We should commission a study into what happens to football teams immediately after a big game when they need to play a less illustrious opponent. This week Kilmarnock got a better result against Celtic than Barcelona, and unlike the Catalans, Kilmarnock were away from home.
Cast your memory back five years for a better example. Celtic beat Champions League holders, Milan, remarkably the only time the club have recorded a win against reigning champions, and met Gretna the following weekend, at Fir Park, Motherwell. Gretna were promoted that summer but had cutbacks forced on them, as the financial gamble to promote them to the top flight. Still, a James Grady free kick caught Artur Boruc on his heels. It took goals from Chris Killen (remember him?) and Scott McDonald in the final three minutes to save face for Celtic. Gretna failed towards the end of that season and were subsequently liquidated.
Celtic got the better of both Spartak Moscow and Benfica that season.
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I don’t think one can compare Andy Conn and Naismith. The former was a football player (and an entertaining one); the latter is a wee hun.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
14:18 on 28 October, 2012
Yeah but it’s not a matter of them choosing not to turn up for the bread and butter games.
They seem to be incapable of doing so.
It’s not that they’re lazy or complacent or whatever. It’s more complex than that.
Don’t think its a case of “can’t be bothered”, I play a lot of Golf and if you are any bit mentally tired your game goes to pieces, I reckon its much the same in every sport. Its a great problem to have and I hope we have it well into the New Year.
Alfie was no bad too :o)
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14:17 on
28 October, 2012
Re the Savile shirt, the date of that TOTP IIRC was Nov 26th.
Celtic had played Rangers on 24th, though that may be just coincidence.
I was wondering if maybe that episode was shot in Glasgow, but I can’t find any details, oh well a mystery.
Algarvian
I seem to recall Saville wore that shirt in either a Marathon or a Charity walk in Glasgow- crossing the divide and all that!
Parkheadcumsalford
I can assure you when Alfie played for them he would have been labelled a hun
For me Neil Lennon picked the wrong team.
Last week Tony Watt played well enough to merit his place against
He should have partnered Miku.
Commons should have started on the bench.
Miku plays the lone striker role sometimes for Venezuala but thats in a counter attacking team not one who have to play against packed defences most weeks.
There is something about Commons ah dont like,he has great ability but looks at times as if he chucks it too easily if hes not in the mood he is anoymous.
The other big factor that i dont like about this team is the inability to play at tempo from the get go.
Too many players who lack drive who will sideways pass not take responsibility a form of cowardice.
Commons and Ledley are too anonymous too many times for ma liking.
There was an immediate increase in tempo when we went 1-0 down.
Slow tempo safe passes means the finger cant be pointed at you.
Fast tempo trying to take a man on trying to thread a pass means the finger can be pointed at you if it goes wrong.
We need players who can handle the criticism that goes wae playing at Celtic park some players only do enough tae get by Ledley Commons Matthews are all guilty of hiding at Celtic park.
Agarvian
I have no idea. I only know that episode because a link to it was posted elsewhere (specifically Elton John’s performance) as an example of JS apparently groping a young girl live on camera
ernie…,
I don’t agree, it’s down to professionalism 100%, we have too many inconsistent armatures, tell me, does their money change from week to week, their attitude does.
jinkyredstar cuts it back for Neil Lennon
14:26 on 28 October, 2012
Algarvian
I seem to recall Saville wore that shirt in either a Marathon or a Charity walk in Glasgow- crossing the divide and all that!
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I thought it was a charity football game but it was certainly about crossing the divide – they were the days of mass brawls and bottle throwing
they = those
Turned on the Hun game 10 mins ago ….dreadful game of football
They sing “Super Ally”….. I he’s bloody brilliant :-)
2-0 ,….game of , just as the TV luxuriate in the first Hun away victory ….do they really not see how embarrassing this is
Btw …the football on show is desperate
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What was the Year the Savile ‘Row’ Top appeared ..?
As it Turned up in My Bus on the Way to a LCF..
Summa
Algarvian
14:24 on 28 October, 2012
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14:17 on
28 October, 2012
‘I was wondering if maybe that episode was shot in Glasgow’
It wasn’t shot in Scotland. The audience members were from the London area.
BTW a couple of weeks ago people ON HERE were expressing incredulity that rumours about Saville had been rife for decades.
Well here’s someone who’d heard the rumours in 1988.
http://www.hmsfriday.com/2012/10/12/jerry-sadowitz-on-jimmy-savile-back-in-1988/
WARNING
SWEARY WORDS
LOTS OF THEM
Apologies for the inappropriate use of the upper case there.
ernie lynch, Holy Moly, I hadn’t heard of that before – and I’ve been browsing forums on the subject….
Good afternoon posters and lurkers.
2nd half of the Merseyside Derby just started. Hope Everton do it and I don’t mind who scores ;-)
How, after AT’s national report on the hun scum, is it right that Sky and its craven commentators are giving any credence whatsoever to a gang of misfits whose sole raison d’être is to denigrate anyone not of their vinegar faced beliefs, and who think cold hard violence will keep them intact for generations to come?
They are finished. We’re just waiting for the trapdoor to open beneath them. Flushed away.
Ernie
Sadowitz … Very prescient ….and IMO funny
ernie…,
I’m still of the opinion the whole timing of the publishing is to give the Yorkshire police a wee rest, they’ve been punished enough don’t you know, meanwhile in Yorkshire police and social workers who referred to child sex slaves as prostitutes are still in place and being paid from the public purse.
ernie lynch,
Yes I saw those two.
As is often the case with complex legal issues the answer is either Maybe or It Depends. Where Salmond always falls down is in his baseless assertions that he is right just because he is.
ernie lynch
14:33 on
28 October, 2012
Yes, I’ve watched the Sadowitz ones before.
On another forum, a few years back, he was being lauded for his great charity work, I asked if they knew about his denial about ever having been to Jersey, never mind Haut de la Guerenne, then his picture appearing in the papers there.
Strange why his denial didn’t prompt a serious enquiry then.
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14:27 on 28 October, 2012
Agarvian
I have no idea. I only know that episode because a link to it was posted elsewhere (specifically Elton John’s performance) as an example of JS apparently groping a young girl live on camera
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Funny you should mention that name in this context.
I joyfully remember a fitness game getting organised for Alfie Conn against my hometown’s Accies – stadium was mobbed – game was abandoned due to an apocalyptic downpour.
Remember my Dad careering in with the info and dinner was abandoned, much like the game later.
This memory sums up how I feel about Celtic – I only ever had one team, there was never any big team, wee team confusion.
U
ernie lynch —-
Jimmy Saville was the subject of rumors from the early 1970’s onwards …
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jinkyredstar cuts it back for neil lennon
14:26 on 28 October, 2012
Algarvian
I seem to recall Saville wore that shirt in either a Marathon or a Charity walk in Glasgow- crossing the divide and all that!
Also remember him cheating on a Scottish run half marathon!!! Claimed he had got lost with about 10 minders!!
Algarvian.
Down here this week, I am in Kent, there were two or three photos of Savile in a TOTP programme.
He is wearing that shirt, and the story was that during that episode he put his hands up one of the young girls standing beside him,skirt. You can see her shock etc, She complained. To the floor staff, was told to go away and don’t be stupid.
Shocking.
pmarsh22
14:43 on 28 October, 2012
She was 19.
Doesn’t make it right obviously, but puts it in a different category.
This is an interesting piece on the whole background
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2012/10/27/andrew-ohagan/light-entertainment
ernie…,
Looks like its still part of your agenda too to keep the spotlight away from Yorkshire.
ERNIE LYNCH 1439
Not sure I see your point-are you suggesting that Elton,being homosexual,is thus a paedophile?
I thought Liverpool were well liked by Celtic….. Why, therefore, do Everton seem to be the favoured team here.?
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
14:49 on 28 October, 2012
‘ernie…,
Looks like its still part of your agenda too to keep the spotlight away from Yorkshire.’
Aye, right enough.
I don’t see any connection between Saville and what you’re referring to.
Similarities, but no connection.
And differences too. Not least that perpetrators have been arrested , charged, tried, found guilty and imprisoned.
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. Canamalar..
You got The Parker on Today .. ‘Criminal Spotting’.. ;0)))))))
Summa of SmoothCriminalsCSC
Is it all those Tricolours…?
67Heaven –
because they’re on my coupon!!
Rumors about Jimmy Saville have existed for decades .
I remember there being rumors about Jimmy Saville and Ted Heath .
I remember there being rumors about Jimmy Saville , Ted Heath and a Childrens home in the Channel Islands .
I remember there being rumors about Jimmy Saville / Ted Heath and a Childrens Home in Northern Ireland.
I remember there being rumors about Jimmy Saville and Peter Sutcliffe .
Word of mouth stuff – long before the days of internet bampottery.
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67..
7,000 of Us went to the Everton Vs Rapid Veinna European Cup Winners Cup Final in De Kuip Stadd Rottterdam in May 86′
Try and Keep Up..;0))))
Summa