Players would be forgiven for wandering around Lennoxtown confused as to why they are being given extra training, as this is only the second midweek in nine they do not have a game.
Rest and recovery is needed more than at any time I remember for a Celtic team. Not just the burden of injuries afflicting the squad, but the intensity of games is without precedent. Four on the road in succession, all tight and combative, with an extra-time thrown in. It is impossible for muscles to fully restock glycogen levels within four days. Repeated depletion leads to complex problems – and eventually injury.
Every professional player is carrying some type of knock. They are kicked and barged each game; bruising is common. The players we saw on their knees at Aberdeen were almost certainly the least-injured in the squad, not exactly fit.
Mental fatigue is another hurdle and one which will be front at centre of Martin O’Neill’s mind on Saturday. After a big event, people crash. Remember beating European Champions AC Milan, then equalising in the 87th minute against Gretna four days later? I am delighted that series of games is behind us, but I give us no more than a 50% chance of winning on Saturday.
We have all heard the stat from Sunday: Newco had 24 attempts on goal and Celtic had one. It’s just, I don’t know anyone who remembers that Celtic attempt (Daizen Maeda’s disallowed goal doesn’t count). I even set AI onto the challenge, which reviewed “minute-by-minute TV commentary summaries” from Sky, ESPN from MSN’s syndicated feed, as well as live texts from Celtic and The Guardian. There was no logged shot event. If you have an idea what the phantom shot was, let me know. Winning the tie without having a single shot would somehow be more satisfying.
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We gubbed a German manager at weekend Turkey 🍿🤣🙌🤣👏🍀
Can anyone point me to the shock and horror from any of our Media,at the actions of the Union Gimps,those ,easily aggravated,scum,about them manufacturing and selling T-Shirts,depicting an act of sheer thuggery and violence,on Sunday,when a Gimp broke ,well walked through the Police line and kicked a young Celtic fan in the face?.
If ever proof was needed of their intentions,this and the one running with the steel pole should destroy the narrative they have been pushing.
Try and make this up.Money raised will go towards their fans who were arrested legal bills.
Maestro,
😋😋😋😋
🗣️ Chief Constable Jo Farrell is questioning why there has been silence from both Celtic and Rangers in the aftermath of Sunday’s “disgraceful” Old Firm violence ⬇️
https://x.com/i/status/2031722595649798342
Jo Farrell is questioning why there has been silence from both Celtic and Rangers in the aftermath of Sunday’s “disgraceful” Old Firm violence could be construed (by some) as racism.
Smokey, apologies if you’ve seen this already.
A four match ban for Jegou.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c0j5lejvqgjo
Seems quite lenient versus the ban they gave to Estebeth.
An Tearmann on 11th March 2026 6:50 pm
“All armaments so to Israel is done so by HM M.o.D.that is not devolved you zoomer.”
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Not according to this.
“Arms firms supplying Israel receive money from the Scottish Government despite genocide claims”
https://www.theferret.scot/arms-firms-israel-grants-allegations-genocide-gaza/
Useless Hoomza’s tears of deceit fools only the fools.
Apology accepted. Thanks.
Sad are the homes…..
Exactly!
Sad are the homes….
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Maolmuire O Muirgheasa on 11th March 2026 8:14 pm
“Jo Farrell is questioning why there has been silence from both Celtic and Rangers in the aftermath of Sunday’s “disgraceful” Old Firm violence could be construed (by some) as racism.”
The Blogger Formerly Known As GM on 11th March 2026 8:18 pm
No, I hadn`t seen it and with my declining memory I had forgotten about it !!
Thanks very much.
PS I thought Etzebeth`s was quite a bit worse.
Good signings in the last 2 transfer windows…
Nygren
Tierney
Araujo
Cvancara
Sarrachi
Tounetki
Chamberlain
Arthur
Big misses….
CCV
Jota
AJ
Engels
Osman
Just sayinCSC
PPS
Not that I remembered it; I just looked it up after you mentioned it !!!
Laxalt – if my aunty had baws and all that, but we’d have a decent squad if everyone was fit.
Vatican & World News 11/03/26 Anno Domini
https://youtu.be/ZtFHVI4wevc?si=gy902OW5n2NUCel0
Ave Ave
https://x.com/i/status/2031627532097769744
🤣No laughing now lads.
Valverde take a bow son…
Absolutely spot on from fb
The false equivalence between some graffiti/broken seats/stickers and the Huns rampaging 100 metres on to the pitch on Sunday looking for a scrap is staggering but not surprising 🤷🏼
We certainly shouldn’t be taking any moral lessons from those bastards. A few bits of graffiti about the 66 is not comparable to 40k plus people chanting about being up to their knees in fenian blood. It is a false equivalence. The famine is over why don’t you go home? Rejoicing in songs about child abuse 🤷🏼 In 2026 ? How is this tolerated ? Not even a mention of this in the media this week. It’s just tolerated & accepted. Those songs are representative of the vast majority of the hun support & their mindset. The graffiti etc isn’t representative of even close to the majority of our support, it is a genuinely small minority. False equivalence.
They can ram their moral outrage squarely up their arse though 🖕🏾🖕🏾The Huns love to talk about provocation – the Celtic support have had to listen to their bile & provocation for decades. That is why undoubtedly (fuelled by social media) that the song book and things like the graffiti have hit a lot closer to the bone. Why the fuck should the Celtic support continue to tolerate stuff that any other part of society wouldn’t ? They can f××k off .
The End
Next up Motherwell 🇮🇪 🍀
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Spot on David Griffin
Madrid is green & white…..
Unfortunately for the team in all green, the team in all white is leading 3-0 @ HT
Hat trick Valverde…..brilliant
The best hat-trick ever….I would say it was.
45 mins
Champions League
Glad I seen it live (on telly)
GM….yip….safe to say tho that we would defo have scored more and lost less goals this season without our big players being injured.
https://x.com/i/status/2031422872405553232
💇♂️ 😂☝️
Laxalt – one of my many disappointments from this season will be not seeing a fully fit Ihenacho.
He’s looked top class during his brief cameos and we’d have scored plenty had he been fit and firing.
I’ve not given up hope, but it looks unlikely he’ll feature much during the run in.
This statement at 2008 AGM by Chairman John Reid is a template for a response.
John Reid’s Statement at Celtic AGM 2008
Why did you decide to speak out about ‘The Famine Song’ and is it important that the club make sure that our supporters protect the integrity of Celtic’s name?
I spoke out about it because this is a pretty vile song and I don’t think that any reasonable person who has read the words of this song can see it as anything other than a pretty vicious, racist song. It combines racism and sectarianism and goes beyond a lot of other things that we have seen in the past. That’s one of the reasons why I spoke out and I also come from Irish and Scottish descent myself, so that’s the main reason.
But there is a bigger and wider reason as well and that is, the nature of this club. We are proud of the fact that we have Scottish origins and Irish heritage and we are never going to deny that. We will defend that and that is not a cause for shame, it’s a cause for recognition and celebration. Indeed our very name ‘Celtic’ is about the unity of the Scottish and Irish people. It stands against those who would divide, discriminate and oppose those two entities. And because we start from that basis of the unity of peoples then we have always been open and inclusive as a club.
That’s why traditionally we have never discriminated. That’s why our board, our shareholders, our footballers and our footballing heroes come from all sorts of different backgrounds, religions, ethnic groups and do so internationally. That’s why I said last year that whatever differences we have when we come into this club we leave them at the door because we believe truly, in a Scotland that is one bit of many cultures and is way beyond now being Scots and Irish. That is our stance, therefore we have to speak out when we see racism or sectarianism being practised and of course, if we are going to do that we have to practise what we preach.
We have to be careful, from our own point of view and that’s why I am absolutely delighted that our fans in recent years have had accolades from the world football authorities, from the European football authorities and let me say when I point out that there may be a minority who are transgressing our own rules, that they are our own rules. I don’t know any Celtic fans who have been chanting racist slogans or anything of that nature, so I am not comparing like with like here. But I am saying that we have got to be whiter than white and that we have to explain to and educate everybody at this club, including that tiny minority which at away games sometimes leaves us exposed to those who would attempt to say that we are all the same. We aren’t all the same, but we have to make sure that that is evident to everybody. That’s the nature of Celtic Football Club.
The above 👆 was attached to a letter to Graham Speirs that might be worth putting out for completeness. It went:
Date: 17 Oct 2008
Dear Mr Spiers
In reading what Celtic Chairman John Reid said in his statement to the Celtic AGM on the singing of The Famine Song, where he defined who Celtic are and what they stand for (see in bold below), I thought his statement begged the question of Rangers:
Just exactly who are Rangers and what do they stand for?
As a Celtic supporter I have my own often biased and cynical views but I was seriously wondering could Rangers come up with a statement about themselves about who they are and what they stand for that would not suffer greatly when compared to Celtic’s?
I ask because whilst I agree with Dr Reid that we are NOT the same at this point in time, I see that not as something to crow over but as a matter of regret. Perhaps if Rangers could define themselves in the same positive terms, which might mean accepting and stating that past attitudes were mistaken, they might create a more solid foundation to move onwards and upwards from.
I have taken the time to write to you because I admire the courage and clarity with which you have dealt with the behavioural issue of the worst element in the Ranger’s support and hope that in asking the question you might be prompted to
Make an attempt at defining the ideal answer
Assess just how far short of that ideal Rangers are falling so that the gap can be positively closed.
Publish your views.
Yours faithfully
Celtic teams don’t play with one striker who looks like a duffer as he waits to be supplied by two double marked wingers who are lucky if they put one cross into the box in the entire game between them.
Not being cheeky but wake the fk up MON & Shaun & Fozzy!
That is not the one striker or two wingers fault.
Its the fault of repetitive Celtic managers who learn heehaw from one week to the next.
All wingers are duffers if they don’t get a ball over the top to use their speed.
What is the point in playing wingers with their wings clipped as they stand with their hands on their hips watching CalMac slowing everything down until the opposition danger areas are all closed down and double marked?
Who is CalMac really working for?
Why does he wear an earpiece and a ‘wire’ up his jumper with a Saudi Arabia flag on it?
How can I see this and I’m not even anywhere near the stadium, but 60,000 attending can’t?
What is the point in the guy who isn’t at the game, but has his Celtic ingrained paranoia chip on his shoulder switched on at full pelt 24/7, but the attending 60,000 attending think that a Celtic paranoia chip on the shoulder was just some old book from the old Jungle days, but now that we are all safely seated we don’t need to be 24/7 paranoid anymore?
Anyway…..
By the time the present day Celtic winger eventually gets his cross into the box, the one Celtic striker is already in the pockets of the oppositions two centrebacks and 3 midfielders who’ve shuffled into the box yawning their heids aff.
Celtic managers need to de-Rodgers the players heids or this one striker and two double marked/blocked wingers and CalMac slowing everything doon boreathon continues.
What a time to be alive!
Sad are the homes….since they lost their heids/souls/minds/thinkpads to the Rodgers character.
Huns to get 2500 tickets. Unbelievable
I think that was already agreed at the start of the season?
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lafan on 11th March 2026 9:18 pm
“Huns to get 2500 tickets. Unbelievable”
So we’ve been called out ,together with scotlands shame, for violent behaviour…jesus wept
Alan Morrison is well worth listening to on todays Huddle breakdown regarding Sunday’s game . His football analysis is excellent but is even bettered by his intelligent discussion on how sectarianism and racism is both acceptable and ignored in Scotland.
Get rid of – at least – 40,000 seats that do Zero for safety out of Parkhead and Ibrox and everywhere else and turn the stadium into the kind of theater that will have the Lisbon Lions still with us and those up above doing cartwheels.
And give both visiting sets of fans on old firm day – at least – 20,000 tickets and make football real again!
Celtic fans used to be mature savvy grown ups, even the weans!
Safe standing = Terraces with stabilizers = what a load of piss!
Sad are the homes….
Happy to be corrected, but was John Reid, whom I thought was an excellent Chairman, not run out of town for being a “warmonger” and “war criminal”?
GM….I think the reason Iheanacho was a free agent was because he was never fit to play but Brendan thought he could do a job.
John Reid wasn’t chased out at all.
The GB hung a banner upside down when he was there to show their disapproval…that was it.
Some fantastic goals scored tonight.Amazing football played.English EPL took one “helluva beating”.
Do the GB agree with any authority whatsoever.?
Doubt it, self proscribed vigilantes.
They don’t appear to GP.
Happy to be corrected.
Literally, happy to be corrected.
Kev racist.
All those companies who do business with israel do so under license of the M.o.D.
Scottish enterprise support raytheon,B.Aero as part of a UK business roll out.B.Aero I know had 2 employees ft whose sole task was to see what they could receive of the state in benefits,grants etc
Just as they did pre devolution.
It is part of the welfare state for business.
B.Aero raytheon etc get the same “business” support in Bristol or where that plant exists,UK or Scotland
The business support for business to do trade with israel is UK centred.yet you being a unionist pick £2.7m given to industries in Scotland IGNORING the £millions (x10)your friends of Genocide and fellow unionist scum give elsewhere in Britain.Silly silly kevvi.
The ferret knows the monies given are part of the general UK reem of spending.
Yup kevvi sad is your home.you need a visitor? lols
Ps where dae ye send yir tena tae this weather?
askin where ol grifter redeye is filmin his youshoob show?
You see Kev you dont need to worry
Your disability benefit is fine.
The welfare state for business needs looked at but your to interested in zoomer stuff and raging.
Its your 21st next year! You stayin in….aye lols
Born of immigrants created by refugees. love 💚
Sionnaigh,
So supporting the Palestinian cause,thank God someone did,is wrong?Supporting that cause has earned the GB and Celtic,.
support and admiration all over the world.Only a Twat would think otherwise.
I sat beside John Reid,in the heated seats for a season,when new.Became very friendly with him.Lovely guy.He was MP for Motherwell at the time.Diehard Tim.I was abroad when became Chairman,and new we would never take any shit with him.
Sadly he got sucked into the illegal Tony Blair war,as Defence Secretary.A war that half of the UK did not want and protested in their millions,” Not in My Name”.
The Celtic fan protest,not a” Vigilante” one,widely supported.Take of your Board loving goggles and try not to be an Ill informed Trumpet.
Probably impossible.
Greenpinta,
So your another one who opposes the GB support for Palestine,or are you just stupidly parroting support for that Eejit Sionnaigh.Our man at the Vatican.
Fekin zoomers on here,deary me.