I had a look at the story on the official site this morning about a compilation CD with various versions of the Celtic Song being released. After the initial pleasure of seeing Emilio Izaguirre and Scott Brown on their feet unaided, what struck me most was the apparent body mass of the two players we would normally consider our midfield enforcers, Scott and Beram Kayal.
Against Paddy McCourt, Joe Ledley and Emilio, not to mention men of considerable bulk, like Charlie Mulgrew, they are comparatively svelte and diminutive. The central midfield role is about mobility and football-intelligence more than anything else. How you use your weight against an opponent is as important as having the weight to begin with, but when the margins between winning and not winning are so tight, getting the physical balance right is important.
I don’t think I’ve been happy with a Celtic 4-4-2 line-up for years but playing Scott, Beram and a couple of wingers across midfield feels like an invitation for more limited opponents to bully this area, something the Highlanders did very effectively the last time we visited Inverness.
After mentioning tomorrow’s Fans Against Criminalisation meeting in yesterday’s blog I read Joe O’Rourke’s item on the Supporters’ Association site on the same subject with a mixture of horror and foreboding. The First Minister would be well advised to quickly reign-in whatever loose cannons he has roaming the corridors of power. Well done to Joe for bringing this to the attention of a wider audience.
The guys from the Alzheimer’s charity, FootballMemories,org.uk asked me to bring their site to your attention. They work with Alzheimer patients, using the universal platform football provides us all, to engage and invoke recollections. The site has lots of great Celtic stories, take a look and add your own.
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Vhman:
Paddy says aye okay…as long as it is Coral Island…)
hamiltontontim:
For the short time I was there it was great craic (copyright Vhman)…alas I had used my brownie points up so had to leave early.
Using the phone Bhoys, not so handy…
Until we meet again!
Hail Hail!
Vic
My good lady is from Coatbridge if that’s where you reside.
Vic Ajax:
Just caught your post, pie hill = Imperial?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
goldstar10 says:
11 November, 2011 at 19:41
Agree Forster being further out makes it a harder ball for the opposition ,the one thing I will say about Dan is he does not always play the percentages when putting the ball into touch .IMO as a defenders you should always look to put the ball as far up the pitch as you can when putting it out of play ,
Maybe the rest of our players are guilty of this also as we gave Motherwell double figures regards corners ,even though we lost goals in the couple of games leading up to the tie .
Dan did it at CP against ragers which led to an equalizer and did it against Rennes for their goal ,maybe something our coaches could look at .
hail hail
Have missed reading cqn, moved house last friday, 3G is cack in G77, got broadband back today. Have that mob went bust yet?
happyNeilLennonharry says:
11 November, 2011 at 19:47
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Darren O’Dea smashed the hun!
V
Bad football, bumpy pitch but not as bad as CT’s.
Just turned over to the Scotland game after an hour of the Disney Chanel.
My 8 year old after 5 mins says, “Is this rugby?”
Leenybhoy
That would be the one!
The place were you could perform well above yir task and stil no get a promotion unless ye had a funny handshake or an orange sash hiddin in yir wardrobe
Header wide for Estonia,
Ma ole da taught me a lot about this country fae that place!
I’ve always been pretty critical of McGeady, and I really hope he proves me wrong tonight, but I can’t help noticing that his movement is absolutely terrible. For such a talented boy he seems to lack any kind of footballing intelligence.
Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year. I managed only swear at the ref once on Sunday and didn’t divorce my wife when she bought me a blue t-shirt for my birthday. Can you please get me Jon Walters and Aiden McGeady for Christmas. If you could also throw in liquidation and expulsion from the SPL for Rangers I promise to never swear at the tv and stop buying only green clothes. I will also stop hiding copies of the Rangers news evrytime I got to the supermarket!
Yours faithfully
Craiginho Aged 33
Corner Estonia. Republics centre mi field, all at sea.
That wis 16 years ago though.
Hmmmmm, don’t seem like nothings changed.
Ah well, there’s always Spain or the USA where the wife is fae, although she says that place is worse than here (don’t believe her!).
Vmhan
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Goal Andrews !! Great work McGeady
get in!!!
SFFS
Yasssss! I’m gonnae slag him off again.
poordeadking
Aye- you and Ray Houghton!!!
Sold for £10m and makes the first goal tonight
Sammi starts for Greece at home to Russia
‘No end product…’
Haha
Great cross Aiden, 1-0 to Ireland.
HH
Aiden McGeady was brilliant there, as Ireland scored.
Listening on RTE…
Really enjoying the game
http://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=24%3A%2D2%3A1909%3A12%2D11%2D2011%3A
Great run McGeady, taken down, yellow card. Wouldn’t have happened in Scotland.
MadraRua says:
11 November, 2011 at 20:06
Great run McGeady, taken down, yellow card. Wouldn’t have happened in Scotland.
It did. he got red carded for it…
Great effort fromEstonia
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Vic Ajax:
Had a cousin worked there.
My Mum still lives in ML6, I jumped the dyke to ML5…
Drop me an e-mail lennybhoycfc@gmail.com
Really got to go…
Until we meet again…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
the Irish game is on bet365
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Shay Given is a topnotch goalkeeper,but who the feck picked his clobber tonight.
bjmac says:
11 November, 2011 at 20:12
Semi colon at the end. ;
Estonia are on top. We are playing 2 centre midfielders and two wide men, getting over run in mid field, sound familiar ?
Red card Estonia, Keane taken down by last man,
Thanks googybhoy
ßjmac