Champions League match day six was a dead rubber, I wasn’t at the game only watched on TV, but two days on I’m still full of the emotional thrill of the occasion. With that in mind, the thought that today will be the players final training session before a league game tomorrow illustrates the challenge for Brendan Rodgers.
The players put everything into the game in Manchester, they were visibly flagging near the end. They will also have shared the high of the occasion. Bringing that all together to face a team who have been planning nothing but how to frustrate a potentially lethargic and distracted Celtic for a week and you have a game punters would generally avoid backing the favourites in.
News that James Forrest’s hamstring isn’t causing too much concern is welcome. We’ve all been there. You feel the twinge but it’s not enough to stop you, so you carry on. James has more experience of injury than most footballers, as a consequence it looks like he left the field before a “tightness” became an injury. He was a loss to the game but rather that than a loss to the season. This counts as very intelligent play.
I’d be reluctant to press James into action tomorrow, especially as it gives Gary Mackay-Steven an opportunity to revisit Firhill, where he scored 37 seconds into his Celtic debut.
Directors’ Box hospitality auction ending soon!
At around 12:18 this afternoon our Directors’ Box hospitality auction in aid or Mary’s Meals, courtesy of Intelligent Car Leasing ends. Money raised will go towards our seventh school kitchen across Malawi and Liberia – just incredible.
At the Celtic-Dundee game on 17 December, you can win:
2 seats in the directors’ box
Champagne reception
5 course meal in the Walfrid Suite
Fully expenses bar (pre and post-match)
Half time snacks and refreshments
Car Parking
And a match programme
Many thanks to Intelligent Car Leasing for making it possible.
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Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
If the saucy material that is only now being exposed is linked to a hopeful increase in donations then it´s appalling behaviour.
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I think you may well be onto something there.
Like I said, I also think he is publishing this stuff because he reckons no one will challenge him on it lest wider attention be brought to the topic.
Celtic Winning the League in January/February means the humble Celtic can introduce some Real Deal Holyfield into the first team Equation. Ralston seems to be the one expected. :))
I think there might be 1 or 2 others.
KIERAN TIERNEY
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 9th December 2016 9:56 am
DAVIDOPOULOS
I reckon you’ll have had enough Greene King to last a lifetime by the final whistle!
Btw,”old bean” makes a regular appearance due to overindulgence in PG Wodehouse over the years…
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Aah, I see. Never read any Wodehouse – clearly a situation i should put right.
AWE_NAW_NO_ANNONI_OAN_ANAW_NOO on 9TH DECEMBER 2016 9:53 AM
It refers to rent boys. I’m not sure what age checks would have been carried out at any such encounters. And the question of what constitutes consensual in such circumstances is perhaps moot.
ernie lynch on 9th December 2016 10:03 am
Perhaps not
HH
Back home – clear blue sky -18 degrees .Celebrated my arrival at Catania Airport by downing 2 espressos – great !!!!. The price of both added together was less than the cost of 1 cup of the bilgewater which masquerades as coffee in Ingilterra.
Manchester – dissonant – a lively opening 15 minutes and then it looked like somebody’s testimonial .16 years in Italy / Sicily has resulted in me being surprised by how blootered some people get before the fitba . I can’t get a handle on how people who are blootered to the point of struggling to walk can be arsed going to the game . . The tunes ? – most of it naff. . The welcome from the home fans ? . Guy next to me said – ” Haven’t seen you before ” – my — ” It’s your lucky night then ” – shut him up.. Great curry in curry mile after the game..
Great time in London before / after the wee trip to Manchester .. Quick trip to Honest Jon’s in Ladbroke Grove to buy this —
12 ” – Well Pleased and Satisfied -Open Up The Gates Bobby Boy -( Total Sounds ) .-IMO -one of the great reggae 12″s -missed out on it when it was released in the late 70s , couldnt afford it on the rare occasions it surfaced secondhand . Now available on a lovely crisp and shiny repressed 12 ” .
Note the assimilation chat — I was on Cricklewood Broadway on Wednesday night — in the late 60 s / early 70s it was like being in Ireland – in december2016 it was like being in Poland / Romania . Immigration and assimilation -eh ?
Hopefully BR sends out a fully engaged team up for the challenge.
Looking for a much better performance than the one on show for the 2nd half at Killie.
And then there is the really topical angle.
If the GB want to make a name for themselves they will have no bigger target.
The whole of Turkey is watching they cannot let them down.
Paedophiles should get the death penalty and I don’t mean hanging.
Suggestions anyone?
I detest the establishment.
vftb.net latest podcast is about that utter sickness.
I will get round to listening to it…. but it will be horrible.
Christ is Rooted.
South Of Tunis
Your disdain for English coffee is like my disdain for their black pudding.
Re getting steaming before a match, I can’t understand it either – if I did it I would spent most of the match going up and down to the loo…and I’m a youngster!!
Philbhoy on 9th December 2016 10:18 am
I already have ….. start at the top
HH
SOUTHOFTUNIS
Although I stayed in Streatham,I was an occasional visitor up north.
The Crown in Cricklewood being a particular favourite.
I saw The Saw Doctors in there one Friday lunchtime about ’90. Gratis and free. They went down a storm.
Their songbook was slightly different that day to their later stage shows!
AWE NAW…………………
I worked for a newspaper in the mid to late 60’s.
There were lots of vile stories about politicians going around that the paper would not publish.
They’ve been getting away with it for too long.
Vigilante groups might sort it out sooner than the authorities.
I thought the reason for a auction and not a raffle was simply that the ‘folk’ that occupy the Director’s Box would have taken offence at the possibility of a proletarian with a couple of questions to ask might be within earshot:)
Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum LapidemCSC(?)
BMCUWP
“The Crown in Cricklewood being a particular favourite”.
Are you Sam Gamgee?
:-)
The more things change the more things stay the same.
Back to the 1970’s seems to be the cry from the i unthinking and the unwashed.
Comment aimed mainly at BrExit but it application is now almost universal.
Philbhoy on 9th December 2016 10:29 am
To be clear I disagree with the death penalty but that was the point I was making this morning.
HH
MadMitch,
Globalism – You all for it?
BMCUW .
I remember The Crown from the late 60s — like a wild west saloon . Used to walk past it early in the morning – hundreds of guys lined up waiting for a day on the lump . Was there briefly on Wednesday night . . The Irish have gone …
Got a wee half day today, finish at 12.
Now, what can I do with my afternoon?
AWE NAW………………….
I only want the death penalty for paedophiles.
Nothing else!
Philbhoy on 9th December 2016 10:39 am
Polish the pitch fork :-)
HH
This article is quite funny:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syrian-refugees-devon-torrington-unleashed-its-anger-a7463946.html
Some of you will enjoy it, some of you won’t, some of you won’t bother to open it, and billions of people aren’t even on CQN…
Philbhoy on 9th December 2016 10:39 am
Got a wee half day today, finish at 12.
Now, what can I do with my afternoon?
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Well you could Praise the Lord Almighty… then go for a game of Pool, Golf, Darts or just go Home and relax.
I’d transfer the Man City game (for you to watch again) if I could… that might take a bit of Time Howevaaaah.
PETEC
I was home alone last night and watched the Mosconi Cup.
A sport I never had any interest in.
It was brilliant!
SOUTHOFTUNIS
It was still the same in the 90s,people working on the grip being picked up outside and getting paid/arranging the next day/cashing giros.
A veritable microeconomy!
It was a weird place. The craic was terrific. The humour was black. The drinking was like sprinters doing a marathon.
There was always an undercurrent of suppressed violence in the place,all that testosterone wi nowhere to go. No-one dared start anything,there was no telling where it would end!
Safest pub in London,really. Oh,and the beer was excellent anaw!
Those Pool dudes still battling it out?
Sky does a biased show like noone else.
Have a good afternoon off thinking about who is coming to make Celtic much much better. :)
There might only be 1 in January.
WOW
WOW
A first team Starter, a real FireSTARTER
PHILBHOY
Finish at 12?
Plan-fly down to Stanstead,bus to Bury St Edmunds,meet DAVIDOPOULOS and get blootered.
Or ignore all but the last two words.
BMCUWP
Naw, gettin’ blootered sounds awright.
Meetin’ DAVIDOPOULIS wid be awright tae.
I’m still going for the over 3.5 goals first half Every game….next Season I am sure…. I will huv to move it to over 4.5 goals for value. Jock Stein territory.
DAVIDOPOULOS
That is a brilliant piece of journalism.
Sadly it was written by a comedian,as our journalists are too busy pandering to-and in fact feeding-the prejudices of the few who they reckon pay their kids’ school fees.
Opening time,btw!
BMCUW .
The woman from once took me to an arty party at one of the Saatchi places . Artist was a guy called Bernard Canavan who had lived the 60s Cricklewood Broadway / Crown life . His work is based on the Irish immigrant life . Good stuff -I liked it !!!!
Philbhoy
I’ll be the handsome, steamin’ guy nobody can understand.
All, some or none of that statement may, or may not, be true.
PHILBHOY
I reckon C will call you in around 50 minutes to remind you of a minor matter this evening which precludes bevvying this afternoon.
A price worth paying for your idyllic life,I’m sure you’ll agree.
So turn yer bliddy phone off!
The powers that be spend squillions trying to stop drugs, they never will as they are so freely available, also it’s a matter of choice, if I choose to take an illegal drug I will and no law will stop me, I reckon the same can be said for 99.99% of the people out there.
My point is….all the money and time wasted on trying to stop the illegal trade in drugs, they should control it, like they do Alcohol and tobacco and use the money they save hunting down those who abuse children, I have advocated this for as long as I can remember and the older I get the more rabid I get.
But as has been said, when those and such as those indulge in child abuse, what chance do the weans have,
DAVIDOPOULIS
I’ll be the tall, slim, bearded ,handsome hunk, looking lost.
Some or all of that might be untrue, except I do have a beard!
BMCUWP
I always tell the misses where I’m going so ‘s she can come and get me if needs be!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 9th December 2016 11:00 am
DAVIDOPOULOS
That is a brilliant piece of journalism.
Sadly it was written by a comedian,as our journalists are too busy pandering to-and in fact feeding-the prejudices of the few who they reckon pay their kids’ school fees.
Opening time,btw!
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Sad but true.
Enjoy!