I watched Scotland play a more accomplished Wales last night. No one in blue played particularly well but when Charlie Mulgrew prepared to take a corner from the right in first half stoppage time we knew Wales were in danger.
The pace, low trajectory and movement Charlie gets on the ball negates the natural advantage the defending team has. The goal had little to do with the young lad who got on the end of the cross, just as Celtic’s remarkable success from corners has little to do with their ability to attack the ball.
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Swatson & Tommysbhoy
It was quoted on STV Friday night show. Dont have a link – sorry
Just reading about Kevin Muscat not being trusted to play against Celtic by McLeish ten seasons ago. FOURFOURTWO suggests our players dodged a bullet.
I reckon we would have players from THAT great side queuing up to stiffen him.
Thoughts,anyone?
Mark Burchill the new manager of Livingston.
Did not see that coming!
Good luck to the Bhoy. One of Livingston’s greatest sons.
LB
Paul 67
In fairness the lad who scored for Scotland made a brilliant run to get free.
LIVIBHOY
Damned by faint praise,haha!
I do wish him luck though….
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
We don’t have much to shout about in Livingston. Burchill is a friend. His brothers are both mates of mine. Good lads all of them and Celtic daft.
Wish him all the best. Very surprised to say the least. Might be too early for him BUT Livingston have got a coach and a very good striker for the price of one if he decides to pull the boots on.
LB
“You just have to find something from somewhere, so check down the side of the couch”……A.Mc.Coist. Manager/Coach.
Hey guys/gals
Do you not think a trick was lost regarding Sevco? If we’d voted them into the SPL we’d have had 3 old firm games and I’m bloody sure that team would have been relegated!!
Commons out of the Scotland squad. Must have got injured sitting in the cauld the other night. Either that or his ears got a severe injury listening to Amy McDonald singing!
LB
“That’s just the tip of the Ice Cube”
Allez LeCoist
jhj
nah mate
who are this old f### you talk of ?
ra gers 1872 are died/ liquidated/bust/
just watch what happens to the pars when they go into liqudation!!
if you are in any doubt try gretna or aidriie for case info
only in the msm minds do ra gers 1872 continue ,as this sells papers to the zombies!!
inyourheadinyouheadzombiezombiefc
Commons quoted as staying home for personal reasons.
Was there not a report of his baby being unwell?
JHJ
Keep taking the pills Mate!!
Looks like the Pars will go the way of the Dodo this evening. Pretty sad for the club, fans and the town but not for the guys that run them. I suspect there has been amny a dodgy deal done by the men in charge. Their allies have now departed the scene and the banks have all dried up their support.
I think we can now see that any club who were being influenced by Murray are now finding that nobody wants to help them out.
Very sad but it’s their own doing.
Killie will probably follow suit next. Even their own supporters don’t have faith in the man in charge.
It was obvious to them with the abstained vote for Rangers that the man doesn’t have their own club at heart and the fans have voted with their feet.
The well run clubs will continue to prosper though and Celtic and Hibernian will porobably be the teams to catch next season as they have their finances in the best order.
Wonder what price Hibs are for 2nd place? Probably quite decent at the minute.
LB
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS…
Just reading about Kevin Muscat not being trusted to play against Celtic by McLeish ten seasons ago. FOURFOURTWO suggests our players dodged a bullet.
I reckon we would have players from THAT great side queuing up to stiffen him.
I agree. The bad bit of me always wanted Muscat to play against Celtic just so he could live through the “Larsson effect” that Gus MacPherson experienced. Again, it shames me to say it, but the only think I enjoyed more than Henrik doing a number on MacPherson and seeing him carted off was when it happened for a second time, Henke ripping through MacPherson’s shin pad and sending the message he was not to be messed with. Ever. Ordinarilly I’d say it was distastefull, but after MacPherson’s media bleating about what he was going to do to Henke? Richly deserved.
I think Muscat would have found out to his cost what his reputation would earn him. I also think Eck didn’t play Muscat, as much to save Muscat as the Celtic players. As you allude to – there were several players in that team that would have destroyed him.
Bobo’s monstering of Paul Scholes should have served as a warning shot across the bows of hard men everywhere also.
As a footnote – I’d have loved to see Graeme Souness come up against Henrik, Bobo, Alan Thompson or Chris Sutton. I reckon Souness would come off a poor second against any of them.
/p
Thoughts,anyone?
thomthethim
Very true. Hope his kid is OK. More important things in life.
Hope the club give him as much time as necessary to support his family.
LB
“My sister’s expecting a baby, and I don’t know if I’m going to be an uncle or an aunt”
Allez LeCoist
“Hunbris” – it’s like hubris but multiplied to the nth degree.
Chuckles is touting the fun factory in England. Unfortunately for him the ‘investors’ are starting to realise, in the same spirit sagging way that a drunk man realises that he’s sh!t himself, that there’s no way you’ll be welcome anywhere!
jungle jam67
Good point about old f###.
starry plough
Say Sevco on telly on Saturday in the local boozer. Right enough I did have a fell Holsten Pills, but they were rubbish. Given Dundee Utd in Scottish cup, Queen of The South (Ramsden Cup) and Inverness CT in League Cup. They would out of their depth in the SPL.
p8ddy
For all I dislike the man Sounness was a very good footballer. He didn’t come off second best to many people in his career. He had a mix of guile and hardness that you don’t see much of in the modern game. I doubt he would have lasted 90 mins on a pitch with that Celtic seide as he would have lost the head far too early and been sent from the field for a stupid challenge.
The game has changed far too much for his style.
Henrik was not only a fine footballer but a very hard man. Much like Jimmy Johnstone he could be kicked all over the pitch and keep coming back. Very rarely did he even seem annoyed by it. He didn’t moan about it much.
I remember a match at Ibrox when the thug Craig Moore put Larsson right over the advertising boards at the enclosure. Henrick just got up and jogged past him looking Moore right in the eye. You could actually see Moore crumble. He was probably thinking I just booted this guy right out of the pitch and he is still coming back at me. Henrik was made of steel. The guy was the model professional. Every club he was at he made an impression. Every player he played with was impressed. He has given more inspiration and guidance to players he has played with than most players in the game. Ronaldinho and Rooney have publicly said it was an education to train with him. I just wish there was a job for him at Paradise. He trained with the strikers before one match and one match only and we won it 9-0. There must be a job for him at Celtic Park.
The question on everyones mind regarding Henke was what happened at Feyenoord???
That was pay back time for the 1970 final!
LB
livibhoy
just heard on 5live that someone called richie burke just been appointed livi manager
I never apologise for a poor performance, I’m sorry, that’s just the way I am
Allez Lecoist
borgo67
Burchill is his assistant. I just picked it up wrong when I was told earlier. Apologies
LB
31003
I used to play for the wee Roch at Glenconner (the Coup) I still bear the black gravel rash marks to this day. Very danger ous.
HH
P8DDY
You mentioned a few,you missed a few. There were a couple of quiet assassins in that team as well.
Jackie for one. Big Joos and Neil were no shrinking violets. Johann was in a class of his own.
And I haven’t even mentioned BBJ….
But as you say,Henrik was the one who caught the hammer-throwers off guard every time.
setting free the bears
21:28 on
24 March, 2013
quonno
Sorry I did not get back last night.
Samond is committed to an election in 2015.
Unless the Labour Party have failed to learn lessons from the last time round, the next Holyrood Parliament will be a coalition government with no one party ruling the roost.
This is precisely why when it came into being, it was accompanied by a PR voting system.
It was the arrogant taking votes for granted by Labour that has brought about the present situation where Alec Salmond unopposed rules the roost.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Still came off 2nd best in a scrap with wee Tosh though!
LB
I inadvertently clicked a Newsnow link which took me to an article on the online Daily Record where there are concerns that if Dunfermline goes into liquidation that will end 128 years of history. A few of the players were interviewed and had the same concerns.
Surely not?
Surely if Dunfermline is liquidated someone could buy the history for a fiver? Any takers? There are loads of precedences after all. Wait a minute. There is one precedent and loads of examples fo clubs being liquidated and disappearing. Mmm. Perhaps the Daily REcord has made a mistake regarding Dunfermline, or more likely regarding Sevco.
quonno:
The next Scottish Parliament elections are due in 2016, not 2015. The date was changed to take account of the English Government setting the date for a general election for 2015 without realising there was a clash of dates with our national elections.
Just another example of how Cameron and the ConDems, and Labour, takes no consideration of Scotland when making decision.
glassford03
It will be very interesting to see how the MSM spin this when and if it does happen.
They will probably tie themselves in knots like your local village idiot (Sevco fan) when you ask them to explain how they went bust but still have the same shame (history).
LB
JHJ
No amount of schadenfreude would justify their existence in the top league, they shouldn’t even be in the fourth tier as I joyfully pointed out to a Sevconian last night, he came back with “It’s only because everybody hates us that we’re not in the SPL” got to say you can’t argue with his logic!!
jhj
thanks for reminding me of super swallys cup runs with sevco
hope next season he continues with the same effect
if in a league of 18 in the bottom tier with the 2nd highest football wage bill in scotland
will sevco even be promoted
super swally must stay
jam67
glassford03
11:56 on
25 March, 2013
three division one titles and a couple of Scottish cups, i’m sure chuckles will be on the phone tomorrow with his offer
A dreary Monday morning and Chuckles once again gives us a LOL moment.
Acknowledgements to the Bhoy (who ever he was) in one of the ‘comments sections’ when he compared Chuckles (the footballer) to Alf Tupper!
Alf’s staple diet was fish and chips wrapped in MSM newspapers (Wiki).
St Patrick’s Day tribute paid to Hibs’ founders
Published on Monday 18 March 2013 02:01
Hibernian legend Pat Stanton was joined by chairman Rod Petrie and manager Pat Fenlon among others at St Patrick’s Church in Edinburgh’s Cowgate yesterday for the unveiling of a plaque to commemorate the founding of the club in the parish in 1875.
The plaque, presented by the St Patrick’s branch of Hibs Supporters, features Stanton’s great, great uncle Michael Whelahan
Do Celtic have a similar plaque in the Calton?
LB
starry plough
An understandable view point. I’d have loved to have seen them relegated.
You should ask the Sevconian why everybody hates them.
That would get Sevco up to Division 1 in one fell swoop, and quadruple its title count immediately, presuming Division 3 is in the bag.