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Celtic Diary Thursday September 14: Another Slump ?

After the roasting from Paris St Germain, there was further bad news for Celtic fans as it now appears that if “rangers ” beat Partick by four clear goals in tomorrows Glasgow Derby , Scotlands youngest club will be at the top of the table…

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Of course, they won’t be there for long, but it sure will make uncomfortable reading should it turn out that way.

Have Celtic taken their eye off the ball ?

With just one win in four  games it could be a sort of crisis, and yet no one seems to be worried.

Eleven goals conceded in those games indicate that it might be a good time to remind the players that the biggest danger to them are themselves.

Ross County are next up on Saturday, and thats followed by Dundee in the League cup .

Time to get the wheels back on the bus.

Scott Brown tried to make us all feel better…

“The focus has to be on the next game now,”

 “European football is notoriously difficult and we played a game on Tuesday night against a team who have just spent the guts of £400m on two players [Neymar and Kylian Mbappe]. They spent a lot of money to try to win this competition and they gave us a night of it.

“It could have been more, especially in the first half, although I do think that we gave a better account of ourselves in the second. Now it is on to Anderlecht in a fortnight and going away from home is never easy. We have to learn quickly from some of the mistakes that we made against PSG and try to take that into the next game over in Brussels.

“PSG are right up there as one of the best teams I have ever played against, but so they should be with the amount of money that they have spent. They have great players and a couple of technical geniuses as well. They could go a long, long way.

“It is too early to tip them to win the Champions League this season but it’s fair to say that they gave us a right good hiding, that’s for sure. It is up to us to try and come back from that and take what we can from it.

“The bar is going to get raised as high as possible, but what we want to do is go out and compete. We didn’t do that for big chunks of the game. If we can take anything positive, it is the way we tried to lift ourselves in the first half an hour of the second half and that is what we need to draw on as we look to collect ourselves before Anderlecht

. “Last season we had a heavy loss in the Nou Camp. We got over that and we have to find some of the form that we showed in the competition after that.

“We can be more composed, we can do more with the ball and we can create chances.

But it doesn’t damage our confidence.” 

Well, its damaged mine.

French sports paper L’Equipe rated the players.

you might want to look away now…

There’s an idea for the next team talk.

Ask each of the players why think they got the rating they got.

Then ask them not to do it again.

Against Paris St Germain the team looked like they believed all the hype about the French club, and when coupled with the dross written about our players by our own media, we looked beaten as soon as they got the ball.

Yes, they are a great side, and arguably the best side we will play this season, but there is no excuse for allowing them to turn it into an exhibition match.

We saw that film last year in the Nou Camp, and it should not have been allowed to happen again.

For that, Brown and rodgers must share the responsibility.

Yeah, they have money, and they have spent it on some of the best players in the world, but they still fall over when you kick them, and if they haven’t got the ball they can’t score. Easier said than done, but there’s no harm in trying.

Whilst the visit of Ross County may not seem like one of the most important games we’ll ever play, it is of paramount importance the players lift themselves.

Otherwise it could be an uncomfortable month.

You see, the dark side have been quietly plotting our downfall…

Really hope Pedro was watching the PSG tactics last night.. If we can emulate 50% of that we can get at least 4 points of the tims

That’s not all. From the Scotsman comes even more terrifying news…

Rangers’ Bruno Alves rated higher than any Celtic player in Fifa 18

Portuguese defender Bruno Alves, signed this summer from Cagliari, has a rating of 78, one higher than Celtic ace Scott Sinclair. Next up is captain Scott Brown with 76, just ahead of team-mates Leigh Griffiths, Moussa Dembele and Stuart Armstrong with 74. Fifa researchers clearly weren’t impressed with Alfredo Morelos prior to his recent scoring run, with the Colombian hitman having only a rating of 66.

Who did they ask ?

Matt Lindsay and Chris Jack ?

Quite why this registers as news is beyond me, but its all part of the feelgood campaign about the Ibrox club.

They like that sort of thing over there.

They’ll be disappointed in another assessment however, as they only managed a lowly place in the “most corrupt clubs in Europe” table, compiled in Portugal..

I’d have thought their efforts deserved better than that.

Then again, most of it is still hidden by an adoring media and a compliant authority.

 

And then there’s the staunch chap referred to in this tweet from French sportswriter Ambre Godillon..

Énorme fin de trip : le taxi désolé de ne pas pouvoir porter ma valise. Impossible pour un fan des Rangers de toucher l’écharpe du Celtic 😂🍀

This is Ambre Godilllon.

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I can honestly say that no matter what she asked me to do , the word “no ” would not feature in the answer.

 

Elsewhere, and papers are still doing their level best to encourage the recent idea that rules should only be adhered to in Scottish football if enough people want them to be.

The SPFL will meet on the 21st of this month to discuss the SFA’s refusal to investigate the SFA.

Meanwhile, Phil MacGhiollabhan, doing what Scottish reporters don’t do, has written to the SFA asking a few questions…

I did try to do a link, but it didn;t work, so you’ll have to type it out yourself..

Bump…

Its worth a read, and it will be interesting to see if the SFA respond..

The point is, though, that the Scottish journalists should be banging on the Hampden door to ask these questions.

Instead, we get this sort of thing, from a chap called Ewen Murray..

 That particular accusation has a sound basis in the fact that the hacks are a part of the problem, and if you thought they were embarrassingly compliant in the past, the prone position adopted over this latest episode should have newspaper owners looking out a big box of P45s…

They need to be brought into line as well.

Don’t buy them, and don’t click on them.

Don’t phone them, and don’t write to them.

Don’t respond to them in any way.

Their owners will start to ask questions…

Or we could ask their editors a serious of questions based on these tweets from Barcabhoy on twitter, the man who first used the term “Employment benefit trusts ” many years ago..

The KNEW that HMRC were investigating Rangers player contracts in 2009, when HMRC visited SFA Yet Bryson said they never knew 

Bryson evidence to LNS. HMRC were in Bryson’s department at the SFA in 2009 investigating Rangers player contracts.

Regan doesn’t think there is anything to investigate. Not even when HMRC visit his offices to investigate a member club contracts Cover Up 

Surely this is enough to be going on with ?

Then again…

Back at the ranch, and Calum MacGregor is the latest Celt to sign a new deal, and he’s happy enough about it.

“Celtic has been part of my life for so many years and as I’ve gone through the levels club really has become my home.

“I really wanted to make sure I continued to be part of such a great club and it’s a huge honour to sign this new contract.

“I’ve really enjoyed being part of the first-team in the last couple of years and it really makes my time at Celtic and coming through the ranks, so worthwhile.

“We have a great bunch of lads in the team, some real quality players and we’re bringing our fans success, so it was something I just had to stay part of.  

“The gaffer has been great here in the past year and I’m totally focused now on continuing to work with him and the staff to always improve personally as a player and work as a team to bring more and more success to our supporters.”  

As long as that contract says he has to play in our remaining five UCL group games, then I’m happy with it as well.

He’ll be with Celtic until 2021, which is just before Eastenders finishes.

On a more personal note, my wee border collie pup has been banned from the park, after some dreadful behaviour..

Yesterdays picture…

PeteCon September 13, 2017 at 1:48 pm · Edit · Reply →

Caption: “Ah always thought a Brazilian was a fanny with shaved hair…..Oh right enough!” 

Neymar has revealed that he will be donating his matchworn shirt to the Marin Dalglish appeal, where they will auction it.

I’d include a videolink to Paris to enable his own fans to bid, though…

Today…

 

 

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Morto
6 years ago

Last season we lost 7-0 in the opening CL game to what was then the best team in the world.
This year we lost 5-0 to what is arguably he best team in the world.
I’m going to take the glass half full approach and call that an improvement.
Looking forward to losing 3-0 next year and roll on 2020 when we’ll finally win the opening game.

6 years ago
Reply to  Morto

Realism morto it sucks unless you’re from a big city in spain Italy or Germany. I miss the days when the likes of stray Bucharest were a force

6 years ago
Reply to  Iancelt67

Steau

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Iancelt67

Steaua!

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Morto

🙂

Brian (not the messiah)
6 years ago

Caption: Huns on the run

CarlJungleBhoy
6 years ago

Caption: Sister Immaculate Conception of the Holy Sisters of The Red Light, Amsterdam displays her dirty habit in public

CarlJungleBhoy
6 years ago
Reply to  CarlJungleBhoy

Caption competition winner – Nun of the above

Brian (not the messiah)
6 years ago

A bit harsh to blame Brendan and broony. sometimea you just have to take your hat off and knowledge quality football when you see it. That PSG team is much superior to Barca, they played like guardiola’s Barcelona and Oozed class. There are going to be a lot of 5-0 type results this year.

CarlJungleBhoy
6 years ago

BTW 1 The entire section of the crowd sitting next to Ambre Godillon have complained to the CSA that “let’s all do the huddle” wasn’t sung on Tuesday,despite the result

mike
6 years ago
Reply to  CarlJungleBhoy

Imagine all the peepil,
its easy if you try,
imagine all the crooks,
they would make you cry,
cooking all the books.
All the Kings horses and all the Kings men,
couldn’t put Jabba together again.

CarllJungleBhoy
6 years ago
Reply to  CarlJungleBhoy

Cheers! I don’t, erm, imagine anyone in the SMSM will have the cojones to tell the whole story, but we live in hope.

mike
6 years ago

Am going gender neutral, so please address me now as…. Ambre Godillion…so Ralphy can I tap you for £50 nicker?

Am trying hard to forget that game,
Celtic were poor in Europe, yet again,
walking to the station, in the pouring rain,
recurring thought’s going round my brain,
feeling down, once again.

At least for me its not to far,
wish I had brought my diesel car.

6 years ago

Oh god sister Bernadette mine used to look like that before the Jesuits go a hold of me

ROB O'KEEFFE
6 years ago
Reply to  Iancelt67

Terrible Lance, hang your head in shame. SIGNED JESUIT SCOUT…

Cortes
6 years ago
Reply to  Iancelt67

“Go home ya Hun.”

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago
Reply to  Cortes

Hope you’re not shouting at UEFA,Peter’s new friends…..

mike
6 years ago

An ode to a stubborn Coo !!.

Trying hard to treat the bloat,
putting my hand doon its throat,
puncture its belly, let the gas escape,
nae time for fun or for japes.

C’mon, C’mon, C’mon tae fuck,
hand oan its arse, get in the truck,
its no gonny move, just ma luck,
C’mon, C’mon, C’mon tae fuck.

pushin and shoving, gien it a whack,
shoving it forward, hurtin ma back,
if it disny move, put yer haund up its crack.

There it goes, its in the truck,
thank the Lord, I thought it was stuck,
hands all shite, yuck yuck.

ROB O'KEEFFE
6 years ago

Let’s dampen the enthusiasm at Liebrox.They need 3-4 million in soft loans to stop themselves trading insolvently. The Parks have had enough and are only willing for a million. Dave should be hitting the rocks soon with his henchmen, cheerio Primary Ones…

Frank McGaaaarvey
6 years ago
Reply to  ROB O'KEEFFE

Rob, the false ‘stiff upper lip’ enthusiasm will be well extinguished a week on Saturday as we go all PSG on them.

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago

Certainly hope/expect so.Think they’re in for a pumping.Take note,the other financial dopers are known as QSG,a toy team to be played with by Sheik Mahaun,Sheik Mawillie and Shiek Invac…

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago
Reply to  Rob O'Keeffe

Cough,Sheik,treble…..

Cartvale88
6 years ago

Totally agree Ralph every Celtic fan should refuse to acknowledge the shit the press publish including yourself. It is the ongoing drivel of a sad wee country. At least the Portugese got it right, shows you how corrupt UEFA and th football authorities are
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You never told me she was on the trip to Lourdes

charlie
6 years ago

welcome back monti and a see you opologised for saying something offensive good stuff ……….i would jeest ike tae say a apologise tae emdy ive offended over the years the wans that wurny offended wur jeest to stupid to realise i was being offensive ha ha ha ha

charlie
6 years ago
Reply to  charlie

great article ralph ….dont ban me a wis ony kiddin he he

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  charlie

Charlie,
Cheers!

Monti
6 years ago

Caption: ” Sister Mary, look at the Protestant…..filth ”
” Sister Agatha, i know, i blame the schools”

Monti
6 years ago

Ralph,
The blonde that you couldn’t say no to…..what if she asked you to do the ironing……fffftttt i mean, come on 🙂

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Drapes? Naw i’m a curtain man m8

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

What if she asked to play indoors with you Weered?Ahem,bowls obviously…..

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

🙂

Monti
6 years ago

Q. If there is a breach of FFP with the purchase of Neymar ( spit ) & Mbappe, does that mean either player was/is improperly registered?

Monti
6 years ago

FUCK THE RANGERS!!!! sorry….it’s been five or six years since i shouted that 🙂

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Who?…..

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Rob O'Keeffe

Are you a fucking Owl? 🙂

Gerry
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Great line from Al Pacino in Heat!

6 years ago

Leeds city?

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Iancelt67

Yep, fuck Leeds tae

Olegblogkhing
6 years ago

Caption: I believe that’s what they now call a Neymar.

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Olegblogkhing

Olegblikhing,
Blokhin was quality but i preferred Igor Belanov!
How much in today’s market eh?

IBhoy
6 years ago

“Don’t buy them, and don’t click on them.”

That’s the diary finished then.

Monti
6 years ago

FIFA 18 WHAT THE FUCK??

can see me getting Provo Evolution soccer this year

mike
6 years ago

Bowl’s Bowl’s Bowl’s.
A game designed fur auldies,
big of bellies baldies,
short of stature, harking back,
to times of yore, when they got the sack.

To take their minds of trajic times,
not much time for joy or poetic rhymes,
they go bowling to enjoy one another,
sometimes with mates, or even their brother.

A game invented by Drake,
invented by the English fur fucks sake,
pontoon breeks and wrinkly tights,
shock and horror what a fright,
is it any wonder that the Spanish took fright.

mike
6 years ago
Reply to  mike

One of my favourite hymns !!

By a lonely prison wall,
I heard Weered call,
Michael will you marry me this fall,
For my prison ship lye’s waiting in the bay.

Low lye’s the fields of Athenry,
Go on sing it baby one mair time.
Faith of our holy fathers,
we will be true to you till death,
we will be true to you till death.

mike
6 years ago
Reply to  mike

Don’t ye wish you had a boyfriend as hot as me,
dontcha, dontcha,
bet you wish you had a boyfriend as good as me,
dontcha, dontcha.
Talking about Cha, is he in the huff cos…. he got binned. 😉

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago
Reply to  mike

Lye’s? C’mon must do better. Best Wishes from all at Sunday Post……mind you,must be taxing….

mike
6 years ago
Reply to  mike

Yes Weered Henry the eighth’s libido has a lot to answer for.
Priest holes and secret Mass’s, secret compartments to hide Mass participants, secret signs, secret worship places, a dark time in England for the Catholic church, still felt today in the discriminatory covenants.

john young
6 years ago
Reply to  mike

would love to hear the gb belt out faith of our fathers problem is only us auld yins would know the tune/words.

Frank McGaaaarvey
6 years ago

Caption – “Is that what we would like under these habits”?

Frank McGaaaarvey
6 years ago

*look like*

6 years ago

You were right the first time.

Monti
6 years ago

Just thinking about the whole Champions league thing, we have to endure the qualifiers each year, real stressful shit that has us all worried as fuck that we might not qualify, playing sides thousands of miles away on fucking shit plastic pitches, travel issues, fatigue, up against sides halfway through their seasons, it’s all nerve wrangling and anxious.
At times like these we should maybe think of the players efforts a bit more, they are the ones who have to go out there and perform, trying to realise our dreams, it isn’t easy for the players or the support…..but the players did it, they delivered for us & the club AGAIN, two years in a row, they deserve immense credit & praise.
We need to settle down and calm down a bit, yes we got a lesson v PSG but far better and more expensive sides than Celtic will get pumped off PSG, I’m not saying let’s be happy to get stuffed or we need to like it but we are up against it in the CL, It’s great to see our club qualify for the group stages each season, if we keep doing this we will consistently be able to strengthen the side & slowly get better.
We need to take our time, sign the right player whilst developing the best of our own.
Keep your heads up Bhoys, Celtic will come again!

Celtic first & Celtic last & Celtic overall!

HH

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

I understand Monti.It’s a hell of a hard life playing for Celtic,paid so little and having to travel to play Linfield(sorry),Astana and other Euro Giants.Anybody up for it,form a probably disorderly queue.Mostly jesting M,but footballers at Celtics’ level live the dream.Their heads should be up as soon as they pull the shirt on.Let’s just make sure we gub that Sooside Scum on the 23rd!HH

broxburnbhoy
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

spot on

jimmybee
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Well said Monti, I agree with most if it,but what still pains me is we gave up our normal game to try and do something we are no good at. We don’t have the players to try and play defensive counter attacks, against the best,so why not just go for it.
I would rather we had went for it than play like we don’t belong.
You were also correct in the signing policy at the club,over no centre backs it has upset the whole team balance,and left us very vulnerable to get anything from this group. We need at least Eric or boyata back soon.

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  jimmybee

Jimmybee,
Sometimes the way it turns out on the park is because you are forced back, your normal game plan is fucked 5 mins after kick off.
Listen we all wanted to see us get closer, get the tackles in etc, very frustrating but i can understand how it works out the very opposite.
I don’t want to see Celtic throw money at Euro success, we just need to keep tweeking the side with a couple of real quality additions that can give us a better chance.
If we can become a club that reaches the group stages EVERY season, that’ll do me for now!
HH

6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Caption: Sorry to interrupt Sister,but Monti just posted something worth reading.

Only jestin’.Good post.

Although PSG were fantastic (love their fans btw),as a club,they don’t earn my respect when compared to clubs with real pedigree,Benfica,Feyenoord,Dortmund,Ajax (hate their fans btw) for example.
We are where we are,I accept that,I have to.
But remember,these clubs with the oil money can’t buy the passion that we have.God knows what the good people of Lisbon thought when over 3,000 Celtic fans descended on them in May.
Money buys success (ask the Huns) but lessens their achievements.
Respect has to be earned,not bought.

SteveNaive
6 years ago

Football 365 has an Interesting piece on Brendan Rodgers in their Cl ” Losers of the Week” section. Not a hatchet job by any means with parts we would all agree with. What I think they didn’t understand is that although he may have set the team up wrongly ( and of course they take no account of injuries} he did tell them to do all the things they said was ” arrogant” in not doing . It’s okay the team knowing what to do but more difficult to do it especially against teams like that. We couldn’t compete toe to toe and wouldn’t be able to defend for ninety minutes.

Puggy67
6 years ago

Caption: Bejazzus her crotch would be like a twiglet!

broxburnbhoy
6 years ago

There are clearly several classes of football emerging. The super rich who can stack a team full of the world’s best talent bought in at enormous cost. They will win most leagues and international competitions. The solvent and doing well with more limited resources who dominate their domestic league and make it to the top table every now and then like us and then the rest who are poorly resourced or resourced well in the same league as the super rich, who will never get to the top table think EPL also rans and of course the rest. Its unsurprising that these super rich clubs want to take the CL and make it hard for others as they need the TV money to even dent the financial operations of these clubs. We might rename the competitions. The super rich league formerly CL, the solvent doing well cup formerly the Europa and then the national leagues. I think they need another tier of European football to involve other clubs with little to no chance, yet could be decent in competitions against clubs like them. CL, Europa and something else

SteveNaive
6 years ago

Could be argued PSG would beat Scotland.

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  SteveNaive

I think PSG would beat Scotland with consumate ease.

mike
6 years ago

The Betfred Cup.

Of course money is important, football will always attract wealthy investors with wealth of the radar, there latest pet project where the World Wide interest in football attracts vested interest’s.
But its not an exact science, that leaves the door open to special teams, like the lions, where they were given no chance, but surpassed all else. This gets more difficult as investment grows, but a great manager with reasonable funds and with hungry players, always has a chance. It is near impossible to control fair play and its always open to abuse.

mike
6 years ago

To strike a balance, it would be much easier to strike a balance between a good level of leagues as opposed to the really poor league that is the SPL. When income is very much reduced and ways have to be found to increase income. Celtic has a World wide fan base, how to reach that fan base without incurring massive costs would be extremely difficult. Looking around at the other SPL teams venues on a weekly basis shows that the vast majority are mainly empty.
It is a terrible indictment on Scottish fitba. that the only game that ever meant anything once was “the auld firm” that now is gone, tbto God. The SPL will never attract any serious money and so the standard continually declines. Its a know fact that the only way that Celtic could compete would be to move to a large fan base or join up with others in a bigger league, that unfortunately isn’t going to happen anytime soon. So try to achieve C.L. fitba. with a minimum income is our lot, unless oil is found in the north sea, oh wait, or we join with other lesser leagues and travel much further every second week.

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  mike

Just to like….strike a balance? 🙂

mike
6 years ago

Strike up the band for….new balance. 😉

PeteCon
6 years ago

Caption: “Ah always thought a Brazilian was a fanny with shaved hair……..”

Uralius
6 years ago

Scott Brown is at it again, with all this try this and try that. He sounds like a man who doesn’t believe.

https://youtu.be/h5SNAluOj6U

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