If you’re my age, you’ve seen Oldco and Newco lose hundreds of goals to Celtic. In all that time, can you recall as amateurish a goal to concede as yesterday’s? We all thought we’d see the worst of them when they came to Celtic a month ago. Davies and Souttar made individual errors that were bad enough, but in all my football watching life, I’ve never seen a defence switch off anticipating a foul against them that was never awarded, then compond that error so spectacularly.
When Callum McGregor took a short free kick for Celtic, the Newco defence and midfield were all in place. Kent, Rankin, Lundstram and Arfield were goal-side, behind them were four defenders and the keeper. Only Cantwell and Morelos were ahead of the ball.
Kent was ball-watching, so allowed a pass to Matt O’Riley. Raskin body checked O’Riley on the edge of the area and remarkably stood still with his hands in the air in a Surrender pose. Daizen Maeda was between Davies and Barasic, both were on their heels. Maeda was in front of Barasic before the defender understood what his job was.
At this point, Davies, still on his heels, decides to chastise Barasic, with a rapid clap of the hands, then outstretching his arms, expressing despair at his team-mate’s lapse – he made no positive contribution. Maeda took a touch then whipped in a cross. During this part of the move, Davies remains a spectator, guarding no one. Goldson is marking Kyogo and repeatedly glances at the striker, as good defenders know to do.
The Newco defence is in a fairly straight line, with Tavernier picking up Jota at the far post, but unlike Goldson, Tavernier does not look to see where Jota is once, he focuses on the ball. When Maeda crosses, Jota is a yard behind Tavernier but he’s already on the move, Tavernier, like the thousands of fans behind him, is just watching.
Jota meets the ball four yards from goal, between the posts and does not even have to jump. As Jota runs away to celebrate, Goldson turns to his captain in despair. It was a fairly even game, so it may look like small margins determined the outcome, but this was no small margin. There was only one team on the field capable of conceding that goal. Newco dominated the middle of the park for long periods, but Celtic have a far better defence and attack. There are no awards for unproductive possession.
Reo Hatate returned for his first outing in six weeks and his performance never reached the levels we saw before his injury. Callum McGregor was often crowded out, resulting in a few unaccustomed errors. We did not look solid in the middle until Aaron Mooy bedded into the game after coming on as a second half substitute. It was not pretty in the middle, but it sure was effective.
Tavernier could not have come closer to scoring when his effort from the edge of the area rebounded off the inside of the post, resulting in a Groundhog Day moment for Fashion Sakala. When the teams met at the League Cup Final in February, Sakala had an open goal from a tight angle but hit the side net. Yesterday, when the ball rebounded off the post, Sakala was presented with the same chance, at the same end of the ground. Just as he did in February, he again hit the side net. All players miss great chances but good ones tend not to double down.
Cameron Carter-Vickers took Man of the Match award, although it could just as easily went to Daizen Maeda, who continues to grow as a Celtic player. Special mention to Anthony Ralston, who before yesterday had only made one appearance in 2023. Everything about him was on-point.
Congratulations, Celtic, on a great win. And I think we’ve all seen enough of Inverness in the Scottish Cup to have none of this talk about the treble until it’s done.
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Mayday Mayday …
This is the SS Sevco we are holed below the waterline , Todd , man the bucket as you seem to like water
scullybhoy on 1st May 2023 12:28 pm
Big Jimmy on 1st May 2023 11:05 am
SCULLYBHOY…
Your Pics and Videos are just FAB Mate.
Thanks for Posting them.
Should you ever make it to a CQN Bevvy session, we will all buy you plenty of Beers
HH Mate.
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Cheers. I have my flights and hotel booked for 2, 3 and 4 June, so I hopefully get to meet you bhoys in person. Don’t worry about buying me pints – get me a ticket for the game!
Colossus CCV.
I think I have a man crush developing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUk2ByD9p6s&t=27s
There is a delicious irony that the ref failing to award us a blatant free kick, cost sevco the game.
Thought he was lenient with a few possible yellows.
We won the game in 3rd gear in the end
https://twitter.com/TamseIIicsonIII/status/1652699171609083905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1652699171609083905%7Ctwgr%5E702f3bda629b44c4750be6e20d9fe644c7fb3ac8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fchampions67.com%2F2023%2F04%2F30%2Fwe-never-stop-brilliant-celtic-video-goes-viral%2F
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Just cause we love Ange
D :)
A repost:
Jackiemac
I posted this on SC:
The huns are accused of falling asleep, more like they stopped because they thought the ref would blow for a free kick against Ruskin. Unfortunately for them the ref, as usual, ignored the foul and started to run up field.
So he inadvertently caused the goal which is nice and sweet 😋
https://cdn.vanguardngr.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230430_183209.jpg
Feck I am getting flashbacks to last night…
Big Huddle outside pub.
Off duty Bar man who looks like Jota (hair, moustache etc) was carried around pub Viking funeral style about 7pm.
D :)
https://www.shropshirestar.com/resizer/rDb6XcsyaKOzYezhcTqty9ivTFU=/1200×0/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mna/5T6MBTZUXRH6VJBKFTBI2SHRSM.jpg
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/04/30/17/70406823-12030911-image-a-16_1682870462801.jpg
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/04/30/17/70406827-12030911-image-a-17_1682870467239.jpg
Still buzzin’
And, in another twist, we’re now firmly part of the UK conscience and national debate leading up to the coronation.
(See previously posted Jeremy Vine links)
To those tens of thousands at Hampden yesterday ….
…. who shamelessly reworded the 19th century African-American spiritual, When The Chariot Comes ….
With a profanity that publicly disdained this magnificent forthcoming event? …..
Proud O’ Ye !!!!!!!
Message from Celtic F C to agents Kent and Sakala. Come home now, your work is done
KINGLuBO
Meant to say, the tackle on Kyogo by Lundstrum in the second minute was a red card
I thought Celtic were very poor yesterday. Sevco were their usual physical selves. Bullying and closing Celtic players down. It was uncomfortable viewing. Not until the final few minutes was I confident Celtic would hold out. Celtic are very superior man for man yet they give us a tough game. Our goal was a comical yet gleefully accepted gift. Ange’s style seems to be a passing game based on speed. Thank goodness for CCV. There’s a man not to be bullied. And thankfully Sevco haven’t a player to put the ball in the net. Still room for improvement but I am just relieved to have ended their season.
SCULLYBHOY on 1ST MAY 2023 12:28 PM
Big Jimmy on 1st May 2023 11:05 am
SCULLYBHOY…
Your Pics and Videos are just FAB Mate.
Thanks for Posting them.
Should you ever make it to a CQN Bevvy session, we will all buy you plenty of Beers
HH Mate.
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Cheers. I have my flights and hotel booked for 2, 3 and 4 June, so I hopefully get to meet you bhoys in person. Don’t worry about buying me pints – get me a ticket for the game!.
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I am the wrong guy to ask for Tickets, as I don’t have those contacts any more.
However, maybe one of the BHOYS on here will help you get sorted nearer the time ?
I will be happy to Meet you when you are here and we can have many Beers, just contact me on here, and I will try and see IF any of the other Bhoys are also available ?
Cheers Mate.
HH.
Pleased with Robertson’s blunder. This is the guy whole blew us up for 17 fouls and they only “fouled” on 9 occasions.
Delighted to see Beaton’s facial expression at the end. They have tried all season to mess us about and have failed.
Don Robertson will have his arms outstretched at a meeting today asking what more he could do…I mean, he literally was the only man at Hampden yesterday who didn’t think that body check on O’Riley was a free kick.
Some goin Daizen.
https://twitter.com/antearmann1967/status/1653003136271888384?t=S4HrCqWWJcOWQ8KbMNmjQQ&s=19
HH
Who
Jack Cuntwell aka Waterboy.
Cannot get the photo on here.
D :)
D that photo shows that even hun players thought it was a foul but the Ref thought 1 of them would clear it, but step forward the Emperor….the rest is history.
D :)
MR MARTINDALE
in his big black range ranger trying to make a quick get away from the main hampden car park, he gets out to aitkendhead road just at the bend at the beechwood, progress is then stopped as a hesitant driver in front of him stops due the the amount of celts in the road.
he has a wee pamping the horn, drawing attention to himself , a wee flurry of ffsakes and a few arm gestures,
que phones out for the people passing
waiting on footage circulating,
pure ragin so he wis, i wonder why he was so upset.
Big Jimmy on 1st May 2023 12:54 pm
I am the wrong guy to ask for Tickets, as I don’t have those contacts any more.
However, maybe one of the BHOYS on here will help you get sorted nearer the time ?
I will be happy to Meet you when you are here and we can have many Beers, just contact me on here, and I will try and see IF any of the other Bhoys are also available ?
Cheers Mate.
HH.
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Yes, we will deffo meet and please God someone on here can source me a ticket!
https://twitter.com/20MinuteTims/status/1652725261572481029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1652725261572481029%7Ctwgr%5E05158fafb787752f604f8df7110773ee9683378b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.givemesport.com%2Frangers-todd-cantwell-slammed-for-bad-sportsmanship-after-denying-celtic-player-drink%2F
eltic fans delighted with Andy Robertson’s latest post
It is no secret that Robertson grew up as a Celtic supporter. And a post from the Scottish international caught the eye of the fans.
Robertson posted a picture on Instagram of himself along with his Liverpool teammates accompanied by the caption ‘Jota Sundays’.
Of course, Hoops fans were quick to take notice of the post and interpreted it as a nod to both his teammate, as well as Celtic’s superstar from Portugal. It does feel like a subtle caption on the part of the Liverpool star.
At the end of the day, Robertson was part of the Celtic youth system but never played for the senior side. He is definitely one who got away for the Hoops.
DAVID66 on 1ST MAY 2023 1:01 PM
D that photo shows that even hun players thought it was a foul but the Ref thought 1 of them would clear it, but step forward the Emperor….the rest is history.
D :)
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they actually didnt stop.
they were taking their pledge of alligience to the new king
Sorry = Celtic
This thing about the gap really goes over my head. This Celtic da remembers the 90s well and no point do I recall Celtic fans claiming we were almost their equal because we only lost a derby by a goal. Wtf is this about ? They bloody lost. It’s over a year since they beat us and we’re about to make it 5 trebles in 7 seasons.
“you’ve seen Oldco and Newco lose hundreds of goals to Celtic. In all that time, can you recall as amateurish a goal to concede as yesterday’s”
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Strange comment, Paul – what does yesterday’s goal got to do with “oldco”?
And please, cut out the talk about chasms – you never know who might be reading!
On to other things.
I really enjoyed the imagery of the close up of Jota celebrating his goal in front of the north enclosure.
The back drop being loyalist flags, orange and purple, staunch slogans.
and their faces are resigned to defeat.
however another thing i notice, when has it become acceptable to their support to use the germanic third reich typeface on their banners, i mean what is that all about ?
SS – 🤣
Carl Starfelt flying under the radar again (unless he made a mistake). He was outstanding yesterday.
Trevelyan descendant ‘would consider’ Irish famine compensation
Published
5 hours ago
Laura Trevelyan, now a slavery reparations campaigner, worked for some time as a BBC correspondent in the United States
By Mark Simpson
BBC News NI correspondent
A descendant of 19th Century aristocrat Sir Charles Trevelyan has said if the Irish government asked her family to pay compensation over the Irish famine they would consider the request.
Laura Trevelyan accepts that her great, great, great-grandfather was among those who “failed their people” while governing Ireland during the famine.
The Irish folk song The Fields Of Athenry singles him out for blame.
But she does not believe her family should be held personally responsible.
Ms Trevelyan, a former BBC journalist, said this is because Sir Charles was involved in his capacity as a British government official during the famine.
In the 1840s, he was the senior British civil servant in charge of Irish famine relief.
More than a million people died and another two million emigrated during the famine, the result of potato blight and exports of food to Great Britain, which ruled the entire island of Ireland at the time.
Slave trade
The Fields Of Athenry is a ballad about a man prosecuted for stealing “Trevelyan’s corn”, a reference to food exported from Ireland while millions were starving.
The Trevelyan family recently agreed to donate more than £100,000 to the Caribbean island of Grenada to compensate for their ancestors’ historic role in the slave trade.
Asked why the Trevelyan family would pay compensation to Grenada over slavery and not to Ireland over the famine, Ms Trevelyan said her ancestors were personally profiting from the sale of sugar cane harvested by enslaved Africans in the Caribbean, while Sir Charles was carrying out government policy.
She added: “If the Irish government said the Trevelyan family are liable for what Sir Charles Edward did, then of course that would have to be considered.”
19th century British civil servant and colonial administrator Sir Charles Trevelyan
After 30 years in the BBC, in the UK and America, Ms Trevelyan left the corporation last month to become a full-time slavery reparations campaigner.
After her family issued a public apology in February over their historic links to slavery, the Irish novelist Katherine Mezzacappa asked Ms Trevelyan on Twitter: “Any word on Charles Trevelyan’s catastrophic handling of famine relief in Ireland?”
“Newco dominated the middle of the park for long periods”.
To be fair, the same could be said for the game two weeks ago and also at Ibrox earlier in the season. Should that be a concern for us? We will face much better midfields in the CL next season and, like last season, the danger is they will simply play right through our high press. It happened to us when Calmac and Hatate were in top form.
What is missing from our engine room? It’s not like we are short of personnel. Calmac, Reo, Iwata, Mooy, Turnbull and MoR are all good players, all offer something a bit different. But is there an obvious flaw that can be addressed?
they did not dominate the midfield.
possession was 52% thems.
they did shoot more, 13 attempts to celtics 10.
but unless i am mistaken, once they were behind, they had to try and score ?
the narrative is – the gap is small, it is fine margins, celtic carry the luck, we make bad errors
i am going to call it one thing, celtic the football department are more professional in all aspects of the game than the 2nd rangers are.
we are better at everything, add defending to that list.
Bit of a tangent.
Coming out of the match yesterday afternoon and there is a mass of Celtic supporters spilling onto Aikenhead Rd. The traffic is moving in fits and starts, first gear and neutral.
A woman driver seemed to get frustrated with the hold up, lost the rag and accelerated hard into the 10 yards gap (about 2 car lengths) ahead of her, a gap that was full of pedestrians, me included.
Two things fortunately didn’t happen: no one was hit, and the driver got no more than some deserved invective.
But now I think on it, there was something odd about the incident. London Rd is closed to traffic for 20 minutes after every match to allow safe egress from Celtic Park. I’m not used to seeing cars on the road outside the stadium. I was actually surprised that there were cars at all.
The Hampden crowd is of a similar scale to Celtic Park, the Police command the very same individuals in the very same event Policing team. Why wasn’t Aikenhead Rd closed to traffic as is SOP at Celtic Park?