Bayern Munich left Glasgow with three points, but that was two more than they deserved. The game was decided on a 22nd minute lapse. Dedryk Boyata should have headed but allowed the ball to bounce behind him. This is the kind of mistake which primary school kids are shouted out for. From that moment, Coman was clear through on Craig Gordon, who made the mistake of coming out of his box in the vain hope of reaching the ball before the French international striker. That aside, Celtic were excellent and deserved a point for their efforts.
As with the corresponding game in Munich, this was a game for James Forrest, not Patrick Roberts, so I was pleased Brendan Rodgers’ hand was forced with the injury to Patrick. James was outstanding. He regularly drew three defenders, kept his head up in possession, and created the chance which allowed Callum McGregor to convert.
Watch James again at the goal. He played the magicians’ trick: “Look over here, watch me.” Every Bayern Munich player was focused on him before he pulled a rabbit out of the hat, it was a thing of beauty. Wing play is difficult, although it seems it is more difficult for some to understand it, than it is to play there. I enjoyed watching Arjen Robben, but James was the more productive winger last night.
Screeds have been written about a momentary lapse by Nir Bitton at Firhill, which cost Celtic nothing. Last night, under the most intense pressure, the player grew in stature in the central defensive position. I heard “What are you doing?” as he chased down a loose ball in the Bayern right back position a moment before the Celtic goal, but without that, or his build-up play which led to the goal, we would not have drawn level.
It is also worth recording that Celtic still had the option to make a substitution when Nir received a head injury which resulted in several minutes treatment and the application of a substantial bandage. If his appetite for a scrap was in question (you know what I mean), he would have left the field at that moment.
I was getting frustrated for Callum McGregor, who constantly showed for the ball, but in the central role he started the game, seldom received it. It was a brave move for Brendan to hook Scott Sinclair and push Callum wide, although Scott was clearly below his best, but this change was pivotal in getting Celtic level. The aforementioned build up play from Bitton, the run and delicious dink from Forrest, cut Bayern open. In true Halloween fashion, Callum wasted no time in burying ghosts of past German encounters.
Scott Brown was imperious, while Stuart Armstrong will still be replaying his early chance to open the scoring over in his mind, he can be satisfied with his performance. Lustig and Tierney put in mature and energetic efforts.
Moussa Dembele had little scope to shine; an early left foot effort which he didn’t connect with cleanly was the sum total of his genuine opportunities. Celtic wisely put numbers in defence and midfield, leaving the striker isolated.
A word about Dedryk. He dropped on his knee on the final whistle, no doubt feeling the pain of his earlier mistake. You and I have been watching football long enough to know this is part of the game. Big Billy shared a couple of similar memories with me, which he carried like old wounds. Dedryk has recovered from darker places during his time at Celtic and can use the hurt from last night against PSG, and when his countrymen visit on match day 6. It was an infuriating moment, but he is a player unrecognisable from the Dedryk we lamented in Molde.
There is so much to be positive about. On similar form, we will destroy Anderlecht and no one will fancy coming to Celtic Park in the Europa League. So what do you have to worry about? We’ll talk about that tomorrow.
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St Stivs
Have they not suffered enough
WITS
Hell is forever. They suffer forever.
Hun Scum
THE SPIRIT OF ARTHUR LEE on 2ND NOVEMBER 2017 9:22 PM
Oldtim
Hope it is not the grim reaper
xxx
PMSL ya bam ye!
;-)))))
HH jamesgang
St Stivs. Delaneys
2 things jump out at me from the list of creditors
One is that Hearts were stiffed for 800 grand making them the 2nd largest after HMRC (No wonder Ms Budge has a soft spot for them) and
Two. Culture and Sport Glasgow due over 10 grand. I would have Culture and Sport in general were due an awful lot more because of the actions of the dignified denizens of darkness
https://twitter.com/celticbible/status/926154771911802882
This says so much about both gentlemen. All of it good, magnificent even.
I’m too much of a whippersnapper to really remember the Jock Stein era. I was so influenced by Tommy Burns….in every sense. Brendan Rogers is the next in this line, taking the best bits from both.
We should wake up every day right now and pinch ourselves.
HH jamesgang
WITS
Was the £800k not the transfer for Wallace.
I could never understand how the ‘rules’ allowed them to keep him and why hearts so timidly acquiesced.
Like one Hun selling a dodgy cortina to a Hun neighbour. Hun 1’s cheque bounces but he keeps the dodgy motor in his driveway!
HH jamesgang
Jamesgang
You being a bit of a history orientated type of chap would know of course this week marked the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his theses on the doors of Wittenberg Cathedral ( I think I read somewhere that this had some influence on future generations in our neck of the woods)
Anyhow I meant to watch a programme on Irish Tv tonight which asked the question of why did protestantism become such a bit hit with Scottish Gaels while their Irish cousins clung to the old faith.
Of course I forgot to watch it but will try to catch it on the RTE player.
Ps RTE is Irish for BBC but without Terry Wogan.
WITS
Two days public holiday in Germany for Martin Luther and All Saints Day. Beautiful dichotomy.
Delaneys
The Germans are a beautiful dichotomy.
Any time i visit I think “what beautiful intelligent liberal people ” and then i remember they had their moments of madness which ended in genoicide and mass destruction.
Weird
Bit worried the huns have located glibbies fabled warchest in that newly discovered void in the Egyptian pyramid .
We Tims should be afraid as during the time it was in there it increased in value and mythical powers.
Ancelotti will arrive next week with Ronaldo,Cavani,Hazard and Messi.
WITS
Apart fae the Tims fae the occupied 6 counties, the Bavarians are the friendliest most hospitable folk in Europe I have met. The Weiss bier sausage combo is a great meal for breakfast. Magic :)
Fan a tic
Mushy season is mental. Enjoy the rest of your trip. ;)
Pyramid CSC
Wits
Please do send me the link to that programme cos as a history buff with half his family from the highlands, the ‘conversion’ from jacobites to presbyterians has always been inexplicable to me too.
HH jamesgang
Is the blog broke? Enjoyed reading about Charlie T. Always remember little bit in the green Citizen.
“Celtics winning 2-1 at Aberdeen ”
How do you know?
“Tullyvision”
Saw him a few times but I liked Eric Smith, why? I read that he drank raw eggs for stamina. Guess that’s why I had no stamina
Good morning CQN from another cold, cloudy but still dry East Devon.
Good morning friends and a Big Happy Matchday63-Eve Friday to one and all.
DD
Nothing no I do in my job will come close to repairing the hurt and suffering Fallon and his Tory family have brought to the poor and sick in this country
Disgrace to the name…
KTF ☘️
Over sixty games without defeat to a Scottish team and yet, including ( and maybe even particularly so ) tomorrow, I continue to think, ” I have a bad feeling that this could be the one.”
Long may my concerns , rather than my team, be shown pointless .
JJ
Good Morning, blog broke again? JJHS has a habit of this…!
BT, belated happy birthday.
Morning bump
http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/kilmarnock-enjoy-glasgow-week/
Clarke’s Killie made it 3 undefeated from a week in Glasgow. But Celtic still chase the records.
Word of The Day (as in 10 in a row …..)
seriatim /ˌsɪərɪˈætɪm; ˌsɛr-/
adverb
1. in a series; one after another
2. in regular order
Word Origin and History for seriatim
1670s (earlier seratim, c.1500), “one after another,” from Medieval Latin seriatim, from Latin series (see series ).
KTF
Good Morning.
A number of years ago, I sat in the living room and was completely enthralled by a sporting contest on the TV.
I wasn’t actually feeling that well, had a stinking cold, had stayed away from work and so was sitting/lying on my couch wrapped up in blankets and feeling pretty miserable.
However, the events depicted on the television screen soon made me forget about that altogether.
The screen showed that a small Scottish man by the name of Robert Miller had taken a bike up a mountain and had opened up a huge gap between himself and the peleton in the Tour de France. He was sporting the Polka Dot jersey and he was the King of the Mountains and on this day he left the field behind for dead.
Except for a few riders who tried to followhim and these were around 3 minutes behind him. Still a big distance- but the question was whether it would be big enough.
Further, in the midst of this small group was one Miguel Indurain — or Big Mig as he was known — and he was undoubtedly the best tour cyclist in the world.
This small pack began to chase Miller down and I recall the commentary team of Phil Liggit and Sean Kelly wondering whether the gap was big enough.
What followed was an epic contest between Indurain and Miller. The small pack caught the Scot on the descent only to see him jump away from them again on a smallish rise. This time only Indurain had the strength to pursue and at the death it was he who would prevail at the finish line with Miller coming second.
But it was an epic contest which had me off the couch shouting at the TV “Stay away, Miller. Stay away”.
Other than a Celtic game I cannot recall a sporting contest which had me out of the seat and shouting like that.
It was brilliant — and I watched it all in my living room.
This morning, Rhona McLeod of the BBC Sports department will have her tea and toast in that same room because she and her husband later boughtthe house from me and my wife and it is only up the road from where I am typing this.
In the interim period not much has been heard of Robert Miller and so if you haven’t seen Rhona’s report on how he became Philippa York when he retired from cycling then please watch it as it is a fantastic, humane, sad and yet happy tale.
There had been rumours surrounding Miller and it is to the great credit of many journalists who are noted for covering cycling that Robert and then Philippa were left to come to terms with life in private rather than have the story splashed across the pages of some tabloid or even broadsheet.
This was someone who was Scottish Sports Personality of the year but who is now just happy to be the person within their own skin.
It is a great story and I will never forget that day I cheered on the then King of the Mountains.
And well done Rhona… and well done Philippa.
On a separate note — you might want to check out Reporyting Scotland this evening and BBC Scotland over the weekend. There is another wee story to tell …… but it features the opinions of a right ugly bugger!
HH
BRTH
Happy birthday BRTH ☘️☘️
Hello again all you young rebels.
Got a phone call from an auld friend today, he’d been trying
to find my number in Oz for ages and finally managed it, this
is how it went ” Mick, it’s Bernie ”
” Bernie who? i know a lot of Bernie’s ”
” Bernie the Bat, i worked with you on a few jobs offshore ”
Anyway after going through all the ” great to hear from you ”
and him thanking our squad for looking after him through
what was a difficult time for him i got to thinking nicknames,
we’ve not had that on CQN so here’s a few from my time in
the oil offshore industry.
We’ll start with.
BERNIE THE BAT.
Here was a guy who had terrible back problems, don’t know
how he got through the offshore medical inspection but we
all have to earn a crust, right, when erecting steel on a mast
or on a derrick it was usually a squad of four, two up top and
two below, unfortunately Bernie’s back would go halfway into
the job and the only way he could alleviate the pain was by
hanging upside down on a H beam by his toes upside down
for about 15 minutes and then he was ready to go again, no
big problem but the top two had to come down and the three
of us would lift him up onto the lowest steel beam and have a
cup of tea while he hung there like a bat hence the nickname.
Very disconcerting for anyone coming to the worksite and
seeing that.
THE WOODEN INDIAN
This was a strange one, this guy was employed as a labourer to
sweep out the modules and walkways, but anytime we passed
him he just stood there motionless holding on to the shaft of
the brush and staring out to sea and never saying a hello or
anything, funnily enough the place was spotless, i thought he
worked nightshift as well and thats when he jumped into action.
One morning we passed him and he had two big feathers he had
pulled off a deid seagull and taped onto his helmet in a V sign,
somebody had obviously told him his nickname and this was his
GIRFUY to us all, brilliant.
KES.
Aka Nigel, he was a young loon from Elgin ( sorry Pogmathon ) but
the North Sea was a tough place for young inexperienced boys to
earn a living.
The management decided the best and safest place for this boy
was to keep him away from the construction on the rig and let him
look after the steel stockyard on the crane lifting barge, good
decision, he became obsessed with a big black craw which had a
damaged wing and lived under the steel on the deck and hopped
out now and again to raid the rubbish skips, Nigel spent days trying
to catch it and repair it’s wing ,after that who knows, but there was
a film drama out about that time about a young lad who caught and
trained a peregrin falcon called KES so Nigel became Kes.
But as i said it was tough going out there especially working beside
battle hardened alcoholics drying out after two weeks leave on a binge.
Nigel was told ” the only way you’ll catch it is if you put a piece of meat
on a string and wave it about ”
Of course the whole crew where in stitches as they watched from the
rig above as Nigel ran up and down the deck trying to entice the craw
from under the stockpiled steel with a T bone steak attached to a rope.
Cruel but funny.
Then we have my favourite.
HAUF A HEID.
Now this was a very mature man maybe late 40’s he had a great head of
jet black hair but decided he would shave half of his head bald like a pop
group of the time who’s lead singer had already done, was it the human
league? can’t remember, but the reason this is my best was on a survival
course in Aberdeen and it was lifeboat day , back then they would take you
out to sea and give you a wee shot of driving the boat etc. not a great idea
when everybody had been out on the pash the night before.
Now we,ve all encountered erseholes in our lives but this particular one
had a masters degree in it, he was the instructor, i don’t know whether he
just hated construction workers who made more money than him or his wife
had been out the night before with the lads but his main objective was to
make us feel sick which would not have been difficult, he kept emphasising
if you feel sick there’s the bucket be sick into that, it,s very wavy today so just
spew into the bucket, you’s guys think you’s are tough but you,ve never been
to sea, what ! i’d had more sailing hours than Moby Dick and he went on and
on.
Now were going to hit the breakwater thats when you’ll all really feel it, there’s
the bucket spew right into that, i looked about, they all looked so, so, but
HAUF A HEID who was sitting next to the instructor, he was ready to explode, but
the dimwit couldn’t see him because of his hair and as soon as we hit the
breakwater a volcanic eruption of the previous nights kebabs and Guinness
landed on his lap and that set off the others who spewed all over the boat.
Don,t think he’d try that trick again :-))
So many more nicknames and as i said it was a tough way to earn a living and i
hope nobody is offended as thats just the way it was.
By the way my nickname was MICK THE MUFF cyber pint to first one to guess
how that came about LOL.
H.H Mick
Jamesgang
Here is a link to the martin luther story. Hope it works.
Just watched it myself and thought it was very interesting and informative.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09cfrck/luther-500-an-tstri-spioradailthe-battle-for-souls
HH
MELBOURNEMICK
Haha,those take me back to my own naive youth. Various engineering and scaffolding sites,and some of the nicknames fascinated me.
I soon learned not to ask-because the explanations behind the names were even more unbelievable than the names themselves!
One extremely dead arm confirmed to me that Mad Jack was well-named. I wouldn’t approach him even if he was in the straitjacket his behaviour deserved. He was awright in the pub though,heart of gold and brains of sawdust.
Happy birthday BRTH, Lisbon hero to many on here:)
Slainte
Tony
GC 58 on 3RD NOVEMBER 2017 9:37 AM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09cfrck/luther-500-an-tstri-spioradailthe-battle-for-souls
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How come they’re talking funny?
BMCUW
You just reminded me of another one when you mentioned
scaffolding.
TOEBOARD.
Now this was the only scaffolder i met in 40 odd years in construction
who was scared of heights, they couldn’t let him anywhere near a job
until it was complete and just the toe board to put on, thats the last
board upright to the outside to stop any tools etc. dropping off but
as i said everybody needs to earn a crust LOL.
H.H Mick
Ernie Lynch @ 9.54am
Brilliant lol
I think that’s how they talk down govan way.
Thank god there were subtitles.
HH
BARTH
Watched Millar race and was blown away by a Scot up against all these exotic riders and dropping them again and again on the ascent. Got me into cycling which I still love watching today.
Her commentary this year on The Tour was excellent.
BRTH not Barth Happy Birthday
If Sevco had a fiver for every time I’ve read on here that “they can’t pay their bills/wages etc this month ” they would be able to buy Messi. I take these stories with a pinch of salt but etims have been bigging up something coming out today…. hmmmmm
Melbourne Mick
Mike I’ve read some bu****it on here but yours takes the biscuit! “Its a hard way to earn a living”?
Remember sitting on the Claymore having probably 7 or 8th coffee, drilling electrician come in and says “my neighbor says all you offshore boys deserve your money, emdae want another tabnab.
Sometimes hard but lots of fun
Yorbhoy
Cheers.
The Millar story is an amazing one because as you say he was up against the best who were more exotic and who had far more back up than he had.
The story of the stolen Vuelta is a case in point where she received no support from her team and lost what was an assured and conceded win due to no team support and a conspiracy amongst the Spanish riders to ensure that a Spaniard won in Spain.
As a Sports Person, Millar cut a singular figure both on and off the bike losing friends and sponsors along the way because of what was viewed as chronic loner status. However, for me, that made her efforts all the more heroic.
YORKBHOY
Going for 9 killed them. Trying to stop the 10 will kill their vile offspring.
Good Morning CQN
Just back from Istanbul, didn’t get to see the game does any one have a link to the full game or the highlights.
Sound likes we put on a performance..
Viva Celtic
When I first heard the story of the other Spanish riders conspiring against her I thought it was a case of sour grapes. I really didn’t know how much cycling was a team sport at the time. When I found out it was true I was shocked that you would do that to a team-mate. I saw her interview and it took a lot of bravery to go back to her old haunts. I hope she continues to commentate on the cycling as she has some very good stories.
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS @ 1.58
” remember this ? ” .
No .
Didn’t like what I heard at the time and when I listenened to that link ( with added ” superstars “) I remembered Why — it sounds like a pastiche .( imo -there are 2 types of music -music I like / music I don’t like -can’t explain why / don’t know why ).
I have a pal who saw them in Los Angeles — he said they managed the seemingly impossible and performed in an even “worse ” state than Tim Hardin regularly managed.