"The monkeys start to squeal, lie and create conspiracy plots" - Scottish Football 2012/13

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Dodgy looking guy is favourite to become Rangers chief exec

Also Serie A club Catania are after Johnny Russell :)

Well done us.

Yay us. Literally never in doubt. I watched it at home with a horrible hangover for company.

All for goals were scored with the "wrong" foot today - 2 lefties for Hooper, 1 for Samaras and a right footer from Super Joseph Proper Midfielder Ledley.

I didn't notice ICT had scored until five minutes after the game finished.

I was supposed to be kicking my absence record into touch today with my dad, but logistics of a 12.45 kick-off meant it was never going to happen.

Sky News twitter missed the ICT goal as well, reporting a 4-0 win for Celtic despite their own cameras covering the bloody thing.

Neil Lennon jumping about in the stand pointing at his left foot when Hooper scored made me smile. Best bit of TV commentary, Crocker and Walker were discussing the iffy offside call against Stokes. Crocker says something about it being too close to call, Walker says you can't blame the linesman for it, unspecified third voice says "aye you can". Dunno if they'd turned on the mikes on Broonie in the studio or what.

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I might have to lock this thread for the good of my sanity.

Congrats ye both! (And to the jillions of lurking jags/doonhamers/huns)

Ach, I went to three games and moaned almost incessantly for the rest of the season. I don't really feel part of any celebratory feeling, tbh.

Three more than me this season, tbf

£100 off the tickets for next season, pity it's a one-off discount rather than a permanent fairer pricing policy but it's still better than nothing.

http://www.celticfc.net/newsstory?item=3934

£50 ticket for U13s is back too.

Funny old season this, still 'mon the Bhoys

I assume no-one's asked St Mirren if their League Cup Final win was tainted by not having Strong Rangers challenging them for it? No? Just us?

Yr POTY nominations:

Leigh Griffiths
Michael Higdon
Niall McGinn
Andrew Shinnie

Yr Wee POTY noms:

Stuart Armstrong
Leigh Griffiths
Gary Mackay-Steven
Victor Wanyama

No Kris Commons no credibility.

I think it's super that non-Old Firm players are up for this, but will English premier clubs really be looking at these guys ahead of Wanyama, Hooper or Forster

That tit on Reporting Scotland yesterday started the feature about the candidates by explaining that The Rangers players weren't eligible because Rangers weren't in the SPL o_O

Neil Lennon must be a shoo-in for manager of the year, winning the league at a canter and getting to the last 16 of the CL without any of the best players in Scotland.

From the candidates available I'd give both awards to Griffiths for performing consistently well and scoring goals in a poor team.

Yeah, though I think Gary Mackay-Steven may get YPOTY for some awesome skillz, even though Griffiths has been more consistent. I might leave the country if Michael fucking Higdon wins it.

Mackay-Steven is like the SoccerAM Showboat option. He spends a large chunk of most games being ineffectual while occasionally putting together five seconds of gif bait whereas Griffiths is a constant threat/pain in the arse.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I meant by awesome skillz vs consistency.

Coould it be the case that those who were voting may have thought that Celtic players were going to get plenty of votes anyway, so chose to vote for less obvious candidates, with this result?

just think how a year ago it was Rangers and their sense of entitlement!

It's not a sense of entitlement. Kris Commons (to name but one) is a very influential, consistent and effective player who's been instrumental in his team winning the league with games to spare, getting to a cup final and getting through a very difficult Champions League group. You really think the champions don't have *any* of the best players in the league they've just won for the second year running?

Everyone thought Celtic would win the league easily - why was that?

No-one's saying the other players aren't any good. They've all played well this season, though some have been inconsistent - I wouldn't grudge Griffiths winning ahead of any Celtic player but that there are none even in the running doesn't seem right to me.

I can understand a few omissions - Brown's missed a chunk of games, as has Forrest. Mulgrew hasn't done as well as last season. Hooper had a great spell then faded after January but he's still for me the best striker in the country. Ledley's been rock solid, Forster's been heroic, Samaras has made himself maybe the most difficult man in the league to play against when he's given the freedom to play as a wide forward. Wanyama's good enough and big enough to be nominated for the senior award.

I would have had Commons in it myself (big fan of him for many years) but honestly some of the comments I've seen in the press and on twitter and elsewhere really has shown a complete sense of entitlement from Celtic fans.

So you chose to post your whinging here, where there is no sense of entitlement evident at all.

Terry Butcher and Pat Fenlon said they were surprised that no Celtic player made the list. Horrible sense of entitlement iyam.

fucken Leigh Griffiths, aye that Dean Saunders is a good judge of a player alright

tbf tho the SPL will look pretty sweet compared to League 1 so stay strong, Hibs

a complete sense of entitlement from Celtic fans

Bollocks or should that be Trollocks

ikr

fucken Leigh Griffiths, aye that Dean Saunders is a good judge of a player alright

― we're up all night to get picky (Noodle Vague), Friday, 26 April 2013 09:37 (4 hours ago) Bookmark

his footballing prowess wasnt under consideration at the time iirc tbf

nah that was just front i think, Deano had him back for an afternoon, watched maybe one training sesh and decided that a powerhouse squad like ours cd do without him.

i mean, we've been playing Adam Hammill and he beat the shit out of a paramedic or sump'n

He's such a Hibee I'm surprised he can function at all 5 miles from Leith

And they want to bring alcohol back? no thanks. The only times fans are sober is during the game!

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/celtic-rangers-old-firm-under-17-1860750

You do know that alcohol is available at many SPL grounds? Only if you're in the posh seats of course. Being able to spend £1000 instead of £500 on a season ticket obviously means you can take your drink.

I'm perfectly capable of drinking alcohol without being a violent offensive destructive prick. Violent offensive destructive pricks are perfectly capable of being that without alcohol. I'm sure alcohol is a factor but the biggest factor is these cunts using this game as an excuse to hate on the other cunts they haven't been able to abuse for a year.

Those drunken morons in executive boxes are the worst!

So why are they allowed a pint but not me?

They shouldn't be. I dunno why they are.

I do.

Money talks?

Not just that. It's an attitude thing. The boards of clubs see the people in expensive seats and boxes and buying corporate hospitality as their kind of people are therefore not capable of being obnoxious drunken cunts.
They see the rest of us as a drunken untrustworthy underclass rabble, much like you do.

lol

Did I miss the bit in that article where it had anything to do with alcohol?

From that article: "Cops and stewards looked on as supporters sang sectarian songs and spat abuse. "

That new legislation's working well then, as the only arrests were the two Sevco fans who invaded the pitch and one person outside the stadium.

Meanwhile through the east, I give you the ferranti thistle ultras. They have to be pished.

Anyway in groundhoggier news, super soaraway sources say hearts are going bust. Club statement not exactly reassuring.