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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‘GG
21:12 on
26 February, 2014
Was it a red card?
Check the view from behind goal around 23 seconds.
http://youtu.be/RvSjlfwlM5E
It wasn’t a red card in my humble but informed opinion.
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I thought last night on replay VVD got a touch on the ball and that clip shows it to be more than I thought.
So if VVD wins the ball and takes it away from PP then it is not an obvious goal scoring opportunity, in fact the opportunity was removed by the tackle which was to get the ball and not the man, which I believe is the rationale behind the rule i.e. to remove the temptation just to haul down a player bearing in on goal because the punishment of only a yellow card is insufficient for the offense.
Based on that clip I think Celtic should put in an appeal against the red card, even if only to highlight Thomson’s honest mistake because from his position I doubt he could have seen the touch.
A bit like Robson’s handball for the winner in the cup, on which the ref was unsighted.
If an appeal is not allowed then that doubles the injustice.
Sitting in the harp and fiddle in Bethesda MD any tims around. Had a few smithwicks. Should i stay or should i go?
You still there mattgallscot?
Yes but kareoke has just started with a dink sinning black velvet band ala shane mcgowan
BlSinging j.d and coke taking effect
God damn singing singing
Kev fagan you around?
Auldheid
I agree it should be appealed and have. VVD available for the next game.
I would hope that based on the video evidence, the red would be rescinded and a yellow given to allow the ref save face.
Australia certainly is a fine example of Capitalism at its worst.
I just think you need a Masters Degree in brassneckery to boast about that fact.
Mattgallscot
If you go there will be trouble !
Yes but if i stay there will be double. Especially if the wife finds out. Spent a fortune on the drink tonight.
GCT
when there is no brass to extract through the neck in Oz , there will be trouble. where is the jobfest after that? the merde is still swimming and major impact is yet to come
The gambling situation in Australia is outrageous, with absolutely no controls and even the Catholic Church making milions of dollars a year from people who are addicted.
When the Labour Governernment tried to introduce restrictions, it was panic stations all round and it got nowhere. The pro-gambling lobby in Australia is akin to the NRA in the US. Cross them at your peril.
Yes, isn’t capitalism wonderful.
Mattgallscot
If you are to be hanged for a sheep you may as well shag it
Capitalism in Australia is so wonderful, they’re even talking of selling parts of the Great Barrier Reef to the big conglomerates so that they can dump their industrial waste under it.
Go figure.
Gold coast, when i lived in oz, i was.shocked by the gambling culture. A pokie in every establishment. I agree the same lobby as NRA in US quite sickening.
Coney not much shaging around here, too many stuck up lasses not paying any attention to a bald 44 year old from the coatbridge area.
GCT
I try not to take sides on here but I am a commie at heart.
I compromise due to my lovely family and job but will never listen to right wing views on here. Capitalism, I can understand(but not my bag) but right wing views here are, racist, homophobic, bigoted, or just blinkered.
shame that some use my religion as an excuse for the above. spotted a few recently and regularly and split across time zones, but I am para!
gold coast tom,
Alan Joyce has got one of them thingermebobs in brassneckery, don’t you know it’s the unions fault. Air New Zealand now have more international destinations out of Perth than Sydney Airways has!
AR
What does all the ozzy tims work at over here ?
And use all plan to be here for life or short term…
G.C.T
You voted with your feet (or your plane ticket).
Do you have no reasons to be grateful to your country of choice?
Do you have no sense of loyalty to your country of choice.
Don`t do as I do.
Do as I say.
“”When the Labour Governernment tried to introduce restrictions, it was panic stations all round and it got nowhere. The pro-gambling lobby in Australia is akin to the NRA in the US. Cross them at your peril.”
No,Tom.
Factually incorrect.
It was a Tasmanian independent whose vote Gillard needed for a majority in the house i.e. to stay in power.
She promised to support his “anti-gambling” bill and then went back on her word when she
no longer relied upon that vote.
Your opinion about the evil of gambling I am in complete agreement with.
Auldheid
01:29 on
27 February, 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvSjlfwlM5E&feature=youtu.be
19 secs. in.
If V.V.D.touches the ball how could it possibly have gone in the direction it did?
Behind the goal view certainly appears to show a touch,but the other view is much more obvious.
antipodean red
04:12 on
27 February, 2014
gold coast tom,
Alan Joyce has got one of them thingermebobs in brassneckery, don’t you know it’s the unions fault. Air New Zealand now have more international destinations out of Perth than Sydney Airways has!
AR
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Yes.And they have just announced record profits.
Damn capitalists.:-)
macjay said:
You voted with your feet (or your plane ticket).
Do you have no reasons to be grateful to your country of choice?
Do you have no sense of loyalty to your country of choice.
Don`t do as I do.
Do as I say.
You know, I was wondering if you would respond with that crap. Just because I am a fairly recent immigrant, I am expected to shut up and accept everything at face value. That is the politics of the idiot and the coward. And that is not aimed at you. It is aimed at the concept.
Of course Australia is a wonderful country, in many different ways, but like anywhere else, it has its faults. Yes, it is a capitalist society and I accept that. It doesn’t mean I must be pro-capitalist because of that and love everything it does just because I am an immigrant.
I am now an Australian citizen. I am entitled to vote and will speak up about injustice and negatives like racism and homophobia etc.
proudbhoy –
I’m an I.T. Professional and I am here till the day I die. In fact I am thinking of taking early retirement in the next year or two and really enjoying this beautiful country.
gold coast tom
04:49 on 27 February, 2014
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Well said. Without doubt the most racist nation of people iv ever come across.. One of the few reasons i wont bring a family up here.
gold coast tom
04:53 on 27 February, 2014
proudbhoy –
I’m an I.T. Professional and I am here till the day I die. In fact I am thinking of taking early retirement in the next year or two and really enjoying this beautiful country.
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Good for you pal, loads to see and do here thats for sure. Still need to do alot meself despite the 2.5yrs out here. Brisbane/gold coast high on list
As an Australian I am uterly ashamed and disgusted at the way my Government treats refugees and asylum seekers.
proudbhoy said:
Well said. Without doubt the most racist nation of people iv ever come across..
Me too, and I have lived in the Pacific North-West of the USA.
I hear racism almost everyday. Go to a club or a pub and sit in the company of Aussies and guaranteed the subject of Muslims and Asylum Seekers and Refugees and Asians will come up before long. It’s a given.
But what is worse is the institutionalised racism and how it is accepted. My son was here for 2 years. He doesn’t have a political bone in his body, but even he was astounded at what radio presenters came out with every morning and got away with without a murmur.
What gets me about white Australia is that for a people whose whole existance is founded on immigration, they don’t half hate immigrants. Well non-white immigrants anyway.
The most amazing thing is, THEY don’t get it.
gold coast tom
05:02 on 27 February, 2014
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Yeah its disgusting, very annoying at times when i meet ozzys who i think are good fellas then after few weeks work you here some of the language they come out with about other race’s.
Ozzy guy once said to my mate use are lucky use come from a country of great history and culture.. Majority of ozzys are clueless that there is a big world out there beyond australia.
The ones that have done abit of travelling are alit more polite and accepting of others. From what i can gather anyway.
Anyway, that’s me had my say. I do love Australia but it has many faults, as I said. I won’t keep quiet just because I am an immigrant who should be grateful and not rock the boat.
Laters.
Gold Coast Tom
04:49 on
27 February, 2014
Nothing to do with that,Tom.
Nobody expects you to like everything about Oz.I certainly don`t.
You have chosen to live in a blatantly unashamedly capitalist country and then complain about the capitalist culture of your chosen country.
Were you unaware of that fact?
If you were English,they would call you a whingeing pom.
Mate.
Can there be a more capitalist organisation than a British football club?
Celtic,I would suggest,are a prime example of capitalism WITH charitable contributions
coming from the PROFITS.
gold coast tom
05:07 on 27 February, 2014
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Dont worry , i always remind them exactly of that.. Way over most of their heads thou.
Gold Coast Tom
04:55 on
27 February, 2014
As an Australian I am uterly ashamed and disgusted at the way my Government treats refugees and asylum seekers.
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Some refugees.
Some bloody damage
Some 62 million Oz dollars worth.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-21/immigration-releases-photos-of-nauru-damage/4833274
If you’re looking for a war
There’s a market for betrayal
Don’t ask me what I saw
Y’know my secrets not for sale
Don’t ask me what I heard
Y’know I promised not to say
I said I’d never breathe a word
Until my dying day
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Courtesy of UB40 – Scotland’s greatest.
FT NEW WORLD ORDER.
http://touch.dailymotion.com/video/x1xfge_tupac-until-the-end-of-time_music
macjay said:
You have chosen to live in a blatantly unashamedly capitalist country and then complain about the capitalist culture of your chosen country.
Where have I said that? I accept that we live in a capitalist world. I don’t complain about that. Or are you actually admitting that racism, homophobia etc are integral parts of “capitalist culture”?
Good for you.