I suppose we should start by heading the warning from Sevconian under-performer, Ian Black, who suggested that the Third Division is harder than the SPL. By this logic, Second Division Arbroath will terrify the life out of the Celtic defence ahead of their Scottish Cup tie tomorrow, they did, after all, put three goals past Inverurie Locos in the Third Round tie, and again in the replay.
Only Montrose
Having previously experienced the delights of Brechin, Forfar and the Dundee clubs, after tomorrow, the only Tayside club I will not have seen will be Montrose. These opportunities don’t come around often enough!
In all seriousness, Second and Third Division football is not difficult, it is essentially Keep Fit on the cheap. Celtic must deal with the sincere endeavour of their opponents while giving an opportunity for several fringe players to grace Celtic Park.
With our midfield already stretched by injury and suspension ahead of the Spartak game, Neil Lennon will want to guard this area of the team in particular. Spartak play their last game before heading to Glasgow tonight, at home to Zenit, who sit five points about them after 17 games. This is a huge game for Spartak and interim manager Valery Karpin, who will either succeed as interim, and be made permanent boss, or to fail and to also lose his general manager position.
Unusually for the Champions League, they have five days to recover before facing Celtic, a game Karpin is keen to win. Celtic will technically only have four days rest but the bulk of players likely to play in midweek will surely be rested tomorrow.
Spartak will be without striker Welliton, who travelled to Germany for an operation this week. Emmanuel Emenike, who scored twice against Celtic last month, is likely to lead the line. Emenike is a penalty box striker who is more than capable of exploiting gaps in the Celtic box. Karpin may instead opt to play target-man Artyom Dzuba as a sole striker. Dzuba is not a prodigious goal-scorer but he is able to hold play up and bring others into the game.
I loved media suggestions today that Sports Direct have a fight on their hands from other firms if they want their brand used to rename Ibrox. You have to admire the intellectual endeavour that goes into news coverage in this country. Sports Direct area THE key business partner for The Rangers. The only issue open to question is how much skin they are in the game for and what they get in return. Remember this when you’re buying sports kit for Christmas!
Lower league clubs will all surely be quaking in their boots at the news The Rangers will not only bring in well over £20m in a share issue, but could also earn countless riches from stadium naming rights. The leaked IPO PowerPoint presentation suggested the Offer for Subscription would commence on Monday. I am sure it is on-plan.
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The good news …..I’m on leave for a week
The bad news …….I’ll be on here more often ……LOL
sixty seven- I think there have now been around 47 international matches played- but thats only a guess
chucked it, no wonder the Spartak support are ragin
Can I Have Raspberry On That Champions League Ice Cream
18:20 on
30 November, 2012
On topography, what is the shortest road in Glasgow?
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Being a smarterse,i’ll go for little street just off stobcross st.
Spartak following the general per-CL form trend ..?
For all they are losing 4-2 they have managed to get a fair number of decent crosses into the box – scored 2 with headers and might have got another 2.
Look a bit dangerous up-front – bit wild at the back (as Spartak get 2nd red card)!
Worried aboot no hiving Wanyama available……..oooooooooooh
Great Western Rd is approx 6 miles from St Geo x to the Boundary at Clydebank
Dumbarton Rd from Kelvin hall to Boundary at Clydebank is approx 4 miles
Duke St from High St to Parkhead X is approx 2 Miles.
Blackhack30yearscsc.
4-2 Zenit FT
Spartak finish with 9 men
This is a club at war with itself
Celtic Street, Maryhill.
Good evening friends.
Can I have Raspberry etc.
Being a taxi driver in Glasgow, it’s believed to be Clayslaps Road, which runs between Sauchiehall and Argyle, opposite The Art Galleries. (where the Ashoka is!)
VOGUEPUNTER.you are nearly right.MAIS it is DULSIE ROAD in BALORNOCK. the second shortest is is YORKHILL runs between DUMBARTON RD and ARGYLE ST.
I don’t often do this and don’t flog me for it but I have spent the last ten minutes or so listening to Snyde, I must say my namesick.. sorry namesake actually does think that he is funny! and so do the rest of the flannel, sorry panel,
Chemical Brothers CD ON..
voguepunter
18:27 on 30 November, 2012
Can I Have Raspberry On That Champions League Ice Cream
18:20 on
30 November, 2012
On topography, what is the shortest road in Glasgow?
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Being a smarterse,i’ll go for little street just off stobcross st.
Wrong
The longest/widest road debate today has been fascinating.
All must be well in the world of Celtic.
jonny the tim
18:33 on 30 November, 2012
Can I have Raspberry etc.
Being a taxi driver in Glasgow, it’s believed to be Clayslaps Road, which runs between Sauchiehall and Argyle, opposite The Art Galleries. (where the Ashoka is!)
Correct
Saw a lot of good stuff from Spartak there and we should be able to deal with the crossed balls but on the counter they are a nightmare.
Big night, big crowd and counter attacking play as well as Joe Ledley to be the spoiler in midfield and we will get chances.
Set pieces again where we can hurt them and we should make their keeper work for everyone of them as they ball between keeper and last man should be right up Hooper’s street.
Patience and good finishing are they key.
First goal obviously would help us as their temperament near the end of this game was very much in question.
We are good enough to win at home against the best so as Nike say “just do it” Bhoys.
If Karpin has any sense he’ll play the team available to him next weekend …that would mean losing three first picks
What a shower of petulant, ill disciplined , spoilt , overpaid wretches …..Karpin has a job on his hands
away versus 8th in the league tomorrow – the script is written
The shortest road in Glasgow is the road to perdition.
voguepunter.i stand corrected it’s as just posted between argyle st and sauchiehall st..clayslaps rd.MAIS DULSIE RD is shorter.i was told by my uncle who lived in YORKHILL that clayslaps rd was shortest in GLASGOW. so i went home and measured .take it from me i am correct.
I think the shortest St is Stair St which runs from Braeside St to Kelvinside Gardens
it is as described, a flight of 32 stairs, and has the street name on it, probably only
approx 50ft long
….PFayr
Agree with you – their last league game going into winter break and a possible ‘must-win’ for them minus 3 regular players.
Hopeful summation! :-)
Can I Have Raspberry On That Champions League Ice Cream
BEING A TAXI DRIVER……………….That cannot be correct as it is a well known fact that
taxi driver only know the long way roon…………………case rested.
O’Connell street in Dublin is 45 metre wide. O’Connell bridge is wider then it’s length.
Main St in Kilrush and main street in Castleisland are also claiming to be the widest streets in Ireland.
The Eyre Highway across the Nullarbor Plain in Australia’s south west is the longest straight road in the world.
The worlds longest continuous road;
The Pan-American Highway is recognized as the longest continuous road, spanning 29,800 miles from Prudhoe Bay in North Alaska right across Canada, the U.S., Central and South America – all the way to Ushuaia on the southern tip of Argentina. Driving it will take you through just about every climate the world has to offer and some of the prettiest spots on Earth.
My own favourite was the road to Seville, hail,hail.
biioys.50 ft long.thats miles.
Just watched the Spartak game,dangerous going forward,but definitely poor in defence.The big striker,brought back in,could be a handful,need to be watched closely .Hope they play the same keeper,shoot from all areas,the guy is a nightmare.
voguepunter
I resemble that remark!
Jonny the Tim.
Well done.
Hope you’ve booked the taxi for tonight and not a ringer mate ;-))
Headtheball 18:35
Haha, aye, must be good.
Reminds me of one of the best days on CQN, the day the huns were up for a serious Uefa charge, bank meeting or something and CQN was full of in depth debate about the best TV series or film with not a care in the world.
EN
Jonny the Tim
Puts on a boundary charge whilst running his weans to school :o)
madra rua and voguepunter KEYS .BRILLIANT.DEAD HEAT BOTH OF YOU.HAIL HAIL.
PFayr
By all accounts, Karpin will himself be relieved of his position come January
fanadpatriot
I would sum them up by saying they were ok when they had the ball, but clueless without it, especially defensively. I always worry about our European games, but I feel quite confident we’ll get what we need to qualify for the last 16 against them.
HH
Andrey Dikan is good keeper but his weak point is crosses. I understand Zenit learned lesson about Dikan. Today was his second game after two months injury.
Is the Ross Cty./ICT match on the box? I’d kinda like to see that……
…..guilty pleasures an’ all that.
Answer to me: yes it is! bbc Scotland @noon ra morra…..great!