Of course, it happened in our ’67 anniversary season. Celtic were drawn away to Albion Rovers in the Scottish Cup, as the Rovers dumped Queen of the South out of the competition last night. The tiny Lanarkshire club (arguably the smallest in Scotland) don’t have an illustrious history, but Jock Stein played more games for them than any other team. In Coatbridge, that counts.
I’m sure it makes sense for Kieran Tierney to have a shoulder operation while he’s out with an ankle injury but it’s very unwelcome news that the player needed the work. Despite upbeat reports I’m sceptical the op will not further delay his return. For a start, any notions of getting upper body work done are no longer valid.
Uniquely in European football, Celtic’s season is skewed to the start, not to when the prizes are given out at the end, which have become a meritocratic formality. With no European football after Christmas this season, the remainder of the campaign will be about getting ready for July and August, when the really important stuff takes place.
Kieran will miss three Champions League group stage games in total, last Sunday’s cup final and some atmospheric games to come; this will be the source of some regret to the teenager. In compensation he can look forward to picking up a league winner’s medal at the end of the season, and hopefully being in top condition for the qualifiers.
To be fair to Robbie Neilson, even when he was a success at Hearts he wasn’t overwhelmingly appreciated. This season it looks like the party’s over, so I understand why he would take a job at MK Dons which, on the face of it, looks like a dangerous step.
Dons are two points above relegation (to the fourth tier), without a league win in two months. The club has serious structural issues which any new manager would find difficult to compensate for with little more than a few fresh tactical notions. But at least Neilson can’t be blamed for relegation, should it happen.
He’s next year’s Jackie McNamara.
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Just turned over from the Manure game to watch the ending of the early Christmas Panto…………………..
Hoof n’ Boots!
Barry “Jairzinho” McKay…
Burghy ….
funny, I heard the same thing …. and that Sally would be named as his replacement! :)
DAVIDOPOULOS on 30TH NOVEMBER 2016 9:24 PM
I’m going for 5 mins injury time…
Any advances?
I’ll see your five and bet six :-))
HH
Garner looks like an extra from Fagan’s gang in Oliver. Unable to pick a pocket or two though.
Joking aside, I agree that he is an animal. Always prepared to try and hurt fellow professionals.
Craig Thomson is the biggest risk to us winning the treble this year and his blatant disregard of the rules tonight shows how easily he could negatively influence the outcome of an important one off cup tie.
So if the referees assessor does his job properly Thompshun will be marked down and demoted for two blatant mistakes, I won’t be holding ma breath.
Think Russ Abbott replaced Warbs months ago!
Michael O’Haloran what are you thinking son!
Tyson Fury coming on for Hearts.
Hmm the obligatory 4
Dena
6 hours? :)
Yip, Garner is the exception to the rule, I hope someone takes him out for a seriously long time afore he ends someones career
DAVIDOPOULOS on 30TH NOVEMBER 2016 9:24 PM
Shucks both wrong
four minutes quelle surprise
HH
Why is there 4 mins injury time?
Is Butcher commentating from beyond the grave?
Lifeless makes him sound animated
Brilliant GOLA line clearance
Hamiltontim
Cheers! It was a good thought provoking chat.
MIT
Unbelievable mate , I heard about the gardener as well !!
Must be true!
Think Hearts might win this!
Chris Sutton`s constant criticism of Thomson might help towards a reduction in the Honest Mistakes Department.
BTW, I heard from a normally reliable source that Sally is to replace the Warbmeister.
JJ
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on 30TH NOVEMBER 2016 9:35 PM
Top of the class S ……………….
HH
HT
Pound notes, no way was that about career devlopment, still I would not have done it and he will need to live with it.
Sutton will be good tonight.
**places order for two additional bodyguards
The only thing that can stop Celtic winning the Treble is an Act of Parliament!
Jason ” Rivelino” Holt….
Public Announcement
MIND THE GAP
I cannot abide Hearts, never could. Lived in Edinburgh for 20 years. They fully justify the title mini-huns. Horrible support, with all the same shoulder-chips, bigotry and bizarre sense of superiority as the 17th-century knuckle-dragging fellow-travellers from the west that they emulate.
But I hope they wipe the floor with the Zombies tonight.
For no other reason than Hearts seem to have played it by the book in going through administration etc, sorting out their shysters, taking the hit, sorting out the financial fallout and emerging clean – or as clean as Hearts will ever be.
Today was the perfect day for the SMSM to run lengthy think-piece articles comparing and contrasting the respective financial train-crashes involving the two clubs, and to highlight the differences. I can’t think how they missed this obvious journalistic opportunity.
I’ll help. One got itself out of the crap; the other one died.
Then a basket of dead assets skweamed and skweamed and skweamed until it was sick that none of it had ever happened. And everyone said ‘there, there.’
I know I shouldn’t care. We – our club – are on the right road, and that is all that matters. Feck the rest of them.
But I can get excited and partisan about Accrington Stanley v Morecambe on a whim, so that’s my excuse.
Also I detest them and every single thing they stand for.
TOSB
Having listened to a SMP on the OBAFA earlier, you might not be joking 0:-)
JJ
Craig Levein resplendent in his Rolf Harris beard…
Didn’t see the first half and only dipped in and out of the second half.
My only comment is: “haven’t BT viewers suffered enough?”
Don’t like to see one of our two closest rivals win but it was too much to expect the newcomers to match hearts.
;)
Have they not suffered enough
Dessybhoy
See him at Mass most weeks, money can be the only reason.
+5 mins !!!
McCoist at Ross Hall just now according to my taxi driver!
Warburton’s magic hat will be shoogling all the way down the M8
I sincerely hope the game finishes 2-0 to the Gorgie Scum cos I love studying the Sevco goals for and against…,quite fitting!!