I thought it was the emerging influence of Nir Biton as a central midfield influence who transformed Celtic against Hearts on Sunday; he looked that good. If anything, Celtic were better in his absence last night, more fluid, more incisive, against a better team.
It’s all about shape. The correct shape gives players time on the ball when they need it, allows them to look industrious, not static, and makes them difficult to counteract. The only two questions are: can we maintain it, and when was the last time a Celtic team controlled the ball like this?
Forget about trying to maintain this in Barcelona, that’s far too risky, but if we can play like this at Tynecastle and Fir Park we can do so anywhere else in Scotland. Don’t think we’ve played like this since the Centenary Season.
It’s difficult to interpret the vandalism at Fir Park last night. As Celtic fans we don’t have a point of reference for this stuff. “Had enough. Won’t be back at another away game”, was the verdict of a friend I spoke to, who has probably missed no more than 40 domestic away games in the last 40 years. The proportion of Celtic fans who would never vandalise seats is well above 99%, but there’s a new and unwelcome phenomenon in British football and Celtic have the best views in the country.
Getting back to more familiar ground, The Kano Foundation asked me to pass on this message:
“The Kano Foundation World Cup 2014 Predictor
Friends,
2013 has been a world class year for The Kano Foundation. We’ve had our first ever bucket collection, held our 3rd annual dance, welcomed groups from across Scotland, England and Ireland, and last but by no means least we will welcome our 2000th child to Celtic Park. All this would not be possible without your unwavering support.
As we move towards the new year, The Kano Foundation are always keen to continue our work while bringing you the fans new and exciting ways to support us. The fabulous prizes on offer at our Golf Day in September are just one example.
To keep up this form, we are delighted to announce a very special competition ahead of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
We will be running a predictor competition unlike many others. At first reading our two part predictor is very similar to others where you enter the scores and winners for the 72 games.
However, we are also offering an unbelievable bonus prize fund of £10,000 for anyone who can correctly predict the outcome of all 48 group games . Yes, that’s correct – £10,000 to be shared amongst all entrants who can correctly predict the general outcome (winner or draw) for the all the group games.
In order to run both competitions we are asking entrants to make a one-off donation of £10. From the funds raised 50% will go as a donation to TKF with the remaining 50% available for prizes.
With just 100 entrants, not only can we raise a £500 prize fund for the predictor, we can also take over 200 kids to a game at Celtic Park. A tidy reward for a just few minutes brain effort!
All you need to do to enter is register you interest by email at:
wcpredictor@thekanofoundation.com Please include TKFWCPred as the email/paypal subject and tell us your user/team name so we can verify your entry. If you’ve not got enough room, enter as much detail as you can and tell us what you’ve done so we help.
Then make your payment into The Kano Foundation bank account (30-13-01 00989961 through Paypal or by sms by texting KANO11 £10 to 70070 – remember to include your name/email address.
Visit our predictor webpage (coming soon) to find more details and follow your progress
Once again, we hope we can rely on your support to make this predictor a success for us in terms of fundraising and for potentially making one of you £10,000 richer!
Thank You
The Kano Foundation”
Congratulations to the Celtic fans who run and support The Kano Foundation, our community is rightly proud of the. Register your interest by emailing: wcpredictor@thekanofoundation.com.
Less than one day to bid on bid on the charity auction for lunch at Cinc Sentis in Barcelona. Another bounty from the excellent reputation Celtic fans have. If you’re going out next week, treat yourself………
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Dontbrattbakkinanger12:20 on9 December, 2013
Embdy see the Eagles/Lions NFL game in Philly at the weekend?
Proper snow , and they played on.
Sadly I expect it would never happen over here.
I watched it. Unbelievable conditions yet it went ahead!
Great game as well.
A fantastic set of games in the NFL yesterday, but the Patriot’s game topped the lot.
~SPF~
Sheeting free the bears
I didn’t see that coming, cough cough,
Philbhoy – Free the Dam 5!
13:41 on
9 December, 2013
jude2005
Could be the new Sammi
When are mickybhoy and the gb going to float on the stock market?
hun skelper
13:46 on 9 December, 2013
proudbhoy
13:41 on 9 December, 2013
The Scottish first division ? Lol HH
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Lee wallace musta just missed out
sipsini
13:40 on 9 December, 2013
The guys sound mate because I don’t agree with him doesn’t mean I dislike him as someone on here said today he’s a great Celtic man and that’s what matters not wether he agrees with me as they say opinions are like a***holes everybody has one HH
…………….
I agree with your sentiments. Then again wafting your “a***hole” on others faces all day long can become tiresome. :>{}
tonyd….
Now, now!
Lifted by the fuzz
Makesyereyeswatercsc
proudbhoy
13:49 on 9 December, 2013
5th mate elbows came 4th HH
Silver City 1888
He’s had a similar start to his Celtic career as Sammi did.
Getting pelters!
;-)
My tuppenceworth . I have enjoyed the atmosphere created by the GB. and who will ever forget the barca 125 display , but it would seem a few are letting them down , or attaching themselves to the group . All their good work is being spoiled , although as always the laptop loyal are going over the top , i often wonder if they were shown inside the toilets after a thems game . But steps need to be taken ,and the culprits dealt with , before our fans good reputation is tarnished further . Point them out and get rid .
A hunfiltrator’s-media-house moles mission is to cause the maximum disharmony and in-fighting and chaos.
Clingko\o/
I have a season ticket to watch Celtic, I have a scarf I purchased at the Celtic shop and many other things I buy ( when I am not in Slaters) anything celtic I have is official, the green brigade sell there stuff and not a penny goes to Celtic, they are leaches, my opinion praying on young kids.
tonydonnelly67
13:56 on 9 December, 2013
Did the GB knock you back for membership ?
tonyd
Does their fund raising not go towards the tifo’s?
(Hope that apostrophe is ok)
Or maybe the fireworks/smoke bombs.
Googybhoy
Unlike your fine self.
LP of the week -way down south.
Roy Panton / Yvonne Harrison —-With Friends -1961 -1970 [ Liquidator Records /Madrid ]
Fabulous !
Out for a year and I didn’t know it existed .
Better late than never —————-Highly recommended
Get your Green Brigade – Bike
Official Merchandise CSC
hun skelper
13:45 on 9 December, 2013,
Here’s hoping you have a long neck to reach your own ah.
sipsini
14:00 on 9 December, 2013
Haha what you going on about
BSR
Hilarious!
And the right size too!
so, we are now at the stage that some “great celtic supporters” despise youthful people for getting an education.
given the long time its taken for an immigrant population to achieve economic parity with the locals in this fair land, thats some viewpoint.
ban the pensioners.
I wouldnt join any club that wd have me as a member!! G M 1937??
Hun skelper
The GB, in my opinion, are not true Celtic fans, they are left wing extremists praying on young kids, ultras, call them what you like, kids are Easley led, these are not the kind of people I would like my kids hanging around, not the best in the roll model department.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS
I was at the match in 82 and I am sure Davie Cooper played. If not,I apologise for booing his doppelgänger.
It was 1-0 to England with Marriner the scorer.
I don’t think Provan played from the start,though IIRC Cooper was subbed,so he may have come on later.
Tommy Burns and Davie Provan were the players dropped from that squad before Spain 82.
Tommy in particular was raging about it. He felt that Jock still thought of him as Wee Tommy.
Tony Donnelly@10:04
“Setting free the bears
Why didn’t you just say that you are a backer of the GB, and anti board and PL”
For the simple reason, Tony, that it would not be true and it would not be what I wanted to say. I thought you appreciated straight talking so why would I mis-represent myself in the way you suggest?
“instead of all your university guff about a wee woman from Castlemilk who in your opinion was ignorant and didn’t know what she was talking about,”
I fear you have misread again the intention of the story and the point. You read buzz words like “university student”, “woman”, and “wrong” and have constructed a stereotype in your own head for which I am not responsible.
The woman was wrong, because she mistook me for what I am not, without research or getting to know me. She judged a book by its cover and made a mistake. Being wrong or mistaken does not make you ignorant, as you suggested I portrayed her. If that did make you ignorant, then both you and I are ignorant to the xth degree, because we have both lived long enough to have got many things wrong and made many mistakes.
For the record, myself and the woman sorted things out later and became, if not friends, at least, respectful colleagues.
“your pompous arrogance tells me you kind of think anyone from Castlemilk who has an opinion different from you has no education, seems like the world owes you a living because you where born, or came from Castlemilk, we are what we are in Castlemilk, so come down from your crucifix and like the GB stop playing the martyr.?
I think the pompous arrogance comes from someone who can read so much, and do it so inaccurately, from a simple story. I was not and never have disrespected Castlemilk, where I lived from age 3 until my early 20s. I have family who live there still and I never disrespect family. You came far closer to dissing Castlemilk in your reply (“we are what we are”) than I have ever done in my time on here.
I remember your first reply to me on here and it was a belter about the length of the reply I gave to you. It was a funny and apposite reply and it made some of my friends on here laugh and one of them even replied along the lines of “you might have a point”.
Since then, Tony, I am afraid it is you that has adopted the martyred position and the high horse position of potential avenging angel to the dastardly Green Brigade. You have abandoned that initial humour and became aggressive with posters with whom you disagreed and with some that were just trying to help you, like medtim this morning.
If you can get back to the spirit of that original post where you were funny/ scathing rather than rude/scathing, you will get on better on here, I believe.
A lot of people give themselves an excuse for rudeness and hitting back, when they describe themselves as “straight talkers”, or “I don’t suffer fools gladly”, or “I tell it like it is”.
We, all of us, tell our own truth on here. Yours, naturally differs from mine and from every other Celtic fan’s. There is not one poster on here or in existence, who shares all of my views and the same applies to your views. There is no “silent majority” who agree with all that you or I say. Only other individuals who agree with us about last Friday but disagree about most of the rest of what we say.
That wee woman, that you termed ignorant, was right about many things in life but, on this occasion, she was wrong about me and my motives.
‘Share the Sofa with Owen Hargreaves’
-no disrespect to the pugnacious punch drunk injury prone Canuck but why oh why can I not see ‘World of Tanks’?
‘ Share the ole Gazebo with wee Ola Jordan’-
that’s attractive marketing, IMHO.
Watchin the sevco bored meeting last week Mrs J asked Why have they got 2 empty chairs there? I said they play musical chairs after. Mrs J “mmm”
Should I tell her the real reason?
hun skelper
14:01 on 9 December, 2013
sipsini
14:00 on 9 December, 2013
Haha what you going on about
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I misread your post, on looking back I realised my error. Maybe some that post should take note.HH
In other non green brigade related news Celtic actually have a match against barca on wed nite! Final party in the champions league for this year! See yous at las ramblas!
TONY DONNELLY
Have a heart,mate. Don’t mention rolls. There’s ex-pats about who would kill for a decent one!
tonydonnelly67
14:05 on 9 December, 2013
I thought you didn’t know who they where ?
The guys I see at the away games seem to be Celtic supporters to me and they gave us the 125 tifo JCGE glasgow’s green and white and remember the club made a fortune off the back of these things not the GB the club mate and there doing a joint collection with the club for the food bank so there not all bad HH
sipsini
14:10 on 9 December, 2013
No bother mate HH
Just had lunch from the new Green Brigade drive-thru outlet next to Ayr Racecourse.
Very nice GB ‘Cheesy Brigade Burger’ and Eggs Benedict washed down with a ‘Skullshake’ while the kids played in the Bobby Sandspit.
Recommend it. Seats a bit wobbly tho…
BMCUW
The team list I have is :-
Rough Burley Hansen Narey Evans McGrain
Dalglish Souness Jordan Brazil and Hartford
Sturrock and Robertson (John) came on for jordan and Hartford.
I cannot help you with who you were booing.
MCDOWELL CELT
Say hi to my Dad and my sis.
He’ll be the one who looks ten years younger than me apparently.
DoriangreyCSC
Hope you lot remember B T is watching.