There is times when you have to accept you are at a place or are heading to a place that you don’t want to be. I’ve found out that I’m at that a place when people think it’s ok to buy me and my Dad the same jumper and think it’s not offensive to either of us.
Celtic are at that place when celebrating an injury time winner, against St Johnstone, like you have won the Champions League doesn’t feel embarrassing at all. It’s comfortable accepting that we are in a place when making this league a race and not a procession is progress. Long may it continue and just maybe, if all the stars align, the moon enters Saturn’s ring via Uranus’s orbit then we could win this thing.
Not likely, but it’s makes games like yesterday mean something.
We’ve had a few bad results- bad results in Celtic terms, not in real world terms – and sometimes you can’t tell if the players care as the wander of the park at the FT whistle. Yesterday, the celebrations showed that they understand the importance of hanging on in there for as long as possible. Hell, it smelt like Team Spirit yesterday.
We were as blunt as drawer full of plastic butter knifes and were lucky that St Johnstone decided that doing a decent impersonation of a punch bag hoping not to meet that knockout blow. But…the last two minutes makes us all forget that.
So how did they rate.
Double F, frozen dongle, 3. Cha Du Ri, nice pecks, 4. Danny, simple does it, 5. Rogne, panic over, 5. Lizzy, settling in period now being seen, 4.
Partridge McGinn, how he has lasted so long in the last two games is beyond me, 1. Brown, did anyone see any difference in the midfield with him there?, 3. Ki, aye, we will miss him, 6. McCourt, wanted it more than others, 6.
Steptoes Horse, -10. Samaras, his strop when being subbed was the end. -10. Kapo, spent his whole time on the park looking like he would rather have been anywhere else, 1. Stokes, not the player of a few months back, 3.
Who was best for you? Goals and a strange Scott Brown celebration.
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Um, wat? McCourt was bogging yesterday. How many times did he dribble it straight into the defender?? He may want it more, but his level is the reserves now that the SPL defenders have figured out his two foot skills.
I saw a man driving a team on, not hiding. So it didn’t work but him and Ki’s possession stats will show that he wanted it.
@ Matt. Feck me, whit game were you watching exactly? It definitely wasn’t the ‘live’ one where Paddy McCourt was the best player on the park by a country mile! Quite frankly pal, yer talking pish.
Somehow I thought his performance was McStayesq circa 1994.
You know, I sat there thinking the exact same thing LOTW. You never, ever forget the vision and passing ability of the Maestro. Some of the stuff Paddy produced yesterday was sublime…totally wasted on his team mates, though! But still a joy to watch. Henke and Cadete would have killed to have weighted passes like those laid on a plate for them.
The game where he continuously dribbled into opposing defenders. He holds onto the ball way too long and most SPL defenders are aware of what he’s trying to do now. If he runs from midfield to the box and gets it taken by one of the 9 men behind the ball every time he touches it, how exactly is that effective?
He didn’t have the most effective game but for me he showed that he had more than just being a dribbling circus act.
Scott Brown, you let me down!
Stolen from an advert against Mass. senator Scott Brown.
Try it on You Tube.
I remember Billy McNeill doing something similar. I don`t like it though.
Oh yes, it was a penalty when Niall McGinn was brought down. Same ref gave a pen to the horribles at ICT.
I haven’t seen it again, it looked soft from where I was sitting. A bit like that Fat James Beatties dive right enough.
Just seen it on sportscheme. Penalty.
we must have had at least 75 % possesion yesterday, yet didnt threat at goal much till the last 3rd of the game, I was in Mowbray mode where I was waiting on a sucker punch goal from St Johnstone.
I was dissapointed by the treatment Sammy and Murphy got from the fans when coming off, the might not have the ability but dont lack the effort imo.
One of few higlights was chas performance, I personally thought he has been dire since coming here but thought he was steady as yesterday regardless of his left peg curler at the end.
A lot of our ‘fans’ a term that I will use loosely as some of them are just lickspittles but…Sammy and Steptoes Horse are just pish. One is a walking hair product the other is a wardrobe.