Talk of trebles can disappear over the space of 90 minutes, and Ronny Deila will be forced to learn new patter if his team cannot regain the edge which was lost on Wednesday night at Celtic Park. The challenge will be all the greater for the absence of cup-tied Stuart Armstrong and Gary Mackay-Steven, with others, including Kris Commons and Emilio Izaguirre.
Dundee United have fallen apart in the last few weeks, the departure of Armstrong and Mack-Steven has probably had something to do with this, which means they will be hurting. Make no mistake, Celtic harmed their season by signing their best two players five weeks ago. United will have an edge to them.
Just loving the celebrations that one of the world’s richest 400 people no longer controls a Scottish football club. He still controls pretty much all profitable revenue streams, and holds security over assets, but he’ll no longer be asked to provide loan players, or loan cash. They have swapped an ‘off the radar’ wealthy man for a glib and shameless liar.
Ashley repulsed many. He was the archetypal fox let into the Ibrox hen house. The juxtaposition of Celtic announcing a £29m shirt deal with New Balance, rights Ashley bartered for £1 at Ibrox, gives you an idea of how impaired newco are. But allowing him to walk off with all those revenue streams, without the responsibility of running football operations, which will always lose money, is inexplicable.
I know people in the game who were concerned about having an opponent with the resources of Ashley. That blocking SFA decision was crucial. I don’t know anyone concerned about King, in fact, there is quiet delight at how things transpired.
Farewell Big Mike, thanks for all your work.
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His 24th hat-trick. Brilliant team goal and finish.
Aw Naw
Hard to tell as appetites come and go depending on what’s on the menu.
I hated tripe but ma maw made me eat it.
That’s in La Liga, 32 in all comps for Barca.
I suspect the team today will largely pick itself depending on fitness.
The only Q will be the third player in the middle / forward and will be one of Stokes / Forrest / Henderson / Wakaso or maybe even Griifiths if Guidettii/ Scepovic is up front
My team would be
Gordon
Adam, VVD , Jason, Izzy
Nir Broony
Kris , Stefan, Wakaso or Henderson
Griff
The other thing I would like us to do, is get to the bye line for cut backs.
On Wed, St J had done their homework that most of our goals are coming from the 3 behind the striker from 9/18 yards out, and worked hard to deny these guys the space.
I thought Wakaso put in some decent crosses on Wed but we lacked a striker who would attack ball in box, and I think we need that today.
He’s just a poacher though.
That perfect 40 yard cross field pass on to the foot of Pedro was a fluke.
40 for the season for Messi. Quite a feat – and he has now achieved it six seasons in a row.
Great text on the BBC: “Robin Davies: 24 hat-tricks for Messi but in a poor league, he wouldn’t get 8 in the Premier league”
I’d like to think he was joking … but probably not.
I’d give Wakaso a run today. Ditto Henderson.
Auldheid,
at this stage King and Murray are on the menu. Two board members who failed in their duties with regards the wee tax case. Also on the menu is Peter Lawwell on the SFA board now. Sitting in judgement of Messrs King and Murray. Resolution 12 I would imagine willl allow him a convenient abstention when it comes to that issue.
HH
Alves off. . Pen.
5-1
! Que tonto!
Marty is the man
11:21 on
8 March, 2015
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Thanks a lot – will watch later, after I finish off in the garden. Too hot out here today! :-)
Lovely goal Barça. 6-1. Suarez.
Suarez from Messi assist after they had mucked a breakaway up a couple of minutes ago. .
6-1.
A £75 million bargain
Suarez misses chance to make it a really famous scoreline!
Wish the Hoops were playing on a surface even half as good as that later.
1916?
Messi the gladiator to the crowd, have you been entertained!!!.
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Today’s Daily Record carries a magnificent piece of polemic by sports writer Keith Jackson about its coverage of the continuing crisis facing Rangers football club.
In fact, once put into historical context, it turns out to be a self-serving piece of revisionism. It makes no reference to the paper’s 180 degree turn.
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The Record’s record in its coverage of the lengthy financial shenanigans at Rangers shows that it has nothing to shout about.
According to Jackson’s account, the paper has been at the forefront of exposing dodgy dealings down the years.
In January 2011, he writes, the Record “revealed the truth” about the “ruinous financial chicanery” of the then chairman, Craig Whyte.
I think he meant January 2012. But that’s a mere slip. The point is that Jackson, the supposed exposer of Whyte, had previously portrayed him as the club’s great saviour.
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In November 2010, for example, Jackson described Whyte as the “financial whizzkid from Motherwell”, a “high roller” who had become “Scotland’s youngest self-made millionaire.”
In a breathless piece of puffery, Jackson told of the venture capitalist’s exploits that made him “millions from playing the markets” and able to control “a vast business empire”.
Whyte’s wealth was “off the radar”, wrote Jackson, and enabled him to acquire a castle in Grantown-on-Spey, “one of the most historic buildings in Scotland.”
Jackson and his then boss, Jim Traynor, depicted Whyte as a man of considerable wealth and thereby gave confidence to the club’s fans that he was a good bet to become its owner.
At that time, and afterwards when Whyte acquired the club, the Record (in company with other newspapers) failed to investigate whether the fanciful claims about his riches stood up to scrutiny.
As Channel 4’s reporter, Alex Thomson, revealed, in July 2011, Traynor even went to so far as to submit an article about Whyte for Whyte’s approval prior to publication.
In February 2012, Whyte was forced to put Rangers into administration. And a month later Whyte was deemed “not a fit and proper person” to own a football club following an inquiry on behalf of the Scottish Football Association. He was also fined £200,000.
But this sad saga runs on and on. Traynor quit the Record in December last year in order to become PR of Rangers, having been appointed by Whyte’s successor, Charles Green.
Four months later, the board of the reconstituted Rangers entity (Rangers International Football Club) issued a statement saying Green and the club’s commercial director, Imran Ahmad, were to be the subject of an inquiry following allegations about their management of the club.
And Green, now a “consultant” with Rangers, could possibly be ejected from that position too, a claim reported by the Record now that it has cast off its Ibrox cheerleading role. Or is it secretly cheerleading for a group within the club? Is it just not possible for it to be entirely impartial?
Anyway, one single, simple fact emerges from all this – Rangers football club got into trouble a long time ago and the mainstream media, whether by commission or omission, failed to do its job. Rather than hold the people in charge to account, it acted as a spin-doctor.
Belatedly, the Record shows signs of realising the error of its ways (without apologising to its readers for those errors). Jackson wrote today that Rangers is “a club which continues to self-harm spectacularly.”
If only he had written that three years or more ago. Then again, Traynor was his boss at the time. It’s no wonder, perhaps, that the former journalistic colleagues have fallen out of late.
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Happens every where, including in the Guardian.
For example, Media Guardian last week rewrote an entire article about BT Sport after its inaccuracies were derided on social media – the paper opted not to open it yo comments, maybe because its earlier coverage was also corrected by readers?
No mention of the rewrite was made or detailed.
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when it comes to rangers (old & new forms) and the scottish media believe nothing
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Just flicking through radio, documentary on radio ulster 0116 sky , about at columbkillea GAA Belfast in early 70’s. sad stuff worth a listen
McVitties Chocolate Digestive
– biscuit aristocracy CSC
St Columbkilles that is .. Down GAA
Ref blesses himself at the end of the Barca-Vallecano match in front of hunners a millions of viewers worldwide!
Well it is Spain.
…and it’s Sunday.
HH!!
There is a great wee Internet mail that went round a few years ago with all the rules about playground football. Very funny it was, evoking memories of mitre mould masters, what height is the crossbar debates, best fighter is the ref etc…
It only lacked the application of the ” justfir” rule…in our neck of the woods the biggest bully or best fighter could always apply the “justfir” rule whenever they were getting beat, running out of time or the shot was miles over the imaginary crossbar. Our team would claim it was over, the reply was always ” naw it wisnae,right” …” How come but?” we would plead…” Justfir” was the menacing ruling.
That is the rule that will be applied to any obstacle, legal,moral or fiscal, the peepul will encounter. It may even be sugar coated by the MSM but the message from King will be ” justfir”. He already knows the pathway is smoothed.
Luis Enrique fails to mention Celtic fans’ sectarian singing in post match analysis. Scandalous.
Ballyhackamore GAA east Belfast it was then, only caught last 10 mins unfortunately. Up Down
Aw Naw
Or the opportunity to establish what RFC were up to. DK was a Director at the time.
I also read DK promised forensic scrutiny of events at Ibrox since CW took over in the interests of transparency and accountability at TRFC.
I bet he never meant it in respect of behaviour to other clubs, but if ever he had the chance to show he was now an honest man this is it.
67Heaven .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I am wee Oscar / Neil Lennon.. Ipox belongs to the creditors ….@ 11:17
It’s a small point, but, HSE are not the enforcement authority in football stadia. Under the Enforcement Authority regulations it falls to the Local Authority. So someone at Glasgow Council is keeping it open.
Your intrepid reporter here from pitchside at Tannadice – sharp shower just passed through, sky brightening up again, it’s been a dry and sunny morning. Pitch looks patchy, almost bare in places, but I’ve seen a lot worse. Hampden, for example. Not long to wait now!
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
12:42 on
8 March, 2015
Auldheid,
at this stage King and Murray are on the menu. Two board members who failed in their duties with regards the wee tax case. Also on the menu is Peter Lawwell on the SFA board now. Sitting in judgement of Messrs King and Murray. Resolution 12 I would imagine willl allow him a convenient abstention when it comes to that issue.
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Do you REALLY think that Peter Lawwell has the ‘whip hand’ at the SFA?
He is one of eight on the board – I will spell that out for you – his vote is worth 12.5% in ANY vote at ANY time – get off Peter’s back, he does a wonderful job for our club – let me mention a few of those things:
Brought Neil, Ronny (& Johnny) to Celtic Park.
Keeps Celtic solvent and in profit – unlike almost all other clubs in the UK
The Celtic Way
The Commonwealth Games which gave Celtic Park a world-wide exposure
Successful Share Issue in 2005 raised £15 million
Lennoxtown Training Ground
Nike Kit Sponsorship
New Balance Kit Sponsorship
Carling/Tennents/Magners Shirt Advertisers.
8 League titles (inc this season)
5 Scottish Cups
2 League Cups
7 Champions League Group Stages
3 Qualifications to last 16
Tell me what more do you want – and who would have brought more.
Your criticism of Peter Lawwell is so so wide of the mark!!!!
Roy Greenslade would never get a gig up here
My friends in Celtic,
Totally of topic : As one who espouses equality, I am intrigued by the fact that all the female teams in the English top league are called “ladies” eg Arsenal Ladies. There is one exception, Manchester City women.
Are the females from the Manchester team lacking in class.?
If so we should be told. Name names.
HH, always in equality.
2-0 Hibs
Auldheid
Excellent article on TSFM.
2-0 Hibees – 2 quick fire goals and after 30 mins looks like they will join Falkirk, ICT/Raith and Hoops in semi final draw later today
The Scottish Ladies League:
Glasgow Celtic Burds
The Rangers Dugs
Eberdeen Weemin
Dundee United Gossips
Dundee Bints
Hibs Honeys
Hearts Hookers
Partick Princesses
Ross County Roasters
Kilmancock Knockers
Motherwell Munters
Inverness Insatiables
St.Johnstone Johnson-Jumpers
come on ronny select the right team and formation and we will win this tie.
It’s International Wimmin’s day. I like to contribute…
Hibs home and dry. Semi-Final draw live on Sky after Dundee United v Celtic.
Another Celtic v Hibs final would be nice so I’ll take Falkirk in the semis.
4-0 Celtic today.
When is the draw for the final?