We haven’t seen the back of June yet we already know Celtic’s starting point in their journey to reach next season’s lucrative Champions League group stages. The Scottish champions have been paired up with Icelandic champs Stjarnan in the second qualifying round of the Champions League. Those ties will take place in the middle of July. […]
Posted on June 23rd, 2015 by scott
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Celtic Football Club have been given permission to install a ‘safe standing’ section at Celtic Park. That could mean that an area accommodating 2’600 standing Celtic fans could be in place come the start of the 2016-17 season. I believe this news is great for Scottish football and a real step forward. It shows that […]
Posted on June 9th, 2015 by scott
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So John Guidetti has came out and blamed the state of Scottish football as the reason for the Swede to reject any possible permanent switch to Celtic. According to the striker accomplishments in the Scottish Premiership don’t mean as much to Swedish national manager Erik Hamrén. Guidetti would say: “It felt like my goals at […]
Posted on June 5th, 2015 by scott
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Dedryck Boyata probably wasn’t the young Belgian Manchester City defender Celtic fans wanted to sign this transfer window but he’s the one that they’ve ended up with. After spending last term fawning over City’s Jason Denayer, who was at Parkhead on a season long loan, it was the twenty-one year old they really wanted to […]
Posted on June 4th, 2015 by scott
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Sunderland have only just secured their English Premier League (EPL) future for another season and they are already looking at strengthening their squad, so they don’t spend next season fighting off relegation yet again. According to reports Celtic’s Nir Bitton could be topping the ‘Black Cats’ wish-list. Celtic boss Ronny Deila has stated that he […]
Posted on May 23rd, 2015 by scott
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On-loan Celtic striker John Guidetti is a curious case. He is a player that has promised plenty over the course of his fledgling career but is yet to truly deliver on that potential and prove himself to be a forward of the very highest calibre. Yes, he enjoyed a goal-laden season with Feyenoord back […]
Posted on May 20th, 2015 by scott
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The Scottish PFA nominees for manager of the year have been announced. The list is a formidable one and for once we don’t have a clear winner. The nominees are: Ronny Deila (Celtic), John Hughes (Inverness Caledonian Thistle), Derek McInnes (Aberdeen) and Robbie Neilson (Heart of Midlothian). All have had fine seasons and for […]
Posted on April 30th, 2015 by scott
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Another day and yet another blog about Scottish footballing officials and the Scottish Football Association (SFA). After the Josh Meekings scandal, where the Inverness Caley defender saved the ball on the line using his hand, we’ve had a week of blame and counter blame. Followed quickly by the SFA bumbling over the rules and looking […]
Posted on April 24th, 2015 by scott
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The Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Celtic Scottish Cup semi-final match last Sunday certainly caused fireworks. Especially the saga involving referee Steven McLean, and his fellow officials, not seeing a clear handball by Thistle’s Josh Meekings on his own goal-line. That offence should have resulted in Meekings seeing a red and Celtic being awarded a penalty, […]
Posted on April 22nd, 2015 by scott
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Sometimes it is easy to forget that Inverness Caledonian Thistle are actually still quite a young club, relatively speaking. Yet today this twenty year old club took on the mighty Celtic at Hampden and won the five goal epic to reach their very first Scottish Cup final. Now let’s get the controversy out of the […]
Posted on April 19th, 2015 by scott
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