On Thursday we discussed how best to reintroduce Callum McGregor and Reo Hatate into the side after injury. I wrote that starting both against Livingston was too much of a risk, but, “Reo is the man I would concentrate on. Start him alongside Matt O’Riley with Tomoki Iwata in the holding role.”
Let’s put some boundaries on how well it went. Livingston were as poor a side as I have seen Celtic play in the league in many years. They will struggle in the Championship next season, so much so, I think that could be the last ever league game between Celtic and Livingston. That prime piece of West Lothian real estate has an interesting future.
From a Celtic perspective, though, Sunday could not have gone better. We saw what we have missed from Reo for most of the season. His control, ability to turn and move play, is unique in Scottish football.
The fact that he got more than an hour on the pitch means, notwithstanding other injuries down the left flank, he is a certain starter on Sunday. Reo both helps Daizen Maeda and Greg Taylor, and depends on both to cover the ground he does not have the engine for.
Squad fitness will not be perfect for the weekend, but it will be significantly better than it has been in recent months.
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SAINT STIVS
The voice of reason.
Forget the referee.
A lot of historical — and hysterical — revisionism going on here.
After the Huns declared they didn’t want Willie Collum anywhere near their games, he refereed two Gers games in the following months.
Our best players will be back and the team is improving week-on-week.
Let’s make the officials irrelevant Celtic.
GARYGILLESPIESHAMSTRING on 2ND APRIL 2024 11:07 AM
Even if they have Ian Paisley as ref and Pastor Jack Glass on VAR, we can still beat them.
Ha they’re deid tae GGH :-))
Better get a blue bin for jamie Bryson to stand on to independently verify Var decisions :-))
HH
SCULLYBHOY
Left two clues last night for you re 2 questions.
SCULLYBHOY on 2ND APRIL 2024 2:22 PM
https://wikifoundryimages.s3.amazonaws.com/0aeb29cb504fd5fa82c8010a04402c3a
ta for that, one of my favourite images of the auld fella,
i have tried to put a date on it before, because what intrigues me if the picture to the top left of him, showing the cycle track, and the original double decker grant stand.
i wonder if these pictures were lost in the pavilion fire.
as to maley, between brendan sweeney celtic the early years, walfrid and the bould bhoys, plus all of the glasgow irish books it paints the picture of a very stubborn , determined and a strong moral compass personality.
very edwardian, a true scots/irish man, a royalist, an empirest, not as political as most of the founders but very active in the church societies, leading to many arguments with others in the early foundation, my own opinion only, a favourite of walfrids to steer the football club much more than othes who saw enterprise and profit.
the loss of players to tragic deaths profundly affected him, and like us all, you are never the same again.
the bizarre outcome of his stepping down at a grand age, but then being the guest at ibrox on many occassions, i mean how very strange.
anyways ta for posting it.
the MAELY brothers in their totality deserve a book of their own. more than just wille, their war exploits, a chaplain, two other managers, that history of parkead link the other day for alex maley, hugely interesting.
what a household that must have been, when they were at their peak, tom an fa cup winning manager with city, wi;;ie dominating athletics in his 20s alongside playing football, alex the lesser know but still hundreds of games as a manager, charles the priest. them offcourse sergeant maleys relationship with tailor welsh,
if only they had written more down.
●● Two first’s involving Celtic●●
1)Real Madrid v Celtic November 2nd 2022.
Clue: French Lady.
2) Celtic v Aberdeen November 8th 1980.
Clue: Furniture manufacturers Glasgow.
●●Answers do not involve players nor scoreline●●
It’s OK saying, score more goals than them and take the officiating out of the equation but silence from the club looks like being complicit with a ‘bent’ system of refereeing.
A simple comment from Brendan at this week’s press conference along the lines of, ” I hope the referee team have a better game than they did at Tynecastle and they also don’t miss any clear penalties like they did at Livingston” will suffice. As I’ve said before it probably won’t stop them cheating but at least it shows we are aware of it and are calling it out.
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY on 2ND APRIL 2024 1:55
I don’t understand why the Celtic support give the known cheating refs an easy time when they come to Parkhead. Booing for short periods isn’t enough. I remember Mike McCurry coming to Parkhead after he had cheated his way through a Rangers v Dundee Utd game at Ibrox to help the Huns in their quest for the title. The entire stadium kept up a non-stop chant throughout the game of, “Michael McCurry, we know you’re a H**”
McCurry was visibly reduced to tears. I don’t think he ever refereed a game at Celtic Park again and retired fro refereeing not too long afterwards. This is the treatment that they need. Absolutely hound them throughout the game and show them that the feeling is absolutely mutual. They may cheat us but there will be consequences.
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A spot on post. We hounded McCurry out of the game years ago as he was a cheat.
Unfortunately we have too passive a support nowadays for them to do likewise to the current cabal.
i dont think the referee will hears us all shericking him from the house
First female ref of a CL game, and hopeless as well
The first time huns complained about Collum Nov 2018 he never reffed another hun game until a dead rubber last game of that season .
Second time they complained about him 3 months passed until he reffed their home cup game against Ayr , where he bottled it , not sending off Silva .
St Stivs
The 5WA has PL’s paws all over it. He lied . Im happy with what I now.
You take care.
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY on 2ND APRIL 2024 1:55 PM
I remember Mike McCurry coming to Parkhead after he had cheated his way through a Rangers v Dundee Utd game at Ibrox to help the Huns in their quest for the title. The entire stadium kept up a non-stop chant throughout the game of, “Michael McCurry, we know you’re a H**”
McCurry was visibly reduced to tears. I don’t think he ever refereed a game at Celtic Park again and retired fro refereeing not too long afterwards.
TOSB, I remember that cheating in the Dundee Utd game (and the famous post-match venom from United’s manager Craig Leveine), but in the spirit of historical accuracy the Reverend McCurry retired not because he was upset by Celtic fans booing him, but because he was sacked after being caught in flagrante in the car park at Hampdump (of all places) with a young lady from his church.
Ave Ave
now=know. !!
ADI_DASSLER NOT FOR 2ND BEST on 2ND APRIL 2024 3:07 PM
St Stivs
The 5WA has PL’s paws all over it. He lied . Im happy with what I now.
You take care.
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do you think he wrote it up ? had authority to cahnge the draft ?
like i said, i read it again at the weekend, i cant link what happened then to allow sevco to particpate at football, has got to do with anything happening with celtic plc today.
PL may well have lied that he had never seen it, but the power to amend it , i doubt that very much, and if he did have he made a shite job of it.
SAINT STIVS on 2ND APRIL 2024 2:17 PM
Oh and buy the way Collum makes up part of the officialdom on sunday, huns are howling over that.
To be fair, SAINT STIVS, of the SIX SFA employees at the game with responsibility for the fair abitration of the rules, the one with the least potential impact on the result is the fourth official. ALL of the others can make or influence crucial decisions, either in the ground or in the Dark Room. Oor Wullie will be limited to the important jobs of keeping the club reps in their technical areas and holding up the wee electronic board (which will be used to show the extended playing time if ra Ranjurs happen to need it).
Ave Ave
I used to wonder if the SFA was a home from home for the most backward elements of Scottish society. Now, I am quite convinced. Make no mistake, Beaton’s appearance at Ibrox on Sunday is nothing other than payback for Brendan’s cheek at Tynecastle.
Of course, as someone noted earlier, he will be under intense scrutiny from a UK wide TV audience. We can only hope that this sanction curbs his worse instincts.
Forget the referee? In this country? The best wee bigoted, anti-catholic country in the world. Come on man!
BADA BING @ 2:59.
She (French lady) was the first female to ref. a champions league game. Juventus v Kyiv (2020)
Q1)Celtic’s first ever match officiated by a woman.
Fritzsong
This is what I said earlier on SC, not everyone agreed with me.
I suspect the officials will behave themselves on Sunday with no outrageous Tynecastle incidents. Sky must have mentioned that game about 20 times on Sunday, it’s very high profile now. Would they dare come up with their nonsense with a large external audience 🤔
If scottish referees officiated rangers/sevco games in europe they would have won more trophies than Real Madrid.
If I refereed celtic sevco games every week from now until the end of the year I could make it virtually impossible for them to win one game.
Don’t underestimate the influence officials have on the outcome of games in this corrupt country.
If we get a result on Sunday it will be despite the best efforts of the officials.
That French Lady’s name Stephanie Frappart.
Answer to question 2 is First ever sponsored Celtic game,
WESTCRAIGS on 2ND APRIL 2024 3:22 PM
The best wee bigoted, anti-catholic country in the world. Come on man!
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what organisation, establishment, employer or government department are anti-catholic ?
The SFA, Referees Association, South Lanarkshire Referees…..
!!BADA BING!! on 2ND APRIL 2024 3:38 PM
The SFA, Referees Association, South Lanarkshire Referees…..
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are they in charge of the country ?
Which ones aren’t?
The major institutions.
The SFA. Governing the national sport.
The judiciary.
Police Scotland.
The media.
Political institutions.
Financial institutions.
Come on man.
I see Pierre’s boy has scored 0 goals and just one assist in his 11 appearances for Norwich. I am glad we did not touch him.
Police Scotland, BBC Scotland, most newspaper/media outlets…..
now, i am asking you both, and it is a serious point, you believe those organsiations are “anti-catholic”, they have practices and clutures that in modern day scotland are allowed to do harm to catholics in the population.
you believe that,
Scotlands government and media, and institutions are “anti-catholic” ?
WESTCRAIGS on 2ND APRIL 2024 3:22 PM
Forget the referee? In this country? The best wee bigoted, anti-catholic country in the world. Come on man!
Tell us something we dont know? We have know of their bigotry since we left the hall at St.Marys.in 1887.the sfa are its last public pillar its always been here.As a failure system its failing.
We have a game to win lets focus
HH
So the trooser lifters are anti-Catholic, hmm well brought up in a society that has 3 ludges at one time the only prerequisite that they had was you had to believe in a Supreme Being, now that could be lucifer, but there are plenty of ben afflecks in them and as far as I am led tae believe we have made big inroads in the Judiciary
Tom McLaughlin,
Thanks again for the invite to Kitty’s. Unfortunately, I won’t be travelling up to Edinburgh this weekend due to work and family commitments.
I hope to catch up some other time for a game and/or a few beers.
Hope we pump this mob on Sunday. Brendan has their number. Let’s hope we take the officials out of it by hammering them.
If anyone on here is in Liverpool for the game, I’ll be in Fitzgerald’s. Get yourself along. One of the best Celtic bars I’ve been in. And that includes the IB or Malone’s in Edinburgh.
😃👍🇮🇪🍀⚽️🍻
test
Totally, the BBC Scotland sports department, hasn’t been put together by accident….
AT@2.29 😂
!!BADA BING!! on 2ND APRIL 2024 4:11 PM
Totally, the BBC Scotland sports department, hasn’t been put together by accident….
should we ask for a FOI on the religious makeup of the department, and specifically we believe you have a sectarian hiring policy that excludes catholics ?
for these purposes is catholic assumed to be a celtic supporter and vica versa ?
Bhoyjoebelfast on 2nd April 2024 2:32 pm
SCULLYBHOY
Left two clues last night for you re 2 questions.
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I would never have gotten either.
JOE A wee picture question for you.
Name the two bhoys in the photo.
https://wikifoundryimages.s3.amazonaws.com/lY3-3WxkUA6EtPiszc0jxA116539
Both were subbed on in Seville