Celtic eventually overcame Hibernian at Easter Road in the Scottish Communities League Cup quarter final tonight but not until they endured a fraught first half. The game was 3 minutes old when Ivan Sproule gave the home team the lead off an unfortunate Daniel Majstorovic. A Hibs corner was not defended at the edge of the six yard box and had to be cleared off the line by Adam Matthews at the near post but Sproule fired the clearance into the six hard box where is ricocheted off Majstorovic and into the net.
Celtic struggled to get into the game but after 19 minutes Beram Kayal broke free on the right and crossed for Gary Hooper, who missed the ball with his leading foot and saw it bounce off his left knee and behind.
The best two chances of the first half for Celtic came within four minutes. Ki and Hooper combined before Kayal released Stokes on 23 minutes but the Irishman’s shot skimmed the outside of the post.
In a move that would have a more productive second half facsimile, Stokes was unmarked at a Ki corner but missed the ball with his head and saw his shoulder contact go wide.
On 33 minutes Sproule ran half the field and cut inside Ki of the edge of the area before shooting over. Minutes later Sproule released Agogo, who dispossessed Celtic midfielders throughout the first half, but Forrest saved at the big striker’s feet.
Five minutes from half time Leigh Griffiths should have doubled Hibs lead when Celtic’s scourge in recent times, the long forward ball, returned to haunt them. Griffiths ran unattended from his own half but Fraser Forster did his best gable end impersonation to narrow the angle inside his box and block the shot.
Things soon picked up.
James Forrest underlined his Most Valuable Player status to Celtic a minute after the break. Ki played a forward pass to Hooper on the edge of the area, which was nipped onto Forrest by the Celtic striker. Forrest cut inside, dropped the shoulder and shot home from 17 yards.
It was a remarkably simple goal but the strength of shot by Forrest was particularly noteworthy. Being able to shoot from the edge of the area is a crucial part of a wingers play.
Beram Kayal was booked on 48 minutes for being kicked in the face by Ivan Sproule, who also saw a yellow card.
Forrest got his second, and best, goal on 57 minutes. He collected a throw-in on the wing, beat two Hibs players, played a one-two with Stokes and finished with a well-placed left foot shot.
Celtic then went into overdrive as Hibernian faltered. Forrest skinned his marker and crossed but Ki slipped inside the box when the ball broke to him. A minute later Anthony Stokes make a good connection with a Ki corner to head Celtic’s third goal from the six yard line.
Gary Hooper was having an off evening but he timed his run onto an Adam Matthews long ball, controlled and scored to finish off the scoring. Ivan Sproule received his second yellow card 20 minutes from time for kicking Mark Wilson as he ran through on goal. On this occasion his victim escaped punishment.
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James for rest
Yir a disgrace your response to saskatim,was unbecoming of a true celtic fan!
I disagree with your analysis of most things celtic…
Saskatim is entitled to his opinion if you dont like it scroll on bye.
You are a tit. A spoilt child perhaps..
Or as i have already stated A half wit..
The other half csc.
Viva la CELTIC.
eRIC blair csc
2010 Never Again
When the seagulls follow the trawler they had better be aware……the further they fly out to sea the longer it is for them to fly back to shore.
Top that one! <:-))
camlachiebhoy67 I am Neil Lennon says:
Reasoned, articulate, well argued and brilliant.
I think we can all see that.
James Forrest @ 02:06
That’s another of your fine posts. Very well said, and very true.
My last plea to you, don’t alienate saskatim like that. He/She voiced an opinion, which in other circumstances you’d have laughed at, and which usually would have led to you both becoming best of pals a few blog pages down the line.
Or in the pub.
Keep your focus on the real targets and enjoy the mid-way banter.
Luvvin yer work.
What was the score tonight??
James Forrest
When Rangers go into administration, they will suffer for a few years.
Then I think we might see a return to the eighties, with a few teams competing, and Rangers winning one time in six maybe.
I was too young to know, but I don’t think Scottish Football was as against us then as is is now.
I think, maybe hope, things will return to those days as the supremacists lose interest.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes:
Hail Hail.
WTF?? Does anyone know who my mammy is??
James Forrest
HH, amigo.
and paddy is better than sammi
goodnight to all good tims
hail hail
Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:
27 October, 2011 at 02:17
WTF?? Does anyone know who my mammy is??
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2001 Never Again
Aye! Your faither
Rascar Capac:
Yes! At last! Someone putting forward the view that Scottish football will benefit from the End of Rangers in the long term.
I agree 100%. It’s a side of the argument few people have been willing to make. I worry some of our own board believe we can’t survive without them and that Scottish football would be worse for them being gone. But it’s not true.
Other teams would benefit, and they would grow.
Let’s put it this way. Those “genuine Rangers fans”, that silent majority we keep hearing about … now they will certainly mourn the loss of their football club if it were gone, but they would not be against supporting other sides, and they would gravitate, perhaps, to their local teams. The more … ahem … militant … would gravitate towards a select few; Hearts, Motherwell, Airdrie etc … and those clubs might in time come to resemble Rangers in their own way … sectarian, insular, bigoted … although that will depend on how their own ordinary supporters cope with and respond to it …
But undoubtedly other clubs would be strengthened. And in time so too would the game.
Part of the problem in this country is the way one club has dominated the upper echelons of the game, and held sway over the media. One would assume Celtic will never be allowed to – nor seek – such a dominant position. So that would increase democracy and make the game truly ready for some kind of reform.
Yes, there are more positives than negatives for the Scottish game.
My faither is Paddy McCourt, who is better than Sammy, who is better than Ki.
But it still don’t explain why i is actin like a chicken…
2010 Never Again
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
Blessed be the peace makers! <:-))
Imatim 02:20
Don’t trust him on that one. He told all of us it was the one he was paying most CSA money to.
Rascar/ James Forrest
I’d be delighted if we never had to play them ever again. Apart for the obvious reasons. Also,yes, Scottish Football would benefit massively….but we need to ban Hearts to make that work healthily :(
Imatim
They SHOULD inherit the Earth. Rubber stamped. All over the hun spreadsheet.
i’m talking too much again.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes:
It seems to me that Hearts have their own problems. HMRC have some outstanding issues with them and Romanov can only carry the debt and the pressures of being a chairman in this backwater for so long. What does he get out of the whole Hearts adventure anyway, except headaches and a pain in his rear end? It’s costing him millions and for what? No return that I can see …
That said, I’d rather have him in charge of my club than Craig Whyte ….
Rice and peace is da bizniz with a chunka chicken.
Cockadoodledon’t say it ain’t so.
Shiskebab.
Now that the bickering and backbiting has calmed down a wee bit……
No MLB World Series game tonight due to rain in St Louis.
Game 6 will be played tomorrow, Thursday, with game 7 on Friday.
Go Cardinals.
Jam Farts & Mad Vlad = money laundering?
James Forrest @02:28
The Hearts thing has been very interesting the last couple of years. Romanov and his colleagues were more critical than than our own board on the SFA, and were more vocally so within 2 weeks of our own AGM, after JR’s speech attacking them. They released a public statement referring to the possibility of match fixing by referees.
Since then, funnily enough, they seemed to benefit from MIBbery as much as their “Big Brother” (as some of their “fans” openly call them).
Romanov knows what side his bread is buttered, and they could have been allies of ours, but not now. They were quickly brought onside. They’ll be watching the situation at the hunnery with the same interest that we are, but as usual, we are totally on our own.
Cockadoodledo, Paddy is better than Sammy who is better than Ki.
Cluck Cluck.
(Actually, i’m bored with this, Canamalar is a hypnotising cults.)
saskatim:
That’s what I always thought … but wouldn’t Hearts have to be turning a profit for that to work? I’ve never studied money laundering in any detail, but I always believed it worked by creating taxable profits. Maybe there’s something in the connection with Kaunas, but if there is I’ve never actually sussed what it was or is …
The only thing I can think of is that he really does see them as a mere plaything, a millionaires toy.
God help them if he gets bored though. He must be carrying £40 million of their debts …
saskatim
Now now, the two top hun clubs have too much dignity to indulge in cheating, drug-dealing, doping, money-laundering, bigot-pandering behaviour.
Just how dare you????
Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:
27 October, 2011 at 02:21
My faither is Paddy McCourt, who is better than Sammy, who is better than Ki.
But it still don’t explain why i is actin like a chicken…
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2010 Never Again
Perhaps you are in a fowl mood <:-))
Fortunes Favour Mibbes:
Oddly, although I don’t class them as our “allies” any more than you do, I do think they’ll have a role to play in what happens to Rangers, and it won’t be a fraternal “all brothers in hunnery” role.
I think they would cut Rangers’ throat in two seconds flat if they could, maybe even faster than we would. They are already the SPL’s established “third force.” A shot at the second prize isn’t something they’d pass on.
It would be far too difficult for them to get away with it. Scotland’s honourable legal system and proud history of Masonic Freedom are enough to guarantee that every institution in Scotland is above board, especially football clubs with debt problems gargantuan in terms of their mean cashflows.
I have no clue about the Hearts thing.
But… He owns a bank, Edinburgh is a major financial centre, and he has a way in…
Ha!
I wondered what we’d talk about if Thems were gone.
Easy.
Just the next one on the list.
Hearts.
http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/topic/8307122/1/
Rascar Capac:
Yeah that’s true enough …
He actually owns a team in Belarus as well, and a basketball team too …
An odd man.
2010 Never Again
Swinecastle must be worth a few bob to a developer. Look how much Ibrox is valued at.
£1.8 BILLION!!!!
Jesus this guy could buy the SPL ten times over with that much stolen money!
Why didn’t Murray get into that racket? Ha!
Losses are better as they are not taxable.
James Forrest @ 02:48
That’s an interesting one, and i think you’re right. It was up to the SFA to keep them on board last year and to date…maybe now, Mad Vlad can see an opportunity…but to be honest, that is as terrifying as any possibility.
The Edinburgh huns are growing more predominant and more evil imo. It’s hard to compare without the figures (er…Alex S, can we see them???), but between a group of 10 people, we have seen several vocal anti-Irish attacks (including one on me, which was very close to me being attacked alone by 3 of them, in broad daylight in Edin CC), and a physical assault in Edinburgh in the last 4 months on a Celtic fan in a Hibs pub by an ex hun player, with the lhad hospitalised and in a bad way. Edinburgh has always had an anti-Catholic element, but it has grown seriously vicious in recent years. Why?? Has Mad Vlad seen the value of the bigot pound? Is the dying venom of the meeja rags?? Maybe a number of things, but it’s very real, and very frightening.
Which is why, although disgusted at the Hibees singing abuse at Lenny, it only lasted a few seconds before being booed down by the rest of their support. But with the rest of Scottish football, we’re a generation or 2 away from finding common sense. Well done Keevins and co – scum.