Neil Lennon will be delighted to have secured his captain, Scott Brown, on a new long-term contract which sees the player tied to the club until after his 30th birthday in 2015, with the club having an option to extend the deal by a further 12 months.
Scott joined Celtic in 2007 and played central midfield until last season, when he was occasionally used wide right, to great effect. Reflecting some of the conversations we had earlier this week with Georgios Samaras, who has recently been a revelation wide-left after years of frustration as part of a front pairing, Scott seemed to revel in the space the wider position allowed him to exploit.
Before joining Celtic Scott made his name playing almost as an auxiliary striker at Hibernian, where he would burst into the box with well-timed runs but at Celtic he is more commonly anchored in a defensive midfield role. As a consequence, despite having played more games for Celtic than Hibs, and playing for a team who attack far more often, he has still to match his Hibs goals scored total at Celtic.
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Why is it that any player that signs for the huns are taught how to dive first and foremost?
Sone “Greg” Aluko http://tinypic.com/r/2up4ron/5 http://i42.tinypic.com/2up4ron.jpg
bourne
thats easy for you to say, try it with a hangover!!
kikinthenakas
Ha – I couldn’t even read it back myself after I typed it. ;-)
went cross eyed then had to go for the paracetemol!!
Hearing that the referee for today has been changed
It’s Craig Thompson now.
Billy Backstory recognises he needs to Up his game…..
Byzantine!
Calum Murray overdone the celebrations of Ragers win, and is replaced by Thompson.
“Tommo” on Shortbread. One o’the boys already.
(An aural ‘Naisy’)
Callum Murray stuck behind a horse?
Should he not get into bother for that?
Did Sone Aluko pay for his own diving lessons?
Paul67 et al
Only ever been in Seville twice, 1982 supporting Scotland and 2003 supporting Celtic. Blistering hot on both occasions. Will never forget seeing Brazil play up close, brilliant team nor seeing one of the greatest players ever to play football, Socrates. Still convinced his goal against Italy in the quarters should have stood. God bless that man!
check out 1.18 sec into this video
“Well I don’t know it looks soft to me if I’m honest…..but it’s a penalty to ragners”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=L4vaUDuupgc
check out 1.18 sec into this video…. well done Sone!
bournesouprecipe says:
4 December, 2011 at 12:16
Did Sone Aluko pay for his own diving lessons?
For every ‘deep sea diver’ he spends…
RC
ha – nicely done
Enjoy the game and your day Bhoys and Ghirls where ever you are in the Celtic World..
Hopps to run out convincing winners…
SP
I did mention the complete farce of the pen decision when i saw it at the time.
Worse with every look.
Corrupt mothers that they are.
But enough ranting, come on the Celtic.
yer oan the telly.
brimmer
Backed Stokes to score first and 3-1 to the Hoops….50/1! Also took 12’s for 3-1.
Mon the Hoops
TTTT
Tannadice Park ??
10.I.A.R. Best Bridies In Scotland..
“Seany” not being scapegoated……..pardon the part pun……
If he’d signed for us………..
but wait………………………………………………………………
Good Morning,
When the management and players of Tadcaster Albion turned up at Garforth Town A.F.C for a Northern Premier League Division One North Match on 20th November 2004, they could not quite believe their ears……. or their eyes.
There had been rumours that Garfield Town ( formerly Garfield Miners ) had a new player coach, and that he was a “foreigner” but no one expected this. Matters were confirmed when the team sheets were handed out, and there among the list of substitutes was his name. Socrates!!
Socrates Brasileiro Sampau de Souza Veirs de Oliveira was Captain of Brazil, played in two world cups, and may well be the oddest class footballer of modern times.
Between 1974-78 he appeared fpr Botafogo SP on 57 occasions scoring 24 goals before moving on to the famous Corinthians club where he would stay for 6 years. By the time he left there in 1984 he had pulled on their Jersey spome 297 times and had scored amaxing 172 goals, which was astonishing for a midfielder. He then played with Fiorentina in Italy for a season making 25 appearances and scoring 6 goals before heading back to Brazil. By this time he was not far off finished with football and made 14 appearances for Flamengo and Santos over the next couple of years. That was it, until he suddenly turned up one day in the north of England and appeared from the bench for 13 minutes or so.
Socrates’ footballing abilities were in no doubt, and Pele named him as one of Brazil’s 100 leading footballers of all time. Anyone who saw him in the 1982 World Cup will recall him as the tall (6’4″) bearded captain with the curly hair and the occasional headband who was stick thin, immensely gifted and had an air of “cool” about him. Indeed he was declared the symbol of cool for a whole generation of football fans in Brazil.
But by the time he took the field for Garforth Town he was huge as the video below will show.
At his height, Socrates was known on the field of play for thrilling passes, great goals and for his trademark back heel passses that blindsided the opposition. Off the field he was known for his politics ( he once had a whole Corinthian team wear shirts that said Democracy in protest at the Government ), for being a fully qualified Doctor– and for smoking like a lum and drinking like a fish!!
Indeed he delayed playing any type of football to study medicine and after his retiral he practised as a Doctor in Rebeiro Preto where he lived with his wife and six children. He was also a newspapaer columnist on sport and politics, did punditry stints for the television and wrote books. However, he continued to smoke two packets of cogarettes a day and have a far from healthy alcohol intake which in turn caused balooning weight and health problems.
In August of this year, he was admitted to Hospital with internal bleeding and placed in intensive care. Regrettably he died this morning at the age of just 56. The liver and other parts apparently had seen enough for one lifetime– maybe two.
He will be mourned in Brazil as a past player and as a political activist and a character. He will be mourned as a father, husband and friend.
I won’t pretend to ever understand a clearly bright, intelligent,professional athlete who abused his body with cigarettes and alcohol the way he did. He knew exactly what he was doing, was dedicated to medicine from an early age and yet seemingly did not give a toss and lived the way he wanted to.
He loved John Lennon, Fidel Castro and Che Guevarra and named one of his children Fidel! When his mother complained and said that this was a “harsh” name for a child he responded ” Eh– You called me Socrates!”.
He was the captain of the greatest entertaining team to win absolutely nothing, and there was a suggestion that that teams general attitude could have been better if someone less laid back had been captain. After all this was the guy who only took two steps when taking a penalty! That may very well be– but Socrates was Socrates and you only get the good with the bad. Take it or leave it.
It was said that the longest he used to go without a cigarette was when he was sleeping or during the 90 minutes of a football match. Yet later in veterns exhibitions games, one ex pro talked of the unbelievable scene of the great man wandering to the sidelines and getting the occasional puff from someone during the game!
There may well be a hell of a price to pay for being a chain smoking prince of cool as can be seen here in that last footballing appearance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJzp5BjixzE&feature=related
However, it would be unfair to leave with that image as a finale.
So if you have 5 minutes to spare, grab a cup of coffee ( a fag if you indulge ) and just watch football the way it should be played– even by a mad, philosphic, political,chain smoking Brazilian Doctor and his team of under achievers! As a boy this is what makes you want to kick a football!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZxvYy5-ekI
Socrates– more than a name RIP
C’Mon The HOOPS!
There are no Tims at the Shortbread perty…….
We will have it confirmed one day that diving and thuggery were openly encouraged by the Rankers coaching staff. Who was the foreign ex-Hun who slated Souness for the same after leaving ?
There’s a ‘live updates’ article guys.
Promising start Bhoys!!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU BOYO!
Hoops is back folks!!!