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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Folks
I’ve reproduced below what Alex Thomson has reported the SFA told him in response to the TSFM resolution to put sporting integrity first along with other trust restoring measures. It is astonishing because it suggests that the SFA are powerless to do ANYTHING in terms of instructing the SPl/SFL. Chocolate fireguard comes to mind.
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The SFA’s position on Rangers and the SPL proposals to shoe-horn the club into a 2-Tier SPL remains that they did not, could not, would not seek to influence this matter.
The SFA insist they are football’s umbrella body in the game but have no jurisdiction over the running of the SPL or any league for that matter:
“The Scottish FA has no jurisdiction over the competition rules of league bodies. Through the Professional Game Board, we can provide a forum for debate on matters such as league reconstruction.”
So they say they exist to provide debate on matters like league reconstruction but cannot interfere directly, they say they have no powers to do so’
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You would imaginefrom above that some Scottish journalist would pounce on this and ask then what exactly is the purpose of the SFA? Who will protect football from the greed of leagues, who will preserve it for the supporters? What is the point of a SFA mission statement when the ability to carry out that mission does not exist?
bournesouprecipe
20:53 on
24 January, 2013
Glasgow
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Cracker!
Prestonpans
Anybody know anything of this Stranraer precedent ??
You finish top of the fourth tier yet are promoted ahead of at five teams who finished above you ….whatever happened to dignity …:-))
Not for the faint-hearted. The comments herein as reported by ‘carlislecelt’, imo, represent the soul of those walking/talking unrepentant thieving orange nightares with a football wing as the outlet for their bigoted bile.
http://scottishfootballmonitor.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/a-question-of-trust/
the exiled tim
20:49 on
24 January, 2013
No, some of us have to work, you know…… LOL
Where did that come from.? ………great that BDO are on the case, though ……..thanks for the post…..I was beginning to think they had got to BDO also….
Chuck conning the stupid zombies into keep turning up as Sevco are a busted flush.
Hell mend the zombies when it all goes wrong again…
I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant
Did emdae see the guy aged abt 40 who was b&b in Northern Ireland on The Chase last night who was asked what color are the berets the paras wear and there was £8000 at stake. Were they green / black or maroon?
He went for green. Total fudd!!!!
zimmerman
20:54 on 24 January, 2013
KK,
What did the singing tec’ say and when?
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I wish I could remember.
:¬)))
Bournesouprecipe 20:29
Bankiebhoy 20:47
I get the idea of a point about Celtic and think this is the best place to talk about it, no one is interested in Celtic talk here now, sad but true. I Love you two though :)
I can see why its turned into an old firm fan forum through the dougie dougie and other exclusives but Celtic posts are hard to fit in. I look in to read the funny stuff and Celtic stuff, every day its about some daft wee division three club and the wee eejit that owns them. Not for me, if I wanted to laugh at wee daft con men Id watch 70s bbc comedy shows.
Still love good CQN though.
EN
EN
Jude
Well seen the chaser guy wasnt from aberdeen … No way he woulda said ma roon
ernie
I harbour a dream that , one day, The Celtic Support, en masse, will sing some newly penned Celtic Song to the Tune of the Triumphal March. Followed by something similar to “va pensiero sull’ali dorate” from Nabucco. Would make YNWA seem very tame.
JJ
National Craig Whyte day on 16th of February. Get the jelly and ice cream in.
EN @ 20.22
Would say you’re spot on.
Ernie Lynch’s using Auden’s piece to describe ol Sevco is a total misuse as Auden created it about a character who was in love with someone who had died, or maybe it is that Ernie/TBB and others do love RFC/Sevco.
Celtic fans from my own perspective have absolutely nothing to complain about, after the disappointment of Henke leaving us and the 10 years it’s taken us to get over his expected departure we’re finally producing a side that is earning respect across the globe. You only have to look at fifa.com or uefa.com to see the range of countries that posts about Celtic generate and a large % of the posters don’t have any noticeable Irishness about them.
Its a fantastic time to be a fan, maybe that’s why I’m not posting as often on here ;-)
Sevco set up a dispute with DU….whip their scum fans into a frenzy
Then …try to make demands on DU re the running of the game
Incredible arrogance
raymac
are you a hun republican ?
Singing Tec,
What did you say and when, to cause all this furore?
Feel a bit sorry for Juve.
They are gonnae be hit by a green & white tidal wave!
The old Lady will surely be blown away!
Noticed the DR said that some The Rangers official said that the arabs wearing “our hero” face masks could cause a riot. Thank god they only sold 200 tickets to them then………..
McCoist, as I am sure others have pointed out with access to google and half a brain, is worng on Stranraer. Quel surprise…
Further league reconstruction would be introduced for the 1994-1995 season resulting in four leagues of ten teams. This meant that there would be a new Scottish Third Division, so this season five teams were relegated from the first division and only one promoted (Stranraer) to the first division. The bottom ten teams of the old second division were ‘relegated’ to the new third division.
Stranraer leep frogged no one. This was a pre arranged condition of that season i.e. that the winners would be promoted and that five from the same division were relegated.
….PFayr
21:06 on
24 January, 2013
Sevco set up a dispute with DU….whip their scum fans into a frenzy
Then …try to make demands on DU re the running of the game
Incredible arrogance
did you expect anything else…………………but back to Celtic matters ……… do you rate Lassad……seems to have settled in at last
Just for estadio
AIK Stockholm have reacted
angrily to Mo Bangura’s loan deal
to rivals Elfsborg.
Bangura spent the second half of
last season on loan to AIK who sold
him to Celtic for £2m in 2011.
AIK felt that they were in pole
position to get Bangura for a third
time but failed to match the loan
fee offered by Elfsborg.
A statement on the AIK website
read: “AIK have been in talks with
Celtic since Mohamed returned to
Scotland but it emerged that Celtic
wanted a higher fee than we paid in
the autumn.
“Another Swedish club has agreed to
meet that price and we won’t
change our view on loan players.”
AIK sports director Jens T Anderson
added: “This would require more
money than we have spent
previously on any loan player.”
The opening game of the Swedish
season is between AIK and Elfsborg
on April 1 with Bangura’s loan being
for the entire season.
FIFA rules don’t allow players to be
with more than two clubs in the
same season but since it’s a new
Swedish season starting in April
Bangura is able to join Elfsborg.
asonofdan
20:54 on 24 January, 2013
Typical tactics by the bhuns ……they know they can’t win the Utd game, and are resorting to the nonsense that deid team employed, for example, in the shame game …..dispicable morons ….. Get thee back to satan…
Pggtips2 21:06
Good post, dont know anything about the posts you refer to, I skip past the first mention of division three clubs. Not being snobbish but Ive never had much interest in them.
Agree with you its a great time to be a fan and thats a reason why we dont post as much, dont see how that is related to fifa or uefa stats :)
Hope all is well.
EN
67Heaven
It was from the p@sh stained alki, leggo’s blog today
Barca game great 1-1
An absolutely incredible statement by John McMcmillan of the Sevconian trust…..
Demand 1.no Craigey masks to be worn by D UTD fans v Sevco
Demand 2. No celebrations by D UTD if they score.
Demand 3. D UTD to wear a changed strip.
It appears Johnny boy knows his audience and fears a Sevconian revolt!!
Are these people for real?
Are these people?
Hunbelievable ! Truly jaw dropping stuff
Magnificentseven
I’ve like Lassad from the start
IMO he is a skillful ,clever player who will get a reasonable number of goals
A good addition to our squad
Re Sevco …I thought the above was over the top …even for them
G/Day Bhoys & Ghirls,
Been getting annoyed with Setanta.Au not showing Celtic games so phoned to cancel,why “what is wrong” Explained I was Celtic FC fan and did not like Third Division games so was told they had had a lot of complaints and would be showing more Celtic in future and dropped the $16.99 pcm to $5.00,at least for next 2 months
Would change to Celtic TV if my broadband connection was better.Too slow here.
Raymac wrote –
“I see I’ve been called a hun.About time too.I do have Rangers friends,but in Scotland,where I make no bones about being a Republican.It’s easy to talk the talk–much harder to do the walk.For information,we now have what Arthur Griffith wanted–dual nationality,although he said we could acknowledge the crown as well as a republic.It is common knowledge also that Michael Collins refused to let control of the IRB go, a bete noir of Charles Burke, or Cathal Brugha as we know him.He didn’t trust Dev, and with good reason..I have been in Long Kesh,Armagh Jail,the Crum as well at one time or another.What for is my business.I also ran a cross community football team even before the ceasefire in 94.I still do quite a lot of community work—unpaid.So if I call the North N.I. I do so in the knowledge of that is what it is—6 counties. I don’t see a Brit withdrawal at any time soon,and I also don’t see the need for a Border Poll. A waste of money.and I’m like Peter Lawell in that respect–I hate wasting money.I don’t tell lies, and I post here because it’s simply the best Celtic site around.I count Marion Price as a friend,yet I don’t agree with her politics.I hold my Protestant friends dear,and they know what I am–a Republican to the hilt.”
Maybe spending a lot of time in England. my politics would be more ‘mainstream’ than yours (that’s your right and mine).
However, that was a well-thought out tolerant piece of writing.
Does that mean Bangura has played for 3 clubs in one year?Thought that was against the rules.
Anybody with a Virgin TV TiVo box?
Was about to settle down to watch the Celtic v Barca recorded on the TiVo box, but because I have recently removed Sky Sports package it won’t allow me to watch it because I’m not a current subscriber.
Wife thinks this is hilarious.
Conning feckers.
….PFayr 21:15
I think Lassad is very much our new Samaras, he will move into the Samaras winger/forward/feckKnows role Samaras plays and I like the idea of that. He has the finish as well.
We used to think Samaras was a cheap replacement, now Im hoping players can match Samuel Sammi Samaras. This is good.
EN
Mullet and Co
21:10 on
24 January, 2013
you sure about that bhoy??
Jackie Mac –
“raymac
are you a hun republican ?”
Somebody did some investigation into polls especially in NI/ the Occupied 6 or whatever.
They would find amongst other things that 2% of DUP supporters had no problem with becoming part of a United Ireland.
I’ve always been suspicious of polls ever since.
Did McMidden say “6 slice of square sausage please”….Bowling Club Hun.
Does that mean Bang Bang will be with us until the start of the Swedish season ..April …
Bada….,
3 clubs in the same season, it’s a wee technicality.