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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Dzyuba
Big man upfront with close header
Spartak equalise through Dzyuba after some poor defending from Zenit
Free header with Zenit keeper all over the place
has leveson got a succulent lamb section
Can anyone advise what is the extent of Anthony Stokes injury, and when he expects to be ready for first team action , ta in advance
Steinreignedsupreme.
Remember the offensive behaviour at a football match legislation?
The legislation that is being used against our fans?
Well perhaps instead of ignoring this creature, he should be reported to the guys that are making Celtic supporters lives a misery.
Finished work aaaaaaaa winding downCSC
ian black is right we do not give the third division enough respect not to mention the lack of recognition ally gets for the recent triumphs The Rangers have had over the giants of that league
Anyone got a worse job than Benetiz ……
Team playing poorly, fans hate , most other EPL managers hate him…
Why bother
jungle jim
16:30 on
30 November, 2012
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How was the Simpsons last night? Was it the episode I mentioned?
V
JJ I was hoping for a running commentary but ye were obviously engrossed in the storyline :>)
All Spartak right now , looking good and could have had 2 goals in the last minute.
Hope Lenny is watching their wide men here.
Worse job than Benitez?
Celtic Pools collector in Harthill
Jackie mac
Craic like that from employees of any other side would have them traduced mercilessly by the media …
Utter pish so it is
Zenit keeper atones for his earlier error by making a great one handed save from Kombarov
Spartak heads are up after equalising
Ananidze now blazes over a great chance for Spartak
vmhan @ 7.06
Yes, it was the one you said, you could see the Celtic crest on one of the walls in the pub.
Siciliabhoy
Not so ….you wouldn’t have a big round
Spartak looking the better team now but Zenit’s defending is pretty horrific
The Honest Mistake loves being first 17:03 on 30 November, 2012
“Remember the offensive behaviour at a football match legislation?”
Aye. And we all know what a load of keech that is.
The guy is clearly an imbecile – why get offended by him?
Pfayr
he can stick his twa fingers up at them when he gets sacked in 6 months time, it’s a never ending story that is.
V
This Spartak team look pretty dangerous…….in both boxes!
kikinthenakas
Thanks doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out what he is implying
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby
12:40 on 30 November, 2012
So in what society is a press witchhunt justified for a person who mocks plane crashes in a football stadium but stays silent on somebody dressing up as a notorious paedophile in a football stadium thinking he’s mocking thousands of people?
Answer- Scottish society.
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Are you refering to Fat Sally’s ongoing Cyril Smith impersonation? ….
Spartak caught on the break
2-1 Zenit. 30 yarder.
2-1 zenit after all that.
Long low shot and again keeper needs to ask himself questions.
…….well, 25 maybe!
Jungle Jim
15:28 on 30 November, 2012
From a Scottish-Places site:
“The Great Western Road extends from St. George’s Cross in the east to Anniesland Cross in the west, a distance of over 3 miles (5 km). It is Glasgow’s longest and straightest road”
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As this blessed forum will know, I am not a man who likes to argue. :¬))))
No matter.
Dumbarton Road runs from just East of the Kelvin Hall to the boundary with Clydebank at Yoker.
Having walked it at least 100 times, I can assure you that it is, by far, longer than the 3Miles ( 5 k) attributed to the Gt. Western Rd.
Great strike from the €35m man Axel Witsel makes it 2-1 Zenit
Against the run of play but Spartak’s defence is porous
Steinreignedsupreme
Ask the GB. ….they tell a different story
That reptile at the Hearts game should have lifted under the new legislation……no doubt some of the polis found it funny
If we do play the counter game against this mob then we will have success.
Go at them and maybe not so much imho.
steinreignedsupreme
Been thrown out of pubs for that!
HH
Kikinthenakas
TMWTL
Brothel even :-))
Wednesday night looks like a banker for both teams to score, the way `Spartak are playing tonight!
A decent high-tempo game. Maybe something to do with the temperature over there!
jonny the tim
17:08 on 30 November, 2012
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cheers Jonny Bhoy
V
Honest mistake
PF
Agree totally….
….PFayr
17:06 on 30 November, 2012
Anyone got a worse job than Benetiz ……
Team playing poorly, fans hate , most other EPL managers hate him…
Why bother
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For a few million Russkie rubles in the offshore treasure chest, PF?
I’ll take all their Laaaandon abuse going….