Anthony Stokes is in the best form of his Celtic career at the moment, arguably the best form of his life if you overlook his stunning cameo at Falkirk. It’s hard to know if this is related to no longer being in the shadow of a more favoured son, or if Anthony has just got his ‘stuff’ together, but his intervention was absolutely crucial in our only Champions League win so far. He had all the wisdom necessary to bate an opponent into a clumsy foul.
The psychology of a three year contract, worth more money, before performance bonuses, than the player will be able to spend is not always a good thing for a footballer, but the competition for a starting berth up front for Celtic is acute. On the back of his winning goal on Sunday Amido Balde has been talking about his ambitions to secure a regular place, Teemu Pukki is guaranteed nothing while Georgios Samaras has been used regularly as a striker. Anthony will remain under pressure to perform.
All of this competition will come into sharp focus in Amsterdam next week. Celtic will come under pressure for most of the game, but this is something they are comfortable with. We will need someone to exploit the openings Ajax will leave in their defence. Put your money on Anthony for the George McCluskey role.
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GREENYINFURAFENIAN
Didn’t actually “air my views” only that i wouldn’t write false sentiment for a man I detested…did also open my post with “MND is something I would wish on no man”….so where exactly do u censors say I’ve gone wring there ?!?!
UTLR
5-0 the Sox! Yyyyyyus!
here was me thinking that by writing you detest the man and you wouldn’t post false sentiment you were “airing your view”
you didn’t respond as to what prompted you to write it in the first place.
but thats ok you don’t mind being the bad guy
6 for the Redsox! Get in there!
Jonny the Tim
Thank you mo chara,the respect is mutual,i assure you!
Greenyin
Sentiment seems to b expected and wot I was saying was that basically if u did that,it would be false ! And that is something im not…I assure u,I was only referring to myself,although I concede my wording could have been better!
UTLR
Hey Sandman,
I’m watching the game too…and lovin’ it :) Would love to be at Fenway tonight, the place is electric!
Hail Hail
shoulder2
nae worries, ah’v nae desire to fall out with you over it.
GREENYIN
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit !!
Haven’t u ever been told that !???
My feelings prompted me….I really would like to know what you have a problem with here …or u just looking for an argument too ?!
UTLR
as ah said no worries. mibbes you were typing as my post came up on the blog
I spent too much time away from my kids, working away from home during the week for too many years.
I love the wildness of weans though, at their youngest they don’t have any rules and rightly resent their imposition. They also see magic in the most trivial of things, a beauty in the smallest drop. This is a song, and I wrote it after watching my five year-old son on a beach in Lanzarote. It’s a bit twee, and it ain’t no Lou Reed.
Lookin back I’d have been better earnin less, and spendin more time at home
Sandcastles
Let me show you what I’ve made
Let me take you by the hand
Let us look real close and wonder
At this thing of water and sand
Let me teach you how to see
What you miss when you grow old
How the water in your hands
Turns to silver and to gold
You live in smothering boundaries
There are no roads I know
I walk wherever takes my eye
For freedom is to go
Let me show you how to live
With no fear of what will be
With no colour, race, or creed
Come and see what I can see
Should’ve said, it’s from the childs perspective, what they’d say to us I’d guess
dublinbhoy – there will be some amount of partyin over the next few days if the Sox hold on and win it. Atmosphere at Fenway closest to a footy crowd of all ballparks. Sounds brilliant there tonight, especially when they boom out ‘3 Little birds’.
GREENYIN
Apologies….thats exactly what happened,and I echo ur sentiment mo chara!
UTLR
HH shoulder2shoulder
Jimmyquinnsbits
That wis great mo chara,have u got a melody for it ?
UTLR
Bedtime methinks !
Goodnight Timland,one and all !
FREE THE 5 !!!!
UTLR
S2S,
I have ,and lovely it is ;)
but the chanter is a broken thing, and cannot croak a tune
a shadow of it’s former self and, some might say, a loon
it whispers to the darkness, and struggles from the bed
and everybody mumbles, the ould bugger should be dead
HH
Jimmyquinnsbits, that. Is. Good.
Sweet catch of the wee one’s innocent worldview. My five year old produced a gem this year when after seeing some old newsreel footage on tv and some of her granny’s puctures of her youth she asked me, “Daddy, when did the world turn into colour?’
Nothing like a child’s perspective.
Shockrt at Fenway: big Papi strikes out. Almost unheard of these days ;)
WORLD SERIES UPDATE
Possibly, probably the last update.
Game 6 in Boston and the Red Sox, barring a collapse, looked to have secured the series
They lead the Cardinals 6-0 in the bottom of the 6th innings.
Kids in Boston breathing a huge sigh of relief as they will be able to go out to trick and treat.
Talking of tricking and treating it’s common for people who don’t hand out candies to have their houses and gardens adorned with toilet rolls.
I think I might leave the lights out tomorrow night as I have run out of Andrex,
the leaves are all dried up and
I’m down to using the pine cones.
Dons jacket and leaves.
Sandman,
smashin, my daughter couldn’t get the concept of money – “but… what’s it for?” she’d ask. I would just stare, speechless at the inadvertent wisdom.
She only recognised receiving and giving of stuff that was useful to her.
Different now she’s older mind you ;)
jqb, lol.
Aggh. Cardinals score. 6-1. Sox. Lackey wobbling.
Whew. Sox escape a bases-loaded jam. Thru 7 innings, 6-1 up.
Wad feeling the tension there, like the Hoops clingibg to a CL lead.
Sandman
02:44 on
31 October, 2013
Whew. Sox escape a bases-loaded jam. Thru 7 innings, 6-1 up.
Wad feeling the tension there, like the Hoops clingibg to a CL lead.
It’s not often we can get to cling on to a 5 goal lead.
One more and I’m off. There’s a parallel in this one, not hard to seek.
Celtic isn’t a football club, or a PLC, or shareholders, or directors, or “customers”. I was born with this. It’s a part of me, and I couldn’t deny it even if I wanted to.This isn’t logical, I shouldn’t care so much about an institution, but there’s an army of family behind me, dead and gone, which this represents. When they were most despised, they had this citadel.
By Maya Angelo
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Night All
HH
JQB
gg, lulz. Very good. Cards were one swing away from a grand slam.
Felt like I did after Messi scored in injury time last year.
Sox nearly there. One more innings. 3 outs from the World Series. Crowds gathering around stadium, street parties ready to launch. Boston looks the place to be tonight. And tomorrow. And probably the weekend…
Lol, interview with old fella in the Fenway Park crowd – 88 years old, Redsox season ticket holder for 65 years. Beat that, Grey Brigade. ;)
Ace closer Koji Uehara comes in to pitch the final innings and win it.
The Redsox’s Nakamura…
Red Sox 3 outs away !!!!
WORLD SERIES FINAL RESULT
and update
RED SOX beat the Cardinals 6-1 to win the series 4-2
Let the party begin
Red Sox Win !!!!
Redsox win it! Champions!
Fantastic. Party time for the Boston Irish tonight!
Sox win it…first time in 85 years they have won the World Series at Fenway.
So happy for Boston…let the party begin!
Hail Hail
Brilliant the Redsox! From last to first in a season. Outstanding consistency and team spirit. 173 games. Moneyball!!!
Won it for the bomb victims Boston Strong! God bless ’em Sox.
What about the cop in the Ball pen?
The cop – hilarious. Highlighted him celebrating twice at home runs and there was a giant placard of his face held up in the crowd. He’s become a Boston celebrity and lucky charm.