Glasgow Celtic

[CelticBhoy]

A nice comfortable win for the 'Tic over the Dutch mob, 2-0.

We really looked like a team. Everyone played off one another.

Maloney missed a sitter early on, but Juarez and Samaras had

their shooting boots on. A joy to watch!

[salty]

CB,

It gives us a good chance of going through to group stages. I was reduced to looking at score on BBC website and praying that we did not concede. Very relieved when 2-0 was a FT score not that I would have complained at 3-0.

Are there signs that there may be a decent team in the making?

[CelticBhoy]

^ They did look good, Salty old son.

Even Samaras has pulled his socks up.

Let's hope this is the turnaround.

I hope it has put a spring in your step . . . . .

[CelticBhoy]

First home game of the season, a well decent

4-0 against the Saints, and top of the league

we go. Marvellous stuff. Salty - you must be

jigging about now!

[salty]

CB,

Wish I was leaping about but still need to get dressing every 2 days. It has made <deleted> of this holiday.

A good win yesterday. This kid Forrest seems to be a good prospect. Hopefully no cockup against Utrecht in the 2nd leg.

[CelticBhoy]

Couldn't get a bigger cockup if you tried, Salty old son.

Pure <deleted>. The defense is woeful. Could have been a lot

more than 4-0.

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CB, Kept watching stuff on You Tube and getting score updates on BBC every 10 minutes or so. Like observing a train wreck. 0-7 on 2 away trips. Artimedia Mark 2.

In a perverse way it possibility might be of benefit to us in the SPL. But the worry is it is going to feel like living on the San Andreas fault and not knowing when or where the next eruption will be.

[Jockstar]

My best mate who is a Celtic fan is absolutely gutted. I mean totally shattered.

[salty]

A 1-0 win at Motherwell puts us top of the table on goal difference. Plenty of pressure it seems but we had to rely on a 73rd minute penalty to win.

Hardly scintillating but it is all about winning. Last season so often we managed to snatch a draw/loss from the jaws of victory.

[CelticBhoy]

My best mate who is a Celtic fan is absolutely gutted. I mean totally shattered.

I'd feel the same if some Rangers fan was calling me his best mate . . . . .

Top of the League! Hail Hail.

[salty]

CB,

Stokes transfer going through for 1.2 million pending a medical. Always feel he has an attitude problem and of course Lenny and himself had a run in on the pitch a few years back. Hopefully much better value than Scott Brown who has never lived up to his £4M tag IMO.

I noticed Rasmussen got 2 for Mainz in the Bundesliga at the weekend against Wolfsburg. Have we thrown out the baby with the bathwater again?

[CelticBhoy]

I noticed Rasmussen got 2 for Mainz in the Bundesliga at the weekend against Wolfsburg. Have we thrown out the baby with the bathwater again?

Quite possibly, Salty old son. Add Hartley being called up

for the national team since departing Paradise to the list.

[CelticBhoy]

Just a wee add-on regarding the Scotland squad.

Only one 'Tic player is in the squad.

What does that say about our youth policy.

Might as well sell the facility in Lennoxtown.

[CelticBhoy]

Well I never . . . . . . . .

A DOZEN football thugs who shamed Rangers yesterday paid the price for blitzing Manchester.

They were among hundreds of fans who caused "mayhem" at the Uefa Cup final in the city two years ago.

All but one of the 12 were last night behind bars for their part in the carnage in the wake of the defeat by Zenit St Petersburg.

Police were attacked and property damaged in the hours of violence in the city centre.

Do like this bit though . . . . .

An estimated 175,000 Rangers fans, most without tickets for the game at the City of Manchester stadium, drank the city's pubs and supermarkets dry.

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Spotted that CB. Like you I am "outraged" about this but do not feel the need to stick my nose into other threads.

[CelticBhoy]

NEIL Lennon paid tribute to Celtic legend Jock Stein on the 25th anniversary of his passing by remembering his outstanding achievements as a football manager.

The current boss paid his respects for the man who managed Celtic during the club's most successful period in their history. Stein was the first manager of a British side to win the European Cup in 1967 and was in charge of the club for 13 years.

He tragically died on this day 25 years ago, September 10 1985, while managing the Scotland national team, and Lennon remembered Stein’s reign at Celtic.

“He is the greatest manager in the club’s history and one of the greatest managers in football history,” he said. “He’s an iconic figure at the club and he’s one that we all aspire to, to get even close to.

“What he achieved, if you look back at his record, certainly in the late 1960s and early '70s, was nothing short of remarkable and I think it’s right that the club should remember him.”

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I think all of the faithful would echo those sentiments. As well as the European Cup 9 League titles in a row without the need to indulge in an orgy of spending.

Fittingly a 3-0 win over Hearts today to maintain our position at the top of the SPL on goal difference.

[CelticBhoy]

We are looking good, Salty old son.

It was a fine display with a good

few chances missed, so the score

could have been much better.

Those we don't like in Glesga had

another close one. Last minute winner

from Miller. The wheels are going to

come off there me thinks.

[salty]

CB,They keep grinding out results. I would not underestimate them.

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CB,

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/editor-s-picks/celtic-set-to-offer-georgios-samaras-new-deal-1.1054731

From reports he was at his erratic best/worst when he came on as a sub against Hearts. The guy will always resemble a bull in a china shop.

[CelticBhoy]

That news is not a good start to my day.

(Maybe you could invite him over to Pattaya

and toss him down that hole you fell into

Salty old son!)

[CelticBhoy]

A far cheerier piece of news here, Salty ol' son:

Celtic have only started a league season with four clean sheets once in the last 100 years, in 2001, when St Johnstone, Kilmarnock, Hearts and Livingston were kept at bay, although that run was achieved with three wins and a draw, whereas Neil Lennon’s 2010 team have four clean sheet wins to their credit.

The Lisbon Lions, McGrory, Evans, Collins, The Prince of Goalkeepers, Stein, Dalglish, McGrain, Aitken, Burns and McStay all passed through the Gates of Celtic Park without once opening a league campaign with four clean sheets.

So Lennon is doing something right! Hail Hail.

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An ironic statistic CB. The present side wouldn't hold a candle to all these previous wearers of the Hoops. But if they continue to keep the opposition at bay we would not let that worry us. The concession of easy goals in so many games last year effectively handed the League to Rangers.

[CelticBhoy]

You're awfully doom and gloom these days, Salty old son.

I want you to get out of bed on the other side tomorrow!

Once we stuff Killy in a half hour's time then I want a

cheery match analysis from you, 10-4?

[Ahinkel1]

You're awfully doom and gloom these days, Salty old son.

I want you to get out of bed on the other side tomorrow!

Once we stuff Killy in a half hour's time then I want a

cheery match analysis from you, 10-4?

Not long back from the game, the first half frustrating to say the least, the team didnt seem to know each other. All looking to McCourt to pull the strings in an unusual first start for him. Ironically it was when he got stretchered off we began to play better. Anyways away win , and keeping close to rotten mob, another consecutive win for Lenny

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Watched it on Sky. Loovens was dreadful in run up to Killie goal. I knew CB was making us a hostage to fortune with his statistic on clean sheets. Thankfully we recovered to come from behind and stuffed them 2-1 to take the 3 points.

Afterwards cast my eye on Man Utd Liverpool game and then the All Ireland Final where Cork put me through torture before winning by a point. I will definitely be happy getting out of bed tomorrow CB.

[CelticBhoy]

That's the spirit, Salty old son.

Your cup is back to half full!

Here's a wee site my brother put me on to.

I've been reading it for a week and it's

short, sharp news updates:

www.celticquicknews.com

[salty]

A 6-0 win in League cup over Inverness Caley tonight. A Samaras hat trick (I keep looking outside to see if any pigs are flying by) 1 for Hooper and 2 for Stokes (1 a penalty). I bet CB will enjoy his breakfast.

[CelticBhoy]

Just read the review of the game.

Could have been more than 6 it seems!

That's our cup 'jinx' team out the way.

Hail Hail.

[CelticBhoy]

Back on top, where we belong.

2-1 over Hibs. Excellent.

6 games and 18 points.

Hope the Sheep can do us a

favour against you-know-who today.