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.
1,178 Comments- Pages:
- «
- 1
- ...
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31
- »
Afternoon Bhoys .
A wee dilemma for Lenny today – A perfect opportunity to try out a Wanyamaless
system or give squad players their chance . If NFL opts for the latter -which I
feel he will – then I would like to see Zaluska ,Dylan ,Ibrahim and Miku given an
outing.
HH .
Looking ahead, the normal Butchers Shop is not advertising any sausages which might appeal to any Celtic Supporter. I realise it is not acceptable to give free advertising to any Butchers Shop, but if anyone knows of one selling a Celtic Sausage they might say so without giving the address. Other then that I’ll be relying on you lads totally.
Foran off side by an arm. Summit like Hooper last week.
We need to ply Wnyama today, with him being suspended for CL….
I would go with Gary Hooper & Lassad today to get them fully up to speed for Spartak,
corkcelt
Some close for lunch and open again at 2 or 2.30
would mcgeady add to our team if he came back (totally hypothetical like )
Oh no he’s not
Some shocking tackling in the Highland Derby.
No wonder the game is so backward in this country – yellow card count should be close to double figures – at least 3 for studs up tackles.
Yep jude but my First choice normally advertises what they will be selling for the afternoon, but today’s menu does not include the type of sausage I was looking for.
channelislandcelt
If they go with a younger look to the team, i would think victor and
beram would have to start.
Is dancing on a sunday allowed now in jersey
I think Zal will be in goals today.
FT St. Pauli 1 – 0 Kaiserslautern
Its the wee things in life that make me happy
praecepta
Ham heed must have heard you. lol
Ten men won the league, and Matte:
Agree Beckham is over- rated, and overhyped. He can’t dribble, head the ball, or tackle. What he can do is pass, cross, keep possession, and see runners. He also still scores goals from long range or by free kicks. James Forrest doesn’t do any of these things. I’m hopeful that McGeoch will. Unfortunately, we don’t have a midfield player, who Neil plays regularly, who can pass the ball forward accurately, or who doesn’t immediately lose it under pressure in away CL ties.
It was an idle thought. I just get tired of how quickly we lose possession in the CL. We were even doing it against Hertz when they put us under pressure on Wednesday.
On another matter, the Spartak defense against Zenit looked as if they had given up. If we can score early, they could be in trouble.
Iniquitous
Ross County equalise
Oh my god Mother Goose looks like Chuck
Karma!
Deflected shot equalises the deflected off-side ICT goal 2-2.
Mon the R C !!!
Ross County equalise Yeeeeeeeeeeeeees
I dont know why but Yeeeeeeeeeeeeees :))))
C_F
The answer to your question is simple and regrettably beyond reach.
It’s about the quality of the tomatoes.
Try as we might, we are unable in this country to produce tomatoes with the requisite concentration of sugars. Moreover, the Italians (and Spanish) are not so daft as to send us their best produce, so we inevitably get the fruit they feel they can do without, or which is grown intensively for export.
I’m afraid if you want an authentic Italian passata, you’re going to have to buy the tomotoes in a local market in… Italy.
Perhaps SofT might be kind enough to set out a few kilos to dry in the sun, and ship them across to you. That’s about as close as you’re gonna get.
Burghbhoy he’s behind you
Yes…..goal…
Ross county win
RC 3 Cluggers 2!
Ross County score winner in last kick of the game
R CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
Wanyama should play today….
Commons should be rested for Wednesday….
No need for him to play three games in a week….
MegaWatt should play…as it seems unlikely that NL will start him against Spartak…..
A Last Last Hurrah For Oor Paddy…?
goal county 3 v 2
No
Ref giving 30 min injury time
Simply cheating
balls 3each
Some end to a game. Armageddon indeed.
Hail! Hail!
FFS Well after injury time had expired ICT get an equaliser. There was 15 seconds left when Ross County scored but ref let play continue for a minute after the goal.
estorilbhoy
14:07 on 1 December, 2012
Some end to a game. Armageddon indeed.
Hail! Hail!
———————
Beat me to it :)))
Zaluska; Matthews, Rogne, Ambrose, Chalmers; McGeouch, Brown, Wanyama, Ibrahim; Watt, Miku subs: Forster, Izaguirre, Lassad, Kayal, Hooper
Burg..,
That official ?