Fraser Forster has missed the last two games with a neck injury, which Neil Lennon suggested could have been sustained as a result of sleeping on an unfamiliar pillow in Spain last week. Fraser has been treated by a chiropractor but it might be a few games before he is back between the posts.
This is a known phenomenon. As well as bikes, spare tyres and pumps the GB Olympic cycling team make sure that each cyclist brings their own orthopaedic pillow on each journey. Olympic cyclists, like professional footballers, are finely tuned athletes who stress their bodies each day. Muscles are continually bashed and stretched making their bodies especially vulnerable a whole range of ailments.
The GB Olympic cycle team also used heated trousers. To be best of my knowledge velodromes are not particularly cold but as much as any type of athlete, cyclists require their leg muscles to go from rest to full throttle in an instant. Warm muscles are less prone to hamstring, calf, rolled ankle and ligament damage.
Did all this fine tuning get them anywhere? GB cyclists won 7 out of 10 gold medals available to them, so they are doing something right. Jock Stein was the first British manager to take food with the team when they played away in Europe, soon everyone was doing it. The need to find ways of ensuring Celtic are as well prepared as possible for every training session and game remains just as important.
Orthopaedic pillows and 20 minutes in heated trousers before warm-up would cost less than £1000. They would support neck muscles and potentially reduce our horrendous muscle-injury record. Best practice suggests we look into this.
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Gordon j
Lament is an eejit ….crap journo , crap TV presenter , crap radio presenter and a Hun
Best ignored
!!Bada Bing!!
No way mate,walked it back ,oor ole legs only got us as far as Chapman’s and
we were up the road for back of seven.
DarbyNJoanC.S.C
voguepunter
Should you not change your name to chapmanspunter
Since john took over the reins – you canny get moving for ex-vogue punters
“Ally” Lamont
BBC…………….
………….Brown Brogue Correspondent.
Found this online re heated trousers:-
Compressible, water-repellent, durable, Thinsulate® insulation
Teflon® coated, wind-resistant, soft nylon shell
Raises a couple of questions.
Will the Tedlon coating conflict with Ally and Chuckles’ Teflon coated necks?
Does they resist wind from outside AND inside?
charles kickham
Chas I love the wee Mhan,he was always good to us ,but supporters club
still run from Vogue so we have to show ……fek it am no saying loyalty.
DOES DO DUH
Having read so much about Sean Fallon one here I thought I’d throw in my view.
I like some of the oul yins on here actually saw Sean play. As a wee bhoy my da used tae take me up in the oul Vale of Leven Celtic bus and we would be in the Jungle, me sitting on a wall at the running track. It must have been the early 50’s as we left Alexandria for Balloch just after my first Holy Communion.
The Celtic team then would include Sean, Bobby Evans, John McPhail, the wee Barra and the Juggler as well as Smiler and Charles Patrick, do I remember much…naw, mibbees the Big Mhan also played.
Let’s roll forward about 4 or 5 years and I’m at the semis of the League Cup at aye broke, it was September 28, 1957 and I’m with my uncle, came home that night delighted as we had won 4-2, my da started to sing “on a day like today we passed the time away watching Celtic from the stand, oh how we laughed and we cried as Clyde equalised watching Celtic from the stand”.
How did that game come to mind, well Sean obviously played as the only change for the Final was Smiler in for wee Ten Thirty as Bob Kelly was terrified in letting the latter face up tae shearer as they had a running feud in a League game we won 3-2.
Interesting that Sean mentioned that recently, it’s also interesting that he mentioned john valentine as he had been a rising star with Queens Park and the huns beat us tae his signature as we had coveted him as a replacement for Jock.
Rolling on another couple of years and I’m quite despondent, but there are 2 things I’ll always remember my da say as we watched the great Real Madrid, his first that we would be the first British team to win the EC as we always won trophies we first entered and the next manager of Celtic would be Jock Stein or Sean Fallon, when Jock went tae Hibs I thought that was it, the rest is we say is history.
As some have mentioned on here Sean playing at centre scored the winning goal in the Cup Final against Aberdeen, both my da and my father-in-law, both great Celtic men GRTS, said only Sean could have done that, seemingly the Juggler went on a run leaving the opposition defenders in his wake, as he tossed the ball intae the area Sean came barging through and ran the ball intae the net.
Sean Fallon RIP
voguepunter
Runs a good shop alright – but I still miss George – an absolute gem of a man
charles kickham
Aye ,yir spot on .I take it you’re a Chapmans regular?
Used to be more often but mostly just after games now – oldbassacsc
TONTINE TIM
My Dad mentioned that one yesterday while we were out.
From right-back one week to goal-xcoring centre-forward the next!
charles kickham
I’m the same now,used to spend more time in the pub than the house,
now it’s before and after game.
cannyhackitC.S.C
Lenny got a very tough task in choosing line up for Juve.
Here is my starting XI……
FORSTER
LUSTIG WILSON MULGREW MATTHEWS
COMMONS BROWN WANYAMA LEDLEY SAMARAS
HOOPER
What would your side be ?
The Exiled Tim
Another viewpoint that claims picture not relevant
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/nigerian-church-massacre.shtml
Tontine Tim
Nice memories of Sean. My dad and uncles always used to go on about Fernie’s run for Sean’s winner v Aberdeen in 54. All the footage I’ve ever seen just shows Sean running away in celebration.
Can you or anybody else confirm whether the wee Barra -Bobby Collins- is still with us? I remember seeing him play for Morton against us in August 1970 and though he was carrying a few pounds I could see he was a player.
Jimbo
Jimbo
Sipsini
Can you mail me the link please
what pic?
lefthandpillaroldjungle
great nam.s
It was a picture attributed to an Islamist massacre of Christians in Nigeria.
great name
Thanks to jc2 for the goal link. HH
18:48 on 20 January, 2013
goals from yesterday
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/scotland/21112403#asset
I see that so called “Christian massacre” photo that has been doing the rounds on Facebook has turned up here.
It was debunked a while back – it’s a news picture from an explosion somewhere else in Africa a couple of years back. The story is total made up … er nonsense.
Gordon J
Always enjoy your posts – you’re a voice of reason – but didn’t Hearts (or was it Hibs) sign Franck Sauzee (who was a mainstay in a very good PSG team) and Dundee Caniggia?
My old dad who is 88 and was taken to his first Celtic match in the late 30s maintains that Sean Fallon was the hardest player he ever saw.
One of the best Sean stories appears in George Connelly’s (we are not worthy) biography, and told by Davie Cattenach.
Late 60s – Celtic v the huns. Alex Macdonald (dirty bassa) was putting it about a bit, and Cattenach decided to put him in his place. He tackled him at neck level, and Macdonald was carted off on a stretcher!
Half-time in the dressing room Big Jock gives Cattenach dog’s abuse for the tackle and walks away. Sean idles up and says – “Allright Catt? That was one of the finest tackles I have ever seen!”
Sean Fallon RIP
HH!!
Thanks CQN bhoys.
Some of the jokes and banter on here has been fabulous.
Cheered me up, I can tell you.
tontine tim
19:54 on
20 January, 2013
Do you realise how lucky you are to have such great memories?
I was born in ’58 so don’t have your great memories from the “50s. I do however have big Jock’s great years in my memory bank and I’m sure the weans going to the games just now are about to experience something special.
PeteTheBeat,
A voice of what??
I’d forgotten about Sauzee, good shout. Can’t be too many French internationals that have played for Hibs.
matthews is turning into a danny mcgrain before our eyes.
hoopers goal was not offside
fan-a-tic
I only sent on what I was sent and was asked for, be it real or not, I have no idea.
He makes no mention of the Priest that put his name to it.
I remember a while ago, somewhere in Northern India, at a Catholic Missionary, everyone was murdered, all the nuns were raped, it was denied, the pics were there for all to see.
Saint stivs
I guessed that given that BBC didnt show a camera angle which was relevant
channelislandcelt
20:05 on 20 January, 2013
I like what you are going with but I think Charlie struggles in Europe. I’d go with:
FORSTER
Matthews LUSTIG WILSON Izagurre
COMMONS BROWN WANYAMA LEDLEY SAMARAS
HOOPER
Roma v Inter and ESPN spoil my Sunday evening by doing a 2-for-1 deal…………
two Mantovanis; Hateley in the studio (clueless about the modern Serie A) and Burley in the broom cupboard with as much insight as a Pizza Hut menu!
Roma were leading 1-0 (pen) thanks to 6 officials that couldn’t spot a 9.9 dive ……….. but Inter equalise in time added on.
HT 1-1.
The Eeexiled Tim
After reading yours it peaked my interest.
I then googled various names and places in the article.
Postings on here tend to start debate and that’s why this site is great.
Hail Hail
I’m away but will be back soon. Thanks to TET for the email.
Good night and God bless.
HH
Big Fraser’s neck injury is strange, but what about ex-oldco’s ex-goalie Lionel Letizi ?
When he was at PSG he put his back out playing …. scrabble.
Apparently he dropped a piece and done his back in picking it up – out for two games.
In saying that, having seen the bold Lionel play a few time at Parc de Princes, I’m not surprised he dropped the damned thing…
Tontine Tim.
I enjoyed reading your post.sat on the jungle wall myself a few years later.hh
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Real madrid winning 5-0 at half time away to valencia