I’d a look at the fixture list preseason and didn’t expect we’d be top of the table so early, having played only three games with 10 teams having played four, and two of those games coming against our nearest challengers from last season.
But we stepped up to the task. The earlier win at Tynecastle and beating Aberdeen 4-1 on Saturday has issued a warning to all. Bookmakers are offering Celtic’s title odds of between 2/9 and 1/7, and have created a separate ‘Betting without Celtic’ competition. One of Brendan’s jobs will be to remind players that they need to earn the points every time the whistle goes. Defeats come quickly to teams operating at 95%.
Not that we had it all our own way on Saturday. Aberdeen disrupted our rhythm and passing in the middle part of the game. You can see how Brendan has changed the way we use the ball in possession, but there’s still a bit of work to do for it to become more natural looking.
The goals were outstanding. Leigh Griffiths’ effort would be immortalised in song, if one of the Barcelona players due to visit Celtic Park soon had managed it. Tom Rogic’s technique is of particular importance.
Celtic face a lot of packed defences; having someone able to reliably hit an unstoppable shot from around 22 yards changes how a defence will shape up to play us. This is a player Leeds United thought they could buy for £1m recently.
I was pleased to see Dorus de Vries make his debut. He had little to do, and could do nothing about the Aberdeen goal, but if he’s to be relied upon in any of the important games ahead he needed an outing as a Celtic player.
It was equally important Erik Sviatchenko came through 90 minutes with Kolo Toure. The defence is set for some almighty challenges ahead, and will need to face them with little common game-time to allow partnerships to be cemented.
There’s a degree of trepidation for the Champions League task ahead, but pretenders to our domestic dominance beware: evidence mounts that this is a good Celtic team – one which will continue to improve for some time to come.
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Joey Barton Twitter account gone awfully quiet. Wonder why that could be:-)
Novels — so many but these popped up when asked the question –
House For Mr Biswas -VS Naipaul
The Kindly Ones-Jonathan Littell
Life and Fate -Vassily Grossman
The Code of The Woosters -PG Wodehouse
The Savage Detectives -Roberto Bolano
Mr Pye – Mervyn Peake
The Onion Eaters – JP Donleavy
A Brief History of Seven Killings -Marlon James
The Home and The World -Rabindrath Tagore .
Can we do Rocksteady 45s next ?
Someone once gave me ‘The Book of Lists’…it was dreadful, I couldn’t put it down…useless but addictive…
Top 11 (for now….)
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept – Elizabeth Smart
The House With The Green Shutters – George Douglas Brown
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Ginger Man – J.P. Donleavy
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
Chronicles Vol. 1 – Bob
Top 10 Celtic experiences……..
1. Being at Easter Road when we clinched 8 in a row under Mr Stein, was only a wee bhoy but got totally sucked in by the YNWA’s on the big giant sloped terracing full of jubilant Tims – When the Cellic was, the Cellic at a time when we were one of the worlds great teams – Magic.
2. Being at Brockville when we won the last of the – ‘Honest 9 in a row’ – as a wee bhoy, I thought that it was a given for Cellic to be the Champs all the time.
3. Being at the SCF vs Dundee Utd 3-0 in the same year as the – ‘Honest 9 in a row’ – it was the only game that my late mother attended, a grand ole year indeed.
4. The year that Mr Stein was hurt in the car crash was a bad year for us but, I remember being in the front of the Main Stand on a midweek 0-0 draw with the huns and, coming away listening to me Da talking about how that young guy who made is old firm debut was gonna be a player – Tommy Burns(RIP) – little did I know that, TB would go on to provide me with a treasure trove of memories of what it felt like to be as Wullie Haughey would go on to say one day that – “Every Celtic supporter played for Celtic ‘through’ Tommy Burns.” – nobody had described it like that before and when WH said those words at TB’s passing, that’s when the loss of TB was truly felt by me.
5. Being on the giant sloped terracing in the 1977 league title clincher in the Joe Craig game, little did anybody suspect that that day would be the last of Mr Stein’s Championee days – Magical.
6. Being in the soaked Cellic end at Hundump in the Andy Lynch SCF vs the huns, little did we know that the player whom I would say was the best player that I have ever seen playing for us was going to be leaving for Liverpool – King Kenny captained us to Mr Stein’s last double….weeks after it as a young bhoy I got to taste what Celtic depression felt like as the King left us – I would say that King Kenny Dalglish was the greatest player to ‘ever’ play on the British Isles – the white Pele.
7. This is strange but, a 1-3 mibbery robbery at the auld ibrokes at new year 1978 courtesy of a mib called JRP Gordon was a game strewn with the feeling of magic as, before the start of the games in those days, the disc jockey would play the top 5 hit songs in the uk, when it got to no-1 Paul McCartney -“Mull of Kintyre” – the Cellic end held up they’re scarves YNWA-style and statrted to sing the song. It lasted for about 30 seconds and the huns all started booing and throwing bottles onto the pitch – the dj had to stop playing the uk’s no-1 hit song because it was by – Paul McCartney????????? Anyway the horrible afternoon went onto forge my character as a young Cellic fan when I realized just what our club was up against. The raw-evil-hun-hatred opened up a new page for me……
8. The best night of my Celtic supporting life – the 4-2 gemme, the best ever game in the Jungle imho, my favorite ‘ever’ Cellic player Murdo MacLeod scored his 1st and, best of many magical hunskelping goals – Magic, just Magic.
9. The SCF 1980 – the Hundump Riot game, one of the best days of my life, the day that the Scottish establishment knew what it would be like to try to fluk with rebellious Celtic supporters – they got the message George McLuskey Ar La -Magical day.
10. Stopping the huns beating Mr Stein’s 9 in a row – Wim, Murdo, Henrik – Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Celtic Supporters – You’ll Never Walk Alone…in the Jungle.
….off-oot….laters….
MOONBEAMS WD
Jibes and jesting apart,I thought about mine earlier. Didn’t take me long.
Due to my nomadic lifestyle over the last thirty years,I had a very truncated period of our history to choose from.
October 67 till end of 86.
Back for The Centenary Season of course,but when I got back again for five years at the end of the century,I couldnae get a ticket,hardly got to a game!
(Had to bribe my Dad to go on holiday…)
Of course,I’ve been to a fair few games on my trips home since but they generally stick in the memory for personal reasons,like the 2006 League Cup Final where we turned it into a memorial and celebration of our greatest player,Jimmy Johnstone.
It was also the last time I took my nephew to a match. That’s not the type of memory your list is looking for,bud.
But as I said,as lists go,wow,you did good,young fella!
Aye,smallest violin,etc. But it would have been the smallest timescale too.
Reading the comments on Cristain Gamboa height somehow reminded me of Double Indemnity.
Barton Keyes: I picked you for the job, not because I think you’re so darn smart, but because I thought you were a shade less dumb than the rest of the outfit. Guess I was wrong. You’re not smarter, Walter… you’re just a little taller.
TWISTSNTURNS
Cos we worked out his password and hacked it.
It was
Auauaudo1
Now it’s
Cujimmy
new article posted.
SCANIEL
Talking my language there,mate. Sometimes you read to learn,to be educated. Other times for simple entertainment.
Wodehouse was a master of his craft. Which was the latter.
VFR800A8 is a philistine,if clearly a learned one(!)
Ernie Lynch
It is certainly one interpretation that can be put on events but another which has more going for it is that UEFA have thrown the SFA under a bus. Reasons?
1. UEFA make it clear RFC cannot be thrown under any bus and neither can TRFC/RIFC.
2. UEFA will have asked questions when they reviewed the June submission in Sept by which time everyone knew SOs had called in August to collect overdue tax. The fact that RFC were by then out of both competitions possibly was a factor in not digging deeper.
3. Since then as the whole sorry tale has unfolded (and I speculate) UEFA do not like the “solution” on which our game embarked, particularly the continuity aspect which plunges a dagger into the purpose of Article 12 which is to stop clubs using insolvency to dump debt that gave them a sporting advantage the minute it could not be repaid, but carry on retaining the benefits of their profligacy.
4. SFA announced they had nothing to fear from Res12 and that they were happy to take part if UEFA wanted to question.
5. UEFA in reply give a justification not to investigate but bring in the new club/company stuff.
6. A week later STV who were at SFA AGM when Regan made his nothing to worry about statement contact UEFA and if the e mail from UEFA Media is anything to go by, put out an article that kills Res12 but no mention of new club/company stuff.
If I were speculating I’d say this approach to UEFA was an SFA attempt to put Res12 to bed and the reply from UEFA gave rise to concerns that it had the opposite effect and the STV article, was either a coincidence or a coordinated attempt between SFA and STV to keep SFA from falling under a bus.
Apologies for length and remember there are unknowns on the whole saga from March 2011 to date which is why answers are required.
DAVIDOPOULOS on 30TH AUGUST 2016 11:49 AM
5. Labrynths – Jorge Luis Borges (that’s cheating since it is a book of essays and short stories)
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Love that book.
Have you read”In Patagonia” – Bruce Chatwin?
1.
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
2.
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
3.
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
5.
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
6.
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
7.
The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
8.
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy O’Toole
9.
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
10.
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
Top Ten books
1The Poor Mouth,Flann O`Brien
2Slaughter House5,Kurt Vonnegut
3Decline and Fall .Evelyn Waugh
4Anything by Elmore Leonard or James Lee Burke
51984 George Orwell
6Laidlaw,William McIlvanney
7The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
8Heart of Darkness,Joseph Conrad
9Lamentation C.J,Sansom
10The Catcher In The Rye J. D. Salinger
MWD 1.05.
That wasn’t the 10 men won the league match.
That was Charlie Nicholas’s last match before leaving for Arsenal.
Charlie scored 2 pens,MacGarvey with a thumping header ,can’t remember who got the other.
I think Dundee Utd beat Dundee at Dens to clinch the title that day .
TT
The saddest place in the world at the moment…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJGp3g93h6M
Federico Garcia Lorca’s ‘Deep Song and Other Prose’ is a gem.
A series of essays and, lets say, ‘performances’.
‘Play and Theory of the Duende’, first performed in Buenos Aires is, for me, wonderful… “the mysterious power which everyone senses and no philosopher explains”.
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