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 point is obvious
stitch up
excuse to continue the harassment
Estadio, you have a hunposter by the name of “estadio nacional”, beware fakes.
Bring on the red lichties. Haw
HH Bruv
So who took the flares, smokes etc into Tynecastle?
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
‘…searched twice before being allowed entry.’
If so, then that’s outrageous. Is there proof of that?
I can’t access youtube ffs, flash player has gone whee again, but I get your drift :>)))
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HT
I’m with canamalar on this, they search the GB, they film them, no way they would get into the ground with flares.
Yer man who dressed up as jimmy savile, a hun in a Celtic top, they will do what is necessary to discredit us, they are scum, and the powers who be love it.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
I was made aware of the argument the other night by someone asking ‘what did you say to upset(that poster)’?
I’m happy with my own persona, and don’t take sides where I don’t understand the point of contention but I think that you are both as big Celtic supporters as each other.
Hail Hail
Estadio
THE EXILED TIM
Last away game I was at was D Utd a couple of weeks ago. I was…ahem…searched on my way in. Could have had an uzi tucked in my knickers and got in with it!!
TET
I’m not going to post anything on here that would discredit the GB, I wouldn’t dream of it.
However, I go to the away games and have seen those who let off flares etc.
With respect the rest of your post isn’t relevant despite being accurate.
One thing for sure: this guy has practiced hard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n27GpYJ_2Hs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I didn’t have any problem getting in to tynecastle on wednesday night and didnt witness anyone being searched. I was about 15 away from the flare but couldn’t see who it was, i did however see at least 4 fans (I’m not suggesting they were GB) breaking seats. I really don’t see the point in giving anyone a stick to beat us with. As canamalar says the flare could have been a stitch up but I very much doubt the seat breaking was.
15 feet
k k
crimea street?
as_i_thought
00:52 on
1 December, 2012
Genuinely confused how could the flare be a ‘stitch up’?
Kingoh-HT
Aye, ok, I get what you are saying, but ffs, every single member of the GB are under survailance, they are getting harassed at home and at work, not for me to say that flares are the right thing at games where there are crowds and could cause a problem, I personally wouldn’t set one off in a crowd.
If it was a member of the GB, more fool him, not he smartest thing to do, but I still wouldn’t put it past an active campaign to discredit the club in any way possible.
As for the rest of my post, I honestly don’t know why I posted that, probably too much vino.
Estadio, cool banana’s, I like your take on that. I wasnt as convinced of his hunnishness as he was of mine. It’s a strange old place planet erf:-)
Mon the lichties, ha ha ha. They are all Neil Lennon.
HH bruv
They’ll be dancing in the streets of Arbroath. At least JJ and ACGR will be.
It’s not as wide as montrose mind……………………………
HT
I’m not suggesting it was, just repeating what canamalar said he’d heard. I was just making the point that even if it was a ‘stitch up’ there was still a few other idiots breaking seats so we were not completely without fault
TET
The GB very rarely travel as a group to away games. They travel individually on supporter’s buses like the rest of us and it would require extreme surveillance to monitor and track them all.
Night Night Tims
From the invisible Weefrathetim.
Weefra HH. Luv yawl. :))))
In all honesty I shouldn’t be posting at all, I have had more than an ample sufficiency of the vino tinto, and it’s getting to the stage that I will probably start saying things that I might regret, so with that, I will bid you all a good nite.
In saying that, not wishing to start a songs debate,,,let the people sing to their hearts content.
And watch oot for them goat people, they are no the nicest people on the planet.
They will not stop at the songs, it will be the wearin o the green next, mark my words bhoys, they want us gone, so they can revel in their bile and supremesist crap.
Take care and god bless Timland.
HH
KTF
as_i_thought
01:04 on 1 December, 2012
There were a number of seats broken around me and I have no idea whether those responsible were GB members or not.
My point was that on past experience I’d be very surprised if GB members were not responsible for the flares etc.
Yip..they still got it
Kashmir.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-MdiUm1_Y
The Garvaghy 1997,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQXwdsvdzS0
no response wanted… but maybe if some of us who belted out the anthems in drink, sat in the road instead, they would have to have moved more than a few dozen.
night and hail hail
gerry123
00:58 on 1 December, 2012
k k
crimea street?
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The Crimea was the scene of a war rather than a battle.
Balaclava, Inkerman, Sevastapol, Alma, etc., were the battles fought in that bloody war.
Good night & good luck.
HT
I see where Canalmar is coming from re. the ‘paranoia’ about the GB in particular and our club in general. Did you hear Dung Chucker today on the radio, saying that the SPL is ‘in robust financial health!’? This is the ar*e who mouthed the financial armegeddon crap in the first place. No wonder we do NOT trust any spokesperson coming from the governing body of our football.
HT
I feel like I’ve not made my point very well. I was just meaning that even if it was a ‘stitch up’ there were another couple of incidents that didn’t paint the support in a great light.
HT
Ok, just afore I retire.
Forget the GB for a minute, go back to yer man in the Celtic top, he was a hun, that is a FACT, it’s plastered all over facebook, the daughter sent me stuff about him today, I don’t go on it so I take her word, and it was confirmed on here as well he is a hun.
If a hun can infiltrate the crowd like he did, who am I to say another hun didn’t infiltrate the crowd and set off flares, and rip up the seats.
They work in mysterious ways mi amigo.
Thay want us gone, and will do anything to see that to the end.
TET
It’s not so much that they want us gone as they absolutely MUST have us tainted with THEM!
Hamiltontim, stop right there. You’ll be giving the polis ideas about fitting wee tracker becons in the GB’s heids, shoes, flags, etc.
Where will it end?
HT
I was next to the guys that let off the flares at Tynecastle.
I cannot be certain if they were GB,but they looked like they were.
When I entered the stadium I waited at the stairs on my wife and nephew entering the stadium.
I observed several youngsters who looked like they were in the GB entering the ground.
They were not being subjected to any more rigorous searches than anybody else.
They may not have been GB members but there attire would have marked them out for searching,if the police or stewards wanted to try and search potential GB members.
There was also a scuffle between two GB lookalikes and some older Celtic fans ,which was on the verge of getting very nasty,just before 1/2 time.
It involved about a dozen fans,and thankfully it didn’t fully kick off ,although it was very close to getting serious.
At half time I asked a police officer why they didn’t intervene.
He told me it was all on CCTV.
The impression I got was that ,the fans could batter the shit out of each other,they would not risk going in amongst it.
The would make arrests from the CCTV if it had escalated ,which as I say thankfully it didn’t.
Just a wee thing aswell.
I have very rarely seen fighting at Celtic matches,but in the last few weeks I have witnessed two other incidents.
After the Win against Barca , at the junction of the Gallowgate and the new road that runs down to the London road junction at the velodrome.There was some fairly serious fighting between youths.
There wasn’t a Celtic scarf amongst them,but they were all dressed in hoodies and khaki attire.
Then in Lisbon ,there was a wee scuffle between fans who were bloodshed.
The Lisbon incident could happen anywhere that booze is consumed in copious amounts.
The one after the win against Barca ,shocked me.
Especially when you consider the elation we were all feeling after such a historical result.
I actually wondered if it was a Glasgow gang thing ,and not football related.
As I say these incidents are extremely rare ,but strange that they have all happened in such a short recent period of time.
A67
KK
Crimea st was the HQ of Cotter Tours who supplied the coaches for Celtic Fc for all games. I drove for them in the 80s but was never honoured to drive our coach. Bennie Cotter was an out and out Tim. Unfortunately, parks bought them out and you know the rest.
Weefra HH Still invisible??
ht,
all I know is I was talking to an active member and he said they’ve stopped taking pyro to games.
could have been lying, or never seen the offender, he didnt think it was one of his.
No doubt we will find out soon enough with all the cctv footage they’ll be up before the beeks in no time.
Bloodshed = should read blootered.
Just watched the Spartak highlights on Celtic News.
The place was EMPTY! At a home game!
Any chance the atmosphere next Wednesday will get to them?
Emerald/as I thought/ TET
My original post is at the top of this page lads. All I was saying was that the guy who had the flare go off next to his head was less than happy and let them know it.
Do I think the GB were responsible for the flares, smokes etc?? Yes but I’m not giving a critique of their actions, merely making an observation based on previous knowledge.
There were a number of seats broken and I have no idea who was responsible for that though I know of at least one that was broken by a stupid wee bhoy with no association to the GB.
EmeraldBe
Given the chance they would have us gone, they are so feckin stupid and inept, they can’t get rid, so the next best thing they have is whataboutery.
Thay are as thick as sh*t,, it’s as plain as the nose on yer face, not a brain cell between them, if brains were chocolate , they couldn’t fill a smartie.
Their only way is attack us, discredit us, and with the compliance of the msm, and the polis and the government, it’s a campaign against the Taigs and the Tims and the Irish Catholics who are the threat to their supremisist being.
I hope they all rot in hell.
Defo off to sleep now.
HH
Canamalar.
The GB have set a fashion trend amongst our youthful supporters.
I suspect many young fans dress like the GB ,but are not actually in it.
This could bring heat to the GB ,if someone who dresses like them, then does something wrong.
A67
EmeraldBee…,
I watched it and they said the crowd was 40K, they commented how empty it looked considering howmany turned up