Here is a prediction for you, Wednesday’s Champions League game at Celtic Park will not end with 22 players on the field. Spartak and Celtic are both enduring awful form at the moment but with different characteristics. The accusation against Celtic (valid or otherwise) is that they have failed to apply themselves sufficiently to overcome opponents. Spartak, on the other hand, stand accused of indiscipline.
Zenit drove the proverbial horse and cart through their midfield on Friday night. Two goals were conceded to players who carried the ball to the edge of the area and shot unchallenged, but Spartak went down running, kicking, heading, kicking and kicking. Their failure is clearly not a lack of desire. Celtic can use this indiscipline to their advantage. Know to expect late or illegal challenges but don’t rise to the bait.
An hour into the corresponding game in Moscow Spartak were 2-1 ahead having lost 3-2 to two late goals in the Camp Nou in the previous game. At that point Spartak were in the box seat to qualify for the knockout stage. A professional foul on Gary Hooper destroyed that position as they were reduced to 10 men and Celtic thundered back to win the game. One momentary lapse in discipline on Wednesday night could cost either team.
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The loss of two goals through the middle on Friday will hopefully give interim coach, Valery Karpin, cause for confusion. Celtic destroyed Spartak on the wings in Moscow, something we would expect them to tactically adjust for on Wednesday, but this recent loss might have them pondering which defensive frailty to concentrate on.
Aiden McGeady made his first team return as a second half substitute after a six week injury lay off. He is a player who will be as much at home as any of the rest of us on Wednesday so I’d prefer he missed out on this occasion.
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Kojo will be bathing in the attention- his saving grace is that he would admit to it…some idiotic views all the same!!
Ntassoolla
Where is that if you don’t mind me asking?
Im thinking of immigrating.
Ntasoolla
You would have to be severely obtuse not to notice the casual equation of lots of Muslims = Sharia Law.
Classic bogeyman stories.
Classic failure to individuate.
Classic failure to appreciate any difference between all shades of Islam.
Bit like confusing the practices of the Inquisition with Liberation Theology
If you cannot work out that the poor commit most “recorded’ crime and that immigrant communities are disproportionately found in poor areas, you will continue to draw false conclusions from data.
No-one needs “TELT”. That smacks of authoritarianism.
Explaining and articulating disagreements is the way forward.
I’d a friend who lived in Brussels for 3 yrs. For his wife walking through the Arab quarter was simply not an option.
Ntassoolla,
Would referring to inter-racial unions as ‘crossing thoroughbreds with plough-horses’ be regarded as racist in your book ?
The Mynah Bird makes Alf Garnett sound like Tony Benn.
SFTB
Precisely!
ttt
My humblest appols :>)
Aye, the blog gets on the mams at times :>)
BUT, I just bide the time, tis all noted for a later day
Mrs j worked in one of the local Catholic primary schools and they often sorry very often had non Catholics come in to enrol their child because it was rated one of best in the area. Parents would often say that they didnt want their child to be in the R E classes. But the headmistress told them straight that every child in her school joins in the R E classes.
You didnt mess with her!!
ntassoolla
You’re getting TELT… Right wing racist views are not acceptable on this site…
izzy @ 00:17 on 4 December, 2012
“Ntassoolla
Where is that if you don’t mind me asking?
Im thinking of immigrating.”
Since you ask my advice may I suggest North Korea for a year. A six month stop off in Iran on the way back followed by a fortnight in Albania and then you’ll recognise the country I am talking about. Bon voyage.
I lived in Wishaw for 5 years and my wife couldn’t walk through the main street after dark either
TET how could I enlighten you on someone absurd assertion?
SiciliaBhoy
I went to school in Wishaw and couldn’t go down the Main St. at lunchtime without getting attacked!
SPF
Siciliabhoy
I played football for Blantyre teams as a bhoy.. After games in Wishaw.. We couldn’t walk through the streets in Daylight. :-)
Together 50 years today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxBKgOyMzSc&list=AL94UKMTqg-9C4ZGh_AZ_peeHPykWDhdDk&index=1&feature=plcp
Cults
I am what I am, I try and be the best I can be, do unto others is what I have tried all my life to live by, I think in the main I have managed that.
TET
Evening amigo
Hope all is well with Mrs TET and the cave.
Picked starry up at the airport and a fine fellow he is, speaks highly of you, so I know he is a good guy.
What are you doing for the game on Wednesday?
Hoping a few of the bhoys meet up in Merchant City for a wee bit o grub and a libation.
Kikinthenakas …..who wants to talk about Celtic….
Night all mark 2
If Catholics and Protestants in Scotland attacked each other in proportion to their numbers, one would expect 18% of the victims to be Protestant.
If the stat of 40% Protestant victims is true, then Catholics are way more than twice as likely to carry out a sectarian attack.
Cults,
Far from being an uber smarty pants, the Mynah Bird is as thick as 2 short planks.
Have you never figured out why he speaks the Oor Wullie & the Broons nonsense.
Take a look at his posts when he tries to speak English. He is barely literate.
He is a flim-flam artist…& a nasty one at that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxBKgOyMzSc&list=AL94UKMTqg-9C4ZGh_AZ_peeHPykWDhdDk&index=1&feature=plcp
Ah know Its that Winningemmell feeling
Sheer terror!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gawn yersel son
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eOIU9ekSMk
Classic!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CWIIoSf4nw
SiciliaBhoy @00:23 on 4 December, 2012.
“I lived in Wishaw for 5 years and my wife couldn’t walk through the main street after dark either”
You employ false and tedious arguments. My friend’s wife was not safe because she was white European? Is that why your wife was not safe?
Again. Where is the racism in kojo’s posts?
setting free the bears, Well done on your last couple of posts, they have been rational measured and very well put and that is the way to respond to over the top rantings of right wing extremists. Kojo seems to get away with a lot of stuff just cos he posts in a funny unique style. However the contents of his posts are no laughing matter and if they did get into the public domain would show this site in a very bad light. Like every other race or religion, the vast vast majority of Muslims are decent respectable people. IMO to talk about them in the manner that Kojo did is most certainly racist and is indefensible.
Ntassoolla
00:25 on
4 December, 2012
TET how could I enlighten you on someone absurd assertion?
…………………………….
With all due respect mi amigo…..any chance you can break the post down to something I can understand, no wishing to be pernickty, but I really don’t have a clue what you mean.
I you are talking about the Judean masons, I really want to be educated, I know very little about them, I would know a thing or to about the scottish masons mind you, you would find it hard to enlighten me about them, but the Judean ones, please enlighten me.
Ntassoola
Ooh
That was a jagged response. North Korea sounds nice tho. Im sure I won’t be discriminated for wearing the ole Hoops there.
Cheers.
Ps
WTF is a ntassoola if you don’t mind me asking??
This site is full of accusation and assertion, cut and paste. But has very little in the way of people who attempt to think.
Wasn’t there a report that the Daily Ranger was to shed jobs on the sports desk s few months ago?So Jabba may have got his redundancy money and taken a job with the loves of his life, and can afford to take a cut in wages, and maybe needs must, because there wont be too many breaking his door down to offer him jobs with the standard of his journalism. Hopefully Keevins will be following him through the door as well, he can go back to his roots in Ballymote, Co. Sligo, maybe even get a job on the Sligo Champion.
Mon the Hoops against Spartak Moscow on Wednesday night, a win for Celtic and Barca is what I’m praying for. Hail. Hail. G.B.N.L.
It’s an anagram of last saloon.
And a girls’s name. In Greece.
My friend’s wife was not safe because she was white European?
Well was she?
Sniff sniff
BZZZZZZZZ
Was that a response to little ole me ?
francisgeraldallen there are constant cuts. The pension scheme is paid up and fully funded so jabba should be okay in his retirement. I’m sure you’ll sleep so much better tonight now that you know that.
Could be one and the same thing after a drunk night out in athens
Ntasoola
Try responding when you get a response.
I explained why Kojo had veered from being anti-religious into racism.
You have ducked your response but go on saying no one is answering your points
Yes izzy. To you. I was working on the assumption you’d be able to figure that last saloon is an anagram of Ntassoolla. Have I overestimated you?