I lost count the number of times I heard “Worst Dundee United team I’ve ever seen” on the way out of Celtic Park yesterday. They were guileless, unable to do any more than stand in Celtic’s way, and they didn’t even do that very effectively, as Leigh Griffiths demonstrated. I hope Mixu gets a grip on things soon as I’ve seen a better United team than that relegated.
For Celtic it was an important win on the back of a week to forget. Martin O’Neill was fond of saying the most important thing after a defeat is to avoid another one, when confidence slips it can often do so for a while.
Kieran Tierney won the free kick which led to the second goal and the penalty for the third. His energy levels were high and he looked every inch a Celtic player. Ronny knows teenage talent needs to be developed at a comfortable pace but the stage is Kieran’s right now he might just make the position his own.
Delighted to see Jozo Simunovic after a long and, for some, worrying absence. This was a difficult game to judge central defenders, as Celtic did so little defending, but what was asked of him was carried out well. He also showed a decent change of pace and sent a rasping shot on target from 30 yards.
While last week will take a while to leave the system, the next five days are enormously important: Heats in the League Cup on Wednesday before Aberdeen on Saturday. We can speculate on what’s destroyed Aberdeen, but whatever it is, there will be clear decks for the visit to Glasgow on Saturday, but before then we have one of our biggest domestic challenges of the season at Tynecastle. Need to get it right for both.
My first reaction when I saw the Green Brigade banner yesterday was they some poor sod was likely to get huckled for this entirely peaceful and appropriate protest against a ridiculous law and ever-conspiratorial government and police. Such is the nature of the Offensive Behaviour Act that you can’t really complain about the Scottish Government confident that you are free to do so.
The Scottish Government-Police Scotland pact is set in stone. No amount of ridicule from courts to stadiums seem to affect it. I remain appalled and alarmed.
Brendan Sweeney, legend from Celts for Change and more recently Celtic Graves, is launching his book, Celtic: The Early Years, at the Jock Stein Lounge this Thursday, 29 October. I’ve had a preview, it’s an incredible work. If you’d like to attend the launch, to catch up with the author on some of the most incredible times in our club’s history, email him to book your seat, brendan67@ymail.com
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new article posted.
AXETHEACT on 27TH OCTOBER 2015 11:04 AM
Please sign
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/removal-of-lord-livingston-from-celtic-fc-board.
Ta, signed.
Tory Peer walks up the celtic way, past the foodbank collection, past the walfrid , past the plaque for the victims of the famine, enjoys the lounge, and the heated seat.
Then a mere few weeks later votes on something that affects the working poor, and the unemployed to suffer more.
He aint fit for our office.
The Battered Bunnet on 27th October 2015 11:28 am
You’re more intelligent than that post suggests. You sound like a member of a cult, prepared to abandon rational thought and critical judgment in pursuit of your aims. Or maybe you’re just dishonest.
The SNP helped the Tories win the election.
They did so in two ways
1. they took votes from Labour in Scotland.
2. they claimed that they would be able to dictate policy to a minority Labour government. The claim was nonsense of course, they would have had no option other than to support a minority Labour government, without preconditions. Anything else would have been suicide. Nonetheless their dishonest posturing gave the Tories just enough traction to appeal to English nationalism. The Tory spin doctors confirmed it was the SNP that got them elected. No matter, this government suits the nats, and that’s all that matters to the cult.
AXETHEACT
Signed,mate. Well done.
Is Government subsidising businesses who don’t pay their staff enough through tax credits correct..I don’t think so..but make the living wage the minimum wage before ending tax credits.
aburntoutcase on 27th October 2015 12:23 am
DD I know. As late as 1941 my family were forced out of Tyrone. most went to Renfrew/Port/Clydebank or Johnstone,where we ended up.
My paternal grannie came from the Clifden area and landed in Dumbarton where she met my culchie Fermanagh grampa, they were married in St Patrick’s in the town.
I know that Dumbarton is a settling place for the Connemara diaspora and its possible she knew someone there.
I’ve been led to believe that where you were on the boat determined where you got off. Port Glasgow, Dumbarton and then Glasgow itself. Must have stopped at the River Cart for your family.
Philbhoy * from ages ago *
Yes, Kieran Tierney at LB for Tynecastle.
Would also like to have seen Logan Bailly, so that Craig Gordon could re focus,
as will Emilio Izzaguire for the oncoming batch of crucial fixtures.
Tierney, Simunovic and Boyata were untested at the weekend, and this will be a much more
difficult game.
How come when Celtic win, Scottish football is rubbish?