I was a bit annoyed at BT’s halftime analysis which suggested Celtic were more than fortunate to be level at that stage. Salzburg had just enjoyed their best 15 minute period of the game, but, from beginning to end, Celtic’s performance was a textbook lesson on how to play away from home in Europe. We took our chances and drew our defensive line well in front of our box. This is how it’s done.
Were you as comfortable as I was during the final minutes last night?
Having watched the performance against Aberdeen on Saturday, when we bossed the game but were penned back when, with two debutants and a returning Scott Brown in the team, the legs faded in the last 30 minutes, I expected the same to happen last night.
Instead, Scott’s goal arrived on 60 minutes, which infused Celtic legs with adrenalin. This was the crucial moment of the game. We conceded that fabulous goal from Soriano during the final 30 minutes, but this was also our best period of the game. Wakaso (who is a player, b.t.w.) ran himself into the ground – literally. Brown, Johansen, Izaguirre and Ambrose all covered enormous areas of the pitch.
Instead of going through turmoil in the closing stages, we saw Salzburg drop deep, acknowledging the clear danger they could concede for a third time.
The one obvious question is, how did we pick Craig Gordon up for free?
Brand Britain
Brand Britain is damaged. Last night’s vote was a high water mark for independence, so far, but the demographic breakdown suggests support for change is strongest among the young. If the three major UK parties have any intention of maintaining the status quo they need to indulge in considerable Nation Building.
The football business in Britain is in the hands of two closed-shop cartels, one in England and Wales [controlled by the affluent], and one in Scotland [controlled by the unambitious]. This arrangement has disenfranchised Scottish football and drains our economy of tens of millions of pounds per year. It is a clear manifestation of second class status for Scotland and our economy, which is unacceptable for anyone who considers the UK to be one nation.
Politicians with an interest in pushing the buttons of the people, should use this time to call this arrangement out for what it is.
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who from the No-sayers will wear their north british flag at celtic park on sunday ?
I voted No
I have no time for hooligans, racists or thugs – these people have to be arrested and put on trial
Just because there are some thugs in the No camp – please don’t try to tar everyone with that brush!
HH
Art of War
18:44 on
19 September, 2014
the yes voters were accused of bullying,
now the Vanguard of the No;s the backbone of the union will show them what it really means.
the loyal defenders of the socialist union working hard for the poor reclaiming George Square by force from those scummy right wing indynats.
mmmmm
Stay away from George square…full of Brits…Sure I saw a CQN banner in one corner.
Corkcelt
ure ramblin,
we will c how WM treats us NOW
we’reprettymuchfucked CSC
You NO voters, you seriously didnt expect at sometime the triumphant wing of your side wouldnt get violent ?
its been ever thus,
riot when they win
riot when they lose
riot when the telly breaks.
strange bed fellows for celtic supporters, but there you go.
its all about the fear isnt it.
Paddysmarket
18:26 on 19 September, 2014
Very very seldom post but I am on every day lurking
away in the background, I have been reading all the many
and varied views before and after the indy result, and honest
tae god guys , some of you would give an Askit a sore head
always trying to be smarter than who ever you are pitting your
wits against,some trying to come over as all knowing ,do you
ever think how you are percieved by people just reading the blog
and you know who you are, honestly some of you come across
as the kind of guys that when you walk in the pub it empties, you
should really give it a rest, mabybe go down the pub for an hour ,
oh! wait you would be on your todd, any way got that of ma chest
KevJungle
18:40 on 19 September, 2014
petec
18:36 on 19 September, 2014
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Hail Hail
Btw….what was yer post at 18:08 about?
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hehe, I tell ye Kev, yer very guid.
I assumed the long named poster at that Time was you, my bad, sorry.
Can I just say the best ever thing I read on this Blog was by you……
When you said, paraphrasing “that the only dude ever to never tell lies, was nailed to a cross”.
That was so Powerful.
Matthew 26:34
And I love KevJ for posting it, more than you will Ever know.
SHITE BAGS SAY NAW!
Labour socialist leader disowns her shock troops of the socialist union as a rogue football crowd…….
mmmmmmmm
saint stivs 18.50
Now now. You can’t tar everyone with the same brush. I mean there was no one on here calling all yes voters Nats was there? Well was there? Cheap point-scoring apparatchiks.
paddysmarket
Well said sir
HH
lol.
uber nats i was told
MICK11
18:52 on 19 September, 2014
SHITE BAGS SAY NAW!
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Thats me then.
Sorry.
Paul,
Career politicians lack any clear intent to build anything. The servile public servant in our current society is to ride the gravy train, while lining the pockets of his corporate masters.
To these corporate puppets, nothing is of import outside the M25. The vast swathes of the island are a means to an end- rake in more money.
This IMHO was the faintest glimmer of hope in the Indy campaign. For once the people would speak and reject their corrupt war mongering and profiteering, in that we might have a wee shot at building our own political landscape.
Alas, this was not to be, as the Scottish people have been subjected to a monotone of fear, negativity and anxiety over the preceding months leading up to the vote. The Better Together campaign played a blinder in evoking emotions of loss, uncertainty and insecurity. The shadowy folk pulling the strings must the rubbing their hands in glee today.
How Scotland will react now will be fascinating. We are to be dragged inevitably with English nonchalance toward a short term future that comprises of a growing right wing mentality and further “austerity”.
I for one will continue to put my faith in the Scots, hoping that their perpetual slumber has finally been awakened. One suspects that the desire for autonomy is not dead in the water yet.
MCSWINNEY on SKY NEWS “looks like fantastic atmosphere in GEORGE SQ GLASGOW.think i’ll take a train through.”
Didn’t take long for the worst of the No voters to show their ugly faces .
Doctor Whatfor
18:54 on 19 September, 2014
Anyone who advocated a yes vote had adopted a nationalist ideology and is therefore by definition a nat.
And the moaning and wailing as the result became clear overnight made that perfectly clear.
Why are nats so ashamed of being nats?
Oh magic a quick lurk before I head into town for a night out and see that the devil’s motley crew of Orangies are out in force.
UTLR
wonder if any cqners are part of the loyalist george square crowd at the moment.
will you be bringing your union flags to the game on sunday?
well now we have to accept your vision of a fairer scotland its only fair that you can wear your butchers aprons to the games
These clowns in George Square.
Are they the ones McAskill praised for their behaviour at Hampden?
Petec, would you say you were among the elderly electorate??
Saint Stivs ..
brill!!!!.wonder where ERNIE is ce soir.
Sorry folks, I know this is footy site but I really don’t know where else to post this:
Obituary – The Nation of Scotland
Between 10pm on the 18th September and 6am on the 19th September the nation of Scotland died. It was a long illness with its origins in the greed laden 1980’s. The inability of its people to look beyond “what is in it for me“ to what is good for all citizens eventually sapped its strength.
That a country could not bring itself to govern itself, by definition, means that it is not a country at all. It has now passed to being a region, a province, a protectorate something less than it could have been. The people themselves decided promises that, already just twelve hours after the result are foundering, allowed themselves to be deluded, and deflected to the point they took the easy option.
Building any country is not easy. Hard choices have to be made. There is no utopia for any new land .
The country who brought us the “Age of enlightenment”, some of the greatest scientific break throughs that the world has seen, contributed to the industrial wealth and ingenuity that drove the British Empire to become the only truly global empire in the history of the world ultimately did not have the self-belief, the confidence, and more importantly the will to govern its own citizens.
I cannot think of another country in the world, in a similar position to Scotland, that would not wish to be able to stand on its own, to govern its own for its own benefit, to harness the power of its own assets for the good of all and in that I feel, not only remorse, but deep shame.
Scotland today is only a country in sporting terms. It has lost all vestige of national pride beyond this.
Ernie
They voted with you. Are you a hun?
notthebus
18:35 on
19 September, 2014
Nazi salutes, rule Britannia and naturally Rangers tops,George Square tonight
https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos_h264high/818B9971921124800326684610560_SW_WEBM_141114736613737c3e4cb40.mp4?versionId=oQjrF0mrJCf6M_cvHk9mI2HAgczEZFD8
So this is the bed fellows of the Celtic supporting No voters. You must be proud.
Ernie
No doubt Police Scotland will deal with the real thugs in as an efficient and effective manner as they deal with the green brigade!
HH
ernie lynch
18:58 on
19 September, 2014
These clowns in George Square.
Are they the ones McAskill praised for their behaviour at Hampden?
they are the clowns people on here have been telling you for months that you are in bed with.
Weeminger
Are jobs important?
Is a society satisfied it is getting a fair crack of the national whip important?
Is reversing the downward spiral in an industry that is important to the nation’s physche important?
Are these not the kind of thing Indy was trying to create the conditions to achieve?
If yes, why because football is the industry in question should it be excluded from trying to achieve those objectives as a result of what the debate has highlighted?
How many folk in Scotland have livelihoods that depend on football? How many of them face unemployment or loss of opportunity as the industry fails?
If it were not for the background how many would say a UK league is not a desirable aim, that jobs are not important nor are the other benefits.
I can appreciate the timing might touch raw nerves but the aim aligns perfectly with what Indy was trying to bring about and I’m surprised folk so keen on Indy fail to see the bigger picture.
Because football is totally interdependent as an industry, it is inevitable that Celtic as part of that industry and on a Celtic blog will be seen as the beneficiary and motivation for raising the issue but that is to lose site of what I thought Indy was trying to achieve – choice and prosperity.
Soz
19:00 on 19 September, 2014
‘Nazi salutes, rule Britannia and naturally Rangers tops,George Square tonight’
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Are those people Scottish or English?
No one riotin’ down here.
We’re havin’ a quiet night in, listenin’ to ole Desmond Carrington live from Perthshire.
The referendum , even including the depressing news from Glasgow tonight, has been a completely different experience outside the west central areas, which are still stuck in their dreary tribalist mindset.
What about this Celtic man?
Hallelujah
Think about Celtic, it is a lot more important than Nations, IMO.
Ernie
Anyone who advocated a no vote had adopted a nationalist ideology and is therefore by definition a nat.
And the triumphalism and joy as the result became clear overnight made that perfectly clear.
Why are britnats so ashamed of being nats?
Same logic.
HH
Are the Arch-Noes from here off to join their real friends and allies in George Square. go fly your fleg
MICK11
18:58 on 19 September, 2014
Petec, would you say you were among the elderly electorate??
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42 and live with my Mum and Dad, I’m not exactly minted.
What about you?
Ernie Lynch
You are not helping. You are stirring the shit. Witness the amount of stinking thinking polluting the blog.
Away and have a pint.
St Stivs- had a word with the bouncers at Waxy’s who were about to come on shift early as the Britscots were harassing other drinkers earlier.
HT- Be careful in the toon tnite!
Just shattered
Pity you didn’t make those hard choices in your manifesto for a new Scotland because it was so full of pie in the sky nonsense that it couldn’t really be taken seriously
That’s one of the reasons that 2 million -yes that’s 2million of your fellow citizens decided that they did not want to take a leap in the dark!
Now after a10 year plan and 2years of campaigning WeeEck jumps ship as soon as he can!
What a guy!
Today should have been about the people of Scotland and their decision!
Instead WeeEck has tried to mask the scale of his defeat -a truly disgusting character!
HH