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Celtic Diary Tuesday March 2: Can We Just Get It Over With ?

It seems like everything is taking forever of late, time passing slower than the proverbial week in jail.

 

Even the plague seems to be reluctant to give in to lockdowns and vaccines, with the new Brazil variant looking particularly nasty…

 

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It’s all bad news everywhere.

 

James Forrest is no nearer even getting a date for his return, and there’s a chance that he will miss the Euros and possibly even the UCL qualifiers, which would be a disaster for the club because he can usually be called on to dig us out of a hole in these games.

 

He hasn’t played since September of last year and for someone who has been a fixture in the side for the last decade or so, that must be tough.

Still, at least he’s stuck at home when everyone else is and won;t be missing much, but if I was in  his shoes I’d be looking somewhat wistfully at Keiran Tierney who also had a long term injury and had to leave Celtic to get it looked at properly.

Tierney is on record as saying he wasn’t allowed to rest long enough for a proper recovery, and this would have played a part in his decision to leave.

Forrest has remained loyal throughout his time at the club, and probably needs a wee bit of  cheering up right now.

I’d suggest the club should order him a Cup winners medal so that he can have the full set of quadruple treble gongs….

 

 

There’s still plenty of turmoil at the ranch, with John Kennedy now running the team, and under his guidance they stormed to a 1-0 win over Aberdeen at the weekend.

 

Alright, perhaps storm is perhaps too strong a win.

 

In fact, the attitude of one or two players gave the impression that the only movement of air was them blowing smoke up our arses.

 

Gordon Strachan, clearly worried his son might lose his job at the club and move back into the parental home, was rather upset…

 

“You know talking about team spirit and being close together, I wouldn’t have been happy if I was a manager and had seen those two laughing [Soro and Edouard] at something like that.

“ I would be saying to them I’ve made a 50-yard run, boost me in, we win 2-0 and then we celebrate. Then the guy who has made a mistake can take it. That’s more together than saying ‘oh here, that was unlucky, that was fine, big smiles’. 

 

“No. A manager has resigned this week. How can you smile after that, an opportunity to lay somebody in, pass and score, 2-0, rather than go yourself. That would be my concern.” 

 

 “That’s personalities. That’s all to do with personalities. And what you are trying to get out of life. Do you want to go to the top, do you want to make the team go to the top? Do you want to make this group of players better? Can you demand from each other to be better rather than accepting things to be not good enough.”

 

He went on to moan about anything else that came to mind, and he has got a point, but frankly that point would have come across better had he shaved and put on a nice suit.

 

 

Then again, if any of my kids were in a situation where they might be out of work and looking to move back home I’d grow a beard and pretend it wasn’t me either when they turned up at the door.

 

Of course, he has a point, and there is a malaise among the players, for whatever reason, and the sooner a new guy comes in and starts kicking butts the better.

 

Jeremie Frimpong isn’t at Celtic any more, but for some reason he chucked his tuppence worth in as well…

 

“I think in football, obviously Celtic in previous years they always win, but there was always going to be a point where they can’t win everything, so there was always going to have to be a time where they have to lose.

 Thing is, whether you think you’re going to win, or you think you are going to lose, you will always be right…
 And that is the problem at Celtic, which is becoming glaringly obvious by the day.
 Told you, piece of piss this management lark. I’m surprised Dermot hasn’t phoned me yet.
 I’m even more surprised I’ve not been linked with the job in the papers, as it seems everyone else has.
 Though I’m led to believe you can ignore all the speculation, as Dermot has picked who he wants and is now working on how to get them in…
 And by all accounts, it will be worth waiting for. ( Well, two, and they were both pissed )
 What we need to do, and I know its difficult, is get a little perspective here.
 In a way, we’re all in acceptance mode about the title, in that it’s gone, and there’s maybe a little bit of comfort in knowing we threw it away over a longer period than were , say, cheated out of it in a decider by a career minded referee, or some such other travesty.
 This is all our own work, and so therefore we should know how to put it right.
 Over the last decade, 29 trophies have been divided up….
20 – Celtic 2 – ST JOHNSTONE 1 – Aberdeen 1 – Hearts 1 – Hibernian 1 – ICT 1 – Kilmarnock 1 – Ross County 1 – St Mirren 
 We’d have taken that ten years ago, and in ten years from now the share will most likely be the same, although a couple of Ibrox entities might be in there as well.
 If we start to look at it for what it was, a glitch, then we might feel a little more generous and heap praise on the new club that came from nowhere to win the league, taking advantage of our complacency.
 And that way we can largely ignore there 55 campaign, a nonsensical achievement that is nether true nor signficant.
 One or two things are worth remembering, including this, which was overlooked in its significance at the time…
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 Though one or two of them might make a couple of quid out of their fellow delusionists…
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 The media are touting Gerrard as next Liverpool manager, with the Merseyside club also suffering a bad season by their own recent standards, which for a fellow with the budget he has had at Ibrox who took a few years to win anything is quite a leap of faith.
 His record is less than impressive….
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and, of course, he can hardly claim it as all his own work…
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 Maybe the highs of success at Liverpool, as with Celtic, are harder to continue when you take away the noise of the crowd, and maybe it lends a surreal atmosphere to the whole situation that is much more difficult to deal with than just plodding along and hoping for the best….
 As we said at the top of the page,  the sooner normality returns the better, and then we can all move on.
 We haven’t had a caption competition for a while, so we’ll do a quick one today….
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Andy
3 years ago

Re Strachans comments, you are right, he did have a point. Eddie has been piss poor all season, he has summed up Celtic performances for months as a group of INDIVIDUALS who looked as if they had been thrown together on a Friday afternoon, had never met each other before and couldn’t give a sh#t. Eddie is too greedy, wants far too much time on the ball and runs into trouble constantly by trying to be wee Jinky, presumably to attract more attention from other clubs.

Of all the players who could be on the move, the only one I would push the boat out for to keep is big Ajer.

BornCelt!
3 years ago
Reply to  Andy

The King of Norway is majestic! HH!

The Cha
3 years ago
Reply to  Andy

Sigh, same old brain dead nonsense that seems to afflict a helluva lot of Celtic fans and explains why the truly wretched ex-manager was tolerated for so long.

Eddy scored the only goal when no one else looked like doing it and is Scotland’s top scorer with over 20 goals.

Have you seen the alternatives, Griffiths, who doesn’t want to get fit, Ajeti, Klimala, Christie, Rogic? Jeez, gie’s peace.

If Eddy does go, I wonder which one of that stellar cast, steps up to the spotlight.

Iljas Baker
3 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

The Cha

Strachan’s comments reveal perfectly why he should not be near Celtic in any official capacity – he has no understanding of the modern game or cultural differences. The fact that Soro didn’t clock Eddie but both laughed as evidence as both not having any guts is as ludicrous as his example of his own career when he fell out with someone for 6 months for not getting a pass – how many years ago was that? Couldn’t he find a more recent example of such gutsiness? Of course not, that kind of thinking and behaviour is long gone, thankfully. I like Strachan but he is a bit of a dinosaur.

Puggy
3 years ago
Reply to  Andy

The guy had covid and even young, top sports people may have a slow recovery. It was mentioned here how a covid illness may affect future transfer fees. I wonder if that’s what is going on on the dark side.

Bognorbhoy
3 years ago

Caption ….
wait till I see my maw ,she asked if I’d like a shot at the swings …

tony carlin
3 years ago

Don’t worry when you grow up hen you’ll get to feel a lot of wee pricks!

Cesar
3 years ago

The Deludamol 55 vaccine campaign ramps up in Scotland but Dr.Fauci tells Joe Biden it has 0% efficacy and it’s more Tramp fake news.

3 years ago

Caption: its ok im a Doctor.
Doctor Shipman to be precise

3 years ago

Gordon the players were doing fine till your boy arrived

BornCelt!
3 years ago

Rumour has it Lawwell rushed down to the showers excitedly waving a contract in his right hand after the impressive 100% record Kennedy only to be reminded by Doris while cleaning up the mess at Celtic Park ‘Ye are orf in a few weeks so do na bother!’ Sevco will unfortunately take their one flag simply as we were crap all season. All we can do is ensure in the two remaining clashes with them we put them in their place for the sake of pride. Wish we had a new coach in now, to take a long hard look at the players and make a complete list of targets and move on. HH!

Owen Mullions
3 years ago

Caption: Shut up! Ye’ll support the huns an’ that’s aw there is tae it.

SteveNaive
3 years ago

‘…if he’d shaved and put on a suit’ ?
Hasn’t held Klopp back.

R.St.Parsley
3 years ago

Caption:
Trials of new moronavirus vaccine continue at Ibrox – no improvements reported.

pilsbury dough bhoy
3 years ago

Caption:
“Diego Maradona’s drug-fuelled descent begins”

Magdalena’s Chestnut Gelding
3 years ago

Brilliant! I genuinely laughed at that!

Cartvale88
3 years ago

Agree the malaise at Celtic Park has been disguised by the pandemic. The cringe worthy comments by Frimpong says it all.
To blame the support when the fault is with the management team and the players says it all. Ajer is the only one that appears to get angry, the rest ponce around the pitch, from Christie to McGregor there is no fight.
The lack of speed by Wankier and Liewell is unbelievable, maybe we will have a new manager for the Europa league qualifiers after we get knocked out of the UCL qualifiers.

R.St.Parsley
3 years ago

An Urgent Appeal From Donald Park

You’ve put away your sash and you’ve thrown out your Broxi Bear
Billy, are you contemplating going off the Gers?
The picture on your wall of good King Bill has been took down
Oh Billy, don’t take your cash to town.
Remember how our fathers dodged the second world war
Hiding in the shipyards while the Tims fought for us aw
And yes it’s true that we’re not the club we used to be
But Billy, we just say new company.

It’s hard to love a club whose fans believe so many lies
And who don’t have a brain or are clinically insane Billy I realise
But it won’t be long I’ve heard Phil say until we’re not around
So Billy, don’t take your cash to town.

He’s leaving now cos I just heard him kicking in the door
The way I’ve heard a hundred Huns a hundred times before
And if I could move my big fat erse I’d pin him to the ground
Oh Billy, don’t take your cash to town
Oh Billy
(Fur fvck’s sake gie’s a poun’).

3 years ago
Reply to  R.St.Parsley

Brilliant

henkesdreadlocks
3 years ago
Reply to  R.St.Parsley

Belter.

Salad queen
3 years ago

This season Celtic and Liverpool had injury problems to centre half’s, had the chance to rectify in January, did nothing. Hence they have both lost their crowns.

3 years ago
Reply to  Salad queen

Ours was lost way before January

henkesdreadlocks
3 years ago

Caption…….

With the Celtic Board seemingly hell-bent on an Old Firm future, from now on am just gonna watch the Jags .

Frank McGaaaarvey
3 years ago

Caption, Despite Jimmy McGraw’s best attempt at disguising himself as a wee lassie, ‘they’ still manage to locate him and inject him with Bill Gates’ special DNA-altering juice.

Monti
3 years ago

Caption: ” Och take it easy, it’s only a trip to Pizza Express, woking “

portpower
3 years ago

Caption:
‘The fun starts here’

We are the Pontins.

Monti
3 years ago

Caption: Duncan throws a hissy fit when Amazon stop doing Commando mag deliveries.

The Cha
3 years ago

Caption “Mabozza, shut yir puss, I’m yir maw and yir getting the jag whether ye like it or naw and save all yir sh1te about being ‘chip and pinned’ til ye get back to yir pals in Primary”

Monti
3 years ago

Caption: ” I dare you to say fifty-five again “

alzyerpal
3 years ago

“I told you I don’t need a covid jab ya old bastard! I’m a hun so I’m immune…Aaayah!!”

Monti
3 years ago

Caption: ” It’s just a little transmitter “

Monti
3 years ago

Still no punishments for the Covid five?

Monti
3 years ago

Caption: ” Ok ok i’ll say it then……stupid, stupid huns “

Puggy
3 years ago

Caption: Alfredina shut it! You’re going to be a boy and play football and that’s that!

Monti
3 years ago

Hope Alex Salmond had a good breakfast because Jail food is not so nice apparently.
Maybe you could have ” a little word ” with the HMRC eck?

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