the best wee league in the world SPFL 21/22

joe hart will be on dis ting

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

When I look at Celtic - which I try to avoid tbh - I just see Le Guen-era Rangers.

shhh

don't think we have any chance in the league this season. dont mind ange as far as i can tell - like him bamming up the press - but i feel he's on a hiding to nothing as there was too much of a rebuild needed.

feels funny to be happy that joe hart has signed for us. always thought he was a hugely overrated big haddy and a bit of a dick - love him now of course - but he's such a huge improvement over what we had.

james mccarthy signing almost pissed me off, should've signed him over a decade ago, when he was playing for hamilton, cunts a tim from castlemilk ffs.

i seem to remember we didn't take on mccarthy as a youth because he was too wee. which also boils the blood. neanderthal scottish football men

sound of the summer

Wit have I just listened to pic.twitter.com/lLa3etyrDL

— JayMcf (@jaymcfall67) July 25, 2021

hahahaha

Pretty good results for Scottish teams so far - Hibs could do with a goal though.

... but not for the other team.

Some result for the saints

I’m delighted. A tiny tinge of disappointment we conceded. Looking forward to next week.

fuck! that was rough. celtic all at sea really until edouard came on. massive result against a quality outfit

mad transfer window for celtic. big rebuild.

got rid of a couple of my bete noirs in hendry and christie.

french eddy the eagle (sorry)

kinda feel there's no way giakoumakis is any good

not often Celtic and rangers drop points on the same day. although Celtic not winning away is getting to be quite a predictable occurrence.

the dom debacle round parkhead way points to more banter years to come.

there's absolutely no chance that giakoumakis isn't 100% dung

Progressed from embarrassing themselves in the Champions League to embarrassing themselves in the Europa League.

Worst thing is that this isn't remotely surprising

kyogo 🙏

back to CP tonight - looking forward to maybe seeing giakoumakis, hatate, and maeda in the starting line up

hatate is a pler

should have brought ramsey on

https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/400/0001/276/0001276820.jpg

Always wary of false dawns of new messiahs, but Hatate looks the absolute business.

that felt magic yesterday. didn't even manage to watch it (was working) but just checking the score and then watching the highlights were a joy.

still buzzing really. even found myself enjoying an oasis song earlier

lots more games to go though

aye, can either be "that was the night we won the league" or "mind that good game we beat the huns in that shite season"

So, as per fucking usual, Celtic are going to have to beat Rangers on their own as none of these other numpties are up to the task.

hearts looked pretty good in both second halves against celtic (at parkhead and tynecastle) - can rarely rely on them to do a job against the rangers II though

celtic just need to take it one game at a time - still think they'll drop more points. thankfully getting a bit more depth back for the bench - some finds this year in CCV, jota, o'riley, hatate, kyogo, jura and the new firmware updates we signed for rogic and bitton

there's absolutely no chance that giakoumakis isn't 100% dung
― Qamon (||||||||), Thursday, September 30, 2021 8:40 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

he's been playing well recently (dundee utd game notwithstanding)

Giakoumskis is good only because his is one of the names it's just fun to hear in a Scottish accent on Sportscene.

See also Baningime (pronounced to rhyme with thingummy) and JakAlnwick (all one word).

some amazing accidental partridge this week in the cinch

Get this celebration in the next FIFA pic.twitter.com/PrMBCojHSW

— Nat Quail (@DrNatQuail) February 10, 2022

am no greetin', ur greetin'

💚pic.twitter.com/vl5Wvhx5lZ

— The Celtic Way (@celticway1888) May 14, 2022

Well, that was a season that happened. We were economical with goals this season, just as well we saved them all for tonight just to be on the safe side.

Nothing short of another 9-0 will satisfy me.

we want 9

I'll settle for Morelos being sent off in disgrace... again.

Watching this Rangers team I have no idea how they've managed all these good results in Europe, they are total dogshit.

it is a mystery

That touch and finish from Jota were excellent.

Huns go absolutely mental as Dundee United sing 🎤🎶Lizzy's in a box 🎶🎤 as the minute silence was meant to be happening 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/AHINFDpoTC

— Michael Fagan's Fenian Army🍀✊️🇮🇪 (@TrebleKings67) September 17, 2022

nice!

Awesome. I'm not that surprised though, Dundee has always been fairly free of Orange bastards, unusually for Scotland. They're more into Tangerine than Orange... apart from the marmalade, of course.

Can someone please put me out of my misery and tell me what tune "Lizzy's In A Box" is sung to, because it isn't "Living In A Box" but it's something really famous which I must have heard thousands of times and it's driving me crazy.

KC & the Sunshine Band - Give It Up, innit?

Easter Road today.

Go on the originals😎 pic.twitter.com/UqZnp3Xmji

— Duffy (@AidanDuffy07) September 17, 2022

xp thank you! I was singing the na-na-na-na-na-na bit, but the new lyrics had completely wiped the original from my brain

Van Bronckhorst out.

Tom D.: Plz share your thoughts on Cameron Carter-Vickers. Imo he did not get enough playing time for the USA in Qatar and I just learned he's Celtic's captain, which surprised me.

He seems a pretty solid player to me.

8

What a day. I assume Ange is away though now :-(

PS Jim in Vancouver if you're still around, I was in Vancouver recently and contemplated heading to the CSC since I was very nearby on two occasions at the start and end of my holiday. Those occasions were getting scudded off of The Rangers and getting scudded off of Hibs so I'm glad I didn't, but I probably should have checked to see if that was a thing you did and if you fancied a 4am pint.

game’s gone

Brendan Rodgers has told Reo Hatate he must impress him to earn his spot in the Celtic line up.

Rodgers is such a dick.

Ha, does the man have no eyes?

I love Matt O'Riley an almost unreasonable amount btw.

decent night in europe for scottish football

You beat me to it.

Just checking other results and I notice that Fenerbahce scored in the 21st and 23rd minutes of stoppage time, which must be some kind of record.

... turns that was a mistake, they scored in 78th and 80th minutes!

Aye, mon the coefficient and all that.

chronicball

I'll get in early: Rodgers out

im generally p patient with new coaches/managers as a rule of thumb, esp since CCV is out of the lineup and theyre playing children at cb. but losing to kilmarnock and then drawing st johnstone at home does not inspire a lot of hope for the season, let alone champions league.

(xp) I refer the House to my post of Sunday the 13th.

rodgers relegating hatate to the bench is proof that god hates us

Still, at least we had that creepy guy from the Spanish FA at Hamilton Accies for a bit. That'll put us on the world map again

booooooo

Well there goes the coefficient! Embarrassing stuff and I fully expect Celtic to embarrass themselves too this season.

We appear to watching some terrible revival of the Tennents Sixes on BBC Scotland. Kris Commons has fair been at the pies since retiring.

Also I think every player at this "Masters" tournament is at least a decade younger than me. Pedro Mendes looks like someone's aged him using one of those "what will you look like in 40 years" apps.

👀

watched Celtic for the first time in a while against Livi last weekend, really impressed with O'Riley.
Brendan is probably more of a hindrance than a help at this point but Rangers don't look to be up to much this season.

o'reilly has been class, need more reo next to him in midfield tbh, rly loved that palma goal today. not a huge brendan fan but they shd win the season regardless. be lucky to get any results in the champions league tho.

rangers look dire so far so thats fun.

lol

Bye then Michael Beale. You weren't even comically rubbish, just not very good.

I love Matt O'Riley.

lampard in

celtic in europe, man

I just think of the Champions League as a way of getting into the Europa League.

need to get third for that !

Working out permutations of the ways we can fuck up qualification groups should be on the national curriculum

Absolute shocker of a VAR, obvs.

We need one point right? And Norway have to beat Spain and us? I don't think Spain are very good but Norway are shite even with Haaland.

Euro 2008. We've been here before. Georgia away is heralding unnecessary feelings of deja vu.

Believe me I'm trying hard to convince myself here.

Are you sure you're even Scottish? As soon as it went to VAR I suddenly remembered my place and why optimism isn't a thing that happens. Calling it for a non-existent foul then suddenly finding an offside decision that didn't flag VAR instead is this year's whatever-the-fuck-that-Hutton-against-Italy thing was.

https://gifer.com/en/Acau

Is this just rolling Scottish football forever?

someone has chucked a pie on the pitch “in anger” during morton vs dunfermline and i genuinely feel patriotic at how this image could only exist via scottish football pic.twitter.com/TVkGZvHjZI

— Adam Park (@admprk_) November 3, 2023

EPL fans can moan about referees and VAR all they like but they should check out Scottish referees sometime. Anyway, as I do periodically, I annoyed myself by looking at Rangers FC's stats for the season. In their last 8 games in Scotland (League and League Cup) Rangers have been awarded 8 penalties (it's actually 9 in their last 10). They missed two of them but, nonetheless, James Tavernier (that's the right back, James Tavernier) is now averaging a goal every second game for them - a scoring rate few of their strikers have been able to match in the last few seasons. To be scrupulously fair though, Celtic get their fair share of dubious penalty decisions too.

The one you've all been waiting for...

Penalties conceded versus Touches in the Box (against)....

*Runs for cover* https://t.co/e8fXnsY69O pic.twitter.com/iTtUuZqJD5

— Jaymes Monte (@ArabAnalytics) November 28, 2023

Penalty to Rangers!

In an attempt to stay relevant and bait some cheap interaction…

Rangers do get slightly more pens than avg (relative to touches in box) but not significantly so.

Aberdeen also above the avg line.

Celtic, Hibs, Killie, Dundee have right to feel aggrieved. pic.twitter.com/a1a0PG6I42

— Jaymes Monte (@ArabAnalytics) November 27, 2023

sevco = penco, backed by data

Tavernier's scoring record in general is better than a lot of actual forwards - he's scored 80 goals in 292 games for Rangers. He's once been their leading goalscorer for the season and twice been runner-up. Admittedly he does score occasionally from free kicks and open play too but nonethless...

serial loser but

Turns out Arbroath's sub keeper might be the best striker in Scotland at the moment.

Arbroath had to bring on their substitute goalkeeper as a striker

He just scored from 25 yards out

PEAK SCOTTISH FOOTBALL pic.twitter.com/rU72uJifCL

— Fitba Patter (@FitbaPatter) December 30, 2023

kyogo tho

KYOGO ON HIS LEFT! ☄️😮‍💨 #CELRAN | #cinchPrem | #COYBIG🍀

pic.twitter.com/oLT4L6usND

— Celtic Football Club (@CelticFC) December 30, 2023

First goal was pretty good too!

Lovely hit, vague shades of that ridiculous Joao Pedro goal from the other night

definitely bumping this to valorise hatate’s worldy yesterday

reo is a gem

also rangers lost to ross county today, thats a spicy meat-ah ball

beautiful wednesday

gorgeous, stunning really