establishment and poor decisions by plc)
The main point now is we are where we belong at last…
Some smart work in January by CFC plc , Some fair Hmrc decisions and subsequent objective punishment by SPL and we are definstely in for a generation of dominance.
10 IAR?
right offski.
cmon the hoops.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
And Flo makes 30 Million down the drain
And so it came to pass that in the Under 19 international qualifiers, 6 Celtic players were the foundation of the successful Scotland side, and 2 were included in the valiant but sadly unsuccessful Irish team.(obviously not enough Celtic players)!
I Can’t for the life of me find any representation from the £14m gingerbread cottage up the road there.
Do you think it may have something to do with the Management!!!!! AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!
I will go and wash my mouth out with Sulphuric acid (or McKewans Lager)!
I do however gather that on receiving this news DM, as he is known to his closest associates and those who are too thick to remember his full name (Stand up Bazza and Boab – I blame Catholic Schools) considered this small hole in his Auchenowie strategy and CV!
The dying rays of the crimson sun shone low across the grass,
No sound was heard, no move was made, but the old man cried ‘alas,
This kingdom cost me so much gold, but the soil proved deid and dry’
And now the Tumbleweed just blaws o’er this desert in Milngavie.
‘Ten thousand fresh faced hopeful huns have tried tae pass the test,
We graded all and like Homepride we kept those who were best!
A hundred? Fifty? Mibbee five? Ach huv anither go!
Old Hubbard’s cupboard had mair bones…. 12 million less than Flo!’
‘We’ve tried the lot’ wee John Brown said backed up by Monkey Durrant,
‘At least there’s Boab, big FTP, and he’s a true bun Currant!’ (sorry about that!)
‘That dope! That erse! That waste of air, he couldnae cross a road,
He wance wis kissed by a princess fair who turned intae a toad’.
A million quid gets flushed away wae every passin’ year,
For all the talent that’s been honed it dis seem awfy dear,
‘Ah know ah said if Celtic spent a five then ten ah’d blow,
Ah come on lads, wis jist a joke, besides ah’ve nae mair dough.’
‘Ah’ve sold the shops, ah’ve sacked the staff, ah’m pawnin aw ma shares
Ah’ve conned the fans, the Rangers Trust, ah’ve caught them unawares,
They think they’re givin’ Rangers cash tae challenge Europes best,
The poor wee fools, ah’ve got their shirt, an’ they’ve ‘simply the vest!’
He wiped the tears that filled his eyes and thought of all his dosh,
‘That bastard Advocaat’s to blame, he talked a load of tosh,
He said the Tims would fall behind, their fate would soon be sealed
Alas alack, state of the Art’s been found at Barrowfield!’
Hail Hail and bedtime
Estadio
I was down south for new year
watched game today before driving home
never got home till after 9
nighty night
CELTIC
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jtsTICks says:
3 January, 2012 at 02:13
JC2
I was talking about todays game! :)
sTICks
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Send in the Huns?
Are we no rich?
Are we no a pair?
You here at last up on top,
Me in despair.
Send in the clowns.
Are you taking the piss?
Don’t you approve?
One who keeps tearing around,
Hacking all that moves.
Where are the huns?
Send in the clowns.
Just when I’d stopped
Opening doors,
Finally knowing
The title that I wanted was yours,
Making my entrance again
With my usual flair,
Aye ready Sure of my lies,
No one could care.
Don’t you love farce?
My fault, I fear.
I thought that you’d want what I want –
Sorry, too dear.
But where are my huns?
There ought to be huns.
Quick, send in the clowns.
Its no surprise.
Who could foresee
I’d come to feel about you
What you’d felt about me?
Why only now when i see
That I pissed it all away?
What a demise.
What a cliché.
Are we no rich?
Who you calling a queer?
Losing my timing this late
In my career?
And where are the huns?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don’t bother – they’re here.
St Stivs
thanks bud, enjoyed your pint and your link.
You’re right of course, and the Irish diaspora is at once our triumph and our tragedy. My end-of-primary school project was about Bernardo O’Higgins – a bizarre choice for a 12 year old I admit, but I was entranced by the name,and the story is even more entrancing – a mongrel who fought against the imperialists, a Liberator, a Republican. In Chile!
Fk the huns, we actually are the people. There are Irish in every country in the world, making a positive contribution to humanity. Montserrat, an island that was pretty much destroyed ten years ago by a volcano, was so Irish that they had St Patricks Day as a public holiday. People go on about the Welsh Patagonians, but there’s a million people in Argentina that can claim Irish descent (maybe that explains the Malvinas fixation). The hands that built America; the slave labourers that dug my favourite city, New Orleans, out of the Mississippi delta; the navvies that turned Stephenson’s plans into railways and roads; the voices and the engineers of freedom around the world.
Song for Ireland – Luke
All,
What a great end to 2011 and start to 2012!
God bless the Celtic Family where ever you are in the world and I bid you goodnight/day with the best song of 2011 (IMO!?)
sTICks
Charlie Charlie
jtsTICks says:
3 January, 2012 at 02:33
It has been a Magnificent end to 2011 and a Good start to 2012. The huns have many many devices they are willing to use but they WILL NOT SUPPRESS the Fighting Irish spirit that will elevate Celtic way beyond these shores.
Petec,
You are so right! (And more right than you realise! :o) ) All I can say is ‘Tick Tock’!
sTICks
Another baba Diawara brace yesterday
tarrant says:
3 January, 2012 at 02:29
St Stivs
thanks bud, enjoyed your pint and your link.
You’re right of course, and the Irish diaspora is at once our triumph and our tragedy. My end-of-primary school project was about Bernardo O’Higgins
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you know i am a higgins ?
stephen joseph even.
specialist subject – The Liberator of Chile.
jtsTICks ;))
It has been a great day m8.
Tick Tock as well.
It’s gonnae be a topper January I can just feel it.
Imagine introducing a genuine £4 million striker into our lineup – OOOH AAAAH Up the Samaras.
Neil deserves to get a Showstopper because he will make the man even better.
I have confidence the Celtic Board will not make mistakes this window.
Petec
I can feel it 2!
sTICks
Petec
On the same page…
To me it doesn’t need to be a striker but acquiring a quality match winner who will galvanise this group of players and help drive them to better things is a very important step.
It is in part symbolic and part just pragmatic good business. Imagine we sign ( within our means) a decent player as RFC hold their fire sale taking offers for any player to pay off their debt? It will shatter the HUN players who remain. It also guarantees Euro income..
It has to be done!
Never marry a soldier or a Royal Marine,marry a Clydebank Bisley Boy and be proud to wear the green ,she sent me a handkerchief red white and blue I showed it to the Bisley Boys and they tore it up in two ,oh right ye are,oh right ye are oh right ye are ma Bisley Fenian right ye are
And when the war is over ,what will the Huns do?
They’ll be hopping about wae a leg and a half and the Catholics they’ll have two,oh right ye are,oh right ye are oh right ye are ma Bisley Fenian right ye are.
tarrant says:
3 January, 2012 at 02:29
the navvies that turned Stephenson’s plans into railways and roads; the voices and the engineers of freedom around the world.
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as much as i admire O’Higgins, way back in 1820-1840, my own Higgins family came to the Port around 1880 from Coalisland and before that Donegal somewhere.
ref the irish navvies , i now live in Bishopton, next to what was described as the longest tunnel in the world back in 1860;s ? my back garden was a navvy camp.
and evertime i dig something over i find pottery , clay pipes, and rusted nails.
i have a near complete jar lid, a white intact pipe and some lumps of smelted stuff.
these Irish were in scotland 20 years before my own family, and indeed started the build of their own church in bishopton.
we are never far from our own history.
keep it lit.
Sorry lads a wee bit carried away there.God bless each and every one of you and your families.The Trebles ours.
Goodnight.TAL.
Paddy Gallagher says:
3 January, 2012 at 01:30
I heard the ladzarotta
Sorry!
Its days like this that I love Paul Revere’s Horse
It makes me Glad all over
for your love
King Billy
heh its still the new year..pablo would appreciate
St Stivs
Have you got a metal detector with a Celtic scarf around the handle? :O)
Off to my bed!
I Believe!
jtsTICks
The Ranjurs are on……..
CultsBhoy
Going into the big boys playground next season we need real quality up front and also in the centre of defence, the 2 positions that Neil has been calling for to be strengthened.
If he had to decide between each position, I am sure Neil would rather get the top striker to see out this season, then we can see about spending well on a quality CH in the Summer.
Check ma Granny oot
Great performance and result from the Bhoys yesterday.
We don’t need to worry about them dropping points any more. We are in front. Let them worry about us. Forget Motherwell and the other also rans.
What is Craig Burley’s problem with Samaras?
Tom McLaughlin
Basically Samaras/Celtic is his problem.
He is just a very bitter hun, his commentary yesterday really did sound like a hurting hurting hun. ;)
petec –
The story I was told is that Burley’s wife called him Super Sammy at a very delicate moment in bed one Sunday afternoon.
It was Burley’s wife who told me too.
So there.
A BITTERLY disappointed Stuart McCall last night bemoaned the failure of his side to exploit a weakened Rangers team.
“It’s probably the worst I have felt after a Rangers game and we have been beaten heavier than this,” said the Motherwell manager after his side’s 3-0 defeat at Ibrox. “They didn’t have the attacking power of Nikica Jelavic, Steven Naismith and Kyle Lafferty today. So I don’t think we’ve had a better chance, or will have a better chance for a while to come, of coming here and taking something from the game.”
He added: “All three goals we lost were poor. At half-time, I thought if we came out and had a bit of belief then there might be something. The second goal was a killer, though. We spoke a lot about belief but I don’t know if it’s a psychological problem.”
Who ya kiddin Stuart?
Psychological problem………………. just imagine its the mighty Celtic you are playing next time, problem solved
Watch wee bits of the Hun humping again last night.
That Kyle Bartley character is some lad. You’d think maybe even a superstar world renowned centre half whose been it, seen it and done it all.
He was so cocky in the tunnel PRE-Match he looked frightened. Imagine how it must feel being so cocky that you come out your dressing room and your sole intention is to wind up Broonie, call him “ya wee Pr*ck” only to be ignored. What a real Huns man he is.
MWD
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Sammi Scores Again in BB’s (Burley’s Bedroom)..
Summa
Saint Stivs says:
3 January, 2012 at 01:57
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Allright Higgie. I felt the absolute same about that strip. But think I had to go to that sport shop in Paisley to get mine (Pitchers?)
Was lucky to get the green umbro tracksuit that summer also ( The old man was working at Sullom voe) Had it on nearly every night. Forgot we used it against St Mirren also, and what a team we had then.
HH
Got to be honest,don’t think the remarks about Burleys wife does us any favours,just don’t think it’s the type of humour we need to read here.