The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

clarshack · May 10, 2008, 08:05:43 PM

didnt see the rangers match today but heard that dundee utd had a perfectly good goal ruled offside and a stonewall penalty not given. i really thought that the huns would have dropped points today. hopefully the celts win tomorrow and by a few goals as well.

mhacadoir · May 10, 2008, 08:54:58 PM

today was more than a disgrace, it was complete bias. perfectly good goal ruled offside, noel hunt blatantly being fouled inside the box, cousin headbutting lee wilkie and only getting a yellow, it was crazy! craig levein went ballistic after the game

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/d/dundee_utd/7381960.stm

they are also going to make an official complaint

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/d/dundee_utd/7393800.stm

tyssam5 · May 10, 2008, 09:18:32 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0xHWIw_dPk

Rav67 · May 10, 2008, 11:03:39 PM

Not exactly surprising given that Mike McCurry was refereeing. The man is a blatant cheat with a huge Rangers bias. These are five separate occasions in the past where he's been involved in controversy officiating Huns games, and that's not including today or the OF game earlier in the season when he booked 9 Celtic players to Rankers 2.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2000/11/15/sfnabe15.xml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/2438919.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/d/dundee/4088257.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/motherwell/6226555.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_cups/7215941.stm

And the SPL still let this man referee Rangers games?

Carmen Stateside · May 11, 2008, 01:03:14 PM

Robson should have finished that

Carmen Stateside · May 11, 2008, 02:03:18 PM

How greedy are Celtic players round the box! They should be out of site!

Carmen Stateside · May 11, 2008, 02:24:22 PM

Bout time. Poor stuff alright

T Fearon · May 12, 2008, 09:13:46 AM

Great day at Parkhead yesterday, with the right result in the end. Vendors on stalls outside selling tee shirts depicting the late Pope John Paul II wearing a T shirt which said "God Bless Artur Boruc"

Celts cetrainly mad ehard work of things and on more than one occasion we had Boruc to thank. Nevertheless 2-0 would have been acceptable before the game and therefore alls well that ends well. If Mc Geady could deliver a consistent final ball he would be better than Ronaldo while Barry Robson's workrate is remininiscent of his namesake Bryan.

Had the dubious distinction of sharing a plane yesterday morning with ex Huns Mark Hateley and Dave Mc Pherson and a few other lesser knowns who were in Belfast for a testimonal game on Saturday for a Linfield/IFA player. Once again the exemplary behaviour of all Celts on the plane (who were in the vast majority) was commendable. Was just thinking if the situation had been reversed (ie a plane full of Huns with a few well known ex Celtic stars) would the behavious have been as good? I don't think so.

Also on the boat home last night there were youths from some North East of Ireland youth side swanning about in IFA tracksuits and again these were ignored by the huge mass of Celtic supporters. Once again would this have been the case if an FAI team were sharing a boat with Huns?

Gaoth Dobhair Abu · May 12, 2008, 11:53:50 AM

Celtic made hard work of yesterdays win over Hibs, but don't forget that Hibs were playing for the chance of a UEFA spot.
Worst result of the weekend was Motherwell winning, now means that they have the 3rd spot safe, none of the teams have anything left to play for this season (not sure if they get different amounts of money for finishing 4th, 5th and 6th?).
Anyway, Celtic did what was needed and got the result, pressure is back on the Huns, although Motherwell away may prove hard, McGhee would need to keep Bob Malcolm on the bench, St Mirren away shouldn't be a problem for the Orcs, normally Aberdeen away would be a serious banana skin for the forces of darkness, but hey sure Jimmy Calderwood will do his mates in Mordor a favour.

Come on Zenit St Petersburg, never thought I'd be cheering on Dick Advocaat or Fernando Ricksen, soccer's a funny old game.

Hail Hail

T Fearon · May 12, 2008, 12:06:05 PM

Motherwell is our main hope, so come on Mark Mc Ghee.

There is no love lost between the Huns and Sheepshaggers either but I don't think the Dons have sufficient quality to deny them

mhacadoir · May 12, 2008, 04:21:32 PM

mad day yesterday. left preston at 7.30, plenty of time to get to glasgow but the radiator packed in, 7 stops up the m6 and got into london road at 1.20 lol!

think we blew hot and cold, played some good stuff, some terrible. barry robson was once again brilliant. him and hatrley have bossed midfield since they started playing together.

by the way, class job from the green brigade for the Gorta mór and brother walfrid banners,top notch.

not for fernando and co to do us a turn!

HAIL HAIL

T Fearon · May 12, 2008, 04:40:18 PM

Just thinking about the devotion of Celtic fans epitomised by yourself journeying all the way from Preston. Heard loads of Irish voices at Parkhead, from North and South. Saw the banners yesterday, impressive alright. Whats the significance of the Anton Rogan White, Clydebank banner?

Also has anyone else saw my brick at the Lisbon Lions wall?

T Fearon · May 12, 2008, 04:49:30 PM

Just heard. Reserves beat Hibs Reserves 4-0 this afternoon to clinch the reserve title

Hope its an omen.

By the way it was good to see young Cillian Sheridan (ex Cavan Minor who gave Down plenty of headaches back in 2005) get on for the last few minutes yesterday. He has had a lot of injury problems this season. He came on for the reserves to-day as well. Just looking at the names on the reserve team, it must be one of the strongest in our history since the Quality Street days of the late 60s when our reserve team featured young Dalglish, Mc Grain, Hay, Macari, Wilson, Connolly, Vic Davidson etc

illdecide · May 12, 2008, 04:57:49 PM

Quote from: hardstation on May 12, 2008, 04:54:27 PM
Quote from: T Fearon on May 12, 2008, 04:40:18 PM
Also has anyone else saw my brick at the Lisbon Lions wall?
It appears so......

Evil Genius · May 12, 2008, 05:01:48 PM

Quote from: T Fearon on May 12, 2008, 04:49:30 PM
Just heard. Reserves beat Hibs Reserves 4-0 this afternoon to clinch the reserve title Hope its an omen.

By the way it was good to see young Cillian Sheridan (ex Cavan Minor who gave Down plenty of headaches back in 2005) get on for the last few minutes yesterday. He has had a lot of injury problems this season. He came on for the reserves to-day as well. Just looking at the names on the reserve team, it must be one of the strongest in our history since the Quality Street days of the late 60s when our reserve team featured young Dalglish, Mc Grain, Hay, Macari, Wilson, Connolly, Vic Davidson etc

Curious you forgot to mention Celtic's keeper yesterday, young Fermanaghman Michael McGovern. Don't suppose that has anything to do with the fact that he is also the (popular) Captain of the NI Under-21 team? Comes from a sporting family, too, by all accounts: his sister Aine is a full international at soccer, as well. For NI, that is.

Oh, and on the subs bench yesterday was Derry youngster Daniel Lafferty, who is an NI U-19 international. Mind, he's no relation to Big Kyle afaik!