Strachan lessons as Milan looms

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Neil Lennon will begin to get his players back at Lennoxtown tomorrow after, what for most of the first team, has been a two week international break.  For many of the established players, he’ll be hoping for a clean bill of health, but with trips to Tynecastle and Milan ahead, the manager will be keen to spend time with Teemu Pukki.

Teemu played 92 minutes for Finland in Tbilisi last night so will get little time on the training fields before Celtic’s next two games.  Tynecastle itself may provide the most effective training opportunity ahead of Wednesday’s game at the San Siro.

Delighted for Gordon Strachan, who has already caused an unlikely upturn in Scotland’s fortunes.  He is a better coach and tactician than he ever got credit for.  His Key Performance Indicators (winning leagues, knock out stages of the Champions League) were achieved in spades, but there was a soft underbelly which always seemed to undermine progress.  Curiously, his Celtic team went 15 months without keeping a clean sheet away from home in all competitions, despite winning the league in both seasons this run spanned.

The one game during this period of note was the 1-0 defeat to Milan in the Champions League knock out stage; the only game Celtic completed 90 minutes without conceding.  If Neil Lennon can replicate this achievement he stands an excellent chance of a second successive memorable Champions League campaign.

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  1. bournesrecipe

     

     

    to be honest i said the same thing when shaun scored last night

     

     

    he lost the ball at the edge of the box which led to the equalizer and a few minutes before that he was too greedy inside their box when he shot past the post instead of passing it ten yards to bannan who was in acres of space right in front of goal

     

     

    though i can say it without foamin at the mouth and without a twisted growl on my face :-)

  2. bournesouprecipe @16:39

     

     

    Imagine you’d a Rottweiler and you could teach it to bark…..Zombie Deidco Sevco, then you take it on a late night Glasgow bus

     

     

    Ha Ha Ha!

     

     

    Didn’t work out too well for Will Smith’s dug.

  3. ive actually saw that dug at Celtic Park in the Karagandy game. nae kiddin.

     

     

    i am surpised the dug let itself be kicked.

     

     

    I wonder if the defense of the culprits will be , the dug was a boxer and he started it first.

  4. #Fearless Wee Oscar is on a Celticrollercoaster on

    St Stivs

     

     

    You putting predictions in this week or what?

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC

  5. Billy Bhoy supports wee Oscar

     

     

    18:36 on 11 September, 2013

     

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    I remember only too clearly when the anthem I have referred to was sung with great gusto by our neighbours. It was widely believed to be the source of the Tarriers put-down.

     

    Never heard Andy Cameron’s justification for the term. Not really convinced that we were being insulted because some of us worked with the Roads Department.

     

     

    No matter.

     

    Take your pick.( As in Road Dept.)

  6. Kilbowie Kelt, Billy Bhoy. .

     

     

    Interesting answers, I’m always interested where words come from.

     

     

    They sing some vile songs that’s for sure, now most Irish when they went to America did their bit in the civil war to get Citizenship.

     

     

    Criminals did most of the roads.

     

     

    Yet Irish travellers have been known to specialised In TarMadam

  7. #Fearless Wee Oscar is on a Celticrollercoaster

     

    19:00 on

     

    11 September, 2013

     

    St Stivs

     

     

    You putting predictions in this week or what?

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC

     

     

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    i thought i did in your fancy dan, drop box thing last week, opened up my wee name, filled it in, and thought that was it, will try again.

  8. googybhoy ♥ Celtic

     

     

     

    18:58 on 11 September, 2013

     

     

     

    Tontine Tim

     

     

    How are you ? Family all ok?

     

     

    *aye no bad, got tendonitis in the shoulder so I’m getting physio twice a week, got a nice wee part timer as overnight cashier in a local supermarket, max 24 hours a week. Heard last night that the VP who was the reason I took early retirement got the tin tack, had a nice wee chardonnay to celebrate that.

     

     

    Mrs. TT had her birthday yesterday woke her with tea and toast and a nice wee rendition of “when I’m 64”. I reminded her that she was only 36 when Big Jock died, we were over on holiday and I watched it with my da in the Doghouse.

     

     

    All the grandweans were up last night so I took off for the KoC.

  9. Kilbowie Kelt

     

     

     

    19:03 on 11 September, 2013

     

     

     

    No matter.

     

    Take your pick.( As in Road Dept.)

     

     

    *worked for over 25 years in traffic engineering, nothing wrong with the tarriers.

  10. Apologies posted before I finished…

     

     

    Guess like most insulting words it doesn’t matter where they came from, it’s the venom and abuse that is inherent in these terms that’s the point.

     

     

    It was just an ironic reflection on a post where Rangers supporters were raging against been dehumanised, accused of being deluded and bigoted that they used such language.

  11. Marrakesh Express on

    Monaghan 1900

     

     

    As Phil rightly said about NI loyalists..’they are terrified of equality’. The same applies in Scotland but to a lesser extent.

  12. monaghan1900

     

     

    18:35 on 11 September, 2013MickTT18:28 on11 September, 2013Great, I look forward to going into work tomorrow and getting duly promoted..——I think you’ll find you’re already at the top of your chosen profession – unless you’re a Hun!

     

     

    The TT gives it away….!

     

     

    HH

  13. chairbhoy

     

     

    19:05 on 11 September, 2013Kilbowie Kelt, Billy Bhoy. .Interesting answers, I’m always interested where words come from.They sing some vile songs that’s for sure, now most Irish when they went to America did their bit in the civil war to get Citizenship.Criminals did most of the roads.Yet Irish travellers have been known to specialised In TarMadam

     

     

    I’d use the word specialised loosely

     

     

    HH

  14. Bournesouprecipe

     

     

    The emptyheads are probably trying to discover if the dug went to a faith school.

  15. twists n turns

     

     

    18:36 on 11 September, 2013MickttGeez bud, I had to read that twice. I kinda missed your opening line and thought you had written it!!I was thinking… ” now I’d never had placed micktt as a sevconian”Re – read….and normal service was resumed:-))

     

     

    Aye sorry, copy and pasted and forgot to delete the bulk of it… bad enough having to read it once, without me copying it..!

     

     

    HH

  16. angelgabriel

     

     

    19:01 on 11 September, 2013

     

     

    Mick TT 18.28.

     

     

    Nice one. :- ))

     

     

    Aye nae chance…!

     

     

    HH

  17. Marrakesh Express on

    Talking of dugs…mate of mine in Helensburgh took his dog for a walk just after the last ever Celtic- Rangers game. He wandered round towards a hun pub where about 8 of them stood smoking outside, raging after the 3-0 defeat. In a moment of devilment my mate launched the dog’s ball from 50 yards away toward the pub crowd. As it landed amongst them his faithful Rottweiller raced at the men, doing 100mph. The look of terror on their faces soon turned to anger when he shouted..’Lubo Lubo, here bhoy!!’

     

     

    hh

  18. Teuchter.

     

     

    Whilst we’re on the subject of dugs, Hail Hail Paddy, he wore the Hoops!

     

    Love st 86

  19. tomtheleedstimsupportsweeoscar on

    bournesouprecipe

     

     

    18:45 on 11 September, 2013

     

    Tontine

     

     

    Overheard from same Sevconian, same train, same conversation “Shaun Maloney got himself out of jail with that free kick”

     

     

    Normal Day in Glasgow CSC

     

     

     

    BSR – I’m lost here. Did Shaun kick the dug?

  20. Monaghan 1900

     

     

    Read your post from FF

     

     

    Obviously I thought it was just the usual self-pitying garbage from the Truth Deniers. And then I thought. 32 years ago I worked in a financial institution in Glasgow. All my bosses were fine egg chasing men with a healthy disrepect for those baptised in the Roman church. Now after all these years I am back in Glasgow working in a financial institution. My boss is an RC , so is his boss. He’ll there’s even an Irish fella who wears a crucifix. The Truth Deniers are right. It is a conspiracy.

     

     

     

    Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox

  21. bournesrecipe

     

     

    i didnt say shaun was lucky. i said he got himself out of jail a bit

     

     

    i wasnt overly concerned about the game or score but i was well pleased he scored when he did because of the two things i mentioned and to stop huns and sheep blamin him for scotland not winning

  22. Micktt @ 19;16,

     

     

    Very loosely, knew a chap, director of a Company got fed up with the pot holes in hid parking space.

     

     

    MD refused to get it repaired.

     

     

    So outsourcing said contract to a couple of travelling men

     

     

    Came into work on the Monday the hole carpark loosely tarmaced.

     

     

    His MD got choice to pay £££§§£ for the refurbishment or loose his building.

     

     

    The poor guy had, loosely speaking a brand new Car Parking space but no job.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  23. clink\o/

     

     

    19:30 on 11 September, 2013 Micktt

     

     

    Not as loose as the tarmac

     

     

    Ah brilliant…

     

     

    HH