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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Good to see you on.
Hope all is well with you.
No punishment for Cerny,what a surprise.
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That’s a very dangerous precedent set by the SFA!
i think i have found the reason the rangers takover is well taking a little longer than keef jackson told them earlier.
apparantely cavanaghs due diligence has asked them to explaim what dominant for decades actually means.
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ha, you couldnt make it up. i used to rent space at this very address and thought it would be a good fit for thems, and it actually comes to pass.
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Muir did not make a ‘mistake’ in denying Maeda a goal against Hibs he cheated pure and simple
PB – agree re Cerny.
Precedent set.
To Bada Bing’s earlier post advising no punishment for Cerny?
Technically correct in the narrow sense. No challenge to BB’s comment.
Another way of looking at it though?
There is punishment for Cerny.
He’s had to spend close to a year of his life working for a failing, diminishing footballing entity that routinely turns people into nastier versions of their previous selves.
There’s always a price !
I just read, England could have as many as seven teams in the Champions League in 2025-26 if Aston Villa win the competition this year, but fail to qualify through the Premier League, and if Manchester United or Tottenham win the Europa League.😱
Celtic have confirmed they have opened talks with Sevco on Vaclav Czerny coming to title day to spray the crowd with Champagne.
Lyon Lazio Bilbao and Frankfurt will all have a view on whether Engerland and has 6 or 7. As will PSG Arsenal Barcelona Inter and maybe Bayern.
Hopefully it’s PSG and Bilbao personally.
Never mind free kicks,corner kicks are our bogey. Opponents box,or our box,we are shit.Every cross,long throw,corner into our area seems to cause mayhem.At the other end,with the amount of corners we get,you would think someone would eventually twig,we are rank rotten,and try and remedy it.Nope,same every game.
This is not a new thing.Been suffering for years..
Burnley and Sheffield trying their best to hand this Championship to really struggling Leeds.
G,rrrrr.
C,Mon the PSG.Play some beautiful football this mob.A joy to watch.
Rotten at corners, for and against
Rotten at throw-ins
Rotten at free kicks
With all those trophies we must be doing something right
got an email from celtic providing more info on the semi final ticket situation with regards to the hampden ticket app.
i dont want to invent a problem that may not happen, but i can see this causing a lot of problems, especially if you want to ‘give’ a ticket to someone else.
the whole thing about when you can and cant transfer a ticket, and when you should download your ticket once it appears on the app has problems written all over it.
and the fact you cant screenshot or print the QR code and use that at the turnstiles seems ridiculous to me. i can check in at an airport or get through train station barriers using a printed version of a QR code so why not hampden?
they have managed to make the very simple and decades old system of how to get into a football stadium using a paper ticket and greatly complicated it.
and if you havent downloaded your ticket before you get to hampden then you are in the lap of the gods as to whether you get a phone signal to do it.
the new system seems to be the answer to a question that no-one asked.
Rotten at throw-ins
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for years ive wanted someone with too much time on their hands to work out the average time we are still in possession of the ball once our shy taker has thrown the ball.
my guess is it would have been a very small number of seconds over the years.
albeit in recent time it has probably increased because we virtually always throw it back towards our own goal these days and most of our opponents are happy enough to let us do that without challenge
“It’s believed Muir accepted the outcome, but is likely to remain with the SFA as a referees’ observer”.
Nest of viper’s.
has anyone ever heard anything from mccoist, that you thought, wow, i hadnt noticed that
lets all do the huddle on 9th April 2025 8:10 pm
It was interesting that a ‘general sale’ was open for semi tickets. There will be a reason why bhoys declined their original offer, not having a smart phone being one of them.
lets all do the huddle on 9th April 2025 8:10 pm
but it seemingly works fine for scotland games via the hampden ticket app
will the real Celtic please stand up , high tempo playing with pace and purpose, hunting in packs to press and recover the ball from the opposition within seconds , forget all this time wasting sideways and back crab football at the back and get back to entertaining the Celtic way.
great villa goal, very brendans celtic like.
working on the garden today, listening to various podcasts.
somehow spotify jumped into a november edition of Etims, and very enjoyable it was too.
what i found funny, was how brilliant the hosts had our teams football this is peak, semi aberdeen defeat, leipzig, atalanta away, and post hun skelping.
remarkable because Kuhn is the wunderkid and a rocket, dazien needs to be better, talyor/aj/scales/ccv are really good and not losing goals, engels is growing up, ha
Some goal by PSG
THE LONG WAIT IS OVER on 9TH APRIL 2025 7:59 AM\
Tontine tim Brilliant story. I’m impressed at your ability to recall details!
Our phenomenal league success over more than a decade tends to cause us to forget how many times leagues are won ( or lost) on a knife edge and here I am/ we are bumping our gums that we won’t win the league at home. I remember how , as the season we stopped 10 in a row shaped up and it became clear that winning it was on , the tension was unbearable. I thought that draw to Dunfermline was going to kill us. I felt sick for a week until Henrik scored early to settle our nerves the following week but, of course, didn’t really relax until Harald did his thing.
*Like everyone else I was looking forward to the pars and st johnstone games and thought our best chance of salvation was when they went to Tannadice on the final day, and of course should we fail to stop the dreaded 10 then being 3.5k miles away we could always avoid the ramifications of it.
Then that week before the trip to east end park I received a call from my auntie, my mother was in hospital as a result of a stroke could I come hame, so having been employed by a family oriented organisation I managed tae get the time off to cross the Atlantic and see her, now my da was almost 5 years up in that jungle in the sky and I had come hame every year since then on the anniversary of his passing plus mine and his birthdays but those are at the end of the year where it was a chore tae jook the dugs scheidt and puddles walking down the road, so this was my first time flying in at spring time.
I arrived at Glasgow Airport on May Day, the sun was splitting the sky and on being picked up headed out for the bonnie bonnie banks, after a wee kip I made my way to the Vale of Leven Hospital where I fund out she was not too bad, couldnae remember my name but knew it was me, so the following day I left the hospital and took a trip down to Alexandria, where I went tae my da’s oul local or at least one of them, as I approached I saw a bunch of lads congregating around a parked car listening tae the radio, no knowing any of them I enquired the score 0-0 was the reply, oh that’s a surprise I said that that was it.
As the clocked ticked a way this young lad shouted our “blow the whistle ya cheatin bassa” oh aye another Tim, just then as we all know ally mitchell slotted home a cross fae Bankie Tim John Hendry tae send the title careering tae its spiritual home Celtic Park, all of a sudden the silence was broken as we Tims out in the car park celebrated, the Celtic supporting owner then come out the back door tae find out the cause of the commotion, on spying me he said “ffs tontine try and keep it down a bit not all of my customers are as nutty as you”
Alas the following day we blew it so the rest of the week was a bit subdued but we still had the upper hand here, a game at home, just have tae make sure we win it, anyway the big day arrives and I’m flying back out the next morning so I decide to take in Holy Mass that morning, before I leave I turn the radio on, first song simply the best, oh ffs is that an omen, anyway wander up tae the pineapple and standing there when the father offers the sign of peace, 2 gentlemen in front of me turn round, Malky Mackay and Phil O’Donnell who were with the Celtic party up at the nearby Cameron House, now that is definitely an omen I thought.
That day is still a bit of a blur but on making my way home from the hosp I popped intae the Coop supermarket for a bottle of Irn Bru tae go with the durty free voddie that I had in the house and passed this young lad throwing his hoped attired bhoy up in the air, “whit’s the score “ I asked “1-0 Henrick Larsson”, so the rest of that afternoon was spent praying we would prevail and then Harald Brattbakk back as the song went got us the insurance goal, back tae the vigil that night, over again tae the hosp tae say my goodbyes and also let my mum know the good news and then down tae another pub in Alexandria, the home of the Renton CSC also owned by the publican from the day before’s brother, it was a you would think bouncing.
As I walked through Glasgow airport the following morning, early doors at that, for my 8:30 flight the place was awash with Celtic memorabilia and beaming smiles, one lad as he was passing had a tee shirt on that referenced to hello to one in a row, I happily reminded him that it was actually “Cheerio to 10 in a row”
Another stunning goal by PSG
Can’t believe EPL teams didn’t sign that guy
but it seemingly works fine for scotland games via the hampden ticket app
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time will tell. i just think its added extra difficulty into a process that i dont think any fan has ever complained about.
and the thought of some fans possibly knocking back tickets because they dont have a mobile phone to access them as PB suggested above, doesnt sit well with me either
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgnnvepz8yo
Interesting.
I wonder why the public school that trousered the £40k wasn’t named.
OK – I don’t. Their lawyers would be all over it.
Had it been one of us we’d be done for reset.
Hat trick of great goals from PSG
Just said Villa done well to get away with 2-1,that’s them out
I have been sent that info about downloading the semi final ticket. All very confusing to me.
Magnificcent performance again by PSG.Scary team.3 fantastic goals.
Football from a different Galaxy.
Full time
PSG 3 Aston Villa 1
Huge credit to Luis Enrique.
In an era of formulaic football his team were a joy to watch tonight.
Having dispensed with the overpaid rock stars his 11 guys’ collective belief in his system is tremendous.
Both Centre backs routinely positioned 40 yards from Villa’s goal.
Squeezed Villa to death, no jitters about the counter.
Magnifique
Turkeybhoy on 9th April 2025 10:02 pm
And supplemented by brilliant commentary from McCoist and Hutton 🙄🫣
Not too much diving and cheating from PSG
PSG will take their game with them to Bummingham.
They did it in Manchester and also in Liverpool
And with that they will score goals
Wee credit to Kieran last night coming on to replace Rice at wide left and doing well
PSG the best pressing team I’ve seen . They put more energy into 10 minutes than we do in 90 .Energy
and aggression properly applied .
Compare and contrast with our passive , cautious displays . we can’t match PSG’s quality but we can try to emulate their intent .
Reeves and Kendal,FFS,what an advert for this abomination of a Labour government.Now starting on the sick,disabled.”Get back to work,you malingering bastards”.