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Hartson’s anti-analysis

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You’ve got to love John Hartson, a subscriber to the ‘All we need is three new players’ belief structure.  This is a common sort of anti-analysis which crops up regularly in place of any actual thought.

There are three outfield areas of a team, defence, midfield and attack, and if you can only improve each area, you’ll have a better team.  Go figure.  Hartson told us we need “a central defender; a creative midfield player and a striker”.  It’s as though the reality hasn’t occurred that any team in the world wouldn’t improve with the addition of a better player in each area of the field.

Yes, we need a central defender, but we need a right back too.  We need a striker, but, I could argue two strikers would be handy.  I’ve no idea how Brendan Rodgers is planning to play tactically so we might need a midfielder.  Or two.

Pretty much every team in Europe will be having the same conversation right now.  John could usefully reflect that it’s not actual headcount we need, we have the numbers, it’s players able to improve the team we need.  That’s the magic ingredient everyone in the game hopes for.

Lincoln Red Imps captain, Roy Chipolina, is well within his rights to talk up their chances of knocking Celtic out of the Champions League.  They hold the lead and it will take three goals to settle nerves among the home support tomorrow.  It could be a tense occasion…….

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  1. BigChipsUK - 10 in a row (2001-2010) on

    croppybhoy (10:21 pm): “failure to see off this mob at CP. , would be unforgivable”

     

     

    Indeed. If we don’t make it through to the next round the club should simply cancel the contracts of at least half of those who have played over the two games.

     

     

    My main wish for tomorrow night is that we wear the Hoops. Every time I see Celtic play in a change kit when there is no clash with the opposition colours, we seem to lose! I’d love to see some stats on it, but that is certainly the impression I get from the last 10 years or so.

  5. beatbhoy on

    BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 19TH JULY 2016 2:53 PM

     

     

     

    “Season Tickets sold:

     

     

     

     

     

    Chelsea – 25’000

     

     

     

    Tottenham – 28’000

     

     

     

    Celtic – 50k ?”

     

     

    *****

     

     

    Wrestlemania 2016 – 84,000 tickets sold

     

     

    Who needs sport when you’ve got entertainment?

  9. fan-a-tic on

    The nervousness of the support over tomorrows return leg is noticeable.

     

    Is this due to the fact we are facing a formidable opponent or our ineptitude in first leg combined with last seasons disaster?

     

    This says a lot about our personnel and playing systems of last few seasons.

  11. beatbhoy on

    Looking forward to hunting down some Imps tomorrow night.

     

     

    Good sport, before the farce is with us at 12:30:01, on the 6th day of August, as the ball travels its full circumference (in any direction of course) at the Crumbledome.

     

     

    With the Big Lie cemented in place thanks mainly to the sound of silence.

     

     

    How’s that storyline coming along, Vince?

  13. Foxy on

    BEATBHOY on 19TH JULY 2016 11:40 PM

     

     

    Hope you manage to pass on why Celtic was passed onto you ;-)

  15. beatbhoy on

    -“So, Vince, can we seriously have us win it in the first season back?”

     

     

    -“Sure, didn’t you see the Celtics on the Rock?

     

     

    However, that stopping the 10 thing you guys came up with back in the nineties. . . . Run that again and you could be on to a mega-winning formoola come 2021!!

     

     

    Fifth, fourth, third, second. . . .lift off!”

  21. beatbhoy on

    Foxy

     

     

    Not to watch us play in a farce, without a word of protest.

     

     

    Oh, sorry, forgot. . . It’s all for the shareholders, isn’t it.

     

     

    Anything goes, and as a supporter I’m above all that, of course.

     

     

    As long as I pays me money, guv!

     

     

    Still, farce -free tonight, so ‘Mon The Mighty Hoops!

  23. beatbhoy on

    Hunderbirds

     

     

    Re pay per view. . .not much good to you if you’re still on holiday, but chance to let others know that you can get a subscription to Premiersports for 999 pence for 30 days if you’re a Virgin Media customer, and it’s showing the match tonight live. No contract.

  24. winning captains on

    “If people say to me ‘who’s the greatest player you’ve ever played with’ I always say Ian Wright.

     

     

    “I could say Denis Bergkamp, I could say Henrik, I could say Ryan Giggs, I could say Ian Rush, I could say Mark Hughes, I’ve played with some of the world’s best players.

     

     

    “For me my favourite was Wrighty, but Henrik was truly magnificent. He was the king of kings.”

     

     

    “Henrik was magnificent and when I signed for Arsenal at 19 George Graham said to me that if you sign with me today you will play with the England centre-forward who was of course Ian Wright.”

     

     

    John Hartson, who never played with Willie Wallace.

  25. Hunderbirds are Gone on

    BEATBHOY

     

     

    Yes I am still on holiday.

     

    I thought I could maybe get a stream on the IPad.

     

    Thanks for the info though.

     

    CQN Live updates it is then.

  26. beatbhoy on

    I remember seeing a young Hartson play for Arsenal against us in a friendly, and it was pretty easy to predict that he was going to be a handful for defenders in the years to come.

     

     

    Glad it was opposition defenders up here who had the pleasure for a while.

  29. GuyFawkesaforeverhero on

    winning captains on 20th July 2016 12:14 am

     

     

    Be honest, you’ve only put that post up because SFTB is in Gweedore.

     

     

    He’s the only one on the blog who knows how many games Hartson played with Ian Wright compared with how many times he was given the privilege of being on the same pitch as Henrik.

  31. beatbhoy on

    In anticipation of amends being made later today . . .and thinking of the dead innocents in Würzburg where I spent many a happy day while living in Germany, and on many visits since, Gute Nacht, Schlaft gut.

  40. Mats Nilloc on

    WEEBOBBYCOLLINS

     

     

    After reading your post again, I now realise what you were getting at and it obvious that I misinterpreted it stupidly – for this and my subsequent reply I unreservedly apologise to you – no excuses – sorry.

  42. mullet and co 2 on

    John Hartson is the scorer of my favourite Celtic goal.

     

    That goal made dreams reality and I did a lap of my couch screaming at my Aberdeen/ Liverpool supporting mate who couldn’t believe it.

     

    Anfield, the Naka goal v Man U, love Street, Hampden 88. Bratbakk and Larsson. I listened to the St Johnstone game that day up the high line behind Port Glasgow as I couldn’t bear to be close to anyone in case it went north.

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