Delighted to hear Ronny Deila is planning to rest players ahead of Tuesday’s Cup Final. There is plenty to be gained from playing the next wave of Callum McGregors at Inverness tomorrow, and little to be lost in the league race.
Our unique position in world football, a club who are so massively bigger than all others they are not involved in a proper competition to win the league, has more drawbacks than advantages, but we need to exploit this position by developing emerging talent when the stars align.
The morning after the day before the Slovakian media were very respectful of Celtic. There was an acceptance that their assessment of Celtic was based on two unrepresentative performances against Legia.
Perhaps the most encouraging aspect of Slovenian coverage was the appreciation of the “modern football” Celtic played. Assessments of Maribor’s chances in the return leg were pragmatic. Expectations are low, but with the tie level, they know they still have a chance. Hopes are, that Maribor’s misplaced optimism is viral, and that Celtic will be infected by the same disease.
Celtic’s job on Tuesday is to make sure they treat Maribor as though they were Bayern Munich.
Oh Malky. You and I both know that football is remarkably indifferent to moral uncertainty, the actions over the last 24 hours of the thoroughly reprehensible League Managers’ Assocation testify to that. Practically anything is forgiven or overlooked, but only up to a point. Malky MacKay has been implicated in attacks against Chinese, Koreans, black people, gays and Jews, quite a unique full house.
Cardiff City have already leveraged this to obtain a grovelling apology and have now cost him a seven figure contract, offered by his friend at Crystal Palace. Question is, after the controversy dies down and the obligatory contrition is served, will another club offer him a contract? I don’t think so.
As far as the football industry is concerned, Malky’s unforgivable sin is not racism, homophobia or anti-Semitism, these matters are often overlooked as ‘banter’, after all. He’ll not get another job because he blew millions on players who were useless to Cardiff.
That’s the only kind of offence football really tales notice of.
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Like so many on here, I accept that GB bring atmosphere to the ground. Saturday was dead in terms of singing, etc. However I would like to know from any source how much in financial terms the political banners that have been displayed in recent seasons have cost the club.
In the light of the censures, and who knows there could when be those who would want us booted out if a political statement was made on Tuesday, I fail to understand why those who organize GB matters are unable to understand the damage they can do to the club and to all of us as supporters.
Come along and sing your hearts out GB, but leave the political stuff outside the ground.
By the way, can anyone actually prove that the GB were about to make a political statement on Tuesday? If so lets have chapter and verse.
Bjm
No I didn’t. Been out all day. Time?
TnT. Thanks very much, got it at 25/1 on betway when i read your post this morning. First time i have ever touched a tip on here as i mainly stick to the football. Hope its not the road to rack and ruin :)
TnT,
It is running in the 7.05 at Hamilton tonight and the owner thinks that it is overpriced at 7/1 – might be worth a small flutter?
Cheers,
BJM
Twisty
Yep…22/1 for me too
Thanks BJM.
Will drop you a mail later re Hamilton. Was waiting on a call, went out, missed it, but voice message to say he will phone me back at 5 ish.
IGC @ 1514hrs,
hahaha.
Touche my good man :-)
Look forward to the next one.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
PF
Not fussed on each way bets normally but at 22/1 I can tolerate them!
Frank Ryan’s Whiskey
I will be in Yorkshire on my summer holidays!
Geordie Munro
Celtic v Rangers was meant to be the day of the funeral. Our CSC met up in a Livi pub after the funeral and completely ruined the district darts competition.
When told to stop singing because we were ruining the darts comp one of our members shouted that they were ruining our sing song.
That was a very messy day. I spent a fortune. The rescheduled match was a Monday night. McCann and Murray on the pitch to plead for silence in the minutes silence. Negri first goal think they had a man sent off. Late Stubbsy header to equalise. Possibly the goal that won us the league!
LB
TnT,
Cheers mate – can you send to my e-mail, I am expecting to be in the pub by 5 so probably wont catch it if you post on here?
I will make a point of checking my e-mail, though, now that you have told me that ;-)
BJM.
Talking of each way horses, though I can’t see beyond Sole Power at 3/1, surely Stepper point shouldn’t be 20/1?
***IGC, still looking for a spare brief (or 4) for the Maribor game***
The moral of the story is, when you read about a tip on CQN, get in and back it at the time.
Read about Glen Moss this morning, and only remembered when looking at runners 10 minutes prior!
Still, 16/1 not be frowned upon.
Bj
No worries.
Bjm,
Bet Victor, if you have an account with them have yer dunky @8’s;)
All this chat about singing and atmosphere and needing the GB to create the atmosphere is piffle.
I go to watch Celtic play football, not for atmosphere.
And if everyone else is so worried about the atmosphere then bring it with you yourself. Sing the songs, start the chants, stop sitting on your hands waiting for the GB or for someone else to do it. Get out of your shell and stop being worried about what other people think. And if nobody else joins in then guess what?
They’re more interested in football than singing, the same as me.
TnT – Cheers for that, and you’re right about stepper point – I just re-invested a small £5 /w from my Glen Moss winnings on it at 25/1.
GM – thanks but don’t have a Bet Victor a/c tend to stick with Bet365.
BJM
My father in law, God rest him, was buried at the same time as Diana.
The journey from Baberton to Warriston Crematorium was eerie.
Very, very, little traffic and no signs of life on the pavements.
He was a good lad too.
Aberdeen fan with a soft spot for the ‘Tic.
T n T
Many thanks, 25/1
HH
livibhoy-FRW-Ta ,heading through tomorrow with some bhoys furra bit o culture. …..
WBA… Samaras is not a striker. Learn this now and save yourself 2 years.
Good luck you big handsome Greek bassa.
Inverness game…. Play the best team/play the squad players/play the under 10’s.
Just win on Tuesday
CQN… Learn how to spell UEFA. It’s not EUFA but U E F A.
This is the kind of thing that could get us thrown out of the Champion’s League!
El Mad.
Moviesta for me
smoke and mirrors
13:02 on 22 August, 2014
Tiny tim
Who’s the source. Of this story? You got a link?
Got it 25/1 in an e/w double wi Tiger Twenty Two
Bada,
Learning about Burke and Hare? ;)
I’m pencilled in for embra tomorrow too but an ill ‘bidey in’ might scupper that.
connaire12,
Yours is a voice of reason. I fear it will fall on deaf ears as far as those who organise the GB are concerned. I hope I am proved wrong.
Setting free the bears your way behind with me and resolution 12
As they where going about getting the shares from share holders I was in the camp of leaving it for Celtic to deal with and not interfere, and they went a head, it was THEN i told them that they where going into the big boys playground with short trousers on and they would be eaten up, and so far I am right, Celtic here into this to get it sorted out, and I said that at the time they wouldent listen, they met with Celtic where told (asked) to stays shtum, they made that statement at the AGM and all was well, that was almost a year ago, as of today nothing has moved, now I will repeat this again, they should have went all the way with resolution 12 and rode past Celtic as they said they would, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it AGAIN, resolution 12 was a good thing but it was in the wrong hands and THEY dropped the ball, it is not a coincidence that the AGM is coming up soon that the same ball carriers have came on the scene AGAIN because for ages they disappeard after it all went Pete Tong, now I do not know these guys and bare no grudge with them even though long before I was telling them they where doing the wrong thing and leave it to Celtic, they left me without a name ganged up on me tried the bully tactics it didn’t work then and it won’t work now, if it’s the sme guys you have as the messengers I’m afraid you can forget it, all they where was all talk, needless to say when they got the resolution they went to the Celtic trust for advice, that was never mentioned at any time when canvasing for shares from the punters, it now has got darker and more secret, and it’s my opinion the horse has bolted, but time will tell, and that time is running out.
What a run by Hughes on Sole Power.
HorseyQuickNews.
That’s the longest sentence I’ve ever seen
Think I’ve just missed the fekkin fcast….
nye bevans’ rebel soldier
15:17 on 22 August, 2014
Like you I think I’m now probably an old compliant rebel fart……though my family might move the final word closet to the top of the list.
Question to us all. If you were 19 again would you be a GB type? Me honestly? Probably would. Though don’t tell ma Mammy – then or now!!!
HH jamesgang
GM- some bhoys might get lost in yon triangle thingy…..
Oooft………naw ah huvnae……get in!!!!!!
TnT,
You Da Man !!!!!
Two 25/1 places – that will do nicely
Cheers,
BJM
El Madrigal: EUFA, UEFA or, simply, “ufa” — a Samoan word for someone who enjoys relations with his mother. (No idea what “spfl” means in Samoan …)
Twisty
Thought we had it between us there …bassa
Politics in sport?? Not a good idea.
http://observer.theguardian.com/osm/story/0,6903,1123137,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3128202.stm
Livibhoy 15:26
I think you are mixing the dates of the Original and Rearranged dates for the FoD fixture back in 1997 (… but you did mention that drink was taken)
My memory tells me that the original date for the game was Monday Night 1st September ( due to be live on TV )
The rearranged game was on a Wednesday Evening in December
I have often noted that the rearranged game may have helped us as we were in danger of slipping too far behind too early
We had drawn at Easter Road and lost to Dunfermline in our first two games .
If we had lost to the FoD in September the psychological gap may have been too big for our fragile psyche
Of course we may have won the game had it gone ahead as scheduled ..
however I always think that 10 in a row was a ‘shoe in’ for them if we had fallen 7 points behind after 4 games
The Onlooker