Video Assistant Referee Alan Muir made a number of high profile mistakes this season and as a result has been relieved of his duties. Two were judged to have gone against Celtic (both against Daizen Maeda) and one in our favour (in the League Cup Final).
Mistakes having consequences is so radically unusual in Scottish football it is jarring to those who have watched decades of the game here. This only happens because VAR itself exists, that VAR’s decisions are reviewed and those reviews are published. This process will not stop mistakes being made, but it should lead to better talent rising to the top and regular poor decision makers leaving our game.
We do not have VAR because of Willie Collum, but this level of professionalism is all down to him. He has taken Scottish football into the open air. We are no longer an unaccountable backwater. Kids, you have no idea what the past was like.
CQN Open 2025
Taggsybhoy and BlantyreKev have arranged our 20th CQN Open Golf Day. This will be our 20th year and is sure to be another great event. Our beneficiary this year is SpiritAid. Taggsy prepared this invitation for anyone who would like to be there:
This year’s CQN Open will take place at Aberdour Golf Club on Friday 27 June 2025. This will be the 20th CQN Open and we’re looking forward to another great day of Celtic banter and golf. Our guest speakers are Paul67 and Bernard Ponsonby. If you’d like to come, please contact cqngolf@gmail.com The cost is £115, which includes coffee & roll on arrival, golf, s oup & sandwich after golf, a two course evening meal and a charitable donation to Spirit Aid – Dedicated to improving the lives of young people
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Finally it makes sense that the price of Rice went up by 104% today.
Yeah good to see Paul!
Rice?
Declan Rice vs Real Madrid.
Tariffs……..
When eggs and petrol go up the ” concerned citizens ” will be revolting, at least those that aren’t already.
Aipple – Declan Rice – you were two steps ahead of me there – funny.
Must be my 6am head, oh and a couple of whiskies last night.
Paul67
Well done Celtic , no public gallery 👍
Morning good sir!
Ohio river peaks today. It’s now above all the lampposts on the river road downtown. Wish it was easier to post photos on here.
Ironic, that Celtic last scored directly from a domestic free kick (David Turnbull) over four years ago during COVID when there were no fans.
Dunno who the other guy is, but Bernard Ponsonby is an inspired choice of speaker.
Well done Taggsybhoy and Kev.
Unfortunately… I’ll be in Yvoire so can’t make it.
from previos blog.
great contributions from TT and BS.
as a follow up, Ally McLEOD is i believe the only player to have scored 4 goals against the original rangers at ibrox,
https://x.com/stmirrenretro/status/1853842251165929677
From previous also Free kicks ?
Player FK goals,
Nakamura
15
Thompson
14
Maloney
9
Larsson
8
Griffiths
7
Collins
6
Mulgrew
6
Stokes
5
Edouard
4
Guidetti
4
Moravcik
4
Van Hooijdonk
4
Christie
3
van Dijk
3
Wdowczyk
3
Morris
2
Petrov
2
Robson
2
Turnbull
2
Declan Rice CSC
“Mistakes having consequences is so radically unusual in Scottish football it is jarring to those who have watched decades of the game here”
Yip.
And scary for some.
Celtic are the most powerful force financially in Scottish football.
This transparency and accountability lark rights a wrong and benefits us.
Honest truth time?
If my club were barely hanging on to the coattails of the biggest, richest club in the land ….
… and my club enjoyed the occasional benefit of decisions made by officials who were … er … “sympathetic” to my team?
Would I support transparency / accountability agendas?
Probably not.
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I always knew wee Willie would go far with that extra pair of eyes at the back of his heid.
Aff oot 👍
A bit optimistic for me P67,when we still have to put up with Beaton, McLean,Aitken, Dickinson etc…..Russian Dolls spring to mind
I am with Ange, VAR has ruined the game. The spontaneous celebration of a goal has gone. All we had was a quick glance at the linesman. Now we have these reviews which are both right and wrong. For us and against us.
We could still have reviews of Ref’s performance good and bad and get rid of worst offenders.
bournesouprecipe on 9th April 2025 12:28 pm
ta for that. interestimg
BB I hate Russian dolls…..they’re so full of themselves!
Not just football
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c985555nr49o
arsenal win lst night means england to have 5 places in the champions league.
bournesouprecipe on 9th April 2025 12:28 pm
The real standout, from your stats on free kick goals , is that Henrik Larsson managed to score only 8 times in his 7 years at Celtic.
Henrik took most of our free kicks in the scoring zone.
Making numbers up ( as I don’t have any data) that would probably be at least 2 or 3 times per game.
roughly 55 games per season…
That works out at …
1 goal for every 140 attempts !!!
I would say that was a waste .
However…he was “The Golden Child”, so I’m not calling him out on it…😀
Saint Stivs on 9th April 2025 2:25 pm
HI heard Danny Kelly on Transeurope Express on Talksport a few weeks ago saying that if the stars were to align, and an English club won the Europa Cup….
…… that would mean 6 teams from England !!
However , it’s Spurs and Man Utd , so no threat there…
and Barry has a plan..😀
Anyone think there’s anything to this “Greg Taylor to Rangers “ stuff that keeps appearing on Newsnow , or is it just clickbait?
Click and find out….😀
The onlooker
I have done and then wished I hadn’t – as always …
Guidetti 4 free kicks
Could be talking sh1te but i am sure he scored 3 in a row.
Not necessarily same game but 3 consecutive free kicks he took
That’s ‘taking one for the team’
I salute you… 😀
I remember seeing Henrik lining up to take many a free kick and feeling it was a waste, as he had missed so many already.
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 9TH APRIL 2025 3:39 PM
I remember seeing Henrik lining up to take many a free kick and feeling it was a waste, as he had missed so many already.
*James Edward only took 3 penalties in his career and missed them all
The Onlooker
It’s actually worse.
They could get SEVEN teams in the CL if one of two win the Europa
and
Villa win the Champions league but don’t finish in the top five in the Premier league.
Scary.
FWIW – I think PSG – Villa will be a tremendous tie.
PSG really impressed me against Liverpool
THE ONLOOKER @ 2:38 PM,
Henrik talked about learning from Lubo about striking the ball, despite Lubo’s tuition and hours and hours of practise, Henrik said he just couldn’t do what Lubo could with a ball – that’s from a world class player.
Hail Hail
Interesting free kick stats.
I knew Lubo only scored a small number but surprised at Henrik.
I was raging watching the Seville game when Maloney came on as sub, grabbed the ball for the free kick instead of letting the in form Henke take it and promptly made an arse of it.
It has annoyed me for over 20 years, almost as much as Bob the Builder costing us the league the same year with a dhite performance v the Huns in the 3-3 draw at Celtic Park.
Now I find out that Henrik was as likely to miss it Shaun was. so no harm done
Not holding a grudge csc
THE ONLOOKER on 9TH APRIL 2025 2:38 PM
bournesouprecipe on 9th April 2025 12:28 pm
The real standout, from your stats on free kick goals , is that Henrik Larsson managed to score only 8 times in his 7 years at Celtic.
Henrik took most of our free kicks in the scoring zone.
Making numbers up ( as I don’t have any data) that would probably be at least 2 or 3 times per game.
roughly 55 games per season…
That works out at …
1 goal for every 140 attempts !!!
I would say that was a waste .
However…he was “The Golden Child”, so I’m not calling him out on it…😀
………………………
I’m sure Stan Petrov and Alan Thomson took a good few free kicks during those years. Stan scoring against Huns in 2-0 win at Mordor and Alan scoring with shots under the jumping wall against Porto (1-0) and against Liverpool at Anfield (2-0)
If Taylor goes to join the wee Fergie Revolution then after all of these years he might actually be played as a leftback.
Not a wingback or whatever it is that Rodgers has converted him to.
A leftback – playing leftback – like he was under Stevie Clarke at Killie with a robust defensive midfield protecting their defenders and hitting on the break.
Wee Fergie said on Saturday that changes will be made and if they need to play direct then that is the way it will be.
Wee Fergie and The Walter Way as if it wisnae bad enough being bored to death with tippy tappy deary me.
Wee Fergie captained the Huns to a European final in 2008, playing The Walter Way which saw the great city of Manchester wrecked.
Had the Huns won that 2008 European final Celtic would still be struggling to fill the bottom tier of Parkhead, and 2012 would probably have had a very different story to it.
Had the Huns won the 2021 European final in Seville then Celtic would still be struggling to fill the bottom tier and trying to say it was because of Covid etc.
If you believe what the media tell you then that is on you.
Thing is – The daft Huns saw through the wee krankie liar from day One.
Where as if krankie had to run for office again wee daft Tims would be parading the streets as if they were Brave Hearts ready to set us all free from what? Trump Tarrifs?
The only way to beat Trump is to join BRICS and join arms with the countries who want peace etc, and you wont get that voting for any of the chooki ar las whom you’ll be asked to vote for.
Wish nice old creepy Joe would come back and turn wee Jamesy into wee Jennifer and anybody who disagrees is a nazi.
Just because.
Tontine Tim
Love yir posts
garygillespieshamstring on 9th April 2025 4:23 pm
It has annoyed me for over 20 years, almost as much as Bob the Builder costing us the league the same year with a dhite performance v the Huns in the 3-3 draw at Celtic Park.
I would agree that Rab Douglas’ pathetic goalkeeping cost us all the points in that game. However, we need to look a bit further for the loss of the League and the 2 cups, which was the last treble won by the Ibrox club. Bear in mind in the previous season McLeish’s team also won both cup competitions. When you consider that it took Martin O’Neil over a year to record a win against McLeish’s side, and only after a change of formation.
Let’s hope the current manager is not as stubborn as his fellow countryman was, and that we do not have to wait that long for such a win over the current or future Ibrox manager.