Aberdeen played three friendlies, scoring 10 and conceding a goal in each, before their four League Cup group games this month. They scored 12 without conceding in them.
Celtic Park on Sunday will be a whole different challenge, but as we remember from even recent times, getting the job done against lower league teams is seldom straightforward.
There have been more false dawns at Pittodrie over the last 30 years than sunny dawns, so we cannot expect too much from Jim Goodwin. Still, his team is close to full fitness, paying well, confident and will head to Celtic Park on Sunday as ready as they could hope to be.
The title defence will be tested from the off.
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The Bunnet chased Walker out of Celtic Park and told him not to come back.
https://twitter.com/toryfibs/status/1551594412781846530?s=24&t=J1jHG2If8jRMdl-9kT6IWw
Keir Starmer,getting his arse handed to him on a plate
Pat McMahon: Celtic’s first signing after European cup success.
Mickey Johnston could be a modern day Kevin Gallacher, or Tony Watt vs Barcelona, if Celtic had a cute manager who would deploy cute tactics and formations, and play the ball long, like Kyogo to Jota in Europe last season, and especially in banana skin games like Livi.
The only way to beat a parked bus, is to park your bus better.
Like MON on the road to Seville, nobody complained about the ball over the top in those days, but twisted Tims, and they are plentiful, twisted MON’s ball over the top approach, AFTER MON had left, and they did so in an attempt to justify WGS and his puppet pish style of football.
WGS didn’t play the ball over the top, yeah and how many European finals did he get us into?
None.
That’s how many!
How many European finals has horrible José took his teams to?
Get real.
Back to M J, he is an asset who could prove fruitful to Celtic in the future, but he doesn’t get managed properly. The Harald syndrome.
Play M J, properly, don’t deliver Peter Grant style hospital passes to him when his back is to the goals and the nearest 2 or 3 cluggers are usually waiting to pounce on him, no wonder M J looks pissed off a lot of the time, play him properly Ange, properly means Tony Watt style balls over the top, In Front of M J, for the pacey and tricky and skillful young Irishman to utilise properly.
All it takes is the eyes of the Maestro.
Not Paul McStay bless him.
Not Sinatra.
The real Maestro, Mr Stein = cute, savvy, nobodies mug, eye for detail.
NFL played the ball over the top in 2012 CL group including a home victory 2-1 vs Barcelona the magnificent team that they were and an away loss also 1-2 but we lost that game in the last minute or so, with a centre half pairing of Kelvin Wilson and Efe Ambrose, so it suits us to play that way, hopefully Ange twigs the park the bus with ball over the top is a system that suits in the CL, it has previous managers MON, NFL, even WGS Celtic played that way at home vs ManUtd Ronaldo, Rooney, etc, ect, and they were overcome by a treasure of a free kick from the Magnificent Nakamura bless him, taking us through to face AC Milan and the parked bus took us into extra time in the 2nd leg in the Magnifico San Siro vs Kaka & co, NFL was a crucial part of WGS teams midfield protection, but late on in the game he had to go off and this left a huge gap in the midfield protection which Kaka exploited and put us out.
Celtic parking the bus shouldn’t be viewed as a negative concept, its a necessity at the time, a Celtic version of the Alamo, if needed then do it, first time I saw Celtic team do it was when Luigi, Lou Macari bless him. 🙏
Yeah Lou went to Ibrox without any Celtic supporters allowed to attend.
Lou had to wait until the day of the game to find out if the only decent centre half at that time would be available to him, Tony Mowbray, who was grieving the loss of his wife Bernadette at that time, I apologise if I’ve got the time of Bernadette’s death wrong here, not want to fill the mouth of any cheap wannabe type minds, what I’m saying is Lou Macari had Walter Smith’s number, and WS didn’t like that, a 2-1 victory for us in Lou’s first game in October at Ibrox, then again in April where David Murray banned Celtic fans, Lou was the only one who said….
“I haven’t seen any evidence of Celtic supporters breaking any seats in a stadium which we’re repeatedly told has Fort Knox type of security, but if fans did this then that’s not on.”
Uppity Lou was a warning to the establishment, no footsie deals under the table from Lou, several Celtic players downed tools to get Lou the sack, Bonner, Boyd, Grant, McStay, and Nicholas, these players were retained by Fergus after 6 seasons and 2 SCF wins, Lou was sacked and these cheating clique driven players, losers, guaranteed the next 3 titles to Rangers, including a hun 9 in a row.
Sacking Lou before he was allowed decent money, Higgins was a stunt to spark dithering Celtic fans into boycotting to sack the board, but it didn’t work and the dithering continued.
Lou said what he did about the seats whilst sitting sandwiched between, Donald Findlay QC, and, Archie McPherson on STV’s “Sport In Question” which in those days very quickly descended into “Celtic In Question” such was the way of it.
Sacking Lou was wrong.
3 more years of hun brutality continued for Tims because Fergus and his dressing room of losers couldn’t handle an uppity Tim manager.
Celtic not parking the bus when need be is wrong.
Park the bus – don’t be a mug.
Mr Goodwin might open all of your eyes on Sunday as to parking the bus, if need be.
Good evening, An Tearmann. I’m guessing that bad-tempered incoherent rant was directed at me. If you want to limit your involvement in the web site to nostalgic indulgence in recalling the players of yesteryear, that’s fine with me. Good on you. It has its place. No, I don’t think it’s “shoit”. I do expect most Celtic supporters to have a wider appreciation of the Club’s relevance and the historical context. Maybe you are Irish, not Scottish. If so, God bless you. My grandfather came to Scotland from Cavan as a member of a forced family exile because of the “potato famine”. The resident population were not welcoming to these immigrants. (But, of course, you know all that). Inspired by Fr. E. J. Hannan in Embra Br. Walford created a boys’ club to counter poverty, unemployment and discrimination in the east end of Glasgow. (Yeah, you know that, too). But our great Club retains its links to those innovative roots, and some of the hardships and obstacles remain in effect today. Yes….that is ridiculous, but true, and not to be accepted or shrugged off. OK. I know I am a pain and a bore on this subject. But don’t accuse me of fakery. I love the team. I love the game. Jock Stein was a regular visitor to my house when I was younger. My dad was a close friend. Look… I just want to bury the hatchet and share with you and the rest of the gang the pleasure of supporting this very special Club for as long as we are both alive.
IniquitousIV: Sirry to see you leave.
CCB: Great memory. Mostly lurk now but dip in now and again.
TheLurkinTim: You are welcome. Hope you enjoyed the game.
https://johnjamessite.com/
Worth a read
For a change from his usual begging
Sirry😂 = sorry obviously.
AT
Big Denis poor at the goal
BB @ 8.41 / 8.49
Strange selection of comments.
DT — an erse who worked his way up.
He did his bit for jigging in the street though.
KS video — cheapshot attention seeker doing her bit for the Tory agenda.
Oxygen thief spouting a carefully selected series of talking points to order.
Red my erse …
No Celtic fans at Ibrox 1994 was 1-1 parking the bus worked again.
Come on Ange, screw the nut or your humble ass will be the next oot the Parkhead gates. 👍 🍀
Is there no end to this folly?
Higgins = Biggins
Autocorrect guffery! 👍 😬
Am Ah Tearymann
What gives with you?
Are being coached again by the 50+ year old virgin swinger?
GaryGillespiesHamstring
What was the game Denis Connaghan done the famous throwout- in goal or og? Was it is or St M
HH
Tory Labour Libdems Greens SNP
all playing footsie with the globalists.
None can be trusted.
Swing out sister politics is for the wallopers who vote for them.
AN TEARMANN
Celtic v Airdrie @ Hampden,mentioned here before,Drybrough cup year???
It’s a braw broon unionist night tonight
Howling
https://youtu.be/gM8vOcxatsI
BhoyjoeBelfast
No, I was at that final,Airdrie mate
Think you could be onto something tho, a dryb cup or league cup section,I think Ally Hunter came in and done well
HH
Evening all.
As Bankiebhoy, continually states, DEPRIVE OF OXYGEN, DO NOT ENGAGE!!
BRRB
Are you looking forward to August days out :)
Nite all
AN TEARMANN
Not Hampden….Broomfield!
He threw ball in net v airdrie at broom field
AT
Sorry, out walking the dog. Just reading back.
Bhoyjoebelfast was spot on.
It was the year of the experimental offside rule.
!!BADA BING!! on 25TH JULY 2022 8:49 PM
Thanks for the clip, that was excruciating. It almost made me feel sorry for Starmer. Almost, if he wasn’t such a corporate piece of shit.
I should have not said Hampden because we had a ‘keeper who missed a penalty at Broomfield.Two keepers one with an og and the other missing a pen.Yes I know it was 9- 0 and I remember the keeper,old newspaper cutting.
Ah right, mind seeing the line across the 18 yard line.
Missed those finals being in donegal,mauled hibs in one and daviecoopers bestest goal ever ever goal beat us.missed it all
:-)
HH
Agree with you MM ref the scouse attention seeker. Quite what the health service this past 10 years has to do with labor I don’t know.
62% of the Dover electorate voted to end freedom of movement. They’ve certainly succeeded there.
Thanks Bjb, Gordon ex of these pages is a great historian,a few on here years back were debating the tale of the Elland Rd socks,the coloured ones.Gordon duly turned up the next day with evening citizen and full match report of the game and tale of socks.
HH
Ooopppsss Celtic won at Celtic Park v Airdrie 9 nil…….Time for my medication!
Labour started privatizing the NHS under B liar.
Scum
I was at the 9-0 game v Airdrie at Celtic Park. Airdrie keeper McKenzie saved Celtic keeper Frank Haffey’s penalty.
I remember the game at Elland Road……some papers reported red socks but others said orange.If Leeds had won at Hampden then Hillsborough,Sheffield was the venue for the play off….bit of trivia!
Frank Haffey the Celtic keeper in 1962 scored directly with a bye kick against St Johnstone. Unfortunately it was into the Celtic net, fortunately the ref ruled out the goal and ordered the kick retaken.
Frank Terry2 things mate
https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1285536951085473792?s=19
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/16/carole-cadwalladr-boris-johnson-lebedevs-prime-ministers-defining-scandal
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/may/21/canada-announces-sanctions-on-alexander-lebedev-russia-ukraine-report?CMP=share_btn_tw
Cancered by Russian roubles
HH
When the kick was retaken Frank Haffey didn’t score again in the manner of Charlie Tully’s famous corners against Falkirk
3 obviously though I edited catch you at a game FT
HH
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
A goal can be scored direct from a goal-kick into the opposition goal, but if a goal-kick is kicked into the kicker’s goal, it is a corner to the opposition.