{"id":15196,"date":"2020-01-30T08:17:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T08:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=15196"},"modified":"2020-01-30T08:17:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T08:17:40","slug":"celtic-diary-thursday-january-30-total-football-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=15196","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Thursday January 30: Total Football Returns!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first half, at least.<\/p>\n

Playing football the Celtic Way was on show last night as Celtic swept into a 3-0 lead in Perth with Olivier Ntcham, James Forrest and Leigh Griffiths all finishing off great moves that showed that deep down there is a quality footballing side in there somewhere.<\/p>\n

Maybe they just needed to click, and maybe we van look forward to the second half of the season in a way that even a few days ago wasn’t possible for some of us.<\/p>\n

Alright, wasn’t possible for me.<\/p>\n

My own major moan, in case you hadn;t noticed the negative tone of the diary of late, was that post winter break, Celtic should have come out guns blazing and sent a message to their rivals that the title was ours and was going to remain ours.<\/p>\n

For forty five minutes last night, they finally got around to that. Sure, the rest of the game was a bit flat, but why risk injury and fatigue by overdoing it ? There’s more than a few difficult games coming up, and if the plan is to blow the opposition away early and then chill I can live with that, and it means I can get to the pub earlier as well.<\/p>\n

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The manager could finally be happy as well, after all the effort he puts in scouting, training, motivating and shaping the way we play.<\/p>\n

And his message to me has been neatly covered up as a message tomikey Johnston, who said he was fine and wasn’t, resulting in the substitute being substituted, well, he would have been if there were any substitutions we could have made.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1222636528989626369<\/p>\n

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Last night was the best Celtic have played since that night in Rome, and maybe the manager has managed to get the players attitude back, and if so, then the quadruple is still very much on, especially given the quality of the performance in the two games with Lazio, who had they not been eliminated would have certainly been amongst the favourites for the trophy.<\/p>\n

In fact, in that first half Celtic were so good, it clearly upset one fan of new kids on the block “rangers “, who finished his shift early so he could have a good cry…<\/p>\n

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Fucks that all about…Beaton must have his hun watch oan…blew for half time 44.45? pic.twitter.com\/dOjlFN1yjZ<\/a><\/p>\n

— leewallacesupergrass (@theoldgovanarm1) January 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n