How ballsy is Scott Sinclair? Arriving as a 73rd minute substitute, his every touch was booed by Motherwell fans. Dozens of missiles were thrown at him (and other Celtic players) as nearby stewards failed even to look in the direction of the culprits.
Then with three minutes remaining and Celtic a goal down, he told Leigh Griffiths to step away from the penalty spot. The kick itself – high into the top corner, was unstoppable, but goodness, not without risk.
With so much negative focus on him, taking that penalty was the equivalent of looking the Devil in the eye. He will be stronger for the experience.
Now others are left asking, “What will it take to beat Celtic, even once?” Legs and minds are tired among the squad, you can see it. Leigh, normally so sharp, was ponderous when his best chance occurred. Craig Gordon looks like he needs a holiday. That punch, the clearance which cleared no one and those kick outs! What’s going on, Craig?
There was a fascinating moment involving Tom Rogic when we were a goal down. A loose ball was there to be challenged for, but Tom didn’t quite throw himself at it, prompting clear feedback from the travelling fans. What he did was take control of proceedings from then on.
His defence-splitting pass for Callum McGregor led to the penalty and gave us our kicks, on game 66.
The penalty itself followed a goalkeeping error. Carson saved a gilt-edged chance from McGregor, but instead of knocking the ball out for a corner, he kept it alive with a side-swipe. McGregor put his body between ball and defender. Then waited.
The not too subtle message from Motherwell after Sunday’s cup final is that they were incorrectly punished for putting arms around an opponent in the box. On an intellectual level, they knew they were banged to right (or they would have appealed the red card), but the emotional part of the brain took over.
“It’s OK to put your arms around an opponent to inhibit his progress inside the box” was the subliminal message. Just think, if Stephen Robinson had told his players not to take such actions after the final, Rose might have kept his arms to himself last night.
Every referee in the country knew Craig Thomson was hung out to dry on Sunday after making a correct penalty decision. Willie Collum would have prepared for last night’s game clear in the knowledge that no amount of wining would prevent him making an unpopular decision.
Would he have made the same penalty decision if Motherwell and the assembled media did not round on Craig Thomson a few days earlier? Perhaps. But it is never wise to harden the resolve of a referee.
Oh, and yes, that was our first penalty of the league campaign, no one else in the division was penalty-less until last night.
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Tinytim
Brendan said today that Moussa trained today and might make Saturday. Paddy might be out for a while. Scan results due tomorrow.
Celtic Quick News :-)
What odds is Betdaq giving on a 1-0 win Saturday against Muthawilt with a converted Sinclair penalty?
embdy?
Time McInnes moved to rangers (for that is who they are) because he’s pish!
Celtic Celtic thats the team for me!
Old Firm Old Firm as happy as can be!
Yep. Watched a a programme about him a few weeks ago, His son is an Independent TD in Donegal, cost Sinn Fein a seat in last Election.
Anyways time for my leaba, Good Night & God Bless All.
Belligerent ghouls
Pluck Glasgow fools
Spineless swines
Cemented minds
Sir leads the hoops
Jealous of youth
Same old jokes since eighteen sixty two
Interesting recollections of Irish show bands on the blog.I used to holiday in Dublin twice a year from 1956 till 1959 and although I remember the names of most of the dance halls I couldn’t tell you one band
At that age and being on holiday in a place where there ‘ 10 girls to every boy ‘ band names were well down my list of things to do in Dublin on holiday!
Firstly, it is unfortunate yet another Motherwell match has been dominated by a debatable decision from a match official. It is a call that has left the majority of our supporters again feeling extremely frustrated.
Yes, its unfortunate that the decision to ignore Dipres leg-breaker was missed, and that the free-kick for the Motherwell goal was also “debatable”. Notice they didn’t have the guts to say “wrong” , its only “debatable”, interesting choice of words, which will no doubt be the first thing the SFA say in their response. In other words, you are miffed, but hey ho, there you go.
Can we please get another “debatable” penalty on Saturday – is that asking too much ? Nah !
I walked 47 miles on barb wire
Cobra snake for a necktie
Built a house by the roadside
Made of rattlesnake hide
Brand new chimney up on top
Made out of human skulls
tontinetim
jimmy carten was brilliant at a nation once again brought the house down more than once.
The blitz
Documentary bbc2.
Quite exceptional tonight.
Worth a watch.
Next week. Clydebank.
The narrative is highlight any negatives for Celtic(no change i suppose), and cover up the sham AGM at Poundland, no money, no good players, a criminal major shareholder, 2 ex managers to pay off,£16 mil in loans to keep the lights on, oh and those pesky Tims got 2 penalties in 2 games….deflect, deflect
https://twitter.com/vlr/status/936275297347031041L
Clear penalty….
Blood in the streets runs a river of sadness
Blood in the streets it’s up to my knees
Yeah the river runs red down the legs of a city
CCB,
I don’t think the Show Bands were on the scene until the 60’s, but ol’ WITS can confirm as he regularly tripped the light fantastic around Dublin’s Palais De Danse in the 50’s.
Totally off topic with this one but how nice was it to see Slobodan Praljak do himself in yesterday, live on the internet. Quality baddy from Bond death moment…………….Nice.
Miss acgr spent six months in the Hague on the ICTY and worked for the appeals judge who was in court hearing the murderer’s appeal yesterday when he necked his golden nectar.
Just watched the video and thought it was funny to see a mass murderer kill himself on live telly. Pity more of them didn’t follow his mantra.
I’m very very Proud that my daughter was in a small way connected to this monster’s suicide.
He wida been a hun and the world is a better place without him.
Celtic
A Ceiler Gonof Rust on 1st December 2017 12:38 am
Agreed loved it. Goering like.
Agree.
Not a handsome hun.
Anyone else think that Motherwell FC should be cited for Bringing the Game into Disrepute, with their Statement?
…….and another thing. Why do UEFA/FIFA allow Scottish referees to interpret the Laws of the Game in a manner that differs from other Associations?
Stivs, you’re playing a double negative dude but you are doing it extremely well. You will never find one of them.
Mary pillow was their best shot and look at the state ofthat hun FFS!!!!
What School did you go tae?
Scotty Sinclair has balls of steel and a curly foot.
He doesn’t need a rest, he needs space created for him to move into to work his magic.
He’s a fantastic football player.
He is Celtic
https://celtsarehere.com/the-footage-that-makes-a-mockery-out-of-motherwell-statement/
A CEILER GONOF RUST 12:38
Totally off topic with this one but how nice was it to see Slobodan Praljak do himself in yesterday, live on the internet. Quality baddy from Bond death moment…………….Nice.
Miss acgr spent six months in the Hague on the ICTY and worked for the appeals judge who was in court hearing the murderer’s appeal yesterday when he necked his golden nectar.
Just watched the video and thought it was funny to see a mass murderer kill himself on live telly. Pity more of them didn’t follow his mantra.
I’m very very Proud that my daughter was in a small way connected to this monster’s suicide.
He wida been a hun and the world is a better place without him.
Celtic
*****
Give her a wee congrats from me,bud. Delighted she had a part to play in his downfall.
HH
Jimmynotpaul on 30th November 2017 8:26 pm
Jimbob 8.16.
I’m interested in how the club will react.
Will they do what they do with Sevco and ignore or will they respond and go for Grant Russell’s throat?
It’s truly a dreadful statement,which already is starting to give us the same bad publicity we received at the now infamous boxing day game at Dens.
All because Scott Brown challenged the coin throwing last night.
Hail Hail
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To encourage Celtic to start acting about the propaganda war that is now taking place can I suggest you read this, where Russell and Broadfoot come under the microscope, and if you have concerns use it to ask Celtic if they do not share them and what action they are taking?
https://www.sfm.scot/who-is-conning-whom/
I’m all for quiet diplomacy but it helps if a big stick is kept in plain view when doing so,
Charlie Nicholas & his ghost columnist are really showing why tabloids & print media are struggling.
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/886518/Celtic-news-Scott-Sinclair-Charlie-Nicholas-Scottish-Premiership-Oumar-Niasse-diving-ban
It starts with a pic of Scott Sinclair palying against Kilmarnock with the caption that proclaims
“Scott Sinclair escaped punishment for diving.”
The piece is almost Trump like. Nicholas manages to bum himself up, compares Schalk’s dive with Scott’s penalty – then praises Jim McIntyre for saying that it wasn’t a penalty (since there was zero contact).
He concludes that Scotland isn’t producing centrehalfs anymore because they’re all scared to tackle in the box now.
No comment on the Kipre leg breaker tackle that was missed, nor about the “tackle” from Scott Brown that led to the OG last night.
When you get a chance watch that challenge by Scott Brown on Moult. The same Moult who’s been biffing & barging every Celtic player in the last two game.
It didn’t seem much of a foul, but of more interest. look a how easily Moult goes down. He felt the contact and went down – that’s how it seems to me – much like Scott Sinclair on Sunday. He din’t get barged, he simply dropped to the ground.
I just know that Nicholas will be certain to include that aspect of the incident in his next column.
Still breathtaking that no one in the SMSM speaks of Kipre’s career ending kick or Moult’s collapsing with minimal contact.
Moult’s employers statement today is embarrassing. Robinson wants to criticize the refs but since he’s on a suspended sentence, he gets a club statment to do that for him.
Will the SFA have the guts to call this club statement what it is?
A Robinson statement by proxy – just so that he can have deniability but still get the impugning of the referees out there.
HH
JOHN51
Nicholas is a no-use winker. I haven’t a scooby how he’s maintained a career in the media.
He doesn’t just need a ghost-writer,he needs a ghost-speaker and a ghost-thinker.
A good boot in the baws wouldn’t go amiss either.
Happy to take his 30 pieces as often as possible,even Judas only took them once.
watched hun highlights
tavernier who set up third and offside goal (which walker couldnt bring himself to describe as offside) should have been off and a penalty to aberdeen just before half-time.
all i’ve read about is that gms should have done better with the shot (despite 2-3 fouls on him)
the record yesterday also had its usual catholic church scandal on the day of the hun agm
no comment either on mcinness being unveiled as hun manager after the two games against their rivals for second place – dignity indeed
so for anyone out there who is eating themselves up about possible soft penalties – just remember what you are up against on a daily basis
just remember the real reasons why you went to a tim school
just be glad if you managed to get a decent education and a decent job
as the big yin said (about the weather map) “and this is the country where you live”
but dont forget where you live
Dallas Jr’s display on Wednesday didn’t just give Sevco an easy three points and a quiet AGM,it may still have an effect on Sunday.
No red for Miller forearm smash on Christie. But Christie off for two soft yellows-can’t be appealed,suspended for Sunday.
Morning, never wanted to do a team outside old rangers or sevco as much as Motherwell on sat, remember this lot like men possessed on black Sunday with nothing to gain. Horrible club horrible fans , any Of their fans I know always want the Huns to win when we play them
TOSB , have a rethink mate the blog needs good posters like your self , the blog is losing to many posters, think the mods a tad over sensitive only my opinion, Kevj don’t you think of flouncing!!!!
WEEBAWBABITTY.
I agree,and hope that THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY changes his mind. He’s too old for a tutu(!)
The Mods deleted a few more overnight. Early start for them.
Good morning friends and a Big Happy Friday to you all.
I see Ian’s a bit late today. Wouldn’t have been allowed in my day ;-)
Bobby , the only downside of the Sean Fallon documentary was Nicholas being in it. I could be termed as obsessed by him but his constant negativity about us ,especially from a born and bred ‘Celtic supporter’, really does my head in.
His constant refusal to stick up for us on sky says it all about him. He did say once Danny McGrain was the best player he ever played with , however
I listened to the podcast he did with Graham Hunter to see if he could redeem himself.
In the space of 5 minutes he showed what a clown he is. He said Arsenal were the club he was most passionate about then 5 minutes later , he said he was still a huge Celtic fan.
Will that weasel , Fraser Wishart , come out publicly re the items being thrown at our players as it is putting SPFA members’ safety at risk ? Will he as the SPFA show racism the red card guy , come out and say it should stop ? No chance , he is only heard when it involves players at Ibrox.
Dallas- young Nic was class as a Celtic player.
However, old Nic is a dick.
The 2 Well fans in work were seething yesterday. Which is nice.
Word of The Day (Not much of this at Sevco AGM)
perspicuous /pəˈspɪkjʊəs/
adjective
1. clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
2. (of speech or writing) easily understood; lucid
Derived Forms
perspicuously, adverb
perspicuousness, noun
Word Origin and History for perspicuous
adj.
late 15c., from Latin perspicuus “transparent, clear, evident,” from perspicere “look through, look closely at” (see perspective ). Related: Perspicuously ; perspicuousness.
KTF
Charlie Nic,the best supporters bus to ever leave from EK.
Thats the only good thing I can say about him these days.
H.H