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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Is there a quiz tonight?
I took the one yesterday but I think I picked the wrong answer.
The Bluebells
Patriot Game
HH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jvnzFfQCk8&feature=player_detailpage
I asked the Lord
Anyone else get the feeling that the nats are delighted that some huns are running riot?
BCW.
Again I concur, you worded it more eloquently than me. It’s good to feel the compassion from you and Mick 11. As opposed to the cheap point scoring from others.
weet weet weet(GBWO)
19:37 on 19 September, 2014
‘Was it ever going to be any different in the square when a no vote won’
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Would it have been any different if yes had won?
I’m sure I heard a Sky News reporter at George Square say:
“The union supporters are in fine voice.”
Ffs!!!
Ernie
Not sure about delighted but it definitely seems the No voters, especially any who have the temerity to post on here , are to blame.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lG0L86DRuC8
Eton Rifles
forournexttwopmsCSC
Tallybhoy
That was said but it was said with some irony IMO
Tallybhoy
the Police Federation probably think it’s a good atmosphere
HH
Ernie, put your rod away!
Oo-er missus. :-)
tallybhoy,
There’s a stand off in the square with the police in the middle, warned my two kids to keep out of the town tonight, as the fleg waving orangees will high jack the celebrating no voters.HH
Anyway folks.
Over and out.Not feeling too great today.sick to my stomach.
He never answered……
I put my X in a Box.
Burning Love
Anyone else get the feeling that YES voters are delighted that New Labour are about to get their sphincter stretched by their Tory bed-fellows, with Tam Dalyell standing in the corner holding the trousers. Tee-hee-hee.
Look on the bright side Celtic are playing TEXT BOOK FOOTBALL. DEILA is leading us into a golden generation.
BREAKING NEWS.
Kenny McAskill just arrived in George Square and said to be enjoying the atmosphere created by the union supporters.
Polis have helpfully kettled a small number of those terrible indynats and surrounded them with the glorious stormtroopers of the loyal socialist union. That’ll teach them. Apparently hell is on the falls now…..
mmmmmmmm
Looking for Lorenzo comments to Ikpeba of Dortmund the article finished
With a couple of characters.
Murray and Ogilvie
.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
“We discussed the incident at length and it is accepted that the player did not recollect having made these comments,” Ogilvie said. “However, on viewing the video recording of the match, the player admits the comments attributed to him were made.
“Lorenzo is not a racist and obviously he very much regrets his actions which took place in the heat of the moment.”
The Rangers chairman, David Murray, said yesterday that he is ready to enter the transfer market after the disappointment of his side’s Uefa Cup exit. “We are not talking here about players who cost only a million,” he said. “Rangers are well down the road to huge signings and they will be of a much better standard than what we have now.”
This blog is not a place I recognise anymore……..
ernie lynch
19:40 on 19 September, 2014
weet weet weet(GBWO)
19:37 on 19 September, 2014
‘Was it ever going to be any different in the square when a no vote won’
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Would it have been any different if yes had won?
Eh…….no. The huns would still have rioted, wrapped in their butcher’s aprons. I really wonder how you can have the brass neck required to even consider asking that question.
sipsini
Best to avoid Glesga tonight.
The Gallowgate will be ok ‘tho!
HH!!
ernie lynch
Think your right mate
Unfortunately
HH
The huns are going mental in Belfast, wild celebrations and cavalcades.
Imbeciles.
HH.
Cameron Buttle
BBC Scotland
‘Atmosphere changed’
Posted at 18:45
I have been in George Square all day. It has ebbed and flowed, the crowd occasionally unpleasant, but about 20 minutes ago the atmosphere changed very noticeably.
What I would describe as a Loyalist crowd turned up with lots of Union flags. All day the Saltire has been in evidence.
There was a rush from the Loyalist side. Flares went up, the police came in, it all got very nasty for a while. the police have separated the crowds on either side of the square now.
Sounds like some elements cannot win gracefully.
Coincidentally, aye right, a certain football team element has the same traits.
I used to come on here and enjoy the debate (even the non football stuff which I have taken part in) but the confrontational language, the unwillingness to see the other side of the argument and some of the personal insults has turned it into something that I don’t feel part of.
As a previous labour supporter I will now being voting SNP till the day I die or we get independence
Remember the only poll by YouGov sponsored by Murdoch which put the Yes campaign in the lead.
That was a fix to motivate the No campaign against yes momentums danger
What I find particularly galling was our support no supporters
What happened to the founding principles of our great club in regard to social justice when you put an x next to no
Personally I think it was shameful
I doubt I will ever see the Celtic support in the same light again for me there is a clear distinction now between those who voted No for more of the same and those who voted Yes for real change
With a Yes vote we could have diminished the ugly side of unionism in Scotland and with time eradicated it
Now we have the billy boys out in force attacking the Yes supporters supporters I had the privileged to spend time with in George Sq yesterday. A more representative side of the good of the Scottish psyche you could not meet ( I took hundreds of pictures to prove it so)
Sometime soon the billy boys will be back at Celtic Park emboldeden by the vote with even more hate for us than they ever had
Like some have said on here you reap what you sow or should that be you reap what you vote
Always a Celtic fan who voted yes
Thindimebhoy
Kelvinbhoy
I think you’re right. It’s reaching new lows every day. The bad language rule seems to be a thing of the past now too. Pity.
16 roads – Celtic über alles…
19:52 on 19 September, 2014
The huns are going mental in Belfast, wild celebrations and cavalcades.
Imbeciles.
HH.
Yep – bedfellows of bitter together. People will realise soon enough what has really happened on the back of yesterday’s vote. Will be too late for quite a while tho’.
Kelvinbhoy
YOU SHUT IT!
burghbhoy
19:26 on 19 September, 2014
Tory rule with Boris in charge for the next decade.
That’s our depressing future.
How do u go about getting a green card?
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With patience.
Too much petty friction.
I’ve had an idea to dispel the frustrations. Why don’t we have a charity boxing event? I might be able to get access to a ring. Any of the protagonists interested ? Just think you can get rid of all that stress for a few quid.
It’s gota be better than battering away at some faceless opponent on CQN ?
I’ll offer my referee services FOC
All the trouble in geo sq after they won.
Can ye imagine the carnage if the result had went the other way!!.
God help us.
Tallybhoy
I fully expect a procession of the loyal socialist union to head down there later looking for some targets to pick off………. Britnats, what they like….. keeping indynats at bay and protecting the socialist union….. God bless em all eh!
croppybhoy
17:37 on 19 September, 2014
Theboywhois…
I judge people by what they do…
Politicians are all power hungry liars.
They desire the power to change. The things they want to change decides whether we support them or not. Simples.
British political theory views politicians as honourable members of conscience. They cannot possibly make decisions that all of their electorate will agree with so we have to settle for decisions being made according to their individual conscience. How that squares with the party whip system or conventions of collective responsibility is, however, beyond me.
All governments make bad, poorly thought out laws. These are frequently made on the hoof, in times of supposed crisis. This leads to sensible objections being overwhelmed in a sea of ill-considered morality and naval gazing self-righteousness. This often leads to the “either with us or against us” bullying arguments with which you have become so incensed. Think Blair and the Iraq War or Cameron’s we’re all in it together austerity.
Scotland has many problems. Some have been exacerbated by London public policy decision makers. Could Edinburgh decision makers have done any better? We don’t and now won’t know. However, it would appear that both sides of the referendum argument, in public anyway (power hungry liars remember), agree that more decisions should be made at local levels. This one assumes is to minimise the number of decisions made by out of touch London based public policy decision makers.
Cameron did meet with bank and supermarket heads in the lead up to the vote. Purely coincidentally these institutions, in the main, then publically pronounced the incredible dangers of independence. Deutsche Bank even warned of a 1930’s style Great Depression.
My family originally hails from County Mayo and I have no problem with the term boycott, unless it involves cricket. I’m surprised you do. If companies lie and swindle and phone hack etc they deserve to be boycotted.
I see the term is now nationalist socialist. I have no problems with this. Act locally, think globally and all that.
As for promoting the leadership cult? Ffs! Any political leader who wins is feted. Losers resign or are punted. People like winners. People traditionally follow winners. Look at manu fans ffs. As an aside, the only people as far as I could see wedded to a leadership cult during the campaign were draped in the union flag, standing tall and making their salutes for everyone to see.
When it comes to historical right wing tendencies the SNP are not alone. Thatcher gave Pinochet succour and sanctuary. She helped rig the international humanitarian aid system so that the victims of genocide lost out to its perpetrators. Her aid of Pol Pot and the Khymer Rouge didn’t end there though. She also sent military aid and training presumably so they could continue on from there they had to leave off. I suppose Cambodians aren’t worth a lot alive or dead… And as for Labour’s Middle East adventures?
How do you therefore judge Labour, Lib-dem and the Tories?
This referendum was not an election. If you didn’t like Salmond and the SNP you could’ve voted for someone else in the 1st Scottish national election.
But I guess it’s all over now baby blue…
Hail Hail
VP @ 19:57
see you in Chapmans after the game on Sunday for a good old fashioned Ruglen square-go. And you can bring your buddy G64 and I’ll sort him too.