High expectations, the day the season pivoted

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Luis Palma’s 87th minute goal should have been enough to secure the win at our visit to Fir Park in September.  Incredibly, Motherwell’s equaliser 8 minutes later was not enough for them to take a point.  A game which couldn’t produce a goal for so long, ended with a flurry.

Almost two months later, the winner that day, scored by Matt O’Riley, feels like it is going to be one of the most important goals of the season.  Not only did it secure another two points for Celtic, it punctured the pre-match mood 15 miles away at Ibrox.  There, the early crowd came alive at news of Motherwell’s 95th minute equaliser.  The O’Riley goal sapped energy out of the stadium.  Barry Robson’s side scored three and took the same number of points back home to Aberdeen.  If ever a season pivoted on a day…..

I like Stuart Kettlewell.  The Motherwell manager is a talent waiting for a bigger platform.  His achievements in Dingwall were under-appreciated, but they love him in Lanarkshire, for now, anyway.

We return to Celtic Park after the last of the autumn international breaks, desperate to see Celtic, desperate to push through a season with so much promise.  Being eight points ahead and going into a period with predominantly home games, expectations are high.

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  1. bigrailroadblues on

    The hun. Commanding all msm. Step out of line your family and property will be attacked. As Bruce Hornsby wrote “that’s just the way that it is “

  2. Not sure rangers were on Tv last night. I did notice in the background that Celtic were covered a fair bit on Scottish news then.

  3. St Stivs .

     

    In answer to your earlier question –

     

    Playing for keeps .

     

    George Dryer , what a man

  4. Celtic F.C. v Motherwell F.C.

     

    cinch Premiership

     

    25/11/2023 3:00pm Celtic Park

     

    Referee:Steven McLean

     

    AR1

     

    David Roome

     

    AR2

     

    Steven Traynor

     

    Fourth Official

     

    George Calder

     

    VAR

     

    David Dickinson

     

    AVAR

     

    Gary Hilland

  5. ADI_DASSLER

     

     

    Aberdeen v Rangers is Sky’s main live TV event in the Premiership this weekend so they push that as their priority.

  6. glendalystonsils on

    Celtic F.C. v Motherwell F.C.

     

     

    cinch Premiership

     

     

    25/11/2023 3:00pm Celtic Park

     

     

    Referee: A hun

     

     

    AR 1: A hun

     

    AR2: Another hun

     

     

    Fourth Official: Yet another hun

     

     

    VAR: A right hun

     

    AVAR: You’ve guessed it .

  7. Navigation buttons at top and bottom of each page not working. Can only get to last page by posting a comment. Anyone else?

  8. After the latest nonsense about VAR, I think the time has come for Celtic to simply refuse to condone the blatant cheating by refusing to contribute to VAR unless a truly independent review of VAR’s workings in Scotland is undertaken.

  9. Ref navigation issues

     

     

    Anything weird I found happening on the site

     

     

    Especially the logged out just after logging in

     

     

    Is generally fixed by refreshing the page one or 2 times

     

     

    Think it’s something to do with the caching plugin….

     

     

    Just dropped in

     

     

    Just dropping out now

  10. Prestonpans bhoys on

    Tomorrow not going to the game cause full of the cold and next weekend up to the caravan since not been there for 5 weeks!

  11. MODERATOR1888

     

     

    PARKHEADCUMSALFORD

     

     

    I turned off my adblocker and the navigation buttons worked. I then reactivated adblocker and the problem returned.

     

     

    Without adblocker the blog becomes virtually unusable.

  12. THEBHOYFROMU.N.C.L.E on 24TH NOVEMBER 2023 5:19 PM

     

    The huns of Naverone

     

     

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    That’s the winner TBFU…

     

     

     

    Loving all the Celtic-related films (eve tho they’re off-brief for what SS said) so am playing catch-up

     

    Here’s mair…

     

     

     

    ARTUR

     

    HART OF DARKNESS

     

    GET CARTER (VICKERS)

     

    LEAVING LAS VEGA

     

    MAGIC MAIK

     

    BLAME IT ON REO

     

    BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWON

     

    LIFE OF (O)RILEY

     

    DROP DEAD GEORGIOUS

     

    PETTA THAN CHOCOLATE

     

    PATON PLACE

     

    MAEDA IN DAGENHAM

     

    KENNY

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