Celtic made sure their departure from the top of the league was only temporary with a resounding 6-0 win over ross county, who felt like heading back up the road by about five past three on Saturday, but manfully held on for another hour and a half , despite doing a mean impression of a sacrificial lamb.
Having said that, they still had a go, and even brought on a couple of forwards late in the game.
It’s not that they played badly, it’s just that Celtic were better.
Much better.
6-0 didn’t flatter the hosts, and neither did it shame the visitors. Doubling the tally would have made little difference to that assessment.
Incredibly, it was only 1-0 at half time, but the incessant Celtic attacks paid off within about ten minutes of the restart as Celts rattled in a further three goals which put the points safely away from the highland sides reach.
Everyone who wanted to score managed to do so, but special mention has to go to Jeremie Frimpong, who had yet another barnstormer at right back. If James Tavernier Pen is worth £10m, then this guy is going to break the Tierney record before too long, although he does seem to be having fun, and such a move seems a long time away just yet.
He’s quick, very quick, in fact, and more importnatly can not only take the ball with him when he darts, but control it as well, and more often than not when he releases it it goes to a team mate.
This kid is going places, and he’s going there at his own frightening pace.
It would be unfair to single out just one player for this performance.
Everyone clicked, and when this Lennon managed machine clicks, woe betide anyone who stands in its way.
The manager could hardly contain himself as he enthused;
“It’s a good response to one point from the last six,”
“I think we have a good team here, without getting carried away.
Lazio are next up, and then a resurgent Aberdeen at Pittodrie, who admirably beat Motherwell 3-0 in Lanrkshire on Saturday.
Should be an exciting week, and the possibility of another memorable evening under the lights is to be savoured..as the manager says..
“We are in a good position in the group and that should give us a lot of confidence going into what should be a cracking game against Lazio.
“I hope the fans enjoyed it because that was for the fans as much as anyone else and now we are under the lights on Thursday night and I am sure will hear that roar again.”
Looks like he’s got over the disappointment of Tommy Johnson turning down his offer to do a bit of scouting for him…
Then again, whoever found the players brought in during what could have been a summer of discontent have pretty much earned their pay thus far.
For all the talk about a title race, not only is there still a dearth of players in closest challengers “rangers ” first team, their captain , Tavernier Pen, would be at best fourth choice, and indeed , would probably be sent out on loan to a smaller club to get some game time, which is sort of where he is now.
Speaking of challenges, the Ibrox entity stumbled at Tynecastle to a 1-1 draw, leaving them in second place, although one or two of their support appear to be confused as to how they are second… apparently they are joint first
It appears goals scored no longer counts, amd lets be honest, the authorities are probably already working on a way to make things like goals scored at Ibrox worth an extra three points each or something.
For some reason, Steven Gerrard didn’t offer his thoughts on the Tynecastle match after it finished, and so we’ll have to see what he said last time out instead..
Gerrard would have been reluctant to criticise his players, especially influential midfoelder Kevin clancy who had a poor game, despite high expectations. and it didn;t go unnoticed..
Without getting ahead of ourselves, it seems natural order has been restored, although Celtic could still win up at Pittodrie and the plucky new pretenders from the other side of the river could surge back to the top, but anyone worried need only look at last seasons positions after nine games..
and there’s little doubt the football is far, far better…
Elsewhere, and as the diary likes to think of itself as fair, honest , balanced and only open to influence of the financial kind, it’s time to show a little bit of support for Tom English, who has had a complaint from the darkness on the other side of town about a tweet he made following the claim that “rangers ” supporters were trapped outside Rugby Park a few months ago.
English described their claim…
“‘Trapped outside Rugby Park’…trapped outside?? This is execrable stuff.”
The BBC upheld the complaint because of the language used..which is surprising, as there was no “bad language ” within. Thats if, of course, you believe in such a thing as bad language which of course, only those who seek to be offended do.
As any student of language knows, “execrable” is derived from excrement , which itself has French roots, and was thus the language of the higher classes back in the day when wages and working conditions were even poorer than they are now.
Thus, excrement is not a swear word, although “shit “, which means exactly the same thing, is deemed as offensive.
This is because it has Saxon roots, and was largely the language of the peasantry, who did have an awful lot to swear about in those days, although with little or no media available to them, hardly anyone heard them, and thus it was a shock to their overlords when they expressed dissatisfaction with the way their lives were panning out.
However, the BBC upheld the complaint, presumably because after thirteen of them from that lot they had to be seen to be at least considering some of them.
Anyway, Tom, tell them to fuck off.
You were right, they were talking shite.
He can fuck off as well.
On Friday, we had this…
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