Spartak Moscow have appointed Valery Karpin as caretaker manager. The former Russian international has had an active role in the club since 2008, variously as chief executive and manager. He took control of the first team when he replaced Michael Laudrup in 2009 until Unai Emeri’s appointment this summer when Karpin returned to his executive role.
He is an experienced pair of hands who is likely to stabilise things after the spirit had been drained from the club. Spartak are already out of Europe but will pose no less a threat than Inverness when they arrive at Celtic Park next midweek.
Neil Lennon will not be particularly concerned by the impact of Celtic’s defeat by Inverness on Saturday on the league table but the experience will still be arresting. Celtic have won three of five away games in Europe this season, losing the other two by a single goal, but there is clearly still work to do when faced with a home challenge in the SPL. Valery Karpin will be keen to prove he can exploit this.
Celtic have established credentials in three areas this season: they can defend adroitly when setup to do so, they are a major threat at set-pieces and they are an effective counter-attacking side. Any other attributes remain a matter for conjecture.
The first instruction against Spartak should be ‘stick to what you’re good at’.
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BT
Forgot to apply for Hearts tickets but hoping to get one off the bus (or there’ll be trouble!!!)
If I hear of spares I’ll let you know.
A bit late for the night shift but, 20 years ago today I met a girl with a plasticine jack n danny. It was love at first sight.
Sadly it just never worked out as I could never get inside her, although I did leave a lasting impression.
I’ll get my coat / deregister……:-)
cheers HT..
A CEILER GONOF RUST
Tsk,tsk.
Now,to anyone else,that would be a gentle reprimand,but to you it will be a reminder to crack open a bottle of Tlisker………..
Dd you see my explanation earlier for missing most of the UMB shift?
I mean-“what if we’re going uphill?”
Now you know why I so rarely delegate!
Talisker,even….
ssn,joey barton,straight out of allo allo
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PeteTheBeat
09:18 on
27 November, 2012
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James Forrest 23.18
Your comments on Neil Lennons actions at the weekend are bang on.
FairPlay to your elbow.
A67
Seeing as it is quiet. Who do we fancy for BBC Sports personality of the Year?
Wiggins? Murray? Hoy? Ennis?
My guess is Wiggins.
JJ
Or even Mo Farrar?
Voguepunter
There are more questions than answers.
johnnynashcsc
!! (Thought the blog had crashed)
BBC sports personality
I couldn’t really argue with any of these as choices. It’s just a rich time for British sport. Personally I’d go for Mo Farrah but they all deserve to be in there.
Doctor Whatfor
09:29 on
27 November, 2012
Voguepunter
There are more questions than answers.
johnnynashcsc
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I prefer ..beers on my pillow.
Voguepunter
:-))
BMCUW
I think that Henrik became the player he was , do to a lucky need for a change in his position.
Up until Henrik joined Celtic , he played as an attacking midfielder, sometimes on the right side of midfield.
He was not a goal scoring striker.
Darren Jacksons brain injury made is necessary for Celtic to have to play someone else in a more central role.
Wim gave Henke the gig , and the rest is history.
The King of Kings , indeed.
A67
4/6 for the win tomorrow, decent odds.
Players will be up for it, for once and despite willie the collumn and william conquer assistant ref I expect a good solid win.
Weet weet weet, @0850
Amazing eh?
A cross between Rene and Steve McLarren
Whataboutery ————
Media outlets in Rome wheel out a Canadian tourist who states that some of the Ultras who attacked Spurs fans in a bar were English speaking .
Same outlets , whilst condemning the anti semitic chanting at Lazio -Spurs , haven’t been slow in using the whataboutery available from a film / sound recording of West Ham fans chanting —–“Adolf Hitler is going to get you “..[ with appropriate arm action ]
Finally got round to watching Juve v Chelsea . I loved this tifo ———–
” We have bidets —— you don’t .”
Sunny -high teens -way down south.
“Footy yobs”? What year is this?1972?
This elevation and cosy broguery around a toxic 4th. tier gang of thugs is sickening. Why were they not just got rid of when the opportunity arose?
But aw naw, they had to be granted special dispensation to be allowed to plague the country in perpetuity, for they ARE the peepil, and god help anyone who tries to say otherwise.
Dear Santa, please can you destroy iPox for me and get rid of t’rankers while you’re at it?
That’s the only way we’ll get rid.
Andrew 67
A good article, yes, but “bang on” ?
“Right now, we do not look like league champions, and the responsibility for that stops at his desk.”
If we don`t , who does?
Also, was Neil not actually voicing prescient agreement with the article in saying that if the fans ( not just a disgruntled few) wanted him to go, he would?
I agree with the comment which suggested giving those idiots their money back and not selling them another Season Ticket. Our MSM give more than enough criticising without swome of our more rabid fans joining in.
JJ
Good morning CQN
Re – Traynor
Some say the devil is dead, the devil is dead, the devil is dead,
Some say the devil is dead and buried in Killarney.
More say he rose again, more say he rose again, more say he rose
Again,
And joined the Daily Record.
Keep the Faith
Hail Hail
Oot and aboot earlier .
Bookies in Sciacca are strongly of the opinion that Shakhtar v Juve will be a draw .
Morning bhoys from a warm hun free mountain.
SoT
Aye, the draw is odds on on most sites.
Very unusual odds on, virtually always 2/1 or more.
We are also odds on to beat Spartak.
Bookies, no very often wrong…mmmmm
I’m also getting sick of every radio phone-in getting rammed with Tory right-wingers. They actually have action groups organised just for this purpose : to swamp the airwaves.
Similar views rammed through your senses via the visual valium.
No wonder the nhs is being privatised without a whimper, indentured labour is back in vogue, and claiming benefits is akin to committing crime.
We get the government we deserve? I don’t think so. That’s been the gift to the bankers and their cronies. The kind of slags who like to keep divisive elements like the zombies running around as low-life shock troops for the butcher’s apron wavers.
05 Dec 19:45 UK Shakhtar Donetsk v Juventus 2/1 5/6 3/1
William Hill. Also, all the other matches have 89 “other bets”. This game has……None!
geordie munro
another one was jan molby that played for liverpool,he would have had it away wi yir hubcaps,he turned into that much of a scouser
HH
We have been, at best, average in the league campaign thus far. At times our performances have been abject it’s fair to say.
Despite that a quick glance at the league table shows us as top of the pile with a game in hand.
Not at all bad for a ‘duff’ manager and a squad that ‘isn’t good enough’.
We’ll win this championship by at least 15 points and we also have the bonus of a sustained run in Europe extending beyond Christmas.
Sometimes a little perspective is all that’s required.
Miki 67
I,too, have never subscribed to the “We get the Govenment we deserve” view point. Anyone care to show how the adage is true?
JJ
But I will have to be educated later. Off out on the bike for an hour or two.
A football manager, surely not?
“He had a love of art and poetry and completed an Open University degree in the humanities.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/nov/26/dave-sexton
Whither the cash strapped scrofulous hillbillies, and their scrofulous cash strapped cousins, the day?
Caught a brief bit of Shortbread last night- it seems after his EBT triumph ole Jabba is also an expert on rugby.
Any day now he’ll be appearin’ on Antiques Roadshow, Question Time and ole Beechgrove Garden.
Searched the government’s website to get a copy of the detail off the FTT. Can’t find it.
Does anyone have a link? Cheers
miki67 @ 10.05
“low-life shock troops for the butcher’s apron wavers” –
brilliant description.
Weet weet weet. Aye his accent was a cracker.
But there’s a huge difference between picking up an accent in your ‘new’ language after 10+ years….
….and sounding like the poilisman out of ‘allo ‘allo after less than 6 months in a new country.
:)
Good Moaning CQN (to be said in a French accent btw)
Kitalba fascinating story about the murder of Francis Skeffington. I wasn’t aware of it but after reading your piece found this from Hansard:
HANSARD 19 October 1916 → Commons Sitting → DISTURBANCES IN IRELAND.
CAPTAIN BOWEN-COLTHURST.
HC Deb 19 October 1916 vol 86 c705 705
§ 29. Mr. M’KEAN
asked the Chief Secretary if he will say whether Captain Bowen-Colthurst was certified as insane by any competent medical authority; and if he will state the name and qualifications of such authority and the date on which the certificate of insanity was given?
§ Mr. DUKE
I am informed that Captain Bowen-Colthurst was found guilty, but insane, by the court-martial which tried him, and that before committal to the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum he was examined and found insane by Dr. Dawson, Inspector of Lunatic Asylums, at present serving in Ireland as mental specialist to the Forces in Ireland.
§ Mr. DEVLIN
May I ask whether the military superiors of Captain Bowen-Colthurst are also insane? Are they still retained?
§ Mr. DUKE
I do not understand that there has been any trial or any conclusion on any matter of that kind.
§ Mr. REDDY
Give them all medals.
§ Mr. BYRNE
Is it not the fact that Captain Bowen-Colthurst was found unfit to control a section of the Army on the battlefields of France fighting the Huns, and will he say why he was allowed to run loose on unarmed citizens in Dublin?
§ Mr. DUKE
Captain Bowen-Colthurst was never under the control of the Executive whom I at present represent in this House. He was at all times a military officer, and the Department which represents him in this House is the War Office, and no doubt if a question is addressed to the Secretary of State for War he will answer it. I am not able to do so.
§ Mr. BYRNE
Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether he was under Major Price or not?
§ Mr. DUKE
I have not the least idea.
§ Mr. FLAVIN
Can the right hon. Gentleman say at what particular moment did Captain Bowen-Colthurst conveniently become insane?