Malmo quickly followed up their best result of the season against Salzburg with a 2-1 win over top of the table Gothenburg. They remain four points off the pace but whatever form issues they have had in recent months appear to be resolved.
Champions League football was a harsh experience for Malmo last season. They qualified after beating Salzburg 3-0 in the play-off round, coincidentally the same score they beat the same opponents by in the last round. While Salzburg went on to top Celtic’s Europa League group, Malmo lost home and away to Juventus and Atletico Madrid, winning their only points in a home win over Olympiakos.
I’m sure Celtic will have scouted yesterday’s game in Malmo and will have learned more about the home team than Malmo learned about Celtic during yesterday’s stroll in the park at Firhill. We will have seen them at their best, they will have seen us scarcely breaking sweat.
Ronny will have an idea of the extent of the challenge ahead. Malmo might not be a match for Juventus or Atletico but they know how to play European football. We will all have an important job to do at Celtic Park next week.
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I think if you asked most SPFL managers who they considered to be Celtic’s greatest threat, many would still say Commons.
Wits
I don’t think it’s a trait common only amongst the English :-)
AULDHEID on 10TH AUGUST 2015 11:48 PM
A wee repost for night shift.
I had a wee look on the site today and it will now be my bedtime reading.
Thanks again for the link
Hamilton
Maybe not,
The Tim reaper
You’ll find John Collins will do all the pre-match media stuff for cup games and stuff like airport interviews. All the other stuff is probably contractual and RD has to do it.
I can see Kris rising to the challenge of fighting for a starting place, by having a great season.
He is very talented, experienced and looking forward to spending the remainder of his career with us.
He would my first name on the team-sheet, every week, regardless of the opposition – let’s use and appreciate him, while we can – “you don’t miss your water till the well runs dry” Otis Redding
Mr Pastry,
100% agree on KC.
FYI…….
“You Don’t Miss Your Water” is a soul song and the debut single written and recorded by American singer William Bell. It was released by Stax Records in 1961. It is Bell’s signature song and best known recording.
Mmmm
A “penalty” claim against a Celtic player who had his back to his opponent, was falling backwards and was 3 feet away when the ball was kicked against his hand. The SPFL YouTube actually headlines that incident as “dividing opinion”. Absolutely no divided opinion amongst those with an open mind and no personal agenda. In no other game where the same incident attached to any other team would this nonsense have gone further than a very short half time comment before being quickly dismissed. This was not an incident that was missed y the officials either; it was just as quickly dismissed by them as nonsense at the time, yet the SPFL fuels the fire by their inflammatory headline which is actually at the expense of the officials as much as anyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khRR_kRyt3Q
Then, Collinsgate is spoonfed to the masses in Sundays Scottish print media courtesy of the Scotsman, and gleefully recycled by every lazy churnalist. Their own duplicity in their dealings with John Collins is airbrushed out of things, as are the comments from the Aberdeen manager saying almost exactly the same thing. Simply put, there is no media mileage in a story that spuriously blackens the name and reputation of the Aberdeen manager. That would sell few copies in the Central belt…
The same media then can’t wait to talk to anyone they can find in Scottish Football in an attempt to generate more adverse comment about John Collins. That activity and those comments speak volumes about the pathetically parochial and intrinsically introverted nature of society in Scotland, not just about the cronyism within the SMSM and football. Backwater Scotland Inc actually demonstrates the scale of the mountain that Celtic have to climb when they travel beyond the Fantasy Island that is Scotland.
Astonished and disppointed of some of the negative comments about John Collins on here. Celtic’s assistant manager has been subjected to the same media distortion and manipulation that we have been banging on about for years. No one remotely disagrees with what he said and he’s not even the first to have said it this season, but he is the first Celtic employee to have done so. If the cardigan had said that during the EBT/Asterisk Years then the same media would have been nodding sagely and berating the rest of the teams in Scotland for letting down deidco.
Penalties that weren’t and being hounded because you spoke as if you have a right to do so –
An independent, impartial and ethical media….more like double standards, hypocrisy, bias and duplicity.
HH
When St Johnstone and then Aberdeen ‘crashed out’ of Europe before the schools went back there then followed an msm orgy of ‘woe is us’ about Scottish football. With of course the barely hidden subtext that the swift arrival of West of Scotland kkk FC would help up the ante and coefficient.
One week later JC (our ass manager, not God’s son) points out that playing aforementioned Scottish teams doesn’t best prepare us for Euro challenges.
Cue another msm orgy, this time of the tall poppy variety.
Why would we even talk about this shoite?
Do you know I can’t get a single hotel room all the way between crainlarich and glenelg, even dornie for Tuesday night (tonight).
Fort William is full.
I hate that name.
Let’s rename it something less contentious – how about the Free Fort of Derry!
Night
HH jamesgang
Evening all on CQN. Just watched the women’s footie highlights on BBC 2 HD. Some guid looking goals by some guid lookin Ghirls ! The Sunderland v Liverpool match, pool kit all white, Sunderland White with red stripes, could be deemed slight colour clash, certainly more than Celtic v Hibs / Hlbs v Celtic. Why do the spfl / sfa insist on change of strips for The Hoops v The Hi-Bees ? Totally no need for this in my humble opinion. The cynic in me says the authorities just detest the thought of too much Green & White. Ah well they got plenty with Charlie & Craigey ! ( ain’t karma a bitch ha ha). Think the last time I seen the full ‘battle of the greens’ was a Scottish cup clash at Parkhead around the centenary season, ah think it might have been live on tv (rare in these days back then). Ah think it might have been a draw. Ah would just love to see Hibernian v Celtic played in both clubs main home kit when Hibs get back to the premiership, and back it will be in their case cos they’re 140 years old, & not 3 years and 13 days like sevco!
Rwe & Jamesgang,
Excellent posts are like busses.
HH
James McClean tweeted over a month ago “that Derry should be given it’s proper” name back.
If you reckon it was a coincidence that Alan Parry referred to him as coming from Londonderry, good luck with that.
Jamesgang
“kkkFC”
Making me feel a bit peckish.
RWE
We’ll be getting ‘ Collinsgate ‘ every day until the next opportunity to run with the incessant anti Celtic fest.
It doesn’t take much, I think you were correct yesterday that JC has been handed more air time by Celtic to take the SMSM pressure off Ronny Deila, ironic it’s him that gets the STV ( Sevco T V ) gig where they’re still running Collinsgate at 11.00pm more than 24 hours later.
As mentioned by others it’s very sad when Celtic fans fall for the propaganda and join in the name calling of Celtic men.
Derek McInnes and Paul Hartley are victims also, just caught up in the virulent new strain Celtic execration, born in 2012.
They could have centred media attention on Stuart McCall as did CQN magazine, who said John Collins was only being truthful.
It all sells more Celtic tickets IMHO because most Celtic fans see through it, or ignore it, and just support all the harder.
If only there were some other Truth about Scottish football that we could get our management team to utter which would kill the JC story.
WHAT IS THE STARS on 10TH AUGUST 2015 11:17 PM
Gearoid/ Hamilton
Do you really expect english football fans to treat mc clean any other way
If an English player disrespected the irish national anthem I think he would get a lot of stick. Nothing intolerant about that. Only natural.
The rights and wrongs of his stance are immaterial but every action will provoke a reaction
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And why should we expect Scottish supporters to respect a Scottish team whose supporters travel the country singing the national anthem of a foreign country and waving it`s flag ,usually to the exclusion of the Scottish flag?
MACJAY
Is that the huns,Union Jack and Rule Britannia?
We pound our keyboards, or if you have a dictation app, bump our gums, about the misportrayal of all things Celtic in the MSM.
Why would we be unable or unwilling to support our assistant manager when he says what he thinks about Scottish football or footballers? Or indeed anyone from the club.
Hell, we have all been saying it for years, without the hullabaloo that ensued.
Was he misquoted? Taken out of context?
Probably, but the irrefutable evidence was laid in front of us at Firhill on Sunday.
We fielded a team with a number of changes, some forced, some planned.
Despite that, Craig Gordon had his normal untroubled outing.
I posted last week sometime, at my age the memory is not so sharp, that the MSM is in a desperate race to the bottom and their football slant is to retain their demographic.
Now since many on here, and in the Celtic websphere in general, are quick to deny they read the Harry rags, they, the succulent lamb eaters, must capture the attention of the dead team’s mourners.
I’ve no doubt the copy writers have been told to appeal to Billy and ignore Tim.
So there is no need to get our twickers nisted with what they print.
Remember they need Billy to keep their jobs.
We can find our news and opinions, pro and con, on sites like CQN, or if you are intellectual and sophisticated from the many articulate Tims on the web.
And may God bless the work of the MSM. Without their blind compliance and acquiescence to Murray and his bent board, the Old Rangers may still be with us. And if they continue to slavishly carry the PR pieces from Ibrox, THE Rangers will have a short history, deo gratias.
GG
I agree with all your points regarding the media, they are trying to sell papers and in this country, anti Celtic sells.
That being said, I still wished he had worded it better, you can’t blame Legia on anyone bar Celtic, that’s the truth. Seemed to be a bit of deflection, I wouldn’t be happy if I supported another SPFL side.
SID on 11TH AUGUST 2015 3:31 AM
I wouldn’t assume that he was quoted accurately or in context.
Maybe the solution is to have all interviews from management, players and staff be done through Celtic channels, TV and digital media.
That way they will be reported accurately.
We should only allow the press into Celtic Park to meet our obligations to SPFL media contracts.
No bannings. Just disdain.
And one other gripe re press conferences.
Let’s identify the questioner before the question is answered.
‘GG on 11TH AUGUST 2015 3:49 AM
SID on 11TH AUGUST 2015 3:31 AM
We should only allow the press into Celtic Park to meet our obligations to SPFL media contracts.
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LOL – Why do I think that you are in either the SNP fascist camp, or, you follow the Ibrox philosophy? i.e. ban the free press – march on the BBC – ban the BBC – indoctrinate nine-year old school kids fron St Georges shut down dissent from all sources – manage all news.
Well let me tell you – IT WON’T WORK.
No matter how much we disagree
No matter how much we disagree with certain areas of the media – we must NEVER be censorious, or, coercive – that is FASCISM – PURE AND SIMPLE.
After the country wakes from this ‘Stepford Wives’ period that the SNP are enjoying – perhaps we will get back to reasoned argument, firm policies and proposals, and away from the repetition of meaningless slogans and the shouting of ‘foodbanks’.
INFO FOR THE NUMPTIES
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There are 384 foodbank projects right across the EU in EVERY member country.
THOMPSONTWIN
You really should try reading ‘GG’s post before you get all apoplectic.
He quite specifically stated that he was not in favour of banning the press,and the rest of your post was just ridiculous.
So,nothing new there then…
THOMPSONTWIN
There you go again. Who mentioned food banks?
FYI,
There has been rapid growth in the provision of foodbanks since hunger in the UK became a prominent issue with the financial crisis and the austerity that followed it from late 2010. As of January 2014 there were close to 1,000 UK food banks. The largest group co-ordinating UK foodbanks was The Trussell Trust, a Christian charity based in Salisbury. About 43% of the UK’s foodbanks were run by Trussell, about 20% by smaller church networks such as Besom and Basics, about 31% were independent, and about 4% were run by secular food bank networks such as Fare Share and Food Cycle.
In 2004, Trussell only ran two food banks.Before the financial crisis, food banks were “almost unheard of” in the UK.
THOMPSONTWIN on 11TH AUGUST 2015 4:31 AM
Do I really have to repost what I said.
You are a prime example of how the media pluck statements out of context and twist it to their agenda.
Let me copy and paste my own words:
“We should only allow the press into Celtic Park to meet our obligations to SPFL media contracts.
No bannings. Just disdain.
The bolding was added to make sure you saw it properly.
Now let’s hear your sarcastic LOL
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 11TH AUGUST 2015 2:39 AM
MACJAY
Is that the huns,Union Jack and Rule Britannia?
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Nice one,Rob.
Nearly relevant. :-)
Scotland is British.Whether some of us like it or not.
MACJAY
It is relevant to your post,
‘And why should we expect Scottish supporters to respect a Scottish team whose supporters travel the country singing the national anthem of a foreign country and waving it`s flag ,usually to the exclusion of the Scottish flag?’
Scotland was your point of reference,not Britain. Also,in football terms,there is no Britain,but the four nations of Scotland,England,Ireland,and Wales.
FAO: Bobby Murdoch ´s Curled-up Winklepickers and DesertBhoy
Thanks for looking out for me, I did post a while back about the Champions League qualfiers, not long after the 1-0 result, I must have been one of the more optimistic bhoys! But it was the same day the blog changed, and I think the post got lost somewhere…… Then I posted again once we found out it was Malmo, looking for a ticket.
I have been in contact with eddieinkirkmichael, who was kind enough to offer very quickly after my last post, so I think I am sorted.
Thanks again though, and maybe see you there!
Sneddoni
SNEDDONI
Glad you’re sorted,mate. I’ll let DESERTBHOY know.
As for seeing me there,I’m banned as a jinx pre-Christmas-I do my bit for our club by staying well clear!
Hope you enjoy the game-and the company.
Wow, wasn´t expecting a reply at this time!
Thanks for the message and for letting DB know too.
As for not going, nonsense! Don´t believe the outcome of a football match can be altered by one person going or not, unless you are referee…..???
Think of the millions who are interested in the outcome of the match, all having their own pre match rituals etc, just can´t work for one person to have such an effect on the outcome.
The way I look at it, is your just unlucky by constantly deciding to go to matches where we were going to lose anyway.
But if it means we win, and we lose if you go, I don´t want the blame, so going to stop there! lol
Thanks again fella.
Sneddoni
Good Morning Timland.
Kevj…….let us know how you are pal.
Away oot tae earn a buck,have a great day cqn.
Oh well my summer is over and the first working day of this academic session awaits!
HAMILTONTIM on 11TH AUGUST 2015 6:48 AM
Oh well my summer is over and the first working day of this academic session awaits!
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That’s a shame son. You’ve not had much time off,don’t be going mad… try and ease yourself back in.
feknchancerC.S.C :o) HH
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 11TH AUGUST 2015 5:12 AM
MACJAY
It is relevant to your post,
‘And why should we expect Scottish supporters to respect a Scottish team whose supporters travel the country singing the national anthem of a foreign country and waving it`s flag ,usually to the exclusion of the Scottish flag?’
Scotland was your point of reference,not Britain. Also,in football terms,there is no Britain,but the four nations of Scotland,England,Ireland,and Wales.
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“in football terms”……………Ay,there`s the rub.
Not in actual terms.
We`re dealing with nationality and patriotism here.
Football is merely the theatre.
Try hun hordes in proper Ireland.
Hun songs,hun banners.
Recipe for a donnybrook?
Skwerr go,pal?
Good morning friends from an unusually (for 2015) dry, calm, bright and mild East Kilbride.
Hamiltontim
“Oh well my summer is over and the first working day of this academic session awaits”
Thought it was an in-service day??
Coffeenholidaytalescsc
Reading back on an old article highlighted by the Clumpany……could have been written in last couple of weeks.
(kojo’s post cut short….cause it was going on a bit :O)
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KOJO on 12TH MARCH 2012 5:18 PM
Jist watched Yisterday’s Victory, agin
Ah’ ll Gie ye..folks.. A few random thoughts..
James Forrest ,is a Brammer!
James and Adam are the Terrible Twins..
These two kids.. are gettin’ Bettahand Bettah..
Best Partnership, since… Rolls and Royce!
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NEIL CANAMALAR LENNON HUNSKELPER EXTRORDINAIRE on 12TH MARCH 2012 5:44 PM
sorry ghuys, cant agree on forrest, twice he made decent plays, thats it.
I’m disappointed he is stopping other players getting a chance to prove themselves.
I’m disappointed Neil is playing people because they are favorites rather than on merit, forrest has been poor for some time, dropping him would have given three thing to the team, rest forrest he needs it, kicks forrest up the ass to keep his consistency up, getting lazy IMO and gives other player a chance to prove themselves.
beatbhoy on 11th August 2015 7:12 am
I know mhate, he would have you in tears….I’m wringing out my hankie :O)