On watching Celtic on Tuesday I wondered, ‘What will Juventus learn from this performance?’ Their scout will have left with a few notes.
Celtic can break quickly and effectively. Both Hooper goals came as a result of moving the ball the length of the field, mostly on the deck, at pace.
Their threat from corner kicks was re-emphasised. Charlie Mulgrew delivers the ball with sufficient pace to benefit from unpredictable movement, beyond the anticipated swerve. This will be difficult for defenders, keeper and attackers to meet, but Celtic players clearly put a lot of work into practicing getting onto the end of these crosses.
Hopefully the scout will have learned nothing about how we will defend against Juventus as we were somewhat erratic early on against United and were not pressed thereafter.
Juventus are rightly favourites but this this is a thankless tie for them, especially when the first message delivered is ‘Don’t concede corners or free kicks in wide positions’.
They will also be alert to the dangers of being caught forward when Celtic can break effectively. Celtic conceded through this mistake against Spartak last month but I wouldn’t expect us to leave as much empty space in defence at any point against Juventus.
My main worry about Celtic is over how much practice they are putting into penalty kicks….
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You see, psychopaths have extraordinary memories: balloon or ‘copter, who cares? TSD does……
….I take it “The Haircut That Time Forgot” is a sop to the defhunct klub………
…………………………..plain and simple?
SP -made me laugh there,i think the problem is getting bigger going by other posters,i scroll on by….HH
I’ve known all the major players in N.I. for a long time.The Pensive Quill site is different in that it questions the status quo.You don’t have to agree with it.You seem touchy on the subject.A cat can look at a queen,or perhaps a king in this case.As regards the political end,I was the E.O. of the Cathal Brugha Cumann way early on.One enthusiast for the political lectures was Alex Maskey,still a good friend to this day.That Cumaann also ran the first West Belfast festival, the Anti Internment Festival.Being a Republican also means you can think for yourself. I blame Catholic schools.
“What did Juve learn from celtic on Tuesday?” Well in my opinion they learned that celtic are the type of club who, if ever have an accidental gem of a player, you can come in and buy him for peanuts, give them a slap and leave. They also learned that in 2001 you couldn’t get a seat for love nor money whereas today you can get a full section to yourself (at least from where I sit)
Talking about Craig Whtye, we interviewed Robert Jenkins today for the next edition of CQN Magazine. Robert’s roofing supplies company took Whyte’s Tixway UK Ltd to court. You will recall Whyte had to give evidence and was deemed unreliable by the sheriff. Robert is still trying to get paid and is owed £135,000 by Whyte.
We have the inside story – and it gives a remarkable insight into what was going on at the time Whyte owned Rangers football club. We have various documents which we will link through to in the next magazine -out next week.
Tallybhoy et alii
Despite studying Italian for four years, my grasp of La Bella Lingua has been somewhat dulled by the passing of a half century.
The translation was a product of the Bing translator. It is much quicker and more accurate than I could be.
Good evening Timland.
In one corner London Sevco player,Pat Nevin, Joey Barton.
In the other a cheeky wee ballboy.
I know whose side I am on.
notthebus – The sooner we ban these dangerous so called “footballs” from football the sooner we’ll start saving lives.
Winning Captains – you gonna blow the roof off or bring the roof down?
If theres only 200 of the lost tribe goin to tannadice…will sevco still get 50% of the gate money as is norm for cup games??????…wonder if united were ever paid by them when they were oldco…hpoe utd take couple years to pay them….pay back time
Valentine
Ah but Margaret Thatcher, Peter Sutcliffe and Max Clifford agree with the Ballboy. :)
Raymac.
Your terminology tells me alot,I’ll guess EO stands for education officer,yet,
Never,ever, in my life have i ever heard a member or The Republican Movement call the north NI,as you do, and i never will,
Are you a hun?
Chuckles has gone on record saying he expected his share of the gate, even while encouraging the zombies to stay away.
I hope the game ends in a draw and the Arabs get their share of a world record breaking fourth tier Scottish cup tie crowd.
macanbheatha
You’ll forgive me for having to do a wee google to figure out the acronym. Not my scene as it turns out. I don’t like regimentation you see.
I do tire of the perpetuation of Good Guys and Bad Guys. It becomes such that the reality of the profanity that the population faced from all directions at the time was really just some absurd Hollywood script, and now it’s Oscar time.
It is dishonest and it is disingenuous. It is also obscures the truth of the times from those who had no experience of it, which serves no good purpose.
Valentine’s Day
19:13 on 24 January, 2013
‘In the other a cheeky wee ballboy.’
17 years of age.
Son of the club chairman.
Had boasted on his twitter account that he was going to waste time.
A fud.
Dunno why Joey Barton gets such stick here.
I reckon you’re all just Francophiles….
DOH
Bring back the bin
Juventus would have learned if you dont attack, sit back against a team that plays on the counter attack at home to Dundee Utd and has little creativity other than set pieces they should be ok to get past.
If they shut down our main play maker Chico Muldini and prevent corners and free kicks they will do ok.
We will be at our strongest in the away game.
izzy
Horrible hun in my work backing the player…………….we could go on all night.
BIGbones8867
You’ve lost me there.
ernie lynch
Over paid pampered fitba player?
and a fud
Valentine
Was just a joke pal. No worries. I couldn’t care less about the story TBH.
No more jokes from me after my last effort anyway. :)
HH
!!Bada Bing!!
Me too normally but sometimes you have to make a stand, sticking it to KK whatalowlife..
Art of War
Not sure which one. Probably a bot of both.
BIGbones, I have read a few of Raymacs posts and I’m pretty confident he is a genuine Republican O.K. I agree the N.I. bit is unusual but sometimes you get suckered into using the wrong term when you are trying to write posts in some haste. I well know that serious differences of opinions have arisen between different strands of Republicanism, its something that pains me a lot . I always feel we have more in common then what divides us and we will be stronger by working together.
izzy
nae problem pal.
HH
Tbb
Hollywood?
Nah mate it was all very real
Spend any time over here ,or did you just get all your info from the good old beeb?
Valentine’s Day
19:29 on 24 January, 2013
‘ernie lynch
Over paid pampered fitba player?’
All the player did was try to get the ball from the ball ‘boy’, whose sole intention was to waste time, as he’d previously boasted he would do.
Underhand, deceitful cheat.
Tried to play the big man and ended up whimpering like a little girl.
Repost from earlier-
gallagher 13:20 on 24 January, 2013
http://www.celticfc.net/newsstory?item=3599
A wee extra to this story. . . . . Three of my sons pals are over in Keyna with the Celtic Charity Group, Victors mum and dad were at one of the events and had brought a mountain of food for everyone to enjoy. The young fellas then showed Victors folks a video shot when he’d recently arrived at Celtic and was playing in one of his earliest matches and the GB, maybe around 200 of them were singing the VW song to the tune of the Marseillaise, all good stuff. Then they played them the video of their son scoring against Barca at CP and the aftermath of his goal when the whole stadium erupted in unison singing the very same song……… The tears of pride and joy were streaming down his fathers face as he said ” my bhoy, my bhoy” I liked this story HH
test
corkcelt
It’s no just what you write and realise you shouldn’t have written that.
Early 2000s, did a mate a favour and did a run to Derry for him, the battery on my phone died so had no way of getting directions, anyways went to the Derry side and asked in a shop for directions, directed to a couple of cars outside the shop, I was driving a Dublin reg van, yer man asked what a scottish man was doing in Derry with a D reg van, and I said that as I didn’t know Londonderry I needed directions, the ground could have swallowed me up, they saw the funny side of it, and phoned the people and made all the arrangements for me, I still keep in contact with one of them, and he never let’s me forget it.
ernie lynch
If it had been a Hun player and one of our Ballboy’s – would you still be thinking the same?
hypocrisycsc
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Subhuman Hunsick Blues by Billy No’Well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RriKdXTAfvI&feature=youtu.be
Paul 67.
You posed the question ‘ what will Juve learn from Celtic’s performance on Tuesday’?
Answer….That they will get a humping!
Wembelee oh Wembelee !!
Just saw the Hazard incident.
Much ado about nothing. Certainly nothing to compare with Cantona.