You seldom hear football people speak as unguardedly as Peter Grant did to The Herald yesterday about Scott Brown. “If somebody had offered us £4m (in 2010)? I would have driven him down the road myself”. The tone of Peter’s piece was supportive, though. Our former assistant manager affirms Scott is a vastly improved performer since. I agree.
You never really know what is going on inside a squad. Footballers play with injuries, many find the distractions of wealth all-consuming and some are simply deployed incorrectly. At the #19 game last week I recalled the form of Stiliyan Petrov under John Barnes, he was lost, especially when playing right back. Bobby Petta also looked out of sorts under Barnes but within weeks of playing for Martin O’Neill both were among the most valuable assets at the club.
Neil Lennon told us last week that Scott Brown was unfit during last season’s Champions League campaign. It’s clear that he is an incredibly more effective player when fit, but Peter Grant suggests Brown has also learned positional discipline, a subject he has previously been criticised here for.
A lot of Scott’s contribution is off the ball. He closes space, filling the park with a presence, which is defensively important, especially on Champions League duty. I’ve never seen Celtic’s yardage stats on players but you have to think he’ll top the list most weeks, he is the Great Scottish Runner, but all that energy needed to be harnessed correctly, which is perhaps what Scott is learning from former midfielder, Neil Lennon.
The next achievement to look out for from Scott is a marquee performance on a European stage………
Which leads us onto the Great Scottish Run. You can still sign up for the run, and if you’ve registered already, or are still to register, you can participate in the 1254125 campaign.
The heart and soul of our community is something we cannot take for granted. It has flourished because you, and countless thousands before you, have decided to improve the lives of those around you by getting involved in the name of Celtic.
On Sunday 6 October there is a 10k and Half Marathon. If that is beyond you. There are family events taking place the day before.
The first thing you need to do is sign up for the Great Scottish Run, or here for one of the family events.
Once you’ve done that, you can register for the 1254125 campaign here.
Then you can create a donations page here. Click Start Fundraising, search for Celtic Charity, setup your My Donate account).
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“I don’t know what I find more laughable; the fact that Celtic cannot find £500,000 from their biscuit tin to sign a proven talent like John Spencer, or the fact that they then spent £300,000 on one of Dr. Jo’s old pals, the unknown Lubomir Moravcik”
(Hugh Keevins, Sunday Mail; Nov 1998)
T4 @ 2218hrs
ours or deidco’s?
Or both?
BTW Galatasary were best team in first 25 mins and bit for 2 great saves by Lopez they would have been ahead and who knows what wouldve happened?
6-2 maybe? ;-)
seriously though until Isco scored the 1st goal, Gala looked very dangerous.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
For ACGR
Fae Phil
“One half of Glasgow is enjoying life while listening to Zadok the Priest while, the other seethes with rage and obsesses about Priests”.
keepupthegoodworkcsc:))
Oot n aboot .
2 young guys in a bar . Both dressed like they are about to do a shift on a corner in The Wire.. One has a black and blue striped phone cover
Guy A —–
” Hope those ***** get beat tonight ”
Guy B ——
” Me too – but I watched Glasgow against Juve , so maybe not “
2218???
1028hrs!!
Sheesh…..CL nerves seriously got hold of me!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
squire danaher
keevins is a fud…..this is from probably the same place you got yours.
1) Artur Jorge will shortly be unveiled as the new Celtic manager. He is currently inside Celtic Park holding talks.”
Later that afternoon, Wim the tim was unveiled as manager
2)”Mark Viduka will shortly sign for Bayern Munich. I have seen the contract.”
Cue ………. Viduka signing on the dotted line at Leeds United.
3)Josef Venglos will live to regret his decision to play this unknown Slovakian ahead of Mark Burchill in such a vital Old Firm Game.”
Cue ………. Lubomir Moravcik scoring twice as Rangers are molligated 5-1.
4)I expect Rangers to win the league comfortably, and by quite a considerable margin”.
Cue ………. Green & white ribbons adorning the trophy, as Rangers finish third in a two-horse race
5)Manchester United play their best eleven, and Celtic play their best eleven – Manchester United will beat Celtic.”
Cue ………. The full-time score: Celtic 1, Manchester United 0.
Sitting in a cafe near the Duomo :-). Here for my first European game on the continent with the bhoys..a lifetime’s ambition being realised today. I’m loving retirement. :-). I’ll give a shout for all CQNers in front of TV screens. HH
no way Milan are going to be weakened with the depth of squad so I am going to be careful here Celtic 3 AC Milan 0 . Have a good one bhoys, enjoy yersels.
I see the BBC are maintaining their reporting standards.
When Celtic beat and the opposition get a red card 2 minutes from time, with Celtic 3-0 up at the time, the Beeb duly report Celtic knock out 10 man .
The Beeb accurately reported the Sevco game the other night with the red card incident buried way down into the 2nd last paragraph.
And of course the Beeb also highlighted the fact that QOS were only 1-0 down at the time the red-card was issued and Sevco then took full advantage of the extra man to run out 3-0 winners.
Thanks Beeb, your reporting standards, the highest in the world, just keep on blazing the trail for others to follow.
Now then, what did I do with my medicine…..?
here’s more from our shug…
Come 5:00pm, and Celtic’s lead being cut to just 11 points – is it now the time for panic at Celtic Park ?”
Cue ………. Rangers drawing 1-1 with ICT and the day ending as it started – with Celtic enjoying a comfortable 13 point lead.
The best of them all though was another cliché courtesy of Derek Johnstone.
“You only get monkeys when you spend peanuts”
This was in relation to Celtic’s signing of…..
You will never believe it
Wait for it…….
Henrik Larsson!!
Masty,
To be fair to Shug Keevins ( who I think is a balloon of a journalist and analyst ) there is apparently a story behind the Artur Jorge and Viduka to Bayern comments.
Alas it can’t be repeated on hear but let’s just say Shug never checked out what he was telt!
Crap. That’s XML for you. It’s stripped out the word ‘team’ from key points.
Here goes again. This time without the XML thievery.
I see the BBC are maintaining their reporting standards.
When Celtic beat ‘team’ and the opposition get a red card 2 minutes from time, with Celtic 3-0 up at the time, the Beeb duly report Celtic knock out 10 man ‘team’.
The Beeb accurately reported the Sevco game the other night with the red card incident buried way down into the 2nd last paragraph.
And of course the Beeb also highlighted the fact that QOS were only 1-0 down at the time the red-card was issued and Sevco then took full advantage of the extra man to run out 3-0 winners.
Thanks Beeb, your reporting standards, the highest in the world, just keep on blazing the trail for others to follow.
Now then, what did I do with my medicine…..?
fencelt
10:45 on 18 September, 2013,
Enjoy mate, 1-1 will do for me.HH
SoT listed the probable AC line up for tonight as :-
Abbiati
Zaccardo Zapata Mexes Constant
Nocerino De Jong Muntari
Birsa
Balotelli Matri
Subs —Amelia/ Iotti/ Emanuelson /Modic / /Poli / Cristante / Robinho..
Their goalie is experienced- 36 years old and has 4 Italian caps. He has worked his way up from 3rd choice keeper by going on loan to play first team football and impressing. Some controversy about his espousal of fascism and feeling it is very compatible with his Catholicism
RB- Zacccardo has 17 Italian caps, is 31 and, though new to Milan has played regularly for the likes of Bologna, Palermo and Parma where he had a good scoring record
CB- Zapata 26 year old capped 16 times by Colombia. New to Milan but played regularly for Udinese and Villareal
CB- Mexes- 31 year old with 29 caps for France. A regular starter for Auxerre, Roma and Milan.
LB- Constant- 26 year old French-born but capped 18 times by Guinea. He has played 25 times for AC since June 2012
RM- Nocerino- 28 year old with 15 Italian caps, played 61 times for AC since 2011
DM- De Jong- 28 year old with 67 caps for the Dutch. Man City played £18m for him and Milan paid up to £5m for him
LM- Muntari- 29 year old capped 78 times by Ghana. Portsmouth paid $7m for him, and Inter around £13m,. AC got him on a “free” after paying for him on loan for a year. He played 15 times last year.
AM- Birsa- 27 year old with 64 Slovenian caps. New to Milan. Has not been a regular scorer for some time.
CF-Balotelli- 23 year old with 26 Italy caps. Youngest Inter player to score a CL goal at 18. Man City paid £18m for him and AC just slightly less.
CF- Matri- 29 year old with 5 Italy caps. Juve bought him in a deal worth up to £15m and AC bought him for under £10m this year.
Subs-
Amelia- GK- 31 year old with 9 Italy caps
Iotti- 17 year old youth LB or CB
Emanuelson – 27 year old left wing back with 16 caps for the Dutch
Modic – 17 year old Bosnian midfielder
Poli- 23 year old midfielder with 3 full Italy caps
Cristante – 18 year old midfielder. 1 CL sub app.
Robinho – 29 year old striker capped 90 times by Brazil
Overall, this is an AC team weakened, by their own standards but assembled at a cost far beyond our squad. They have a weak bench but have a Brazilian with 90 caps, a Dutch player with 16 caps and a 3 times capped Italian there. I doubt we’ll see their kids playing unless they are well ahead.
This is no aging team of 35+ year old players (apart from their keeper) but a team in the prime ages of 26 to 32 largely. Experienced and cynical and are 1/2 with most bookies to win the match.
I worry inversely to the optimistic mood of our crowd. I saw Galatasaray ship 6 goals, Olympiacos 4 and Plizen 3 last night AND they were all playing at home.
Every time we go into a CL group match as a 4th seed, we risk a drubbing that we have avoided up to now. At this point in the day, I worry that Barca, Ajax and AC, at their own home grounds, can administer such a doing to teams that are better than we are. However, the nearer we get to kick off, the more confident I become that we will, not only escape a doing, but administer some lessons of our own. This club is magical sometimes.
Fencelt – soak it up and have a great trip! HH
T3 – watching game in the Admiral with CRC and big Lurch.
I was talking about our worst and best scores in the EC. Would find a 6-1 reverse hard to take…ouch!
TTTT
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma
10:48 on
18 September, 2013
It was the Artur Jorge story that lost Keevins his job at a semi-respectable paper was it not? Forcing him into the murky depths of the tabloids.
I heard it was a plant to flush out a leak.
fencelt
10:45 on 18 September, 2013
‘Sitting in a cafe near the Duomo :-). Here for my first European game on the continent with the bhoys..a lifetime’s ambition being realised today.’
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Enjoy your trip.
It’s worth doing the tour of the Duomo if you’ve got the time.
setting free the bears supports Celtic’s best fighter- Wee Oscar Knox
10:50 on
18 September, 2013
To misquote Sgt Oddball – “Enough with the negative waves, man”
Loved the story about Lubo
I was at university in Sunderland in 1998 and had travelled up for the home game against Dundee when Lubo made his debut, I remember Lubo had an impressive debut crossing with either feet and he had at least one assist from a cross.
I travelled up for the game against the manky men and sat with my brother in FS2 and remember being pretty apprehensive about the game. By the end of 90 minutes I was in dreamland, beating them 5-1 so far exceeded my expectations and Lubo was fantastic. Willie Young was the ref and sent off Scott Wilson for a really bad challenge when we are already 1-0 up.
The Sunderland bus fairly bounced back to The Ivy that night and a good night was had by all! So good I phoned my brother at 3am steaming, singing down the phone! Something he brings up from time to time!
I’m nervous about tonight but cautiously optimistic! Can’t wait for work to finish, just got an email from my nephew asking why it’s not 19:45 yet!!
oh and link here to some interesting information about Johnny Madden who inspired Dr Jo and Lubo to come to Paradise
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Madden,+Johnny
Masty
For Ned Flanders to dismiss as “unknown” a man who had played international football for 10 years including a World Cup QF (in which he was red carded – for swinging his leg in dissent at which point his boot whizzed past the referee btw) speaks volumes
It is a dereliction of duty but that’s to be expected by a 21st Century journalist who prides himself in never having researched a story by using the Internet
fencelt
10:45 on 18 September, 2013Sitting in a cafe near the Duomo :-). Here for my first European game on the continent with the bhoys..a lifetime’s ambition being realised today. I’m loving retirement. :-). I’ll give a shout for all CQNers in front of TV screens. HH
Brilliant great way to sign off a lifetime of work.
Enjoy and Hail Hail brother.
HH
weeminger
10:54 on 18 September, 2013Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma10:48 on18 September, 2013It was the Artur Jorge story that lost Keevins his job at a semi-respectable paper was it not? Forcing him into the murky depths of the tabloids.I heard it was a plant to flush out a leak.
Oh the old red herring trick, now that’s a breaking story I’d love to hear, but obviously for another time…
HH
T4,
Im sure Gordon of this parish will know better, but as far as I am aware, our worst score in the EC (if you include the qualifiers) is of course the defeat away to Artmedia 0-5.
Our best score (i think) is a 9-0 home victory against KPV Kokkola in 1970.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
The Token Tim in support and praying for Wee Oscar
Did we not put 9 past Jeunesse (spelling)?
Mark Burchill also got the quickest hat trick in European history that night.
LB
uefa press kit for tonights game…
http://www.uefa.com/uefa/mediaservices/presskits/uefachampionsleague/season=2014/round=2000479/day=1/session=2/match=2011765/index.html
as ever a wee word of caution from me, the big s*itebag, Milan comfortably beat PSV. All the “big teams” won easily last night so a pattern has been established, one we can break hopefully,however we have a lot to do. No matter what 11 players Milan use they will be packed with experience and quality in the right areas.
Hope to be back home tonight in time for kick off…`mon the Hoops!!
squire danaher
10:38 on
18 September, 2013
A cracker.
Wins this years “Fenian Prize” for research.
Mon our Hoops.
Token
Biggest win in UEFA competition:
16/09/1970, Celtic 9-0 KPV, Glasgow
Biggest defeat in UEFA competition:
27/07/2005, Petržalka 5-0 Celtic, Bratislava
Appearances in UEFA Champions League: 28
Appearances in UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup: 8
Appearances in EUSA Cup: 1
Appearances in UEFA Europa League: 17
Player with most UEFA appearances: 68
Billy McNeill ( SCO)
Top scorers in UEFA club competitions: 35
Henrik Larsson ( SWE)
You were spot on mate.
LB
Steviebhoy66
What a read!
Dr Jo knew exactly what he was doing. Very wise man.
I lived in Birmingham between 1986 and 1995. A pal of mine was the youth coach at Aston Villa whose claim to fame was that he had rejected Brian McClair as a youth. So when Dr Jo took over at Villa, my pal said the players were in uproar becuase this “foreigner” demanded training in the afternoons and was telling them what to eat. etc etc.
It says a lot that my pal stayed and Dr Jo left.
Celtic benefitted in the long run.
When Lubo scored with that left foot shot agin thems, after Henrik’s dummy, every Tim’s heart lifted with the knowledge that we had signed a gem. One of the most gifted players ever. And he “got” Celtic. And the Celtic support “got” him. Oh yes!
He still looked the part when he played in Stan’s game.
HH
not saying we are going to beat Milan tonight, but, we have a real chance of getting something, this certainly aint no great Milan team..
weeminger
In a film career that included many Stinkers, that is my favourite Donald Sutherland character- a very funny performance.
I am grateful that neither my temporary pessimism nor the wild optimism of others will have any influence on tonight’s match. I am sure that NFL has swallowed no guff about a weakened, inexperienced AC with no cover, but he will be aware of which players are not fancied by the AC crowd and he will try to pressure them into mistakes and lost confidence.
However, our team will have to prove that they are concentrating at the required level as AC have researched us too and are aware of our weaknesses too.
SFTB @ 10 50 .
Birsa .
Suffered the curse of being labelled a wonder boy .
I think he is very talented .
Played well at Sochaux
Played very well at Auxerre .. I remember him scoring a fab free kick v Ajax in the CL
Was linked with Arsenal/ Chelsea / Liverpool but went to Genoa .
Didn’t work out initially at Genoa so went on loan to Torino . Did nothing great there ,so went back to Genoa. Played well and got the move to AC Milan [ a swap for the much touted /rated Luca Antonini .
He has sweet feet and a quick brain . He will have to watched closely
Masty
I think all that playground activity with the lads from the school next to Saint Luke’s , has had a sad ending to your level of understanding and working out things, ;)
emday heard from RUSTY re VADOC tune ??i posted on here and e’mailed and got no reply.
F.U.
Livibhoy,
cheers mate.
I remember the Jeunesse Esch game and Mr Burchill’s HT too, but have a feeling it was 7 we rattled by them?
This getting auld thing is murder. Plays havoc with the memory, not to mention wee niggling injuries that used to be able to shake off in a few days, not take weeks!!!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
“NOW take weeks”
FFS!!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
We beat Jeunesse Esch 4-0 in the first leg away and won the 2nd leg 7-0. 11-0 on aggregate
wit you gibberin aboot noo auld yin?