Celtic Banter Archive April 30 2017

30 Apr 2017 23:33:08
I see in the Scotsman that Miller is slating Simunovic for using "excessive force". I think I've already made it clear how much I detest Miller, but after his attempt to break Armstrong's legs earlier in the season, how in the name of God has this fool got the front to even question what was a brilliant and superbly timed fair tackle? I'm utterly astounded that Miller got away with his "challenge" but to come out with this? Words fail me.

{Ed007's Note - I have never liked Kenny Miller as a player or a man but I had a grudging respect for him. Over the last few seasons he has become nothing more than an odious rat who seems to be modelling himself on Slug McCoist.}

01 May 2017 00:03:42
Agree Ed. I was the same as you. respect etc. but not now. Bit like Warburton at the start and then they have to toe the party or rather the lodge line. Say no more. best to all from a sunny Tenerife.

{Ed007's Note - Even Pedro seems like a decent sort of bloke, that's not going to fit in over there and he'll get chewed up and spat out by the bigots just like Warburton was.}

01 May 2017 01:36:49
I can't and won't be critical of a poor b@star* blind with rage and clearly unstable. He backflips like a Russian gymnast
No bad for his age. For 5's.

{Ed007's Note - Miller will NEVER go in for a 50/50 with Jozo again. Any time the big man looks Miller in the eye he'll know a tackle like that is lurking like a ninja ready to strike.
I want a T-shirt that says Simunovic could have blocked the 'magic bullet' that hit JFK.}

01 May 2017 06:23:25
Miller, can't go the badge kissing, odius wee tool. Jozos tackle was a thing of beauty. A tackle that was both clean and precise. Every time you watch it back it just gets better and better! Sour grapes from a player firmly entrenched in the Sevco machine. A horrible cog fitting in perfectly with the blue brogue agenda. BBC's coverage showed no sign or mention of the disgusting incidents following Sinky's penalty but was I surprised? Was I hell.
Never in all my years as a Celtic fan have I ever felt as if the institution are closing ranks as of now. Journalists sniping us with backhand comments, terrified or just unwilling to report of the dodgy goings on inside Ibrox. A major court case involving more suspect twists and turns than a Hitchcock novel gets next to no coverage and an SFA so inept it would make Fawlty Towers look like the Waldorf Astoria. Celtic do remarkably well to deal with the manure it gets thrown.
We are on top of the world just now and the huns are raging. They can't stand it and are fighting back the only way they can, by using dirty tricks and smear campaigns promoted by their own MSM. Their 'loyal peepul' are a stain on Scottish football, disgusting racist, sectarian bigots who can't even bring themselves to sing songs about their players but revert to singing the old chants of killing fenians and child abuse. The quicker they go bust the better as far as I am concerned.

01 May 2017 08:25:02
Excessive force in a tackle? Your either committed or your not. I can't stop watching the tackle in the modern game it's the hardest fairest tackle your allowed and was simply outstanding.

01 May 2017 09:41:07
I hate Miller, absolutely detest him. But I just cannot fathom how he can possibly have the brass neck to complain about a perfectly good tackle after what he attempted to do to Armstrong. I think that was the worst action in terms of potentially ending someone's career that I have ever seen - he knows exactly what he's trying to do and has somehow escaped with any recrimination and virtually without any mention in the media. And he complains about this.

01 May 2017 09:48:49
Agreed Campsie. Excessive force my anus. It was a thing of beauty.

01 May 2017 09:53:27
Absolute class tackle from the big man, took the ball completely, was fair and hard. That's a proper defenders challenge n to even suggest it was a foul or excessive clearly shows how thick sevconians are but also how much of a nugget miller is.
We were the better team all over the park and in the stands and unfortunately for sevco this is their future, well that is until the new team go bust and then we get the 3rd incarnation pretending to be rangers, zombies united has a good ring to it.
Here we go 10 in a row.

01 May 2017 11:02:44
Miller is and always will be a football mercenary, who will kiss the badge of any club willing to offer him money! I hate the fact he's actually played for our club! Well I use the words played loosely because he was utter pish! Somes him up when they've just been humped 5 going on 10 he's greetin about a exceptional challenge from jozo! Everybody could see it was an outstanding challenge but they'll do or say anything to deflect from the fact that there new club is a shambles from top to bottom! And I for one love it that millers signed on for another season of pain and suffering! Because I like nothing better than seeing his and all the other RRM faces when we've firmly put them in there place! HH.

01 May 2017 11:04:07
Also had to watch Miller going off his nut when he failed to get Brown booked for that 'elbow'. Hate that stuff at the best of times but his reaction when the ref just spoke to Brown (over nothing really) shows how cynical Miller is. The Jozo tackle was nothing short of perfection.

01 May 2017 11:29:14
Davie, Lh - I totally agree. I was gutted when we signed Miller and the badge kissing when he scored against them just didn't ring true (obviously I was leaping about at the time, but when I saw it later, it did make me think. ) . But Miller is one of the nastiest little guys in the game - maybe it's because he's one of them, maybe it's his age or perhaps a combination of the two, but he appears to get away with whatever he wants, and even gets praised for it! It was exactly the same with David Weir - he was old and past it (whatever "it" was because I always thought he was a shocking footballer) but they portrayed him as a gentleman and consequently he got away with everything. I'll never forget a blatant penalty being denied us after he took out Maloney, but because he's old and slow and because he's David Weir.
It's exactly the same with Miller now. He doesn't deserve to ever set foot on a pitch again after the Armstrong incident, instead he gets their POTY award. Says it all really.

01 May 2017 11:32:11
Its a shame Neil McCann was busy he would have piped up with; If you look at it, the speed of the tackle is what concerns me, just like Scott Browns tackle on Boyce. Celtic players are tackling too fast and with too much speed. Im surprised they didn't complain that Armstrong was too quick getting the touch on the ball for the second goal. He won that challenge far too quickly and probably deserved a yellow for his quickness. New SFA guidelines, yellow cards if you win tackles too quickly.

01 May 2017 08:46:26
Ed007 bigrab! Just been on the sly sports app for a morning update on all things football. They have a story running about how that tackle went unpunished? ! How it incensed the home support . And how we it allowed us to nearly score! Talk about biased reporting . It was an outstanding tackle .

{Ed007's Note - There will be defenders all over the world wishing they had made a tackle like that. Not just the tackle either but to use the ref to play a wall pass to Broony too!! :-D

01 May 2017 12:40:45
Delbhoy - are you serious? What in the name of God is next? In trouble for scoring because it upsets the home support? I can't believe all this crap, I really can't. How can they justify any of this? You'd swear we had played 11 ineligible players!

{Ed007's Note - I seen a few roasters trying to justify the racism aimed at Sinclair by asking why he didn't run to his own fans to celebrate, the fact they were at the other end of the pitch probably had something to do with it ffs!}

01 May 2017 13:00:17
In live chat I offered to pay big Jozo's fine if he lit a cigar after that tackle

All Miller did was try to get Jozo and Brown in bother because he knew how much of a doing they were on too

When SS ran down that flank they were flinging full coke cartoons at him but not a jot mentioned anything about the battery that was flung @ LG? No no must not upset the culprits and as for the fud doing the monkey bit what an arrrs in this day and age hope he knows a lawyer that really won't want to touch him his door will be getting chapped if it hasn't already!

01 May 2017 13:35:13
Garner came on and was throwing himself all over the place trying to get Boyata sent off too. Pure desperation from them it's embarrassing.

01 May 2017 14:17:30
Yes Andy1969. On the app! As for ed's comment on jozo magic bullet t-shirt? Have you seen the montage on fb of the tackle? Where at the end the put jozo's face on Ivan drago? IF HE DIES HE DIES! The t-shirt are on line haaaa al try upload a pic 😂😂😂.

01 May 2017 23:15:04
Big Jozo's tackle was the best tackle i've ever seen. take a bow big man👏👏👏.

{Ed007's Note - I'm quite proud of my tackle and ain't shy to show it off so I can't say Jozo's is THE best I've ever seen.......... ;-)
The question should be is it the best hard tackle Kenny Miller's ever seen?}

02 May 2017 10:43:45
Ed you should see the tweet av posted! Glasgow airport gag 😂😂😂😂.

30 Apr 2017 21:22:08
I am not sure if this topic has been said so apologise if it has but I would like to bring up the issue of Stewarding at Servco yesterday. I read somewhere that all there stewards are not Qualified and that at least some are just volunteers IF this is the case surely SFA should step in and sort that out before a player manager or fan gets seriously hurt?

30 Apr 2017 22:50:13
Tony are you seriously expecting the SFA to take action against sevco? The control stewards in an always hotly contested event allowed a nutter onto the arena to confront Brown (god help us if he had any weapon)
In fairness, it took four of them to stop LG tying a scarf to the post (as per prior instructions)
What will it take to see that the major problems with Scottish football originate from the bigot brew at ibrokes? kill that and all the other side issues will have to readjust and die.

30 Apr 2017 17:04:30
Still can't stop smiling and couldn't be happier with our team and the way they have played all season long.
However I'd like to send a message to the PL and the board.
Despite the fact that we have strolled the league now is the time to up the stakes financially, don't spend a wee bit, spend even more as this is the time, they have never been worse (apart from going bust obviously. . lol) . but now is the time to spend some serious money to challenge in Europe but also to firm up the fact that we have our boot on their necks. go even further ahead and break them so badly they'll be out of it for years.
Back to being really happy again Hail Hail.

30 Apr 2017 17:23:48
Good post mate! The last time we had a chance like this was Seville. A few quality additions and we could have kicked on .

The board were happy to sit on their laurels then and we seen how that panned out .

Hopefully they will have learned and back brendan and his vision for the club .

30 Apr 2017 19:19:54
I think the board will back Brendan massively. He wants to players brought in. I think our spend will be 15 million.

30 Apr 2017 19:46:59
Delbhoy wrote the same post yesterday. The Board need to aim for CL last 16. That means 3 or 4 quality additions. Forget Rangers they will look after themselves, they are not a concern, they are finished right now. We need to look to CL and trying to improve our coeficient. Great season to date.

30 Apr 2017 21:40:12
What is encoutaging for me is that O'neil, Strachan and Lennon never really did anything of note in europe in their debut seasons then had more success when they had built their own team. This season though we qualified for CL and made a decent fist of it. And that was without Rodgers knowing the squad very well, so we should be aiming for improved results in Europe year on year. Last 16 is still a very hard thing to achieve though, finishing third would be success for me.

30 Apr 2017 16:13:57
Just finished watching the EPL Everton-Chelsea, was there an actual crowd there, you could hear a pin drop. Not on twitter but if I was I would tweet
# NOATMOSPHERE.

{Ed007's Note - I've said it before, Tim but the only EPL games I watch are the Man Utd ones and catch the 'highlights' of the rest. The football is overrated, most of the commentators/pundits are knobs and the grounds are filled with day-tripper tourists who would go and watch any game as long as it's in the EPL, a lot of them seem to support the league rather than any one team.}

30 Apr 2017 16:33:28
That's the way they are on social media Ed. Fair enough you get fans of good teams like Chelsea etc who can argue that they're better than us in the pitch but then you get the guys who support absolute dross (Low EPL and mid to high Championship) whose patter is that we play in a poor league and that their team plays in a better league. They think that's more important than the fact our team would beat their team.

{Ed007's Note - It's like you - not you personally - swaggering about like a big man because your mate's got a cracking looking bird. It doesn't change the fact that you're bald, fat and spotty and your bird looks like Theresa May.}

30 Apr 2017 17:17:45
A think they'll be glad to have Newcastle back.

30 Apr 2017 19:13:21
Jim Tim will (Newcastle)

You know how to put someone aff there Sunday Dinner Ed Teresa May bit lol.

{Ed007's Note - I honestly think 'she' was born a man. Look up pictures of her and the changes in her appearance are completely bizarre. I'm sure I've spotted an Adam's apple when she's been on TV too, probably airbrushed out in pics.... ;)

30 Apr 2017 19:53:22
In modern times when image is everything who da fawk could vote for that?

Is she the love child of Ted Heath and Olive oil? Then you realise she is a Tory and you just really leave it like that Ed (y)

{Ed007's Note - Well I won't be that's for sure!}

01 May 2017 09:45:14
I am jamie 👍. Fat Cashley needs to sign a whole new side though or they'll be back down. That's before any possible punishment from the FA.

As for Tresemmé, pmsl. Somebody in PR has given her a bit of a makeover since she became PM but they have some how managed to make her look even more dead inside.

30 Apr 2017 12:10:35
Ed, in terms of European qualification rounds, what is the difference in finishin 2nd,3rd and 4th this season in the spfl?

{Ed007's Note - There's no difference, they all start in the Europa first qualifying round with ties scheduled to be played June 29th and July 6th.
And 4th place only qualify if the Scottish Cup participants have already qualified for Europe through their league places.}

30 Apr 2017 12:23:46
Treble on the cards. Record score at Ibrox. Undefeated. Player of the Year in Scotland for me Celtics captain Scott Brown. Manager of the year in Scotland Celtics manager Brendan Rodgers. Signing of the year in Scotland Celtics winger Scotty Sinclair he is so wonderful. Young player of the year in Scotland Celtics left back Kieran Tierney. Mascot of the year Celtics Hoopy the Hound. Is there any prize in 2017 that isn't Celtics?

30 Apr 2017 13:35:57
Mascot of the year is Patrick thistles.

30 Apr 2017 14:34:11
Who's Patrick thistle cee 🙈🙈😂😂.

30 Apr 2017 15:37:09
The only team in Glasgow to give a game this season! Lol.

30 Apr 2017 12:14:11
Hi Ed,

I have tried to upload a few photos over the last few weeks, not sure if I am doing something wrong?

{Ed033's Note - The username NiallH has uploaded 2 images. The latest is Scott Brown wearing a possible new top (now on the celtic sightings page).

30 Apr 2017
New image uploaded to the
Celtic Player Sightings page entitled, Another masterclass from brother pedro

30 Apr 2017 05:08:18
{Ed's Note - We have posted a new article entitled, Zonal Marking Gets A Bad Press

30 Apr 2017 07:48:46
Good write up that, whoever is responsible. When I've been sitting listening to those very pundits argue about zonal marking all I've thought is don't blame the game, blame the player. What I mean by that is in most cases, is the flaw with either system, not actually the system at all, but the individual? The misapplication of what they have been told to do and individual errors. I agree with the overall sentiment and would say that it is often the man who wants to win the ball the most (or prevent their opponent from doing so) that will end up victorious. The info about corners becoming less effective is interesting, and supports a suspicion I've had a few times.

{Ed001's Note - thank you JT.}

30 Apr 2017 09:39:06
Read that being a clear supporter for man to man marking at corners as I have never been able to see the benefit of letting a man get a run on you for a corner but now see why so many teams opt for it. Iv always felt it was lazy or shirking away from responsibilities if everybody picks up there man then they know who there responsible for as for keepers they get way too much protection it's shocking seeing a keeper waving at fresh air and blaming a man infront of them when the same theory applies if your committed enough to win that ball you will. Good read. Andy Gray is a walloper!

{Ed001's Note - cheers CB. I admit I was always a man-to-man guy until recently myself. The last couple of years talking it over with professional coaches and players has changed my opinion completely. Though I still think a mix is better, personally.}

30 Apr 2017 11:23:04
I must admit I never did like zonal marking and couldn't understand it or why it was used (even questioning managers who have forgotten more about football than i will ever know, lol) but i reckon it just gets highlighted more when the opposition team score nobody mentions anything about it when the zonal marking actually works. Hence the bad press.

29 Apr 2017 23:45:26
If the board don't put in some sort of bid for Paddy I for one will be mightily disappointed.
Hope we can at least give Roberts a deal to consider with champs league on the horizon.

30 Apr 2017 07:11:03
Agreed. He's a very intelligent player going forward. Some of the passes he sees and picks out are great to watch. We're a better side with him in it.

30 Apr 2017 11:25:59
And he will. only get better under the guidance of BR.