Was it really almost 15 years since the only time Celtic beat reigning European champions? A late goal from Scott McDonald in October 2007 was enough to secure a 2-1 win over Milan in the Champions League. Two other Scottish clubs had already achieved this (Rangers and Dunfermline, both who beat the 1967 European champions), recording a mark the great Stein sides never did.
The reason I mention this to you is that in the days that followed we were glowing in our new European status. Then we visited Fir Park. It wasn’t even Motherwell we faced, it was Gretna, a team from 90 miles south of ML1 who did not have the facilities to compete in the top flight, so travelled the M74 for home games.
Gretna were leading until 85 minutes, when goals from Chris Killen and another late McDonald winner calmed our nerves.
We are now glowing at our great win and performance on Wednesday night. ‘We shall not be moved’ from the top of the league is the claim. I heard the same chant from Dingwall on Saturday when Newco took a 2-3 lead; chants don’t win points. The next game is always the biggest one and for Celtic, the next two, both on the road, are crucially important.
Players are not machines, they cannot climb the mountain every time. There will be an inevitable fall off in adrenalin at Fir Park. There are 14 games remaining, seven away from home, every one a cup final in itself. An acre of Lanarkshire is the stage for our next trophy. Win and keep belief alive that not by the Hearts, the Hibs or the The Rangers, we shall not be moved!
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Celtic
Pieces of silver ?
Paul, the difference this year from last is that Rangers will be under pressure that they did not have last year. Will be interesting to see how they deal with that, especially on Sunday if they are 4 points behind before their game starts.
KC VIC on 4TH FEBRUARY 2022 11:25 AM
Thanks for that.
I can’t help thinking that following Wednesday’s result the huns might be regretting the deal. Even if it’s only costing 2m it’s still money down the drain if they don’t win the league.
Still, at least Ramsay won’t catch Covid where he is now.
HH.
Ordinarily I am dead against Celtic fan sites raking up negative comments by imbeciles about our beloved club and turning them into click bait.
But I’d make an exception here.
https://celtsarehere.com/kris-boyd-unhappy-callum-mcgregor-wasnt-further-injured/
Credit to M.Ross
The written inference from the Sky Sports employee is clear and unequivocal.
I’d ban them today.
I know I shouldn’t, but I keep looking towards the end of this month.
If we finish this month with 15 points and successful trips to Fir Park, Pittodrie & Easter Road in the bank then I think we’ll have taken a giant step towards this league title.
First up, Fir Park.
After a day of gloating yesterday, the lead article is exactly where my thoughts are.
Fitness allowing, best 11 available players to start please!
Energy injection 60/70 minutes in if required from the subs bench.
I wouldn’t change anything at the back. Midfield we may have to depending on Cals availability.
Up front give Daezen 60 minutes and Giako 30 or vice versa.
Is abada fit? He starts if so.
Complete focus required. Tough venue and I’ll make no bold predictions. 3 points will suffice.
I’ve enjoyed these past coupla days.
Next game’s different. The scoddish world is still agin us………….
Aye.
But I have genuine hope in my timmed-up heart.
HHH.
On a different note, how would we havevfelt about signing a player who was coming to us with the aim of gaining match fitness for his national teams upcoming play offs? Possibly with a contract lause that says ‘if I’m available I play’. Is only there for 14 weeks and is ‘a few weeks away’ from match fitness, with an injury record going back 6 months?
Yeah, me neither….
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RobertT
If it was us…..Wee Chic an’ co….would have honked horns and got all thur questioning sleekitness out there pronto………….
I see Abada is being punted already!
;)
Generally agree with that, Paul – other than describing the result the other night as a “great win”!
We have slipped up before after top-of-the-table wins and ended up losing the league narrowly (08-09 and 10-11 spring instantly to mind). No bonus points for these wins – just the same three you get for beating all the other teams.
Need to be relentless. Performances won’t all be pretty but as long as the job is done. The good thing is we have a coach with a clear focus.
Anyone think John Souttar will put in any agricultural challenges this weekend?
Our run of fixtures until the split is going to be tough.
If we look at the current top 6 we will have played all of them away twice before the split.
Potentially, means we will have to go to two of these three times this season. For Rangers the opposite and there will be two of these venues they only travel.to once.
What are the chances of that happening eh?
Kjam- inevitable. Predictable. But bring it on. If we win the league it will be a remarkable achievement given all the various circumstances that we have faced. We’ve made no excuses and got the sleeves rolled up and in with the job.
Bankie- again, all the more reasonable to enjoy their pain. Incidentally if and when the likes of Abada move on they will go for big bucks. They’ve spent so much on turd polish for Kent, morelos, kamara, barasic etc yet yielded not a single penny in player sales for these duds. Meanwhile we regularly move guys in for 8 figure sums.
Abada currently more productive than the technically more gifted Jota. We have good players on our hands. They can’t handle it.
That awkward moment when you realise that even YNWA has been trashed by oldfirm fc.
What the fk is that? 👇
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKs-i6sWQAI-Il-?format=jpg&name=small
Get the stupid Lawwell lights to fk.
ERNIE LYNCH on 4TH FEBRUARY 2022 12:05 PM
Still, at least Ramsay won’t catch Covid where he is now.
Or at least , if he does , we’ll never get to know about it .
sceptical citizen on 4th February 2022 12:41 pm
I’m sure you have had plenty of awkward moments.
That one doesn’t even register compared to some of you’re other delusional nonsense.
Perhaps brainwashed citizen would be a better name for this one of your particular characters.
Tim Malone will tell
Hooooooooooopy birthday. HH
B2B
Re Boyd comments
A rallying call to any other fellow knuckle-draggers playing against us to do their “duty” and leave a boot or elbow in.
HH
Sceptical, not quite sure who you think you are provoking with your infantile pish. Most, if not all Celtic supporters on here can see right through you, nothing more than a poor man’s Alex Rae, swinging about blindly in the dark, thinking you’re about to land that withering knock-out comment, when in reality, you’re nothing more than a mildly irritating itch that’s instantly forgettable within seconds….
Ernie, really sad to see you supporting that racist scumbag.
We may disagree on political stuff but siding with that is an all time low.
Did you enjoy his addition of parenthesis to the name Humza? Whatever could he be trying to say?
TIMMY7_NOTED on 4TH FEBRUARY 2022 1:00 PM
Ernie, really sad to see you supporting that racist scumbag.
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You’ll need to be more specific.
Gio VB didnt make the “media” (ahem) conference today. mmmmmmmm,
Since Matt O’Reilly has signed, is it my imagination or has the set piece delivery improved? Especially corners.
SCEPTICAL CITIZEN on 4TH FEBRUARY 2022 12:41 PM
That awkward moment when you realise that even YNWA has been trashed by oldfirm fc.
What the fk is that? 👇
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKs-i6sWQAI-Il-?format=jpg&name=small
Get the stupid Lawwell lights to fk
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The photo is absolutely ICONIC….
You are just pathetic…..boring…….
Big Jimmy,
While I agree that Goodwillie should not be welcomed in any capacity in any position within a Scottish football club, is it not a fair question to ask of Sturgeon regarding her complete indifference and silence during his last five years with Clyde?
AN TEARMANN from last thread
He is doing well, he got stuck in the US back in the first wave but doing fine. He says they miss Juranovic at Legia and that he is also a wonderful man off the pitch.
Just got to the office, did not see one other car on the roads.
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BGFC
Will stick that on while I delete, sorry, reply to morning emails.
It’s very predictable which publications carry clickbait crap like the Abada nonsense . A young player with a long contract ahead of him , who is integral to the journey we are just starting on .
Always motivated by hatred , and in this case fear .
MYBOYSNOWATIM on 4TH FEBRUARY 2022 1:03 PM
Correct about O’Riley’s corner taking .
Instead of rubbish corners that we don’t look like scoring from , we now have excellent corners that we don’t look like scoring from ;-)))
O’Riley strikes a cracking dead ball and he almost scored direct from a free kick, this will pin the keeper on his line or risk one flying into the net over his head, we just need to learn how to expoit these.
QUADROPHENIAN on 4TH FEBRUARY 2022 11:50 AM
Thanks for the link. It is utterly depressing that millions of people in the UK voted for that sociopath.
Fourteen games? We have seven games to play before the end of February. Three of which are cup ties to be fair. Even so we are going to have to rely on just about every fit player to get us through. And thankfully we aren’t in too bad shape going into the next one. One game at a time. Needless to say.
ROBERTTRESSELL on 4TH FEBRUARY 2022 12:17 PM
On a different note, how would we havevfelt about signing a player who was coming to us with the aim of gaining match fitness for his national teams upcoming play offs? Possibly with a contract clause that says ‘if I’m available I play’. Is only there for 14 weeks and is ‘a few weeks away’ from match fitness, with an injury record going back 6 months?
Yeah, me neither….
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Maybe Desmond is footing the bill for them under the table?
No?
Well, if Celtic PLC which is controlled by Desmond, could and did agree to keeping ticket prices the same after Rangers had died in 2012, and came back into Celtic’s league in 2016, but kept the same ticket price, £49 in 2012, £49 in 2016, then if Celtic’s hierarchy can pull that off and get the Celtic support to buy the “same price £49” tickets without a single question being asked by “any” Celtic supporter, except a guy who used to post on here, Kev J, and he was demonized by almost everybody on here for having the audacity to point out such a right in your face, brazen deceit, then if fans show how easily that they can be manipulated, like they were in 2016, then just think about the “license” that gives to manipulative PLC boards full of pro oldfirm sharks?? What’ll be next, the dawning that GvB isn’t going to get Rangers the coveted, life or death £40 million CL money, so PLC will pull another Dominic McKay stunt, this time with Ange, having ‘personal problems’ and disappearing into the night, NDA signed up so no one will ever know how, or why?? And, Kennedy, McManus, and the son of the Strachan syndrome, left to guide us through the rest of the season?? If Celtic supporters were easily gulled in 2016 with the PLC’s sleekit £49 same club response from which 53,000 have moved on from, and in 2021 when Dominic McKay was “used” to sell out season tickets, a matter of months after the 10 in a row season was chucked under the bus in yet another PLC save “Rangers and the oldfirm” campaign, just like, 2009, 2010, 2011, title surrenders under the “honest mistakes” smokescreen?? I mean if supporters financially vote for a PLC pro oldfirm board who have already carried out some of the above and might just be working on the others, wouldn’t it be better to just put the padlocks on the doors and sell the land? Or maybe 53,000 folk don’t mind propping up the oldfirm??, because that is exactly what is happening. The day that 53,000 prefers a day oot and walk off the pitch and leave Auldheid’s efforts to be mugged off by an oldfirm PLC, instead of marching behind Auldheid and strengthening his Res 12 case, immeasurably, by warning the PLC that there’ll be no renewals till Res 12 is done, and when it is done PLC either leaves of their own accord or they’ll be dragged out if necessary, if its share value the PLC wants then 53,000 withhold their ticket money till share price falls then remove the PLC, because its your club, the PLC won’t give you it back, so you’ll have to take it.
And if that is the case?? then it was Celtic who died in 2012 not the huns.
Celtic Mac
We need to prioritize the League – start with the best XI available.
Aipple
Cheers for reply,he is a good man,recall seeing him at cq10.you stay safe on those roads mate
HH
TICTASTIC on 4TH FEBRUARY 2022 1:04 PM
SCEPTICAL CITIZEN on 4TH FEBRUARY 2022 12:41 PM
That awkward moment when you realise that even YNWA has been trashed by oldfirm fc.
What the fk is that? 👇
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKs-i6sWQAI-Il-?format=jpg&name=small
Get the stupid Lawwell lights to fk
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The photo is absolutely ICONIC….
You are just pathetic…..boring…….
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So your a Lawwell lights supporter?
Half the stadium blanked oot during YNWA…. good for you. 👍
TIMMY7_NOTED on 4TH FEBRUARY 2022 12:54 PM
sceptical citizen on 4th February 2022 12:41 pm
I’m sure you have had plenty of awkward moments.
That one doesn’t even register compared to some of you’re other delusional nonsense.
Perhaps brainwashed citizen would be a better name for this one of your particular characters.
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Whatever. 👍