You and I have lived through dark days before, but even during the darkest time in the 90s, we faced Rangers with a collective degree of self-belief. The lack of faith among the support over the visit of Newco tomorrow is tangible, with good reason.
Bournemouth’s USA-born Mexico international right back Julián Araujo could bolster our options on that flank after his loan arrival. He will surely start tomorrow. The player has made only one appearance this season, an EFL cup defeat to Brentford, so we should temper any anticipation he will sail through the afternoon.
Before every game recently I talk about the very obvious lessons learned from the previous outing. We will surely not repeat the positional shambles deployed at Motherwell on Tuesday. The formations which faced Aberdeen and Livingston will suffice, possibly augmented by Araujo.
Against Hearts, St Mirren, Dundee United and Aberdeen, Celtic hit the woodwork at least as many times as they scored. The laws of mathematics suggests we are in for an avalanche when our flattering expected goals tally delivers what it promises. That’s about as much optimism as I can muster.
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💯 support for the Bhoys today. 🍀🍀
Come on the Celts :-)
https://youtu.be/phnUHcP6oXk?si=2w7g_aeiMLm3yLRo
HH
COYBIG.
Top of the morning baltic 🧊 ⛸️ here today bhoys so
Hats scarfs and gloves required and thermals and please bring your best song singing voice as ultras are still expelled and any bad songs should be aimed at the away end and the dictator today send him frozen mars if you feel the need.
HAIL HAIL
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Wilfreid Nancy is a misunderstood genius of the footballing world
Tisdale, Nicholson and Dermot never put a foot wrong, how could any true Celtic fan doubt our glorious leaders
Celtic will thrash the huns today 4-0
This is Wilfred’s day he is gonna shut up those anti Celts
I’m going to play my part, sing and shout my heart out for 90 minutes, although it will be hard to get above the wall of sound that emanates from the main stand, our executive patrons and directors box family and friends are a sight to see scarf waving during “Walk on”
supermoonubercelticfan.csc
Today’s most unlikely score . . . . 0-0.
0-0 Yea of little faith
A wee song for Wilfreid
Wilfreid saw the whole of the moon
https://youtu.be/AWognGjCgHk?si=rPY1JTrBEm796JhU
Supermoonubercelts.csc
Venezuela now facing war for oil
The FIFA peace prize warmonger
Another poor defenceless people
aff oot
Happy New Year Fholks…
WIth Martin O’Neil coming back and showing us, what we missed by taking the “slow lane”, I thought it might be interesting to look at where we were – old firm wise, before he came.
Take a look at the Glasgow teams from the 1999 new years derby…
It ended a 2-2 draw, and maybe that would be a good result for us today!?
Rangers: Klos, Porrini, Amoruso, Hendry, Ferguson, Kanchelskis (Albertz 61), Van Bronckhorst, Amato, Wallace, McCann (Johansson 72), Vidmar.
Subs Not Used: Wilson, Miller, Brown.
Goals: Amato 45, Wallace 58.
Celtic: Gould, Boyd , Mahe, McNamara, Stubbs , Larsson, O’Donnell, Lambert, Moravcik, Riseth, Mjallby.
Subs Not Used: Brattbakk, Annoni, McBride, Burchill, Warner.
Goals: Stubbs 39, Larsson 66.
I’ve done a comparison of Jozef Vengloš’ team with Wilfried Nancy’s possible team
Gould – Schmeichel
McNamara – Yang
Riseth – Ralston
Stubbs – Trusty
Boyd – Tierney
Mahe – Hatate
Mjallby – Calmac
Lambert – Engels
O’Donnell – Maeda
Moravcik – Nygren
Larsson – Kenny
No idea how the then Rangers may compare with the now R2ngers.
However – think Wilfried would have a better chance with Jozef’s team.
Whatcha think!?
Celtic 2 – 2 R2ngers
COYBIG
Hail Hail
lionsroar67
US Air Force attacks Venezuelan Capital Caracas…..
If that is not the start of another war in Latin America I do not know what is…
Nobel Peace Prize Committee played its’ part too…
The Patsy
Morning all from the Faro to Porto train.
I’m predicting 7-1 today but I’m not sure who to…
The conductor asked for our IDs. He said “from Texas?” I said “Aye but we’re Scottish, he’s not our fault”. Everyone within earshot got it 🙄
Purely from a football perspective the Hun can defend and score from balls into the box, for that reason alone a positive result for Celtic is highly unlikely.
Tavernier won’t need to get beyond the 18 yard line, as mwell proved launching the ball into the box has us panicking.
The Hun front line will be going to ground all game and the ref will oblige.
Serious question, how many free kicks would we need to even get a shot on target?
Id love to be proven wrong but I’m as pessimistic about a result today as I ever have.
I never missed a match home or away during the Hun corrupt 9 but even then I always had hope.
Morning all.
High anxiety, in the words of that spoof Cowboy film of Mel Brooks. Let’s hope we get a result.
If he plays the same system and tactics we will lose heavily, not because they’re any great shakes several dodgy decisions penalties for and not given against have turned losses into draws and draws to wins, but because we have a dreadful squad to choose from that can neither defend effectively and carry a threat, I have never been so negative about our team playing them in my life even back to the days of gerry creaney at number 9, when we managed to beat them twice in a row once on St Patrick’s day, at least then the club support and team pulled as one. This is not Celtic today until all that changes.
Good morning from a very, very cold Garngad.
Hopefully Wilfred’s revolution starts today.
We need a win, never good getting beat by anyone but this shower of shoite are woeful.
This is probably the easiest league to have won for years since our board handed Stevie G his immortality with the 1 league he won in covvid season.
All the other teams are pash and our top brass have fecked it over last few years with decline.
Right enough doom and gloom.
COYBIG let’s get into this shower.
D. :)
lionroars67 – I worked and lived in Caracas in the years leading up to the Chavez revolution. I still have family living there. It was a typical Latin American country with the added benefit of being a major oil producer. It had a rich elite, a two-horse political system that was no more or less corrupt than can be found everywhere else, a strong middle class with a good standard of living, a large working class that earned enough to get by and a growing underclass fuelled by immigrants from neighbouring countries looking for a better life.
Chavez, an idealist and a populist, was swept to power by giving the forgotten underbelly a voice. His textbook socialist vision was to address the wealth imbalance and give the poor and the working class a voice and a better share of the country’s riches. In trying to do so he ultimately destroyed the middle class while doing very little to improve the lives of the poor. The barrios are bigger than ever. The once excellent education system collapsed, the health system is almost non-existent, the thriving tourism industry destroyed. The oil business is a shadow of what it was and what is produced goes to China and Russia to pay off the massive debt that has been run up to both those countries (rather than the evil empire that is the US). That is to say, what oil money there is no longer benefits the country, it just services debt.
What was once a two-party state became a one party dictatorship. Maduro is a power mad tyrant that has become unbelievably rich and whose family has syphoned off hundreds of millions into their Swiss bank accounts. For over a decade his wife and children lived a life of indulgence every bit as bad as the elite Chavez wanted to destroy. They enjoyed weekly trips on their private jets to Miami and NY to shop and party and bought luxury cars and jewels for those they needed to stay on their side like the military generals.
Maduro holds onto power by silencing and jailing the opposition and ignoring the will of the people who have twice voted him out of power by a landslide only to be told that in fact they lost. In the last few years some seven million Venezuelans have had to leave, often on foot across the Colombian border, in search of a better life. Here in Spain there are tens of thousands of Veneuelans who have come to start again. They are driving vans for Amazon, working bars, picking fruit – whatever it takes to rebuild their lives that were destroyed not by war but by their own so called leaders.
By almost any measure you can think of, the country is drastically worse off than before the Bolivarian revolution set in motion by Chavez. It went from being South America’s most stable economy where the majority of people lived in comfort and peace to being the poorest and most dangerous one.
Believe me when I say the vast majority of Venezuelans would choose the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s version of the country to what they have now.
I am no fan of Trump or American war mongering, I despise what he is doing. I only wish that the Venezuelan people could rid themselves of the tyrant that governs them and set themselves on the path to a better, safer and more prosperous future.
Viva la Revolucíon.
Dessyboy- good post.
This board are akin to the Kelly’s and Whytes.
They are a disgrace and the way they have persecuted Celtic fans should NEVER be forgotten.
It is very hard to get behind our team at the moment but we all must try.
So COYBIG
D. :)
SAINT STIVS on 2ND JANUARY 2026 7:07 PM
Section111 on 2nd January 2026 12:25 pm
The board who’d rather pay 8 figures to HMRC in Corp Tax than buy a striker of sufficient quality..
how do you avoid paying corporation tax ?
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You limit your anticipated gross profit by investing it in assets thereby reducing the figure that get hit with Corp Tax – all businesses do it.
Normal businesses invest in upgraded machinery, premises improvements, IT upgrades etc. A football club might invest it in playing staff for example as well as infrastructure and perhaps specialist coaching staff throughout the club.
Given the current situation it is not something we will need to worry about again as the financials will be going the same way as the football shortly. Another display of spectacular mismanagement…..
Cold winter morning with prospect of the long walk to CP in front of me. Normally something I look forward to but today not so much. Fairly sure I’m not the only one feeling this way and that is a little sad…
Today, yes just TODAY, I couldn’t give a monkeys about boards, signings, or how much is the bank!
MON THE HOOPS!
por cierto……
We are where we are today.
I’ll plump for an unlikely score draw.
Fingers will be tightly crossed, eyes may be closed.
Feel sorry for the new guy, he deserves everyone pulling together today.
The madness can start again tomorrow
David66 on 3rd January 2026 8:47 am
How is your big pal.
Por Cierto 9.06
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To work Celtic.
Hail Hail
Get Maeda back out left.
Causes havoc out there v Tavpen.
4-2 The Hoops.
Maeda Nygren McGregor and Tierney.
Not sure if that’s the order they will score though.
As P67 often observes, give players excuses for failure and they’ll take them.
Wilf’s press conference was a masterclass in creating those conditions. Dearie me.
As Alex’s article observes today, all evidence indicates Wilf seems to think Celtic is a place you can come into mid-season and experiment as a free hit. Who would appoint synchs unknowing clownishness other than another unknowing clown? Step forward the southern spiv who mistakes us for Exeter.
Dreading today. The players despise these clowns for what they are.
I fear the worst today. If rangers do a high press, all is lost. For sure they will also hump high balls into the Celtic box which will cause mayhem, and they will get plenty of set pieces which will have the same effect. Our defense is vulnerable in all these scenarios. And still we have no strikers. And Daizen and Rio are woeful these days and no longer game changers. I don’t see in silver lining in this current squad. I agree with Sutty, rangers are favourites and they could come away with a 3-0 win. Hope I’m very wrong. The silver lining to a defeat is surely they’d have to sack WN and Tisdale. Sorry to be so pessimistic.
Celtic, Celtic that’s the team for me, Celtic, Celtic on to victory,
They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,
We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the Scottish football league.
They come from bonnie Scotland, they come from county Cork,
They come from dear old Donegal and even from New York,
From every street in Glasgow they proudly make their way,
To a place called dear old paradise and this is what they say.
Celtic, Celtic that’s the team for me,
Celtic, Celtic on to victory,
They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,
We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the Scottish football league.
There’s Fallon, Young and Gemmell who proudly wear the green,
There’s Clark, McNeill and Kennedy the best there’s ever been,
Jim Johnstone, Murdoch, Chalmers, John Divers and John Hughes,
And sixty thousand Celtic fans who proudly shout the news.
Celtic, Celtic that’s the team for me,
Celtic, Celtic on to victory,
They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,
We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the Scottish football league.
Good morning and belated Hqppy NY to all.
Only god knows why, esp after Motherwell, but i’ve woke up in a very opTIMistic mood. I think we might get a score draw today 🤞🏻
COYBIG 🍀
Good luck today Celtic
Any win will do!
Matchday, and that can only mean…
Another episode of WTAF.
This is a good wee video that highlights our weaknesses defending corners and their relative strength attacking them. https://x.com/johnwalker_1986/status/2007018272047223110?s=20
It’s not rocket science: They have big guys and good delivery; We don’t have big guys and we are poorly organised.
The natural inclination would be to play Scales (6’2″) with Trusty (6’3″) at the back, and Nygren (6’0″) and Engels (6’0″) elsewhere to add a bit of height to the team. (Of course, we elected not to recall Stephen Welsh (6’3″) or Maik Nawrocki (6’1″) to provide additional cover at centre back.) Excluding Dane Murray (6’4″), those are the only ≥6 footers in the squad who are available for selection.
But this isn’t just football, this is WTAF football. The one thing you can expect from today’s episode is something you could not have conceived of beforehand.
Buckle up folks, it’s Bonkersball.
How I wish there was a snow storm over Celtic Park.
Our manager asks for time but all that seems to be doing is destroy our players confidence.
Fingers and everything else crossed.
I’m not sure my lucky Celtic socks will tip the balance today but you never know , hopefully the Huns are a bit complacent and we can pull something out of the hat ….
Itsthehopethatkillsyoucfc
What are the chances of Maloney being interim manager tomorrow?
Win. lose or draw, I would be asking Motherwell for permission to speak to their manager. He has a bright future.
Mon the big Nancy Nicholson ✌️
Obviously hope I’m wrong but searching for something that gives us a logical chance to win today and I just can’t find it. As mentioned previously they have height and physicality that we can’t match and every corner will be terrifying. They will play for and will get multiple FKs within launching distance of the box and will shell it in at every opportunity – that’s what any decent coach would be saying and what I hope ours would do if in similar position.
Even if our general play was to improve significantly I fear we will be undone by the set piece advantage we give them.
They are genuinely a shit team but we are very broken and very sadly they would appear to be the least bad – tragic….
With team usually announced about an hour before kick off, is it time for a game of formation sweepstake? WN might look in and get some ideas
DENIABHOY on 3RD JANUARY 2026 11:06 AM
What are the chances of Maloney being interim manager tomorrow?
Win. lose or draw, I would be asking Motherwell for permission to speak to their manager. He has a bright future.
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A very good shout. With limited time and resources this guy has been impressive and interestingly seems to tweet his game depending on opponents – not sure I’ve seen that from us since BRs first term. We are and have been very predictable for years……..mixupthegameplan. csc
Moisey17 – in recent games the towering Nicolas Raskin (5ft 10) has outjumped our defenders at corners.