Dear Ange;
Please tell the players to at least start the second half the same way they start the first. That would be nice, and then I wouldn’t need to put an an ad in the Wanted column for a defibrillator.
Signed, Me, and probably thousands of others.
Celtic went into a two goal lead at Pittodrie last night, sweeping Aberdeen to one side in pretty much the same way everyoner else has been dismissed since the winter break, and then gave them a couple of goals to ensure that even though Celtic regained the lead less than a minute after the Dons equalised, it was still a time for botty buttons and breathing into a paper bag.
Yes, it’s exciting, and yes we won, but until there’s a but more of a cushion between Celtic and “rangers “, the margins are fine and we still haven’t had Joe Hart’s mistake yet.
Just exactly what is in the half time tea ?
For a few games now an entirely different Celtic has played the second forty five, and it hasnt been as impressive.
We’re still winning, and don;t look like we’ll get beat, but there is a distinct possibility a dodgy peanlty, a freak own goal or Joe Hart flinging one of his shoulder could cost us dearly.
If that lot ever do get back in front, the rules of association football won;t apply in Scotland, and we need to get as far away from them as quickly as possible.
Last night, Nick Walsh gave them their fourth penalty in five games where he has officiated, after only four minutes.
Yes, it was a penalty, but do you reallt think any other team would have got it ?
Walsh did his bit to put the crowd at ease, as once they start their team falls apart, and they can;t afford any more mistakes.
Willie Collum, who took charge of our game last night did his bit as well. He ruled out what seemed a perfectly good goal, then allowed a dubious one before remembering that the SFA and “rangers ” don;t like him anyway so he decided to make up his own rules and amuse himself whichever way he felt like.
Perhaps he does have some kind of internal conflict, which would explain his contrary decisions. On the one hand, he’s been trained to favour anyone but Celtic, but on the other hand he knows the other lot don;t like him, so his career is all but over.
Maybe he’s saving it for an all Glasgow cup final, and he’ll go out in a blaze of glory, awarding both sides half a dozen penalties before sending everyone off and singing his new composition, The Sash of the Old Brigade to show he truly stopped giving a toss,
Of course, there could be a more simple reason for Celtic not storming the second half such as complacency, a game management plan or simply a desire not to get injured, booked or sent off. Competition for starting places is ferocious, and if someone is dropped for any reason, he might face a bit of a wait before he gets back in.
Last night, to my mind anyway, we missed Juranovic at the back , Ralston is a greatly improved player, and a capable deputy, but the Croatian is crucial to the way we play.
He can defend, and that’s always a bonus, especially in the eyes of his team mates, and he provides an outball to take pressure of when needed as he can run and keep possession.
Apart from that, he appears completely unfazed by anything thats going on around him. He turns up, does his bit, and then presumably goes home.
In fact, if rumours are true, and they probabaly aren’t, then it’s little wonder he’s caught the eye of Brendan Rodgers, who is reportedly preparing a £12,5m bid to take him to Leicester.
Which means Juranovic is already in the same bracket as Nathan Paterson, who you’ve probably forgotten by now.
As indeed, it appears, have Everton.
There’s a break from the league now for a few days.
Next up are Raith Rovers, and then Bodo Glimt.
For anyone going to Norway, I’d take an extra jumper with them…
When the league resumes, it’s Dundee (H) , Hibs (A), St. Mirren (H) ,Livingston (A) , Ross County (H) , Rangers (A), St Johnstone (H).
Guarding against complacency is the key. Hopefully, good results in Europe will help with confidence and attitude, but seven more wins in the league might be enough to make what happens after the split irrelevant, or at worst a formality.
Livingston away might be the defining fixture of the season, if Celts can put them to the sword instead of bumbling around their plastic pitch, then it might just be the springboard to the title.
Elsewhere, the Anyone Everyone campaign claimed another success, when one of the supporters of another Glasgow club took umbrage at a flag, usually they’re big on their flags, but then again, that’s only their flags…
Mind you, they don;t have a lot to be happy about these days, though they did manage nearly a minute yesterday, when news that Aberdeen had pulled it back to 2-2…
We shall not be moved pic.twitter.com/sst8Yqu851
— Tam sellic son (@TamsellicsonIII) February 9, 2022
Meanwhile, one referee refused to answer just why one club seems to get more favourable decisions from him than others….
Yesterday, we had this…
Alan Ryan
Feck. Someone else said republic !
Today
“And what do you do…?”
“I’m the queen. I do feck all, you Timmy oik”
So run that passed me again, if a Punto goes into a tunnel at 60km per hour and a wheel bearing like this one is loose….
“ Yes, One did pick One’s son up from Pizza Express in Woking and changed One’s flat tyre on One’s way. “
Win the next 8 games and they’ll do walking away
Caption: Normally one gets one’s footman to do this. But I want to inspire my children to be perfect role models.
Tell Gio nae worries i will have the wheels back on the bus quickly with the help of the Lanarkshire refs.
Caption: ” Six hours have passed,take your time dear “
Caption…
Lizzie ,can I call you Lizzie ,Liz ? I’ve told them to tread carefully , so nobody should mention the republic…
Now if only they made jonnies out of this stuff back in the day we might not have a family of inbreds.
Hearts away
Dundee Utd home
Rangers home
Motherwell away
Aberdeen away
Imagine in Jan thinking we’d win all 5 !
“Rangers” ? Who TF are they?
Sevco new huns, whatever you like, but they are NOT Rangers.
Rangers is still in Liquidation and ONE of them is one too many.
Don’t continue Lawwell’s Lie, the TRUTH is Rangers died in 2012, and NEVER forget it, lest we forget.
Then you reach around, tighten the nuts and get the jack off, know what ah mean, nudge, nudge.
So Mrs Paul a republic you say, that’s very interesting. Doesn’t your son Henri work as a driver at the Ritz in Paris. Do you visit him there often?
Caption
The wheels are coming of at Ibrokes too ma’am.
The fixation by the roasters that Celtic are favoured by the men in black is to disguise their own fixing of the rules by the likes of Gollum, Madhun, Beathun Robertsboke and Walshy.
I was having palpitations during the second half, but we should have gone in 3-0 up, due to a bent linesman and Gollum Jotas goal chalked off. But it was still mail biting stuff
“That’s right, ma’am. Now you affix the wheel republics….sorry nuts.”
“So, horseless carriages have wheels too?”
Hey, they might be old, but they don’t belong to Parks
There that’s tight enough, what time are you picking Diana up?
Caption – Your new job after we become a republic.
Caption – unfortunately the queen won’t be able to attend armed forces day it ibrokes as the the wheels have come off the bus
Caption: Piston broke mam?
No but my seester ees.
CAPTION
Taxi for queeeneey.
We’ve played 14 away and only 12 at home and the Huns have the reverse.
Away is the most likely to drop points, so that’s in our favour but we can’t just focus on Livi, as Hibs and all other games need taking care of.
Last night and overall this year as been very good but still a vulnerability creeps in now and again when we should have games under control.
I don’t know if its a natural drop-off after a totally dominant 1st half but there’s a notable change at the start of the 2nd half that isn’t addressed until we’re under pressure.
We’ve, so far, been good enough to overcome it against Hearts and Aberdeen but those are fine margins that can trip you up in the future.
Against the Huns we conceded a lot of possession to them in the 2nd half but maintained a high “what we have, we hold” mentality that avoided this type of fraught games.
Think that balances out after the break where they have a lot of aways.
Yeah, we’ve got 4 home games and 3 away before the split and after, based on current top 6, 3 at home and 2 away.
However, any team between 4th and 10th have a realistic chance of getting top 6, so if Dundee Utd and St Mirren drop out, then we might end up playing away 3 times to 1 or 2 teams.
The opportunity for the league to display, ahem, sporting integrity may be irresistible.
Caption
“Lizzie, who do you think will win the Coronation Cup ?”
She replies, ” Probably, Celtic…..They’re the finest team in the land and they’ll never give up………”
Caption: Little did she know how much trouble her misunderstanding of ‘make sure the spare gets regularly pumped’ would cause.
Right princess, you kid on your changing the wheel while strap on Sally pumps Ethel.
Caption. No Doris. I don’t think it was a woman who invented the wheel
Yeah wishaw let’s get the butchers apron up. The flag of the good guys
Caption golly gosh who put this wheel on. Phillip?
Caption You remind me of Celtic last night they felt a little tyred also mam oh and while your here auld Phil is having a Goodyear burning the rubber himself
Caption: Well, it’s got a lovely smooth body and excellent under-carriage but, what TF is it? Oh Sally, you’re ‘driving’ me nuts! It’s clearly a, er, em, one of those new-fangled things….. I’ll put the kettle on.
Caption: David Walliam’s granny meets the queen.
Caption:
Well aint that the ducks nuts, Liz.
Yer sisters a skank…