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.
Fancy writing an article for the next edition of CQN Magazine, due out after the Spartak game? Get in touch, celticquicknews@gmail.com.
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6 men arrested for shouting religiously offensive abuse at #Hearts v #Celtic game bailed on condition of not attending any matches.
Nice one Jobo, happy st Andrews day.
001 Bhoy aye he just KiK’d me re the same.
I told him to screw the nut as he’s there to work.
Whit am I like CSC
Ps I know you’ll look after him amigo!
Test
Ach never worked. Bliddy HTML
Vmhan
CFC or mini Huns ?
The polis have become very excited about football of late …principally due to the new ” offensive behaviour at football ” act ….
They pushed hard for this from the Scottish govt and are determined to use these powers
They’d rather hassle a handful of fans from other clubs or the GBrather than tackle the Hun organised religiously prejudicial singing
Frankly, in these austere times its nothing short of a waste of money …it’s all politics tho
Happy International Football Inauguration Football Match 140th Anniversary Day Type Thing.
:-)
Blog was very lurkful last night.
Morning,
I see Stokes has posted a tweet he received about getting a bullet in the head.
In Salmondland shooting a Celtic player will probably only get you 6 months and it will be a majority verdict.
KITALBA
Again,my thanks for THE MICHAEL COLLINS STORY.
Tragic,in so many ways,the division of former comrades and of a people so recently united.
It further proves that politics is a dirty business.
And that pragmatism is seldom the easy option that it appears to be.
CELTIC are lining up a move for Iran international striker Karim Ansarifard.
The 22-year-old has won 34 caps, and topped his home country’s goalscoring list with 21 last season.
Hoops boss Neil Lennon now wants the
Persepolis frontman, and sources in Tehran claim Parkhead officials have made two approaches for Ansarifard.
FIFA’s website named the powerful centre-
forward in January as one of the players to
watch in 2012, and respected World Soccer
magazine chose him alongside Jack Wilshire and Javier Hernandez as among the brightest young talents in football.
ASONOFDAN
Got a feeling they would push for acquittal on grounds of Justifiable Homicide.
More to the point,will the Twittertwat be traced and charged? Or is that a blinkin’ stupid question?
Singapore Celt.
If u are still on, do u know somewhere that will be open late and showing the spartak game next week? First visit to singapore so looking for advice please.
Indio
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Indio..
Bojangles Arcadia Road Singapore
Summa
Scottish Cup Record v Arbroath
25/01/1902 AWAY W 3-2 Campbell, Orr, McMahon 6,000
08/02/1913 HOME W 4-0 Johnstone 2, Gallacher, Brown 12,000
16/02/1929 HOME W 4-1 McGrory 4 7,000
01/02/1930 HOME W 5-0 McGrory 2, R Thomson, A Thomson, Scarff 6,500
28/01/1967 HOME W 4-0 Murdoch (13), Gemmell (19), Chalmers (33), Auld (80) 31,000
P 5 W 5 D 0 L 0 F 20 A 3
WINNINGEMMELL
Worrying wee stat,that one.
No Celtic team,apart from THE LISBON LIONS,has ever won the cup after defeating Arbroath.
On the other hand,it might be an omen….
Ah,stats,eh? Just numbers for spinners.
WG
Interesting Stuff
Indio
Sorry but we are not aware of any bar/pub in Singapore staying open till 2.45 am to show the Celtic v Spartak game. The first game in Moscow was shown but that was a midnight S’Pore time KO. The Singtims pub, Bojangles on Arcadia road is not showing the game.
When you arrive in Singapore you can check the Singtel Mio programme guide and see if they are showing this match.
Good luck
timoot – Singapore CSC.
Whither the cash strapped scrofulous hillbillies, and their scrofulous cash strapped cuzz, the day?
Ole Jimmy Mcgrory could smoke the ole Smokies.
That’s the CQN annual ordered, any chance you could sign it Paul :-) never know what it might be worth a few years down the line.
Hail hail
I’m curious about the attendances for the home Cup games in 1929 and 1930.
Was Scottish football in the throes of yet another Armageddon?
..or is it just that fholk were skint?
Mornin.
Some fascinating photos here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20351012
timoot58:
I was thinking about you this weekend past. One of our own was making his way home via Singapore and was wondering if he’d be able to catch the Hearts game.
Hope we sign the Persian wunderkind.
There’d be half a dozen places to watch the Bhoys on the Edgware Road in no time at all…
HH
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS:
Not many chapters left to go.
Summa. Thanks, i know bojangles is the home of the singtims, but not sure it would be open at that time. No mention of it on their facebook page. Might have to rely on a stream to my laptop.
Indio
Indio:
If you are stuck but have access to an on-line PC, drop me an e-mail and we’ll see that you’re sorted.
Morning all
I am shivering with excitement at the feast of footy which awaits us this weekend. The mighty Celtics against the mighty Arbroaths. The record-breaking Sevco International against Elgin of the North. And the famous Edinburgh Derby: Edinburgh against Edinburgh.
What larks!
Timoot.
Thanks for ur helpful advice. Gutted to b missing the game back home, but cant complain about the hot weather out here.
Looks like trying to get the game on my laptop.
Indio
Kitalba.
Excellent. Thanks.
Tried to stream the hearts game from saigon but got nowhere.
Great help from cqn. Thanks guys.
Indio
Morning all. Bright and crisp here today.
I hope our manager gives playing time to the likes of Miku and Lassad and McGeough ahead of Wednesday. I think we should also play the rest of our likely starting line up, so that a revamped midfield get a chance of playing together.
it’s a well known 100% made up fact that Persepolitan goal machine Karim Ansarifard is 1.863567245672m tall [approx].
Sports Direct Arena?
Sports Direct in Argyle Street has white sheet hanging above door.
STOCK LIQUIDATION SALE
lol!!!!!
ASonOfDan:
That is a joke isn’t it?
winningemmell @ 08:20 on our Scottish Cup Record v Arbroath.
If one was an Arbroath fan one might be fogiven for thinking that the ol’ hot ball/cold ball theory has some substance.
I mean: 6 cup ties against Celtic and drawn at home on only 1 of them?
Can you imagine how animated some conspiracy theorists would get if the same ratio were the other way around?
Anyway, looks like it’s shaoing up to be 4-0 to the goods guys (+ or – a goal).
FF
Folly, folly- something fishy goin’ on?
TOOTING TIM
Did you enjoy the match on Wednesday?
The pub?
The company?
Intending to do similar a week on Saturday.
Might just visit the wee vinyl shop behind the station,next to The Ram pub.
They have some interesting items,to say the least….
KITALBA 0852
Good man-might just get a Kindle,what with all this book-reading electronically.
Canny resist technology ad infinitum,you know.