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.
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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.
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The view from a Motherwell supporter who’s a mate of mine, he also asked me to relay his concerns to the Celtic Support, he marched in support of the GB in protest against heavy handed policing.
“Some of the hangers on around GB are getting out of hand which is bringing more police out but never seen any actual confrontation. Inside ground the stewards and police backed off and let them do as they pleased resulting in a lot of damaged seats. I have concerns that the “ultra” scene has potential to flare up as bad as casuals in 80’s with groups robbing each other for flags/scarfs, it won’t be long before a serious assault happens and things snowball.
Some union bear turned up in east stand and got chased out which was fair enough but then they stole his silk UB scarf. Problem I see is where does it stop, robbery is robbery and if its flags and scarfs now how long before jackets, mobiles, etc and someone ends up stabbed.
Please relay message to Celtic boards that the good fans need to help reign in the ones getting carried away, we’ve seen where it ends up and behavior like last night prompts retaliation which is bound to blow back on ordinary fans. There isn’t the same distinction now without the casuals so innocent fans will end up getting injured”
Three good mates of mine are all Motherwell supporters and told me pretty much the same stuff the day..
It’s up to us to sort this out…
Starry
Did Efe Ambrose get booked for not executing the perfect landing after his wonderful goal celebration. He may as well have booked him considering the other brutal decisions that were going on.. As for the seat breakers & smoke bomb merchants get yourselves tae F@*K you are a total beamer waiting to happen and hunnish behaviour and attention seeking seems to be how you “support” our club, so please stay in your bedroom playing your xbox when Celtic are playing & leave the supporting to the big bhoys.
Had a conversation last night with someone in the know about the recent behaviour by the Ajax hooligans and low & behold there was more to it than hooliganism. Too busy to tell all just now so I’ll spill the beans tomorrow but it answered a hell of a lot of questions & the Scottish media should have known about it. Cheers.
Is that smoke and mirrors thing a zombie?
TET-How can you attempt to defend and deflect last night’s damage,then commend BRTH on his post? Confused.com HH
According to Mark Guidi, the SPFL done Celtic a favour with last nights game being switched to the Friday night with Celtics upcoming match on Tuesday against Barcelona.
Except for the fact the Barca game is on Wednesday.
Stupid, ignorant, thick, blowhard.
big-cup-winners
17:31 on 7 December, 2013
All I can say about hamiltontim’s…second to none and I mean absolutely none including Minx1888…
lennybhoy…supporting the dam 5, neil lennon, wee oscar knox, and cfc until i die
17:36 on 7 December, 2013
big-cup-winners
17:31 on 7 December, 2013
All I can say about hamiltontim’s…second to none and I mean absolutely none including Minx1888…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Bit of a schism developing between fans at the moment…depressing…Getting mighty fed up with it all…I still love the game but all the other stuff is doing my head in…the cost, the corruption, bigotry, politics, screaming pundits on shortbread, soup takers on Clyde, ex-players taking their pieces of silver, so much hatred and bitterness…and I thought we as a club were more of a tight-knit family and above all of that crap, perhaps not…Lisbon was Nirvana and Seville made me feel so, so proud of my team and my fellow fans…I believe what is happening now is more than a family squabble and I don’t know how it will end…I only know that for me the end is nigh…I will not be around when these new huns come to play us…No thank you very much!…After 60 years watching on I will retire with my memories of games (7-1 6-2), players (Jinky, Henrik) that green and white sea in Seville but more than all else I will remember big Jock and the Lions…my kind of people…
BRTH
Superb post and agree totally with your sentiments
fan-a-tic-was interesting to read WGS saying last week that a few years ago he was far too defensive as a manager.Maybe 3-5-2 is the way to go,the players look much more comfortable,and there is much more movement off the ball.HH
Cowriebhoy:
You get my text with hamiltontim’s number?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Exiled Tim
Open your eyes FFS
My Grandson has loads of Green Brigade stickers, he also has a GB scarf which he wears to some games. He isn’t a member of the Green Brigade though…just saying.
PS he wisney at the game on Friday(before ye ask). :O).
Monteblanco
A very reasonable and well measured response to BRTH who also put his viewpoint across well.
Celtic will always be pilloried by the slanted agenda of the msm.
We should accept responsibility when we let our self down but be aware of the actions of Gorings disciples in the press distorting the truth to further their slanted agenda.
My regard for the GB ended at the Milan game. No way back for them as far as I’m concerned.
And apparently their cowardly leaders won’t step up to the plate and defend their behaviour to good Celtic men such as BRTH and Winning Captains because those of us on this blog are “soup takers”. Go figure.
Should have said anonymous cowardly leaders.
BRTH,
Me too.
Celtic are doing very well and we have so much division. I wullnae be putting my paranoid head away just yet.
The Battle is better described as Good versus Evil. Olde Kojo goes against the Tide all the Time but he calls many things right. Unity is not wanted by the Powers or the Principalities.
What’s the biggest challenge Neil?
The Challenge is to Unite the Support again.
It’s proving a lot harder than he possibly imagined, I suspect the overt attacks have went below the surface.
ThunDER
Monteblanco
I agree with you.
If they can be educated — not indoctrinated but educated— then I am with you totally.
Yes I know it can read as a rant and I will jot hide the fact that I am not so much annoyed as hugely disappointed.
Football for me is one of life’s “fun” things.
I go with friends, my kids, my parents, sister, workmates, strangers whoever,
I asat with St Stivs at last years cup final and enjoyed an afternoon with someone that I had never met.
I bumped into Malorbhoy one day at Celtic park and we sat and talked our way through the game and most enjoyable it was too– as on that occasion I had gone to Celtic park on my own.
I just love football– and Celtic in particular– and so I cannot fathom why anyone would want to portray an image of Celtic that is destructive or through vandalism.
All for education— as long as the pupils are willing to listen at least and don’t tear up the classroom.
iPaddy McCourt
Tut-tut. Swearing (nearly) on the blog. Shame on you. Lowering the standard, you need a period in the wilderness for self-reflection.
Ridiculous ? Agreed but it’s real easy to fall below other’s standards eh ?
Hamilton Tim
It’s wonderful to see the support you have on this blog from what is obviously very good mates: standing besides you
oldtim67 et al
“….went to the bar and had a great conversation with the barman, asked him if he could fix me up with some hash and he sorted me out within five minutes….”
You’re not back on the ol’ waccy baccy out there are you?
Or are you claiming it is for medicinal purposes?
Billy Bhoy 05
Hamilton Tim
It’s wonderful to see the support you have on this blog from what is obviously very good mates: standing besides you
Don’t think I’ve ever met the guy.
Would never want to meet Smoke and mirrors.
Bada Bing
Interesting point on 3.5.2
Lovenkrands ripped that apart when MON used it.
weebobbycollins, I must admit for the first time, the negatonians, the trouble makers, the Glasgow Hibernians are getting too much for me. I’ve loved this blog since I discovered it maybe 4 or 5 years ago but for last couple of months I no longer recognise it for what it meant to me in the beginning. I am very grateful that through it, I met some great people like, kikinthenakas, Blantyre Tim, Old Tim, LennyBhoy, Hamilton Tim, Jungle Jim, Angel Gabriel and his son and a host of others, if I keep naming, I’m bound to leave out one or two so I’ll stop at that. Lately I’ve tried to lurk and maybe post once a week but to be honest that is a hard enough thing to do, so I’m just going to stop altogether for the time being. Hail Hail to All UTLR.
After 2 great performances its a shame to see the focus here is on the misbehaviour of some of those at Motherwell – with the usual immediate blame on the GB that makes me wonder if the deadco are still paying for misinformation to be spread across the MSM
In my view the trouble with ultras is that their popularity amongst younger fans means they try to emulate them- whether they are a member of the core group or not- factor in away games where the group itself has no control over where they are placed, or where those around them are placed and you have a recipe for what we saw at Motherwell- with the hawks on here following the MSM line in immediately condemning the GB
Wait until you hear what the proof is before you make your mind up- dont do as the MSM tell you to do
Dont talk to me about Fir Park and the Murrawell polis. Got lifted there once (1978 I think) for absolutely nothing. Ended up doing a weekend lie-in in Hamilton police office. A not guilty plea would have earned me a 3-week remand, so I had to plead guilty. When they read the charges out, Motherwell’s finest sahjd G was trying to incite a riot, and challenged opposition supporters to violence! Dirty lying B’s! All I did was walk from one turnstile, which had closed, to another. Would have lost my job if I had been remanded, they knew this when they lifted me. I would have gone all the way under different circumstances.
Bastardos.
HH
In nineteen hundred and eighty six
There’s not much for a chippie but swinging a pick
And you can’t live on love, on love alone
So you sail cross the ocean, away cross the foam
To where you’re a Paddy, a Biddy or a Mick
Good for nothing but stacking a brick
Your best mate’s a spade and he carries a hod
Two work horses heavily shod
Who did you murder, are you a spy?
I’m just fond of a drink helps me laugh, helps me cry
Now I just drink red biddy for a permanent high
I laugh a lot less and I’ll cry till I die.
All ye young people now take my advice
Before crossing the ocean you’d better think twice
Cause you can’t live without love, without love alone
The proof is round London in the nobody zone.
Where the summer is fine, but the winter’s a fridge
Wrapped up in old cardboard under Charing Cross Bridge
And I’ll never go home now because of the shame
Of misfit’s reflection in a shop window pane.
corkcelt- SUPPORTING THE DAM 5
Indulge me before you go please ?
Why turn your back ? Who wins ?
Fred C. Dobbs
17:41 on 7 December, 2013
My Grandson has loads of Green Brigade stickers, he also has a GB scarf which he wears to some games. He isn’t a member of the Green Brigade though…just saying.
PS he wisney at the game on Friday(before ye ask). :O).
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The wee guy Loves the GB and their enthusiam at the games. Neil planted that Trophy there because he knows how much Support, rather than criticism, is beneficial for players.
I hoped Efe would persuade Victor to stay. I will make a bold statement… I Think Victor will play for the Bhoys again.
Neil, go get Aiden in January. ;)
Efe – I BELIEVE
Fae last night
Larrybhoy
21:22 on
6 December, 2013
Tell you what Pukki needs… a bit more respect than some of comments on here tonight.
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Spot on mhate…..reading back and the spoilt children were giving it laldy….grow up!
Just back on to see some rather strange posts regarding my earlier post about what I witnessed last night. However, also some really nice posts from good and reasonable Celtic men, thank you.
I never suggested, never mind stated, that the GB were whiter than white so why some posters would use that as a stick to beat me with I’m rather perplexed by.
Are there neds, dafties and attention seekers amongst the Celtic support?
Of course. But this is nothing new.
Strachan attacked? Bottle from the jungle v Rapid Vienna? Others?
Yes but these actions didn’t then and don’t now define us as a support.
For some of you, I suggest that you listen more to your fellow Celtic supporters and their version of events rather than a hate filled, biased media.
UTLR
Big cup winners
Not sure what your point is. Surely you’re not arguing is that (near) swearing on a blog is as unacceptable to you as smashing up seats and endangering other people with flares
big-cup-winners
16:58 on 7 December, 2013
There is no doubt that the MSM are delighted when something like this happens to Celtic, and found any possible excuse to mitigate the behaviour of their former favourites, e.g. Manchester……..now, I genuinely do not give a monkey’s what the MSM say / write about our great Club, since I and, and most Celtic Supporters know what the ‘score’ is …….. my problem is that the GB are becoming a law unto themselves, and that is not on……
Anyway Celtic should be able to identify who they sold the ‘damaged seats’ section tickets to……. If it was to section 111 SB then we, as a Club, have a big issue to solve with regard to the GB……
16 roads – Wee Oscar the Celtic warrior.
17:56 on 7 December, 2013
In nineteen hundred and eighty six
There’s not much for a chippie but swinging a pick
And you can’t live on love, on love alone
So you sail cross the ocean, away cross the foam
To where you’re a Paddy, a Biddy or a Mick
Good for nothing but stacking a brick
Your best mate’s a spade and he carries a hod
Two work horses heavily shod
Who did you murder, are you a spy?
I’m just fond of a drink helps me laugh, helps me cry
Now I just drink red biddy for a permanent high
I laugh a lot less and I’ll cry till I die.
All ye young people now take my advice
Before crossing the ocean you’d better think twice
Cause you can’t live without love, without love alone
The proof is round London in the nobody zone.
Where the summer is fine, but the winter’s a fridge
Wrapped up in old cardboard under Charing Cross Bridge
And I’ll never go home now because of the shame
Of misfit’s reflection in a shop window pane.
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How Old is Neil Lennon?
A Genius, there is nae doubt about it, at all at awe.
Looking forward to learning how to Fish correctly next year J.
petec isnae much of a Fisherman.
Some very bad boys broke some seats.
They are very naughty boys.
Chase them.
But please spare me anymore of the
self righteous indignation.
Agent provocateurs are filling the blog and away support
iPaddy McCourt Supports Wee Oscar
18:01 on
7 December, 2013
Big cup winners
Not sure what your point is. Surely you’re not arguing is that (near) swearing on a blog is as unacceptable to you as smashing up seats and endangering other people with flares
Where would you place waving a banner at a football match in your list of “crimes” ?
Corky, why are you giving up? No point in giving up just now, wait till the summer instead and you can work on your handicap.
Don’t give up bud.
Hail Hail
P.S. Hamilton Tim is a good guy and he owes me a tenner for saying so.
I do not subscribe to conspiracy theories. Normally.
I believe, perhaps naively, that Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK, that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and that Ally and the New Huns is a match made in heaven.
So bear with me while I pose a couple of questions.
Who are the Green Brigade?
Can they be readily identified?
Do they have a membership? A uniform?
Have they had a reputation of destroying seats at away matches in the past?
Do the authorities have a vested interest in destroying the reputation of the Celtic support?
Do the Strathclyde police have a reputation for the heavy handed policing of our fans?
In an age of cell phone cameras have pictures emerged of the culprits in the act of vandalising seats?
Equally do pictures exist of the culprits in action?
and finally
Why were the football pundits so quickly on to story? Did they have a heads up?
Johnny Nash has more questions than answers.
http://youtu.be/kTHBfWcikmY