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Written by Harry Brady
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Friday, 12 February 2010 |
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To quote a famous former manager, in the last two games it's been "more better in the second half." It wasn't quite as good as it could have been however as once again a refereeing decision favours Rangers. So just to clarify, in 4 games this season when the scores have been level we've had a goal chopped off and when 1 goal down Rangers have had a second opposition goal chopped off. So with fair refereeing we'd be 1 point clear of Rangers. But yeah, I know I'm just paranoid.
Apart from the murky Calumn Murray inspired world of Scottish football (he of the chopped off 2nd Motherwell goal also sent off Nade when Rangers were struggling against Hearts), this week's Paddy Power's Bulletin pays special attention to the FA Cup 5th Round and the forthcoming Winter Olympics. Specials include the number of non Premier League teams to reach the last eight and the highest placed team to be knocked out. To mark Valentines Weekend there is also betting on how many red cards will be shown in the Cup this weekend and which team will be the quickest to be handed a red card by the ref.
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Written by St Anthony
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Monday, 08 February 2010 |
 For the previous articles in this series I have tended to concentrate on the more famous players in Celtic’s history and for this reason I am sure many of you are reading this thinking that Joe was the right back in the Lions’ team. Wrong – that was Jim Craig.
At the beginning of the 1976/77 season Jock Stein was on the look out for a striker who could not only score goals but beef up a lightweight Celtic attack. Newspapers had linked us with Ian Wallace of Dumbarton (who went to Coventry), Mark McGhee of Morton (who went to Newcastle) and John Duncan of Tottenham.
In September Stein eventually opted for Joe Craig who came from Partick Thistle for a then considerable fee of £60,000. Craig was a Scotland under 23 international with a good pedigree and he was to be a welcome acquisition for that season.
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Written by Lachiemor
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Monday, 08 February 2010 |
When we moved to the Queen of the South in 1985, we had only been here a matter of months when the league cup draw – or Skol Cup as it was then known - paired our beloved Celts with the local heroes.
On a wet early autumn evening in front of a packed Palmerston Park Celtic won a thrilling match by 4-1.
I cannot recall who scored for our heroes, but I do remember a discussion that I had with a couple of locals over the manner in which the game unfolded. Celtic had, if I am correct, opened a 2 goal lead only for Queens to take advantage of that particular model of the Sieve to claw their way back into a game that seemed beyond them.
The game then see-sawed from end to end, with scares and alarms galore, before another two strikes eventually quelled the Doonhamers’ rebellion.
Afterwards I was in conversation with two of my new colleagues who observed that Dundee Utd or Aberdeen – this was the period when the New Firm was still a major force – would have closed the game out at 2-0. My response was that this was why the Celtic were always better box office than the Northern upstarts, whose pragmatic efficiency sometimes became tedious.
I now realise, that I was perhaps less than fair to two fine teams, whose contribution to Scottish Football is sadly missed in these days of Wattenaccio, but at the time I was not prepared to accept criticism from Huns who lacked the bus fare.
At the time I thought that this would be a fairly regular occurrence, but in fact I don’t think the first team has ever been back. Those of us who follow the white and green in the south west have been limited to seeing the youth team in cup ties and occasionally friendly encounters in the years since.
On Saturday, since Queens were removed from the National Cup competition at an early stage this season, a friendly game was announced with the Celtic Development side – i.e. Neil Lennon’s erstwhile reserve team.
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Written by Harry Brady
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 |
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The very frustrating play of Celtic continues, with all aspects covered by Eddie and me in the podcast. But here at CU towers we're going to pretend that Tuesday night never happened and keep excited about Robbie Keane coming home. PaddyPower has made the Republic of Ireland captain 7/1 to make his childhood dreams come true by grabbing the winner against Rangers in the Old Firm game at the end of the month. After the P/C odds and predictions we will have more Robbie Keane odds.
Over the course of this past week the footballing priorities of England and Scotland have been in sharp focus when listening to the radio. On Monday their transfer deadline finished at 5pm whilst ours continued with great excitement through to midnight, moreover when I switched through the channels to get more info on Keano's impending arrival they were still drivelling on about John Terry. Even today they still debated him.
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Written by Psychoheart
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Friday, 05 February 2010 |
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 I'm having a very strange week. On the one hand, my life is going pretty well and has been for some time. I've got a nice house, a job that I enjoy and pays the bills, and a woman in my life who loves me and all my quirks. Yet I'm feeling very exhausted about the whole thing and it's kinda getting me down. It may be the wedding planning and the even nicer house hunting that's doing it. We really shouldn't do both at the same time...
On the other hand, I'm witnessing a stuttering Celtic team going exactly the way I predicted they were heading several years ago as I watched us – with the odd notable exception - downgrade all the way from Seville. That should be getting me down, right?
Wrong.
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