Georgios Samaras journey over the last twelve months has been astonishing. The player was subject to treatment by those who enjoying booing at the football and suffered the indignity of being subject to an exchange at last year’s AGM which must have made it difficult to rebuild confidence and form.
Now he is the most effective man in the team. He was involved in six out of Celtic’s eight Champions League qualifier goals. He has found his position, wide on the left, where he scores and creates more goals than he ever did as part of a forward two. The space on the wing allows those long legs to stretch and get behind defenders.
I’m not paying too much attention to the scare stories which emerged from Latvia last night following his elbow injury, we will need to wait on the results of a scan to know the extent of the damage, but there is modest alarm ahead of our opening Champions League group game against Benfica in 11 days.
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SeS
Never saw Pat play but by all accounts he was
a great passer of the ball.
Just shows how good Bobby was.
World class.
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John Hughes with Celtic from 1960 to 1971 – appearances 225, goals scored 116.
Thoughts with you Jobo I lost my mother three weeks ago, an amazing woman, mother, simply astonishing person, talk to her and she will answer you.
Tallybhoy
20:33 on
8 September, 2012
hamiltontim
I know – but BMCUW is incommunicado at the moment!
HH!!
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Nope, at this time on a Saturday night our friend won’t be incommunicado, he’ll be inbed :-)
Condolences to Jobo on his sad news…
KTF
John Hughes with Celtic from 1960 to 1971 – appearances 225, goals scored 116.
Say na more – feed the bear!
HT
LOL.
CRC
Jobo Baldies mum God bless,may you rest in peace.
G64
We were dripping with wonderful players in that period.
I was born in 62 Celtic played first Euro game that year v Valencia
By the time I was 13 we had played in 6 euro semi- finals and two European cup finals …quarter- finals were the norm.
Some of the players we saw as wee bhoys were genuine world class footballers …raised and rated on our streets.
Few could match them. Anywhere in the world!
I was spoiled as a child,in a footballing sense…
Continue to dream of another golden era
HH
now that Samaras is out
{ not for long hopefully }
who will be the new boo bhoy at our
home games,
answers on a postcard to
ssb,
I’ll come to Yogi’s defence too.
Whilst he was frustrating, his ratio of good games to bad games and good moments to bad moments was much higher than modern day frustrating players.
Within the Lions team an in the squad of players from our golden post-war generation, John Hughes could look a little clumsy compared to the close control and touch of Murdoch, Auld, Lennox and Johnstone but he was still very skilled and not just awkward.
When Jock decided to let him go, along with Willie Wallace, they both went cheaply to Crystal Palace where they were easily the best players in that team. So good was John that he was sold to Sunderland for more than Palace had paid Celtic, 18 months earlier, for both players.
Yes John was frustrating and a cult player but he was also very good and a secure part of our best ever team.
Samaras out for a month apparently.
Don’t know where some posters are getting their info from but ‘Yogi’ scored 188 goals in 383 appearances for Celtic.
Check out the ‘Celtic Biography’ – it’s in there.
HH!!
Greek international striker Giorgos Samaras will be out of action for at least a month after sustaining an arm injury playing for his country against Latvia in a World Cup qualifier on Friday, team doctors said.
Medical tests after the 2-1 win showed that the 27-year-old Celtic star had suffered ligament damage in his left arm and will need four to five weeks to fully recover and be able to play again.
Team doctors were expected to reassess the player’s condition again Sunday before Samaras departs for Scotland to rejoin his club on Monday.
Samaras, a doubtful starter due to a previous back injury, was used by coach Fernando Santos in the second half for 22 minutes as a substitute and Greece down 1-0 at the time.
He helped turn the match around with his performance as the Greeks scored twice to open their campaign with a win.
The injury will mean that Samaras misses Greece’s next World Cup qualifier at home to Lithuania on Tuesday as well as Celtic’s opening games in the Champions League.
“Giorgos is a fantastic player. In the match with Latvia he came in during the second half and showed that he is in top form,” said Fanis Gekas, the scorer of Greece’s winning goal.
“Injuries are part of football and one must live with this. Giorgos will be missed but I’m sure whoever plays in his place will give his best and fill in the void he left behind.”
saltires……,
Funnily enough, it was in Ostan Gweedore, in the toilets, that he told me the Yogi story.
Yogi was a Celtic legend, but I don’t think Big Jock fully trusted him.
Too hit and miss,
When he hit, he was unplayable, when he missed, you wouldn’t play him!!
SeS
Great post.
‘raised on our streets’.
HH
My dads favourite lion was Bobby Murdoch, what a player he must have been to top such illustrious company.
How many caps did Bobby or Jinky or Bertie get ?
Scandalously low …….. Sums up the greatest wee bigoted country in the world………
Is it any wonder most of the Celtic support are apathetic to Scotland
How many caps did the great McGrory get?…… Case rests .
Pat Crerand had it right about Yogi. The only reason Pat wouldn’t have graced the Lions was because Bobby Murdoch was the best in the world at right half at the time. (Something of course the SFA chose to ignore, preferring Greig.) Pat was one of the finest passers of a ball I have seen in a Celtic jersey, apart maybe from Charlie Gallagher. God, what talent we had the good fortune to see then. Football as God meant to be played.
thomthethim,
You sum up Yogi perfectly. On his game, he was simply unplayable but there was no knowing when that would be. I can still see him ploughing through the mud with players trying to pull him down and being dragged along in his wake as he bore down on goal. Magnificent.
Burghbhoy
Well said.
Don’t get me started on Scotland’s treatment of
Danny (the greatest fullback in the world) McGrain.
prayers being said for you both , jobo and djbee
I remember the St Johnstone Celtic Park game boxing day 2010. North Stand Lounge toilet. Fud says if Lenny ever plays Sammi again everyone should walk out en masse. Knobendandafud!
The Lisbon Lions won a combined total of 114 caps, while the oldco team who lost the final of the ECWC the same year won a combined total of 155!
I rest my case m’lud!
HH!!
Emus
North stand lounge ensuite !
Don’t forget your roots old bhoy.
HH
Parkheadcumsalford
20:00 on 8 September, 2012
Tallybhoy,
If you watched Yogi regularly, you must admit he was an enigma. Brilliant and rubbish in the one game. He could rip a defense to bits one moment and let the ball through his legs the next.
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Spot on and me and my da loved him for it.
Mynah Bird’s Apprentice.
What actually happened……………………
The leaders of the Zionist movement—starting with Herzl—had pitched a Jewish state in Palestine as a strategic beachhead for imperialism in the region. In the wake of World War 1, the British ruling class moved more decisively to seize on the prospect of a Zionist entity. The famous Balfour Declaration of 1917 declared, “His Majesty’s Government view [sic] with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”
The Balfour Declaration stated that “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.” ….But Sir Ronald Storrs, the first British military governor of Jerusalem, was more candid about England’s aims. He wrote that England’s support for the Zionist “enterprise was one that blessed him that gave as well as him that took, by forming for England ‘a little loyal Jewish Ulster’ in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism.”
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They did indeed bring it on themselves.
They thought they were HUMAN.
Em
I kinda love John Hughes. I never started this mum:o)
Big Sammi got all the bad press on the defeat against Ross County,he was probably
one of our better players that day,yet the sheep followed the press and gave him pelters.
Fekn eejits should not not be let out on there own never mind attend Paradise.
Jobo:
I lost my Mum 21 years ago but I still think about her every single day. You’ll do likewise.
God Bless Mate.
tune
setting free the bears
Thanks for the support re ‘The Bear’.
‘Yogi’ never got over being sold to Crystal Palace in 1971, and took it badly. He always felt that big Jock never forgave him for missing that chance against Feyenoord the year before.
He even refused to go to big Jock’s funeral.
HH!!
VP
You needing some extra rope and lamposts ?
Jobo
My sincerest condolonces to you and your family on the sad passing of your mother.
G64
Nope,one rope will do.
Witchfindergeneral,C.S.C
setting free the bears
I remember him scoring with a header against Third Lanark at CP in his debut season (the one where he tore Doug Bailie a new one at Ibrox).
In the return leg at Cathkin I remember him running over the Thirds CB and scoring with a powerful shot. After that Yogi could do no wrong for me. Pure unadulterated entertainment.
Saw him in sannie on TV dance around Aberdeen on sand and ice (5-1 wiz it?) and plough a furrow the length of muddy Cappielow v Morton with guys bouncing off him to score and of course his stoop to conquer header v Leeds at Hampden in the European Cup semi.
He could make yer week as can Sammy.
Tallybhoy,
Yogi played for Mr Stein long before that miss against Feijenoord. Every Celtic supporter I know who was in Milan that night felt heart sorry for him, as he had given his all and we all recognised that, as I’m sure Mr Stein did. He wasn’t transferred because of it. The Quality Street kids were ready to take over and room had to be made for them.