One or two of us mocked another team for struggling against Second and Third division sides this season. All good sporting fun but from the lofty heights of the Champions League knockout stages you need to make sure you can overcome a team who are treading water in the third tier of Scottish football.
Arbroath were good value for their draw at Celtic Park earlier this month. It would be wrong to say their late equaliser was coming, as they never threatened during the previous 86 minutes, but they were thoroughly well organised and apart from a bizarre own goal would have reached the 87th minute on level terms.
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Our eclectic collection of African, Mediterranean and metropolitan players will have little experience of the biting Arctic wind that will blow in off the Angus coast tonight, just a few yards from Gayfield Park, whereas the part-timers from Arbroath will be very much at home. This, my friends in Celtic, is what they call the Romance of the Cup.
Don’t be comforted by the wins over Barca and Spartak, they guarantee nothing. One more lacklustre performance and dreams of Celtic’s fourth treble will be kippered. 2012 has been the year of the little man, the “diddy teams”, as a wild Rover coined them in the summer. There is one remaining superpower in our sport and every game they play is a cup final for someone.
Get Up for the Cup, Celtic.
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Anyone running a book on how many players will be wearing gloves, tights or wooly hats tonight?
Here’s a reference to the 1981 tournament.
To be fair the sheer bulk of Bob Latchford in a 5-a-side goal would have made scoring against us a very long shot
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Daily+Express+Five-a-Side+Challenge+Cup
Todays date is 12/12/12
Team will have the backing of the 12th man tonight.
Score 1:2
‘Dozen’ get any better than that.
The Onlooker
EDWARD URSUS
Good one,bud-but yer still struggling to match yer comment about using a priest to finish off the catch.
I thought that was a belter,but some might have thought it was a gaffe.
http://www.onfieldsofgreen.com/the-spiraling-cost-of-following-football/
Gavin McCann’s latest, and something we can all agree with.
There’s a fair amount of trolling across Celtic blogs and forums at the moment. The Internet Bampots must – like Celtic – be doing something right.
Chris
Ed – good to see you here again.
After last week’s nonsense you had to endure, I would suggest, respectfully, that you mostly keep your posts to times such as now where most people coming on will be sober.
Hic!
Whither the cash strapped scrofulous hillbillies, and their scrofulous cash strapped cuzz, the day?
The Exiled Tim @ 13 09 .
The evidence from the Moggiopoli scandal shows that Juve were manipulating Referees / slow motion replay men / journalists / agents / tax officials / the polis / Tv pundits . TV Directors / Producers / camera men etc . Bribery / blackmail / intimidation . Organized / systematic control .
The figures suggest that manipulating the media cost more than manipulating Referees. .
Referees got holiday homes in places like the Dominican Republic . Referees got things like school fees paid / university fees paid / Fiat Cars for life / insurance policies / houses bought / cash etc etc . . The media men got cash -big cash.
Interesting side note —– You will remember Hector Moreno , the Ref who shafted Italy in the South Korea World Cup . Sections of the Italian media stated that he would regret it . Cue him being caught with several kilos of heroin at an American airport [ Polis having received a tip off ]. Cue him doing time. Italian media covered his release from prison with an air of GIRUY
BMCUP I’m glad you liked the priest one lol, I have to admit I liked it myself but may have made a rod for my own back.
Petethebeat :- The problem with that is I’m normally the one lacking soberiety :-)
Anthony Stokes i dont give a toss if he goes for a pint in his dads pub
also worse things have been tweeted to him
MSM rehashing a story doing the rounds for weeks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20686618
But when he (Cameron) met the Finucanes at Downing Street in October 2011, he is also reported to have said that there “are people in buildings all around here (meaning 10 Downing Street) who won’t let it happen”.
Which rather begs the question: who runs the country?
Hi Ed, welcome back!
Did you see Chuckles on TV last night?
We see it from different angles of course, but would you buy shares from that man?
EDWARD URSUS
I’ll allow you the last word on that one-very good,btw.
As a former resident of Kilwinning-I sill live there as fr as I’m concerned,haha!-you’ll be aware of the expression-
You can cook salmon any way you like,but it’s best poached first………
Richie I didn’t see the interview, I really don’t follow (follow) the financial side of things. I won’t be buying any shares or investing any money in the club. I doubt if I will go to many games as I already attend at least two a wek and in the good weather maybe four or five so my football addiction is well fed
BMCUP It’s the perfect recipe for salmon lol Almost as good as the Kilwinning omelette recipe. First steal some eggs…..
It’s December 12th – if you see anyone who still has a moustache do not under any circumstances approach them.
EDWARD URSUS
Haha,I remember getting an induction course from a fella from Stevenston. Giving me pelters,he was.
Till I said
Kilwinning is famous for coal and steel,Stevenston is famous for stealing coal.
Guess you had to be there…….
JJ
re Stokes …bang on
the MSM are playing to masses
who cares what they think ….we shouldn`t
I’d like to congratulate Third Lanark who celebrate their 140th birthday today.
Georgios Samaras relishes the bitter Scottish winter as it gives him an opportunity to model his natty line of woollen headgear.
In this video, he can be seen modelling the latest from his conehead collection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjA-G1V99lQ&list=UUBN-bb-hE7jYlcp4exwXRsQ&index=1
Good one Paul.
Bsr, you should have read what EC67 earlier was saying about you in your youth…
HEADTHEBALL
How on earth is Sting’s pal supposed to fit that CD in his bottom lip?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
More to the point, how did the coach driver get it into the CD player?
paul67 kippered, thats fishy…..or is it just smoked mirrors?
HEADTHEBALL
He asked DELBOY-Sami was actually hiding a fire extinguisher under his bunnet……..
No seen dbbia for a while, good to see the cash strapped hillbillies are still whithering
Smokies and minnows
From a long article in ‘Private Eye’ about a ripped-off investment fund called Connaught Asset Management. For us sevco wathchers this is the interesting bit:
“….. creditors have managed to get BDO replaced but are alarmed that Connaught itself appointed an administrator condemned only last year as dishonest by a high court judge.”
Hmmmm.
So,having to ask oneself,” How do they get away with it? “, I must remind myself that this is Bigot F.C., a criminal enterprise in cahoots with the reprehensible from across the water and protected by the luj.
Then, clarity arrives.
Canalamar- nothin’ to do with the return of ole Eddie.
Anyways, I was at the game against the Rus [ deleighted to meet ole Tooting Tim and Starry Plough] but dearie me..it’s time we thought seriously about a Moaning Section at CP ,and let them all sit together and chunter away to their heart’s discontent instead of ruinin’ the game for the rest of us.
Edward,
Welcome back. Refreshing to hear considered thoughts from the ‘other side’, as well as your snide remarks about Kilwinning!
What have you been doing with your time? Not time, I hope?
Dbbia,
I’d make them all stand
Conspiracy Theories:
JFK, Twin Towers, Moon Landing……
Conspiracy Facts:
Hillsborough, “IRA Bombers”, Funicane, Bigot FC …..
Ntassoolla,
Nothing to do with your latest posts, but you mentioned a while ago that you were thinking of settling in Inverness: you should think carefully about that! Inverness has a fine location (so does Glasgow), a beautiful river – maybe the most beautiful of any town – & some lovely Victorian houses (I’m trying to sell mine right now). The natives keep themselves to themselves – more so than Edinburghers – but fortunately are diluted by people from Central Scotland, England, Poland etc. House prices are high, tho’ IMO not high enough at the moment. If you moved here, you’d have the proximity of at least 1 Celtic fan who’s not a left-winger, but my company might not be to your liking.
O.G.Rafferty – I saw that on the BBC and was shocked that the PM could talk like that. Mind you, didn’t Old Lizzie say something similar to Di’s butler?
It does indeed make you wonder who is in charge.
Oh wait, they might get in the road of the supporters, av got it, stick them in the corporate section, then again, if your in the minority it might be an idea just to move on to section 111 oh maybe no, then you’d have the polis giving you screen tests for the next Celtic video and all that bloody exercise might have the pints bouncing. nah, earmuffs/phones with your choice of sounds set the volume to tinnitus
Ntass..,
Grab invercelts offer, what’s the point of living beside people who always agree, canny whack a bit of variety