A five star performance from Celtic extended their lead at the top of the table to an incredible 17 points as Anthony Stokes and Gary Hooper dictated the pace and outcome of the game. Stokes made sure he got on the end of a Charlie Mulgrew corner on 14 minutes to head the opening goal from inside the six yard box. Six minutes later it was 0-2 when Hooper collected on the halfway line before playing a forward pass to Stokes. Stokes advanced into the box before slipping the ball to Hooper, who slipped the ball underneath Graham Stack from 10 yards out.
Hibs first genuine attempt arrived midway through the first half when Adam Matthews failed to deal with a long ball and was robbed by Stevenson but Fraser Forster saved. Wotherspoon then had a good chance 8 yards out when he met a cross from the left but his attempt went wide.
Celtic should have had a penalty when Anthony Stokes again rushed into the box before cutting back and had his ankles clipped but the referee waved play-on.
Two minutes after the break Charlie Mulgrew removed any remaining doubt about the result. Gary Hooper was fouled 23 yards from goal and Mulgrew thundered the resulting free kick into the far corner of the net.
Hooper and Stokes linked again when the former back-heeled for the latter but Graham Stack blocked the shot from 12 yards. Hooper’s second goal of the game arrived seven minutes into the second half when James Forrest passed to Mulgrew who fed Hooper. The striker’s shot bobbled over the diving Stack into the net.
A careless back-heel by Kelvin Wilson was collected by Gary O’Connor who crossed for Leigh Griffiths but Forster collected comfortably. The rout was completed when Stokes fed substitute Kris Commons whose wayward shot struck the knee of Ki and deflected into the net. Joe Ledley almost made it six when he won a header from a Ki corner but his attempt rebounded off the bar.
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hamiltontim says:
19 February, 2012 at 20:08
Karma normally sorts out tickets.
Today was even better than yesterday.
notthebus says:
19 February, 2012 at 17:53
Isn’y ‘uttering’ a legal term in Scots Law as in ‘to utter false bank notes/false cheques’.
notthebus, in Scotland Uttering forged writings is a crime defined as “using as genuine a fabricated writing falsely intended to pass as genuine the writing of another person”
Just when you think things can’t get any worse for them…………
_0_Siborg says:
19 February, 2012 at 17:50
Great point, the less £ us taxpayers give them the better!!!
If i was an administrator i would project income and EXPECT £300k from us filling the broomloan….This is one for Joe O’Rourke etc to push through…..
Ally : This is not the beginning….Its the fckin end
HavinapartywhileAllycriesCSC
Could the league be in the bag before or around
the time the Thai Tims arrive for their visit?
Now that would be some occasion for the kids to experience
BSR
superb ..even Mrs laughed …and i`ve been bursting her trumpet with the hun demise craic all week
ernie lynch says:
19 February, 2012 at 20:13
Agreed.
Today was winning the lottery.
Yesterday was getting a coupon up at the same time.
I once heard Malcolm Tucker (aka Peter Calipaldi from The Thick of it) condemn another Cabinet minister by saying “Christ, your’e too toxic even for the vultures!” Anyone else think the same about the Orcs? I mean, unless they win this major tax case (not entirely impossible btw) Liquidation simply looks inevitiable.
Unless Whyte can flog the assets to a wealthy investor, I mean who would take them on pre-liquidation. I suspect they will be liquidated, but might get a better owener than Whyte and a few years later progress back to the SPL as a competitive force. What is of more importance is what we do in the time that they are weakened; again we need to maintain our current successful scouting and signing policy and look to bank as much Champions League Loot as possible. While the Orcs are so weak does anyone else think we must push through a 16 team league set up? I also think the Scottish Media are petrified of the Orcs vanishing or being in a weakened state, not necessarily due to old fashioned distorted allegiences but they fear less work and jobs in their own profession – self preservation indeed.
HH…
bournesouprecipe says:
19 February, 2012 at 20:09
just cause your oan,saw yir wee dig at my dirty
chopper.
Will be waiting outside the Greggs at Burnside all week.
voguepunter says:
19 February, 2012 at 20:19
bournesouprecipe says:
19 February, 2012 at 20:09
just cause your oan,saw yir wee dig at my dirty
chopper.
Will be waiting outside the Greggs at Burnside all week.
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Bourne
Don’t worry he won’t turn up or he’ll send an especially vicious p4 girl in his place :-)
HT
you beat me to it… o))
So does anyone know what has been uttered at Ibrox? Allegedly?
I know that they usually utter all sorts and that the current team is utter p!sh, but this seems to be a different and allegedly criminal style of uttering.
HT
Glad you got a ticket,how was the atmosphere?
seemed a bit subdued to me.
CW disguised in pink hat and dress
Evening Bhoys!
I am out in Florida playing saaaccer at Uni until early May, so I am dearly missing home and being there for all this partying!
Was great watching it today, last time I was at Easter Road was when we drew 0-0 in Strachan’s second last game. We were so unlucky not to win it and it ultimately cost us the championship.
Its day like today that make me think how good it actually is to be one us right now. Don’t get me wrong, it’s ALWAYS good…but I think this is the best time to be a Celtic supporter since 1967- anyone agree???
I have enjoyed the past week so much. I love looking back and remembering all the hard times we have had in the past few years, and other years.
Getting beat at CP for them to win the league and doing the Huddle in front of us, getting beat at Motherwell on Black Sunday to hand it to them, getting beat up at Inverness to hand it to them, listening to them singing about Lenny, feeling utterly horrible every time they won the league the last 3 years….
It’s days like THOSE ^^^ that make the TODAYS so much sweeter!
Everyone, enjoy it!
Hail Hail,
CB
Uttering?
Maybe they found LMcCulloch’s birth certificate
stating his actual parentage.
( I’ll leave it for the more erudite on here
to maybe guess who/what that might be :-)
Having a party while Ally absolutely comfort eats pies.
Ally’s milkshake brings all the huns to the yard…
What’s it gonna look like with a Tesco in its ground?
Where’s yir Chairman gone?
What’s that coming over the hill?
These hits and many many more available on the K-Tel 33rpm long playing disc – The Tax Man Cometh…
Available at all Rangers Superstores Now!!!!
I mean JJB Superstores now!
HT AND BT
We south Lanarkshireonians should stick together,
Sorry forgot ht was a weegie.
Phil live on BTW now saying
this is gonna get good
strap in next week
haha
enjoy…
http://www.spreaker.com/page#!/show/hail_hail_media
JUSTICE …………JUSTICE………….JUSTICE
We DESERVE this He He (after the shoite we’ve had to endure over the past 3 years)…..
Ally gonnae stop sayin’ after every defeat “We’ll come back stronger for this”…..It’s wearing a bit thin amongst your (gullible) support, who will not throw good money after bad next season……’youse are well and truly gubbed’ for at least 20 years, no matter what happens from here on in…….Oh, Happy Days !!!!
JUSTICE…….JUSTICE……….JUSTICE
Utterly, utterly delighted to see Celtic forge further ahead in the quest for justice.(clever, or what?)
Árd Macha,
I grew up on tales of their chicanery, and ,as you know, I’m a couple of years older than you!
How are you getting on since I last saw you?
1. European champions 1967
2. Pestilence XI (Ibrox branch)
3. Orcs minor (Motherwell branch)
4. Pestilence XI (Tynecastle branch)
POPE!
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon says:
19 February, 2012 at 20:23
‘So does anyone know what has been uttered at Ibrox?’
They’ve uttered tickets for a football match to their fans but the team didn’t turn up.
VP
Glasgow is part of Lanarkshire..
they just don’t believe it….
at least we have a Glasgow postcode… 0)
voguepunter
The woods
10.00
be there
p.s HamiltonTim I’ll not be near Greggs VP ate all the Steakbakes Fat sally left
1. Treble Winners Elect
2. Nae money
3. Excrement (Motherwell Division)
4. Bigots (Tynecastle section)
BENT!
BT
You do know a Royal burgh took precedence
over any city.
Could somebody explain why Ticketus have lent the MBB 24 million with season tickets as security?
If Rangers are liquidated, then these season tickets must be worthless.
If Ticketus also have any Newco locked into the deal, then if they are in Div3, then they’re not going to sell, say 35k tickets, at £500 a go. More like 20k at 300.
Assuming Ticketus aren’t stupid, what do they get out of it other than anxiety that they’ve wasted investors’ cash?
Yogi LOL
Can you say the tax dodging forces of darkness are UTTER garbage..?
The article mentioned earlier by alf young in the Herald about Murray well worth the read.. Thanks for posting on CQN…
BT/VP
Do both your post codes not begin with G!!!
A few gerrymandered boundaries have you aspiring to be ‘Toonies’ :-)))
Still think the performance against Hearts was better – best I’ve seen in some time.
What they did carry over was the team ethos. Our young bhoys, Adam, Vic and James were under par today and – it didnae matter. Beginning to think that MOTM is nonsense withthis lot – they are a well-knit team who believe in themselves and each other. It has become a sort of trademark and that impresses me more than individual performances.
How many can we keep and how many are for the off? Most will go, but probably not in the immediate future. They want to win trophies and they are well on the way this season. That offers CL football next season which is also a big attraction. Despite what we think about our best players, how many would get the opportunity to move to anything better than a mid-table EPL club?
They are so young they can enjoy the dream of CL football next season, continue to improve both themselves and their reputations and chase the big bucks later. Even then they will still be faced with the problem which others haven’t solved – how to go from being a valued member of a collective to fitting in somewhere else with different manager, coaches, tactics, demands and aspirations.
If you vote for anyone other than Joe Ledley for POTY I shall return to Scotland and spit in your beer. He could be the first to go, but the last whom we should release.
Cheers
Alex
Bass Bhoy!!
Loving your link!!! Blast from the past…. but soooo much funnier now!!!
Nowaday’s, if you chapped on Hector’s House…. there’s a chance nobody would answer!!!
All off to Monaco, or dodging the bailiffs!!!
HH xx
Best away game I’ve been at full stop. Roll on Wednesday for another party……………..
Final League Table
Our team- Celtic
Rangers
Cousins of Rangers/William
Sons of Rangers/William
PeteTheBeat says:
Could somebody explain why Ticketus have lent the MBB 24 million with season tickets as security?
If Rangers are liquidated, then these season tickets must be worthless.
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I understand that they will still be entitled to ticket revenues regardess of shape and size of newco 2012. Again Orcs might get a new investor by then to pay off Ticketus or pay down the percentage of the season ticket share.
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