I was initially surprised to hear we’re tracking a Jack-of-all-trades defensive midfielder-cum-central defender. Neil Lennon’s clear preference in central defence is Efe Ambrose and Virgil van Dijk, both of whom have been in excellent form this season, but he has backup in the form of Charlie Mulgrew, or even Mikael Lustig, who has played there before.
Defensive midfield, along with striker, is one of the key positions Celtic should be looking to strengthen; so a dedicated specialist would seem the better option, but our last outstanding specialist in that area arrived with exactly the same CV. I remember the disputes here when Neil Lennon talked about Victor Wanyama being able to play centre half. He could, but he didn’t.
It’s more important that we do our recon well than utilise everything in a player’s locker. Buying from England is usually expensive, but at least if affords you the opportunity to solicit plenty of reliable opinion on a player.
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Amazing that so often, the team that misses first in a shoot out goes on to win.
Most England defeats have been like that.
Maybe the miss takes the pressure off the other players?
So glad for the Mackems.
GIRUY Toon Army…biggest Hun sympathisers in EPL in my experience.Even more than the myth that Chelski fans like the Orcs.The Stamford Bridge Neanderthals don’t like anyone.
The only disappointing thing is that we won’t get to watch City absolutely batter ManUre at Wembley.
Cowiebhoy
I yam what I yam :)
Even happier on friday night
praecepta
And the good news, the feckers are laying again. Not the ducks, the hens. Believe me, they all started looking appetising. The good news, my cholesterol level is zilch. Lol
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Cowiebhoy
I’m of the old school when it comes to pens…………….
thundering run-up – blooter – aka Tommy Gemmel. :-)
3 penalties from 10 !
Shows what pressure does to a player.
Everyone then jumps on the players for missing…. unfairly i think.
Football is a team sport.
Football is a flowing moving game.
A penalty shootout is unnatural,
the player has to walk from the half way line , the chance for self doubt to replace confidence
It has as much to do with football as a coin toss.
Still great theater….. in The theater of Dreams
The Onlooker
Doc
I don’t watch EPL Doc so I don’t know how he is progression but I did like to watch him play for us, glad if he does well down South that always reflects well on us I think..
Hx2
praecepta
22:38 on 22 January, 2014
And Kris Commons :-)
Hendrix67
Not so sure mate. Spoke to Evertonians in Spain last summer who were glad to see the back of him. No cups in 10 years. In a way its like us taking on Tony Mowbray.
ryecatcher
I forgot about the black & white orcs!
Even sweeter now you mentioned them :-)
Has anyone seen this…
http://footballtaxhavens.wordpress.com/2014/01/03/co-operative-bank-requests-lawwell-to-add-more-security-to-celtic-loan-facility/
Seems to be more of this appearing lately, the website is full of Celtic stuff.
4-1 Barca….Messi imperial
Sunderland have knocked out a few big uns to get there.
Hope they win it.
A new tape from Lotte
https://soundcloud.com/peterjung1/charlotte-fakeover-charles-1
Starry, Ki shows well in the games I’ve seen.
Still has a good range of passing.
Ki – the best player on the park by far – great passing; great movement; never wasted a ball!
nmccfc73
22:41 on 22 January, 2014
Good business by Celtic….
….and it’s only a facility…
Best pen shoot-outs I’ve seen:
Dryborough Cup .v. thems!
Artur .v. the Russians?
Big Packie at the Minis.
Artur top right-hand corner .v. Dundee Utd.
Was at both games.
Lenny was definitely boo’d – absolutely no question. As others said, some fans simply let nerves get the better of them and panicked (sure it wasn’t that late in game too).
For me however, the booing of Fergus when unfurling the flag was much worse IMHO as it was loud by a lot of people and not in the heat of the moment.
I know that NFL and his father were very upset by the booing (as were the whole team).
Fergus did what Fergus always did! He simply ignored it as a distraction and carried on in his mission. A real Celtic hero. Would love to know how the wee man would have dealt with the last two years of the Scottish football circus. Love to think he’d have used the ass off the SFA and got Ogilvie’s head on a platter!
Ps how awful is that Man U team. Rank rotten. The 18 yrs old boy is carrying them. Worst eon shoot out ever watched!
Ki been getting rave reviews for the Mackems all season
Wit about the Van Basten pen in the world cup finals. Probably the best I’ve ever seen. 3 goalkeepers wouldn’t have saved it. Blooter nearly took the net out. :-) Think it was the 1970 finals.
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Effe and Virgil or Evans and Smalling?
I know our two are not exactly stretched up here but I still think they are a much better pairing than those two.
Manure are rubbish
Wouldn’t have one of the players on the park tonight or either coach
The quiet man…..
You obviously can’t remember the awful ManUre side that got relegated in 1973 then?
Absolutely hilarious that Denis Law of MAN CITY scored the goal that put them down,too.
Weefra….
Van Basten played in 80s mate?
Didn’t know there was football on TV tonight so only caught the penalties. Delighted for Ki, reminiscent of his penalty for Korea against GB and that cracker against Udinese.
Well done, Ki.
Some of Man U players are rank esp wee Jimmy Krankie at right back..and the keeper.
Feel sorry a bit for Moyes.
Anyway, MU would have got humped in the final.
HH
It looks like even ‘Private Eye’ has got in on the act with its own bushy tailed rodent.
Planet Football
Celtic
Under pressure from regulators as well as the Treasury committee, the Co-operative Bank wasted no time adding the recent land sale by Glasgow city council to Celtic to the security held for the bank’s £33m funding. A charge over the land near Celtic Park was granted on 19 December, seven days after the council approved the sale.
The Co-Op was big on football clubs, but Celtic has been probably the biggest beneficiary of that largesse – unrelated, no doubt, to the presence on that club’s board of former Labour ministers John Reid (who has since left) and Brian Wilson (still there). But the new, more professional management at the bank may be less generous.
The Celtic facility consists of long-term loans of £21m and an overdraft facility of £12m. Both are cheap to run, being fixed at a little more than Libor/bank rate plus 1 percent. So the overdraft last year cost just 1.5 percent and the loans 1.65 percent. When those deals were done, base rate was much higher, but the deals are still sweet. Similarly, Celtic seems to gave benefited from favourable terms in its land deals with the traditionally Labour-dominated local council.
One interesting omission from the otherwise detailed Celtic accounts for 2013 relates to related party transactions during the year. There is reference to “a number of transactions, principally for the supply of goods and services” between the club itself, the subsidiary Celtic FC, with “organisations in which some directors have an interest, as directors or shareholders of the other contracting party”.
Shareholders are assured that such transactions were “at arms length” and “of an insignificant nature”. So no information is provided as to which directors, what goods and services and how much! Not exactly how the related party game is usually played. It should be up to shareholders to decide about the shortness of arms and significance and that requires full information. A yellow card.
‘Slicker’
Ki has found a niche at Sunderland.
He didn’t play enough at Swansea but he seems to be a driving force for Sunderland.
His passing and his control of the game at times was a joy to watch.
I hope he can lift them up and they stay up.
We got a good deal at the time but he was and is a class act. Sadly the SPL as it was then does little or nothing for players as good as he is. Until Scottish football learns that kicking the opposition is not football it will never get better.
What was noticeable was he got time and space on the ball tonight.
That penalty he hit was also top class.
MUQN must be in melt-down!
T/sport getting it ‘tight’ from Man Utd supporters on way home from game.
Sorry worst pen shoot out – predictive txt!
Changed my mind
I would definitely have KI back
Probably at a profit too
The Quiet Man
Lenny’s back pass was right in front of me at the Front Stand .
I remember it not as a boo but an exasperated ( very loud) , frustrated and very protracted ahhghghhhhghghgghhg !
The Onlooker
Paul67…..
Any ideas on why this has now appeared in Private Eye…..hmmmmm
NosmokewithoutfireCSC
ryecatcher
Thanks for that kiddo. That was part of the Cruyff era, correct? Anyhoos, they were some team. The ole memory is not the same as it was. But I still remember that pen. Even the english commentator says it was unsavable. :-))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
ryecatcher
Why wouldn’t it appear in PE ?
All they are doing is rehashing stuff that is out there, and obviously need to fill print space.
HH