Meeting a self-proclaimed aggrieved opponent is seldom an appetising prospect, but I would rather have Motherwell away tomorrow than any other opponent.
Our opponents have stoked a sense of injustice brought about when their defender impeded Scott Sinclair, and finished the final as a contest.
What Motherwell manager Steve Robinson should not be doing is polluting his thoughts with what has been and gone. He could find himself two goals down within 15 minutes if his players take to the field with anything more than a desire to stop the champions running amok.
Motherwell can go fourth in the table if they win their game in hand, but the experience of Dundee United in 2015 should caution them. United were flying high before facing Celtic four times in succession. A Scottish Cup draw was followed by defeat in the League Cup final, the Cup replay and the league. That period broke United, who were physically and emotionally wrecked by the experience. They slid down the table and into relegation the next season.
After tomorrow, Motherwell have four consecutive away games, all in the league. If they don’t get their emotions under control rapidly, Celtic will punish them and things could get out of control before Christmas.
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I’m pretty sure that someone on here has previously explained the origin of Xmas – something to do with X (Greek letter Chi) being short for Χριστός (Christ).
Something like that…
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on29TH NOVEMBER 2017 10:00 AM
MARSPAPA
No,mate. Usual,happy to let the football authorities do their job.
Therein lies the problem ….letting the autorities do their job !!
Career ending tackle of one of Scotlands / Celtics most promising talent and nothing made of it .
We’re far to passive , lets not wait till one of our players are maimed by a wreckless challenge ….J Kennedy :(
I’m champion M , frustrated but champion :))
Thanks for asking …hope your gang are to .
CORKSCELT
MERRY Christmas (happy new year )
Mum and Dad
Tea and toast
Larsson and Sutton
Fish and chips
Knife and fork …..
Opinions eh …..:))
Hope you keep relatively calm listening to the game tonight .
Aff oot as oor Kevj wid say .
This old git remembers my father going to work on Christmas Days in a 1950s Glasgow.
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Bloody cold here even though sun is shining. was waiting for frost to clear to try & get a round of Golf in. Playing today for CHRISTMAS Hamper.
Just heading off to the Club now more in hope than confidence, check in later , be good & if ye can’t be good be careful.
Dear Mister Moderator
I see a few posts bemoaning the fact that some posters are referring to the word Christmas in an informal shortened way. In the interest of correctness can I also suggest that the blog adopts the Italian manner of addressing or referring to people informally and informally. That is if you are unfamiliar and don’t know a player manager or director personally please refer to them in a formal fashion like Mr Brendan Rodgers or just Mr Rodgers. Sure if Mr Rodgers is in the habit of coming round to your house for tea or regularly phones you with the team line up prior to the game, yes refer to him as Brendan or even Bren.
As it is the have a nice Cristo giorno or is it Buon Natale
ps Can you delete any future references to the Boxing Day game against Dundee and issue an instruction that it should only now be referred to as the Saint Stephens day game
Thank you in anticipation
Mr Mickbhoy1888
MARSPAPA
Funny you mention that,Kieran takes a few more than average too.
Must phone my Mum,since you mention it. Second time that’s been mentioned today!
Good luck to The Rangers fans who will be wearing their new tops tonight so that they can be photographed.
Temperature at kick-off forecast at -1c
Maybe they will get a bonus for wearing the short sleeved version?
Hrvatski jim
Is there a new stretch crimpolene being used? (non bobbly when washed kind :-)
HH
Will no one think of poor Mithras this Christmas:))
I know it’s a ling shot, but any spare tickets for tonight? Looking for 2.
KTF
The frost on a golf course at this time of year is the least of my concerns, more concerned about darkness falling before I can complete my round
Anyway off to Troon on Sunday with a half 12 tee time so better go and look out the luminous balls
Just thinking what if the Pope deemed that all his priests were given the day off on the 25th of December and would they be prepared to give up the double time
Davidopopulus.
Correct.
Xmas almost certainly predates Christmas. One being the original Greek form. Hellenic language being that used by the eastern med peoples.
I wonder how many of our more mature posters gave up their family Christmas to go and watch Celtic FC on the day
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/m/page/Games+On+Christmas+Day
MICKYBHOY
Your interrogation technique must have been the envy of all your friends.
Your colleague does the good guy,you do the snide guy.
Mickbhoy1888
My family went to the Hearts match on Christmas Day v Hearts in 1971. We had also been to Mass that morning , had our Christmas Dinner slightly earlier than usual and later that evening watched Andre Previn conduct Grieg’s Piano Concerto with some of the right notes not being played in the correct order. The match was one of the best I have seen and the Christmas by far the most memorable of my childhood. Possibly not the answer you were looking to provoke but there you go.
I also recall in primary my teacher telling us not to use ‘Xmas’ and because she was a nasty, bullying, bigot who should not have been allowed near children I used the abbreviated form occasionally as a minor act of rebellion afterwards. It was not until Miss Christina Aguilera rebranded herself as Xtina for a time that I learned the Ancient Greek connection between X and Christ. Which is probably a bit of information nobody wanted far less needed to know. But there you go
H x 2
Jimbo67
Really ?????
new article posted.
JIMBO67
I went to Celtic 8 -Morton 1 in 65 and went to Celtic 3-Hearts 2 in 71 .
Went to a party in Buccleuch Street on Christmas night 71 . A party that was good enough to merit the attendance of Plod and the Drug Squad. Party poopers!
Festival Time 71
https://youtu.be/TKprdvRIPpo
“i went to watch a Celtic match on Christmas day 1971 and still had a lovely family Christmas”
A lot more simple and less time time consuming don’t you think.
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