can't think of a good title: SPFL 2020/2021

here we go ten in a row?

Fingers crossed.

only watched 7 minute highlights of the Celtic game from Sunday but honestly from an attacking point of view the bhoys looked "class" - albeit against Hamilton who might finally get relegated this season (fingers crossed).

Can't see them holding on to Edouard for the entire season tbh.

aye, he is too good :(

Best young forward we've ever had imo

Took us all of one game to fuck up COVID bubbles to protect football.

2 Aberdeen players tested positive and 6 others isolating after a trip to the city centre pubs following their match on Saturday. Game with St Johnstone off.

aye, this season is going to be a bit of a fiasco you'd imagine

Gerrard clearly turned on el búfalo. will anyone actually buy him though?

Season over.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53733180

Footballers. Honestly. Clowns.

The Scottish government is warning that it could call a halt to the football season after a Celtic player breached coronavirus rules.

Boli Bolingoli admitted he played in Sunday's match against Kilmarnock despite having recently returned from Spain without quarantining.

Griffiths in the COVID bad boy's club too but we already knew what a dick he was.

We also had Rangers going ahead with a bounce game against Motherwell with 9 (iirc) players awaiting test results and therefore not cleared to play.

Given what we know of Scottish football's ability to govern itself and given how many Riordan, O'Connor, Griffiths, etc. types there are (I see a pattern and it's not just their barbers 😀) I think the chances of getting through the season without wee Nicola pulling the plug are slim to none.

bolingoli is one of those players you expect is a numpty based on how he plays. id drum both him and racist leigh out of cp right now if it were possible

ryan christie, target man

(tbf to him he actually made an OK hash at it but was still not convincing. instantly looked more comfortable when he was moved to a wider position)

don't get me started. classic lennyball

Aberdeen flying the flag in Europe the night at least

olivier ntcham, AMF

think there might actually be a title-race this year if Celtic's early season form is any indication, although the Morelos situation is obviously a big issue for rangers, he really dug them out of a hole constantly last season

hard to replace goals, even though he never scores against celtic. if we can hold on to edouard (unlikely) and get a CB, I'd fancy our chances. off season has been so compressed, with players training at home/alone over the summer, would expect them to get progressively better as match fitness comes on

aye, I fear for eddy. and the transfer windae doesn't slam-shut until October!

would expect them to get progressively better as match fitness comes on

Yup. It's a shit excuse but I think without Boli's wee trip to Spain we'd have bern two matches sharper and fitter and good enough to win last night.

Good thread of footballers you'd rightly forgotten

The next time you hear “He’ll score for fun up there” about an SPFL signing target, send them this thread.

Players that cut it in England, but not Scotland. pic.twitter.com/vZtSEg3UA5

— Evan (@EvanMcFarlane) September 8, 2020

getting really fucking tired of Greg Taylorcutsitback

plays like a coward who knows he's out of his depth

haven't seen much Celtic lately but what I have seen has been quite pish

aye it's been rough going apart from one or two games - lacking in imagination, movement and speed and too many of the best players just a bit off the pace

defence also looks ready to give everyone at least one goal every game

thank fuck

I reckon 'thank fuck' will be trending

Celtic Football Club 2020/21 pic.twitter.com/NpSv7oFT1O

— Oldfirmfacts (@Oldfirmfacts1) September 24, 2020

Celtic unwatchable this season

lax alt's barnet isn't going to help

French Eddy has COVID

first Glasgow derby of the season in 11 days

fucksake

It's as much fun watching Scotland as it's ever been. Really feeling the value in this lockdown Sky sub.

/sarcasm

hwfg

...

to get beaten by Serbia

Me myself and I watching the big game at home today.

I have never been less stoked for the madness.

Jotters all round for our coaching team. Tactically inept. No motivation. No organisation. Nothing.

Took me 12 minutes of half watching Arbroath vs Hearts to realise Hearts weren't the team in maroon.

absolute glamour tie in Gayfield on a Friday night

I'd quite like to have ticked Gayfield off my list if Covid-19 wasn't around - first competitive fixture there since 1979! Cue "you'll have a chance to visit next season" jokes.

haha

you'll have a chance to visit next year when we repeat this season

Truly saddened to learn of Ebbe Skovdahl’s passing. Ebbe was in charge of @AberdeenFC from 1999 to 2003, he was 75 years old. RIP ❤️ pic.twitter.com/tbyG7tPVvd

— ally begg ⭐️⭐️ (@ally_begg) October 23, 2020

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54764579

Marius Zaliukas dead at 36 from MND

Oh, that's terrible. I didn't know he was ill. Such a horrible horrible disease. RIP.

(Missed the news about Skovdahl as as well. Can't we have nice things any more? Ryan Christie's goal was a belter this afternoon)

Nice things were so hundreds of years ago :(

Fantastic finish from Christie but I'm still struggling to get worked up about fan-free-fitba. Like I appreciate the technique and applaud it like I would any of darragh's efforts in the 'I SCORED A GOAL FFS' thread but I don't get out of the eight month deep crater in my couch.

that zaliukas story is very sad. so young (not just saying that because we're the same age).

Celtic actually winning a game feels novel!

we not got a set piece coach or what

Have I requested the sacking of everyone recently? If not, that.

Highlight tonight was Lennon asking Kennedy for an opinion and Kennedy straight up shrugging and turning away

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

good to see the gers take a stand against bigotry...

Only 330 years behind the rest of us. Slavia and a section of their fans can get tae though.

Watching a few of them still persisting with the idea that Roofe got the ball and therefore it's ok to nearly decapitate the Slavia goalie is fun.

The narrative around Sunday's game is some bullshit though. "Please stay home" = we're no' giving you *more* selfie opportunities and *another* police escort up to a covid-fest, there might be Tims at this one.

Front page of the Record on fans potentially going to the stadium:

TURN UP AND YOU'LL BE LOCKED UP
Senior cop says arrests will be made

Slightly different from the approach at Ibrox with the police escort to the George Square wrecking spree.

It's ridiculous how much effort the club is putting into the stay at home message.
Like are there really thousands of Celtic fans desperate to storm the streets at the prospect of John Kennedy squeaking a home win in a dead rubber?

There's no accounting for random heid-the-ba's but I think I'd rather be anywhere on Earth doing anything else.

Fairly standard distribution

SPFL Premiership
Penalties Conceded
20/21 Season
As at 22/03 (67)

Ross County 13
Motherwell 9
Aberdeen 7
Hamilton 6
Livingston 6
Celtic 5
Hibs 5
Kilmarnock 5
Dundee Utd 4
St.Mirren 4
St.Johnstone 3
Rangers 0

the true ranger plays with dignity, timmy

i haven't even bothered to watch the highlights from yisterday, might not even bother my arse at all

scott brown will be a don next year.

end of an era.

knowing celtic, we won't strengthen sufficiently in the summer, and he'll come visiting and boss the midfield :/

on the other hand he's been crap - with notable exceptions - for about 2 year

Scotland are playing Israel.

Again.

It's rubbish.

And they're getting beat, but they played three times last year and didn't beat them once, penalty shootouts aside.

In the year 3043 Scotland and Israel shared the spoils in yet another closely contested match, their 5423th in recent years. No-one remembers how or why this started but both sides know that it must not end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7P7XJxATAA

this classic popped up my youtube earlier

Died at the end of last year, Jim did.

https://belfastmedia.com/even-the-taliban-want-to-know-who-the-new-celtic-manager-will-be#.YHhBULIs9Fs.twitter

brits out (of afghanistan)

broke: football died with the super league announcement

woke: football died when Motherwell painted over the Keep Cigarettes Away From The Match sign pic.twitter.com/XU467USf6i

— jamie (@ekvous) April 19, 2021

Nir Bitton is still a Celtic year of Our Lord 2021.

will this season ever end

I've never cared less about a season of football in my life. It actually appears to have transcended lockdown and be operating in its own never-ending time loop.

OTM. Will the pandemic make me hate the game I love?

....I dunno, some of us are dreaming of a historic Cup double!

im worried that Mr Gerrard's unstoppable domestic juggernaut will be winning it

St Mirren the only Scottish team to beat them this season I believe?

You are correct.

My hopes aren’t too high for Sunday. We’ve had close games with them this season but I get the impression last night was our chance for a win but wasn’t to be. Rangers have a lot more options at their disposal to change things for Sunday.

There's got to be some mileage to be had here with Rangers having a problem with saints.

Well! Hopefully we don’t waste it next round. My £2 at 20/1 is still live

Quite a finish

I'm going to attempt to watch Celtic again today.

like serious illness isn't enough

Not one of your better ideas.

nope

the snookers on lads

Courage, the torture will soon be over.

How is this still this season? Seriously.

Sorry, Tom D!

Hibs v St Johnstone is not objectionable tbh.

Quite an enjoyable game, that (apart from repeated texts of "aw pish" from my mate). Hibs v St Johnstone sounds like it could be a decent final as well.

Fucking hell, eh.

Had to watch that in a pub in Dundee; but it was the three of us and three Utd fans.

Unreal. Don’t know how to react really.

Congrats. Some season.

I’m delighted it happened and gutted I couldn’t be there. Have had a few years without a season ticket for various reasons but I’ll get one for the upcoming season.

Excellent season, shame tptb decided on manager of the season before the season was done.

There would have been (more) rioting in the streets if Stevie Me hadn't won it tbf.

What a world we're living in when Celtic get a new manager and only find out about it days later and by accident. The world's gone mad I tell ye.

Anyone made the crack about Celtic being unable to attract a big name manager so settling for a manager with a big name instead yet?

the AP going for Mooy is an interesting rumour, he'd be a great signing I reckon but I'm slightly biased as he's the best Town player I have seen in my lifetime, as low a bar as that is. I think he'd have to take a pay cut because he's on super stupid megabucks at Shanghai and his brother recently died so idk if he'd want to be a couple of extra thousand miles away from home.

Mooy played for St Mirren right at the start of his career!

moy is a bhoy would be a good headline. make it happen ange

How good or otherwise is James Vincent? Can't say he stood out to me in the episodes of Sportscene I saw last season but maybe he just got short shrift in the edit

In normal times I wouldn’t be that excited to be in a football stadium for a pre-season friendly (St Johnstone vs Preston North End), especially with last season’s cup successes, but it’s 2021 and I am mildly excited to be in a stadium for a pre-season friendly.

Just the matter of PSV Eindhoven or Galatasaray for Saints in Europa League QR3 for Saints (we get the loser of that tie, Celtic or Midtjylland get the winner).

This whole story is outstanding. pic.twitter.com/5QHcZiryEA

— Garry Carmody (@GarryCarmody) July 25, 2021

"Celtic fan McGuire, 38 - who was hit with a footie ban and did jail time for punching police horses - denied knowledge of the mascot."