The clean sheet record had to go eventually, so I’m pleased it went to a good goal, not an error by Fraser, which would have been harsh on the big keeper. Having already recorded Celtic’s, then Scotland’s league clean sheet record, the British and European records were within touching distance, but that is now a matter for next season.
Months ago, when Virgil van Dijk first suggested we could go through the league season without defeat I said we were not nearly consistent enough to achieve this. Ironically, last night’s defeat came after a sustained period of consistent an authoritative performances, in the league.
Aberdeen will have lots of reasons to wonder where there team might go now, having beaten Celtic twice in a month. Amid all the newspaper talk in 2012 that Celtic needed their soon to be liquidated opponent, a few of us suggested that what Celtic really need is an opponent, and that Aberdeen, playing to a captive audience in a wealthy city, were the most likely candidates.
Manager, Derek McInnes, knows he does not have the resources to compete over a league programme, but he has proven a few points: he knows how to beat Celtic and his team are the best of the rest.
If Aberdeen can cope with the vagaries of trips to Easter Road and Victoria Park next season, four games against Celtic will take care of themselves. Let’s hope Newco Rangers don’t nip in and buy their best players with that non-emergency £1.5m loan.
The immediate challenge for Celtic is to get back into winning form on Saturday. League Cup finalists, Inverness, will come to make up the numbers.
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Big mama in da house, she gonna get all you guys doggin Neil http://youtu.be/pH-i_fgZszs
Doc
see the post from Malorbhoy about the fact I have made a complete banjax of telling you about the accommodation.
PREMIERE INN George Street — not the Copthorne!!
Personally, I will be going home in my ambulance to my padded cell!
Schalke 1 –Real Madrid 6
Could have been 10
Great support from the Schalke support . Great goal from Huntelaar.
Can we get a Bayern vs Madrid final please. Could be one of the all time classics. Ancelotti has the team playing on a vastly superior level from what he inherited from Mourinho.
HT,
Miku wasn’t really a signing.
Glasgow2/3,
Pmsl.
Has anyone checked out schalke quick news??
Das mineschafters are going ybergeschnappt.
I know you have to deal with injuries / suspensions but in an ideal world in CL v Juve and Barca
FF
Lustig VVD Efe Izzy
Mathews Brown Biton KC Mulgrew
stokes
Ok depending on Hooper being around or a better CF. My point is you give up a little up front with one striker to give yourself a chance of staying in the game
67ECW
Goerdie
But it was Lenny who brought him in on loan.
Schalke 1 Real 6
“I think the tie is gone”
Peter LovenKrands
Some short clips of the last CQN Swaree, some of you may be in it.
http://youtu.be/M3Gv8BXzm6I
GG
Aye, and that proves 100% Virgil got the ball first.
I said so last night, I was sure he got a touch.
Thompshun had the card out before Pawlett hit the deck.
HH
Total of 72 goals to date in season 2013/ 2014 for Ronaldo , Bale and Benzema.
An Italian pundit has just given his MOTM award to the Schalke support ———–
TET
GG
Still not convinced he touched it….definite pen for us…Thomson running to our players to give cards….surprisingly didn’t do that to Aberdeen
Kikinthenakas
gg,
Last night I was convinced that Virgil had touched the ball but the more I see that video, I’ve slowed it down and studied it closely, the less convinced I am he gets a touch. The reason being is that the ball does not deviate from its original path. It happens so fast that he appears to get a touch. The only way to tell would be a camera angle from the stand linesman’s side.
BTW it takes a lot, and I mean a lot, not to agree that Thomson got it wrong!!! He’s still a cheating hun mind you.
Even from behind the goal I don’t think Virgil got the ball. I know why some think he did, but it doesn’t correspond to what we see from the other angle. The Aberdeen player knocked the ball ahead and away from goal.
The important thing is the position of Efe ; he is back covering. Not a red card. Not an obvious goal scoring opportunity.
HT,
Yeah I know. And brozec too but loan signings are pretty much stop gaps imo.
A secondary or thirdary striker to play behind ghoops.
The dude left the club more decorated than bellamy.
Have we appealed the red card?
VVD, doesn’t get a touch imo.
The angle behind the goal has an element of illusion about it.
That said….never a red. As I said earlier I’d bet my last sevco share that Efe would have got a challenge in should pawlet have skipped past Virgil.
Mea Culpa
21:36 on
The true story of what went on throughout the Minty years from the very begining will be told, I know for a fact that an approach has alrady been made to the financial journalist/investigator Ian Fraser. A meeting to discuss the commision and the exact nature of the brief will take place at the end of March.
The only obstacle for Ian Frazer is that he is promoting his new book just now and plans a follow up, whether these issues can be surmounted will only be known in time.
But someone will be commisioned to write that book and it wont be a member of the Scottish sports press.
kikin
We will have to agree to disagree on the touch, and a stonewaller of a pen, had it been in our box, a certainty.
How’s the hip, much better I hope ?
HH
Scotland away shirt…..unbelievably embarrassing…like a Battenberg Cake.
Only thing more shite I have seen tonight was a programme called Mrs. Brown’s Boys….Don’t watch much telly and now realise why I don’t….Absolute rubbish!!
Just seen a Tweet from Vincent Kompany on Sky’s Great Teams about the Lisbon Lions,saying he never realised how good they were.Eamonn Holmes replied to him saying they were all Scottish and born close to CP….
ryecatcher
You got something against Battenberg Cake?
TET
I think red cards as last man are always debatable but we should move on.
I never saw any of last night’s game but would offer that VVD has danced with the devil a few times this season and got the rub of the green.
The type of tackle i always get confused on is the ‘shoulder’.
Barry Robson perfected the art with us. Never got a foul against but nailed many an opponent. Did the same vs us in the cup game.
I see this challenge go either way every week on the TV in every league.
Refs never seem to know how to call it.
My mate ‘edward scissorfeet’ used to nail me in the corner at 5s when i was shielding and always claimed ‘ shoulder charge’. But he learned his trade in toryglen so i should be grateful!!
BRTH
What’s the dress code if you are coming straight from the title celebrations at Rugby Park? :-)
EternalOptomistCSC
So the anti-marzipan brigade out tonight? ;-)
Bournesoup….
Sorry…looks like a Battenberg Cake I meant to write.
Nothing against it….just that you don’t get to look like a fully ripped Adonis of the golf course like me if you eat too much of it after a full bucket of KFC.
HT
Can we win it that night?
Coneybhoy
I agree.
Apart from the last man thing, it’s no longer applicable, it’s now…an obvious goal scoring opperchancity.
HH
rye
The ole Zombie Battenberg Cake
bhoylo83
22:10 on 26 February, 2014
I don’t think it’s even a possibility now unless both Motherwell and Aberdeen die between then and now! :-)
coneybhoy
22:07 on 26 February, 2014
I find when you’re stuck in the corner, in such circumstances, grabbing their baws gives you an escape route.
Right, I could be getting sent to the corner with the dunces cap on here but…..
Just watching the Football greatest program on ss4 about Real Madrid in the 50’s and 60’s and I noticed the funky cup they won at the creation of the tournament.
Anyways…..I didn’t realise that Real kept the trophy in ’67 and we were the first winners of the new trophy.
Ifyoudon’tknowyerhistory csc
Ryecatcher
I have to agree with you about Mrs Browns Boys,absolute garbage
Battenberg a la Craig Levein
eddieinkirkmichael
I look forward to the book, but it won’t bring him to account, he’s a Moonbeam.
Battenberg
The seat of the flying Mountbattens
Someone will invoke feckin’ Godwin’s Law on this……
The Nazi Battenberg
There once was a violent battenberg. With a small moustache. He hated all other cakes, especially eclairs. One day the battenberg was walking into town with his wife and three children when he spotted an eclair looking at him funny.
“Get lost creamy!” The battenberg was not in the mood for the arrogant eclair.
“Make me!” The eclair was brave or stupid. Probably both.
“Ok then, you asked for it.” The battenberg pulled out a chainsaw. “Watch this boys. This is how a real cake operates!”
The battenberg, whose name was Gunther, charged towards the eclair.
“DIE!” He screeched as the chaisaw spluttered to life.
“Oh my God!” The eclair tried to get away, pushing all the other cakes who were doing their shopping in town out of the way.
Gunther chased him, determined to chop him to peices. He cornered the eclair in an alley, there was no-where to hide.
“Why?” The eclair, who was called Jeffrey, asked.
“Because you are not a battenberg.” Gunther said coldly.
“But I am a cake!” Jeffrey protested. “I have a wife and kids of my own!”
“You are an inferior cake.” Gunther moved closer. “I will hunt down your wife and kids and squeeze out their cream!”
Gunther chopped Jeffrey to bits, sending cream and pastry and chocolate splating into the walls of the alley.
“That’s better.” Gunther declared. “Now for the rest of those dumb eclairs.”
He put on his shades and set of on a mission. To rid the world of all other cakes. Only battenbergs would survive his conquest.
Deerie meeeeeeeee
tom molach
22:13 on 26 February, 2014
coneybhoy
22:07 on 26 February, 2014
I find when you’re stuck in the corner, in such circumstances, grabbing their baws gives you an escape route.