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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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  4. What is the Stars on

    Mary McAleese was very good,very good president

     

    Great to have a representative of the occupied territories as a a head of our wonderful state

     

    why would anyone have a problem with that

  5. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    Philvis,

     

     

    Was going to give you Hourglass, but if you like Squeeze, then it would have been too easy on yer big middle-class ears.

     

     

    Give you this instead, cos even though they are riding the edge of that thin line between “no-bad” and “pure-pish”, one of them thinks he’s a socialist, but is in fact, a pure and utter p….seudo-intellectual :)

  8. What is the Stars on

    EBM

     

     

    Christmas Eve,probably out of the question for me and I hope to be in Glasgow for the rangers game

  10. Dublinbhoy on

    Ulster-Celt says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 02:07

     

     

    I don’t know about WITS but I was over the moon when she won…shame Mary couldn’t even vote in the election. A fine president she was too. As for that pygmy Michael D…don’t get me started.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  12. petec on

    philvisreturns says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 01:52

     

     

    Lubo – Special

     

     

    I didnae realise the wee chap had bought the Lubo DVD with his pocket money, I don’t try to force things onto the wee man. He isnae daft.

     

     

    I was in there doing electrical repairs and really enjoying the music even though I was a workie. ;)

  14. Margaret McGill on

    Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 02:16

     

    Keltoi

     

    just meant “western people” to the Greeks. The Romans were more “engaged” w/the Kelts/Celts.

     

    You missed the point.

     

    Kelts is a Victorian invention.

  16. What is the Stars on

    Dublinbhoy

     

     

    whats wrong with Michael D

     

    call him a pygmy because hes small

     

    Yes maybe you are right lets round up all the small people (and the fat ones,the dark ones,the jews the commies,the taigs the prods,round the lotta them up)

     

     

    Come on lads the level of politcial debate on here tonight ?

     

     

    What is wrong with Michael D Higgins as president of the freestate/Republic of Ireland

     

    apart from the fact that he is small and of course old

     

    he is also a man who has spoken out over the years on many issues that were neither “popular or profitable” at the time

  18. Ulster-Celt on

    What is the Stars says:

     

     

    12 November, 2011 at 02:11

     

     

    Mary McAleese was very good,very good president

     

    Great to have a representative of the occupied territories as a a head of our wonderful state

     

    why would anyone have a problem with that

     

    …………………………………………………………………………..

     

    spot on, why would someone from the wonderful REPUBLIC of Ireland have any problem with someone being the president who was from belfast,ie in the united kingdom and who wasn’t a citizen of the state!!!!

     

     

    up the republic, I think!

     

     

    UC

  20. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    Mags @ 02:18

     

     

    Cheeky B, i missed no point. Knew that would upset you, but i thought i’d challenge yer humility nonetheless :)

     

     

    Labels are labels, but the Victorians aren’t responsible for naming the Celts as “the Celts”, the Romans were.

     

     

    The Celtic tartan, now that’s another issue…

     

     

    Anyone, how was yer trip away? Good to see you back, oh boisterous one. :)

  21. petec on

    Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 02:19

     

     

    I’m sure Philvis would defo stamp his non mark of the beast stamp on it. :))

     

     

    Which means it is GOOD. ;))

     

     

    How does Philvis keep getting top podium, prayer surely, only prayer could return such results? ;) And Philvis is Fearful of the Almighty and isnae afraid to say so. Maximum respect.

  22. Margaret McGill on

    Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 02:23

     

    you still miss it.

     

    yes Celts are Celts. Kelts are not. I’ll let you figure it out. I’m not upset. Bemused maybe.

     

     

     

     

    ok dingle dangle dongle next

  23. MadraRua on

    I’m just back from the pub. I was off the drink for November, however, when we won 4 feckn nil, I had to go for a few to celebrate.

     

    Lo and behold when I got home and microwaved the two half Belfast pasties and peas that were left on a plate and sat down to enjoy them whilst having an oul read of the CQN, what happens ????

     

    A feckn argument about the free state and the republic and who killed how many.

     

    Look: I finished my night of celebration with a Captain Morgan and Coke, which means my speed and dexterity on the key boards would loose me any argument I might get into , so all I’ll say is this…..

     

    Be happy we qualified. We’ll have a brilliant time next summer, all 32 counties of Irish people.

     

    How do I know ?

     

    Because I’ve seen it before. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH_xNAUv1Vo&feature=related

  24. Margaret McGill on

    The abuse of Ireland and the Irish should be a modern lesson for us all that

     

    there are other more modern abuses. We see it today in Syria, Afghanistan, Burma

     

    and a multitude of others. Palestine for example.

     

    Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English

     

    or France to the French. It is wrong and in-human to impose the Jews on the Arabs.

     

    What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct.

     

    The mandates have no sanction but that of the last war.

     

    Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine

     

    can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home.

  26. What is the Stars on

    Ulster Celt

     

    Mary McAleese like all people born in the occupied terrritories is entitled to Irish Citizenship (you have to be one to become president)

     

    If i havent made it clear by now,please allow me to do so.

     

    I have no bias against anyone born in “Nortnern Ireland or northern ireland,ulster,the six counties, or whatever term you prefer”

     

    I would rather that this divide did not exist

     

    I do not like however people who dont even know me describing me as ” a slave” or indeed a Free Stater (oh dear capital F and S)

  27. Ulster-Celt on

    thousands of deaths during a civil war – glorious deaths no doubt.

     

     

    ambush, reprisal,execution,murder,turture of thousands of Irishman and women airbrushed out of history and a british understanding of Irish history accepted and encouraged

     

     

    shame on the lives of the fallen

     

     

    freestate revisionism

     

     

    UC

  29. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    philvis @ 02:23

     

     

    :)) Touché big ears.

     

     

    Very nice song that actually.

     

     

    You see what 6 litres of Asda Smartprice Cider does to the working class ?!?

     

     

    Dreams??

     

     

    Don’t know who was more disappointed. You at the start, or the rest of us at the end.

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIj-6fr2SlI

     

     

    Warning to All: Don’t click on this link unless you are keen to indulge in political irony.

  30. Kevin - Put the Green Brigade into a new Jungle on

    Please excuse me for butting-in but…

     

     

    I have come to the conclusion that, Glasgow Celtic FC would be far better off without the Irish clique at executive level of the club.

     

     

    “For we only know that, there’s going to be a show and, the GLASGOW Celtic will be there!”

     

     

    Before I become the subject of a, deluge of abuse…..let me say that, given that the billionaire philanthropist, Mr D O’brien could find his way to, providing the funds for a top-class management team to, manage the ROI team then, you really have to ask, where do Celtic feature on the list of prioritie’s for all of these, billionaire’s who, seem to enjoy being linked with ‘our’ club ?

  31. Dublinbhoy on

    Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 02:02

     

     

    Its all your fault…see what you started?

     

     

    I’m away now…grabbing a cuppa before kicking some hun ass in Fifa 12.

     

     

    Night all

     

     

    Hail Hail

  35. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    petec @ 02:26

     

     

    When the rest of us played soothing music in the background to complete our studies in life, PV listened to Jerry’s classic at full volume, fingers poised over 4 PCs, each one installed with google chrome, sweat dripping from his forehead, while cursing an upturned Crucifix above the monitor. <:O

  36. Dublinbhoy on

    What is the Stars says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 02:20

     

     

    I just saw your post.

     

     

    ha, I’ve nothing against little people at all, some of my best friends are small…I would’ve voted for Martin myself, but because I don’t actually live in the country I am barred from voting for the president of my country. Very democratic!!

     

     

    Hail Hail

  37. Margaret McGill on

    Kevin – Put the Green Brigade into a new Jungle says:

     

    12 November, 2011 at 02:29

     

     

    Kevin I’m w/you or you could be a very very clever hun, but nevertheless you are not butting in.

  38. What is the Stars on

    Ulster Celt

     

    housands of deaths during a civil war – glorious deaths no doubt.

     

     

    ambush, reprisal,execution,murder,turture of thousands of Irishman and women airbrushed out of history and a british understanding of Irish history accepted and encouraged

     

     

    shame on the lives of the fallen

     

     

    freestate revisionism

     

     

     

    What is your point

     

     

    Where is the revisionsim

     

    What exactly is your point

     

     

    Please enlighten me,I am a stupid little right wing dublin slave who never read his history

  40. Ulster-Celt on

    WITS

     

     

    all you do is highlight an ignorance of a conflict that has divided your Island for centuries. your failure to understand that conflict and it’s history reflects badly on you. I ask you to consider again why the majority of people who live close to the conflict support the political wing of one of the main protagonists and you as a Dublin Freestater are so anti republican, are yo sure you know why? and if so can yo explain it?

     

     

    UC

  41. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    Mags @ 02:26

     

     

    Are you saying the Vics starting calling us Keltz, while the Selts should have been called Seltz? And the Romans called us all Celts with a soft c and a soft s.

     

     

    Soft esses, harsh vickies. The Romans are not bad as invaders. Ask Brian.

  42. What is the Stars on

    Dublinbhoy

     

    Maybe if you come home you could vote

     

     

    I dont honestly know the way it works in other countries but the concept of only allowing citizens/residents to vote is maybe not such an awfullly facist concept

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