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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imaginger
17:07 on 3 December, 2012
‘so has Jabber (been re-named) really signed up to work as PR for the team formally known as rangers?’
Apparently not.
Seems what happened is that he wrote a column laying into internet pundits.
A rumour then appears linking him to the huns.
A couple of people report the rumour thereby vindicating Jabba.
Celtic Mac
LOL
I’m of the confirmed opinion that he was given little option by his paymasters. The Daily Rubbish paymasters I mean, of course.
fanadpatriot
17:24 on 3 December, 2012
‘Heir and a Spare,the circle is starting again.’
I was beginning to wonder if she was a man, like Wallis Simpson.
She looks very much like him/her/whatever it was.
Doc
Think I have a mobile number for you. Let me know if you receive a text mate.
Great that we don’t need to listen to Jabba’s nonsense any longer……..just keevins to go, now
Right………..it’s obvious that the LL etc are determined to pretend rankers didn’t die ….. We need them all to sit up and pay attention to the fact that they are deed, and another team called ‘the rangers’ has started life in SFL 3 …….. We need to relentlously ‘hit’ FIFA, UEFA, SFA, SPL, SFL, PHONE-INS, LL, MPs, BDO etc with the ‘reminder’ that this team they keep talking about were liquidated in shame………it is not a good precedent to set, and it is not fair on the 500 million supporters of the former club who, having been duped bigtime by murray, Whyte and now greengo, are not being allowed to ‘move on’ (hopefully to the Moon)
Somewhat of a long shot but….. any spare tickets for wednesday?
fire me an email at asithought99@yahoo.co.uk
HH
Celtic Quick Rumours CSC
Ernie Lynch……. I was a wee bit sceptical on jabba becoming the the rankers PR man……. Greengo prefers to do his own PR……since it allows him to talk shoite more often than would normally be the case…….unless he is joining their PR…ick department ….He He
So, the Pope is going to be on Twitter……..hope the bhuns don’t learn how to write
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N5OhNplEd4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Please send to the faint hearted.
Celtic v Spartak – press kit
Now that I have had time to consider it, it is, to my mind, an absolute nonsense that Traynor is going, to The Rangers , International or otherwise, in any capacity whatsoever.
ernie, I believe , was the first to profer this opinion.I don`t believe congratulations will be shown to be premature. Well spotted, ernie lynch.
JJ
To be more precise on Aiden McGeady injury, it’s pennate muscle tendon problem ( not sure if it’s right term in English?).
It’s not new injury and that bad for the player. He felt discomfort in the last days and today was the worst of these days. He left the training place earlier.
Aiden McGeady will fly tomorrow to Glasgow but as I said his play against Celtic is very doubtful.
Back from work, scrolling through the post’s saw Jabba is no longer with DR. Was he sacked or did he quit? With DR heading down the toilet, was he, to borrow that old football phrase ‘mutually consented’
Bada bing …..
Brilliant
Zbyszek your terminology is correct.
I think he’ll play because he wouldn’t be traveling if there was a problem with the tendon.
Is the pennate muscle tendon what kept him out for 6 weeks or is it a new development?
Also. Do you believe everything the Spartak people say?
Got ma shiny new CQN annual through the post today( early christmas present to myself )
That’s what you call quality journalism.
I think I might send a copy to JABBA to show him how it’s done!
Can anyone confirm if his address is
The Bigot room
Snake mountain
666 edmiston drive
Glasgow
1690
Thanks
H.H
67 Heaven- heart attack material mate.
Valentine’s Day
Compromise Agreement? guys in his position don’t just resign …negotiated settlement likely
He knows where the boadies are buried
Or something about to break – not in his favour ?
Allegedly
Ntassoolla 18:03
It’s old injury. He was back to trainings too early.
I don’t see the news about him going to Glasgow strange. I guess if he was injured, for sure not fit to the game he would fly to Glasgow.
Will he play? I really doubt they are going to risk before the game against Rubin Kazan.
The news about Jano Ananidze out and Aiden McGeady are from official sources, confirmed by the team doctor.
On the Russian sources, I think I have learned well which are creditable which are not.
Doc is Neil Lennon 17:17:
On Hooper, I believe he is off. If we do not qualify for last 16 it could be January. At the latest I expect him to be away in the Summer.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
The Samaritans will need to be called for Sevco fans, when someone calls them The Rangers they’re up in arms.
What’s the chances of us drawing Sevco and our club calling them The Rangers :)
Bigchurchy
We simply noted all the people posting on the blog over a few nights a couple of weeks ago – and these are mentioned in the CQN ANNUAL. Sorry you never got a mention but I am sure you will enjoy reading the Annual.
!!bada bing!!
Nice one.
Kids loved it.hh
Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Champions. C’mon Wee Oscar 18:18:
My employer put up a silent auction today as well for two tickets, closes tomorrow at 16:00.
Kee the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Andy from Scotzine is sure about were Jabba’s headed
Andy M @ Scotzine @scotzine
@JimDelahunt @gerrymcculloch1 ask shuggie.to confirm if Jim is off to Rangers after quitting.the Record
Andy M @ Scotzine @scotzine
@Bryce9A far from pretending Dan. Have had his new position confirmed by two separate sources.
winning captains 18:21:
Do you know if I got a mention?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Just finished work, what’s the story wi Jabba? Is he really signing wi the Sevconians? Thought they had a transfer embargo?
Feel free to scroll by, Traynors piece in the paper today
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IT was never a job. More of an absolute joy, if truth be told.
But all good things come to an end and when they do, it’s important to end with some good things.
When writing this, my final newspaper column, the memories come flooding in. When the time comes to change direction and move on, let the best of those memories rush from every corner of your mind and keep the worst of them locked away.
If people who have abused you because of their own bigoted and narrow-minded ways, or events that might have saddened you deeply, are allowed light and oxygen you let them tarnish and blacken what you’ve done and achieved.
For instance, this column – the final one after 37 years in newspapers – could bang on about supporters who have spat on my coats and jackets, thrown all sorts of insults and occasionally bricks and bottles. But that would demean everything.
I could name managers, players, club directors and administrators who, because the truth can hurt, have wished me all kinds of harm and misfortune. But neither they nor their words mattered. They damaged and shamed only themselves.
So from Andre Agassi (tennis is such a wonderful sport) to Zinedine Zidane (football really is a beautiful game despite the money grabbers and crooks), it has been amazing. It’s been a blast. Uplifting but also a deeply humbling and, at times, disturbing journey.
When Scotland were in Bucharest to play a European Championship qualifying tie against Romania, a couple of years after that madman Nicolae Ceausescu had been overthrown by revolution, players broke down. So too did supporters.
It was 1991 and the horrors of the Romanian orphan crisis were becoming clearer to the outside world.
It was heartbreaking. Even the most hardened cynical hacks cried at the sight of swarms of hungry, distraught children wandering the streets begging for morsels.
I know I said the bad memories should be locked away but those kids, who snatched all the money we could muster as though we were making them instant millionaires, can never be forgotten.
Strangely, another memory also concerns tears. But this time they came from a Brazilian great sitting right in the middle of Avenue Foch in Paris at the start of the 1998 World Cup finals.
Nilton Santos was there with Pele, Carlos Alberto and another great, Alfredo di Stefano, who was claimed by both Argentina and Spain.
I was there because I’d had a say in selecting the team of the 20th century – just for the Record that team was: Lev Yashin, Carlos, Franz Beckenbauer, Bobby Moore, Santos; Johan Cruyff, Di Stefano, Michel Platini; Garrincha, Pele and Diego Maradona. Then I sat with Pele, Santos and Di Stefano listening to their tales.
It was fascinating, even when Santos, who had been a father figure to the deeply troubled Garrincha, wept as he spoke of the tormented genius and his final tragic years.
But there were loads of laughs with the greats of the people’s game to giants of other sports. Heroic characters such as Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Leonard, Jack Nicklaus, Seve Ballesteros, Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, Bjorn Borg, Rod Laver, Ilie Nastase, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe (did I mention tennis is a wonderful sport?), Boris Becker, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal, Mark McGwire (baseball is such an hypnotic and simply beautiful sport, maybe even the best) and the 49ers’ Jerry Rice.
There are just too many to list. But it’s been a privilege to have seen them in the flesh and even under the threat of extreme torture, such as being forced to listen to recordings of SFA/SPL meetings, I could never say my job has been anything like work. It’s been a pleasure.
Until recently.
Unfortunately, there has been the last twisted and bitter year during which Scottish football, unable to deal with the Rangers crisis in a civilised manner, has tried to tear itself apart. All in the name of sporting integrity, of course.
Actually, for the last couple of years some of the most bilious types have been allowed to emerge from the shadows and spew invective that sadly became regarded as fact, even though what they were saying and writing wasn’t even close to being definitive. Or honest. Overnight all sorts of anonymous bloggers became experts. These champions of decency had all the answers. They knew better than anyone else. They said over and over Rangers would be done for cheating the tax man.
They were wrong, the Rangers Tax Case blog in particular. Yet he/her/they stated: “This blog has been accurate on all of the major points of the case except the one that matters most to date – the FTT (First-tier Tax Tribunal) outcome”.
Excuse me? Accurate on all the major points except the bit that matters most. And that’s all right is it?
That’s a bit like a team manager saying after a defeat: “Hold on, I picked the right team and I believe my tactics were correct. So the result doesn’t really matter.”
Dolts. The result is everything. If any of the Rangers Tax Case bloggers are trained lawyers, would you want them to defend you in a court of law?
Even now so many – and I include some fellow journalists – still cannot bring themselves to accept Rangers did not cheat the tax man by using EBTs.
One journalist declared it to be “a government conspiracy” when he heard the ruling in Rangers’ favour.
Perhaps in time more will be written about this kind of hack and the rabid desire to help bring down Rangers, a fierce desire that, sadly, was widespread. Actually, I’m sure more will be written about them.
Just when did they become consumed by such eye-popping rage? Was it always there, a dormant fury against Rangers and their fans, who deserve enormous credit for having saved their club, just waiting for the catalyst?
Now they can’t help themselves. They can’t stop foaming at the mouth and we can be sure their determination to have titles stripped will go into overdrive.
They need some kind of victory or they might explode and that would be terribly messy. All that bile all over the walls and streets.
Unfortunately reason was never allowed to be a player in this grotesque game, which quickly became dominated mostly by incoherent imbeciles fuelled by all that hatred.
And let’s not forget how some with telly platforms were prompted by those bloggers and ill-informed commentators. Stupidly they allowed themselves to be duped by supporters with dangerous agendas hidden under the banner of integrity.
And the result? Some of the most shallow and infantile drivel ever written. These egotists are so into
themselves they’ve no regard for the safety or wellbeing of those about whom they have written some awful and completely inaccurate pieces.
Despicable, pathetic little creatures craving some kind of recognition but lacking in conscience and morality.
I’m so sorry they’ve had to be thrown up into the same piece as some of the true greats and gentlemen of world sport.
However, that’s it. My work here is done and I’m glad – but just for the record, I’ve not been sacked or made redundant. I was asked to remain but my conscience won’t allow me to stay in our profession.
The kind of journalism needed by the country, never mind sport, no longer exists in enough of the media outlets.
But as I’ve said, the good memories of all those sporting greats will always outweigh the negatives, especially those that bubbled to the surface throughout this last year.
Thanks to sport’s real heroes I’ve had a ball and thank you for reading while I was with The Herald, the Daily Express and the Daily Record.
Good luck to you – and be careful about what and who you read in the future.
There are people out there calling themselves by different names.
But that’s not the bit that should worry you. They are calling themselves journalists.
On STV news CO asked if he would be paying back his loan
his face was a picture, rabbit caught in headlights just about
covers it.
HH
Clown on Clyde
“Absolute hatred towards Neil Lennon”
Rangers Tax-Case TIG @tommyinglasgow
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notthebus
18:31 on
3 December, 2012
Clown on Clyde
“Absolute hatred towards Neil Lennon”
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Another hun plant.
The internet bampots have the MSM on the run and they can’t handle it.
how on earth did BFDJ weasel his way back on air.
The worst, bar none
David Stoker @davidstoker_lfc
The fundamental sporting problem with the SPL reconstruction proposal is that only the middle ‘section of 8’ will be remotely interesting.
Lennybhoy,
I had deliberately not read Jim the Jacker’s diatribe.
I am very sorry that you have given it oxygen on CQN.
I spoke earlier today about ‘tramp navvies’ JACKING on impulse.
The difference with them & Jacker Jim is that they did not shame themselves before they walked away.
They walked away with their integrity intact.
If Hooper is for the off ? provided we get a decent amount for him say 8 million I wont mind at all as far as I can see he has limits to his game which are not improving he finds it hard to get the ball to stick to him and he is quite poor in the air he also comes across as moody on the field now maybe thats not the case but im going by his body language.We could use part of the transfer income to sign a couple of promising forwards.H.H.