Last night is going to hurt. Brendan will hurt, as will the players. As far as our European objectives for this season are concerned – remain involved beyond Christmas – it is close to meaningless, but it will not feel that way.
The players need to make that hurt work for them. Two weeks today, they face Anderlecht. The unpleasant taste of defeat should remain on the taste buds when we take the field in Brussels. This is our opportunity to cleanse the palate. Bottle the hurt, don’t let it escape, let the mood remain sombre.
Use it as a embryo of growth. Be sharper, fitter, more alert and clinical. Take the positives from last night, and there were some, and build on them.
Competitive football is ruthless. Players who reach the Champions League have all filtered through hundreds of iterations of selection and rejection. Last night will have brought the spectre of rejection closer to home than any of them experienced during the Invincible Experience.
If they perform as they can, they will win in Brussels. Do that, and they will justifiably feel better about their place in the great football food chain.
Spare a thought today for others who delighted in our demise last night. The morning after is when they will have realised that defeat just means we redouble our efforts to improve.
Pitch Invader
Oh, and the pitch invader: sue him for whatever fine Uefa impose. It was a mindless attempted assault. The reputational damage to Celtic fans from this type of action is incalculable, which the club must show concern for. The consequences are never appropriately served on the offender. Let them act with apparent impunity (a ban is irrelevant to some) and you let them cause real damage the reputation of Celtic fans.
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Macjay
Guilty as charged M’ Lord.
Will have my Che t shirt and MLK boxers on though. ;)
Delaneys,
you enjoy mucker,
i am working on Dumbarton hospitality for us
GORDYBHOY64 on 13TH SEPTEMBER 2017 11:28 PM
Macjay1,
aye just wait til the next time he mentions socialist Clydebank,.
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Mate.
Just hate thae chardonnay boys.
:-)
DELANEYS DUNKY on 13TH SEPTEMBER 2017 11:32 PM
Aye.
Che lives.
And so do the huns.
TONTINE TIM on 13TH SEPTEMBER 2017 11:31 PM
Astonished to learn recently that wee Bertie was dropped for that game.
Cowiebhoy
‘I see real genius in your flying……’
TopGunCSC
Gordy
Good man. Chris is getting every minute of every Sons gametime. He loves Ian Durrant and Durrant loves and highly rates Chris. Strangly. :)
MacJay
William Wallace was a 7 foot tall giant. ;))
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 13TH SEPTEMBER 2017 11:43 PM
TONTINE TIM on 13TH SEPTEMBER 2017 11:31 PM
Astonished to learn recently that wee Bertie was dropped for that game.
*he had an altercation with the hun thug at right back in a previous game and Bob Kelly didnae want tae risk him. After losing 1-3 at easter Road he replaced smiler in all the other games except a league game at hades, ironically he played there in the semi against the Bully Wee a week later.
tontine
how old was bertie in 1957?
FRED C. DOBBS on 13TH SEPTEMBER 2017 11:10 PM
Why does the person in charge of the music keep YNWA running for far too long?
It is much more passionate when they cut the music off when the fans are in full voice.
Why has this changed? Makes us sound like the lesser Liverpool version IMO.
YNW
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Spot on . I posted on Tuesday about him/her playing YNWA v Astana with a third of the fans not present . I know we have other more serious problems , but our anthem is every bit as important to us , so please if anyone knows who is responsible , get him told .
DELANEYS DUNKY on 13TH SEPTEMBER 2017 11:55 PM
MacJay
William Wallace was a 7 foot tall giant. ;))
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Climbed his monument couple of years ago .
Quite an erection.
Who would win a fight between, a manager who would park three buses to save his team fae getting a tanking aff one of the CL galactico’s….
Or,……A manager who, for the second season in a row, in the opening CL group game, would deploy, midlife crisis tactics, and try to press a team of galactico’s, with a £half a billion strike force ?
And on and on and on……
……oot.
TONTINE TIM on 13TH SEPTEMBER 2017 11:55 PM
Hated Shearer. Founder member of the iron curtain whose forte was ” power play.”
Can`t imagine how you remember so much about those days.
Smiler Mochan ? Cannon ball kid.
The first line up I could trot out was :-
Hunter
Fallon Rollo
Evans Boden Baillie
Collins Walsh Mc.Phail Peacock Tully.
Another one about Seamus’s Da
Macjay1
The Ibrox Iron Curtain pre-dated Shearer.
It was in the Geordie Young era. Mid 50’s, I would guess.
THOMTHETHIM FOR OSCAR OK on 14TH SEPTEMBER 2017 12:46 AM
Thanks , Thom.
You`re obviously long before my time.
Shearer , Sammy Baird , the Korean vet who chased the wee specky French guy halfway across the Ibrox pitch ?
The black hearts.
Macjay
Oooeeerrr sir.
Prefer the Lisbon Lion namesake. :))
Packy
I was at that airdrie when we won 9 – 0
Frank haffey took the penalty
Chipped at the top right corner
Making the keeper make a Hollywood save
Nice gesture from a gent
Just been watching all the reactions after the match. That young lad Tony Ralston will hold on to that position now, IMO. He looks, if possible, even better than Kieran.
He was brilliant in all the interviews I’ve watched. Nae mincing his words. He is going to be an incredible player for Celtic.
Cavani’s headed goal was absolutely sensational the more you see it. The good thing is big Jozo read his run very well and was unlucky to concede from there. It was just a shame he done his best ever header – surely.
Delighted Jozo has re-signed for another wee while. He is real quality IMO.
nally81 on 13th September 2017 4:32 pm
PSG had 6 shots on target.
5 went in.
We need someone who’s good in goals.
The night we beat Barca- 2-1 they had 16 ( sixteen ) shots on target.
It’s staring us in the face.
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Being brutally honest – I’m glad they were trying to walk the ball into the net – If they had been shooting early. :((
Any chance Sevco had of causing an upset on the 23rd died when Celtic got beat by that Team that is a defo to Win the tainted Big Cup.
The Celtic Support were Brilliant 2nd half.
They Definitely will win it.
Sad.
Jamesie was on the bench watching Mbappe.
Celtic just went up a level after last night.
Wee Jamesie is gonnae be dynamite now.
Ole.G.CSC
Ya Beauty
;))
Anderlecht will be very tough. Celtic will get whats needed there howevaaaaaaaah.
Mair Wee Jamesie plaudits
So many pop ups when dropping this
Proceed with that warning in mind.
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That Chump who invaded the pitch on Tuesday was apparently slapped/punched in the head by an older Celtic fan from St Albans, as the invader was being led away ?
This “Hero” was fined for assault in Court.
The Crown requested that the “Hero” be banned from football etc, the Sheriff said “NO”, as the “Hero” hadn’t been in trouble for over 40 years.
The Sheriff said that to ban him is really Celtic’s decision, and ” Hopes Celtic see SENSE” ?
The “Hero” takes his nephew to see The Hoops.
SEE SENSE ?………Celtic should give this ” hero” and his nephew season books free for ever imo !
Celtic like some clubs… are happy whenever the support “Police” themselves, and although Celtic can not be seen to reward any punch/slap by one fan on another…in cases like this this “Hero” did something to this Chump that tens of thousands of us Celtic fans would want to do !
HH
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/41256275
Good morning CQN from a showery, bright but cool East Devon.
Big Jimmy –
Not sure who I was more incensed with – the dope that ran on, or thr stewards / police who completely failed to react when hundteds of fans were alerting them to the guy BEFORE he reached the pitch.
Oh and Good Morning, friends.
Anyway, onwards and upwards and 2 more sleeps till we take it out on Ross County ;-)
Big Jimmy on 14th September 2017 5:57 am
Sorry Jimmy, can’t agree with you there. Sure the eejit that ran on should be punished and he has been but it’s certainly not a hero that smacks a boy who is being restrained with his hands behind his back. Like the idiot that ran on the park, the ‘hero’ acted impulsively. Maybe we all felt like doing it but the rest of us managed to control ourselves, like we should’ve.
The Hoostmans being refreshingly honest this morning with this:
“The sense of optimism over where Rangers are heading that has been prompted by the successes over Ross County and Dundee in recent weeks has been surprisingly strong.”
Or in other words they have only played pish………………
Word of The Day(SMSM)
asperse /əˈspɜːs/
verb (transitive)
1. to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
2. to spread false rumours about; defame
3. (rare) to sprinkle, as with water in baptism
Derived Forms
asperser, noun
aspersive, adjective
aspersively, adverb
Word Origin and History for asperseExpand
v.
late 15c., “to besprinkle,” from Latin aspersus, past participle of aspergere (see aspersion ). Meaning “to bespatter someone’s character with rumour and false reports” is recorded from 1610s.
KTF
And of course any good manager would always take the opportunity to look at future opponents but we get this:
The fact all games are equal to Caixinha means he didn’t even watch Celtic’s Champions League mauling the other night ahead of hosting the Scottish champions a week on Saturday. “Yesterday I watched Sporting Lisbon against Olympiakos”
Tontine Tim,
Was there ever a Celtic defence along the lines of: Haffey, McKay and Kennedy, Crerand,
Evans and Peacock
Sorry. Pressed the wrong button there.
Those are the first players whom I could put a face to. I had been to Parkhead a number of times before I could recognise individuals.
GORBALSTAM on 14TH SEPTEMBER 2017 7:24 AM
From what I’ve read what incensed the older guy was that the eejit who ran on the pitch was smirking as he was being led away.
To be fair to the eejit, he apologised for getting the older guy into trouble.
And, whatever you think about the rights and wrongs of it, giving the guy a smack at least showed to the public at large what the rest of the supporter thought of his behaviour.