It was Roy of the Rovers stuff at Fir Park today at 18-year-old Tony Watt made his Celtic debut and scored the first two goals of the game within five minutes of getting onto the field.
Celtic have been notoriously slow to start games this season but were on the front foot from the off today as Pawel Brozek looked lively on his first start for the club. They should have earned a penalty kick on 4 minutes when Victor Wanyama was dragged to the ground as he latched onto the end of a Ki free kick.
Thereafter Celtic’s experimental line-up laboured for much of the game. Passing from midfield was profligate and the front pairing of Gary Hooper and Brozek was never a partnership.
After Wanyama’s penalty claim Motherwell enjoyed the bulk of the first half chances. Craig Highton headed on for Chris Humphrey who had an excellent volley saved by an equally spectacular save from Lukas Zaluska to keep the scores level. Humphrey then had a shot blocked by Thomas Rogne before the rebound was fired goal-ward by Steve Jennings to bring another fine save from Zaluska.
Wanyama started the game in an unaccustomed right back role but got forward on 34 minutes as he carried the ball 30 yards before threading a pass through to Brozek. The Polish striker spun inside the box and prodded a shot but he missed the target.
The final minute of the first half brought two chances for Celtic. Charlie Mulgrew did well to rescue a ball on the by-line before flighting a cross in which was knocked out to Kris Commons. Commons shot from 18 yards went narrowly wide. Seconds later Commons and Brozek combined before the Pole’s shot clipped Randolph on the ankle and trickled behind.
Motherwell were first to show in the second half when Nicky Law’s shot from the edge of the area was saved by Zaluska, who had a good afternoon. Joe Ledley then pinched the ball from the toe of Humphrey after the Motherwell winger cut inside Izaguirre on the wing and set himself up for a shot inside the box.
Paddy McCourt, who replaced injured Ki, split the Motherwell defence open with a fabulous pass for Cha but the right wing-back’s cross went straight to Randolph.
Celtic then brought on Tony Watt for the ineffective Brozek and the teenager made an immediate impact. Cha knocked-on a long ball for Victor Wanyama to run onto before crossing deep beyond the far post. Watt had an incredibly tight angle but somehow managed to steer his touch between the posts, leaving Randolph helpless.
Two minutes later Joe Ledley exploited space in front of the Motherwell defence before passing to Watt just inside the box. Tony steadied himself before firing low and hard into the far corner of the net.
Paddy McCourt was quiet on his return to the team after a lengthy lay-off but on 83 minutes he used the abundant space afforded to him outside the Motherwell box to hang a back-post cross for Cha, who headed high into the net to complete the scoring.
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Paul The Spark on 23 April, 2012 at 09:32 said:
The Smallest CSC
You are correct I had ZX 64 k with a seperate tape recorder. Cutting edge. playing Daley Thompsons Decathlon
I had the Amstrad CPC 464 with built in tape recorder,,plus green screen momitor!!
:D
Hail hail
Folly Folly
Atari…not Attila ;-p HH
Ibleedgreenandwhite
You are just showing off now.
Bhoys anyone who thinks that Rangers have set the APR for their credit card will be disappointed to note Celtic’s credit card has the same APR.
http://www.celticfc.net/mbna
Looks standard.
The Rangers credit card will probably get laughed at and given the once over by staff who are in the know as their credit rating is a bit shoddy at the moment.
LB
ibleedgreenandwhite
You must have had Spy Hunter
Serge – it is certainly worth more than a slightly soiled, Glasgow football club who play in blue
:)
Mate had a ZX Spectrum with rubber keys – we used to play Daley Thomson’s Decathalon and use light bulb placed on the 6 & 7 keys, slight, but rapid, wiggle of the bulb and smash the 100 metres record: 7 seconds, huzzah.
Had a ZX81, or rather my brother did, with a 16k ram pack that would freeze the machine if even so much as a fly landed within the same tectonic plate. Still, mondo games on what amounts to the memory used in a basic html page (this one’s currently 100k+).
RogueLeader.
It’s definitely worth more than a quid. HH
I see St. Johnstone are not giving the Hybrids any tickets for their last game of the season.What´s happening about our game next week ?
Have we given them their allocation without payment ?
Cos if we have that´s the last Celtic will see of the money.
Well today is the deadline at Ibrox. Or should that be “yet another deadline”? The chaps at D&P don’t quite seem to have the hang of this setting a final date and time then sticking to it, do they?
One of four things could possibly happen today. The Blue Knights could ride to the rescue. They could give up or fail, leaving Bill’s incubator as the only game in town. They could both fail leading to a swift liquidation.
Or there might be more discussions required, things to be sorted out, arrangements still to put in place. And a new deadline set. My money is on a further slide in teh timescale, so don’t get too excited about today.
It seems there is talk of a deal between Craig Whyte and Ticketus. Whyte will give up his shares in return for being allowed to walk away with whatever cash he has trousered so far. No one knows quite how much that is but I’m betting it’s a good ROI on his initial quid.
But will he see this as a better deal than he would get in liquidation? Or would he think that might drag on in court cases before he actually got any cash.
And even if Ticketus does end up with 85% of Rangers FC PLC (ia) what would they do with it? For a start they wouldn’t simply give the shares to the Blue Knights or anyone else. No, Ticketus has paid out over £20M and will want to get as much back as it can.
This is what the optimistic among the huns seem to forget: these nasty capitalists don’t have the club’s interests first. They got to be rich by putting profits before everything else.
With court cases and football investigations ongoing, not to mention SPL rule changes being discussed next week and the ever present gorilla, which is still sitting quietly in the corner, things remain complicated.
Can anyone put in an unconditional bid today? I can’t see it.
Folly Folly on 23 April, 2012 at 09:29 said:
I’m trying not to think about that.
I hate those bloody games.
And having to dose myself with alcohol at ten on a Sunday morning is just desperate.
Be glad when it’s over (and we’ve won).
timbhoy in spain on 23 April, 2012 at 09:45 said:
I see St. Johnstone are not giving the Hybrids any tickets for their last game of the season.What´s happening about our game next week ?
Have we given them their allocation without payment ?
Cos if we have that´s the last Celtic will see of the money.
+++++
Any new debt created during administration is ‘guaranteed’ by the administrators, i.e. Haudit and Daudit become liable for it upon default.
Serge on 23 April, 2012 at 09:40 said:
ibleedgreenandwhite
You must have had Spy Hunter
I probably did have it ,, had a ton of games m8,,,most of them crashed before they fully loaded then i had to start all over again lol lol
Hail hail
ibleedgreenandwhite1
You could have a bath and food by the time the game loaded haha.
Timbhoy
The Administrators are liable for ANY debt accrued after they take charge. We will get the money.
A bit off topic but what do you call a Ned super hero..?
Quality man !!!
From The Herald’s chief football writer’s match report of Motherwell-Celtic yesterday (see link at top of page):
… Both Hooper and Glenn Loovens were guilty of being caught in possession.
… Steve Jennings tried his luck with a long-range lob which Forster watched carefully.
Wonder what Glenn was caught in possession of, and I guess Forster did indeed watch the lob carefully. Neither Loovens nor Forster played yesterday.
Shocking.
Serge on 23 April, 2012 at 09:50 said:
ibleedgreenandwhite1
You could have a bath and food by the time the game loaded haha.
lol lol lol
Aye thats 100% true m8 lol
Hail hail
I´d have liked to see them get no tickets next week & Celtic Park just full of Tims.
I kid you not a guy in the office just asked what RFC meant!!! (Ready for Commisioning)
Felt like shouting “Cheating Scum”!!!
johann murdoch on 23 April, 2012 at 09:52 said:
Brilliant
B)))))))
Sunnybhoy at 6.32 said We had accumulated 62 SPL points more than Them. These stats suggest it is even more (even allowing for Their 10 points deduction):
Rangers 77 90 82 85 97 81 93 73 72 86 86 87 93 66* 1,102 14 78.71 7
Celtic 71 69 97 103 97 98 92 91 84 89 82 81 92 81 1,227 14 87.64 7
So, that 115 points advantage, if we were to spread it out a bit, could have led to 14 consecutive titles (which, of course, we might get anyway if they are srtipped of theirs!).
JJ
timbhoy in spain on 23 April, 2012 at 09:45 said:
Sorry but who are St Johnstone not giving tickets to?
new article posted.
Just got sent this by a mate.
Marco Negri Interview
L.B. – Luigi Bruno (Interviewer)
M.N. – Marco Negri
L.B. – ‘ Marco, you left Rangers under very strange circumstances, why was that?’
M.N.-‘ Strange? There was nothing strange in anything that happened there, they simply did not want me there any longer’.
L.B.- ‘Why was that?’
M.N.- ‘ The honest answer is that I didn’t know then and I still don’t know even today. Nobody ever explained why I had fallen out of favour.’
L.B.- ‘ Your goal record at Rangers was fantastic and when fit and available you were scoring for fun. I, and many others still do not understand why you left under a cloud’.
M.N.- ‘Let’s just say you are getting very close to why I think that I was frozen out. Scotland is a very claustrophobic place where everything is examined and analyzed endlessly. Scottish society is in many ways a backward place’.
L.B. – ‘What do you mean by that?’
M.N. – ‘ The culture, the underlying culture of Rangers was not good. The first team players had a habit of drinking vast amounts of alcohol during the week. As you know here in Italy we have a different culture as professional footballers. We know that it is our duty to keep ourselves fit and healthy.
Some of the players there like Paul Gascoigne and Andy Goram would turn up smelling of drink BEFORE training!! I could not understand why such behaviour was tolerated by Walter Smith who was manager then’.
L.B.- ‘ Marco we are well aware of Paul Gascoigne’s problems and it is sad to see his decline, we saw it earlier at Lazio. Are you saying that the players were out of control?’
M.N.- ‘ Absolutely, I tried to point this out to Walter Smith several times but he became very defensive and said that I needed to understand Scottish footballing culture. He would hear no criticism of Goram and especially Gascoigne who could literally do anything he wanted to and still get away with it! It wasn’t just their drinking however, they had some really extreme political and religious views’.
L.B.- ‘ Could you elaborate on this please?’.
M.N. – ‘ Of course. They hated Catholics. All of them. I never understood why they were so filled with hatred. Several of us who were Catholic players and all foreigners were told upon arrival, never to bless ourselves at Ibrox as it could cause problems for us. I began to understand that Rangers was an extreme club very similar to Lazio here in Italy. You know, a right wing club with right wing supporters. I personally am not a practicing Catholic but my wife Anna Maria is, and it used to cause me pain when I heard what they said about my fellow Catholics. Lorenzo Amoruso and Jorg Albertz, just kept quiet and kept their heads down’
L.B.- ‘ What finally brought things to a head?’
M.N.- ‘ I was rapidly disillusioned by Rangers and especially their supporters. As part of my professional duties I was strongly encouraged to attend social functions which meant going to several Rangers supporters clubs. The last one I attended really brought home to me the fact that I had nothing in common with these people. The anti-Catholic feeling was venomous and the songs they sang that evening filled me with disgust. It was at that point I decided not to give my all for a club that condoned such behaviour. I went sick. Walter Smith knew the real reason for my ‘illness’ and he just ignored it. But I wasn’t lying, I was sick, sick of Rangers and sick of what they stood for and that is the truth’
LB
Eh? ‘the name of the trading business will be irrelevant’
Oh aye brilliant ya animals,why was a hearse sent to Celtic Park ya ‘kin dafties,yer dyin,gone,kaput,zero titles for newco,why are you protesting so much then?
The huns are goin bust!
hamiltontim on 23 April, 2012 at 10:06 said:
timbhoy in spain on 23 April, 2012 at 09:45 said:
Sorry but who are St Johnstone not giving tickets to?
The people who don´t pay.
Very dignified and quintessentially British to say ‘the name of the trading business will be irrelevant’.
Where is the integrity and robust brown broguery in such a statement?
Wild Bill will be turning in his grave!