When you are winning and playing well, two games a week seems less of a burden. Celtic players will race out the Dens Park tunnel tonight desperate to get the game underway. Some, like Ryan Christie, will have an even greater appetite.
This fixture is the last of Dundee’s first round of games. They lost to all other teams, apart from Hamilton Accies, who capitulated last month, to give then-manager, Neil McCann, a false dawn. It is Jim McIntyre’s job to pick up the pieces left by McCann, but his two weeks in charge have seen the loss of seven goals without reply. These are tense times for Dundee fans.
What the home team have in their favour tonight is the chance to throw off the weight of expectation and defend their hill of dust. It is an unencumbered liberation they have not experienced all season.
Brendan Rodgers will do well to remind his players that the single point that separates Dundee from second bottom St Mirren was won against Celtic, soon after the appointment of their new manager. The odds against an upset are great, but this is still football.
It is worth keeping an eye on our nearest competitors tonight. If Celtic win and Kilmarnock do not do likewise, we will go second in the table. A win for Hibs at Hearts could also present Celtic with the chance to go top on Saturday. But that’s getting ahead of ourselves. Let’s take care of Dundee first.
Limited edition Celtic Legends Jersey, available from the Celtic Former Players’ Association web site. Love the memory walk through the names, especially Alfie Conn!
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Just beyond Perth on road to Dundee.
That is a winning Celtic team 5-0.
YNWA
maclean’s been caught by the mebs for catching EK’s mebs
Cauld winter was howlin’ o’er moor and o’er mountain
And wild was the surge of the dark rolling sea,
When I met about daybreak a bonnie young lassie,
Wha asked me the road and the miles to Dundee.
Says I ‘My young lassie, I canna’ weel tell ye,
The road and the distance I canna’ weel gie,
But if you’ll permit me tae gang a wee bittie,
I’ll show you the road and the miles to Dundee.’
At once she consented, and gave me her arm,
Ne’er a word I did speir wha the lassie might be:
She appeared like an angel in feature and form,
As she walked by my side on the road to Dundee.
At length wi’ the Howe o’ Strathmartine behind us,
And the spires o’ the toon in full view we could see;
She said, ‘Gentle sir, I can never forget ye
For showing me so far on the road to Dundee.
This ring and this purse take to prove I am grateful,
And some simple token I trust ye’11 gie me,
And in times to come I’ll remember the laddie
That showed me the road and the miles to Dundee.’
I took the gowd pin from the scarf on my bosom,
And said, ‘Keep ye this in remembrance o’ me’,
Then bravely I kissed the sweet lips o’ the lassie
Ere I parted wi’ her on the road to Dundee.
So here’s to the lassie—I ne’er can forget her—
And ilka young laddie that’s listening tae me;
And never be sweer to convoy a young lassie,
Though it’s only to show her the road to Dundee.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LR9uWZ2lzj4
Take a look at these two lads……..brilliant
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk