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.
The CQN Annual is 196 pages dripping with pure Celtic. You can order online here, a glossy joy for someone for Christmas!
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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Emerald Bee, thanks for the welcome. I’ve tended to spend my time involved in non league football, the standard may not be as high but it’s a lot less expensive. Snyde remarks about Kilwinning? I thought I had only mentioned the best bits
Arbroath have had some good tustles with Celtic over the years but in this home win in front of 7,000 at Parkhead the main talking point was not the scoreline but the injury to Jimmy Delaney.
Arbroath’s Attilio “Teel” Becci, a Celtic fan, was said to be distraught after the freak accident that sidelined Delaney.
Hope there are no similar mishaps tonight.
The Scotsman – Monday, 3rd April 1939, page 4
DELANEY’S MISHAP
Celtic won comfortably enough against Arbroath, and would have won by a much larger score but for the injury to Delaney, who sustained a broken arm.
With the home team leading by two goals to nil, Murphy forced a corner on the left. As the kick was taken, Delaney, running in to meet the ball, was seen to drop. The outside right was removed to the pavilion, where on examination he was found to have a fractured arm. The referee consulted the linesman and allowed play to proceed.
The players were considerably upset, and play was very ragged for a while. Gradually Celtic reasserted themselves, and only smart saving by Anderson prevented the home lot from going further ahead. Paterson, making his first appearance after injury, broke down, and finished the game at outside left.
Towards the finish Arbroath came more into it, and showed up well in attack, but their finishing was weak.
Celtic went ahead in 20 minutes, when Divers got well up to head home a lob from McDonald. Celtic dictated matters until the interval, and resumed on a strong note.
Eight minutes after the restart. Delaney, who was playing cleverly, broke away and squared a low ball to McDonald, whose fierce drive from 15 yards found Anderson badly of position.
None did better for Arbroath than Hughes and McInally, two old Parkhead favourites with Anderson, Fordyce, Gavan, and Christie also prominent.
For Celtic, Kennaway, Hogg, O’Neill, Delaney (until injured), and Divers were best.
The attendance was 7,000.
CELTIC:
Kennaway, Hogg, Morrison, Geatons, O’Neill, Paterson, Delaney, MacDonald, Carruth, Divers, Murphy.
Scorers:
Divers, McDonald.
ARBROATH:
Anderson, Fordyce, Becci, Vannet, Gavin, Urquhart, Gould, John McInally, Adams, Willie Hughes, Christie
Referee: J. Horsburgh (Midlothian).
Attendance: 7,000
Invercelt 14:39 thanks for your post. Our on-line personae rarely square with our the more reserved reality.
It’s a bit like being abroad on holiday in your youth. Was that the real me or is this the real me? I’ve discovered from working abroad as an adult that the delinquent is still trying to emerge. I’ll note your offer and will likely at some point ask your opinion. Do you intend to stay in Inverness?
Experience of owning a Victorian property in the ever shifting clay substrata of London has satisfied for life my hankering after fancy ceilings and bay windows.
I agree about The River Ness. There are a couple of wee bits of The Kelvin that come close.
‘The best bits of Kilwinning’, a 25-volume DVD, available in all good outlets in time for Yule.
BTW Invercelt I do agree with you that houses in Inverness are undervalued. I think it’s to do with lack of mortgage funds. But don’t grumble. The rest of Scotland hasn’t fared so well as you.
tomtheleedstim, 14:41
We only need Ally to ask who these people are for us to find out
petethebeat
13:31 on
12 December, 2012
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.
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That only gives Ed a window of about half an hour, 11:30am-12:00pm, approx.
That is being generous.
O.G.R – hehehe.
Posted at 15.11 by tomthe……….ermm…….norwichtim
Generous as in the level of sobriety!
Weather forecast for tonight from Met Office:
Temp: -1°C
Wind:
Dir: NW
Spd: 3mph
Vis: Very Good
For those going tonight keep warm, keep safe and enjoy the game.
My team for tonight:
FF
AM—KW—EA—EI
CM—SB—VW—JL
GH—GS
HH
/Bishop B
Happy birthday jonny the tim.
A true gent and a good friend.hail hail
‘The best bits of Dick Byrne and The Embrocation’ – a minor classic – 78rpm bakelite, unavailable from all good stockists.
Chris
phonogramCSC
‘The best bits of Kilwinning’, a 25-volume DVD,
For me, the best bits of Kilwinning are the K and the w.
JJ
I take it our African and Mediterranean players will be wearing gloves tonight?
As well as woollen socks and long-sleeved thermal vests?!
I know I would if I was there.
Is the game still going ahead?
HH!!
‘[Simply the] best bits of Kilwinning- the director’s cut’- in which Edwardursus, aka the sage of Kilwinning, reveals the Ayrshire town in all its glory.
In English, with subtitles.
Tallbhoy
I had a look at Gayfield about an hour ago. The pitch is uncovered, the technicians are all buzzing around and the food vans are already operating (indeed, that is where the techies are all buzzing around). So, I would be very surprised if the game does not go ahead. Cold but calm in Arbroath…..just how we want Celtic to be.
JJ
TALLbhoy? I like it!
Incidentally, Pepo`s, an excellent Fish and Chip shop in Arbroath, has a sign on the door saying: CLOSED FOR THE BIG GAME.
There is something reassuringl old-fashioned about some aspects of Arbroath. Shame Pepo`s is shut, though, as they are probably the best fish and chips in Arbroath……or the world (after the Ansruther Chippie).
JJ
‘The best bits of Ardrossan’, XXX-rated Kinetoscope.
Chris
Jungle Jim
Thanks for the update – you are much more reliable than SSN!
Hate postponements!
Cmon the Hoops!
HH!!
Paul67
I know that Philvis has what appears to be an uncanny knack for happening upon the website just as a new article is posted, but is it not also the case that the ID-based new article URLs are not entirely unpredictable?
Moneyed, charming, dandy Lothario he may be, but mystic? I think not.
South Of Tunis
Wow, that is some amount of people in on the scam, an expensive business then is the Italian match fixing.
The only difference with Italy and scotland, is in scotland they do it for love and hate :>)
Kilwinning eh?
I had the pleasure of attending a very fine Catholic Secondary school there!
Full of bampots (pre-internet ones ‘tho).
I became one as well – they were a bad influence a tell yees!
Thankfully I did’nt have to live there – with deepest apologies to BMCUW!
HH!!
We will destroy Arbroath tonight.
Loving the Tweets from his holiness.
ASonOfDan – 16:00 on 12 December, 2012
“We will destroy Arbroath tonight.”
Not really what I expected from @pontefex
‘A Russian lawyer has been sentenced to 12 days in prison for fighting with Celtic fans before last week’s Champion’s League match in Glasgow.
Alexsey Filatov, 36, admitted breach of the peace and resisting arrest over the incident in the city’s Fielden Street.
Co-accused Alexey Fedorov, 22, a bank clerk from Russia, was also sentenced to 12 days after he admitted breaching the peace and assaulting police.’
Off to the Glasgow Salt Mines with ’em!
ASonOfDan
” We will destroy Arbroath tonight”
As a resident here, I do hope you are referring to the football team . Anyway, the consensus here seems to be that the dual carriageway has already destroyed the town.
JJ
Headtheball
30 days in the Gallowgate Gulag with the scoundrels!
HH!!
Sack the board
Stating the obvious: bloody cold out there. It was -6C when I got into the car this morning and it’s -3C now.
Two pairs of thermals are recommended for anyone heading to Arbroath this evening.
Juast seen Paul Given ? DUP rubbishing the Finucane family’s right to have an inquiry in the first place.He is on the NI Justiciary Committee.
Afternoon all,
I’ve just been doing a spot of research with regards to traveling to our possible opponents in the last 16 and I was looking for a bit of advice from 1 or 2 of our continental Bhoys…
If we draw Juve would Milan Malpensa be the best airport? (I’m looking at you South of Tunis) and if we draw either Dortmund or Schalke is the best airport to fly to Dusseldorf International? (I’d be flying from Edinburgh or Glasgow)
HH
ASonOfDan – we should be able to fill our boots on Betfair.
Papal infallibility and all that.
Geraldine Finucane,your search for truth goes on….
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/12/pat-finucane-murder-report-family-whitewash_n_2284265.html?1355321808&utm_hp_ref=uk
Evening Times talks of Rangers legend Mark Hately. How do they define legend?
‘Celtic to win 4 nil’
(the Declaration of Arbroath)
weeminger
lol!
I am expecting ‘Mon the Popes 11!’
I expect a Celtic win tonight but I’m still a tad nervous. In my book we will win SPL & we won’t win Champions League. The 2 domestic Cups are the only trophies where there is a genuine doubt about the outcome. Accordingly they have become extremely important. Anything less then the domestic treble will be disappointing to me, there is no second chance in the Cup, so come on Bhoys do the business tonight and keep the good times rolling.