Shortly after Elfsborg cracked one against the crossbar last night I quickly scanned the Celtic team and had a thought. For the second season in a row we are taking on the Swedish champions but we’re missing two of last season’s big performers and none of this season’s new signings were ready for action. In short, this was Celtic 2012 minus Wanyama and Hooper. No wonder we looked unstructured.
Joe Ledley brought some vision to central midfield when he arrived, hopefully banishing the Brown-Kayal partnership to hidden corners of our mind once and for all. Anthony Stokes playing at the front of a wide diamond was equally effective. With the signing of Amido Balde, bids in for Kevin Doyle, and the addition of a wide-delivery-expert Derk Boerrigter, clearly Neil Lennon has a different plan for the months to come….. so there’s no real need for me to state the obvious.
Defensively we looked solid after a shaky opening few minutes. I’m not the only one who was a bit nervous about Efe Ambrose after he was (again) caught underneath a long ball, but he settled quickly. As we know to our cost, being great for 87 minutes is not how Champions League reputations are made, you are judged on your how vulnerable you become in your weak moments.
I said yesterday that Samaras and Commons were the two players who could cope at this level, which became plainly obvious during the game. Georgios was the one player who frightened Elfsborg, they either swamped him with four defenders or fouled him before he got near goal.
Kris is simply the most intelligent footballer we have. He is not the fastest, will never have the best stats, but he understands how games are won and is able to act accordingly. Without these two players Celtic would be distinctly vanilla.
Thanks to those who sent over their 1254125 Great Scottish Run details, I’ll have them on the page later.
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ACGR
Here semi permanently (I think).Just moved here on Sunday so I’ve not had the pleasure of spunk bar yet, I’ll make sure to look it up. I was lucky enough to have a job in the south of France of the last few months. So far the city has been nothing but lovely.
BobM 01.20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uSTOHa4Im4
Our friend from the emerald isle’s not going to like that, well maybe he will………who knows?
The Louden, really? Aye ok, lets take over and redecorate the place. That place is a blot on the landscape with its butchers aprons and bigoted slogans on it’s walls.
It really does need some new “management”.
joe_joe_john_bobby_teddy:
This is an open site. Many people not of the Celtic persuasion read it too and take note. A lot of people not of the Celtic persuasion would just love to know who CharlotteFakeovers is in the real world. They have often stated quite graphically what they would like to do to that person.
Now maybe you do know the identity and maybe you’re just taking an educated guess, but if you publish a name and you are wrong then I hope for your sake your conscience will be able to live with it.
I know, as does the msm
A Stor Mo Chroi:
Then be responsible with your knowledge.
as_i_thought, you’re making me jealous now. South of France and Copenhagen…..Bah.
Make sure you keep some toenails in that bottle we can share one day because I’m running out fast. I’ve four bottles of the 3E left. Two I’m putting away for my boy for when he’s old enough to appreciate it and I’ll just dram the rest……Aye, I know :+)
On the plus side I’m bottling a hogshead of Craigellachie in a couple of months and its a damn fine dram too. 11 Y.O. and it will be at cask strength. The last time we had it gauged (2 years ago) it was sitting at 62% ABV.
WOW, should be a good one. I’ll keep you posted.
Enjoy your travels bro and as ever it’s been a pleasure talking to you.
Celtic.
A Stor Mo Chroi at 01.42. Wise words. I read all of your posts, well the beginning of all of your posts, at least the first ten paragraphs, honest I do:-)
Keep up the good work
You Are Celtic.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust:
Mate you’re missing out, I always put a wee nugget into the sixteenth paragraph.
A Stor Mo Chroi
Ha ha, belter. FFS, I must increase my attention span. Get a deal with Amazon and release your posts on Kindle.
:-)
A Ceiler Gonof Rust:
I’d sell all my posts for a bottle of that special water you’ve got tucked away at the back of the cupboard.
Just off to bed and thought I would have a look over in spivcomedia before I hit the pillow
Had a look at there Newcastle friendly match thread some of the natives are surprised at sections of the ground being closed for what is a “glamour tie” some put it down to mid week etc then one currant bun mentions the roof repairs on twitter earlier lo & behold he is told “nah mate! just a timmy conspiracy,!!
Eyeswideshut
A Stor Mo Chroi, where are you based? I can always arrange a bottle for the right charitable donation to a good cause. I’m a bit of a pussy in that respect. If you’re here then I’ll dram you in September at bobm’s hootenanny.
email me at acgr@hotmail.co.uk and I’ll put you on the VIP list for the craigellachie bottling.
The 3e takings went to the wee Oscar fund but I want anything I can raise from this one to go to the Thai Tims. When I know the dram is worthy I’ll let you and others who are interested know.
DramsCSC.com
Celtic
MurdochauldandHay 02:28 on 2 August, 2013
Eyeswideshut.
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Na mate, more like thickasshit.
A STOR MO CHROI
I can assure you,a botlle of ACGR finest is worth the trip from Brisbane!
Just don’t drink it from test-tubes…..
FFS, Brisbane. I was hoping stirling or glasgow or findo gask.
FFS, Brisbane. I do home deliveries. Send me a business class ticket and I’ll deliver it to your door A Stor Mo Chroi. I’ll bring ma body board and shark repellent and drams.
Brisbane, FFS!!!
:-)
Jjjbt
Who is he expecting to illicit money from?
Brth
Sorry about the Language..but it is Kinda what the Post is About..
Get your wits out for the ghirls,
Celtic Football Club. Open to all. Against all forms of discrimination and renowned for its respect towards people from all races, religions and gender.
Except if you’re a blonde physiotherapist. Then you need your hole, love. Get your tits out.
This was the ‘banter’ dished out to our visitors from Elfsborg on Wednesday night. It seems a juvenile minority of fans just can’t stop themselves screaming sexually explicit statements at women in a football stadium.
It’s a relief to see one of Elfsborg’s doctors tweeted that she enjoyed her experience at Celtic Park – it’s an incredible stadium with incredible fans, and it would have been a great shame if that brief embarrassing display had spoiled it in any way.
Beside me in the Lisbon Lions stand, faces fell among those who didn’t take part in the screams of “YOU NEED YER HOLE” at the sports professionals going about their work. In front of me was a boy of around eight and at the end of my row a girl who couldn’t have been more than six.
It was cringeworthy and extremely uncomfortable to be sitting among men who couldn’t control themselves. You’d have been forgiven for thinking they’d never seen a woman before.
Before the Elfsborg physios took to the pitch, another woman from the Elfsborg staff warmed up not far from my seat along with two of the squad’s players. She was subjected to the same nature of comments from the guys around me. She kept her head turned towards the pitch and never once looked in our fans’ direction as she was goaded.
It was mortifying.
When I came home I switched my computer on and saw a tweet from a Celtic Underground writer who had witnessed the same behaviour. He was appalled by it too. It prompted me to put out a tweet of my own reporting what I had heard.
The response was one of incredible fury that I had dared suggest women may deserve a little more respect – but it wasn’t the first time a tweet about women at Celtic Park had elicited such a response.
In February, after a piece written by the Maley’s Bhoys blog, I responded in a discussion about a stark lack of women anywhere near the Celtic hierarchy. It was a flyaway comment and came from genuine curiosity.
I was met with a hysterical response from Twitter followers. How dare I even raise the question about a woman’s place at Celtic? Obviously, after all these years, there just hadn’t been any women good enough to grace the boardroom.
I guarantee not one of those critics would have accepted that a lack of Catholics at Ibrox in past times was simply because none were good enough.
Nor would they accept racist or sectarian abuse of any player, opposition player, member of staff, fan or visitor to Celtic Park.
So why are women fair game among those who pride themselves on their progressive Celtic values?
In a once male-dominated sport, such treatment of women would once have been commonplace, although the likelihood of finding a woman in a football stadium decades ago would have been minimal to begin with.
Nowadays, women make a substantial part of the Celtic support – as do children – and are an integral part of the Celtic Family.
The majority of fans treat women with the basic respect every human being deserves. They don’t demand they unbutton their cleavage and discuss their sexual habits.
Racism and sectarianism have no place at football grounds – Celtic fans have been very vocal on this subject, particularly about such discrimination at Ibrox –and neither does verbal, sexist abuse aimed at anyone because of their gender.
I’ve had hundreds of tweets in the last 24 hours absolutely incensed that I asked the men at Celtic Park to behave like real Bhoys and behave themselves.
I’m exaggerating, I need to get back in the kitchen, and other predictable and unoriginal stereotypes, have flown in my direction.
But encouragingly, I’ve had a lot of messages and emails from those who agree that discrimination is wrong in all forms at Celtic Park. One man said the ground could have opened up and swallowed him when a rendition of “get your tits out” started in his section. He was attending the game with his granddaughter.
For those who are stamping their feet because people like me want to “take the fun out” of football, I’d suggest therapy for you if indulging in occasional sexual harassment is necessary for you to enjoy yourself.
Celtic Park is a women-friendly place, but a few men in Paradise need to learn manners.
Summa
Above post Courtesy
Angela Haggerty
Journalist, broadcaster and editor
Summa
Summa –
Obviously I didn’t hear the sexist comments from the supporters, sitting as I was in my living room 10,000 miles away and glued to CelticTV.
However, I didn’t miss out. As the blonde physios treated the injured player, enter co-commentator Tom Boyd . . .
I bet there’ll be a lot of injuries among the Swedish players the night with physios like that.”
It was crass and cringeworthy in the extreme.
Summa, can you do me a wee favour mate?
I love the way you publish various articles and news reports on CQN and I usually lap them up. However, would you mind crediting the source of these articles?
Apart from being a common courtesy to the author/source, it helps other CQNers like myself to acquire some perspective by knowing who has written the piece, or if not the actual author, at least the newspaper/magazine/website who published it.
Thanks mate.
Summa –
OK you were reading my mind.
Cheers.
Summa. Great post.
“Aye, there’s the rub…”
To be, or not to be, (a Tim…..)
Celtic: Derk Boerrigter refutes ‘Sicknote’ claims
IT is standard for Dutch footballers to be frank conversationalists. The only sour note for Derk Boerrigter as he moved from Ajax to Celtic this week, however, was the lack of Frank conversation.
The Amsterdam club’s manager Frank de Boer had oodles of good things to say about the left winger he parted with for around £2m when speaking to one Scottish newspaper the other day. It was an entirely different story when it came to saying good things to the 26-year-old himself. De Boer, who brought the Ajax youth player back to the club two years ago, benched him for the closing months of last season and is said to have believed Boerrigter carried more psychological than physical scars from a stress fracture in his back in late 2011.
“Did he [de Boer] speak to me [when I left]? Not at all,” said Boerrigter. “He didn’t wish me luck or anything.
“In the beginning, I had a lot of credits, but it seems I spilled them all. I have no idea what went wrong and I’m disappointing with how it ended. At the start at Ajax, I scored many goals and made it to the national team before the injury brought things down.”
He continued: “When I finally got fit again, I wasn’t really fit. I am fast and quick on my feet, but having been out for two months, I didn’t feel that fast anymore. I was also a little scared at the time that a defender would kick me in the back. Eventually, I got over that, but I was on the bench by then. It gives me extra motivation, for sure. I want to succeed and it would be nice if we could draw Ajax in the Champions League.
“It’s hard to believe anyone could think the injuries were in my head because, if you see the scans, you could see a clear crack in my back. You can say as much as you want, but the evidence was there and I felt it.
“It was a stress fracture in the beginning, but we didn’t realise that, so I kept playing and playing taking painkillers. One day before I had to report to the national team [in November 2011], I got a kick on my back and that was it. It snapped. I played with a stress fracture in my back for two months.”
That injury may have cured, but his reputation has never been truly rehabilitated – despite his being a title winner in each of the past two seasons, featuring in ten of the club’s Champions League group games in that time (he was injured for the other two) and scoring in the Bernabeu in the competition. As soon as news of his move appeared over the weekend, the Dutch football Twitterati told Celtic supporters their club was about to sign a player never fully fit. It was even claimed he acquired the nickname “Sicknote”.
“It’s unfair,” said Boerrigter. “Last year I played 30 games and didn’t have one injury. If you check my career out, every team I played for I played over 30 matches [every season – a claim that checks out]. And only in my first season at Ajax did I have a big injury – in my back. I cracked a bone in my back – twice. That might have kept me out for a couple of months, but it was the only serious injury I got.”
The injury was serious enough for his Celtic medical to appear to become a two-day event that started on Monday, but did not conclude until the next morning. Boerrigter, though, claimed he was never worried when the Scottish champions waited for scan results to be confirmed overnight. “Celtic wanted to be sure my back was okay,” Boerrigter said. “And I knew it was okay because I played 30 games.
“At 5pm on Monday night in Edinburgh, I had to see a doctor who checked me and said I was perfectly fine. A doctor in London then had to look at the scans and he said the same. In Holland they say I get injured very easily, but they don’t seem to know how many games I played. It’s totally unfair.”
The fact Boerrigter hasn’t spent more time on the treatment table is no thanks to Celtic’s other recent Dutch signing Virgil van Dijk. Yesterday the £2m buy from Groningen tweeted a picture of him clattering his new team-mate when the pair were pitted against each other at their last postings. “I still remember that game,” said Boerrigter. “It was in the Amsterdam Arena and he should have had the red card for that.
“I hadn’t spoken to him much in Holland. I didn’t know him back then, but when you come here it’s nice to have someone else to speak your own language to sometimes. So of course I met him and he is a great guy.
“Did I kick him back? Normally I would. But I shouldn’t say that.”
Unlike his former manager, though, Boerrigter clearly believes it is good to talk.
Summa
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Post 3:43am..
Courtesy Andrew Smith..The Scotsman..
Tom..
Ha Ha..I Used to Always do the Courtesy thing..Maybe my OCD Pills are Working..Ha Ha..
Actually it was Ole Pablophanque that always did that..so l should know better..
EnyWhooo..Hope your Guid..
001Bhoy
Summa. You speak Way too much sense my friend. It was a throwback to the 60s when you would hear such abuse go unchallenged. Weird. The only justification (for anyone disagreeing with you publicly) , and it isn’t one really, is that they fear any criticisms highlighted re our support get magnified by those who would do our club down.
There are many who are waiting to jump on the slightest hint of bad behaviour and amplify it. Some in relatively influential places as we know.
More than ever our support needs to take a look at itself and the shadow it casts. Sadly many only have the green and white tinted specs on. The greatest support in the world ???
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Talking about ‘Banter’.. Language..Et c..
Celtic Quick News.. Not Lazy Journalism..
I wish some of the ‘Older’ CQNers Not age..The Guys here from the Startish..would again give the New Guys or Even the Old Guys a Little reminder when the Language Slips..on CQN..
I Remember saying/writing F#ck on a Live-Updates page when Rangers Scored and was Reminded Children read this site..
And it was a Celtic site..
there is a Difference..
Not once but by Several posters..
I Learnt my Lesson Quick..
I Can even remember Paul67 stating he did Not Like the Use of F@ck in Posts..
Just a Thought..
Summa
Billy No’Wells latest ditty!!!
http://youtu.be/y5yyD8KE-T0
P.S contains mild sweary words ;-)
HH
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Courtesy the Official Site..
Saints match Celts with Euro win
CELTIC´S 1-0 victory over Elfsborg on Wednesday night in the UEFA Champions League qualifier, courtesy of a Kris Commons goal, has been followed by a great victory for St Johnstone in the Europa League tonight.
The Perth side, who knocked Rosenborg out of the competition in the previous round, recorded a 1-0 victory away to FC Minsk in Belarus, Stevie MacLean scoring the only goal of the game.
Congratulations go to St Johnstone on a great result for Scottish football in Europe, and good luck for the return leg.
Commiserations go to Motherwell, who faced a tough Europa League tie against Russian side, Kuban Krasnodar. Unfortunately, the visitors won 2-0. It will be a tough return leg for Stuart McCall´s side, but good luck to them for the game in Russia.
Summa
SUMMA
Wednesday may turn out to be a watershed in that regard.
As our treatment of Mark Walters probably was for casual racism.
Summa
Re.Absence of females in the Board Room.
Many years ago,when conversing or more probably arguing with decent guys who happened to be Rangers supporters,I would always bring up the anti Catholic player employment culture at Ibrox.
One of them then asked me how many non-Catholics there had been on the Celtic Board.
I was,most unusually,stuck for an explanation,because that fact,if it was, had never occurred to me.
Since then,I often wondered if that was why big Jock didn`t get a place on the Board.
Mind you,neither did big Billy.
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MacJay..
As a Protestant Celtic Supporter..
Before l came to Australia there was talk of Me going to Work somewhere..Lets just say Guys who worked there before told stories of People changing their CV to get a Job..
Then getting found out and having to Leave..
I said to one of the Guys well l would be al right there then no need to change my CV..
He said..’001 You are a Proddy Celtic Supporter..That’s Worse..’ Ha Ha..
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The First 2 Main GF’s in My Life..#1 Dated in secret for 3yrs..because l was Protestant..#2 Father said..’With a name like that (Mine)..There is Catholic Blood there somewhere..’ or Mibbees they Jist Didnae Like me..Ha Ha..
Summa or ReligiousStoriesCSC
This young couple deserve a medal for building their own house,which anywhere else would be a tourist attraction.
The local council want it pulled down.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2382684/Charlie-Hague-Megan-Williams-told-pull-hobbit-home-entirely-natural-materials.html
It’s some house,btw!
SUMMA
Over the years I have converted to Celtic-ism one or two people.
The Protestant ones have always been the most virulent!
Summa
The two physios were treating the swedish player in front of me… I have to admit I was giving out abuse.. ” aye suddenly your cured ya durty cheating swedish bassa “
This house,in fact.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2382684/Charlie-Hague-Megan-Williams-told-pull-hobbit-home-entirely-natural-materials.html
THE BOY JINKY
Quite restrained that night-by the zombette yer knocking about with?
How you doing,bud?
Looking for venue suggestions for 28/9. Had a few good ones-Golf Lounge,anyone?
Do you have any ideas for the ballot sheet?
Assuming the pleasure of your company,of course!
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Jinks..
Just read on BBC a Glasgow man Jailed in Goa 4 years ago just got Home..Worth a read..
Re; Dodgy Police..
Summa
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Bobby..
I Reckon l have Converted Dozens over the Years..
In Fact about 7Yrs ago l took the 2 Shelias who live below me..One married a Hoop from Hamilton..:-)
Loves Square Sausage..Ha Ha..
Summa