Despite a remarkably solid defensive record, we have lost four and three goals on our two visits to Ibrox this season, although two of yesterday’s goals were lost with a two man deficit. We were deservedly a goal down before Cha Du-Ri was ordered off and the contest irrevocably skewed. Several Celtic players looked panicked from the opening minutes and it wasn’t until Kris Commons started to menace the Rangers midfield that we appeared comfortable in possession.
Until then, we looked pretty ordinary.
After a remarkably consistent run of games that ensured this season’s league title is Celtic’s, two big games, which could each have delivered a trophy, have been lost.
The drive to the line which is needed for teams to fulfil their potential is not there yet. It will come. Days like yesterday, months like October, are what team building is all about.
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HT-Mulgrew & Samaras
POTY?
Samaras
Forster
Which tells you how much a lot of Celtic fans know about football.
POTY has to be our Greek God.
Wee Jamesie for young yin of the year. Faded of late but over the season….
JinkyJohnGreig-saysitall
Much appreciated thanks mate, Definitely something worth looking into. No point having tops collecting dust when we can be sending them to all corners of the planet to people less fortunate. HH
Bigotry, Bombs and Football – Part 1 of 2
Bigotry, Bombs and Football – Part 2 of 2
Northshorebhoy
Email sent mate, Thanks.
Well, well, well…
I am happy to report that today is the day when we move up another gear.
The paper trail has produced some interesting dividends… two Rangers directors implicated you say?
Channel 4 News will be worth watching tonight. Oh yes
Hamilton Tim ——-
POTY —-
Samaras ——– by a long way .
Forster.
POTY – Scott Brown, Samaras runner-up as hasn’t always been a regular when fit.
Young POTY – James Forrest, Victor Wanyama runner-up.
Addendum – I’m convinced Brown will take the players’ player of the year award, so happy for the fans award to go to Sammi. Spread the love around.
ibleedgreenandwhite1 on 27 March, 2012 at 08:32 said:
The Honest Mistake loves being first on 27 March, 2012 at 08:38 said:
Mick on 27 March, 2012 at 09:07 said
sixtaeseven: No NewCo in SPL and it’s Non-Negotiable! on 27 March, 2012 at 09:10 said
You are all missing the point
Listen to what I am saying and the piece in the paper is actually saying the same
Neil Lennon must continue to defend the Celtic corner in ever way BUT his “temprement” is not doing his cause or Celtics any good at all
Any good manager is able to contain their emotions and make their point with dugnity – clasic example of someone who is raging inside but is able to make his point without aggression – Martin O’Neil
The Hun Scum see NL as a spoilt brat who throws his toys out the pram when he doesnt get his own way – not as someone who scares them because he has an influence on officials – NL plays into their hands
Now dont go telling me I dont support NL – I admire him for what he has been through and the way he has dealt with the crap thrown at him – more importantly for the way he has turned our team around from being 15 points behind BUT do it with dignity with grace with the moral hig ground
God bless NL – but his learning is not done
Hail Hail
67ECW
POTY, had quite a few lately but most of them have went of the radar.
Dead heat at the moment between Sammy and Broonie.
KTF
Guys i’m at work & heading to site, If anyone has strips can they email me as most days i don’t get to read back, I dont want to miss anyone so an email would be better for me to reply to. HH
the huns, the sfa, the referees are
lying cheating scumbags.
thats what they are
and thats what they always
will be.
the only way to ram it into them is to
put a team onto that pitch every week that
wins and wins well.
im not saying we were not cheated recently.
we need to be a wee bit more savvy.
cha was way out of position and always is.
wanyama is a big raw boy and his challenge
showed that.
im not saying both deserved to walk, far from it,
but they will use every wee slip by us to
flaunt the rules.
what i am saying is we have had the wrong
players on the field for the past few games.
sort that out and we will have our
day…every day.
stop the tinkering neil and field our best side
every game and dont talk to the ref’s or media.
and they will be spewing feathers
forevermore when there scummy wee club
is no more.
Was there any need for Ian Brines to physically touch Neil Lennon??
The one law for Neil and the one law for the rest is in full swing.
Phil Gordon in the Times writes about it today…
Can’t do the linky thing..
Stand up for yourself Neil how could you not..
Our Celtic Warrior, we should be thankful to have him at the Helm..
SP
POTY
After all that he had to endure
The seasons when he was poor
For some he could do no right
But he never gave up the fight
Samaras
Samaras for me.
Okay found the Phil Gordon article
The only sign of Lennon in the second half at Ibrox was in the form of a mask Craig Watson/SNS Group
Phil Gordon Commentary
Published at 12:01AM, March 27 2012
He is always the one, isn’t he? That Neil Lennon. If the Celtic manager was starting to entertain thoughts that he might be an ordinary man, the last few days will have delivered an uncomfortable truth. Lennon is unique, but not in a good way.
When you start measuring your experience with match officials, and the subsequent fallout with the Scottish Football Association, with that of your counterparts, the evidence will offer reasonable doubt. If Lennon was just an ordinary man, he would not have spent the second half of Sunday’s Old Firm game watching events in the media room at Ibrox — regardless of who advised him to go there.
Lennon must have been the only manager in the history of British football to be condemned to spend 45 minutes in a locked room after being “sent off” at half-time by the referee. Even players who have been sent off, and head to the dressing room, can get showered and changed to watch the rest of the match from the stand, but not Lennon.
Even if Calum Murray’s view is that Lennon broke the rules, and the Celtic manager will certainly contest that on the basis of what he said at the press conference after the Old Firm encounter when he revealed his “confinement” during the second 45 minutes, the inescapable verdict is that Lennon has been denied basic human rights, never mind the managerial right to sit in the stand and watch the second half.
Celtic revealed yesterday that it was their security people who advised Lennon that he could not sit in the Ibrox directors’ box, and Rangers confirmed that they had offered Lennon a seat there after Murray’s sanction against the Celtic manager. However, what security adviser worth his salt would not have come to the same conclusion?
This is the man who was attacked by a Heart of Midlothian fan last May while doing his job on the touchline. He is also the man who has been giving evidence in the case of two men accused of plotting to kill him. So, sitting up there in the directors’ box, in a stadium where his name is abused even when Celtic are not there, is hardly an option.
Except that it should be. Lennon is entitled to the same treatment that every manager takes for granted. Stuart McCall, the Motherwell manager, is actually facing the same charge as Lennon — alleged breach of rule 203 — for the same “crime” as Lennon, criticising Craig Thomson, the referee, during the recent Scottish Cup defeat by Aberdeen at Fir Park.
The difference between McCall’s case and that of Lennon is that the Motherwell manager was able to sit up in the directors’ box at Fir Park to watch the second half after being “sent off” at half-time in similar manner to his Celtic counterpart.
McCall has rejected the SFA’s offer of a one-match ban and will be visiting Hampden Park for his day in “court” around the same time as Lennon.
If Lennon did not know that he was in a special category of one, it was brought home to him during the Scottish Communities League Cup semi-final with Falkirk. A manager strode out on to the Hampden turf and jabbed an accusing finger at Euan Norris, the referee. It was Steven Pressley, Lennon’s counterpart.
The Falkirk manager was also “sent off” by Norris. Undaunted, Pressley went out for the second half and actually found a seat in the press box at the national stadium and sat alongside journalists.
Pressley received a four-game ban for his very public act. Last year, Lennon had to use a lawyer to have a much larger ban reduced to four games. Where is the consistency?
Lennon is not the first manager in the world to be sent off. When it happens during the game, luminaries such as Arsène Wenger have found a seat in the hostile heartlands of Old Trafford, while David Moyes, of Everton, climbed into the spectators’ area at Stoke City.
However, the fact that Lennon is regarded as such a security risk when a referee hands out some summary justice should put this country to shame.
Lennon might want to seek advice from another manager who had a bad day at work, once. He too saw his team reduced to nine men, and he too felt the referee’s judgment to be so flawed that he ignored the fines and took the SFA to court to overturn a touchline ban that “affected his ability to carry out his duties as a manager”.
That man was Craig Levein, while in charge of Heart of Midlothian in 2003. It certainly never stopped Levein in his tracks; he is now Scotland manager.
Levein has an office at Hampden. Maybe Lennon should pop up for tea next time he’s in the building.
Starry
lucky cody on 27 March, 2012 at 09:52 said:
Sensible comments – However it is not the Celtic support that can help NL with MiB – only NL can help NL when dealing with MiB
See my post above
67ECW
I do think Neil has to be a bit more ‘cute’ when dealing with the officials / media. He could have listed various reasons why Cha shouldn’t have been sent off. He could have said ‘I can see why Rangers paid a lot of money for Lee Wallace’. Just getting angry never works. And can you see Cha’s card being rescinded as a result ?
Good Moaning CQ oan. (allo allo accent)
I see ole Neel Lennong is up before the boaks again.
Eel be holding up the Troofy at Paradise and loofin up his slav at them.
I’m off to Clerkstone todoo.
I mist be a glotton for pinishmint.
Ail Ail
So the wounded animal is lashing out and surprise,surprise Neil Lennon is the target,its pathetic how Paul McBride’s only gone a few weeks and they are back on Neils case already,well I hope they choke on the title winning scenes before they are exposed by channel 4 for dirty rotten collusive crooks they all are.
Gid moaning burnsoaprecipay
Koop the fith
‘dirty rotten collusive crooks’
*files in good phrases to describe Scotland*
Did you see the hun banner on Sunday?
Went along the lines of ‘with greatness comes responsibility’
Don’t know if I peed myself or spilt my beer.
TPD
They must be shottin themselves
Jost seen a flush of latening fillowed a viry dope romble of thinder.
Licks luke a sterms a browing.
Tome to button don the hitches.
Mon the Oops
67 European Cup Winners on 27 March, 2012 at 10:08:
I did listen to what you said but disagreed with it.
You have been duped by the Scottish press.
Does Derek Adams act with enough dignity for you? He is party to the same witch hunt by the same vindictive men with whistles. What say you?
Gents, after a mild disagreement on here yesterday with a poster who spoke in extremely disparaging terms about 2 of our players it got me thinking about who you lot think have been our 2 best, most consistent players this season.
I’ll let it run until 1.30pm and will then attempt to collate the info and provide the results later today.
If you haven’t voted then please do, if you’ve voted but only named one player could you please post again naming the 2 together, and if you have voted, who’s a clever bhoy then :-))
best and consistent
ledley and mulgrew
hamiltontim on 27 March, 2012 at 10:25 said:
HT
Joe Ledley and Fraser Forster for me..
Hail Hail
jock steins celtic on 27 March, 2012 at 10:15 said:
Well said – thats what I have been trying to say all morning
67ECW
from the official site
“Depending on the result of the Motherwell v Rangers game the previous day, the Celtic players could be going into the match with a chance to secure the SPL title.”
What is the result needed for us to win the league? Is it a draw?
bsr
I’m filing all those new woords you are cooming oop wees ze smoorning ;)
someone posted this ages ago
The list of evidence of the corruption in Scottish Football.
•The SFA’s attitude towards Celtic where I suspect “tiresome” hid what Mr Peat really felt.
•Referee hostility at Celtic’s challenge to their integrity caused by lies told to Celtic by, errr, a referee who was initially backed by his supervisor, leading to the first ever referee strike in living memory if not the history of our game:
•The positioning of one man as appointer and ultimate monitor of referees that would enable the influencing of them through the report monitoring process:
•A reduction of blatant honest mistakes since the incumbent’s departure:
•The SFA’s determination to get Neil Lennon through a flawed disciplinary process requiring a QC to be brought in to get justice:
•The failure of that same process to hand out appropriate punishment to Bougherra and Diouf when the integrity of the game and the reasons given for the referees’ strike demanded it:
•The failure to indict the Rangers Assistant Manager for his behavior during the game and not just the end incident, thus allowing him to escape punishment.
•The ability of Glasgow Rangers to get a license to play in Scotland and Europe when they have clearly been operating over the past few years in a manner that they could not afford.
•The revelation that in order to compete with Celtic on wage terms in the last decade Rangers employed a dubious scheme that avoided paying normal taxes and enabled them to pay wages they could not otherwise have afforded. In effect they used the taxpayer to subsidies their wage bill. (This by the way tells us a lot about the kind of mindset of those responsible for how Rangers have operated since 2000)
•The lack of SFA action on racist and sectarian singing compared to the action (more lenient than was feared but certainly effective) taken by UEFA:
•Ranger’s “Who shopped us, it’s no FARE?” response to the UEFA charges .
•The “demonisation” of Neil Lennon by the Scottish media and the serious threats to his person and family as well as to other Celtic players:
•The media’s lack of investigation into Hugh Dallas’s role in the referee strike and the reasons given for the strike with no objective: see (http://www.etims.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3166&Itemid=29 )
•The media and SFA’s reluctance to find out more about where Ranger’s new owner Craig Whyte is getting the money to move their debt (it’s not being cleared or paid) or how he plans to meet the tax bill for unpaid PAYE/NI if HMRC are successful in demonstrating the EBT scheme was used for the purpose of avoiding paying proper taxes.
•The BBC’s presentation and involvement in the referees’ strike (see http://celticunderground.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=621:still-nothing-to-see-here-timmy&catid=45:season-2010-2011&Itemid=80)
•The sudden ability of Rangers to rack up high scores in the SPL title run in to catch up on Celtic’s vastly superior goal difference, compared to Rangers series of single goal victories, some against bottom six opposition before the split.
•That a Celtic team who were twice as good as Rangers in games v them, this season had they been measured as if they had all been league matches played over 90 minutes (12 points to their 6), are not out of sight in the title race. Ranger’s competitiveness clearly depending on how other teams try to match them as opposed to how they try to match Celtic – ask David Goodwillie.)
– New. Neil Lennon attacked at Tynecastle by a Hearts fan.
HT
When have you ever given two answers in a row?
Love
Two page spread in the Daily Mail today featuring the boy McCabe and all the other wonderrful young talent that has come out of Murray Park. Makes about as much sense as Goian’s comments that winning on Sunday should help them to come out of administration.
Do we have a good lawyer to represent Lenny at the SFA?
god bless her majesty
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