The Guardian did an excellent piece on Wednesday on how referees in various European territories would view the penalty box wrestling of the Juventus players. In short, there is a variance in how these offences are punished. Who knew?
Juventus knew. I hear they watched four videos of referee Alberto Undiano Mallenco ahead of the Celtic game.
You have to admire their thoroughness. They had a plan to combat Celtic and needed to know if the referee would let them away with it. Gone are the days when someone at Juve would simply pick up the phone and ‘ask’. The danger from Celtic was known, illegal holding would nullify this danger and watching a few videos established what players would get away with.
It’s no longer sufficient to scout your opponents, if you want an edge in this game, scout the referee too.
Every day’s a school day.
I hear from a good contact that a journalist who recently departed the media for a job in the lower leagues once wanted to be a bit of a Jungle Jim. Apparently he was keen to ditch his industry for a job at Celtic back in the 90s. What an escape!
On Friday 1 March the Lisbon Lions will be at the Kerrydale Suite providing commentary and answering questions on their magnificent European Cup final win in 1967. This has never happened in 46 years since that game, to say it is a unique opportunity fails to tell the whole story.
The event is part of our 125 4 125 campaign – central to reinvigorating the charitable spirit which is part of the club we love. It will be a family occasions, tickets are available at £10 for adults and £5 for children. The night has been organised by several fans working in conjunction with the people at Celtic Charity, so please do your best to support this great occasion. Individual tickets or tables are available, details here.
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TheOriginalSadiesBhoy – I think we should be careful about the terminology used on here as it is becoming a bit racist: cheating Italians, conniving Spaniards. What about cheating opponents and conniving officials. We have Italian fans and are admired by many in Spain. I’m sure it must irk them to see their nationality used in such negative terms.
That’s exactly the sort of disingenuous bumfluffery I’d expect from someone with the shifty little eyes, greasy mouth, and soupy aroma of a Belgian. (thumbsup)
31003
13:35 on 15 February, 2013
‘Cows moo in regional accents’
Ayrshire coos presumably speak with an Ayrshire accent.
Monty Pythons “Life of Brian” was marketed in Sweden as “So funny it was banned in Norway”
ernie lynch
13:48 on
15 February, 2013
31003
13:35 on 15 February, 2013
‘Cows moo in regional accents’
Ayrshire coos presumably speak with an Ayrshire accent.
And to the sound of fiddles and banjos
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy I agree. I’m uncomfortable with any denigration based on race and object equally to its opposite.
THE ORIGINAL SADIES BHOY 1342
Aye,yer probably right.
If it irks them that much,they can get off their backsides and find out why I referred to them in that manner.
Should any of them,having done so,still feel sufficiently irked as to ask for an apology,I shall give it due consideration.
And bearing in mind that the original post was to TALLYBHOY,who had said similar,they-like you-might well be on to plums.
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PhillisRetorts..
Judge Judy does Not Start to 3:00pm..EST..
Summa of JudgeMentalJudgesCSC
Celtic manager Neil Lennon says the club will seek “clarification” from Uefa on the refereeing in the Champions League defeat by Juventus.
The visiting defenders appeared to grapple Celtic players at set-pieces, with Spanish referee Alberto Undiano Mallenco refusing to award a penalty.
And Lennon said the Italians appeared to be fouling at every opportunity.
“We will compile a DVD, send it to Uefa and see what kind of answers we get,” he said.
“You don’t see our players doing that. There were pictures of the shirt coming off Gary Hooper’s back, credit to him for keeping his cool.”
This one’s topical
Theoretically the pope can resign but as he is the Supreme Pontiff there is no one qualified to accept his resignation….where does that leave us now?
All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.
Last for today…the Japanese word for handbag is handubagu…..if I didn’t know better I’d swear that was made up by Benny Hill
31003
13:52 on
15 February, 2013
This one’s topical
Theoretically the pope can resign but as he is the Supreme Pontiff there is no one qualified to accept his resignation….where does that leave us now?
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Maybe John Terry accepted it.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants
Summa of Sammi…. – 2000 AD comics ran a short-lived series called “Judge Judy & Executioner” (thumbsup)
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331003..
Accents have Absoloutly Nothing to Do with Regions or Post Codes..
There are Defined by Air Quality and Sea Level.. Which determines Your Hemoglobin count..
Or If Someone has Got You by the Bells..:-(
Summa of HighPitchedVoicesCSC
Melon is an anagram of lemon and strangely, although they contain the same letters, they taste different from one another.
In a game of ‘Wally’, ye cannae be oot in yer first shot …
Philvis’ podium-grabbing flux-capacitor is gubbed and is out of warranty …
brogan
could be wrong but think it was tommy gallagher who played foe dundee and later did a column in one of the papers.
drinking on adverts not allowed in canada, did not realise it was same in the states.
Isn’t it sad that UEFA allow refereeing at this level which grossly ignores the rules of the game. Mallenco should never be allowed near another Champions League match.
Edinburgers call the game Wally by the name Shapes!
What a bunch of weirdos
LB
The Norwegian word for vacuum cleaner is stoor-sooker …
the spirit of arthur lee
13:56 on
15 February, 2013
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Talking of Donald Duck, Walt Disney and racists, why does Scrooge McDuck have a Scottish name and a Scottish accent? Racist stereotyping!
I’d rather eat horsemeat any day than the sh*te they put in sausages, burgers et al.
I had a mate who worked for a large producer of the above, in Scotland, and he said “don’t touch it with a barge pole”.
So I don’t.
Haw is the proper term for a gnats right testicle….maw is its left
Most – but by no means all – Ayrshire coos are huns.
HH!!
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hamiltontim
13:54 on 15 February, 2013
31003
13:52 on
15 February, 2013
This one’s topical
Theoretically Fat Sally can resign but as he is the Supreme Cup Manager there is no one qualified to accept his resignation….where does that leave us now?
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Maybe Craig Whyte accepted it.
Summa of LastPlayerPickedAtSchool7aSidesCSC
‘Tis obviously not Nike Friday and also a slow news day today. Only saying like.
Drink ads on TV are banned in Italy.
HH!!
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning!
I worked in the office of a chicken factory when leaving school. You wouldn’t eat chicken either if you saw that place.
I also worked for a supermarket whilst at school and the fruit and vegtables were left outside most of the night when delivered with all sorts of rodents and stuff running all over it. The guy I worked with said that’s nothing what do you think has been running over it before it got to this country?
You wouldn’t eat anything if you saw how it was stored and made. I just eat everything. Life is too short!
LB
Pogmathonyahun aka Laird of the Smiles – Talking of Donald Duck, Walt Disney and racists, why does Scrooge McDuck have a Scottish name and a Scottish accent? Racist stereotyping!
Scrooge McDuck is a capitalist role model, a Randian hero, a Nietzsche uber-duck. Atlas Quacked, if you will.
If only Scottish people understood the value of money the way the wise McDuck does, instead of imagining they can simply vote for things and have them magically appear with no negative consequences. (thumbsup)
philvis @ 13.47
A point with which I am in total agreement.There is an underlying xenophobia there even if not of the full blown sort.
Incidentally, do you and Hamiltontim feel that first and second on the posium remotely compares with a mention in the actual article? 0:-)
JJ
I had a steak bake for lunch and now feel a bit hoarse. (thumbsup)
Pogmathyonyahun I don’t think Walt Disney was ever noted for egalitarian or enlightened views. In fact he tried to charge his cartoonists for using his pencil sharpeners. On the basis that the pencils were theirs.
I never ever have time to post on here anymore but I thought that you might want to know that the history of Celtic FC is one of the specialist subjects on Mastermind tonight at 8pm on BBC2.
I expect this is old news and half of you even know the contestant (I mean contender) but I’ve started so I’ll finish.
Philvis
Are you having me followed? You’ve just given a perfect description. I demand to know.
BobbyMurdoch
I’m not looking for an apology. Although I lazily chose to give two references from your post many others have been talking about ‘cheating Italians’ since the game.
I don’t apologise for raising the matter either. We would get easily upset on here if posters used disparaging adjectives followed by the ‘Irish’.
Ntassoolla
@13:30
what has your post to do with Celtic?
I thought O.G.’s scoop this week was in two parts.
The first part showed that Jabba has no shame. (Sorry O.G. but I knew that already!)
Is there a part two right enough?