Congratulations to Scotland’s Player of the Year, Stefan Johansen, and Young Player of the Year, Jason Denayer. It’s fair to say Stefan had an underwhelming first eight months in Scotland, but the turnaround since October has been stark.
It was during our home defeat to Hamilton Accies that month that I noticed a change in his game. He took on more responsibility and pressed incessantly for the equaliser. The next game, away to Ross County, was a Johansen virtuoso performance and he’s never looked back.
There was a similar ‘So what?’ reaction to Jason’s early season performances. Performances were far more like Efe Ambrose than Virgil van Dijk, but he grew increasingly assured as the season progressed. His international debut two months ago was merited.
Manchester City want him back for next season, where he’ll be second reserve for central defence. On the upside, he’ll get six games, some of which will be in the cups against lower league opponents. If City and the player want to map a route to the first team, this is a step in the process, but it’s not without its risks to the player.
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Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon
16:24 on 4 May, 2015
Will we be competing with The Rangers next season?
Well, if they get promoted we will be – in the same sense as we have been competing with Motherwell or St Mirren this season.
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Yep. Just waiting for someone to ask Mourinho if he wants Ipswich back in the EPL so they have some competition next season!
The green man
I am nothing more than a customer of Celtic I pay to go and watch them. Unlike in the past there are lot more important things in this world now. I understand that supporting a football club may be the only avenue open to some for social inclusion and you post accordingly.
I don’t think Martin Hannan or me for that matter will lose any sleep over the opinions of a minority group of anonymous posters who we have no wish to socially interact with outside cyberdom
DBBIA @ 16 .28.
I will follow in your slipstream..
Asked Mrs S of T for her opinion.-
” all those fat ***** who absolutely shouldnt wear such things will look even more like a condom stuffed with walnuts now.”
gearoid1998
16:10 on 4 May, 2015
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Hail Hail G1998.
KTF.
New away kit?
Jude2005
A quick search on the Internet would have told you the West Dunbartonshire SNP candidate is Martin Docherty ( unsure if he follows a football team or not)
Or don’t you have the Internet
http://www.footyheadlines.com/2015/04/new-balance-celtic-15-16-kit.html
The Huns are Deid.
A cold fact.
Sugarman CSC
mickybhoy1888
Away ye go and greet into your sash.
Handshakes all round for the bigot pound.
I wish to God the gift to gie us
To see oorselves as Mrs South of Tunis sees us.
I think that the new Celtic tap looks class.
HH.
Mickybhoy1888
for a mere “customer” your moniker shows a touch of a more emotional attachment to Celtic I would suggest.
Unless of course you are not an anonymous poster…. and actually that is your given names and DOB…. in which case I commend you on your unarguable longevity.
Dontbrattbakkinanger 16.28
Sorry beat u to it a couple of pages ago !!
Lose the wee pinstripe and narrower hoops pleeeze….huge improvement on our existing hoops though
Roddybhoy- I’m gutted I wasn’t third.
Third is simply the bestest.
Absolutely bewildered by Martin Hannan’s article. Knew him a little about 15 years ago when he was at Scotsman Publications in Edinburgh.
I would have bet the farm against him being associated with garbage like that.
Reads to me like he was handed a very specific brief by his editor and hacked it out in 10 minutes flat, hating every minute.
Factually inaccurate, biased, sloppy, ill-thought-out, agenda-driven horsesh*t.
Just say no, Martin. Just say no.
Re the new kit:
Numbers on the shorts. All I’m saying. I want numbers on the bliddy shorts.
Why do so many people on here get agitated about stupid newspaper articles ( that appear in rags that nobody on here reads)about football teams that ceased to exist
Taxi for Mickbhoy1888 !!!
there’s no such thing as a bad Celtic strip, just that some are better than others.
the battered bunnet
11:03 on 4 May, 2015
One from Jungle Jim’s scholastic satchel.
Read this carefully, then ask: What’s the purpose of the Writer? What message is he conveying?
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Martin Hannan: Give King a chance to help end Celtic’s rule
May 4th, 2015
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Since the Valentine’s Day celebrations 2012, there have been a number of similar articles from these obscure Masonic hacks. Ahem, “a clarion call for the rounding up of the goat herd” would seem to be the underlying theme.
Amusingly it has fallen on deaf ears financially and commercially, however, other outdated organizations seem to be falling in line, the pattern becoming increasingly evident as the season progresses…
New kit: huge improvement on the previous effort.
One request- can we just stop messing with the green, solid Hoop though?
No bank
No ebt’s
No crazy lending facility
Minimal revenue streams
Dubious directors
Horrific support
Challenge Celtic?
Aye Right!
mick1888
Ta. She is standing agin one of the top Labour guys. Douglas Alexander. She has been quoted as saying she hates Celtic in her younger days
Interesting article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine, noting that in almost every European League, the title has been decided with a month still to go: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/sport/fussball/eichlers-eurogoals/fc-bayern-fc-chelsea-und-juventus-turin-sind-meister-13573832.html The article also notes that a certain “Rangers” (I think they mean Sevco) are “burdened with new financial problems”.
Jude
Martin Docherty is SNP candidate for West Dunbartonshire. Gemma Doyle for Labour.
16 roads – celtic über alles…
15:35 on 4 May, 2015
normanstreet49
15:23 on 4 May, 2015
16 roads.
Don’t post links to clap trap like that…
You are perpetuating the myth.
Refer to it by all means.
But don’t post the link.
HH.
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No worries mate, sorry about that. I was just trying to highlight the delusion and the hurt that they are clearly suffering from.
Some of the comments are excellent though.
It won’t happen again anyway.
HH.
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Post the link all ye want my friend, I read it, I don’t buy papers so these wee links are useful, isn’t that what the blog is about..?
Ayrshire is Green and White
“Raymac
14:43 on
4 May, 2015
Greenpinata—I meant it to be derogatory. You have your name or you have nothing– “Who steals my purse steals dross” The Merchant of Venice. Look up the rest of the quote.”
I do not remember that from the MoV. There is a similar quote, though, by Iago in Othello. `trash` instead of `dross`.
JJ
mick1888
Mhairi Black
The only way to make the league ‘ fair ‘ is to make us start minus our previous league points and every other team to keep their’s.
So if we get 90 points this season we start on -90 next season and aberdeen and the rest keep what ever they get this season, that should keep the huns and the media happy and stop our March to 10+ in a row.
I would still back us right enough HH
D D
See 17.11
Mo Johnston, Hun
Nacho Novo, Hun
Neil McCann, Hun
George Albertz, Hun
Lorenzo Ameruso, Hunnish.
Now what religion were they again?
I think I was first!
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stan and stefan – sitting doon for scott broon
11:37 on 4 May, 2015
Just saw picture of the new New Balance top for next season. No really “hoops”. No likey.
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Although S&S junior told me that I always dislike the new strip then end up loving it.
mickbhoy1888
16:35 on 4 May, 2015
Your logic doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
With social media in full swing and such meeting places such as Paul’s creation, rags such as the Scotsman, traditionally accustomed to holding sway over public opinion are experiencing an epiphany that they are an increasing irrelevance.
They should be concerned by the bampots, and I expect there is more than one circulations manager having sleepless nights over his latest reports.
https://www.facebook.com/Mhairi.Black.SNP
Jude
Just did. :))
‘und neuen Geldproblemen hangengebieben’-
-even the Hessians have seen through the Huns.
D D
Do you know Mhairi Black?
Talking of new strips,when does Iceberg Slim release a new rig out for his latest beeatch?
DD @ 1711
Cue for a song?
http://youtu.be/Yf104TPqtsw