Celtic 2 Rangers 0

Bloody Drunkard

A bhoy the celts

A great result at Ibrox. Martin O' Neill got the tactics spot on.

Now for the European Cup, Scottish Cup and the League for an even better trebble

Xterminator

Yes it was a great result.

What are the odds now on Advocatt getting the bullet?

After all he had his excuses last year, injuries etc, but now there 7 pts behind Celtic, and it s only beginning of October!

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tHE vAGGABOND

song of the week from the 'tic fans yesterday..

"he's bald...he's fat..he's gonna get the sack adddd-vooo-caaaat"


If you ask me he should be made manager for life, he's doing a great job of making rangers ****e

PiE

Originally posted by tHE vAGGABOND
"he's bald...he's fat..he's gonna get the sack adddd-vooo-caaaat"

Class.

Chairface

Ah its not his fault, Celtic just got better and De Boer etc only shine when the goin's good

Paleface

I think he should. Martin O' Neill is getting much more out of the players he has compared to Advocatt.

mcderd

celtic are going to win again!!!!

reb

song of the week from the 'tic fans yesterday.. "he's bald...he's fat..he's gonna get the sack adddd-vooo-caaaat"

makes a change from the usual bigotted "songs"

Magwitch

I have a mate who is a die hard Rangers fan. I lean toward Celtic although I am a Premiership fan. Of late he has disappeared. Why?

Well consider this....

Advocaat is getting sacked. He has lost his focus and the centre of the team. Selling Tugay to Blackburn and Bronkhurst to Arsenal was done under acromonious circumstances. The realease of these two talanted internationals at bargain basement prices and amid a hail arguments points to a team rotting from the inside.

Advocaat is Dutch, so is his team. If he goes no manager could hold the squad in place (Wenger and Arsenal are simular I believe). So the current team will have to be rebuilt from scratch, pritty much. Already a number of continental replacements have turned down the managers job when asked if interested about it. Talanted managers can spot a poison chalance when its offered to them.

All this in light of the fact that the SPL and Premiership are set to merge. By the time that is scheduled to happen Rangers will be a second string side trying to build a team in a tougher league. They are doomed, at least for the next 6 years. They have to completely rebuild under new management and make their way in a more compeditive environment. Will they suceed? Seems like a tall order, even for a club the size of Rangers.

I tip George Graham as the new man to take over the helm. Bland and unimaginitive though he is, he can build a team (like the one Dave O'Leary took over) in the long haul. And Rangers are not going to be able to buy their way out of a crises this big....

tHE vAGGABOND

dont get me wrong here, advocatt is a tosser, but its not all his fault..

Some of his players, like Flo, are great against ****e teams, but when someone mixes it up with them and gives them a kick he does not want to know. Hence why he was not good enough for the english premiership.

Players like Sutton like the bit of freedom you get in Scotland, and with a good partner (like he was with Alan (sheep)shearer) he is amazing. I cant understand how he is not in the England squad, he's better than a few of the punters they have down there.

Other players are past their prime. Dont forget tho that the hunz can play when they want. Lets not forget when they spanked the celts last season. that may have been a once off, its a warning.

The celts are doing amazing, and beating all that is put in front of them. Like the huns did in the late 80's. Its all down to confidence. But it could change in a couple of minutes. One dodgy European result could put the cats among the pigeons so we enjoy it while it lasts. Main thing is to get to the second group stage in Europe, something the hunz never did.

Reb : if you dont like the songs then dont follow the teams, as one equalls the other. No matter what people would like, or what people would try to ban.

mike65

Why should any Irishman give a toss about Scottish football except on grounds of religious bigotry, its not like its any good...

tHE vAGGABOND

spoken like someone who needs a map to tell the difference between their arse and thier elbow!

football=good..

if thats in a park on a sunday morning, or in paradise on a saturday watching the celts or in the nou camp watching barca...

All 3 examples will be very different types of football, as a football fan, Im happy watching any of them.

As for the Irish comment, lets keep it simple, the crest is a big feckin shamrock, before that, in the 80's and before it, the crest was a big bridgets cross thing. One of the big things in the clubs history is that is was the club of Irish people in Glasgow, and the general poor people in the east end of Glasgow. It was originally run by Irish priests (like many GAA teams through out the country) Hence the green. The poor Irish of Glasgow needed something to be part of, something to be proud of.

Theres more Irish in Celtic in any other club, ffs one of the most popular songs sang at home games is 'the soldiers song' - you may know it from somewhere else!

mike65

I'm familair with why the Celtic/Rangers thing came about, I just
think in the 21st century things should have moved on a little...

I wonder what the Celtic and Rangers players make of the hostilites which has nothing to do with football, still it beats bombs.

Oh, the football is still crap, it must be if the only interest in the
Scottish Premier League is which of the Old Firm teams will win the title, as for Europe....he! he!

reb

Scottish Football is just like English football only of inferior quality.

Celtic have tedious at best links with Ireland in much the same way people 'follow' Liverpool cos "they kinda irish".

I believe the locals (Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool etc...) look at the irish daytrippers with contempt anyway.

The only Irish professional league is the local eircom League. It may not be as good as the other leagues I mentioned but one thing sets it apart. Its Irish! Irish professional football can only improve (& has greately in recent seasons) if its own country supports it.

If people only supported the best etams in the best leagues we;d all be watching the Spanish La Liga.