When they dispensed with Unai Emeri last weekend, Spartak Moscow brought to an end an experiment to bring sophistication to their team. New caretaker manager, Valeriy Karpin, was manager immediately before Emeri, was also the man who appointed Emeri and stood over him as general manager of the club since moving from the dugout in the summer.
Karpin relies more on his strong, authoritative, personality than tactical innovation, which is likely to mean we face a more disciplined team in Glasgow next week that we faced in Moscow – there will be no brothel at the back.
My main concern is that the Kilmarnock/St Johnstone/Inverness tactics of defending solidly and taking their chances when going forward is perfectly suited for Karpin’s Spartak. Against Benfica and Barcelona at home, Neil Lennon played it tight and incredibly tight respectively, which proved to be excellent decisions. He has a huge call to make against Spartak, playing an adventurous game could leave us exposed.
This result is not to be taken for granted.
CQN Annual – perfect Christmas present
It was some comfort to see Celtic back on form last night, especially down the flanks, which were crucial in Moscow and could prove to be so again next week. Hopefully the knocks and strains which have hampered the squad in recent weeks are beginning to fade ahead of our Christmas Cup Final.
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Off to bed, mucho trabajo in a few hours.
This girl brings tears to my eyes, she is unbelievable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaWLsgxDzuw
Im more of a Mickey Newbury fan. American Trilogy and that!! But Iain plays a great selection of music.
THE EXILED TIM 00:36
Molten Lurgy, place up by Wishaw, or sumfin.
That or ML2 the post code up by that way.
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EN
That makes sence, cheers :>)
TET, I hear you bruv, that’s the times I was given (and I mean given). I’ll see if I can make day 1 a bit later. They tell me they are busy but I’ll try and make it a bit later.
Failing that, drink less, and get tae yer bed. We have a whipersnatcher to beat.
Where’s ma pal FFM?
Saint Stivs
You get a name check on P160 of the CQN Annual.
ACGoR
Nay bother, but please try :>)
Let me know the name of the course, I’m sure I can do sumthin.
Oooooh A up the RA, I dont think so.
Times have changed lets drop this pish, it does us no favors. It’s time to move on and distance ourselves from our dead enemy.
Gloating over the corpse is fun but do we need to sing about it?
Just watching Rangers vs Huachipato.
Currently nil nil.
Is this one of them Rangers International teams ?
Huachipato score.
This will make the Gers bid to climb into the top flight all the more difficult surely.
Rangers striker misses sitter.
Fans chant “Sebo, Sebo….”
It’s a universal thing.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust = The drunken desperate remains of a dead club 01:22
Aye good attempt, your club is dead, the funeral was months ago, stop going round the doors begging for attention as if the funeral is still lingering on, its over, sober up and realise that. They are gone, let. it. go.
For your own good just let it go and go doon the road, no use in keep going on about it, crying and trying to upset happy successull folk like Celtic supporters.
If you want a couple of cans let us know, but be on your way back down the park. You go with our best wishes that one day you might have another wee daft team to try and support. I hear theres a wee tribute club started up down in division 3, look them up on Google, they dont register on the Google I have here.
But good luck, in all you do, I wish you and what ever team you find to support now all the very best, Im like that with the wee teams, like to see them do well.
Estadio Nacional
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nwl20/BBC_Radio_1s_Essential_Mix_Hardwell/
Essential mix from last week by a guy called Hardwell, usually only listen to dance music now when I’m having a drink. Hardwell is playing a pretty good set
I’m loving the music I’m hearing from the 50s/60s from one of the dudes in work who has an unbelievable music collection and an excellent industrial music centre. Theres something in that I tell ya. ;))
“Ooo Aah Samaras!” How long before THAT is deemed ‘offensive’? Give an inch, and that shower will take it all.
There are so many things I could say, but sometimes it’s best to just keep yer powder dry.
That thing you feel stir within you at times, almost like anger, when confronted by the bigotry of the terminally thick fluttering their offensively intended butcher’s aprons is not just a reaction to personal history, joint history, received history; it’s genetic memory, burned into the dna, visceral and real. It’s who we are, and where we came from.
Aye, many of us are so much more comfortable than those who arrived on shores, far-flung and near. But we know our history, we know the struggles that it took to bring our consciousness to this point in time, and we do not discard that, bow the knee, to keep the hun happy. No way.
Petec 01:58
Cheers, I cant access iPlayer thing the now, poor wifi situation plus blocked bbc content but Ive bookmarked it, still trying to find a way to watch the first Limmy show of the new series, thats top of my list.
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Estadio Nacional you posted to me at 01.42 with some sort of weak gibberish post intimating that I am of a hunnish nature?
Are you a hun? are you thick? Are you on drugs?
I’ve got no idea why you would get on my back with the hun gig, but I think you would do wise to give it up.
FFS and they call us paranoid
Hail Hail Bruv.
Ah I get it now.
Estadio Nacional = The one who wants to hang on to the war in Ireland like it’s not over.
You want to keep it going and bring it to our football team on a daily basis and shout about the glory of the death of a few thousand proddies.
Well, estadio, thats your shout, but I support Celtic not some dead political ideal.
Are you a cretin or are you on the right side of redeemable?
Estadio Nacional
A Dave Clarke essential mix from 94.
What a first track, ;))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMteevQ8av4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1-dS84bx3U
Actually, that post is nothing short of despicable Estadio, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Shocking, last week it was Fmm, this week it’s Estadio. Who’s next to be outed by me as a complete and utter tosser?
It’s not my job, but we do have some bad uns……………………………….:-(
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
You keep pushing that unbased agenda, I have never mentioned Ireland in any of my posts over the years here and dont even know the words to any songs as Irish is not a strong part of my family history. Strange that you assume Im Irish and Catholic, strange that.
My family history is also much like Jock Stein, Our European Cup winning manager from Blantyre so your introduction of religion really is as pointless as the club formally known as rangers.
To you Im a cretin, Im very proud of that.
A ‘Celtic man’ claiming ‘we have some bad uns’
Thats an old one, mind them that used to come on here with that? Cant remember the team they supported, daft wee delusional mob that were in with the referees, glasgow rovers FC? was that them? Some thing like that, my memory is murder.
PeteC 02:34
Classic, got that mix somewhere. belter, I need download to listen to a full thing like that mix, the sites for them seem to have been done in. Im standing by my Weatheral 93 Mix at thee World Champion only to be played on special occasions.
By the way, aye, thats a cracker of a tune. Thanks
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This fella is funny
FFS as an older and perhaps more reasonable cqn poster why is it that if I dont want to sing about the IRA the UDA or any of the attrocities of the last forty years , am I labled a hun?
F****K the IRA & UDA and irish politics, it’s a CELTIC!!!!!! blog.
Thankyou and here’s to the wall
ACGR
AWRIGHT,TROOPS?
Just about to settle down for a bit wi a few sherbets-not many,out again first thing to run my hun mate to the bus station-so just gonna read back in a mo.
Any wee disagreements in my absence?
Ooops just saw the rest of this page-should make some interesting reading,then!
Life is so much more fun with CQN-UMB than with the run-of-the-mill CQN-Lite…..
I wonder if we can persuade THE BOULD BHOYS to make a guest appearance?
Not seen any Irish politics mentioned in the past days pages yet its just been mentioned, you would think you were starved of a rival and trying to find controversy.
Stirling Albion have a better record that your wee daft club, go moan that their fans were singing William Wallace songs that offended you or something.
Let it go wee man and go to your bed.
Estadio, I really couldnt give a toss about your family history. You attack me at 01.42 and call me a hun. Please provide evidence to support your stupidity or GTF.
I’ll wait till you provide some evidence. I’m up all night for this one so lets have it. Cmon, give us a laugh.
Repost my hunnish postings / postset / wordings /…………………………….a single word?
Naw, I dont think you’ll manage that.
Hail Hail Bruv, I salute your stupidity.
A CEILER GONOF RUST 0253
Just before I read back,I agree 100% with your point about the last 40 years,although we should always remember why the PIRA took up arms in the first place.
I have no problem admitting to not singing songs relating to that era-gave them up 30 years ago.
I still love the Rebel Songs,though-you couldnae get on our bus in those days unless you were word-perfect.
I like to think that I am following the crowd on this for a change,and that that is the default position for most Celtic fans.
ESTADIO NACIONAL included,from what I recall of his previous contributions to the songs debates.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
The man that made howling at the moon cool, I give you……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_reM36N0_E
A Ceiler Gonof Rust 03:03
01:42 Post I did not mention hun, not that its offensive, considering the alternatives you should consider it a compliment.
‘Provide evidence you are a ‘hun'”?
Didnt say you were. Ive never accused anybody of being a hun here, they point themselves out, no need for me or others to point fingers.
Your posts are there for people to read, its up to them what they think, I have read them, I have questioned them and I find you funny, thanks for the laughs. Appreciate it.
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That was mean’t to be a full stop rather than a comma btw. oops!!!!!!!
PeteC
Brillaint mix.
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Oops!!!!!!! even. ;))
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS 03:05
Dont include me in any mention of songs debates previous or current, Ive never been part of them in all my time on here. Not my thing so keep me out of it mate.
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Estadio, please explain your post to me me at 01.42. What does that mean?
I’ll happily let it go if you can explain that one to me, But, you’re inferior intellect excuses you from a proper debate.
So, I’m a hun.
Oops
Estadio Nacional
You do know my subsequent comment makes you look prophetically sarcastic. ;))
Thats a quality attribute btw. You putting any bets on soon? ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKkr29EGc-Y
P. Sorry mate, I just nipped in, first time in ages, didnt know it was like this.
The quality, or sometimes lack of quality of the Celtic support is astononishing.
Sometimes we’re up and sometimes we’re down.
But to be called a hun by a fellow tim on this site is actually quite funny. It tells me we have some nutters in our support and I like that.
I’ll KTF