Two weeks ago we spoke about the fine margins which determine results in the Champions League. Last night’s share of the points was a great example. While Borussia Monchengladbach were the better team at Celtic Park last month, they relied on two defensive errors to settle the game. Had Celtic stayed error free they may have won.
Last night we were error free (you could nit-pick about the Gladbach goal) and got a better result. A result which surprises on the upside or downside has the potential to overshadow an actual performance, but our point was deserved.
It didn’t look that way early on. Although Celtic defended comfortably for the first 15 minutes, we were unable to hold the ball. The abiding memory of that period is Tom Rogic with three black shirts around him the moment the ball arrived at his feet. Even long balls to the later-impressive Moussa Dembele were offering no relief.
We didn’t create anything the first time we got possession inside the Gladbach box, but this was the most important passage of play in the game. We retained possession for more than 20 passes, allowing players to settle, and perhaps giving Borussia more defensive duties to consider. At no point thereafter were we pinned back inside our own half.
Dembele had no right to get around the defender and into a shooting position at the penalty. He knocked the ball to the defender’s left and ran past him on his right, in the middle of the box. It took craft and strength. It’s been a while since we’ve had a striker who would have been capable of this kind of move.
Honourable mentions to Scotts Sinclair and Brown. Sinclair clearly worried the Gladbach defenders, who could only outnumber him when he drove deep into their half with the ball tied to his feet.
The most striking aspect of the performance was how we performed defensively. With squad players Emilio Izaguirre and Cristian Gamboa at full back and Mikael Lustig partnering Erik Sviatchenko in the middle you would be forgiven for worrying we might see the kind of disorganisation witnessed at the Camp Nou on match day one.
Instead we looked well-rehearsed, while Craig Gordon was back at his best.
Callum McGregor’s should have won all three points with a gilt-edged chance near the end. That could have made the difference between third and fourth in the group, but a win would have flattered us.
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DAVIDOPOULOS on 3RD NOVEMBER 2016 11:56 AM
Secretly we all yearn for a set of overalls and an apartment in a building that smells like boiled cabbage…
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Not that secretly – you just told everybody! :-)
Davidopoulos on 3rd November 2016 11:54 am
NatKnow
Maybe it’s time to stop having referendums on stuff – it just upsets people…
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Choices do make people unhappy…
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Or maybe it’s just time to respect the will of the majority who voted for Brexit?
Or do we just accept democracy when it provides the result we want it to?
Much like the drive for another Scottish Independence referendum; you know, the one to take us out of a union with a few countries so we can self-determine joining a union with a lot of countries giving them powers to remove our self-determination!
KTF
VFR
Will JPT be taking questions on Article 50 ? 0:-))
JJ
VFR800A8 on 3RD NOVEMBER 2016 12:04 PM
Davidopoulos on 3rd November 2016 11:54 am
NatKnow
Maybe it’s time to stop having referendums on stuff – it just upsets people…
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Choices do make people unhappy…
_____________________________________________
Or maybe it’s just time to respect the will of the majority who voted for Brexit?
Or do we just accept democracy when it provides the result we want it to?
Much like the drive for another Scottish Independence referendum; you know, the one to take us out of a union with a few countries so we can self-determine joining a union with a lot of countries giving them powers to remove our self-determination!
KTF
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Why do you think the vote is not being respected??
1. NATKNOW on 3RD NOVEMBER 2016 12:17 PM
VFR800A8 on 3RD NOVEMBER 2016 12:04 PM
Davidopoulos on 3rd November 2016 11:54 am
NatKnow
Maybe it’s time to stop having referendums on stuff – it just upsets people…
——————————————————–
Choices do make people unhappy…
_____________________________________________
Or maybe it’s just time to respect the will of the majority who voted for Brexit?
Or do we just accept democracy when it provides the result we want it to?
Much like the drive for another Scottish Independence referendum; you know, the one to take us out of a union with a few countries so we can self-determine joining a union with a lot of countries giving them powers to remove our self-determination!
KTF
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Why do you think the vote is not being respected??
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It just might be something to do with the fact MP’s now have the opportunity to delay, postpone or even oppose Brexit which a majority of those voting chose.
KTF
YAWN….
VFR800A8 on 3RD NOVEMBER 2016 12:28 PM
1. NATKNOW on 3RD NOVEMBER 2016 12:17 PM
VFR800A8 on 3RD NOVEMBER 2016 12:04 PM
Davidopoulos on 3rd November 2016 11:54 am
NatKnow
Maybe it’s time to stop having referendums on stuff – it just upsets people…
——————————————————–
Choices do make people unhappy…
_____________________________________________
Or maybe it’s just time to respect the will of the majority who voted for Brexit?
Or do we just accept democracy when it provides the result we want it to?
Much like the drive for another Scottish Independence referendum; you know, the one to take us out of a union with a few countries so we can self-determine joining a union with a lot of countries giving them powers to remove our self-determination!
KTF
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Why do you think the vote is not being respected??
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It just might be something to do with the fact MP’s now have the opportunity to delay, postpone or even oppose Brexit which a majority of those voting chose.
KTF
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A referendum is not legally binding – something needs to be enacted in parliament. That’s how parliamentary democracy works. All the PM needs to do is call a vote…
Sons of Struth money gone? Tehehehehehe
https://johnjamessite.com/author/sitonfence/
new article posted.
Nice to see someone including other teams instead of the norm laying into Celtic, more of this please.
Date: 3rd November 2016 at 12:05pm
Written by: Joe McHugh
As an interesting tangent to the matters of Resolution 12 it has been confirmed that as far as UEFA are concerned the current club playing out of Ibrox aren’t the club that flopped in the 2011/12 qualifiers for the Champions League and Europa League.
The determined group of Celtic shareholders that have been behind Resolution 12 were never interested in the phoney Scottish phenomenon that allowed a club granted a licence in 2012 to take on the honours and titles of a club in liquidation while avoiding the pesky bills that delivered many of those trophies.
CLICK HERE for the UEFA letter confirming the new club status of the tribute act.
At the crux of Resolution 12 there is one simple question- did the SFA approve a European licence for Rangers knowing that the club had ‘qualified’ while refusing to pay a tax bill, which dated back to illegally registered players going back a decade.
The answer to that question is an overwhelming YES. Every document and communication confirms that there was a tax demand for £2.8m plus interest at 30 June 2011.
If the SFA had applied the UEFA rules properly Celtic would have been put into the Champions League qualifiers.
If Craig Whyte knew that this was happening HMRC would almost certainly have received their money rather than spending money on Lee Wallace, Carlos Bocanegra, Dorin Goian, Matt McKay and Juan Ortiz. For good measure Steven Whittaker, Steve Davis and Allan McGregor received bumper new contracts with significant signing on fees.
The sale of Nikita Jelavic would have solved the tax issue in a stroke, it would also have allowed the soon to be liquidated club to pay off Jelavic’s fee to Rapid Vienna.
Some simple house keeping by the SFA could have solved a lot of heartbreak. The fans of the club may have decided to march to Hampden but highlighting how the 2010/11 title had been won may have alerted the more intelligent supporters on how their club was operating.
All of these details have been uncovered by the shareholders involved in Resolution 12. For their own private reasons there seems to be no mood to challenge the SFA on a monumental error.
With the tribute act pushing for a European place with a going concern warning on their accounts is there anyone at Hearts, Aberdeen or St Johnstone prepared to stand up and ensure that if their club miss out it is to a club operating in the same business manner?
The UEFA letters will be a body blow for those that believe in the Survival Myth but until the SFA, who are in fact the member clubs, including Celtic, Hearts, Aberdeen and St Johnstone, bring transparency to the issues of 2011 it’s hard to take the governance of Scottish football seriously when the same characters are in place with no lessons learned.
CLICK HERE for more detail on Resolution 12 from Etims.
PAUL67 on 3RD NOVEMBER 2016 12:42 PM
new article posted.
Is it about Brexit?
NatKnow on 3rd November 2016 12:31 pm
Constitutionally it isn’t binding; in fact due to the nature of the British Constitution – or lack of it – there are many things that don’t have to be enacted but are accepted. However, in the spirit of democracy it should be actioned.
I wonder what the reaction would be if, for instance, part of the UK were to vote for independence and this was put to a vote in the UK Parliament and rejected.
KTF