The point was made to me after the game that it would have been better for Mick Beale to lose this game in an unequivocal manner. Instead, the result is the epitome of equivocation. His team picked themselves off the first half canvas, dominated the champions for most of the second period, so much so he tried to convinced himself they were a match, but conceded late and it was all for not’.
When you lose and you know you have lost, you move swiftly to the recovery position. When you are a loser but it is not evident to you, you are cursed to squat in sporting purgatory – spurgatory, is where Beale finds himself!
Celtic scarcely created a chance during that period, but late in the game, the persistence, first of Jota, then Aaron Mooy, Jota again and Giorgos Giakoumakis in the 88th minute permitted Kyogo his platform to score. In this instant, a title, Champions League qualification and the millions that follow, perhaps domination of the next era of Scottish football, slipped over the horizon for the bulk of the 50,000 in attendance.
The truism that goals change games was never truer than at Ibrox yesterday. Alfredo Morelos collected the ball inside his own half on the 5th minute, before playing a square ball into a space marshalled by Daizen Maeda. What Morelos didn’t realise, was that the entire pitch was pretty much Marshalled by Maeda ©.
Daizen’s interception made its way to James Tavernier, often a troubling sign for the home support. You may remember him from such films as ‘Costly Short Pass at Parkhead’. Tavernier’s pass to Goldson never came close to its intended destination before Daizen took control, dropped the shoulder to glide past the last defender before charging towards McGregor in goal. The keeper fell on the ball to no avail, Celtic were ahead.
The visitors then took control, passing around statuesque players in blue. Kyogo should have doubled the advantage but missed the ball, his time would come later.
Joe Hart did his best to make a contest of the half when a clearance hit the most significant frame in Govan since the great liners were built there. The ball was ushered back to Kent, who would have levelled but the keeper made amends by turning the ball onto the post. This moment revived Newco, who were never again out of the reckoning.
Celtic, usually so secure from corner kicks, conceded two chances to the head of Morelos, but “fitboy” (I think that’s what Greg Taylor called him) missed the target on both occasions.
With Taylor off injured, Josip Juranovic made his first start after injury, at left back. It did not work. Jura was disoriented, allowing Sakala to break forward. He fed Kent on the opposite flank. You and I knew he would turn inside and shoot, but Alistair Johnston, making a very impressive debut, could do little. Kent made smart work of the chance and it was game-on.
Moments later Sakala was going nowhere, but still inside the box, when Carl Starfelt lunged – there is no better word – in the direction of ball and player. Too soon, the ball was elsewhere, Starfelt provided a platform for Sakala’s right foot, it was a penalty. Tavernier lifted the kick into the roof of the net.
Celtic were on the ropes. Confidence was shot and the passing which was so fluid in the first period was never on point. Reinforcements helped little until the 88th minute. Then it happened, Kyogo!
For a squad ravaged by illness, which clearly affected the manager in a manner all too familiar, this was an excellent return.
Celtic should have had a penalty. Sarfelt’s shot was turned away from goal by a two handed save from Goldson. I didn’t see it and there were no appeals from Celtic players, so referee John Beaton gets a pass. VAR should have picked the oversight up but either it didn’t, or Beaton declined the opportunity to check. SFA, we have a problem and it is not getting any better. The handball rule in Celtic games has been an unexplained shambles this season. Explain, please or make way for administrators who do not choose when to speak publicly only when they perceive Celtic were advantaged.
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Thats goldson,s third handball save already in just a few weeks.
Wtf is going on with these referees.
yesterday beaton was about 10m from the incident and with an unobstructed view.
It can only be blatant cheating,nothing else.
Goldson,s hands even rose up to push the ball away.
Absolutely incredulous!!
Love is the Law.
Handsup Baby Handsup.
Kyogo.CSC
No blame on Beatin. The Crafty eh? cheating comes frae a feart Mouse.
…….
Celtic have Strengthened, thats All I know.
tis Galling such Cheating.
I’m a mere pup.
Yer Lying eyes.
Disnae Matter.
Ownage.
8th/9th
We will show Thems.
Reo WOW.
Callum is obviously Superb. REO WOW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ZKQfp7D6U
BRRB
Won’t make Friday due to rail strike.
Mibbe next time!
Hope you Bhoys and Ghirls have a great time and tell them I was asking!
Good evening all from the Queens Park Cafe. It’s a hard life but I must persevere.
Philbhoy
Happy New Year to you me old grumpy mate. Awrabest to the long suffering girls in your life. 😂
BRRB
And best wishes to you too!!
No point askin’ you if ye hid a good time!
Mibbe next time!
Put myself through another Micky Beale interview (post match SMSM presser).
Full of tick-box soundbites and a bull-shitter extrodinaire.
He’s a good fit for them and I’m looking forward to watching him being found out.
DALRIADABHOY
So good, you quoted me twice.
What I’m asking is if the board did nothing about cheating they can prove, what makes you think they’ll act on cheating they can’t?
Don’t get where you get the idea that I support the board doing nothing about it, it’s simply that I don’t believe they will.
Plenty of evidence to support that conclusion.
As for my post on the handball, not entirely serious in tone, though nothing funny about the decision.
However, sporting integrity has long been alien to Scoddish football. How else could a 10 year old club have 55 titles? Now there’s some real cheating.
Philbhoy
I meant to say to give my best to the boys when you were up in Stoney, but forgot, old age is a cnut at times >:)
Best of to you and yours
Oh well post lost 😕
BIGSHUGGY
“Watched our goals today few times,Maeda like Usain Bolt !”
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Didn’t realise he was carrying an injury that was slowing him down, Big Man.
https://thecelticstar.com/var-gate-celtic-set-for-second-meeting-with-sfa-over-var-concerns/
HH
PHILCOOL on 3RD JANUARY 2023 8:22 PM
He claimed not to have seen it – at least that’s what my admittedly poor lip reading skills tell me he said to Callum when Callum was pressing him to give it.
On this occasion , for me, WC as VAR was primarily to blame.
At the very least he should have asked Beaton to review it pitchside.
For me it’s a penalty but I can see the argument that didn’t make himself bigger.
Sometimes getting a decision and sometimes not is an issue anywhere, at least anywhere except here.
That really isn’t the issue in this country though as we all know.
The issue is the VAR decisions going against us when they shouldn’t – and conversely for them when they
shouldn’t – should be the subject of serious investigation and action.
Ffs the blogger aye indeed.
Philbhoy see you later mate 👍
Taxi for Lampard, 0-4
AT- that’s where it will end,everything hushed up,and kept behind closed doors
https://twitter.com/skysportsdarts/status/1610378481002586114?s=48&t=5vJKLuREDEes_y6prIpP9w
Fantastic darts
AN TEARMANN
I preferred this story.
https://thecelticstar.com/revealed-the-four-hateful-words-that-broke-the-minutes-silence-at-ibrox/
I would take the Celtic Star’s word over the odious and despicable MSM in Scotland any time any place anywhere
Says the minutes silence at Mordor was broken by a hun!
I have some hope that our new CEO will do the decent thing.
What is the point in behind closed door meetings when it changes nothing.
I hope our new CEO will act differently, i fear (but don’t yet think) the man is a glove puppet
aw naw………….
tlwio
How can they say that he didn,t make himself bigger when he pushed the ball up in the air
You couldn,t believe their oaths.
DALRIADABHOY on 3RD JANUARY 2023 9:12 PM
I hope our new CEO will act differently, i fear (but don’t yet think) the man is a glove puppet
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He won’t and he is, sadly, had he been serious it would be headline news as we all know.
Unless it’s bend over a bit more that is…………just to make it easier.
If there is a meeting arranged with the SFA, I hope Celtic make public what they are saying to them and what, if anything, the SFA reply. We have the evidence of the cheating; we should demand that the likes of Allen and his cronies are allowed no where near the VAR. Refs from England or the Continent MUST be drafted in at the very least. Otherwise we should withdraw all monies we give for VAR and we should say so publicly.
Bada Bing – cheers.
That was awesome
*SENTINEL CELTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2022-23*
RESULTS FROM GAME #28 – SEVCO 2 CELTIC 2 (MAEDA, KYOGO)
Good evening, friends.
Pre-game yesterday I had a few questions running around my head, like is it the right game for Johnston to make his debut? Why is Forrest starting ahead of Abada or Jota? Why isn’t Moy starting in place of O’Riley? Why is Abildgaard again on the bench? And as the game progressed, I had further moments of confusion. Why have Bernabei on the bench if he’s not going to be used as cover for Taylor? Why let Forrest and O’Riley appear for the 2nd half when both were not at their best? Why did we stop feeding Maeda after the 25th minute when he was terrorising TavPen? And why was Hatate taken off?
But anyway, Ange remains the Man for such decisions and what do I know anyway (particularly as I’m drafting this part of the report before I’ve opened a single email!!).
So we end up securing a draw at our toughest league venue knowing that our closest rivals will be kicking themselves at wasting their opportunity to reduce the gap at the top. Overall, an acceptable outcome even though our performance, first 20 minutes excepted, fell far short of what we have come to expect.
There were a few other positives, of course. A very good debut from Alistair Johnston, Kyogo Furahashi scoring for the 4th game in a row and our faith and belief in sticking to playing football on the deck, trusting that the equaliser would eventually come. And of course, our next visit to Ibrox is scheduled for after the split by which time it may have lost its significance!
As for the performance of the officials including the VAR I’ve already left my own thoughts on the dedicated “VAR article” (https://sentinelcelts.com/2022/12/17/var-the-season-of-dishonest-mistakes/ ). But, briefly, I don’t think Starfelt fouled Sakala and I also think that Beaton should have been asked to look at the Goldson hand ball incident.
Domestically we have now played 22, winning 20, drawing 1 (yesterday!) and losing just 1 (to St Mirren). We have scored 71 and conceded 17.
Thanks to the 74 who emailed me with their 3 nominations.
The total votes cast for each player with my own choices asterisked are as follows –
Hart: 0
Johnston*: 47
Carter-Vickers*: 71
Starfelt: 1
Taylor: 2
McGregor: 10
Hatate: 20
O’Riley: 0
Forrest: 0
Kyogo: 7
Maeda*: 51
Juranovic: 0
Abada: 0
Mooy: 12
Giakoumakis: 2
Jota: 1
And so the players receiving POINTS for the game against Triggers Broom FC are –
Carter-Vickers – 5 pts
Maeda – 4 pts
Johnston – 3 pts
Hatate – 2 pts
Mooy – 1 pt
And after 28 games the overall standings are as shown below –
60 points – Hatate
41 points – Carter-Vickers
38 points – Taylor
34 points – Jota
28 points – McGregor and O’Riley
24 points – Mooy
23 points – Abada
22 points – Jenz
20 points – Kyogo
15 points – Haksabanovic
13 points – Giakoumakis
12 points – Juranovic and Starfelt
11 points – Maeda
10 points – Ralston
9 points – Bernabei and Welsh
8 points – Forrest
5 points – Turnbull
4 points – Hart
3 points – Johnston
0 points – Abildgaard, McCarthy, Siegrist and Vata
Our next game is only 4 sleeps away when we face Kilmarnock at home on Saturday with a 3.00pm kick off. This gives us a chance to open up a 12 point lead before our nearest challengers play on Sunday afternoon, away to Dundee United.
Hail Hail!
Thanks Jobo.
No points for Forrest and O’Riley, but apparently Ange team selection was correct!!!
Maeda into double points jobo.:-)
Am sure johnston will move too
Thanks for your work jobo.superb
HH
Normally I’d be disappointed and need to be enclosed in a dark room for a day after failing to beat TheRangers MK II.
Yes. Yesterday was a failure on our part.
We failed to build on an excellent start, where we made it look like we were playing the proverbial dustbins.
We failed to capitalize on Maeda’s masterly finish.
We failed to finally take the massed hun hordes out of the equation.
We failed to take away the potential influence of bent officials, which almost everyone on CQN had previously predicted.
We failed to kill the last remaining hopes of them making a miserable challenge for the title.
They will take false consolation that they weren’t overrun and even make a questionable claim that they had played the better game.
Ridiculous when you examine the two penalty decisions on which the final result hung.
Ridiculous when you examine the possession stats.
Ridiculous when Joe Hart’s best save was from his own error.
And yet somehow I’m not disappointed.
I’m trying to work out why.
We would have virtually won the league and depleted attendances at Ibrox stadium.
We would have assured Champions League participation and domination affirming revenues for 23/24. And future seasons.
We would have closed the door to the MSM trying to generate the fallacy of a challenge to Angeball.
We would have raised serious questions about Beale’s ability to transition from an abrasive coach to an obnoxious manager.
So I haven’t concluded why I’m not disappointed.
Is it the realization that we can and will play better?
We will strengthen the team?
We will overcome the bigotry from Hampden?
And we will run away with the title?
Again.
https://twitter.com/GrahamSpiers/status/1610247745213710336?t=l2G2BrNbXz8hOhKM2TOR0Q&s=19
Graeme Spiers has written an obituary of our late centre forward Frank McGarvey,its behind a paywall in uk for TheTimes.Could one of you Celts out there copy and paste here the obituary.Thanks
HH
AT
Try this:
https://archive.ph/oQeW9
There you go AT, I’ve tidied it up as best I can…
Frank McGarvey’s life was a compelling tapestry of highs and lows: football success on the pitch but then depression and addiction off it. “I’ve faced my battles,” he once noted stoically. In later years McGarvey, found solace in his faith and was a regular attender of Catholic Mass in Glasgow. Faith was the prism through which he came to understand his life.
He rose to become a celebrated footballer with St Mirren and Celtic, though there was a time when he thought he would never make it. “You’re too thin, too wiry,” one observer told the twig-like McGarvey when he was trying to break into the St Mirren team under a young, fiery Alex Ferguson in 1975. In some despair Ferguson sent the then 18-year-old on loan to the amateur club, Kilsyth Rangers, to toughen him up, and it did wonders for his development.
“I came back from that spell and Fergie threw me straight into a pre-season friendly with St Mirren,” McGarvey recalled. “The first moment I touched the ball I knew I had an edge. I felt stronger and was never out of the St Mirren team after that.” A mercurial career followed.
McGarvey would go on to play 341 games for St Mirren over two spells, scoring 102 goals, but the stint he is most remembered for are his five seasons with Celtic between 1980 and 1985 when the twisting, turning, ever-elusive McGarvey proved a nightmare for opposing defenders. The pinnacle of his career came with his crashing header that won Celtic the 1985 Scottish Cup over Dundee United with only minutes remaining.
Frank McGarvey was born in 1956 and brought up in Easterhouse, Glasgow. His father, Edward, was a local “sparky” while his mother, Mary, was a popular dinner lady at a local school. Frank was the third of four children, with two older brothers, Edward and Joseph, and a younger sister, Marie.
McGarvey was a man of many tastes — sport, music, reading, arguing — and he soon excelled at football. Having become such a prolific scorer at St Mirren, McGarvey inevitably was destined for greater things, and he came to the attention of Bob Paisley, the legendary manager of Liverpool, who signed him for £270,000 in May 1979. In Scottish football it was a colossal sum at the time. Paisley was building a peerless Liverpool team — at home and abroad — and McGarvey could not resist the challenge.
The move did not work out. While remaining free-scoring in Liverpool’s reserves, McGarvey could not budge outstanding strikers like Kenny Dalglish and David Johnson from the Liverpool starting XI. His wife, Pauline, was pregnant with their first child and McGarvey began to agitate for a return home. And he had no end of suitors back in Scottish football.
Ferguson, by now manager of Aberdeen and in the process of building a formidable team there, chipped away at McGarvey to rejoin him in Scotland’s northeast. Aberdeen offered McGarvey a better wage than Celtic in the early months of 1980. But the striker left Ferguson furious — a theme football would get used to — by going with his heart and joining Celtic for the same £270,000 fee that Liverpool had paid for him.
Off the field life was sweet for McGarvey. He was 21 when he married Pauline in 1978. They would go on to have four children before separating after 18 years together.
McGarvey loved golf and enjoyed reading. His favourite books were The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, which he read voraciously, and also read to his children. His favourite rock band was Queen, whose hit-making years ran parallel with McGarvey’s own career. He also enjoyed chess.
McGarvey’s children all went on to have successful careers of their own. Paul McGarvey is a general-manager with David Lloyd fitness. Sean is an executive director of operations with Morgan Stanley. The third son, Scott, is head of technology operations with Tesco Bank, while a daughter, Jennifer, works with Virgin Media.
Silverware — two league titles, two Scottish Cups and one League Cup — beckoned at Celtic. The Parkhead legions adored him. “Frank was best described in Glasgow parlance as ‘gallus’,” recalled his manager, Billy McNeill. “I was never quite sure what Frank was going to do in a game, and I don’t think he was either, but he scored goals for fun. He played football off-the-cuff and became vital to Celtic. In his eyes, no cause was ever lost. He would run all day and had complete faith in his ability. He was great for morale.”
McGarvey was not without a sharp tongue and could make withering comments. More than once he complained, at the height of his Celtic powers, about the paltry pay he was taking home from the club each week: “about £190 after tax”. He once noted that Celtic had no proper gym facilities and recalled when “a group of players were doing sit-ups in the Celtic Park foyer when [chairman] Desmond White and a group of visiting businessmen came in and had to step over us on entering the stadium.”
In 1979 Jock Stein gave him his Scotland debut against Northern Ireland and he would go on to win seven caps, facing, among others, Argentina and Uruguay, though he did not score and his last cap came against Wales in 1984.
McGarvey with his daughter Jennifer at Parkhead last year after he had cancer diagnosed
McGarvey with his daughter Jennifer at Parkhead last year after he had cancer was diagnosed.
In May 1985 McGarvey’s crowning moment came with the header that won the Scottish Cup at Hampden Park. But imminent change was afoot. It would prove his last game for Celtic.
A pay dispute followed, in which McGarvey, then 29, claimed Celtic had made him an “insulting” offer. He promptly left Celtic to rejoin St Mirren, where he would go on to win the 1987 Scottish Cup. When he returned to Parkhead in St Mirren colours a few months later the Celtic fans chanted his name throughout the 90 minutes.
McGarvey would play for Queen of the South, where he was player-manager, and Clyde, with whom he won a second division title aged 37.
For years the pain lingered over his abrupt departure from Celtic, and McGarvey faced other battles in later life. A gambling addiction dogged him, which he spoke openly about in his autobiography Totally Frank. He admitted to squandering money, with which he was supposed to buy a property, on gambling. He lost his house and his marriage and ended up “in a dump of a rented flat with only a mattress for a bed”. There were thoughts of suicide.
But he gradually regained his life, joining Gamblers Anonymous, becoming a joiner and running his own business. Two of his sons, Sean and Scott, spoke on social media of how much love and respect his children retained for McGarvey through all the highs and lows. Contentment came and he became a regular worshipper at St Anthony’s RC Church in
McGarvey took up cycling and his most cherished holiday destination was Millport. Over decades he loved escaping to the island off Scotland’s west coast, where he was a member of Millport golf club. McGarvey’s hobbies included nature programmes — such as the Blue Planet series.
He is recalled at Celtic and St Mirren as one of each club’s most popular players. “Despite his small frame Frank McGarvey had the heart of a lion and was much loved by Celtic fans,” noted The Celtic Wiki. McGarvey is survived by his his partner Susan Lindsay, his former wife, four children and eight grandchildren.
Frank McGarvey was born on March 17, 1956. He died from pancreatic cancer on January 1, 2023, aged 66
How about the Barry Ferguson hand ball a few years back protecting his face,i gave up after that one,
Joe Candy 11.45
Thanks for posting that.
TT
Thanks Celts.
Appreciated
HH
Good morning all from Govanhill. It’s a fine day for the Irish.
Hello again all you young rebels.
Just a wee reminder to all the hopeful Huns.
Negen.. Neuf ..Nein..Nio.. yes it means 9 in a few tongues.
🤣
H H. Mick
Morning BRRB.
H H. Mick