There are moments when the torch passes from one player to another in football. Carl Starfelt (28) played for Celta Vigo on Saturday but did not make the bench for Sweden against Moldova last night. Instead, Gustaf Lagerbielke made his second appearance at the back for Sweden and scored his first goal for his country. Just as the players swapped in and out of Celtic in the summer, the international careers of Gus and Carl are heading in different directions.
A few weeks ago, Celtic called on Tomoki Iwata to fill-in in central defence, but soon we will have a glut of options there. Cameron Carter-Vickers will be first choice when fit, while Gustaf, Liam Scales and Maik Nawrocki will compete for the other spot. Nat Phillips, on loan until January, and Yuki Kobayashi are also in the picture.
Brendan Rodgers will genuinely not know what his central defensive pairing will be by the midway point of the season. Early season expectations were that Maik was mostly likely to grab the opportunity. The £4.5m signing has now been out with a hamstring injury for eight weeks, with no sign of an imminent return. It will be a long way back to fitness for the Poland Under-21 international, but he is so highly thought of, he will get his chance.
Until then, Gus and Liam will be able to stake their claims.
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Absolutely shocking foul by England’s Gallagher.
Launched, body off the ground, studs to ankle which twisted badly.
Red card all day long.
Kenny is toast
Giakoumakis scores and creates second for Greece. We lost a good one there.
Scales playing well, but some very avverage players letting us down.
MOD67 Check your email
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The greatest celtic fan to score 4 against us
RIP F MC D
Nitol
Tt. Will remember Hugh at Mass tomorrow. RIP, High i n the new Paradise.
RIP Hugh.
RIP Frank McDougall.
Can remember the 4-1 game, well can’t really, as we had just spent 5 day’s on a Bus to Lisbon and Back (5-0 game later).
We arrived home at 4.30am, bus was leaving at 7.30am for Aberdeen…..
The rest, as they say, check the BBC for high/lowlights 😁….
Once Again RIP Frank.
HH
be mindful of what you say online
from etims
“SENIOR sheriffs have ruled using the word “hun” to describe Rangers supporters is a form of sectarian abuse.
A man who directed the slur at two police officers argued it was a slang term in the west of Scotland for followers of the Ibrox club that had no religious connotations.
David Di Pinto was convicted of a breach of the peace aggravated by religious prejudice at the Scottish League Cup Final between Celtic and Hibs at Hampden Park in December 2021.
His trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court heard he shouted and swore, flailed his arms and called two officers “hun c***s”.
He was fined £500 and made the subject of a football banning order for 12 months.
However, Di Pinto, 39, of Renfrew, challenged the religious aggravation element of his conviction at the Sheriff Appeal Court in Edinburgh.
His legal team argued the use of the word “hun” did not contain a religious aspect nor disclose malice and ill-will towards a religious group.
They said a “hun” was a member of a warlike nomadic people from Central Asia who invaded and ravaged Europe in the fourth and fifth centuries.
Sheriff Principal Aisha Anwar, sitting with Sheriff Principal Derek Pyle and Sheriff Brian Mohan, rejected Di Pinto’s appeal and ruled that the word is an offensive sectarian term directed at members of the Protestant faith who are thought to be Rangers supporters.
Sheriff Principal Anwar said: “The historic sectarian tensions within Glasgow and particularly between supporters of Rangers FC and Celtic FC are well understood in Scotland. ”
Sure as shit they will be looking to prosecute us for putting this term online whilst letting the masses be “up to their knees” without punishment
Smells like Labour politicking….
Good luck wae that wan….
HH
JACKIEMAC on 13TH OCTOBER 2023 9:35 PM
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The greatest celtic fan to score 4 against us
* and another that the baddies refused tae sell tae us
RIP F MC D
For those of you who think my deletions and censorship are harsh
We live in a hugely different world to the CQN of 5, 10 or 15 years ago
In terms of both the litiguous nature of our world and the trolls that pop up to deflect our converstaions
In our case in CQN the trolls are rife
One or 2 well placed posts/trollings corrupt the blog
And hurt us going forward
Apologies for the deletions and censorships of good Celtic fans
It’s a hard job and their are many nuances which are hard to see
The times we live in make it hard to be as free as we would like these pages to be
Hail Hail
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Until then you aint posting here
TinyTim on 13th October 2023 4:56 pm
The world lost a great Tim yesterday .
Hugh ( Shuggie) MacFarlane .
Hugh’s brother Ben will be known to some on here .
The MacFarlane brothers Hugh , Michael , John and Ben were and are , very proud of their ancestral Irish heritage.
They were brought up during an era of distinct anti Catholic persecution.
In the town of Buckhaven in Fife ,
Which was a wee Orange enclave during the 1970’s .
They were the product of two wonderful parents .Along with the McAllister’s they were the most abused Roman Catholics in the town .
Just for playing fitba in the street they would be bullied because they were RC’s .
They bore the abuse with bravery and class .
Shuggie was a wonderful soul .
Gentle in his manner .
All four brothers more intelligent than the average bear .
Hugh always made you feel like his day was better for meeting you , when the reality was .
Your day was better for meeting Shug .
Always a blether about “ The Tic” .
Sometimes it would extend onto our hopes for a United Ireland .
A Staunch optimistic Celtic Mhan .
A Mhan of great faith .
His family and loved ones will be really hurting today .
He will be sadly missed for years to come .
R.I.P. Hugh MacFarlane .
TT
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RIP Hugh, Celtic are losing so many Legends these days, it is why we need to do a lot mair in Europe, they huv opened up the 3rd Competition again.
HH TT – that Pool table @ the Stixx?? was something else.
Newco are stable enough now after their big sales & Europa final. Cheers Annan Ramsey. :)
Let’s go 1 better.
Liel is likely to leave Celtic now – not sure how terminations work.
He will go on to be a Brilliant player for whatever team he goes to next.
A real Hunskelper too.
Petec 1.03am
Am not too sure … I think 99% of Celtic fans don’t want any Palestinian or Israeli people dying ..
far too complicated for a football blog, I would hope every Celtic fan treat Liel as the terrific footballer he is for our team and gets our full support
Individuals are just individuals … they have no control over other matters
“We’ve got Abada, he’s on the wing, we’ve got Kyogo doing his thing”
…. Brendan is (now) our leader :-)
The Celtic Board will, as evidenced with NFL, will make sure Liel is safe and secure.
There was so much that Brendan wanted to work with as well.
I Hope something good is going to happen.
UtahSaints.CSC
GFTB on 14th October 2023 19:16 am
Petec 1.03am
Am not too sure … I think 99% of Celtic fans don’t want any Palestinian or Israeli people dying ..
far too complicated for a football blog, I would hope every Celtic fan treat Liel as the terrific footballer he is for our team and gets our full support
Individuals are just individuals … they have no control over other matters
“We’ve got Abada, he’s on the wing, we’ve got Kyogo doing his thing”
…. Brendan is (now) our leader :-)
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I Changed the Time. :)
Manifest (Netflix) is ludicrous but it is taking the proverbial…….
1st then 4th.
Dr Who Knows
Petec
“I changed the Time” 🎵 🎵
That could have been a tune :-) 🍀
Petec
I love every Celtic manager from Liam Brady to big Tony to big Billy to our Ronny …
Brendan is pretty special … Delighted CSC
Delighted our prodigal manager has returned
Happy days CSC 🍀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB3Lvyrc-qI
GFTB, meyouandtlt are gonnae have a mad few David Gowers Jam&Spoon.
Madness Baggy Joggy Bottoms.
Petec
A wee game of pool is on the agenda .. as soon as our social convener (BRRB) can get it sorted .. count me in
Sadly … he has my number :-)
late night driving duties brings me in the door now and a read back in the hope of finding celtic topics.
instead it is now a blog dominated by a pair of MODS justifying each others deletions.
oh well,
try again in a few days, weeks, months , years.
lets see if that post lasts till the morning, will take a wee screencap to share with old bhoys on the CQN whats app.
night.
MODERATOR1888 on 13TH OCTOBER 2023 11:19 PM
For those of you who think my deletions and censorship are harsh
We live in a hugely different world to the CQN of 5, 10 or 15 years ago
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aye we do, all the charity works gone, all the giants of the blog moved on,
no direction, no purpose, a place for i dont know what anymore.
night this time
Anybody else think Liam Scales has a bit of Charlie Mulgrew about him … written off, went to Aberdeen on loan, now seems to think it’s his shirt and quite rightly so …
On that note an away to ma kip dreaming of Liam, Charlie or our Anton Rogan slipping a perfect pass for me to score a winner for Celtic against ….
anybody 🍀
GFTB on 14TH OCTOBER 2023 4:42 AM
Loved Anton, and from what I hear he was a really sound guy too…
STPATRICKSBHOY on 13TH OCTOBER 2023 5:23 PM
AN TEARMANN on 13TH OCTOBER 2023 2:03 PM
BigJimmy
The Temp Stand,that how I got my season ticket.It was great training for the golf course.It used to sway in the wind,I was never cold must have been all the feet stamping that we did.Happy days. stpatricksbhoy 🌨☔🌪☘
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As ROD STEWART would sing….
” We are SWAYING, we are SWAYING….Home again across the sea…
It was the Pre Match BEERS that used to make me SWAY !
LOL
HH
Good morning all from Govanhill. A weekend without the Celtic. Oh well, good race cards today. Gimme some money William Hill, ya tight git.
R.I.P. HUGH.
HH.
Tinytim
Apologies, just read back after seeing Jimmy’s post.
Hugh, may you rest in peace.
FrankTerry
Anton had many detractors but lived the dream :-)
Big Jimmy
The “temporary stand” my memory isn’t the best but pretty sure me & my mates were in there for the Paul McStay testimonial but with the fog that night we would have been as well staying in Bar67, couldn’t see a thing … around that time “our” season tickets were in the old Rangers end (Coatbrig end) so we got re-seated, the old temporary stand certainly moved, although I think the Ebtrs around then used to break up the park and win 1-0 seemed like every game
Roll on tynecastle next week 🍀
There’s no better accompaniment, to a morning coffee, than browsing the online headlines on sevcos search for a new manager.
The linguistic gymnastics to polish that turd. Weakness is rebranded as a strength.
‘Determined to take their time’
‘Refusing to be rushed’
‘Adamant that only the right man…’
We know the knock backs are piling up faster than at a Friday night disco.
“Scottish FA write to UEFA…….”.
What irony.
Wonder where they got the idea.
I like Chris Sutton but he does have a penchant for talking shite….
“Mark Warburton didn’t last long once Parkhead chiefs saw sense and led Ronny Deila out of the door to bring in the Northern Irishman”
buenos dias a todos desde playa de las americas……or Good morning all from Playa de las Americas.
Temp yesterday 44 degrees 👍🥃
Today expect 35degrees, lovely.
Adios amigos
D :)
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