Playing at home against the side who last night finished 35th in the 36 team Conference League table is surely bound to give Celtic some respite from the recent avalanche of defeats. Aberdeen travelled home from Prague during the night after a 3-0 defeat to Sparta. A home draw against an Armenian side and a draw in Cyprus was enough to earn them a point more than bottom team Rapid Vienna.
Domestically, however, they are in fine form. Their last defeat was in October and came on the back of a long flight home from Athens, where they suffered a 6-0 drubbing. Since then, they have won five and drawn twice in the league, beating Hearts in the process. Four wins and a draw in their last five games puts them top of the form table, two points better than anyone else over that period.
On Sunday, I expect Aberdeen to redeploy their approach to this year’s Scottish Cup Final, when they sat in and waited on a Celtic mistake. Practically any result is possible, let’s hope a corner is turned.
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LR67.
Due to pesky work I don’t make every game ( My ticket is always used )
Like yourself I have made the journey to Parkhead for Donkeys years.
Sooooooo much change has happened in the circle of life, but the journey to Parkhead has remained constant.
It is still a privilege to support. God willing for a long time yet.
Round the camp fire.
You do not know how accurate you are in the life of Basecamp. 😃
HH.
Watching Celtic supporters implode is like reading Animal Farm all over again.
Celtic 3 Aberdeen 0
Greenpinta
A Celtic gem to sing along too
including a Celtic colossus
We destroyed them
https://x.com/tirnaog_09/status/1537335765503549440?s=20
aff oot
Stephenbhoybhoy,
Great post last night.Never missed a target.😇😇😇
You know theres a problem when you agree with Keevins article this morning.
Mibees instead of ‘sack the board ‘ the chant could be ,
‘ Dermot Dermot he’s top man , he has got a master plan
He’ll change the board when he can , slowly slowly ,wan by wan ‘
🐛
Wilfried, please have us more organised and resolute defensively today.
The winter solstice is at 15.03 today.
Let’s hope that it is also the turning point for Wilfried.
Watching MOTD last night.Some of the Refereeing and VAR decisions,really ,really poor.Why is it so difficult?
The Wilfried Solstice.
Something better dawn on him.
Now is the winter solstice of our discontent .
GREENPINATA on 21ST DECEMBER 2025 8:00 AM
“It’s very easy and rewarding to support a continually winning team.
Me thinks support is more challenging during turbulent times”.
Indeed.
“The true measure of a man is not where he stands during moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands during trial and controversy “.
Martin Luther King
hrvatski jim et al
Or is the shortest day about to become Wilfired’s longest day that is the question?
The sun rose in Glasgow at 08.45 today and will set just before half-time @ 15.44, taking us back into darkness. Hopefully we’ll be a couple of goals in front by then.
“ The way to persuade others to change is to focus on the issue and not the individual that personifies it. It helps if you also suggest a solution they are happy to consider”.
Wise words Auldheid👍
“Those with heated driveways, purchased on the backs of others will be judged harshest”
Jesus.
MOM,
He came away with some belters that guy.
Heated driveways are so yesterdays news.Unheated driveways are all the rage here in Turkey.
The Blogger@ 10.27,
PISH !!!.
The issue with today’s world is we start off a so called discussion with everything we don’t agree on which steadily descends into argument, invective and chaos.
Can we not look at what binds us and I mean everyone within our support and Executive in order to find common ground and then look to build on that.
It may be an idealistic way of looking at things but the current antipathy between all is serving little to no purpose and damaging our Club.
3-1 the Hoops today.
“A football club shall be formed for the maintenance of heated driveways for the rich and their mates”
Brother Walfrid, allegedly
The health of the hunger strikers is deteriorating. Here is a link to contact the Secretary of State for Justice to voice your concerns
https://palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/LammyHungerStrikers
HH
ps Celtic just win today please
Celtic Mac
I genuinely hope that he can retrieve the situation. For me, this means showing that he can be flexible and play according to the strengths of the players that he has now and get wins until he can form his own team.
Hrvatski Jim on 21st December 2025 11:02 am
Celtic Mac
I genuinely hope that he can retrieve the situation. For me, this means showing that he can be flexible and play according to the strengths of the players that he has now and get wins until he can form his own team.
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The wisest of wise men (Jock Stein) once said, that he never asks any player to do something he is incapable of.
Today the board may have a pointer to how the can’t attend support feel :
Game versus hearts
Celtic t.v. payees = ???
Game versus Aberdeen.
Celtic t.v. Payers = ???
Up ye’ come Sun.
I type payers kindle types payees…
🙄
The great Steve Earle
https://youtu.be/_7-PM_4aeE4?si=CHk2x0D_Nfqdwatg
Setting sun…let’s hope today is not our… private hell
hrvatski jim/ziggy doc1
Fact is Martin & Co were getting more out of the same players, results wise if not always performance wise.
But we have lost that momentum, revived Hearts and allowed a dangerous Video Assisted Rangers* to get back into contention. Last home match of the year surely we can create some Christmas cheer.
Or at least something to cheer about!
Remember how we crashed and burned in the 2020/21 season…
That was tough, but we rallied, Dominic McKay, replaced Peter Lawwell, Ange came in with his “ball”.
Things just got better and better…
Then at the start of 2023, Scottish Football’s worse kept secret – Peter Lawwell returned to Celtic.
The village idiots said – woe is me, this won’t end well.
The smartest guys in the room were saying nonsense you poverty ridden cretins – this is great news….
Mon the village idiots, mon the bitter wee men…
MemnonThePhilosopherCSC
Hail Hail
Looking forward to some great Scottish fibaw – Cough! Cough!
Hearts 3 – 0 R2ngers
Celtic 3 – 0 Aberdeen
COYBIG
Hail Hail
Just for you CB.
https://youtu.be/nfWlot6h_JM?si=KYQUz9F_SmFnJQyi
Wonder if today is the day that Nancy will drop his system play 4 at the back and wait until January till he can recruit players for his system and not try to force players (who have been coached into a different one)
If he doesnt, its another shambles
He wont get sacked this week – we have no one in the coaching staff who is available to step up and manage a team for the game we have on the 27th
And I cant see us recruiting a manager this close to xmas
It’s an omni shambles
Pls pick a team to our squads strengths and play them that way till we can recruit more
Surely he can see this
Dessybhoy
Whilst sectarianism will have helped the approach to the 5WA money will have been the major consideration of the clubs who accepted.
They were either in debt or hovering in its shadow.
✅ Heart of Midlothian (Hearts)
Debt at end of 2011: Yes — Hearts reported debt.
According to published figures from the club’s own release, Hearts reduced debt from £36.1m to £24m around May 2012, indicating they were deeply indebted through 2011.
Wikipedia
✅ Hibernian (Hibs)
Debt at end of 2011: Likely yes. While specific end-2011 figures aren’t publicly linked in one source, historically Hibs were operating in deficit years and are widely reported among SPL clubs with debt/operating losses around this period (e.g., concerns about sustainability and auditors’ remarks).*
The Guardian
✅ Dundee United
Debt at end of 2011: Likely yes. Financial summaries from the period list Dundee United among clubs with net debts reported (e.g., a small net debt listed in league financial summaries).
✅ Aberdeen
Debt at end of 2011: Likely yes. General financial figures from the era show net debt for Aberdeen in annual summaries in the early 2010s (with non-zero figures reported).
St Mirren
Debt at end of 2011: Likely yes. Club accounts from the period show small but non-zero debt on balance sheets.
Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Debt at end of 2011: Likely yes, albeit comparatively small. Financial summaries list modest debt figures for Inverness CT.
Kilmarnock
Debt at end of 2011: Likely yes. Kilmarnock’s finances also show evidence of net debt in published league finance tables of the era.
St Johnstone & Motherwell
Debt at end of 2011: Likely yes or slight. Neither club is typically listed as debt-free; league financial summaries did not show zero debt for these clubs.
Dunfermline Athletic
Debt at end of 2011: Yes. Dunfermline’s accounts to May 31, 2011, show overall debts of £10.6m, including substantial amounts owed beyond one year, indicating clear indebtedness before the 2011–12 season started.
Rangers as we know were up to their necks in it and Celtic were not debt free although manageable as result of decisions after Seville.
Celtic plc – Year Ended 30 June 2011
✅ Net debt at 30 June 2011: £0.66 million
This figure includes all bank borrowings and other loans offset by cash at bank and in hand — effectively the net amount owed after cash balances are taken into account.
When 5WA was accepted there was the expectation that Rangers use of ebts was going to be investigated by SPL but only if clubs accepted it to allow proceedings to start before Rangers share as a football club went to Dundee. Otherwise the SPL did not have a football club to put charges to.
VAR disallowed Sevco opener. Must have broken their toxic wee hearts. GIRFUY
CELTIC: Schmeichel, Ralston, Trusty, Tierney, McGregor, Engels, Nygren, McCowan, Yang, Kenny, Maeda.
Subs: Sinisalo, Simpson-Pusey, Scales, Yamada, Inamura, Bernardo, Murray, Forrest, Donovan
Dr Pangloss on 21st December 2025 12:01 pm
I thought the return of PL was one of the worst mistakes DD has made in perception terms.
Ange worked under the same spending policy of his predecessor with PL back in the building with advantage of knowing better quality players from a market where wages were lower so within policy range as well as personal experience of Mooey.
McKay got the boot for trying to go above policy and right up to this season that policy with PL back in the building took us to Bayern.
The spend policy is what CEO’s of any competency level have to operate under, but Celtic have been too cautious, built up a profit when there was room to spend more on players and it is the unwillingness to do that and why that needs revisited and explained.
Had that question on policy been highlighted and Collective action stayed focussed on getting an answer instead of focusing on the people who executed the policy, Celtic would eventually have had to explain as it is a perfectly valid question to ask.
Bognorbhoy
Cheers for the team
Thats another back 3…….
Why?