You will be told by some that an invincible season holds less than it would have before Rangers liquidation in 2012, but that assertion overlooks the clear facts. Martin O’Neill’s then-record points hauling treble winners lost to Kilmarnock. The Lions lost to Dundee United, twice. We always lost games to someone other than Rangers. If invincibility was achieved by stopping only one opponent there would be nothing special to report from yesterday.
This is an astonishing achievement. Invincibility over an entire season is unlikely, no matter what your comparative strengths in relation to the rest of your league are, for mathematical reasons.
Football teams convert a small percentage of their attempts at goal. There will be occasions when a team scored three from three chances, but there will also be times when a team has 20 attempts and fails to score.
Over the course of a season, the random distribution of chances converted is likely to match one of Celtic’s highly unproductive striking days, with an opponent who happen to score with perhaps their only attempt at goal. This phenomenon explains most results when poor teams beat significantly better rivals.
Strong teams are also commonly drop points away from home to top half of the table opposition. Here, Celtic have been truly imperious. We won twice away to each team in the top half of the table, scoring 6 at Aberdeen, 7 at Newco, 9 at St Johnstone, 7 at Hearts and 9 at Patrick.
It would also be lax not to mention the style of football. This is not a brutal domination of the ball and physical area of the pitch, Celtic play a stylish, flowing, game, which entertains and succeeds in equal measure.
One more bridge to cross before the job is complete.
Thanks for all the encouragement, and especially the donations to Celtic FC Foundation, for the Stirling Marathon yesterday. Before going to bed on Saturday night I read through all the donations and couldn’t wait to get started.
It was an unforgettable experience. We’ll wait and see if it’s also unrepeatable.
Our good pals at Intelligent Car Leasing have offered two (£100 each) tickets for the Lisbon Lions night at The Hydro, on Thursday. You can win them by raffle in aid of Mary’s Meals.
The raffle is open less than 12 hours, closes at midnight tonight, so mathematics also suggests your chances are none too shabby. To enter, make a minimum of £5 here, then email me, celticquicknews@gmail.com with the word “Hydro” in the subject line to confirm your entry.
Good luck!
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Also great to read tonight that KT values playing for Celtic more than money.
Capitano
Hopefully he can be Persuasivein getting PADDY BHOY to Join for Good.
Patrick Roberts is made for Celtic.
CELTIC CELTIC
Morning CQN from Manchester
Thoughts and Prayers for the people of Manchester and all those caught up in the Arena.
The murdered and the injured
Absolutely heartbroken watching the news here, lost for words
Robinbhoy
Good to see you post.agree or disagree,you got your right to say it.
HH
Good morning friends from a broken clouded, dry and very slightly warmer than of late East Kilbride. 4 more sleeps ;-)
Having breakfast of red wine and cider with the wean (grown up wean) at Ed airport. Loads of Tims everywhere. Excited or What. Saw one sad sack with secco tap on- hope he’s going on holiday to Lisbon!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 23RD MAY 2017 2:52 AM
Mate.
Raymac`s comments were directed as a response to the maligned Reggie in relation to IRA songs at Celtic matches.
That`s the point.
Keep well ,old son.
Enjoy Lisboa.
Thoughts with the people of manchester…
Safe journey to all Lisbon bound…
We’re on our way to gatwick …see youse at the other end.
H.H.
BOGNORBHOY
Heathrow for us,bud.
Leave in about six hours or so.
Race ye!
Good morning CQN from a mild, dry and overcast East Devon.
Just catching up on the news from Manchester. Ffs,there’s something wrong wi people that could do such a thing.
As I’ve said before,sometimes I hope my God is the vengeful one from the OT,not the nice cuddly NT one.
News of the Manchester bombing sent a shiver down my spine, as my daughter and some friends attended the Ariana Grande concert in Birmingham last week.
My thoughts are with those who have lost loved ones.
Heartfelt condolences to the victims and families affected by the terrible atrocity in Manchester.
How people can bring themselves to commit such an act is beyond my comprehension.
Daughter says to me there’s a lot of old men with Celtic taps on. Welcome to CQN! Just as well she likes the older man.
Just about to take off. Whooooheeee
Morning Timdom
A day of love n hugs for those we love dear and prayers for those who lost their loved ones.
HH jamesgang
I had a longer lie in this morning, and then saw on TV the devastating news from Manchester…”Sickening”.
YNWA
Heart breaking scenes from Manchester this morning.
Leaving for the airport shortly for our flights to Lisbon but feel so empty at the moment.
Good Morning CQN
2 days to go.
Currently 65 degrees and sunny in Lisbon, and it will remain sunny and warm with the temperature hitting a high of 88 degrees
Safe travels to all today, and thoughts with the victims in Manchester.
Horrible news from Manchester.
Heartened by the response of support services and local people in general.
Also good to see the politicians suspend their campaigns out of respect.
I hope everyone takes care out there and treats each other with more kindness and respect,
Just woke up to the awful news in Manchester – thoughts and prayers for the victims and their loved ones.
My son and daughter in law are supposed to be going to a concert there on Thursday.
Small margins indeed
Cowardly bastards
Thoughts and prayers with those who have lost their life, have been injured, their friends and families in this terrible incident.
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Heading south to Liverpool later en route to Lisbon, feeling quite subdued at the moment.
HH
Word of The Day (Inspired by the nests of vipers at Ibrokes and Hundump)
Sibilant /ˈsɪbɪlənt/
adjective
1. hissing.
2. Phonetics. characterized by a hissing sound; noting sounds like those spelled with s
3. (phonetics) relating to or denoting the consonants (s, z, / ʃ/, / ʒ/), all pronounced with a characteristic hissing sound
4. having a hissing sound: the sibilant sound of wind among the leaves
noun
5. a sibilant consonant
Derived Forms
sibilance, sibilancy, noun
sibilantly, adverb
Word Origin
C17: from Latin sībilāre to hiss, of imitative origin; compare Greek sizein to hiss
KTF
To ALL The Bhoys and Ghirls heading to LISBOA….Have a fabulous time, and a safe journey for all.
Those of us not able to make the Holy Crusade, fully expect updates and video footage whenever possible on CQN…whenever some of you are sober enough ? LOL.
I can not express the extreme pains of Jealousy that I feel at that moment !
God Bless one and all.
Hail Hail.
Like other posters travelling to Liverpool today on route to lisbon heartfelt condolences to all those who involved in the tragic events in Manchester.This atrocity is absolutely wicked beyond belief. To target a children’s concert shows a depravity beyond any human reasoning
that ?….”THIS” Moment !
HH
I’ve not been looking at the late news or early news since the election was called because I don’t need to listen to lying politicians more than once a day.
As a consequence, the first I heard of the bombing in Manchester was when I posted WOTD and saw the posts on it here. Very shocked.
I know a fair number of people in Manchester so I hope and pray that all of them and their families are unaffected; my thoughts and prayers are with all those who have been killed, injured or affected by it in any way.
To all those lucky enough to be on a pilgrimage to Lisboa, be safe. This is a timely reminder of how random the terrorists can be.
KTF
Thoughts and prayers for victims and their families involved in the Manchester atrocity.
ACGR-Lovely day here in Lisbon, heading to Estoril shortly with the Sclaffbats and Ausi John in tow.
We’ll have a beer or two in the Palacio post sclafbaw.
See ye the morra Budweiser!
slainte
tony
Just wanted to say a big thanks to Sipsini and his lovely Lady of the Valleys for a very pleasant and relaxed couple of hours in their company in Rossio yesterday. My first ‘face-to-face’ with a CQN’er , ( but certainly not the last ) . An absolute gentleman and general top bloke.
It’s getting hot, hot, hot……
:-)
Unthinkable, mindless and senseless atrocity in Manchester.
Fanaticism, in any guise, that spawns such behaviour by the perpetrators of such random barbarity must be unequivocally resisted by right minded people everywhere.
Sympathy and thoughts to the families and friends of the bereaved of the innocents.
Truly shocking.
My daughter phoned me earlier about the horrible news in Manchester. The world is in a bad place at the moment.
Heading down to the square and will be on the look out for new arrivals to share some beer with.
Devastating news from Manchester. My thoughts are with all of the families affected. It is difficult to imagine the pain and anguish they are going through.
BATEENBHOY
Sounds like you met a Timposter,mate.
Kidding. j is one top fella,and I’ve not seen him for too long.
I’ll put that right in a few hours,and you’re included in the invitation if you’re available.
HH.
BMCUW,
Will most probably catch up today. Just going to get in touch with J. And find out what he’s up to.
Have a safe trip, and, be prepared to queue for a taxi at the airport.
BATEENBHOY
Aye,I’ve heard.
Heyho,life’s full of minor problems and big issues I canny do much about. So give me a minor taxi problem any day-as long as it isnae a blue one!!!
BMCUW…
Cheeky bassa;)))
Catch you and your dad today, text or bell me when you’re heading out. HH