This time last year there was far too much talk about trebles on these pages. Celtic were flying in all three competitions, having established a lead in the league, and were heading for a League Cup semi-final against Falkirk. Falkirk were beaten but it took a late Anthony Stokes goal to make the game safe for Celtic. The script was written; a final against Kilmarnock, who always bottled it against Celtic in Glasgow, and a successful run in the Scottish Cup was all that stood between us and the fourth treble in our history.
I’ve lost count of how many such trebles we’ve look forward to. Football has a way of promising lots but it takes an exceptionally good and consistent team to win both cup competitions, as well as the league. More often than not, great and dominant teams don’t win the treble.
Celtic are a great and exciting team but they have not been nearly consistent enough to win the treble this season. We have lost two from eight home games and two from seven away. Good enough to win the league but not to win two cups.
I watched a bit of St Mirren at home to Ross County before heading to Celtic Park last weekend. They were far from impressive but no less so than when we beat them by seven goals in the SPL four years ago. The following week the same team knocked us out of the Scottish Cup.
Sunday is one of the biggest games currently on the roster. Raise your game, Celtic.
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Have never heard someone quite as shifty as the SFA referee guy speaking on BBC Sportsound. McKendrick was appalling. Kenny Shiels blew the SFA appeals panel to pieces. McKendrick called a man “you cannot trust” live on radio by an ex ref. truly an explosive interview.
jimmci
Mason’s fighten wae Mason’s, couldnae make it up, awe they appeals upheld.
Awerabest PJ
From hunmedia:
“Every week before a game i think to myself, right last week was a blip but ally will have kicked some baws and worked on some different things all week in training so we will come out and destroy these diddy teams, and every week it’s the same p*sh, and the next week I think the same scenario and that we will click and start actually playing football. But no, still the same rank rotten sh*e for 6 months now. There really is no excuse now”
Marvellous, ha ha. They seem to forget they themselves are in fact now……………….a diddy team.
Radio shortbread…………..incredible.
jimmci
18:28 on
26 January, 2013
Have never heard someone quite as shifty as the SFA referee guy speaking on BBC Sportsound. McKendrick was appalling. Kenny Shiels blew the SFA appeals panel to pieces. McKendrick called a man “you cannot trust” live on radio by an ex ref. truly an explosive interview.
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what was brilliant was that mckendrik tried to smoozle the guy “allright wullie, we go back a long way, we disagree on things but hey ho, thats the system”
then the guy says
“john mckendrik is a man that cannot be trusted”
bloody magic
I look forward to the Kenny Shiels BBC Sportsound link later.
I know I’ve posted this before, but I love Yeats, and his words are of the eternal kind. A great Irish man and the sworn enemy of Alesteir Crowley. What’s not to like?
Relevant.
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
Welcome to the world of the Irish mystic philosopher poet, Chawlls, you poor example of humanity.
I find that I’m having more and more time for Kenny Shiells. He has shown up the SFA and the appeals tribunal for what it is…… A sham.Dishonest , at that . Something we have known for years and exposed , be it from the flag flutter to Farrygate , to the penalty award/non award at Tannadice, to NFL being the only casualty of the fracas with Sally.
I really despair for Scottish Football as is seems to me rotten to the core!
Hail Hail
Ps. Guaranteed balancing act by ref tomorrow for the final. Pretty certain a couple of our key players will find the book
Wonder if Kenny Shiels interview tonight will provide us with a sequel to Dougiegate?
Will be interesting to see if Cosgrove investigates this further – after all he has the ear of another manager who is having his problems with the SFA Disciplinary Panel.
The ex-Ref who phoned-in seems to have a dossier and an axe to grind!
And get this wrapped around ye an’ aw:
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
will hope for a win tomorrow knowing we’ll be playing hearts in final. anyone know the financial reward for reaching the league cup final?
hopefully heart will benefit with a few 100k added to the 400k for the sale of mcgowan and they should have enough money to pay bills until the end of season when the can downsize their squad/ wage bill and address their debt
if they went the way of rangers, you know sevco would be screaming we need to fast track etc etc… for the good of scottish football as if!!!!!!!!!11
so a good weekend for scottish football on the whole, if you ask me
Good goal rooney
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
I seen they were SQUEALING about the fat sleekit coward,loaning a boy “hemmings “out and he is scoring at a higher level than them.
div 1 or 2
miki67
Great stuff..
Goal Hernandez 3-0
HH
My best pal has just made a valid observation ..
Re the Facade Bricks at CREDIT DOME..
Is the old RAN£&&@ FC set in the bricks, not a breach of trades description?
Great point I think.. Why is it not covered with a plastic sign made in Signs R Us
Saying THE Rankers.. ?
My campaign shall commence now..
If not they need to put up a
CLOSING DOWN SALE…
Like JJB, Comet, HMV will do..
Aye there s laws for them and laws for the rest of us…
HH
re Shortbread
McKendrick was called “a man who cannot be trusted” by a an ex refereee who said he had all his paperwork/documentation and all the shortbread pundit (not stuart Cosgrove) could do was apologise to John McKendrick. No request for proof or justification from the caller.
Hunbelievable!
I do believe Chawlls has elevated himsel’ to the head of the evilly banal triumvirate of Green, Jabba and fat sadsack Sally, as they spin in gleeful folly folly towards an ignominious demise in The Asbestoxic Dome of misery.
………..been ouitside all day – building a ‘Summer House’ ( shed)…….
haven’t seen any results yet……..
………anything of note?
:)
HH
The thing that amazed me most as I think about the Sheils interview on Shortbread was that Tom English was very keen for Sheils to move on. I would have thought this type of interview would have been a written press reporter’s dream. There was enough there for a few weeks of digging, analysis and comment. Maybe the pull on the apron was just too strong. Will also be interesting to see how much is removed when posted on the Iplayer.
Screw you hesitant handwringers – I am taking things for granted and expect our sizzling young team to hump the Paisley Sympathisers by 3 clear and look forward to a raging violation of the Mini Zombies in the final.
PositiveOutlookCSC.
Is Kelvin available for tomorrow
I find it amazing the conflicting reporting on the hun leaving the field of play.
Snyde…the deadco fans applaud Montrose as they leave the park.
Shortbread… deadco fans boo their team of the park.
So who am i to believe?
Have to go for Shortbread even though it came from chicko.
shortbread tonite providing a platform for some serious sfa bashing
oh dear
well done Kenny -GIRUT
Wullie from Symington – BOOOMmmmmm!
Dog eat dog
Next please..
Chuckle, chuckle, Chuckle. Again, from rm:
“My f*#&^g dog would be able to deliver the 3rd division title with these players we have, being top of the league has been used as an excuse for McCoist for far to long”.
Oh deary me, all is not well in hundom.
ficklehunsdotcom
For miki67 An exerpt from corkcelt’s poem of the week.
Was it needless death after all?
For England may keep faith
For all that is done and said.
We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in a verse –
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
With the rangers getting booed off the park yet again today is that a new world record for the number of times a team has been booed off the park by their own fans? Must be close and in this instance think we should give them the benefit of the doubt – well done the new rangers!
Hugh Keevin’s Daily Recod August 2012
Rangers are facing glorified Junior teams in the third division. They will go through the entire programme without losing a match and wont need to resort to strong-arm tactics. Ally McCoist has a side who are miles better than the teams they will meet.
miki67
18:36 on 26 January, 2013
I know I’ve posted this before, but I love Yeats, and his words are of the eternal kind. A great Irish man and the sworn enemy of Alesteir Crowley.
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Didn’t know that, miki. Thanks. Reading a bit about Crowley and the Golden Dawn just now.
Hernandez goal 4-0 and Burley talking p*sh.
Paul67 et al
Neil Lennon’s Celtic have not won yet the Cups that the team is capable of, but the League Cup will be an absolute priority after losing last years final, to Kenny Shiels Killie. Shiels outsmarted him, with Celtic denied a stonewall Stokes penalty to take the game into extra time. Likewise against Hearts, in the SC semi, never in front, referee gets chance to be game changer, and takes it. Keep the decision making away fro the officials tomorrow, and we will be in the final in March. One game, and one cup, at a time.
Auld keevins knows his footie – fud
There’s some top notch hun on hun action going on over on sevco media if you can stand the putrid stench of death.
The ex ref who called in has previously been on snyde and had intimated that he indeed does have a dossier that the sfa would not want divulged.
Fight them to the end Kenny Shiels we are with you.
Willie from Symington…..come on board
Belfast Huns being humped as well. Its 3 nil now. A bloody enjoyable game to watch.
Good goal there for Cliftonville.
Corkcelt
4-0