A year ago, after a late 10-man winner against Dundee United, we gave ourselves a platform to go top of the table next time out, a status that was earned and not relinquished. Yesterday’s win against Dundee United was just as ominous for those hoping to get the better of Celtic.
15 games remain in the title race, Celtic have 7 away from home and 8 at home, where we have been imperious all season. Bookies are offering a 4% return on money placed on Celtic, although the period required is less than a year, that is below interest rates.
It took until early in the second half, and we benefited from a goalkeeper error, but the incessant pressure from Celtic was always going to find whatever vulnerabilities United had. Aaron Mooy’s speculative cross looked harmless until Jota seemed to defy the laws of physics to bend the ball over the line. How many players get to see a goal they scored when looking back onto the pitch?
Despite having a pretty good view of the action, referee Don Robertson failed to spot Kieran Freeman raise his hand to block the ball inside the United penalty area. Freeman quickly hid his arm behind his back, so perhaps Robertson believed the player only had the one upper limb.
VAR corrected this aberration. Despite the clear hand-to-ball action, the referee declined to caution the already-booked player. Your thoughts may return to the caution Alexandro Bernabei received when the ball struck his arm, behind him, mid-jump, and wonder why the gaping inconsistencies persist in Scottish football.
Do not trouble yourself with that. Also, set aside any thoughts you may have that the punch on the head Kyogo received was worthy of a penalty. Instead, consider the new rule. If you stand on the ball and fall, you receive a foul*.
Liam Smith stood on the ball, tumbled, obstructed Reo Hatate and, according to Don Robertson, earned a foul. It was an egregious interpretation of the rules which highlights the scale of the challenge we face.
*may only apply when playing against Celtic.
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Coneybhoy
My next door neighbour and good friend is a Derby supporter – we don’t talk football much 🤭
Cannae wait for the final; who would have guessed Aer Lingus half of Ryanair price? Most Irish Tims obvs
Brighton midfielder Caicedieo,signed for £4.5 million in the summer, played 25 games, Arsenal knocked back with £70 million bid….
I was watching the game with my 2 sons and son in law and none of us thought it was a penalty. The question is what did the referee see to call for a penalty that he didn’t see following var intervention. Clear and obvious?
SFTB
Agreed. We need to pick and choose our grievances wisely.
Generic, scattergun complaints do more harm than good, imo.
HH
I should have added that on the replay we saw the defender collide with Kyogo into the keeper.
Lyon allegedly accept 3€M for Moussa Dembele 🤔
Ugly wee hun Gatusso,binned by Valencia
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
A bargain.
BSR
He’s getting that dream move to Southampton
Got to know Davie Provan very well. Liked him a lot. Always referred to Celtic as ‘we’…
CELTIC40ME
And ‘the Quiff’ type wages
Evening all, I think.
Just about have survived a Ship Bank session with BIG JIMMY and BRRB.
BIG JIMMY hammered the jukebox, BRRB hammered the, well you can guess.
Brilliant day with two of the best people you could meet.
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A wee trio of tunes then I’m off to ‘ma cot.
One of Scotland’s finest. way underrated IMHO
Gallagher and Lyle.
https://youtu.be/VgNX5DbFoeo
https://youtu.be/jrLJ8uknDBE
https://youtu.be/u40FqKgeBJA
Nite all.
HH
Brian
https://www.pieandbovril.com/images/articles/270819-celtic.jpg
I know, I know.
BRRB told me that Q & L wrote this brilliant tune.
https://youtu.be/WpT7hbVWJDQ
Nite all
(well maybe). :)
CELTIC40ME – I’m with you. We need to overhaul our underperforming ‘player marketing’ dept.
Re choons; mibby our choirs can take a leaf out of the Edwin Starr songbook…
Whenever there’s a pesh VAR decision they respond with a lusty line of:
VAR!! Huuh! Yeah! What is it good for? Absolutely nuthin’ ‘
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQHUAJTZqF0
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/60/ae/b4/60aeb4e7de2e1ae28439d810cc8ef7f2.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3a/ab/c2/3aabc23f658e9cd9610d1ceadee4e42a.jpg
Re points about the Celtic identity and the unofficial songbook…
English.
Canadian. American. Swedish, Scottish.
Australian. Scottish. Japanese.
Israeli. Japanese. Portugese.
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Montenegrin
Scottish
Korean
Danish
Japanese
What would Brother Walfrid’s favourite terracing chant be ?
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ed/2c/10/ed2c107b370c84bcea2218f7f97d83bb.jpg
Nite all.
This it feels like when you go drinking with BRRB and BIG JIMMY
https://youtu.be/k5FG3Ty3jD4
:)
*SENTINEL CELTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2022-23*
RESULTS FROM GAME #33 – DUNDEE UTD 0 CELTIC 2 (JOTA, MOOY)
Good evening, friends.
Not the best pitch, not the best game but 3 more valuable points on our road to the Championship. We were dominant and in control right from the off and for the entire 100-odd minutes but just had to be patient that we would eventually wear down a resolute home defence. On the 41st minute it looked as if we’d have a great chance to take the lead only for Don Robertson to change his mind about the penalty he initially awarded. Hey, Don, what was the “clear and obvious” error that caused you to change your mind?
Fast forward to 10 minutes after the break and we are 2 up, curtesy of a Larssonesque header from Jota and another fine penalty from shy man Aaron Mooy. And interesting to note that a deliberate hand ball no longer warrants a yellow card. Hmmmm….!
Domestically we have now played 27, winning 25, drawing 1 and losing 1, scoring 86 and conceding 18.
As for the voting, my thanks to the 69 who emailed me with their 3 nominations. The total votes cast for each player with my own choices asterisked are as follows –
Hart: 0
Johnston: 2
Carter-Vickers*: 19
Starfelt: 2
Taylor: 0
McGregor: 47
Hatate: 11
Mooy*: 60
Abada: 0
Kyogo: 3
Jota*: 63
Subs (no votes for any of them): Maeda, O’Riley, Turnbull, Haksabanovic, Oh.
And so the players receiving POINTS for the game against Dundee Utd are –
Jota – 5 pts
Mooy – 4 pts
McGregor – 3 pts
Carter-Vickers – 2 pts
Hatate – 1 pt
And after 33 games the overall standings are as shown below –
70 points – Hatate
49 points – Carter-Vickers
42 points – Jota
38 points – Taylor
37 points – Mooy
32 points – McGregor
29 points – Kyogo
28 points – O’Riley
26 points – Abada
22 points – Jenz
18 points – Maeda
15 points – Haksabanovic
13 points – Giakoumakis, Juranovic and Starfelt
10 points – Ralston
9 points – Bernabei and Welsh
8 points – Forrest and Johnston
7 points – Hart
5 points – Turnbull
4 points – Kobayashi
0 points – Abildgaard, Iwata, Lawal, McCarthy, Oh, Siegrist and Vata
*Player Of The Month for January*
There were 6 fixtures played during January, 4 league games and 1 in each of the cups. The Player Of The Month award is based purely on the TOTAL votes given to each player during that month’s games.
The winners for the earlier months of this season were Jota (August), Hatate (September and October), O’Riley (November) and McGregor (December).
For January, in 3rd place with a total of 142 is Reo Hatate. Runner up with 157 votes is Cameron Carter-Vickers. And the Player Of The Month for January 2023 with 193 votes is Aaron Mooy.
Next up is only 2 more sleeps away when we have a home league game against Livingston on Wednesday with a 7.45pm kick off.
Hail Hail!
The only way clubs from larger leagues will start increasing bids for players based in scotland is if the domesic league improves and that translates to European results as well.
That could happen if the spfl could generate decent revenue for the clubs and clubs showed ambitions. We need to sell the product better. The game is sold/ marketed very poorly, dull and uninteresting, it needs a bit of showbiz and more attacking open football principles being adopted.
Outside livingstone, most clubs in Scotland would rather have empty seats than hand them over to paying customers to fill out their stadium and pockets. Every club should have a segregation plan to ensure there is no empty seats are in the stadium.
Noise, atmosphere and colour should be facilitated and supported by every club. T.v cameras should be positioned to show the area of large crowds rather than empty seats.
Aberdeen fc are talking about building a 15,000 capacity stadium in a one club city, talk about lack of ambition. Hearts and hibs have 20,000 capacity stadiums, surely they have to think bigger. If they were challenging regularly they would certainly get better attendance figures and growth potential would follow.
If it was up to me I would have a 16 team league x 2 h/a games = 30 but would never get the go ahead due to the tv’s desire to have 4 us vs them games a season and reduction of 8 games a season.
Alternatively I would like to see is a 16 team league x 2 h/a games = 30
Positions 1-4 enter 4 way play-off h/w games for league title = 6 games (position based on points % based on result against top 8 teams).
Position 5-8 enter European play off = 6 games.
(position based on points % based on result against top 8 teams.
(Either automatic European spot for 5 place finish or play off against 4 placed team if needed, season to season)
Split 9-16 into 2 further groups of 4 – 2 x h/a games = 6 games.
Group 1
Position 9, 12, 14, 16
Group 2
Position 10, 11, 13, 15
Bottom team from each group is relegated
The 2 teams that end 3rd bottom go onto play off to avoid one play off game (showpeice game) with championship paly-off winner.
HH
Aaron Mooy,
Aaron Mooy.
What a Leo Sayer.
STEPHBHOY67 –
How about my idea…
> 14 team league
> Play home and away = 26 games
> Split into a Top 6 / Bottom 8 and again play home and away
> Top teams would play 36 and would be meeting each other 4 times, 2 at home 2 away
> Bottom 8 teams would play 40 games, so 2 extra home games generating a little more income
> And just as it is now, following the split any team in the ‘bottom’ section can’t overtake anyone in the top half
> Justification for bottom teams “having” to play more = they’re less likely to have played in the latter rounds of the 2 cups so, overall, all of the teams probably end up playing a similar amount of domestic games in the league and the 2 cups.
Simples and sleep tight!
Summer football would give us the opportunity to showcase our game without the unbeatable competition we share with the EPL.
Better weather generally produces better football, better pitches, better travelling conditions and a better match day experience to entice bigger.crowds.
In my opinion tinkering with the league set up will not work, fundamental change is required.
HH.
Night, night bhoys and ghirls.
HH to all.
STEPHBHOY67 on 30TH JANUARY 2023 11:00 PM – interesting thanks.
GREENPINATA on 30TH JANUARY 2023 11:24 PM – ditto.
HH
And JOBO !!
Good morning all Tim’s across the globe from a dark, damp but rather mild Garngad.
Onto the Livingstone game manana we move. Any win will do.
D :)
BELMONTBRIAN and BRRB….
Thank you Bhoys for a most enjoyable Blether and Bevvy yesterday in my local Pub.
We didnt quite solve ALL the problems of the World, but by the time those Two were leaving, ALL three of us were in agreement that Celtic’s NEW Bhoy ” OH”, was gonna be BETTER than EUSEBIO !
This “opinion” was based on our New Player spending aboot 10 minutes or so on the Pitch at Tannadice.
Maybe the Beers had began to cloud our judgement by that time…Who can say ?
LOL.
The Beers did NOT prevent numerous LIES and STORIES being banded aboot, not forgetting the tales of watching the auld Celtic in years gone by, and including the FORM of the current Celtic Squad, being explored and shared…MAGIC STUFF !
By the time that both my ” AMIGOS” were leaving, I had convinced myself that the new Celtic Bhoy ” OH”……was in FACT BETTER than PELE…..so I had another Two Pints of Beer on my own, just to try and justify my ” reasoning” of Mr. ” OH’s” 10 minute performance on Sunday.
By the time of my last Pint, i was comparing ” OHs” brief Celtic debut, to that of the SUPERB Celtic debuts of JORGE CADETTE, and DIDIER AGATHE.
i cant quite put my finger on it….but the New Bhoy impressed me greatly in his 10 minute cameo ?
This new Bhoy just has ” something about him”, and hopefully we will see OH becoming a Fans Favourite very quickly ?
P.S. MY Jokes are STILL better than BELMONTBRIANS….
Although I am STILL laughing at BELMONTS Story about the ” VIETNAM AWAY STRIP”…..Magic patter.
MELBOURNE MICK….Great to see you back on and Posting mate.
HH Bhoys.
Does VAR work? Definately not in its present format.
After ref/VAR make their decission we (the fans) are not subject to how the yes/no was reached. Get rid of VAR and save money or keep us in the picture by letting us hear the discussion between ref/VAR and why it was arrived at.
Why was pull back on Kyogo after ball came off the post not seen either Ref or VAR or is just plain cheating
Back of the bus “R” us
LOL…
The ” VIETNAM AWAY STRIP”….LOL and LOL…
Thats the kind of patter that I love….I just cant get enough !
BELMONT, its now 7.15am on Tuesday morning, and I am STLL laughing at yer patter !
Great Patter, has helped me keep on going all these years…its almost as good as watching the Auld ‘ TIC.
HH Bhoys.
DAVID66 on 31ST JANUARY 2023 6:35 AM
Good morning all Tim’s across the globe from a dark, damp but rather mild Garngad.
Onto the Livingstone game manana we move. Any win will do.
………………
DAVID Bhoy…
You missed a GREAT wee Day oot yesterday…although we know that you keep the wheels of industry turning every day….when SLACKERS such as BELMONTBRIAN, BRRB and Myself, just drink the Day away….LOL
BELMONTBRIAN and BRRB….Just TWO of the biggest SLACKERS that I know….LOL.
BELMONT is a Comedian.
HH Mate……..and DAMN those SLACKERS…LOL.
We could make a NEW MOVIE called…
” CITY SLACKERS” ?
SLACKERS just wanna have fun !
LOL
HH.
I wonder if the club have any plans on the interim regards the playing surface at CP.
I also hope the recent negative feedback and on fan websites and twitter following the match on Sunday helps to negate the poor choice of songs and more traditional Celtic songs we don’t hear are introduced.
Other than that all positive at Celtic.
Our game against Livingston tomorrow night. How do we enhance the match day experience on a predicted cold ,wet and windy night. ?
Not a lot really, especially if you intend using public transport. You will get wet. You will struggle with public transport and a sizeable walk is guaranteed. The local boozers will be relatively quiet and lacking a buzz.
You could use the network of cycle lanes, not really practical in January especially if there’s a few of you.
You could take the car and eventually navigate a suitable parking space while suffering a guilt trip for f@cking the environment and not helping local businesses.
You may even decide to stay in the warm, cosy pub and watch the game on TV ( We all know the pubs that will be showing it )
Any suggestions guys that beats summer football ?
HH.
PS : I’m planning to set out at circa midday for a few refreshments to nullify the adverse conditions, it’s the best I can come up with.
Good morning CQN.
Another busy day looms.
Barely got onto CQN yesterday
(priorities all wrong! )
Hot Smoked re stats – cheers.
I’d cross check foul stats further against passes and phases of play.
From recollection of Sunday we made 700+ passes?
They committed 7 fouls.
Would love to think we are SO slick the opposition only get close to us to foul one time out of a hundred ….
… but we’re not THAT good.