{"id":2018,"date":"2013-02-07T10:54:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T10:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2013-02-08T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T11:39:59","slug":"celtic-diary-wednesday-february-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=2018","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Thursday February 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlie Mulgrew continued with his run of scoring last night, (if you don’t count penalties) as a new look Scotland beat estonia 1-0 to , well, add a couple of ranking points. Thats not the point though, what was great to see was Sean Maloney, (ex-Celtic) and Chris Burke (next Celtic?) running at opposition defenders and trying to go past them-which they often did.<\/p>\n

Strachan, no giant himself, trusted the little men to do a job, and they didn’t let him down. The site of the short arses in full flow was reminiscent of the great days of Scottish football, when teams would fear a visit to the wet and windy landscape, and the roar of the crowd…<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Ireland, Wales and England all recorded victories, the latter beating Brazil, which means the 2014 World Cup is now cancelled and the trophy awarded to hodgsons men. well, watching SSN you would think so.<\/p>\n

International football isn’t a favourite of many, and with Nigerian defender Efe Ambrose now likely to play in the African cup of Nations this weekend, its easy to see why. It looks like he will miss next Tuesdays Champions League tussle with Juventus. His country play Burkina Faso in Sundays final, who were formerley known as Burkina Faso Withdrew, if you look at the old records of the continents football. Seems theres a good reason for wanting a win :<\/p>\n

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James Forrest should be fit though, he will get a game against Inverness this weekend, as Scotlands top two clubs go head to head in the league. Manager Neil Lennon said;<\/p>\n

“James is a brilliant player. You can see what he brings to us and he’s desperate to play. We just need to drip feed him in now gently and we have to be careful theres no reaction. He’s a wonderful talent and one of the best Scottish players we’ve produced for a long, long time….. He’s been training great and desperate to get back in but the physios have been holding him back. We’ve had to listen to them, but it was great to get him some game time.”<\/p>\n

Lennon also commented on the goal Forrest scored at Kirkcaldy, saying that his “turn of pace and quality of finish was fantastic. There are not many people who could score that goal.”<\/p>\n

Andrea Pirlo, whose parents really wanted a girl, has spoken about next weeks tie. He said Juventus “are prepared for whatever Celtic have to offer.We saw that they beat barcelona in Glasgow, but we are prepared to adapt maybe more than barcelona did….If they want to play football, we’ll play football. but if they want to battle, we are ready to battle.”<\/p>\n

With the fearsome reputation of Italians in battle unique worldwide, it should be interesting. Do they still have that flag, the white cross on a white background?<\/p>\n

Jay Rasulo, who is the chief financial officer at mickey mouse outfit Disney says that due to losses in the first quarter with Sports arm ESPN, they are looking at an exit from the UK. Which means that Sky or BT vision may make a move for more SPL football. More importantly, and excitingly, it means that Craig Burley may soon be coming to an Unemployment office near you.<\/p>\n

Just think, if the tv market goes pear shaped, then games could return to Saturdays at 3pm. Radical or what?<\/p>\n

Perhaps the SPL should be looking at their own channel. Without Craig Burley.<\/p>\n

Just when you thought the MSM in Scotland was starting to waken up and take their job seriously, Radio Clydes “superscoreboard” \u00a0has been nominated for an award for its coverage of the Rangers Crisis, in what surely has to be either a massive wind up, or a considerable slight on radio shows in Scotland. Still, in a country where Keith Jackson became Journalist of the Year, we shouldn’t be surprised.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Billy MacBiggott of Larkhall got a mention on this page, and it seems to have gone to his head-well, the space between his ears. He must have seen that article about rangers getting a wind up notice served on them, and screamed about people picking on his club, and asks “when will they leave us alone? ” he continued in this vein for a bit, and then slated Alex Thomson of Channel 4, who has been looking into this particular financial shennannigan.<\/p>\n

It looks like the bold saviour of the club, or new father, or whatever he wants to think he is, (Father and Saviour in the same sentence about Rangers!) has not paid the bill to a company he asked to find him some business investors, and has in fact charged it to Sevco, or whatever they are called this week. The bill is for \u00a3400,000 , which Rangers PR department has called “insignificant” and not worthy of “further comment.”<\/p>\n

With \u00a320-\u00a330 million \u00a0in the bank, it certainly should be insignificant, so why the need for a payment plan? And as Etims colleague Desi mond asks, why has such a cash rich club been denied banking facilities, such as credit?<\/p>\n

Surely Green cannot be telling fibs again? Thing is, even if he has, the Sevco \/Rangers\/ Rangers international support will continue to shoot the messenger, and blame everyone else, showing that they still haven’t learned.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Hogan was correctly identified yesterday as the former Celtic coach with the massive reputation, and as rightly pointed out by Steveo, and Johnny Paton in Graham McColls Celtic biography, if the players had listened to him, the European Cup could well have been at Celtic well before it was.<\/p>\n

Goalkeepers tend to be ignored by supporters, so the question today is about them. Which three Celtic keepers have recorded more than 100 shut outs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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