Rangers vs Celtic

BOOKINGS

Weir    

Papac    

Kayal    

Samaras    

Stokes    

Now that everyone has recovered, let's on to talking about the game...What can I say? At the beginning of the game I would have taken a draw and laughed my way out of ibrox...but, given the way we played in the 2nd half and how close we came to tipping the scales in our favour; I came away feeling like it was a loss.

 
At this point, I'm not even counting the penalty incident, mainly because I don't think it should have been given; but all this comes late on in the game. There's no hiding from the fact that we played terribly during the first half; the quality presented by the rangers in the form of naisy and jellyfish nearly tore us apart and we were lucky to return up the tunner at half time with the game still scoreless. That is simply not the celtic I know and love, especially when you consider the fantastic squad we have at the moment.

 
The starting 11 was a little bit suspect in my opinion and that's possibly why the team wasen't good enough to keep chances away from the rangers strikers away. The game began for me with doubts in Lennon's team selection; the main issue I had was paring Samaras with anybody up front and not starting Commons or Stokes. Samaras tends to bring the quality of a player down somehow if he is pared with anyone and that's what he did in my opinion, he works better as a solo striker and can produce real quality football, plus we could have done with the extra man in midfield.

 
The team picked themselves up drasticlly after Lennon's team talk and created a few chances for themselves, culminating in the penalty incident. The penalty should never have been given, it was a legitamate challenge, however that didn't stop me celebrating my arse off when itwas given and as usual, just assuming that it was going to be converted into a goal. How wrong I was.

 
Now, people are perhaps a little harsh on Samaras for not putting it in the back of the net, but, he didn't actually miss; the shot was on target and the goal was denied more by the quality of goal keeping shown by man of the match Allan McGregor. Besides, it was a bit of justice that the penalty never went in but it still makes the whole game feel like a loss.

Somebody get the polis!!

As for the "incident" with Lenny putting his hands to his ears after the game...considering that any kind of significat incident fuels the nasty side of the Old Firm even more and shows how petty some people are to harrang and roar abuse at the Celtic manager then get offended when he shows apathy towards them.

 
We put ourselves at serious risk of helecopter sunday 2 here and nobody without a blue shirt with a nose to match wants that.

<*o*> Hail hail \O/