Odsonne Edouard put Celtic ahead against Newco yesterday on 27 minutes with the game’s outstanding move. He collected a breath-taking first-time pass from James Forrest on the halfway line, evading Connor Goldson in the process, before pulling left then right, and despatching a left foot shot past a helpless Allan McGregor. It gave the champions a deserved lead.
If there is a manager in Scotland who does not send his team out to wind up Alfredo Morales he is missing a trick. Steven Gerrard has provided the Columbian with excuses for his litany of red cards all season, but finally relented and before leaving Celtic Park informed the player he would be fined. It was too little, too late, to prevent, the damage of record levels of indiscipline was done.
Jonny Hayes picked up a first half booking and with Newco down to 10 men, he was sacrificed for the more attack minded Scott Sinclair. Despite Celtic having a man advantage, with Ntcham flagging, Newco gained control of the middle of the park. Ryan Kent scored a fine goal, and while it was Newco’s first attempt of the game, it came as no surprise.
Tom Rogic came on for Ntcham a minute later but the big Aussie, so often the scourge of Newco, was well short of match sharpness.
Kieran Tierney passed a late fitness test but was forced to retire on 73 minutes. Just a minute later Dedryck Boyata hobbled off. With Celtic having made all their substitutes, the game was set for a 10 v 10 finale.
With a mind on our midfield casualty list, on Friday I suggested winning control of that area of the field unlikely and unnecessary, as Newco’s defensive anxiety was likely to settle the outcome. This proved to be the case.
Newco gave at least as good as they got during the closing period of the game, but whereas Celtic were rock solid defensively, James Tavernier would provide the self-inflicted blow to the visitors. It was a classic, ‘What’s the right back doin’, Tom?’ moment.
His under-hit pass on 86 minutes was collected by Callum McGregor, who immediately despatched the ball Edouard on the edge of the area. The Celtic striker drew the Newco defence left, opening space for James Forrest, who he then released with time and space to control before finding the net.
As though to prove that indiscipline at Newco was not only a problem limited to Morales, Kent punched Scott Brown on the face before play resumed, an incident which was missed by the officials but not TV cameras. A retrospective ban will be on its way.
The drama continued through five minutes of added time, with Kristoffer Ajer making an incredible saving tackle inside the six-yard box to deny Joe Worrall.
You will remember Scott Brown making little of being assaulted by a Newco fan at Ibrox in 2017. The man has been provoked more than anyone in Scottish football since Neil Lennon, but unlike Morales, he does not retaliate with violence. The sight of Scott celebrating with eight fingers in the air at full time in front of the Newco support was intolerable to the already-booked Andy Halliday, who could not contain his rage and collected his second yellow card in the tunnel.
It is eight, Andy, as in eight-in-a-row, one less than nine, two less than 10, not that things will change at 10-in-a-row. This is what the future looks like. Scott Brown will soon need to take his socks and boots off to continue this motif.
Post-match, Steven Gerrard said he would have reacted the same was as Halliday in similar circumstances, proving they are both too stupid to be on the field with Scott Brown. Gerrard should consider how his own flaws continue to influence his team’s discipline. If he believes his players have an issue with discipline, but continues to provide cover for them, he is the real problem.
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Hilarious reaction to Sunday’s events – apparently it’s all Scott Brown’s fault! I’ve had this in my head since Sunday night..
And it’s big, bad Scotty Brown,
The baddest Tim in the whole damned town,
Badder than old King Kong,
And meaner than a junkyard dog.
I don’t normally agree with banning the media, but the Evening Times and Herald journalists should be banned from Celtic Park
If they want to work for the Hun PR machine then they should not be clocking their cards in Paradise !
Just a reminder to everyone logging in Vote for Scaniel’s Project. In the first place it is a worthy cause and in the second supporting each other is what Tims do.
I’m not good at links so maybe someone could refresh the link on the thread to rope in the lazy Bassas who won’t scroll back.
SCANIEL on 1ST APRIL 2019 9:46 PM
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There’s a short film there which, thankfully, I did not contribute to much, although I did manage to keep my Celtic bunnet on in the last scene. I left most of the talking to Mrs S. For those in the Border Region – hope you’re lurking Malorbhoy – we’re on the telly tomorrow night, 6 p.m. Border News.
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Scaniel, vote cast.
The media are a joke at the moment.
The BBC in Scotland is a disgrace and then some.
Closed fist punch becomes a shove to the face.
SB celebrating in front of the MS East because that is where he finished the game becomes goading the TFOD2.1 snowflakes.
THE DR has the celebratory goading angle now as tablet of stone fact.
The Nats should be worried — we are not a downtrodden nation we are a global laughing stock.
Finally the police have no right to be blaming the fans — they need to get off their erse and do the hard work themselves.
Ajax fan violence — where are they with tha or is it all now a Dutch police matter?
Away fans getting stabbed in Ibrox / Govan in the summer — where are we with that?
Regular TFOD2.1 “fan” incursions into the MC 3 hours after the game has finished — do they actually known this has been happening?
Interesting how AH — TFOD2.1 LB manages to engage with SB as if he was their RW halfway inside our half?
He must have been desperate to get SB’s jersey with 8 on the back.
Voted.
Scaniel
Do you have any space for Goldson & Halliday – Two big donkeys :)
Will vote
The Sportsound show on Sunday should have beeb called ‘Two Huns and a Soup-taker’.
I stopped consuming most Scottish media some time ago and have recently pretty much cut out BBC Scotland.
As I’ve said many times, I have no issue with the editorial stance and narratives chosen by independent organisations that will live and die by market forced.
BBC Scotland just makes me really angry. Life’s too short for that so now I just ignore despite funding it. That makes me angrier:-))
MADMITCH. From far away in the colonies, the UK is seen as something of a bad joke with no punchline.
Within the frame of football, Scotland seems like a bitter banana republic-in-waiting, with a wholly inept media:
No-one mentioning that El Buffoono clicked Broony’s leg before Broon baited him so adeptly?
No-one censuring Halliday for his over-the-top aggression on and off the pitch?
No-one critiquing Gerrard’s nonsensical statements like: “I cant defend Alfredo…but I’ll protect him…”
No-one reminding us of how Arfield goaded the Tic when BR’s 11 coughed it up at Ibrox?
Nah. It’s not an independent media. It’s not even owned by PR. It’s industrial-scale propaganda.
HH
Scaniel. Only lurk these days, but logged in to say I sent off my vote. Best wishes for a successful outcome.
Maybe someone should mention that halliday was bawling at and abusing Lustig, in front of the linesman, after blocking ML’s cross. Or maybe someone should mention that he should have been sent off for the lunge at Forrest. Or maybe someone should mention that he should accepted defeat gracefully and left field rather than trying to start a fight.
Just maybe.
We surely, by now, know that the Scoddish meeja is not any friend of ours, surely. If anyone thinks otherwise, then what planet are you on????
Anyway, what a coincidence that when the hunscum lose there is always a problem. That’s ok, but why oh why is it an old firm problem. It’s a hun problem alone. So the answer is to get us out of Scotland, no doubt about it and I keep hearing of some Atlantici League but I personally feel we should join the English League, even if that means us joining at the lowest level. OK, we would suffer for 4 years or so, but let’s be honest here, we have sufffered for decades here in Scoddland , have we not.
What is the latest on our injury list does anyone know.
KINGLuBO
‘Within the frame of football, Scotland seems like a bitter banana republic-in-waiting, with a wholly inept media’.
I couldn’t agree more and would go further to say that football in Scotland is a metaphor the country writ large: amateurish, parochial and kleptocratic.
To think some Celtic supporters voted for independence!!
https://wingsoverscotland.com/little-red-dots-2/
smiley Labra Tories at their best thing
Saor Alba
Braw
KL @ 10.33
Where do we go from here as a football team?
Stick with the SPL?
Try to establish an Atlantic League set up?
The DD preferred arbitrage route — Get into the EPL?
Interesting thread on one of the TFOD2.1 message boards … yes they do exist.
Regarding us playing friendlies down south — seems that there has been a campaign to stop it.
It has been building up slowly for a few years but has recently reached critical mass with the trip to Sunderland.
RW “football lads” mentalists / NI Loyalist camp followers / waifs and strays now getting in the act to cause / provoke trouble when we are down there.
Unfortunately the “Day Out Brigade” section of our support have jumped in with both feet — now it is their professionals vs our amateurs and we are not in a good place.
Looks a bit too organised to my eyes — that is why I have used the word campaign.
We are not helping ourselves with all the Clearasil republican militarism currently now in vogue — interesting how attitudes change over time.
NB @ 10.46
WoB — the guy is a total reptile.
Please read his stuff about Hillsborough.
Middle class , preachy hypocrite who picks his victims with care.
Erse of the highest order who does nothing for the Nat cause apart from throwing raw meat to the balcony.
He is a self publicist / attention seeker of the highest order.
Low rent Nat apologist at best — scum ridden bully at worst.
Please avoid.
Scaniel
Vote cast. Hope you have a good outcome and more power to your elbow.
KINGLuBO
is it just me or does andy haliday look like beavis from beavis and butthead ?
https://www.google.com/search?q=beavis+and+butthead&rlz=1C1GCEA_enGB842GB842&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjM3OD_lbHhAhU4QxUIHWA6DZoQ_AUIDigB&biw=1920&bih=974
Scaniel
You have my vote. Good luck.
Neustadt-Braw on 2nd April 2019 10:46 am
You’re embarrassing yourself by constantly quoting that creep.
‘Kevin Williamson
@williamsonkev
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Mar 25
Cant be bothered arguing with apologists for Stuart Campbell. He’s yesterday’s man, a moonhowler holed up in an echo chamber, a transphobic bigot, a post-2014 irrelevance & a liability to Yes. Come on my timeline & apologise for his bigotry or zoomery and yer muted or blocked.’
Kevin Williamson
@williamsonkev
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Mar 25
Cant be bothered arguing with apologists for Stuart Campbell. He’s yesterday’s man, a moonhowler holed up in an echo chamber, a transphobic bigot, a post-2014 irrelevance & a liability to Yes. Come on my timeline & apologise for his bigotry or zoomery and yer muted or blocked
CorkCelt at 9:30 – Thanks for the reminder….how eloquent thou art!
BognorBhoy at 9:36 – Thanks for the repeat link. Just back in from doing the donkey rounds and got pelted with a sudden hailstorm…..now the sun is out splitting the trees!
RobinBhoy,ValeBhoy,Connaire12(where have you been),Adi Dasler(keep Goldson & Halliday where they are – they’re doing a fine job as it is),KingLubo….Many Thanks Bhoys…..Hope you’re sharing the link.
Stuart Cambell …best blog on the internet …..
smiley he rips into the creatures brawily thing
Saor Alba
Braw
Ernie fecking Lynch….what was it you posted about St John Doyle ….?
smiley get your self to feck thing
Saor Alba
Braw
TownheadBhoy (birthplace of my faither) – Cheers, much appreciated.
I’d like to see some changes for the next two games. Ensure that Lennon plays our HEALTHIEST eleven. No more forcing players to play through injury.
————————Bain
Toljan—Simunovic—Ajer—Hayes
————Brown——–NCham
Forrest———McGregor——–Sinclair
———————Eddy
Gordon, Benkovic, Lustig, Burke, Weah, Rogic, Henderson
NB ‘ 11.26
You are easily pleased.
He is just a wind up merchant for stupid / immature people who live in a tartan bubble.
You are not one of those so I am a bit confused.
confusion is the way to truth….
he and his team attack and expose better than anyone out there the lies and subterfuge of the creatures of Westminster….factual and accurate and spot on the money ….that last link is a good example …Labour and Tories are working together against the best interests of Scotland .I could not give a fig about his shitty attitudes I judge on his Blogs content ,as yet it has never failed to deliver .
smiley you don,t have to accept John Wayne’s politics to love the Quiet Man thing
Saor Alba
Braw
aff oot to talk some Treason with my comrades…..
Following up yesterday’s satirical programme from the BBBC (Bristol Bar Broadcasting Company) we get another instance of Klan idiocy today in a tabloid (I won’t link to it).
Apparently a Celtic fan phoned up Rangers Radio but quickly dropped any pretence of being a fan and shouted out “Neil Lennon’s here for 10iar – GIRFUY ya f****** bams”.
He was met with a reply from one host who said: “Away you go you fenian b*****d.”
They then threatened that the prankster’s phone number would be reported to authorities who would “take action”.
Where do you even start with that mindset?
SFTB………………often when I’m feeling down, which after Sunday isn’t often tbh….but If I do, I just flick on that klip from The Bristol…..and all of a sudden real tears of laughter roll down my sonsie face……
….PS, just a thought (are the regulars of said Howff called Big Bristols perhaps?)
Was the bigger of the bloo balloons taking wee hits of helium between oootbursts btw?
:0
HH.
Nat know at 9.21
I would love it if green brigade picked that up and sang it till seasons end.
Here’s a question to ponder.
Do we think it is safe for us to field Scott Brown in our team at Ibrox?
Following Stevie Gee’s statements, I think SB is a marked man for retaliation other players and the Ibrox crowd.
Do we have a duty of care not to expose Scott to that?
But who would dare tell Scott he is not playing in that game?
Day Three
New Article CSC
SFTB……….a good point.
The real story of scoddish foodbaw lies therein.
Hun intimidation of Scotland, Society and the game of football. They had one chance a great chance to change direction of their whole narrative when the old mob were liquidated but chose not to. Thull git worse.
Hell mend thum.
HH
Has that Kent been done yet?
Don’t think it’ll be safe to send any of the Champions there.
Only here could we have the guy who gets decked painted as the badyin…………
………….and in anither far , far more serious and horrible situation thise set upon and brutally attacked classed as being part of a “brawl”………………
Hunbelievable.