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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weeminger …. if that happens, and they open a place in a nice, warm climate …, say, Miami or California … let them know that I would be available to coach for a relatively modest amount (certainly less than the reported $30 million owing to Mourinho if he is paid off) … for a team in a colder climate (say, Minnesota), I would expect a higher level of compensation.
have the club’s people call my people and I’m sure we can work something out.
A happy hoopy birthday to MINX1888!
HH!!
Scottish nationalism bad. SNP bad.
Irish nationalism good. Sinn Fein good.
Strange.
The latter party has various connections to violence.
The victim hood on here is excruciating. Scotland is moving on. The bigots have lost despite the corrupt Scottish Labour party doing nothing about the problem.
Good evening friends.
Only another 2h 39m till Doc Martin ;-)
slownewsMondayCSC
Back to football.
Fine result.
Ronny has, I fear, cut his own throat by playing KC. His authority looks weak. Even Jose can’t survive such problems.
Tallybhoy…
I hope I’ve not built the minx’s expectations too high from the post this morning, as you and others have said in the past HT is renown for his thriftiness. :)
Quite confident that the massive number of SNP voters are dead set against the OB act, as were the
the Celtic home support yesterday, judging by the polite applause given to the aesthetically excellent Green Brigade banner.
Apolitical csc
Superb piece of man management by Ronny Deila, playing Kris Commons and his two goals justified his selection as did the real Celtic supporters rousing reception.
Was listening to Five Live yesterday and they kept going back to Roddy Forsythe for updates from Celtic.
Meanwhile Artur Boruc was making a few mistakes and gifting goals to Spurs.
Celtic score a fourth. Over to Roddy,
“Celtic are scoring as many as Boruc
is fumbling for Bournemouth.”
What possible reason can he have to link these two matches????
Mon the Kris Comons/ Ronny Deila Alliance:)
starry
Kiss and make up, unless you work for The Daily Record?
Googybhoy
His reason?
A hun pandering to a likeminded audience in the best wee country in the world.
Boruc is a hate figure in Scotland (wonder why?)
the lion king has been spottted in glasgow
bournesouprecipe
Of course darling, love you, air kisses:))
Captain Beefheart on 26th October 2015 6:27 pm
Beg to differ.
I think Ronny fielding Kris and Stefan on Sunday was excellent management.
It would have been the easiest thing in the world to drop Kris/fine him/publicly hang him out to dry in an attempt to play to the galleries as the hard-man manager. Or drop Stefan. Doing either or both would IMO be the sign of a weak manager.
As it is, he has come out of this as the grown-up, Kris has apologised, and both he and Stefan played well on Sunday.
Now tactics is another matter.
SS-King will be in town to overinvest………
Greeninbingley
He got you – another day, same ole troller
*Couldkkickmyselftoo* csc
Fan,
We have had perhaps seven Poles in our club. Only Artur had problems. Perhaps the country isn’t as bad as many on here think?
Agree with BSR. Ronny rolled off the ropes yesterday. Well played.
starry
Any good music?
Green,
Hope you are right but i doubt it. Look at Chelsea. The management cannot be undermined.
bournesouprecipe
Wishbone Ash mate live from the fifth year common room:)
ELP triple album Rigor Mortis
And the classic Yes album, My Life in the Bush of Concepts..
thats a good quiz question ……………
who can correctly spell celtics 7 poles
Stivs
Jackie, shuggie, magic, arfur ?
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 26TH OCTOBER 2015 6:29 PM
‘Quite confident that the massive number of SNP voters are dead set against the OB act’
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If that’s the case why hasn’t there been any criticism of the Act from any any elected SNP politician?
Not one.
Are they a political party or a cult?
Kris Commons is 12 goals short of 100 Celtic goals, remarkable for a midfielder.
SS
Artur Boruc
Paweł Brożek
Dariusz Dziekanowski
Dariusz Wdowczyk
Maciej Zurawski
Łukasz Załuska
Miłość
BSR…
The Clash – The Magnificent Seven – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Brozek
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART on 26TH OCTOBER 2015 6:51 PM
Fan,
We have had perhaps seven Poles in our club. Only Artur had problems. Perhaps the country isn’t as bad as many on here think?
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That suggests it wasn’t his nationality that people in Scotland found offensive.
Did he encounter the same hostility in England as he did here?
Did Neil Lennon?
Oh well, I give up trying to post links, it’s been a nightmare lately. :(
Mike in Toronto/weeminger
Celtic already do have influence in the US with their international partnership programme:
http://www.celticfc.net/pages/celticsocceracademy_international
And Mike, they are affiliated with a team in the Florida Keys too.
Hail Hail
Danny MacAskill – Riding the Ridge on BBC Scotland at 7.30 tonight, if you havent seen this already its amazing along with the brilliant soundtrack by the late Martyn Bennett.
At Development team game at Dumbarton. Boys playing Hearts. Interested to see Allan and Nesbitt. Boys dominating so far, a few tough challenges from the Hearts boys.
Beefy
Don’t really know why I bother but if you look at the last Assembly elections in the North, SF outpolled the other main Nationalist party 2 to 1.
SF now have an electoral mandate and contrary to opinion (held mostly by Unionists) they were not involved in violence it was the IRA who were involved in violence BUT they were not the only ones.
Many saw the IRA as a legitimate army to counteract the existence of a sectarian statelet in which being a Catholic/Nationalist condemned you to 2nd class citizenship and all that that entailed.
To read some of the garbage you would think that the “troubles” started in 1969. It is also inresting to note that the bogeymen from the IRA were responsible for less deaths than the “Security forces”. When you ally this with the numbers killed as a consequence of collusion between Loyalist
paramilitaries and the aforementioned “Security forces” those killed by the IRA (not SF) is significantly less.
Now my point in this is that the people from here, in the main, have moved on. We are in a new dispensation. Is there any chance of you doing the same.
Captain Beefheart
I think it’s worse than many admit.
Ernie Lynch’s response is spot on.
7 Poles have played for Celtic but a particular hatred was reserved for Boruc.
Neil Lennon’s horrendous treatment by Scottish society say plenty.
Condoned and encouraged by the press and courts.
Captain Beefheart…
Let’s not kid ourselves, there is an underlying current that has no time for Celtic or anything green.
Usually currant buns :)
I don’t know if you have came up against it, hopefully not, it is still rife, the amount of orange walks in our lovely country verifies it….ban them, why not!
ernie
Sorry, Ernie I’m strictly apolitical.
That doesn’t stop me from saying SNP/ or YES voters don’t think the
OBAF act , is wrong, and still confident think they do.
I can though appreciate the OBA being strictly correlated with the SNP given, the timing, shame game, Salmond (fabric of society) the summit, etc, etc
You being Labour? – might say it wouldn’t have happened, – maybe you’d be right.
It was posted on CQN long before the SNP ‘take over’, that simple Celtic supporting would be viewed as somehow ‘sectarian’.
And so it has come to pass, fortunately in most cases ‘the sectarian’ which is the only angle that gets to me, gets panned by the PF, but we’re still stuck with a police state, especially when they see green and white.