The game was only 42 seconds old when Peterhead’s David Ross was sent clean through on Lukasz Zaluska after some excellent approach play but the Celtic keeper was alert enough to collect the ball and prevent the home team’s only chance of the game. Anthony Stokes scored a hat trick and had a further two goals disallowed for offside as Celtic progressed into the fifth round of the Scottish Cup.
Stokes looked most likely to score from the off. Samaras fed the Irishman on 14 minutes but his shot was blocked. Ki then played a forward pass inside the Peterhead right back to the overlapping Cha. Cha’s cutback found Stokes, who leaned back in the act of shooting and fired over. Just before the half hour mark Charlie Mulgrew passed a corner on the deck to Ki, who took a touch and shot against the crossbar from the edge of the D. Keeper Jarvie then saved well from a Mulgrew free kick.
Celtic opened the scoring on 35 minutes with a classic Centenary goal when Paddy McCourt swivelled in the centre of the field before playing a forward ball for Samaras to run onto. The Greek striker reached the ball inside the 18-yard-box and squared with his first touch to Stokes who knocked the ball into an empty net.
Shortly before half time Samaras carried the ball 80 yards before crossing for Stokes who finished well inside the 6-yard-box but he was flagged for offside.
Stokes second came on 57 minutes when Emilio Izaguirre dribbled into the box before playing a smart 1-2-3 with Stokes, who found what looked like an impossible space inside Jarvie’s right hand post.
Stokes was now on fire and could have added a third a moment later when he controlled a Mulgrew corner inside the ball but pulled his shot wide from 6 yards. The striker completed his hat trick on 82 minutes a few seconds after substitute Dylan McGeough entered the field and dribbled into the box. The ball was cleared to Wanyama to pushed it right to Brown who then sent it onto Stokes who made no mistake.
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“I will wind the boys up to get in Celtic’s faces and boot them and kick them and sctratch them. Why? Because that’s what i would do if i was still playing. It’s the only way. If my boys do that and if they don’t leave some calling cards for the Celtic players, then we will end up getting the runaround”
The above was from McInally this week. No wonder the game’s a mess.Knuckleduster football.
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Clint Eastwood
just had a thought… anyone one else think that Hooper would never have scored that 2nd goal cos he would have gave up because it was a poor pass behind him? just saying like
THE ORIGINAL SADIES BOY
Well,the school run scuppers my sure-fire cure for the flu.
First sign of it,hit the hay with a bottle of whisky and two duvets.
Sweat it out overnight,works every time.
Sometimes I wish I got flu more often…….
The Spirit of Arthur Lee says:
8 January, 2012 at 22:58
Heidi Range – I think that’s what I’m suffering from – heid deranged
Ard Macha
Aye that’s fair enough I just hope Commons is right back in contention and there’s no issues,I like to see him in a 5 man mid as I always feel he’s a massive goal threat which compensates for playing only one striker.
cha du ri is ming in
I watched the Barcelona derby to-night agaist Espanol and compared it with our match at Peterhead and last week’s match against Rangers. One big difference I noticed was that , while the Barcelona game was very competitive, there was no brutality allowed. I wondered whether we were playing to the same rules or whether we were playing to Australian rules which allowed late tackles and over-the ball-tackles, and while players were carried off, the offenders stayed on the park to continue their brutality.
I was left to wonder the following –
– Would Messi,Xavi,Iniesta etc survive in Scotland, playing to our rules?
– Would Barcelona have won the Champions League in these circumstances?
– Likewise would Spain have won the World Cup ? I doubt it very much.
And so I am left to ask, is there any room in Henry McLeish’s Master Plan for Scottish football , for the PROTECTION OF FOOTBALLERS?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS says:
8 January, 2012 at 23:00
Great advice. Thanks. I’m giving it a try when the school run’s completed! I may not be cured but I’ll sure feel a whole lot better!
Ard Macha,
Are you from Armagh city mate?
Just home from sunny Peterhead and had a very quick look back. To be honest I can understand the reasons why some folk are angered with Jim McInally.
Cha has played well.when we really needed him before Mathews was fit again,leave the bhoy alone.
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
That would be no fun :>)
There are a couple of things in my life that gets the blood boiling, notwithstanding anything to do with the hun, and one of them is taking money from the bookies, it’s in my blood.
Gambling would imo be the worst addiction, much worse than any drug, the problem with gambling is you can get a buzz from losing, crazy that may sound, but it’s true, I had a mate yrars ago who went to a gamblers anon meeting, and he was told to come back when he was in the gutter, he asked them why, he had a serious problem at the time, and yer man told him that his leather jacket was worth 50 quid, he wasn’t ready, harsh but reality.
My dear,dear,dear, .. Jist Maggie.
You ask:
“Should Sammi, take the Penalties?”
Yep..He sure Should.
And Why No?
Fur..
Sammi,is noo a fully fledged Member of Kojo’s
Downtown Strutters Band and Ukele Strummers..
Since he has noo found his Niche.
Ah Luv Him!
Kojo
yer pal.who likes ye aloater.
masty is neil lennon says:
8 January, 2012 at 22:51
Vmhan Supporting Lenny! says:
8 January, 2012 at 22:48
surely lack of protection is down to the referee?
…….
It’s a fair point masty but :>) the thuggery was decided pre match, that’s one problem and you’re right the ref had it in his gift to provide protection to the players.
Need to go up at 5:30 …. Toooodaloo.
Vinny
Shieldmuir Celtic
what you are sayin there, boss, flies in the face of what Jim McInally told his players today
Shieldmuir Celtic says:
8 January, 2012 at 23:02
Aye, McLeish took the best part of a year and came up with the following master plan:
Spend £500m on improving football infrastructure all over the country (for everybody, man, woman, child).
I took 5 seconds to come up with this:
Tell the ref’s to apply the frickin rules and rid our game of the hammer throwers.
Job’s a good un :-)
Does anyone know a web site that compiles seasonal stats on games missed due toinjuries for Scottish teams? For all tournaments SPL, Cup, Europe, league cup?
It might be an interesting read,
dannygall- I might be in the minority but IMO Hooper has been poor for a while now.Touch,link up play and more importantly effort has been lacking.
Tom McLaughlin
No problem withplayers in your face approach. However McInally said “I asked my players to leave the foot in”. Let’s not be hypocritical here. If Butcher or McCall said this we’d be demanding action. Three assaults could have put players out for a long time.
We don’t ask favours, rather protection and an even field. Some nonsense attempting to justify thuggery of Peterhead players by friends of McInally.
Tricoloured Ribbon says:
8 January, 2012 at 23:02,
No, the county originally (Craigavon/Lurgan area).
Living in Belfast now.
Árd Macha
Speaking of surname pronunciations AND ex-Celtic players as pundits . . .
I remember listening the Radio Scotland on a Saturday afternoon a good few years ago, round about the time Aiden was just breaking into the first team. It was the build-up to the day’s fixtures and when the subject of McGeady came up, Davie Provan said, “I was talking to Aiden’s mother at Celtic Park recently and she assures me the name is pronounced McGeady [as in greedy] rather than McGeady [as in ready].”
Murdo McLeod piped up, “That’s funny cos when my ma sent me for the messages, she told me to get some bread. She never told me to get breed.”
Cue sniggering between the pair of them.
They were actually disrespecting Aiden’s mother and indeed the McGeady family live on air.
How about “I will read your letter”? Do Provan and McLeod say “I will red your letter”?
There are no hard and fast rules on pronunciation. One word can be used to prove one pronunciation, while another word can prove the alternative pronunciation.
However, how about simply accepting the word of a family member in any case?
Another very good win 2day, any news on joe ledley injury? Sorry if already answered
Kojo says:
8 January, 2012 at 23:07
Sammi,is noo a fully fledged Member of Kojo’s
Downtown Strutters Band and Ukele Strummers..
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
What tune are the Strummers playing this season…just askin like?
Naw Cha is awful.His positional sense,passing and crossing of the ball is brutal.Time Marcus Fraser was introduced if Matthews isnt available.
The young lad has already proved himself.Cha is a walking time bomb.
The truth as told by someone who knew, obviously. Thanks for telling us that story.
Shieldmuir Celtic says:
8 January, 2012 at 23:02
i thought exactly the same mate. after healy’s ‘tackle’ in the derby game, i turned to the guy next to me and said ‘that is a sending off in any league in the world…. amateur, professional, wherever’.
Only in scotland would a player have stayed on the park after making a challenge, thigh-height, like healy did. our refereeing is at best amateurish, and our interpretation of the rules is more befitting the old fashioned football from the 70s and 80s than the modern day game played in all other european countries (and beyond).
Tom McLaughlin says:
8 January, 2012 at 23:10
Whats funny is that Provan doesnt know the term “half a yard” means “fifty bucks”…I always have a little snigger when I hear him say ” The boy stole half a yard” or whatever…..almost all commentators are mammaries.
navanbhoy says:
8 January, 2012 at 23:10,
Ledley’s fine. Had a slight cut above the eye. He did tweet that the guy should have been sent off though.
Árd Macha
Ok Ard Macha.
Had a wee sneaky it might have been South Armagh although I know that is Gaelic territory.
Maybe it was the Irish language bud..
Not that that is a slight on North Armagh Gaels!
My dear,dear,dear,friend … The Original Sadies Bhoy
Hiya…Teach!
Ian Black.. fur ..Celtic?
Woweeeeee…..
Na.. sorry ,Pal.. Ah canny go alang wi’ sich a Thing as That Happenin’
He is a Bad Apple…and ye know whit happens if
ye pit a Bad Apple..in the same Barrel.. wi..
a Bunch of Guid Yins?
Yep.. It Ruins awe the rest.
Nope.
sorry, but Ah couldnae agree wi ye there,pal.
Kojo.
yer pal..who likes ye aloater.
How depressing.
Celtic play a compact safe game in a match they would NEVER lose. All players played their part in what was essentially a bounce game (tho physical) for them. And yet…
Bad mouthing of some players, some past players, some past teams etc. etc. Very sad
Time for bed. Hope some of you wake up the right side of the bed tomorrow.
Kojo
Sammi Schmammi …. whit aboot Ian Black (Hearts) for Beram while he’s injured?
LuxCelt says:
8 January, 2012 at 23:12
I recall a game in Arbroath (amateurs) many years ago where our player/manager made a similar high challenge and after the usual ‘Ibrokes broke lose’ melee, the ref sent him off and took aside the two captains to warn that any more like that from either side and he’ll abandon the game.
Our manager caught the guy full on, but the intent was exactly the same.
We still have a Swedish international player to come into the picture do we not ????
Tricoloured Ribbon says:
8 January, 2012 at 23:18,
What county do you hail from?
Árd Macha
Kojo
Doh I hate when I post and the answer I’m looking for is posted while I’m composing my post. Thank you for your esteemed opinion. I guess I’m outvoted. He would probably have ruined the team photograph anyway.
THE EXILED TIM says:
8 January, 2012 at 23:19
Two.
Big Dan would’ve mauled them today.
KABLAM!!