Celtic will have to keep the Champagne on ice for a while longer after failing to collect the three points required to win the league at Ibrox this afternoon. The champions-elect looked nervous early on with few looking comfortable in possession, allowing Rangers significant periods of possession. After only 10 minutes Rangers were ahead when Sone Aluko beat Thomas Rogne before cutting inside Charlie Mulgrew and firing a shot past Forster in the Celtic goal.
Celtic scarcely featured as an attacking threat in the first half but moments after going behind Georgios Samaras produced one of the most scintillating pieces of skill on the day. The Greek international collected the ball 70 yards from goal, beat four opponents before his shot from 12 yards was saved by Alan McGregor. Anthony Stokes mishit the rebound allowing McGregor to tip over.
Stokes forced a further save from McGregor with a fine volley after controlling on his chest but the game was soon to look ominous for Celtic. Cha Du-Ri was caught wrong side of Lee Wallace and made the slighted touch on the Rangers player who went to ground two yards outside the penalty area. Referee Calum Murray sent Cha off despite the covering attendance of Charlie Mulgrew.
Despite their numerical advantage Rangers seemed content to prevent Celtic scoring, Fraster Forster didn’t make a single save while Celtic were numerically on level terms or only a single man down. Ten minutes after the break Victor Wanyama was red carded for a two footed tackle on Steven Whittaker.
Lee McCulloch was fortunate to remain on the field after elbowing Scott Brown on the head. In a carbon copy of the incident which ended Beram Kayal’s season in December, McCulloch went to ground after the incident until attended by a physio, which perhaps tempered the referee’s response. Clever, if predictable.
With things clearly not going their way Celtic then lost an offside goal. Celtic had an opportunity to make an attempt on goal when they won a free kick 28 yards out. With Charlie Mulgrew still running into position Scott Brown played a quick pass to Kris Commons but Celtic players were crowded out by a number of opponents and lost possession. Rangers broke forward and applied pressure which brought the best out of Fraser Forster but Andrew Little put Rangers two ahead from what was clearly an offside position.
A further breakaway on the 77th minute resulted in Lee Wallace putting Rangers three goals ahead.
Despite being two goals down substitute Kris Commons started to dictate play and brought Celtic their best period of possession. In the 89th minute Georgios Samaras broke through the Rangers defence but was scythed to the ground by Bocanegra. The referee awarded a penalty and ordered the Rangers player off. Scott Brown scored the penalty
Moments later Commons got the better of Whittaker on Celtic’s left before being brought down by the Rangers player. Commons found Thomas Rogne with the resultant free kick which the defender powered home.
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jmccormick
ContinuityCSC
Night to all my Celtic friends
across the world.
HH
philcool @ 20:47
Do you know how many of them were sold today, and how much they’ve contributed to the fighting fund? Alan Sugar wants to know :))
robbed, cheated and ridiculed!!
How is that for a headline!! That is exactly what happened bhoys!
We were hung out to dry, zero bookings and 2 straight reds……..never going to be allowed to win there today, Things even up over time, my erse….. last dying breath of a filthy cheating midden!!
When a manager attempting to win a league title cant sit and watch the game ………….f’n scandalous!!
Spewing (not too surpised)
JimmyBhoy HH
hamiltontim on 25 March, 2012 at 20:52 said:
when it`s CSC , I prefer PerpetuityCSC
Today was 21st Century Scottish football in microcosm.
We weren’t good enough. A lack of shape and organisation cost us early in the match. It took till they scored for us to get going, but we were still sliced open at the back a couple of times. We then finished very strongly, and if we’d pulled those two goals back five minutes earlier, we might even have taken something from the game.
Moving on from our shortcomings, the game also perfectly illustrated how Rangers have operated for the last 15 years at least. Their first goal was scored by a player whom they could not afford to sign. Indeed, he paid his own transfer fee to play for them.
Then Cha was sent off after a dive by a player whom they stole from another Scottish club. A player they could not afford to buy, and whom they took with no intention of ever paying for. That player went on to score their third.
And let’s not forget that the financial reality of administration has even now not had much effect on Rangers – they have an entire squad of players whom they cannot afford to pay. Yet those players are able to play for them and win games for them regardless.
Then we have the return of the Honest Mistake with a vengeance today. Vic’s red was harsh, but maybe justified by the letter of the law, but the game-changer was Cha’s red, which was absolutely ridiculous. Never in a million years a red card. I’m not even convinced it was a foul. In addition, Samaras was kicked off the park in the first half, with not a hint of interest on the part of the referee. Their sending off would NOT have happened if they had not been 3-0 with a couple of minutes left. I bet Murray was having palpitations when the second went in. It was a back-covering “see, I’m even-handed,” red card which almost backfired on him.
So – Celtic falling just short depite a heroic finish, financial doping and refereeing corruption, all inside a single 90 minutes, summing up exactly why Rangers have been so successful since Moonbeams took over in 1988.
And if we had a centre-half capable of dumping Elbows on his erchie for keeps, we’d have probably won anyway.
I see Rob Shorthouse showing his partiality again on Facebook
After four weeks on the road the team will want to get back to Celtic Park, back to form and back to winning. Four home games to go.
i have seen a couple mentioning it but i hope the club come out and make sure the question is asked about Lenny not being allowed up to the stand
i hope we make sure that question has to be answered
although if lawell et all are working behind the scenes this could be another to add to the portfolio to get away from Scotland?
just make sure we call them out and let the world know why he couldnt go into the stand to watch the game
Ordinary Bhoy@ 20:48
That’s a fair point. We need to remember that before complaining for another 20 years :)
I said to the women behind me that if this was 1988 we would win this game. “”Ah well” she replied, “got a ticket for Killie then” said I , “yes” she replied gave her a kiss and said we will be there…………….
oh for a bobo
that is what me miss.. a centre half with some balls…
We are still very much a work in progress from dugout to No 11
Second week in a row too many didn’t turn up until it was too late
Pass marks
FF GS and SB
Decent
IE KC
Thats about it
Both CBs bullied by an old man – very poor
TR poor at first two goals
AM sleeping at second even if hun was off side
Cha unlucky to be sent off
VW was a red card of the soft variety – was Murray not the ref who allowed Laffathun assault on Hinkel? – that was a yellow card!
Ki and Ledley not at the races at all
Stokes – never a big game player
He has bags of talent but never concentrates enough week in week out to be able to cope in bigger games
The sitter he missed he could have taken a touch and or played in SB
We will win the league but we need to see what PB can do becuase we know all about AS and GH
Is it true Lenny was not allowed to go in to the main stand?
If so we need to complain as a club to the SPL and SFA – that is a total disgrace
To paraphrase what Churchill said to Lady Astor – tomorrow we’ll still be Tims and all they ugly bassas will still be huns ( in administration and son to be liquidated )
HH
TET,
hows that pool… must be gettin to the time of the year where you can get your waterwings on?
Sandman Is Neil Lennon on 25 March, 2012 at 19:19:
Pleasure to read, especially your deserved assassination of Murray. Doesn’t alter the fact our team bottled it today, but he is another member of the corrupt, crony Rangers establishment that’s being forensically and methodically exposed by the exceptional Alex Thomson. A serious journo doing a serious job of exposing the sickness of the Scottish football and media establishment. Just wish some of our more lily livered players had his balls.
Fed up analysing glorious failures.
Ref let them away with murder.Never a first red and a dubious second,for the second week Ki and Mathews involved ( or not) in losing goals. Ledley missing,and NL playing KI,when Commons, as was proved, was a better selection.
I am a supporter of NL but he needs to learn,and playing Ki was an error,similar to playing Hooper and Forest for the past 4 weeks when both were off form.
Hooper on for last 2 mins sorry that defies logic and can only be an appearance money handout which is wrong.
Although in the Celtic end, surrounded by people more interested in acting daft than watching the game it does not add to the £42 experience/dis-appointment.
Used to be the support supported as opposed to being some kind of alternative sideshow with the result seemingly less important.
In short we were beaten at Ibrox and irrespective of mitigating factors during the game, and their impending situation,that is not good irrespective how I view it.
Goodnight one & All
Better go before typing something i might regret.
Peace.
right all you blue huns green huns male huns female huns ugly huns and good loo ah forget that bit, i still need someone to recommend some tim friendly accomodation for next weekend. dont have this problem normally as dont usually stay over.
any help will be much appreciated
feedthebhear @ 20:48
HH to that.
The moment when Lenny lifts that trophy with a big smile on his coupon, will be the moment I’ll remember most after all this.
Cheated. Still scunnered.
I am looking for the razors to cut my wrists after 9 man Celtic failed by a single goal to maintain their 21 point advantage in the last ever Glasgow derby for Rangers.
Stockholm syndrome Ye canny whack it !
HH
jmccormick
Envy is not a good thing.
Envy has the hun where they are today, the envy that we won the big cup, that we won 9iar, that’s where envy gets you :>)
Why would anyone want to live in a cave ???
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G64
I’am as chilled as I always am, sometimes it doesn’t always come over like that, but hey, I am just a thick Tim who lives in a cave, and takes exception to some posters who think they have the right to slag off our team and coaches without foundation, just cos they can
Off the Record ! @ 20:54
What’s the cretin saying? Summit about crushing left wing Marxist socialists? It must be high up there at that level of incompetence.
ffm
Actually i do know how many they sold.The chubby funster texted me after the match to say he was happy to report they sold over 3 million thus ensuring they were safe from liquidation
HH
Phil
Some are weighing player performances in the balance and finding the team wanting. But I don’t think it’s possible to make an accurate judgement given that we played most of the game first a man down then two men down. With eleven against eleven or even ten against eleven there’s a fair chance we’d have won or drawn. There’s also the very old ‘lack of aggression’ tag applied to us against them. But we can’t afford their brand of reckless aggression. We get sent off and they don’t.
To ‘elbows’ admirers I would say McCulloch’s routine at the Brown incident was a replica of his charade when ended Kayal’s season – he knew he’d hurt someone badly – as intended – he knew he should be sent off so he simulated agony and demanded extensive treatment for a non-existent injury.
blantyretim @ 20:58
A good call actually. Someone that can run the length of the pitch in 5 steps ala Big Bobo while hurting huns just bounce off his thighs.
I’m sure Bawface, the Tartan Tory, will hold an immediate summit into why Neil was unable to take his seat in the Asbestox ‘directors’….. boaks…….!
Turf this eejit out and never let his kind hold sway agin.
Aye……..
Scoddland’s Shame.
kevin hughes on 25 March, 2012 at 20:59 said:
I know some bhoys use Babbity Bowsers when they stay over. Don’t know about prices etc sorry.
guys. we were undoubtedly cheated. however. no matter what . they really are doomed. dont believe the hype. no matter what we all type, or read on the web.or read on the red tops. no business can survive with what is left. it kinda easy. income must > expenditure. if not.. there is a problem!
Awe naw, 9 men beaten by an offside goal
mon the hoops
After the game opened the programme to a hun in the pub and pointed out page 3 bottom bit “club honours” it says, that will be blank next year.
Blank expression on face…..just did not register………
JQB
The cover is coming off tomorrow, the weather is for warming up big time next week, high of about 28, low 10-12, so the water should get warmed up a bit, my heath robinson solar system wasn’t drained properly and burst with the hard frosts we had a few weeks ago, so need to get that fixed, or would have been in it by now.
The grandweans are here next week so I will be in it come what may :>)
Last time we had three players sent off, we got the Edinburgh Summit, so we’ll expect another one.
Oh wait,…… Ragers won.
philcool @ 21:02
:)) Would only have been £2M if they’d charged VAT and paid the street traders licence fees.
Did he tell you where they stole them from??
Fritzsong,
spot on, IMHO…. or, for westim, In My Humble Opinion
Anyway, we’re lookin at this from the point that we were 1 man down for most of the match, and then 2 for the remainder.
Pointless, once those decisions were made, it’s meaningless to ponder on systems and setup. On another day, it would’ve worked.
Even Jock Stein lost games
Sorry to say it but I knew the Celtic would capitulate today.
The Rangers today were inspired by one thing, a basic instinct, that is pretty difficult to combat, it’s called hate. All week we’ve listened to their Lambeg beat and despite the din we failed to go toe-to-toe with them.
I’d imagine Neil, knows how to face it, but in his time we still fell to their bile. I wonder if any of his players hurted like him ?
The Celtic team were trying to stop a hate and adrenalin filled opponent today. Hate, won’t be daunted by jelly and ice-cream jibes, that’s for sure. Dealing with a hate motivated opponent is massively difficult.
It’s certainly a big ask, for a team who are young, if I’m being kind; sometimes lacking fight, if I’m being honest.
Who in this current Celtic team was going to win that battle today ? No one, not one of our squad springs to my mind.
We need a few experienced footballers with the experience and personality to inspire and mould our malleable young players. They’ll cost but so does signing the plethora of Cha’s, Loovens’ and Stokes’.
Their hatred must be matched.
Was it just me, or were the “5 stars” looking bigger and more prominent today??
I suppose if you’re going to cheat and lie, you might as well do it with pride.
Who is getting the blame tonight?