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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Spartak down to 10 men. Pareja sent off for last man tackle. He should have gone earlier for a 2 footed challenge
They are a disaster zone at the back
….PFayr
17:15 on 30 November, 2012
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
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The polis may have found it funny if they had not all been facing the Celtic support with their wee video cameras.
That is what gets up my nose, not the fact that the cretin did it, but the fact that the police aren’t interested in anything other than “evening up” the number of convictions between us and the Hun.
Campbell Corrigan (now Chief Constable of Strathclyde) made it clear what he thought was offensive when he praised the wonderful atmosphere at the 2011 CIS Cup Final.
Remember him?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fb_8NyQOJ4
3-1 Zenit
Another howler from the keeper
We must pray he plays on Wednesday
Spartak down to 10 men – mistake lets Zenit player break – last ditch tackle 2 footed and second yellow and Zenit score from resultant free-kick.
3-1. Another comedy goal.
London rd is the longest rd in the Uk …. Fact!
Every large town and city has a London rd.
End of debateCSC
Goalkeeping howler
Poor defending
Danny misses another sitter
Zenit could score at will here
Should have been 4-1.
Vmhan that’s a non fact as Ruglen has no London rd ,towns don’t come much bigger.hh
verdantvic
17:56 on 30 November, 2012
I am sure your prose is as good as most of the rest of us. There are a few fantastic wordsmiths on the site, but most of us are strugglers.
Good luck.
JUNGLE JIM.see whit ye started??? a longest road debate.!!!! .F.F.S.as they say in barmulloch.
Spartak have made a lot of chances
4-1. Great strike.
It’s a long road toTipperary.
A67
Y’all talkin avenue’s n boardwalks that’s nothing man
We are on the one road, it may be a long road
route66celticsupportersclub
Ball lost on centre-circle Zenit guy strolls through and sticks it in top corner – GK hardly made an effort to get to it.
4-1 Zenit
Great finish by Shirokov
Their heads have gone now
I can only echo what TMWTL said earlier, I hope that keeper plays on Wednesday.
DJBEE,
We’re just trying to sort out of God knows where
Aiden on a “mazey” there. 4-2. Eminike
4-2 Emenike free header!
if
Both goals were headers, something we might need to watch out for!
4-2 Emenike pulls one back with a neat header although the defending again by Zenit wasn’t clever
Apart from the goal Emenike has been anonymous
voguepunter
18:09 on
30 November, 2012
Vmhan that’s a non fact as Ruglen has no London rd ,towns don’t come much bigger.hh
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Understand what your saying old chap, but from what I’ve seen rutherglen is merely an extension o the Vogue, armchairs n all.
If ye don’t have a London. Rd in the glen then its naw a real toon.
Thanks for the reply, mistaken though it was :>)
Andrew 67, It depends where you start from. Not too far from where I’m sitting.
‘Early doors’ Which literary genius bestowed this masterful phrase on our unworthy
ears………….eh….eyes?
Spartak have been the better side for much of this game- their keeper is having a nightmare and their finishing was dire in he first half and then the sending off changed the game- Aiden looking like he gives them a spark- especially when playing in the middle
On topography, what is the shortest road in Glasgow?
spartak s confidence looks fairly shot …an early gol and they might just chuck it
I must confess that I don’t fancy Wed at all …natural pessimist
Fat Sally has said that he has begun work on identifying players that he wants to take to Ibrox next season.
Would this be all those world class internationals again?
pfayr
it’s so weird it isn’t even funny
Later Celts, I enjoyed chewing the fat with ye all, adios muchachos!
Will be good for Aiden McGeady to get to get a taste of action at a big European team next week.
vmhan
18:04 on
30 November, 2012
Duke Street is the longest road in the WORLD, on a Saturday niiiight…….
90th minute and Spartak getting beat 4-2.
Wembley! Wembley! We’re the famous Glasgow Celtic and we’re off to Wembley!
When does Gt Western Rd become Gt Western Boulevard?
It’s pretty wide too
hh