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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snake
will be borrowing your stone roses comments mate if you dont mind .
good stuff.:-)
No not at all,probably the only way he will get tims to read him though.
The tax decision .
HMRC said they knew they could appeal .
HMRC said they might appeal..
HMRC appear to know that they have to ask the decision making tribunal for permission to make an appeal .
HMRC appear to know that they need to cite the reasons why they wish to appeal .
HMRC appear to know that they can apply to the UTT for permission to appeal .
HMRC appear to know that they have to do certain things within a certain time limit ….
HMRC’s solicitors will be busy doing that errors of law thing
We’ll find out soon enough .
HMRC will be looking to pick up some money when [ if ] the liquidators start to do their thing.
Clear blue skies and a chill wind — way down south.
Snake
Stone Roses analogy,brilliant.
Hows about-
The Bootleg Bears? ;)
Lard Zeppelhun
Tito Vilanova: “Tomorrow’s match is important, because there are other teams other than Benfica who are aiming to qualify and we owe it to them to try to win the match.”
Nae Electic Sh*te Orc Huistra
New Mordor
50 shades of green
No problem.
Lennon n Mc……Mjallby
Whatever you like.
It seems obvious to me when you think about tribute bands. They are there for people to watch a band they remember or never saw in the flesh themselves and the fans turn up wearing the same gear, play at many of the same venues as the original band and sing the same (in many cases rubbish songs but not in the case of the Stone Roses).
That’s all you need to tell the fans of THE Rangers (they even needed to change the name slightly just like THE COMPLETE STONE ROSES – a slight deviation from the original title playing the same stuff for the same customers (and those too young to have remembered or have seen the originals).
Thom
Why doesnt our good queen, the richest scoundrel in the world, pay off the UKs £Trillion national debt?
The lot.
Considering how she managed to acquire that wealth, you would think she would help out her humble citizens.
well ghuys and ghals thats me done my predictions for the final round of the group stages.
if i am right we are through although i haven’t got much right so far.
as for up front on wed, have a feeling that NFL sees tony the way i do.
and thats as an impact player,so think he will be on the bench.
hope izzy makes it,allowing Adam to go to right back,mikul to centre with efe just in front of him and kelvin.
notlongnow.csc
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire 12:16:
South Of Tunis 12:20:
Forgive me for chipping in, on lunch and have not read back. They will take their time, exploring the decision in minut (sp) detail before arriving at their decision.
HMRC will say very very little publicly. They have 56 days from the date the FTT issued before they have to take the final decision.
I would chill and enjoy tomorrow night, Christmas and New Year. Any appeal will take care of itself.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Snake Plissken
Brilliant analogy haha
Snake
Aye,bang on.
What a nice man Tito is.
A TV journalist asked a long, contrived question, worthy of the Scottish MSM. He said: “Mourinho said yesterday, referring to Germán Burgos, the assistant manager at Atlético Madrid with whom he had a bit of a run-in at the end of the Madrid derby on Saturday, that he [Mourinho] didn’t know who Burgos was. And on another occasion Mourinho said the same thing about you, that he didn’t know who you were. Does it hurt when a fellow professional says that about you, that he doesn’t know who you are, even though he knows perfectly well who you are.”
Tito just smiled and said: “Well, all I can tell you is it didn’t upset me. Not at all.”
Done Lizzy
Group G Benfica now back to 6.4 tomorrow, 11/2 in old money, prices for the home and away teams in the 2 games are approx. the same.
Tito: “Messi wants to play as much as ever. He’s used to playing with the pressure of the record and everything else and it doesn’t seem to affect him. He won’t be nervous about it.”
Someone help out here, if certain witnesses in that tax case trial deliberately held back info from HMRC why did this go unchallenged ?
Stealers Appeal
Izzy,
Irrespective of their social standing, she is a young woman, in a bit of trouble in pregnancy.
Could be your daughter, or mine.
thomthetim
would it not be unconstitutional for him to be married to your daughter or izzy’s??
A Portuguese journo asks about Messi’s comments that Celtic fans deserve to be in the last 16. They translated it into Catalan and then Tito answered in Catalan and then they translated his answer into Portuguese, so I didn’t get it all.
But he just said that maybe Messi had in mind that Celtic had taken Barcelona to the last minute in the Camp Nou and had beaten Barça at Celtic Park. He was careful to say that this didn’t mean Messi or anyone else had found the first game against Benfica in any way easy, because it wasn’t.
Hunnybust .
Cant let bigotry go
Someone said earlier that tomorrow night’s games is the most important. ……. acknowledging that your next game is always the most important one, I will never forget the Barca game, since it will go down in history as our second best (most important) result ever ……. Make no mistake about it, our young team achieved an incredible result that night.
They sent a strong message to the ‘Celtic’ dissenters ……..in the face of the ongoing negative agenda against everything Celtic in this country, can they do it again?…….time will tell, but one thing is for sure, they will need our FULL support, not to overcome Spartak, but to overcome the inflicted anxiety of some of our supporters, who ‘listen’ to the detractors in the media….
Nothing would please the media etc in this country more than to see us beaten tomorrow night……..however, just like the vast majority of Celtic teams of the past, we will roar our young lions to victory…….MON THE HOOPS….it’s a grand old team, and we don’t care what the bigots say……
Expectation building on a new header by Paul67 !
CO with his side of the mouth lips not moving response when asked a simple question “will you pay back your loan” hissing instead of speaking one adjective for him sleekit, and this guy thinks he can drive forward change in the game he has no credibilty and must be told so.
Smith and durrant speak the same way
hen1rik
For th esame reason that the televised attack on NL at Tynecastle was not proven.
Scottish judiciary.
UTT will be UK judges – who will have probably never heard of the Teddy Bears
;o)
thomthethim
I don’t wish ill-will on anyone sir.
Even if they are connected to that mob or even thems across the city. My original post was me blowing off over another one of leeches spawn whose extravagant lifestyle we’ll be forced to maintain.
I do wonder why anyone would defend them, do you really think they care a jot or anyone of us?
Parasites, from auld Liz all the way down to god-knows-what-in-line-to-the-throne.
sixtaeseven: cqn, antidote to deceptive, selective journalism
12:56 on
4 December, 2012
If an appeal happens and they are found guilty then what will that say about the judges who favoured oldco :)
Saltires en sevilla
Thanks for your reply!
Been in a meeting since I posted.
Linlithgow is really hotting up as it prepares to welcome Karl Lagerfield and the Chanel “A” list to the town today for a modelling extravaganza.
This is Philbhoy for News at 10, Linlithgow
One Dissection
Prefab Lout
hen1rik
among other things, that they had heard of the Teddy Bears and their “fans”
;o)
The Ungrateful Dead.
hen1rik – 12:58 on 4 December, 2012
Nothing really. If Brogan, Rogan, Trevino and Hogan’s breakdown was accurate (and I have no reason to doubt it). Given the case presented by HMRC, in law the 2 judges had no choice – BRTH making a lot of the use of the word ‘must’ in their findings.
There has been come conjecture that HMRC agreed that the loans were not a sham, because they knew there would be a 2:1 split and they want to force this higher up the chain to create a legal precedent that can’t be challenged.
I don’t know if that’s the case but I do know that the language used in a legal decision can be as important as the decision itself and I’m happy to go with the line that majority decision is what they *had* to say and the minority was what they *wanted* to say.
I strongly feel that it’s not over yet.
Stiff Little Hingers
Excellent article titled ‘Peter Lawell’s Moneyball’ by tictacticuk’s blog. Easily found on NewsnowCeltic. Well worth a read. Stats on Porto’s buying young then selling at the best time are incredible. This piece highlights where Celtic are going right under Lawell’s leadership.
new article posted.