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Almost exactly 10 years after Celtic fans alleged Porto’s adherence to the rules was less than faithful, when they won the Uefa Cup after extra time, their creative genius, Deco, failed a drugs test a substance used to mask performance-enhancing substances were found in his blood.
Is anyone surprised?
Congratulations to the Celtic under-20 team on securing league and cup double, the fourth consecutive season Celtic youths have recorded this achievement. John Kennedy and Stevie Frail’s operation is years ahead of what was previously known as their domestic competition.
Celtic have been fine-tuning youth development since Tommy Burns returned from Amsterdam all those years ago with new strategies, some of which are still being used. The cream graduate as Champions League players, but Celtic are pretty much running elite-level youth development in Scotland, a fact made clear when you look at the enormous number of Celtic training academy graduates earning a living across the rest of the league.
It used to be the case that Celtic wasted young talent. Perceived wisdom was “Go to Aberdeen or Dundee United, they’ll turn you into a player”. The opposite is now true.
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ASonOfDan
It’s cos the huns aren’t in the SPL :-)
Who keeps saying play them again?
We can’t, they’re deed.
We could play Sevco or whatever they’re called this week, it would be a new rivalry, if you can be rivals with a team scurrying around in the lower leagues.
I’d rather not, you can’t transfer history, it died with the club, but the fans have transferred loyalties, and I’d rather not have to listen to their song book, it was bad enough listening to reports from an under 17’s game.
I heard Guidi on SSB, it’s not of interest to him so he doesn’t care, a journalist, really!
It’s of interest to the footballing public ya plum, informing them is what you get paid for.
No wonder their circulation are going down.
Anyhoos, the old legs held up to the 5’s better this week, although the dig in the ribs is hurting a bit.
What is it with you people? One would expect contributors to a Celtic site to spell Irish sounding names in a proper way. Snake you are the latest culprit. There is no Terry O Neill. There is Terry O’Neill. Why can people not spell our names properly? MON? What does that mean? You may as well call him Martin O Something. Our apostrophe is there for a reason.
John O’Neil!
67Heaven, it is funny though, in that how bad can they get, jeez.
Maybe that’s the plan, boost listening figures by making a satire.
1-0 Benfica. I thought at the time we finished above them in CL they were a great bet to go all the way.
John O Neil
Spot anything missing? :-)
pedrocaravanachio67
Sadly, the zombies probably actually believe that.
Guidi is as much a journalist as the weans in HTs classroom, to be honest that’s probably unfair on the weans as they’d be more liable to write things truthfully without fear of someone taking the huff and removing their play piece.
JON
Your underwear too tight or something?
Go on the Eagles of Lisbon -got on them at a juicy 20/1 before knock out stage :)
HH
pedrocaravanachio67 I do not expect you to remember but I have explained it before. It is Paul’s system! I am not some grammar fiend but our names are already hampered by technical system glitches – people being lazy only destroys our names even more.
minx1888
20:01 on 2 May, 2013
Calm down its time to forgive, forget and move on.
doc is neil lennon
20:13 on 2 May, 2013
Who keeps saying play them again?
We can’t, they’re deed.
Well said mate , they are gone . We don’t need them and we certainly don’t need their TUPED over supporters who are now following the NEW club .
Don’t want the Zombies polluting Celtic Park ever again .
HH
John
My grandmother’s family came from Ireland to Scotland in the late 19thC – they dropped the O’ from their name as it was more acceptable in the bigot country.
Maybe you should have your monicker followed with ( ‘ )
Maybe not.
Wow! Benfica had went undefeated since October until their defeat in the reverse fixture last week. Puts into perspective what an achievement it was to qualify from that CL Group.
Sipsini
I hope that every time they call him that. .. you shout… fenian army ;)
ASonOfDan I ain’t telling you anything about my underwear! Just spell our names properly please! Anyway, it is other people who seem to have the problem you mentioned and it is due to listening to a radio show they hate! Why listen then? Comedy? Read Flann O’Brien instead of listening to a collection of bloated huns on the radio.
No wonder so many good posters have given up on here.
Fourgreen
Think you’ll find that’s:
TUPE’D not TUPED which is entirely different.
The ridiculousness of greens £2.5k fine for making racist remarks, and then having the brass neck to re-inforce/justify them was unbelievable. That was until I seen the official sevco response which states that he was “ill-advised” rather than accepting he made racist remarks. So who advised him ?
“I was ill-advised by the missus to drive at 80mph your honour”
“OK sir, penalty reduced”
Guy is obviously easily led and badly advised. They should employ a right good PR jedi to stop any re-occurences.
HH
gene’s a bhoy’s name
20:21 on 2 May, 2013
John
My grandmother’s family came from Ireland to Scotland in the late 19thC – they dropped the O’ from their name as it was more acceptable in the bigot country.
Lucky you, my family changed their name altogether.
Chelsea are missing a few chances…..ominous
AhsunoffDahn thanks for your reply!
can i have raspberry on that champions league ice cream
20:23 on 2 May, 2013
As did my Mother’s family when they moved from the South to the north…
I grew up with a guy called Martin O’Neil, he was called MON. I also new a guy called Davie O’Neil and he was called Donny. What is wrong with people like us Johnny?
Ridiculous pen for the Turks 1-2 agg
DJBEE, nothing wrong with either example you cited from my perspective. However when writing about someone, it is courteous to spell their name properly at least. I won’t take up any more blog time with this matter. Let others fight the battle.
che
Very good :-))))
The cheating club ( now dead ) and the Masonic cabal ( SFA ) trying to give the corpse the kiss of life and people on here want to argue over spelling and punctuation .
Cahill knew what he was doing there no matter what Andy Turnip says..
Never a pen in a million years ,benfica bet in big bother :((
HH
John O Neil
Thought that your original post about spelling was a wind up.
Is it a wind up?
A lot of trouble at Benfica game because for some bizarre reason there are Turks placed in amongst the home fans.
John O’Neil
A pleasure.
Che
20:17 on 2 May, 2013
Guidi is as much a journalist as the weans in HTs classroom, to be honest that’s probably unfair on the weans as they’d be more liable to write things truthfully without fear of someone taking the huff and removing their play piece.
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Yer a tough cookie.
HT, I only spoke to briefly.
Here listen to this intently….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd1YKo3tSQw
And …………….
John O Neil
OK, fair enough I just think nick names are a way of showing a friendship toward someone. Look at the media, Coisty, Durranty, Fergie etc. Don’t remember the same towards Celtic where it is Lennon, (picture of scowling face), Doctor WHO?, Desmond Dermott etc….
Why should it be a wind up Dead and Loving it? It is just a gentle irritation though.
Petec
I don’t have a tent