Friendly games are all about building match sharpness while hopefully avoiding injury. Celtic were given an excellent opportunity to shape up against Real Madrid last night but a suspected broken jaw to Dylan McGeouch who was knocked unconscious will set the player back several weeks.
Henrik Larsson spectacularly returned to action after a double jaw break after three weeks in 2003, scoring with a header within minutes although he walked off the field after his injury without additional complications. We wish Dylan a speedy recovery and hope to see him in Champions League action next month.
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petethebeat
18:09 on 12 August, 2012
googybhoy
Would have been proud of that one myself!
Cheers mate.
If you get there and there is lots of water leave it six hours. Easy peasy.
Back from a great week in West Donegal (plus a great night in Derry).
Constant sunshine, a Celtic win v Aberdeen, a Donegal win in QF v Kerry – and the big one, a Celtic win in Helsinki shared with a grand old team of CQN-ers in Sean Og’s Gweedore.
Brilliant craic, and a real Celtic celebration.
SFTB plus pal
Noel90 plus pal
Ard Macha plus his 2 fine wee bhoys
Thanks for the company and the memory bhoys……finally biggest thank you to Thomthethim for organising – and for the lift from Annagry.
My cousin sends his regards – will let you off for referring to him as my nephew……talk about feeling old…….
Up Tir Chonnail & Hail Hail to all.
tully
tommytwiststommyturns on 12 August, 2012 at 17:43 said:
Bought my ticket online for my usual seat for the Helsingborgs game….no problems.
did you not get this message SEASON TICKET HOLDERS: After logging in, tick the reserved seat you want to buy and click ADD TO BASKET.
Petethebeat
D-Day beaches well worth visiting as are the war cemetrys. I was fortunate enough to visit in 2004 for the 60th anniversary of dday. Alot of veterans where about and it was quite humbling. Also there is a very good museum in avranches which also happens to be a very beautiful town. Museum at the Pegasus bridge is also very interesting. There is loads dotted about tbh, all very interesting. I’m a history graduate though so may be rather biased, my brother n sister found them far less fascinating. Deauville is worth a visit too. Very picturesque town with a cracking casino and horse race course
Had a look at Alex Thomsons Twitter.
Why does he put himself through it?
Paul67, Phil Mac – Celtic men, vested interests. Understandable, unavoidable.
But Alex T has no axe to grind nor tradition on his shoulders. Fair play to him. I’m sure, although he protests much about caring for the ibrox support who have been shafted in all of this (all those years enjoying fiscally enhanced trophy wins must have been tough to take eh?) with the responses he gets from them how does he continue to have any sympathy for the FollowFollowers (what’s that in past tense?)????????????????????????
Byeeee
Pleased to hear young Dylan McGeouch is flying back with the team after that terrible scare yesterday. Celtic should insist on referees being very vigilant about challenges in the air, even in “friendlies”.
IamNFL1888 on 12 August, 2012 at 18:15 said:
Deauville is worth a visit too. Very picturesque town with a cracking casino and horse race course
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Is it a hover race course? If it isn’t then it is probably lack of ambition on the part of the Mayor of Deauville’s part, or Pierre Le Well as he is known.
googybhoy
Getting there. Should be given an all clear siren on 22nd Aug. Will then build up to restart my scratching the itch of existence on Sept 1st for the HIbs game.
At the moment I could absorb a pint through my lachrymal glands.
That will be 92 days dry and 20 to go – but whose counting? :-) , high fruit and veg diet and a daily dose of pills that would scare a methadone queue.
The worst side effect of it all is that I am starting to remember what commonsense was like – that is scary!
hail hail
Estadio
We have two bakers next door to each other. One of the bakers doesn’t declare its profits for the purposes of taxation and instead puts the money saved back into generating the bakers. It uses the extra cash to undercut its neighbour, expand the business franchise, to refurbish the interior to a better condition than the other bakers and even to employ a better baker to make the bread and cakes etc. Eventually many bakers either shrink with cutbacks from overstretching themselves or they go to the wall trying to keep up with the tax dodging bakers…but it just can’t be done…no one can compete against a bakers who pays no tax. Everybody in the town and the wider environs wants to work in this bakers shop as you don’t pay any tax on your wages and are paid way more than all the other bakers in the town, including its neighbour.
The next door baker has managed to find creative ways to keep his business going, has many loyal customers and has a sustainable business and so manages to keep itself afloat during its tax-dodging competitors expansion boom. The tax-dodging bakers are lauded throughout the town for being a model company. They are favoured by an underground ‘secret’ council of elite bakers in the town because the main shareholder and many other in the tax-dodging bakers is also a member of their brotherly order of sacred bakers. This bakers wins so many awards and competitions during their great expansion phase and the whole time they are avoiding tax dues…but eventually the mercantile class falls on hard times and the towns people want the integrity of the law upheld- so the towns burgher’s tell the Provost to bring the wayward bakers to justice, their dues paid in full and the narrow path of rectitude pointing out for them. But the Burghers have created a monster by their own indulgence; but the moral negligence of that preferential treatment caused the intractable bakers to become petulant and easy to wrath when frustrated, just like a spoiled, willful and unruly brat pampered by privilege. They have threatened the burghers with violence, as they had acted with uproar to those who had done before, or even rioted against those who had dared disappoint their erratic whims in the past . They insisted all caprice was to be cosseted as it had been since the good old days of yore, as it had from the very infancy of baking in the town. The towns burghers had now realized that the lawless bakers were ungovernable, potentially dangerous, habitually obdurate and so excessively pandered to that they had become atrophied to all reason- profligacy was a liberty they had come to expect, they were like infant tyrants demanding like mini-fuhrers to be liberally spoonfed scooped dollops of fattened entitlement.
The old tax-dodging bakers shop has been taker over by a new ruddy cheeked dweller in town by the name of Farmer Green. It has the exact same address, name, logo, management, staff and even now has identical business plans as the old bakers. When debts are called for Farmer Green says “We are a new bakers and not the old bakers shop…you can’t have your money back” and when there are calls for the awards to be given back ( that are still in the old shop) he says: “We are the same as the old bakers shop you cannot have our awards back…as we won them with our own sweat and tears”- and even now those among the town council and fellow burghers are saying that the tax-dodging bakers didn’t do anything wrong; they should keep all their awards they ‘won’ and shouldn’t even have to pay anything back. These sympathetic townsfolk and burghers have worked in the old bakers and others were in the brotherly order of secret bakers- they say that those who want justice and want equity restored are all vindictive bigots who are jealous of the old bakers success…what then were the burghers to do?
A voice comes from on high, piercing the clouds with Divine rays: “Pay yer debts! Take aw their awards, trophy’s and medals aff them! Either that ur yeez aw go tae eternal damnation in the bottomless pit ae thon eternal Abyss…am God by the wey aw right.”
wonkyradar ….. 18:21 on 12 August, 2012
Have to say, luv reading your posts ….
wonkyradar on 12 August, 2012 at 18:21 said
I see what you did there :)
Pity most of the country,,including the MSM cant see it??
HH
wonkyradar
Fair play to you mate but switched off when I read the length of your post.
Ian Black called up by Levien to national team.
Seriously! I’m not joking.
MWD
!!bada bing!!
17:36 on 12 August, 2012
Told everyone on CQN and other sites they had to send a letter into the ticket office to get a voucher for the superstore.
Also wrote about the planning application for the old school. Seems MSM still have a role after all.
After today’s results in the Swedish league Helsingborg sit fifth, seven points off leaders Elfsborg. They have a game in hand on the three sides above them, but that is against the league leaders. If they were to beat Elfsborgs, they would move up to 3rd in the league
googybhoy
Demand names and addresses of those who scoffed!!
MWD
Ian Black called up by Levien to national team
Good. More chance of him getting injured
200 games for ICT and Hearts and no scotland call, 1 game in div 3 and he’s in ffs
Weefra HH
Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Champions. C’mon Wee Oscar. on 12 August, 2012 at 18:28 said:
Ian Black called up by Levien to national team.
Seriously! I’m not joking.
MWD
Your at it : )
HH
Estadio
Common sense is overrated
I thought that I was a master of stringing out a simple story until it became so convoluted that I and everyone else forgot what it was supposed to be about.
I have met my nemesis.
Dostoevsky is getting on my wick!
123 pages into The Karamazov Brothers and the murder still hasn’t happened. Only 747 to go.
Mind you the general debauchery of the characters sucks you in until you hate every one of them, even the top dogs at the monastery have evil in their hoods. If it was up to me it wouldn’t get past page 124 because I would wipe them all out in a frenzy of mutual loathing and poisoned chalices. Sadly old Fyodor knows that I won’t give up, cos then he would have won!
No wonder I have weird dreams!
Hail Hail
Estadio
Petethebeat
Spent a week in the area this summer, mont st Michel a must, st malo is worth à visit too. We were lycky to see the bhoys in Amsterdam on the way back to murderous Ystad!!!
Spanish Civil War Fiction ——–
Mans Hope – Andre Malraux [ great movie version called-L’Espoir ]
Life and Death of a Spanish Town- Elliot Paul
The Cypresses Believe in God —-Jose Gironella
The Carpenter’s Pencil —- Manuel Rivas
Another Hill —-Milton Wolf
San Camillo 1936 — Camilo Cela
Labyrinth of Struggle —-Mauricio Escobar
Requiem for a Spanish Peasant —–Ramon Sender
Soldiers of Salamis —— Javier Cercas.
Heavy ,heavy rain — [ great ! ] -way down south.
Surely the plumber must be on levs short list too. You gotta laff <o))))))))) Went to 2 Scotland games years ago and that was 2 to many.
ibleedgreenandwhite1 on 12 August, 2012 at 17:23 said:
My my,,,im not sure if its Sky Sports or if its Sevco TV??
Propaganda at its finest,,, McCann lying through his teeth!
What really gets me is that if that was me- y’know the soup taking Sky presenter with his inviting rhetorical questions- lying like that in my job I would be shown the door. And rightly so. Is there any moral standards in Scottish journalism? Surely there has to be a basic ethical protocol, personal sense of morality or a professional pride in journalistic objectivity among this mutinous tribe of bewildered scribes…how can this clown who is the presenter ( don’t know his name) lie so shamelessly and peddle such blatant inaccuracies on live national TV and even get away with it- he should be sacked on the spot for pandering to the f****g troglodytes and bigot banjo players!
It truly is a disgrace.
Jist back fae whur Ah hiv bin.
Saw the Game oan T.V.
We done good.
Still , don’t fancy Emilo.He is NO IMPROVIN’… Ah don’t like That~
Young McGeough woz near damn Brilliant.. oan a few occasions , in the foist half.
Ah thunked he woz swell!
Hurry back son.. You wull be missed.
And..
We don’t need No mair C.B.s…
o’ them…We are well fixed .
We Dae need .. a New Left BACK.. and . a free scoring. Striker.
and Quicker Service.. at the Stadium Food Court .. at Hauf time!(So says, Mabel)
Kojo
And. .. Still, Laughin’ like Hell!
googybhoy,
well done in digging out the USA for basketball gold,
i believe you also advised the USA ladies for the double,
top tipping i must say ;-)))))
LP-HH.
googybhoy-Hope you’re not in the Horsey naps competition,the rest of us have no chance…:}
Is there a more selfish,self-centred sportsman than Kevin Pietersen ? Horrible individual.
Ten Men Won The League on 12 August, 2012 at 18:33 said:
MWD
Ian Black called up by Levien to national team
Good. More chance of him getting injured
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The last thing I would want is for this soccer talent to be injured.
May he continue to exhibit his silky soccer skills as he always has done.
Continue to shine the brightest light on where & what these people have become.
Don’t ever attempt to undo that place to where their crass behaviour is taking them.
Long may they demonstrate their CLASS.
South Of Tunis on 12 August, 2012 at 18:38 said:
Spanish Civil War Fiction ——–
Life and Death of a Spanish Town- Elliot Paul………………and no a bad centre half either!
TBM
wonkyradar on 12 August, 2012 at 18:40 said:
Unfortunately it seems there are no moral standards in Scottish journalism!!
So they will continue to peddle the myth that the Huns are alive,,,unless someone has the balls to turn round and say different!!
Who will put them straight,,,,answers on a postcard???
HH
Black called up, there’s a surprise. The Peterhead midfielders should be looking forward to the World Cup qualification campaign as they dominated him yesterday.
Must have been that free kick near the end that he punted in the sea that impressed Levien.
Gotta Go.
Seeya, Folks..
Kojo.
Ha! Ha!
In saying that the Hampden dressing rooms might be needing a couple of coats of emulsion.
“It is very difficult for anyone playing in the Third Division in Scotland to be up to the speed of an international match”………………………..
Who said that??????????
TBM