I watched Celtic put five and six goals past Oldco and Newco Rangers but never have I seen such a chasm between the sides. We operated on a higher plane throughout the game. Newco goalkeeper, Jak Alnwick, made five incredible saves, three from Olivier Ntcham, one from James Forrest and one from Tom Rogic, preventing a score, which could conceivably have hit double figures.
Ntcham and Rogic pulled all the strings. Their physical presence and use of the ball constantly bought Celtic space. Odsonne Edouard started the scoring with a six-yard box goal, but his second showed what an accomplished striker he has become in the space of a few months.
The pick of the bunch came from James Forrest, who beat three shadows before finishing on the stroke of halftime. Callum McGregor and Rogic got their customary goals against Newco. At this stage, with the goals flying in every few minutes, we anticipated more, but the scoring was over 37 minutes from the end, in part due to Rogic running out of steam, and part due to McGregor moving inside from the wing, where he had been so devastating.
Celtic sailed through the second half pinching police hats and watching Dedryck Boyata put in the most commanding defensive performances we have seen since Virgil van Dijk at his very best. You are watching one of the all-time great Celtic teams.
Once the sheer joy of watching the performance passed, the enormity of winning 7-in-a-row took over. I have watched us win many championships, but can think of only two which comes close to the impact of yesterday. You will remember it fondly for the rest of your life. It was one for the ages and suitably makes up for the missed opportunity at Easter Road last week.
If Jack Nichoson was one of those who stormed the Newco Player of the Year event last night, and made it to the microphone, he would have no doubt looked around the hall and said, “What if, this is as good as it gets?”
There is a great fallacy, believed by those who are in an unfortunate position, that a change will bring improvement. Such claims were made repeatedly by campaigning politicians in recent years, but it is a fantasy.
The truth is far bleaker. If you have structural problems, which could last a lifetime without any progress being made, every passing chapter will feel it was written by Dante, each one a fresh hell. For Newco, these days, where they compete for second place while selling close to 40,000 season tickets, this is good as it will ever be.
When this chapter ends, it will be replaced by one where the club has to stop the pretence of competing for league titles, and live within the budget provided by a fan base who are content to buy season tickets to watch a team of also-rans. They are a joke team, a dumb cash-cow for the rest of the league to get some shooting practice against.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this really is as good as it gets.
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Not sure if the Celtic tv footage of the goals has been posted???
Scroll past if already seen…
https://celtsarehere.com/incredible-footage-of-celtics-five-star-thumping/
HH
BP
Came through no problem, and have replied…
… no idea what happened on the weekend then, but I’m a bit of numpty with this computer stuff… but it seems to be sorted, so no worries..
:)_
From Tom English’s good article about yesterday, tomorrow & beyond..
Talking of the “chaos club in disarray” he wrote
“They retreated to a Glasgow hotel for their player of the year awards. Daniel Candeias won the main prize. The one Rangers victory of the day.”
HH
Dallas
Brilliant …
Apologies for the late reply School run had to be completed
Looking forward till STV2 at 17.30pm
DBHOY on 30TH APRIL 2018 3:56 PM
Not sure if the Celtic tv footage of the goals has been posted???
Scroll past if already seen…
https://celtsarehere.com/incredible-footage-of-celtics-five-star-thumping/
HH
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DBhoy, I hadn’t seen it so thanks for posting it.
Wonderful footage –
After 4th goal KT, PC Lustig & Tom Rogic check out the big screen replay of the goal.
That vid will be on a loop later tonight.
HH
Dbhoy, thanks for posting the Celtic tv footage from ground level.
The celebrations from the ball boy after the first goal , were fantastic.
After Tom’s goal , when our players stopped celebrating , they were looking up at the screen watching the replays of Tom’s goal
Dbhoy. Cracking wee video mate, cheers for posting.
GER57
I’ll be 100% honest with you,I wanted due process to put them out of the game altogether. However,it didn’t happen.
We have to deal with reality,mate. The reality is that a team play at Ibrox every second week,just as before 2012,same colours,same “values”,same supporters.
So if they turn up to play against us,I’ll take the same pleasure from hammering them as I did pre-2012. With the forlorn hope that each hammering on the park is another nail in their coffin
Bobby 4.16pm
Totally disagree
Keep the Huns aground to watch the smiles on our childrens faces
It soooooo good :-)
JOHN51
Just had a similar conversation with my kid sis. Neither of us can see ANY benefit to Gerrard joining up at Ibrox.
If he doesn’t win the league,his managerial career will rank alongside that of another LFC legend,John Barnes.
If he does win,people down South will shrug their shoulders. “It’s Rangers,you’d expect them to win”
“It’s Celtic,you’d expect them to win” was pretty much the reaction to Neil Lennon’s CV. It got him the poisoned chalice of Bolton. £150m in debt,not a hope of going anywhere.
5-0
Just think about it
5-0
Enjoy these lovely times ☘️
Jabba not let the huns oot to talk yet????
Must be leaving it till Stevie G arrives eh …
O and happy birthday to Jim Craig aka the dentist 75 yrs young, we will be forever in your debt…..??????
Gerry , I think the Glasgow cup final programme starts at half 6 according to the STV2 listings
oor michael, whits he like
blob:https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/7d80b9fc-311a-4661-b905-cb3bd0bc80bf
Dallas
Not like me to get something wrong
By the way did you enjoy wee David shouting Gerrard is going to Rangers then I shouted ….
No way is this Gerard joining the Huns
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/mikael-lustig-gets-celtics-party-12455080
I wish Steven Gerrard would make a decision…it’s just so difficult not knowing whether to hate him or not.
DBHOY
The wee ball Bhoy for the first goal:=))))))))
I think you can watch the match tonight on-line go to
https://player.stv.tv/live
create a free account and should be sorted
Jamesgang,
Thanks for putting my twisted mind at rest and apologies for being a drama queen ?
Afternoon
Pakora with Champagne. Food of the Gods.
An interesting post by Truth, Beauty and Freedom at 12.16. I agree with much of what he or she writes as I do think this blog and a variety of other Celtic friendly sites, blogs and Facebook pages devote an awful lot of space to discussing them- I know I got really fed up with the deluge of jokes, parodies, memes and have long tired of the daily barrage of articles (plural) from James P Forrest – for years now- about them.
But I think on the day after we beat them 5-0 – a margin of victory by ua over a club bearing that name unprecedented in 60 years- we are entitled to gloat. Further as their appears a reasonable chance of them appointing a genuinely big name as their new manager, an appointment which raises serious questions about Financial Fair Play and, slightly flippantly, the sanity of the appointee it seems right that this blog and those who contribute to it offer at least some comment
But not all day and everyday.
Jimbo67
Ki Sung-Yeung’s contract expires in the summer.
Bring him home…
DavidO- i read Everton are interested in Ki……really good player
Highlights on Sky 403 at 5.05pm….
I posted the link earlier to an article from 2014, when Gerrard was contemplating a move to Chelsea.
Amongst Pool fans, this was akin to a vile treachery by their captain, legend and god.
Jerseys were burned, etc.
He himmed and haaed over it until he got a contract at Anfield, but the whole thing smelled of playing one against the other.
He cited the reasons as being that he wanted to win a title in his career.
At that time, Liverpool were favourites for the league, hence he signed a new contract with them.
Unfortunately, a catastrophic blunder by, I can’t remember who, scuppered Rodgers’ title hopes.
Bada
I’d rather pay Ki his premiership wages than spend anything like the quoted figures on John McGinn!
Paul67 et al
Disappointed to say the least that having stayed up late last night to watch ‘The Constant Gardener’ on ITV3 last night that there was not a glimpse, a cameo even, of our eponymous hero Jacky McCaskill.
Woke up determined to demand a refund of the license fee, before thinking….I’d need to buy one first.
CELTICMAC 507
So your telly works fine without one?
Liberate your mind ???
BMCUWP
Glad you are back where you belong :-)
The hangover just beginning to recede.
That was some day in Paradise
HH
There is a good article in the i newspaper today by Alan Patullo about skelping sevco. I will quote the last paragraph.. ” There was no one to make sense of it from Rangers (sic) afterwards. The Ibrox club placed a ban on the players and, more significantly, the manager from speaking. ” He’s a broken man” was one explanation proffered. Whether Murty should have been allowed to wander into this bloodbath following the warning signs of Hampden is for the Rangers (sic) hierarchy to answer, were they not too busy stargazing on Merseyside.
Made me laugh oot loud. Hail Hail
There is also a piece by Armchair Fan, an English guy who listened to the game on radio. Tuco
the one touch passing, looking for others before you received the ball and having the confidence to pass it first time was brilliant yesterday
GERRYFAETHEBRIG
Philvis-style Thumbs Up!
I’m hoping to tempt that particular legend back,even if only with a breach of copyright suit(!)
IVEHADTOCHANGEMYNAME
Why do we seem to play like that against Sevco,and no-one else? Doesn’t make sense.
7/1 Killie v Sevco on Saturday?
dunno bmcuwp- it’s like a conscious decision
Gerry at 4.32 , sorry for the late reply.
Idid.
Our resident Liverpool fan at work thought it was a load of mince about Gerrard going to Ibrox.