Kris Commons opener, scored somewhat unfairly on Saturday before Aberdeen were ready, is now officially the fastest goal in Premier League history, timed at 12.2 seconds. He takes the record from team mate Anthony Stokes, who ironically sent him through to score.<\/p>\n
Commons said;<\/p>\n
“It was crazy. first of all, Mikael played it up front, Hoops got a flick on, I found myself in space on the edge of the box and Stokesyplayed a great ball through to me. I took one touch and smashed it in. It was one of those crazy things that usually never happen…”<\/p>\n
He’s got that right. Most of his shots lead to the corner flag having to duck out of the way.<\/p>\n
Its international week, and all told Celtic have an incredible twenty three players involved at that level. Thats without Scott Brown, Adam Matthews and James Forrest. Neil Lennon will no doubt be frantic as his players are with countries as far flung as Australia, Venezuela, Honduras and Wales.<\/p>\n
He’ll be looking to get them back as soon as possible so they can injured in our games, like they usually do.<\/p>\n
Theres debate, accusation and counter accusation after the Green Brigade march to the game on Saturday was attended by a number of “enthusiastic” members of Her Majesties Finest. Supporters blame heavy handed tactics, photo evidence certainly seems to back this up, and claim its all part of a collusion to get rid of the Green Brigade, noted for their banners , displays and that bloody bloke with the drum.<\/p>\n
Celtic claim that talk of a collusion is “frankly, ludicrous”, but rumours persist that CEO Peter Lawwell has sworn to get rid of them. There is talk of him saying this at a meeting, but no evidence except hearsay-i.e., someone says he heard him say it.<\/p>\n
Its difficult to believe that any company would openly try to remove any of its customer base, but it wouldn’t be a surprise. Complaints of one match bans on supporters season books are becoming commonplace, especially where the fan knew nothing of it.<\/p>\n
The Brigade did not ask for permission to march, but let it be known they would be doing so. That prompted the police presence, which seems to have been relishing the challenge. One interesting footnote concerns a “Unite against Fascism” march, the same day, in the same city, where organisers were \u00a0told by the Police not to go ahead, but did so anyway. There were no arrests. There were anything between 13 and 29 at the Brigades march, depending on what you read, and no-one has been convicted of anything yet.<\/p>\n
The Celtic Trust says that Fans Against Criminalisation have held a meeting with “specially invited ” people to try to sort this out, (Ally McCoist has demanded to know their names), but all this behind closed door secret pow pow stuff isn’t getting anyone anywhere.<\/p>\n
Public , clear the air talks are needed between the club, the police, and supporters groups. To clarify the situation and put minds at rest. but for the love of God don’t walk there in a big group.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Joe Ledley is the latest Celt to be linked with a move away-back to his hometown club Cardiff- who look favourites to be promoted to the EPL. \u00a33m has been mentioned, but its unclear if thats a deposit.<\/p>\n
Ledley recently said he wants a new contract, and loves it at Celtic. I suppose it was just his turn, the press having run out of teams to link Wanyama with, who incidentally said just last week he was in no hurry to move.<\/p>\n
Jimmy Calderwood, who said live on Radio Scotland on Saturday that David Murray offered him the Dunfermline job was back on air last night to clarify what he actually meant by his claims. What he really meant was David Murray didn’t offer him the job.<\/p>\n
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Calderwood, currently out of the game-like Murray-was at pains to deny his own words, and was in no way responding to a frantic call from Murray or Masterton telling him to retract. Still, at least he didn’t have to face prying questions from any of the press, this is Scotland, after all, to paraphrase Calderwoods reasoning as to why his remarks were taken out of context. Theres a story there somewhere, so lets see what is deflecting attention…<\/p>\n
Oh, right on cue, Charles Green has come out and demanded his new club go into the second tier of any planned reconstruction, and their place on the bottom rung taken by a Rangers B team. He has guaranteed payment equivalent to 300 fans tickets to clubs left at the botom, and I’m sure they would get the money.<\/p>\n
Green is sounding desperate, though with his club losing a million pounds a month, its hard to see how they can afford a B team. The Yorkshire Tripper needs to face reality sooner or later. His club were lucky to get one team playing in senior football, two would be a travesty. In fact, one is a travesty, but they do provide some light relief for serious football fans.<\/p>\n
The big story in football this morning concerns Michael Owen, as the forward has announced his retirement, several years after he finished playing.<\/p>\n
Kevin Gallacher scored twice for Scotland against Austria at Celtic Park, back when Scotland used to beat other teams.<\/p>\n
Speaking of Scotland, who are the eight players from Celtic with over fifty caps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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