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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Pen to sevco jnrs
12 mins pen to the Sevco kids.
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I can see this referee being fast tracked into the spfl.
1-0 Sevco,
2 decisions the MIB couldnae wait to make.
Same old same old.
KTF
Young Celts down to 10 men on 11 mins now 1down apen after 14 mins
I started watching the Glasgow cup final then quickly realised that life is too short to listen to Gordon Smith for 90 mins
MIB on form
Time to bring on The Griff…..
You know those “Ive seen them given” decisions.
Well young “Rangers” got two with a Celtic sending off for a goal stopping opportunity foul outside the box and a penalty right away after from a bad bounce on to a Celtic players arm.
Celtic losing one nil.
LINK ?
Sending off looks harsh after the replay; no challenge made as the sevco kid runs across the Celtic player but legs make contact. No deliberate tackle so no sending off.
Penalty was correct.
KTF
CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 30TH APRIL 2018 7:04 PM
It’s on STV2.
KTF
CHEERS
Looking at top scorers in SPFL. Sinclair, Edouard and Griffiths on 9 Goals; Dembele and Forrest on 8; McGregor on 7. 50 goals between 6 front players. A good spread.
KTF
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Is the commentary being provided by Hun TV ?
Hugely biased.
2-0 Sevco youths. Poor defending.
KTF
Do you think tonight’s match will make the Sevco board realise their mistake???
They should have promoted the Academy coach to the first team not the U20s coach. D’oh!
Who is the Mason in the black?
This game a Firhill looks like Sevco’s Revenge.
2-0 down, ten men after 8 minutes.
To be honest , they are a far better outfit, even allowing for the man advantage.
If I said they had swapped jerseys before the game, you would get the idea.
We are devoid of the basic skills.
I can only hope that a number of our eligible players are missing.
Nearly three there.
Good evening troops
Just seen a wee vid that is doing the rounds of the bhoys in Tenerife dancing around the pool to zombie nation… Brilliant canny do kinky thing
Also will The mini Huns gee us a guard of honour on Sunday ??? Oh I hope so
D. :)
Ffs kinky thing……. Linky thing…. Ffs iPad
D. :)))))))))))
DAVID66, what did you say there about the kinky thing ,shame on you.smiley thing.hh.
McPake (7) and Mebude (9) vor Sevco look like 2 decent players. Best 2 on the park.
KTF
Big Packy my face is even more redder than it normally is here.
Bloody predictable text. Nightmare
D. :)
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Making the most of a lot of space, running at defenders who seem to be afraid to make a challenge…..hmm
Soft sending off, from what I’ve seen, but a definite penalty.
Legneds in the making ?
bawbags the lot of them
Mebude been getting good reports all season
okay lets suppose the ex pupil of cardinal heenan rc high school, takes the job and gets x millions of pounds,examine our conscienses if we had defrauded the british taxpaye, we would be playing in the highland league with no prospect of getting into the spfl,now because its the establishment team they will bend all the rules to accomadate them, am i angry you bet i am,annoyed you feckin bet when i was born in bellshill maternity hospital in 1953 bet they said oh no another feckin taig, so very very sad the country i was born in does not like me because of the school i went to.so sad.hh.
Young Bhoy Kennedy No 11 who is play for the Sevco pups was a happy chap yesterday ?
“ even your players will be Celtic fans “
Bateen Bhoy looking it I’d have thought the teams have swapped shirts!
KTF
DAVID66, gonna watch you from now on smiley thing.hh.
Hello this is WEE BGFC. Gerard*looks at contract*
“That’s my transfer budget? I thought that was my hourly wages!”
HH
WEE BGFC
Remember the name of referee Alistair Grieve, Grade 3.
The Celtic captain looks like he’s towing Pedro’s caravan when up against Mebude!
KTF
Halliday says he wasn’t calling the Celtic supporters Fenian bassas yesterday.
He says it was Candias and Morelos he was shouting at !
Sub-editor’s dream in the making?
SV Hamburg,ever-present in Bundesliga since its formation in the 60s,have been propping up the table for most of this season. They appeared doomed,then along came their third manager of the season.
He has sparked a revival,and there is a very good chance that Christian Titz may yet save them from relegation. Leading to the potential headline
Titz Up!!!
Of course,they may well get relegated,in which case he will almost definitely be sacked-leading to another obvious headline…