Scoring minutes after making your debut doesn’t guarantee a great career at a club, but Scott Sinclair gave himself an excellent start with his winning goal at Tynecastle. Leigh Griffiths lead-up work was magnificent. The Hearts defence had no answer.
Scott’s transfer took weeks (and a lot of money) to complete but it was the player’s tenacity to come to Celtic which decided the matter. I hear Celtic met Aston Villa’s initial target price early in the negotiations, but Villa decided to hold their cards for a few weeks in an attempt to induce other bidders. Scott was clear from the off that there was only one place he was going, but while Villa sat tight, there was a worry that another club would come in with a seriously large wage offer. The deal happened when the player continued with the mantra, “I’m going to Celtic or nowhere”. This is a guy who really wants to play for Celtic.
Apart from Tony Watt’s excellent chance yesterday, which should have brought Hearts level, the home side didn’t have a chance worthy of the name. A policy of throwing yourself to the ground inside the box doesn’t count, so we can be happy with how our defence is performing with Kolo Toure in the team. There’s still a long way to go, but the direction of travel is clear. Watt and Conon Sammon will cause a lot of damage in the Premiership this season, but on the evidence so far, Celtic should outperform their 15 point winning margin last term.
So disappointed to hear Dave King’s £30m – £50m overinvestment isn’t going to happen until January. This guy has been so transparent. Honestly, they get what they deserve, there’s no helping or telling them. They backed a hostile takeover with a fantasy manifesto, while putting the thumbscrews on their club, to the extent it had to go cap in hand to its only source of funding, and hawk their commercial rights in the process.
As we’ve said here for years, the only people who can really damage a football club are its own supporters, in this case, with their inability to consider the consequences of the next action.
Running a football club is hard (serious understatement alert). You’re going to enjoy how Dave King finds this out.
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RobertTressell, agree absolutely that competition is good, Scott Sinclair signs and James Forrest has his best game in ages, coincidence? I think not.
Craig has also had an ever changing defence in front of him, perhaps a little disconcerting for him.
Form is temporary, class permanent, or so the saying goes.
An addition of another top class keeper will do the team good.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 9TH AUGUST 2016 11:24 AM
Lisbon Lion Ronnie Simpson was 5’10”.
Just saying.
A fantastic keeper who knew something about positional sense and how to deal with a through ball; watch this about 5:50 in – and he did this in the European Cup Final!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ZKQfp7D6U
CQN Saturday Naps Competition
Lads, for all the part-time punters out there… our CQN Naps competition resumes this Saturday (13th August), and hopefully 16 roads will be around to defend his crown.
In order to confirm your entry, please send me an e-mail stating your CQN username to : fleagle29@ymail.com.
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a) On each Saturday, log onto the last page of the previous CQN article.
b) Post only ONE ‘Nap’ selection from any major Saturday horse race meeting (e.g. UK, Ireland, Dubai)
c) If your initial selection is a Non-Runner, then you may select an alternative runner, also on the Saturday.
d) If your NAP wins, you will “win” the hypothetical profit from a £1 stake @ Starting Prices (SP)
e.g. your selection wins at 1/2, your hypothetical profit is +£ 0.50
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e) If your nap loses or if you fail to post a selection, you “lose” your £1 hypothetical stake (-£1)
f) If anyone wants to join the competition later (e.g. in Week 3) you will be allocated with 2 losers, and will start the competition from (-£2)
g) Our CQN Naps Champion Tipster will be the CQN punter who shows the greatest overall profit during the season.
Last season the competition lasted for over 40 weeks, and 16 roads was the champion tipster, with +£19.75 profit
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As wee Johnny Craddick once said
I hope all his doughnuts turn out like …..
lets have a little recap – i had a look at who got fined for what, so let see –
UEFA Europa League 2015/16, final between Liverpool FC – Sevilla FC (1-3) played on 18 May in Switzerland.
Charges against Liverpool FC:
– Crowd disturbances – Art. 16 (2) DR
– Setting off of fireworks – Art. 16 (2) DR
Charges against Sevilla FC:
– Crowd disturbances – Art. 16 (2) DR
– Throwing of objects – Art. 16 (2) DR
Decision – Liverpool FC:
• To fine Liverpool FC €16,000 for the illicit banner and the setting of fireworks.
Decision – Sevilla FC:
• To fine Sevilla FC €17,000.
The UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body (CEDB) has announced the following decision:
Match: UEFA Europa League 2015/16, quarter finals; Liverpool FC – Borussia Dortmund (4-3) on 14 April 2016 in England:
Charges against Liverpool FC:
– Setting off of fireworks – Art. 16 (2) DR
Decision – Liverpool FC:
• To fine Liverpool FC €11,000.
Matches: UEFA Europa League 2015/16, Round of 16; Liverpool FC – Manchester United FC (2-0) on 10 March 2016 and Manchester United – Liverpool FC (1-1) on 17 March 2016. Proceedings have been dealt with jointly:
Decision – Liverpool FC:
• To fine Liverpool FC €40,000 for illicit chants with half of this fine (€20,000) being suspended for a probationary period of two years.
• To fine Liverpool FC €17,000 for all other incidents.
• In addition, Liverpool FC is ordered to contact Manchester United FC within 30 days for the settlement of the damages caused by its supporters.
Decision – Manchester United FC:
• To fine Manchester United €40,000 for illicit chants with half of this fine (€20,000) being suspended for a probationary period of two years.
• To fine Manchester United FC €18,000 for all other incidents.
wonder want his pants said ? fcuk uefa maybe
The UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body (CEDB) has announced the following decision:
Match: UEFA Europa League round of 32 match between Fenerbahçe SK and FC Lokomotiv Moskva (2-0) played on 16 February in Turkey
Charges against Lokomotiv:
– Improper conduct of Lokomotiv player Dmitry Tarasov after the match – Law 4 of Laws of the game and Art. 4.01 of the competition regulations
Undergarments
Players must not reveal undergarments that show political, religious, personal slogans, statements or images, or advertising other than the manufacturer logo.
A player/team of a player that reveals an undergarment that shows political, religious, personal slogans, statements or images, or advertising other than the manufacturer logo will be sanctioned by the competition organiser.
The CEDB has decided to fine FC Lokomotiv Moskva player Dmitry Tarasov €5’000.
Tuesday 23 February 2016 12.46CET
The UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body (CEDB) has announced the following decision:
Match: UEFA Europa League group stage match Fenerbahce SK v Celtic FC (1-1) played on 10 December 2015 in Turkey.
Charges against Celtic FC:
– Setting off of fireworks – Art 16 (2) of the UEFA Disciplinary Regulations
– Improper conduct of the team (5 cards or more) – Art 15 (4) of the DR
The CEDB has decided to fine the Scottish club €13,000.
The UEFA Appeals Body has announced the following decision:
Match: UEFA Champions League group stage match FC Dynamo Kyiv v Chelsea FC (0-0) played on 20 October in Ukraine
Charges against FC Dynamo Kyiv
– Racist behaviour – Art. 14 of the UEFA Disciplinary Regulations (DR)
– Crowd disturbances – Art. 16 (2) DR
– Stairways blocked – Art. 38 of the UEFA Safety & Security Regulations
The UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body’s decision of 24 November 2015 is amended as follows:
1. To order the FC Dynamo Kyiv to play one (1) UEFA competition match as host club behind closed doors. As the club has already played one match behind closed doors during the UEFA Champions League 2015/2016 match FC Dynamo Kyiv vs Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC played on 9 December 2015, the club has already served this sanction.
2. To fine FC Dynamo Kyiv € 50.000.
The CEDB has decided to:
– To fine Beşiktaş JK € 26´000 for the setting off of fireworks and the blocking of stairways.
– To close the disciplinary proceedings opened for insufficient organization as regards the field invasion.
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Charges against FC Lokomotiv Moskva:
– Improper conduct of supporters – Art. 16 (2) letter e) and h) of the DR
– Attempted field invasions by supporters – Art. 16 (2) letter a) of the DR
The CEDB has decided to:
– To fine FC Lokomotiv Moskva € 30´000 for the improper conduct of supporters.
point is, there are incident after incident after incident.
UEFA are the traffic police, collecting fines , not really improving anything.
violence everywhere, huge scale sometimes, but they worry about political banners
by the way, several clubs fined over and over again, much more than celtic