When I researched yesterday’s article (yes, research does happen sometimes) I was far from encouraged. Udinese had an impeccable home record and Snr Di Natale is one of Europe’s irresistible strikers at the moment.
We didn’t manage to resist Di Natale but he will remember Fraser Forster for a few years. We have been fortunate to see a few great goalkeeping performances in Europe in the last decade but last night Fraser was second perhaps only to David Marshall that night in Barcelona. That last minute penalty save against Hearts on Saturday has moved the player onto a new platform.
Udinese had a good 20 minute spell when they looked every inch the team joint top of the Italian league but they were on the rack in the closing stages of the game. Cha DuRi has had an eventful Europa League on the road this season. He was a bit unfortunate at the Udinese goal but completely out of luck when he twisted his body mid-air to volley off the post.
Watching Georgios Samaras last night was a lesson in how complex a game football can be. This is a player who could not hold down a place in the SPL last season, yet playing in a different position he had top-flight defenders throwing themselves at him in order to inhibit progress.
There is still work to be done, but the return of three first choice defenders will enhance the team considerably. The most pleasing thing about last night came after the game; Fraser Forster’s focus was immediately on St Johnstone. It’s all about Perth now.
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Anyone’s c q n ers at Tory glen tonight
Top story on the local news – all about the banner and no emphasis on what a great performance it was. Sad. No wonder the manager is annoyed. I am too.
Meanwhile, are Rangers in any sort of trouble at all? It’s hard to tell.
hamiltontim
Now now that was aggresive, l will repeat l have not got the time.
Mtt
Ps
NL was correct with his discription of the fools with the banner.
Try not to be rude.
Mtt
BrotherAidan…
The banner was unnecessary and childish but some of the posts on here suggesting bans for life etc and some of the name calling has been an absolute joke. I’m not talking about the person responsible for attacking a Celtic steward, that’s a different issue entirely. It’s thuggish and is deserving of severe punishment.
In my opinion Lenny should have made no comment when asked about the banner. The fact that he did and subsequently in the manner he did I find astonishing.
Now I have no idea if the boy who has been named on the official site is a ‘Green Brigadier’ but I think there’s a bit of enlightenment to be had over what constitutes the Green Brigade and the Green Brigade Section and people who sit in or near the section. This shamrock trinity, though perceived as one, and acting as one at times, has 3 parts, and any broad brush criticism is ill informed.
If I go to the GB section at the Kilmarnock game and let off flare should the GB be banned? I’d guess that by their nature the GB would probably stand by me against Board or authority censure, but that is different from a deliberate act or decision of their doing.
I don’t know enough about to give a clear picture but as far as I can see the original GB is pretty small, and there is no membership scheme. But the section is growing and nobody is actually going to police or stop anyone from claiming to be in the GB. i.e. if you sit in or around the section, or if you join in and know all the words and responses, then you can claim to be in the GB. Harking back to an earlier post, I reckon at 17 I would have been in, or at least moved my regular place at Celtic Park to be ‘in the Green Brigade’. Would I have made the effort to understand the drive, founding reasons, relationship with the Board, motive and direction? Nah, I’d have got pished and sang rebel songs with the backing of some bigger boys. In fact I did that anyway, they just weren’t called anything other than Celtic supporters in those days!!
It’s probably a question for them. They have created something that has a real positive buzz, it engages fans better than any initiative to hold up your program at the sponsors page and get on the pitch ever did. With that comes the inevitable wannabe-in-your-gang mentality. Some very innocent youngsters loving it, and some not quite so young ‘rebels’. All good for the Club in selling ‘just can’t get enough t-shirts’ of course.
Us old farts would say the control element is missing from the organisation but it will always be so, it is non corporate, in fact anti corporate, freedom loving underclass empowerment in nature.
Communication from Celtic Park to the fans has been a complaint from many for a long time. I wonder if maybe some communication among us all has some work to be done. The CSA, the Trust and the GB themselves have some work to do. Vmhan comes on here and often enlightens us of policy and direction and I find that incredibly useful. I’m not sure how this is all achieved, but without structure and controls the section will simply be the target of the misinformed and agenda driven anti Celts. The atmosphere and team backing will suffer, and then crowds, and the cycle goes on.
Hail Hail
Ulster-Celt We won’t fall out over it mo chara, but I attended a function up in your part of the country a couple of years back and was in private company with lennon and a few lads from Dublin afterwards and the views he expressed were what i would consider to be consistent with what i said.
If some of the support didnt keep supplying the media with own goals they may be forced to focus on the Hun.
Is swearing Illegal?
corkcelt
was he singing the Celtic symphony?
:-)
UC
Ulysses mcghee If F—- is illegal there is a problem as it appears in the New Collind English Dictionary.H.H.
Not that I remember, had a good few on me so parts of the night was hazy.
We shouldn’t be blaming our supporters for the media’s hunger to damn us.
If it weren’t the banner it’d be something else.
They don’t like us. They never have. They never will.
Early morning Clyde radio – Celtic crash out of Europe… WTF? oh, sorry WT?
I sense 2 separate agendas at work – that’s my genuine feeling on this – the standard press witch hunt (Gnarling Neil Lennon photos anyone?) and whatever it is our board are doing with their no info/loads of info press releases…
U
Maybe just maybe, if these guys were to own up and say sorry to Celtic, our supporters and UEFA we may escape serious punishment. It could be a well meant error of judgement on their part. I can accept that if we can get through to these people.
Neil Lennon should confine his comments to football business and anything outside of this is a matter for the club hierarchy.
Neil’s job is responsible enough without having to worry about matters other than football.
uly
Fancy that pint the now, I’d be smashing company…not :)))))
If it cost us to post on here then many of the names appearing tonight would be nowhere to be seen.
EDB
It would be a great shame if you stopped posting.
Love
Hamiltontim
But for daughtersitting and a 4am rise I would.
The joys of xmas nights out. I was going to write Christmas but I’m feart who I’ll offend…
U
hankray – I understand your point, but we may not have any (euro) football for Neil Lennon to talk about if this continues.
Eldiegobhoy You are probably right the unemployed, the sick,the old age pensioners wouldnt be on as they couldnt afford it but then again maybe that would suit you. H.H.
Regarding swearing being legal/illegal. Think you will find if you shout out F*** Uefa in the street you may be charged with a Breach. If you in conversation with a Police Officer continue to swear after being asked to desist, you may be charged with a breach.
Everyone has rights people not just the sweary beasties. People have the right to sit and watch football free of foul language etc.
hankray
It’s not for you (unless your name is Lawwell) to say what our manager should confine himself to commenting on.
You might wish him not to comment on certain things but he has no need to pay attention to your views on the matter.
And FWIW MON would would equally have condemned last night’s behaviour in my opinion whereas Fat Sally would have mumbled some nonsense whilst not in any way condemning the idiotic behaviour of his club’s support.
There lies a difference.
Clyde 1 ramming it right up celtic – also assuming the lad in Italy represented the green brigade. Remember when the ENTIRE rangers fans sang the famine song live on television for ALL to see – this was not a minority! YET , clyde 1 said they wanted to talk football – double standards to the atrocious extreme.
Imagine if you are the manager of Celtic arriving back at Glasgow airport after having played a very commendable game of football abroad and then a reporter shoves a camera and mic in your face and all they want to talk about is a banner. How annoyed would you be?
Eldiegobhoy
Surely I have a right to comment, whether anyone pays heed or not?
ElDiegoBhoy says:
16 December, 2011 at 18:00
It’s the Celtic way. Have you never seen the The Committments? :)
SOAL
I paid a one off special payment at Paul’s 40th so I’ve paid my dues:o)
Think I bought a round, or was that Tiny Tim’s good lady who paid. It certainly wisnae TT:o) That’ll get him posting.
headtheball 19.19 I think you naturally would be annoyed but at the reporter asking the stupid questions not the Celtic Support. H.H.
uly
Yes I have the joys of collecting two Brownies on their return from panto at 10pm. So long as their father hasn’t fallen out with all of Timdom in the interim!
EDB
Paul is now 44
Brother Aiden
I don’t know what age you are but back in the punk rock days there was a great rise in the popularity of T Shirts – Vive Le Rock was iconic.
Also popular was F*** Art Let’s Dance as was its negative counterpart F*** Art Let’s F***
Now I saw these T-Shirts being worn – want to apply your breach logic now?
U
The Great Banner Flutter: Anyone who thinks that the EUFA folk are storming up and down the corridors of power in the swiss HQ ragin about a banner havin’ a dig at them at one is living in ‘Jackson’ville.
Their pals in the meedja need to try harder. Sorry if I sound like a broken record, but the only way they can survive is to pull the whole scottish game down with them. They are not going to sit back and let us take the fruits of european cash whilst they take their medicine, without a fight. The club must know this.
Funny how everyone on here can have a view as to whether the banner was right or wrong, but the Manager can’t when asked by the black knights. Does anyone on planet Earth expect the club (or any club) to endorse something like this ?
HH
BlantyreKev – Hail Hail to the Kano Foundation says:
16 December, 2011 at 19:02
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Good post and like you I don’t know if the person (s) responsible was part of the GB or any other fan group, but what I will say is I wouldn’t be doing the huns work on a Celtic supporters website by attacking the GB, there are enough “new monikers” on here who are doing that particular work.
For the record, I think the banner was daft but not in the same planet, as a bunch of marauding thugs rampaging through Europe, a bit of perspective needed.
If its confirmed that its not a GB’er, then I hope the Celts who have been attacking them on CQN, are big enough to come on and apologise, oh and don’t bother if yir a hun!
V
HH
EUFA,UEFA,eufa,uefa…lets call the whole thing off
UC
stebhoy says:
16 December, 2011 at 19:19
Clyde 1 ramming it right up celtic – also assuming the lad in Italy represented the green brigade. Remember when the ENTIRE rangers fans sang the famine song live on television for ALL to see – this was not a minority! YET , clyde 1 said they wanted to talk football – double standards to the atrocious extreme.
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We KNOW this, so why supply the ammo?
Either the banner was a stupid and ill thought through, act or it was done to damage Celtic’s reputation. I would LOVE to hear the motivation and justification of the act by those responsible.
Perhaps that will emerge in due course?
Joe Filippis
Whit???????????????????
Clearly that post of my mine went way over your head.
Just sit in a corner with a big pointed hat with a D on the front or is it the back:o)
Not the best choice of words from Neil Lennon on the supporters who number a tiny fraction, but then he’s only a Football Coach, and if the comments are accurate, his sentiments are exactly the same as the most successful manager we ever had.
When you consider the injustices most Celtic fans have felt in the last four years or so, it’s bound to be frustrating for some supporters to find that the
voice of the club, is suddenly only found resonating negativity.
The offences are reprehensible, the media frenzy is just as predictable, they’ve waited years for this suffering all the while, when darling Rangers ran amok throughout Europe.
I hope Celtic and the active support keep this in perspective.
Auldheid, I think you’re right it’ll come in the wash, so no point blaming one particular fan group over another.
V
HH