Paddy McCourt was the difference between the teams today as Celtic came from behind for the second time in three days to beat Motherwell at Celtic Park, securing second spot in the league. Craig Higdon opened the scoring for Motherwell after 11 minutes with a header from a corner kick but Anthony Stokes levelled, also from a corner, two minutes later. Substitute Gary Hooper scored the winner late on.
Despite a sprightly first minute Celtic were on the back foot for most of the opening period and it was no surprise Motherwell opened the scoring. Nor was the manner in which they lost the goal a surprise. Tom Hately crossed from a short corner which Celtic slept at, failing to mark-up. The defence also pushed out in instalments, leaving Craig Higdon free six yards from goal to head home.
Celtic immediately pushed forward and Georgios Samaras flicked a Kris Commons header onto Stokes at the back post, who volleyed into the net.
A Commons free kick was blocked by Samaras, whose shot was saved. Thomas Rogne headed a Commons’ corner on target but the ball was blocked on the line. On the half hour mark Higdon drew a good save from Fraser Forster.
Four minutes into the second half Stokes should have given Celtic the lead when he latched onto a long ball from Daniel Majstorovic which evaded the defence but Darren Randolph closed the space. On 54 minutes the lively Stokes cut-back for Commons who took one touch too many and was robbed. Fraser Forster was called into action again soon thereafter when he blocked a Nicky Law effort.
Paddy McCourt replaced Samaras with 15 minutes to go and transformed the game. On 79 minutes he collected the ball inside his own half, drifted through a nervous looking Motherwell midfield until he reached the edge of the D before feeding Stokes on the left. Stokes made space before rifling the ball into the six yard box for Gary Hooper to score the winner.
Tim Clancy was shown a straight red card late on for kicking Gary Hooper. If referee Charlie Richmond had taken an earlier opportunity to control Lasley or Jennings, Gary Hooper, James Forrest and Beram Kayal would perhaps have finished the game with fewer injuries.
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Gordon J.
They are in court but it appears it is being administered by a transfer of undertakings rather than any prosecution/defence. I offered to appear as a character witness on both sides!
Hail Hail
Estadio
Re – Charlie Adams Brothers Chants
and people still say that Murray Park has no end product!
I beg to differ.
Play4dg
Grant Adam. Another proud graduate of Jurassic Park.
jimmci says:
7 November, 2011 at 10:10
I’ve just read the match report in the Retard. Union Jackson in overdrive. Possibly the worst report I have ever read. No attempt whatsoever to get a balance.
Celtic, please now ban this clown and this paper.
His vitriol directed at Sammi in particular….. suggesting he contrived to get himself injured and subbed.
Sammi is technically gifted – however I doubt he’s got the skills to launch himself onto Craigan’s elbow in order to hurt his ribs!
Re Celtic-related VC’s – not a Celtic player, but…
“Robert Downie never played for Celtic. However he earns his place on here through his connection with the club, working as a cashier on the turnstiles (post-war), and for his service during the Great War where he served gallantly in for his people and country, earning the Military Medal and Victoria Cross (the highest military medal awarded for valour).
SGT Robert Downie VC MM was born on the 12th of January 1894 to Irish parents from Laurencetown, County Down. One of sixteen children he was educated at St. Aloysius Catholic, Springburn, Glasgow. He joined the army at 19 and was a regular with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers at the start of the first world war. He was awarded a Military Medal, and then a Victoria Cross (the highest honour).
He was a sergeant in the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Dublin Fusiliers, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place during the Battle of the Somme, for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross for exceptional bravery.
On 23 October 1916 east of Lesboeufs, France, when most of the officers had become casualties, Sergeant Downie, utterly regardless of personal danger and under very heavy fire, organised the attack which had been temporarily checked. At the critical moment he rushed forward shouting “Come on the Dubs!” which had an immediate response and the line rushed forward at this call. Sergeant Downie accounted for several of the enemy and in addition captured a machine-gun, killing the team. Although wounded early in the fight, he remained with his company, giving valuable assistance while the position was being consolidated.
On his homecoming, he arrived at Glasgow Central Station to be met by hundreds of people who carried him shoulder-high to a taxi. Springburn Road was decorated with flags and bunting and lined with hundreds more people, and his achievement was widely reported in the Glasgow press.
Post-War
He lived quietly in Carleston Street, Springburn, until his death in 1968. A modest man, he often played down his bravery, saying he won the medals for having ‘shot the cook’.
A Celtic fan through and through, football fans at Celtic Park regularly saw him on a Saturday as he worked as a cashier at the turnstiles.
He donated his medal to Celtic, and the medal is on display at Celtic Park.
Downie has a grave/memorial at St. Kentigern’s Cemetery, Glasgow, Scotland. Section 21. Lair 506. Headstone”
Robert Downie was a relative of my late mother-in-law.
Sorry – should have posted a link;
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Downie,+Robert
PRAECEPTA 1028
I tripped over a pallet at work nearly a fortnight ago and hurt my ribs.
Didnae think much of it at the time,shrug it off,etc.
I STILL cannae take a full deep breath!
Hope it never happens to Jackson…..
Quote on zonal marking “Get a jersey, I’ve never heard of fresh air scoring a goal”
Tommy Gemmell Lisbon Lion
DB –
Thanks for sharing that.
Curly
I hope cash rich Southampton give us our money back on Jos Hooiveld, – we’ll see how long his new found fitness lasts, and test their resolve with
a transfer fee, since he’s so brilliant.
Ragers are making a film about called Mad Orcs: Beyond Poppydome
Sorry gobbledegook above – three in a row?
bournesouprecipe says:
7 November, 2011 at 10:38
I hope cash rich Southampton give us our money back on Jos Hooiveld, – we’ll see how long his new found fitness lasts, and test their resolve with
a transfer fee, since he’s so brilliant.
What giving them some cash plus Hooiveld and take Rickie Lambert. That boy knows how to put the ball in the net.
LB
Fried the left over potatoes, three chooped slices of bacon, two eggs, beans and worcestire sauce, all fried together….Sadly second egg landed in middle of pan and it was a half formed chick! The smell as soon as i opened the egg was disgusting beyond disgust.
It was rancid and even turned my stomach…and believe me the things I have smelled in my time are nobody’s business.
But even that terrible smell of decaying skin and half-formed bones was as nothing compared to the taste. Fair made my eyes water.
Still hard times and all that.
B O A K……
hail hail
Estadio
Craig Paterson.
Fud.
Did it ever cross your mind that if the offside rules hadn’t been changed then perhaps the players wouldn’t have done what they did.
Probably not as that would have involved two consecutive logically connected thoughts.
Too much to expect from someone of the calibre of a publicly funded BBC Scotland football ‘analyst’.
Shame about that rule where they introduced a crossbar instead of a piece of rope, isn’t it?
Could probably have got a few more Celtic goals disallowed if they’d left that one alone too.
Fud. Fud. Fud.
FeelBetterForThatCSC
Prior to meeting the huns
ICT (a)
Dunfermline (h)
St Mirren (h)
DUFC (a)
Hearts (h)
St J (a)
Killie (h)
They have
St J (h)
Killie (a)
Dunfermline (h)
Hibs (a)
ICT (h)
St Mirren (a)
I know it’s a small league but very nearly the same teams, swapping Hibs for Hearts. If we close the gap by more than the 3 points for the game in hand in that run of fixtures I’ll be surprised, bearing in mind we also have DUFC and St Johnstone away after midweek Euro ties.
But coming out of the game at Celtic Park on 28th with a strong victory and no worse than 6 behind and the tide will be turned.
Mon the hoops!
Hope Lennon plays McCourt instead of Commons in the next game. Team:
Forster
Cha Dan Rogne Matthews
Wanyama
Kayal Ledley
McCourt
Stokes Hooper
Forrest needs to let the swelling go down from the kicking he got yesterday. Even if the game isn’t for another 2 weeks!
Re-Post from last night with small bit added at the end.
Thanks to everyone who took part in the best Celtic team of the last 25 years poll.
Team is as follows with % of those who voted listed against players.
Boruc -97%
McGrain-92%
Izaguirre -41%
Rieper-54%
Elliot-46%
McStay-94%
Moravcik-81%
Lambert-38%
Larsson-100%
Sutton-59%
McClair-41%
Subs-Bonner-3%,Boyd-38%,Aitken-38%,Lennon-27%,McAvennie-22%
Most were very predictable but maybe one or two surprises.
Only One player from our current squad made it (Izzy) whilst all the other players I listed never managed one vote between them!
Judas,Burley,Walker, Murdo and Mowbray managed one vote between them.
No one poster managed to have all 11players selected in their team(most had 7 or 8).
Special mention however for the following 3 who matched 10 players:
1.Hamiltontim-had Boyd rather than Izzy
2.Saltires En Sevilla-had McCarthy rather than Elliot
3.Googybhoy-had Mjallby rather than Rieper
Also Lennybhoy matched 9 players(though it took him 3 goes to stick to the rules!)-he had Mjallby rather than Rieper and Lennon ahead of Lambert.
Any one know how Izzy’s rehab is progressing?
The last I heard, a couple of weeks ago, he was doing some running.
Any info ghuys?
Big Swee walks on with Neil Lennon says:
7 November, 2011 at 09:25
Right you thats plenty :0)
Hail hail
The sooner we have Izzy back the sooner we will have Matthews playing in his right position which will hopefully lead to a more settled looking back 4???
Hail hail
Morning, Guys.
Q: Embdy had a response yet from the BBC Trust re: complaints about the BBC Cup final coverage fiasco?
The last reply I received (on 14 October) said:
“We are currently completing this work and expect to be able to write to you with our conclusions on admissibility by the start of November. Again, we will keep you informed if for any reason we meet with delay during this process.”
FF
http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/rangers/vladimir-romanov-has-spent-millions-but-with-no-great-reward-1.1133392
WHEN he’s in the mood for it, words gush out of Vladimir Romanov. They spew out of him in torrents: accusations, insults, withering criticism, abuse, the lot.
It’s Scottish football mafia this, media monkeys that, corruption and rotten apples all across the land. When he’s got a bee in his bonnet, all of this stuff runs out of him like verbal diarrhoea.
You would think that a man so inclined to mouth off about everyone else would have the grace to acknowledge his own shortcomings, but no. Romanov finally deigned to pay his Hearts players on Friday, just 19 days overdue.
Has the chief writer of the Herald ever written about Sir Minty in the same way?
We are also often told by the ole media of the ridiculous levels of abuse on internet blogs, good to see such a piece of vitriolic personal abuse by the chief sports writer
Maybe media monkeys sounds about right Mr Grant
Dick Byrne,
Are you going to be about in Glasgow this coming weekend?
Folly Folly says:
7 November, 2011 at 10:57
I think the BBC are more concerned with trying to get back into the huns good books m8???
Hail hail
Neil Lennon Is A Celtic Soul Brother says:
7 November, 2011 at 10:52
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One thought on your list…..Murdo Macleod!
Murdo was the dynamo/work-horse/ball-winner who made Paul McStay into the Maestro! IMO!
Take Murdo away from PM’s side and, how many midfield battles did we win v’s the huns in the next 9 years ?
Kevin says:
7 November, 2011 at 11:00
Never mind midfield battles,,,,how many battles did we win vs the huns not many m8,,,,bit unfair to have a go at the Maestro,not his fault that most of the team he carried on his back were gash???
Hail hail
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning! says:
7 November, 2011 at 10:55
You have mail bud….
ibleed
Such a simple explanation … what was I thinking?
FF
Folly Folly says:
7 November, 2011 at 11:04
ibleed
Such a simple explanation … what was I thinking?
FF
MMMmmm,,,,bit of a snide reply there thought you might have tried to debate a bit,,,oh well we live and learn!!
Hail hail
lionroars67 says:
7 November, 2011 at 10:58
Romanov was also called ‘a maniac’ several times on the Jabba show on Saturday which the goons in the studio found hilarious. Cant imagine any of the Orc persausion being on the receiving end of this.
Wouldn’t want him anywhere near Celtic but kudos to Romanov for ‘Media Monkeys’
Kevin says:
7 November, 2011 at 11:00
Neil Lennon Is A Celtic Soul Brother says:
7 November, 2011 at 10:52
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One thought on your list…..Murdo Macleod!
Murdo was the dynamo/work-horse/ball-winner who made Paul McStay into the Maestro! IMO!
Take Murdo away from PM’s side and, how many midfield battles did we win v’s the huns in the next 9 years ?
Murdo left in 1987 – the maestros greatest season 1987/1988 was after Murdo left. Paul usually won most midfield battles – The TB era we always outplayed the Huns but couldnt put the ball in the net.
ibleed
Sorry pal: not meant to be snide: apparently just a badly phrased attempt (on my part) at self-deprecation …
Hail, hail.
Just had a read of Hugh MacDonalds piece in the Herald. “Jennings and Lasley testing the patience of the referee” You couldn’t make this up. No mention whatsoever of the assaults on Commons and Forest. Honest Mistakes – Season II.
HH
Another gambling footballer. On the plus side his Dad was a Tim.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/dominic-matteo-gambling-away-millions-6258182.html
LB
Folly Folly says:
7 November, 2011 at 10:57
I asked for an update last after getting the stock response in October:
Dear Mr Bawsman
I am writing to update you on our progress with your appeal regarding
Sportscene: Scottish Cup Final.
We have received 27 appeals regarding this programme. As a result, we consider that all these appeals should be consolidated and considered together across the full range of the issues raised before making a decision on their admissibility to the Editorial Standards Committee.
This is to ensure that all issues are captured and considered in a fair and efficient manner.
We are currently completing this work and expect to be able to write to you with our conclusions on admissibility by the start of November.
Again, we will keep you informed if for any reason we meet with delay during this process.
Yours sincerely,
Lucy Tristram
Complaints Advisor
Paddy Gallagher
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