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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Racking up bar bills on yer room number is not to be advised………..A €45 room is presently sittin at €90 inc parking n boozing….(parking charged at €10)
Seems ahm the oanly wan postin so ah’ll slide in a wee 4 in a row
N a 5th tae the daddy?
Oh yes
Can he do it?
Well done Andy Murray. This time, son, this time…
Re: Scotland. Beyond hopeless. What a shame we will not be represented in Brazil.
All this fae hunners a miles away
Damn you italiabhoy
Smashin milk bottles
Big Kenny Y up in Jean Gebbies. Lager running high. Barman put a pint wi a 4 inch heid on the bar. Kenny picks it up and necks half of it. “I was going to fill that up”, says barman. “i was dead thirsty” says Kenny. :-)
SRS
England v Scotland 1967
4 Celtic players Simpson Gemill Lennox and Wallace.
We just won the European cup a few weeks earlier.
Greig McKinnon and Baxter played.
Why not play the Lisbon Lions ?
the spirit of arthur lee
22:29 on 8 September, 2012
I’m sure it will make sense to a lot of people ……. Just wonder what it will lead to ….? Where will they draw the line, and who will draw it ..?
They floated the non rule that a club team couldn’t represent a country.
Liars.
Emus
Recall the carry on in Holiday Inn in Lux.
Better not mention what happened in Brussels.
HH
G64
With Boabby Brown as the manager, I’m surprised there was 4 Celtic players.
I would have loved Baxter to play for us. He was our kind of player: a football player. Greig and McKinnon could not lace Bobby Murdoch and Big Billy’s boots.
Right, big game at the Holy Ground tomorrow. Better than D3. Time for bed as the vino & bud kick in.
Buenos notches amigos! HH
Never heard that non rule. Sure the USSR used to be represented by Dynamo Kiev and they were Ukranian.
Gordon
I forget what happened in Bruxelles. I was sick in bed being comforted by Deirdre ;-)
EMUS
Sweet dreams and good memories old pal.
HH
Kilbowie Klutz@21:09…
I do hope that you are not vexed by my dilatory response to your most humble submission….
I laboured long to bring you a concise and erudite account of Mr Herzl (and Rothschild’s) Negotios…
With the Allies,during The Great War…..
And the subsequent French and British Mandates….
which took responsibility for administering the provinces, liberated from under the Heel of Centuries of Ottoman Oppression…..
However….Whilst standing to Attention…
As I sung along to ‘Last Night At The Proms’…
I did not notice my battery drain….just as I was about to post my most perspicacious account….
Serendipity/Fate/Malign Influence Of Cultural Marxists on our Internet ?
Anyway….I will postpone my ‘missionary’ work for the moment….
In the meantime,please desist from gaining your knowledge of history from the pages of the “Readers’ Digest”……
and the back of cereal packets..?
Emus
Aye so you were.
HH
Gordon 64
I think Jinky and Bobby M were declared injured for that match. Craig, Auld, Clark and Chalmers were rarely considered for Scotland caps- very unfairly, in Bertie’s case, and they usually picked McKinnon over Big Billy.
Cesar did all his best work in a Celtic jersey and rarely shone at international level.
Our world class players were Gemmell, Murdoch, Johnstone and Lennox.
Wallace, Auld and the vastly underrated Clark were not given full appreciation at the time and were definitely under-capped.
Billy was an unsurpassed leader of Celtic men but not a true great Centre Back. Then again, neither was Ronnie McKinnon.
Craig & Chalmers were not really international class but were high standard back ups.
Gordon
She had a very prominent blue vein which ran from her neck to chest. She asked me what I was staring at when I was suckling ;-) A big pished guy got carried in wi a knee injury which saved me responding! ;-)
TSD
That is a complete pile of p**h.
Bed. G’night!
Gordon
Haud on a minute. How did we get hame from Brussels? You had yer knee in a brace?
Sftb
I read Bertie Auld’s autobiography during the summer. It wasn’t explicit but I got the impression that he believed his lack of caps was down to two things.
1) He was sent off on his Scotland debut
and
2) He was a Celtic player.
Emus
I vaguely recall that incident.
Sincere apologies.
BTW
We never paid for those adult films you were watching.
Parkheadcum….,
There was no rule, they just made that up as an excuse.
It would have been a fitting tribute from the SFA, but it was beyond them.
SFTB,
Big Billy was probably Scotland’s best player in the 9-3 game.
He was let down badly by Shearer and Caldow and his wing halfs, who chucked it.
They would play anyone ahead of Billy.
Mc.Kinnon, Ure, Young.
Possibly because he would be the automatic captain and that would have been too much to stomach.
Gordon
Nor the contents of mini bar you drank ;-) I recall we told receptionist to charge M Turners a/c
31003.
Enjoy your hangover.
Do yourself a favour and don’t read back;-))
Emus
How i got back to Glasgow from Brussels is a mystery
of science and serious alcohol abuse.
HH
Gordon 64
TSD is a bit of a wind up merchant, albeit a fairly thin-skinned one.
Apparently KDS were able to do something that we have not been able to do on CQN in order to reduce the lengthy tedious posting of controversialist politics. If you gave Hugh Keevins a political blog, it would read little different from the TSD/Kojo/Gnu postings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyppu4z8h70. Good night.
Gordon
You were just drowning your sorrows cos I beat you in the race to use the bidet.
HH
Emdae remember the day Bertie done big provan. At doomdome I think?
Emus
That was the best european trip ever.
Recall the bus to London.
3-3 game.
SFTB
No worries amigo.
TSD is a complete tool
and he knows it.
HH