Celtic - Rangers (27/04/08)

It's Celtic 2 - 2 Rangers just now.

Daily's performance is why Cuellar is Rangers' most important player. Daily followed the ball for the first goal, and for the second Celtic goal he allowed McDonald to turn in the box.

I don't think Cuellar would have given away those goals.

Both of Rangers' goals have come from set-pieces: Weir and Cousin have scored from identical corners.

I prefer Cousin of Darchieville, but Cousin has to play to his skill, namely, he has to hold the ball up more effectively in order to bring Rangers' other players into the game.

As it stands Rangers will probably win the league.

Edit - Hartley should have been sent off for his foul on Barry Ferguson. Hartley's intention seemed malicious.

McGeady is getting the better of Broadfoot today. Nobody is really helping Broadfoot.

With the loss of Cuellar perhaps Rangers feel they can't afford to double up on McGeady today.

Walter Smith should take Daily off, move Broadfoot to CB, and play Whittaker at RB.

As Calidad has pointed out before, Whittaker usually has the upper hand against McGeady.

poor Faye

ROOOOOBBSSSOOOOOONN

Broadfoot is having a nightmare. He's so cumbersome and clumsy. He rugby tackled Scott McDonald when there was no need to!

JVoH should have been sent off for his attack on Faye. Faye is utter sh1te. He's so static and players just drift past him with ease.

With Weir coming off injured and Cuellar missing Rangers' defence is very, very dodgy today.

Celtic could score another. Easily. And Rangers have had limited chances in this half.

Celtic can go 5 points clear today.

Edit - I said that Robson should hit Celtic's penalties because he has a ferocious shot. Great penalty by Robson.

Celtic 3-2 Rangers, FT.

Title race open again?


Good news for Fiorentina as well, esp. with Weir getting injured.

Yeah, if Weir is injured Fiorentina's chances of progressing increase. Daily is just not a central defender. He gives his opponents far too much room, and his positional sense is poor for a defender. He's fine if he sits ahead of Weir and Cuellar.

Rangers need to win two of their remaining three games in hand to have any chance of winning the league, I think.

Celtic are now 5 points ahead of Rangers and they could go 8 points clear if they win their next game. Rangers will then have four games in hand.

With all of their injuries and suspensions (how stupid was Whittaker to get sent off in the 92nd minute?!?!?) I think Celtic will probably win the league.

Walter Smith had, until today, never lost two successive Rangers-Celtic games.

I have sympathy for Rangers today. They had to play with two DM in the centre of defence.

Daily and Faye = sh1te - Faye, especially, is not a footballer. He can't even control the ball properly.

Weir and Cuellar = a great partnership and a solid defence.

Broadfoot = nothing more than a reserve defender. He needs to be replaced in the summer.

Papac = dependable

Also Artur Boruc is a troublemaker and should be sacked from Celtic immediately.

His antics at the end of the match are probably going to cause an increase in violence in Glasgow tonight.

He should not be allowed to heighten tensions and increase the prospect of trouble. I was in a hospital on Monday and the doctors and nurses were not looking forward to today. With it being the last Old Firm game of the season and a potential title decider they feared for the aftermath of the result.

Now, with Rangers losing and Artur Boruc inciting trouble, I fear that Glasgow will be an even scarier place tonight.

Artur Boruc is an absolute coont and he should be forced to attend A&E wards tonight to see what his actions have contributed towards.

Boruc = sacked for inciting tension in an already violent city.

What did he do?

What did Boruc do ?

He paraded around the pitch wearing a shirt with pictures of Pope John Paul 2nd and Pope Benedict.

It might seem trivial to foreign posters but in Glasgow religious statements by players during Old Firm games, particularly one as important as todays, are out of order.

It was obviously intended - as it always is with Artur Boruc - to annoy and harass the Rangers fans .

Boruc then claims innocence of actions. The guy should be forced to take responsibility for his actions. Instead of going out tonight to party he should be forced to help doctors and nurses in A&E wards throughout Glasgow.

And then he should be sacked.

I don't think UEFA take too kindly to that sort of stuff, so he could be in big trouble anyway.

Religious conflicts...


"Religion is a collective insanity, the more powerful because it is traditional folly, and because its origin is lost in the most remote antiquity." - Mikhail Bakunin

Boruc

Best keeper in the SPL

The way he claims that he didn't know what his actions meant demonstrate that the guy is a troublemaker and scumbag.

Any sensible person, or any person who cares about the welfare of others - no matter which religious persuasion they follow - wouldn't act in the manner that Artur Boruc has since he moved to Glasgow.

He lives a millionaire’s lifestyle and, although he obviously knows that his actions cause trouble, he thinks that he isn't accountable for them.

I think guys like him actually forfeit their opportunity to live and participate in society. Instead of acting in a constructive manner, a thoughtful and considerate manner, Boruc deliberately wants to cause harm and mayhem. The harm and mayhem stem from his actions. He's a destructive influence on society and he should be abandoned to the Falkland Islands.

It doesn't matter if you are a millionaire or a ned - if you cause trouble and are a destructive member of society you should be sent to an area where like-minded people congregate.

Poles are often radical catholics, and still one of the most religious people on the continent. John Paul II. is like a saint to them.

That could explain his fanaticism.

blutgraetsche wrote:Poles are often radical catholics, and still one of the most religious people on the continent. John Paul II. is like a saint to them.

That could explain his fanaticism.

I'm aware that Poles are keen followers of Roman Catholicism, but Boruc's gestures are intended to provoke. That statement if indubitable.

Boruc is a troublemaker. That statement is patently true whether or not he is a strong follower of Roman Catholicism.

Ooooh!!!!

A Celtic fan was murdered by a gang of Rangers fans after the game.

Boruc goes back to his beautiful flat in the West End of Glasgow and this guy ends up 6-feet under.

Although I can't prove that Boruc's reckless actions are directly responsible for this guy's death there is no doubt in my mind that his gesture caused a heightening of violence in Glasgow on Sunday.

Boruc should be taken to all of the major Accident & Emergency wards in Glasgow to see how serious sectarian violence is.

He's an absolutely selfish basta4d for provoking violence in Glasgow. He doesn't have to account for the consequences of his actions, but a lot of families probably did on Monday morning.

And the reaction of some - the majority - of Celtic fans on an internet forum is equally reprehensible.

I think I'd be right in saying that I agree with Murray - Rangers and Celtic should be abolished.

Celtic fans even attacked the anti-sectarian charity, Nil by Mouth, for condemning Boruc's actions. The charity was founded by a girl after her boyfriend (who was about 16 or 17, I think) had his throat slit by a deranged Rangers fan. He bled to death on the pavement. My friend was friends with him. I never knew him, but he lived beside me.

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.2232215.0.fire_death_is_now_a_murder_hunt.php

Well that's pretty shocking stuff.

The problem with Celtic fans and Boruc's actions, is that they cannot be objective. So instead of realising what he did was not wise or funny. They label anyone who mentions it as the wrong thing to do as a bigot. It wouldn't offend anyone but bigots....

And you cannot get anywhere with this stubborn view.

They actually all preach lets get religion out of football, and then defend a guy to the hilt when he does something like this.

Samaras