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Celts’ Highland Clearance Make It 15 In A Row!
Posted by: | CommentsSammy And Broonie On Target For Celtic…
A super Sammy strike and a penalty from captain Scott Brown were enough to take holder Celtic into the quarter finals of the Scottish Cup in Inverness today.
Lenny chose to shuffle the pack a bit with Kelvin Wilson partnering Thomas Rogne in the middle of defence, moving Charlie Mulgrew to left back and Adam Matthews returning at right back at the expense of Cha.
Also missing from the starting line up was Anthony Stokes, who dropped to the bench, Lenny favouring Sammy up front with Gary Hooper.
And that change in selection worked for the manager. With the game in a stalemate around the half hour mark, Georgios Samaras latched on to a Ross Tokely mistake to fire an unstoppable swerving shot from 16 yards to put the Bhoys 1-0 up.
The goal was no more than Celtic deserved having dominated most of the possession up to that point and seemed to settle the Hoops, although ICT very rarely threatened.
Although Celtic didn’t add to there lead until the second half, the Bhoys were never in danger.
And the game was put beyond doubt when man of the match Gary Hooper robbed ICT’s Procter on the touchline only to be scythed down by the defender for a stonewall penalty.
Up stepped Scott Brown to score his third goal in as many matches and and take the Celts safely into the next round.
As the game petered out, Sammy Hoops both missed chance3 to make the score a bit more convincing. Still, a victory over Terry Butcher and his men is always nice and made even sweeter with the way the game went.
Well done Celtic and well deserved!
Honest Neil Tells It As It Is…
Posted by: | CommentsAnd The Media Don’t Like It!
At yesterday’s press conference Neil Lennon did what he does best…..tell the truth!
On the back of The Sun running a story about his assistant, and former team mate, Alan Thompson frequenting the same pub in Glasgow as the Dark Side’s Allan McGregor, Lenny let rip.
Having been a victim of sectarian abuse, in fact he still is, Neil let the media know that THEY are as much to blame for stoking the fires of the religious bigotry as anyone.
On the one hand they tell us that this is wrong and that’s wrong, then they print a non-story to try and antagonise both sets of fans. Talk about hypocrites!
They then tried to get the Celtic manager to tow the party line and join the ‘poor Rangers’ campaign. The ‘Scottish football needs a strong Rangers’ bandwagon, you know the one I mean, the one that’s angling to let the Govan Mob off with breaking the law and evading taxes.
Well, they needn’t have bothered, because Lenny, as always, told it how he sees it.
Asked if he feels sorry for the mess the noisy neighbours in, Neil replied “No”. He then went on to tell a few home truths, and in doing so gave the media all the ammunition they need to write more sensational headlines.
What these people tend to forget is THEY need the manager of Celtic to do press conferences, THEY need Celtic more than Celtic need them, especially with the advent of current social media platforms.
And if they keep pissing off the sources of their work, then eventually they suffer the same fate as a certain team from Glasgow’s South side…….
Couldn’t come soon enough!
Name Changed Already…And He Hasn’t Signed Yet!
Posted by: | CommentsComical Ally Gets Pronunciation Bang On!
If media reports are to be believed the the Dark Side will today make their first signing of the current transfer window.
The tax dodgers from down Govan way are set to swoop for Swedish midfielder 21 year-old Mervan CELIK!
Now for those of us round these parts, the players surname is pronounce C-e-l-i-k, in fact fat Sally pronounced his surname that way in a recent press conference.
As you can imagine there has been a barrage of jokes and quips about the MM signing a player called Celik. Some have even suggested that his wife’s name is Mona!
But all this hilarity has gone down too well in some of the newsrooms around these parts. In the news bulletins this morning the sports commentators were at pains to pronounce the players name as “Ch-e-l-i-k”!
Well if they canny beat the real Cellik, they might as well sign someone who sounds as good!
*Update, apparently the Celik player has signed AND he’s got Bougherra’s old number 24. Does that make him a “Magic Celik” player now?
Celtic Away To ICT Or Dunfermline!
Posted by: | CommentsScottish Cup Draw Gives Lenny ANOTHER Away Day…
Celtic will play away to the winners of the Inverness Caley Thistle and Dunfermline replay in the 5th round of the Scottish Cup.
The draw keep Lenny’s record of never having a home tie in the cup going.
No doubt the media will be making plans for ‘reminders’ of Celtic’s past ‘bad days’ against either ICT or the Pars. Nothing’s surer.
Meanwhile the suspended mob are at home to Dundee United….if they’re still trading!
Celtic, Make Tomorrow A ‘Good Day’!
Posted by: | CommentsConstant Reminder Of Bad Days….
Each year when the Scottish Cup comes around the mainstream media like to remind us of our ‘bad days’.
Clyde, Caley Thistle, Ross County are all rolled out, year in year out.
To be honest it makes you wonder who the holders of the trophy are?
But then again winning the Scottish Cup in May comes under the ‘good days’ and that doesn’t fill the newspaper pages….does it?
Anyway, the fact that Celtic are up in Peterhead tomorrow for the first game in defence of the Cup gives the press an excuse to beat us with the previous mishaps. Anywhere North of Perth and we’re ‘in for it’!
So it’s up to Lenny and the Bhoys to take care of the ‘Head and progress into the next round. I’m sure Neil will have the Hoops ready to do the same professional job we did earlier in the season when we visited Dingwall to dispose of Ross County in the ‘League Cup’.
Anything less and the headline writers will have a ‘field day’!
P.S. a quick ‘hurry back’ to Beram Kayal, see you in the Final!